The Story Never Ends

A dazzling projection of a phoenix came out of the halberd and it flew straight in the air. It was at least 10 meters long, having red-colored feathers and three tri-colored tails. Black lightning was emerging from every part of its body which made it look quite devilish.

"Go!" Davion yelled.

The phoenix shrieked and shot in the direction of the Lord who was hundreds of meters away.

***

The people were moving towards the church when they suddenly felt a heavy pressure upon them. 

"My God! Look above."

"It's a phoenix."

"How could it be?"

"According to the legends, the return of the Phoenix is an omen. Our city will be blessed with its radiance."

"Is it sent by the Almighty to help us in these troubled times?"

Thus, the people kneeled on the ground and started praying.

*** 

"Damn, it's that disciple." The Lord cursed.

Seeing the phoenix coming after him, he changed his direction and thought, "But what is this terrifying spiritual art? I have never seen it. It might even hurt my true body if I become careless."

He looked behind and saw the phoenix changing its direction and was already nearing him.

"It seems like I can't escape." He sighed and he stopped in his tracks.

The phoenix crashed into him and a huge explosion took place in the sky. 

"BOOM"

Everyone in the city looked up and saw the sky turning dark with frequent lightning flashes. 

"What happened?"

"Is it a battle between some strong cultivators?"

On the other side, the people who were praying were shocked and had their backs filled with sweat.

"Did the Almighty release his anger?"

"It should be the case. I saw the phoenix chasing someone over there."

"Is it related to the church?"

These people couldn't understand what had been happening and had many things they wanted to know. However, the only thing they would realize was that the city had become safe after this incident. But the sad thing was that they couldn't find their missing children.

***

"It's finally over," Davion fell to the ground and caught his breath. He had emptied his spiritual energy just now. So, he was feeling very tired.

"Although this move consumed a lot of my spiritual energy, it didn't disappoint me. It was really terrifying. But this was not what impressed me the most. It's the dark lightning."

"Since my spiritual energy can simulate all types of energy with just my thoughts, I thought of the dark energy and the lightning energy at the same time. Not only did it work, but the lightning mutated and reached a much higher level," He smiled while thinking about this.

"The only problem is that it consumes a lot of my spiritual energy. The other sad thing is that I didn't get any experience points again. It seems like killing a projection is useless." The same thing happened when killing the projection of Conard in the outer region.

"Let's forget about it. I should be happy that I can exchange blows with someone in the Nascent Soul Stage despite it only being a projection. Hope that I can beat them after I leveled up further," He comforted himself. 

"Now, I can finally leave. But before that.." He destroyed the body of the Pope and didn't forget to take out the spirit ring. He then used his Mind-Eye to make sure nothing good was left here.

"Eh! A middle-grade devil artifact?"

Davion sensed an artifact ahead of him. He went there and saw a staff which was used by the Pope. He put it in his spirit ring and left in a hurry before anyone would come here.

  *** 

The Devil World,

In a vast forest, there was a large tree with a small hole in its trunk. Inside it, a young man was sitting cross-legged while meditating. However, he suddenly coughed out a large amount of blood from his mouth and lay flat on the floor.

"F**k"

"I can't believe that I lost my projection against a mere inner disciple of the Thunderbolt Sect. Due to this, my soul got seriously injured and I even regressed back to the early stage of Devil King Stage."

He took out some pills from his spirit ring and swallowed them while cursing, "Damn you. Just you wait. I will definitely find you and have my revenge."

A while later, he stood up and controlled his anger. "The emperor wanted us to slowly invade the territory of the Thunderbolt Sect starting the next week. I should take this opportunity and find that kid."

He made up his mind and came out of the tree. Then he clapped his hands twice and stood there. A few seconds later, a crow dived down from one of the nearby trees and landed on his shoulder.

"King, we have a big problem here." The crow anxiously said.

"Eh! What happened?" He asked as he felt a bad premonition after seeing the crow act this way.

"We have lost all of our devil comm…" The crow couldn't even finish its words when it suddenly got caught by its neck.

"When?" He was furious.

"I don't know. I only found it today." The crow replied.

"Trash." He threw him to the ground and expanded his divine sense.

His face became uglier and uglier as time passed. "How?"

He couldn't believe it. This incident seemed similar to how Jack lost his subordinates without anyone noticing.

"I should have been careful and kept an eye on them properly. But I thought that the enemy had left after killing Jack's subordinates and won't dare to attack again in fear of being caught. But who could have thought that he would attack again? And this time it was my territory."

"I got careless." Regret could be seen on his face.

"However, who is that enemy? How can he be so sneaky?" He was confused.

"King!" The crow on the ground called out.

"What?" He glanced at it with anger. If only it had noticed it earlier then this day might not have come.

"The emperor has summoned you." The crow said in a low voice as it was really scared. It knew what would happen if the King reported this incident to the emperor.

"I.." He swallowed his saliva and started sweating. He knew that he would definitely anger the emperor today. Just remembering how Jack was beaten up made him want to escape from here.

The crow saw the reaction of the King and he slowly escaped without making any noise. 

He saw this but he didn't react as he was thinking about how to face the emperor. He stood there for a few minutes and sighed, "There is no other way than to tell him the truth and ask for forgiveness. Maybe I can try to lie too."

***

Infront of the same dilapidated mansion,

"I've reached." He took a deep breath and slowly entered inside. His heart was beating fast all the way.

When he was moving towards the main hall, he suddenly felt someone putting his hands on his shoulder.

"Who?" He cried out and immediately backed a few steps.

"Haha, Aiden, why do you look so scared?" A burst of female laughter was heard.

"Julia, so it's you." Aiden wiped the sweats on his forehead.

A young woman wearing tight robes with a voluptuous body was standing infront of him while looking at him keenly.

"Humm, are you hiding something?" She asked while approaching him.

"No." Aiden shook his head and backed away.

"Hehe." She smiled and disappeared from her place. When she appeared, she was already a few centimeters ahead of him and before he could react, she put her right hand on his forehead.

"Stop," Aiden yelled and released his aura. He then slapped her hand and escaped.

"Humph, you sure have the guts to attack me." She blew cold air on her right hand with her mouth and said coldly while looking at him.

"No, I apologize. It was a mistake." He was scared as he knew that he would get beaten by her even in his peak state. It was just that his mind was not in the right state right now and thus he reacted without thinking.

"Why are you two making noise there? The emperor is already waiting inside." A hoarse voice came into their ears from the hall.

"Jackson?" They both exclaimed and bowed their heads respectfully.

"We were just playing here for a bit," Julia said. 

"Yes, yes. we are coming immediately," Aiden continued.

However, there was no response coming from Jackson. But they didn't get angry as they knew about his character. They glanced at each other and nodded their heads.

"Let's go," Aiden said and he went forward.

"Ok!" Julia followed behind him.

"Who injured you?" Julia suddenly asked.

"What?" Aiden was astonished.

"Hehe, you don't need to hide. I already knew it when I touched your head." Julia replied.

Aiden didn't know how to respond as he was caught.

Seeing his expression, Julia didn't put him in a difficult situation and said, "If you don't want to tell me then it's fine. But if the emperor finds out, don't try to hide it.. Or else you can forget about living."