Each of them glared at Yuta with murderous intent and greed for his possessions.
"Comrades, I suggest we attack him once. He's weak. Since he's been in smelting for so long, his life force has diminished and weakened. That's why the roots of the Datien, or Primal Sea, are extremely fragile."
"Because of his dependence and the damage he suffered from failed smelting operations, he'll be an easy opponent to defeat and share the spoils," Jiang Ji Jinhai said confidently, looking at Yuta, who was indifferent to their presence.
In his eyes, they were merely sacrifices and offerings he would make for the development of the Soul Manipulation Eye and the Soul Enslavement Eye, nothing more and nothing less.
A wicked smile appeared on all their faces, along with the murderous intent emanating from each of them.
"You're right."
"Even if he was strong before, he's now an old man on the verge of death who managed to preserve his youth."
"Comrades, let's finish this quickly and head towards..." "Our sects and clans, let's tell them about the Alpha, and we'll keep this exclusive to our families."
"Poor fellow, he wanted power and ended up dying at our hands, hahaha."
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The tone of each of their voices was a mixture of happiness, satisfaction, arrogance, and pity.
They drew their weapons, unleashing their auras without restraint, revealing their ranks, which ranged from Novice Ruler to Supreme Ruler at the highest level.
They headed towards Yuta, intending to kill him suddenly, or so they thought.
After taking a few steps, Yuta opened his eyes, crimson with a hint of dark purple.
His gaze was cold and indifferent to their presence as he looked towards a liquid inside a pot. The liquid was bluish-green, a sign that the final reaction and the third part had concluded.
He muttered in a cold, quiet voice, almost inaudible, but Each of them noticed him. "Part Two has ended, and it's time for Part Four."
Signs of surprise and confusion appeared on each of their faces.
They exchanged glances for several minutes, trying to understand what Yuta meant by "Part Three has ended, and it's time for Part Four."
"Is he crazy or what?" Chihai Ming spoke disdainfully as she looked at Yuta.
Mao Ling Xin agreed with her. "It seems that his repeated failures and the resulting backlash have completely affected him, to the point that he has lost his mind along with his life force."
Yuta turned his gaze toward them. His expression was so cold that it instilled terror in their hearts.
Without hesitation, he threw all three Rank 9 Gus—Chaos Gu, Fast Light Gu, and others—into the mixture.
Their expressions changed to shock, and they vomited blood from their mouths and noses.
He threw three Rank 9 Gus as if they were nothing. Trivial, and this made them realize one thing:
"He's wasting Immortal Gu and rare resources," they all said simultaneously.
Even with the overwhelming aura surrounding him, they couldn't suppress the anger that surged within them at his squandering of such rare resources—resources their own sects didn't possess a single one of.
Even if they had, it would have been a sacred treasure, protected by the blood of their sect members. To see it destroyed like this was unbearable, even if it wasn't their own resource. But to see someone treat it this way, when they couldn't even dream of owning it, was something difficult to accept and endure.
If they were in Yuta's place, they would have protected it with their lives and wouldn't have used it for things like acquiring a stronger Immortal Gu. Every Immortal Gu has only one copy, and using it as a refinement tool is a high-stakes gamble.
It's something they couldn't do or bear, even if they heard about it. They would be furious, their eyes wide with anger.
"You mad bastard! How dare you destroy Gu Khalid in such a vile way?" Tai Sao Mei roared, glaring at Yuta, who looked at him indifferently.
Jiang Ji Jinhai spoke up, shouting angrily as he cursed Yuta, "You filthy piece of shit! How dare you do something so awful?"
Yuta stood up, his hands still tightly clenched, and created two copies of himself.
One copy possessed the Eye of Spirit Enslavement and the Eye of Spirit Manipulation, while the other, without these, was under Yuta's direct control.
The copy with the Eye of Spirit Enslavement and the Eye of Spirit Manipulation returned to its place in the Lotus position, completely oblivious to its surroundings.
Yuta walked towards them, his hands behind his back, looking at them with indifference.
Their eyes narrowed as they looked towards Yuta and his contemplative copy nearby. Guo's trunk of the original tree was struck several times.
Shang Seung-Woo spoke, breaking the silence brusquely.
"You seem to have gone senile and insane, you!"
