ATG: God of Shadows

Alex was annoyed a few moments ago. Why did everyone keep blaming him for Xiao Lie's death? He had peacefully broken the engagement and even the compensation was something that Xiao Lie could have never afforded in his life.

But, instead of using it to improve his cultivation, he tried to use that for the sake of his grandson. Alex had no problem with how the crystals were used. After all, they belonged to Xiao Lie now, whatever he did with them was not something that Alex needs to be bothered with.

Alex even found Xiao Lie's selflessness admirable, as even the elders of the sacred grounds would kill to obtain these crystals. Yet, the old man decided to use them as exchange for the cure for his grandson's condition, even after knowing that his grandson wasn't his biological grandson.

But, even though Alex found him admirable for his actions, he had to face the consequences of his own rash actions. Did he truly believe that with just a little bit of strength, he could bargain with a bunch of greedy foxes?

Those foxes would cut him to pieces for even a single piece of these crystals. And that is exactly what they did with him.

The Xiao Sect had sent their young master to the Floating Cloud City in order to have him trace back the origins of the Purple Veined Divine Crystals from the Xiao Clan. But, the Xiao clan shifted the blame to Xiao Che and Xiao Lingxi.

The Xiao clan's young master, Xiao Yulong poisoned Xiao Che on the orders of Xiao Kuangyun, the Xiao Sect's young master, as he seemed to have taken interest in Xiao Lingxi and did not want her to have anyone to rely on. This was why, everything had happened, the way it happened.

Even though Alex had saved Xiao Lingxi, she had still blamed him for everything. This personality was not something Alex could nor would tolerate anymore. He had goals in his mind that he wanted to fulfill.

He had only wanted to take her as his disciple because of the fact that the idea of having the Ancestral Goddess as his disciple had thrilled him. 

But now? He felt so stupid for even making that decision before. He did not want to waste his time on her anymore.

Moreover, the reason he had let Yun Che even come to existence was solely because he had a use for him. 

Currently, Alex was looking down on Jasmine who was kneeling in front of him.

Alex had used his soul cultivation to suppress her. The reason he was able to suppress the soul of a Divine Master Realm expert this easily was because the strength of the soul of the cultivators in the Primal Chaos did not align with their cultivation at all. And this was the truth, as the cultivators did not focus on strengthening their souls exclusively at all, as they did not know that this way also existed.

While it was true that there wasn't a trace of Soul Cultivation in this world, but that did not mean that there wasn't any strength in the soul of cultivators.

When a cultivator cultivated and broke through to the next Realm, a part of their energy also nourishes their souls and mad them a bit stronger compared to the those with lower level of cultivation.

Think of it like this. Since the total number of major realms is twenty, starting from the Elementary Profound Realm all the way to the Ancestral Goddess realm.

In terms of games, lets make the cultivation into 200 levels, each level corresponding to a particular minor realm and each ten's multiple meant a major realms.

Now, let's determine the attributes. Suppose that there two factors, Energy Cultivation and Soul Cultivation.

Normally, in the Primal Chaos, whenever a cultivator reaches the next cultivation realm, their souls become a bit stronger too. But not too much, just enough to be stronger than the previous cultivation level.

It was something akin to the situation in which you have reached the 168 level in Energy Cultivation but your Soul Cultivation is just promoted to level 14.

If you ever found someone who is on par with you in the Energy Cultivation but their soul is far stronger than you, then their chances of defeating you just went up.

But Alex was different, he had was cultivating his soul too. His soul was strong enough to suppress peak Divine Masters easily, let alone an injured 8th level Divine Master Realm Jasmine.

The only ones he was worried about were the Creation Gods, as the Ancestral Goddess had sacrificed her hundreds of Years of her special technique for Yun Che to be able to get his plot armor.

As for anyone below that, they were just trash.

Now, at Alex's feet, there was Jasmine. Her whole body was trembling due to the fact that she did not understand what was happening at all.