Chapter 25 – Flame
With a slight intention of his mind, the location of where Uncle Fu was appeared before Qin Yu's mind.
At this moment, several miles away from Qin Yu's courtyard manor, beside two pavilion buildings, one green and one red, Uncle Fu was smiling and chatting with Hong Yu and Lu Shui. Seeing Uncle Fu smiling wholeheartedly, it was evident that he was in a very cheerful mood.
With a step, Qin Yu's figure disappeared from the courtyard manor. When he reappeared, he had already arrived beside the three.
"Master." Upon seeing Qin Yu, Uncle Fu immediately greeted him with a bow.
The two girls, Hong Yu and Lu Shui, were beaming with smiles. They bowed and said with crisp voices. "Lord Qin Yu." The two girls, Hong Yu and Lu Shui, already knew about Qin Yu's strength. In the Divine Realm that possessed as many experts as the clouds in the sky, the two of them were extremely excited to follow such an expert like Qin Yu.
Qin Yu discovered that Hong Yu and Lu Shui were actually also level nine Demon Emperors.
"Hong Yu, Lu Shui, have the two of you managed to sense your Divine Tribulation?" Qin Yu asked.
With a scarlet red face, Hong Yu said in succession. "Lord QIn Yu, Lu Shui and I have already reached level nine Demon Emperor level a long time ago. Although neither of us have sensed our Divine Tribulation yet, according to the time the others from our Fish Clan have stayed in the level nine Demon Emperor level, we estimate that our Divine Tribulation would be coming soon."
Lu Shui opened her bright and intelligent eyes wide and said while looking at Qin Yu. "Lord Qin Yu, I have a matter that I wish to request Lord Qin Yu's help. May I know if it's possible for you to help me?"
"Go ahead." Said Qin Yu with a light smile.
Qin Yu wanted to know what exactly these two girls wanted to ask him.
"Hehe... us two sisters, back when we were still in that pond, we were bullied by the other male fish all the time. It was mainly because us sisters were the sort of fish that possessed extremely weak fighting power. Lord Qin Yu, is it possible for you to also bring them in here... so that we can properly teach them a lesson?!" Lu Shui's eyes were radiating with excitement.
Hong Yu also looked to Qin Yu with hope and expectation.
"Male?" Qin Yu was surprised.
How did he catch them so accurately? There were numerous fish in the pond. Back then, Qin Yu merely casually captured two fish Who would've expected that they would be the only females among those fishes and that all the rest of them are males.
"Sure, leave this matter to me." Qin Yu didn't mind about doing it. "May I ask how the two of you plan to punish them? If the hatred wasn't great, then a small punishment should do."
Hong Yu bulged her chest and said confidently. "Lord Qin Yu, you can rest assured. We would definitely not take their lives... humph humph." After she said those words, her nose frowned and she humphed twice.
Qin Yu shook his head and smiled.
Ever since Hong Yu and Lu Shui, these two girls, came to Jiang Lan's Realm, it was unknown if it was because there were scarcely any females in Jiang Lan's Realm, but Wu Lan and Wu He, the two ruler level demon beasts of the Divine Realm, were extremely good to the two girls. Qin Yu believed that once he got those other fish into Jiang Lan's Realm, Wu Lan and them would definitely help them out in teaching them a lesson.
"Hong Yu, Lu Shui, the two of you can return and rest first. Uncle Fu and I will be leaving Jiang Lan's Realm." Qin Yu said with a light smile.
"Yes, Lord Qin Yu."
Lu Shui and Hong Yu bowed respectfully. After that, the two of them returned back to their own pavilion buildings.
Uncle Fu was smiling with his eyes narrowed. "Master, these two girls, Hong Yu and Lu Shui, are extremely lively. In these past days, I've seen that even Young Master Hei Yu frequently displays a smile on his face."
"Mn, the number of people in Jiang Lan's Realm is too small. Hong Yu and Lu Shui possess very lively temperaments, they indeed brought a better mood to everyone here. Seeing their lively and quirky appearance, even my mood has become a lot more relaxed." Qin Yu looked to Uncle Fu. "Uncle Fu, let's go out. I have still yet to finish experimenting with my formation arrays."
"Yes, master." Uncle Fu nodded respectfully.
Just like that, Qin Yu and Uncle Fu disappeared from Jiang Lan's Realm.
The current Mount Bewitch You was incomparably desolate. It had been burned to the ground by the Extremely Silent Heavenly Flames. The entire mountain had turned barren. The rocks and stones that were burned by the flames had decayed to a grayish black color. A lot of the stones and rocks were also cracked by the burning.
All the trees had turned to ashes. Those large craters on the mountain were completely visible.
On top of this bare and desolate Mount Bewitch You, Qin Yu and Uncle Fu suddenly appeared. Qin Yu and Uncle Fu looked to their surroundings. Both of them displayed a disbelieving and shocked expression.
"Master, here..." Uncle Fu's brows were completely creased.
Qin Yu looked at the extremely desolate Mount Bewitch You before him. The former enchanting sceneries of this mountain appeared before his mind. The rumbling waterfall, the clear pond water and the animals running around the mountain forest.
"This is Mount Bewitch You?" Qin Yu looked at some of the stones that had been split apart by the burning. He suddenly turned his gaze towards his house that was on Mount Bewitch You.
Like a sharp arrow, Qin Yu flew towards the location of his previous house. As for Uncle Fu, he was like a wind elegantly drifting through Mount Bewitch You. Easily, the two of them arrived by the location where Qin Yu's house used to be.
"This was the pond that Hong Yu and Lu Shui used to be in." Qin Yu looked to that large pit. The form of the pond was still present, however the pond water, as well as those fish, were gone.
Qin Yu felt a burst of anger.
Ever since he started experimenting with the formation arrays, Qin Yu did not have the intention to kill those from the Black Dragon Pool. For the majority of the time, he had spared them when he could spare them. For example, those that had originally been trapped in his Trapping Array were all able to leave with their lives intact.
Even that Heavenly Deity Xiong Hei, Qin Yu also did not kill him.
When he said that he wanted him to kowtow, that was merely a joke. However, Xiong Hei ended up really kowtowing to him. Qin Yu didn't mind about that either. To the current him, that was merely a game.
If he truly wanted to kill Xiong Hei?
If he wanted, he would've been able to easily kill Xiong Hei just by utilizing his Divine Spear Waning Snow. After all, Qin Yu's ability to control space was equivalent to that of Xiong Hei's. Yet, with the Divine Spear Waning Snow, his attack power would greatly surpass Xiong Hei's!
"Master, Hong Yu and Lu Shui, those two girls asked you to..." At this point, Uncle Fu stopped talking.
Qin Yu also frowned. It was likely that Hong Yu and Lu Shui still didn't know that the fish that used to fool around with them and bully them, had already been burned to nothingness and their souls scattered.
"Master, there is no need for you to be compassionate and merciful in the Divine Realm. You spared their lives yet they came and burned down your entire Mount Bewitch You. What you should do now is to demonstrate your might." Said Uncle Fu beside Qin Yu in a light voice.
Uncle Fu understood in his heart that this master of his, although he cannot be considered as being extremely compassionate and merciful, he was still not quite fierce enough.
Had it been the Craftsman God Chehou Yuan, he would've long since killed those that dared act disrespectful towards him, without a care of other things. This was something that those who had reached the higher level of cultivation all understood... the law of the heavens was merciless, to kill and not to kill; one's nature, whether treacherous or kindhearted, did not matter when comprehending the laws of the heavens.
All the roads were interlinked.
Among the Three Great Ascenders Powers of the Divine Realm, the Asura Sea and the Mount Blood Demon were both famous for their slaughter. Actually, slaughtering others was a method that allowed one to increase one's strength even easier. It was a way that allowed one to reach the Great Dao easier.
"Master, although we still cannot determine which one of the Eight Great Families Jiang Li is from, but master, if you wish to obtain the acknowledgement from the Eight Great Families, you must possess sufficient strength and status. As for now, what you should do is to create fame for yourself through might." Advised Uncle Fu.
The Divine Realm was a place where the strong ruled. No one in the Divine Realm would have pity upon a compassionate and merciful person. A person could only rely on himself. Likewise, one's status could only be won over by oneself. One's honor could only be defended by oneself.
"Uncle Fu, let's go. We'll be going to the Black Dragon Pool!"
Said Qin Yu coldly. He turned around and looked to the north. The Black Dragon Pool was located several thousand miles to the north. This time around... Qin Yu had finally decided. The current him still did not have the qualifications to receive the acknowledgement from the Eight Great Families. However, a mere Black Dragon Pool actually dared to look down upon him?
"Don't force me to use Waning Snow." Qin Yu thought in his heart.
The Divine Spear Waning Snow possessed strength of a second-rate Grandmist Spiritual Treasure to begin with. And now, it had started absorbing the Dark and Yellow Energy. Although it had merely absorbed a very small portion, Qin Yu was still able to clearly sense the increase in power that the Divine Spear Waning Snow had.
"Yes, master!" Uncle Fu immediately displayed an excited expression.
Uncle Fu felt as if he had returned back to the days when he was together with Chehou Yuan where they would move about unhindered in the Divine Realm and no one would dare to be disrespectful to them.
Qin Yu and Uncle Fu left the Mount Bewitch You one following the other. As they were leaving the Mount Bewitch You, Qin Yu saw the shattered 'Mount Bewitch You' stele.
Qin Yu was flying a foot above the ground. As for Uncle Fu, he was gracefully drifting. If one were to compare speed, much less Qin Yu, even a High Level Heavenly Deity would be inferior to Uncle Fu.
The two of them were relatively fast. In merely two hours, they had arrived at the main area of the Black Dragon Pool.
"This Black Dragon Pool also possesses quite an enchanting scenery." Qin Yu raised his head and looked to the unending mountain range before him. He was unable to refrain from smiling lightly. When they were flying over, Qin Yu and Uncle Fu have already discovered numerous troops of the Black Dragon Pool. Merely, because the two of them were flying so fast, they were easily able to pass through without alarming those troops and arrive outside of the Black Dragon Pool.
Uncle Fu pointed to the mountain range ahead and said. "Master, the Black Dragon Pool is located in the ravine within those highest mountains. Inside the ravine is a large lake. That lake is called the Black Dragon Pool. To the side of the Black Dragon Pool are four palaces. The one in the middle is called the Black Dragon Palace. As for the other three, they are the palaces of the other three Low Level Heavenly Deitieis."
"There is no need to bother with the small fries. We shall proceed directly towards those four palaces." After Qin Yu finished saying that, his speed reached its peak. Like a rapid specter, he followed the mountain range and entered the ravine. As for Uncle Fu, he was effortlessly following behind Qin Yu.
Flying in the mountain range, without alarming anyone, Qin Yu and Uncle Fu had arrived outside of the ravine.
Standing on a mountain top outside of the ravine.
Qin Yu was able to see the ravine located between the couple mountains with a single glance. This ravine was enormous. It possessed the circumference of a hundred or two hundred miles. The Black Dragon Pool had occupied more than half of the entire ravine. Such a large ravine was truly something that was rarely seen.
"Uncle Fu, from today on, in front of others, I shall pretend to be an expert who is extremely proficient in utilizing flames. My body's True Flame has already reached the White Pure Flame level. Using flames... should be sufficient." Said Qin Yu with a smile on his face.
Having reached the Universe Stage, the True Flame within Qin Yu's body had turned into White Pure Flame. This had caused Qin Yu's strength when using his Grandmist Spiritual Treasure 'Refining Flame Wristband' to be even stronger. The power that the Refining Flame Wristband displayed was determined firstly by the degree of its refinement and secondly by the level of one's True Flames.
Uncle Fu nodded in approval. "Master, you are now capable of covering the entire heaven and earth with Black Divine Flames. Even the White Pure Flames, I reckon you're capable of creating several tens of meters of White Pure Flames. Furthermore, you are now capable of emitting a small amount of 'Void Flames.' Back then, when my old master utilized flames, he too had only reached this level."
Chehou Yuan was a High Level Heavenly Deity. His body's True Flame was also White Pure Flame. Even though he possessed the Refining Flame Wristband, he was only capable of emitting a small amount of 'Void Flames.' However, even though it was only a small amount, it was sufficient enough to create artifacts with.
Flames: Black Divine Flame, White Pure Flame, Void Flame.
The Void Flame was the True Flame of Godking level experts. The Refining Flame Wristband that was created through using nine Purple Origin Flame Beads, was sufficient enough to allow a Heavenly Deity level expert to emit a very small amount 'Void Flames.'
"Hey, who are you? How come I have never seen you before?" Suddenly, a man in the ravine saw Qin Yu who stood above the ravine. He immediately shouted at Qin Yu.
Qin Yu lightly smiled. Like a great Peng spreading its wings, Qin Yu flew past the sky above the ravine and arrived outside the four palaces. With an illusion-like speed, Qin Yu was executing numerous hand seals with his hands. A countless amount of black colored light started to drift above the four palaces.
In an instant, all the troops of the Black Dragon Pool within the ravine became noisy. Countless Deities started gathering here from all directions.
"Heavenly Deity, it's a Heavenly Deity. My wife, quickly, hide ourselves. We cannot interfere in a battle between Heavenly Deities." A youth pulled a woman beside him and started fleeing far away.
"I have never seen this Heavenly Deity before. He's not a Heavenly Deity from Mount Cold Gold nor is he a Heavenly Deity from the Mount Three Forks. When did our Black Dragon Pool make a new enemy?" Said a bald headed old man in confusion.
"That person seems to be the Heavenly Deity from Mount Bewitch You." Said a youth that had gone to Mount Bewitch You with the army close to ten thousand people last time around.
The three bandit groups outside of Yuchi City were respectively the Black Dragon Pool, Mount Cold Gold and Mount Three Forks. These three powers would frequently battle each other.
Amidst the noise, the three Heavenly Deities of the Black Dragon Pool... Xiong Hei, Mei Ji and Daoist Liu Xu had all rushed out from their respective palaces. Once they saw that Qin Yu was in the sky, Mei Ji and Daoist Liu Xu's expression changed. As for Xiong Hei, he had instantly exposed anger on his face.
"Qin Yu, you actually dared to run over to our Black Dragon Pool. You truly have balls!" Xiong Hei extended his arm and the enormous spiked club appeared in his hand.
Qin Yu had also finished arranging his hand seals. Suddenly, a black cover lay over the area, concealing the sky. The cover was enormous. It covered all four palaces. Suddenly, an unfathomable amount of black flames started appearing from the black cover...
"A simple Trapping Array supplemented by the attack of Divine Flames." Said Qin Yu with a light smile. "Xiong Hei, you people have burned down my Mount Bewitch You. Today... I shall burn down your Black Dragon Pool!"
Chapter 26 – Divine Sword 'Scarlet Blood.'
That black cover had covered all four palaces and even the area ten miles surrounding the four palaces. On top of the black cover were soaring Black Divine Flames. The countless number of Black Divine Flames were like vipers, as they charged towards the four palaces and the people inside the cover.
There were about several thousands of people surrounded by the cover. Among those people were the three Heavenly Deities.
All these several thousand peoples were enduring the Divine Flames. Each and every one of them were trying their best to search for a way out of this 'Trapping Array.' With the strength of these Heavenly Deities, they were capable of withstanding the Divine Flames for some time.
Mei Ji, Daoist Liu Xu and Xiong Hei were together.
"This formation array is completely covered with Divine Flames. Furthermore, these Divine Flames possess such an intense color." Mei Ji frowned. Covering the surface of her body was a layer of jade green colored Heavenly Divine Energy.
With the protection of the Heavenly Divine Energy, the Divine Flames could not do any damage to her. Daoist Liu Xu and Xiong Hei also had their bodies covered in a layer of Heavenly Divine Energy.
"There are not many Heavenly Deities in the Divine Realm that are proficient in using flames to attack. This Qin Yu let out this many Divine Flames using his formation array, furthermore, looking at how densely black those Divine Flames are, they are definitely extremely strong." Gasped Daoist Liu Xu.
Although they might all be Black Divine Flames, there still existed qualitative differences between the might of the flames. Would the True Flame of a High Level Deity be the same as that of a Low Level Deity?
Even the 'color' black had different shades. They were separated into grayish black, black and dense black.
"Liu Xu, enough of the useless words, quickly break apart this formation array so that we can get out." Said Xiong Hei discontentedly.
Daoist Liu Xu was the number one expert of formation arrays in the Black Dragon Pool. However, he shook his head and said. "If I want to break this formation array, I would require at least an hour of careful inspection. However, if we merely want to get out of this formation array, then it's actually not too hard."
"In that case, let us out of it quickly." Xiong Hei shouted. The deaths of the other several thousands of people of the Black Dragon Pool was not something that Xiong Hei cared about.
To the Black Dragon Pool, the loss of several thousand people was not significant at all. What Xiong Hei wanted to do the most right now, was to get out of this great formation array and then go and kill Qin Yu.
"Okay, in that case I'll... get out of the way!" Daoist Liu Xu's expression suddenly changed. Not only him, even Mei Ji and Xiong Hei's expression had changed. They all rushed to dodge.
Two half a man sized White Pure Flame fireballs were flying toward them rapidly. Right after the three of them dodged the two White Pure Flame fireballs, the two fireballs brushed past them and flew into the countless number of Black Divine Flames several tens of meters behind them.
"It's White Pure Flames. Last time in the Mount Bewitch You, that Qin Yu also used White Pure Flames to attack me. This Qin Yu is an expert of using flames. Quickly, we need to get out." Xiong Hei grew anxious.
Mei Ji also looked to Daoist Liu Xu anxiously. "Big Brother Liu, quickly, bring us out of this formation array. That White Pure Flame is too powerful."
Inside the formation array, the Black Divine Flames had covered the entire place. As for the White Pure Flames, they were only able to be barely noticed when they were several tens of meters away from them. If they were careless for just a second, it would be possible for them to be burned by the White Pure Flames.
"Okay, wait a moment." Daoist Liu Xu breathed in a mouthful of air. He then executed several tens of hand seals in succession. Suddenly, marks, seals, and symbols appeared on the black cover. Daoist Liu Xu carefully inspected those marks, seals and symbols.
Mei Ji and Xiong Hei didn't dare to urge or disturb Daoist Liu Xu. All they could do was to wait anxiously.
"Okay. Remember to follow behind me." The space surrounding Daoist Liu Xu started to distort. The space ten meters surrounding him became a burst of ripples.
Mei Ji and Xiong Hei followed behind Daoist Liu Xu. The three of them rapidly proceeded onward. After moving for a short time, Daoist Liu Xu would throw out a couple Divine Seals to examine and inspect ahead.
"Rumble~~~"
The palace with the strongest defense, the final palace, the Black Dragon Palace, also started to loudly collapse. Under the burning of the Black Divine Flames, the palace's protective barrier had been completely destroyed. The black pillars and golden steps of the Black Dragon Palace... have all turned to ashes as they were burned by the Black Divine Flames.
As for Lord Xiong's Palace and the other two palaces, they had long since been burned to ashes at the beginning.
Inside the Black Divine Flames, there were still over a thousand people struggling for their lives. As for the Low Level Deities and Mid Level Deities, they had been burned to ashes after enduring for a short amount of time. As for the High Level Deities, they managed to endure for a longer period of time. Although they were consuming their Divine Energy rapidly, their bodies were extremely valiant. It was only as time passed that they started to gradually become unable to withstand the flames anymore.
"Ahh~~~" After persisting for a long time, a High Level Deity that had already exhausted all his Divine Energy and still continued to persist for a cup of tea's time, was finally unable to withstand the Divine Flames any longer.
Like a burned up piece of rock, his body started to crack. As his blood started bleeding out from the cracks, the Black Divine Flames rushed into his body. His internal organs instantly turned to ashes. Even his brain was burned to ashes.
"Second brother Yang!"
A black clothed middle aged man beside him was howling with grief. The black clothed middle aged man's dark golden colored Divine Energy was continuously resisting the Divine Flames. However, as the Divine Flames were continuously burning, even though his strength had reached the peak of High Level Deity, his Divine Energy was still close to being completely exhausted.
When undergoing the Divine Tribulation, one merely had to resist the Divine Flames for close to a breath's time. Furthermore, the Divine Flames from that time were not that powerful.
However now, the Divine Flames had burned for half an hour already. Furthermore, the might of these Divine Flames was much stronger than that of the Divine Tribulation... Even a High Level Deity was unable to resist being burned by the Divine Flames for so long.
"Second brother Yang, Lord Xiong Hei has actually given up on us." That middle aged man's heart was filled with grief and indignation. He knew that he was about to be unable to resist the Divine Flames anymore.
At the moment before his death, he clearly remembered the days that he had spent with his second brother Yang in the Black Dragon Pool. They killed, robbed, and pillaged treasures from ascenders...
"Second brother Yang, it had always been us killing others and robbing their things. Never would I have expected that today, we would be burned to death." The middle aged man sighed. And at this moment, a lump of White Pure Flames was rapidly shot at him from behind.
The middle aged man did not have enough time to dodge at all. His skull was directly vaporized by the White Pure Flames.
In the great formation array, other than the omnipresent Black Divine Flames, there were also a small number of White Pure Flames. By the time Daoist Liu Xu guided Mei Ji and Xiong Hei out from the great formation array, there were less than a hundred people alive in the formation array.
The sounds of miserable shrieks and raging curses persisted continuously.
There were those that cursed the Heavens, those that cursed the person who set up the formation array and even those that cursed Xiong Hei... the majority of these people did not know of Qin Yu's name. Thus, they could only curse 'that scoundrel who had set up the formation array.'
Once Xiong Hei, Daoist Liu Xu and Mei Ji managed to escape the great formation array and felt the refreshing wind of the ravine, they were unable to help themselves from feeling a bust of relaxation.
"Xiong Hei, you son of a bitch!"
The raging curses were still sounding in the great formation array. Although the number of people who were cursing was decreasing continuously, there were still people cursing.
Xiong Hei turned around and looked to that cover filled with Black Divine Flames. He coldly humped and said. "You do not have the strength to escape, what does your death have to do with me?" Xiong Hei did not care about those people who were still trapped or had already been burned in the formation array.
Suddenly, Xiong Hei turned his head around and looked to the location where Qin Yu was previously at. Mei Ji and Daoist Liu Xu have also looked over there.
At this moment, Qin Yu was standing in the sky. His black gown was drifting in the wind.
"Xiong Hei, you'd best listen carefully. Last time, I spared your life in my Trapping Array. Granted you are not grateful but actually dared to burn down my Mount Bewitch You. Today, I have came to let you know that since I am able to trap you once, I am capable of trapping you for a second time. Furthermore... as I can trap you, I can also kill you!"
Qin Yu's gaze was extremely cold.
"Qin Yu, humph, you have let me go but you also want me to be grateful of you? Haha. You dumb fool. So long as I can catch you, I will definitely kill you." Xiong Hei loudly laughed.
Qin Yu sneered in his heart. This Xiong Hei actually thought that he was unable to capture him and kill him?
Qin Yu then pointed to a formation array of a mile circumference below him. "You have also seen this Killing Array before. This is the same fire attribute Killing Array from Mount Bewitch You. This formation array has already been improved by me. If you have the ability, try charging into it again."
After he finished saying that, Qin Yu flew into the formation array. When Qin Yu flew into the formation array, the formation array did not attack him.
During the period of time when Xiong Hei and them were trapped, Qin Yu had plenty of time to set up this Killing Array. As it was the second time Qin Yu set up this Killing Array, it was much easier and faster for him to set it up.
"If you have the ability, then charge in. I shall wait for you in this Killing Array." Said Qin Yu with a light smile.
Xiong Hei looked at the great formation array before him. His eyes started to narrow. Daoist Liu Xu hurriedly said. "Big Brother Xiong Hei, this formation array is a fire attribute great attacking array. Its attack might is definitely much stronger compared to the Trapping Array from earlier. That formation array ought to be filled with White Pure Flames."
"I know. I experienced it last time myself." Xiong Hei shouted with a low voice. He still remembered the scene where White Pure Flames had covered him from all directions. Had it not been for the fact that the great formation array malfunctioned and collapsed on its own, then he might've already lost his life.
Having experienced it once and almost losing his life, how would Xiong Hei dare to enter it again?
As for Qin Yu, he just looked at Xiong Hei from within the great formation array. Qin Yu had already anticipated, that this Xiong Hei would likely not dare to charge into the formation array. The reason why Qin Yu arranged this formation array was merely there to horrify the Black Dragon Pool.
"Qin Yu, if you have the skills then come out and fight me!" Xiong Hei held his spiked club with one hand and shouted angrily. At the same time, Xiong Hei was sending a voice transmission via Divine Awareness to Daoist Liu Xu and Mei Ji. "Liu Xu, Mei Ji, when that Qin Yu comes out from his great formation array and fights me, the two of you are to seize the opportunity, surround him and kill him with me."
One against one?
Xiong Hei had tried it before. With Qin Yu's flying speed and agility, Xiong Hei was simply unable to catch up to him at all. Even if Qin Yu didn't attack him, it would likely still end up with Xiong Hei being trapped in Qin Yu's formation array.
Thus, he could only attack from all sides with three people!
"Big Brother Xiong Hei, you can rest assured. We will definitely capture and kill him." Said Daoist Liu Xu via Divine Awareness Voice Transmission. Mei Ji also voiced her approval. "Big Brother Xiong, my 'Poisonous Soul Hook' is no joke."
Xiong Hei's face was filled with confidence. He shouted to Qin Yu. "Qin Yu, what's wrong? You don't dare to come out?"
Qin Yu flew out from the formation array with a smile on his face. He extended his hand and a scarlet sword appeared in his hand. A drop of blood appeared in Qin Yu's fingertip. He dripped it on that scarlet sword.
Qin Yu had obtained sixty eight Heavenly Divine Artifacts from the Artifacts Palace of the Bewitching God Temple. He had also obtained a series of Low Quality Heavenly Divine Artifacts from the Bewitching God Temple's courtyard. Among them, the ones from the Artifacts Palace was possessed stronger attack power. Among these sixty eight Heavenly Divine Artifacts, four of them were High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifacts.
Among the four High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifacts, one was a sword. Its name was 'Scarlet Blood.'
The Heavenly Divine Sword Scarlet Blood was scarlet all around. It was a fire attribute Divine Sword and possessed the special effect of 'sharpness.'
Usually, only High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifacts and a small part of Mid Quality Heavenly Divine Artifacts would possess special effects. These special effects also determine the Heavenly Divine Artifact's might. 'Sharpness' was a pretty good special effect.
However, the Divine Spear Waning Snow was much more amazing. It possessed two special effect... 'Body Break' and 'Devouring Soul.' Furthermore, 'Devouring Soul' was a special effect that usually only amazing Grandmist Spiritual Treasures possessed.
"You have a Heavenly Divine Artifact?" Xiong Hei opened his eyes wide in shock. He looked at the Divine Sword Scarlet Blood that Qin Yu held in his hand.
Qin Yu smiled and nodded. "This sword is a Heavenly Divine Artifact. It's name is 'Scarlet Blood.' Xiong Hei, last time when I fought you I merely did so to experiment my formation arrays. Since you wanted to fight to the death with me, then I shall also use my Heavenly Divine Artifact to give you enough face."
Qin Yu didn't dare to mention that Heavenly Divine Sword Scarlet Blood was a 'High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact.' He was afraid that this Xiong Hei would be scared running. Having a powerful weapon was sufficient enough to allow one to skip levels and fight someone stronger than oneself.
"Big Brother Xiong, be careful." Mei Ji and Liu Xu were both a bit tensed. They were no longer as relaxed as they were earlier.
Heavenly Divine Artifacts, in the Black Dragon Pool, were items that only Lord Black Dragon and Xiong Hei possessed. Xiong Hei's Heavenly Divine Artifact was bestowed to him by Lord Black Dragon. As for Mei Ji and Liu Xu, the two of them did not have any Heavenly Divine Artifacts at all.
Thus, one could see how precious a Heavenly Divine Artifact was!
There was even less of a need to mention how precious a High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact that possessed might comparable to a third-rated Grandmist Spiritual Treasure was. Even among the Eight Great Families, unless one possessed enough strength and status, one would not be able to obtain a High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact.
"Are you scared?' Qin Yu lightly smiled and said.
And at this moment, there were several hundreds of thousands of people surrounding them and watching. Over half of the entire Black Dragon Pool's troops had gathered in the surroundings to watch the upcoming battle.
"Scared?' Xiong Hei sneered. "Come at me!" Xiong Hei, who was close to three meters tall, was holding the spiked club in his hand while emitting a domineering aura.
Qin Yu glanced at Daoist Liu Xu. "I remember that you're called Daoist Liu Xu! Earlier, you led Xiong Hei and Mei Ji and escaped the great formation array that I had set up. You ought to be relatively proficient in formation arrays. It is you who have created a formation array and burned down the Mount Bewitch You, right?"
"Precisely." Said Daoist Liu Xu with a smile on his face.
"Fuck, enough of this bullshit." Xiong Hei cursed in rage. Like a lightning, Xiong Hei streaked across the sky. His spiked club arrived before Qin Yu.
Qin Yu effortlessly moved his body and gracefully made an arc in the sky. His movement was extremely graceful and quick, causing the people surrounding and watching them to become unable to help themselves from acclaiming. And at this moment, Qin Yu had already arrived in the airspace above Daoist Liu Xu and Mei Ji.
Mei Ji and Daoist Liu Xu glanced at each other. The two of them both said to each other via Divine Awareness Voice Transmission. "An opportunity!"
At this moment, Xiong Hei was roaring in rage. With an boundless amount of power, as if ripping apart the space, Xiong Hei was rapidly charging toward Qin Yu. His spiked club that was shining with an ice-cold light, ruthlessly came smashing downwards towards Qin Yu's head.
At this moment, Daoist Liu Xu and Mei Ji also suddenly soared to the sky.
"What!" The several hundred thousand people who stood around and was watching the fight bursted into a clamor. They're actually fighting three against one?
Qin Yu discovered this scene with his Divine Awareness. A smile, however, appeared on his face. His figure started flying backwards rapidly. At the same time, the Heavenly Divine Sword Scarlet Blood in his hand streaked across the sky. Like a waterfall, an unfathomable number of sword silhouettes streaked across the spiked club before him.
"Break!" Qin Yu lightly shouted.
Xiong Hei's complexion suddenly turned pale like white paper.
That enormous spiked club with a size close to four meters had actually been split in half. The roughly half a meter long piece that was cut off actually started falling from the sky. With a 'Bang!" it smashed into the ground.
The several hundred thousands of people that surrounded the ravine of the Black Dragon Pool, watching the battle, had all grown silent.
Chapter 27 – Poisonous Soul Hook
The boss of the Black Dragon Pool, Lord Black Dragon, had long since disappeared. Usually, it would be the three Heavenly Deities that controlled the entire Black Dragon Pool. Among the three Heavenly Deities, only Xiong Hei possessed a Low Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact. The other two did not possess a Heavenly Divine Artifact at all. Usually, Mei Ji and Liu Xu would even be envious of Xiong Hei's Heavenly Divine Artifact.
In the hearts of everyone in the Black Dragon Pool, Heavenly Divine Artifacts were things that were indestructible!
However today, in front of several hundred thousand people, the indestructible Low Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact Spiked Club 'Mountain Crusher', had been cut in half by that scarlet colored sword.
A section close to a meter long had smashed onto the ground. However, it felt as if it had smashed onto Xiong Hei's heart.
"How is that possible?" Xiong Hei was completely dumbfounded. His complexion turned deathly pale.
Daoist Liu Xu and Mei Ji who were originally planning to surround Qin Yu also abruptly stopped in their tracks. The two of them flew to Xiong Hei. They looked to the scarlet Heavenly Divine Sword that Qin Yu held in his hands. Their gazes were filled with astonishment!
They were frightened still.
The entire 'Black Dragon Pool' ravine had grown silent for a long period of time. Suddenly, clamor like thunder rolls started sounding. Everyone had grown excited. With blazing hot gazes, they all looked to the scarlet Heavenly Divine Sword that Qin Yu held in his hand.
"Only an even more powerful Heavenly Divine Artifact would be able to cut apart a Heavenly Divine Artifact!" All the Deities watching the battle from below were all discussing with one another.
These Deities only knew that Heavenly Divine Artifacts were the most powerful weapon. With the status that these people possessed, they simply did not have the qualifications to know of the existence of Grandmist Spiritual Treasures. Thus, they had determined that the scarlet Heavenly Divine Sword that Qin Yu held in his hand was a stronger Heavenly Divine Artifact than the Spiked Club 'Mountain Crusher.'
