Chapter 1783: Another Mastermind?

Davis, Lea Weiss, and Nadia returned to the Alstreim Family. As for the soul bodies of Evelynn and Isabella, they returned to their studies in the Myriad Poison Sect and Soul Palace. Nevertheless, since the journey only took ten minutes or less for Davis and the others, it was rapidly over, but it felt longer as they did not talk.

However, Lea Weiss purely enjoyed this time as she held hands with Davis and arrived at the Alstreim Family, making her heart pound faster ever so slightly as she had never done things like this that she had imagined before.

What awaited them, no, the people who awaited them at the Purple Guest Palace were none other than Evelynn and Isabella, their true bodies.

Davis landed before them with Lea Weiss, whereupon both ladies turned to look at the latter and gestured.

"Last time, you came here as the Burning Phoenix's Sect Master, but this time, you will become one of our sisters."

Isabella spoke with warmth before she grabbed Lea Weiss from Davis.

"Come, let me show you inside."

"What about Davis…?"

Lea Weiss blushed with an embarrassed smile, but her expression couldn't help but change as she suddenly thought of Shirley's gaze, getting cold feet despite being her master, but it was precisely because she was her master that she felt ashamed of having an affair with her husband.

Isabella gestured with her eyes to the side, "He needs to be the man of the house and take care of a problem."

All their gazes moved to the side and saw a black-robed man who seemed to look deathly pale. He possessed strange inscriptions on his face while the whites of his eyes appeared purplish in color.

"I robbed him of his eyesight and sealed his cultivations with poison and hex," Evelynn added.

On the other hand, Lea Weiss took a while, but when she realized that this battered person could be the Hidden Night Emperor, deep shock became apparent on her face.

"Don't tell me he came here to..."

She couldn't help but ask to which Evelynn nodded her head.

"The wicked path did threaten Davis with consequences like we threatened them, so it is what it is."

"You…"

"I stopped him before he could do anything, of course."

Lea Weiss's heart had skipped a beat from fear before Evelynn explained, making her feel relaxed. If something had happened to Davis's family because he protected her sect, she wouldn't have been able to forgive herself now.

Davis looked at Evelynn with gratefulness in his heart. If it wasn't for her, there might truly have been worse consequences to his spontaneous action of offending the wicked path than just Ancestor Dian Alstreim losing one of his legs.

He wasn't that keen about healing Ancestor Dian Alstreim's severed legs because not that he didn't care, but he had already done it, sending his avatar from seclusion. Ancestor Tirea Snow was moved to tears when she saw her husband's leg be easily healed that she couldn't help but repeatedly thank him, which he could only accept and apologize for his failure of being unable to protect before he escaped from their view, leaving them feeling more secure.

But then, he didn't use the avatar to investigate the Hidden Night Emperor because he knew that he was going to return and take over. Instead, he kept this bastard waiting, wanting him to agonize over what was going to happen to him.

Davis walked towards him with killing intent flashing his sapphire eyes.

"Who or who and all exactly sent you to assassinate my family members?"

'On the account that I used him before, I could've let him go for minor mistakes but by targeting my family...'

*Bang!~*

"… You made a very big mistake, Hidden Night Emperor."

Davis coldly spat out from his mouth as he sent the Hidden Night Emperor flying with a kick to his face.

The Hidden Night Emperor didn't shout or scream with pain, but his face caved, and black blood poured out in copious amounts, seeming to be already contaminated with deadly poison. He was a mess but still refused to utter a word as he tremblingly sat up, his chest heaving as he breathed hard.

"He won't spill out anything, even when I tried to torture him," Evelynn commented with annoyance glimmering in her eyes. 

"Well, he has the skill, integrity and managed to get here while eluding Nadia's senses. I'll give him these, but..."

Davis's eyes still flashed with killing intent, wanting to torture the Hidden Night Emperor to death. However, he quickly calmed down as though someone had blown off his raging anger before he turned to look at Isabella.

"Take Lea Weiss inside and show her around or see her to her new luxurious room."

"Alright."

Isabella shrugged before she forcefully took Lea Weiss away, who couldn't resist.

