SCREECH!


    As soon as the beast bog stopped breathing, a loud, high-pitched, and sharp noise that is often unpleasant to the ears resonated.


    GROWL!


    Following it, another growl emerged, not just one but several growls, sounding unpleasant to people and disturbing enough to give bad dreams to children.


    Observing the source of the doomden whines, he saw multiple Battle Monarch-level beastsing at him, ready for the worst fight of their lives.


    Three of the beasts were shaped like oversized vultures, eachparable to the size of a mega trailer.


    Their heads with sharp ck beaks were attached to long snake-like necks, dancing around dangerously, with huge wings dripping with ck blood pping in the air.


    "Dealing with beasts with wings will be a pain in the ass."


    His eyes then rolled towards the two beasts, simr to the one he had just defeated, dog-like creatures with overgrown bodies, the same disgusting slime-like substance dripping from their mouths.


    One of the three dog-like beasts did not have its tail; another had sharp spikes on its tail, and thest one had a big horn that looked like it could pierce through anything living or non-living.


    "Triplets?" Sam wondered, his face showing no weariness or cautiousness as he prepared to face multiple Battle Monarch-level beasts simultaneously.


    Even experienced Battle Monarchs would hesitate to fight these formidable beast at the same time.


    Just then, another strange noise was heard,ing from a bear-shaped beast.


    Unlike those from the mortal world, it had a tail simr to the ones lizards had, built like a bodybuilder on steroids, its muscles bulging as if they could explode at any moment.


    "This should be fun," Sam smiled.


    Just as he was about to attack, he sensed the temperature rising very fast.


    Expecting danger, Sam disappeared from the spot where he was standing, and a breath of mes, as if fueled by a thermal nt,nded on the ground, scorching it.


    "I have to deal with the damn vultures first." A pair of ice-like, pure white wings patterned in a bright crimson color, each extending up to seven feet in length, expanded from his back, creating a burst of air that swept away the dust with his pping.


    He shot into the sky.


    The vultures, seeing him arrogantly charging at them, screeched unpleasantly.


    Like giant methrowers, the three vultures opened their mouths and spit out intense earth fires at Sam.


    "Hmph," Sam easily dodged the iing attacks and appeared above one of the vultures, giving it a punch from above, sending it crashing to the ground.


    Dodging another me attack, Sam appeared behind another vulture and stabbed it right on its Ass-hole.


    The vulture writhed in unbearable pain as ck, disgusting blood spurted out likeva from an exploding volcano.


    But Sam didn''t stop there.


    Grinning evilly like a sadist, he pushed the sword even further until his 110cm de was fully engraved into its Ass-hole to the hilt.


    Unable to bear the pain, the vulture''s bnce went out of control, and it used its snake-like head to try and remove Sam from its sensitive area.


    However, every time it tried to crush Sam under its teeth, he escaped like a cockroach or kicked its head.


    Without stopping his vile actions, Sam pulled the sword, which was still embedded in its butt, downwards, creating an arc, tearing its flesh deeply until the sword ended up under its leg.


    When he pulled the sword out, one of its legs was separated from its body, and ck blood rained down.


    The vulture went crashing down, unable to keep its bnce after losing one of its body parts, but it was still very much alive.


    Sam wasn''t ready to stop there.


    He raised his sword, and sword Qi began to condense around it, disintegrating the ck blood of the vulture.


    With a gentle sh, an arc of sword Qi cleaved the air andnded on the falling vulture, severing its body into two parts thatnded on the vulture he had punched down seconds earlier.


    "Abyssal Fang Strike."


    Following the Sword Qi attack, another sh of sword Qi augmented with his Ice Dragon essence and strong Ice Dao essencended on the struggling vulture, freezing its body into a crystalline figure and severely weakening it.


    The intense sword Qi ripped through its corrupted flesh, ending its pitiful life.


    "One more to go." Sam shot towards thest vulture, which sucked in air and breathed out a gush of earth mes at him.


