Alm and Bruno were immediately surprised. ’These elders... their appearances... are very similar to the people of Montide!’ Bruno exclaimed, astonished.
Alm then spoke coldly. ’Physically, it’s very similar, but they have different characteristics; as if they were a mix with other ethnicities.’
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They paused for a second, and in the next moment, Liumi appeared beside them at the castle door. "They’re in the arena; the distance is great, come with me!" She said, quickly pulling the whale inside.
They followed quickly, and in two minutes, they crossed a corridor. Liumi opened a door with a wave, revealing a spacious room with a runic formation. An elder looked at the leader strangely, and she quickly tossed a spatial ring in his direction.
"To the arena, quickly!" She roared, and the elder sighed heavily.
They entered the center, with Alm and Bruno feeling animosity and tension coming from the elder. Then, the space distorted rapidly.
They found themselves in an illuminated room surrounded by several people. Liumi grabbed the whale’s hand and ran out of the room; it was the transport point of the arena, and various people looking similar to the elders were activating it and running near them. The distance within the sect’s locations was long, and they could only use transports.
Upon reaching the stands, they found themselves surrounded by elders observing the center. The whale, witnessing the scene, let out a sigh. The entire central area of the arena was stained red with pieces of meat; Ruri was at the epicenter with her silver katana pointed at another elder. He... was already missing an arm, and his body was nearly collapsing, displaying a look of despair.
This elder was at the sixth level of the Core Formation Realm, while Ruri, at the first level, was like a deity completely dominating him in every aspect. The elder was slow and lacked attacking power, and even with a cultivation level five levels higher, Ruri’s Qi was overwhelmingly superior. Even if he were at the ninth level, Ruri’s core, twice the size, would still provide the same Qi as him. In fact, with the techniques of that elder, if he were in an entire realm above, he would still be dominated by her.
In the next moment, the elder was ruthlessly finished off by Ruri. She merely stared at the body with disdain; they were all like flowers cultivated in greenhouses that never faced tribulations and narrowly escaped death. They attacked while conserving energy for defense, more concerned with surviving than defeating the enemy.
Ruri found it amusing and ridiculous, knowing that they had been protected and pampered all their lives. She had someone who cared for her but never let her relax or feel completely safe, disciplining her whenever she did. Her master was by her side to fight together, not to save her. And she had to repay him by standing by his side, not being a burden.
Relaxing was putting him in danger; just thinking of him in danger was enough for her to want to be as strong as the world allowed. But at this moment, she felt, in practice, the privilege she had received by being with him. Her body vibrated; now, she had the power to save her people.
In the stands, only now did Alm and Bruno notice: everyone around in the stands, including the elder who had just died, looked like the people of Montide. No one from the outside dared to peek; these people seemed to have an influence and power above all.
Ruri turned to a spot in the stands with bloodthirsty eyes and roared, "Come all together, I don’t have all day!"
She directed her words to a group of five elders, whose faces contorted. Four of them were at the second level of the Heaven Stage Realm, ancient and highly respected external elders. In the center, one elder led at the fifth level. They smiled and unsheathed their weapons.
"An arrogant brat, excellent. Those wretches let one escape, and I’ll still get a bonus with the clan." The central elder said, stepping into the arena. Then, looking at her with a lecherous gaze, he continued, "I won’t kill you; I want to savor a new slave slowly. You’ll be good entertainment."
Ruri just smirked sinisterly and turned to the side. There, she saw another elder nearby, with an indifferent look. He just nodded, confirming the duel without saying a word. He was the ’judge’ responsible for the arena and duels.
In an instant, Ruri turned, and a silver clasp in her hair gleamed intensely. Suddenly, space rippled, and the katana transformed into an unstoppable spatial blade. At that moment, the elders felt the presence of death looming over their heads.
Slash!
Ruri then used her shadow space skill without warning. Instantly, one of the elders was cleaved in half without understanding how he died.
"SPATIAL LAWS!" The central elder roared, completely scared and incredulous.
He quickly made a reflexive move, and the others followed suit, maximizing their cultivations and attacking. Ruri skillfully dodged all attacks using the shadow space, disappearing with a dreadful smile while lightning, wind, and flames hit the arena, creating explosive sounds.
