The Almighty Dragon General

Gladwin heaved a deep breath. "Yegor, it seems that you are not as ambitious as you were in the past."
"You and Xachary still refuse to accept reality." Yegor said mockingly, "Deep down, Xachary is just a pretentious liar whereas you
are a cold-blooded murderer."
Gladwin burst out laughing. "We live in a world where the strongest people dominate others after all."
Then, Gladwin looked straight into Yegor's eyes. "I won't force others to do what they don't want to do. However, I won't be
helping you for old times' sake anymore."
Yegor said nothing and turned around to leave.
"Did you protect Forty-nine just because you wanted to repay Franciscus for his help back then?"
Those words halted Yegor in his tracks. He said, "Haven't you guys already concluded that Forty-nine is from the Dark World?"
Gladwin asked instead, "What would you do if that was proven to be true?"
"He entered the Timaeus Sect by using the token from me." Yegor said in a steely voice, "I've acknowledged him as one of my
people. Skynet won't stand around and do nothing if someone tries to harm him."
After saying that, Yegor teleported and left the place.
Meanwhile, Gladwin stood there, unmoving, as he seethed silently.
James was kept in confinement inside the same hall for quite a long time. However, he did not suffer any mistreatment during his
stay there. Instead, James found his time there to be quite blissful.

Whenever James needed something, he could just tell someone and have the items brought to him immediately. He even had an
endless supply of top-grade pills.
Moreover, it was Lyla who was doing these errands for him.
Soon enough, James managed to enter the Yuraeceon Xaelm Rank's Seventh Tribulation.
The Heavenly Tribulations triggered during his leveling up were not as destructive as those triggered during the leveling up of a
Yuraeceon Daelm Rank cultivator, still, the lightning generated during the Heavenly Tribulations destroyed the hall James was
staying in twice.
If it weren't because Lyla, a Yuraeceon Daelm Rank's Ninth Tribulation cultivator at the peak of her powers, was guarding the
hall, James would have found a way to sneak away from that place.
Inside the soul space, Lesia was running around cheerfully. She had the appearance of a one-year-old toddler at the moment.
She had eaten more than half of the top-grade pills James received from the Timaeus Sect. Otherwise, James could have
advanced higher up the cultivation ranks.
Still, James felt that it was worth it since he could sense how Lesia was growing stronger and moving faster.
"Forty-nine!"
James could hear a monotonous voice calling his name.
He lifted his gaze and saw Lyla standing before him. She was holding two colorful energy balls.
"Is that your token of love for me?" James joked, "It's a shame, but I have a wife already."

Lyla sent a blast of Genesis Power at James. Surprisingly, James deflected the blast effortlessly.
Lyla furrowed her brows. "You improved so quickly?"
"Don't envy me." James pointed at the energy balls. "Who are those from?"
Lyla cast the energy balls into the air. The energy balls floated toward James and stopped in front of him.
James widened his eyes as he checked the energy balls with his Zen.
One of the balls contained a scroll, while the other had 100 Yuraeceon Daelm Rank pills.
"You can leave now," Lyla said impatiently.
James paused momentarily. "What did you say?"
"Get lost!" Lyla fumed.
James grabbed the energy balls and dashed out of the room.
Lyla turned around and sighed wearily as she watched James' receding figure.
James would sometimes ask for pills dozens of times a day. It almost drove Lyla insane as she had to fulfill his requests.
Curiously enough, Lyla felt a strange, empty feeling inside even though she had finally gotten rid of that troublesome man.