"Cut the crap, give the key." The red-headed girl said as she took a step forward.
Tian Xu thought of possibilities. Although the Master who sent them the invitation said he owed their ancestor a debt, they didn't know how far he would go for them. Would the old master fight against the Kingdom? Would he even care? After thinking for a while, Tian Xu pulled the box out of the spatial talisman and handed it over to Xiao Chen.
When Xiao Chen saw the talisman, he spat in disgust. He knew the duo was bumpkins but he still thought they at least had a spatial ring. He took the box from them and opened it. Inside was a key, but it wasn't the key to the domain. It was a regular key that would open a door.
Xiao Chen was about to destroy the key in anger, he saw the note under it. "To the Tian family. Here is a key to the best brothel in the Capital. You can have fun after you come out. Don't show it to anyone or tell them you got it from me. Jiang Kang."
"Are there any other keys?" Xiao Chen asked impatiently.
"I swear this is the only key we got, Prince!" Tian Xu kneeled on the ground as he begged. "Please, we don't know anything."
"Kill them!" Prince Consort spat in anger. The four guards jumped on the duo and massacred them before they could put up a fight.
Both grandfather and grandson looked at those who had killed them with grievance in their eyes. They thought fortune finally smiled on them and they were going to climb the stairs of success. They thought their time had finally arrived and they were going to be the Kings of the sect upon their return.
They had never thought they would be slaughtered within five minutes of their entrance. They had never thought the invitation that would be their rise was actually their death. Master Yontu, a person they had never heard of before, took the trouble to invite them all the way to the Capital, so they would be killed so easily.
Tian Huang was even more unwilling. He first got rid of that annoying kid. Then he awakened a Signium from the fourth curtain. He won in life and thought this domain would be his origin story of rising to the top of the world. He thought he was destined to be the king of the world. But he died like a stray animal, without even knowing why. He was just a pawn in a chess game, and the player didn't even care if he was worth anything or not.
"Bastard!"
"Master, what is going on?" The redhead asked. "All the keys must be in place for the domain to be opened. Since we are here, all keys must be here."
"I know that, Lola. But I cannot feel the last one." Xiao Chen said as he paced around.
"What if two keys are on the same person, Master?" Another guard asked. His name was Yu Tian. "That way you wouldn't be able to feel 4 different locations, right?"
"Good thinking, Yu Tian!" Xiao Chen slapped his shoulder. "Two of you go in that direction, and you two go in that direction. I will hunt alone."
After getting their orders, all of them split and went to find the keys. The guards after running for a while sat down too and had their breakthrough. All of them were suppressing their cultivations for the domain to open. After all, only those at the Qi Solidification Realm could enter the domain.
While Ezio was riding a piece of rock and surfing on the ground, he felt auras around him flaring rapidly. "Here we go. Everyone is breaking through. I will be the only one with Qi Solidification Realm cultivation."
It wasn't five of them only, even the sect disciples started to advance one after another. In the end, only Ezio was left. He was still at the Qi Solidification Realm. Thanks to cultivating ardently for six months and consuming some of the pills Alcy made with the fruits Botty harvested, he was able to advance once, but that was it. Because of Seamless Body, it was taking a lot of time to solidify his Qi but he was already stronger than those at the peak of the Qi Solidification Realm cultivators with his means.
As he was thinking if he should find some allies, he felt a demonic aura not far from him. It felt intimidating, but he still felt he could beat it. Thus he started to move in that direction.
The domain was much bigger than the Capital, and there were opportunities everywhere. His master had found some maps for him to study, but Ezio still couldn't figure out the direction he should choose. In the end, he gave up and just followed a random direction. Now that he felt a strong demonic beast, he knew there would be opportunities close by.
He soon noticed a cave carved into a mountain. Old rules applied, entering a monster's den was stupid and deadly, thus he pulled out a Den Buster and threw it in. With a mighty roar, the monster rushed out soon. It was a bear with thick rock armor around him.
"Unlucky." Ezio clicked his tongue as he looked at the monster. It was a Fourth Tier Demonic Beast and at the peak of it. It was equivalent to Qi Solidification Peak Tier cultivators but Demonic Beasts were always stronger than cultivators in the same realm. Also, the Earth element was countering his lightning and was strong against the wind.
"I guess I have to use Mana." He thought as his hands flared. He brought them in front of him and gave the monster a flip. The monster didn't understand what the middle finger meant but he was already angry because of the Den Buster and the mocking smile on Ezio's face wasn't helping either. It rushed towards Ezio at its full speed, while the latter had his palms facing toward the monster.
"Here, taste this explosion!"