They attacked frantically for seconds... then belatedly realized they were hitting nothing and stopped after feeling a gaze from a distant point.
There, Ruri merely stared at them with a cold look and a derisive smile, making every fiber of their bodies stand on end. Then, she quickly advanced to the center of the arena, where a direct fight of four against one began. She had no fear of taking on all of them at once while attacking fiercely. Surprisingly, the elders only defended themselves with their weapons and the power of their cultivations, creating sounds of metal clashing against metal.
The whale observed indifferently. Ruri was slowly accumulating spatial laws; she was unreachable by them with her technique while keeping them occupied. The elders thought that her strikes had cost her a lot and she couldn’t use her power continuously.
Ruri was plotting against them and was smart enough not to reveal the runic seal on her katana; when the powerful elder offered an opening, he would be annihilated by it.
’Lethal, merciless, and smart. We did a good job; we created a monster,’ Alm said coldly, but Bruno felt his words laden with an unusual emotion.
As the fight continued, the whale turned around when Corin and Loeus approached them. Their eyes were slightly tense, and Corin spoke, "Master, sorry. I couldn’t stop her from getting into this fight, and I also can’t interfere in the arena if something happens."
Loeus then explained, "We had just passed the entrance test when these elders appeared, surrounding the three of us. They claimed that Ruri was a slave and belonged to them and their clan. She almost attacked... but in the end, we came to the arena for a deadly duel."
Corin added, "She told me not to get involved, otherwise, the fish wouldn’t fall into the net due to my cultivation."
The whale nodded in understanding. Ruri’s goal was to save her people, and if these people, clearly connected to her, knew her past as a slave and claimed that she belonged to them, they must be deeply involved with her people. Thus, she had to deal with them.
Alm and Bruno turned to Liumi, who was watching the young human fight and pressuring four elders with over an entire realm above her. "Forge Leader, who are these? Why are they targeting my disciple?"
Liumi jumped, startled, and stared at the whale. Disciple? She realized there was no fear on his face during that fight, as if everything, even surprises, meant nothing. Did this human still hide secrets? She thought quickly, growing even more frightened.
Then, she considered the question and answered, "These elders are part of the third-largest human clan in the sect. They call themselves Nightflare."
Liumi then belatedly realized that the human girl had very similar characteristics to the people of the Nightflare clan. Connecting the dots in her mind, she continued, "Nightflare is one of the founding clans of the city that currently exists near the Three Extremes Sect, even before the creation of the sect. Currently, they have hundreds of elders and core disciples, along with numerous members distributed across the lower sectors."
"The appearance of their members closely resembles that of the human population from the city nation Montide. They don’t deny their connection as distant relatives; according to them, both descend from the same ancestor. However, at some point in history, the lineages split, giving rise to two distinct clans," she concluded thoughtfully.
Alm and Bruno observed the Nightflare clan elder, who was fighting attentively. Witnessing his spear handling and seeing other members using various techniques, including different laws, a certainty arose. They didn’t possess any power similar to what they saw in the people of Montide. Thus, they must be a branch of the Moonlight family that, over time, by mingling with humans, gradually lost its ancestral blood and lineage until it completely vanished. Simply put, they don’t have their ancestral higher mental power anymore.
On the other hand, the Moonlight natives of the planet, at some point, crossed paths again with the Moonlight family, reinforcing their powerful lineage. This weaker branch was eventually excluded.
Alm, observing Liumi’s thoughtful silence, had an idea and asked, "In the sect, near this clan, is there a flow of people from Montide?"
Grassrunner turned to the whale and nodded affirmatively, not fully understanding. Alm and Bruno just sighed. At that moment, they felt a pressure and turned to the sky.
They then saw descending slowly from the clouds and entering the stands a new elder with a cold gaze. He had a dense aura floating around him, his cultivation... was at the sixth level of the Elemental Condensation Realm, and all the arena elders looked at him and bowed.
"A central elder!" Liumi exclaimed, surprised and stunned.
Alm and Bruno smiled internally. ’The big fish has arrived.’