'Ouch!'
Little Mortal got hit by a 'finger flick' on the forehead.
Even though angry, Snow Goddess didn't want to harm him; she even tried to hit the headband to make it even less painful.
But to her surprise, Little Mortal said, 'Ouch!' As if hit by a rock or something, his neck bent backwards, his headband thrown away to the snow by the 'heavy' impact, and he himself was forced to a back flip and then fell in the snow before sinking inside in a dramatic way!
Snow Goddess's hand froze in the air...
She muttered to herself,
"I didn't hit him that hard ..."
Supreme Elder turned to her, eyes filled with shock,
"Sister Snow, why would you hit him so hard?
He is only a child!
If something happens to him, my master will kill me!"
And then she ran to the snow to find him!
Elder Elvis was dumbfounded as to why she had lost her temper all of a sudden.
Snow Goddess looked at her hand in confusion...
"Did I really hit him that hard?
Impossible, this brat is acting again!"
And when she saw that the Supreme Elder couldn't find him,
She said loudly,
"Where are you?
Come out, now!"
But no one answered!
Supreme Elder came back to the table,
"Sister, you scared him; now he won't answer you!
Good luck finding him!"
Snow Goddess was speechless,
"I barely even hit him!
Don't you believe me?"
Supreme Elder was going to say 'no', but she remembered the history of this kid's behavior and shouted,
"You little brat!
You fooled me again!
Come on out!"
And ran to the snow again!
Elder Elvis was now enlightened and thought to himself,
'He was acting again?
So natural that even we didn't see through it?
Sigh...
The best way to deal with this child is indeed to respond to him and engage with him as little as possible...'
So he just silently sat there like he didn't exist.
After a couple of times calling for him and not getting any answer and waiting for around 4-5 minutes, Snow Goddess couldn't take it anymore and waved her hand in frustration.
"Do you expect us to wait all day here for you?
Come out, enough playing around!"
And the snow around them had been cleared.
But the little boy was still nowhere to be found!
Where is he?
Looking around a little more, they found tracks of something that seemed to be rolling on the snow towards the foothills of the mountain...
The Snow Goddess waved her hand again to clear more snow and follow the track, and they saw that the rolling track on the snow was getting bigger as it got farther away from them...
Now they had a bad feeling...
They used their spiritual sense, not to find the little invisible boy this time, but to see if they could find a small snowball rolled somewhere with him inside!
A moment later, their eyes widened in shock!
Snow Goddess was first to disappear, followed by the two. Only a sentence was said by the three,
"Oh no!"
...
In a house in the lower part of the mountain, Snow White and the man in the silver robe were trying to talk to their child, who could now hear and talk happily.
"Say, Mom!"
"Yes, boss!"
The man laughed and said,
"Say, Dad!"
The little boy laughed too and said,
"Sup, boss!"
The two shook their heads helplessly and laughed.
How he was cured, they didn't know, but that little senior brother was definitely their lucky st- 'BAM'
The two, startled by the 'BAM' sound behind them, jumped in front of the little boy and looked in the direction of the sound.
What was that?
A cold wind blew in their faces!
The front part of the house was gone now!
It was like something just passed by and took it!
And now they had a 'better view' of outside...
The two waited for a while to see if someone was crazy enough to attack them in their own sect, but nothing happened, and no one attacked!
There was only silence outside ...
The two cautiously walked out!
Nobody was there!
Was that a 'hit and run'?
The only thing they saw was a rolling track on the snow, and their house, which had half of it missing ...
...
Down the snowy mountain, Elder Leta, the storehouse manager, was walking towards the mountain top in a hurry to meet with the sect master.
She just left for a moment, and the storehouse token was gone again!
She looked everywhere but couldn't find it!
Even the tracker on it was still there and hadn't been wiped out, but she still couldn't connect to it to find its location.
While deep in her own thoughts, she suddenly felt the sunlight from the top of the mountain disappear and darkness take its place!
'What happened?'
She raised her head to see what the reason was and her heart almost jumped to her throat!
The only thing that came to her mind was to change direction, 90 degrees to her right, and run the fastest three-hundred-meter distance of her life to date!
When she stopped, the sunlight shone on her face once again...
While panting, with shock and fear, she looked at the culprit...
It was a snowball, more than six hundred meters in diameter, and it seemed like the snowball was sucking everything around it into itself, growing bigger and bigger.
