Cultivation Through Artifacts

While Nova's voice sounded in his mind, several figures appeared around Khal, surrounding him from all sides, cutting all of his chance off from escape.

"You really thought you will outrun us with your low cultivation base, huh? You really are a naive kid!"

One of the men that caught up with Khal and stood on the very front stared at Khal coldly, his grasp tightly holding a longsword that was made out of some kind of yellow material and emitted a powerful presence.

"We don't want to cause you trouble, kid, so be a good boy and give us the God Iron now. I promise you won't regret it if you do." the man with the sword smiled, even taking a step forward to show he was ready to attack Khal if he didn't give him what he wanted.

Khal however didn't look nervous nor was he in a hurry to move, but simply glanced around to see just how many cultivators were currently surrounding him.

'Fifty-seven? That's quite a lot. But....' Khal thought for a second before he turned to look at the man again and smiled before tossing the cube, that now lost all of its previous God Essence, in his hand to the man.

"Sure. Here, you can have it."

The man quickly grabbed the half white and half black cube with his free hand before lowering his gaze to inspecting it with a big smile on his face.

However, it was not long before his smile froze and his fingers tightened around the cube, smashing it into hundreds of pieces.

"I see, so you are trying to be funny, huh? Well, whatever... I have asked you nicely to hand the God Iron over but it seems it was not enough. Then I will kill you and take it away from your corpse myself!"

The man snorted and raised his weapon high above his head with the intent of slashing down with tremendous power!

'...'

Khal watching as the man and many around him withdrew their weapons and were ready to attack him sighed and raised his hand.

"Stellar Domain, Open!"

BAM!

"Huh? A Domain? He has a Domain-type Talent?"

A lot of cultivators glanced around their proximity with widened eyes, watching as their surroundings suddenly were replaced with an infinite amount of colorful stars, planets, and cosmos in the distance!

"Wait, why is this domain seem so familiar?" one of the cultivator's voice that was filled with confusion sounded, but soon a shocked gasp could be heard, "Wait a damn minute! Isn't this the kid who almost won against that powerful Fifth Stage Cultivator during the Thousand Life Tournament? What was his name again?"

Many frowned when they heard this, but it wasn't long before another cultivator's voice sounded, "I know! He is that kid, Khal Nevio, the one that everyone belived was a Summoner!"

"Yeah, now you say it, he is indeed him." almost everyone nodded when they realized it was indeed Khal.

However, shortly after they did, their complexion became confused.

"But why is he already on the Seventh Cultivation Stage? Wasn't he only on the Fourth Cultivation Stage during the tournament?"

This question caused many to realize this problem and stare at Khal like some kind of stranger, but soon all smiled as though they realized something.

"Haha, so that's how it is! He must have used some powerful pill to give the illusion he has already reached the Seventh Cultivation Stage! Damn, my heart almost stopped there just now!"

In the cultivation world, it was not a rare sight to see cultivators use pills or other powerful herbs to give others the feeling they wore strong, but in truth, they were not.

And because back at the Thousand Life Tournament, where Khal was just only at the Fourth Cultivation Stage, it was not a surprise that others would think that Khal had used such a pill. In their head, no one was capable of reaching the Sixth Cultivation Stage from the Fourth Stage just a bit more than a month, much less the Seventh Cultivation Stage!

The man with the longsword grinned as he started at Khal and laughed, "Haha, you really do have a death wish, don't you? Well, let me fulfill your wish then!"

The man immediately moved and swung his weapon at Khal who still stood in one place, his face as calm as an ancient pond.

"Die!" the man roared, and his sword appeared right next to Khal's neck, ready to sever Khal's head right off from his body!

However, just as the sight of Khal's head flying into the air could have happened, Khal moved his arm causing the surrounding universe to spin with insane speed.

"Bleargh!"

Cultivators on and below the Eight Cultivation Stage staggered a few steps to the sides with their hands clenching their faces in pain. Meanwhile, those below them in strength coughed up huge amounts of blood and fell unconscious without the chance of knowing what just happened with them.

As for the man who attacked Khal, because he was on the Ninth Cultivation Stage, he just frowned slightly before he proceeded on swinging his weapon, targeting Khal's neck just as fast as before!

Khal watching as his Stellar Domain didn't work against a Ninth Stage Cultivator seemed to be dissatisfied a bit, but alas, he quickly activated his Heaven's Eyes and used his Secret Art to get behind the man.

Swish!

"!?"

However, just as he could have used his Essence-covered fist to strike the man, Khal suddenly noticed as the man has already spun around, his sword already before his face!

'So this the speed of a Ninth Stage Cultivator? Truly terrifying!' Khal thought and quickly jumped backward, barely avoiding the sword from cutting his body into two!

"I got you now!"

"Hm?"

Just as his feet touched the ground, Khal watched with shock as one of the Cultivators regained their senses even though his Stellar Domain was still present, while several small daggers flew toward him that seemed pretty fast even with his Heaven's Eyes.

Clang!

Khal was ready to use his Devil Fang to deflect the assault, but just as he was about to raise his sword suddenly a figure appeared before him while abyss black flames appeared out of thin air, turning the daggers to turn into nothing more but ash!

"Logan?" Khal was slightly disappointed to see Logan standing before him as he wanted to at least test his newly acquired power after deflecting those daggers, but alas, he couldn't complain too much.

His enemy this time was not an ordinary cultivator with a weak cultivation base, but one that was on the Ninth Cultivation Stage while several on the Eighth and Seventh Stage were around him too.

Also, he was no fool to think he could have won alone as he was barely in advantage against someone that didn't even use their full strength, much less their Talent, thus he quickly sighed with relief that Logan came to help him.

Though, the following sight quickly froze him up as suddenly Logan swung his sword and in the very next second all the cultivators below the Ninth Stage were engulfed with abyss black flames, instantly burning their bodies away!