The gale whistle through the ravine. Qin Yu's long hair was gracefully drifting in the wind. In his hand held the Heavenly Divine Sword Scarlet Blood. He looked at the three people before him.
"Are you afraid?" Said Qin Yu with a smile on his face.
The gazes that Daoist Liu Xu and Mei Ji looked to Qin Yu, and the Heavenly Divine Sword Scarlet Blood that he held, contained both shock and fear. As for Xiong Hei, he was shivering as he continued to look at the spiked club that he held in his hand that was missing a section.
The badly damaged spiked club's might had already been decreased greatly. However, if one were to just compare its might, then it was still a bit stronger than a High Quality Divine Artifact.
"If you all aren't going to attack, then I'll take the initiative." Qin Yu held the Heavenly Divine Sword Scarlet Blood with one hand. Suddenly, a layer of white flames started to burn on the surface of the Heavenly Divine Sword Scarlet Blood. As a fire attribute Heavenly Divine Artifact, it was capable of using flames to attack.
Upon seeing the White Pure Flames, Mei Ji and them were once again shaken.
The hundreds of thousands of people watching below had once again held their breaths. This was a battle that was worthy enough for them to flaunt to others about in the future. Even though they were merely watching from the sidelines.
"Mei Ji, Liu Xu, let's risk it all, with all our strength. Mei Ji... all we can do now is to see whether that move of yours would be successful. If it isn't, then we can only violate the orders given by Lord Black Dragon." Said Xiong Hei via Divine Awareness Voice Transmission.
Daoist Liu Xu and Mei Ji both nodded.
Unless it was the final moment, they did not wish to bother Lord Black Dragon. That was because in order for them to get into contact with Lord Black Dragon, they must do so at a designated time. If they were to go and suddenly disturb him, the fury that Lord Black Dragon would display was not something that they could bear.
Mei Ji and Liu Xu's figure suddenly moved. Like the wings of a butterfly, with an extremely natural appearance, the two of them drifted to the two sides. Daoist Liu Xu and Mei Ji's bodies were immediately covered with jade green colored radiance.
"Yaha~~"
A violent roar. All Xiong Hei's muscles had bulged up violently. The 'tss tss~~~" sound continued to echo. Those muscles that swelled to two or three times their original size were reddened with blood. Furthermore, Xiong Hei's bones had also started to echo eerie sounds.
Slowly, his body started to lengthen, his muscles started to expand. Xiong Hei was also howling in a low voice. The corners of his eyes started to rip apart. The veins on his face appeared like blue snakes swimming about his face. They were completely bulged up.
"Seems like they're giving their all!" Qin Yu gazed at his surroundings and displayed an excited expression.
It had been a long time since he fought others!
Stopping in the airspace left to him was Daoist Liu Xu. Daoist Liu Xu held a green willow branch like item in his hand. His eyes had turned dark green. It was extremely peculiar.
Stopping in the airspace right of him was Mei Ji. At this moment, a dark black colored battle armor had appeared on Mei Ji's body. Her eyes had turned ice-cold. She no longer displayed even the slightest amount of the seductive appearance that she had before.
Holding the badly damaged spiked club with two hands, Xiong Hei's biceps were so bulged that even the veins and arteries were clearly visible.
"Hooh~~~"
A loud shout. Xiong Hei turned into a blur. In a snap of a finger's time, he had moved a hundred meters and arrived before Qin Yu. The damaged spiked club came smashing downwards at Qin Yu.
And at the same moment, Mei Ji and Daoist Liu Xu's attacks had also arrived at Qin Yu.
Daoist Liu Xu instantly threw out ten soft green willow branches. He was trying to bind Qin Yu.
As for Mei Ji, she held an extremely ordinary High Quality Divine Sword and slashed towards Qin Yu.
"That Daoist Liu Xu's attack technique is so strange." Qin Yu's figure twisted strangely. He moved a distance of around twenty centimeters and avoided the incoming spiked club. At the same time, he moved Scarlet Blood in his hand. The scarlet sword silhouette soared into the air. Like a phantom... it was trying to come down and split Xiong Hei's body in two.
Xiong Hei's eyes instantly widened to a circle.
He violently altered the trajectory of his spiked club and changed it from smashing to defending. At the same time, he desperately flew backwards.
"Pfff~~" Even though he spat out blood and risked his life in changing the trajectory of the spiked club, even though he risked his life changing the direction of his path to flying backwards... the Heavenly Divine Sword Scarlet Blood still managed to sever a meter long section off from the spiked club and then continued to hack into Xiong Hei's body.
Fortunately for Xiong Hei, he managed to block the incoming attack with his spiked club initially. Thus, he managed to survive the sword attack. However, a large cut had appeared on Xiong Hei's abdomen area. His intestines were gurgling out from his body.
Jade green colored Heavenly Divine Energy instantly started to circulate through Xiong Hei's body. Without regard to how much Heavenly Divine Energy he was consuming, Xiong Hei managed to recover from his injuries in a short period of time.
Qin Yu sighed in his heart.
Had it not been for Daoist Liu Xu and Mei Ji attacking him from the two sides, he would've already killed Xiong Hei.
"Eh?" Qin Yu hd dodged numerous times already. However, he was shocked to find out that this Daoist Liu Xu's movement technique was actually not inferior to his own at all. A soft green willow branch had covered Qin Yu's arm.
At this moment, Qin Yu was unable to move his arm at all.
"What is this thing?" Qin Yu looked at this green willow branch with a shocked expression. The attacks from this Daoist Liu Xu were too strange. Furthermore, this willow branch was extremely tough and strong.
At the same time, the other nine willow branches also suddenly came flying toward Qin Yu's head. It seemed as if they were trying to cover his head.
On top of that, Mei Ji's attack had also arrived!
Both Mei Ji and Daoist Liu Xu displayed excitement in their eyes. Even Xiong Hei who had retreated back to recover his injuries displayed an expression of seeing the hope of victory.
"You're trying to kill me with just this?" Qin Yu sighed in his heart and displayed a slight smile on his face.
"Hooh!'
White flames suddenly burst forth from Qin Yu's body. That green willow branch that had originally wrapped around Qin Yu's arm, was instantly burned to ashes. Even the green willow branch was no match against the White Pure Flames.
The other nine green willow branches that were flying toward Qin Yu's head also started retreating!
"You won't even dare to attack even if I let you attack me!" Qin Yu glanced at Daoist Liu Xu. At the same time, he had completely ignored Mei Ji's attack. Instead, he started to rapidly chase after Daoist Liu Xu.
First kill Daoist Liu Xu.
Mei Ji was chasing after Qin Yu, Qin Yu was chasing after Daoist Liu Xu and Daoist Liu Xu was fleeing!
"How is he able to use such a flame? The White Pure Flames are the True Flames of Heavenly Deities, how is it possible for him to create so many of them at once?' Daoist Liu Xu was unable to understand how such a thing was possible.
Qin Yu was laughing in his heart. "Daoist Liu Xu, how would you possibly know, that the two weapons that I am using right now, the stronger one is the Refining Flame Wristband." Although the Heavenly Divine Sword Scarlet Blood appeared to be powerful, it was still only comparable to a third-rated Grandmist Spiritual Treasure. The Refining Flame Wristband, on the other hand, was a second-rated Grandmist Spiritual Treasure.
When going against White Pure Flames, even Heavenly Deity level experts could not take them on.
Qin Yu saw how fast Daoist Liu Xu was fleeing from him and then looked behind to see Mei Ji who was chasing after him. He was unable to refrain himself from laughing coldly. At once, without any warning, Qin Yu suddenly stopped and hacked his sword down towards Mei Ji behind him!
His sword silhouette was like a screen ripping through the sky!
Like a tofu, that High Quality Divine Sword that Mei Ji had was cut in half. Mei Ji's eyes were overwhelmed with shock. In the crisis of life and death, Mei Ji violently twisted her head.
The sword silhouette slashed Mei Ji's body into two. Fortunately, at the final moment, she twisted her head. This allowed her head to remain whole.
Mei Ji's head rapidly fled. She then started to radiate a large amount of jade green colored Heavenly Divine Energy. She once again recovered her physical body. Mei Ji's complexion was extremely pale. To create a physical body required her to consume a lot of her energy.
The several hundred thousands of Black Dragon Pool's troops below were all staring at the battle above in awe.
Their three Heavenly Deities were actually being ravaged to such a miserable state by a single person. Xiong Hei's Heavenly Divine Artifact was chopped into three and his stomach had also been sliced open. Mei Ji's entire body was cut in two. She had technically lost her life once. Even Daoist Liu Xu, who appeared to be in the best state among the three, was only able to flee after being chased by Qin Yu!
Weak! The three of them were absolutely weak compared to Qin Yu.
"No wonder senior 'Craftsman God' was so revered in the Divine Realm. A single High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact is powerful enough to allow me, a High Level Deity that has yet to even reach the Heavenly Deity stage, to easily defeat three Low Level Heavenly Deities." Qin Yu came to better sense the revered status that expert craftsmen possessed.
Actually, it was not the same as what Qin Yu believed it to be.
The reason why Qin Yu was able to defeat these three was mostly due to the assistance of his Meteoric Tear that allowed his spatial comprehension to be at the same level as these three Low Level Heavenly Deities. Had he not possessed the assistance of the Meteoric Tear then even if he possessed a High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact, it would still be impossible for him to defeat a Low Level Heavenly Deity! After all, a High Level Deity couldn't even fly!
"Hm?"
Qin Yu was shocked to discover that Daoist Liu Xu, Mei Ji and Xiong Hei were actually not discouraged in the slightest. They were still radiating fighting spirit from their bodies.
"Could it be that they still possess some sort of hidden trump card that they have yet to use?" Qin Yu started to be on guard. Had the other three Heavenly Deities not had a trump card, it was likely that they'd have already fled for their lives by now.
Xiong Hei, Daoist Liu Xu and Mei Ji all coldly stared at Qin Yu.
"Hooh!"
Xiong Hei roared loudly. His loud roar acted like an order and all three of them immediately proceeded to surround Qin Yu at the same time. At this moment, the three of them were all displaying ice-cold gazes in their eyes.
"Courting death!" Qin Yu decided to not care that much anymore. He proceeded to rapidly charge forward.
Qin Yu's rapidly charged toward Xiong Hei. This had caused Daoist Liu Xu and Mei Ji to be a bit slower.
"Die!" Qin Yu attacked at once.
At the same time, Qin Yu's body started to burn with white flames. With White Pure Flames covering his entire body, Qin Yu completely ignored the attacks from Daoist Liu Xu and Mei Ji. He proceeded to directly deal with Xiong Hei.
However, right at this moment...
"Pfff!"
An extremely tiny and sharp hook rapidly pierced into Qin Yu's body. That extremely tiny sharp hook then escaped with a lightning speed. However, Qin Yu had started to suddenly shiver. He was unable to slash down the sword in his hand anymore.
Like a block of wood, Qin Yu started falling down from the sky.
With a "Bang!," he landed on the ground.
Silence!
The several hundred thousand people of the Black Dragon Pool that were watching the battle all grew silent. At the same time, they were all astonished. How did Qin Yu, who originally possessed the upper hand, lose like so?
"Haha~~~" Xiong Hei's loud laughter resounded through the sky. "Haha, Qin Yu, aren't you still going to die under my hands?"
Xiong Hei flew down towards the ground and descended beside Qin Yu. Daoist Liu Xu and the extremely pale Mei Ji also descended.
"Little Sister Mei Ji, I must thank you for your troubles this time around." Xiong Hei said gratefully. The extremely pale Mei Ji shook her head. "Enough of the useless chatter. Earlier, my Poisonous Soul Hook was merely burned by the White Pure Flames for an instant yet it has already become fifty percent smaller. The loss that I had this time, I would require at least several million years of training to recover."
The Poisonous Soul Hook was Mei Ji's innate weapon. Mei Ji's true form was that of a 'Pink Reel Scorpion' of the Scorpion Clan. The Poisonous Soul Hook was poisonous. The attack from the Poisonous Soul Hook did not attack anything other than the soul! When one's soul was attacked, one would become extremely muddle headed for a period of time.
The might of the Poisonous Soul Hook was related to the strength of the Pink Reel Scorpion. The stronger the Pink Reel Scorpion, the stronger the Poisonous Soul Hook.
"Roar~~~"
"Lord Xiong Hei!" "Lady Mei Ji!" "Lord Xiong Hei!" "Lord Liu Xu!"... All kinds of cheering noises were rising up and down unceasingly. The entire ravine of the Black Dragon Pool had turned into an ocean of celebrations.
The several hundred thousands of people of the Black Dragon Pool were all cheering for Xiong Hei, Mei Ji and Daoist Liu Xu. Xiong Hei, Mei Ji and Daoist Liu Xu were also filled with smiles. They were extremely excited.
Xiong Hei loudly laughed and said. "Haha~~ I shall kill this Qin Yu for the time being!" Xiong Hei brandished his badly damaged spiked club that was now only two meters long and smashed it toward the skull of Qin Yu who was currently lying on the ground!
"Bang!"
Xiong Hei looked to the ground. Qin Yu's body had unexpectedly moved half a meter. Xiong Hei's spiked club merely smashed the ground. And at this moment, Qin Yu had already opened his eyes. He turned to Xiong Hei and said with a slight smile on his face.
"Xiong Hei, one cannot be overly arrogant." Qin Yu's Divine Awareness Voice Transmission sounded in Xiong Hei's mind. And at the same time, hundreds and thousands of scarlet sword silhouettes appeared and slashed through Xiong Hei's body.
At such a close range and with so many sword silhouettes!
In merely an instant, Xiong Hei had been cut into mincemeat. His soul had also been cut into pieces. As for his True Spirit, after a slight jolt from Qin Yu's sword silhouettes, it too had shattered.
At the same moment when Qin Yu launched his sword strike, moving like a lightning fast sword, Qin Yu streaked across the air and arrived beside Daoist Liu Xu.
"Woosh..." A sword silhouette soared to the sky.
Daoist Liu Xu rapidly retreated backwards. However, even though he was fleeing, his body was still chopped in half from his shoulder area. Daoist Liu Xu's head started fleeing far away. Fortunately he managed to react in time. Otherwise, his life would've already been lost.
As for Mei Ji who was the furthest away from Qin Yu, her reaction speed was the fastest. She had also started fleeing far away.
When Mei Ji flew beside the Black Dragon Pool, she started to rapidly fall downward and landed on the side of the Black Dragon Pool. When one saw this scene, they might think that Mei Ji was seriously injured. However, Mei Ji was currently sending her Divine Awareness through the Black Dragon Pool to send a voice transmission.
"Lord Black Dragon, Xiong Hei has died in battle. At this moment, Liu Xu and I might also perish. Please come save us!"
Chapter 28 – A Surprising Discovery
Qin Yu stood in the middle of the ravine with his hands behind his back. As for Mei Ji, she had fallen beside the Black Dragon Pool. Even Daoist Liu Xu, who was greatly injured, flew over to Mei Ji and laid onto the ground beside her after consuming a large amount of Heavenly Divine Energy to restore his physical body.
Silence, oppression!
The several hundred thousands of people who had gathered around the ravine, watching the battle, all held their breaths. Not a single one of them dared to gasp at all.
The situation had turned once again. Earlier it was Xiong Hei and them who were about to kill Qin Yu. However, Qin Yu, who had fallen to the ground, suddenly rose back up and, before many of the Deities could respond, had already killed Xiong Hei and greatly injured Daoist Liu Xu. Everything happened so fast, like an electric spark.
"Mei Ji, earlier when I had fallen to the ground, I have heard that you mentioned a thing called 'Poisonous Soul Hook' to Xiong Hei? Is that little hook that you attacked me with the Poisonous Soul Hook?" Qin Yu lightly smiled as he walked over to a distance about ten meters from Mei Ji.
Mei Ji continued to lay on the ground. She merely nodded her head. At the same time, she asked in confusion. "You were inflicted by my Poisonous Soul Hook, how is it possible for you to recover so fast?"
Mei Ji was extremely certain about the attack power of her Poisonous Soul Hook.
Mei Ji does not possess any powerful attack herself. Only her Poisonous Soul Hook was relatively peculiar and special. Had her enemy been prepared against her Poisonous Soul Hook, then Mei Ji would be an extremely weak person.
"Recover so fast?" Qin Yu smiled.
What does she meant by recovering so fast? Qin Yu was very certain that the Poisonous Soul Hook had merely jolted his Golden Soul Pellet. Before it affected him, his Meteoric Tear had already started to radiate green brilliance that canceled out the attack.
Earlier when he fell to the ground, he had merely done so on purpose.
Qin Yu suddenly saw that Mei Ji and Daoist Liu Xu's expressions had turned strange. Thus, he had a strange feeling and was unable to refrain from smiling. "Mei Ji, Liu Xu, what's with your expressions?'
Mei Ji and Liu Xu glanced at each other. The two of them lightly smiled.
Qin Yu felt a throbbing of his heart. His gaze instantly turned to the lake behind Mei Ji and Liu Xu... the Black Dragon Pool. Qin Yu knew very well that it was this enormous lake of over a hundred miles long circumference that was called the Black Dragon Pool.
The surface of the Black Dragon Pool had been extremely tranquil the entire time and was radiating an intimidating sensation.
However, at this moment, that surface that was tranquil like a mirror had actually started to fluctuate and tremble. At the same time, a burst of demonic and strange aura had started to burst forth from within it. Qin Yu's first response was to fly backwards.
Qin Yu instantly flew back ten miles and arrived outside of the great formation array that he had set up earlier. This fire attribute Killing Array, once the formation array activates, it would give birth to an unlimited number of White Pure Flames. Qin Yu had determined that if the situation were to turn bad, he'd immediately run into the great formation array.
Although the White Pure Flames were threatening to others, they did not possess any menace toward Qin Yu.
"What's inside the Black Dragon Pool?" Qin Yu was able to clearly sense that something dreadful was there. "Could it be... the boss of the Black Dragon Pool? The legendary Black Dragon who was said to be missing already?
Lord Black Dragon had not shown himself in a countless number of years.
"Buzz~~~: The Black Dragon Pool was vibrating.
The center of the lake started to boil. It started to boil more and more. Suddenly, a figure stood on top of the boiling lake water and ascended up through the lake.
This figure was about a meter and seventy centimeters tall. With streamlined muscles and dark colored skin, this man appeared to be extremely slender.
His head full of short scarlet hairs were spiking toward the sky like steel needles. His pair of scarlet eyebrows appeared like sharp swords. Underneath that pair of scarlet eyebrows was a pair of gloomy and baleful looking pair of eyes.
"Lord Black Dragon!"
Daoist Liu Xu and Mei Ji both kneeled onto the ground with one leg and said respectfully with their heads lowered.
The several hundred thousands of people who were surrounding and watching the battle instantly grew silent. However, after a short moment, all of them also got down on one knee and said in unison with extremely respectful tones. "Lord Black Dragon!"
The voices of several hundred thousands of people soared straight through the skies!
This Lord Black Dragon was only about a meter and seventy centimeters tall. His appearance was like that of a youngster. However, his pair of gloomy and baleful eyes were enough to convince others that this person was definitely no youth.
Qin Yu was carefully inspecting this Lord Black Dragon.
"That battle armor that he wears appears to be pretty distinguishing." Qin Yu displayed a smile on his face. Divine Armors were items that could change in accordance to one's will.
This Lord Black Dragon's battle armor had only protected the majority of the vital parts of his body.
As for his thigh, arm and such, they were completely exposed. His dark and beautiful muscles were completely revealed. Furthermore, that scarlet red hair and scarlet sword brows were also relatively rare. With merely a glance from this Lord Black Dragon, Qin Yu felt a burst of oppression.
"His soul's level is much higher than mine!" Qin Yu was extremely certain.
This Lord Black Dragon was at the very least a Mid Level Heavenly Deity.
"You, are you the one who killed my subordinate Xiong Hei? Are you the Qin Yu who is proficient in formation arrays?" Black Dragon looked at Qin Yu. His voice gave off an exotic metallic sensation. Once Qin Yu heard those words, he realized that this Black Dragon had already obtained information regarding him.
"That's right."
Qin Yu looked to Black Dragon directly. With his long hair drifting in the wind, a rare smile appeared on his grave and stern face. "Are you that legendary Black Dragon who has been missing for many years?"
"I am Black Dragon." Black Dragon's expression was very grave. "Qin Yu, you have two paths before you, a path to survival and a path to death. The path to survival is... to serve me. I shall forgive you for killing Xiong Hei. The path to death... if you refuse to serve me, then you shall die."
"Live or die, your choice!"
Black Dragon's scarlet red sword brows was raised. He was giving off an extremely unyielding domineering aura.
Qin Yu glanced at Mei Ji and Liu Xu. He then raised his head and looked to Black Dragon. "Black Dragon, my life and death is not something that others can decide. Not even Godkings can decide my fate, much less you... a mere bandit boss!"
Qin Yu pointed to the Black Dragon with his index finger. His voice was extremely indifferent and his gaze penetrating. He had completely ignored the oppression given forth by Black Dragon's aura.
The corners of Black Dragon's mouth slightly raised. "Then, you shall die!"
Black Dragon extended one of his hand. A black stick about two meters long appeared on his hand. Holding the stick, Black Dragon charged toward Qin Yu. Although his charging speed was not extremely fast, it gave birth to several tens of blurs.
"Mn? This movement technique?" Qin Yu was shocked upon seeing Black Dragon's movement technique.
Each and every step that Black Dragon took gave off an extremely uncomfortable sensation. They appeared completely unnatural. However, it also gave off the sensation of a bowstring being braced... It was as if he could display his strongest strike at any moment.
"What sort of movement technique is this? No, his aura is increasing." Qin Yu was shocked to discover that in the ten mile distance that Black Dragon was running toward him, his aura had been increasing nonstop.
He did not use his soul's power to increase his aura. Instead, he had done so through his movement technique. Using the rhythm of his pace, he had created an increase in his aura.
Black Dragon firmly fixed his two gloomy eyes on Qin Yu. From the beginning till now, his baleful eyes appeared exactly the same. It was as if fighting Qin Yu was unworthy of him to use all his strength on.
"How could I continue to allow him to store up aura? His soul's level is higher than mine to begin with, if he continues to get more oppressive... " Qin Yu felt a burst of pressure in his heart. It was as if his heart were flustered. Before him, Black Dragon was like an eminent and unapproachable mountain. Furthermore, this enormous mountain was increasing in height unceasingly.
"Retreat!"
At the moment when Black Dragon was about to reach Qin Yu, Qin Yu took a step and directly entered into the great formation array beside him. This was a step that Qin Yu had already prepared. It created an entrance and allowed him in.
Black Dragon glanced at the great formation array that Qin Yu had just entered. Without the slightest hesitation, he charged into the Killing Array.
Seeing Black Dragon entering the great formation array, Qin Yu displayed a smile on his face. "Although you are very powerful, I would like to see how you're going to be able to resist omnipresent White Pure Flames?!"
As Qin Yu's True Flame had increased to that of the White Pure Flames, this had allowed this formation array to be more powerful than last time. Furthermore, he had managed to improve this formation array compared to last time around.
Right after Black Dragon entered into the Killing Array, the entire Killing Array started to emit White Pure Flames. A magnitude amount of White Pure Flames started to rush forth toward Black Dragon.
The grave and stern youngster Black Dragon held his black stick in one hand and continued to look at the White Pure Flames with indifference.
"White Pure Flames? Qin Yu, you truly are an expert in formation arrays." Black Dragon's scarlet red sword brows slightly raised. He continued to stand there without the slightest regard for the White Pure Flames.
As Qin Yu was waiting in anticipation, a scene that shocked him occurred.
By the time when the White Pure Flames approached about a foot away from the surface of Black Dragon's body, the White Pure Flames were unexpectedly unable to go any further. This sort of scenario was truly too strange. It was so unnatural and strange that Qin Yu could not believe what was occurring.
Qin Yu and Black Dragon were inside the Killing Array. At this moment, the people outside of the killing array were completely oblivious as to what was happening.
"What's happening inside?" Said Daoist Liu Xu with a frown. Mei Ji also shook her head and said. "I cannot see clearly at all. Countless White Pure Flames have covered the entire great formation array; who knows what's occurring inside? However, I believe that Lord Black Dragon will definitely win."
"I also believe that Lord Black Dragon will win. However, very rarely would we ever obtain a chance to see Lord Black Dragon fight. Yet this time around, we cannot even see his fight. It is truly regrettable." Sighed Daoist Liu Xu.
Not only them, the several hundred thousands of people that were watching the battle from afar all sighed too.
Countless White Pure Flames had flooded the entire great formation array. It was like the great formation array was flooded with a thick fog. No one was able to see what was occurring inside!
"Qin Yu, you don't even know about this?" Black Dragon's gaze had a trace of disdain. "It would appear that you do not know anything at all about how Heavenly Deities fight. I truly do not know how you managed to kill Xiong Hei."
After he finished saying that, Black Dragon rushed toward Qin Yu with a lightning speed.
Qin Yu was shocked to find out that White Pure Flames were unable to harm Black Dragon in the slightest. However, Qin Yu calmed his mind in an instant. Holding his Divine Sword Scarlet Blood in one hand, without moving at all, Qin Yu looked to the incoming Black Dragon.
Black Dragon's charge brought forth a penetrating sensation.
"Huff!" The black stick in Black Dragon's hand suddenly shot out. As if it had passed through space, it instantly arrived before Qin Yu. The black stick whirled as it thrusted forward like a viper.
Qin Yu also thrust out the Divine Sword Scarlet Blood that he held in his hand.
This sword strike of his contained the profound comprehensions behind the Heaven Startling Single Stick Strike. Qin Yu believed that regardless of what kind of weapon it was, he could use the same sort of Dao for them.
The spatial energy surrounding the Heavenly Divine Sword Scarlet Blood started to spin and distort. The tip of the Heavenly Divine Sword Scarlet Blood now possessed the power to pierce through everything that tried to block its path. A clear and sharp collision sound was heard.
The long tip of the long stick against the pointed tip of the Divine Sword!
Qin Yu and Black Dragon both flew backwards.
"Mn?" Qin Yu was shocked to discover that the High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact Divine Sword Scarlet Blood that contained the special effect of 'sharpness' actually did not cause the slightest amount of damage to the stick when colliding with it head on.
"Your Divine Sword is a High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact?" Black Dragon's eyes that had been gloomy the entire time suddenly turned blazing. He firmly stared at the Divine Sword Scarlet Blood that Qin Yu held in his hand.
"Why do you think that is the case?" Qin Yu felt that the situation had turned bad.
That cold and indifferent Black Dragon actually started laughing. "That's because in the short amount of time that I have came in contact with you, I have already determined that... your strength is only at the Low Level Heavenly Deity level. For a Low Level Heavenly Deity to be able to match me with his Heavenly Divine Artifact; as my weapon is a Mid Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact, thus yours would definitely not be be a Mid Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact but instead is the even stronger High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact."
Only then did Qin Yu understood that the black stick that Black Dragon held was actually a Mid Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact.
"Qin Yu, do not bother resisting anymore. Your strength is truly too weak." Black Dragon had a smile on his face. It might be because he saw the High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact that Qin Yu held in his hand that caused him to be in an extremely cheerful mood.
Qin Yu coldly humped.
"You don't believe that? If I want to kill you, it's an extremely easy task." Black Dragon slightly smiled. Immediately...
With Black Dragon as the center, the White Pure Flames in a circumference fifty meters or so away from him had all been pushed away. There was not a single bit of White Pure Flame within this area. As Qin Yu was only about ten meters away from Black Dragon, he was naturally also within this area.
"How come I can't move anymore?" Qin Yu felt as if his body were stuck, he was unable to move at all.
Black Dragon have a smiling expression on his eyes. "A High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact is sufficient enough for me to match against ordinary High Level Heavenly Deities. Haha... never had I anticipated that I would obtain a High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact today."
"Black Dragon, what exactly did you do?" Shouted Qin Yu with a frown on his face.
Black Dragon was slightly astonished. He then smiled and said. "Qin Yu, I have said that you do not understand the way Heavenly Deities battles. In a battle among Heavenly Deities, the most important aspect is one's comprehension toward the space. I... a Mid Level Heavenly Deity have enough comprehension of the space to allow me to utilize the 'Spatial Domain.' Within the range of my Spatial Domain, I am able to inhibit the movement of my opponents. Furthermore, I can also completely discard everything else within the Spatial Domain – for example, your White Pure Flames."
Qin Yu instantly understood everything.
"Low Level Heavenly Deities possess enough comprehension of the spatial laws to allow them to counteract the gravity of the ground and fly. As for Mid Level Heavenly Deities, they possess enough comprehension of the spatial laws to form Spatial Domains. As for High Level Heavenly Deities, they are able to destroy a small region of space. A Low Level Heavenly Deity simply does not even have the ability to resist when facing a Mid Level Heavenly Deity. The same goes for a Mid Level Heavenly Deity when faced against a High Level Heavenly Deity." Said Black Dragon with a light smile. "Are you confused as to why I said earlier that if I possessed a High Quality Heavenly Artifact, I would be able to fight against a High Level Heavenly Deity?"
Qin Yu was carefully listening. He indeed wanted to know.
"Unfortunately for you, I do not wish to tell you. Now, I shall bestow you... death!" Black Dragon's figure instantly arrived before Qin Yu. With a horizontal stick strike, it came crushing at Qin Yu's head.
Qin Yu's eyes shined.
Qin Yu's physical body had appeared in the Universal World' that Qin Yu had created.
Qin Yu was only able to control a portion of the spatial energy of the Universal World because of the fact that the Universal World was still growing.
Qin Yu controlled the spatial energy of the Universal World and passed through to the Universal World. He then connected the Universal World at the location where he was previously standing in the Divine Realm.
After the connection between the Universal World and the Divine Realm was set, the residual forces of the spatial energy spread roughly a hundred meters.
"Huff!"
Qin Yu had once again returned to where he was at before.
At this moment, Black Dragon was still searching for Qin Yu all over. Seeing that Qin Yu had suddenly appeared, he was unable to refrain his shock. "You, how did you disappear? Could it be that you know teleportation? No, impossible." Regardless of how calm Black Dragon was, he was still unable to understand what had happened.
"Teleportation?" Qin Yu was slightly startled.
He had merely entered into his Universal World and then returned back to the Divine Realm. However, upon hearing 'teleportation,' Qin Yu suddenly thought of something.
Chapter 29 – One, Another
The reason why Qin Yu returned from his Universal World to the Divine Realm was originally because his spatial energy from his Universal World not only could allow him to depart from the Divine Realm, it also connected the Divine Realm from the location that he left and would allow him to spread his his spatial energy from his Universal World to around a hundred meters around the location where he it connected.
According to what Qin Yu knew, as long as the spatial energy from his Universal World spread to those areas, he would be capable of instantly arriving at those areas.
He was able to instantly return from his Universal Space to his original location. Likewise... he was also able to instantly move from the Universal Space to any location in the hundred meter area that his Universal Space's spatial energy has spread to.
"If I were to instantly enter into the Universal World and then instantly return back to the Divine Realm, then the location where the spatial energy of the Universal World has spread to would become regions where I could instantly reach. Doesn't that mean... that I would be able to teleport within a hundred meter region?"
Qin Yu bursted forth in an ecstasy.
Teleportation, it was an remarkable ability that only Godkings possessed in the Divine Realm. Because of the fact that the spatial restrictions of the Divine Realm were too great, one could only accomplish teleportation after completely controlling the spatial laws.
However Qin Yu, as the creator of the Universal World, was able to use the spatial energy of the Universal World to accomplish short distance teleportation.
"No, there's no need for me to go through the troubles of returning to the Universal World. I merely need to connect the spatial energy from the Universal World and connect it over here to the Divine Realm and spread it around my body. Like that, I would be able to teleport a distance around a hundred meters around my body!"
A method to use the spatial energy had instantly emerged in Qin Yu's mind.
"Not only this, the usage of the Universal World's spatial energy is more than merely this. I can also use this spatial energy to restrict others. It is just like the 'Spatial Domain!'"
Qin Yu's eyes were shining brightly.
"Furthermore, the Universal World is still growing. It is still at its infancy stage right now. Yet, it was able to spread out to a distance of a hundred meters. Likely, after it matures, the range in which its spatial energy could spread would become greater and greater. With the small amount of spatial energy that can be connected to the Divine Realm right now, I reckon that the binding ability would not be very efficient."
Qin Yu was pondering with a lightning fast speed.
This was the Divine Realm. The Universal World was a completely different independent world.
The spatial energy from two completely different worlds. The spatial energy of the Universal World, their effects in the Divine Realm would certainly be greatly weakened and inferior to when being used in the Universal World. However, even though it would be greatly weakened, Qin Yu was still extremely satisfied with it.