Seeing this rolling disaster getting bigger by the moment, she hurriedly contacted the elders!
...
Elder Sun, while basking under the sun, heard an urgent message,
"Elder Sun, a disaster is rolling down from the highest peak towards the direction of the outer sect city!
Notify everyone to clear the path!"
Elder Sun jolted awake from his nap and, without thinking, ran to the tower with the big bell beside his house.
He jumped up and rang the big bell with a palm strike while shouting with all of his might!
"All disciples and elders!
Draw a line from the highest mountain peak to the outer sect city in your head!
If you are in that line, RUN!"
The bell was like an amplifier for his voice!
His warning spread through the whole sect!
In a demonic sect, any order, even if it sounded like nonsense, was serious in everyone's ears!
Aura exploded from different places, and people with their stuff under their arms started running out of the path!
Everyone who could fly started flying to see what the disaster was that made Elder Sun warn them about it so seriously.
He himself was curious...
And what they saw only deepened their despair!
'What is that coming our way?!'
They saw the biggest snowball in the history of the cultivation world, at least three kilometers wide, rolling down towards the foothills of the highest peak at an unbelievable speed!
And it was getting bigger as it rolled down!
People, seeing how wide it was, started running in all directions!
They weren't far enough!
How was this thing even rolling and not collapsing?
The whole mountain range started trembling!
Then the snowball went inside a lake at the foothill that was formed naturally from the accumulation of water from mountain springs!
Behind the ball was a wide track in the snow that went all the way up to the highest peak!
The moment it went in, the crowd saw Snow Goddess appear behind it!
It seems she was chasing it for some time, and now she finally caught up!
Everyone felt that with the sect master making a move, everything should be fine, right?
Then they saw her, without hesitation, go to the other side of the lake and create an ice ramp with a 45-degree slope towards the sky.
Then she started reinforcing it with all kinds of formations and shouted at the people close by!
"Come help me reinforce the ramp before it comes out!"
It only took five seconds at most, and a group of elders joined her under the ramp.
Then the horrified crowd saw the lake water start rising near its shore!
It was as if a monster was going to emerge from it!
And then 'BOOM'!
The former snowball, now an ice ball, shot outside the lake and rolled up the ramp the Snow Goddess had made!
Then it flew into the sky while Snow Goddess and the rest did their best underneath not to let the ramp collapse under the ice ball's heavy weight!
Everyone looked at the ice ball in the sky, and their hearts sank!
It was like a blue moon in the daytime!
Dazzling and majestic!
Even the people in the outer sect city saw a round blue moon appear in the sky and gasped in shock!
Everyone started coming out of their houses and shops, looking at the sky!
Only with amazement, and no sign of fear, unlike the sect disciples and elders!
And the reason was evident in their conversations.
"Bro, boss said he is going for patrol there?"
"He indeed went there for patrol, and I think it's a sign of him having fun ..."
"Anywhere the boss goes, disasters follow!"
"I know.
But we should be fine, the followers, 'cough' I mean gang members, are in his team, so it's okay!"
"Breaking news! Breaking news!
The evil boss caused chaos in the sect!
The destruction of the Demoness Sect is near!
1 spirit stone for what he did!
2 spirit stones for the exact date of the sect's downfall!"
"My goodness!
Cherry, stop spreading fake news!
Come back here!"
Rose, who saw the scene in the sky, bit her lips and muttered,
"Mother!
You are fine, right?"
In the sky, everyone saw the ice ball start falling towards the ground!
Who would dare to go and try stopping it?
The elders around just predicted where it's going to land and first sighed in relief, then felt awkward...
They evacuated all the slow disciples nearby and retreated before the ball of ice landed.
Under the ice ramp, the Supreme Elder appeared and took the weak Snow Goddess away before the ramp collapsed on top of her.
The lower the ice ball gets to the ground, the more people find out where it is going to land...
In the outer sect city, Luna, who was standing beside Rose, said,
"I think it's going to land..."
Rose finished her sentence,
"On my father's statue!"
Snow Goddess sighed helplessly,
"I didn't hit him that hard ..."
Supreme Elder was in tears... She was doing her best not to laugh!
Inside the ice ball, a voice that no one could hear sounded,
"Eh!? My headband was dropped? When?"
And then, to everyone's surprise, as if it had suddenly lost the power that was keeping it together, the ice ball started collapsing by itself!
