1945 Divine

Alex grabbed the shield that had fallen onto the ground and silently went in between Elder Lan and the two sect masters, standing with his straight spine.

The sect master, who was about to kill Elder Lan with his spear, stopped and smiled. "What is this?" he asked. "Are you intending to protect him? With your measly power?"

"Doesn't matter how weak I am," Alex said. "I will always stand against evil like you."

"Evil, you say," the other sect master smiled. "You sound as though you are aware of our secret too. That's not very good."

"We're not evil," the other sect master said, pointing his spear down toward Alex. "We're just the ones who found a shortcut. Don't blame us for it."

Power built into that spear, ready to attack.

Alex held onto the shield, unsure if it would help him at all. It could most likely only be used by the man dying of poison behind him.

"Wait, brother," the other sect master said. "Why don't we do a little test?"

"A test?"

"Yes. Since his body is poison resistant, let us test the extent of it."

The sect master with the spear smiled. "Hehe, do it."

Alex watched as the 5-petaled white flower with the 3 purple stamens appeared behind the sect master again, the illusory image making him anxious. He held up his shield to block whatever attack was coming and used his Demon Eyes to try and see it.

What surprised him the most was that aside from some Wood aura that naturally hung around a person with Wood spiritual root, there was nothing extra that was in the air. Qi wasn't being drawn out from the man, and no technique was being used.

The image that had appeared behind him was part of no technique Alex knew, and thus Alex had no idea what it was at all.

What he only then realized was weirder, that he had found weird from the start but hadn't realized until now, was the fact that he could not tell what the flower in the image was at all.

This was the second time he had not known what a plant was and it worried him. It could be that this flower he saw was something the Alchemy God never put into his Intent that was inside of Alex at the moment.

But what Alex truly believed, for no reason whatsoever, was that the flower simply didn't exist at all. It was an image of a flower that was entirely made up.

Alex couldn't figure out what that could mean.

The sect master then pointed his finger at Alex and Alex was ready to block the poison.

"Die!" he said, just like previously.

Alex waited for the projectile, but there was none. He had been ready for anything that came his way with his spiritual sense and his eyes, but nothing had come his way.

Just as he wondered what was going to happen, Alex felt an unimaginable pain blossom deep inside his body. He immediately fell to the ground, burdened by the poison.

His consciousness started swiveling and his body began crying for help. Whatever he was poisoned with, it attacked both body and soul at the same time.

Bright hot Yang aura jumped out from within Alex's dantian, surging through his body to reach the point where the poison had appeared. The poison had begun spreading, but the Yang energy quickly enclosed them as well.

The Yang energy quickly fought back the poison, destroying it with each second. Alex felt his consciousness return to normal slowly and the pain faded. He slowly stood tall, the poison no longer affecting him.

He stood bravely, looking back at the attackers with not a single look of fear on him.

On the inside, however, Alex's thoughts crashed around like waves.

What had just happened? How had the poison appeared within his body out of nowhere? Was it a technique? How did it enter?

The origin of the poison, the place where it spread from was deep within his body. Had the poison been teleported in somehow? But then he should have sensed Teleportation aura. But there was nothing.

What had the man done just now that was nothing like Alex had ever seen before?

Had he… had he just created the poison inside of his body… out of nothing?

"Oh wow," the sect master commented on Alex's survival. "His body really is strong. It can fight back poisons quite well. Honestly, you could've been our prized disciple."

"No he couldn't," the other one with the spear said. "We only need ones who can store the poisons in their body. There is no point if he becomes strong and we can't use him later."

The other sect master nodded. "That is true too. Anyway, he won't die from poison, so you can kill him now."

"Finally," the other man said and turned toward Alex. "No more experiments. Now you just die."

The spear began glowing with blinding light, spear Qi slowly filling it until it glowed brightly in the room.

Alex looked at the glowing Spear and then at the shield he held. He could only sigh at the result.

He threw away the shield.

The sect masters raised their eyebrows in surprise, but no one did anything else. The spear was ready and the attack launched.

Alex stood still, waiting for the attack to strike him.

The glowing energy from the spear charged toward Alex at a blinding speed, but before it could even stop him, a much more brighter energy released from within Alex's body in a thunderous roar.

A giant illusory head appeared, that of a white tiger. As soon as it appeared, the glowing head destroyed the incoming attack, not a wisp of its power remaining at all.

"What… what is that?" the sect master asked, watching his spear be destroyed in one attack.

"D… Di…" the other sect master stuttered. "Divine! That's a Divine realm—"

The tiger's head turned, the eyes locating the two sect masters at once.

Without hesitation, the two flew out of the room, going past many Elders who were trying to figure out what was happening inside.

The tiger head followed behind them at a blinding speed, catching up to them at once.

The two sect masters turned at once, using techniques and treasures to protect themselves.

A flower appeared behind one of them, and a glowing spearhead appeared behind the other one. They both attacked back once again, but the fate of those attacks was the same as the first one.

They were all destroyed at once, while the tiger head couldn't be stopped at all.

"No, please!" one of them began begging, but it was just too late.

The other one couldn't even speak as the head appeared before them with its jaw wide open. The massive maw of the illusory tiger chomped onto the two sect masters at once, destroying their bodies and souls in that one single attack.

No life-saving treasures they had could protect them from this attack at all.

Even as they died, the two sect masters could not understand why they died. They could not understand why an ordinary disciple who had only become an Immortal just a few years ago had the protection of a Divine realm cultivator.