After he smacked Money Body’s head, he said, "Focus, young man. You can’t be distracted at this point in your life."
"You are on the cusp of something great. A little distraction can ruin your work and steal your great future from you."
When Money Body heard this, he wanted to sneer and say, "You mean you want to be the only one to steal my future. You don’t even want my distraction to contend with you. How shameless can you get?"
Instead, he smiled apologetically and said, "Forgive me, my lord. I was careless for a second there. Thank you for assisting me in regaining my focus."
In response, Loki shook his head like an ancient sage and said, "You youngsters have such a short attention span. It wasn’t like in my day when we had to focus for years at a time without anyone to help us."
But what he really wanted to say was, "Don’t mess this up for me, kid. You have to make something better this time around. I have a lot riding on this."
Clearly, the fake master and disciple had a lot they were hiding within them. They were only deceiving each other. As for who would have the last laugh, it would depend on who had the better cards to play.
Right now, Loki was in the core of Money Body’s Cave Heaven, looking over his shoulder and behaving like a backseat driver. He was also in the form of a manifestation of Fenrir.
It was another manifestation that was at the core of Monarch Dragon Transformation’s Cave Heaven. His true body was outside, standing in front of the divine bodies of the two rank 8 cultivators.
He was personally monitoring their divine bodies while his manifestations helped them with their Supreme Metacs. The two rank 8 cultivators were sitting down in front of him with their eyes closed.
As for the remaining manifestations of Loki, they were either eating spirit creatures or finishing the final touches on devouring the Cave Heaven of the rank 7 divine beings he had taken down before everyone could run away.
The manifestations didn’t bother to fight with their prey. They simply marked them with the tracking mark. Then they activated the Seal Ability.
Once the Seal Ability was activated, their Divine Metacs were sealed even though they were alive. With their Divine Metacs sealed, their Life Fires went out. So they all died without knowing how they died or who killed them.
After they died, the manifestations reformed in the core of their Cave Heaven through the tracking mark. From there, they took their Divine Metacs and assimilated their Cave Heaven.
The manifestations did all of that without Loki being there. But all of the Divine Metacs they took and the Cavendish Heavens they seized ended up in his possession.
Of course, they needed his help, and it could be said that the manifestations are actually him since they are extensions of his will. So the actions of the manifestations weren’t exactly independent of him. But it still remained a fact that he didn’t need to do all the work himself anymore.
This made him nod in satisfaction and say inwardly, ’This is how a wolf should hunt. He should hunt with his pack of wolves. And what a mighty strong pack I have here.’
Just at that moment, Money Body had reached the last step in creating his Supreme Metac. So Loki turned his attention to the manifestation in the core of the Cave Heaven of the money cultivator.
When he saw what Money Body had made, he rolled his eyes and said in exasperation, ’As expected of Money Body. Even with my help, how work is still subpar.’
Money Body didn’t know what he was thinking and only saw an impassive expression on the white wolf’s face.
So he said nervously, "How was my work, my lord?"
Loki said, "It is acceptable."
That was the best pliment he could give. And to be fair, that was the pliment that Money Body deserved since he had at least met the minimum requirement to create a Supreme Metac.
He couldn’t give a greater pliment than that because he didn’t think Money Body was worth it. Even so, Money Body was satisfied with his evaluation.
The soon-to-be rank 9 domination cultivator sighed in relief and summoned the courage to say, "I need 2,500,000 million, my lord, to plete the Supreme Metac."
Loki replied expressionlessly, "You will have it."
Then he began supplying Money Body with the lifespan he needed.
As soon as Money Body felt the lifespan filling up the Supreme Metac, his face lit up with joy, and he said, "Thank you, my lord. I have no way to repay you. From today onwards, I will always be in your debt."
Most of what he said was insincere. Forget about trying to repay Loki for his help; what he was planning to do as soon as the Supreme Metac formed was to attack Loki.
It didn’t matter if Loki was sincere in helping him turn into a powerful enemy for the Four Directions Sect. What mattered was that he didn’t trust Loki at all.
It wasn’t as if he hadn’t helped a mortal bee a divine being, only to immediately enslave the mortal after they ascended. He had something like that many times in the past, so there was no way he would believe that all of this help wouldn’t e with a heavy dose of poison.
As they say, when you live by the sword, you should expect to die by the sword. He had ripped off many people in the past, so he expected to be ripped off soon, and he was prepared to fight back.
If there was one thing that was sincere about his words and his behavior, it was his joy. He was truly happy that he was given the opportunity to create a Supreme Metac. And if Loki was actually sincere and didn’t kill him after he rebelled, then he would truly try everything in his power to repay Loki for this grace.
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