    Without regard for the mes, Sam propelled into the me and stabbed his sword covered in sword Qi inside the vulture''s mouth.


    He moved it upwards, cleaving its head into two parts, ending its pathetic life.


    Seeing the dead vulture falling to the ground, Sam remained indifferent.


    "Hmm, its me still burned my skin." He was covered in second-degree burns, which healed in no time.


    "If I had stubbornly worn my T-shirts, it would have burnt out. Thank God I listened to my grandmother and wore this light armor." Sam smiled slightly.


    "Next, the dog triplets."


    Sam disappeared and reappeared in front of the tailless dog, stabbing its forehead through its skull.


    However, to his surprise, the dog remained alive.


    Suddenly, the stabbed sword began to burn with crimson mes, exploding from inside its skull.


    ck smoke emanated from its eyes, ears, and mouth, and crimson mes directly spurted out, burning them into dust.


    After dispatching the tailless dog, Sam was assaulted by the spiked tail of its brother.


    Dodging its attack, Sam countered with the Abyssal Fang Strike, targeting its eyes and killing it.


    The dog with a huge horn lunged at him, but Sam was too strong and too fast.


    He used his ice maniption, quickly freezing its existence like fragile ss.


    With a single punch, the crystallized beast shattered into a thousand pieces.


    "This is more boring than I expected," Sam muttered in dissatisfaction before sighing.


    He appeared before the bear-shaped beast and punched it, sending the beast, standing on two legs, sprawling to the ground.


    "Argghhh," the beast red at Sam with its ck bloodshot eyes.


    Without regard, Sam appeared near its tail, grabbed it, and swung its body like a rainbow arc, smashing it harshly into the ground.


    He didn''t stop there; he continued smashing it into the ground, beating the living daylight out of it.


    He only stopped after smashing it at least a hundred times, like the Hulk smashing Loki, as if clothes being washed in a washing machine.


    The bear was in the worst condition imaginable.


    All the bones in its body were broken into pieces, and ck blood flowed from all of its orifices.


    With a final swirl, Sam sent the beast into the sky before summoning his Astral Ascendent Sword and shing it horizontally with dense Sword Qi.


    The Sword Qi rushed at the corrupted beast bear,nding on its belly, cleaving into its flesh, splitting apart its insides, and killing it.


    ...


    Having secured Sam''s favor, Nora Solheart carried her youngest daughter, the twins Lily reheart and Jane reheart, in the direction of the Hailstorm n, following Sam''s orders.


    Yes, orders.


    For some reason, she felt like she was being ordered rather than instructed when Sam spoke to her.


    They traveled using the flying boat powered by Nora''s spiritual energy, as carrying her daughters in her hands would be ufortable for the babies.


    It would also be more dangerous if they were attacked, and she wouldn''t be able to fight back while holding her daughters.


    As the boat flew at a safe speed, Nora made the twins sit on herps.


    "Mommy, I''m hungry," Lily said, puckering her lips in dissatisfaction.


    "Me too, Mommy," Jane followed her sister, raising her hand hurriedly.


    "My sweet babies, just wait for a little longer. Mommy will give you lots of sweets, okay?" Nora smiled gently as she massaged their heads.


    "Okay, Lily is a good girl; she will listen," Lily said, hugging her mother, earning a pat on her crimson hair.


    "Jane will listen to Mommy too," Jane hurriedly said. She also wanted to be spoiled like her sister.


    "Of course, both of my daughters are good and excellent girls," Nora ced a gentle kiss on their foreheads, making them giggle.


    "Mommy, why is big sister Mira noting with us?" Jane blinked and asked.


    "Well... your big sister is with your big brother. Both of them will join us after finishing their work," Nora spoke after thinking for a few seconds.


    Truth be told, she didn''t know why Sam asked Mira to stay behind.


    She wasn''t worried that Sam might do something to her because she trusted the man Helena raised.


    But she was worried in general that something might happen to her.


