“Ah! So it’s the Young Master, no wonder!” Azure Dragon glanced at him disdainfully upon hearing his words.
“You can’t kill me, otherwise my father will make sure every one of you pays with your lives!” shouted Lawrence Hill once again.
“Tsk tsk, so fearless even at death’s door, you really think highly of yourself!” muttered Soul Chaser.
Casey and the rest of the group looked at him with a dumbfounded expression. They had been following Billy for so many years and knew exactly where his limits were. Behaviors like disregarding the lives of teammates just to save oneself, no one could protect him.
“Casey, take action!” Billy ordered.
“Yes!”
“Lord Dragon, the Hill family values this young master greatly. If you kill him, I’m afraid…” Ricky Payne spoke.
“Lord Dragon, please reconsider!” the other three old men chimed in.
Ernest Shepherd and the other three didn’t have much of a reaction. They knew Billy well enough that even if it was the patriarch of the Hill family, he wouldn’t survive if he dared to do such a thing.
Ocean Martin and his sister opened their mouths, originally wanting to say a few words of persuasion, but they quickly dismissed the idea.
“He almost killed more than ten people. If we don’t kill him, how can we gain the trust of the others?” Billy looked at the four old men and asked in response.
“But, he is still a member of the Hill family…” one of them replied.
“Is the life of a Hill family member more valuable than that of others?” Billy interrupted his words. After finishing his words, his tone turned cold. “Casey, execute!”
Whoosh!
Casey raised his hand and made a swift slash.
“No, please…” Lawrence Hill finally realized fear and cried out like a wailing ghost. Before his words even fell, heads flew up into the air, their faces filled with endless resentment. He never thought that he would die like this. He was the eldest young master of his family, one of the three major families in the town, a remarkable figure with boundless future. After undergoing the baptism at the spiritual spring, his martial talent and cultivation would undoubtedly break through once again. Given time, becoming a high-ranking general with a powerful army would be an easy task. But now, he died just like this. He was truly unwilling!
Witnessing this scene, including the four old men, everyone who came from the city had an expression of extreme shock. They were well aware of the influence the Hill family held in this town. The Hill family would definitely not let this go.
“Continue on our way!” Billy waved his hand at everyone.
Two minutes later, the two carriages set off again. During the journey, they occasionally encountered scattered fierce beasts attacking, but they posed no threat to the group at all. In addition, when they reached a vast snowy plain, they encountered two waves of organized attacks. These organized forces often dispatched people to lurk in similar uninhabited areas, killing and robbing anyone who passed by. Of course, this time, the two waves of people could only consider themselves unlucky. A total of seventy to eighty people from the two waves, none of them survived.
After dealing with the two waves, they continued on for a while before the two carriages stopped on a towering mountain peak. After getting off the carriages, Billy and the others looked ahead and saw two castle-like buildings not far away. At this moment, twenty people from the Glavale clan emerged from the two buildings, led by an old man with white hair. From the aura emanating from the group, it was clear that all twenty of them had cultivation levels at least at the later stage of the Sovereign Realm.
“Casey, can you determine the cultivation level of that old man ahead?” Judge asked.
“I can’t determine it! The people sent to guard the spiritual spring are definitely at the Saint Realm, unless something unexpected happened!”
“Alright!” Judge shrugged in response.
“Greetings, Lord Dragon! I am Keith Bowman.” The group approached and the leading old man, bowed to Billy.
“Greetings, Lord Dragon!” the rest of the people behind him also bowed.
“Elder Bowman, you’ve worked hard, no need for formalities!” Billy raised his hand.
“Lord Dragon, you’re too kind, it’s just my duty!” Keith Bowman responded. Afterward, he greeted Ernest Shepherd and the other three, as well as the other four old men.
“Elder Bowman, have there been any troubles here?” asked Ricky Payne.
“Never stopped!” Keith Bowman responded. “Just about two hours before you arrived, a group of small fries tried to force their way into the spiritual spring and I killed them all!”
“Are they from Northfortia, Elder Bowman?” Casey asked.
“I didn’t ask! In the past few days, there have been waves of people coming, and I estimate that about half of them are from Northfortia, so I didn’t bother asking.”
“Okay.” Casey shrugged.
“Lord Dragon, this way please, the spiritual spring is over there!” Then, Keith Bowman gestured to Billy.
“Thank you!” Billy responded.
Soon, the group arrived at a cliff surrounded by dense fog. They leaned over and couldn’t see anything except for the fog.
“Elder Bowman, is the spiritual spring right below this cliff?” Bob asked Keith Bowman.
“Exactly! It is about a hundred meters from here.”
“How do we get down? We’re not just going to jump straight down, are we?” asked Bob. Although he had been a Fourth-rank Sovereign, he didn’t have much confidence in jumping straight down from a hundred meters. Not to mention, there were still many companions who were War God-Emperors; how would they get down?
“There are places on the cliff where we can leverage our strength. I will guide you, just follow me.” Keith Bowman responded before flying down towards the cliff. At the same time, he swept out a few powerful gusts of wind, dispersing the dense fog. Billy and the others could finally see the situation below the cliff. They saw protruding stone slabs every twenty to thirty meters on the cliff wall, providing leverage.
“I’ll go down and take a look first, you all come down later!” Billy told the others before jumping down.
With his current strength, he could easily land from a hundred meters, but he wanted to check the safety of those stone slabs for everyone, so he still chose to leverage his way down. In no time, he reached the bottom of the cliff.
Calling it the bottom of the cliff was not accurate, it was more like a half-cliff. And not far in front of him was a water pool with a diameter of about forty to fifty meters, and the water inside was a pale green color. What was surprising was that in this icy and snowy environment, the water pool not only didn’t freeze, but was emitting strands of hot air, like a hot spring. In addition, he could clearly feel traces of spiritual energy in the air around him, making him feel refreshed with every breath.
“Come down!” After releasing his spiritual power to roughly investigate the surroundings and seeing nothing unusual, Billy looked up and shouted.
The people above responded and one by one jumped down. A few minutes later, everyone had arrived by the water pool.
“Wow, there’s actually a hot spring here!” Felicia exclaimed in surprise after testing the water temperature with her hand.
Night Orchid and Rakshasa also tried it, equally astonished.
“Elder Bowman, is this the spiritual spring?” asked Harleen.
“Exactly!”
“Elder Bowman, how deep is this water pool?” asked Ivy.
“I’m not sure exactly how deep it is.” Keith Bowman shook his head. “But it’s at least over a hundred meters!”