The Female CEO's Personal Bodyguard

The two men’s gazes shifted slightly, and the one on the right sneered, ”Why do you say we’re trying to scam you?”

Carson Flores sneered back, ”If you really had caught her, there’d be no need to escort her to the Myriad Immortals Palace at all, because what she did with me has nothing to do with any of this. Since you’re lying in wait here for me like hunters at a rabbit hole, you should naturally have kept her by your side. Only then could you threaten me in the most direct way.”

”Even if you really did catch her and really are escorting her to the Myriad Immortals Palace, you should at least have some Soulmirror Stone recording, or take out some magical treasure she used—some kind of direct evidence. Instead you’re just spouting empty words here, trying to bluff me...”

The two men exchanged a glance, their expressions growing even colder.

”Carson, don’t think just because you’re an incarnation you can act arrogant as you please!”

Carson laughed. ”What now, planning to catch me and use the Soul Searching Technique? Or maybe wait for me to self-destruct, then use my blood to perform the Bloodline Traction Technique and track down my True Self?”

The two men’s faces changed slightly, because that was exactly what they’d planned.

”Stop dreaming. I’ve been guarding against you from the start!”

As his mocking words fell, blazing flames suddenly erupted over Carson’s body. The flames were so violent they formed a massive fireball, completely enveloping him.

The two men struck out at the same time, but no matter how fast they moved, they couldn’t be faster than Carson’s self-destruction.

From the moment he saw them, Carson had already made up his mind and was ready to self-destruct at any time.

The difference in strength was there; the other side could completely suppress Carson, leaving him unable to escape, unable even to move. But his self-destruction was from the inside out.

With Carson prepared in advance, even if the opponents were Great Land Prime Immortals, there was no way to stop him—unless they struck first and killed Carson at lightspeed, only then might they prevent his self-destruction.

”Boom!”

Carson’s body exploded outright, turning into a sky full of Blood Mist.

The two men’s expressions changed; they reached out toward the Blood Mist, wanting to extract it. As long as they could gather it back into liquid blood, they could perform the Bloodline Traction Technique to track Carson’s True Self.

The next second, the two men froze.

The Blood Mist generated by Carson’s self-destruction instantly surged and mixed into that massive, superheated fireball; in less than the blink of an eye, the searing flames had burned away every last trace of Blood Mist, without leaving even a speck of ash.

With nothing left, how were they supposed to perform the Bloodline Traction Technique?

The two men stared at each other, their faces full of frustration.

The two of them, Great Land Prime Immortals, had actually been played with in the palm of a Lower Grade Land Immortal’s hand!

Even if the opponent was just an incarnation with even weaker strength, they had still failed.

The best outcome would have been to capture him alive and use the Soul Searching Technique to extract his memories; that could have clarified many things, including the whereabouts of Snow Zane, which the Hall Master cared about most. If they couldn’t take him alive and he self-destructed, then they’d extract his blood and perform the Bloodline Traction Technique to track his True Self.

The plan had sounded good, but now it had completely fallen apart.

They were screwed!

When they went back, they had no idea how they were going to explain this.

...

Inside the Ethereal Pagoda, the surface of the Water Mirror before Carson went pitch-black along with his incarnation’s self-destruction.

Carson lifted his head and sighed. ”Something really did happen.”

Niall Sinclair frowned. ”How did they find Leisure Immortal Island?”

Carson looked into Niall Sinclair’s eyes, stayed silent for a few seconds, then said, ”As long as everyone’s safe, there’s no rush. We just need to investigate and we’ll know.”

The location of Leisure Immortal Island was hidden; the only ones who knew its exact position were Nico Weaver and Oraya Lorne. Could it be that they’d caved under pressure and sold him out?

Carson understood what Niall Sinclair was suggesting, but before the details were clear, he didn’t want to suspect anyone without reason.

Everything had to be based on facts!

”Let’s go to the escape point first, see if there are any clues, then decide what to do.”