Light laughter erupted from everyone present except Yuta, who watched them silently as they unleashed their auras and murderous intent without concealing anything.
He spoke in his heart in a calm voice, "Jiang Ji Jinhai of the Heaven and Earth Sect has reached the rank of Supreme Ruler, and the Imperial Jade Sect Saint, Zhai Ming, has reached the same rank of Supreme Ruler."
"Tai Sao Mei, one of the young masters of the Tai clan, has reached the rank of Expert Ruler, and Mao Ling Xin, one of the young masters of the Mao clan, has also reached the rank of Expert Ruler."
"Shang Seung-Woo, one of the sons of the Shang clan leader, is a junior ruler, and Wu Yuxiao Yi, the daughter of the Thousand Mile Mountain Sect leader, is a junior ruler."
"Conclusion From their auras, there were two individuals of the Higher Ruler rank, Jiang Ji Jinhai and Zhai Ming; two of the Expert Ruler rank, Tai Sao Mi and Tai Sao Mi; and two of the Novice Ruler rank, Yuxiao Yi and Shang Seong Wu.
"Not bad. Just as sacrifices, they'll die soon."
A terrifying smile appeared on Yuta's face as he snapped his fingers. Tentacles erupted from a cauldron made of the same material that filled it, binding each of them at the speed of light.
None of them could do anything to avoid the tentacles' speed, which was equal to the speed of light.
They were human after all, even if the others considered them immortals for surpassing humans. In the end, they were only threatening him with murderous intent and auras. They didn't use any real power that would allow them to keep up with the speed of light, and they were unfocused. Moreover, they had loweredTheir defenses led them to believe that Yuta was a weak opponent, on the verge of death.
Therefore, they weren't overly cautious of him or any move he might make against them, especially since Yuta wasn't in the mood to fight them.
Most importantly, the conditions for the sacrifice were strict: it had to be of noble blood.
Secondly, the sacrifice had to have reached a high level of strength and be in good health.
Thirdly, the sacrifice had to be human and in perfect physical condition, free from any injuries or scars, no matter how small. Jiang Ji Jinhai, Mao Lingxin, Yuxiao Yi, Tai Sao Mei, Shang Seongwu, and Zhai Ming all met the conditions for the sacrifice.
That's why Yuta brought them here to perform the third step of the third stage of developing the Spirit Manipulation Eye and the Spirit Enslavement Eye.
Their sensors twisted around them completely, silencing them, as he was annoyed by their chatter and hypocrisy. Cheap and insignificant to him.
He dragged them towards a cauldron with steady steps.
Each one's face was black, filled with the fear of death.
Though they wanted to scream, threaten, curse, or beg Yuta to spare their lives, they couldn't speak because their mouths were sealed shut, and also because they were the sacrifices he was about to offer.
Yuta merged with his clone and sat down, his hands tightly clasped between them, looking at them with a cold expression.
The clones returned to their places, lifting each of them onto a cauldron the size of a butcher's wheel in width and over 1.56 meters long, so that it would completely engulf them.
Their faces were filled with the fear of death as they looked towards the cauldron, from which intense heat emanated, burning their shoes and creating an unbearable atmosphere.
"I don't want to die," Yuxiao Yi said sadly to herself, tears streaming down her face. "I want to live." "I'm still young, and life is still ahead of me."
In Jant, Tai Sao Mei, Shang Seung Wu, Jiang Ji Jinhai, and Mao Ling Xin were constantly trying to escape those sensors without pausing for a moment.
Meanwhile, Zhai Ming had sent a message to her Imperial Jade Sect.
However, all their attempts failed. Yuta had erected a dome separating the area from the rest of the world because the venerable Last Patch Master, Peng Tao Xin, had interfered and ruined the smelting process.
After several minutes during which Yuta threw down several extremely rare and high-quality resources,
their blood boiled even more at first, but it turned to surrender and despair upon realizing and being certain that their end had come and their death was inevitable.
Yuta's gaze was the center of the contents of the cauldron, which had transformed from a liquid to a blazing, bluish-green flame. He snapped his fingers, and the sensors began to descend little by little until they drew Jiang Ji Jinhai and Mao Lingxin, Yuxiao Yi, Tai Sao Mei, Shang Siung Wu, and Zhai Ming were inside a cauldron of blazing fire. Though the flames were a bluish-green, they were capable of burning even their souls.
