Chapter 296 Scarlet Demon 5200

Europa, near the Slovenian Mountains, Concord Association Temporary Hospital.

Raphael Glar, Europa Union's peak Transcendent cultivator, one of the top three combat forces of the Concord Association on the surface.

Now, he is quietly recuperating in this beautiful scenery, lush vegetation, and boundless valley grassland.

The white-haired old man in the wheelchair had both legs wrapped in bandages and plaster. Although the self-healing power of the Transcendent stage far exceeds that of ordinary people by dozens of times, if it is not properly fixed, the rapidly regenerating bones and muscles will grow crooked, requiring extra equipment to help.

"Alas, when people get old, they trust their own experience too much..."

At this time, the old man's wheelchair was in the garden behind the hospital. Raphael looked at the dandelion fluff floating in front of him and couldn't help but sigh: "This time, I suffered a big loss at the hands of the Descending Spirit Society. I don't know what kind of bad consequences it will cause..."

Following the old man's melancholy words was the energetic voice of a young girl.

"Don't worry, Grandpa, anyway, you're not the only one who's embarrassed. Not to mention, Uncle Augur and Grandpa Ilson were also embarrassed, right? Everyone is in the same boat. After all, logically speaking, everyone being embarrassed together is the same as no one being embarrassed. No one in the public will especially criticize you."

It can be seen that beside Raphael, a young brunette girl was peeling an apple while comforting the old man beside her.

Surprisingly, although it looked like the girl was using the knife to peel the skin, cultivators with Transcendent-level dynamic vision could perceive that her hand was only casually placed on the handle, and it was the knife itself that was actually moving!

Seros Glar, Raphael Glar's granddaughter, a dedicated judge of the *Europa Rising Star Chart*, a special guest of *Reaching the Dao Through Sparring*, a Transcendent Initial Stage cultivator.

Like Raphael, Seros cultivates the family's lineage, derived from the sealing technique of ancient Egypt. However, compared to her grandfather, who is better at sealing living things and spiritual bodies for his own use, Seros is more skilled at sealing inanimate objects such as weapons.

In the era of the receding demon tide after the disappearance of the Age of Gods, the sealing technique that can only seal inanimate objects is far inferior to the sealing technique that can seal living things. However, in modern times, due to the emergence of guns, cannons, and other weapons, weapon sealers, who were originally at a disadvantage compared to living object sealers, have surpassed spirit object sealers in terms of destructive power.

Not to mention, weapon sealers can keep thermonuclear weapons in their best condition without any worries about the expiration date. In critical moments, weapon sealers can even seal an imminent hydrogen bomb and summon it to detonate at a crucial moment...

Of course, this method is quite inefficient, because when the inheritance of the sealer reaches the High-Level Commander stage, they can directly store the energy of a nuclear explosion in their sealed space and release a portion of it as an attack when needed... Theoretically feasible, as long as the sealer can withstand the power of a nuclear bomb, they can do it.

"Where did you learn all these comforting words from..."

Raphael has always been puzzled by his granddaughter's skill in using a naive tone to say all kinds of infuriating things. In his memory, his granddaughter was clearly a docile and somewhat taciturn type. Heaven knows why she suddenly became like this in recent years.

Although she is much more cheerful, the direction of this cheerfulness seems a bit wrong.

"Alas, Seros's parents are too busy. As the director of the sealing department, they always have to travel and don't have time to accompany their daughter."

Raphael sighed inwardly, feeling quite helpless... As for himself? Isn't he, an old man in his sixties, also struggling on the front lines?

Some time ago, while dealing with a strange disappearance case in a small town in Eastern Europe, he was unexpectedly attacked by an unknown leader of the Descending Spirit Society. Not only was his private plane blown up, but he was also ambushed by a local Transcendent who he thought was an ally. If he hadn't sealed part of his body and suppressed the injuries, he might have died on the spot.

"It's also strange. The strength of the Descending Spirit Society is much stronger than when they were hiding everywhere a dozen years ago."

