Immortal Kingdoms

It never occurred to the two divinities that the ground underneath them would suddenly explode like that. As for Maiden 001 and Zaylee, they didn't think that Leonardo accounted for this collapse in his calculations.

Nonetheless, Maiden 001 didn't care much as her entire focus was on Leonardo's arrow. When the stones and rubble shot into the sky along with that divinity, Leonardo released his arrow.

Fire swirled in the ground.

It was so intense that if the party of three didn't move out earlier, Leonardo would have melted away even if the Maiden and Zaylee escaped.

However, as angry as he was, the man in flames was stunned by the scene in the sky above, forgetting his anger and humiliation.

As the other divinity brought his hands up to gather a javelin of condensed ice, cold killing intent in his eyes, a bad feeling enveloped his heart as sweat trickled down his forehead.

However, he couldn't exactly pinpoint this source of danger. Just as he was about to turn around for a sneak attack, a stone the size of an adult man's head in front of him exploded into bits, a black streak of light piercing at his chest without the slightest bit of killing intent.

His eyes constricted as he hurriedly clapped his hands on the arrow with the force of biting frost. However, the spinning force of the arrow shattered his protective membrane and stabbed into his chest unhindered.

Only now did he look into the distance as the screen of stone fell off, revealing the archer in the distance.

Only, that archer looks just as shocked as he was.

What was so shocking?

The man thought as his body exploded into a mist of frost, flesh, and blood.

Why wouldn't she be shocked?

The man didn't notice the shocked Zaylee as his eyes instinctively followed the arrow's path to the archer who shot it, feeling regret that he couldn't get revenge on that vile animal.

Then, a powerful essence wind swept by and scattered his remnants in a splurge of blood. However, Zaylee quickly acted as her crimson eyes turned frosty and she dashed out from the hiding spot.

As for the man with flames, he was still immersed in the shock from that silent arrow that appeared out of nowhere and blasted his adversary to bits.

His energy circulation faltered a bit in the shock and fear that another arrow might descend on him without notice. However, he was overthinking things as Leonardo couldn't possibly calculate for both divinities with his current power.

Just as he witnessed the man exploding into bits of blood, he groaned in pain and dropped heavily to his knees.

His hands were twitching as the bow dropped to the ground, and he clutched at his forehead with veins bulging around his eye sockets as though the blood vessels were about to burst out.

"Master…" Maiden 001 just now snapped out of her shock and noticed Leonardo's current state, her expression pale in fright.

"Idiot!"

A familiar yet unfamiliar voice echoed as a young boy appeared out of thin air and slapped the back of Leonardo's head, causing the latter's mind to buzz lightly.

Zaylee was about to reach for the other divinity when the clouds above parted, a streak of black sword light descending and flashing around the divinity's body over a thousand times in the blink of an eye, shocking her to stand in place.

She watched as the divinity was minced into pixels and disintegrated like brittle granite smashed by refined steel. She was barely halfway there when she heard that berating tone and the following attack, her body growing stiff as she looked back at the third person who appeared out of nowhere.

The flying sword returned to his side, hovering there like a possessed spirit.

A rebirth realm cultivator!

Zaylee screamed in shock, albeit in her mind.

She thought Leonardo's backing was a pseudo-rebirth realm cultivator, but this was an actual rebirth realm.

The young boy was dressed in a long black garb with the symbol of two overlapping M characters on his back, both characters resembling a splash of blood and not a stroke of a practiced hand.

She was all too familiar with that mark that terrorized every organization since the fall of the Lost Dynasty.

She would never have expected that the two she met actually belonged to that infamous gang, finally understanding that ridiculous archery of the Maiden's.

Leonardo felt his heaache, then buzz for a moment, and everything calmed down.

Sweat poured down his forehead as he breathed easy, shaking his head.

"Don't you know the consequences of over-exerting your martial intent? Are you looking to die?!" Although Junior Brother said this, he was also shocked inside by the meticulous calculations of Leonardo's martial intent.

