Divine Emperor of Death

Davis stayed rooted to the spot as he heard Nightveil's words. His eyes narrowed as he kept measuring her words before he spoke.

"You're seriously trying to ask a human whom you met a few seconds ago and tried to kill... to protect you?"

"Don't twist it." Nightveil's lips curved into one of disdain as she pointed at him, "According to you, you came to kill me thinking that I was a vile spirit. Mhm, I'm having some doubts about your reputation as a Wicked Spirit Hunter now. Are you from the Renegade Human Shelter? I thought you were a human from the other side of the spirit land since I haven't heard of you."

Davis then shook his head.

"I'm from the other side, alright, but suit yourself. I don't have time to waste."

"Wait."

He was about to turn around when he heard her voice again.

Nightveil narrowed her eyes at him before she spoke, "If you swear that you won't harm me during my heavenly tribulation, I'll give you more resources."

Davis became flabbergasted by her attempt. He couldn't really tell if she was bad at negotiating or just trying to make ends meet. He couldn't help but heave a breath.

"First of all, I don't know you well to be swearing with those words with utter conviction. Secondly, if you become an immortal upon crossing the heavenly tribulation, there's a brief interval during ascendance where you are capable of killing me as long as I'm within a twenty-seven-kilometer radius; the so-called ascendance zone where you're locked in place for a short time before you're forced to ascend. You're the one who should swear to the heavens that you wouldn't kill me after breaking through. Lastly, if you want my protection, you're going to have to try better than that and explain why you prefer me over anyone else and make my time worthwhile. Otherwise, we'll just pretend that we didn't see each other."

Nightveil bit her crimson lips as her expression became complex, "That's because you're not a spirit from the Spirit Ancestral Grounds nor the hegemonic powers or a human from the Renegade Human Shelter, but you are a human from the other side, worth for me to gamble and take the chance."

'It still doesn't explain… though?' Davis felt confused as he thought.

He felt that this darkness spirit certainly had trouble communicating.

Looking at the human remain unconvinced, Nightveil clenched her fists, "I need someone to protect me while I undergo heavenly tribulation, and you're the only darkness in the light that can help me. Your strange energy that's different than my darkness, I need that kind of terror to be directed at the people who'll come for me in order to keep them at bay. You don't even have to deal with them this way..."

Davis smirked a bit. He had only shown Fallen Heaven's death energy slightly along with his killing intent, yet it earned high praise from her. However, considering that a Lightning Elemental died from shock just from feeling Fallen Heaven's death energy, he really couldn't blame her, could he?

"How many are we talking about?"

"At least two at our level..." Nightveil hesitantly answered.

Davis descended into contemplation.

There might be more, but If it's like this, he probably wouldn't need to go hunt down spirits at his level as they would come towards him. However, it was yet to be seen if he could kill them as it was possible that they might simply give up dealing with Nightveil. But still, there were resources to gain.

"What kind of resources can you offer?"

Nightveil didn't hesitate to list an array of darkness resources and even light attributed resources, most of them at Emperor Grade, even heavenly resources that instantly garnered Davis's approval. Moreover, she possessed a lot of light-attributed resources and spirit cores, numbering in the thousands, all of them collected from enacting her vengeance.

Nevertheless, he felt that Mo Mingzhi's path to the mortal peak was carved in stone with the darkness-attributed resources alone. There was also an influx that tended to help him as well, although he didn't use his Darkness Laws much in the first place to bother even though it might become a foundation for a Greater Law like Death Laws.

Thinking like this, he became agreeable to protect her, but he still wasn't sure if this was an attempt to murder him when he expected the least. Considering purely from the side of benefits, he was sure that he was tasty to a spirit. Even if it weren't for his flesh, his blood essence and soul essence should be of exquisite taste to her.

"Alright, I agree."

Davis nodded, causing Nightveil's eyes to widen before she started scrutinizing him. However, his lips suddenly moved.

"However, how can I trust that you will give me the rewards after your breakthrough? You can kill me before I-"

"Here."

Nightveil spoke as she sent an object flying towards him.

"That's half the rewards I promised you. If you think you can escape with that, be my guest. We'll fight to the death."

Nightveil spoke with a solemn voice, causing Davis to capture the spatial ring sent to him before he checked the contents. Instantly, he saw the plethora of resources before he chuckled.

"Heh, you know I can't escape to the Spirit Ancestral Grounds or the guarded world barrier as they would hunt me down as well. Smart…"

Davis smirked as he raised his brows, "When are you going to ascend?"

"Whenever you are ready." Nightveil smirked back, "It's just a moment's notice away from me. After all, all I have to do is make a breakthrough..."

'Was that supposed to be a jab at the ineptitude of natural cultivation for humans?'

Davis's brows twitched, but he didn't say anything before he nodded.

"But preferably, I would like to have a breakthrough during midnight where my powers could be fully brought out."

'Isn't that what I was asking?'

Davis inwardly cried with this prideful client of his before he nodded again, disinclined to argue.

"What about the oaths?" Nightveil couldn't help but ask.

So far, she was satisfied with the conversation but still hadn't received a proper reply from him.

"That… you can only trust me on this..."

Davis wryly chuckled, causing Nightveil to clench her teeth.

"You human-"

"I'm fully aware that I can leave when the heavenly tribulation starts and abandon you. If I were to ever leave, feel free to bring the heavenly tribulation to me."

Davis grinned at Nightveil, who was angered but became dumbfounded. The next moment, she sneered.

"Ridiculous, your probably faster than me if you can utter this with confidence."

"Oh, what should we do then?" Davis pursed his lips and shook his head, "We're back to square one if one of us can't believe the other. I have no need to believe you, but you, on the other hand, at least, until you pass the heavenly tribulation, need to believe in me."

Nightveil looked pissed off like hell as her surroundings became darker and darker.

Davis flicked his fingers and sent the spatial ring back to her, causing her to narrow her eyes in bewilderment.

"We can call this deal off if we don't reach an agreement. I'm not ruthless enough to steal from a good person unless I absolutely need to."

Nightveil's lips twitched.

"So you will still steal it in the end..."

"Think what you like..."

Davis shrugged. He felt like he had wasted a bit of time if this negotiation failed. That's all, but to Nightveil, if what she was saying was true, then she risked losing her ticket to ascendance.

Indeed, Nightveil felt confused enough to not know what to decide.

The heavens knew the intent of the one near her, whether they would help her or harm her. If they helped her, the tribulation would react angrily, and if they tried to harm her, it would ignore the others as long as they didn't get into the three-kilometer zone.

This unfairness was exactly what caused plenty of people to die in heavenly tribulations that they would only do it alone or with trusted people by their side in some secluded area. However, whom did she have?

No one!

Nightveil lowered her head and felt ridiculous about having to rely on a human. Suddenly, she got sight of the spatial ring in her palm and thought about it.

These resources were completely useless to her unless she planned on having children but unfortunately for her, that spelled death if she was unlucky. Therefore, she could afford to give it away even if it ended up being stolen.

She raised her head and nodded, "Fine, I'll agree. However, I won't swear an oath that I won't devour you to death after I become an immortal either."

Davis's lips curved into a wicked smile, "Fine by me."

If something like betrayal happened, he was rather looking forward to harvesting an immortal-level spirit core and soul essence!