Despite Keller’s eyes literally spewing fire due to anger since he is a yang cultivator, he didn’t dare to act on his thoughts, not only because Aster was in the area of influence of the distortions, but because he could feel the gazes of both William and the woman in the palanquin, on him since earlier.

Aster stopped paying attention to the protector from the Pleasure Palace and instead resumed his task of evening things out, earlier when he was surrounded by those guys, the teams which they were leading became fiercer and started applying pressure on the girls from the sect.

The previous further intensified when they saw Aster killing the first two middle stage Star Tribulation cultivators with ease, unfortunately for them, not only those guys didn’t last even three minutes against Aster who had the intention to kill but also those girls from the sect were tough, so by the time Aster had wiped them out, at most they had suffered slight injuries.

Those fierce girls who were barely hanging there against the all-out attacks from groups of around five times their own teams, brightly smiled the moment they saw that familiar golden colored flash heading into the battlefield once again.

“Damn it all, with formations nearly working we can’t kill these bitches in time… aghhh!”, the second in command of one of the many teams in charge of attacking the girls from the sect, who was cursing suddenly started screaming as his arms and one leg were separated from his body.

“That monster actually defeated all the captains!”.

Another of the seconds in command, saw that horrifying golden flash appearing out of nowhere here and there and he shouted to inform the others, just to feel despair as he saw all his nearby allies losing their arms and legs.

“No aghhh!”.

With that guy’s scream, the rain of severed limbs started once again, until all the nearby teams formed by the team members of the guys that Aster killed earlier, were dealt with so he moved onto the next area, where he found an interesting scene, a few of the people who were previously besieging the girls from the sect had started to run away.

“Oh?”, Aster smirked as he recognized some of them, with a loud thunder-like sound, he used Lightning Step to flash and appear in front of the guy at the front of the ones that were escaping, then without saying anything Aster casually cut his head off.

The wave of runaways stopped in cold upon the sight of Aster calmly floating in front of them, with his sword covered in blood.

“I seem to remember having told you that if anything were to happen to those girls, you’ll be the first ones to die”, he said while glaring at some specific people among the ones who were escaping, basically the ones with the highest realm among them, all being Star Axys realm cultivators.

The coldness behind Aster’s voice, made quite a few of them tremble in fear, those guys to whom Aster was talking, were the ones that left the sect to join either the Marsh Domain, Pleasure Palace and other families or forces who happened to be present when took Vivian on her date back then.

After beating them, Aster made them protect the junior disciples, by telling them that if anything were to happen to them, regardless of whether they were involved or not, he would hold them accountable.

“Spineless cowards, he should be tired after fighting the captains, we just have to swarm him now!”.

One of the many original disciples from the Marsh Domain who were escaping, lashed out at the recently joined guys, to then charge towards Aster, followed by other original disciples, only for their heads to fly out at the same time.

“W-We held our hands back!”, immediately yelled one of the former disciples of the sect, as he saw those arrogant guys who received a better treatment than himself, die without a chance to scream.

“Y-Yeah, our attacks lacked any real strength, we were simply putting on a show, you can verify it with those girls later!”, added a second one.

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They were terrified, during the entrance exam Aster killed half of the participants since they attacked him, then he basically challenged anyone who had a problem with him to the life and death arena.

‘What a joke, now that we don’t belong to the sect, there is nothing stopping this crazy bastard from killing us’, is what they thought.

Originally, they didn’t put much thought into it, because they believed that with the help of the disciples from the other sects and forces, who unlike them received ample nurturing, they wouldn’t need to fear Aster anymore, but it was proven that such wasn’t the case.

“L-Leave them to us, you can go without any worries, we will be sure to watch their backs!”, shouted one of the strongest among the group of former disciples, before turning around and actually helping stop one of the guys that were attacking the junior disciples.

The other former disciples, immediately followed that guy’s example, turning their back towards his new fellow disciples, which of course earned them their anger.

“Hey, what are you bastards doing, are you crazy!”, shouted one of the seconds in command as he took a few steps back after being attacked by an “ally”.

Those guys didn’t even bother to answer, their lives were more precious than their new affiliations, in any case most of them came from the many Star Clusters subordinated to Galatia, so the others wouldn’t be able to easily touch them as long as they stayed in their families.

And even without being accepted in any sect ever again, with the support from their families the late Transcending realms were attainable, everything was fine as long as they remained alive.

“We will also stop our cooperation with those guys and will instead protect the ones they target since they didn’t tell us the whole truth, also all the payments we received to attack your sect will be given to you, so please be magnanimous just this one time”, said a rogue cultivator as he bowed towards Aster who nodded in response.

Unlike others, rogue cultivators never gave their all unless their lives were at the stake, so even without them saying it, he knew they were holding back when surrounding the girls from the sect, not like that excused them for it, but the price they were willing to pay was enough to buy their limbs back.

