The Shining Star Above The Heaven-Chapter 1082: Not Like He Thought

A man with one closed eye and a slash scar across it looked directly at Aldrian’s avatar. His gaze met the avatar’s directly.

Ao Tianhai and Alric were already ready to take action, but the avatar gave them a sign to hold. The figure, whom the avatar could sense was a peak pseudo-immortal stage cultivator, kept walking down the stairs until he almost crashed into the avatar.

But the avatar only moved his body slightly to give the figure a way. The figure kept walking past him and continued until he passed Ao Tianhai and Alric.

The moment the figure passed, Alric released a sigh of relief. Sweat had already rolled down from his forehead as he thought that they had been found out. If they were really found out, then they would have to fight thousands of assassins here.

They were right in their turf, and with how sneaky those assassins were, he thought that it might become a difficult battle. Although he believed in the avatar’s strength, it still made him worry.

Who knew what kind of tricks those assassins had if they fought here?

But it looked like it was only a coincidence that the figure’s gaze fell upon the avatar’s direction.

After the figure passed, they took the stairs to move to the higher floors. On each floor they had to pass some rooms the same as the ground floor, the rooms where the guardians stayed.

They kept walking until they reached the highest floor, the fifth floor. The moment they stepped onto the highest floor, they saw something different. On this floor there was no hallway or rooms, but a hall.

At the other end of the hall there was a curtain that showed a silhouette behind it. The figure sat in a meditation position and did not move.

The avatar looked at the silhouette for a moment. From the memories of those two assassins, he knew that the figure behind the curtain was the master of the Underworld’s Feeder.

The master of the Underworld’s Feeder was a mysterious figure. Only a few people had ever seen his face directly because he always used a mask if he left this place.

The two assassins whose memories he saw were among those who had never seen his face directly.

Still, the avatar did not care about the mystery of the master. He only needed to do what he had already planned.

’Tianhai, I will cripple him. Guard me." The avatar said through voice transmission. He even concealed his transmission using the same concealment technique so that no one could sense the disturbance in the air.

Ao Tianhai nodded. A moment later, the avatar’s body suddenly disappeared and reappeared behind the curtain. The screen slightly opened after the avatar appeared and he did not hesitate to pierce the dantian of the master without even seeing his face.

Because of the surprise attack, the master was truly shocked, and because he did not have time to react, the avatar’s powerful stab landed directly on the master’s abdomen. The avatar stabbed using his index and middle finger, and they pierced into the master’s body.

He also covered the master’s mouth so he could not make any sound.

"Hmph!" The master wanted to groan, but he could not as the avatar covered his lips tightly.

His fingers contained sword will, which guaranteed the destruction of the master’s dantian. The sword will passed through the master’s body and left stabbing marks on the wall behind him.

The master wanted to spit blood, but he could not as his lips were covered by a hand.

Aldrian’s avatar, who had already successfully launched the surprise attack, finally could see the master more clearly, and he felt truly surprised.

He had actually pierced a young man.

A young man with pale skin and cultivation at peak pseudo immortal foundation realm!

At this moment, the avatar finally realized that something was strange. Was the master of the Underworld’s Feeder only this powerful? A pseudo immortal foundation cultivator?

The master, who showed a painful expression, finally could see his attacker, and he could not help but have his eyes tremble. The blue eyes behind the mask looked directly into his eyes, but there was a hint of surprise in them.

The master felt weak as strength left his body. He could attack the avatar in a desperate effort, but the master stayed still when the avatar retracted his fingers. His eyes still trembled, but then he put on a resigned expression.

Aldrian’s avatar wanted to touch the master’s forehead to look into his memories, but before he could touch it,

"Are you Aldrian the Great?" the master asked through voice transmission.

The avatar did not answer, and his hand also stopped reaching for the master’s forehead.

"Are you here to kill me? Are you here to destroy the Underworld’s Feeder?" he asked again.

"If you do so, then destroy it to the point that there is no chance for them to rebuild it."

The avatar raised his eyebrows, and he could sense that this young man truly meant what he said.

He suddenly felt curious why this young man, who was supposed to be the leader of this assassin group, said something like that.

The avatar did not ask anything and instead touched the young man’s forehead and started to look into his memories.

First, he looked for what he wanted to know the most: the ones who gave the task to the Underworld’s Feeder to kill him.

He knew that they were most likely the nobles that he humiliated, but he wanted to know anyone who was directly involved. Each of their families or any information that he deemed important, he wanted them all.

After looking at the young man’s memories for a few moments, he finally found what he was looking for, and as he expected, they were indeed those nobles. He smirked as he finally found who would become his next targets. With this confirmation, he did not have to recklessly carry out unnecessary slaughter.

He only needed to kill some with great effect.

After finding what he wanted to know, he did not stop and instead kept looking through the young man’s memories. He was curious why this young man said something like that.

After a few minutes of looking into the man’s memories, the avatar finally lifted his finger from the man’s forehead. He looked at him calmly.

What he saw from the young man’s memories was the misfortune that trapped him in this place. He was indeed the master of the Underworld’s Feeder, but that was not because of his strength.

It was because he could comprehend one of the legacies of the Red Lotus Sect’s cultivation technique.

The Underworld’s Feeder actually had one legacy from the Red Lotus Sect, and that was a cultivation technique: the Heavenly Darkness Abyss.

To become the master of the Underworld’s Feeder, one had to comprehend it. Anyone who could comprehend it would become the successor to the master of the Underworld’s Feeder.

The young man’s past was quite pitiful. While he was still a child, he was kidnapped by assassins from the Underworld’s Feeder. A child who could have lived a normal life and happily played with his friends suddenly had to experience gruesome training and the life of an assassin.

Despite that, his desire for life was strong. He wanted to live so he could enjoy the free life that he had longed for. He wanted to leave, to escape from his horrible life as an assassin.

He hated this place, he hated this kind of life.

However, he knew that to reach that kind of freedom, he had to become much stronger. At one point, the past master of the Underworld’s Feeder gave several potential young men the chance to comprehend the legacy of the Red Lotus Sect.

Luckily, he was the one who could comprehend the cultivation technique and was chosen as the successor of the Underworld’s Feeder.

Long story short, the past master suddenly passed away, which made him become the master of the Underworld’s Feeder despite his lack of strength.

However, although he looked like the master of the Underworld’s Feeder, he was actually only a puppet here. The one that truly controlled everything was one of the guardians here,

The abyss guardian.

The one that the avatar met on the stairs earlier.

He did not have enough power to decide anything in the Underworld’s Feeder. That one guardian was the one who decided everything.

Most of the assassins also obeyed the guardian more than him, which made the young man’s life even more miserable. He knew that those assassins believed that he was not strong enough to take the master’s seat.

He only took that seat early because of the past master’s sudden death. He still needed time to become worthy enough to control the entire group of the Underworld’s Feeder.

For now, he was no more than an empty symbol because he happened to comprehend one of the legacies of the Red Lotus Sect.

This man actually did not want to take the mission to kill him. However, the abyss guardian still received the mission from those nobles, which then made their conflict develop until now.

After thinking for a moment, while seeing the young man experiencing the aftereffects of the memory search, the avatar decided to heal him.

He healed him so that he could at least communicate clearly.

The young man, who seemed to be brought back from death, gasped and instantly looked at Aldrian’s face.

He kept silent.

He knew that there was no way he could do anything.

The things that he heard about Aldrian the Great were that he was a truly powerful cultivator.

Now that the said person could enter this place without anyone even knowing, he knew that the stories were true.

This person in front of him was a real monster.

He seemed resigned that his life would end here, but then he heard the avatar ask him,

"Do you want to live?"