Chapter 481 - Surprise Guests (1/2)

The instant the giant sword had fallen on top of Alex, he teleported out of the earth constriction, and behind Trevor where his shadow was. The moment he appeared from the shadow, he immediately made a fist and started punching Trevor.

Mid punch, the golden lights appeared around him that converged onto his hands, causing it to glow the same color as well.

Trevor seemed to have noticed him and turned around to block it with his arms crossed as well.

The first landed perfectly on his bracelet, and Trevor felt the push from Alex's punch. It was way stronger than his slash without any Qi, but that wouldn't be enough to beat him.

However, just then, the golden light exploded as a burst of energy came forth from the punch. What felt like a strong attack at first, now seemed like an unstoppable force.

Trevor couldn't keep his hands crossed anymore and the punch moved forward to land on his body. His entire being was thrown away from the stage as he flew out into the audience.

The entire audience was shocked beyond belief to see someone at Mind Tempering 9th realm being tossed aside like that.

Alex heard Trevor's body dropping onto the ground far away and checked his own knuckles. Where his fist had met the bracers, the skins were split open from the impact.

'I hit too hard,' he thought. If it wasn't for Trevor being unable to keep his hands to himself, he might've broken some bones as well.

The Elder immediately rushed to check Trevor, but his master got there before him. Trevor meekly stood up with only a look of horror on his face and a strong sensation of pain on his arm and chest.

He had lost. And it had been to someone that his master said was in the 5th Mind Tempering realm.

”How…” he asked, failing to understand the cause of his defeat.

The Fifth elder saw that he was okay and simply shook his head before leaving the place. His master did not care for him at all.

Alex didn't stop to see that, however. Once he got his badge, he left the stage.

Luo Mei and the rest were down in the audience, looking at Alex with an awe.

”You… You didn't use True Qi, did you?” Luo Mei asked in surprise.

”True Qi? No that was just common Qi,” Alex said.

”What?” Luo Mei cried in surprise. ”Then how were your attacks so strong?”

”Don't you remember how strong my attacks were previously? And I broke through a couple of times, so it's much stronger. Well, there is also the fact that Trevor is weaker than any 9th Mind Tempering realm cultivator, so that's mostly the reason why,” Alex said.

The stunned crowd let him and the others walk away.

Alex shared his victory with his sister and the other 2 for a little while before leaving for his training.

Du Yuhan was waiting for him, but it hadn't been that long. ”I heard you challenged Trevor, you won right?” he asked.

”Of course,” Alex said. ”It was quite easy.”

”I thought so,” Du Yuhan said and the two of them started training. Alex was just a step away from fully learning how to use Sword Intent, and he wanted to learn it soon.

The two of them trained until late at night, and Alex finally returned back to his room. He cultivated for the rest of the night and finally stopped in the morning.

He wondered if it was okay for him to break through once more, but since he had done it just a few days ago, he decided not to.

It was a Friday, and the fighting hall gave unlimited challenges to everyone, but no one challenged Alex at all. Even Yang Ma, who he thought would come to challenge him out of stubbornness didn't do anything at all.

So, he decided to spend the rest of the day learning more about formations. He started carving the newly bought blank formation rods and created new formations.

He had planned on doing it for the entire day. However, his day didn't go as he planned. Around noon, he got a message from his master. Only it wasn't from Wen Cheng, but rather Ma Rong.

It said 'Come to the City lord's manor right now. They want to see you again.'

”Huh? The city lord wants to see me?” Alex thought with surprise. He wouldn't have expected the City lord to give much care to him, but it made sense since he was partly responsible for coming up with the inferior pill that would eventually lead to making a better pill for his mother's treatment.

”Okay,” he told his master and left the house. He walked out of the sect and walked his way to the manor. The manor wasn't very far away from the sect, so he reached there in about 10 minutes of walking distance.

Ma Rong was waiting for him outside, so she called him when she saw him.

Alex walked up to her and was a little surprised at how much her cold aura had disappeared. It was like she could fully control her constitution to do what it did as she wished.

”You're finally here,” she said.