Seven Days Later
In the dense forest where Alex had established the Soul Gathering Array, there was a stark decrease in the amount of souls that was present here seven days before.
The millions of Sovereign Profound Realm Souls that were present here seven days ago, were no where to be found.
The highest grade that was currently present here was the at the Tyrant Profound Realm.
The reason of their disappearance was sitting in the middle of the array formation that was attracting the souls towards itself in the first place.
Right now, Alex had already absorbed all the Sovereign Profound Realm Souls on this planet and had broken through to mid of the second stage of the Soul Cultivation which was, Soul Refinement.
Alex was no longer absorbing the souls of Tyrant Profound Realm or below at all. Simply because they weren't of any use to him right now. Even the Sovereign Realm Souls were becoming less and less effective as his cultivation increased but still he continued to absorb them.
Alex was now stabilizing his soul's power as due to the sudden increase, he a sense of weirdness.
After a few minutes, Alex opened his eyes as he sensed himself and spoke,
"I have reached the mid level of the Soul Refinement stage. This should be more than enough to deal with the soul fragments of the Divine Beast Spirits. They are after all just that, fragments. The most strength they had shown in the series was at the Divine Origin Realm, which was enough to overpower any of the cultivators on this planet."
"But now, I do not need to worry about them at all. With my soul cultivation reaching the mid of the Soul Refinement stage, I can easily suppress them if not erase them."
Alex stood up from his place and as he looked at the vast number of souls present here and thought,
"I do not need any souls below the Divine Origin Realm anymore. They won't help me increase my cultivation anymore. Even if they did, the number would be exponentially large this time."
"Let's just disperse the array formation and get going back to the Floating Cloud City as fast as possible. After all, I have a disciple waiting for me there."
And so he did and left in the direction of the Floating Cloud City.
Within a few minutes, Alex had reached the ourskirts of the Floating Cloud City and without hesitation, he went to Qingyue's room and found that Qingyue was immersed in culvation.
Xiao Lingxi wasn't present inside the room. So, without disturbing Qingyue, he went outside the room and sensed the presence of Xiao Lingxi in the guest room and started to moved towards to the guest room.
As soon as Alex opened the door, he found Xiao Lingxi weeping on the floor and as Alex came inside the room, she looked up to see who it was and just as she was about to ask him about who he was, Alex spoke first,
"Hello, Xiao Lingxi. My name is Alex."
As soon as she heard his name Xiao Lingxi's whole body trembled and a look of hatred came in her eyes as she shouted,
"It's you! You are the one who has ruined our lives!"
Alex was confused at this point, how was it his fault? He had tried to solve the thing about engagement peacefully, hadn't he?
He even gave them something as a compensation that they would have never gotten in this lifetime.
Alex asked, "Me? How have I ruined your lives?"
Xiao Lingxi shouted, "If you hadn't given those crystals to my father, he wouldn't have died!! It's because of you my nephew died!!"
"If you hadn't come to our lives, Che'er and Xia Qingyue would have been happily married! My father would have been alive!"
Alex frowned at this. While he was trying to be as patient as possible, he wasn't the type to just listen to a screamer. He already had too much of this in his previous life, not anymore.
He spoke, " So, it is my fault huh? I gave those crystals as a compensation for breaking the marriage contract between Qingyue and Xiao Che. Was my method wrong?"
"Instead of giving compensation for that matter, should I have directly killed your father and nephew? Would that have been the right thing to do?"
"That was merely a transaction, it was your father's own mistake for doing that. It has nothing to do with me. Had he chosen to use them as a resource for his cultivation, he could have reached the Emperor Realm at the very least. But instead he went to the wolf's den and died."
Xiao Lingxi flinched at this.
"I was going to take you in as my disciple, but seeing as you are, I have no intentions of doing so anymore."
"You miss your nephew right? I will send you to him!"
Xiao Lingxi trembled with fear, wasn't her nephew, Xiao Che, dead?
So, does that mean....she's gonna be killed too?
Alex ignored her and simply used his sensing skills to detect Yun Che, he could sense everything on this planet. The Soul Cultivation session also gave boost to that too. So, finding him wasn't going to be a problem.
Soon Alex located Yun Che and he simply grabbed Xiao Lingxi's hand and disappeared from the Xia Mansion.
Meanwhile, Yun Che, who had become the disciple of Jasmine and had absorbed the Heretic God's blood and had lost his cultivation, was talking to his master.
Jasmine had just given The Great Way of Buddha technique to Yun Che. But suddenly she felt that someone was moving towards them.
Jasmine warned Yun Che,
"Someone is moving towards us at an extremely fast rate. Their cultivation is at least at the Emperor Profound Realm. Maybe they aren't here for you, but if they are, then I want you to resolve it with words, if that's not possible then I will kill him."
Saying so, Jasmine went back inside the Sky Poison Pearl as Yun Che, without any cultivation, was waiting for Alex to arrive.
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