Seven days later, Davis sat crossed-leg in a cultivation cave that he had created for himself. It was situated far away, at least fifty kilometers from the little town that the Alstreim Family had built up in this week.
At this moment, he was merely practicing Soul Forging Cultivation as he followed the resonance method written in the Incandescent Vermilion Soul Mantra. Even if he had Fallen Heaven to anchor his Soul Forging Cultivation, it would be slothful of him to not hold on to another one which is this Peak-Level Emperor Grade Cultivation Manual.
As he did that, insights of Peak-Level Supreme Soul Stage naturally flowed into his mind. Along with the avatar’s help until the last month, he felt that his comprehension had almost reached the peak of Peak-Level Supreme Soul Stage, so the only thing left to do was now breakthrough into the King Soul Stage.
That’s right. Davis hadn’t entered the King Soul Stage yet, unfortunately.
In these five months, he had done many things ever since he had entered seclusion.
Each refinement of a Peak-Level Supreme Soul Stage took him a day, but with subsequent refinements, his rate of refinement got faster. It took him four months to completely refine and absorb the hundred and thirty-eight Peak-Level Lord Beast Stage Soul Essences. After that, he continued to refine the Low-Level King Beast Stage Soul Essences, musing and feeling happy that he would quickly become a King Soul Stage Expert despite knowing that his lack of comprehension of the King Soul Stage might impede him.
However, he didn’t even encounter the ’lack of comprehension’ problem and instead hit the ’the number of soul essences required’ problem!
It almost made him feel like crying as he felt that it was becoming difficult for him to improve over time because of his prowess.
Earlier, he had refined two Low-Level King Beast Stage Soul Essences to reach the Peak-Level Supreme Soul Stage’s peak before proceeding to increase his prowess by absorbing as many Peak-Level Lord Beast Stage Soul Essences as he can. After he reached his limit in four months, he refined Low-Level King Beast Stage Soul Essences. In a short five days, he was able to refine one, making him astonished, but then, he refined the next one in the next five days, thinking that it would make him experience a breakthrough. However, it destroyed his expectations.
Feeling exasperated by the increasing need for his cultivation systems’ requirements, he sneakily went out to know what happened in the outside world. He didn’t contact anyone but simply came to know what had happened in that four months and ten days, and that is when he also planned this scenario with Nadia before he went back to cultivating, trying to breakthrough.
Of the twenty-four Low-Level King Beast Stage Soul Essences he had possessed, he had already digested four of them but still failed to breakthrough. As for the Fire Law comprehension that they had left from the refinement, he didn’t absorb it as it was low-level compared to what he would like to comprehend. Then, within a day, those fiery nimbuses of comprehension disappeared from his soul sea, but he wasn’t bothered about it since he didn’t require it.
Nevertheless, in the subsequent twenty days, he refined four more Low-Level King Beast Stage Soul Essences, but it still didn’t allow him to break through even though he felt that he was on the verge of a breakthrough.
Davis felt like pulling his hair in frustration, but he calmed down, knowing that this only served to strengthen him more instead of letting him realize a breakthrough. He had the thought that perhaps absorbing a Mid-Level King Beast Stage Soul Essence could allow him to breakthrough.
So before he started refining it, he felt that it was time that he should move to remove these people from the underground cave to somewhere else and successfully did it, but it seemed like there were some changes to the plan as he had to measure the integrity of a Ninth Stage Powerhouse.
A week passed like this, so if Ezekiel Alstreim failed, he simply decided to let him rot here for the foreseeable future. In his perspective, such a person was dangerous to his family. If Ezekiel Alstreim can sacrifice them to return to see Elise Alstreim, then there was no amount of understanding that would allow Ezekiel Alstreim to see eye to eye with him and his family since they had made Elise Alstreim miserable.
Such a person, he couldn’t allow him to walk freely outside without being constantly worried if he would attack to take revenge.
Although chances are that Elise Alstreim would feel grateful to him for bringing Ezekiel Alstreim out and convince Ezekiel Alstreim to not mess with them, he did not want someone else to depend in this case, nor did he want to rely on chances if he could precisely obtain a prediction of what Ezekiel Alstreim would do if he came out.
Everything should be under his control, or outliers should be somewhere else. A life without headaches was what he wished for, and he was simply following his ideals to the fullest.
During this one week, he had absorbed around seventy thousand Mid-Level Spirit Stones as he circulated the Incursive Barren Lightning Manual and neared the Mid-Level Law Manifestation Stage’s limit. However, he didn’t perform a breakthrough as he felt that the chances of him comprehending a higher-level Law Intent at lower levels would be beneficial to him as the prowess would naturally be multiplied by a few more points even if it was in the decimals.
So once he was done with this Immortal Inheritance, he planned on having the Low-Level Emperor Grade Lightning Elemental to become his, making him comprehend powerful extinction Lightning Laws as a result.
Davis right now stopped cultivating the Incandescent Vermilion Soul Mantra as he opened his eyes and saw a gorgeous figure enter his cultivation cave.
