Immortal Kingdoms

"I am indeed talking about her. However, we have some other plans to take care of at the moment, so your matters need to wait," Leonardo smiled faintly and answered.

"Can you at least tell me how you'd help? Just in case…" Zaylee spoke awkwardly.

Leonardo waved his hand, "I understand that you want to view your options. If I bring her to make a move, I can guarantee that she will purify your 105 diluted blood essence pools. However, she will take all the irrelevant blood essence for her own cultivation."

Thinking about thousands of years worth of accumulated blood essence, even Leonardo felt envious. That much blood is probably enough for ten sets of bloodthirsty armaments, let alone constructing an incarnation.

"What?!" Zaylee was stunned into shattering her temperament into pieces, almost rushing to grab Leonardo's arm. However, the moment her muscles twitched lightly, she felt like she was locked onto by a hawk's eye.

That sense of danger due to a lapse in concentration was like ice-cold water on her head, forcing her to keep calm. Little did she know that Leonardo was equally excited on Rosaline's behalf, but he couldn't speak up or act out on impulse.

"With that much blood essence, I'm sure she can achieve a breakthrough into rebirth while leaving behind the pure blood essence to nurture future young lords in the hundreds. That way, both sides profit happily…"

Leonardo continued before Zaylee could speak, "However, there is no guarantee that your lord isn't so desperate as to hold me, hostage. Even though that is something stupid to do, don't forget that people are only reasonable to deal with and easy to talk to when there is enough power to deter them from doing something stupid."

Zaylee opened her mouth, then sighed. "What to do now? I can't possibly follow you back to a human city, I would be in danger."

Leonardo also frowned as he couldn't just stay in the uncharted wilderness nor would he hand over Rosaline's embryo for Zaylee to bring it back.

"There is still a way," Maiden 001 spoke up at this point, "If you can take her to the Greenheart City as a captured slave, they will only check whether or not she has any restrictions placed on her soul. If there aren't any, she won't be allowed in."

Zaylee's expression went stiff, what kind of a solution is that?

Leonardo's eyebrows locked together, causing Zaylee's heart to skip a beat as she didn't want Leonardo to propose that idea.

"Did you two hear that?"

Luckily, he seemed to be contemplating something else.

The Maiden's focus was on Zaylee, while Zaylee's focus was on Leonardo. Moreover, no one could extend a domain, almost crippling their situational awareness.

Only Leonardo who was used to going around with such absurd restrictions on his power could perceive the irregular noise.

The two women went silent for a moment to focus on their senses. A moment later, they could also hear some noise produced by hard weapons clashing.

"It's a fight, directly above our hiding spot too." Zaylee estimated through the noise, the Maiden nodded her head, seemingly of a similar opinion.

The trio didn't expect their luck to be so bad as to get caught up in the crossfire of two divinities. If the entire underground cave collapsed on them, getting buried alive would be the least of their worries.

"We can only proactively join the battle to ambush one and quickly finish up the second. However, without a spiritual sense, we can't determine the position of these two, we need to take a look up close." Leonardo broke the silence as he spoke firmly.

The cave rumbled again as bits of debris began to fall off the ceiling. Seeing this, the trio knew that had no time to waste anymore.

…

Nature is a very complicated thing.

For example, there you have two divinities fighting in full swing, yet the environmental damage caused by their clash is barely noticeable to the observing eye.

Other than some shaking trees, falling leaves, and violent wind ripples in the air, nothing indicates that two beings capable of uprooting countries were smashing fist to fist in this corner of the forest.

However, nature is nature, and man is a man.

If these wind ripples were to barely breeze by Leonardo, there wouldn't be any young businessmen anymore. Likewise, the same result would follow if the cave were to collapse on the trio.

The two divinities didn't know they were fighting on a comparatively hollow ground, but of course, they wouldn't know.

Leonardo, Maiden 001, and Zaylee slowly and silently made their way through the underground tunnels and climbed out from a stone hill in the distance. Hidden under the arched stone, the party of three lay prone while observing the battle in the distance.

Explosive waves, raging flames, and swords of ice and snow entangled into a colorful vortex as the two divinities resembled two beams of blue and crimson while exchanging blows within a limited radius of a few hundred meters.

Thousands of afterimages filled the space as ether grew restless.

Maiden 001 and Zaylee frowned, the latter saying in a heavy tone, "It's difficult to lock onto them without a domain, especially with such high speed."

Maiden 001 didn't speak, but she kept watching intently for an opportunity.

As for Leonardo, his eyes didn't narrow. Instead, his pupils slowly inflated to the borders of his irises, and further, his innate marital intent focused on the two ahead.

Suddenly, the world in his view went still gray with a dense black concentrated into two spheres constantly clashing. Although he couldn't calculate the past and future routes of these black spheres, nor could he differentiate between them, at least he wasn't confused by afterimages anymore.

The longer he watched, the easier it was to grasp the pattern and tempo of their battle. When two extremely close powers clashed, they would inevitably fall into a stalemate.

If one grasped the stalemate correctly, it was no different to an archer from stationary targets. However, even if he knew that, Leonardo's power is simply too low to injure any of the two.

However, that was enough.

"Can your arrow shadow mine?" Leonardo suddenly spoke up, drawing the attention of the two women.

They gasped in horror from what they witnessed as Leonardo's eyes were pitch black with some black substance oozing out from his eye sockets.

"Master… You…" Maiden 001's heart almost jumped through her throat, but Leonardo's calmy interrupted her by repeating the question.

Although she was still concerned and confused, she still answered with the affirmative.

Leonardo nodded, his eyes trained on the fight, "We only have this one chance, so I'll be using a normal arrow that outlines a path for yours. I did my calculations based on your example shot with an estimation of your peak power per arrow, be prepared."

Maiden 001 bit her bottom lip and nodded, taking a deep breath before pulling out a longbow and crouching on one knee.

Leonardo did the same as he pulled out a standard bow and a wooden arrow, "My arrow will be incredibly slow and wouldn't prove lethal so he wouldn't sense any killing intent, and your focus would be on the epicenter of my arrow's base so he wouldn't feel your killing intent either. Hence, this is a one-time shot, don't hesitate."

Leonardo didn't have the time to explain as using his martial intent on a divinity was beyond his limits at the moment, let alone two. If he could spare the energy to use a powerful arrow, he wouldn't request help from Maiden 001.

However, he would only have enough power to launch this normal arrow, and the killing blow would have to rest with the Maiden.

"What about me?" Zaylee asked, her tone as though desperate to at least help a little.

"Just be prepared to ambush the one to survive," Leonardo's response was concise and straightforward.

…

A few hundred meters away, the two divinities were in full throttle at each other.

"What kind of an idiot would leave their injured sister behind while exploring an uncharted wilderness! You fool! You're acting as though I had a taste when that slut ruptured her meridians on her own accord!"

As the man spoke, a fist engulfed in flames swung from a weird, almost unpredictable angle to jab at the other man's exposed torso.

A layer of frosty mist coagulated into a vortex of cold air, forming a thin barrier in front of the fist, followed by the folded arm that blocked the remnant force.

Then, by utilizing the inertia from the punch, the infuriated divinity spun in a roundhouse kick that smashed down his opponent's neck, bringing his face into the ground.

"You fucking animal!"

Boom!

The impact force with the volatile flame and ice seemed to trigger an explosion underground, blasting the thin rocky surface into bits as the ground crumbled inwardly.

This unexpected collapse caught the two by surprise as one of them was launched into the air and the other was buried in the rubble beneath.