Eternal Thief

Before the Gray Boulder was destroyed. 

Somewhere in high-level lands, 

Inside a lavishing, bright chamber, a handsome burly middle-aged man with long black hair was sitting cross-legged with his eyes tightly shut. There was an air of sovereignty around this person. 

This middle-aged was none other than Marc's father and the ruler of Crimson Sword Empire, Crimson Sword Emperor, Gordon Crimson!

Suddenly, Gordon's tightly shut eyes sprang open as a gray current flashed past them. The entire palace's temperature dropped as every living person felt icy killing intent, and everyone started to trembled because they knew the Emperor was enraged for some reason! 

Everyone in the entire high-level lands knows if you offended the Crimson Sword Emperor, then you'll soon meet with a tragic end. This person was known for his vicious and scheming nature. 

That's why there weren't many people who dare to offend the Crimson Sword Emperor because you won't even know how you die after you offended this person. 

Now, the emperor was emitting such killing intent which he never showed even toward his most hated enemy, this could only mean someone has truly infuriated the Crimson Sword Emperor! 

Gordon's handsome face was exempt of any emotions, if his eyes weren't emitting such a thick killing intent, one could even though he was deep in thoughts. 

Suddenly, blood trickled from the corner of Gordon's lip. 

His expression still doesn't change as he nonchalantly cleaned the blood with his thumb and coldly looked at it while mumbling in a hoarse voice, "So, he died even in that wasteland, another trash. I think too highly of that trash to even nurture him into my Ghost-Sword Incarnate." 

Astonishing words came out from Crimson Sword Emperor's mouth, "Sigh…I have to start again from scratch. But first, I have to retrieve 'Ghost Sword Monolith' and find out how that thief manage to store it inside a storage treasure and even managed to cross the sky-changing border with it!" 

The Ghost Sword Monolith was none other than the Gray boulder which was inside the treasury of the luminous city and guarded by the Luminous Royal Family for hundreds of years! 

Gordon found that gray boulder because of an ancient map he found inside an ancient tomb in his empire. This map led him toward the low-level lands until he reached a place called wastelands!

First, he was just curious and when he reached the wastelands of low-level lands he even thought this map was a fake, but he decided to still inspect since he already was there. 

But to his surprise, he managed to find the place protected by a concealing formation, and it was still intact all those years because those barbarians didn't know a thing about formations.   

Delirious, Gordon unsealed the formation like it was described back of the ancient map and found the gray boulder. On the gray boulder was another formation which was a memory formation that record a peerless cultivation technique called Ghost Sword Scripture. 

This technique was very peculiar because for cultivating it one needed the Ghost Sword Monolith, which was the gray boulder. Gordon doesn't know who created this technique, but after getting the memories, he was astonished by its prowess and means. 

Gordon naturally wanted to take this Ghost Sword Monolith back with him, but he soon found out he wasn't able to store this gray boulder inside a storage ring, and soon after, he also discovered the sky-changing border's formation repelled the gray boulder as well. 

But he soon found out that he doesn't need the boulder with him all the time because he just needed gray Qi, which was described as the Ghost Qi in Ghost Sword Technique. He can draw this Ghost Qi anywhere as long as he had the cultivation method.   

That's how Gordon found the Luminous Kingdom and force them to guard the Ghost Sword Monolith. He wasn't worried about someone else finding out about the cultivation technique nor someone stealing or destroying the monolith because it was unbreakable according to the memories he got, and he even tried it himself. 

He never thought someone would be able to steal it as well because it wasn't 'space ring friendly' and who would be foolish enough to carry a three-meter large boulder everywhere they go, right?

For hundreds of years, he was able to gain many things because of this mysterious technique and just one step away from completing it and that last step was creating and Ghost-Sword Incarnation!

It was a very ruthless and demanding step because the practitioner needed to nurture one own descendant with ghost Qi until it reached the completion stage of the Ghost Sword Incarnation Ritual.

The person who became a complete Ghost Sword Incarnation will become the final supplement for the person who nurtured him and die without being able to resist in any way. Because the real cultivator of Ghost Sword Scripture had a soul wisp inside the incarnation candidate's conscious!

The more genius a descended is the faster Ghost Sword Incarnation Ritual can be completed and that's where Marc came in, Gordon's most talented son! 

Marc was at the middle stage of the Sword Ghost Incarnation Ritual. Although, he can use Ghost Qi because of being an incarnation, which made him quite powerful and hard to kill. He was just a supplement for his father to reach the top, in the end, nothing more, nothing less. 

However, Gordon never thought someone would be able to steal the Sword Ghost Monolith and even cut off his connection with it while taking it in middle-level lands on top of it! 

That's why he sent Marc in the sham of fetching his finance, Zelda, back because there were too many spies of other empires. 

Furthermore, Marc was powerful enough to hold on his own there and besides, he had nightmare ghosts as his backer there, so, it wasn't a difficult task to capture that thief and bring him back, so Gordon could find out how he managed to store and move the Ghost Sword Monolith. 

But alas, Gordon felt his conscious wisp destroyed just a moment ago, which implies Marc was dead. 

Gordon didn't care about Marc at all because his nature was cold, to begin with, and ghost Qi made him even more inhuman. He was enraged because all the efforts he put on Marc were wasted, and he had to start again with another one of his decedents. He wasn't low on them. 

But first, he had to retrieve the gray boulder because without it, he can't draw more ghost Qi, and it was impossible to complete his technique without it. This time he decided to go himself and capture that thief as well. 

However, before Gordon could finalize his plan to move sneakily in middle-lands after the middle sky-changing border opened, he suddenly clutched his head as his indifferent face twisted with pain and horror. 

(The gray boulder was destroyed at this moment!)

Gordon consecutive vomited blood five times as his face lost all its rosy color, he suddenly started to mutter like a madman with disbelief writer all over his cloudy face, 

"How is it possible…how is it possible…how is it possible…I can't be…I can't be…It must be backlash after that trash died, yes! It must be, and it had to be, yes, yes, it's like this…!"   

If someone knows Gordon saw him now, they would be shocked because the indifferent Crimson Sword Emperor would never show this much emotion and act so madly, even if you kill his father right in front of him. 

"I have to retrieve the monolith as soon as possible even if I had to search 'ancient passage' I can't wait for border formation… Ahhhhhhh…." 

Abruptly, Gordon's muttering halt, and he shrilled like a pig being slaughtered, but no one could hear his screaming because his cultivation chamber was protected by many formations and the soundproof array was also one of those formations. 

Gordon keep screaming while clutching his head, his bloodshot eyes were on the verge of popping out of their sockets. 

Suddenly, his eyes completely rolled upward, and only white eyeballs remain, but the next moment, they rollback, but this time, blue pupils replaced Gordon's dark brown pupils. 

'Gordon' also stopped screaming and clutching his head like a madman and stand up straight. His entire demeanor changed, the Gordon with blue pupils was giving off an ancient and dignified feeling which differed completely from before. 

At this moment, 'Gordon's' lip rose and form a mocking smile as he mumbled skeptically, "A mere cultivation clone could escape me, what a blunder, but you still can't escape the inevitable. But I need to check the memories thoroughly to see what variable made this Old Man lose another scared cultivation clone." 

'Gordon's' eyes shimmer with profound light, he waved his hand and powerful Qi brushed past the mess 'he' made moments ago. After everything was clean, he sat cross-legged again to his former place. 

'Gordon' close his eyes with a faint smile, he mumbled in a cold voice, 

"Little Pup, Ace, wait for this old man.. This time this wasn't just an incompetent clone. Humph!"