Divine Emperor of Death

Davis couldn't understand if this inheritor intended to enslave or troll his successor. All that test to give the results to someone else? Someone probably who relied on the status and ended up very weak?

He couldn't get it for a moment before he looked at the crystal core, quickly understanding.

However, he smirked with disdain as he ascended the floors of the tomb before he arrived above, looking at the plethora of spirits, even some humans in the far distance with calm and composure.

"Spirit Destroyer! How dare you kill many of our Spirit Ancestors? Do you think we'll stand back and watch you commit further slaughter!?"

*Bzzz~ Zzzz!~*

Lightning furiously crackled as it threatened to destroy the space around him as ripples began to appear, making the space unstable.

Davis looked at the purple-robed woman with a long trident in her hand, becoming surprised to meet a female lightning spirit. Her skin possessed a light purple tone, and the arcs of lightning crackling around her was also purple, making her appear extremely charming to him as he liked the color of purple, not to mention that there was also a crown on her head, but it was different than Iesha's as she had it in front, adorning her forehead.

However, he couldn't tell what her Spirit Attribute Source Origin was, but still, a few Lightning Elemental names did pop up in his mind, making him feel like she was either a Piercing Amethyst Lightning ranked fifteenth or an Unrestrained Lightning Heir ranked second.

Their piercing power rivaled that of Sword Laws, making them more destructive than the extinction of lightning but not as enduring.

His gaze swept past all else, and he saw that the odds were not so much against him even though there were thirty Spirit Ancestors surrounding him, at least six of them radiating terrifying soul undulations, their prowess becoming apparent that they were one level higher while the others seemed to be strong Peak-Level Ninth Stage Spirit Ancestors.

He also noticed a familiar silhouette whom he had fought before, but he didn't bother to talk first as he looked at the female lightning spirit with narrowed eyes.

"I'll warn you only once, so hear me out. I did kill your powerhouses, but it was because they failed to heed my warni-"

"Die!"

The female lightning spirit lashed out with intensity as her purple lightning imbued into her long trident as it shot straight towards Davis.

Davis's pupils dilated. The sharp purple trident was so fast that he felt suppressed and instantly made his move as a barrier appeared. The pitch-black darkness of the edge of the spherical barrier met with the purple lightning trident when suddenly it pierced through without any impediment, making its way towards Davis.

At the same time he released his Emperor Soul Domain fueled with death energy, Davis raised his hand, pointed towards the purple lightning trident, and unleashed his Death Ray. The concentrated cannon of death energy shot forwards with intense speed while the trident also arrived as they both struck in mid-air and caused a massive explosion!

*Boom!~*

The explosion rapidly tore apart space in a two hundred meter radius, instantly swallowing the overgrown mountains to the side and the plethora of crimson trees that grew on it.

The female spirit's eyes sharply narrowed as she didn't expect the human to be this strong even though it was assumed that he was as powerful as her, able to battle two levels higher from Peak-Level Ninth Stage. However, she didn't expect him to have the same terrifying destructive prowess as her, able to stop her attack.

At the same time, amidst the distortion of space, she sensed the human disappearing from her senses.

"Hmph!~"

With a haughty harrumph, purple arcs of lightning began to fill the area while the other spirits left the range, appearing to be wary of her lightning. Instantly, the surrounding twenty kilometers became covered in purple lightning as the stability of space became unsure. Instead of patching up like space would usually do, it started elongating slowly, tearing more and more.

*Puchi!~*

"Wha-!?"

The female lightning spirit shook as she lowered her head and saw a hand coming out from her cleavage, brimming with the sight of her imperial blood. Her teeth shuddered before she threw her head up.

"Ahhhh!!!!"

She screamed in pain as purple lightning crackled all over her body, but her voice quickly died down as pitch-black darkness overwhelmed her.

"You were just too slow in turning this entire area into my deathbed, but what a stupid woman you are, not even listening to my reasons..."

Davis exasperatedly spoke. However, she was no longer there to listen.

Before long, her entire body disappeared, leaving Davis with a charred right arm that eventually crumbled into ashes when he moved slightly, causing his wrist to fall. However, he captured it with his left hand before disintegrating it with his own death energy.

His brows twitched in pain.

