Owen Bertram burst into laughter, "You’ve run out of tricks. Trying to destroy the evidence won’t be so easy!"
Even with the resistance from the Black Flame within his domain, Owen Bertram easily grabbed and used Breaking Void Divine Ability to collect all the souls in his palm!
Moreover, the Breaking Void Divine Ability showed signs of tracing the source of the Black Flame power!
The Ancient God roared to the sky and suddenly swelled. Owen Bertram cursed, "Desperate times!" He moved his thoughts, and Leroy Baker and the other three were thrown far away within his domain.
The Ancient God exploded, lighting up a huge sphere of light in the night sky. The terrible power destroyed Owen Bertram’s domain and turned the entire Westeros City into ruins!
After the Ancient God’s explosion, there was a terrifying silence. It took a while before Owen Bertram coughed his way out of the ruins in Westeros City, spitting out a mouthful of dust-filled saliva, cursing under his breath.
"This bastard doesn’t show any respect for martial arts!"
Owen Bertram muttered discontentedly, then asked aloud, "Are you all okay?" His voice accurately reached the ears of his four subordinates within a range of thirty miles.
Everyone replied individually.
Glenn Mitchell, a poor cultivator, replied numbly, got up from the ruins, and suddenly saw a thin iron chain exposed between several nearby stones.
He had a vague guess, and gently pulled out the thin chain. This object, made from a strange black metal, appeared rough and seemed primitive. A pigeon-egg-sized Black Flame Pendant hung from the chain! This pendant was made of a whole piece of Grey Smoke Crystal, with a flame swirling around inside like smoke!
After holding the pendant, Glenn Mitchell immediately heard a magnificent and ethereal voice in his ear, saying, "I can help you!"
The pendant instantly transformed into a Tier-6 Flying Sword in his hand. Everything was constructed according to Glenn Mitchell’s sword art, making it extremely smooth to use without any need for adaptation.
Then, it suddenly turned into an axe, perfect for Glenn Mitchell to hide his sword techniques within the axe skills!
Glenn Mitchell looked down at the pendant in his hand, still as a pendant, pulsing like a heart, indicating to Glenn Mitchell that this treasure could still grow. As long as he accepted the "good intentions" of that existence, it could even evolve into Tier-7 or Tier-8 in the future!
Glenn Mitchell couldn’t help but recall how he was poor and had fallen to the bottom when entering the city. This caused him to be tempted.
That majestic and ethereal voice seemed to see through Glenn Mitchell’s thoughts and said again, "He won’t notice, even within his domain. My divine might can easily conceal everything."
Glenn Mitchell thought numbly, his eyes flickering with an extremely subtle radiance.
At this point, that ancient existence knew that Glenn Mitchell had been swayed. Now, all he needed was an "excuse" for his heart to fall rapidly toward corruption!
As a master of this path, the ancient existence would always give a very lofty excuse at the appropriate time. So, the majestic and ethereal voice came for the third time to Glenn Mitchell’s ear, "You simply don’t want to depend on the powerful. You wish to be self-reliant. The opportunity I give you is to let you uphold your own ideals..."
Finally, Glenn Mitchell made up his mind and shouted, "Save me, Master!"
Owen Bertram’s power surged up from the ground, descended from the sky, and emerged from the void. In his domain, he could reach anywhere with a single thought!
A burst of Black Flame shot up about ten feet high but was quickly suppressed by Owen Bertram’s power, gradually extinguishing it. Glenn Mitchell wasn’t harmed at all.
The ancient existence obviously didn’t understand Glenn Mitchell. He was truly not moved by their temptation at all. Glenn Mitchell had a strange stubborn self-confidence, believing that he could stand up against those noble family descendants one day just by relying on his sword energy, even if they were ahead with the help of magical instruments now!
Glenn Mitchell’s hesitation was not about accepting the ancient existence’s "kindness", but in stubbornly wanting to rely on himself to solve the problem instead of asking Owen Bertram for help.
In Glenn Mitchell’s mind, this was the thought process: Others had said they were "fine", but Owen Bertram had to help him personally. Wouldn’t this be a defeat in comparison to the others, tarnishing the reputation of the impoverished cultivators?
Luckily, Glenn Mitchell chose not to be stubborn at the last moment. He reluctantly admitted that he couldn’t resist the ancient existence on his own and sought Owen Bertram’s help. Owen Bertram also came from an impoverished background, so this could be considered as helping one another among the less fortunate cultivators.
So, it must have been... submission that was well-justified.
After the Black Flame was completely extinguished, the pendant and iron chain disappeared. Leroy Baker and the other two hurried over, puzzled, and asked, "Why would this mysterious fellow pick on Glenn Mitchell? Isn’t it just asking for trouble?"
In a distant and unique void world, the ancient deity in the form of a bull-headed skeleton flaming giant roared furiously. Its howling echoed in the void world, causing weaker creatures to tremble...
On the Red Barbarian Continent, in the solemn and grand Supreme Temple of the Boneset Country, the Pope was praying and cultivating when he suddenly felt a powerful force restraining him from his soul to his body. A domineering and barbaric thought intruded into his mind.