Kai, Jack and Kevin entered the cave and slowly made their way down. Above the cave, Alvar and Mario began to fight. The sound of their battle carried deep into the cave. So Kai and the others could easily hear the sounds of the battle. It sounded as if Mario and Alvar were fighting evenly.

  Alvar and Mario may have been 9 years apart, but Alvar was a genius who had surpassed Mario many times over. Mario had already reached the center of the Purple Lightning. Alvar was at the beginning of the Purple Lightning. Yet, Alvar and Mario could fight as equals. This brilliance was incredible. Even Kai, when he was in Purple Lightning, could only fight someone at the top of Purple Lightning. So this was clearly a skill that was just a notch below Kai's.

  A genius worthy of a Buddha Ancestor disciple!

  Alvar was a Buddha Genius. He had been given that title a long time ago, but now it was much more appropriate. Alvar was now truly a Buddha genius. He had many accomplishments as a disciple of Monk Mang, and the Buddha Genius was now 19 years old!

  Alvar was 19 years old, and even though he was only that old, he was already a Purple Lightning. If there hadn't been any events that slowed him down in the past, he would definitely be much stronger now. Maybe he could have been someone who had just passed Half Step 2 or Step 2. And he was only 19 years old!

  But that didn't matter. For most people, what mattered at the moment was strength. It didn't matter if you were strong in the future. You just had to be strong enough to survive now.

  As Kai and the others descended deeper and deeper into the cave, the silence of the passing time made them even more alert. Even if they hadn't fallen into any traps yet, it didn't mean that they wouldn't in the future.

  All 3 young men had their swords in their hands, waiting for the next trap. There would definitely be a test in the lair of the Immortal Dragon. The Immortal Dragon was one of the rare beings that had reached the legendary 9th level. Even the great geniuses who had come to this island would not have thought of reaching this level. Level 9 was so rare that out of the tens of thousands of cultivators who had reached Level 8, only one could advance to that level. It was just as difficult to reach level 8, and the incredible difficulty between each level destroyed the developers' confidence.

  "Isn't it great that we three old friends are together again? But this time with swords in our hands, trying to keep ourselves alive. Hahaha, you really never know what life will throw at you.

  Jack's words made Kai and Kevin laugh as well. The three of them used to have very different and funny habits. They might have been able to enter a dangerous cave, but not with the power to destroy hundreds of meters of space like now. And the cave they entered would certainly not have weapons with the power to kill hundreds of people per second.

  "It seems like yesterday that it all started. Everything was so strange that day. Seth had suddenly argued with me and Kai was angry for the first time. But even stranger was Seth. I know it now, but how could Seth stand up to your strength? I remember the blows you threw at him. He should have died. He definitely took less damage than he should have. This is strange. .... "

  Kevin's words, like Jack's, were based on the past, but few people knew what had happened that day. Was it just a simple fight that day? No, no, no. That day was different.

  A new era began that day!

  ***

  Time passed quickly and the Kai team reached the deepest parts of the cave. There was not much noise, and after a while, seeing no traps, the trio sheathed their weapons and began to walk in peace. Now it was as if they were walking in a meadow. Never letting their guard down, the trio was inexplicably too relaxed.

  "Hey, do you think Sky Island-"

  Kai turned around and wanted to talk nonsense about Sky Island, but just as he turned around, his mind was a bit clearer. Because the two friends who were supposed to be there when he turned around were not there.

  "Huh?"

  Kai had been talking for hours and he kept walking and laughing, but there was actually no one to confront him. Had he been talking to himself the whole morning?

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  "Those idiots!!!"

  Kai turned around and started walking quickly. Those two idiots had been walking alone for how many hours and they still hadn't noticed? Was Kai a man to be forgotten?

  But no matter how far Kai went, he never met them. The wind in his face made Kai a little more awake. After coming so far, he should have met them. He was aware that there was another fog in his head. He was definitely not himself. As broken as Kai was, he must have realized that Kevin and Jack were not with Kai. Something was wrong.

  When Kai realized that something was wrong, he stopped and looked around. Now he remembered where he was. This was the dragon's lair. The energy of the immortal dragon had been seen here. But everyone knew that there would be a test here. After all, the Immortal Dragon was a beast that had surpassed the peak of level 9 and was halfway to level 10! If he didn't want to, no one would know that he had come here. The Immortal Dragon had left an energy trail, but it took the Legendary Leader of the Exploration Academy to detect its energy trail alone. This was not because of his strength, but because of his ability to detect it. The Legendary Leader of the Exploration Academy was a half-step Purple Lightning. However, an explorer in the middle of Purple Lightning wouldn't be able to detect the Dragon's Trail like him.