"Using the spatial energy from the Universal Space to bind others, even if it cannot match the 'Spatial Domain' of Mid Level Heavenly Deities, it would still likely not be much weaker." Qin Yu thought in his heart.
In merely a couple breaths worth of time, Qin Yu had already thought of a large amount of things. Similarly... the methods which Qin Yu could use to fight with others has increased tremendously.
"Qin Yu, speak. What sort of method did you used earlier that allowed you to instantly dodge my sure killing strike?" Black Dragon's eyes which were originally brimming with bale and gloom have turned blazing hot as he firmly stared at Qin Yu.
Qin Yu was able to instantly disappear.
Even if it wasn't teleportation, it would likely not differ much from teleportation. Such a remarkable ability, if he was able to learn it, then it would be enough for him to fight against a High Level Heavenly Deity.
Why were the High Level Heavenly Deities powerful? They were powerful precisely because they are able to destroy a small region of space. As long as one was capable of instantly disappearing, the ability that High Level Heavenly Deities possessed, their ability to destroy a small region of space would naturally become useless.
Black Dragon's heart had started to shiver. He truly wanted to obtain Qin Yu's remarkable ability.
"What sort of method? This is a secret of my sect that we are not allowed to tell others." Qin Yu said.
At this moment, Qin Yu had already set his determination. "Regardless of what, an ability like teleportation is something that cannot be leaked unless during the moment of life and death." Qin Yu knew very well how abnormal the ability to 'teleport' that only Godkings possessed was.
With such an ability, once his Divine Spear Waning Snow finished absorbing the 'Dark and Yellow Energy,' he would be able to even fight against a High Level Heavenly Deity.
Such an abnormal ability, he most definitely cannot allow others to know of it unless he possessed sufficient strength.
"Secret not allowed to tell others? In that case, Qin Yu, what if I were to become a disciple of your sect, would that work?" Black Dragon's eyes were shining as he looked to Qin Yu.
In order to obtain this remarkable ability to appeared to be 'teleportation,' Black Dragon did not care for anything else. This remarkable ability was even more important than a High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact.
"Become a disciple of my sect?" Qin Yu shook his head. "My master had only accepted I as the sole disciple. Furthermore... did you think that you'll be able to become a disciple of my sect just because you wanted to become one?"
Black Dragon was violently woken up.
"That's right, this Qin Yu possesses a High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact. To be able to bestow upon one's disciple a High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact, how would such a person be an ordinary person? Furthermore, a Low Level Heavenly Deity is capable of using an remarkable ability similar to that of 'teleportation.' This Qin Yu's master is at the very least a Godking level expert. In the entire Divine Realm, countless people want to become a disciple to a Godking. It is indeed not something where I could become a disciple just because I want to."
Black Dragon's scarlet red sword brows have frowned into a line. He was pondering unceasingly.
"In that case, Qin Yu, I, I want to become your disciple!" Said Black Dragon as he clenched his teeth.
Qin Yu was much weaker than Black Dragon. Had it been before, he would refuse to become Qin Yu's disciple even if he was to be killed. However, the move Qin Yu had displayed earlier was truly too abnormal. It was also too attractive to Black Dragon.
Qin Yu was unable to refrain his astonishment.
"Become my disciple?" Qin Yu shook his head and smiled. "Black Dragon, this remarkable ability is called 'so close yet worlds apart.' It is a secret technique that is passed onto only the successive generations of disciples of my sect, the Universe Sect. Furthermore, if I want to impart this technique to you, I must obtain the consent from my master."
Qin Yu had instantly created a story.
"So close yet worlds apart?" Black Dragon's eyes shined.
Qin Yu nodded. "That's right. So close yet worlds apart was a technique that my master had researched numerous years to create. It was created specially for Heavenly Deity level experts to use. Although it is inferior to teleportation but the difference between them is not great."
"That's right, it's not great." Black Dragon felt as if ants were crawling on his heart. He truly wanted to learn this remarkable ability called 'so close yet worlds apart!'
The stubborn pursue for strength that Black Dragon had was not something that Qin Yu could understand.
Black Dragon was an ascender from the Devil Murder Realm. The Devil Murder Realm was different from the Immortal, Devil and Demon Realm. The Devil Murder Realm was a world of incessant massacres. Each and every infant that was born to that realm would, for either themselves or their relatives, pursued the path of killing incessantly.
Each and every big shot of the Devil Murder Realm were all valiant individuals proficient in killing and fighting.
When Black Dragon came out from the Black Dragon Pool, the movement technique that he utilized when he rushed toward Qin Yu was precisely a movement technique that he comprehended in the Divine Realm. In all these years that Black Dragon has been in the Divine Realm, he aimed to become a strong person the entire time.
The people of the Devil Murder Realm were practically all sinister, fierce and cruel. Being refused by Qin Yu, Black Dragon's scarlet brows had frowned to a line. As if natural, a sinister and cruel plan had emerged in his mind.
"If I were to continue to endure like so, who knows when I would become someone who could call upon the wind and summon the rain in the Divine Realm. However, once I obtain this 'so close yet worlds apart' ability, then I would be able to kill even the High Level Heavenly Deities!"
To be instantly appear beside a High Level Heavenly Deity and launch a surprise attack!
The only reason why High Level Heavenly Deities were more powerful than Mid Level Heavenly Deities was due to their comprehension of the spatial laws. Their attack power, on the other hand, was not much different.
"Kill Qin Yu and then utilize the 'Seize God' technique to obtain his soul's memory would allow me to naturally learn this 'so close yet worlds apart' ability. At the same time, I'll be able to obtain that High Level Heavenly Divine Artifact!"
To take risks. The greater the benefit, the more willing some people would be to take risks. Even if the risk was a life threatening danger.
Once he killed Qin Yu, learned the 'so close yet worlds apart' ability and obtained the Divine Sword Scarlet Blood, he would become second to only Godkings.
"Humph, so what if his master is a Godking? Even a Godking cannot constantly use their Divine Awareness to search the Divine Realm. In the Divine Realm, there exists no way for one to send a transmission to another. Even if I kill Qin Yu, Qin Yu would also be unable to message his master about it! The probability that I would be discovered by his master is extremely low. Yet, if I were to succeed... "
Black Dragon's heart started to become even more and more determined.
This so close yet worlds apart ability and the Heavenly Divine Sword Scarlet Blood was truly too seductive. Rather than becoming a mere bandit boss in the Divine Realm, Black Dragon would rather capture the opportunity that would allow him to move about unhindered in the Divine Realm.
"At that time, if I were to submit myself to a power like the Mount Blood Demon or the Asura Sea, then with my strength after I learned the so close yet worlds apart ability, those Godkings there, would definitely protect me. Even if Qin Yu's master were to find out about it in the future, what could they possibly do to me?"
After a careful consideration, Black Dragon decided on the most significant decision that he had ever since he had ascended to the Divine Realm!
Killing a Godking level expert's disciple.
If he were to succeed, he would become a person second to only Godkings.
If he were to fail, then his soul would be scattered.
"Good, I shall do it." By the time Black Dragon had determined what to do, when he looked to his surroundings, Qin Yu had already disappeared. At the moment when he was pondering, Qin Yu had already escaped.
Earlier, because Black Dragon wanted to request Qin Yu, he had pulled back his Spatial Domain to cover only the surroundings of his body. Seizing that opportunity, Qin Yu hid himself into the ocean of White Pure Flames.
In this great formation array, other than Black Dragon's surroundings, the other places were all filled with a large amount of White Pure Flames. This had caused the visibility to be extremely low. Hiding himself in this ocean of White Pure Flames, Black Dragon was unable to discover where Qin Yu was at all.
In this great Divine Formation Array, even one's Divine Awareness cannot determine what is what.
What was Qin Yu doing?
Within this ocean of White Pure Flames, Qin Yu's figure was teleporting nonstop with a lightning like speed. He would instantly disappear here and reappear there.
As the master of this great formation array, Qin Yu naturally knew where Black Dragon was. Thus, he would definitely not teleport next to Black Dragon.
"It is indeed as I have anticipated. The spatial energy from the Universal Space can allow me to teleport perfectly. Furthermore, it can create a 'spatial domain.' Merely, the binding ability of this 'spatial domain' ought to be inferior to that of a Mid Level Heavenly Deity's."
Qin Yu sighed in his heart.
The 'spatial energy' from the Universal Space, when in the Divine Realm, would suffer rejection from the spatial energy of the Divine Realm. Otherwise, it would not have only spread a mere hundred meter area.
"Eh?" Why did this Black Dragon exit the great formation array?" Qin Yu started to ponder.
This was a Killing Array and not an Illusion Array or Trapping Array. Thus, it was extremely easy for Black Dragon to leave the formation array if he wanted to.
"Qin Yu, do you dare to fight me head on?!" Black Dragon's voice sounded. And at this moment, at the brink of the hundred miles circumference Black Dragon Pool, five blurs flew up from the bottom of the lake with a lightning speed.
These five blurs started to surround the great formation array from the sides.
If one's power was strong, then one would be able to clearly see that all five of these blurs possessed short scarlet hair, scarlet brows and have the appearance of an youth! That's right, each and every one of them were Black Dragon! All five of these Black Dragons held a black stick in their hand!
Chapter 30 – Tan Jiu
The five 'Black Dragons' were all Mid Level Heavenly Deity level. The black sticks that the five of them held were all Mid Level Heavenly Divine Artifacts. These five 'Black Dragons' were extremely fast. Before Qin Yu even came out from the formation array, they already surrounded the formation array.
"Six Lord Black Dragons!"
Everyone who saw this scene were dumbstruck. One Lord Black Dragon had appeared before and then five more Lord Black Dragons appeared for a total of six! Furthermore, their appearance and their weapons were exactly the same.
Mei Ji and Daoist Liu Xu who stood afar had their expression chang. They glanced at each other.
"Mei Ji, Lord Black Dragon actually possessed six clones? No, that's not it. Lord Black Dragon had set up his strongest 'Six Directions Extermination Array.' Then, wouldn't there be still..." Daoist Liu Xu stared at the ground where the six Black Dragons stood at.
Mei Ji's expression had also turned solemn. "That Qin Yu actually managed to force Lord Black Dragon to go all out and use the Six Directions Extermination Array! In the entire region of the Yuchi City, other than the master of the Yuchi City, that High Level Heavenly Deity Lord Yuchi Gonglan, there are no one else that possessed the strength to make Lord Black Dragon go all out."
Six Directions Extermination Array!
It was Black Dragon's strongest move. This great formation array of his could not be considered as being extremely profound. However, in Black Dragon's hands, he was able to bring about an astonishing amount of power. That was because this formation array allowed Black Dragon to turn into nine people!
All nine of these Black Dragons were all clones. As long as a single clone survived, Black Dragon would not die.
Black Dragon, his true form was that of a Nine-headed Black Dragon. In the Devil Murder Realm, he had once brought about an endless amount of carnage. As a variation demon beast, the Nine-headed Black Dragon have managed to refine nine different clones that could exist by themselves. Furthermore, each and every one of the clone possessed the strength of a Mid Level Heavenly Deity.
The six 'Black Dragons' have surrounded the ground.
Below the ground were three tunnels. These three tunnels just happened to be connected to the Black Dragon Pool. Three 'Black Dragons' stood at the end of each tunnel. These three tunnels were created in the short period of time by those three 'Black Dragons.'
On the surface were six Black Dragons.
Below the surface were three Black Dragons.
At the location where these nine 'Black Dragons' were, they formed a perfect 'Six Directions Extermination Array.' Each and every one of them possessed a spatial domain of several tens of meters. With the nine of them together, their spatial domain was able to cover a distance of nearly a thousand meters.
The six Black Dragons above the ground were separated quite far from each other. Just like so, Qin Yu stepped out from the range of his Killing Array.
Once he got out from the great formation array, Qin Yu merely saw a single Black Dragon before him.
"Black Dragon, you wanted to fight me head on?" Said Qin Yu. However, right after he said those words, he seemed to have sensed something and proceeded to look to his right. What he saw was that there was actually another person far to his right...
Scarlet hair, scarlet brows, with an appearance of a grim youngster and holding a black stick in his hand!
"Another Black Dragon?" Qin Yu turned his head back to look before him. He then violently turned his head to look behind him, to his front left, to his back left... this lightning fast inspection of his surroundings have brought Qin Yu cold sweat.
One, another and yet another Black Dragon. A total of six Black Dragons.
Furthermore, all six of these Black Dragons possessed a black stick. Even their aura was exactly the same.
"Six Mid Level Heavenly Deities and even six Mid Quality Heavenly Divine Artifacts?" Qin Yu was completely confused. What exactly was happening? How could there be so many of the same Heavenly Divine Artifacts?
Was this an illusion?
Qin Yu was unable to think anymore. That was because at this moment, all six Black Dragons have attacked him at the same time.
"Qin Yu!" With a large shout. The six Black Dragons all moved out at the same time. Each and every one of them created several tens of afterimages as they moved. In an instantly, several hundred after images appeared.
And at the same moment...
"Spatial Domain?" Qin Yu discovered that he was unable to move anymore. "That can't be. I am over a hundred meters away from each and every one of them. How could the Spatial Domain have such a large range?"
Qin Yu still didn't know that with the nine Black Dragons joining hands, their Spatial Domain possessed a range of a thousand meters.
"At this moment I am not in my formation array. Furthermore, there are several hundred thousands of people watching from the sidelines. If I were to use my teleportation, I would definitely be discovered by them. If this information were to be spread; no, I definitely cannot allow the information of teleportation to be spread out."
Qin Yu absolutely do not want to expose his remarkable ability of 'teleportation.' That was because Qin Yu knew exactly what sort of outcome would happen if it was to spread.
Against a fatal blow, even if he cannot block it, Qin Yu had determined to at the very most hide himself into his Universal World and then come back after some time. He most definitely cannot teleport... If he were to suddenly disappear, others might suspect that he possessed a Spatial Divine Artifact.
Although Spatial Divine Artifacts were extremely precious in the Divine Realm, but it was less shocking than having a Heavenly Deity that could 'teleport.'
"Qin Yu, you are going to die!" The nine Black Dragons were all extremely excited. At this moment, Qin Yu did not discover at all that there were three more Black Dragons located underneath the ground and was about to attack too.
Suddenly, a sharp and clear voice sounded.
"Tan Jiu, stop!"
A yellow clothed figure drifted over through the air. It was precisely Huang Jing. Huang Jing slightly extended her right hand and did a grabbing motion toward the sky and then a close to ten meter space within the 'Six Directions Extermination Array' had been shattered. A black space crack appeared before Qin Yu.
The space have been shattered!
As if they have been frozen, the six Black Dragons were all motionless. They looked to the yellow clothed woman that easily drifted over in the air. "Who is this woman? She's actually able to destroy the space. When did the Yuchi City have a female High Level Heavenly Deity?"
Black Dragon understood very well that this woman was already being very lenient toward him. Had she wanted to, she could destroy one of his clones. As long as she attacked him nine times, all nine of his clones would be done for.
Regardless of how unwilling he was, Black Dragon stopped his attack.
"Tan Jiu, there is no need for you to bother hiding your other three clones underneath the ground anymore." Said Huang Jing with a smile on her face.
At this moment, Black Dragon could only try his best to squeeze out a smile. His three great clones underneath the ground came out not far from where Qin Yu stood. Upon seeing these three 'Black Dragons,' Qin Yu started to sweat cold sweat from his back.
At this moment, one of the Black Dragon shouted a command to Daoist Liu Xu. "Liu Xu, order everyone to withdraw themselves. No one is to come and here and bother us."
"Yes, Lord Black Dragon." Daoist Liu Xu said hurriedly.
The several hundred thousands of people, under Daoist Liu Xu and Mei Ji's orders, immediately dispersed. Beside that great formation array that Qin Yu had set up, only nine Black Dragons, Huang Jing and Qin Yu remained.
"Qin Yu, we meet once again." Said Huang Jing with a smile to Qin Yu.
Qin Yu expressed his thanks. "Miss Huang Jing, thank you for saving my life. That's right, why did you call this Black Dragon as 'Tan Jiu?'"
Huang Jing looked to Black Dragon. "Tan Jiu, you should tell him yourself."
The nine Black Dragons actually assembled together. After that, the nine of them fused into one. This new Black Dragon that was formed held nine black sticks in his hand. These nine black sticks became a lot shorter. Each and every one of them were merely a foot long. With a movement of Black Dragon's hand, these nine sticks have turned into a nine sectioned whip.
"My true form is that of a Nine-headed Black Dragon. Thus, I call myself 'Lord Black Dragon.' During my birth, my parents named me 'Tan Jiu.'" At this moment, the Nine-headed Black Dragon Tan Jiu does not have the slightest aura of arrogance.
[TL: Black Dragon Tan Jiu used 'this humble person/myself/this one' to refer to himself. Basically, lowering his status when talking.]
When faced with a High Level Heavenly Deity, he did not dare to act arrogantly at all.
"So that was the case. Nine-headed Black Dragon..." Qin Yu could guess that it was likely that the parents of this Tan Jiu named him as 'Jiu' because he had nine heads.
[TL: Jiu Nine]
Nine-headed Black Dragon Tan Jiu looked to Huang Jing. "May I know who Lady might be..."
"I am surnamed Huang." Said Huang Jing indifferently.
"Lady Huang." The nine sectioned whip that the Nine-headed Black Dragon Tan Jiu held in his hand instantly turned into a single stick with a movement of his hand. "May I know how Lady Huang managed to know my name? In the Divine Realm, there are not many people that knew of my true name."
Huang Jing smiled and said. "It is the army commander of the Yuchi City, Liu Yuxi, who told me your name."
"Liu Yuxi?" Tan Jiu's expression changed.
Huang Jing lightly smiled and said. "I only came to know after having a long chat with Liu Yuxi... that you, Tan Jiu, the bandit boss, actually ascended from the Devil Murder Realm together with Liu Yuxi. Furthermore, the two of you reached the Mid Level Heavenly Deity level at the same time. And now, one of you was a bandit boss whereas the other is the commander of the Yuchi City's army. Haha, this matter is truly strange."
Qin Yu was unable to refrain himself from looking to Tan Jiu.
He was able to sense that Tan Jiu possessed some sort of special relationship with that army commander Liu Yuxi.
"Lady Huang, may I know what Liu Yuxi had talked to Lady Huang about that caused Lady Huang to personally come here?" Tan Jiu's expression turned slightly unnatural. He was currently cursing in his heart. 'Liu Yuxi, you bastard. If you have the ability, then come and fight me yourself. Why the fuck did you ask a High Level Heavenly Deity to come?!'
Huang Jing lightly smiled and said. "Regarding what he had said, I believe Tan Jiu you are able to imagine. Why did you hid yourself in the Black Dragon Pool for all these years, that was what he told me about."
Tan Jiu's eyes jumped. His scarlet sword brows have frowned into a line. His eyes were filled with bale.
"Lady Huang Jing, are you truly going to fight over it?" Said Tan Jiu slowly.
Qin Yu managed to figure out as he continued to hear from the side. It appeared that this Tan Jiu had hid himself in the Black Dragon Pool all these years for a certain something. Furthermore, it appeared that only Tan Jiu and that Liu Yixu knew about it.
Huang Jing smiled indifferently. "Tan Jiu, although that thing might be extremely important to you and Liu Yuxi and also possesses some appeal to me, but the two of you have spent an immeasurable amount of time due to it. Thus, I would also not seize it from the two of you. Naturally, I would not get involve with it. Between you and Liu Yuxi, as to who among the two of you would be able to obtain it, it'll have to be depending on your respective abilities."
Nine-headed Black Dragon Tan Jiu immediately relaxed.
At the same time, he started to ponder about the background of this yellow clothed woman. Even if she was a High Level Heavenly Deity, there are not many High Level Heavenly Deities that would not care about that treasure. Furthermore... Liu Yixu even told this secret to this woman.
"That bastard Liu Yuxi, how could he tell this woman of our secret? Could it be that he wanted to curry favor from this woman?" Tan Jiu looked to Huang Jing. Since the time back in the Devil Murder Realm, Tan Jiu competed with Liu Yixu the entire time. And even now, after countless years, the two of them were still equally matched. Thus, Tan Jiu naturally knew of Liu Yixu's temperament.
"The reason why I came here today was actually to come and see this friend of mine." Huang Jing looked to Qin Yu.
Qin Yu was unable to refrain his shock. "Miss Huang Jing, you..."
"I have obtained information stating that a Heavenly Deity appeared on Mount Bewitch You. The time when that Heavenly Deity appeared was close to the time when the two of us separated. Afterwards, I heard that this Heavenly Deity came massacring all the way to the Black Dragon Pool. I suspected it to be you, and sure enough, it was you!" Said Huang Jing with a smile on her face. "Qin Yu, you ought to have just reached the Heavenly Deity level right? By any chance do you have the interest to train at the Mount Dazzling Gold?"
Chapter 31 – The Eight Great Families' Surnames
"Train at Mount Dazzling Gold?"
Qin Yu knew that at the eastern section of the Divine Realm, the center of the power was Mount Dazzling Gold, a mountain that floats in the air. The Utmost East Sage Emperor and close to ten thousand Heavenly Deities, were all gathered at that location.
"When chopping wood, it's better to hone one's blade first. It is better for me to wholeheartedly train in my 'Array Path.' It won't be too late for me to proceed to Mount Dazzling Gold after I achieve some accomplishment in the 'Array Path.'" Thought Qin Yu in his heart.
When researching the 'Array Path,' Qin Yu's soul's level would also slowly increase. According to the experience left behind by the Craftsman God Chehou Yuan, once one reached the level eight formation array stage, one's soul would be at the peak of High Level Heavenly Deity.
Qin Yu looked at the yellow clothed woman before him. Distracted, he seemed to have seen the long haired Li'er.
"Ah!" Qin Yu was suddenly woken up. "That's right. This Huang Jing is the large squadron captain of the cultivators of Mount Dazzling Gold. She is also a High Level Heavenly Deity. She ought to be someone of status among the Utmost East Sage Emperor's camp. She most definitely knows of the surnames of the Eight Great Families of the Divine Realm. It might even be possible for her to know about Li'er!"
Uncle Fu was merely the housekeeper of the Bewitching God Temple and a puppet created by the Craftsman God Chehou Yuan. It was natural for him to not know about a lot of the secrets.
However this Huang Jing was someone who held a high position within Mount Dazzling Gold, the power headquarters of the Utmost East Sage Emperor.
"Qin Yu, what are you still thinking about?" Said Huang Jing with a smile. "In this enormous Divine Realm, the Eight Great Sage Emperors each possess a region. And now, you have also reached the Heavenly Deity level, if you were to continue to trying your best in a small place like Yuchi City, it would be unlikely for you to achieve great accomplishments. In Yuchi City, a mere Low Level Heavenly Deity would be considered as someone extremely extraordinary. However, within Mount Dazzling Gold, everyone is at least a Low Level Heavenly Deity."
Huang Jing stared at Qin Yu. "I believe that you ought to be someone who wouldn't be content with staying merely at the territory of this Yuchi City, right?"
Hearing what Huang Jing said, Qin Yu's heart had also moved.
When he first came to the Divine Realm, his strength was indeed relatively weak. However now, his 'Stellar Transformation' technique has reached the Universe Stage. He had split apart the Heaven and Earth and created a new world. As he now possessed his Universal World, Qin Yu could even accomplish teleportation using the spatial energy from the Universal World.
On top of that, he possessed the Divine Spear Waning Snow that was currently absorbing the Dark and Yellow Energy. His attack power was extremely astonishing.
"Indeed. The current Yuchi City really does not possess any challenge to me. Those that I could consider as people worthy of challenging are countable with a single hand." Qin Yu sighed in his heart. Ordinary Low Level Heavenly Deities were simply no match for him at all.
Even if his opponent were a Mid Level Heavenly Deity, he would still be capable of fighting them. If he were to risk his all and use 'teleportation'... then it would truly be extremely hard for a Mid Level Heavenly Deity to kill Qin Yu in close combat.
Only at this moment did the Nine-headed Black Dragon Tan Jiu manage to determine that the yellow clothed woman before him was actually from 'Mount Dazzling Gold.' Tan Jiu became even more cautious of this Huang Jing. At this moment, he also advised. "Qin Yu, Lady Huang Jing personally invited you. You should accept it."
"This, well, oka..." Qin Yu was about to accept but suddenly stopped.
"What's wrong?" Huang Jing looked to Qin Yu with a confused expression.
Qin Yu frowned. He remembered something bad. "This Huang Jing had thought that I had reached the Low Level Heavenly Deity level. However, I am actually only at the High Level Deity level. I am only able to fly because of the assistance from my Meteoric Tear. The energy that I can use now is only the Divine Energy. Huang Jing is currently thinking that I have yet to transform my energy because I have just reached the Low Level Heavenly Deity level. However, if I were to go to the Mount Dazzling Gold and continue to use Divine Energy after a long time, I reckon I would bring about the suspicion of a large number of people."
"Furthermore, the Mount Dazzling Gold is the territory of the Utmost East Sage Emperor. That Utmost East Sage Emperor is unfathomably strong. If he were to grow suspicious of me, it'd be very troublesome."
Qin Yu instantly thought of this issue.
The energy that he had at his disposal right now was Divine Energy. How could he conceal this from the people of Mount Dazzling Gold?
"Exactly how long would it take for one to reach the Low Level Heavenly Deity from the peak of High Level Deity?" Qin Yu was filled with helpless anxiety. This mountain pass of reaching the Heavenly Deity Stage from the peak of the Deity level, was a mountain pass that had trapped hundreds of billions of people of the Divine Realm.
If it takes too long for Qin Yu to reach a breakthrough, then he would definitely be suspected in Mount Dazzling Gold as he'd be using his Divine Energy for a long time.
"Miss Huang Jing, I too have been longing to go to Mount Dazzling Gold. However, the current me is still too weak. I have yet to even completely transform my Divine Energy into Heavenly Divine Energy. I think... it will not be too late for me to go to the Mount Dazzling Gold after my strength increases a bit." Said Qin Yu.
Huang Jing nodded. It seemed as if she was a bit disappointed. However, she still smiled and said. "Okay. In that case, when you want to come to Mount Dazzling Gold, you merely have to come over and then inform them of my name."
"Thank you Miss Huang Jing." Qin Yu said gratefully.
Although this was what Qin Yu said, he currently had a matter in his heart that had been vexing him. The Eight Great Families of the Divine Realm, what exactly were their surnames? Which family was Jiang Li from?
Qin Yu wanted to ask Huang Jing.
Qin Yu glanced Black Dragon, the lean youngster beside him, and then said to Huang Jing via Divine Awareness Voice Transmission. "Miss Huang Jing, I have a matter that I wish to ask you. Merely, I think it might be rude for me to ask you about it."
The Eight Great Families of the Divine Realm with the most power and history, their surnames had been a secret the entire time. Even if Huang Jing knew about it, would she tell an ordinary nobody like himself?
Seeing that Qin Yu had send a Divine Awareness Voice Transmission to her, Huang Jing was slightly surprised. She too realized that what Qin Yu wanted to ask her might be some sort of secret.
"Lady Huang Jing, the two of you can chat first. I still have some things to chat with Qin Yu about later." Black Dragon Tan Jiu saw Qin Yu and Huang Jing's expressions and managed to guess that Qin Yu and her likely had some sort of secret matter to talk about. At once, he proceeded to walk away to a distance several miles from them.
A burst of ripple appeared in the space surrounding Huang Jing. The space surrounding Huang Jing had instantly fell under her control.
"Qin Yu, go ahead and speak your mind. Inside this domain, others absolutely cannot hear what we are talking about." Said Huang Jing with a slight smile. "I truly wish to know what exactly it is that you want to ask me!"
Qin Yu took a breath of air and then stared at Huang Jing.
Huang Jing also felt that the atmosphere had turned. She no longer had a smile on her face.
"Miss Huang Jing, I merely wanted to ask about the eight most ancient Great Families, that is to say, the Eight Great Families which the Eight Great Sage Emperors are from. I wish to know what their surnames are! And whether there is one that is surnamed Jiang?! And if there is, which Great Family is that?" Qin Yu said all that in a single breath. By the time he finished, he felt that his hands were slightly shivering. Standing there, he felt as if even his muscles were shaking.
Nervous!
Qin Yu was truly nervous. He continued to watch Huang Jing and was awaiting for her respond.
Huang Jing's expression had slightly changed. She looked at Qin Yu. Her pair of long, shapely eyebrows started to knit together. Confused, she said. "You want to know about the surnames of the Eight Great Families? Why are you asking this?"
Qin Yu's face turned slightly red. He felt as if he was an ant on top of a saucepan lid.
"Miss Huang Jing, I merely wanted to know. This matter is extremely important to me. Is it possible for you to tell me? Can you tell me exactly which one of the Eight Great Families have the surname 'Jiang?'" Qin Yu said hurriedly. At the same time, his speech have turned faster and faster.
Even Huang Jing could sense Qin Yu's urgency.
"I'm sorry for being too anxious. Miss Huang Jing, if this matter is too important and you cannot tell me about it, then I won't force you to tell me. If you are able to tell me about it, then I... I wish that you please do. I ask of you, please tell me. Please?" Qin Yu looked to Huang Jing with anticipation.
Huang Jing remained silent for a couple breaths of time. She then slightly smiled. "Okay then, I will tell you about this. Merely, I wish that you do not tell others about this. The surnames of the Eight Great Families are not things that can be spoken and spread as one wishes."
"Thank you. I will definitely not tell others. I would definitely not!" Qin Yu said repeatedly.
Qin Yu naturally knew that the surnames of the Eight Great Families were things that he couldn't spread as he wishes. For Huang Jing to be willing to tell him about them, he was extremely grateful to her.
"The most ancient Eight Great Families of the Divine Realm were created as the Divine Realm was created. The surnames of these Eight Great Families are a secret that only the upper echelons of the Divine Realm know of. As for the 'Jiang' surname that you spoke of, it is indeed one among the Eight Great Families." As Huang Jing said to this point, Qin Yu lightly smiled.
Qin Yu's deep and serene eyes were currently dazzling like the stars in the sky.
"Sure enough, sure enough." Qin Yu felt as if his heart was overhanging. He was in a state of extreme nervousness.
Huang Jing continued. "The Eight Great Families of the Divine Realm are respectively surnamed Huangfu, Tang, Mu, Jiang, Duanmu, Sentu, Putai, and Zhou. The Utmost East Sage Emperor's clan is the Huangfu Clan!"
An thought flashed through Qin Yu's mind. The Divine Realm's Eastern Region was the territory of the Huangfu Clan. He then immediately cast this knowledge all the way into the depths of his mind. Qin Yu continued to stare at Huang Jing. He was waiting to find out exactly which of the Eight Great Families the Jiang Clan was.
"The Eight Great Sacred Lands of the Divine Realm, to the utmost north is the Floating Snow City, to the utmost south is the Light Lens City, to the utmost east is Mount Dazzling Gold, to the utmost west is Mount Blazing Flame, to the northwest is the Thunder Punishment City, to the northeast is the Forest Ocean City, to the southeast is the Subterranean City and to the southwest is the Jade Ripple Lake."
Huang Jing said all that with a single breath. She then smiled and looked to Qin Yu.
Seeing that Huang Jing had yet to tell him which one was the Jiang Clan, Qin Yu grew impatient and said. "Miss Huang Jing..."
Huang Jing smiled. "I know that you're getting anxious. This Jiang Clan is the clan of the Divine Realm's Utmost North Sage Emperor. Almost all of the Jiang clansmen reside in the Floating Snow City! Qin Yu, are you satisfied now?"
"Floating Snow City, Floating Snow City!"
Qin Yu's mind instantly became filled up with the words 'Floating Snow City.' All the blood in his body appeared to be boiling. At this moment, Qin Yu had lost his ability to think.
Seeing that Qin Yu's skin had turned red and was displaying a blank expression, Huang Jing couldn't help herself from being surprised.
Qin Yu's body shivered. He then woke back up to reality. He immediately looked to Huang Jing and said impatiently. "Miss Huang Jing, I would like to ask if you know about a girl. Her name is Jiang Li!"
"Jiang Li, eh? You also know of little sister Jiang Li?" Huang Jing was surprised. "You'd best not tell me that you're also planning to chase after little sister Jiang Li!?"
Chapter 32 – Threat
Upon hearing Huang Jing's question, Qin Yu instantly woke back up to reality.
Currently, Qin Yu still couldn't allow others to know about the relationship between him and Li'er. His current strength was too weak! Qin Yu immediately asked instead. "Chase after Jiang Li? Miss Huang Jing, why would you say such a thing? Could it be that there are a lot of people chasing after Jiang Li?"