Their faces contorted with utter terror as they looked towards Yuta, who was indifferent to their lives or deaths. They were merely tools, measured by their usefulness or lack thereof.
This was how Yuta viewed them: entities of the ruler's path, mere instruments created to fulfill his objectives. Their lives or deaths were irrelevant to him; their pain was all that mattered, only the benefit and the gain.
There was no animosity or anything personal between him and Jiang Ji Jinhai, Mao Lingxin, Yuxiao Yi, Tai Sao Mei, Shang Siung Wu, and Zhai Ming. It was a purely professional relationship, and he was simply carrying out his orders. They were nothing more than components, nothing less.
As soon as they fell into the blazing cauldron, a deafening scream shook the entire place.
"Aaa ... So horrific was she that anyone who saw her in this state would immediately vomit or faint and suffer a severe mental breakdown.
Her right eye hung limply on her cheek, her hair and skin burned, revealing a charred skull and burnt skin so badly that her teeth protruded from her cheek without any obstruction.
With her terrifying appearance and pain, tears streamed down her face as she desperately tried to survive. She spoke in a hoarse voice, barely audible, but Yuta somehow understood her: "I don't care if I'm ugly and deformed, if I live alone for the rest of my life, or if I die in a day or two. Just get me out of this torment, I beg you!"
Yuta then stood up and walked towards her without saying a word.
The distorted expression on Zhai Ming's face softened into a faint smile as she saw Yuta approaching.
But it turned to shock when Yuta slapped her face, sending her flying back into a cauldron as she screamed, "Noooooooooooooooooo!"
Yuta then revealed a portal several 34 Centimeter
The lid, matching the pot's color and size, fell.
With great speed, the loud crash erupted, throwing both the saint and the sons of the great sects and clans back into Marta's pot.
Yuta's face remained cold as he heard their loud screams.
Her eyes glowed with a cold crimson light as she spoke in a calm voice, "Beauty is power and life itself. If you don't have the strength to protect it and make it survive amidst calamities, then accept only death or become a dog for a powerful person."
"Beauty without eternity is merely a temporary mother, destined to perish and fade away, like a beautiful flower that will eventually wither. And lasting power, however great, can vanish with a knife to the heart or with death in the end. And vanity is uglier than both."
"Therefore, don't blame me; blame yourselves. Weak is he who succumbs to greed and vanity. I gave you a chance to survive more than once, but you wanted to plunder and kill me. So kill to be killed. You wanted to kill and plunder me, but in the end, I am the one who killed you." And He made you resources for smelting to develop the Eye of Enslavement, a spirit, and the Eye of Manipulation.
Yuta's gaze was fixed on the pot, from which a loud crashing sound emanated as they tried to escape.
Several minutes passed before the sounds from inside the pot ceased.
Yuta returned to his place.He closed his hands as usual, saying nothing more. What he wanted to say, he said, and that was that. He had nothing else to say to the pile of corpses and souls burning inside the cauldron.
He sat down beside the trunk of the Origin Tree in a lotus position, waiting quietly for the smelting process to finish.
Yuta closed his eyes again, allowing his other half to rest, as the process needed time to complete.
There wasn't a trace of regret in Yuta's heart. He was certain that what he was doing was right. Developing the Eye of Enslavement and the Eye of Manipulation required many rare and high-quality resources, numerous souls, and human sacrifices. That's why it was a difficult and complex development process.
This development process was anything but easy. Nothing in this world is easy.
Everything is difficult from a person's perspective. Nothing is completely difficult, and nothing is completely easy. Ease and difficulty are relative, determined by the viewpoint of the person performing the action.
While these resources were mere useless trash to Yuta, the ruler of an entire existential path, they were entirely different to the inhabitants of this land; they were priceless treasures.
Wars could be waged, betrayals committed, and murders perpetrated to obtain them. Therefore, the scarcity and difficulty of these things are relative; their meaning shifts depending on the individual performing the action or seeking the desired outcome.
This understanding of the human mindset was something Yuta grasped, and it enabled him to exploit it to its fullest potential.