Divine Emperor of Death

A tumultuous uproar was underway in the Spirit Ancestral Grounds, wondering how three of their topmost powerhouses died to a mere human while that human dubbed as Spirit Destroyer hid somewhere they couldn't find, under their own noses in a nearby mountain range.

Davis remained in his cultivation cave and refined the soul essence with concentration and clarity as though he was trying to learn the method of refinement from Fallen Heaven.

He had no idea about his new title, but in the meantime, his ladies enjoyed a brief period of gaining resources from him before they secluded themselves as well.

Natalya and Iesha resumed their cultivation session, helping the latter increase her body cultivation.

Fiora seemed to have obtained her light-attribute spirit cores from the light spirits who arrived along with the three powerful Spirit Ancestors but ended up dead from Davis's incessant spamming of purple flames that seared their souls. The spirit cores she used were at the Ninth Stage, severely impacting her Soul Forging Cultivation in a positive way as the purity of light-attribute energy she received was too good.

However, due to her own disparity with the spirit core in terms of cultivation, her refinement rate was slow but still faster than using any other average soul-type resources. She used the Lustrous Soaring Dawn Spirit Tribe's spirit cores which had been collected by Nightveil, also known as Iris Serenity, and then rewarded to Davis.

There were also some Ninth Stage Wind Spirit's spirit cores that were obtained along with those Ninth Stage Light Spirits, but she planned to use them later.

Niera had resumed her cultivation with the fire spirits fire cores she obtained from Davis when they first arrived. Zestria Domitian also proceeded to partake in the many fire-attributed spirit cores found in the Raging Crimson Start Spirit's spatial ring.

As for Mo Mingzhi, she enjoyed the vast quantity of rich dark-attributed resources rewarded to Davis by Iris Serenity. Most of them were Dynastic Evernight Phantasm Spirits which had initially shocked her because not only was the quality of these spirit cores high; they were also something precious to Iris Serenity herself as it was her tribe's spirit cores.

However, she gave most of her tribe's memories to Davis, which brought her the thought that she more or less possessed trust in him.

Surprisingly, Eldia had also obtained some lightning-attribute resources that were beneficial to her. Although the quality was low, there were large amounts of them in the spatial ring of those three powerful Spirit Ancestors. She used this chance to make her way towards her impending heavenly tribulation. After all, her prowess was one-level above, but she has yet to reach the peak of her Peak-Level Ninth Stage Cultivation Base.

With Eldia essentially half-focused on cultivation and half-focused on defense, it was up to Yotan and Bylai Zlatan to keep a lookout.

However, they possessed complex expressions on their faces at the moment as they somehow received resources.

Yotan had received one of the two Emperor-Risen Stargaze Radiance Pills she was promised, while Bylai Zlatan obtained some Metal Spirits' spirit cores. When the latter recalled what he said, she still couldn't take her mind off it.

[I saw how you risked your life to protect them back then when the Raging Crimson Star Spirit fired a life-threatening attack at them. I highly appreciate what you were about to do at that moment, sacrificing your blood essence to make a last stand as you commanded Yotan to take them away, but it is still not enough to get you out of captivity. Instead, I will reward you with these ninth stage metal-attributed spirit cores that are good since you have an affinity for Metal Laws because of your Golden Dragon Blood.]

[In any case, if you keep following my words and accumulate achievements that negate your family's wrongdoings that you decided to take upon yourself, you will eventually have your freedom. And yes, you can try to do something funny. However, I won't tolerate your existence anymore and extinguish your soul.]

Davis said that with a stone-cold face, and Bylai Zlatan could still remember his icy tone at the end.

"Heartless… does it cost you anything to be nice to me…?"

Bylai Zlatan mumbled when suddenly an angered voice echoed from tens of meters away.

"What are you saying? Palace Master is a good-natured person."

Yotan clenched her teeth at Bylai Zlatan with hostile intent. After she had seen Davis use Life Laws to heal his arm in an instant like it was nothing, she was all the more convinced that he was a unique existence who didn't fit into the twisted influence of death.

"When were you tortured!? I dare to say Palace Master wouldn't do something like that unless he really has a reason to do so!"

She declared, looking offended.

Bylai Zlatan felt her heart skip a beat at this woman's scream. However, she quickly smiled as she knew what exactly was the case with her.

"Well, I was not tortured, but… I feel like I'm being tortured… ridiculous, right…?"

"Oh…"

Bylai Zlatan smirked while Yotan suddenly understood, not bothering to argue anymore as she looked away.

There was a few moments of silence before Yotan shook her head.

"Don't bother. You don't have a powerful will, so I can understand your thoughts of not being able to forget. However, if you look into your heart and-"

"I don't have a powerful will? As if… that has anything to do with who you like and want. You speak like the old men back in my family."

"You…!"

Yotan clenched her teeth as a blush appeared on her beautiful face behind the veil.

"To tell the truth, never in my life have I felt that I needed something so much."

Bylai Zlatan turned to look into the rising sun with clear emotions in her eyes.

"I mean, ever since I was born, everything was given to me in a golden spoon. Even my fiancée was decided to be my blood brother whom I did not like nor dislike but just went with the flow because it's for the betterment of the family."

"The only thing I pursued was immortality, but even the chances of that would be taken away once I lose my innocence to elder brother, having my latent potential taken away from me to support him. I considered that noble and normal, enough to give up my only dream but being enslaved and lost connection with the Zlatan Family; I'm seeing another world that used me for what I could give, like a fruit that had been nurtured, only to be harvested and eaten. Do you understand?"

Bylai Zlatan returned her gaze to Yotan, appearing solemn instead of humorous.

Yotan blinked before she smiled, "Took you long enough to recognize that you were being controlled as well as taken care of. On the other hand, I grew up with the help of my sect brothers and sisters, believing that they were my family. However, somewhere along with my life, I realized I was alone but was still loyal to the Soul Palace as they nurtured me into a Soul King. The senior brother I respected also ended up showing his true colors when Palace Master defeated him. Guess you wouldn't know who is who until you're really in life-threatening danger, huh…?"

Bylai Zlatan smiled back, "Precisely."

They looked at each other, momentarily feeling like they had bonded for a moment over a small conversation before a healthy blush appeared on their cheeks.

"You think… mhm… is listening…?"

Yotan asked to which Bylai Zlatan shook her head.

"Probably not. All of them are cultivating… Only th- she… is keeping an eye on us."

They both turned to look at Eldia, who was behind them, her black globular lightning energy body rotating as it crackled ever so lightly. There was no reaction from Eldia, causing them to look at each other again before one of them lightly whispered with soul sense.

From there on, they kept talking in soul transmission while guarding the path to the many cultivation caves.

In a cultivation cave, Davis sat in a crossed-leg position as he had his eyes closed. His soul was just too powerful for him to listen to their conversation while cultivating.. However, he fully had his concentration on learning Fallen Heaven's refining method, making him unaware of their girlish talk.