"Oh?" Huang Jing looked to Qin Yu with suspicion.
Qin Yu however had a lingering fear in his heart. Earlier when Huang Jing asked him that question, had he not woken back up to reality, then perhaps he would've said what he shouldn't have.
"Miss Huang Jing, what are you thinking?" Said Qin Yu with a smile on his face. In merely a short moment, Qin Yu's frame of mind had grown completely undisturbed.
Huang Jing glanced at Qin Yu a couple times. She then said. "There are naturally a lot of people chasing after little sister Jiang Li. This involves a great secret. For the time being, I believe it's best for you to not know about this matter."
"Involved a great secret? What sort of secret is this mysterious?" Said Qin Yu with a smile on his face.
Huang Jing shook her head and didn't say anything. Actually, this secret couldn't be considered to be a great secret. After all, all the upper echelons of the Divine Realm knew about this secret. Otherwise, there wouldn't have been that many Heavenly Deities chasing after Jiang Li. However, Huang Jing didn't want to tell Qin Yu about this secret!
"Actually, little sister Jiang Li is also quite pitiful." Said Huang Jing with a sigh.
Qin Yu's heart shivered. What's wrong with Li'er? Why is she pitiful? However, Qin Yu was still feigning a curious expression. "Jiang Li is pitiful? How is she pitiful?"
Huang Jing shook her head and said with a sigh. "Jiang Li is from the utmost north region's Jiang Clan. Thus, her status could also be considered as being very high. Logically, she should be able to live her life carefreely and without worries. After all, things like forced marriage are extremely seldom nowadays. Likewise, there are rarely any people from the Divine Realm that would like someone to a frantic level. However, ever since that Heaven Startling Battle, little sister Jiang Li's situation has turned for the worse."
"The number of people chasing after her is immense. Furthermore, many of the people among them possess extremely high status. For there to be that many people chasing after her... does it illustrate her charm? It would've been fine had that been the case. The most lamentable thing was, this large group of people that wants little sister Jiang Li, not a single one of them likes her for who she is." Huang Jing sighed.
A group of people that doesn't like her yet chases after her.
This was truly lamentable..
Qin Yu felt a burst of fury rising from the bottom of his heart. He tried his best to maintain his tranquil expression. "Miss Huang Jing, why are those people chasing after Jiang Li if they do not like her?"
"It's all because they want to have the opportunity to become a Godking! Humph, each and every one of those people wants to become a new Godking. Little sister Jiang Li is truly pitiful. If she were to marry any one of them... fortunately she has the protection of senior Jiang Lan. Otherwise, little sister Jiang Li would've already been forced to marry someone." Huang Jing sighed.
Qin Yu's heart shivered.
Forced to marry someone? Those four words have caused Qin Yu's heart to tighten. Although he knew that this had yet to happen, just thinking about it caused Qin Yu to feel that his heart was tightening.
Qin Yu didn't know what to do if Li'er were to truly become someone's wife!
"Uncle Lan, Li'er..."
Qin Yu's clenched down on his teeth tightly. At this moment, his resolution seemed to be carving his soul. "Li'er, bear for it a bit longer. Once I have enough strength, I will definitely walk into the Floating Snow City straightforwardly and out in the open."
At this moment, Qin Yu needed to suffer patiently but firmly resolve himself and continue to put in effort into his training.
He shall wait till the future when he achieves accomplishments before emerging and showing his magnificence.
"Miss Huang Jing, I, Qin Yu, cannot thank you enough for the things you have told me today." Qin Yu bowed to once again express his gratitude. Huang Jing immediately smiled so hard that her eyes squinted. "It's nothing much. In the future, once you've come to the Mount Dazzling Gold, these things would be things that you'd naturally come to know."
Huang Jing turned around and looked at the Nine-headed Black Dragon Tan Jiu who stood far away.
"This Tan Jiu says that he has something that he wants to chat with you about. You can go ahead and chat with him now." Said Huang Jing with a smile on her face. At the same time, she removed the spatial domain in the surroundings.
With short scarlet hair like steel needles sticking out; with a pair of gloomy and baleful eyes underneath a pair of scarlet sword brows; with the appearance of a slender youngster was the Nine-headed Black Dragon Tan Jiu. With a cold expression, he stood on the open land. The mountain wind of the ravine whiz past him. Although they crashed at his body, Tan Jiu's appearance did not change in the slightest.
"This Qin Yu, I hope that he won't make our conflict a life and death crisis!" Tan Jiu had a matter that bothered him in his heart.
Qin Yu's identity!
From Tan Jiu's point of view, Qin Yu possessed a High Level Heavenly Divine Artifact, knew of the 'so close yet worlds apart' remarkable ability and even mentioned that he possessed a master. Today, Tan Jiu tried to kill Qin Yu. However, at the final moment, his plan was destroyed by Huang Jing.
And now, Tan Jiu had begun to worry about what might happen if Qin Yu were to tell this matter of him trying to kill Qin Yu to his mysterious master behind him and have his master come and kill him. If such a thing were to happen, what could Tan Jiu possibly do?
Tan Jiu knew that Qin Yu had most definitely sensed the killing intent that he had in the Six Directions Extermination Array.
Tan Jiu believed that Qin Yu would definitely retaliate against him.
Since Qin Yu would come for retaliation, he must extinguish the thought of revenge before it occurs!
Kill Qin Yu?
A scene of Huang Jing effortlessly breaking his strongest offensive formation array appeared in Tan Jiu's mind. He immediately gave up the idea of killing Qin Yu. With Huang Jing here, it was impossible for him to kill Qin Yu.
"There's only a single way out!" Tan Jiu thought in his heart.
"Tan Jiu, don't you have something to talk about with Qin Yu?" Suddenly a voice sounded from the side. Tan Jiu was slightly startled. He proceeded to look to the side. Huang Jing who was still far away from him earlier, was actually beside him right now.
Tan Jiu immediately slightly bowed and said. "Lady Huang Jing. The matter that which I plan to chat with him about is extremely short. Please wait a moment."
After he finished saying that, Tan Jiu turned into a blur and arrived beside Qin Yu after a short moment.
"Tan Jiu, go ahead and tell me what you wanted to say." Qin Yu looked to the Nine-headed Black Dragon Tan Jiu with a slight smile on his face.
Qin Yu was also pretty curious of this Tan Jiu. A Nine-headed Black Dragon actually took the appearance of a youngster after taking a human form.
Space ripple spreaded out from the space surrounding the Nine-headed Black Dragon Tan Jiu. It covered an area a hundred meters surrounding him. Spatial Domain! Qin Yu did not try to escape the Spatial Domain at all. That was because Qin Yu believe that as Tan Jiu had experienced his 'teleportation' ability, he would definitely not do something stupid.
"Qin Yu, I merely wanted to apologize to you." Tan Jiu smiled as he bowed slightly.
"Apologize?"
Qin Yu looked to Tan Jiu with a confused expression on his face. Did this Tan Jiu have some sort of mental issue? Could he be trying to apologize for trying to kill me earlier? Could such a matter be settled with merely an apology?
"The three subordinates of mine, you've killed Xiong Hei and seriously injured the other two. You've also destroyed a Low Level Heavenly Divine Artifact. I, as the boss of the Black Dragon Pool, have no choice but to handle you. If I were to let you go, how then would I be able to rule over my subordinates?"
Tan Jiu raised his pair of scarlet brows and then continued. "If I can kill you yet don't kill you, then all my subordinates would refuse to obey me. Later on, when I used the Six Directions Extermination Array to attack you, it was easily broken apart by Lady Huang Jing. Through that, the close to a million Deities of my Black Dragon Pool also understand that it is not that I do not wish to avenge my subordinate but rather that I do not have the ability to avenge him. Thus, they also cannot blame me for it."
Tan Jiu looked to Qin Yu. "Qin Yu, I believe you understand the intention behind my words."
Qin Yu sneered in his heart. 'Aren't you merely trying to make me think that the reason why you, Tan Jiu, wanted to kill me was because you were forced into the situation and that you do not have the intention to kill me from the bottom of your heart?'
"Tan Jiu, I can understand your difficulties. As a boss, what you have done is completely understandable." Said Qin Yu with an extremely 'understanding' tone.
"Qin Yu, for you to be able to understand my reasoning, I feel that my heart is a lot more relaxed." Tan Jiu started laughing. Merely, he was still suspicious from the bottom of his heart. He did not believe that Qin Yu would let him off so easily.
Qin Yu continued. "Tan Jiu, if there isn't anything, I'll be taking my leave first."
"Qin Yu, I am not someone who can keep my mouth quiet. Earlier, when I learnt that you possessed the 'so close yet worlds apart' remarkable ability, I was unable to keep my mouth quiet and told about this information to my trusted aide." Tan Jiu said continuously. "I am truly sorry about that. However Qin Yu, you can rest assured. This trusted aide of mine possesses a much tighter mouth than mine. As long as I am around, he would definitely not spread this information out."
"Of course I believe in brother Tan Jiu." Said Qin Yu with a light smile.
However, Qin Yu was actually cursing in rage in his heart. "Humph, isn't this Tan Jiu threatening me saying that if I were to kill him, then his trusted aide would spread the information about my 'so close yet worlds apart' remarkable ability out?"
Tan Jiu said with gasp of admiration to Qin Yu. "However Qin Yu, that 'so close yet worlds apart' ability of yours is truly extraordinary. If all of the Heavenly Deities of the Divine Realm were to find out about it, then who knows how many of those ambitious Heavenly Deities would brave death to try to take the ability from you. There are very many Heavenly Deities in the Divine Realm that dare to take risks for their goals."
Qin Yu grew even more enraged in his heart.
Tan Jiu's intention was extremely clear. If he were to die, then the information regarding the 'so close yet worlds apart' ability would be spread out. This would in turn lead to a large number of ambitious Heavenly Deities to come for Qin Yu.
"Although they might be willing to take risks, since it's a risk, they should definitely be prepared for the possibility of death. Killing me is not that easy of a task." Said Qin Yu with a light smile.
"That's right, this is also what I was thinking too." Tan Jiu said with a nod.
Suddenly...
"Ha, Black Dragon, I've heard that even your Black Dragon Palace was burned down by someone!" A loud and brash roar was heard. Like the rumbling thunders, this loud roar resonated through the heaven and earth. A super muscular bearded robust man with height even more terrifying than Xiong Hei was flying downward from the sky above the ravine.
"Big brother, it's not merely a single Black Dragon Palace, even the other three palaces were burned to nothingness." Another robust bearded man with a similar size to the first one was also flying down from the sky above the ravine.
"I've heard that it's a Heavenly Deity that was proficient in using formation arrays that did all this. Haha, I truly want to meet him, truly want to meet him." Another robust man flew down from the sky above the ravine.
These three robust men with muscles like stone carvings, with bodies larger than even Xiong Hei's, with auras ten times more domineering than Xiong Hei's appeared to be almost exactly the same.
"What overbearing auras!" Qin Yu looked to the three men. "These three robust men, I reckon they're all Mid Level Heavenly Deities!"
There was a strange matter regarding these three robust men — all three of them possessed purple eyes!
Upon seeing these three people, Nine-headed Black Dragon Tan Jiu frowned. At the same time, he instantly created three clones from his body. All three of these Black Dragons that were created held a black stick in their hands.
Chapter 33 – The Three Bandit Bosses
Upon seeing Tan Jiu's reaction, Qin Yu opened his eyes wide.
Were these three boors Tan Jiu's enemies?
The three purple eyed robust men descended on the ground one after another. The purple eyed robust man, who appeared to be the leader, looked at the original location of the Black Dragon Palace and the other three palaces. He then started laughing loudly. "It would appear that all the rumors were true. The four palaces were burned to nothingness. Aiyah, Black Dragon, you've truly been humiliated greatly this time around."
"Eh? There's a formation array here? Could it be a formation array created by that Heavenly Deity proficient in setting up formation arrays?" Standing at the most rear, a purple eyed robust man proceeded to walk toward the great formation array that Qin Yu had created with a face filled with excitement. That great formation array was the Killing Array that Qin Yu had set up. It would attack others with White Pure Flames!
"Third brother, be careful." Shouted the leading purple eyed robust man.
"No problem!" As he said that, the 'third brother' directly walked into the formation array. Once he entered the formation array, the entire Killing Array started to activate. White Pure Flames instantly flooded the entire Killing Array. "Aiyah, it's White Pure Flames. This great formation array is truly crazy. Let's go, let's go. Even if I were to use Spatial Domain to stop the White Pure Flames, it'd still be very tiring to do that for a long time."
As his voice was still resounding, that 'third brother' had rushed out from the great formation array.
"Blocking the White Pure Flames with Spatial Domain would be tiring after a long time?" Qin Yu shot a glance of suspicion at the Nine-headed Black Dragon Tan Jiu beside him.
Not long ago, when this 'Tan Jiu' was in his Killing Array, Qin Yu had thought that one could easily keep the White Pure Flames away with Spatial Domain. However now, it appeared that it was not that easy to do.
After thinking about it, the White Pure Flames were also relatively powerful flames. For one to block those flames with Spatial Domain, one would surely have to use a certain amount of soul's energy.
"Qin Yu, do you know these three people?" Tan Jiu looked to Qin Yu.
Qin Yu shook his head.
Tan Jiu looked at the three purple eyed robust men that were walking over. He said. "There are three relatively large bandit powers in the Yuchi City's territory. One is the Black Dragon Pool. The other two are Mount Three Forks and Mount Cold Gold. These three boors are the three bosses of Mount Three Forks!"
"Mount Three Forks? So that's who they are."
Qin Yu understood it now.
Back when he was at the Sealfeel Village, Qin Yu came to know about the rumors of the three bosses of Mount Three Forks from the villagers. In the eyes of the villagers of the Sealfeel Village, the three bosses of Mount Three Forks were three valiant and barbarous Heavenly Deities!
When comparing these three bandit powers, Mount Cold Gold possessed the best reputation.
The Mount Cold Gold possesses the least number of bandit troops. However, all of the bandit troops were elites. They rarely rob others. However, when they do, they would usually rob a large amount.
"Haha, Black Dragon, I have not seen you in all these years. I don't even have the opportunity to spar with you even if I wanted to. This time around, we three brothers just happened to pass through here and came to learn that a major event had occurred over at your place. I guessed that you would've definitely appeared this time around. Haha, sure enough, my guess turned out to be correct." The 'third brother' of the three purple eyed robust men said with a loud laughter.
Tan Jiu's true body as well as his three clones, a total of four 'Tan Jiu's,' were looking at these three people coldly.
One of the Tan Jiu's frowned and said. "Man Fei, do not flaunt your cleverness in trivial matters here. The reason why you three brothers have come to my place is firstly to humiliate me and secondly to fight against me, right? If you want to fight me, then go ahead. I am already ready to take you on."
"Three clones?' Said the leading purple eyed robust man with a frown. "Tan Jiu, with your three clones against us three brothers; could it be that you are so confident that you can match us three brothers with merely three clones?"
Another man beside this purple eyed robust man said. "Big brother, do not waste time on him. Let's go and trample upon those three clones of his first. At that time, this Black Dragon would naturally become worried."
And at this moment, Huang Jing had also walked beside Qin Yu.
"Qin Yu, you should step aside. These three Mid Level Heavenly Deities all possess pretty decent strength. If they were to fight, it's likely that their battle would spread to outsiders." Said Huang Jing with a smile to Qin Yu.
"Eh, what a beautiful little girl. Come, give your three great rulers here some kisses." The third brother among the three bosses of the Mount Three Forks, Man Fei's large ox eyes opened wide. He stared at Huang Jing and shouted at her.
The cold and indifferent Tan Jiu was unable to refrain himself from being startled. He then looked to Huang Jing.
Qin Yu also looked to Huang Jing.
Harassing a High Level Heavenly Deity? It was extremely easy for a High Level Heavenly Deity to kill a Mid Level Heavenly Deity. Neither Qin Yu nor Tan Jiu knew what sort of reaction Huang Jing would have.
The three Man brothers, upon seeing Qin Yu and Tan Jiu's expression, also felt that that something's amiss. Immediately, all three of them tried to use this Divine Awareness to inspect Huang Jing and the rest of the people.
When their Divine Awareness landed on Qin Yu, they grew confused. That was because they managed to discover that Qin Yu possessed the Divine Energy of a High Level Deity. Earlier, they had thought that Qin Yu was a Heavenly Deity.
However, when their Divine Awareness landed on Huang Jing, the three of them were frightened stiff. They were unable to see through Huang Jing. In the Yuchi City, there were no powerful female experts. That was the reason why Man Fei harassed Huang Jing earlier. However, never had he anticipated that he had instead kicked an iron board.
[TL: kicking an iron board, think of it literally. You think you're kicking a ball but then you kick a piece of iron. Guess what happens if you don't wear steel toe shoes? Well, your feet would hurt!]
"Third brother, you're being impudent!" The eldest among the three, Man Chou, was the slick and slyest amongst the three. He immediately shouted at his brother coldly.
The second brother Man Fan merely frowned without saying anything else. As for the third brother Man Fei, he was instead muttering. "Fuck, it's just a random girl that I came across, yet she's an expert."
Huang Jing's expression had turned somewhat unsightly.
Back at Mount Dazzling Gold, who would dare to harass her? Never had she anticipated that she would be harassed by a boor here.
"Slap yourself ten times." Huang Jing coldly stared at Man Fei and coldly said.
Man Chou immediately cup his hands and said. "Miss, my third brother was too hot-headed. Please forgive him. I think that making him slap himself ten times is a bit too excessive. How about this, us three brothers would apologize to you and also offer gifts to express our regret. Would that be fine with you?"
Experts at the Heavenly Deity level wanted nothing more than face.
Although they would not care if you were to hack them down during battle, but if you want them to slap themselves in the face, then it would be an excessive punishment.
Huang Jing's gaze have suddenly became even more cold. With a gaze like ice blades, she swept her gaze at these three brothers. In a low voice, she shouted. "Slap yourself a hundred times. Otherwise, today shall be the day the three of you perish."
Tan Jiu was enjoying the show from the side.
Qin Yu was however sighing in his heart. Never had he anticipated that Huang Jing who possessed a pretty good temperament would actually be this scary when angry.
Man Fei looked to his big brother and second brother. He then looked to Huang Jing. He roared. "It is I who have harassed you. If you want to kill me, then go ahead and kill me. However, do not involve my big brother and second brother."
"Slap yourself a hundred times. Otherwise, all three of you brothers will die. Do not bother sprouting nonsense with me!" Huang Jing's gaze have turned cold. Immediately, everyone in the surrounding felt a burst of terror.
"Huang..." Qin Yu wanted to say something but Huang Jing coldly stared him down.
Qin Yu smiled bitterly and no longer bothered to say anymore.
Actually, Qin Yu had quite a good impression of these three Man brothers. Seeing these three, he remembered his good brother from the Immortal, Devil and Demon Realm, the Purple Eyed Ox Demon King, Man Qian. Furthermore, all three of them possessed purple eyes and the surname 'Man.' Perhaps they might even be Purple Eyed Ox Demon Kings.
However the current Huang Jing had already displayed her extremely high and imposing dignity of someone of high status.
"Third brother, you must not." The second brother Man Fan stared at Man Fei and said solemnly. "If it comes to it, us three brothers could join hands and risk our lives to fight against this woman. Although we cannot discover how powerful she is, but it might be possible for her to only be at the peak Mid Level Heavenly Deity level."
Man Chou also looked to Man Fei. His gaze have also shown his intention.
Man Fei however shook his head. "This woman is too crazy. With merely her aura, I can assure that she's a High Level Heavenly Deity. Fuck..." Man Fei cursed in rage. He then started to slap himself.
"Pow!" "Pow!" "Pow!" "Pow!" "Pow!" ...
The sound were extremely sharp and clear. It was like a lash hitting leather. When Man Fei was ruthlessly slapping himself, he even displayed a simple and honest smile to his brothers. Merely, at this moment, his face had already been split open from him slapping himself and blood have already started flowing down his face.
This Man Fei was not lenient at all at himself when he slapped himself. He slapped himself very hard!
A hundred slaps!
"I am sorry, it is my mistake." Man Fei's voice was still extremely loud. However, Qin Yu noticed that on Man Fei's lacerated face, his pair of eyes were bloodshot.
Huang Jing coldly humped.
Huang Jing then calmed her frame of mind through breathing and proceeded to stand beside Qin Yu without saying anything anymore.
At this moment, Man Chou, Man Fan and Man Fei felt a bit awkward.
Man Chou 'haha' laughed to relief the atmosphere. He then said to Tan Jiu. "Black Dragon, we three brothers have come here today originally to spar with you. However, since there is this miss here today, then we should..."
"Do not mind me. If you want to fight, then fight." Chided Huang Jing.
Man Chou's speech had been interrupted. Man Chou's expression had turned somewhat unsightly. The three brothers glanced at each other and were about to turn around and leave.
"Man Chou, are you brothers going to leave just like this?" Tan Jiu mocked.
Seeing how humiliated his old neighbors were, Tan Jiu was extremely happy.
Mei Fei opened his ox eyes wide. He shouted at Tan Jiu. "Humph, we three brothers are in a bad mood today. We originally wanted to come find you to vent our anger. However, with this miss here today, we don't want to disturb. Tomorrow, we three brothers will come and find you tomorrow!" As Man Fei said those, his fierce wound on his face started to rip open like a monster opening its mouth.
"Third brother, deal with your wound first." Said the second brother Man Fan. Man Fei nodded and then a layer of jade green radiance appeared on his face. The wound on his face instantly disappeared.
Tan Jiu coldly laughed and said. "Finding me to vent your anger? You surely talk big. You three brothers, even if you were to join hands, you would at the very most make me utilize three clones, yet you are still acting all arrogant here!"
Tan Jiu was indeed entitled to be arrogant. After all, he was capable of turning into nine people!
"Haha... it's so lively over here. And here I was thinking that it was only a battle of Low Level Heavenly Deities. Who would've expected that the Man Clan's three dumb oxen and that nine headed bug that had been hiding the entire time would all appear!"
A clear and sonorous voice sounded. A golden clothed figure appeared in the middle of the air.
Qin Yu raised his head and looked. Upon seeing the incoming person, Qin Yu's first impression was... extremely handsome!
The person who had arrived wore gold clothes from head to toe. He had the appearance of a youngster. His entire body was radiating like sunshine... Upon seeing this youngster, Qin Yu felt that this youngster was like the opposite extreme of the Nine-headed Black Dragon Tan Jiu.
Tan Jiu had extremely dark skin. However, this gold clothed youngster's skin was so white that it seemed like the skin of an infant.
Tan Jiu's gaze was extremely gloomy and baleful. This gold clothed youngster's gaze was instead extremely bright and clear.
"Three dumb oxens of the Man Clan, I merely went to find the three of you to compare notes. Why do the three of you always avoid me? Furthermore, you, nine headed bug, why is it that I cannot find you whenever I wanted to find you? Now that I've managed to get all of you in one place, not a single one of you should think about escaping. Today, you all must fight me." Said the golden clothed youngster as he laughed heartily.
Qin Yu was amazed.
Who was this golden clothed youngster who had suddenly appeared? From his tone of speech, it seemed that he was someone extraordinary.
"Liushui!" Suddenly, a voice sounded from beside Qin Yu. It was precisely Huang Jing who stood beside him.
As for the golden clothed youngster that was previously displaying an extremely excited expression, his gaze suddenly stopped. He looked at Qin Yu with a confused expression. No, he looked at Huang Jing beside Qin Yu.
The golden clothed youngster only managed to see Huang Jing beside Qin Yu after he turned his head over.
"Ah, big sis!" The golden clothed youngster opened his eyes wide.
"Big sis?" Qin Yu was startled.
The Nine-headed Black Dragon Tan Jiu also looked to Huang Jing with a startled expression. He then looked at the golden clothed youngster. He was displaying a face filled with disbelief.
As for the three Man brothers, they too have their eyes wide open. After a long time, Man Fei even muttered. "Never had I anticipated that this woman was actually that battle fanatic's older sister. The younger brother is this powerful, yet the older sister was actually even more powerful."
"Liushui, what did you promise me when I left your place? How come I just turned and left yet you're out here again?" Huang Jing lowly shouted.
This golden clothed youngster placed his hands on his head. He looked to the couple people here and then his gaze landed on Qin Yu. Instantly, his eyes shined and he changed the subject. "Big sister, seeing how close you are standing to this person, do you know him? Eh? My big sister that usually despises men, how come she's being so intimate with a man?"
Sure enough, Huang Jing stopped asking about why the golden clothed youngster came out. Instead, she started to hurriedly explain herself. "His name is Qin Yu. I have met him a couple times before. Liushui, you'd best not spread random rumors!"
"Of course not, of course not. Hehe, I listen to my big sis the most." Said the golden clothed youngster in succession.
The golden clothed youngster then walked to Qin Yu's side. He cupped his hand and said. "Brother Qin Yu, I am one of the Three Great Bosses in the Yuchi City's territory... Mount Cold Gold's boss, Huangfu Liushui! I suspect you've also heard of my great name before."
"Brother Huangfu, I am Qin Yu. Your older sister has introduced me already." Qin Yu immediately greeted him back.
Qin Yu came to know now that this golden clothed youngster was actually one of the Three Great Bandit Powers of the Yuchi City, the boss of Mount Cold Gold. However, regardless of how he looked at it, this youngster still did not appear like a bandit boss.
At the same time, Qin Yu had also grown suspicious. Huang Jing's surname was Huang. This Liushui Surname was 'Huangfu.' Yet the two of them were siblings?
Huang Jing smiled apologetically to Qin Yu. "Brother Qin Yu, I originally planned to return back from Mount Cold Gold. And now that I've seen that you're also fine, I shall take my leave first. I hope that we can meet each other again on Mount Dazzling Gold."
"Miss Huang Jing, once my strength increases a bit, I will definitely go there." Qin Yu immediately said.
This Huangfu Liushui's eyes immediately started shining. He laughed and said. "Big sis, take care!"
Chapter 34 – Group Battle
Huang Jing cast a side-eye glance at Huangfu Liushui. Ultimately, she said. "Liu Shui, if you were to get bored, then stop staying in the desolate Mount Cold Gold and return back to Mount Dazzling Gold."
"Mn." Huangfu Liushui nodded obediently.
However, Huang Jing knew what she had said was likely going to be useless. Otherwise, this younger brother of hers would not have left his home. With her younger brother's rebellious nature, all she could do was to try to urge him like so. If she were to try to force him to come back, then the result would be even worse.
"Good, then I shall take my leave. Qin Yu, farewell." Huang Jing looked to Qin Yu.
Qin Yu also bowed. "Miss Huang Jing, let's meet again on Mount Dazzling Gold." Upon hearing what Qin Yu said, Huang Jing lightly smiled. She then soared into the sky and flew toward the east.
"Huhu, she finally left!" Huangfu Liushui immediately started laughing happily.
"Brother Huangfu, no wonder you possessed a High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact. So you actually possessed an older sister with a high status at Mount Dazzling Gold." Sneered Tan Jiu. Within Tan Jiu's words contained jealousy and envy.
High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact, even if it was the Mount Dazzling Gold, it was likely that only those with high status would be able to obtain those.
As for Tan Jiu, he had only managed to luckily obtain a Mid Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact after paying a huge price. As for Man Chou, Man Fan and Man Fei, although all three of them were Mid Level Heavenly Deities, they were only able to barely possess a Low Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact each.
As bandits, it was no simple task for them to obtain a Heavenly Divine Artifact. For those three Low Quality Heavenly Divine Artifacts, Man Chou and his brothers had spent an unmeasurable amount of mental and physical effort to obtain them. In the Divine Realm... the majority of the Low Level Heavenly Deities did not possess a Heavenly Divine Artifact. That was because the Heavenly Divine Artifacts were truly too precious.
This was also the reason why Mei Ji and Daoist Liu Xu were envious of Xiong Hei. Xiong Hei's Low Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact 'Mountain Crusher' was originally the Nine-headed Black Dragon Tan Jiu's weapon. After obtaining his Mid Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact, Tan Jiu bestowed his old weapon to Xiong Hei. However, that Low Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact had been destroyed by Qin Yu.
"What? Are you envious?" Huangfu Liushui flipped his hand and took out an... enormous hatchet!
That enormous hatchet was golden colored throughout. Right after Liushui took out this enormous golden hatchet, Qin Yu instantly sensed the frightening aura contained within it. If the Divine Sword Scarlet Blood were to possess a sharp aura, then this enormous hatchet possessed an incomparably thick and imposing aura.
Huangfu Liushui gently caressed the enormous hatchet in his hand. He was caressing it so affectionately like how one would caress one's lover. "Tan Jiu, if you're envious, then just say it out clearly. This High Quality Divine Artifact of mine, I had spent quite some effort in order to obtain it. With your status, you can only obtain a Heavenly Divine Artifact if you managed to reach the High Level Heavenly Deity level and then submit yourself to a certain power where the power would be able to grant a High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact. Otherwise, with your current strength, you can only obtain a High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact within your dreams."
Tan Jiu coldly humped and then glanced at Qin Yu beside him.
Tan Jiu cursed in his heart. "Huangfu Liushui, if it wasn't for your sister, then I would've likely have obtained a High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact by now. Furthermore, I might've even be able to learn the remarkable ability of 'so close yet worlds apart.'"
"What's there to envy you for? It's not like you're the only one here with a High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact!" Tan Jiu raised his scarlet brows and said coldly.
"Who else is there?" Huangfu Liushui's eyes shined.
Man Chou, Man Fan and Man Fei also looked to Tan Jiu with shocked expressions. Man Fei said. "There's someone with a High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact? Black Dragon, you'd best not sprout random lies around. High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifacts are no ordinary playthings."
Qin Yu frowned.
Sure enough, that Tan Jiu looked at Qin Yu. He pointed at Qin Yu and said. "Brother Qin Yu possesses a High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact. It was bestowed to Brother Qin Yu by his master and was extremely powerful."
Qin Yu felt extremely enraged in his heart.
Tan Jiu said to Qin Yu apologetically. "Ah, Qin Yu, I am unable to keep secrets. Earlier when I saw how excessively arrogant Huangfu Liushui was, I felt grievance for you and was unable to refrain my mouth from opening and speaking in your behalf."
"Felt grievance for me?" At this moment, Qin Yu truly did not know whether he should curse at how excessively shameless Tan Jiu was.
Huangfu Liushui's eyes started shining. He looked to Qin Yu and said. "Qin Yu, you have a High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact? When I used my Divine Awareness to inspect you, your body merely possessed the Divine Energy of a High Level Deity. If you possessed a High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact, how would this nine headed bug not try to forcible take it from you?"
Huangfu Liushui gaze Tan Jiu a side eye. "I am quite familiar with the temperament of this nine headed bug. He would definitely be unable to resist himself from trying to take your High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact."
"I have just reached the Low Level Heavenly Deity level. The Divine Energy within my body still hasn't managed to transform to that of Heavenly Divine Energy yet." Qin Yu immediately explained. This was the only sort of explanation he could provide.
Deities and Heavenly Deities, their souls were unlike that of the souls of Immortals and Mortals. When one's soul had reached a specific level, a Deity's soul would form a Golden Soul Pellet. As for the Heavenly Deities, their souls would turn into an Embryo.
Both the souls of Deities and Heavenly Deities were actual entities. They were hidden within the depths of the brain and cannot be investigated by others at all.
However, it was easy for one to determine the Divine Energy and Heavenly Divine Energy that Deities and Heavenly Deities possessed. Those who are more powerful are capable of using their Divine Awareness to hinder others from investigating them. As for those that are weak, they can only allow themselves to be investigated by those stronger than them.
"Oh, so that was the case." Huangfu Liushui suddenly understood now. However, he shortly said in a puzzled tone. "However you're only a Low Level Heavenly Deity, how is it that you can stop that nine headed bug with merely a High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact? Although I don't really like that nine headed bug, but to be honest, this nine headed bug's battle prowess is extremely astonishing."
Tan Jiu coldly humped.
"It is your older sister that saved me." Qin Yu explained.
Huangfu Liushui immediately understood it now. He laughed out loud. "That's right, with my older sister helping you, if this nine headed bug actually dared to attack you, he'll merely be courting death. Oh, that's right, do you really possess a High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact?"
"Yes."
Qin Yu admitted that he possessed a High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact. He extended his hand and then the Divine Sword Scarlet Blood appeared within his hand. "This Divine Sword is called 'Scarlet Blood.' It is a High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact. It is bestowed to me by my master."