    However, after remembering that Victoria was there to protect her and Sam had promised to help them, she wasn''t as worried as before.


    "Mommy, are we going to big brother''s ce?" Lily asked, clearly excitedly.


    There was a secret that Nora, Mira, and Victoria had been keeping from the other members of the reheart family.


    Lily and Jane, being just four and a half years old and yet to awaken their bloodlines, had somehow prematurely awakened their innate abilities.


    Lily''s innate ability was called Dream Walker.


    The full extent of this ability was yet to be explored.


    Unknowingly using this ability in her sleep, Lily was pulling Sam into her dream world, where she made him y with her.


    Sam was initially dumbfounded when he found himself in a strange dream with a child who looked a lot like him in his base form, as Lily also possessed crimson hair.


    It was still unknown why Lily pulled him specifically into her dream world when she had never even met him in reality.


    Sam didn''t mind it because he didn''t want to make Lily cry by breaking her dream, or wake her in the middle of the night.


    The other reason was he realized that she was his sister, which made him want to spend some time with her, even though it was a dream.


    As per Lily''s wishes, Sam went along with her, ying lots of games with her in her dream world, which was filled with food and toys and nothing more.


    This happened for almost two weeks.


    Sam had grown very fond of Lily, and from Lily, he learned about her twin sister Jane and their older sister Mira reheart.


    Lily, every time she went to sleep without knowing how, activated her innate ability and had been dream walking.


    Every time she dream walked, she somehow pulled Sam into her dream world and yed with him full time.


    For some reason, her dream walking ability didn''t use her spiritual energy, so she could use it as much as she wanted.


    If it used spiritual energy as fuel, it never would have activated in the first ce because Lily practically had no spiritual energy, as she was yet to be a cultivator.


    Lily had grown so fond of Sam, and after learning that he was her big brother, she wanted to be with him.


    "Yes, honey, we are going to your big brother''s ce," she wanted to say that they were going to live with their big brother from now on, but she didn''t because she didn''t know what exactly Sam was nning or what the long-term arrangement of their rtionship was.


    She didn''t want to get their daughters'' hopes high.


    After thinking hard for a few seconds, she said, "If big brother allows it, you two will live with big brother Sam from now on."


    She didn''t include herself because she knew that even if Sam allowed it, Helena would never allow her to live in the Hailstorm n.


    Nora had a hard time thinking about her future.


    If the Hailstorm n didn''t ept her, she would have nowhere else to go.


    She couldn''t go to her n, the Solheart n, after they already regarded her as a stranger.


    She still had a bit of dignity left, she would not lower her head.


    "Then big brother will live with us? I can y with him always?" Lily repeated this again and again in excitement.


    Clearly, she looked forward to spending time with her big brother.


    "I-I want to y too." To be honest, Jane had been feeling very jealous when Lily bragged about ying with Sam, even though she didn''t understand that she was ying with him in her dreams.


    Of course, Jane only focused on the ''ying with her big brother'' part.


    She wanted to y with her new handsome big brother as well.


    She could have yed with her big brother if she had the dream walking ability, but her own innate ability was quite different.


    Yes, she also somehow awakened her innate ability like her sister Lily.


    Her innate ability was called Mirage Walker.


    Unlike the Dream Walker ability, which could influence the subconscious mind, the Mirage Walker could influence the conscious mind.


    Right now, Jane was able to use this innate ability to conjure her little imaginations, like toys and food, which could be easily distinguished between illusion and reality.


    Of course, the full extent of this ability was yet to be explored.


    Right at the moment, these abilities were in their weakest phase.


    Once the twins awakened their cultivation potential and started to cultivate, Sam suspected that these abilities would grow into terrible weapons in the future.


    He was very interested in these abilities and wanted to nurture them himself.


    As for Jane, she didn''t have a single clue that she even had such an ability.


    She was thinking hard about how to capture her big brother''s attention to make him y with her more.


    ...


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