"Don't forget, I'm the strongest in the universe. You can't imagine the extent of my strength. If I was not sealed here, I could have even seen through your soul and know what kind of universe your soul has come from."
Upon hearing Alex's question, Atticus' chuckled and spoke.
Alex nodded and fell into deep thought. Some moments later, he asked: "Were always keeping an eye on me?"
"Something like that!"
Alex took a deep breath and then asked: "Then why did you never contact me before?"
"Because you never thought of coming back and taking the second trial," Atticus replied with an indifferent tone. And again spoke: "Anyway, I can teleport you out of there and send you back as well. Do you want to take the second trial?"
"Of course, I want to!" Alex immediately nodded his head.
The moment he said the above sentence, he felt a strong spatial fluctuation and the surroundings changed suddenly.
Alex doesn't know how and when, but he actually appeared in the Abyss, standing in front of a huge mountain. In the middle of the mountain, at a specific location, the words "Stairway to Chaos" was still the most eye-catching.
Just like when Alex arrived here for the first time, he raised his head and looked at the sky. Suddenly, the system's prompt appeared in front of his eyes.
[Name: Grand Heaven Illusion Formation.
[Name: Myriad Illusion Formations.
[Name: Ten Direction Illusion Array.
When Alex came here for the first time, he had noticed these illusion formations. The weakest of them was Royal Rank.
Alex had broken the Royal Rank illusion formation before climbing the mountain.
Every time he comes here; he has to break an illusion. Only then could he climb the mountain. Otherwise, he would always appear at the foot of the mountain even after climbing to the top.
There was another thing different from the previous time.
When Alex came to this place for the first time, there was an illusion formation that even his system could not see through.
But now, this has changed. Instead of the unknown, this appeared:
[Name: Grand Heaven Illusion Formation.
Alex could not understand why the system could now see through this illusion, but previously, it could not.
But, no matter how hard Alex thought, he failed to guess. He could only tell himself that the system succeeded in seeing through the formation because of his increase in strength.
Nevertheless, somewhere deep down in his heart, he knew he was just making things up to satisfy his own curiosity. But this is not the truth.
[Replication Successful! Congratulations to the Originator for replicating Emperor Grade Ten Direction Illusion Array!]
Alex replicated the formation and chose to fuse with it.
The next moment, a large amount of information rushed into his mind, and he soon understood everything about the Ten Direction Illusion Array.
Everything happened very quickly.
And with the help of the information, it didn't take long for Alex to break the Ten Direction Illusion Array.
After that, he started climbing the mountain. And very soon, he climbed half of the mountain and arrived in front of the mountain gate.
This mountain gate was exactly the same as what he saw the previous time he had come here. This gate seems magnificent to look at. It has the carving of many strange lifelike beasts on the surface.
Alex took a deep breath, stepped forward, and pressed on the door with one hand. Even before Alex could exert his strength, the mountain gate suddenly shook and slowly opened by itself.
As the mountain gate opened, extremely dense Chaos Energy surged out from within, causing Alex to feel as if all of his pores were opening by themselves under the influence of this Chaos Energy.
Yes, unlike last time when he opened the door and dense spiritual energy surged out from inside, this time Chaos Energy surged out instead of spiritual energy.
Taking a deep breath and suppressing his instinct of sitting cross-legged here to start cultivating, when he saw that the door was wide enough for him to enter, he stepped forward and entered.
But after entering, Alex appeared in a huge stone room. Other than a stone boulder of square shape, there was nothing else here. Even the concentration of Chaos Energy had been greatly reduced.
Everything was just like what happened when he come to this place for the first time.
Alex arrived in front of the boulder and tried to move it, just like what he did for the first time when he came here.
Suddenly, a beam of light emerged from it. With the appearance of this ray of light, the concentration of Chaos Energy in the air began to increase rapidly. In just a few seconds, it had reached a shocking level, and it was still increasing!
In contrast, that beam of light instantly expanded to three feet in that short amount of time, enveloping Alex completely within.
The concentration of Chaos Energy in the surroundings increased again and again, and very soon grey fog appeared and completely covered the entire stone room.
With every breath, Alex could absorb a large amount of Chaos Energy into the body. Every pore on Alex's body automatically opened up and started absorbing Chaos Energy.
The light beam continued for a full five minutes before it finally expanded to nearly ten feet wide and dispersed. What was left behind was a small and empty pool.
There used to be Earthly Spirit Milk in this small pool, but currently, it was empty.
Many emotions emerged in Alex's heart when he again saw this small pool. He could not help but remember the time when he first saw this pool and how shocked he had become at that time.
Very soon, the grey fog enveloping the room caused the disappearance of the empty small pool, and about two minutes later, the grey fog also disappeared.
And just like the previous time, a huge statue of a person, whose face couldn't be seen, appeared. Although Alex couldn't see the face of this person, he could still feel the majestic and domineering aura surging out from this statue.
This was just a statue, but it still had lifelike features, as if the statue was alive.
Obviously, this was the statue where Atticus was sealed. In fact, this statue itself was Atticus Finch himself.
Alex was waiting for the statue to change.
As expected, golden light soon glowed out of the statue and the statue slowly started to transform. At the same time, the statue started shrinking and stopped when it reached the size of an ordinary human adult from its previous massive size.
After that, the golden light started to disappear slowly, revealing human flesh and skin instead of a statue made up of some strange materials. When the golden light completely disappeared, Alex saw a domineering-looking middle-aged man standing in front of him.
This domineering-looking middle-aged man was none other than Atticus Finch, the strongest person in the universe.
There was a golden halo revolving behind Atticus's head and many long needles-like golden lights extending out from the halo in every direction.
Atticus was wearing a golden armor that made him look majestic. On top of that, the aura emitting from Atticus was so terrifying that made Alex almost kneel down in front of him.
This was exactly the feeling he had when he saw Atticus for the first time.
Thinking of the Law Grade Formation, Alex tried to see Atticus's attributes using his system. He wanted to test if he could see through Atticus or not.
However, the rising small hope inside his heart was burned the next instant. It is because what appeared in front of him was exactly the same attribute panel that Alex had seen when he had tried to see the attribute of Atticus for the first time.
Cultivation: Unknown.
Cultivation Talent: Unknown.
Unique Talent: Unknown.
Martial Skills: Unknown.
Cultivation Technique: Unknown.
Special Physique: Unknown.
Other Treasures: Unknown.]
Everything about Atticus was unknown. His system could not see-through Atticus at all.
Atticus smiled and said: "Welcome back, Alex White!"
Alex did not say anything. He just waited for Atticus to continue.
Atticus spoke: "Umm... When you came here for the first time, I had a special kind of feeling. It was as if those eyes of yours wanted to see through me. And this time, I had the same feeling as well."
"Why is it that every time you come, I feel like you are trying to spy on me."
Alex was shocked. He had never encountered a person who could feel that he was spying on their attributes, but this person standing in front of him could feel it.
Atticus was really terrifying.
What shocked Alex the most was what Atticus said next.
"If not for the fact I'm sealed here, and even Will of this Universe doesn't want to give me my freedom back and has strengthened the seal with the power of rules, I fear you would have seen through me quite easily!"
Only now did Alex get why he was unable to see through Atticus's attributes.