In Qin Yu's heart, the Craftsman God Chehou Yuan did indeed provide him the grace of guidance like that of a master. Everything in the Bewitching God Temple was left behind to him by Chehou Yuan. To say that they were bestowed by his master was also correct.
"Master, what might your master's name be?" Huangfu Liushui asked. "Perhaps I know who he is."
"My master has ordered me that I cannot tell his names to others. I am deeply sorry about that." Qin Yu said somewhat regretfully.
Actually, Chehou Yuan had also left a message to Qin Yu telling him to not let others know about him becoming the successor of the Bewitching God Temple. Otherwise, merely the identity of the 'successor to the Craftsman God' would bring about the attention of many people.
Huangfu Liushui nodded. He was also someone who had seen the greater world. He was not someone who would bother to have wicked intentions merely for a High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact.
"Nine headed bug and you three dumb oxens, my sister has already left. There is no one else here either. Let's have a great battle over here." Huangfu Liushui held the enormous golden hatchet and started to wave it around unceasingly.
Man Chou, Man Fan and Man Fei glanced at each other.
The second brother Man Fan nodded and said with a hump. "That's good too. Today, we three brothers wanted to fight against the Black Dragon anyways. Merely, our moods were wrecked by your older sister. Now that your older sister has left, it would be fine for us to have a battle."
"That's right. Fuck. I'm currently full of anger and have nowhere to vent them." Man Fei added.
"Vent anger? You're planning to vent your anger on me? I too am full of anger!" Tan Jiu's expression turned even more gloomy. Today had been a bad day for him all day. He had just lost a Low Level Heavenly Deity subordinate earlier. Then, when he was about to kill Qin Yu, he was disturbed by Huang Jing. And now, he must worry about the retaliation from Qin Yu's master.
How could he not be angry?
The three Man brothers stood at one side. Each of the three brothers held a long three pronged fork. These three long three pronged forks were all Low Quality Heavenly Divine Artifacts. All of them were dark red in color and extremely heavy.
Huangfu Liushui held his enormous golden hatchet in his hand and smiled as he stood at once side.
The three Man brothers and Huangfu Liushui were all looking at the Nine-headed Black Dragon Tan Jiu. At this moment, Tan Jiu had already turned into nine Tan Jiu's.
Qin Yu was watching the battle from afar. The three Man brothers, Huangfu Liushui and Tan Jiu, they were all Mid Level Heavenly Deities. Although they were all Mid Level Heavenly Deities, there was disparity between their strength.
"I'll go first!"
Huangfu Liushui laughed loudly. At the same time, he threw his enormous golden hatchet high up the sky. That golden hatchet suddenly became even larger and grew to the size of a large mountain.
As for Huangfu Liushui, his body was radiating a misty golden light. His body instantly charged sharply toward a Tan Jiu. His metal-like fist was directly smashed toward Tan Jiu's head.
Instantly...
Tan Jiu and Huangfu Liushui started fighting at a lightning speed. Their after images were appearing unceasingly. The sounds of explosions were being heard nonstop.
"Boom!"
The blade of the enormous golden hatchet instantly became about ten miles long. However, the blade was still as thin and sharp as it was before!
Exactly how large was a ten miles long blade? The speed that this enormous golden hatchet chopped down was extremely fast. In an instant, it had chopped down upon another Tan Jiu. That Tan Jiu held a black stick and could only firmly take on the incoming hatchet.
"Bang!" A sound like an earthquake. Qin Yu felt that even the ground was shaking.
A gigantic crack appeared on the surface. As for that Tan Jiu that was hacked by the enormous golden hatchet, he had been hacked deeply into the ditch. After some time, a blur flew out from the deep ditch. It was precisely that Tan Jiu clone that had been hacked into the ditch.
At this moment, this clone's complexion was already pale. He was already seriously injured.
"You only know how to rely on your High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact!" That Tan Jiu clone's scarlet brows were raised as he shouted angrily. "Huangfu Liushui, even though you possess a High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact, you still would only be trampled upon by me!"
At this instant, six of the nine Tan Jiu clones had rushed toward Huangfu Liushui. As for the remaining three clones, they were taking on one of the Man brothers each.
Tan Jiu, the three Man brothers and Huangfu Liushui were all Mid Level Heavenly Deities. All three of them are capable of creating 'Spatial Domains.' Perhaps it was because they knew each other very well and knew that if they were to use 'Spatial Domains,' they would only be wasting their energy. Thus, none of them had used their Spatial Domains.
Six against one!
Holding his enormous golden hatchet in his hand, Huangfu Luishui's entire body turned golden in color. His fists, legs, knees, elbows... each and every one of his body parts was able to execute an extremely frantic attack. As for the enormous golden hatchet in his hand, it was striking with a lightning speed.
"What a valiant body." Qin Yu gasped in admiration.
He clearly saw that Huangfu Luishui managed to shatter one of Tan Jiu clone's High Quality Divine Armor with a single fist strike. Qin Yu knew very well that... when a Mid Level Heavenly Deity used a Divine Artifact, the defense of the Divine Artifact would be astonishingly strong. Yet Huangfu Liushui still managed to shatter the High Quality Divine Armor.
"Six clones against one. Yet this Huangfu Liushui is actually able to keep up with them. This Huangfu Liushui's speed is truly astonishing. And that enormous hatchet of his, those clones simply don't dare to take it head on at all." Qin Yu was able to clearly see that although Huangfu Liushui was fighting six Tan Jiu clones by himself, he was however dominating.
Qin Yu turned around to look at the other battlefield.
Three clones against the three Man brothers.
"A clone against a single person. It seems that the three Man brothers hold the superiority by a slight margin. Mn... that's true too. Tan Jiu's clones all hold a Mid Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact. Although they were merely a portion of a Mid Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact, they still possess an extremely powerful amount of might. On the other hand, the three Man brothers only possess Low Quality Heavenly Divine Artifacts!"
The three Man brothers were roaring and frantically attacking. The three Tan Jiu's were also trying their hardest to block the incoming attacks.
This battle continued for an entire day. Ultimately, Tan Jiu seemed to be unable to bear it anymore. After all, for him to take on four people by himself was indeed an extremely difficult thing to do. This held especially true for Huangfu Liushui.
Tan Jiu knew that even if he was to fight against Huangfu Liushui one against one, he would only be able to win by a slight margin. Yet now, he had only sent six clones to fight against Huangfu Liushui. Thus, he had no other choice but to be trampled upon.
"Heeh~~~"
Tan Jiu suddenly roared angrily. The nine clones started to gather toward the center with a lightning speed. After that, the nine Tan Jiu's fused into one. At the same time, the nine black sticks had turned into a single nine sectioned whip.
Tan Jiu was able to clearly sense the increase in thickness and strength of the power within his body.
"Huangfu Liushui and you three, if you have the ability, come at me again!" Tan Jiu held his nine sectioned whip in his hand and shouted angrily.
"Haha... you've finally decided to go all out. Delightful, delightful!" Huangfu Liushui laughed out loud and then charged toward Tan Jiu. As for the three Man brothers, they roared and then also charged over.
Four against one!
Qin Yu finally managed to experience the true strength of this Tan Jiu. After his nine clones combined into one, Tan Jiu's speed and power were both increased greatly. Especially that nine sectioned whip that he held in his hand.
The nine sectioned whip was both flexible and firm. It could attack from around and turn into a stick to attack with a smash. It could also be both flexible for half of the whip and firm for the other half!
The nine sectioned staff could even increase in length to bind his enemies. Furthermore, it could even split apart into different sections to attack Tan Jiu's enemy. In Tan Jiu's hands, Qin Yu felt that he was dazzled by the nine sectioned whip.
Perhaps Huangfu Liushui and the three Man brothers were not good at cooperating with each other. Although they were fighting Tan Jiu four against one, they were only able to slightly possess the upper hand and unable to defeat Tan Jiu at all.
"His energy is completely condensed into his weapon. The attack power is completely condensed. Each leg, each fist, all their attack power are extremely astonishing. Although it does not have a gorgeous appearance, its might is enormous." More than half of Qin Yu's concentration was focused on Huangfu Liushui.
After a battle of three days and three nights, Huangfu Liushui and them had no option but to admit that even if they were to battle for several hundred more years, it would still be impossible for them to win. Thus, they ended up giving up.
"Ha, delightful, delightful." Huangfu Liushui smiled as he walked to Qin Yu's side. "Qin Yu, what do you think about coming to have some fun at my Mount Cold Gold?"
Qin Yu however had his own plan. He immediately said. "I still have something to do. How about I go when I have time?"
"That's good too." Huangfu Liushui nodded. He then secretly said to Qin Yu via his Divine Awareness Voice Transmission. "Qin Yu, let me remind you. You'd best go to the Mount Dazzling Gold quickly and try your best to chase after my older sister. Perhaps you might become my older brother-in-law. Truly, I think that my older sister has a pretty good impression of you. You're quite hopeful!"
Qin Yu was startled.
Seeing Qin Yu's expression, Huangfu Liushui immediately started laughing out loud. As he was laughing, Huangfu Liushui flew away.
Chapter 35 – Hiding
Qin Yu could only shake his head and smile.
Qin Yu was able to tell that Huang Jing at the very most only had a good impression of him. Furthermore, Qin Yu believed that Huang Jing was related to the Utmost East Sage Emperor's Huangfu Clan.
"Huang Jing is siblings with Huangfu Liushui. The Utmost East Sage Emperor is from the Huangfu Clan. Perhaps this Miss Huang Jing, her true name might be Huangfu Jing." Qin Yu thought in his heart.
Suddenly, Qin Yu's gaze was attracted by the three Man brothers.
The leader of the three Man brothers, Man Chou, was currently walking toward Qin Yu. As for Man Fan behind him, he had an indifferent face. As for that Man Fei, he was muttering as if he didn't want to bother speaking with Qin Yu.
The eldest brother Man Chou walked over to Qin Yu. He smiled and said. "Brother Qin Yu, I am Man Chou. Let me introduce everyone, this is my second brother Man Fan and this is my third brother Man Fei. It is the first time we met. However, if you have the time, feel free to come stroll around our Mount Three Forks. We would definitely receive you enthusiastically."
From Man Chou's point of view, although Qin Yu had only reached the Low Level Heavenly Deity level, his proficiency in the formation arrays were already at an exceptional level. Furthermore, he possesses a High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact and was related to Huang Jing. Thus, he had determined that Qin Yu's background was certainly extraordinary. A person like Qin Yu was someone that he definitely has to befriend properly.
Man Fan lightly nodded to Qin Yu. He said. "Man Fan greets Brother Qin Yu." As for Man Fei, he cupped his hand extremely unwillingly.
"My third brother is rude and unrefined, I hope that Brother Qin Yu won't mind too much about it." Said Man Chou with a smile.
Qin Yu was instead confused in his heart. These three brothers looked exactly the same. Yet their temperaments were completely different. Man Chou was slick and sly. Man Fan was cold and indifferent. As for Man Fei, his temperament was exactly like his appearance.
"Brother Man Chou, when I saw the three of you, I am reminded of a good friend of mine from the lower realm. May I know if the three of you were from the Immortal, Devil and Demon Realm?" Asked Qin Yu with a face filled with smiles.
A trace of astonishment flashed through Man Chou's eyes. The indifferent Man Fan also looked to Qin Yu. As for that Man Fei, his reaction was the most intense. In an instant, his eyes had turned round like balls. He stared at Qin Yu and said. "Ah, Qin Yu, you're also from the Immortal, Devil and Demon Realm? Ha, then have you heard about us Three Great Ox Demon Emperor's back in the Immortal, Devil and Demon Realm? Oh, right, when did you ascend? When you ascended, who was the current Ox Demon Emperor? Man Tian? Man Yu? During the time when we ascended, they were the only two Super Divine Beasts of the Ox Clan."
Man Fei instantly said all that with a single breath. He only stopped when he saw Qin Yu's astonished expression. He smiled embarrassedly and said. "To see a brother who had also ascended from the Immortal, Devil and Demon Realm, haha, I was a bit too excited."
Qin Yu have managed to completely ascertain that these three Man brothers were from the Immortal, Devil and Demon Realm. Furthermore, their true forms ought to be Purple Eyed Ox Demon Kings.
Man Tian and Man Yu were people that Qin Yu have never heard before.
Qin Yu knew that these three Man brothers might've ascended for a very long time already. It was possible for them to have ascended several billion years or tens of billions of years. The people from that time, Qin Yu never heard about a single one of them.
"Brother Man Fei, I have not ascended for a very long time. I think the gap between the time of our ascensions might be extremely large. Thus, I have never heard about that Man Tian and Man Yu." Qin Yu explained.
"Oh, that's very normal. Your level is lower than ours. It was possible for you to have ascended several billions of years later than us." At this moment, Man Fei's face was covered with smiles. Clearly, he had became much more cordial.
Man Chou also have a face filled with smiles. "So Brother Qin Yu was actually also a brother that had ascended from the Immortal, Devil and Demon Realm. That's truly wonderful. How about... Brother Qin Yu joining our Mount Three Forks? Your status would be equal to us three brothers!"
This Man Chou actually started to climb a favorable pole right away. He actually even started inviting Qin Yu to join them.
"I would have to refuse. I still have things that I must do. Furthermore, I am used to being alone." Qin Yu refused the offer.
After that, Man Fei chatted enthusiastically with Qin Yu for quite some time. Finally, the three brothers left.
"This Man Fei is straightforward. The second brother Man Fan is earnest and indifferent. As for the eldest brother Man Chou..." Qin Yu suddenly felt that he cannot see through the eldest brother Man Chou.
In the vast sky, the three Man brothers flew away.
"Big brother, I had even planned to have a drinking session with Brother Qin Yu. Why did you urge me to leave early with your Divine Awareness Voice Transmission?" Man Fei was a bit angry and asked dissatisfied.
Man Chou smiled and said. "Third brother, you should not trust others that easily. It is still hard to tell if that Qin Yu was really from the Immortal, Devil and Demon Realm."
"What do you mean by that?" Man Fei's large ox eyes were spread wide open.
Man Chou continued. "Although there are not many people in the Divine Realm that knew that us three brothers are from the Immortal, Devil and Demon Realm, it is also not a secret. If this Qin Yu wanted to, he would also be able to obtain that information. It might be that he had deliberately acted like this to us. I originally thought that he might have some sort of intention so I immediately tried to entice him to our Mount Three Forks so that I can see his reaction."
"However, that Qin Yu refused my offer. In that case, he might actually not have any bad intentions." Man Chou smiled and said.
"Doesn't that solve the problem then?" Mei Fei immediately said.
"One must always have the intention to guard against others. This Qin Yu had suddenly appeared. We should wait some time and carefully observe his actions to determine what sort of person he is." Said Man Chou with a light smile.
"Third brother, what big brother said is reasonable." Man Fan who had been silent the entire time spoke.
Man Fei humped a couple times and then muttered for some time. However, the three of them were still blood brothers. Their relationship was extremely deep. Thus, they would naturally not hold grudge against one another.
Under the gaze of many people from the Black Dragon Pool, Qin Yu ascended to the sky and flew away from the Black Dragon Pool. Following the soft and gentle mountain wind, he flew within the mountain forest.
Qin Yu turned his head around and glanced at the location where the Black Dragon Pool stood. "That Nine-headed Black Dragon Tan Jiu had hidden himself inside the Black Dragon Pool for all these years. Hearing what Huang Jing had said to Tan Jiu, it seemed that he did it for a certain treasure."
Regarding Tan Jiu, Qin Yu was already filled with the intention to kill him.
The remarkable ability of 'teleportation' was truly too dreadful. Qin Yu did not want others to know about that at all. However, killing Tan Jiu was no easy task. For one, Tan Jiu was a Mid Level Heavenly Deity. Secondly... this Tan Jiu had nine clones.
As long as a single clone of his managed to escape, it would all be for naught.
"Mn, I'll first go to the bottom of this Black Dragon Pool and carefully explore what sort of treasure is at the bottom and then see if I can have an opportunity to kill this Tan Jiu." Qin Yu made his decision in his heart.
The Dark Curtain of Night that originated from the utmost north's Floating Snow City had covered the entire Divine Realm. The entire Divine Realm had turned into darkness.
A night of darkness. The night was cold like water.
Within the ice-cold mountain wind, within the tranquil ravine of the Black Dragon Pool, a figure appeared like a phantom as it flashed and appeared next to the Black Dragon Pool. It was Qin Yu who was wearing a black gown.
"When using teleportation, I could practically ignore all of the ravine guards of the Black Dragon Pool." A slight smile appeared on QIn Yu's face.
His gaze turned to the Black Dragon Pool before him. The Black Dragon Pool possessed a circumference of a hundred miles. With a single glance, one cannot see the other end of the lake. On the range that one can see, it was covered with a boundless amount of water. Strangely, the surface of the water on the Black Dragon Pool always maintained its undisturbed state.
Usually, for a large lake, even if there was no wind, there would still be waves causing the water to move up and down. However, this Black Dragon Pool was without waves even if it was windy outside. It was truly very strange.
"That Tan Jiu is likely extremely on guard. If someone were to enter the lake, he'll likely discover them through the motion of the water." Qin Yu was extremely careful. He immediately spread out the 'Spatial Energy' from his Universal World.
The 'Spatial Energy' from the Universal World was hindered by the space of the Divine Realm in the Divine Realm. Thus, it could only cover an area about a hundred meters. If it were to only spread toward one direction, it would only be able to cover a distance of two hundred meters.
The Spatial Energy permeated into the bottom of the lake.
The territory of the Spatial Energy was Qin Yu's 'Spatial Domain.'
Although it was likely inferior to the true 'Spatial Domains' of Mid Level Heavenly Deities, but it was at the very least half as powerful. Furthermore, controlling the water at the bottom of the lake to not move was still an extremely effortless thing.
Qin Yu lightly smiled. He jumped into the Black Dragon Pool.
The strange thing was, although Qin Yu had jumped into the Black Dragon Pool, because of the fact that he was using the 'Spatial Domain,' there was actually no movement in the water.
The bottom of the Black Dragon Pool was pitch-black like ink. However, everyone in the Divine Realm was capable of easily seeing in pitch-black darkness. At the bottom of this lake, Qin Yu was spreading out his Spatial Energy the entire time. He was inspecting the Black Dragon Pool unceasingly.
The Black Dragon Pool was far too large.
Merely its depth was already five hundred meters. As for its circumference, that was a hundred miles... Qin Yu was carefully inspecting the bottom of the lake.
"This Black Dragon Pool is indeed strange. It's such a large lake yet there's actually not a single living animal here. There are only some underwater plants." Qin Yu gasped in his heart. Such a strange scene caused Qin Yu to be even more certain that there should be some sort of treasure here.
Qin Yu was extremely persevering. He continued to use his Spatial Energy to inspect every single location.
The circumference of a hundred miles was too great. Qin Yu was only able to inspect a range of about a hundred meters from him. Using this sort of method, Qin Yu searched for three entire days. However, he had only managed to inspect an extremely small section.
Just from going from one side of the Black Dragon Pool to the other side, even if Qin Yu was moving with his fastest speed, it would still require him two hours. It required him several hundred trips in order to completely inspect the entire Black Dragon Pool.
After a month.
Qin Yu had already arrived at the other end of the Black Dragon Pool.
"Strange. I have completely inspected the entire Black Dragon Pool. Why is it that I cannot find anything?" Qin Yu grew confused.
In this entire month, Qin Yu didn't dare to use his Divine Awareness to inspect. Firstly, Divine Awareness's inspection range underneath the water was extremely limited. Secondly... he was afraid that Tan Jiu would discover him.
However, the Spatial Energy from the Universal World was different.
When ordinary Mid Level Heavenly Deities controlled the Divine Realm's Spatial Energy, it would create a small amount of movement that others could discover. The reason why the Spatial Energy would create a movements was because their ability to control the Spatial Energy was too low.
Had it been a Godking controlling the 'Spatial Domain,' then no one would be able to discover it at all.
This was the reason.
The Universal World was Qin Yu's creation. When controlling the Spatial Energy from the Universal World, Qin Yu's control was as great as the control of Godkings controlling the Divine Realm's Spatial Energy.
Even if the Spatial Energy from the Universal World were to cover Tan Jiu, Tan Jiu would still be unable to discover it. Thus, he would naturally also not discover Qin Yu.
This was also the reason why Qin Yu dared to spend an entire month to inspect the entire Black Dragon Pool.
"Mn? I've searched the entire Black Dragon Pool yet still haven't discovered the location of Tan Jiu. It seemed that I can only wait." Qin Yu frowned. Although he was standing underneath the lake, his body was not wet in the slightest.
"Based on Miss Huang Jing and Tan Jiu's conversation from back then, that Liu Yuxi also knew that the treasure is here. It is likely that Liu Yuxi would also come here someday in the future." Qin Yu nodded in his heart. He had made a decision.
Qin Yu disappeared from the bottom of the pond.
Inside the Universal World.
Qin Yu was standing on top of a large mountain in his Universal World.
"Mn, the Spatial Energy of the Universal Space is extending outside constantly and has fused with the water flow of the Black Dragon Pool. Once there is any movement in the water flow of the Black Dragon Pool, I would naturally come to know about it."
Qin Yu was relatively certain that once Liu Yixu entered the Black Dragon Pool, he'll likely not be extremely careful like how he was. That was because both that Liu Yixu and Tan Jiu knew that the other person also knew of the location of the treasure.
Even if he was as careful as Qin Yu, Liu Yixu would definitely create movements the moment he enters the Black Dragon Pool.
"I could only wait idly for opportunities." Qin Yu sat cross-legged on the plains on top of the mountain. This was the only way when there's no other way.
Suddenly, Uncle Fu appeared behind Qin Yu. The restriction of the Universal World was too small, it was like the restriction of the Mortal Realm. In here, Uncle Fu's speed was extremely fast.
Qin Yu had already brought Uncle Fu into his Universal World the moment he entered the Black Dragon Pool. Qin Yu had even placed Jiang Lan's Realm inside his Universal World.
"Let's return to Jiang Lan's Realm!" Qin Yu said to Uncle Fu.
Qin Yu and Uncle Fu directly disappeared from the mountain top. A little green pagoda appeared on top of the mountain. It was the true form of the Jiang Lan's Realm. However, as it was located in the Universal Space, Qin Yu was extremely at ease.
The Universal World was a world created by Qin Yu. Even if Qin Yu was within the Jiang Lan's Realm, he was still able to sense the Spatial Energy of the Universal World that had spread to the Divine Realm's Black Dragon Pool.
Inside the second layer space of the Jiang Lan's Realm. Qin Yu started to train at ease.
The time in the second layer space of the Jiang Lan's Realm was a hundred times greater than the outside world. And what Qin Yu needed the most right now was time!
Divine Realm. Black Dragon Pool.
Close to a thousand years had passed since the great battle from last time. The Black Dragon Pool had already constructed three new palaces. The Black Dragon Palace in the middle was even more dignified than the previous Black Dragon Palace.
Nighttime.
A blur streaked across the sky. A person appeared on the side of the Black Dragon Pool.
Short silver hair. Silver eyebrows. With a height of around only a hundred and seventy centimeters, this person have the appearance of a youngster. This person was precisely the army commander of the Yuchi City, a person who possessed status second only to the Yuchi City's Governor, Liu Yuxi!
Liu Yuxi's stature was practically the same as Tan Jiu's. Even their attire was practically the same.
Tan Jiu was very dark skinned whereas this Liu Yixu was very light skinned. Other than the skin color, their hair color and the expressions in their eyes, the rest of them appeared exactly the same.
"After calculating the days, it's more or less the time. At the very most a couple years more." Liu Yuxi looked to the Black Dragon Pool before him and lightly smiled. "That idiot Tan Jiu has holed up down there the entire time. What use is that? It is only possible to pick the Seven Colored Magnificent Lotus when it's ready to be plucked."
Liu Yuxi was confused about this the entire time. Why would Tan Jiu wait in vain in the secret location underneath the lake?
With a leap, Liu Yuxi directly jumped into the Black Dragon Pool. Liu Yuxi was not extremely careful like Qin Yu because he wanted to be discovered by Tan Jiu. Like so, Tan Jiu would open the the secret channel underneath the lake for him.
Inside the Universal World.
Qin Yu suddenly appeared. He raised his head and looked to the sky. He had a slight smile on his face. "I've trained for close to a hundred thousand years. Finally, this day has come. I shall see what exactly is in the Black Dragon Pool!"
Qin Yu disappeared from the Universal World and reappeared in the Black Dragon Pool.
In the space surrounding Qin Yu was a hundred meter range of Universal World's Spatial Energy. Qin Yu's body was unceasingly flickering within it. Every single time his body flickered, he passed a distance of a hundred meters. In a blink of an eye, he had traveled ten miles.
Unlike last time when Qin Yu had to carefully examine the lake, this time around he merely had to travel through the lake. Thus, Qin Yu's speed was extremely fast.
Chapter 36 – Sudden Change
After Qin Yu managed to travel some distance with his teleportation, he suddenly stopped.
At this moment, Qin Yu was not far away from Liu Yuxi. Qin Yu didn't dare to get any closer to him because he feared that Liu Yixu might discover him. Using his Spatial Energy, Qin Yu observed the movement of the waters in the lake to determine the location of Liu Yuxi.
As Qin Yu continued to determine the locations of Liu Yuxi, he managed to create the trajectory at which Liu Yuxi was traveling in his mind.
"He's directly going towards the center of the lake?" Qin Yu was slightly confused. "Could it be that Tan Jiu who had been hiding in the Black Dragon Pool the entire time had been hiding in the center of the lake?" Qin Yu stopped overthinking it and started to proceed toward the center of the lake.
Right after Qin Yu flew for some time in the bottom of the lake...
Qin Yu felt another movement of lake water. That movement originated from the center of the Black Dragon Pool. Furthermore, that movement of water was following a very regular pattern.
Two movements of waters. One originated from Liu Yuxi. As for the other one, it naturally had to originate from Tan Jiu!
"Back then, I searched throughout the entire Black Dragon Pool and yet was unable to find him. Truly, I do not know where he had been hiding!" Qin Yu quietly approached the center of the lake. There were numerous underwater plants at the bottom of the lake. Qin Yu was currently traveling in between some rocks and plants.
After some time, Qin Yu had arrived behind a large stone.
He spread out his Spatial Energy. Qin Yu was clearly inspecting the center of the lake a hundred meters away from him. At this moment, a tunnel actually appeared at the center of the lake. The tunnel connected all the way into the ground underneath the lake.
From the other side, Liu Yuxi also arrived at the center of the lake.
Tan Jiu walked out from that tunnel. He saw Liu Yuxi and said cold and indifferently. "As expected, you've come. Merely, you've come two years earlier than I had anticipated."
"Although it would still take a couple more years for the Seven Colored Magnificent Lotus to finish ripening, but I was afraid that there would be an error in the time. Thus, I decided to come ahead of time." At this moment, Liu Yuxi had a smile on his face.
The scarlet haired and scarlet browed Tan Jiu humped coldly. "If you want to come in, then come in quickly." After he said that, Tan Jiu once again returned to the underground tunnel.
The silver haired and silver browed Liu Yuxi lightly smiled. He also stepped into the underground tunnel. Right after the two of them stepped into the underground tunnel, Qin Yu also quietly followed behind them. He had spread his Spatial Energy down through the tunnel.
This underground tunnel was only several tens of meters deep. Around eighty meters underneath the bottom of the lake was an underground mansion.
At this moment, Liu Yuxi had arrived at the entrance of the underground mansion. As for Tan Jiu, he had pressed on the mechanism on the mansion. Right after that, the tunnel started to slowly close. It wasn't the entrance of the tunnel that was closing but rather the entire tunnel was closing.
"No wonder I didn't discover it the last time I searched." Qin Yu gasped in his heart.
When Qin Yu searched with his Spatial Energy, he only covered an area of about a hundred meters and permeated his Spatial Energy a meter or two underneath the ground. He did not try to penetrate eighty or ninety meters with his Spatial Energy at all. If he were to continue to search, even if Qin Yu were to spend a couple more years, he would likely still not find anything.
"Eighty meters, that's enough for me to get there through teleportation." Qin Yu thought in his heart.
In front of the Spatial Energy from the Universal World, the underground rocks were unable to hinder them at all. Perhaps even a High Level Heavenly Deity cannot get down there without a word or movement. However, Qin Yu was capable of doing it!
"There's actually no water in the underground mansion. Mn, it's pretty huge. That room should do." Qin Yu selected a room in the underground mansion. With one teleportation, Qin Yu disappeared from the lake.
Eighty meters underneath the bottom of the lake. Within the underground mansion.
Qin Yu appeared within a room inside it. This side room was very close to the courtyard in the middle of the mansion. It was only several tens of meters away from it. Within this room, Qin Yu was able to clearly hear the conversation between Tan Jiu and Liu Yuxi in the middle of the courtyard.
Liu Yuxi and Tan Jiu, due to the fact that they're inside the underground mansion that they believed even High Level Heavenly Deities cannot come in without making a sound, were not attentive of their surroundings.
Qin Yu's Spatial Energy was spread out. It covered over half of the entire courtyard. Liu Yuxi and Tan Jiu were both within the area where Qin Yu's Spatial Energy had covered. However, the two of them weren't aware of it in the slightest.
"Liu Yuxi, the Seven Colored Magnificent Lotus was something that the two of us discovered together. We shall distribute according to the method that we have determined. For the two Seven Colored Magnificent Lotuses, I shall have one and you shall have one!" Said Tan Jiu indifferently.
Qin Yu was slightly startled upon hearing the conversation.
"Seven Colored Magnificent Lotus?" Qin Yu remembered that he had seen the records regarding the Seven Colored Magnificent Lotus before in the scrolls of the Bewitching God Temple that contained information regarding precious materials. "Seven Colored Magnificent Lotus, all seven lotus petals that it possessed could be used to concoct pills and medicines. The lotus core of the Seven Colored Magnificent Lotus, through eating it, could revive those who have only a True Spirit remainding. If one were to use it to concoct pills, then its efficacy would be even greater!"
Qin Yu was surprised. That was because in the Divine Realm, magical pellets that are capable of reviving those who possessed only a True Spirit were extremely valuable.
In terms of value, it was even more precious than a Mid Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact and was approaching that of a High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact.
As for the 'lotus core' of the Seven Colored Magnificent Lotus, it was even more precious. That was because eating it was merely part of its medicinal use. If one were to use it to concoct pills, then its effect would be much greater. This lotus core definitely valued as much as a High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact or even greater.
"No wonder it would cause Tan Jiu and Liu Yuxi to care about it so much." Qin Yu gasped in his heart.
Although the Seven Colored Magnificent Lotus was precious, it would only be attractive to Qin Yu and was not something that would cause him to be emotionally excited for. That was because Qin Yu possessed the Bewitching God Temple which contained a lot of treasures.
IN the room that contained the materials and ingredients, although ingredients at the level of Seven Colored Magnificent Lotus were few, there were still several of them.
"So it's all for merely Seven Colored Magnificent Lotus. However, they said that there are two Seven Colored Magnificent Lotuses? That is quite strange." Qin Yu frowned. Qin Yu clearly remembered that the records have listed that Seven Colored Magnificent Lotuses were treasures borned from absorbing the Divine Spiritual Energy of the world. Thus, each Seven Colored Magnificent Lotus would absorb the Divine Spiritual Energy in its surroundings; how would it possible coexist with another Seven Colored Magnificent Lotus?
It was just like the mountain tigers. In every region, there could only be a single tiger.
The Seven Colored Magnificent Lotuses were the same. For two Seven Colored Magnificent Lotuses to grow together was simply an impossible matter according to Qin Yu's logic.
"Two Seven Colored Magnificent Lotuses, you shall have one and I shall have one?" Liu Yuxi looked to Tan Jiu with a confused expression. "Tan Jiu, when did you turned so generous? With your temperament, wouldn't you be more greedy than that?"
Liu Yuxi was extremely knowledgeable of Tan Jiu's character. Tan Jiu was someone with an extreme amount of greed. Back during the time when they were in the Devil Murder Realm, he would always try to obtain as much treasure as possible.
Although the two of them said to distribute evenly back then, but as Tan Jiu had stayed here the entire time, Liu Yuxi believed that Tan Jiu would definitely want to seize more.
"I do want to get more, but would you be willing to give?" Tan Jiu coldly humped.
"Not at all." Liu Yuxi replied.
"Well, that solved the problem then." Tan Jiu's expression was still cold and indifferent. "I am very certain about your strength. If the two of us were to fight, neither of us would be able to win. These Seven Colored Magnificent Lotuses, it just so happened that we can each have one."
Liu Yuxi nodded while smiling. Merely, he was looking at Tan Jiu with a gaze like he just met someone new.
