Betrayal

There came a handsome man with an appealing look while the masculine aura together with a chiseled face made him charming.

The handsome man walked and stood next to the lady with a devilish look, grinning. They looked at each other and smiled before staring at Gabriel.

Noticing the interaction of both the pretty lady and the handsome man.

The realisation dawned on Gabriel after witnessing the heartbroken scene in front of him.

Gabriel's best friend and wife had betrayed him.

Is this happening?

"Tell me I'm dreaming" he whispered.

He felt a sword pierced his heart, turning his heart into countless fragments.

Sorrow, bitterness, the agony he felt comes from the bottom of his heart.

He clenched the sword tightly, Gabriel tried to suppress the unbearable pain but the pain of the heart was not easily suppressed while his eyes had lost their luster.

Gabriel's bad judgment of characters makes him mad at himself while his best friend, whom he called his blood brother deluded him. Moreover, the brother he saved when he had been left for dead by a group of assassins.

They both went through thick and thin meanwhile he virtually shared everything with him, additionally, he spent over 5000 years with him.

But what! he betrayed him.

Gabriel's so-called wife, the daughter of the sect master of his previous sect, had been engaged to him when he became the most outstanding young cultivator for the millennium.

Life is unpredictable.

The sect master that called him son all these while was nothing but a lie. Even though he was an orphan, he felt all his loneliness could be washed away by the people surrounding him.

'I'm so naive,' he thought while shaking his head.

"The people he would have shared the glory with betrayed him for a mere scroll" he sighed.

"It baffles me how I had been chased for three years straight, every time they keep knowing my every location.

Ah! Those I depend on had sold me out while I was clouded by love and brotherhood" Gabriel murmured.

Filled with despair on the verge of death.

"Are all humans the same? Filled with greediness and selfishness" he questioned in a low voice while narrowing his eyes.

"What is the meaning of being an outstanding cultivator when you have no people to share it with"

Ah!

"I look moronic, I have been manipulated right from the beginning.

The moment I let their flattery enter my Dao's heart, I began to lose everything"

"Depending on others for comfort was my greatest mistake"

The bitter truth comes once life's end

Hmm!

"What a tragic Fate I had" Gabriel lamented while he shook his head and sighed.

Gabriel was left with nothing, meanwhile, those he relied on, his friend, wife, and the righteous people, had already betrayed him for a mere scroll.

Ignoring his pitiful state of mind, Gabriel intense gaze could set a mountain on fire while the fury coming out from his body needed no bound.

Gabriel used the 'sky step footwork' skill combined with 'emotionless sword art'.

He traveled, leaving an afterimage while moving 10 times the speed of sound.

He appeared in front of his best friend while his sword pierced his friend's neck who was smiling devilishly without knowing till death, leaving no traces of blood. His head fell from his body while sailing in space.

Everybody was dumbfounded by what just happened. They could not believe what just happened while knowing that the unrivaled genius had some forbidden skill.

But not to this extent.

Also, the forbidden skills diminished the cultivator's life force.

All the powerful people had their jaw dropped with wide eyes.

Scary!

Gabriel did not let them wake up from their stupor while he tried to attack his wife.

Recovering from the initial shock, an elder from her clan quickly cast a talisman on him while the talisman gravity was 10 times the normal gravity.

Under this gravity, all his set of skills could only bring out 20 percent of their actual power.

'I'm still not fast enough,' he thought.

Under this gravity, he was vulnerable.

He shook his head.

They started attacking him in earnest with various cultivation art.

Gabriel had various deep injuries all over his body while blood dripped from the corner of his mouth.

A cranky old man dressed in a black robe, with his bony body and bald head with no flesh. His cold-hearted eyes makes him look like a ghost with his reaper.

The old cranky man used an unknown art while he tore the void. Going through the void, he appeared in front of Gabriel and chopped off Gabriel's arm with earnestness while he immediately entered the void and escaped.

Blood gushed out a little before stopping. Without caring for his amputated arm, Gabriel kept on fighting head-on.

Gabriel defended with everything he had while he kept on waiting for the talisman to wear off. The moment the talisman wears off, he casts the [soul destitute sword art], formless and soundless. Attacking the soul of cultivators.

Ten elders who left their souls unguided had their souls shattered into dust and died.

Witnessed these, every one of them shivered without them knowing while they felt cold sweat at their back.

One-armed man who is at the point of death could have this dreadful art.

Are they seeing right?

Fearful!

This put them in a cautious state while guiding their soul.

Gabriel felt exhausted mentally while acknowledging that he does not have any frightful art anymore which his essence and soul could withstand.

Determined, he needs to do the last thing for the survivor of the mortal world.

"I may not have anything else in this world, but I will save this mortal planet," he murmured.

"The primordial art that I founded in an ancient ruin should be able to seal the boundary of this Mortal world," he thought with a calmed face.

Noticing the calm expression on his face, the powerful people were baffled.

"What could make a dead man calm like this?"

"Scary!" they thought.

In an instant, Gabriel started casting the [world encroaching parallel art] together with the [sky step footwork] he moved bizarrely.

While using this art, his soul-life force was depleted before he finished. They stared at him strangely and confused, not knowing what was going on.

All of a sudden, darkness started covering the outermost layer of the mortal world space. In the twinkling of an eye, the mortal world can't be seen or felt with their spirit senses anymore.

Standing with the last strand of life in him, Gabriel looked at the safe world and laughed.

Ah! Ah! Ah!

Flabbergasted by the sudden laugh while his wife was yet to process what just happened.

She frantic, she attacked Gabriel with her whip. The whip curled around him into his flesh and ripped it off. His flesh started peeling off.

Acknowledging his end, he stared at the sealed world for the last time and smiled. Though he was going to die, he accomplished what he wanted to do.

A low sound emits from his soul while a dispersing wave comes out of his soul. His body turned into dust and sail in space.

Marking the end of the unrivaled genius.

Everywhere remains perfectly silent, the thick sorrowful atmosphere could be cut with a knife. They felt something was amiss but the powerful people never cared.

After the joyless action, the backstabber looked compassionless as every one of them stared at each other before entering the void and left.

In a twinkling of an eye, the battlefield was silent and empty. Straight away amid the silent space, a sword appeared.

The emerald spirit sword that had lost its glow, makes an indistinct humming in sorrow. While it sails and enters the mortal world soundlessly.

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In an unknown realm where everything changes according to the human heart desired, a chuckled reverberated, sending its waves to the mortal realm.

Hmm, Hmm.