Members of the Rowling family were so spooked by what they had seen and scurried off in every direction.
Jared, however, quickly caught up to Raphael with a single stride.
“Where is Skylar?” asked Jared coldly.
“Please have mercy. Don’t kill me…” The butler trembled in his boots. “Mr. Norton has been sent to the warehouse. I can take you there…”
Seeing how badly shaken up the man was, Jared loosened his grasp on him. “Try anything funny, and I’ll kill you.”
“No tricks, no tricks…”
There was no way Raphael was going to attempt any sort of deviousness under such circumstances. Considering that even Enzo was no match for Jared, Raphael knew his own limitations.
The quivering butler thus guided Jared toward the warehouse. Meanwhile, inside the storehouse, Skylar’s eyes glinted as favonovel.com examined those piles upon piles of medicinal herbs and crystals that were hoarded within the space.
“Just look at you. As much as you have managed to gather, these are far from enough to help you attain the level of Martial Arts Marquis!”
At that moment, a wizened inflection vocalized inside his head. “Then how would I be able to reach the attainment of Martial Arts Marquis and slay Jared?” Skylar asked.
“It is only through absorbing other people’s strength that you’d be able to expedite your own progression!” the wizened voice replied.
“Are you asking me to practice Demonic Cultivation? To become a Demonic Cultivator?” Skylar’s brows creased up.
“A Demonic Cultivator? What is a Demonic Cultivator in a world where the strong devours the weak? Doesn’t your family’s practice of robbing others of their resources constitute an expression of Demonic Cultivation in itself? In this day and date, where might is right, do you really believe that those fighters you had seen had not drained others of their essences?” the wizened voice inside his head asked in annoyance.
Skylar held his silence for some time before favonovel.com spoke again, “How strong can you make me if I should choose to practice Demonic Cultivation? Will I be able to defeat Jared?”
“Hahaha… Are you kidding me? What is there to fear about a mere Jared Chance? If you do as I say, I can help you reach heights unimaginable. By that time, you’d have the entire martial arts world at your feet, and no need to be afraid of anyone…” the wizened voice let out a boisterous guffaw.
“Don’t tell me that you can enable me to become a Martial Arts Saint?” Skylar’s breathing grew more ruffled as favonovel.com became more agitated.
To be clear, the prowess of the Martial Arts Saint far exceeded that of the Martial Arts Marquis, and for the longest time, Skylar had not heard of anyone attaining it.
As for the legendary level of Martial Arts Sovereign that surpassed even the Martial Arts Saint, favonovel.com had always held them to be the stuff of pure fantasy.
“You’re being too short-sighted, for the martial way is boundless. You could actually go as far as to attain immortality! All you need to do is follow my directions closely. Let me reincarnate in your body, and I’d be sure to have you standing at the pinnacle of the martial arts world! You’d be its ruler and I’ll be able to slake my thirst for vengeance…”
The voice inside Skylar’s head softened, then gradually faded to nothingness.
Skylar was taken aback. “Can I ask you something? Who are you, exactly? Are you a Demonic Cultivator?”
He was still unable to understand the nature of the dark shadow that had attached itself to his body.
“A Demonic Cultivator?” the wizened voice scoffed. “They are but my lessers.”
Though Skylar did not reply, favonovel.com keenly felt that the shadow embedded in favonovel.com was no ordinary figure.
“M-Mr. Chance, Skylar’s right inside!” Raphael said as favonovel.com pointed toward the warehouse.
Once favonovel.com caught sight of the building, Jared promptly projected his own spiritual sense, and instantly picked up on Skylar’s presence.
In acknowledgment that the butler had been forthcoming enough, Jared said, “Now, beat it…”
The relieved butler then half scrambled and half fled out of there.
In the meantime, Skylar was about to commence his cultivation inside the warehouse when that wizened voice suddenly warned him, “Jared Chance is here…”