Accepting the apple that Seros peeled, although he was repeatedly told by the Concord Association's higher-ups to recuperate, the old man's expression was still worried: "Back then, although their leaders were strong, they clearly didn't have a complete inheritance. They only relied on their secretive actions and unique abilities to stir up trouble around the world."

"But recently, judging from the various news received from around the world, these Descending Spirit Society guys not only have complete sets of inheritances, but their mysterious abilities, which are almost the power of source matter, have also been greatly enhanced!"

The power of source matter is the supernatural power in Eastern terms, originating from the essence of human beings.

Each complete inheritance represents a complete set of cultivation methods for a certain profession, including all aspects of fighting, cultivating, defending, concealing, manufacturing weapons, searching for enemies, and so on, enough to build a person into an all-around water bucket warrior.

The strength of official cultivators over civilian cultivators lies in this. They don't care about the spread and dissemination of true methods, because coupled with the proper cultivation methods are countless 'techniques'. Even a mediocre complete inheritor can defeat a talented rogue cultivator with well-equipped techniques.

But recently, the Descending Spirit Society, which was not regarded as a major enemy by the major forces, has shown strength beyond the expectations of the major forces around the world!

"The Convocation has disappeared recently, and the New Dawn Society last appeared in Antarctica. Heaven knows what that guy is going to do in Antarctica."

"On the other hand, the Descending Spirit Society actually gathered six peak Transcendent Commanders to raid the two-world spacetime gate in Slovenia and break into the Beast God Realm... They must know something we don't know! Moreover, this strength is almost comparable to half of the Europa Union!"

Raphael knew very well that although he was the Union's Transcendent representative pushed to the forefront, there were no problem finding a dozen or so cultivators of his level in the entire Europa Union.

However, the Union's Transcendents need to be stationed in various places and have their own work and forces to worry about. It was already a great victory that they, the few Transcendent stationed at the two-world spacetime gate fortress, did not die in the face of the Descending Spirit Society's all-out attack.

And what Raphael feared most was not the Descending Spirit Society's suddenly complete inheritance, the unknown source of information, and the strange, unified degree of integration.

What he feared was the mysterious Descending Spirit Society expert who quickly defeated the two Concord Association peak Transcendents stationed at the Beast God Realm spacetime gate.

"That strength and destructive power... It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say it's a Commander stage!"

Raphael, who was already injured, arrived at the end of the battle in Slovenia through spacetime magic. In front of the Descending Spirit Society Commander, who seemed to have turned into a hellish demon, burning with scarlet flames, even he and the other two peak Transcendents were vulnerable. Their sealing spirit beasts were directly shattered by the opponent's flaming giant axe, and the aftermath directly shattered his legs.

And Raphael, who had previously come into contact with the 'True Demon' in the small town, keenly sensed that the scarlet giant demon seemed to be essentially similar to those strange monsters that奪取人心 (duo qu ren xin - seize people's hearts) and used souls as their shells... Moreover, the scarlet giant demon's state was also very strange. Although its strength was extremely powerful, it was clearly not a normal Commander stage. It should be caused by some kind of peculiar secret technique.

"But even so, not a Commander stage through normal advancement, that's still extremely powerful power - even the destructive power that Su Zhou showed in the Beast God Realm at the beginning is probably inferior to it!"

Thinking like this, Raphael's thoughts were extremely heavy - it wasn't as if he didn't have a way to quickly advance to the Commander stage, but doing so would be equivalent to giving up his decades of persistent cultivation and cutting off his possibility of moving forward.

However, facing that overly powerful scarlet demon, even if the Zheng Nation side sent Su Zhou to help, a single Commander stage might not be the opponent...

He pondered in worry for a long time until the sun was almost setting, and Seros wanted to push the wheelchair to send Raphael back to the hospital ward.

Suddenly, the white-haired old man raised his head slightly, his expression a little surprised as he looked into the distance.

"What is that aura? So dangerous, so hot, it's almost like... interrogating my conscience?!"

Sensing the aura that was rapidly flying from afar, Raphael's mind couldn't help but shake. He seemed to have heard the bells of the church, or the sound of the judge's hammer falling in the courtroom, but soon, the old man distinguished the source of this aura.