"You've changed greatly." Liu Yuxi said with a smile.
Tan Jiu coldly humped and said. "According to my estimation, it'll likely take another three and half years for the Seven Colored Magnificent Lotuses to ripen. At that time, you can go to one of the Seven Colored Magnificent Lotus whereas I'll go to the other one."
"Let's go with that." Liu Yuxi's smile have been extremely brilliant the entire time.
After Liu Yuxi said those words, he proceed to stand up and walk toward a corner of the courtyard. Part of Qin Yu's Spatial Energy immediately changed direction and started to stretch toward another corner. Qin Yu discovered something strange!
Qin Yu knew everything from the locations where Qin Yu's Spatial Energy managed to come into contact because he was the creator of the Universal World.
"Mn?" What an extremely cold aura. For the surface of the pond to be this cold, it seemed like that pond water is... Unitary Heavy Water! The Unitary Heavy Water that had formed a small pond, it appeared very similar to the golden bead on top of the Refining Dark Star of the Dark Star Realm." Qin Yu's attention was instantly focused upon that cold pond.
Unitary Heavy Water was extremely rare. For there to be such a pond here, there are definitely treasure within this pond.
"Seven Colored Magnificent Lotuses were cold attribute items. They grow on top of Unitary Heavy Water. The amount of Unitary Heavy was extremely sparse, it only required about enough to fill half a cask." Qin Yu still remember the information regarding the Seven Colored Magnificent Lotus in the golden scroll.
Ordinary casks were only the size of half a person. How much could a half cask contain?
As for this pond, its shape was round and possessed a diameter close to two meters. Such a large pond, the amount of Unitary Heavy Water in there would likely be enough to fill ten casks of Unitary Heavy Water.
On the two sides of this pond of Unitary Heavy Water grew two Seven Colored Magnificent Lotuses. The appearance of these Seven Colored Magnificent Lotuses were exactly like what was recorded in the golden scroll. There were seven lotus petals of seven different colors. The lotus seed head was extremely small. On top of it was the core of the lotus.
"Hm?" Qin Yu was suddenly surprised.
"There was a very small hidden illusion array placed in the middle of this pond." Through using his Divine Awareness, Qin Yu managed to discover right away that there was something in the center of this pond that was hidden by an illusion array.
TIme passed, in the blink of an eye, over three years had passed. In the past three plus years, Liu Yuxi and Tan Jiu were both sitting cross-legged and have not said a single word to each other. As for Qin Yu, he too had been sitting cross-legged in the room and didn't say a single word.
Qin Yu who had been in the state of peaceful training suddenly felt a dazzling radiance. Immediately, he opened his eyes.
The entire underground was covered by dazzling seven colored lights. Qin Yu immediately covered the pond of Unitary Heavy Water with his Spatial Energy. At this moment, two Seven Colored Magnificent Lotuses were radiating seven colored lights like two suns on the two sides of the pond.
Liu Yuxi and Tan Jiu instantly rushed to the side of the pond.
"Haha, it has finally finished maturing." Liu Yuxi's eyes were filled with delight. The Seven Colored Magnificent Lotuses are only completely ripen after they started radiating seven colored lights.
Tan Jiu also displayed a smile. He said at once. "Liu Yuxi, you go take that one first, I'll take this one." Compared to Liu Yuxi, Tan Jiu was a lot more calm.
At this moment, Liu Yuxi was actually on guard against Tan Jiu. He was afraid that Tan Jiu would sneak attack him and try to seize both of the Seven Colored Magnificent Lotuses.
"Okay, I'll go take this one." Liu Yuxi said that and was about to pluck the lotus when...
The two Seven Colored Magnificent Lotuses suddenly started shining even brighter. Two amazingly dazzling lights were shot out from the two Seven Colored Magnificent Lotuses. The light then proceeded to gather in the center. With a visible speed, the two Seven Colored Magnificent Lotuses withered.
The two rays of eye dazzling light were gathered in the center of the pond.
The hidden illusion array had been opened. Tan Jiu's expression took a huge change. He started muttering his unbelieving. "What, what's happening? I thought it still hadn't reached the date of ripening."
"What is that?" Liu Yuxi's gaze instantly locked on the center of the pond.
The hidden illusion array had been eliminated. What was hidden was now in clear view. It was a magnificent lotus a size smaller than the Seven Colored Magnificent Lotus. Merely, it had nine lotus petals and was radiating a black light all over.
Qin Yu's eyes were instantly opened wide like a ball. "Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus? Such a thing really exist?"
At this moment, Tan Jiu's expression calmed down. He looked to the Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus on the pond. A flash of frantic ruthlessness flashed through his eyes.
[TL: I took some translation liberty and change the lotus leaves to lotus petals. Because well, I think IET meant petals because Lotus have multiple petals and not leaves. The leaves aren't even connected with the lotus flower...]
Chapter 37 – Wretched
A Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus had nine flower petals.
As for the Seven Colored Magnificent Lotus, it was also called the Seven Petaled Magnificent Lotus. Although the Seven Colored Magnificent Lotus was larger than the Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus, the Seven Colored Magnificent Lotus only had a lotus core on top of the lotus seed head. As for the Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus, although its size was small, it had three sparkling and translucent lotus seeds on top of its lotus seed head!
The three sparkling and translucent lotus seeds were all milky white in colour and emitting a white light.
At the core of the lotus seed head of the nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus, that is, the center region of the location of the three lotus seeds, was an ice-cube-like sparkling and translucent black lotus core. This black lotus core radiated a black light and an ice-cold aura.
"No wonder two Seven Colored Magnificent Lotuses grew. So it was actually the aura radiated by the Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus that produced the two Seven Colored Magnificent Lotuses. However, this Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus is truly tyrannic. It directly absorbed the essence of the two Seven Colored Magnificent Lotuses to ripen itself."
Qin Yu finally understood the reason why two Seven Colored Magnificent Lotuses grew at the same place.
At the same time, the information regarding the Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus written in the golden scroll appeared in Qin Yu's mind. "Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus is a higher class material than the Seven Colored Magnificent Lotus. It is considered a legendary treasure. In the history of the Divine Realm, only a single Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus has been discovered before. The most precious part of the Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus is its lotus core. The lotus core of a Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus is nurtured through absorbing Grandmist Spiritual Energy. Upon refining the lotus core, it could allow one to create a Magnificent Lotus Clone! Its three lotus seeds are milky white in colour. Each of the lotus seeds possess the ability to revive one from the dead upon eating it. If one were to refine them, then their effect would be even greater... The nine lotus petals are all precious medicinal herbs. Even its and stem is a treasure. The root is as precious as a single lotus seed."
The Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus, although it was a lotus, it could also be considered to be a Grandmist Spiritual Treasure.
"Once one refines the lotus core, one can actually create a Magnificent Lotus Clone!" Qin Yu became excited. In the golden scroll that was left behind in the Bewitching God Temple, there contained detailed information regarding all parts of the Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus. Furthermore, it was also extremely detailed in how to create a Magnificent Lotus Clone and what uses it possessed.
The more detailed it was, the more excited Qin Yu became.
The preciousness of a Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus was greater than even ordinary second-rated Grandmist Spiritual Treasures!
Even Qin Yu who possessed the Bewitching God Temple wanted to obtain the Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus badly. Qin Yu didn't really care much about the efficiency of the three lotus seeds, nine lotus petals and the stem; what Qin Yu wanted was that black lotus core.
"The information regarding the Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus is something that only the upper echelons of the Divine Realm know about. It is likely that Tan Jiu and Liu Yuxi still don't know about the true preciousness of the Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus!" Qin Yu's attention was cast toward Liu Yuxi and Tan Jiu.
Just like what Qin Yu had anticipated, the Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus had only appeared once in the entire history of the Divine Realm. How could two mere Heavenly Deities of the Yuchi City know about the uses of a Nine petaled Magnificent Lotus? Even a lot of the High Level Heavenly Deities didn't know about it.
Liu Yuxi saw the Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus and was shocked. "It actually absorbed the essence of two Seven Colored Magnificent Lotuses, it is definitely more precious than a Seven Colored Magnificent Lotus. Nine lotus petals? Could it... could it be the legendary Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus?"
During the time when Liu Yuxi and Tan Jiu discovered this location, they also discovered two Seven Colored Magnificent Lotuses that were still growing.
At that time, neither Liu Yuxi nor Tan Jiu knew about the Seven Colored Magnificent Lotuses. They had instantly assumed that these lotus flowers were definitely treasures the moment they saw the Unitary Heavy Water. Thus, Liu Yuxi proceeded to investigate using his connections in the Yuchi City when he returned.
In the end, he managed to obtain detailed information regarding how precious the Seven Colored Magnificent Lotus was. This caused Liu Yuxi to be overjoyed. In that detailed information that he had obtained, it also slightly mentioned about the Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus at the end. It said that above the Seven Colored Magnificent Lotus was the legendary Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus. As for the usages of all the different sections of a Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus, it did not contain any information regarding that.
Neither Tan Jiu nor Liu Yuxi knew about the usages of the different parts of a Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus.
However, they were certain about one thing... the Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus was definitely much more precious than the Seven Colored Magnificent Lotus!
With two Seven Colored Magnificent Lotuses, Tan Jiu and Liu Yuxi was able to split them evenly among each other. However, with a single Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus, how should they split it among themselves?
"Not good!"
Liu Yuxi who was planning to discuss with Tan Jiu about how to distribute this Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus suddenly has a change in his expression. He was planning to dodge back but an over twenty thousand kilogram strike ruthlessly smashed onto Liu Yuxi's head.
"Bang!"
Like a ball, Liu Yuxi was smashed flying. Ruthlessly, he smashed against the stone wall of the courtyard. Fissures instantly spread across the stone wall.
The strange thing was, Liu Yuxi's entire skin's surface was fluctuating like a ripple. That strike to his head surprisingly only managed to crack his head open. His blood flowed out.
With lightning speed, Liu Yuxi rushed out from the huge hole in the wall. On his hands appeared a pair of golden gloves.
Tan Jiu's scarlet sword brows were raised. He sneered. "Liu Yuxi, your defense is truly powerful. During the time when we were in the Devil Murder Realm, I possessed the strongest offense and you possessed the strongest defense. And now, against my Mid Level Heavenly Divine Artifact's attack, it actually only managed to wound you. Truly admirable, admirable."
"Tan Jiu, you actually dared to sneak attack me for that Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus!" Liu Yuxi's expression was extremely unsightly.
Although others might think that Liu Yuxi's injury wasn't much when looking at him, but Liu Yuxi himself was very certain that he was extremely lucky to survive Tan Jiu's sneak attack with all his strength.
The current Liu Yuxi merely had about sixty percent of his strength left.
A sparkle of red light flashed through the gloomy eyes underneath Tan Jiu's scarlet brows!
"Liu Yuxi, I suspect your soul has been damaged, no? How much strength do you have remaining? Fifty percent? Sixty percent? Haha... Liu Yuxi, seeing that the two of us ascended from the Devil Murder Realm together and have fought each other for so many years, I also have some affection for you. If you were to leave here directly, I shall spare your life." Said Tan Jiu generously.
Liu Yuxi's expression was extremely unsightly. His silver brows were furrowed into a line. He said in a low voice. "Tan Jiu, we have been enemies with each other since the time when we were both weak. The two of us have fought each other for billions of years now. We have ascended together and reached Heavenly Deity level at practically the same time. And now, the two of us are both Mid Level Heavenly Deities... To be honest, I have already considered you as an intimate friend of mine. I have even dreamed, dreamed of how interesting it would be if we were to become Godkings. However, I truly never have expected that for a mere Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus, you actually went and sneak attacked me!"
"In all these years that we have been in the Divine Realm, the two of us have fought several times. During those times, I discovered that you never fought all out with me. That had led me to think that after all these years, you were thinking the same as me and have also considered me as an intimate friend. However now, it would appear that..." Liu Yuxi's voice contained traces of grief.
"Intimate friends?" Tan Jiu was startled. His expression also changed.
However, Tan Jiu started laughing coldly. "Haha... what sort of joke are you talking about? I, Tan Jiu, have an intimate friend? Humph humph, whoever it is that blocks my path shall be swept away. In the past, the reason why I have never gone all out with fighting you was because I am not certain that I can kill you and that I want a rival to allow me to improve even faster. Yet this time... the preciousness of the Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus, I reckon it is at the very least as precious as a High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact. For it, of course I have to be fierce and ruthless against you."
"Are you going to flee or are you going to fight me for this treasure? You decide!" Said Tan Jiu coldly.
Liu Yuxi who possessed only sixty percent of his strength was still a threat to Tan Jiu. If Liu Yuxi was to fight with the intention of dying, then it was likely that Tan Jiu would only be able to kill him after sustaining serious injuries.
Liu Yuxi glanced at Tan Jiu twice. He slightly nodded and said. "Fine. This Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus is yours. Let me go."
Inside a room not far away from the courtyard was Qin Yu. Qin Yu was currently watching all that was unfolding.
After understanding the course of events, Qin Yu can't help but sigh. "This Liu Yuxi was likely thoroughly disappointed. He had originally thought that Tan Jiu was an intimate friend of his. However, who would've expected that Tan Jiu would actually ruthlessly attack him."
Soon after, Qin Yu calmed his mind.
"Currently, the Divine Spear Waning Snow has yet to absorb even a thousandth of the Dark and Yellow Energy. However, if I want to kill Tan Jiu, I can only use the Divine Spear Waning Snow." Qin Yu was prepared to attack.
Even though it had yet to even absorb a thousandth of the Dark and Yellow Energy, the Divine Spear Waning Snow's might had already been increased greatly. Qin Yu was able to sense it very clearly.
As Tan Jiu pressed on the mechanism button, the tunnel leading to the bottom of the Black Dragon Pool started to open.
Liu Yuxi directly proceeded toward the entrance of the tunnel.
The entrance of the tunnel was located right next to Tan Jiu. Right after Liu Yuxi walked to about three meters distance away from Tan Jiu, Liu Yuxi suddenly raised his fists and emitted a dazzling golden light.
At the same moment when Liu Yuxi attacked, Tan Jiu's nine sectioned whip also turned into a stick and was once again smashed toward Liu Yuxi.
"Bang!"
Liu Yuxi's two golden fists smashed upon the nine sectioned whip simultaneously.
The two people's bodies were jolted. After that, they flew backwards simultaneously.
Liu Yuxi had a cold expression on his face. "Tan Jiu, you are ruthless indeed. You never planned to let me go. Instead, you were planning to sneak attack me again so that you can kill be even more easily. Isn't that right?!"
Having been seen through, Tan Jiu did not feel embarrassed in the slightest. Instead, he sneered and said. "Liu Yuxi, there is no need to bother spouting nonsense. Although I have launched a sneak attack on you, weren't you also trying to sneak attack me? All that intimate friend bullshit that you said earlier, I bet it was all just fake."
Liu Yuxi said coldly. "Before you launched that sneak attack, I truly had considered you to be an intimate friend. However, once you sneak attacked me, I already knew... even though we knew each other for over billions of years, you were still as vicious and merciless as before. Thus, I knew that... you would definitely not let me go this time around. I wanted to sneak attack you before you do me. However, it would appear that it didn't work."
Upon seeing this scene, Qin Yu was unable to refrain his shock.
These two people are truly ruthless. That Tan Jiu said he was going to let Liu Yuxi go but it was actually so that he could sneak attack him again.
Liu Yuxi stopped bothering to talk anymore. He proceeded to charge toward Tan Jiu. As for Tan Jiu, he also charged forward with his nine sectioned whip. These two people were extremely knowledgeable of their opponent's strength. When they attacked each other, their speed was extremely fast.
"They both aren't using Spatial Domain and the courtyard was surprisingly not damaged much!"
Qin Yu's Spatial Energy was closely observing the astonishing power that the two of them were displaying at close combat fighting.
Everywhere the nine sectioned whip and the two fists passed, the space there would be completely distorted. Their Heavenly Divine Energies as well as their powers were completely condensed into their weapons. They were frantically attacking each other.
"Pow!" "Pow!" "Pow!" ...
From time to time, Liu Yuxi's body would be whipped by the strange nine sectioned staff. However, the skin on Liu Yuxi's body would occasionally fluctuate like a ripple. Through that, he easily blocked the attacks from Tan Jiu.
Truly an abnormal defense.
Several tens of after images appeared in the courtyard. It was like several tens of Tan Jiu's were fighting against several tens of Liu Yuxi's. In the instant of a lightning flash, the two of them had exchanged over a hundred hits.
"If they continued to fight like this, when will the battle end?" Qin Yu gasped in his heart.
However, right at that instant!
Qin Yu's expression suddenly changed. "Clones!"
That's right, Tan Jiu suddenly brought out two clones. Due to the fact that they were battling too fast and created that many after imagines, having two more clones was something that one cannot distinguish with one's naked eye.
Qin Yu managed to discover the clones and Liu Yuxi had also discovered the clones.
The two clones instantly rushed toward Liu Yuxi. Like madmen, they pressed onto Liu Yuxi from either sides.
"Boom!"
As if several hundred Heavenly Lightning bolts sounded near one's ears, parts of the underground mansion started to collapse. Qin Yu had hid himself into the corner of the room. A pillar above him smashed down beside him. However, he did not pay attention to it at all. All his attention was on the battle in the courtyard.
"This Tan Jiu is truly ruthless. He actually self detonated two of his clones." Qin Yu was filled with shock.
The nine clones of Tan Jiu were all his true bodies. For him to give up two of his true bodies at once, he was truly determined.
"You're still alive?" Tan Jiu's cold and indifferent voice sounded.
In the middle of the courtyard, Liu Yuxi was kneeling on the ground on one knee. His body was covered with blood. He looked to Tan Jiu before him with an ice-cold gaze. "Tan Jiu, could it be that you think you're capable of killing me with merely two clones? Did you forgot that my strongest strength is my defense?!"
A mocking smile appeared on Tan Jiu's cold and indifferent face.
Although his defense was very powerful, but through the self detonated of two of Tan Jiu's clones, Liu Yuxi's injury had become even worse.
"Hooh~~~"
Liu Yuxi suddenly raised his head toward the sky and shouted. His head started to shine. Instantly, the space in the entire courtyard seemed to have frozen. Tan Jiu's expression also changed. "You..."
"Let's die together." Craziness flashed through Liu Yuxi's eyes.
Tan Jiu was very certain that at this moment, Liu Yuxi had ignited his Nascent Soul. The Nascent Soul was the materialistic existence of one's soul's energy. The amount of energy it contained was truly astonishing. When exploding the Nascent Soul's energy at once, one's Divine Awareness would instantly reach its strongest point and one's control of the 'Spatial Domain' would become even greater.
At the same time, Liu Yuxi launched his final hysterical Divine Awareness attack at Tan Jiu!
Divine Awareness was a manifestation of the soul's energy. One could attack another's soul through using soul energy. Merely, with an attack like this, although one might be able to kill one's enemy, one would still suffer eighty percent of the damage. It was something that no ordinary people would do unless one have the resolution of dying.
"Ah~~~"
Tan Jiu snarled. He instantly turned into seven people. At the same time, three of his clones' bodies started shining. Even their heads were shining. Those three clones rushed toward Liu Yuxi.
It was extremely hard for one to create clones in the Divine Realm. The reason why Tan Jiu was capable of having nine clones was because he had nine heads. This also allowed him to have nine souls. Only a clone that possessed a soul could be considered as a true clone.
Earlier, when his two previous clones self detonated, he had retrieved the souls from those two clones. However, as for these three clones, he had ignited their souls.
"Ah~~~" Liu Yuxi's eyes were filled with frantic craziness.
As for the three clones, their eyes were also filled with frantic craziness. An explosion even louder than the one from earlier was heard. "Boom!" The Mid Level Heavenly Deity Liu Yuxi and the three Tan Jiu clones had all perished.
At the same time, the entire underground mansion started to crumble even more severely. The entire underground mansion had turned into a mess.
Chapter 38 – Divine Spear Waning Snow
Three clones had self detonated. On top of that, two clones had self detonated earlier. Tan Jiu had already self detonated five clones. Now, all he had remaining were four clones. These four 'Tan Jiu's' were all watching attentively at the location of the explosion with bright expressionful eyes.
At the same time, they covered the entire courtyard with their Spatial Domain.
In an instant, all those rolling or falling crushed rocks, stones and whatnot all stopped moving. The entire courtyard had turned into an immobile state. Tan Jiu's four clones frowned for a short moment and then slowly displayed smiles on their faces.
"Liu Yuxi, you've finally died!"
First Tan Jiu seriously injured Liu Yuxi with his sneak attack. He then self detonated five of his clones. Only through these methods did he managed to kill Liu Yuxi who possessed astonishing defense. At the moment when Liu Yuxi was killed, Tan Jiu felt sort of worry-free, sad, and all sorts of other kinds of complicated sensations.
The four clones instantly fused into one.
Tan Jiu walked to the location where Liu Yuxi self detonated. At this moment, a damaged battle armor, a Storage Divine Artifact as well as a Mid Quality Heavenly Divine Gloves remained on the ground.
These were the remnants of Liu Yuxi. Only through discovering these remnants as well as the fact that Liu Yuxi had already ignored his Nascent Soul earlier did Tan Jiu become certain that Liu Yuxi had died. When one ignited one's soul, even if others were to not attack, one would still likely only survive for a couple breaths time.
Qin Yu's Universal World's Spatial Energy had been locked on Tan Jiu the entire time.
"I must kill him with a single strike. This Tan Jiu has yet to let go of his guard. This is not the best opportunity to kill him. I'll wait till the moment when he plucks the Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus, that will be the best moment to launch my sneak attack on him."
Qin Yu slightly arched his back. His attention had been condensed to the max. He was able to execute his strongest strike at any moment!
Tan Jiu picked up the remnants of Liu Yuxi. He felt a burst of carefreeness. After killing Liu Yuxi, not only did he manage to obtain a Mid Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact and all his treasures, at the same time... the Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus was completely his now.
Tan Jiu walked over to the pond where the Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus was.
The intense battle from earlier did not spread to the Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus at all. The Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus was still radiating a black light. Especially that sparking and translucent black lotus core, it was extremely alluring.
Tan Jiu stepped into the pond. Although this Unitary Heavy Water was powerful, it was not powerful enough to kill a Heavenly Deity.
"This Unitary Heavy Water is truly cold!" Tan Jiu was shivering.
He then thrust his hands into the bottom of the pond. Tan Jiu needed to pull out the Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus from the bottom of the pond. He didn't dare to nor did he want to pull the Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus by its lotus flower.
At this moment, Tan Jiu's attention was completely concentrated on the Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus.
"This is the moment!"
A long spear suddenly appeared in Qin Yu's hand. The Divine Spear Waning Snow that was completely black before now possessed some dark yellow color in both its shaft and tip. The amount of dark yellow was extremely tiny. It was like some small specks on the spear.
Divine Spear Waning Snow. The Divine Spear Waning Snow that had absorbed a miniscule amount of Dark and Yellow Energy!
Teleportation!
Behind Tan Jiu who have his back bent and hands inside the pond of Unitary Heavy Water suddenly appeared Qin Yu. Qin Yu's Divine Spear Waning Snow flashed. Like piercing through leather, it pierced through Tan Jiu's head.
The two great auxiliary functions of the Divine Spear Waning Snow: Body Break and Devouring Soul!
"Bang!"
Tan Jiu's skull instantly turned to fine dust. As for Tan Jiu's body, it turned into seven or eight fragments. However, those seven or eight fragments actually instantly turned into three Tan Jiu's.
Qin Yu was unable to refrain his shock. "How is he still alive? His head has turned into fine dust already. The soul within his head has also been shattered already. How is it that he still has three clones?"
Qin Yu was shocked. However, Tan Jiu was even more shocked.
Tan Jiu had never thought that he would actually have his head smashed to nothingness without even noticing it.
"It's the so close yet worlds apart! It's Qin Yu!" Tan Jiu instantly understood what had happened. "Fortunately I would always put my nine soul sections into different parts of my body when I am not in battle."
Tan Jiu was extremely crafty. His soul was in nine sections. Usually, he would only place a single soul section in his head. As for the other eight soul sections, he would place them in different places like his chest, dantian, arms and so on...
This was the method that Tan Jiu used in order to prevent himself from being killed by a sneak attack. This time around, this method of his saved his life. Qin Yu only managed to destroy one of the soul sections as well as the 'Jade Blood Golden Pellet' of that soul. (When Divine Energy transform into Heavenly Divine Energy, it would create a jade green colored golden pellet. This golden pellet is called the Jade Blood Golden Pellet. The Jade Blood Golden Pellet is the source of Heavenly Divine Energy.)
The Nascent Soul was the core of the soul whereas the Jade Blood Golden Pellet was the source of the Heavenly Divine Energy.
The heads of Heavenly Deities would usually contain a Nascent Soul and a Jade Blood Golden Pellet.
Qin Yu glanced at the three clones. These three clones were all holding a three-sectioned staff. These three sectioned staffs was the nine sectioned whip divided into three parts. Even Qin Yu must admit that this nine sectioned whip was created extremely skillfully.
"QIn Yu, you actually dared to sneak attack me and destroy a clone of mine. However, you would no longer have another opportunity now. Last time I did not kill you, this time..." Sneered a Tan Jiu clone.
Even now, Tan Jiu was still extremely confident in killing Qin Yu.
In Tan Jiu's mind, Qin Yu was merely a Low Level Heavenly Deity. He was merely someone who relied on his remarkable ability of 'so close yet worlds apart.' Tan Jiu believed that if he were to go all out, then Qin Yu is certain to die.
"These three clones, I must kill them all. I cannot allow a single one to escape." Qin Yu was thinking extremely fast.
"Mn, you're not using that Heavenly Divine Sword?" Said the Tan Jiu to Qin Yu's left with a frown on his face. And at this moment...
Qin Yu's figure suddenly appeared beside the Tan Jiu to his right.
With a movement of his right arm, the Divine Spear Waning Snow in Qin Yu's hand started to twist as it was thrust forward. Wherever the Divine Spear Waning Snow passed, spatial cracks of the thickness of hairs appeared in the Divine Realm.
"Humph!"
The Tan Jiu to the right confidently used the three sectioned staff in his hand to block the spear strike. Tan Jiu believed that he was able to block Qin Yu's High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact using a Mid Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact.
However...
Tan Jiu's expression suddenly changed. The three sectioned staff started to vibrate and then cracked apart. As for that spear, it pierced through Tan Jiu's neck while he was in a state of shock.
"Split!"
Qin Yu shouted angrily.
Tan Jiu felt a burst of exotic energy. Following along the wound in his neck, it spread all over his body. After that, both his head and his chest turned into fine dust! That Nascent Soul and the Jade Blood Golden Pellet had also turned into fine dust.
The other two Tan Jiu's' expressions instantly grew pale. At the same time, their eyes were open wide like balls.
The first reaction of these two Tan Jiu's were... to escape!
The two Tan Jiu's, one proceeded to flee toward the entrance of the tunnel whereas the other proceeded to run toward the opposite direction, the direction toward the inside of the underground mansion.
"What sort of weapon is that? It's not a High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact; is it something that's even more powerful than a High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact?" Tan Jiu felt that his heart was shivering. Could it be a legendary Grandmist Spiritual Treasure?
Tan Jiu was filled with fear and shock.
Ordinary Deities did not know about the great name of Grandmist Spiritual Treasures. However, Tan Jiu, a Mid Level Heavenly Deity, had heard about rumors of it before. Merely, he had never seen one before. Or rather... he wouldn't know even if he had seen one.
"Trying to flee?"
Seeing the two Tan Jiu's fleeing in opposite directions, Qin Yu instantly made his decision to first kill the Tan Jiu that was fleeing toward the tunnel entrance.
Qin Yu believed that it would require the Tan Jiu who fled toward the underground mansion to create a tunnel in order to run away. This amount of time was sufficient for him to kill the other Tan Jiu.
Teleportation!
Teleportation!
After two continuous teleportations, Qin Yu arrived inside the tunnel and stopped the path of Tan Jiu.
"Hooh!" The first reaction Tan Jiu had when he saw Qin Yu was spreading out his Spatial Domain and then smash his weapon toward Qin Yu.
"Chi~~~"
While rotating rapidly, the Divine Spear Waning Snow was thrust forward. Like a dragon flying out from the sea, with bits of dark black color to the tip of the spear, the Spatial Domain was unable to block the Divine Spear Waning Snow at all.
When the attack was powerful enough, even Spatial Domain would be useless.
After all, the current Divine Spear Waning Snow was already capable of creating tiny spatial cracks.
"Bang!" The three sectioned staff was forcibly thrust apart by the Divine Spear Waning Snow from the inside. The Divine Spear Waning Snow continued to thrust toward Tan Jiu's neck. Tan Jiu who already knew that he cannot block the incoming strike have directly let his Nascent Soul and Jade Blood Golden Pellet out from his body. However...
With a twist of the Divine Spear Waning Snow that Qin Yu held, a weak ray of Dark and Yellow Energy burst forth from the tip of the spear and directly bonded Tan Jiu's Nascent Soul and Jade Blood Golden Pellet. In an instant, the Nascent Soul and Jade Blood Golden Pellet have turned to dust.
"There's one left!"
Qin Yu did not bother to care about the corpse before him. He once again started teleporting!
After two teleportations, Qin Yu had arrived inside the underground mansion. Qin Yu started to spread the Spatial Energy from his Universal World. With lightning speed, Qin Yu teleported three more times and continued to search the underground mansion. Only then, did he discovered that the situation was bad.
With a movement of his body, Qin Yu appeared inside a study room behind the underground mansion.
At this moment, there was surprisingly a tunnel on the wall of this room.
Qin Yu immediately grew anxious and angry. "What a mistake, truly a great mistake. This Tan Jiu had stayed in the underground mansion for countless years, how could he only leave a single tunnel? Although barely any time passed, but with his speed, I suspect he'd already reached several tens of miles away. My Spatial Energy is only capable of searching a range of around a hundred meters; without an exact direction, how could I possibly find him?"
Qin Yu was at a loss as to what to do.
This study room was located at the back of the underground mansion. The room where Qin Yu hid himself in was far away from this place. Thus, Qin Yu had never discovered that there was another secret tunnel here.
Everything was in vain. A Tan Jiu clone managed to escape.
"Forget about it, even if this Tan Jiu managed to survive, what could he possibly do after fleeing?" Qin Yu didn't really care about it either. "Although he had discovered my secret of 'teleportation,' but would others believe him if he were to tell them?"
Teleportation was a remarkable ability that only Godkings possessed. This was an ironclad law of the Divine Realm for the past a hundred million and two quadrillion years.
Even if Tan Jiu were to tell others that there was someone who possess a remarkable ability similar to that of teleportation, how many people from the Divine Realm would actually believe him?
Although Qin Yu also knew that even if there weren't going to be many people that would believe Tan Jiu, it would still make things troublesome for him. However, as Tan Jiu already escaped, Qin Yu could only comfort himself this way.
With a flash of his body, Qin Yu reappeared in the courtyard.
Seeing the Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus on the pond of Unitary Heavy Water before him, Qin Yu started to smile. "For this Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus, a Mid Level Heavenly Deity died and another Mid Level Heavenly Deity had lost eight of his nine clones."
Qin Yu glanced at the Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus. His gaze then turned to the Divine Spear Waning Snow in his hand.
Although he had imagined the might of the Divine Spear Waning Snow before, but Qin Yu was still overjoyed to see how powerful it was in action.
A Mid Level Heavenly Deity using a Mid Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact against him who used the Divine Spear Waning Snow with Divine Energy. However, even though this was the case, the Divine Spear Waning Snow still broke apart his opponent's Mid Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact.
"Originally, the Divine Spear Waning Snow was comparable to a second-rated Grandmist Spiritual Treasure. And now, its might was much more powerful than before. It was likely that even if it was to be inferior to a first-rated Grandmist Spiritual Treasure, it would not be much inferior." Qin Yu thought in his heart.
Furthermore, the current Divine Spear Waning Snow had only absorbed a very small amount of Dark and Yellow Energy. Exactly how powerful the Divine Spear Waning Snow would be once it finished absorbing it completely, Qin Yu was excited just thinking about it.
"If I hadn't use the Divine Spear Waning Snow and had only used the High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact Heavenly Divine Sword Scarlet Blood, then killing Tan Jiu would simply be a dream. However when I used the Divine Spear Waning Snow, I was able to trample upon him. A good weapon indeed provides a different result!"
Qin Yu became even more aware of the advantage of possessing a powerful weapon.
With an intention of his mind, the Divine Spear Waning Snow returned into Qin Yu's Universal World and once again began absorbing the Dark and Yellow Energy.
"The Divine Spear Waning Snow is like teleportation, it's best for me to only use them in important moments. Trump cards, the deeper I hide them, the better their effects." Qin Yu thought in his heart. Qin Yu then looked to the pond before him.