Evelynn stayed, looking at Davis, mumbling something along the lines of 'breaking him will take some time' before he was suddenly covered by an ominous gas of pitch-black energy that made her heart tremble while her pupils dilated. The moment she sensed it, she knew that it was different than the death energy he usually used, its level becoming drastically different and more dangerous, making her instincts scream at her not to go near it.

Even though she had seen this phenomenon many times, she still couldn't help but feel an intrinsic fear, and even when she felt like that, the Hidden Night Emperor who absolutely refused to speak started to tremble as he couldn't help but sense the sudden horror of nefarious energy that emerged in front of him.

Although he couldn't see anymore, he felt as though he was locked down by the emperor of the underworld, inviting him to the reincarnation cycle with his dark illusionary scythe ready to swing down upon him to reap his life. Boundless fear quickly overwhelmed him, making his teeth shudder as though he was frozen cold.

"Tell me. Should I cause you to become unable to reincarnate as I extinguish your very soul out of existence?"

Davis's voice filled with a terrifying chill echoed, causing the Hidden Night Emperor to shudder more.

"N-No…!"

"It… It was the Spatial Blight Emperor, Deprived Soulstir Emperor, Blood World Emperor, and Infernal Lightning Emperor who forked out 80 Peak-Level Spirit Stone Vein Sources together for me to agree to this mission of killing only three extremely important people to you before I make my escape…!"

The Hidden Night Emperor screamed hoarsely with the intent of wanting to not have his soul erased for eternity, becoming drenched with cold sweat as he heavily gasped.

Davis scrutinized his words with Heart Intent and found that he could be possibly telling the truth, perhaps missing out a few details, but he didn't think that the Hidden Night Emperor had any merit in hiding the information anymore. After all, when people who believed in reincarnation were met with the possibility of reincarnating anymore, even their intent to die in the face of adversities wanes, wanting to cling to that life.

Still, for the wicked path hegemons to fork out 80 Peak-Level Spirit Stone Vein Sources to just kill his important people without knowing that they would come into conflict or not depending on his actions, Davis came to understand that the wicked path hegemons had been wealthier than the time he killed and plundered them and also understood why they didn't back off after being threatened by him because they truly paid a price that they couldn't afford to lose.

Nevertheless…

"I don't see your spatial ring. Do you come to assassinate without wearing your spatial ring? Where is it?"

"It's here."

Instead of Hidden Night Emperor's voice, Evelynn's voice echoed as she replied to Davis's question and raised her hand, displaying a dark spectral figure adorned on a spatial ring.

"I didn't bother to check it as I feel that there might be some kind of trap..."

Evelynn explained as she threw it to him before Davis caught it in his palm and couldn't help but raise his brows.

A sense of danger? Was this related to Evelynn's karmic prowess through the intricacies of her Hex Laws?

Davis couldn't tell, and neither did he ponder much on it as he uttered and turned to look back at the Hidden Night Emperor.

"Seems like you still want to court true death..."

"W-Wait! There's a hidden mechanism in the spatial ring that coats one soul sense in soul-searing poison when a person other than me tries to bind it…!"

"A personal spatial ring?"

Davis became astonished. Usually, spatial rings were all made a long time ago as the spatial ores had already been used up and said to have become extinct if he was not wrong, so obtaining a spatial-attributed ore and making a spatial ring out of it was not easy.

"So you found a spatial ore whose grade is at Peak-Level Emperor Grade and made a spatial ring that is tied with your life?"

"I had one personally made for me by the previous Dark Ironroar Emperor..."

*Pui!~*

The Hidden Night Emperor spoke and suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood as he heavily trembled, looking as if he was going to die at any moment as his pupils shook.

"There… I destroyed the deep connection the spatial ring has with my soul..."

He spoke in a hoarse voice, causing Davis to doubt, but he didn't care as he bound the spatial ring and saw that nothing had happened. Instantly, his soul sense roamed over the vast space of the Peak-Level Emperor Grade Spatial Ring and truly found that there was a transparent jade container with gaseous white poison that reacted with the one who bound the spatial ring.

However, it seemed to have lost its function as its connection was already broken, not that he was cautious since he possessed life energy to easily heal himself from any poison.

Davis knew traps like these were only possible when the spatial ring was newly created and would cease to work after the owner died but still, he turned to look at Evelynn and couldn't help but admire her foresight, becoming fueled with the intent to make love with her.