Aster who could feel the sparkling eyes of those young girls all over him, since he got them bodyguards or more accurately meat shields just through sheer intimidation, cleared his throat to then say.

“Ahem, don’t lower your guards, I won’t interfere unless it is strictly needed, think of it as serious training and give it your all”.

“We’ll listen to senior brother~”, said those girls in unison to then return to their fierce selves as they charged towards their respective opponents, with the help of the “volunteers” that blocked the nuisances from interfering, the battlefield took a whole new turn.

Aster nodded satisfied with the result, all over the battlefield the tables had turned around, the amusing part is that Aster’s setting didn’t really tilt the scale to favor the girls of the sect, it only evened things out.

In fact, some of the fiercest girls were fighting more than one enemy at the same time, the difference being that it was now out of their own will, it’s also worth mentioning that overall, the realms of the enemies were higher than theirs, actually even the former disciples had advanced at least a minor realm or two in a short period of time.

‘Idiots, what’s the point of flaunting a high realm for your range of age if your battle prowess is trash’, thought Aster as he oversaw battlefield after battlefield, until he found something that caught his attention.

At the ground, the green robed elder from the Supreme Elemental sect saw the calamity in form of a golden flash, moving in a certain specific direction and he frowned on the spot.

‘Don tell me…’, his thoughts were interrupted by the sound of a crystal-like object shattering, followed by screams coming from both the battlefield and his vicinity.

“Aghhh!”, the first scream belonged to a peak Star Tribulation cultivator wearing the gray robe of the Iron Hall from the Supreme Elemental sect.

“Bastard!”, the second scream came from the protector of the previous faction, who saw one of the core disciples from his group, not only how that guy’s defensive treasure was destroyed but also how he lost his dominant arm.

“Don’t you dare!”, the third scream belonged to the female protectors from the Redheart family, who had sent their young generation members to support the guys from the Supreme Elemental sect.

Since unlike the two direct descendants who were related to Iris and Layla, the others weren’t disciples of the Supreme Elemental sect, but were in the process of being scouted to join as either inner or core disciples.

In other words, it would really be a disaster if they were to suffer some sort of disaster at the hands of a certain someone.

Unfortunately for them, Aster only stopped for a second after having precisely calculated the amount of strength he needed to cut through the defensive treasures of the guys from the Supreme Elemental sect.

‘Mm, I guess they casually give out protective treasures to every one of them, without the need to earn it’, thought Aster.

Based on how the defensive formation engraved in the uniform used by a “mediocre” peak Star Tribulation core disciple from the Supreme Elemental sect, was on par with the ones given to the top thirty core disciples of the Myriad Occupation sect, it was easy to know that those guys were spoon-fed treasures instead of having to earn them with merits.

That’s right, at the Myriad Occupation sect, the defensive formations in one’s clothes were upgraded the more one raised in the Heavenly Ranking, or more accurately the defensive capacities of the uniform were unlocked the more one raised in the ranks.

Interestingly, in a life and death situation, all the locks would be temporarily lifted granting equal survival chances to every disciple regardless of division, rank or affiliation, this remained the same except for the top ten who were given personalized uniforms if they upheld their rank for the time of the year when the Heavenly Rankings would reset and the Ancestors would award those who made great contributions or had notorious achievements.

“What are you doing, aren’t they members of a faction in bad terms with you!”, shouted one of the teammates of the guy who Aster used to measure the optimal strength needed to deal with the guys from the Supreme Elemental sect, to which Aster casually answered.

“To know something that specific, I wonder how did that information reached your ears, it is as if you had someone make an inform about me, no matter since you didn’t seem to understand by seeing it, let’s have you experience it firsthand”.

That guy covered his mouth, knowing he had said something he should have, luckily for him, without saying anything else, Aster turned into a golden flash and continuous sounds of formations being shattered and screams, echoed all over the sky as he attacked the fools who mistakenly thought he wouldn’t dare to touch them just because they were members of the Supreme Elemental sect, or directly affiliated to them.

“Aghhh!”.

“Wait, no!!!”.

Seeing their disciples suffering the same fate as those “lowly” guys from middle grade Stellar Systems, the elders from the Supreme Elemental sect were burning with anger.

“All the disciples from the Iron Hall, join hands and kill that…”, the silver robed protector who was in the middle of giving a decree was stopped midway by a sudden spirit pressure coming from someone which he didn’t expect.

“ENOUGH!”, the green robed elder’s voice reached the ears of every disciple from the Supreme Elemental sect, who were participating in large groups to suppress the girls from the sect.

“Even if you are recently ascended, show the propriety expected from disciples of the Supreme Elemental sect”, he said, making the large groups disband and move at most in pairs of two.

‘Not only those two swords of his are incredibly high ranked treasures, but that movement technique is something I had never heard about… damn Fey family, they’ve got us!’, inwardly cursed the green robed elder as he stole a gaze at Valentina.

