The moment Cole pass out, Virgo use her everything to use [Moment Freeze] to buy them time to retreat. Shiela, on the other hand, conjure her most powerful ice wall to stop the advance of slapping giant hand. Baldy have also create a wall of light to help them.

However, their efforts don't produce any desirable effect. The walls they have created crumble upon touching the giant hand as of they were nothing but a paper. Even Virgo's action only managed to stop the hand's advance by not even a second which is definitely not enough for them to retreat.

Both Shiela and Baldy felt despair in that very moment while Celia was too anxious on the other side of the spatial passage.

The owner of the giant bony hand was very familiar to Baldy since his former Master often face the said man. If Baldy was to explain this hand's owner, he will say that he's... an antique person. He was of the oldest of the oldest human ever lived.

One should know that the said old man was the same generation as Baldy's former owner, as well as the four Divine Beast Clan. What's more, that man had also reached the peak of Saint Realm ages ago and he only need to pass one step and he could step on the realm many cultivators achieved... the Godhood Realm.

It was fortunate that the giant palm that slap his Master is just a will left behind in special token, which signifies the status of the holder and also protect from any possible threat, just like now. In addition, the said token mostly used as sign of Levi's hierarchical status in Poltergeist Cult and the might of the will is not on the same level as the owner's cultivation base, it was mostly the same might of early stages of Saint Realm.

It was only with the timely assistance of various casted defenses and existing protection like [Protect] that Cole managed to survived.

Still, if one will inspect Cole's body now, they will learn that there's no bones left normal, all of them was badly damaged like being broken or even turn into powder. His internal organs was on the same state.

It was only because of Cole's amazing vitality, life force and physique that he managed to survive with his current state. Still, if he didn't recieve any form of treatment as soon as possible, he'll die eventually.

But in that very moment, if miracle don't happen, Cole will most likely die with the still coming giant bony hands. Virgo and Shiela, as well as the Purifying Evil Radiance Orb, was currently drained at the moment after they stop the attack of the bony hands. As of now, they were like fish in the chopping board, helpless and just waiting to be slaughtered.

However, miracle do happen!

Helpless and just waiting for their death, a silhouette appear in front of them and block the giant bony hand!

"I'm not wrong again. I feel an... filthy presence on my domain." Said of the newly arrived person, sounding like a wise old man. "Blake, you dare to reveal yourself in my presence! Oh, just look how the fate works!" He added.

But much to Shiela and Baldy's surprise, the owner of the giant bony hand sounds grave when he said this, "Divinre... You're still alive!" It was also apparent from his voice that he's gritting his teeth very hard while he talk.

"As long as the fated inheritor of Lady Phoebe don't yet to reveal himself, I won't die!" The old voice respond with very serious tone. "This youth... A human that possess a Devil Ghost Physique and practicing the cultivation method the same as you, the {Holy Scripture of Ghost God}. Don't tell me that this is your chosen successor?"

"Don't you dare touch him!" Blake exclaimed.

Faste's eyes, shine brightly looking at far distance for a second before he answered, "You're not in Nexus Realm... You think you can threaten me?"

"You..! Don't think that since I'm not in Nexus Realm and can't kill you! I can send many Peak Saints to hunt you down!" Blake said angrily.

"It seems that me retreating in background makes you forget of what I'm capable of... Even you won't be able to find me, even with the help of your ghost army! You should stop messing with the water of Soul Purging Dark Sea, you know first hand that it will gradually erase memories! Only the infamous Ghost Devil of Devil Race have the ability to survive its e–"

Divinre stop his sentence when it dawn to him the importance of the young man in front of him! Having him holding the Divine Equipment Netherworld Ghost Flag tells that his value for Poltergeist Cult is immense but him having a natural Devil Ghost Physique makes him very invaluable and irreplaceable!

In fact, after connecting this certain fact convince Divinre why Levi holds something as invaluable as Netherworld Ghost Flag! It was because Levi have a talent that greatly suitable for {Holy Scriptures of Ghost God}!

Crossing the next realm of cultivation always mean that cultivator have to pass tribulation, like Nascent Soul to Void Sensing, Mortal Emperor-Stage to Mortal Shedding, and Great Saint to God. This was the three tribulation a human will face in their life as an cultivator.

The ancestor of Poltergeist Cult, Blake, the identity of the owner of the giant bony hand that slap Cole to half death state, is currently on the realm of Peak Great Saint. He only needs to face his tribulation and he can ascend to Godhood.

However, it was already a common knowledge in this world that the might of tribulation always depends on many factors, including talent and Karma.

It was also a common knowledge that cultivators that uses demonic means have to face more powerful tribulation and the reason for this is very particular with Karma.

Taking someone's life is bound to happen to anyone's life. But many people don't actually felt the effect of bad Karma of killing. That was because Karma has it own rules or law.

For instance, a butcher who killed a pig will only received 0.001 points of Karma but killing an innocent people will grant a point of bad Karma. The difference don't lie between the difference of man and pig but because of the reason behind the killing. It is not a sin to kill animals in order to survive since it was part of survival law but killing without a reason, like an innocent human is a sin.

The accumulation of bad Karma greatly increase the might of demonic cultivator to another level, making the success of making a huge breakthrough almost down to half.

