'Pill Masters? Hmph, so what. We have many cultivators that can create pills in our sect!'
His mind continued to fume as he watched for the appearance of the two figures, and his patience finally paid off when a few hours later, the other disciples brought him news about a particular dark-haired that was strolling through the many buildings throughout Rainbow Spirit Mountain.
"Haha good, follow him! If he steps foot outside this Rainbow Spirit Mountain of mine…"
Senior Brother Carl had a wrathful expression on his face as he took out a Soul Jade from his storage ring and took a deep breath before sending a message to a Martial Uncle that was one of the very few connections his father held in the sect. There were very few favors he could ask of this Martial Uncle, and teaching a lesson to some arrogant outsider was one of them.
"Martial Uncle Dan, there's a small issue that I would love your help on…"
The message travelled across space as a signal rang out in the Soul Jade that Martial Uncle Dan held while he was finishing a meeting. He heard the message as he shook his head wearily before replying.
"What is it now, boy? Things are about to get really busy around here, with a lot of us leaving very soon."
Senior Brother Carl was ecstatic at the reply as he continued.
"It shouldn't take too long Martial Uncle. You see, an Otherworlder had…"
Senior Brother Carl weaved out a story as his Martial Uncle listened with a slight smile, knowing that his nephew was just on another one of his walks when he found another poor soul to pick on. But, he would take care of these insignificant issues of his nephew so that his father never gets to hear of them, there were too many important issues at stake currently. He replied quickly as it seemed his nephew was still continuing to spew out excuses.
"Alright alright, I get it. Where is he now?"
An ecstatic smile erupted from Senoir Brother Carl's face as he heard these words, rapidly replying back.
"The disciples watching him are currently following him down the mountain, he actually seems to be descending out of the boundaries soon!"
Senior Brother Carl was ecstatic as he found the arrogant Otherworlder to actually make things perfect for him. They couldn't cause too much trouble of Rainbow Spirit Mountain, but outside of it? His smile was wide as he sent the coordinates to his Martial Uncle and began moving down the mountain himself.
He would teach this arrogant Otherworlder what it meant to look down on others today!
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Noah continued down Rainbow Spirit Mountain as soon as his {Observation} skill picked up the many eyes that focused on him and tracked his every move. The fish had taken the bait, and he moved out to see exactly what actions it would take to decide on whether he strangles it or lets it go.
He browsed the items on other shops as he continued to descend down the mountain, continuing to watch the peculiarity of the new sights opening themselves up in front of him. After some time, he had gone down until he left the boundaries of Rainbow Spirit Mountain, watching the figures of beings become more and more sparse as he went further down.
He followed one of the paths where carriages were leaving the mountain, and he did not wait too long before he felt his surroundings change as the scenery of a long road with trees around him disappeared, a new sight opening itself up in front of him. He was now in a field of grassland as they swiftly moved for miles around him.
'This is...a formation?"
He was surprised at the ingenuity of cultivators as he was placed in something he only had memories of, a powerful formation that only the most proficient Formation Masters of the cultivation world could set up.
Multiple figures began appearing in the skies of the formation as he recalled the face of a particular Senior Brother and smiled.
A voice thundered out from all around him at this moment.
"You have the calm to smile after you are surrounded by my Earthly Revolving Formation that no Transcendent Realm cultivator can break out of without my permission?"
The voice was confident and strong, coming from someone much more powerful than the Senior Brother that Noah had hoped would take the bait. His smile became even wider as he replied.
"I wonder what I have done to deserve the attention of someone so powerful?"
The reply was steady and filled with curiosity, not the tone that Martial Uncle Dan wanted to hear.
"Hmph, good, we shall see how much longer you continue to remain calm. No sound or aura will be released from this formation, with your livelihood being under my control."
OONG!
An overwhelming pressure descended from all around as lines of energy were activated in the formation, forming into an oppressive force that crushed down at Noah's position.
Senior Brother Carl and his posse floated behind their Martial Uncle in the bounds of the formation as they looked forward with arrogant faces. Their demeanor showed that this was not something new that the cultivators of the Time Immemorial Sect would do as the Martial Uncle Spoke again.
"You have offended an Inner Disciple of my sect. You will kneel, apologize, and give all the treasures and pills you have in your belongings."
The pressure descended all around Noah as it made the area around him tremble, his body that was still only strengthened up to the peak of Phantasmal level with many skills activated straining under the powerful pressure of the Transcendent Realm Formation Master. He grit his teeth as an imperceptible smile appeared on his face and he replied.
"Or what?"
There was a period of silence from the cultivators as they looked at this Otherworlder who was struggling to bear just the pressure of the formation yet acting so confidently. The arrogance deep in their bones was tested as Senior Brother Carl was the first to speak out.
"Or you will face death!"
His face was showing anger as he observed the smile on the face of the trembling being becoming wider and wider. The moment his words thundered out, he felt a change as the smile from the Otherworlder broke out into a laugh as he seemed to have ascertained something, and the rumbling of essence began to erupt with him at the center.
