The Only Cultivator in a World of Hunters

Nexus looked down on mortals, but he still talked to them. Clearly, he really didn't look down on them, because if he truly did, he would completely ignore them.

What he did was nothing more than showing off how superior he was. It was true that he was already superior to mortals, but if he couldn't show it to everyone, then how could he feel any pleasure?

Faced with Shiori's question, Nexus didn't answer immediately. Almost in the blink of an eye, he had appeared right beside Shiori, startling her.

"What do you want?!"

Shiori tried to dodge, but Nexus was already as fast as lightning as he hugged her. In this secluded space, suddenly being hugged by a handsome guy made Shiori instinctively push Nexus away.

Of course, Shiori didn't just give him a light push for fun, but used the physical strength of an A-rank to push him.

The force could roughly knock over even a mammoth with ease in an instant. Even a traffic accident on the highway was much weaker than her push.

But after pushing him, Shiori realized that Nexus was like a huge iron wall that couldn't be moved at all.

Although her physical strength among A-ranks wasn't particularly outstanding, it wasn't as weak as Emily's either. As long as she used martial arts, she could definitely defeat any B-rank without making any stupid mistakes.

"How is that possible?"

Seeing her eyes go wide, Nexus curled his lips into a satisfied smile. A mortal should be terrified before the supreme's supreme power.

"Hahaha, you want to hug me? Don't even dream about it. Just being a mortal doesn't give you the right to do that."

Nexus pushed Shiori away and laughed in her face. This contempt made Shiori's face flush with anger once again.

"Hmph, go to hell!"

She unleashed an extremely effective technique against mankind that had already been proven. That supreme technique was none other than a direct kick to the groin.

It was a very dishonorable move, but it was extremely effective when dealing with men.

Nexus merely curled his lips in disdain and stood still, letting her kick him in the groin.

Lailah's punch hadn't hurt him because she was pathetically weak, but Shiori was an A-rank hunter. Her strength was not something a person like Lailah could compare to. But to Nexus, a mortal's strength was equally harmless.

A loud impact rang out. The sound was neither like someone fighting nor like metal colliding.

The harder the kick was, the uglier Shiori's expression became. That kick could easily kick a tiger's head apart, yet it didn't affect Nexus in the slightest.

Instead, Shiori's leg was throbbing with pain, making her face twist from both pain and humiliation.

She was an A-rank hunter admired by thousands, yet she was now reduced to such a pathetic state. It was simply unacceptable.

"Are you wearing steel underwear?"

Although she knew it was complete nonsense, Shiori still came up with such a ridiculous excuse. Just now, the impact hadn't sounded anything like hitting metal.

Right after asking, she was flicked painfully by Nexus. A very obvious red mark appeared on her forehead.

"Why does it hurt so much?"

Although no one had flicked her forehead in a very long time, she remembered that getting flicked on the forehead had never hurt this much. There definitely had to be some shady trick behind that finger flick just now.

"How dare this insolent mortal doubt the supreme power of the great Nexus? You deserve to be punished. For a great existence like me, clothing is merely decoration, not something meant to protect my immortal body."

Nexus raised his chin again while looking down from the corner of his eyes. With this contemptuous look, he started bragging about himself.

"You did invite us to drink coffee, after all. Can't you treat her a little better?"

Lailah's gentle voice rang out again, making Shiori pay more attention to her. With Shiori, Lailah was strange in a different way from Nexus.

Since they hadn't been in contact for long, Shiori didn't have enough data, but she felt that Lailah's calmness was far too high for her level of strength.

"You're as hard as steel. No, you're even harder than steel. Being that hard, how could Lailah possibly handle you?"

An unexpected question left both Lailah and Nexus stunned. Handle what exactly? What was the problem with being hard?

Standing in front of two immortal beings and asking such a 'mortal' question left them both confused for a moment, no matter how intelligent they were, because they had never paid attention to such a thing.

Both of their expressions were clearly seen by Shiori. Now it was her turn to be surprised. Why were these two hugging each other like lovers inside her beloved supercar, looking like clueless children at this moment?

"Ah, I get it. You're talking about reproduction, right? We can't do that."

Lailah's eyes widened as if she had completely understood. Then she immediately shook her head frankly without hiding anything.

Her body was mortal now, but if one looked more carefully, there were many unreasonable hidden buffs on it.

As for Nexus, there was even less to say. He looked human on the outside, but in reality, he had already completely become a different species.

The cultivators in his plane rarely had children precisely because of this problem. Mortals gave birth after about nine months and ten days. But after evolving to the Qi Refinement realm, pregnancy lasted nearly two years. Once they reached the Foundation Establishment realm, it took nearly five years. During pregnancy, they couldn't cultivate because two lives were in the same body.

The higher the realm, the longer the pregnancy lasted to an outrageous degree, hindering cultivation. Furthermore, the condition was that the man and woman had to be in the same realm to have a child, making everything even more difficult.

Except for having a strong body, there was nothing that could guarantee that the spiritual root of a child born to high-level cultivators would be good.

It wasn't by chance that cultivators liked to go to the civilizations of all races and 'kidnap' talented young people to take them back as disciples.

"What?! Don't tell me you look so strong but you're actually... paralyzed?"

Shiori's eyes widened. As soon as she blurted out these absurd words, she immediately covered her mouth, afraid that Nexus would go berserk.