The Story Never Ends
Chapter 174 - My God! Not Again

It was completely made of lightning and was still radiating a shade of goldening from its outline.

"I feel warmer and much more comfortable than when I was inside. It seems like this is where I belong. In nature…," he muttered while being in his soul form.

"Not only that.." he lifted his palm, and the thunder energy around him began gathering on it excitedly.

"Chirr..chirr.."

"Only Domain Realm experts can control the elementary particles in the air and use them to assist in their spells. This is the reason why every move they make affects a large area and causes destruction of the topography." Although he hadn't seen them fighting, he knew a few things about them.

"However, I have already unlocked this ability," he smiled.

"Moreover, I can absorb this and recover my energy which allows me to stay in this form for a long period of time. Maybe I might never perish." He waved his hand and the thunder slowly vanished into thin air.

He then returned back into his body and went into deep thought.

"According to this technique, the soul finally becomes like mine only after reaching the Domain Realm. Since my soul was grown up and was at the peak of the Nascent Soul Stage long ago, the panel simply added these abilities which were missing to me. This also explains why not many experience points were consumed."

"Nonetheless, these abilities are quite terrifying. Perhaps only someone with holy physiques could possess them before reaching the Domain Realm."

"Hehe, I really want to see what the expression of that old woman would become when she learns that I have already cultivated this technique." He chuckled.

"But I won't do that. It's better to be low profile." He shook his head and focused on the two remaining arts in the panel he had yet to learn.

"The Demon Beast Connection Art and the Heavenly Body Reforging Technique"

"Now that I have a rescued bird in the sect, I can use this art on it. As for Ryland, I have to think about it later on." He made up his mind and learned it without any hesitation.

***

While Davion was busy here, the battle near the sect was about to conclude.

"Ambrose, we can't stay here any longer," One of the old men yelled.

"Yeah, let's forget about the signal. I think something happened to them." The other suggested.

"I know," Ambrose nodded and looked at their bloody bodies. Even he himself was not better as they have suffered a lot during this hour.

"Damn, we are leaving." He cursed and tore the scroll in anger. They also did the same and followed him.

"Crack"

The barrier broke into pieces and the elders immediately chased after them. How could they let them escape this easily?

Despite this, they were still late as Ambrose instantly took out a talisman from his spirit ring and burned it.

A passageway appeared behind them and they all jumped into it.

"You got us this time. But remember this is just the beginning. Next time, you all can forget about living."

When the elders neared there, the passageway had closed already and they could only hear this voice.

"They escaped." Warren put back his sword and spoke.

"Humm, they were quite cunning. They never planned to fight with us from the beginning." Vance had a disdainful look on his face.

"Indeed, they were simply buying time to destroy our territory," Nelson joined in the conversation.

"Haha, it looks like their plan failed. Our disciples might have whooped those devil kings to death," Warren laughed.

"Seems to be so. After all, we are still sensing their identity tokens," Vance agreed.

While they were discussing, they felt some movement in the air.

They glanced in that direction and saw a disciple approaching them in a hurry. He was also carrying someone on his back.

"Elders, we have troubles." Indeed, it was Ethan who had rushed here after being saved by Davion.

"What is it?" Vance seized up the girl on his back with his Divine Sense.

"The enemies are too strong. There are not only devil kings but powerful demon beats mixed with them." He replied.

The elders became solemn when they heard it.

"Are you sure?" Nelson questioned. How could demon beasts work together with devil kings? Unless they belonged to that sect.

"Yes," Ethan began explaining everything while Vance fed some pills to the girl. He already perceived the devil essence creating havoc inside her.

A few minutes later,

The elders looked at each other and nodded their heads. They finally knew who was behind all this.

"So, that masked disciple saved you?" Vance was impressed. He never knew that kid could be even stronger than some of the core disciples.

"Of course." Ethan opened his spirit ring and took out the dead bodies as proof.

"This.." The elder's expression became much uglier at once. They could feel two different types of energies inside the body of the bull.

"It's a serious matter. Thus, I will report it to the Sect Master straight away. Even though he is in seclusion, we have to disturb him. You all go and bring the remaining disciples." Without waiting for their reply, Vance took those bodies and dashed off towards the Sect. He had to clearly inspect them.

The other elders didn't object to him as they had realized the severity of this situation. It looked like Conard was actually not the one behind all this. It was the Heavenly Demon Sect.

So, having these thoughts in their mind, they were about to leave in search of the disciples when suddenly they spotted many beams of light in the sky.

"Eh! They returned?" Warren exclaimed. They were other disciples whom Davion had rescued.

***

"It's done. It took even fewer experience points," Davion smiled after learning the Demon Beast Connection Art.

"It's only a utility technique used for communication basically."

"Now, time for the ultimate technique that I was longing for. Let's hope the bald man will not disappoint me." He closed his eyes and focused on the Heavenly Body Reforging Technique.

As usual, his experience points decreased speedily and tons of information poured into his mind. In addition to it, tremendous changes happened to him.

"Creak…Creak…"

Crackling sounds were heard inside his body as his bones toughened and even enlarged slowly while causing him immense pain.

Nonetheless, he didn't cry out loudly since he had become used to this process a month ago when he had reached level 30. But he underestimated it as he felt a tearing pain in his soul.

"Ahh-"

"My god! Why is my soul transforming again?"

He couldn't believe it as a large amount of spiritual energy flooded into his soul and covered it inside a ball. However, he couldn't see through it as he had to put his attention on his body. It became bigger and bigger in the speed visible to the naked eye.

"Clang"

His mask and spirit ring fell on the floor. Not only that, but his clothes also tore off because they couldn't contain this body.

Next, his cells, tissues, and every part of his body greedily absorbed his spiritual energy. However, it was not enough as he ran out of it. This caused him even more pain and his eyes to turn red.

But it stopped promptly as loads of spiritual energy automatically appeared in his body. He knew that it was due to the panel converting the experience points into spiritual energy.

Only fifteen minutes later did he feel somewhat better.

"Phew, is it about to end?" A hundred feet tall Davion pondered as his soul still had not broken free. Yes, he has become a handsome giant with heaps of streamlined powerful muscles and long silky black hairs touching the ground.

While he was waiting, another strange thing happened to him. The temperature of his right arm increased and flames lit up who knows how.

"This.." he lifted his arm and looked at it in an alert. He could see that it was the tiny tiger tattoo that had caused it.

"What's happening?" he stood up in shock as the flames spread all over his body and the pain returned once again.

"Ahh-"

He supported himself on the nearby tree and clung to it. But it was turned into ash in a jiffy due to the flames.

"BAM"

With nothing to support, he fell on his knees, and the whole ground shook as a result. This didn't end here as the flames spread everywhere in a kilometer radius.

The birds became scared and flew off in the distance while the animals ran away too. Nevertheless, there were still many who had died, consisting of a few demon beasts among them as well.

"RROOAARR"

A majestic roar was suddenly heard in the forest, and one could see all the trees being uprooted into the sky.

***

Somewhere far away,

There stood an imposing huge palace made from gold surrounded by beautiful buildings with a statue of a thousand-foot tall tiger in the middle.

In the main hall of the palace, there was a middle-aged man wearing a crown sitting on a throne. There were many alluring women wearing revealing clothes surrounding him. Some of them were caressing his body while some were standing behind him and waving large leaves.

The atmosphere looked joyous and peaceful when all of a sudden, he sensed something causing him to frown.