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The onlookers were surprised by David's momentary pause.

Thinking that he might be afraid, Zose started grinning from ear to ear like a fool. Looking at his appearance, no one would be able to tell that he was a Peak Nascent Soul expert.

Some distance away, Celia, who was also looking at David's figure, was disappointed. She didn't know why, but when the black-haired man took a step forward, she suddenly had the feeling that everything was going to be alright.

But the scene in front of her made Celia doubt her earlier confidence.

On the other hand, the Great Alchemist's face remained calm as always, without a single change in his expression, as if he was just a spectator watching a movie from the sidelines.

But the people closest to him, like his daughter Celia, could tell how heartbroken he was. No one could understand his pain, not even her.

Borrito and Mary had already gotten used to David's actions; they didn't think much about it and continued to examine the surroundings.

After a couple of seconds, David once again started to move confidently toward the ice coffin.

Looking at the confident young man moving closer to the coffin, Zose's eyes suddenly flashed with a strange light.

"Hmmm!"

Under his vision, the aura of the young man seemed to have transformed a moment ago. Although the change was very minute and almost unnoticeable, Zose felt it.

The change made his heart palpitate; this was the same feeling that he felt when standing in front of the family head.

How was this possible? Zose immediately tried to deny it. The black-haired young man was clearly at the Golden Core Realm; no one in that realm could make him afraid.

Although he didn't believe the young man was capable of posing any threat, he still decided to raise his vigilance level.

Suddenly, his eyes became sharp and the air around him changed. He stood straight as a spear.

Hundreds of years of experience told him that this young man was a threat, but the thought of launching an attack also left him suffocated.

Zose had a feeling if he attacked the young man now, he would die a brutal death.

Logic was telling him to attack the young man, but his instincts were telling him something completely different. He chose to believe his gut feeling and refrained from attacking.

Alchemist Theodore also noticed the change in atmosphere around Zose, and his eyes flashed with a mysterious light. No one knew what he was thinking.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, David was now just a hundred meters away from the coffin.

A layer of frost had started to appear on David's clothes, but he seemed unaffected as he continued to walk forward, exuding an unstoppable momentum.

One step, two steps, third step, and in just the blink of an eye, he covered a large distance. Now David was just fifty meters away from the coffin.

Well, to be honest, unlike the other contestants, if David wanted, he could completely skip this bullshit and directly use his Crystallization of Life to teleport... but that would be too anticlimactic, right?

"Hey! Woman, why is father not using his tele—?" Borrito curiously asked while playing with his cigarette in confusion; he had seen him using the ability to quickly teleport.

For the full dramatic struggle, he decided to simply walk forward.

Before Borrito could finish his words, Mary suddenly grabbed his mouth and didn't allow him to speak further.

She could tell that David had some plan of his own; she didn't want his hard work to go down the drain because this duck had a loud mouth.

This small interaction didn't go unnoticed by Zose. After hearing the exchange, he became even more alert and felt thankful in his heart for not taking action directly.

Celia looked at this scene with wide-opened eyes. No one had managed to walk so close to the coffin; hope was once again ignited in her heart.

David frowned once he took another step. The very air around him seemed to have been frozen; it was becoming quite difficult to move, however it was manageable.

David tried to take a deep breath, but all he could inhale was sharp ice crystals falling in the air.

Thankfully his body had gotten stronger after breakthrough; otherwise, he would have been injured.

In the blink of an eye, David was ten steps away from the coffin. Contrary to what Zose was expecting, David's speed increased with each step.

In a single breath, he covered tens of meters without a single change in expression, as if he was taking a walk in the garden.

Witnessing David's terrifying momentum for the first time ever, Alchemist Theodore's expression changed, as David had gotten too close to the coffin.

This young man, he could just.... Alchemist Theodore immediately shook his head and cleared his thoughts; he didn't want to ruin the moment.

With bated breath, he watched David's every single action; his heart had unconsciously started to thump like a loud drum.

At this time, while walking, David flicked his wrist and an extremely withered branch appeared in his hands.

"Oh! My heavens!" Alchemist Theodore cried out like a girl. How could he not recognize the branch in David's hands? After all, he had spent these last few years studying about this branch.

This was undoubtedly the Nine Sun Branch in the young man's hand.

For a second, Alchemist Theodore thought that he had finally gone mad and was hallucinating.

It was only after he pinched himself that Theodore realized he wasn't dreaming... the branch was real.

"That means..."

His beloved could be saved. At that thought, the corners of his eyes moistened slightly.

Claire's reaction was no less intense than her father's; she also recognized the branch at a glance.

However, before she could question the reality, the temperatures around her suddenly soared like a rocket. An intense heatwave that almost made her close her eyes in discomfort hit her face.

Zose's mouth was opened wide in disbelief as if he had seen a ghost.

Suddenly, before he could show even more expressions, time seemed to have come to a standstill, and the ice around the coffin completely melted as if it had never existed in the first place. The transformation was almost instant.

With the appearance of the branch, the ice seemed to have immediately vaporized and disappeared.

David felt a strong force wrapping around the branch in his hand. Understanding the situation, he immediately let go of the branch.

Immediately as he did so, the branch left his hand and merged with the coffin.
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In the next moment, the surrounding temperatures returned to normal. For a moment, a strange chaotic atmosphere had been created by the sudden appearance of extreme Yin and Yang at the same time, greatly disturbing the balance.

Click! Suddenly, a resounding click resounded in the space. The coffin, which had been sealed for who knew how long, opened.

An almost otherworldly woman that seemed to have descended from the heavens stepped out of the coffin.

Unlike Claire, the woman had black lustrous hair that flowed like a waterfall behind her back, black phoenix eyes that seemed to contain countless mysteries.

Dressed in a white flowing gown that loosely clung to her body, she looked at her surroundings, and when her eyes landed on the father and daughter figure, the woman shivered.

"Mother!"

Claire shouted and rushed towards the figure with hot streams of tears running down her rosy cheeks.

David looked at this scene and frowned. Just a moment ago when the woman looked at him, he felt as if the whole world had been placed on his shoulders.

He immediately realized the woman's strength was something he could not even begin to comprehend.

As soon as this thought popped up in his head, his eyes landed on Alchemist Theodore, who was standing still like a statue, and a question popped up in his head.

How did this guy manage to bag her?

After thinking for a moment, David shook his head and decided not to think about it.

Next, his eyes landed on the Elder from the Whitetooth family.

Zose, who also felt the woman's terrifying momentum, had secretly started to back away, and when he felt David's gaze landing on his body, he sighed and suppressed the waves rising in his heart.

David looked at the poor guy's reaction and smiled. Slowly, he raised his hand and asked the guy to come over.

At this time, he turned his head back; Mary had suddenly appeared behind him, a shocked expression on his face. Of course, he was just pretending—with his Divine sense, how could he not notice Mary's movement?

"Be careful of this woman; she is most likely an immortal cultivator," Mary spoke with rare seriousness.

"Aye? What immortal cultivator?" David was confused by the sudden bomb dropped by Mary.

"Be serious and don't look at me like this." If it was normal times, Mary would have laughed at David's antics, but this time she didn't; her eyes even seemed to be filled with a hint of warning.