Chapter 225 - Prideful! Arrogant!
Wild energies roiled out in the formation that was activated by the Martial Uncle of the Time Immemorial Sect as the shackles of pressure that were holding down one particular individual were broken through.
Martial Uncle Dan held an impassive face at this show of strength as he knew full well the power of his Earthly Revolving Formation, this aura of someone at the peak of Transcendent Realm would not be something he would worry about. His body erupted out with purple light as he called out.
"A glimmering darkness that never ages. Rise and turn the earth asunder, Earthly Revival!"
His gaze looked down towards the Otherworlder's position as the energies of the formation caused a grand change, brilliantly shining bronze swords erupting out from below as they bloomed into hundreds of weapons that aimed their tips towards the newly appearing beastial creature
"ROAR!"
A tremendously powerful howl escaped out from Noah's changed form of The Calamitous Leviathan as a Nine-Headed Hydra fully made its appearance known. Its appearance was welcomed with an astounding change in the environment, where the surroundings near the large body were filled with streaks of baleful fire and lightning that rained down all around it.
Each of its heads held powerful energies from multiple elements as they rolled through the air menacingly and snapped at the incoming earthen swords. His heads spat out a variety of blasts of energy as colorful lights erupted out on top of the freely flowing lightning and flames around his body as the swords were kept at bay.
Martial Uncle Dan saw the attack being withstood as he nodded apathetically, turning his gaze towards his nephew that brought about this trouble. Senior Brother Carl saw this gaze as he turned away wearily, but still not worried about their victory as they held one of the powerful Martial Uncles of the Time Immemorial Sect on
their side. The moment that the Otherworlder fell in the Earthly Revolving Formation, their victory was assured.
"Otherworlder! Since you're so adamant to stand against us and not kneel, I will show you the power that many around this Rainbow Spirit Mountain of mine fear, the power that beings like you could only stare at from afar!"
A thunderous voice erupted out from Martial Uncle Dan as his head was raised high in the air, his condescending eyes continuing to stare down the tremendously large figure of the Nine-Headed Hydra that was pushing back the first stage attack from his Violet Immemorial Techniques. His body rumbled as energies left wildly, getting ready to cast an attack of a whole other level.
"Shimmering earth filled with sinless grains of time. Suffocating dreams asphyxiate thy own will. Obey, revile, and overwhelm! Sands of Time!"
OOONG!
A tremendous amount of energy erupted out as the skies and the earth of the formation cast by Martial Uncle Dan pressed down on Noah's position. Silver and purple sands began forming from all around as they turned into deadly lines with fearsome edges that rushed towards the large body of the Nine-Headed Hydra. The entire world of the formation with the vigorous essence in it all seemed to be turning against one particular being as its wrath unboundedly went forth.
Noah used the tremendously powerful body with multiple heads to throw out elemental attacks, but he found his attacks actually missing their targets as the dangerous sands filling the area were never in the same position they were in just a second before!
His many heads moved around rapidly while he used {Parallel Thought} and {Hasten Mind}, but he found that he could not successfully defend against the deadly attacks, their paths almost always knowing exactly where he would be a second later when they struck.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The surroundings of his body where deadly fires and lightning automatically thundered down destroyed a majority of the incoming sands, but he could not defend or push the attacks back as they always seemed to find him wherever he went, the abstruse power of time finally being used against him!
"Haha!"
The besieged Noah actually found himself laughing as this spectacular skill was actually tearing through the extremely tough defenses of the Calamitous Leviathan, the tinge of golden skin actually having scratches that could distinctly show some of the muscles beneath. After feeling the strength of these attacks though, he finally ascertained their strength as he began moving seriously!
"I'll have to thank you in advance for all the spectacular things you're about to give me!"
VOOM!
Essence erupted out as all of a sudden, A gorgeously shining trident appeared and revolved in the air above the many heads of the Calamitous Leviathan.
{Spatial Lock} was cast as Noah did not plan on giving even a single being the chance to escape. His large body that looked restricted by the formation's pressure all this time erupted out with golden light as it moved across the skies at a speed that only looked like a streak of light, each of its heads targeting a different cultivator in the skies as the dark energy that signified the casting of the Ultimate Skill, {Sin of Pride}, erupted out.
{Sun...Throw}!
WAAH!
The skies cracked under the pressure as the formation cast by Martial Uncle Dan destabilized under the appearance of multiple blazing suns hanging over the heads of the Cultivators.
The suns shone in a dangerous shade of orange and red as they rumbled down, the defenses and skins of the cultivators at a lower cultivation level than Martial Uncle Dan already being torn apart. Their bodies had begun turning a shade of red as their skin boiled and bubbled, but the cultivators actually did not seem to feel this maddening level of attack as they still looked down arrogantly towards the golden body of the Nine-Headed Hydra that had appeared near them.
This was not because of their ingrained arrogance and pride from their years of running rampant in their sect, but because they had already fallen under one of Noah's skills long before attacks began to be thrown around!