She possessed a charming smile on her face, looking like she felt joy upon seeing him.
Davis’s lips twitched as he saw this woman. During this week, no, at that moment, when she shyly lowered her head in front of her parents when his name was mentioned, he confirmed that his woman had selfishly and innocently developed a love interest towards him. Perhaps, he was her fantasy as he was a person who came from the outside, appearing strong and brave, her very definition of how a man should be, even more after speculating that he could inherit the Immortal Inheritance.
However, a week ago, Ezekiel Alstreim had already taken him to the previous base. Davis had Nadia reject him on the spot and give Ezekiel Alstreim an unknown time limit. It made Ezekiel Alstreim’s expression remarkably contort in anger.
At that moment, Davis had Nadia attack him for trespassing her territory, so Ezekiel Alstreim had no choice but to protect him and carry him away. For that, he gave him a bit of point but how he would treat Ezekiel Alstreim remains at the decision he would eventually take, to sacrifice one of his progeny or not was the decision he was waiting for. To that extent, he had made Nadia say that if he doesn’t give an answer before the unknown time limit, she will begin to massacre the people in this place.
He had forced Ezekiel Alstreim to make a decision soon while making him feel pressure because of the unknown limit, and this was known only to the four of them and no one else.
Therefore, he couldn’t understand why this woman was still seeing him as a fantasy and still come here after knowing that he got miserably rejected and attacked by the so-called guardian magical beast. He couldn’t understand why she would still carry her shoes to this place to see him after all that happened. If she was disappointed in him, he could perfectly understand, but she didn’t and constantly came to see him every day at this particular time.
It couldn’t help but make him think that she has already given up on leaving and started to dream of a life with him in this sealed space. If so, he felt that he could no longer continue to fool her emotions as she was such a nice woman, but he also could not reveal anything as that would ruin his plan.
Davis reluctantly smiled back at her as she sat beside him and a bit closer than he expected, just a meter away.
’Uh... Is it me, or is she closing the distance we maintain when we sit every time she comes here?’ Davis felt that it was the latter before he spoke.
"Niera, I have four women I love back home, of which two of them I have yet to marry. It is not appropriate for you to keep visiting me like this, you know..."
Niera Alstreim became taken aback at this sudden statement before she smiled a moment later, "I expected it to be the case, and I’m glad that it is so..."
"Eh...?" Davis’s eyes twitched, "What do you mean?"
"It means that you haven’t given up going back..." Niera sweetly smiled, looking no longer shy than she was at first.
"Oh... Of course, I have no plans on getting stuck here..." Davis avoided her pure purple eyes as he remarked.
"I thought that you would be feeling depressed, but every day you continue to cultivate as if worries are someone else’s business. I admire that kind of will, Davis."
Hearing Niera’s heartfelt words, Davis couldn’t but lower his head. If this woman knew that he was deceiving them, she would certainly be disgusted rather than admire.
The atmosphere went silent for a bit before her voice echoed again.
"Is my elder sister one of your four women?"
Davis shook his head, "No..."
"Then do you... love her?"
"No, why would you ask? And you still haven’t answered my first question yet." Davis smiled as he looked at her.
Before this day, they had talked a lot for a few minutes or hours every day, talking about contemporary things and how the outside world was from his perspective. Today, he could feel that she was talking personal things now that he had said something sensitive.
A week ago, he said that he would enter closed-door cultivation again after being rejected by the guardian magical beast, so that might also be why Niera Alstreim constantly came to see him without any reservations to keep her face as a princess-like existence. After all, she was aware that she should not disturb him anymore after this week.
No one blamed him for entering closed-door cultivation instead of helping out with the resettlement. In any case, it would be quickly over with their strengths quickly allowing them to construct a new town on the meadows of the mountain.
Niera Alstreim took her gaze away as she saw the exit, "Since you already have four women, why do you refuse me? Am I not worthy enough to love?"
Davis widened his eyes as he felt that today she was bolder than usual. Did all the time she spent with him had made her familiarize herself and finally come to a decision about what she felt towards him?
He couldn’t help but laugh, "Haha, worthy? You are beautiful and strong that my wives might get more jealous. Superior Law Manifestation? I mean, who could achieve that without talent even if they had that training zone? If it was possible, all of your people here could’ve done that."
"However, more than all this, you don’t understand who I am and what kind of standing I have with your family back in the Alstreim Family."
"I know..." Niera Alstreim appeared happy at the compliment before she looked at him and closed the distance as she dragged herself across the rocky surface, "Grandpa’s wife likely stands against you for standing in opposition to that Weiss Alstreim, right? And judging by what you said about my elder sister, she might also be standing against you since she is a part of Grandpa’s father-in-law’s group, no?"
"You know, and you still dare to have these kinds of thoughts towards me?" Davis raised his brows, looking solemn.
However, he suddenly smelled something suspicious that made his nose twitch while his lower body reacted to it. His expression quickly changed as he looked towards the exit.
’An aphrodisiac!? Who!?’