It's Su Zhou!

Moreover, the intensity of this aura... is actually stronger than it was in the Beast God Realm a few months ago?!

"How did he improve so fast?! In just a few months, he should have only just digested the gains from that battle!"

Raphael couldn't understand it, and the Concord Association temporary hospital obviously received advance notice, knowing that the figure flying from afar was an ally, so they didn't stop him, allowing him to enter the hospital under guidance.

"It's been a while, Senior Raphael. I heard that you were seriously injured recently. How are you feeling now?"

From afar, Su Zhou's hearty words of comfort could be heard: "Don't worry, the Concord Association once assisted us in the Beast God Realm, and I will naturally assist you at a critical moment - tell me who in the Descending Spirit Society beat you up like this, and I will surely scatter their ashes into the Mediterranean Sea!"

--What do you mean how am I feeling? I've been seriously injured, how else could I be feeling? Can this young man talk?!

Raphael was so angered by Su Zhou's words that he felt suffocated.

Moreover, in addition to feeling suffocated, he inexplicably felt a hint of familiarity... It seemed that his granddaughter's tone was also like this?

Without time to think about the coincidence, Raphael snorted. He even deliberately controlled himself to stand up using his spiritual power, shaking hands stiffly with Su Zhou who was approaching. He braced himself and said: "It's nothing, I'm fine. I'm just suffering from continuous injuries and need to rest for a while."

"It's good that you're okay, it's good that you're okay!" The hearty young man's voice rang out, and Seros nodded thoughtfully, then quickly took out her notebook and began to record.

"Although Grandpa was seriously injured, in order to prevent the Europa Union and the Concord Association from being looked down upon, he still braced himself and said some polite words. This is not just for face, but to show the momentum and demeanor of us Europeans!"

"At critical moments, we must have the spirit of showing our sword, even if we are seriously injured, we must maintain our demeanor... Although Grandpa never said this, I have already felt the throbbing in his heart!"

"Record, Grandpa's words, September 2016 notes."

After a while, Raphael and Su Zhou began to exchange information about the situation at the Beast God Realm spacetime gate in a ward of the temporary hospital.

Of the Transcendents who personally experienced that battle with the Convocation, only Raphael was not too seriously injured because he only controlled the sealing spirit beast and did not directly step forward to fight. The other two peak Transcendents, such as 'Behemoth' Augur, who was known as the Twin Heroes with the Heroic Spirit Warrior Yuneruo, and Archmage Ilson, are still being rescued at the Concord Association headquarters.

Therefore, in order to truly understand the situation, Su Zhou flew directly here as soon as he got off the plane to discuss the current situation with Raphael.

And the result of the discussion was 'very bad'.

"The Descending Spirit Society's ranks are completely different from our traditional cultivation methods - it's hard to imagine where they got so many bizarre cultivation methods. Not only is the advancement speed extremely fast, but it's also very complete. It's almost as if it has been honed for countless years."

Raphael was always very emotional when he said this: "In the past few decades, I have often fought with their Commanders when attacking the Descending Spirit Society. At that time, I always had the upper hand."

"But this time, I found that their inheritance is even more comprehensive than my Sealer inheritance! Can you understand this strange phenomenon?"

--Of course, I can understand. They are all borrowing power to cultivate and have the inheritance of the眷族 (juan zu - kindred) of a great existence. Those things have been honed in another world for at least tens of thousands of years or even longer, so the inheritance is of course complete.

That was Su Zhou's thought. He nodded repeatedly to show that he was listening.

And when he said this, Raphael suddenly froze, and then raised his head to look at Su Zhou, who was listening to him attentively.

--Wait, speaking of strange cultivation methods and extremely fast advancement speeds, isn't the guy in front of me... even more excessive than the Descending Spirit Society?

At this time, he also sensed the vague danger emanating from Su Zhou, as if he was interrogating his own heart...

"Professor Su, tell me, have you advanced again recently?"

