Walking towards Lei Xing to pick him up, Wu Xiaotian looks at his terrified face before shaking his head then speaking in disdain.
“You got quite the guts to label yourself as a genius on a higher level than big sis and the others, when the only thing you got is that physique with an extremely obvious weakness, and a little bit of head start being born earlier than them”
Holding him in the neck, Wu Xiaotian tightens his grip a bit as he recalls the bastard in front of him almost blinding an important person in his life, the only thing preventing it from happening completely being the fact that he’s lucky enough to have such great system backing him.
“P-please… d-don’t k-kill me” as he stares at the cold eyes of the immortal-like young man, Lei Xing’s eyes started creating a waterfall of tears, his entire body trembling in terror as he felt the immense killing intent oozing out of Wu Xiaotian’s body.
“Do you even have the right to beg me right now?” the immortal-like young man asked coldly as he tightens the grip on the arrogant-looking young man’s neck even further, scaring the young man so much that a pungent smell starts spreading in the arena.
“Tsk, what a trash” looking at the yellow river starting to form underneath Lei Xing, Wu Xiaotian frowns in disgust before throwing him down the ground, forming a fist with his left hand and directly driving it towards Lei Xing’s face, rendering the terrified man unconscious.
“Final round ended, Winner: Su Tian, the top sixty-four participants will arrive at another place where the rewards will be granted, as for the other participants, they will be immediately escorted outside the secret realm” as the mechanical voice resounded, all of the participants were shocked as it is well known that the secret realm is open for around three years, and now, it is just barely the second year from when the secret realm opened, and it’s now going to close.
There’s no longer anything they can do about it though as they were immediately transported out of the premises the moment a bright white light comes out of the stone platforms, all of them getting teleported outside the secret realm.
Meanwhile, each of the sixty-four participants were brought into different places, each of them filled with treasures, the rarity and value of each of them getting higher the higher the one receiving them placed in the competition.
In one of the places, an immortal-like young man talks leisurely with a puppet, making him look crazy if not for the puppet talking back to him.
“What a lousy way to arrange an inheritance, you could’ve made it more interesting by having some sort of way that people can directly challenge other participants” the immortal-like young man complained to the puppet as he takes out a container to drink water from it.
“You just want to defeat that lightning brat earlier, right? Besides, who the hell are you to judge my ways when you don’t even have an inheritance yet” the puppet retorted, its comical proportion making him look rather goofy than threatening.
As the two continues mocking each other, they eventually reach a stalemate, even going as far as using nasty trash talks back on Earth but failing to find a winner in their battle of words.
“You’re good”
Both of them said at the same time causing them to laugh for a while, before their expressions turned serious as the puppet snaps its fingers.
“I won’t give you any sort of bullshit techniques as I can see that even my main cultivation technique falls so much behind yours, so tell me, is there anything you want?” the puppet asks while looking at the young man with eyes filled with curiosity.
“Do you still have some World Tree Seeds and Celestial Origin Seeds?” the immortal-like young man doesn’t even hold back when he asked, making the puppet laugh for a while again before he recovers.
“Bastard, you must have an extremely overpowered cheat right, man, I’m jealous…” the puppet paused for a bit before scanning the young man, refusing to elaborate the reason why he thought so, then continuing with his words.
“Don’t waste it, I will wait for you here, the stage here is so much bigger than where you’re currently in, I think it is only here that your brilliance will truly shine” the puppet said mysteriously while looking at the immortal-like young man, the silence lasting for a while until a spatial ring mysteriously appears in the puppet’s hand.
Throwing it towards Wu Xiaotian, the puppet starts explaining once he saw the young man catches it.
“That’s what you want, ninety-five more World Tree Seeds, and a hundred thousand Celestial Origin Seeds…” the puppet said, pausing for a bit, looking face to face with the immortal-like young man before continuing, “I also included a diagram of an interesting array formation with nodes purely made out of World Trees there, I know you have the capability of making numbers of them grow, but I will neither request your help doing it nor ask how you can do such thing”
“Thanks” Wu Xiaotian expresses as he watches the puppet gradually fade into the air, its last words ringing through the entire place before it finally disappears.
“No need for thanks between us, we were both Earthlings once after all” voice lingered in the air as it leaves while laughing to his heart’s content.
Taking out the diagram, he started inspecting it, the profundity of the thing in it surprising him as this level of formation is something he has yet to see even in the [Rune Observation Platform] of the [Auxiliary Job System]
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In a planet full of technological marvels, flying cars and interactive projections that can easily pass off as another sentient people as well, there lies a towering building piercing through the atmosphere of the planet, the higher floors of the building already considered to be in the outer space, with the topmost floor occupied by a warm looking house, with all sorts of people laughing and joking around.
In one of the seats, the one on the side of the table directly facing the door to the dining room, a man appearing to be in his early thirties, looking quite attractive and mature due to the facial hair covering his face, opens his eyes as he recalled the conversations he just had with the immortal-like young man.
“Wu Xiaotian huh, what an extremely absurd and interesting guy” he muttered to himself while the food is being served on the table.
“Hey old man, the hell are you spacing out for, hurry up or mom might beat you up” looking at him staring blankly in the air, a girl, appearing to be late twenties of age, complained as she looks at the lady in the opposite side of the table, her appearance extremely similar to her, the two of them looking like twin sisters if not for the mature demeanor of the lady she’s looking at.
“Now my child, don’t treat your father like that okay?” the mature woman said as she looks amiably at the lady in front of her, sending shivers down the lady’s spine.
‘Father, help!!!’ she said while looking at the middle-aged man beside her, as if begging him to send an aid towards her way.
‘You’re on your own now’ the middle-aged man said while avoiding the gaze of the lady, also shivering as she looks at the mature lady’s smile.
Arthur “Deus ex Machina” Astraea, one of the greatest beings in the universe. If anyone were to know that he’s a henpecked guy madly in love with the only girl he considers as a woman in his entire life, as well as a helpless father of nine children all from the very same woman, they will definitely die laughing as it is a complete opposite of what his character is outside.
