The Story Never Ends

However, he didn't get any response from him. Not only that, he didn't even see that Lord. 

"Don't tell me he used a secret art that requires sacrificing oneself to generate a far greater power?" More tears fell from his eyes as he got very emotional.

"I will return back to the Sect and report this matter immediately. Even though he fell here, I can't let his achievement go to waste." He thought and left.

***

The moment he left, finally there was some movement coming from the ruins. A hand slowly emerged first and after a few seconds a whole body came out.

"Damn, I didn't know that the explosion could be so big. Even though the Lord made a casual move, I had to go all out just to stop it. The soul Qi is really terrifying." Indeed, this was Davion. Although he managed to defend himself without sustaining any injuries, he was still disappointed. He knew that he was still not a match for someone in the Nascent Soul Stage. 

If someone knew his thoughts, then they would surely slap him to death due to anger as blocking an attack from a Nascent Soul cultivator was quite an achievement as nobody in the world could defeat a Nascent Soul cultivator in the Golden Core Stage.

This was because of the gap between the Soul Qi and the normal Qi. It was like the distance between the heavens and the earth. This was the same even for the disciples belonging to the four major sects.

"Let's forget about it for now. Maybe I can defeat them after leveling up a few more times." He thought and went towards the orb that was ahead of him.

"The whole altar got destroyed and the only thing remaining is this orb." He picked up the orb and took out the one that he had obtained in the Outer Region. He compared them and reached a conclusion.

"As I thought, both of them are similar and now I finally know what they are. They seem to be a devil artifact used to communicate between two worlds. Maybe the Sect Master of the Blood and Saber Sect was using this to communicate with Conard."

He put them back and used his Mind-Eye to scan the whole place. He wanted to check what happened to these children.

"It seems they are safe." Davion sighed in relief as he felt their breath.

"Let's bring.." He was about to take them out when everything around him started shaking,

"What happened?" He was shocked and immediately opened his right hand. His halberd flew and returned back to him. Then he nervously looked ahead of him.

He saw several black pillars of light coming out from the ground. Everything they touched would disintegrate into dust. These lights had already reached the ceiling of the hall and thus holes could be seen in it. Among them, the one in the center was the thickest and a terrifying aura 

Using his Mind-Eye, he found what was happening here.

"How could this be? I hadn't sensed this earlier," Davion was confused.

"Haha, kid, did you think that you managed to defeat me after destroying the altar?" a burst of hefty laughter could be heard from the center.

"This voice seems similar to the Pope. But it is quite hoarse." Davion murmured.

"Bang"

A huge shockwave was produced and everything infront of him disintegrated. Only the Pope and the children were remaining. These children had all turned into devils and were flying in the air with the Pope.

"Are you the Lord?" Davion asked while glancing at the Pope keenly.

"Hehe, are you surprised?" he laughed.

"So, it is you," Davion smiled.

"Eh! Why are you smiling?" The Lord thought that he would run away from fear. But it didn't seem so.

"If it was your true body then I would have surely escaped. Now, what is there to be afraid of?" Davion was full of confidence.

"Humph, even though this is not my main body, I am still a Devil King." The Lord released his full cultivation.

The whole Church trembled due to his aura and Davion had a solemn look on his face.

"Hehe, go my children. Bring him to me." The Lord ordered as he really wanted to capture this kid. Since this kid was unscathed from his previous attack, he wanted to take him as one of his subordinates really badly. 

All the children dived down and rushed towards Davion. Seeing this Davion yelled, "I thought that you would be quite brave. But why are you sending a bunch of children?"

The Lord got annoyed but he didn't reply. He knew that he couldn't use all his abilities inside this body as it wouldn't be able to handle his full power. Both his projection and this body would explode if he did so. Thus, he could only try to use other methods to capture Davion. If he was a Devil Emperor then he wouldn't have cared about these things.

"What should I do with these children? Even though they are my enemies, I don't want to hurt them. But what if they cannot turn back and have become permanent devils?" Davion's mind was in a mess.

While he was thinking, one of the children had already neared him and used its mouth to bite his neck. 

"Eh!" Davion didn't feel any pain and thought, "It seems that they are too weak." 

However, they were not weak but rather his body was too strong.

The other children also came in a jiffy and bit different parts of his body. Even so, he didn't react and let them do as they pleased while thinking about how to handle them.

"Haha, it seems like you don't want to attack these children. Humans sure have lots of emotions and thus are really weak," The Lord looked at him in disdain. 

Then he gathered his devil essence in his hands and formed a big black-colored ball. "Let's see if you can handle this."

The ball was shot towards Davion. Davion saw this and cursed, "Damn, it seems like he was going easy previously."

He used his Thunder energy and burned his blood. As a result, all the children around him were flung away due to his aura. He then used the same move that he had used earlier and hacked his halberd straight ahead of him.

The ball collided with the halberd and a huge explosion took place. But this time, he was overpowered. He could only stop it for a few seconds before he was hurled away.

"Bang"

He collided with the wall and entered a few meters inside it. Thus, dust and debris flew out everywhere.

"Hehe, it was easier than I thought. Now, you finally realized the gap between us, didn't you?" The Lord was full of smiles. 

"Bring him here. It's over," he said.

The children nodded and entered the hole in the wall. However, an explosion took place and a blue-colored light could be seen inside it. 

A few seconds later, Davion was the one who had come out. He had blood everywhere on his body and seemed to be injured.

"Cough…Cough- I shouldn't have hesitated earlier and must have killed those children already as they have already been turned into devils. Due to this hesitation, I couldn't escape from the attack and suffered from injuries." He coughed out some blood while realizing his mistake.

He had a high chance of dodging it by using the Thunder Stomp spell, but he messed up. Now he could finally focus his attention on the Lord because he had already taken care of these children by using his Thunder Domain and even earned a lot of experience points. But he still hadn't leveled up.

"Oh! You can still walk after this injury. It looks like I have underestimated you." The Lord was astonished as he even survived another of his blows.

Davion didn't reply to him and rather swallowed all the healing pills that he had obtained during his time in the Outer Region. He hadn't taken these pills before and had saved them because he found that he couldn't get any experience points from them.

It meant that these pills were useless to him. However, these pills finally came to his use today. Even though these pills were far weaker, intaking them in a large amount could heal him. And as he thought, he felt some energy trying to heal his body. But some devil essence was still inside his body trying to prevent him from recovering. 

"The injury is quite serious this time," he sighed.

"Hehe, do you think that pills could save you? My devil essence will slowly destroy you from inside. So, you can only depend on me to save you." The Lord felt that he had already won.

"What do you want? If you wanted to kill me then you could have gone all out right from the start. However, it seems like you are holding back and want something from me.." Davion asked as he didn't know why this devil was so much after him.