The Story Never Ends
Chapter 153 - The Bald Man

"Who are you?" She stood up and asked as she had never seen this kid. Not only that, how could she even be his mother?

"Mom, did you forget about me?" The child neared her and gazed at her with tearful eyes.

Seeing this, everybody would surely have a change of heart and melt. But for a devil like her, it was useless. Nonetheless, she didn't dare to reply harshly and create some troubles here. Who knew if his parents were somewhere else? Wouldn't she get beaten up in her current state?

"I think you've mistaken me for someone else," she tried to act kindly.

"No, no. It's definitely you." He shook his head and shed some tears.

"Damn, I'm getting irritated. I will just let it go for the time being." She thought.

"Son, I was only playing with you." She gave him a warm smile.

"Why?" He asked curiously.

Her hands shook in anger. Why was he questioning so much?

"Your mother is hurt right now. So, I was recovering here," she replied.

"Did the animals hurt you?" He asked again.

She swung her hand towards his cheek immediately in response but stopped a few centimeters away from it.

"I can't…" She controlled her temper and said, "Son, go somewhere else and don't disturb your mother here." Then without waiting for him to respond she sat on the ground again and closed her eyes. Then she began absorbing the pills.

The child looked at her carefully and didn't ask anything more. Instead, he went towards the rare materials of heavens and earth that were laying on the floor. He didn't know why he suddenly felt hungry when he saw them.

"Mom, I want to eat them." He bent down and picked up ginseng that was radiating a strong devil essence. Nonetheless, it didn't seem to affect him in any way.

"It's enough," She couldn't take it anymore and waved her hands towards him causing tremendous pressure to befall him. However, she regretted it deeply with what took place next.

The tattoo on his face shined brightly, and a terrifying bolt of lighting was released from it. This easily countered her pressure and reached her in the blink of an eye.

"No…" She yelled as she didn't have any energy left to protect herself from it.

"Boom"

An explosion took place inside the tree and only after a few minutes could one see what had happened. Everything was charred inside and the child was lying unconscious on the ground. As for Julia, there was no sign of her.

***

"Her trace disappeared here and I can't locate her. Does this mean that she went inside?" Davion, who had just reached outside the island, pondered.

"This island looks really strange. Especially, these flashes of lightning falling around them. It is preventing my Mind-Eye from sensing anything inside it. Also, it is impossible for the Golden Core Stage Cultivators to enter here."

"Wait!" All of a sudden something struck his mind. Didn't this place seem to be similar to how Elder Liliana had described?

"Not only that, from the map I've memorized from Leyla, I should be in the center of the Secret Realm," he muttered. During this time, he was focusing on Julia and chasing her as fast as she could. So, he hadn't noticed this.

"Hehe, I can't believe she led me here. It looks like both of my tasks will be completed here." He chuckled and entered inside the lightning field.

"My God!" Davion's expression was the same as Julia's. He couldn't imagine such a place existed here.

"So, this should be the tree whose branch I had to rip off and bring back." He glanced at the huge tree standing in the middle.

"But I have to search for that bitch first. She has troubled me a lot during this period." He spread his Mind-Eye while walking around the island.

"She's not here. However, I can sense some guardians a kilometer away from me. Maybe there are some treasures here." He excitedly rushed in that direction. This was one of the advantages of his Mind-Eye compared to the Divine Sense. Its range was very big when compared to it.

From the records and information, he had gathered from the Sect, an average cultivator who had just reached the Nascent Soul Sage could only scan around 100 meters around them. Although he didn't know what range the peak stage Nascent Soul Cultivators had, he was sure that he had a better range. But the weakness of his technique was that he could only feel the breath rather than seeing the actual scenery like the eyes which was possible with the Divine Sense.

After a few minutes, he saw many guardians looking like monkeys swinging around the trees. They seem to be protecting the strange orange-colored fruits hanging on the trees. He could also feel the heat energy being radiated from them.

"They remind me of the guardians protecting the thunder pearl. So, the big one must also be here." While he was thinking, he heard a movement coming from his back.

Thus, he immediately turned back and saw a big fist coming towards his head. He sidestepped and backed some distance away from it.

"An ape at the early stage of Nascent Soul Stage, huh" he finally saw what had attacked him.

"This should be the main guardian." He smiled and took out the halberd from his spirit ring that he didn't forget to bring when escaping with his soul.

***

Two hours passed by and during this time, Davion managed to scan and visit all the areas on this island. Along the way, he met with different types of guardians and slew every single one of them while obtaining various treasures like those orange-colored fruits. However, there were only three guardians strong like the ape on this island.

But the experience points he obtained from them were sufficient enough for him to level up. Indeed, he just leveled up to 31 and had the experience bar already half-filled up again.

Nonetheless, he was still a bit disappointed as he couldn't replace Julia. Thinking about her, he was slowly approaching the central tree to complete the mission.

"Haiz, did she use the talisman to escape?" He racked his brains and imagined the possible scenarios.

"No, wait. I sense something." He dashed in a certain direction and in a few minutes, he was ahead of a tree having a hole in its trunk. Yes, it was the same place where Julia had met the child. Since there was still some unusual lightning energy lingering here, Davion was able to sense it.

He then jumped into it and saw a child lying there with everything charred inside.

"This.." But the child didn't catch his attention but rather the heavenly treasures that were on the floor.

"Who could be so rich to leave all of them here?" he had his mouth wide open. These treasures were all at the level of the thunder pearl. So, without wasting any of his time, he immediately put them into his spirit ring.

Afterward, he was finally about to set his sights on the child, but he noticed something interesting on the wall of the trunk that solved all his puzzles.

"Don't tell me…"

He put his hands inside the wall and dug out a tiny object from it. It was a spirit ring carved with runes written from devil language.

"Is this Julia's?" He poured his spiritual energy into it and became sure it was hers after seeing the contents inside. Especially he recognized that overpowered artifact.

"HAHA"

He maniacally laughed and couldn't believe that she would fall in such a place.

"But who finished her? Is this child?" He guessed and neared the child. He turned his body and became amazed when he saw his face.

"A strange tattoo…" He was about to put his hands on them when it suddenly lit up.

"What?" He instantly backed away and even took out his halberd. He knew that someone that could beat Julia would not be any pushover.

"Young man, you don't need to be so wary."

He heard an old voice in his ears.

"Who?" He yelled as he didn't sense anyone with his Mind-Eye.

"Here" From the lit-up tattoo, a projection of a bald man emerged. The aura coming out from him seemed to be very old and had an ancient feeling to it.

"You are?" Davion asked, but he didn't dare to put down his weapon.

"I don't know." The bald man shook his head.

His expression changed straight away. He found this bald man even more suspicious.

Seeing him acting this way, the bald man explained, "I'm not a soul like you but just a will left behind by my main body tens of thousands of years ago. So, I don't have any memories."

"Is that so?" Davion seized him up from top to bottom. It was his first time listening to something like this.