The Ethereal Pagoda tore through the air, flying toward the exit of the escape Formation, far from Leisure Immortal Island.

Before long, the Ethereal Pagoda arrived over a desolate little island. Carson flew out, used Earth Escape, and found the Formation exit hidden in an underwater cavern.

The cavern was empty, with no sign of anyone. The escape Array Plate had already been destroyed.

Carson’s gaze swept around, then suddenly halted.

A Jade Slip was quietly hanging on the wall.

Joy flickered in Carson’s heart. He reached out, took the Jade Slip down, sent his Divine Sense into it, quickly read the information stored within, and finally let out a long breath of relief.

Back when Carson had left the Sea God’s Seal behind and headed to the West Prison, the women cultivating in various places had successively returned, and then something shocking had happened.

The Sea God’s Seal had acknowledged a master!

When Shirley Miller picked up the Sea God’s Seal upon her return, she felt a sort of connection with it in her mind. When she probed it further with her Divine Sense, the Sea God’s Seal actually took the initiative to recognize her as its master.

This news had stunned Carson.

He had gone to great lengths back then, yet the Sea God’s Seal had barely deigned to respond to him, and in the end he’d had no choice but to give up.

Thinking it would be a pity to let such a treasure go to outsiders, Carson brought the Sea God’s Seal back to Leisure Immortal Island and let everyone try it. Back then, Samantha Tate and the others had all tried, but no one succeeded.

He hadn’t expected Shirley Miller to pull it off.

After thinking it over, Carson wondered if it was because Shirley practiced the Sole Sovereignty Myriad Emperors Art.

The Sole Sovereignty Myriad Emperors Art required a sovereign’s domineering aura. Could it be that the Sea God’s Seal felt Shirley was very suited to be its master, hence it took the initiative to recognize her?

Surprised as he was, this was ultimately a good thing.

The Jade Slip also recorded the detailed course of the attack. It turned out that after Nico Weaver and Oraya Lorne received the message Carson sent, the two discussed it and felt that staying in the Azure Divine Sect might implicate the Sect, and could even bring disaster to Carson and the others, so they left the Sect and went straight to Leisure Immortal Island to go into temporary seclusion there.

They waited for a long time, but no one came looking for trouble with Carson, so everyone relaxed their guard.

A year ago, people from the Myriad Immortals Palace suddenly went to the Azure Divine Sect, looking for Nico Weaver and Oraya Lorne.

The two of them were on Leisure Immortal Island, so naturally the Myriad Immortals Palace couldn’t find them. They then threatened the Azure Divine Sect that if they didn’t hand the couple over, the Sect would face a great calamity.

The Azure Divine Sect, flustered and terrified, suddenly remembered that Nico and his wife had once sent a Messenger to deliver a letter to Leisure Immortal Island, and they revealed this.

Back then, the Messenger had also used a Token to guide the way. Now he couldn’t clearly describe the exact location, but he still knew the approximate direction and rough distance. With this as a premise, they narrowed down a certain range. Experts from the Myriad Immortals Palace then used powerful magical treasures to carefully scan it, and finally found Leisure Immortal Island.

The Myriad Immortals Palace had the Messenger use the pretext of delivering a letter to trick open the Universal Diagram Formation, but Ben Singleton quickly sensed something was wrong, activated the Harmony Eight Gates Formation, and personally stepped forward to block the intruders.

The attackers hadn’t expected that such a small island would have such a formidable Formation, let alone that a Great Land Prime Immortal was living in seclusion there. They were caught off guard. By the time they unleashed their full strength and completely broke the Harmony Eight Gates Formation, everyone on the island had already used the Formation to transfer away and escape.

They fled to this place, destroyed the Formation to cut off any chance of pursuit, left a Jade Slip for Carson, and then quickly relocated to an even safer place.

As Carson breathed a sigh of relief, his resentment toward the Myriad Immortals Palace deepened.

Their grudge had grown even more irreconcilable!