With merely an intention, the Spatial Energy from the Universal World covered the entire pond of Unitary Heavy Water and the Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus. And then...
The Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus and the Unitary Heavy Water all disappeared. They had already arrived in the Universal World. As for Qin Yu, he too had disappeared from the underground mansion and entered into the Universal World.
Qin Yu stood on a piece of meadows. The Unitary Heavy Water and the Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus was floating before Qin Yu. When inside the Universal World, everything changed according to Qin Yu's intention.
With an intention of his mind, the Unitary Heavy Water separated from the Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus.
"The lotus core of the Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus could become a Magnificent Lotus Clone after refining it. The Magnificent Lotus Clone naturally possesses the Unitary Heavy Water Domain... its body's toughness is even greater than that of a High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact."
Qin Yu's heart was extremely relaxed.
What the Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus attracted him the most was the lotus core.
It was extremely hard for one to refine a clone. That was because a true clone required a soul. Who among ordinary people are capable of splitting their souls?
However, the lotus core of the Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus was different. The lotus core was born through absorbing Grandmist Spiritual Energy. The entire lotus core was a conscious-less soul body. After Qin Yu finished refining it, he merely needed to leave a bit of his consciousness in it in order to obtain a clone.
Furthermore, Qin Yu believed that the fighting strength of the clone might be even greater than his own body.
"I shall combine this Unitary Heavy Water with the Unitary Heavy Water that I had obtained from the Dark Star Realm." With an intention of his mind, a water ball of Unitary Heavy Water appeared floating in the sky. At the same time, beside this ball of Golden Elemental Heavy Water was another ball of Unitary Heavy Water and a golden bead.
This golden colored bead was extremely unusual. It was so cold that Qin Yu estimated that it was something that was impossible to refine unless one has reached the Embryo Soul level.
Right when Qin Yu was pondering...
"Mn?" Qin Yu opened his eyes wide in shock.
The golden bead voluntarily started flying toward the Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus. At the same time, the black lotus core of the Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus shot out a ray of black light. The golden bead also shot out a ray of golden light. The two lights actually started to wind together…
Chapter 39 – Xiao Hei's Cultivation Path
The black lotus core of the Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus, and the golden bead emitted lights simultaneously. The two of them were shining on each other. The black lotus core shot out a ray of black light whereas the golden bead shot out a ray of golden light. The two lights were twisting and fusing with one another like a water pipe. The two energies of different nature were actually fusing with each other.
The black light was being absorbed by the golden bead. The golden light was being absorbed by the black lotus core.
Seeing the scene before him, Qin Yu was extremely confused. "I've never heard of this golden bead before. So why is it that such a change occurred the moment it met the Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus?"
In the numerous years, Qin Yu had read many of the golden scrolls in the Bewitching God Temple and remembered all the information regarding the various rare herbs, ores, and other materials. However, he had never come across any information regarding this golden bead.
With an intention from Qin Yu, Uncle Fu appeared beside him.
Uncle Fu was previously in the middle of analyzing formation arrays inside Jiang Lan's Realm. Seeing the scene before him suddenly changing and then seeing Qin Yu, Uncle Fu immediately bowed and said. "Master. What might master need me for?"
"Uncle Fu, look at this." Qin Yu pointed at the golden bead and the Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus before him.
Upon seeing the Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus, Uncle Fu was immediately startled. In shock, he said. "This, nine petals, could it be the Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus? And what might this golden bead be?" Uncle Fu was unable to cover up his shocked expression. He looked to Qin Yu and asked. "Master, this Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus is extremely precious. This golden bead also appears to be precious. How did master obtain these two items?"
Hearing Uncle Fu's words, Qin Yu felt a bit disappointed.
Clearly, Uncle Fu didn't know anything about the golden bead.
However, Qin Yu still pointed at the Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus and said. "Uncle Fu, I have luckily obtained this Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus in the Black Dragon Pool. As for this golden bead, I obtained it back in the Dark Star Realm's territory, back during the time when I was in the Immortal, Devil and Demon Realm. Uncle Fu... I would like to ask, have you ever heard about something like this golden bead?"
"I have seen golden beads before. However, although they're both golden beads, they might not be the same item. Master, can you tell me about the property of this golden bead?" Uncle Fu asked.
Qin Yu felt a burst of happiness. It seemed that Uncle Fu might be able to know information about this golden bead.
"This golden bead is extremely cold. It is surrounded by Golden Elemental Heavy Water, which is even colder than Unitary Heavy Water, and that Golden Elemental Heavy Water is again surrounded by Unitary Heavy Water. However, as to what exactly this golden bead is, I have absolutely no idea, even after searching through all the golden scrolls." Said Qin Yu helplessly.
In order to find out what this golden bead was, Qin Yu had spent a large amount of time and searched through all the golden scrolls.
"It was formed with Golden Elemental Heavy Water?" Uncle Fu looked to the golden bead with a shocked expression. He saw that this golden bead was actually exchanging energy with the lotus core of the Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus. "Master, how did the lotus core of the Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus come into contact with the golden bead? Did master control them?"
"No, it occurred naturally. Uncle Fu, do you know anything about this golden bead?" Qin Yu looked to Uncle Fu.
Uncle Fu frowned and shook his head. "I don't know. Merely, the fact that it was capable of forming Golden Elemental Heavy Water means that it should be a Grandmist Spiritual Treasure. However, in all the years that I have followed my old master, I have never once heard of a golden bead among the cold attribute Grandmist Spiritual Treasures."
Hearing Uncle Fu saying that he doesn't know about it, Qin Yu grew a bit disappointed. However, he had already anticipated that. Thus, he merely nodded.
"Master, why don't you refine this golden bead?" Confused, Uncle Fu asked.
"This golden bead is too cold. It actually has the ability to freeze the soul. Based on my estimation, I won't be able to refine this golden bead until my soul reaches the Embryo Soul level." Upon saying this, Qin Yu thought about his soul's level. He couldn't refrain from sighing. "Unfortunately, I have been at the peak of the High Level Deity stage for so many years and have researched formation array for over a hundred thousand years a while ago too. Although I managed to attain some progress in the formation arrays, my soul still has yet to reach a breakthrough."
Uncle Fu consoled. "Master, this barrier of reaching the Heavenly Deity state from the High Level Deity state, is extremely extremely hard to cross! Countless people in the Divine Realm are trapped at this barrier. Master, just look at how many High Level Deities there are in the Black Dragon Pool and how many Heavenly Deities there are."
Qin Yu lightly smiled.
He too knew about this reasoning. Merely, after being trapped in the peak of High Level Deity for so long, Qin Yu had grown somewhat anxious.
"It would seem that I will have to go and research the spatial comprehensions left behind by senior Zuo Qiumei." Qin Yu made his decision. "Once my research of formation arrays reaches the fourth formation array level, I shall break through to the Heavenly Deity level!"
Although Qin Yu had already reached the third formation array level a long time ago, after all these years of training, Qin Yu had at most been able to set up the high level l formation arrays at the third level. As for the formation arrays at the fourth level, they were still out of his reach.
Qin Yu was able to feel that the change in the golden bead and the Nine Petals Magnificent Lotus should be complementary to each other and would benefit both of them. Thus, Qin Yu did not try to block them either.
"Master, when you are refining the Divine Spear Waning Snow, why is it that you aren't putting it in Jiang Lan's Realm to refine it?" Uncle Fu suddenly asked.
Uncle Fu knew that Qin Yu had been using the Dark and Yellow Energy to increase the power of the Divine Spear Waning Snow. Uncle Fu believed that if Qin Yu were to refine the Divine Spear Waning Snow in the second layer space of the Jiang Lan's Realm, it would go a hundred times faster. Thus, why didn't Qin Yu do it in the Jiang Lan's Realm?
Qin Yu shook his head helplessly and said. "It is true that I can place the Divine Spear Waning Snow in the Jiang Lan's Realm, but... the Dark and Yellow Energy is incapable of leaving the Universal World."
Regarding this, Qin Yu had also been extremely confused as to why that was the case.
In the over a thousand years that the Divine Spear Waning Snow had absorbed the Dark and Yellow Energy in the Universal World, it had absorbed less than a thousandth of the Dark and Yellow Energy. According to this speed, it would take an extremely long time to completely and successfully refine the Divine Spear Waning Snow. Qin Yu had tried to move the Dark and Yellow Energy into the Jiang Lan's Realm to save time. However, the Dark and Yellow Energy was completely unable to leave the Universal World.
Qin Yu had a sort of feeling in his heart...
The Universal World that was still growing seemed to have some sort of connection with the Dark and Yellow Energy. Merely, the current Qin Yu was still unable to understand this connection.
Qin Yu had a premonition in his heart that once the Universal World finished growing completely, he would likely be able to understand the secrets to the Dark and Yellow Energy. The current Qin Yu only knew that the Dark and Yellow Energy could be used to refine artifacts.
"Uncle Fu, let's return to the Jiang Lan's Realm first." Said Qin Yu to Uncle Fu. Immediately after, the two of them disappeared.
Inside the second layer space of the Jiang Lan's Realm.
Qin Yu and Uncle Fu directly appeared outside of Qin Yu's courtyard manor. Qin Yu turned around and was about to enter into his courtyard manor when Uncle Fu suddenly said. "Master, there is something about young master Hei Yu that I must tell you."
Xiao Hei?
Qin Yu suddenly stopped. He turned around and looked to Qin Yu. He frowned and asked. "You said Xiao Hei? What's wrong with Xiao Hei?"
Uncle Fu wanted to speak yet was unable to get his words out. He hesitated for a moment before saying. "Master, I am also unable to speak clearly about the situation that young master Hei Yu is in. Merely, recently, young master Hei Yu's cultivation entered a special state. This old servant, however, isn't sure whether this is a good thing or a bad thing."
"Mn?"
Qin Yu immediately grew a bit worried. He stopped asking Uncle Fu and directly teleported with Uncle Fu to outside the location where Hei Yu was training.
On top of a lone mountain.
This lone mountain, one side seemed to have been cut by a blade and was extremely steep. Hei Yu wore a white gown and was standing on top of the lone mountain with his eyes closed. He held his Cloud Piercing Spear in one hand. Black spear silhouettes would occasionally burst forth.
Qin Yu merely observed for a short moment before discovering the strangeness. The restrictions of Jiang Lan's Realm were extremely low. With Hei Yu's speed, he was capable of instantly thrusting several tens of millions of spear silhouettes. However, the current Hei Yu's spear thrusting speed was not fast at all.
Furthermore, among all the spear strikes thrust forth by Hei Yu, each and every one of them possessed a different speed.
"Master, young master Hei Yu has trained with his eyes closed like this for over a hundred thousand years now. During these hundred thousand plus years, young master Hei Yu has been thrusting his spear like this the entire time. Young master Hei Yu's spear thrusting speed isn't fast nor is he using any Divine Energy. This old servant became a bit worried. That's why I informed master about it." Said Uncle Fu.
Qin Yu also couldn't tell what purpose there was for Hei Yu to thrust his spear like this.
There were indeed people in the Divine Realm that would continuously practice drawing their blades or thrusting their spears and the like. However, those people would always do that with their utmost speed. Those people all sought for the limit of speed.
However, what about Hei Yu? His thrusting speed was not fast. It was merely a mediocre speed. Furthermore, sometimes he would be a bit faster and sometimes slower.
Qin Yu was certain that Hei Yu had not gone mad!
However, what use was there for such a training method?
Qin Yu bursted into anger. He looked to Uncle Fu and said angrily. "Uncle Fu, why did you only tell me this now?"
Uncle Fu hurriedly said fearfully. "In the past hundred thousand plus years, master has been deriving formation arrays the entire time. This old servant didn't dare to interrupt master. Furthermore, this old servant saw that young master Hei Yu was so concentrated in his training, so even though I found it problematic, I did not believe that he had gone mad. Thus, I had decided to tell master about it after master comes out from seclusion training. However, after master finished your seclusion training, you left to the outside world right away. Thus, this old servant only managed to tell master about it now."
Seeing Uncle Fu's reaction, Qin Yu knew that he was wrong to get angry. Furthermore, he had left right away after sensing the change in the Black Dragon Pool. Uncle Fu simply do not have the time to inform him about this at all.
"Uncle Fu, I am in the wrong. It's just that Xiao Hei is a brother of mine that I have grown up together with." Qin Yu looked to Hei Yu who stood on the mountain top far away with worry.
"Xiao Hei!" Qin Yu suddenly yelled.
Hei Yu did not have any reaction. He continued to stand on top of the lone mountain, thrusting his spear at different speeds.
"It would seem that Xiao Hei's concentration has been completely focused and has entered a special state of mind." Qin Yu did not have any other way to contact Xiao Hei other than using his Divine Awareness to send a Voice Transmission. His voice directly sounded in Hei Yu's mind. "Xiao Hei, stop for a moment!"
Hei Yu suddenly stopped thrusting his spear. Hei Yu's eyes then opened.
Seeing Qin Yu, Hei Yu had an extremely cheerful expression on his face. In an instant, Hei Yu arrived in front of Qin Yu, In ecstasy, he said. "Big brother, it's been a long time since I've last seen you. However big brother, I have only trained for a short period of time, why did you interrupt me?"
"Short period of time? You've been in that state for over a hundred thousand years already." Qin Yu said helplessly.
"Over a hundred thousand years?" Hei Yu opened his eyes wide. Hei Yu then closed his eyes to sense. He then nodded. "It has indeed been over a hundred thousand years. I truly didn't realise time had passed by so quickly."
Qin Yu suddenly discovered a change in Hei Yu.
"Xiao Hei, you've reached the peak of the High Level Deity stage?" Qin Yu only noticed Hei Yu's improvements.
Qin Yu remembered very clearly that over a hundred thousand years ago, Hei Yu had only reached the peak of the Mid Level Deity stage. How was it possible for Hei Yu to instantly catch up to him?
"Eh..." Hei Yu himself was also startled. He was also confused for a long period of time. "Eh, how come I have reached the peak of the High Level Deity stage? Last time around, I was still at the peak of the Mid Level Deity stage. Although I sensed that I was about to make a breakthrough, how is it possible that I have reached the peak of the High Level Deity stage in merely a hundred thousand plus years?"
Qin Yu suddenly recalled an issue.
The training method that Hei Yu was doing earlier seemed to be some sort of special kind of training method. Hei Yu's extremely fast improvement might be related to that training method. Upon thinking of this, Qin Yu started becoming happy for his brother.
"Hei Yu, why did you start thrusting your spear for a hundred thousand years on top of a lone mountain?" Qin Yu asked.
Hei Yu shook his head and said. "I'm not sure. One day when I was training my spear techniques on top of the lone mountain, I suddenly felt a very mysterious and special sensation in my heart. I then proceeded to search for that sensation and began to thrust my spear incessantly. By today, I managed to have some accomplishments regarding that sensation. Furthermore, I feel that... this sort of training method, if I were to continue to train like so, ought to be very powerful."
Qin Yu's eyes shined. He said. "Xiao Hei, try thrusting a spear strike toward me."
Hei Yu's eyes also shined. "Haha, okay. Big brother, have a taste of the things that I managed to comprehend in these years." After he finished saying that, Hei Yu extended his hand toward the ground and grabbed. A stone was instantly cut into the shape of a spear. Holding this stone spear, Hei Yu stared at Qin Yu.
Qin Yu didn't dare to be careless. He also grabbed a stone spear like Hei Yu.
"Big brother, you'd best be careful." Hei Yu's eyes burst forth with light. "Watch my attack!" With a loud shout, the stone spear in Hei Yu's hands was thrust forward.
At the moment when Hei Yu thrust his spear forward, Qin Yu felt as if his brain stopped moving.
Although the speed of the stone spear didn't seem to be very fast, Qin Yu felt that his own speed was even slower. He tried his hardest to move the stone spear in his hand. Only through that did he managed to block the incoming spear.
"Stop!"
Qin Yu suddenly said.
"Big brother, what's wrong?" Confused, Hei Yu said. "How was my attack earlier? The bit of comprehension I managed to achieve in the hundred thousand plus years; I feel that the amount that I managed to comprehend is still very small. I believe that after more time passes, my spear technique will likely become a lot better."
Qin Yu looked at Hei Yu with shock.
Even when fighting against Tan Jiu, Qin Yu did not have this sort of strange sensation. Although Hei Yu's spear speed was not fast at all, it was extremely hard to defend against it.
Qin Yu didn't understand.
Qin Yu knew that if he were to fight against Hei Yu in the Divine Realm without using his Universal World's Spatial Energy and only use the same sort of weapon as Hei Yu, he might actually be no match against Hei Yu.
"Xiao Hei, you've become stronger than me." Qin Yu said gratified.
"Big brother." Hei Yu was unable to refrain his shock.
In all these years, in the path of cultivation, Hou Fei and Hei Yu had been watching Qin Yu's back the entire time. They had always been finding that the gap between them and Qin Yu had been growing greater and greater. Never had Hei Yu expect for Qin Yu to admit his defeat today.
"Continue to train property, continue to walk down this path." Qin Yu encouraged.
Actually, what Qin Yu thought was incorrect. During the Origin Stage of his 'Stellar Transformation,' Qin Yu was capable of using the Origin Energy. When he reached the Universe Stage, he could only use the Spatial Energy.
The Universal World was also something that Qin Yu cultivated. It was Qin Yu's ability. When he thought that he was no match against Xiao Hei without relying on the Universal World or weapons, this sort of thinking was actually a bit overly extreme.
Chapter 40 – Being Well Known
Seeing Hei Yu returning back to the top of the lone mountain and once again starting to thrust his spear with varying speed, Qin Yu displayed a calm and joyous smile on his face.
Qin Yu knew that he who possessed the teleportation ability and the Divine Spear Waning Snow could be met with misfortune at any location. Furthermore, the faster his strength increased, the stronger the experts he would come across would be.
Although he might be able to fight against those experts, what about Hei Yu?
Seeing that Hei Yu had now walked down his own path, Qin Yu was happy for him. He grew relaxed in his heart.
"Uncle Fu, do not go and bother Xiao Hei. Let him concentrate on his training." Said Qin Yu to Uncle Fu. He then returned back to his own residence by himself through teleportation. After walking into his room, Qin Yu sat cross legged on the praying mat and started to quietly derive the formation arrays.
The ocean of formation arrays was boundless. However, there were rules within the ocean that one could follow.
As Qin Yu was deriving the formation arrays, a branch diagram appeared within his brain. From simple to complicated, he derived the formation arrays one by one. There were very few first level formation arrays, they were only a couple different types. However, the number of second level formation arrays was a lot greater. As for third level formation arrays, they were astonishingly numerous...
As Qin Yu comprehended the 'Array Path' more and more, he became somewhat intoxicated with deriving formation arrays.
Every single time he managed to comprehend an even more profound formation array, Qin Yu would feel a sense of accomplishment, a sense of conquest. The branch diagram regarding the formation arrays in his mind also became more and more complicated.
Ever since he created the Universal World, Qin Yu had placed Jiang Lan's Realm in the Universal World whenever he derived formation arrays.
Under such circumstances, Qin Yu felt that his insights in the derivations of formation arrays were even greater and his speed of derivation also increased by a lot. The reason why such a thing happened, Qin Yu could only believe that it had to do with the fact that he was the creator of the Universal World.
While deriving formation arrays, one couldn't sense the passage of time.
A profound formation array might require more than a thousand years of time to derive. Having reached this level, Qin Yu also understood the reason why Trapping Arrays were more important than Killing Arrays and Defensive Arrays.
If one were to completely fuse a Killing Array and a Defensive Array into a Trapping Array and make it into a single formation array.
If one were able to fuse them together completely and perfectly, then, and only then could one be considered a great master of formation arrays. In other words, one must reach the fourth level of formation arrays!
In a blink of an eye, Qin Yu had already spent a hundred and eighty thousand years in Jiang Lan's Realm's second layer space. Qin Yu's eyes that had been closed for a hundred and eighty thousand years were finally opened. He had a slight smile in his eyes.
"I've finally succeeded. It's surprisingly hard to reach the fourth level of formation arrays from the third level." Qin Yu gasped in his heart.
Having reached this stage, Qin Yu had an urge in his heart. Having deduced so many formation arrays, Qin Yu felt that there were not many secrets to the 'Array Path' anymore. He even felt a sort of sensation as if he had managed to discover the quintessence of the Array Path.
This quintessence of the Array Path was a lot more complicated and profound compared to the one he discovered the first time after spending ninety thousand years.
"Is it the first stage of the Array Path?" Qin Yu slightly smiled. He immediately discarded this first stage of the Array Path that he had just comprehended out from his mind.
That was because Qin Yu knew that the more formation arrays he deduced, the more perfect the first stage of the Array Path he would comprehend in the end would become, and the more perfect the first stage of the Array Path, the higher his future achievement in the Array Path would be.
"Master." Uncle Fu's voice sounded from outside of the room.
As the servant of Qin Yu, Uncle Fu was able to sense changes in Qin Yu's state of mind. He naturally knew that Qin Yu had finished his seclusion deductions.
After opening the door of the room, Qin Yu walked out. With a face beaming with smiles, he said. "Uncle Fu, I've reached the fourth level of formation arrays. Oh, that's right, how long did it take you to reach the fourth level of formation arrays and how long did it take for you to reach the fifth level of formation arrays?"
Uncle Fu had been unceasingly deducing formation arrays the entire time.
Uncle Fu replied. "It took me several hundred millions of years to reach the fourth level. As for reaching the fifth level from the fourth, it took me over a billion years."
It was truly very slow.
Qin Yu gasped in his heart. He had only spend a total of less than five hundred thousand years, yet had already reached the doorsteps of the fourth level of formation arrays. His speed was several hundred to a thousand times faster compared to Uncle Fu.
"How long did it take for Senior Chehou Yuan to reach the fourth level of formation arrays?" Qin Yu asked.
Uncle Fu shook his head and said. "This old servant doesn't know how long his old master spent at the first level of formation arrays. All I know is that my old master spent a million years to comprehend the first stage of the Array Path the first time around. He then started his research from scratch and spent a billion years to comprehend the first stage of the Array Path the second time around. When comparing old master and master's speed, master is ten times faster than old master."
Indeed, during the first time when Qin Yu comprehended the first stage of the Array Path, he had merely spent about ninety thousand years.
Qin Yu slightly nodded.
"According to this speed, if I want to reach the fifth level of formation arrays, it would likely take me a million years. I reckon that Senior Chehou Yuan had deduced all the way till he reached the sixth level of formation arrays before he actually started comprehending the first stage of the Array Path." Qin Yu thought in his heart.
Array Path; the first level of formation arrays till the sixth went from simple to complicated.
As for the seventh and eighth levels of formation arrays, they instead returned to being simple.
If one were to continue to deduce more complicated formation arrays, one would only reach the sixth level of formation arrays.
"Uncle Fu, I'll go outside for a while to see if that Tan Jiu has returned. A hundred and eighty thousand years have passed, perhaps he might actually come back here." Said Qin Yu with a smile on his face.
Weeding out the roots!
Uncle Fu said hurriedly. "Master, I have two things I need to tell you."
"Go ahead." Qin Yu said.
Uncle Fu nodded. "Roughly thirty thousand years after master entered seclusion training to deduce formation arrays, the two girls Hong Yu and Lu Shui reached soul consummation. Their souls then condensed into Golden Soul Pellets. After sixty thousand years, Wu Lan also managed to form a Golden Soul Pellet. As for Wu He, he managed to form a Golden Soul Pellet after eighty thousand years."
Qin Yu nodded.
These four people had been stagnating at the ninth Demon Emperor level for a long time.
"Ah, what about their Divine Tribulations?" Qin Yu asked in shock. Usually, ordinary people would always undergo the Divine Tribulation before their souls condense into a Golden Soul Pellet. The only exceptions are people like Qin Yu whose soul improved way too fast or people like the Cyan Emperor who deliberately suppressed their power.
The four level nine Demon Emperors, neither of their souls improvement speed were extremely fast. Furthermore, they had all reached the ninth Demon Emperor level and had not been suppressing their powers.
"This was precisely what this old servant wanted to tell master. The four of them have already formed Golden Soul Pellets. However, they are still unable to sense their Divine Tribulation. This matter is truly too strange." Uncle Fu said with a frown.
Qin Yu was startled.
They had already formed Golden Soul Pellets yet were still unable to sense their Divine Tribulations? Even he himself managed to sense his Divine Tribulation not long after forming his Golden Soul Pellet. However, Wu Lan and them had formed their Golden Soul Pellets over a hundred thousand years ago now.
"Master, this matter has also caused the four of them to be restless and filled with worries. This old servant also cannot understand why such a thing was happening because one should be able to sense one's Divine Tribulation regardless of where one might be." Said Uncle Fu helplessly.
According to the way things works, regardless of whether one was in the Divine Realm, the Immortal, Devil and Demon Realm or hiding in the Mortal Realm, it would be impossible for one to escape the Divine Tribulation.
Suddenly, a thought flashed through Qin Yu's mind.
"Could it be that... it was because of the Universal World?" Upon thinking of this, all of Qin Yu's suspicions were dissipated completely.
At the moment when he created the Universal World, Qin Yu knew that...
When inside the Universal World, he was the master of the Universal World! When in the Universal World, nothing that violates his will are allowed to occur. Even the Divine Tribulation cannot descend upon the Universal World without first getting his approval.
"Jiang Lan's Realm is in the Universal World. Although Jiang Lan's Realm possesses three layers of spaces within it, it was still merely a Spatial Grandmist Spiritual Treasure and cannot be considered as another world. Thus, Hong Yu, Lu Shui, Wu Lan and Wu He would be restricted by the laws of the Universal World."
Upon thinking of this, Qin Yu understood it completely.
In the Universal World that he had created, it was simply impossible for Divine Tribulation to descend. Or perhaps... the Divine Tribulation simply cannot sense this world. Thus, it naturally would not descend.
"Uncle Fu, I understand this matter now. After some time, I'll have them return to the Divine Realm. I believe that they will be able to sense when their Divine Tribulation would come the moment they returned to the Divine Realm." Qin Yu said to Uncle Fu.
Uncle Fu nodded. "Yes, this servant will immediately notify them about this."
"Uncle Fu, did you have anything else you need to tell me?" Qin Yu remembered that Uncle Fu mentioned that he had two things he wanted to report to him about.
Uncle Fu immediately displayed a joyous expression. He said. "Master, this is a great joyous matter. Thirty thousand years ago, that is when master have trained for a hundred and fifty thousand years, young master Hei Yu stopped his training. That is because young master Hei Yu's soul had reached the Embryo Soul level. Furthermore, after he spent several thousand years, he completely transformed the Divine Energy within his body to Heavenly Divine Energy and created a Jade Blood Golden Pellet."
Xiao Hei has achieved a breakthrough?
"Xiao Hei became a Low Level Heavenly Deity?" Qin Yu had truly never expected that after Hei Yu stepped onto his unusual training path, his improvement speed would actually be this fast.
Uncle Fu also had an expression filled with awe. "Young Master Hei Yu's cultivation speed is truly astonishing. This old servant had followed the old master for all those years, yet I have never seen anyone training so fast and with such a strange training method before.
"Logically, because there are that many geniuses in the Divine Realm, the various training techniques are generally created by their seniors. It is extremely rare for a new training technique to appear. I truly never would've anticipated that young master Hei Yu..." As Uncle Fu said this, he even gasped a couple times in admiration.
Qin Yu smiled.
He reckoned that there was likely no one who knew about his 'Stellar Transformation' martial technique in the Divine Realm. As for Hei Yu's training technique, Qin Yu was still uncertain about it. However, he believed that it doesn't matter even if he didn't understand it because he believed that it was all fine as long as Hei Yu's power increased.
"Where is Xiao Hei now?" Qin Yu have a rejoiceful smile on his face.
Uncle Fu said. "Young master Hei Yu has once again started training on top of the lone mountain. However, the speed at which young master Hei Yu thrust his spear now, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, has become even more strange."
"There's no need to worry about him. Let's just let him continue training like so." Qin Yu chuckled. Perhaps Hei Yu would only be able to explain to everyone about his training method after achieving a better comprehension of it.
"Master is not going to see young master Hei Yu?" Uncle Fu asked.
"No, I will be going out." Qin Yu lightly nodded his head. He then disappeared from Jiang Lan's Realm.
In the eastern section of the Divine Realm. Inside the ravine of the Black Dragon Pool, one of the three great powers in the territory of Yuchi City. At this moment, a person suddenly appeared in the Black Dragon Pool, the enormous lake with a circumference of a hundred miles. However, in an instant, this person disappeared.
After continuously teleporting several tens of times, Qin Yu arrived at a thick forest on the mountain.
As he stood on top loose dead leaves, he began to spread out the Spatial Energy from the Universal World. After a thousand and eight hundred years of growth, the Universal World's Spatial Energy's range had increased once again. Now, it was able to cover a range of around two hundred meters.
"That Tan Jiu is truly crafty. Not only was he not in the underground mansion, he's not even inside the several palaces." Qin Yu sighed.
Earlier, Qin Yu had instantly used his Spatial Energy to cover the three palaces. Qin Yu only managed to discover Mei Ji and Daoist Liu Xu. As for the boss Black Dragon Tan Jiu, he did not discover him.
"From the way it looks, the Black Dragon Pool still possesses a lot of troops after all these years." Qin Yu sensed that a little squadron had entered the range of his Spatial Energy.
Qin Yu started moving. He started to maintain a distance two hundred meters away from that small squadron. In the forest filled with trees and plants, two hundred meters was a distance that one couldn't find another in.
This small squadron had a total of ten people. Qin Yu was able to clearly see these ten people, including even the hair on their faces.
Ten people, six men and four women.
The female who led the group sighed and said. "Sigh, ever since that Heavenly Deity Qin Yu fought over at our place, he disappeared. In the past thousand and eight hundred years, countless people were searching for him."
The dark skinned man beside her said. "The rumors leaked from the Yuchi City a thousand and eight hundred years ago were truly astonishing. A Low Level Heavenly Deity actually possesses that many treasures... no wonder countless Heavenly Deities of the Divine Realm's eastern region have rushed over here wanting to kill Qin Yu and seize his treasures."
A dainty and delicate looking brown haired woman humped and said. "That Heavenly Deity Qin Yu best not show himself. If he were to show himself and be discovered by a Heavenly Deity, then likely all those Heavenly Deities that want his treasures would rush over. This information has spread through the entire eastern region of the Divine Realm. Rumor has it that there are even Heavenly Deities in the western region and the southwest region that know about this."
The most thin and weak looking youngster in this patrol group said mysteriously. "Let me tell you all, this rumor was spread out from our Black Dragon Pool."
"Bullshit." Immediately, someone voiced their distrust.
That youngster immediately said. "Don't reject it so fast. This is something that my big brother told me personally. A thousand and eight hundred years ago, Lady Mei Ji and Lord Liu Xu had personally selected some of their trusted aides and then proceeded to have them spread this information in the Yuchi City. Oh, that's right, you all best not tell others about this. Otherwise, Lady Mei Ji and them would definitely not let me go."
The golden haired woman who led the group said. "Shut up, you'd best not mention this again in the future."
"Yes, yes." That youngster immediately complied with the order. As a Low Level Deity, had it not been for the connection that he had from his big brother, it would have been impossible for this youngster to be accepted into the Black Dragon Pool. Usually, his status was relatively low. Thus, he could only talk about some secrets in order to attract the interest of others.
The golden haired woman then sighed and said. "That Heavenly Deity Qin Yu's strength is pretty good. I truly don't know who will be able to obtain those treasures in the end."
"High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact and some sort of Magnificent Lotus. I think there's also some sort of extraordinary ability. They caused all those Heavenly Deities to be green with envy. All those Heavenly Deities would be attacking him from all sides. I've heard that there are even High Level Heavenly Deities among them! However, all of this is of no concern to us Deities." The dark skinned man shook his head and sighed.
As for Qin Yu who had heard all this, his expression had turned ashen!
The worst situation had finally occurred!
This sort of situation was something that Qin Yu had anticipated. Merely, Qin Yu was unwilling to let such a situation happen. That was because if such a thing were to happen, then he would be forced to massacre a lot of people.
"Must I really walk down that extreme path?" A cold light flashed through Qin Yu's eyes.
Chapter 41 – The Floating Snow City of the Utmost Northern Region
Among the Eight Great Sacred Lands of the Divine Realm, the Floating Snow City located in the utmost north region of the Divine Realm was a floating city. The city walls of the city were about two hundred feet tall. It was predominantly composed of black boulders. The city appeared like a vicious beast lying in wait.
