'Alex, go back to sleep, go back to sleep...' He tried to resist the temptation.

'But it's a new land, new monsters, new people, and 'immortals', and sects!' However, another part of him brimmed with excitement.

This mental fight continued for a while.

'You know what? What am I going to lose if I check this out?' Alex had completely forgotten the events that followed when he decided to check out 'things' in Ctesiphon.

"AAAAAAA!" A scream awoke Alex from his trance, and he immediately opened the thick curtains and windows to check it out.

'Maybe they were attacked by ghosts! I need to help these two juniors!' Alex thought to himself as he looked down below.

A young man dressed in white robes was screaming as a slimy creature slid up his arms.

Upon closer inspection, the creature was simply a snail.

The 'Sister' the young man referred to earlier stood on the side, and a palm plastered itself on her face.

The young man had noticed Alex's presence and the two stared at each other.

This continued for a long time, but the older woman approached the porch beneath his window and bowed down.

"Sir, I apologize for my younger brother's lack of discipl-

"Sister? Why are you calling a beardless man 'Sir'?! He looks like he's half your age..."

Alex felt a vein creep upon his forehead.

'You brat! I'll show you what some of the 'beardless' gods back in Olympus can do to you!'

Ultimately, he cleared up his throat and replied, "It's alright, however, I cannot deny my interest in the matters you were speaking of earlier,"

Alex closed the curtains and windows behind him and jumped out.

The young man rashly interjected, "HAHAHAHAHA, you wish to vanquish some ghosts? Aren't you a foreign diplomat or something? Only immortals like us can heroically save the city!"

The older woman coughed and refuted, "Brother, you call ourselves 'immortals' like it's something great, don't you remember that we're only at the Foundation Establishment Stage? That's pretty bad for our age..."

Alex, out of interest, asked them, "Oh, you two are 'immortals'? You should be from the...Kunlun Mountain Sect then?"

The young man said something, but Alex ignored him and listed to the calm older woman's words.

"Yes, although we're at the lower ranks of the sect," The woman lamented.

"We just need to find a treasured weapon, Sister!" 

"Treasured tools are not like bok choy, moron!"

The interactions between the two siblings were pretty funny, and Alex watched them from the side with a wide grin.

"I believe we should introduce ourselves, I'm Alex, I come from the western lands on a diplomatic trip,"

The older woman grabbed her brother and the two bowed.

"I'm Ma Xuefeng, this is my younger brother Ma Guanting."

"So you are a diplomat? Where are you heading, then?" Ma Guanting excitedly asked him.

Alex tried to recall the name of the location Padmapani told them about.

"If I remember correctly, we're heading for the Kingdom of Pure Felicity and Heavenly Lights and Ornaments," Alex felt like that name was a bit too long for a kingdom.

The two stood up and faced him with a completely stunned expression.

"Sir, are you by any chance, going to the heavenly domain?" Ma Xuefeng listlessly inquired.

'Heavenly Domain? That should be where the Jade Emperor lives,' Alex nodded.

Ma Xuefeng then scolded her brother, "Brother! Why are you so unruly?!"

"Is there any problem?" 

Ma Xuefeng waved her hand and replied, "We were just surprised...However, you do know that the passage to the sacred kingdom only opens once every lunar crescent, Sir?"

'I...did not know that," Alex faced up at the night sky.

The moon was at its first quarter, which meant...

"We narrowly missed the crescent and now we have to wait almost a month?!" Alex accidentally exclaimed out loud.

Ma Guanting sneakily laughed at him.

"Unfortunately, that seems to be the case, Sir."

Alex was wallowing in his frustration when a screeching noise attracted all of their attention.

"What is that?!" Alex stared at the creature that was slowly approaching them.

"An average ghost, they are slow and sluggish, but they ruin farmland and cause mental anguish to mortals, we came here to vanquish these," Ma Xuefeng kindly explained to him.

The 'ghost' had a slimy and sticky body, and its eyes glowed an emerald green.

Alex didn't find it scary, as he had seen his fair share of terrifying creatures in Ctesiphon.

Prometheus turned from a palm-sized ball to his strange spear.

Alex charged at the ghost, and his spear inserted right into its body.

"Sir, normal weapons can't-

*Sizzle*

When the ghost's body came into contact with the red ruby, it started sizzling and vapor rose into the air.

A dozen seconds later, the ghost completely vaporized into nothingness.

"Sister, that's the kind of treasured weapon we need to start gaining Reverence Qi!" Ma Guanting loudly remarked.

However, Ma Xuefeng knocked him on the head and said, "Calm those scheming eyes of yours, Guanting!"

Alex chuckled and threw Prometheus over to the young man.

Ma Guanting happily caught the ball and played around with it.

"Sister, I'll try inserting my Reverence Qi into the weapon to see what it does!"

Following that, Prometheus turned into a liquid form as usual.

The weapon then became a large, silver shuriken.

In the center of the sharp, throwing weapon, a red ruby glowed menacingly.

Ma Guanting's eyes remained on Prometheus, and he proceeded to throw it into a wall.

Yet, he did not expect that when the shuriken landed on the wall, the entirety of the wall came crashing down.

"What a weapon..!" Ma Xuefeng exclaimed in admiration.

Alex cleared up his throat and said, "Well then, let's defeat this 'ghost general', shall we?"

Then, he turned to Ma Xuefeng and whispered, "Is the ghost general strong?"

"He's very strong for us, but I cannot determine if it would be the same for Esteemed Sir,"