Apotheosis

Fortunately, Kenelm lived alone in his house, far from his family.

If other people had been living there, they would all have died, crushed under Baber's feet.

As Kenelm looked over at the old man a small distance away, he realized that Baber was a powerful warrior at the Other Shore Realm.

He could not understand why this old man hated him so much. He racked his brain for any way he could have offended him, but Zen's voice cut his thoughts short. "This person is probably a relative of the man in purple," Zen said seriously.

Pulling a long face, Kenelm frowned.

He relaxed his face within a few seconds, however, consoling himself with the thought that he hadn't, after all, killed the man in purple.

Knowing that there was no way for him to escape, he had no choice but to step forward. He cupped his hands and said to the old man, "Sir, my name is Kenelm Lai. Forgive me if it is due to a lapse in my memory, but I don't think we have ever met before. I am wondering why you came to me..."

Baber had spent the past few days in a blind rage since he learned of his grandson's death.

He could only speculate who or what had actually killed his grandson. He thought it might have been the ghost. However, no matter what the true identity of the killer was, he knew for a fact that the dead body of his grandson had been destroyed by Kenelm and his friends. That was enough for Baber to desire their deaths.

Before the shaking Kenelm could even finish his sentence, a green shadow, shaped like a human hand, appeared on Baber's own right hand. The shadow reached out towards Kenelm, who immediately felt an intense pressure on his entire body.

Kenelm was completely paralyzed. Then, he was pulled towards the old man like metal to a magnet.

As Kenelm was being pulled forward, Zen stepped forward and harnessed the strength source within his body. He touched Kenelm lightly with one hand, using the Power Shaping to form an invisible piece of armor which pinned him to the ground.

Baber looked shocked. He had not expected to fail in such a simple task.

Even Baber's guards, who usually showed no emotion, looked surprised.

"Master Baber didn't use all of his strength, did he?" one of them asked.

"This brat actually has the power to resist?"

"Nice try, boy. Don't be too confident in your pathetic skills."

These guards were hand-picked

ortcut to the Wild Goose Pass.

"A man called Kenelm Lai discovered the tomb of a Stinger Guard," she said calmly, with a glance at the bowing lord. "I am here to take him back. So, take me to meet him."

'The tomb of a Stinger Guard?' the lord thought, perplexed.

Realizing the importance and urgency of this woman's mission, the city lord immediately sent his men after Kenelm, or at least news of him. After he had done that, he led the woman to the west of the city.

At the midpoint of their journey, they encountered a burst of light, bright and intense as a solar flare.

The aura of the energy coming off this light was very strange. The city lord thought for a second that it seemed to be similar to an internal momentum created by a True God, but it also seemed much more powerful than that.

When the pale-faced woman and the three men in cyan saw the light, they also looked confused.

"What kind of theurgy is this?" one of them said.

"It's not the internal momentum of an Other Shore Realm warrior. It seems to be a True God's," said another.

"What Godly Way is it? It's so powerful!"

These Other Shore Realm warriors had also been True Gods once. However, to them, cultivating the Godly Ways was a formality, a mere means to reach the Other Shore Realm. It was no surprise that they had little understanding of the energy of the Godly Ways.

"It is the Ways-blending Energy," the pale-faced woman said in a low voice. Her eyes glimmered with curiosity. "And whoever is responsible for this seems to have blended a great many of Godly Ways together."