If he was lurking in the shadows and trying to sneak attack someone on a higher realm than him while that person was caught in an intense stalemate with someone of a similar power level, the success rate is less than 10%.

Yet, this little High Saint actually did it.

More shocking was the fact that one of his martial intents was bordering the rebirth realm, and it was a slaughter-related martial intent.

Just how many did he kill to achieve that?

Junior Brother knows that no pseudo-rebirth had possessed Leonardo, at least that's what he thought. If that were the case, he would be the first to sense it.

He knew that Grandmaster Sin looked favorably upon this Leonardo kid, but he didn't expect his talents to be so exaggerated.

Leonardo kneaded his forehead and chuckled dryly, "At most, I'd have gone unconscious for a few days. I'm already used to that."

Junior Brother was speechless, who would get used to being knocked unconscious in a place like the uncharted wilderness.

Then, seemingly thinking about something, he looked from Maiden 001 to Zaylee and asked in a weird tone, "You trust these two that much?"

He was thinking that Leonardo would be absurdly stupid to put his fate in the hands of a stranger and a subordinate, especially in this place swarming with divinities.

"Never mind that, this place is being locked down right now and your chances of escaping are practically zero. In fact, a few High Divinities are closing in from the eight directions, yet you have the mind to lay around unconscious?" Junior Brother sighed in resignation.

"Is it that serious?" Leonardo was shocked.

"That natural treasure you have has enough law to help someone condense a star core and achieve rebirth, you tell me if it's that serious," Junior Brother rolled his eyes.

"That treasure is called a Law Essence Fragment, a naturally formed thread of law nurtured by a natural formation for hundreds of thousands of years. The fog wasn't a product of its domain, quite the opposite in fact. You can say that the natural domain of fog assisted in the creation of the natural formation to nurture the treasure, hence the connection between the two."

Junior brother shook his head, "The aura of an Essence Law Fragment is very tempting to those High Saints, even if the martial intent they cultivate doesn't correlate to the law in question." Junior Brother waved his hand, pulling out the white orb from Leonardo's storage ring while studying it, "Didn't you ever wonder why there are 100 levels before achieving rebirth? If you don't account for the mortal 20 levels, you'd realize that 80 levels are peak, and the level thereafter is achieving rebirth. That's a total of 81, just like the petals on this natural treasure."

Even though Junior Brother said this, the 81st petal was obviously incomplete, meaning that the natural treasure was crippled halfway from achieving its rebirth.

Regardless, the pure law comprehension within is enough for a High Divinity to construct a framework for their star core from level 91 to 95, and perhaps 98.

With a little bit of talent, achieving rebirth wouldn't be that hard.

"What are your plans for this little thing?" Junior Brother played around with the Law Essence Fragment. Clearly, he had no intention of taking it to himself.

"I'll keep it around for now," Although Leonardo didn't mind giving it to Maiden 001, he didn't like having subordinates much stronger than himself.

It simply felt uncomfortable.

Junior Brother nodded and tossed it back. Then, he gestured with his chin to Zaylee, "What about the vampire woman? Don't tell me you were serious about helping the vampire clan?"

Zaylee's body trembled slightly while Leonardo frowned.

"Why can't I help?"

He asked in a somewhat heavy tone.

Junior Brother was speechless, mainly because he knew that Leonardo had no pseudo-rebirth behind him, and making this promise now could only mean that Leonardo was waiting to achieve rebirth by himself.

"I am willing to leave your imprint in my mind!"

Zaylee suddenly spoke up before Junior Brother could speak, thinking that he didn't trust her.

If her vampire clan had the support of Memento Mori, she wouldn't mind becoming Leonardo's servant temporarily.

Junior Brother was speechless as he watched this vampire kneeling in front of Leonardo, wondering if he should fix the misunderstanding.

With a weird tone, he tried to give her a subtle hint, "Do you think achieving rebirth is that simple? Let alone pseudo-rebirth…"

Zaylee thought that Junior Brother meant that it would take thousands of years for the person behind Leonardo to finally achieve rebirth, quickly saying, "My vampire clan has nowhere to go, waiting a few thousand years is fine."