<h4>Chapter 22: -22- Wait! Wait! Wait!</h4>


    Ss continued to run full speed toward Kai, but just as he thought he might get away, he sensed movement behind him.


    He quickly turned his head and saw an old man flying toward him at an extreme speed.


    <strong>[Human - Qi Cultivation: Early Revolving Core - Body Cultivation: Late Transcendent]</strong>


    "Dammit!" he yelled.


    <i>"Kai, hurry!"</i> he sent.


    He knew that at the speed the old man was flying, he would close the distance in a few seconds, and Ss was still about 10 minutes away from Kai.


    Time went by, and soon the old man was flying beside Ss. The old man was confused as to why Ss was running in the direction he was, as his Armstrong n was in the other direction.


    "Stop!" hemanded.


    "Why should I stop?!" Ss yelled, not even thinking about stopping for a moment.


    "Because I am your elder, and I havemanded you to!" the old man said.


    "You are clearly an elder of the Riverstone n, not my Armstrong n. So whose elder are you? You''re not mine," Ss said.


    "Hmph! I was going to be kind, but you leave me no choice," the Riverstone elder said as he stretched out his erged hand, attempting to capture Ss.


    "Bang!" Ss quickly sent out an attack with his scythe.


    "Hmph!!" the elder harrumphed as he quickly realized the strength of Ss''s body cultivation was even slightly stronger than his own.


    ''All your secrets will be mine,'' he thought as he pulled out his Spiritual grade(rank 3) sword.


    "Whoosh!" The elder swung out his attack with his cosmic resonance-levelprehension.


    "Bang!" This time Ss stopped for a moment and sent out an attack with his scythe that had his destruction path lesser dao of crumbling infused into the strike.


    ''What the hell?'' the elder said, confused as to what had just happened. He had never fought against someone with a dao before, so he wasn''t sure what the secret strength behind Ss''s attack was.


    ''It looks like this boy has even more secrets he''s hiding,'' the elder thought. He now believed that Ss''s weapon had to have something special about it. Could he have found a Heaven(rank 5) ranked sword? There were only three known owners of Heaven-ranked treasures in this inheritance realm, and they were each owned by extremelyrge and powerful ns that could easily destroy all of Moonvale Mountain with just one or two of their cultivators. Luckily, they were all extremely far away from Moonvale Mountain, and Moonvale Mountain had nothing of value that they could ever want.


    The elder quickly sent out several more attacks.


    "Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"


    But no matter what he did or how hard he attacked, he could do nothing to Ss, who continued to run.


    ''If only the n patriarch would give me more magic treasures,'' the elder thought. Inside this inheritance realm, high-ranked magic treasures were rare, with them only being brought in by those few who stumbled upon thisnd from the outside world. So the only treasures that came in were those few weapons that happened to be on the cultivators who entered.


    Knowing that he could do nothing to Ss with his strong body and Heaven-ranked weapon, the elder decided toy down a formation. He quickly flew to the left, then wrapped around to where he suspected Ss would run, and began to set up a veryrge formation called the [Bewilderment Mist Formation] that he nned to trap Ss in and slowly wear him down until he was out of divine power.


    It only took him a few moments to set up the formation, and not even 20 secondster, Ss entered its range. The elder poured his Revolving Core Qi into the formation, activating it.


    Ss had first been confused when the Riverstone elder suddenly left, but he put it out of his head. The safest thing he could do was meet up with Kai, so he continued to run forward.


    But suddenly, there was a mist all around him that made him lose his way.


    ''How the hell do I get out of here?'' he thought. But the longer he thought about it, the more forgetful he became. He could think normally in all things, but the second he thought of escaping, he wouldpletely lose his train of thought and forget where he had been, so he could only endlessly wander around.


    After calming down, he began to think clearly, ''This has to be a bewilderment formation, but as long as I can sense Kai, I can find my way out.''


    He began to follow his connection with Kai, but before he could exit the formation, the Riverstone elder quickly came rushing toward him.


    The elder was beyond surprised. When Ss first entered the formation, he had acted just as one would expect, but after a few moments, he seemed to figure out something and then made a beeline toward the direction he had been previously running.


    ''How the hell is he doing that?'' the elder thought as he rushed forward to stop Ss and keep him trapped inside the formation. He thought that as long as he could fight Ss, Ss would be unable to find his way out.


