Roland froze slightly. "Kid, you... how can you communicate with me using your consciousness?"
"You were summoned by me using the Human Path. Of course I can communicate with you." Alex’s voice already revealed deep exhaustion, yet it was incomparably urgent.
"Hero Roland, my Immovable Lord Technique can still delay them for a short while to buy you all time."
"I entrust you to act in my stead and lead the Hale family disciples present to break through the siege and retreat together."
"And the Wren family, Mire family, and the cultivators of the Heavenly Flame Dynasty on the periphery, flee Heavenly King Island at top speed!"
Roland froze, asking in astonishment. "Then... then what about you?"
"The one the Nether Earth Ghost King wants to kill most is me. I cannot leave." Alex narrowed his eyes and said decisively.
"After you leave, entrust all the major and minor affairs of the Hale family to the First Elder, Cedric."
"Have him seal the Holy Land, lock the gates, and cultivate the young disciples. They must not contend for supremacy with the outside world again."
"Without my protection, the various factions will inevitably act like a pack of wolves gnawing at a camel, pouncing on and tearing at the Hale family’s flesh and blood."
"Tell Cedric to abandon what must be abandoned, and sever what must be severed. As long as the Hale family’s incense and bloodline are preserved, everything else can be discarded!"
Hearing Alex actually entrusting his final arrangements to him, Roland’s heart felt incomparably heavy, he remained silent for a long time, then suddenly gritted his teeth, two beams of sharp light bursting from his eyes as if he had made up his mind.
"Kid, Roland has never abandoned his comrades to flee by himself."
"If you want to compete with me to be the hero, it will not be that easy!" After saying that, Roland leaped up and charged desperately into the distance.
The Nether Earth Ghost King froze slightly and did not command the four Human Butchers to take action, because at this moment, Roland was not charging up to support Alex.
Instead, he was charging in the opposite direction, heading toward the ground to the side.
"What is this old guy trying to do?" The Nether Earth Ghost King frowned slightly, pondered for a moment, and then sneered and shook his head.
"Heh, it seems like when disaster strikes, everyone flies their separate ways, he directly abandoned this kid."
"It is no wonder. In front of dozens of Human Butchers, anyone who dares to put up a stubborn resistance is merely a firefly trying to compete with the bright moon!"
He could not be bothered to pay attention to Roland anymore, his gaze fixed intently on Alex, anxious to destroy his Immovable Lord dharma idol and finish him off.
After leaping to the ground, Roland did not run away.
Instead, he charged with all his might toward a small hill piled with corpses.
From the mountain of corpses and sea of blood, he grabbed a gourd.
This was the Heaven and Earth Gourd left behind after Malakai was killed.
Roland stared at this gourd, wiped the dust off it, and a pleased smile hooked at the corners of his mouth. "Not bad, it is indeed the thing I was thinking of."
"The secret treasure passed down by the Gourd Wine Sect of the Southern Shamans Clan, the Heaven and Earth Gourd."
"I truly did not expect that after hunting down the Southern Shamans Clan for nearly a lifetime, I would ultimately have to rely on a Shaman’s item to decide the victor."
"So be it. As long as it can save the common people and live up to the name of a Hero, then it is enough!"
Immediately, Roland slung the gourd onto his back and charged desperately into mid-air once more.
The Nether Earth Ghost King did not take him seriously, not looking at him directly, nor noticing the extra gourd on his body, seeing Roland return after leaving, the Nether Earth Ghost King smiled contemptuously and waved his hand, commanding two Human Butchers to take his life.
"Scram, those who block me die!" Roland shouted explosively, gathering full strength in his fists and blasting them out fiercely, with a bang, he directly crushed the two Human Butchers into fine powder.
"Hmm?" The Nether Earth Ghost King frowned slightly, he had over forty Human Butchers, losing two due to a moment of negligence was nothing, but Roland charging toward Alex as desperately as a wild bull bred a trace of suspicion in his heart.
What exactly was this old guy trying to do?
"Hero Roland, what are you doing?" Alex furrowed his brows tightly and said anxiously.
"Did I not say for you to leave quickly?"
"Hehe, kid, in your dreams." Roland grinned and said freely.
"I was summoned out by you to save the common people and make the name of Roland resound across the world once again!"
"Wanting me to retreat for you while you stay behind to be the hero? It will not be that easy!"
Having said that, Roland opened the mouth of the Heaven and Earth Gourd, with his other hand, he formed a hand seal, a cold glint appearing in his eyes.
The Nether Earth Ghost King finally realized something, his pupils shrinking abruptly as he panicked. "Crap, finish him off quickly!"
"Heh, too late!" Roland narrowed his eyes and laughed mockingly.
"You ghost cultivator, using those immoral and cruel techniques of the Shamans to poison the common people and bring chaos to the world."
"Today, I will similarly use a shaman technique to shatter your ambitions!"
"Heaven and Earth Gourd, Activate!"
The next second, Roland blasted a palm strike onto the gourd.
The massive Heaven and Earth Gourd violently exploded with a bang, transforming into a black hole that emitted a terrifying suction force.
Under this terrifying suction, even these formidable Human Butchers were fundamentally unable to resist, being directly twisted and sucked inside.
"Bastard!" The Nether Earth Ghost King’s face revealed panic, desperately trying to control the Human Butchers to escape the black hole’s suction.