Only the biggest icy part hit the statue and took a leg off...
The rest of it started raining down like big chunks of snow, ice, and whatever it had devoured in its path.
Snow Goddess, while not knowing what had happened, sighed in relief and glared at Supreme Elder, who looked disappointed at this moment!
Rose sighed in relief too; that was her father's statue, a symbol of his achievements!
It was a shame to see it destroyed...
Little Mortal, clueless about what was happening, dropped to the ground on his butt.
'Ouch.'
Then he stood up and said stubbornly,
"Humph, it didn't hurt at all!"
After that, he looked around and saw the mess around him and shrugged his shoulders,
"I should go back; the patrol is over."
And left while spinning his small chain.
Not long after, the sect disciples saw a group of elders alongside the Sect Master gathered where the former ice ball had landed, and they started looking for something.
All of the disciples guessed the same thing!
"Forbidden or cursed treasure!"
And a rumor spread like wildfire,
"The Sect Master and elders found a cursed treasure and lost control of it while playing with it!"
Meanwhile, Snow Goddess looked everywhere in puzzlement!
She still couldn't find him...
Then she looked at the outer sect city and said,
"Don't follow me."
A moment later, she arrived in the sky above the city and went straight to her daughter.
When she passed through the restriction that the old manager had placed around the city, her vision and the scene inside, without her noticing, became different from reality!
All the people who were muscular and healthy now changed to what she had seen the last time she was here.
Everyone looked weak, skinny, and without hope...
When she saw her daughter, her mood changed for the better,
"Rose!"
Rose happily went forward,
"Mother! You are fine!
I was so worried!"
At this moment, everyone in the city was out to watch the 'blue moon,' and under the sun, they were absorbing sunlight automatically.
The concealment skill was active without anyone noticing, and Snow Goddess only saw them as mortals.
Even while she embraced her daughter, she didn't find anything different.
Under the old manager's illusion and the concealment skill of these followers while absorbing sunlight, it was basically impossible for her to see anything suspicious.
"Yes, that ice ball was indeed dangerous!
I still don't know exactly how it suddenly formed...
Anyway, I came here to tell you that if you or anyone in the city sees a new kid around 3 years old in a white robe lurking around, be careful and don't interact with him at all!
Just break this, and I will handle it!"
Then she gave her a token.
Rose took it and nodded,
"Alright, I will ask everyone here to tell me immediately if they see any new child not belonging to the city in a white robe!"
Snow Goddess spoke to her a little more, said goodbye, and left without considering her mother-in-law's absence.
"Come back when you are done playing here."
Inside this place, under the old manager's influence, nobody could think about the things negatively affecting Little Mortal!
After she left, the people around who had heard what the Sect Master said looked at each other awkwardly...
What should they do?
An old man from the team leaders' group went to Rose and said,
"I say, Lady Rose, how should we deal with this matter?"
Rose furrowed her brow in confusion,
"I will do as my mother said.
If any new child comes to our city, tell me immediately!"
The crowd understood what she meant!
An old lady said,
"Any new child in a white robe?
There is only one child in a white robe around here, and he is not new...
He actually owns this place!"
The crowd laughed and started leaving to attend to their own business.
But they were just a few steps away when they heard a voice that made their hearts skip a beat!
"Sup, gang!"
Speak of the devil...
The 'not new child in a white robe' was back!
The crowd cupped their fists and greeted him,
"Sup, Boss!"
Little Mortal nodded and parked his motorcycle.
"Oh, Assistant Rose, Manager Luna, you are out?
Did something happen?"
The two wanted to roll their eyes at him!
Are you asking if something happened?
"Boss, didn't you see the big ice ball in the sky just now?"
Little Mortal's eyes widened in shock!
"Little Crystal, where are you!
Show me what happened!"
The crystal flew out of the inn and then showed everyone a scene of him.
It was when he got hit by the Snow Goddess's gentle finger flick.
"What is this? Show me the ice ball!"
The crowd, who were leaving, turned around and came back to see what show was being played this time.
Whatever this crystal displayed was always interesting and exciting, and now it was about to reveal the ice ball's origin.
The crystal changed to the next scene; it followed Little Mortal's movement.
He pretended to get struck—which no one here believed—and then the headband flew away because of the powerful 'hit,' and then he started rolling in the snow and giggling to himself.