Asking a little cautiously, Raphael was afraid of hearing the other party say 'yes' in response... It wasn't that he was jealous of the other party, it was just that the old man had a bad heart and couldn't take this kind of stimulation.

"Ah, not yet."

Su Zhou replied casually, immediately making Raphael breathe a sigh of relief, but soon, Su Zhou said: "I just awakened a new supernatural power."

"Hiss--"

Instantly, Raphael's breath choked, and then he couldn't help but gasp.

The so-called supernatural power is the power of source matter - as a peak Transcendent powerhouse, Raphael already had his own ideas about the power of source matter, which was to use his own body as a sealing material, infusing a large amount of the power of sealed objects and even spirit beasts to transform into his true body.

Dividing his limbs and body into five parts, sealing the limit of power in each part, and then performing a five-star union with secret techniques, he can even reach the sky in one step, directly obtaining terrifying destructive power comparable to the Middle-Level, or even High-Level, Commander!

It's just that in that case, he would have to separate and seal his body on weekdays, and his actions would be relatively unfree, so until now, Raphael has not made up his mind to take this step. After all, if he really took that step, his title would probably become something like 'The Sealed Sealing Master Raphael', which is tongue-twisting.

In short, Raphael has decades of precipitation, but even so, wanting to cross the step between Transcendent and Commander is extremely difficult, requiring countless thoughts... and Su Zhou, at the age of less than twenty, took the lead in understanding supernatural powers and advancing to Commander - from the fact that he can freely separate the supernatural spell called 'Curse Detection', it can be seen that Su Zhou is not the kind of instinctive type who doesn't understand his supernatural powers. On the contrary, his analysis of his supernatural powers is very complete!

And now, he even understood a new supernatural power?

"Professor Su, Professor Su!"

At this time, Seros, who was quite supportive, flattered: "Is it difficult to understand this supernatural power?"

"It's not a question of whether it's difficult or not. Even I relied on very precious divine objects to help me understand the second supernatural power."

In this regard, Su Zhou seemed to recall the excruciating pain of his soul being torn apart when he awakened the Fire of Sin not long ago. He sighed: "It's very difficult."

--Even Su Zhou felt it was difficult?

Hearing this, Raphael's heart was slightly balanced.

Of course, he didn't know that Su Zhou only spent less than three and a half minutes in total. But even so, it's only been a little over two months from the end of the Beast God Realm mission to now. In such a short period of time, Su Zhou has taken another step forward, which really makes him sigh.

--Even the freaks from the Descending Spirit Society are not as fast as Su Zhou!

Raphael suddenly felt a burst of understanding in his heart for his previous thoughts. He originally thought that Su Zhou and the people from the Descending Spirit Society were the same, their strength always suddenly appearing in leaps and bounds.

But now it seems that the Descending Spirit Society is worthy of comparing cultivation speed with Su Zhou? Compared to this monster, those guys are simply crawling!

After realizing this, Raphael suddenly had an epiphany in his heart: "Ah, yes, so that's how it is."

"It's not that my cultivation speed is slow, but that Su Zhou is too fast. Even the leaders of the Descending Spirit Society, who are obviously problematic and probably used some radical secret techniques, can't compare to him. How could I possibly catch up?"

What does it have to do with him, an ordinary Sealer, that others are cheating.

Having figured out this problem, Raphael suddenly felt that his soul was clear: "There's no need to compare this with others. I just need to take one step at a time and walk on my own path!"

"Grandpa, are you okay?"

Seros, who took out a new notebook and invited Su Zhou to sign, noticed the ethereal expression on her grandpa's wheelchair and asked with some concern: "Do you need to rest for a while?"

"It's okay, I'm still in good spirits!"

Raphael came back to his senses, he laughed, and then said to Su Zhou: "Let's go, let's go to the periphery of the Beast God Realm seal first. There are still traces of the battle there."

"Although we suffered a surprise attack, we have firmly controlled the spacetime gate on Earth's side. In a sense, the Descending Spirit Society has been sealed in the Beast God Realm, and they cannot escape."

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