"Haa~"
Ning'er felt all her power from the cultivation drain to nothing, she was super anxious for a moment.
'Why did I even panic? Sir Siyu isn't the type to throw his life away...'
She thought to herself. Sadly, all her enthusiasm about reaching a bottleneck depleted, her accomplishment pales in comparison to his.
"..."
After a moment of self-collection, Ning'er sighed again and went to her room with determination in her eyes. Her only option is to cultivate and enter Four Seasons Sect, then find a suitable element and attempt to catch up.
Back on the stage, Noire closed his eyes to examine the situation in his Dantian.
'As expected, the Qi essence is almost empty.'
If it wasn't for his Dragon Force, he would most likely collapse out of exhaustion.
Still, to avoid being suspicious, Noire summoned a few low-grade Qi rejuvenating pills and consumed them.
Swoosh~
A cool sensation washed his throat and Dantian before spreading throughout his stressed meridians. The sensation of having meridians is still a new development for Noire, he feels a bit funny when he can't discern the flow of his blood from the flow of Qi essence.
Anyway, due to the nature of the transparent barrier, Noire remained oblivious to the mess he's created outside.
Due to his dragon origin, his affinity to fire was natural at the pinnacle of the 6th dimension.
Fire arts are very common for Orthodox Dragons.
If they think this is amazing, wait until they see a dragon applying the artistic concept of space with their flames, then they'll realize the immensity between heaven and earth.
- - - -
As he made his way back to the streets outside the Spiral Codex arena, Noire received a lot of complex glances. Although he knew he will be attracting attention, but not to such an extent.
Before anyone could interact with him, a collum of flames engulfed his body, and once the flames dispersed, Noire was already gone.
He may not have the so-called Spiritual Avatar to make use of his spiritual consciousness, as that would only happen once he enters the Twilight realm, he can still abuse his absurd spirit power to confuse the eyes which are locked on him.
Of course, if a twilight expert was eyeing him, they would notice the abnormalities in spiritual fluctuations.
For good or worse, these experts would be busy discussing him at the moment, and he can make good use of the time buffer to escape back to his apartment building.
No need to worry about the siblings and Yue, as he already instructed her to return to the apartment as quickly as possible and avoid attention.
Of course, she will drop the kids at their stable, collect the reward, and leave them alone. Knowing they're connected to Noire, and without confirming the nature of their relationship, not even their owners would dare treat them badly.
They might even get treated better to form connections in the future.
- - - -
"We couldn't find him..."
"What do you mean you couldn't find him?! He can't just disappear like that!"
The subordinate didn't know how to tell the officials of Spiral Codex that Noire indeed did disappear in thin air, in front of many eyewitnesses.
He could only listen to the scolding with a dark face.
*knock knock*
"Sir, the elders of Four Seasons require a meeting with you."
The voice of a secretary came from outside the hall, currently, Xian Ru, the official in charge of Spiral Codex was trying to gather as much as possible about this mysterious white robe man.
Sadly, his subordinates proved more incompetent than expected.
With a heavy sigh, as he already expected this outcome, he allowed the guests to enter after arranging some extra chairs.
The elders and a few members of the VIP spectators entered the room together.
'Tsk, why am I not surprised, every sly fox wants a piece of this junior's meat.'
"Master Xian, how delighted I am to meet you again,"
Then, a round of formal greetings took place, each displaying unseen politeness. An outsider would believe these experts are brothers in blood.
"I assume you already know why we are here,"
Said one of the experts as he drank some herbal tea. Everyone sat in a closed circle with no objects at the center, so an open discussion was easy to establish.
" I know, sorry to disappoint you but we have zero intelligence on the masked man."
"..."
"Surely you must be jesting, right? Haha, no need to shy away from us old Xian."
"I'm serious, he appeared out of nowhere only for the fight. He didn't even claim the rewards or anything, the only thing we know is that he's extraordinary." Xian Ru remarked.
"Ho ho, we've all seen it old Xian, that's why we are here." One of the VIPs began to chuckle as if it was obvious.
Xian Ru could only shake his head bitterly and invite a few people in, these experts need to widen their horizons.
Everyone was confused at first to see a group of male and female gladiators walk in, although confused, no one objected.
Then Xian Ru told them to retell the events that took place in the chamber, asking them to emphasize important details.
At first, the guests showed no reaction.
Okay.
He acted arrogantly.
Insulted Golden Row.
Kept his cultivation hidden.
Then when they listened to how he killed another gladiator in the blink of an eye, some began showing some odd expressions. Surely, he's ruthless enough.
"Then his female companion gave him a jade slip with the Fire Qi cultivation method..."
"Wait! You mean he obtained the Fire Qi scripture about an hour or two hours ago?" One of the three elders asked with disbelief in his eyes.
The one responsible for telling the events nodded stiffly.
"Yes, senior. Everyone started to ridicule him when we realized what he was doing-"
"Hey! Not everyone! Only you guys did, stop being shameless!" One of the female gladiators immediately began to protest when her friend stopped her with a cold glance, allowing the former to continue.
"At first we ridiculed him, then the temperature in the room began to increase drastically... To the extent where the corpse on the ground gradually caught on fire because it was dry..."
"This..."
The elders looked at each other in disbelief, apparently shocked by the revelation.
"This is more serious than expected... If only the high elders were present..."
"Fuck, how come you didn't even get to record his information?! "
One of the elders roared at Xian Ru, forgetting to 'act' polite.
"When he signed the contract and we saw his cultivation base, we treated him as a nobody, so we don't even know his name, much less how he looks like under the mask. We contacted the siblings, but they know nothing about him either..."
"Incompetent!"
Just as he spoke, the elder could feel a buzzing in his robes, it was the communication tool from the sect.
He pulled it out to see the content, his expression suddenly turned dark.
"Sigh... Seems like Lady Luhei Tianshi became aware of his existence, she's pestering the sect leader to add him into her flaming paradox faction..."
With a grim expression, the elder turned towards Xian Ru and said.
"I don't have to remind you what will happen in case she visited your little colosseum for answers and she couldn't find them... Do I?"
"..."
Xian Ru broke in a cold sweat.
Suddenly, he began to hate the day he agreed to take part in this entire propaganda to murder a child.
'Fucking greed and karma!'