In his mind, Aster could kill those guys with such ease because he was using those swords in combination with a movement technique of Immortal grade, which was given to him by the Fey family.

It wasn’t his fault though, Aster was using raw swords without any runes, since they were useless anyway, so he took out the ones with the highest concentration of his blood that he has made so far.

‘But you are still too green to get the best out of me’, he thought.

With the previous, the green robed elder clearly stated that the disciples which Aster easily toyed with in great numbers, aren’t the elites of the Supreme Elemental sect but the ones they could spare to come to a “secondary” event.

While at the same time, forcing them to disband to null the “justification” which Aster was using to cripple them all.

“S-Senior we have to retaliate, he attacked my hall members…”, the silver robed protector tried to persuade the green robed man, just to be glared at by him.

“You fool, even after seeing all that you haven’t realized it yet… that kid is not someone who can be taken out with just numbers”, he said to then look at William before adding.

“In fact, I’m pretty sure that even if all the members if the young generation that are participating joined hands, they wouldn’t be his match, am I right, young master Talis?”, which made William smirk at him.

This time let alone the elders from the Marsh Domain and Pleasure Palace, the protectors from second and first tier forces as well as the ones from the Supreme Elemental sect, all took a breath of cold air.

“But that would mean that he can be considered “Invincible” within the same division”, mumbled Keller, just for the old protector from the Marsh Domain to lash out at him.

“Nonsense, to achieve that at the Earthly realms is even harder than doing so at the Transcending ones!”, he exclaimed.

To be considered “invincible” within the same division, meant that no matter how many enemies someone faced, they would be helpless as long as they were in the same division in which that person is.

As to why it is considered harder to achieve at the Earthly realms, the reason is pretty simple, the quantity and quality of one’s energy, stamina, endurance and the like, greatly differs when one enters the Transcending realms.

But below of that, swam tactics can overwhelm those who are considered geniuses with relative ease, of course there are exceptions to the rule and those are the ones considered “invincible”.

The important part, is that such an achievement at the Earthly realms is only seen in the most outstanding direct descendants of first tier forces, and not in all the generations, this is a measured attribute, being able to deal with more than five hundred opponents with a similar realm or above is the minimal requirement.

It’s the maximum achievement in terms of battle prowess, a quality reserved for the crop of the crème and shouldn’t be seen in a middle grade Stellar System.

“This old man, congratulates the Purple Lightning Princess for keeping such a raw diamond hidden from everyone, even if he is having a little “help” from your side, it is still an amazing feat”, said the green robed elder to which Agnes snorted before saying.

“The rumors about the Lord of the Twin Sword Valley have been around for quite some time, you guys not wanting to believe them is a complete separate matter”.

The two silver clothed representatives of the young generation, along with Iris’s cousins, all tried to suggest their elders to let their groups join hands, refusing to believe that Aster could have achieved something that they couldn’t, the pride that they felt after having broken through to the Transcending realms at a young age, was gone.

So now imagine their expressions when their elders both refused to do so.

“No, if that is the case, then we will only be inviting humiliation by directly going against him, without someone at the same level”, said the silver clothed protector.

Seeing the two pairs of high ranked core disciples from the Supreme Elemental sect, gritting their teeth with frustration, the green robed elder secretly spoke to them.

‘Calm down, out of all the ones he defeated there are only a couple dozen of decent members of the sect, right now you can’t participate, but the chance will come for you to get rid of him’, he said to then add to himself.

‘Besides, it’s not like directly dealing with “black horse” is the only option, he isn’t the first to emerge from a lower background nor will be the last after all’.

Seeing the expression on the green robed elder’s face, William thunderously laughed to then say.

“Whatever your scheme might be, I bet you a million high grade spirit jades that it won’t work”, to which the green robed elder simply snorted to then proceed with his plan while ignoring William’s mockery.

Back at the battlefield, the captain of the team formed by the girls of the Purple Lotus faction, gazed at Aster with gratitude shinning in her eyes, in the time when they were being surrounded by those guys from the Supreme Elemental sect, three of her teammates suffered injuries, the only reason as to why none of them had a heavily wound is because those guys were not taking them seriously.

Because they didn’t believe Aster would dare to do what he did to the people from Zoldia and Tsarai, to them.

“Thanks”, she limited to say to then take a 180° turn in her attitude as she charged towards the ones who hurt her teammates.

Aster nodded at her and then flew upwards since he had finally found a distortion that managed to catch his attention, on the way he noticed that quite a few of the members of the Supreme Elemental sect were moving in familiar directions, but they kept a respectable distance between each other and they remained in just pairs of two.

‘Heh, so that is your plan, what… a shame’, he thought as he stopped paying attention to those guys and instead focused on the distortion, he chose for himself.