It was more when breakingthrough to Godhood. Even for Buddhist cultivators, who was known to have a normal to good Karma due to the way of their practice, the exact opposite of demonic cultivation, breaking through to Godhood only have one success out of one-hundred, much less for demonic cultivators who have more scarier tribulation when ascending that almost unreachable cultivation realm.

Even an ancient cultivator like Blake of Poltergeist Cult fear the might of his tribulation when he ascend to Godhood. He very well know that due to massive genocide and evil he cause back to his golden age, his success of ascending to Godhood is... almost impossible.

It was only after Blake learn from Divinre himself that there's one solution to his massive problem... And that was the mysterious water of Soul Purging Dark Sea itself.

According to records, the Soul Purging Dark Sea could obliterate a physical body of an immortal even with just a single drop of water but a soul could submerged into it with no problem. However, it only needs an hour of full submersion in the said sea and a soul will be purge back into nothingness... and directly enter Samsara.

That said, it was only those souls who commit great sin and harbor great resentment that can't enter the cycle of Samsara, which is why those said soul will be brought by natural and strange heavenly phenomenon to the Soul Purging Dark Sea to be cleansed and finally enter Samsara and reincarnate.

Humans don't have existing knowledge about the ability of Soul Purging Dark Sea beside this but according to theory, the water from that sea have the ability to purge bad Karma and could increase providence if successfully soaked into it. This is probably the reason Blake holds to find a way to use the water of Soul Purging Dark Sea and live through it. He wants to cleanse his bad Karma and increase his natural providence which will greatly help in his tribulation to become a God.

However, despite being a cultivator of soul arts himself, ancestor Blake of Poltergeist Cult felt that his endeavor is... impossible. Perhaps by the time he successfully achieved what he want, all of his memories will be cleansed as well. If that happens, everything of him will vanish as well. Don't think about ascending to Godhood, he'll even forget who he was.

Fortunately, Blake encounter this personal disciple of his, Levi John. It was said that only Ghost Devil Clan can soaked in the Soul Purging Dark Sea without being affected with its detrimental effect and he believed that this disciple of him possess the ability he needs for his cultivation.

It was why Blake transfer the possession of Netherworld Ghost Flag to Levi. Despite being damaged, it still have the ability to produce Soul Pearls which could aid specifically for soul cultivation, the equivalent of Spiritual Stone for spirit energy and body cultivation. Although he knew that Levi's assistance is very crucial to him, it still won't change the fact that the latter's base cultivation was still to low to achieve something significant.

As for the reason why Levi is in this place, it was for him to gain some experience. However, who would've known that he will encounter a Great Saint in this place.

With the deteriorating status of Nexus Realm, and current system of the whole planet, a place like Azure Territory should only have a Saint at most as powerful empire guardian. Who would've known that of all the places he will enter to gain experience, he enter the medicinal garden of Divine Alchemist Phoebe!

"I know that you already guessed the importance of this child to mine. Do me a favor and let him go!" Blake said after some time gritting his teeth but with slight pleading tone. It seems that the latter have encountered an hurdle he can't breakthrough and Levi is his only chance left, which probably why despite he didn't do it for the very long time, he lower his pride and plead.

As for why despite being enemy but Divinre don't gave a chance to prolomg this scene until now, it was because the Poltergeist Cult and Divinre, specifically with the former Divine Alchemist Phoebe, had the nuetral relationship before. The Poltergeist Cult is the source Divine Alchemist Phoebe of some medicinal ingredients that can't be acquired normally while the former ask for medicinal pills for cultivation.

It was only after Divine Alchemist Phoebe vanished and the Poltergeist Cult tried to forcefully seize the inheritance of the deceased alchemist that the relationship between deteriorates.

The inheritance of Divine Alchemist is like a big slice of fat meat for every superpowers in this world. They want a slice of it, if not as a whole.

The other reason was that Divinre don't want to create a irreconcilable grudge between them. Blake is already obsessed of stepping into unreachable realm and if he kill his last option, perhaps the latter might even stake the whole cult and its destruction just to hunt him down. Divinre might not want to admit it but having a demonic cultivator as an enemy is really a pain in the ass.

"Well then, I'm willing to compromise. Either you save his soul or his body, you choose." Divinre paused. "Oh, I will also take custody of Netherworld Ghost Flag."

"You... Fine, I admit this time!"

Even if Blake wants to save both Levi and the Netherworld Ghost Flag, he knew that his will left behind in a token don't stand a chance to true body of Great Saint. It was already a great favor that Divinre gave him a chance to choose between a body or soul.

After Blake said that, his materialized will turn into ball of light and cover Levi's body. He finally made his choice and extract Levi's soul out of his body and flew out of the secret realm and Divinre open a gap to gave the light a chance to get out of the secret garden.

Then, the [Ghost City] recede back to Netherworld Ghost Flag, leaving Levi's body and Netherworld Ghost Flag, as well as the five edified Tier-9 Spiritual Ghost out in the open.

Divinre was about to store the two things inside his spatial storage when a felt an indescribable presence behind his back. Immediately, he face Cole and his group and see his current limp and crooked situation. However, he don't focus on them, instead, he look at the phantom tree floating on top of Cole's body.

But the moment he face them, a small sphere of blood appear on top of the phantom tree and uncountable blood sphere follow that which holds the image and presence of beast.

‘The inheritance of the whole Beast Race... Blood Realm!’ Divinre exclaimed shockingly inside his head.

But in the next second, the uncountable blood sphere vanish except one... And it have the image of forgotten regal phoenix!