Big trouble?

Bruno almost wanted to laugh.

Even ignoring everything else, just Nell alone was more than enough to guarantee he wouldn't run into any "big trouble."

Bruno knew very well—Nell Gaston valued his talent.

That alone made Bruno extremely important.

"Go ahead then," Bruno waved his hand casually.

"I really want to see whether I get in trouble… or you do."

He had zero patience for people whose brains didn't work properly.

Besides, the Celestial Beast blood and meat he got from Tarnison were enough for him to use for a while.

He still needed to trade for the Fire of Prometheus inside Elise's heart and had many plans to work on.

Seeing Bruno's calm and dismissive attitude, Herdman's expression darkened.

He frowned and said:

"Don't push your luck. Nell is strong, yes… but this is Sunset City.

This is Stanford Count's territory, not—"

Before he could finish, Stanford Count himself walked out, leaning on his cane.

He personally escorted Nell out of the study.

Nell glanced at Bruno and Herdman and said:

"What's going on?"

Bruno shrugged, looked at Herdman, and said:

"Someone here likes to make trouble."

Nell snorted coldly.

"Bruno is my disciple.

If anyone has a problem with him… they can come talk to me."

Herdman instinctively shrank his neck.

Facing Nell Gaston, he still had enough sense to feel fear.

After Nell left with Bruno, Jake Herdman finally turned to Stanford Count and said:

"Count, they really don't show you any respect."

Stanford Count tapped his cane lightly on the floor.

Herdman immediately shut his mouth.

"Nell has every right to ignore me.

If not for my noble title, he would have already treated Sunset City as his own territory."

"That's enough.

Do not provoke anyone under Nell again.

I owe him a favor this time."

With that, Stanford Count turned and walked back into the study.

Jake Herdman clenched his fists.

The son of a mere farmer actually dared to be rude to him—

and even caused his favorite son, Philip, to live in fear every day.

"Master, did all the Heavenly Gang members die?"

On the way back, Bruno finally asked.

Nell Gaston shook his head.

"A few rats escaped. Not important."

"For now, focus on your cultivation. Don't relax."

"I have a feeling Sunset City won't return to its old peace."

"The investigators haven't left yet.

That means the God-King Cult still has people hiding somewhere in Sunset City."

Bruno asked with confusion,

"They… might come after me too?"

Nell gave him a calm glance and replied:

"That girl you're close with has already been noticed by the investigators.

Their target will definitely be connected to the God-King Cult."

Girl he's close with?

Bruno immediately understood—

Nell was talking about Elise.

It made sense. He had been spending a lot of time with her lately, and the Fire of Prometheus inside Elise was directly tied to the God-King Cult.

It was very possible the cult would notice him soon.

And now he had also entered the investigators' sights.

That… was troublesome.

If he successfully traded away Elise's Fire of Prometheus, both the God-King Cult and the investigators might notice something.

Which meant—

Alex, this identity, was extremely important.

At the very least, before taking Elise's Divine Gift,

he needed to let Alex, the Great Elder persona, appear in both the cult's and the investigators' field of view.

A mysterious Great Elder strong enough to perfectly extract a Divine Gift—

taking Elise's Fire of Prometheus would seem perfectly reasonable, right?

As for Alex's backstory…

Bruno needed to think carefully.

He felt he could even create an entire mysterious faction in advance,

to prepare for future plans.

Inside his room, Bruno looked at the two jars of Celestial Beast blood on the table and couldn't help laughing.

Celestial Beast blood was nothing like normal blood.

Even inside a sealed glass jar, it floated slightly, gathering into glowing, shimmering masses.

One jar was 100g.

At the old price, that alone was worth 3,000 gold coins—

and now, it would surely be even more.

Aside from the blood, there was also about 150g of Celestial Beast meat.

The Book of All Things still had three days left on its cooldown.

Bruno thought for a moment, then decided to eat a little Celestial Beast meat first to shorten it again.

"Finally… I can splurge a little."

Bruno smiled as the Book of All Things began glowing once more.

Without hesitation, he took one jar of Celestial Beast blood and headed for the hospital in District Nine, searching for a suitable target.

About two hours later, Bruno left the hospital with a pained expression.

There weren't many suitable Warlock-Warriors.

And many people wanted things he couldn't provide yet.