[Pride Manipulation ] :: The user can induce extremely high or low levels of pride in others, causing them to lose contact with reality or overestimate their own abilities. Cannot be applied to oneself.
The moment the cultivators had appeared, Noah applied the skill of [Pride Manipulation] as he affected the minds of the Cultivators and elevated their extreme levels of arrogance and pride even further, making them feel like they were invincible under all odds!
Even as the tremendously powerful energies from the fiery suns rumbled down, they still felt like it was nothing towards them, that they could take it!
This extreme arrogance caused them to look on impassively as only a single Cultivator had finally felt something wrong as he felt the deadly energies in the form of golden suns rushing down towards them. Martial Uncle Dan seemed to have come out of a stupor as the expression of horror finally dawned on his face, his gaze watching some of the disciples they brought with them already melting from head to toe.
"AAAAHH!"
His body reacted even if slightly late as he used the power of the formation to form powerful barriers of sand around all of them, but they would not form in time.
BOOM!
A sobering sound erupted out as many disciples of the Time Immemorial Sect Faced death, with very few managing to survive as they were wrapped under the protective layers of sand.
But it was not over, the moment this attack finished, the remaining figures of cultivators found themselves staring into the many different colored eyes of the Nine-Headed Hydra as the terror they never felt before finally dawned on them, [Pride Manipulation] finally losing its effectiveness.
But it was too late.
"[Devouring]."
Calm. Steady. Powerful.
Darkness erupted as the Ultimate Skill, the {Sin of Gluttony}, was the next skill cast against the cultivators of Time Immemorial Sect.
Chapter 226 - A New Identity
[Devouring]!
A vile energy that caused seeps of darkness to roil around the area erupted out, acting like a voracious mouth that went forward to swallow the remaining figures of cultivators in the skies.
Senior Brother Carl was the last of the cultivators beneath the Transcendent Realm to be swallowed as his Martial Uncle frantically fought off the voracious darkness trying to swallow him whole.
"Otherworlder, you cannot kill us! Our people will find out and chase you to the ends of the world!"
The moment that Martial Uncle Dan felt the restrictions of the mental skill that made him neglect and disregard this deadly enemy lifted and his mind return to normal, he tried various methods to teleport out of the formation that he himself created, but nothing was working!
He could not even destabilize and turn off the formation to allow the outside world to peek into the events occurring in this isolated space as everything seemed to be locked in place.
The many eyes of the Nine-Headed Dragon voraciously looked at the Martial Uncle, and one could even observe the expression of avarice as they looked at the Transcendent Realm cultivator with a gaze that had already determined the fate of the being in front of it.
A thundering voice erupted out from all directions as the jaws of the many heads opened and shot out tremendously fast blasts of energy that looked like beams of plasma of a variety of colors.
BOOM!
"AHH!"
The sands protecting Martial Uncle Dan were ripped apart as many holes ruptured throughout his body, Noah not giving him a single chance as the {Sin of Gluttony} was activated once again and the once arrogant Martial Uncle was swallowed whole.
The next instant after that, the formation that isolated the space began to destabilize as it was not getting any more energy. Noah observed this as his thoughts moved rapidly, {Parallel Thought} and {Hasten Mind} working in full throttle as he put aside the many [Skill Book]s and [Core]s dropped as loot from the cultivators and simply focused on the feature of [Library] from the {S
in of Gluttony}
The entire life of the Martial Uncle, the Senior Brother that had called him here as well as the posse that he walked around with all the time, all of their lives were playing out in the form of memories that were rapidly integrated and memorized in Noah's mind.
VOOM!
His large form of the Calamitous Leviathan disappeared as he returned to his human form, but even that did not last long enough as his facial muscles began to change and bones could be heard reshaping, his body gradually changing to that of a particularly confident Martial Uncle of the Time Immemorial Sect.
POP!
The moment that the formation became destabilized enough and was wiped away, a brand new and improved Martial Uncle Dan made an appearance to the outside world.
He was in the skies not too far away from the road he took away from the Rainbow Spirit Mountain. None of the commotions from the formation or what happened in it leaked out as the area returned to normal. But something monumental had occurred.
Noah was reveling in the memories of Martial Uncle Dan as this cultivator was a high ranking member of the Time Immemorial Sect, and Noah received the memories of how they were already moving for the same goal he held, the tomb of the Devilish Time Unveiler!
He recalled the memories of Martial Uncle Dan hurrying to quickly wrap up the issue his nephew had brought up before he began his preparations for the journey that could begin at any moment.
Not a single soul in the World of Cultivation knew when the Treasure Abode of the Devilish Time Unveiler would open, they could only glimpse the possibility of its appearance and location, and just this was making many nearby sects go crazy to get their hands on the treasures of a being from the Void Fimmerment Realm.
The many memories continued to play throughout his head as he affirmed how to move from now on with his new identity as the Martial Uncle of the Time Immemorial Sect, as well as how to handle the disappearance of Senior Brother Carl and his posse.
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