Chapter 197
Flicking his finger, he tossed it down from mid-air, landing precisely in Knox’s hands.
Holding this heavy spirit fruit, Knox instantly felt bursts of icy killing intent coming from behind him.
He turned his head stiffly. Only to see everyone from the six major Saint Lineages currently staring fixedly at him. With gazes cold enough to kill.
[Ding! Congratulations to the host for successfully making 107 supporting characters turn against the Chosen One!]
[The Chosen One’s Luck has decreased by 10,000 points. The host has gained 20,000 Providence Points!]
[Ding! Congratulations to the host for successfully reducing the Chosen One’s reputation and damaging his interpersonal connections.]
[The Chosen One’s Luck has decreased by 8,000 points. The host has gained 16,000 Providence Points!]
Listening to the system’s notification sounds, an imperceptible smile curled at the corners of Alex’s mouth.
On the system panel, Knox’s Luck value had been slashed by a full half, leaving only 50%.
Racking his brains and throwing in an entire Heavenly Flame Secret Realm’s worth of resources to set up this trap was indeed worth it.
"Brat, you... you actually dared to play us!" The hot-tempered Cain was the first who couldn’t endure it, roaring sternly.
"I absolutely must chop you in half with a single blade!"
Immediately, Cain summoned a tiger-headed broadsword, directly teleported in front of Knox, and raised his blade to hack down without hesitation.
The fierce, domineering aura of a Supreme Realm expert shocked Knox so much he froze in place. Unable to even attempt to dodge.
Alex’s heart tightened.
A streak of golden light instantly lingered around his fingertips.
Kill Knox? How could that be allowed?!
I painstakingly exhausted all the cards just to finally shave off half his Luck. If you kill him, wouldn’t all my hard work be for nothing? I’d have to face the backlash of the Heavenly Dao.
Before coming here, Alex had already made his plans.
Under the guise of the Three Evil Buddhas, he was going to kill a few of the Saint Lords who had entered the Secret Realm.
After all, later in the story, the vast majority of these people became Knox’s relatives or hired thugs. This Cain was the first to bear the brunt.
In the beginning, this guy disagreed with Brina’s admiration for Knox. Used all sorts of methods to stop it.
As a result, later on, just because Knox accidentally saved Brina once, he approved of this completely destitute poor boy.
He gave him all kinds of guidance and help. Whenever Knox encountered difficulties, he would take out the Ashen family’s resources and give everything to him.
Ultimately, a perfectly good major Saint Lineage like the Ashen family was abruptly driven to bankruptcy by his poverty alleviation for Knox.
As for Cain himself, while following Knox on a treasure hunt, in order to cover him and Brina’s retreat, he triggered a trap in a tomb. Was shot into a sieve by random arrows.
For a simple-minded, all-brawn-no-brains thing like him, he was going to die a suffocating death eventually anyway. He might as well die here, where he could be slightly more valuable.
"Vault of Divine Mirror!"
"Saint Time Freeze!"
Alex summoned the Vault of Divine Mirror, adazzling golden light burst forth.
It instantly turned Cain into a wooden statue frozen in place.
The broadsword in his hand was only a hair’s breadth away from the top of Knox’s head. Yet it couldn’t fall another half-inch.
"Heh, Knox is our cooperative partner." Alex sneered coldly.
"Whoever wants to touch him, I will kill them first!"
Seeing this, Brina and the Ashen family crowd instantly revealed expressions of panic, rushing forward regardless of everything.
"Saint Lord!"
"Protect the Saint Lord!"
However, no matter how fast they were, they couldn’t possibly be faster than the speed of light.
"Mirror Soul Flow!" Alex shouted deeply. Once again, a streak of golden light burst from the Vault of Divine Mirror.
Touching Cain’s body, it directly detonated and distorted the light that had frozen time around him.
In merely an instant, Cain’s burly body melted into fine powder. His Supreme Realm cultivation directly disintegrating and vanishing like melting ice.
As the strongest prodigy among the Ashen family disciples, Brina ran the fastest.
But even though she had exhausted all her strength, the instant she rushed forward, she failed to touch Cain’s body. She could only feel the golden dust mixed with Cain’s life force slipping through her fingertips.
"Ho..."
"Saint Lord!"
Brina’s eyes were vacant. With a thud, she collapsed to her knees, letting out a hysterical scream.
Behind her, the Ashen family crowd also had faces full of grief and indignation, and glaring at Knox in front of them. Wishing they could slice this treacherous thief into a thousand pieces.
"Mm, not bad." A dark red speck of light appeared in Alex’s palm.
He narrowed his eyes to feel it carefully. Then nodded with a satisfied smile.
"This Cain truly is as vigorous as a dragon and fierce as a tiger. The power of his soul and blood essence is actually this robust."
Immediately, with a casual tap, he poured this power into his own spirit beast egg.
"The other major Saint Lords should probably yield similarly significant benefits, right?"
Alex looked at Kray, Alric, and the other Saint Lords as if looking at plates of delicious food. His eyes full of greed and playful mockery.
Alistair and Malakai on the side saw this scene. Feeling Alex’s thirsty, ravenous gaze, both couldn’t help but feel secretly alarmed.
A cold, chilling sensation creeping down their backs.
Although Cain only had cultivation at the second level of the Supreme Realm and was not considered top-tier among the Saint Lords, as a Supreme Realm powerhouse, he definitely had his outstanding qualities.
Moreover, the Ashen family entered the Dao through beasts. The Beast Transformation Technique they cultivated could cause their physical body strength to skyrocket to the same level as spirit beasts.
Cain’s defensive power was absolutely far stronger than cultivators of the same realm.
Yet under Alex’s hands, he couldn’t even withstand a single move before being turned into flying ash and annihilated.
Has Alex’s strength already become formidable to such a degree? He can instantly annihilate a Supreme Realm mighty figure, truly terrifying to such an extent.
After Cain was annihilated, the remaining major Saint Lords all shuddered, breaking out in cold sweat, their faces turning ashen green.