  "Kai..."

  Kai jumped back and looked behind him when a voice suddenly came from the darkness. The voice was soft and calm. But it was also full of wonder and longing. And it sounded much too familiar to Kai.

  "Don't you recognize me, Kai?"

  Kai turned his head and saw the woman who shouldn't be here. Her beautiful eyes were like rubies. She was pure gold. Millions of developmentalists would kneel under her just to see her once. Even the words of the chapter were not enough to describe her. Her real reputation was quite different. She was the most beautiful woman of the series!

  "Diana....."

  Diana's death was known to Kai. When the 6 Guardians of Emotion died, the pieces they left inside Kai were completely destroyed. That's how Randal knew they were dead, and that's how he told Kai. But Kai saw one of his masters before his eyes. This.... It was impossible!

  "Why do you think it's impossible? Or are you not happy to see us?"

  Kai turned his head quickly and saw Auron frowning at him from a few meters away. For Kai, this frown was very strange. Auron always smiled. If he wasn't dead and had come back, he shouldn't have such an attitude.

  But in this moment, Kai understood everything. His mind was fuzzy and he could think very little, but he could remember. His master had said that they were dead. If his master had said that, Kai would not have protested. His masters were dead.

  "Why are you here?"

  Kai asked calmly, waiting for a calm answer. But inside he was angry that their master had been copied in this way. Still, when the Guardians of the 6 Senses appeared in full, Kai realized how much he had missed them. 3 years might have been a very short time for the developers, but it hadn't affected Kai. He was still aware of time like a normal human.

  "Why did you let us die?"

  Lea's words hit Kai hard. But Kai was unaffected. Kai moved forward step by step and stood in front of Lea. Kai frowned, looked at Lea and waited. He waited for what he expected to happen.

  "Why...? Why are you looking at me like that?"

  Kai breathed a sigh of relief when he saw what he had been waiting for and slowly turned around and walked to the middle of the 6 Guardians.

  "Lea looked like a coward, but she was never a coward. Auron never sulked and Diana would never blame me even if I was guilty. You can never be like them. You are nothing but a test. The tremor in your voice was enough to give you away. Lea would never let her voice shake, no matter who was in front of her. "

  Kai turned his head and looked at the faces of the 6 Guardians in turn with a peaceful look. That was not the only difference between them and the stones of the cave. The cave was not very big. It was perhaps 2.5 meters at most, but the Guardians, each 2 meters tall, could not stand comfortably and fit into this space. That's how you could tell that these were not the Guardians.

  "This is an eye test. Only a dragon can enter this cave. And as the heir of the Immortal Dragon, I can use the dragon's eyes."

  Kai's eyes suddenly became scaly and red energy appeared under the scales. With this energy around Kai's eyes, Kai's eyes turned red at first, but soon the light began to grow brighter. Eventually, the light in Kai's eyes began to fill the entire cave.

  "Will you make me talk?"

  The red light from Kai's eyes exploded around the cave and Kai couldn't see anything. When Kai opened his eyes again, the 6 Guardians were completely gone. Kai was sad to see his old masters disappear again. His masters had been the first to take care of him. With them, Kai had first learned about life, and as his first masters, they would always live deep inside him.

  "What the hell is this?"

  Kai turned his head and saw Kevin and Jack's own illusion. But unlike Kai's sad illusion, theirs seemed to be completely different.

  "Is he doing the samba?"

  Kai was dancing in a corner with a drunken smile on his face. He seemed to be out of his mind and made strange noises in between.

  "Hehe-he hehe-he hehe-he samba hehe samba he...."

  Jack, on the other hand, was in another realm. He stood against the wall as if in front of the TV and occasionally he would grab the dirt with his hand and put it in his mouth. His eyes were full of tears and sometimes tears rolled down his cheeks. He looked like a depressed young girl who had broken up with her boyfriend and was watching a sad movie.

  "Where did I get this?"

  Kai broke the illusion again with his eye and without letting them know what was happening, he grabbed them by the neck and entered the corridor he thought was the center of the cave. It was time for him to face some truths.