The only regret was that Alex was not here.
If he were, he would be able to see with his own eyes how his clansmen died under the meteor amidst despairing, helpless wails, his expression at that time would definitely be extremely spectacular.
However, in the instant when the meteor was only ten meters away from the ground, a figure stepped on an auspicious cloud and appeared beneath it.
It was exactly Alex.
"Alex!" With a single glance, Knox saw this enemy he dreamed about day and night, the one he obsessively longed to smash into ten thousand pieces, and thick killing intent flowed into his eyes.
Immediately, he continuously pushed his palms, channeling his full power to control the meteor’s descent, intending to crush Alex directly into fine powder.
Facing this meteor that radiated a doomsday-like oppressiveness, Alex was expressionless, calm, and unhurried.
Between the five fingers of both palms, blue light so pure it had materialized flowed out, and with a wave of his hands, he tossed it toward the sprawling heavens.
"Ice Age!"
Wherever the blue light touched, layers of ice manifested, spreading across a radius of a thousand miles in merely a single breath.
In an instant, the originally dark, oppressive sky presented a magnificent scene of vast azure under the illumination of the icy blue light.
And it was exactly this layer of cold ice, as thin as a cicada’s wing and seemingly too fragile to withstand the wind, that actually caused the unstoppable meteor to be frozen and locked in mid-air, halting its suffocating descent.
"S-Saint Lord!" Alex’s sudden arrival, like a god descending from the heavens, caused the despairing Hale family crowd to instantly feel as if they had grasped a lifesaving straw, their eyes revealing a gleam of hope and ecstasy.
"To actually throw such an exaggerated thing at my Hale family." Alex narrowed his eyes and sneered coldly.
"Turn to dust!"
"Shatter!"
Alex gathered his full strength in his left arm and threw a punch through the air.
The instant this punch was thrown, it was as if the world was put on mute, everyone felt an intense sense of deterrence, falling into breathless suffocation.
Crack... Crack...
After a long while, a series of fine cracking sounds broke the deathly silence. Centered on the direction of Alex’s fist, dense cracks appeared on the ice layer and the meteor.
The next second, the meteor that had just shrouded the entire Holy Land directly and violently exploded.
The scorching rubble collided with the low temperature of the shattered ice, instantly evaporating and turning into fine raindrops that slowly fell from mid-air.
Bathed in this pattering cold rain, the Hale family crowd finally let out heavy sighs of relief.
"We are... we are saved..."
Alex unhurriedly raised his head, looked at Knox in mid-air, and said flatly. "Knox, you were originally an item in my bag, a fish in the pond. It was only due to my momentary negligence that you managed to escape."
"I advise you, it is best to obediently surrender. This way, you can be spared the suffering of having your soul scattered."
"Hahahaha, Alex, is your brain broken?" Knox threw his head back and laughed wildly.
"Look at this young master’s current power. I am an existence on the same level as you."
"Right now, the person you need to look up to is me!"
"Offending me, Knox, is the doomsday of your Hale family!"
Knox took out a round orb from his robes and unhurriedly tossed it into mid-air.
The orb released a powerful suction force, and its target was none other than Lara, who was currently healing Tobias.
Lara was putting her full effort into saving Tobias’s life and simply could not dodge in time.
She was directly sucked up into mid-air, swallowed into the round orb, and landed in Knox’s hands.
"Bastard!" Cold intent burst from Alex’s eyes, summoning the Vault of Divine Mirror from his storage ring, his figure flashed as he teleported into mid-air, intending to snatch Lara back.
However, just as his full-strength strike was about to blast Knox into slag, a thick cluster of black fog emerged, appearing in front of Knox and blocking the strike.
"Saint Lord Alex, long time no see!" Seeing the face within the black fog, killing intent instantly burst from Alex’s eyes.
"It is you!"
"Garret!"
Like Knox, Garret had clearly also obtained a powerful force from an outside source, his body could now turn into black fog at will, immunizing external damage, and his cultivation had reached the peak of the Supreme Realm.
Just as Alex was using his domineering aura to suppress Garret’s soul and render him immobile, another cluster of black fog appeared behind Alex.
It was precisely the Nether Earth Ghost King holding a scepter, looking at him with a face full of mockery.
"Alex, you cannot blame me for not following martial ethics."
"If you want to blame someone, blame yourself for being arrogant and domineering, making too many enemies, and plunging yourself into an abyss of eternal damnation."
"Today is the day you die!"
"Ghost Soul Tribulation!" The Nether Earth Ghost King raised his scepter and summoned hundreds of pitch-black skulls, ruthlessly blasting them toward Alex.
Alex revealed a stern expression, he had no choice but to release Garret, turn his head, and wave his hand to blast out a cloud of blue mist, he froze all the skulls into ice, then shattered them with a palm strike.
However, when Alex turned back, Knox and Garret had already kidnapped Lara and vanished without a trace.
"Bastards..." Alex clenched his fists, intense killing intent bursting from his eyes.
The Nether Earth Ghost King raised his chin and sneered playfully. "Alex, it is time to properly settle the grievances between you and me."
"Today, in the name of the King of the Ghost Race, I declare war on your Hale family here and now!"
"Three days from now, I will execute that little girl we just captured at Heavenly King Island in the Southern Wasteland."
"If you all have the guts, then feel free to come and save her."