The Rise of the Black Plain

Chapter 2858  Absolute Grade!

Temporal Sands!

As soon as he opened his eyes from his overwhelming cultivation experience, having progressed not only from the end of level 121 to the end of level 123, Minos had also reached the Absolute grade in his Physique at last!

But immediately upon awakening, he wasn't surprised by the surrounding scene, activating his first divine ability before anything else, as silver flames exploded from his body.

An hourglass formed behind him, spinning counterclockwise, affecting hundreds of meters of his surroundings.

Qhava felt an energy unfamiliar to her cover her body and for a moment found herself taking steps backwards, even though her mind was still aware of a series of actions she had taken.

'What is it?' Her mind suddenly stopped as she felt herself tense up, anticipating what would happen in the next instant, when, from where the bodies of Abby, Gloria, and Ruth were seconds before, the three human women she had destroyed returned. Their pieces, including their unmistakable essences, returned to the position immediately before their death, with Abby standing in front of where she had faced Qhava, while Gloria and Ruth were on their knees.

Not only did their bodies return but also their breaths and the spiritual marks only they had, revealing to the shocked Qhava Minos' time regression ability.

When she finally realized what he had just done, he had already moved and appeared in front of the three, breaking Qhava's hold on Gloria and Ruth, while raising their cultivation.

Minos' own cultivation, already impressive at the end of level 123, jumped two levels, reaching level 125!

"You... You've reached the Absolute grade!" Qhava exclaimed as her expressive marks intensified, her hands rising as she raised her guard.

Minos might have been a harmless talent for her at the 12th stage and a Physique of Celestial grade. But having advanced qualitatively and his annoying energy-boosting ability being related to his Physique, he could become a problem!

Minos looked at his opponent, seeing how she had become a level 128 True Celestial, something impressive and something he still didn't think he was prepared to handle. Luckily, he had foreseen the future in which she would kill Gloria, Ruth, and Abby and had prepared to counterattack quickly.

"We'll settle our affairs eventually, Qhava. But it won't be today." With a swing of his sleeves, Minos opened a spatial distortion, forcing his way with his women into Hell.

Qhava tried to stop him, but Minos' silver flames, along with the lingering effects of Temporal Sands, slowed her down long enough for him to begin his escape from this Devil.

Minos' wives didn't even have a chance to exclaim their surprise at having been 'saved' by their husband at the last moment as they crossed space, returning to Hell.

Qhava saw the wormhole opened by Minos closing. She widened her eyes as her aura grew full of hatred, hardly able to believe that the traitor had deceived her while she was so close to making him pay for his crimes.

To have reversed time and saved those three women was terrible, but for him to escape after achieving such an important breakthrough was far worse!

"Shit!" Her voice tore through the space around that area of Tanus, making the underground area where she and her group were standing creak as another spatial distortion opened up, also connected to Hell.

"Wretch! You're not getting away!" She was quick enough to create a distortion that led in the same direction as the one opened by Minos, using her level advantage over him to replicate what he had done.

She was so focused on defeating Minos and preventing him from becoming a worse problem that she forgot about her underlings there, leaving them behind as she made her way through the wormhole that opened up between Tanus and Hell.

"Master!"

Those individuals stayed behind, having no chance of escape as that underground formation shook, threatening to crush them in the depths of Tanus.

...

At the place in Hell where Minos had taken his women, he looked at the wide, sparsely inhabited place where they had arrived, quickly connecting to his women and spreading his long, brilliant wings.

This time, he wasn't limited by Hell to his natural or even infernal characteristics. By reaching the Absolute grade with his Physique, nothing else in the universe could now take precedence over Minos' intentions, not even the rules of the infamous Hell.

This was not the same for his three wives. The moment they entered Hell, all three were transformed into the rocky, black versions of themselves they had been when they left this place years ago.

But that wasn't a bad thing. As Minos carried them, Abby felt her power suddenly begin to increase, as she felt her domains larger than ever.

As Abby interpreted this, Minos said to them, "I just bought myself some time until she catches up with us again. Now I can fight Celestials and even get in the way of someone like Qhava, but I'm still far from being able to fight her. But I have a plan."

"What happened back there? One moment we were waiting for you and thought we'd die before you finished and then you were already bringing us to Hell." Ruth looked at Minos seriously, doubt drawn across her face.

"Qhava killed you and I went back in time," Minos said at once, feeling a tightness in his heart, but aware that this was the only way for them to survive. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you what I saw before we reached our destination. That was the only way we could escape it."

"That..."

"But we haven't escaped yet."

"We will escape," he said confidently, even though the possibilities were still shifting with the uncertainty of fate looming.

"In any case, you're right. She'll catch up with us in a few moments. That's just time for Abby to take advantage of her advance and get us where we need to be," he added to his words, while his eyes glowed a golden color that the three women knew well was the sign of him peering into the future.

"You're at level 125 now. Why hasn't the next phase of Devdar's inheritance begun?" Gloria asked.

"That's not my actual level," he said, aware that his women might be a little confused after what had happened. "Anyway, I have a plan in mind. We only have a few seconds, so listen carefully to what I'm going to say. There's no margin for error. If we fail, this time I won't be able to bring anyone back!"