The Innkeeper

Chapter 2202: Heart Demon

The only thing he didn’t do was add members who didn’t originally come from the Midnight Inn. It wasn’t because he wanted to discriminate against them - it was simply because outsiders could not achieve the level of synergy they had. That synergy was extremely crucial, especially since the Midnight Inn granted them various benefits and formations, such as augmentations and the Midnight Mech.

Naturally, such a choice had many drawbacks. However, today, Lex could only appreciate the benefits of such an elite battalion. Although Lex was only working with 1% of his mental capacity, and even that was a bit of stretch practically speaking, he was more than capable of creating simple cultivation techniques and spiritual techniques.

The technique was limited to the human race because the broader its scope, the more difficult it would be to make the technique. So instead of lowering its difficulty level, Lex focused on developing its strength.

However, the reasonably quick pace they were at would require them to cultivate for at least one decade before the technique could be used. That was too long. Thus, Lex had to employ some desperate measures. Well, not really desperate - just slightly expensive.

Fortunately, Lex had ripped off- cough, no, fortunately Wu Kong had graciously contributed nine trillion Celestial Core Energy Sources, so a few thousand was a small price to pay to expedite the comprehension of his battalion. But he couldn’t overdo it. Comprehension, if forced, could permanently damage the battalion members, so he could only speed up their understanding of the technique to a certain extent.

In the end, Lex realized that this was a mental weakness he had, and he needed to work on it. After all, no one in the universe was completely omnipotent and omnipresent. Even Dao Lords could fall into traps and make mistakes.

As much as it went against the core purpose of cultivation to accept that some things were just outside his control or power, that’s exactly what he needed to do. So, until such a time that the battalion was ready, and Z finished working on the piece of the realm, he decided to simply meditate.

"Inner peace, inner peace, inner peace," Lex muttered to himself, as he tried to calm himself down. While he was not so far gone, if he could not get his mentality under control, he might develop a Heart Demon. In all his years cultivating, who could have guessed that it was a small baby who revealed the greatest weakness in Lex’s mentality?

Within the Dream realm, Almira looked outside her cage again. The scenery around her kept changing, but the cage around her never left - because it was not trapping her, it was protecting her.

Almira, despite being a baby, had a complex mind. While her desires and priorities remained that of a baby, during critical situations she could recognise right from wrong, and she knew that her situation wasn’t the best, which is why she obediently remained within her cage.

There was something about that baby which attracted it, so he had constantly tried to get to her, but the damn cage kept preventing him from reaching her. Fortunately, the cage’s power was only at the Earth Immortal realm, while the wolf was a Heaven Immortal, so over time it wore the cage down.

Without holding back, the wolf attacked again. Just as the cage was about to shatter, something unusual happened. Another power emerged from within the baby, and restored the cage to full strength. In fact, the cage felt even firmer than before.

"To whomever has triggered this projection, be warned! I am Lex Williams of the Midnight Inn, and this child is under my protection. Mercy is a trait I never picked up as a child, and forgiveness is not something I excel at either. Choose your next actions carefully."