Even with his death energy covering him, she still managed to erode it and turned a part of his arm in her body into ashes, but he understood that's the cost of quickly ending this battle as he foresaw this dragging out or ending up in his death if he didn't use Fallen Heaven.

After all, she was just as powerful as him, Evelynn, Nadia, and Lea Weiss, perhaps even more with her destructive prowess when purely speaking in terms of raw power.

While he disintegrated his right hand, a new arm grew anew from his right elbow, quickly forming, but it was in its nascent form, weak as a Martial Master Stage arm. However, the more the life energy healed his right arm, the quicker it went back into shape, eventually reaching Peak-Level Martial Overlord Stage in terms of prowess.

He raised his chin and grabbed the lustrous purple spirit core as he saw that the sea of purple lightning had disappeared while space was stitching itself back. However, the spirits and even the humans ran away with all their strength while having their tails between their legs.

He assumed that this female lightning spirit, whose name and origin he didn't know, was one of the apex spirits of the Spirit Ancestral Ground. Since he killed her, the others naturally ran away, and even the most powerful human, Tiran, the Leader of the Renegade Human Shelter, who seemed to be as strong as the past him, scrammed for his life.

However, one spirit remained to face him, looking at him without moving their gaze.

Davis looked at that spirit with calm eyes, wondering what they wanted to say for a few seconds before he didn't bother anymore and moved towards the tomb entrance below, which became more visible after the surface was erased by spatial destruction and ravaging lightning.

"How is my daughter?"

Davis suddenly stopped before he turned to look at Iesha's imperial father.

"She's alright, making immense progress in her cultivation."

"…"

There was a moment of silence before Iesha's imperial father nodded with a sigh.

"I see…"

"I'll also be marrying her when time allows me to do so."

His eyes suddenly shot wide as he heard Davis speak with importance seething in his voice.

A human and an imperial spirit together?

He felt ridiculous but then, recalling that he almost killed his daughter for honor and that she probably hated him to the core, he nodded his head.

"If that's her decision, then I won't interfere."

"As if you can interfere in the first place..."

Davis rolled his eyes before he flew towards Iesha's father, "Give me some ninth stage ice-attribute spirit cores. Your daughter needs it."

Iesha's imperial father looked at Davis with wide eyes, wanting to find if he was joking but looking at him appear serious, he couldn't help but find this human shameless. Was he threatening him to hand them over, or else he would destroy him?

But the next second, ten tiny jade containers appeared, each of them embedding a ninth stage ice-attributed spirit core in the containers.

"These are from other race ice spirits. Be sure to hand them all over to Iesha."

Iesha's imperial father uttered with an annoyed expression on his face, but the voice that usually sounded cold radiated an unseen gentleness, causing Davis to narrow his eyes before he took the jade containers into his spatial ring with a swipe of his hands.

"What about your Frigid World Spirit's Spirit Cores? Surely, you have many from your ancestors."

"Iesha has deep respect for her ancestors and wouldn't use their spirit cores. If you want, you can take it."

Iesha's imperial father raised his hand with helplessness, and five more tiny jade containers appeared.

"Mhmmm."

Davis hummed before he turned back, leaving Iesha's father hanging with the ancestral spirit cores. However, before he entered the tomb, he stopped and spoke.

"I'll be sure to tell Iesha that her father still cares for her and deeply regrets his mistake."

Iesha's imperial father trembled a bit. He took a deep breath as he stored the ancestral heirlooms before turning around and leaving.

Davis came back to the treasury and saw the crystal core, which was none other than the core of the tomb. He raised both of his hands and began to refine it, and within a few seconds, his soul formed a connection with it as he became the owner of the tomb.

At the same time the tomb became his, that unidentifiable voice echoed out.

"There's no such thing as luck. Carve the path in front of you by yourself, just like when you managed to come hereafter crossing so many trials and tribulations after finding the Inflamed Kirin Cherry Fruit. The Blazing Thunderlight Sect will support you in your cultivation path. Ascend and join the sect, outer disciple."

"…"

'I see, so he or she meant to give the successor a boost of confidence and belonging by having them kill the enemies with the power of this tomb. Pretty slick for a scheme hatched with so many holes...'

After a silent pause, Davis shook his head as he thought, hoping that it was just his misunderstanding, but his instincts told him it definitely was not, no matter how he pondered.