Chapter 193
Immediately after, he put on a solemn expression and shouted with awe-inspiring righteousness.
"Everyone, my, Knox’s, qualifications are shallow, and I have neither fame nor prestige. Logically speaking, I am not worthy of lecturing you old seniors who have been famous for a long time."
"However today, the actions and behavior of you seniors have truly opened my, Knox’s, eyes immensely."
"Look at yourselves right now. Every single one of you is old but lacks respectability. All of you red in the face and arguing. Are you worthy of being the Lords of Saint Lineages?"
Hearing this furious reprimand from Knox, several major Saint Lords looked at their own dust-covered, disgraced appearances. They couldn’t help but lower their heads in guilt.
Knox continued. "Everyone entered this Heavenly Flame Secret Realm to seek fortuitous encounters."
"Since it is seeking fortuitous encounters, then everyone must rely on their own abilities. The capable shall obtain them."
"What is the use of acting brave and fighting ruthlessly here?"
One Saint Lord said weakly. "But the fortuitous encounters in this Heavenly Flame Secret Realm are all leftover scraps. We didn’t obtain anything at all..."
"Who says?" Knox directly displayed his storage ring and said loudly.
"This Heavenly Flame Secret Realm is clearly filled with fortuitous encounters everywhere!"
"It is merely that you did not put your hearts into finding them!"
Looking at the abundant resources and spiritual artifacts in Knox’s storage ring, the crowd’s saliva instantly almost flowed out.
Another Saint Lord complained dissatisfiedly. "The resources in this Secret Realm are already so scarce, and you took them all. Doesn’t that mean we have even fewer resources to obtain?"
Knox mocked. "What kind of nonsense are you spouting? What do you mean I took them all?"
"Why was I able to obtain these fortuitous encounters, yet you couldn’t? Isn’t it because you didn’t work hard?"
"Besides, where are the resources in this Secret Realm scarce? It’s been this amount for so many years, alright?"
"Sometimes you need to look for your own reasons. It’s been so many years. Has your cultivation gone up? Have you been cultivating seriously?"
"Find the reasons within yourself first before blaming the heavens and others, understand?!"
Being pointed at and scolded harshly by Knox caused this Saint Lord to also lower his head in guilt.
Yet another Saint Lord spoke up. "Then what is the meaning of you saying all this here? Could it be just to show off to us?"
"Show off? Of course not." Knox shook his head and said with a straight face.
"As for me, firstly, I hope you will stop fighting. Fighting here is entirely meaningless."
"Secondly, I hope everyone can join hands and cooperate together to obtain the largest portion of resources in this Heavenly Flame Secret Realm."
"After finding that resource, you respective families can divide it equally. Wouldn’t that be beautiful?"
Listening to Knox’s barrage of bullshit, coupled with the power of the Protagonist Halo exerting its effect, a crowd of Saint Lineage lords who were normally as shrewd as monkeys actually all foolishly believed him.
"Good, let’s do exactly that!"
"We unite!"
"First find all the resources in this Secret Realm, and then divide them!"
The six major families ceased their battles. Made peace. Formed an alliance treaty.
Several Saint Lords, including Cain and Kray, unanimously looked toward Knox. Treating him as their main pillar of support.
"Young Master Knox, what should we do for our next step?"
Knox narrowed his eyes slightly. A ferocious smile curling at the corners of his mouth.
"The next step, is it...?"
"Of course, it’s to take revenge first... no, to clear away the biggest obstacle first!"
...
Tobias led the Hale family crowd walking through the cold, quiet forest. Yawning constantly from sheer boredom.
Even the Sol and Blackwood families, who were clearing the path ahead and acting as guards on the flanks, had become incredibly sluggish and lazy.
At this very moment, Tobias, Lazlo, and Byron all shared the exact same thought. Fortunately, our family’s Saint Lord didn’t personally lead the team here.
Otherwise, if they truly had to participate in this boring Treasure Hunt, they would definitely start cursing people out.
Byron was walking leisurely. Lazily humming a little tune. Suddenly, from the dense forest on both sides, dozens of Enlightenment Realm experts charged out.
Without a second word, they launched an attack on the Sol family crowd.
"Who dares to launch a sneak attack on my Sol family?!" Byron glared with widened eyes. Immediately leading the crowd of disciples to resist.
This sudden attack caused the Hale and Blackwood families behind them to all freeze.
Tobias focused his gaze and frowned. "Looking at the clothes of these people, they are from the Alder family and the Fen."
"How could these two families unite? Truly bizarre!"
The Blackwood family crowd was just preparing to rush forward to assist.
But they had only taken one step forward when dozens of people descended from the sky and engaged them in a fierce struggle.
Tobias revealed a look of horror. "These are... the people of the Wren family and the Mire family?"
"These two families clearly couldn’t stand each other in the past. Yet they actually joined forces too?"
He originally thought that the cooperation of their three families could already be considered a strong alliance. Completely flawless and unassailable.
He didn’t expect that the other four families, in order to deal with them, would actually join hands as well.
Although the combined strength of these four families was not equal to the cooperation of their top three strongest families, it was at the very least enough to put up a decent fight.
"Juniors, it is time for us to make our move and support them." Tobias and Lara each brought out their spiritual artifacts, just about to rush forward to assist.
Suddenly, four light curtains rose up all around them. Firmly blocking their path. Making it impossible for them to advance even a single step.
"This is..." Tobias looked around. His expression instantly changing.
These four light curtains were all a blinding golden color. Completely enveloping the Hale family crowd within them.
Furthermore, the defensive power of this light curtain was extremely astonishing. Fundamentally impossible to destroy with brute force.
"The Ashen family’s Trapped Beast Golden Dipper Formation?!" Tobias revealed a look of panic. Looking through the light curtain and focusing his gaze...
It was exactly Cain leading the Ashen family crowd, sitting cross-legged on the ground, pouring in spiritual energy to continuously reinforce the formation’s power!