Delin's Slumber

Having obtained Black Jade Stone in Hess City, Linley sought out Colby, the finest weaponsmith in Hess City. However, Colby lacked the ability to forge Black Jade Stone. Disappointed, Linley returned to his residence, planning to find another solution.

However, halfway there, Linley heard a familiar voice.

"Third Brother."

Linley immediately turned around.

Yale, George, Renault, and Arnold were looking at him in delighted surprise. Linley was greatly excited, and at Yale's invitation, he decided to go to the Dawson Commerce's residence and spend time with his good brothers.

At the Elegant Estate where Arnold and the others were temporarily staying, Linley and the others happily talked about their experiences. Yale's father, Monroe, recommended Master Vincent Hyde to Linley, a member of the Purple Flame Warrior Clan, one of the Four Supreme Warrior Clans.

As fellow members of the Four Supreme Warriors, Vincent happily forged a heavy sword for Linley the very next morning.

During the forging process, the heavy sword was struck by a bolt of lightning falling from the sky. That lightning perfectly fused the materials within the sword. A blue-green halo shimmered across the blade's surface, which was unbelievably smooth—smooth enough to kill without drawing blood.

In the end, Linley named the heavy sword Edgeless. After returning to the estate, he continuously practiced swinging it, only to discover Clyde's traces. Without informing his brothers, he rushed over.

A week passed in the blink of an eye. Because Clyde had remained with the ascetics, Linley had never found an opportunity. However, the ascetics finally left, and Clyde also deduced that Linley might have been watching him all along.

After the ascetics departed, Clyde immediately left through the back door, but Linley had already discovered him. After threatening Clyde for a while, Linley learned that his mother's soul had been offered to the Lord of Light by the Radiant Church.

The six senior special executors of the Inquisition of the Radiant Church discovered Linley's trail and formed the Inquisition's combined attack formation to trap him.

After struggling repeatedly, Linley still could not escape. At the most critical moment, old Delin signaled for Linley to prepare the Greater Gravity Spell and release it at his command.

Old Delin actually began to burn his soul. Without magical power, he relied solely on spiritual energy to control earth elemental essence and cast a spell—Meteorite Descent!

Just as Meteorite Descent was about to be unleashed, Delin ordered Linley to cast a wide-range, eightfold-gravity Greater Gravity Spell.

The six senior special executors within a hundred-meter radius were enveloped by the terrifying eightfold gravity, affecting even the hexagram formation they had created. Combined with Delin's Meteorite Descent, six enormous yellowish-brown meteors crashed directly toward the six senior special executors.

The entire hexagram formation immediately scattered. With a shrill whistle, the six gigantic meteors, each as large as a house and formed entirely from earth elemental essence, tore through the air at terrifying speed as they smashed toward the six men. The senior special executors cried out and fled, but the six gigantic meteors followed them.

"Linley." Delin Cowart looked at Linley. "Goodbye."

Linley looked up at Grandpa Delin, dressed in moon-white robes, his beard and hair equally white.

"Remember, live well." Delin Cowart revealed his trademark smile. Then, his already-illusory soul vanished like smoke scattered by the wind, with 99% of it disappearing outright. The remaining 1% of his soul was forcibly gathered into the Coiling Dragon Ring.

The eightfold Greater Gravity Spell was quite powerful, and the Meteorite Descent formed by Delin burning 99% of his soul should have been enough to break through the six executors' hexagram formation.

Of course, after burning such a massive amount of his soul at once, Delin should originally have dissipated completely between heaven and earth. But the Coiling Dragon Ring was so miraculous that Delin had taken a gamble. The result was excellent—Delin fell into slumber within the Coiling Dragon Ring.

Linley opened his mouth, yet felt as though he had become mute, unable to make any sound. Tears flowed uncontrollably down his face. As the owner of the Coiling Dragon Ring, Linley could also sense Delin's soul, weakened to the extreme and plunged directly into slumber.

The six enormous meteors slammed viciously toward the six senior special executors. The six executors tore open the ground with both hands, trying to burrow underground. Yet when the six massive meteors struck the earth, the tremors echoed between heaven and earth like thunder.

Boom—

Six enormous craters, each more than ten meters wide, appeared out of nowhere. At the same time, terrifying shockwaves spread in every direction, while the ground rolled like waves. Houses collapsed, and trees shattered and scattered.

Everything within several hundred meters had been reduced to ruins.

When Linley came back to his senses, he was utterly enraged. Delin had been like a grandfather to him, yet now his soul had nearly collapsed and fallen into slumber. It was all the fault of those six senior special executors!

From one of the craters struck by the meteors, a purple-robed figure was struggling to crawl out. Not only him—the other five were likewise slowly and painfully crawling out of the ground.

Seeing those six men, endless fury and anger suddenly surged from the depths of Linley's heart.

"Ah—" Linley charged toward one of the purple-robed figures like lightning. When that senior special executor saw Linley rushing at him, his eyes widened in terror.

"Ah—" Linley suddenly exerted force with both hands and tore that senior special executor directly into two halves.

"Die." Linley yanked off another purple-robed figure's head.

"Ha!" Linley's claws plunged directly into the third senior special executor's chest. He tore out the man's heart and crushed it to pieces.

"Go to hell." Linley's claws swept across the throats of the fourth senior special executor, tearing off his entire head.

"Ah." Linley's figure instantly appeared before the fifth senior special executor. Already heavily wounded and unable to resist, the executor could only watch Linley in terror as he tore him in half from the thighs upward.

"Y-you—" The sixth senior special executor, already severely wounded, saw the gruesome scene ahead of him. Seeing Linley charge toward him like a demon from the Infernal Realm, his entire body trembled, and then he collapsed.

Even though the sixth senior special executor was already dead, Linley still smashed a fist viciously into his head, blowing it apart completely.

After killing the six executors, Linley sat on the ground. After thinking for a moment, he did not give up hope.

Grandpa Delin's soul had been weakened to its limit and directly fallen into slumber. If he could obtain some treasure that restored or strengthened souls, wouldn't he be able to save Grandpa Delin?

After sorting out his thoughts, Linley glanced at the spectators several hundred meters away. He picked up the Blackjade Heavy Sword lying on the ground and quickly left, only to run into Yale and the others who had rushed over. The moment Yale's father Monroe saw the chaotic scene, he immediately ordered his subordinates to secretly dispose of the six corpses.

Thus, led by the Dawson Commerce's men, Linley quietly traveled through the alleyways and arrived at a secret estate.

Inside the estate, Linley briefly told them about encountering Clyde, killing Clyde, and then running into the six senior special executors of the Inquisition of the Radiant Church.

During their conversation, Linley subtly asked Yale about treasures capable of restoring or strengthening souls, but Yale had never even heard of such a treasure.

Linley knew that only by becoming stronger and reaching a higher level would he have a chance to come into contact with such treasures. Whether he needed to reach the Saint Domain or become Deity-level to obtain one, Linley would fight for it with everything he had.

Thus, Linley decided to leave once more and train alone. Yale, George, Renault, and Arnold did not stop him. They would surely meet again in the future.