"Sixty years' worth of breathing technique training, Meditation Technique, and cultivation time…

all for a thousand gold coins.

As expected, for poor people, gold is still the strongest temptation."

A poor man's health and time are worth nothing.

These are the only things they can still offer.

Bruno thought for a moment and decided not to return to the dojo to use the Book of All Things.

He worried that if his breathing method broke through from Perfect to Limit-Breaking,

it might create too much noise—

and that would be very bad.

After all, only a few days had passed, and he already had a Limit-Breaking level Meditation Technique.

That wouldn't make him a genius anymore—it would make him a monster.

Bruno left the downtown area of District Nine and found a remote stretch of wilderness.

He built a small hidden shelter.

Then he slowly closed his eyes.

Contract Book, activate!

[Year One: I continue to refine The Ten Thousand Hells, now completed with the Divine Sun Sutra.]

[Year Two: I feel like I'm close to something, but no matter how I meditate, I gain no progress.]

[Year Three…]

[Year Ten: I still have nothing.]

[Year Twelve: Why? I clearly feel the breakthrough right in front of me, yet no matter how I meditate, the Meditation Technique won't move forward at all.]

[Why? Why?]

[Year Thirteen: No progress.]

[Year Seventeen: No progress.]

[Year Twenty-Five: Twenty-five whole years, and I'm still stuck in the same place.

Limit-breaking… limit-breaking… how do I do it?!]

[Limit… what is the real limit holding me back?]

[Is it talent? Or is it the Meditation Technique itself?]

[Year Thirty: I finally understand.

A Limit-Breaking Meditation Technique lets the God Realm fully merge with reality and become real.

The so-called limit is actually the boundary between the mental world and the real world!]

[To break the limit is to shatter the gap between the spiritual world and the real one!]

[But why can the spirit even affect the real world? Something about this feels strange…

Yet my Perfect-level Meditation Technique is slowly improving.

I don't have time—I can't waste effort thinking about that.]

...

[Year Fifty: Twenty years pass in the blink of an eye.

If it were a normal person, they would've fallen into despair long ago.]

[My Ten Thousand Hells is now stronger than Perfect, yet still a step away from Limit-Breaking.]

[The gap between reality and spirit is massive.

It cannot be erased in a short time.]

[Ten years, twenty years… even a hundred years… I can do it!]

[Year Forty-Seven: The boundary!

It is slowly being erased by me, little by little!]

...

[Year Sixty: I'm out of time.

Half the boundary still remains.

My God Realm can already affect part of reality.]

[Time.

I need more time!]

Sixty years of Meditation Technique training vanished in an instant.

Bruno slowly opened his eyes.

A trace of obsession and pain flashed through them.

Sixty years… and still his Meditation Technique failed to reach the Limit-Breaking realm.

If he did not have the Book of All Things, his entire life would already be over.

"It's too hard. The gap between the real world and the spiritual world… it's almost impossible to erase."

Bruno took a deep breath.

He did not rush to use the Book of All Things again.

Instead, he chose to digest the training memories he had just gained.

His mental power spread out, twisting the real world.

God Realm descended quickly!

This time, Bruno finally felt how the God Realm appeared.

His mental power acted like a piece of rubber, wiping away part of the gap between the spiritual world and the real world.

Then, within the fading boundary, a temporary space formed once again.

This temporary space was the God Realm.

Bruno slowly stretched out his hand.

A snowflake fell into his palm.

He lifted his head and looked at the sun hanging in the sky.

"Fall," Bruno whispered.

And the sun actually dropped into his hand, burning everything around him.

His mental power drained like crazy.

Sweat covered Bruno's forehead.

He quickly dismissed the God Realm.

When he opened his eyes again, the small shelter he built earlier was already on fire.

"That's right. I've touched the Limit-Breaking Meditation Technique.

I just need more time—more time to erase the boundary between reality and spirit.

Then, with enough mental power to construct existence, the God Realm can appear in the real world!"

Bruno rushed to put out the flames and left the area at once, going to look for another suitable target.

He only needed to trade for another fifty or sixty years of time,

and his Meditation Technique should finally reach the Limit-Breaking realm!

When that happened, everything would go smoothly.

His strength would rise again—without a doubt.

This time, Bruno decided to try using Celestial Beast blood to speed up the cooldown of the Book of All Things.

But just as he drank a little Celestial Beast blood,

an accident happened.

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