The Story Never Ends

"Senior Brother, how are you?" They asked when they saw him lying on the floor with his back supported on the walls.

"I'm fine," Liam replied in a low voice. Blood could be seen coming out from his mouth.

"So, what are we going to do now?" One of them asked.

"Wew, let's honor the bet first," Liam sighed and slowly stood up.

"But.." They wanted to say something but he didn't even bother to listen to them and had already gone ahead.

They looked at each other and shook their heads. "Senior Brother suffered a heavy loss today."

Inside the mission hall,

Davion went towards the disciples who were responsible for the inspection. He saw a few disciples currently being busy with their inspection.

He looked at the process thoroughly and was amazed by how it was done. He saw them using a strange rod which was sharp at one of its ends to poke in those corpses.

Then the rod would emit a bright light of varying colors. According to the colors, the corpses were recognized and the disciples would earn their contribution points. This was somewhat similar to the orb from where he had his talent checked during the Sect Selection Ceremony.

Seeing Davion coming, the nearby disciples immediately bowed and backed away. 

He nodded and said, "Make a large space for me."

The disciples didn't understand why but they did as he told and looked at him curiously.

Davion opened his spirit ring and took out corpses after corpses.

"My God! How could there be so many?"

"Indeed, he is still taking it out."

"Not only that, every single one of them appears to be a devil commander."

"But why do they seem to be larger and stronger than that of the ones killed by Senior Brother Liam?"

"Don't tell me all of them are the corpses of the peak stage devil commanders?"

The disciples became shell-shocked and finally understood what he meant. They even found it more surprising than the battle earlier.

When Davion finished taking out everything the whole hall was filled with strong devil essence. Thus, there were already some disciples finding it difficult to breathe.

"Verify them fast. I don't have much time," Davion ordered.

"Yes, Senior Brother." The disciples replied with a shaky voice and began straight away.

While they were busy, Liam just managed to enter the hall again with his two lackeys.

"Pfft-"

Liam suddenly coughed out blood and nearly fell to the ground. But his lackeys managed to support him and prevent it from happening.

"Senior Brother!"

"I've still underestimated him. He is too terrifying," Liam wiped the blood on his face and spoke.

"Of course, Senior Brother."

"I think you should go and apologize to him later on and try to leave a good impression on him."

Previously they wanted him to run away taking this opportunity and dismiss the bet. However, they had a complete change of personality right now. It was all due to fear after seeing those corpses.

"Humph, I don't need you two to teach me these things," Liam scoffed and waited patiently.

***

Half an hour later, 

The disciples finally finished verifying. They even had sweats on their forehead. 

"Senior Brother, there are a total of thirty late-stage devil commanders and ten middle-stage devil commanders. As for the remaining, they are all early-stage devil commanders," One of them reported.

"Sheesh…"

When the others heard it, they sucked in a cold breath. They couldn't believe such a person existed.

"Pretty good," Davion praised them for their efforts. Indeed, these were the corpses of all the devils that he had killed in a month using the devil summoning art and during his time with the girls yesterday. Previously he would allow Ryland to eat them up but after meeting Elder Liliana, he had forsaken it.

Although he could destroy them, he didn't do it thinking that they might have some use in the future. And now it seemed like he had made the correct decision.

"So, how much can I get?" Davion asked and the other disciples also paid attention to it. They knew that history was going to be made in the sect today as nobody could earn that much in a jiffy.

"It's thirty-two thousand contribution points."

Everyone's heart sped up when they heard this. It was such a huge amount that they might need hundreds of years to collect it.

But Davion didn't show any reactions to it and asked, "Does this tool work for a devil king too?'

"This.." 

"We don't know because we have never tried it."

"Why are you asking us this?"

Davion thought for a while and replied, "I chanced upon a devil king yet again. However, I managed to bring its body this time."

"What? Are you telling the truth, kid?" Before anyone could react, they heard a thunderous voice coming from who knows where.

"Who?" Davion used his Mind-Eye but couldn't sense anyone.

"Haha, behind you." 

Davion turned back and saw that it was the same old man in charge of the spiritual arts hall. Nobody knew how he came here in the blink of an eye.

"Greetings Elder" Davion bowed.

"Kid, I don't have time for these formalities. Just tell me whether it's true or not," The old man looked impatient.

Davion nodded and took out the detached head of Aiden with his remaining body. The moment it was taken out, almost all the disciples fell on their knees and their eyes began to turn red. It seemed like the devilish aura coming out from this dead body was still too strong for them to handle.

"Humph" The old man waved his hands and everyone felt a warm aura soothing their minds. Thus, in a few seconds, everybody returned back to normal.

"Kid, you were indeed telling the truth. I can see that it has not been a long time since this devil was taken care of. As for the other devils, I cannot say the same thing," He smiled as if he knew about everything.

Davion could only scratch his head in embarrassment. 

"Hehe, you always surprise me. I didn't think that you would be strong enough to kill a middle-stage devil king. Are you already at the Nascent Soul Stage?" The old man tried to see through him with his divine sense but again found himself unsuccessful.

"What method has Liliana used on him?" He pondered.

"Elder, I want to exchange it for contribution points," Davion requested.

"No problem. I will give you forty thousand contribution points for all these." The old man said.

Davion felt that the price was satisfactory and he agreed straight away.

A while later, Davion stood there with a smile on his face. But due to his mask, nobody could see it.

"Hehe, time to go to the Alchemy Peak…" When he was about to leave, he was stopped by someone.

"Liam? Why are you here? Do you still want to fight?" Davion coldly said. 

"No, no. Senior Brother. I am here to apologize and ask for forgiveness," Liam politely said. He even called him Senior Brother.

"Is that it?" Davion didn't want to waste his time talking with this person.

"Senior Brother, actually I'm here for our bet," Liam replied.

"Junior Brother, you are really a trustworthy person." Davion praised him and patted his shoulder. He had forgotten about this after earning a huge sum of contribution points. But who could have thought that he would seek himself willingly?

The disciples had their mouths wide open in such a turn of events. They had only one thought in their mind after seeing them. "Shameless."

A few minutes later, all the disciples went to their usual task and everything returned to normal. But Liam was still standing there looking at the rock with heartbreak.

He had thought that the masked man would pity him and wouldn't take his contribution points as he had a few points compared to him. But he underestimated his greed. The masked man took everything he had collected.

He lost five thousand contribution points in an instant. His eyes became wet after seeing his name written in the second place. What was the point of having his name in the second place when he had already become penniless?

"Let's forget it. I can only work harder now," He sighed and left.

***

"Hehe, I bought forty-five Qi refining pills with all the contribution points I had." Davion laughed after coming out of the Alchemy Peak.

"Now, I can finally try those devil pills without any worries." After returning from his mission yesterday, he was not in a hurry to try those pills. 

This was because he didn't know whether there would be any side effects or not. So, to be careful he waited for today to get his hands on the Qi refining pills. Since he had enough Qi refining pills to level up now, he could take those devil pills as much as he wanted. Even if he was about to die from the side effects, he would be able to return to his peak state with these pills.

Hence, he was full of smiles on his way to his courtyard. But he didn't notice that a young girl was observing him from a distance.. The girl looked like she had become one with nature such that even Davion's Mind-Eye couldn't sense her.