And at the same time, the scene around him got darker and darker as he laughed and rolled happily in the snow.
Little Mortal was a little embarrassed,
"Show something entertaining!
Show the ice ball!
What is this darkness, you silly crystal!?"
And so, the scene zoomed out, showing the snowball that he was inside, how it rolled down the mountain and got bigger and bigger,
how it destroyed the front wall of someone's house,
went to the depth of the lake, and finally came out from the other side as an ice ball!
Little Mortal nodded in understanding,
"So that's why I didn't see it!
I was inside all the time?"
Then he looked at the crowd and said,
"Did you see that lady who hit me?
You might not know her, but she is my teacher,
The Stronghold Chief!
See how strong she is?
With one finger flick, she turned me into an ice ball!"
The crowd nodded but was at a loss for words.
They just saw the 'strong teacher' with a group of familiar old men under the ice ramp struggling with all their might to save the sect from being literally flattened, and learned a new fact!
This little boss is even stronger than the Sect Master!
Just him casually rolling in the snow made such a mess!
Little Mortal, who didn't care about any of this at all, said,
"Oh, by the way, Assistant Rose."
Rose, who had seen the trouble this little guy made for her mother just on one 'patrol' and was thinking how to make him forget about patrolling, heard him calling her and answered,
"Yes, Boss."
"There will be a competition between our sect and the Sword Sect later.
I already reserved first place in the men's category for myself and first place in the women's category for you.
I just wanted to let you know that on the day of the competition, we need to participate."
And then he went inside while muttering to himself nervously,
"I was lucky that I didn't hit anyone with that ball!
What if I hit some of those silly gangsters and they sue me?"
Rose looked at the sky and felt it was better to leave everything to fate from now on...
'Taking care of my mother's trouble?
I should think about my own troubles now...
He reserved the first place for a weakling like me?'
The crowd, who could guess how things were going to play out later in the competition, started whispering to each other,
"The sect competition that I never saw should be
a lot more interesting this time!"
"Indeed, I bet even the Sect Master will be surprised!"
"Those poor disciples from the Sword Sect!
I remember last time one of them was first."
"Well, I heard there was no men and women category either!
And the first place was the Sword God's disciple!"
"I already feel pity for those Sword Sect's disciples... and our sect too!"
Inside the inn, Little Mortal looked around and saw some inn workers busy with their work.
He scratched his head, then called for Luna,
"Manager Luna."
Luna and Rose walked inside,
"What is it, Boss?"
He pointed at the inn workers,
"What are they doing?"
"Their daily job..."
"Oh, do you guys know that your power should be at 9.99 by tonight so you can break through your next butter-neck ?"
The inn workers froze in place. Luna was puzzled at first, but then remembered 9.99 was the peak power of their current cultivation realm.
He wants us to be ready for another breakthrough by tonight?
"Boss, is it even possible?"
"No, it's not if you do your 'daily' job!
But if they don't eat, and they sit under the sun and train all day long, it's possible!"
Then he said in a serious tone,
"Tell everyone to gather in the same place tonight.
I will personally see their progress. If they are not at 9.99 by tonight... then you know what!"
And with a flicker of his sleeve, he turned around, and after climbing up his backpack, he took out his notebook and started flipping through it.
The people in the inn were shocked!
A certain little girl jumped out from the shadows and ran outside,
"Breaking news, breaking news!
The evil boss sent his order!
Everyone should be at the peak of Muscle Refinement by tonight!
1 spirit stone for the punishment that awaits those who fail on this mission!
2 spirit stones for the location they will be buried!"
Not long after, one of the group leaders under Rose came in and asked cautiously,
"Lady Rose, is what Cherry saying true?"
This little news reporter may say all kinds of fake news, but there is some truth in them too.
Rose nodded helplessly...
"What should we do?"
Rose took a deep breath and said,
"Tell everyone to stop whatever they are doing.
From now on, we only cultivate!
The result doesn't matter!
Just cultivate until we can't!"
The guy ran outside.
The news spread in the city in no time!
Everyone started panicking!
Now they remembered this little demon wasn't here to play around!
He was here to create an army of peak experts in two weeks—which the timeline was even shorter because of what happened last night—and it could be even less in the following days if he felt like it.
So the whole city suddenly turned silent, and everyone started sitting anywhere comfortable they could find to cultivate!