    "Bang!" "Bang!" "Shing!—" "Bang!" "Bang!" "Shing!"


    They continued to battle, but Ss was just able to hang in there. However, the elder''s attacks were starting to leavesting marks.


    ''What is this boy?'' the elder thought, confused by three things.


    The first was why Ss was able to consistentlynd attacks. Ss did have a Heaven-ranked weapon, but they should both be at the cosmic resonanceprehension level, and with him being much older he should have progressed farther down cosmic resonance.


    The second was what was happening to his body. Could a Heaven-ranked weapon leave such serious and profound wounds? Histe Transcendent body was even struggling to heal itself. But the elder could have never thought that Ss, a young man of 17, had alreadyprehended the dao that the elder had been searching for his entire life.


    And the third thing was why Ss''s body was so strong. He was constantly getting hit by the elder''s Transcendent-ranked sword, but it was as if he was only getting hit by a rank 2 sword.


    <i>"Boss, I''m here, but what is this mist?"</i> Kai quickly sent to Ss.


    <i>"Don''t worry about the mist. Juste to my side, and when I tell you to, use your innate talent as many times as you can against the enemy,"</i> Ss said.


    Kai didn''t need to be told twice. He had previously been told not to use his innate talent and divine ability whenever he wanted, but now that Ss was telling him to use it, he knew there had to be a good reason for it.


    Kai soon made it to Ss''s side and began to attack the elder.


    <i>"You''ve been fighting against a rank 3 Disciple?"</i> Kai asked, confused, worried, surprised, and happy.


    He didn''t know why his second brother was fighting someone so strong, he was worried that they wouldn''t be able to make it out of here, he was surprised that Ss had made it this far on his own, and he was happy that his brother was seemingly strong enough to hold his own.


    "Bang!" "Shing!—" "Shing!" "Shing!" "Bang!" "Shing!—"


    The three went back and forth, with Ss and Kai both managing to get hits in asionally.


    <i>"Do it now!"</i> Ss sent to Kai after he got a good hit in.


    Ss quickly opened his eye and instantly used his innate talent. His eye bulged, and the elder screamed in pain.


    At the same time Ss was using his ability, Kai''s eyes darkened, and ghostly tendrils of energy began to swirl around his body. These tendrils were able to directly attack the enemy''s soul, regardless of distance, wrapping around the soul and slowly tearing it apart piece by piece.


    "Ahhhhhhh!!!!" the elder yelled out in pain as more than half his soul was either destroyed or devoured.


    <i>"Attack!"</i> Ss sent to Kai, and after Kai sent out his second attack with his divine ability, he dashed forward and dug his ws into the Riverstone elder, using his w path lesser dao of grasping to tear chunks out of the elder, while he used the path of darkness lesser dao of darkness to seep into the elder''s body and slowly destroy it from within.


    "Ahhhhh!" the elder continued to howl in pain, but that didn''t stop him from defending himself.


    "Bang!" "Shing!" "Shing!" "Bang!" "Shing!" "Shing!"


    But while he could defend himself, it wasn''t nearly good enough.


    Soon, the elder was forced to bring out hisst resort, a defensive talisman. He poured his qi into it, and his body suddenly surged with energy.


    "Bang!" "Shing!" "Bang!" "Shing!" "Shing!" "Bang!"


    But even with the talisman, Ss and Kai continued their onught, and soon the talisman was running out of energy.


    ''Dammit!'' the elder yelled. He still couldn''tprehend what had happened. What were these two monsters? Where had they each gained such godly divine abilities in this small inheritance realm?


    Before long, Ss managed to cut off his head, and as it fell to the ground, Kai dashed forward and grasped his head.


    "What should we do with him?" Kai asked as he held onto the head. As a Transcendent stage body cultivator, the elder wouldn''t die until his head was destroyed.


    "Kill him. He knows too many of our secrets," Ss said. The elder had not only seen his breakthrough to Transcendent and knew something about it was special, but he had also seen both of their innate talents. He had to die.


    "Wait! Wait! Wait! Let''s talk this..."


    "Crunch!" Kai didn''t have to be told twice. He easily crushed the elder''s head, killing the Riverstone elder once and for all.


    As Ss instantly sat down in a lotus position, Kai grabbed the elder''s spatial ring and began to go through it.


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    [A/n: I changed some of the ranks it now goes:


    1. Mortal


    2. Transcendent


    3. Revolving Core


    4. Golden Core]