The Floating Snow City was formed at the same time as when the Divine Realm was formed. The Floating Snow City possessed various exotic features. The boulders appeared to be ordinary. However, even if a Heavenly Deity were to strike at it with all his might, he would still be unlikely to leave a mark on the city walls of the Floating Snow City. The Floating Snow City snows all year round. The snowflakes cover the entire Floating Snow City. Merely, the moment when the snowflakes fall to the ground, they would naturally permeate into the black colored ground and disappear.
There were not many citizens in the Floating Snow City. The number of people numbered only slightly more than ten thousand Heavenly Deity level experts. There was also the Utmost North Sage Emperor and his clan... the descendants of the Jiang Clan.
The clan of the Utmost North Sage Emperor was also called the Imperial Clan. The Utmost North Sage Emperor himself, as well as his clansmen, usually lived in the center region of the Floating Snow City, the Inner Castle. Only the Godkings of the Imperial Clan could be exempted and live outside of the Inner Castle!
Jiang Lan, one of the Three Great Godkings of the Floating Snow City.
He was the most low-key Godking among the Three Great Godkings of the Floating Snow City. Jiang Lan did not take part in any of the matters of the Utmost North Imperial Clan nor would he listen to the orders of the Utmost North Sage Emperor. He lived in a mansion on the eastern part of the Floating Snow City.
On the entrance of the mansion was a board. On the board were two words... "Wood Mansion."
This Wood Mansion was Jiang Lan's residence in the Floating Snow City. This mansion had existed for close to the same amount of time that the Divine Realm had existed.
Snowflakes swirled in the air. A group of five people were walking on the streets of the Floating Snow City alongside each other. These five people were all mid squadron captains in the Floating Snow City's army. One of them was a High Level Heavenly Deity, whereas the other four were Mid Level Heavenly Deities.
The five of them all wore the same sort of black silk gown. On their chests embroidered two golden snowflakes. At this moment, this group of five had walked to the entrance of the Wood Mansion and stopped. They all raised their heads and looked to the Wood Mansion.
"The Heavenly Stellar Prince's Mansion is so lively. Its disciples numerous. However, the number of disciples at this Wood Mansion is so few. Furthermore, this Wood Mansion is truly too cold and cheerless. Oh, that's right, Big Brother Gu Liang, when will the Wood Mansion accept more disciples?" A study looking man with a firm and persistent appearance turned around and asked a man beside him.
Gu Liang was the High Level Heavenly Deity among the five of them. He was a promising person who had the potential to be promoted to a large squadron captain in the Floating Snow City.
Gu Liang stroked his aquiline nose, shook his head and said. "The Wood Mansion rarely accepts new disciples. The last time it accepted a disciple was over a billion years ago. Even now, the Wood Mansion only has twelve disciples. Sigh... at the last selection, if I were a bit more careful, I might've been able to defeat Liang Yan and become a disciple of the Wood Mansion."
"Twelve?" A youth among the four that possessed extremely fair skin like snow frowned and said. "The Heavenly Stellar Prince's Mansion seems to have several hundred disciples. Furthermore, the Wood Mansion has existed for a not much shorter amount of time than the Divine Realm. This Lord Godking of the Wood Mansion..."
Gu Liang coldly humphed and said. "Although the Heaven's Heart Godking possesses a lot of disciples, exactly how long has he been a Godking? The Wood Mansion's Godking reached the Godking stage at about the same time as His Majesty the Sage Emperor. Don't you all know that although they might both be Godkings, there are still gaps between Godkings? If I were to be able to receive the guidance from the Wood Mansion's Godking, I believe my progress would be extremely fast."
"Big Brother Gu Liang, you were already a Mid Level Heavenly Deity a billion plus years ago, right? I remember that time the Wood Mansion was planning to recruit two new disciples. The fight for those two disciples was pretty intense. Ultimately, among the two that managed to be recruited, one was a High Level Heavenly Deity and the other was a Mid Level Heavenly Deity. However, I've heard that among the twelve disciples of the Wood Mansion, six of them are only Low Level Heavenly Deities. Am I right?" The man with the steadfast appearance asked.
Gu Liang nodded. "That's right, I also do not understand why the Wood Mansion's Godking suddenly accepted six Low Level Heavenly Deities as disciples. Sigh... Furthermore, I have obtained some inside information that the Wood Mansion's Godking would only accept a maximum of twelve disciples. He would only once again accept new disciples should someone die in battle."
Suddenly, Gu Liang's expression changed. He glanced at the distance and then said hurriedly. "Those seemed to be disciples of the Wood Mansion. They're being lead by the Wood Mansion's Godking. Quickly, move to the side so that we do not block the path of Lord Godking."
Upon hearing what Gu Liang said, the four other Mid Level Heavenly Deities were shocked jumping. The Wood Mansion's Godking?
The Wood Mansion's Godking rarely comes out. Thus, only a few people have seen the Wood Mansion's Godking before. However, Gu Liang, a Heavenly Deity with a very high seniority, had still seen the Wood Mansion's Godking before. The five of them immediately moved to the side of the road.
A male and a female. They both wore a cyan colored silk gown. The two of them were respectfully walking behind. These two are the personal attendants of the Wood Mansion's Godking. They had followed the Wood Mansion's Godking for a very long time now. The two of them were both High Level Heavenly Deities.
Before the two of them was a man with an indifferent smile on his face, the Wood Mansion's Godking... Jiang Lan. Jiang Lan wore a black and gold silk gown. He was radiating an ancient aura from his body.
The number of people in the Wood Mansion was extremely low. There were a total of only twelve disciples. However, no one dared to be disrespectful toward the people from the Wood Mansion.
When Jiang Lan reached the entrance of the Wood Mansion, he had slightly noticed the five people far away. He merely lightly smiled and then proceeded to walk pass the gates and into the inside of the Wood Mansion.
"Chu Ji, how is Li'er right now?" While walking in the winding corridor, Jiang Lan asked the male attendant behind him.
Chu Ji had a smile on his face. He said. "Your Lordship, Miss Li'er has been extremely happy these past days. This was especially true after she obtained information regarding young master Qin Yu. However, young master Qin Yu had brought himself a relatively large situation this time around. He had caused numerous Heavenly Deities of the eastern region of the Divine Realm to want to cause him troubles. Even the western region, southern region, southwestern region and numerous other places have Heavenly Deities that have heard about this matter and proceeded toward Yuchi City. Miss Li'er has also been worried for young master Qin Yu because of that."
The female attendant Ji Shao also smiled and said. "Miss Li'er has truly been working real hard on her training these days. When she returned from the Mortal Realm, she was merely at the Low Level Heavenly Deity level. Never had I anticipated that in such a short amount of time, she had already reached the peak of Mid Level Heavenly Deity. For young master Qin Yu, Miss Li'er have truly bore a lot of hardships."
Jiang Lan had a cheerful smile on his face. "What I admire the most about Little Yu is the trace of true emotions that still remains in the depths of his heart. It is no wonder that A'Mei would choose him." Having spoken up till here, Jiang Lan's expression grew a bit bleak.
"Your Lordship." Ji Shao and Chu Ji glanced at each other. The two of them both knew about how great of a shock what happened back then was to their Lord 'Jiang Lan'.
Jiang Lan returned to the present after a short moment of time. He tranquilly smiled and said. "It's fine. According to what I have investigated, Little Yu's strength has yet to even reach the Low Level Heavenly Deity stage. However, he was able to create such a powerful prestige for himself. Little Yu's potential is still pretty great. Merely, this child is still a bit softhearted. I am afraid that he might not be able to win against that child from the Zhou Clan."
"Softhearted? Didn't Your Lordship like young master Qin Yu precisely because of that?" Said Ji Shao with a smile.
Jiang Lan immediately smiled.
"Let's not talk about this, let's not talk about this. I am still extremely confident in Little Yu. He has succeeded the Bewitching God Temple and his comprehension of formation arrays is pretty good too. Furthermore, he has that mysterious and strange martial technique. I believe he is extraordinary... If he were to have sufficient time, he ought to be able to satisfy my big brother." Said Jiang Lan with a smile on his face. He then continued to walk.
The Wood Mansion was extremely large. It was a large mansion that possessed seven entrances and seven exits. There were a total of four gardens. As for Li'er, she lived in a pavilion building inside the Wood Mansion and had two maids attending her.
In the location that Li'er lived in, there was a garden before her building. This garden did not have any flowers or plants. It merely had a nearly ten meter tall black tree with a thickness that a person can hug.
At this moment, inside this garden, there were two maids chatting with each other. Because Li'er was undergoing meditation training, the two of them naturally couldn't disturb her.
"Big Sis A'Lian, this black tree that's only ten meters tall is said to be as old as the Wood Mansion." Said a purple clothed woman as she pointed towards the black tree.
The green clothed 'A'Lian' who was beside her shook her head and said. "That shouldn't be very likely. This Wood Mansion is said to be ten quadrillion years old. It is about as old as the entire Divine Realm. What sort of tree would only be this big after growing for so long?"
"Big Sis A'Lian, you shouldn't doubt it. This was something that I heard Lord Chu Ji and other Lords mentioning while they were chatting. This black tree, I believe it's name was something like Ancient Ironwood Tree!" Said that purple clothed woman.
"Liu Xiang, you said Ancient Ironwood Tree? What sort of tree is an Ancient Ironwood Tree?" This A'Lian has never heard about the great name of the Ancient Ironwood Tree.
That Liu Xiang was about to explain when she saw the three people walking in from the entrance of the garden. She immediately stood up. A'Lian also promptly stood up after seeing her standing up. The two of them respectfully stood to the side. "Your Lordship."
Jiang Lan nodded. He glanced at that Ancient Ironwood Tree.
This Ancient Ironwood Tree was the oldest and most precious tree in the entire Divine Realm. At the same time, it was also the sole Ancient Ironwood Tree. Back then, when Jiang Lan reached the Godking level, he just so happened to find a sapling of an Ancient Ironwood Tree. After that, when he established his mansion, he placed this Ancient Ironwood Tree inside his Wood Mansion.
This Ancient Ironwood Tree was indeed as old as the entire Wood Mansion.
"Chu Ji, the two of you can stay down here." Jiang Lan ordered his attendants and then proceeded to walk up the stairs. He directly reached the pavilion and the entrance of the pavilion opened by itself.
Inside the pavilion was Li'er sitting cross-legged on top of a praying mat. On her body was a loose white gown. Her exposed skin was white like cream. Her pair of eyes were lightly closed. Her long beautiful hair reached the ground. She had an extremely serene expression.
The corners of Jiang Lan's mouth was slightly raised. "Li'er."
In an instant, a peculiar change occurred in space where the pavilion was located in. It was as if the space here have been isolated from the outside world. Li'er also naturally woke up.
At the instant she saw Jiang Lan, Li'er immediately blossomed to a smile. At the moment her smile blossomed, it was as if the entire world paled in comparison to her.
"Uncle Lan, you've returned? Did you manage to obtain information regarding big brother Qin Yu?" Li'er stood up hurriedly. Her long hair started to drift all the way down to her buttocks.
Jiang Lan smiled and nodded. "Oh you, you haven't seen your Uncle Lan in so long yet the first thing you do after seeing me isn't asking how your Uncle Lan is, but instead you directly ask about your big brother Qin Yu. This is truly..."
"Uncle Lan!" Li'er's face instantly turned red.
Chapter 42 – Bad Situation
Jiang Lan was beaming with cheerful smiles. He walked to the side and sat on a chair. Li'er also walked over to Jiang Lan and sat on a chair beside him.
Jiang Lan closely looked at Li'er. He nodded satisfiedly and said. "Your cultivation speed's pretty decent. Continue to train hard so that you can reach the High Level Heavenly Deity by the time you see Little Yu again."
"Mn." Li'er face was still slightly red. Soon after, she asked. "Uncle Lan, over a thousand years ago, that information that was spread out from the eastern region of the Divine Realm had provoked that many Heavenly Deities to want to chase and kill big brother Qin Yu. How is the situation now? Is big brother Qin Yu okay?"
Li'er was still worried about Qin Yu.
Jiang Lan chuckled and said. "Rest assured, in these thousand plus years, Little Yu has never shown himself. I have even searched the entire Divine Realm and also did not manage to discover him. I reckon that he must be in my Jiang Lan's Realm."
Even Jiang Lan could not imagine that Qin Yu was actually able to create his own world.
"Jiang Lan's Realm... Uncle Lan, thank you." Said Li'er thankfully. Li'er knew very well that Jiang Lan's Realm was a major contributor to helping her big brother Qin Yu stay alive for so long. Furthermore, she also knew about the importance the Jiang Lan's Realm held to Uncle Lan. How could Li'er possibly not be thankful of Uncle Lan giving his first Acquired Grandmist Spiritual Treasure to Qin Yu?
Jiang Lan shook his head and said. "Well then, let's not talk about this anymore. You ought to know that with my strength... it is very unlikely for me to use Jiang Lan's Realm. Only if a True Great War of the Divine Realm were to occur would I be forced to use the Jiang Lan's Realm!"
"True Great War of the Divine Realm?" Confused, Li'er asked. "There are differences between the wars of the Divine Realm?"
"The Great War of the Divine Realm that occurs once even six billions years is merely the battle that the masses of the Divine Realm know about. However, in actuality, there are a lot of things that ordinary people and even Heavenly Deities do not know about. Well then, when it is time for you to know about these things, I will tell you about them. What you need to do right now is to continue training wholeheartedly." Comforted Jiang Lan.
"Mn." Li'er nodded her head obediently.
Li'er suddenly said. "Uncle Lan, a while back, my Imperial Father came to my place and talked with me."
The smile on Jiang Lan's face have instantly vanished.
"When did this occur?" Jiang Lan asked.
Li'er pondered for a moment and then said. "Roughly three hundred years ago. At that time, Uncle Lan, you just happened to not be in the Floating Snow City. My Imperial Father conducted a heart-to-heart chat with me..." Li'er had an expression of helplessness on her face.
If her Imperial Father were to force her to marry someone, then Li'er would rather die than submit. In that sort of situation, there was nothing that her Imperial Father could do to her.
However, when her Imperial Father conduct a heart-to-heart chat with her, this instead caused her to feel helpless.
"Big brother still hasn't given up?" Two streams of air were shot out from Jiang Lan's nostrils. "Li'er, how about this. From today on, I will leave a clone in the Wood Mansion. I shall see if my big brother would come over again!"
Li'er immediately felt a burst of relaxation.
There were Three Great Godkings in the Utmost Northern Region's Floating Snow City. Among them, the Utmost North Sage Emperor and the Wood Mansion's Godking had reached the Godking level a very very long time ago. The two of them possessed the strongest strength. When compared to the other Godking of the Floating Snow City, the Heaven's Heart Godking, their strength was a lot greater than his.
Li'er knew very well that while her Imperial Father might not give face to the Heaven's Heart Godking, he would not genuinely fight with Uncle Lan.
This was especially true because her Imperial Father still owed her Uncle Lan!
[Robin: As in, Her father still owed Jiang Lan a favor, not as in he still owed her "a Uncle Lan" :P]
"Well then, Li'er, you can ease your mind and continue to stay here. There is no need for you to concern yourself with other matters." Jiang Lan stood up. Li'er also promptly stood up to see Jiang Lan off.
Jiang Lan smiled cheerfully and then walked out from the pavilion. He walked down the staircase and left.
"Your Lordship." Chu Ji and Ji Shao, the two attendants that had followed Jiang Lan for the longest time followed behind Jiang Lan.
Jiang Lan still had the scene of Li'er training quietly in his mind. "Li'er looks exactly like her when she's training!" Upon thinking of this, Jiang Lan felt a burst of heartache.
Even now, Jiang Lan was unable to forget...
The figure that had fallen from the sky, the two most sparking, translucent and dazzling tears that slid down her face and the desolate smile that she still had on her exquisite beautiful face before her death.
That scene was forever carved on Jiang Lan's soul! Forever, he would never forget it!
"A'Mei, you've chosen Li'er and Little Yu. Thus, I will use my life to protect them!" Said Jiang Lan resolutely.
Eastern region of the Divine Realm. Inside Yuchi City.
When the Dark Curtain of Night of the Utmost Northern Region's Floating Snow City covered the Divine Realm, Yuchi City was also covered in a layer of darkness. According to the rules of Yuchi City, in night time, no one was allowed to walk the streets.
In the majority of the locations of Yuchi City, quietness resumed. However, there were privileged existences in any location. Likewise, there were some special places.
The Pity Fragrant Building was an extremely bustling place in the Yuchi City. Especially at night, this place would be brightly lit.
There was no army that would come here to investigate. That was because those who could step into the Pity Fragrant Building possessed either status or wealth. During any given day, there were always people from the upper echelons of Yuchi City gathered here.
The Pity Fragrant Building occupied an extremely huge region. Within it were numerous different areas.
Inside the Guest Welcoming Hall of the Pity Fragment Building.
The Guest Welcoming Hall was the largest hall in the entire Pity Fragment Building. However, there were not many seats in the Guest Welcoming Hall. There were only a total of twenty four seats. One must spend an extremely large number of Divine Spiritual Stones in order to be qualified to sit in one of those seats.
At this moment in the Guest Welcoming Hall, there were eighteen females wearing extremely thin gauze dresses while dancing a special dance. The gauze dresses that these eighteen females were wearing were so thin that one could practically see through to their naked bodies.
However, the dance that these eighteen girls danced gave off a sense of relaxation. It was an exceptionally beautiful sensation that causes one to completely ignore one's carnal desires.
There were twelve seats on either sides of the Guest Welcoming Hall. The seats were arranged in pairs.
At this moment, Qin Yu was sitting in one of the seats.
"Xi Shuang, to be honest, I truly admire that Qin Yu. He is merely a Low Level Heavenly Deity yet he dared to kill all the way to the Black Dragon Pool and even killed a Low Level Heavenly Deity of the Black Dragon Pool while seriously injuring the other two. Even that Lord Black Dragon has hidden himself. Amazing, truly amazing." Said that fatty beside Qin Yu to Qin Yu.
This fatty was called 'Chu Liuqing.' Or, according to the fatty, 'one must always show mercy.'
[TL: This fat dude's name is Chu Liuqing. Liuqing is his name, which also means show mercy or forgiveness. So this fatty's name is basically, Chu SpareMe. Which he thus decided to make a pun out of his name saying 'one must always spare others.']
"Fatty Chu, I've heard that many people want to kill that Qin Yu for the treasures that he possesses." Qin Yu said. Qin Yu had investigated the rumor in Yuchi City for some time now and had discovered that there were actually many different versions of the rumor.
The reason why rumors were called rumors was because even if the rumors were real at the beginning, the more they spread the more excessive they become.
"Heh, treasures?" Fatty Chu's stealthy tiny black eyes glanced at the beautiful women that's dancing before him. He then humped and said. "What sort of treasures does that Qin Yu have? No one knows for certain. There are people saying that Qin Yu possesses two High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifacts, a large number of other treasures, a Seven Colored Magnificent Lotus and a remarkable ability. Fucking hell, who do those people spreading the rumors think that Qin Yu is? He's merely a Low Level Heavenly Deity. Did they think that he was a Godking? That many treasures! I don't believe it one bit."
Fatty Chu pulled Qin Yu's arm and said. "Hey, Xi Shuang, I've heard another version that's even more exaggerated. There's actually people saying that Qin Yu possessed a remarkable ability similar to that of 'teleportation.' Bullfuckingshit. Whoever it was that was spreading this rumor truly wasn't even thinking logically. Truly laughable."
Qin Yu slightly nodded.
However, Qin Yu was thinking in his heart. "Fatty Chu, I actually possess even more treasures than in the rumors that are being spread around. Furthermore, I also know how to teleport. Unfortunately for you, I cannot tell you about this!"
Among all the different versions of the rumors, there was some similarities... 'Qin Yu definitely possessed a High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact, Qin Yu possessed some treasures and Qin Yu was a Low Level Heavenly Deity!'
"Fatty Chu." Said an old man beside him with a smile on his face. "I've heard you talking about that Qin Yu. Let me tell you, you'd best believe me, that Qin Yu definitely possesses a High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact and possesses fire attribute treasures. He is merely a Low Level Heavenly Deity. For him to have that many treasures, there are definitely a lot of people that wanted to take them from him."
Fatty Chu knew that old man. After all, the two of them frequently visit this Pity Fragrant Building.
"He is merely a Low Level Heavenly Deity? You make it sound so easy. If Qin Yu was in front of you, would you dare say the same thing?" Said Fatty Chu with a mocking tone.
Heavenly Deities; the number of Heavenly Deities in the Divine Realm was extremely small.
A Heavenly Deity would only appear among a million Deities. Over half of all the Heavenly Deities that originated from Yuchi City were gathered at Mount Dazzling Gold. The number of Heavenly Deities that ended up staying in Yuchi City was less than a hundred.
And among all those Heavenly Deities, the majority of them were in seclusion training. For the Heavenly Deities that would come to enjoy the pleasures of life in a place like the Pity Fragrant Building, it was extremely rare if a single one of them were to show up.
"That Tan Jiu plotted to try to kill me or perhaps he was trying to force me to not dare show myself. However, it would appear now that the might of the rumors are still within a limit that I can bear."
Qin Yu gulped the wine in the wine cup in his hand.
What Qin Yu feared the most was having his 'teleportation' or the Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus discovered.
However it would appear that the Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus had never appeared in the rumors. There was merely rumors regarding the Seven Colored Magnificent Lotus. Furthermore, among the different rumors, the ones regarding teleportation were the ones that had the least number of people believing it.
"This Tan Jiu, he did not publicize the Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus and only mentioned the Seven Colored Magnificent Lotus, could it be..." Qin Yu had a thought. "Could this Tan Jiu be trying to become the oriole from behind that stalks the mantis as it stalks the cicada? He was afraid if he mentioned the Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus, experts too powerful would come and then he would not be able to obtain the treasures?"
This Nine Petaled Magnificent Lotus was definitely precious enough to attract High Level Heavenly Deities to come. It might even attract a Godking or two.
In the Guest Welcoming Hall, the eighteen practically naked female dancers had withdrawn.
What replaced them was a beautiful young woman who wore a crimson colored qipao looking gown. She looked around at everyone present and then said. "Everyone, please be quiet. Right now, we shall present the 'Qin and Xiao Duet' who have ascended from the Flying Rise Realm. I believe everyone knows about the skill these twin sisters have in the Qin and Xiao. Everyone should be very familiar with the two of them. Thus, I believe there is no need for me to further introduce the two of them. And today, it is the date of the once-a-year performance from the two of them."
[TL: Qin is Guqin. A chinese plucked string instrument. Xiao is a chinese flute instrument.]
"Ha, the reason why I came today was precisely to hear the performance of the Qin and Xiao Dual." Fatty Chu was the first to cry out.
In an instant, the Guest Welcoming Hall had grown bustling with noise and excitement.
As for Qin Yu, he started to drink wine out of his wine cup as he calmly looked to the two beautiful woman performing in the side hall beside the Guest Welcoming Hall. There was only a pearl curtain blocking the Guest Welcoming Hall from the side hall.
The sounds of the Qin and the Xiao resonated through the Guest Welcoming Hall like bird-cries. Everyone in the Guest Welcoming Hall felt as if they have entered into a world of Qin and Xiao. They were completely immersed in the music and have forgotten about their surroundings.
In the entire Guest Welcoming Hall, only Qin Yu remained sober.
While the music of the Qin and Xiao was sounding, Qin Yu suddenly saw two same looking males walking in from the entrance of the Guest Welcoming Hall.
"Two Low Level Heavenly Deities?" Qin Yu was slightly shocked as he looked over. The attendant outside the Guest Welcoming Hall was simply unable to block these two men at all. After the two of them had entered the Guest Welcoming Hall, they proceeded to quietly listen to the sound of the Qin and Xiao.
When the performance was over.
These two cold looking men both started clapping cheerfully. One of them spoke and said. "Never had I expected that the Yuchi City would actually have experts of music that reached such level with the Qin and the Xiao."
The crimson gowned woman who was originally the program hostess promptly walked over. "Lords Heavenly Deities, welcome to our Pity Fragrant Building." This woman's eyesight was extremely pungent. She actually managed to tell that these two were Heavenly Deities.
"There are quite many Heavenly Deities coming to the Pity Fragrant Building recently. Practically all of them came from outside Yuchi City. They all came for that Qin Yu. These two Heavenly Deities ought to be here for Qin Yu too." Said Fatty Chu to Qin Yu in a low voice while smiling.
"Oh?"
Qin Yu's eyebrows were raised.
It would appear that a lot of people thought him to be a Low Level Heavenly Deity that was easy to be bullied.
"I've heard that the Heaven Numbered Pavilion of your Pity Fragrant Building was pretty famous. Prepare two Heaven Numbered Pavilions for us two brothers." Proudly said a Low Level Heavenly Deity among the two.
That crimson gowned sweet and charming woman promptly said. "Lords Heavenly Deities, our Pity Fragrant Building only has a total of three Heaven Numbered Pavilions. As for these three Heaven Numbered Pavilions, they have been rented by three other Heavenly Deities for several hundred years already. Even many of the Earth Numbered Pavilions were rented by Heavenly Deities."
"Go and tell them that we are the Wu Clan Brothers. I believe they would know what to do then." Said one of the men proudly.
That crimson gowned woman lowered her voice and said. "Lords Heavenly Deities, the three Lords Heavenly Deities that have rented the three Heaven Numbered Pavilions, two of them are Mid Level Heavenly Deities. As for the other one... he is the boss of the two Heavenly Deities!"
These two Wu Clan Brothers were instantly startled.
Qin Yu cannot help himself from frowning. "They've all come for me? The two Heavenly Deities that lived in the Heaven Numbered Pavilions, two of them are Mid Level Heavenly Deities... and the other one, could he be a High Level Heavenly Deity?"
If it was a High Level Heavenly Deity, it would also be hard for Qin Yu to handle him.
Chapter 43 – Appearance
Inside the Guest Welcoming Palace of the Pity Fragrant Building.
The Wu Clan Brothers, who were originally extremely haughty and grim, upon hearing that the three Heaven Numbered Pavilions were rented out by Heavenly Deities, with the weakest being a Mid Level Heavenly Deity, immediately no longer dared to act arrogant.
If a Low Level Heavenly Deity wanted to compete with a Mid Level Heavenly Deity, without Heaven-defying weapons like the Grandmist Spiritual Treasures, they'd practically be courting death.
"Lords Heavenly Deities, have the two of you finished deciding where to live?" Said that charming crimson gowned woman with a soft voice. Her pair of bright and intelligent eyes were staring at the two people before her.
And at this moment, the other people in the Guest Welcoming Hall, including the fatty Chu Liuqing and Qin Yu under his alias of Xi Shuang, were all looking at these two Heavenly Deities. The Wu Clan Brothers' expressions grew a bit unsightly after being watched by this group of people. Their faces had even turned a bit pale and purplish.
After all, their attitude earlier was a bit overly arrogant. And now, it had became hard for them to back off.
"Big brother, let's just stay in the Earth Numbered Pavilions." Wu Liu's expression was unsightly. He looked to his older brother and said to him via Divine Awareness Voice Transmission.
Wu Gang nodded. He then looked at the people within the Guest Welcoming Pavilion with a fierce glare. Fatty Chu and them were so scared that they immediately started smiling. Only then did Wu Gan become satisfied. He then looked to the red gowned woman. In a cold voice, he said. "Prepare two Earth Numbered Pavilions for us. Furthermore, those maids that are to serve us, if they cannot please us, do not blame us for ripping them apart."
The red gowned woman immediately displayed a lovable smile and said. "Lord's Heavenly Deities can rest assured. They will definitely please Your Lordships."
"Humph." Wu Gan coldly humped. He then walked out from the Guest Welcoming Hall together with Wu Liu.
After the Wu Clan Brothers left the Guest Welcoming Hall, the Guest Welcoming Hall that was under an oppressive atmosphere instantly became bustling with noise. Everyone in the Guest Welcoming Hall began to chat about the two Heavenly Deities from earlier. Then they also began to chat about the other Heavenly Deities that were staying in the Pity Fragrant Building. This conversation eventually lead to the goal of these Heavenly Deities... Qin Yu.
"That Qin Yu is most definitely afraid of all these Heavenly Deities gathered in the Yuchi City to kill him. That must be the reason why he hasn't shown himself for over a thousand years." The conversation topic of the Guest Welcoming Hall turned to Qin Yu.
Qin Yu himself could only smile helplessly.
"I fear others? During these past thousand and eight hundred years, I had absolutely no idea what was happening outside." Qin Yu sighed in his heart.
"You all should stop chipping and chirping over here. That Qin Yu managed to create such a fame for himself in the Black Dragon Pool and had shown that ordinary Low Level Heavenly Deities are no match for him. If he doesn't have some skills and tricks, how could he dare do such a thing? You all should wait for that Qin Yu to show up for it would definitely be a great show once he does show up." Said Fatty Chu as he shook his head. As he continued to speak, he stood up.
"Well then, everyone, you all can continue to chat here. As for I, I shall be going to my pavilion to rest." Fatty Chu cupped his hand to everyone present.
"Xi Shuang, let's go. We shall go have a rest together." Said Fatty Chu to Qin Yu beside him. He then tried to pulled Qin Yu to leave the Guest Welcoming Hall. Qin Yu moved his hand and dodged the pull.
He stood up and said with a light smile. "Fatty Chu, we can just walk together."
There were not many Earth Numbered Pavilions Buildings. During the moment when Qin Yu and Chu Liuqing checked into the Pity Fragrant Building, it just so happened that there were only two Earth Numbered Pavilions Buildings remaining. This caused Chu Liuqing to be incessantly cheerful.
"The maids of the Man Numbered Pavilions Buildings when compared with those maids of the Earth Numbered Pavilion Buildings are practically of two different worlds. Xi Shuang, this building is mine and that building is yours. We shall see each other again tomorrow."
Said Fatty Chu as he proceeded to walk toward his pavilion.
Vast and various flowers were blossoming. The creek water was babbling. Within the peach garden, there were a couple pavilion buildings. Qin Yu saw Fatty Chu walked toward the entrance of his pavilion building and began to hear the cheerful and noisy sound of women.
"Maids? It seems more like the brothels of the Mortal Realm. Merely, they are of higher quality. Each and every one of those women are gorgeous enough to shame a nation." Qin Yu thought in his heart. He then proceeded to walk towards his own pavilion building.
Having reached the Deity level, one could change one's appearance however one wanted to. Thus, even the maids in the Man Numbered Pavilions possessed appearance that greatly surpassed the so called 'national beauties' of the Mortal Realm. At the same time, these people came from different cosmic spaces, possessed different circumstances, different fates and different temperaments.
Under the Dark Curtains of Light, only the hazy crimson light from the two sides of the entrance of the Pavilion Buildings remained open. Walking on the little pebble walkway, Qin Yu was able to see the reflection of the light from the lantern on the water surface of the brook.
The delicate fragrance of peach flowers. The blurry lights.
In this sort of circumstances, Qin Yu saw two beautiful maids with skin as tender and soft as that of infants. The two maids walked out from the entrance of the pavilion with one on the left and the other on the right. With a soft voice, they greeted Qin Yu. "Your Lordship."
Their voices was like those of kittens. Just hearing their voices brought about a comfortable sensation.
"No wonder Fatty Chu and them frequently visit this place." Qin Yu lightly smiled. He then casually entered into the pavilion. Under the care of the two maids, he cleansed himself.
The light in the room was hazy.
Qin Yu glanced at the two maids before him. He lightly smiled and said. "Well then, the two of you should be tired too. You can withdraw yourselves and go rest. Do not come and disturb me without my permission."
Qin Yu must admit that the Earth Numbered Pavilion's maids were indeed extraordinary beautiful women and no ordinary people could resist their charms.
"Yes, Your Lordship." The two maids said softly with a slight disappointment. Then they glanced at Qin Yu before started to walk away. As for Qin Yu himself, he started to lay down on the bed.
"It's been a long time since I've slept like this." Qin Yu cannot help but admit that after being served by the two maids, he had a sense of lazy coziness all over. Qin Yu lightly closed his eyes.
After the night.
The Dark Curtains of Light have departed. The Light of Daytime have arrived.
"It's been a long time since I last had such a cozy feeling." Qin Yu felt extremely relaxed. Ever since he started training, it had been an extremely long time since he had slept like this.
The door to the room was opened. The two maids were already outside Qin Yu's door. With a soft voice, they greeted him. "Your Lordship, please allow us to ready you."
"There's no need. The two of you can go rest. I still have important matters to take care of." Qin Yu really does have matters that he must attend to. Thus, those two maids could only watch Qin Yu leave the place.
Qin Yu had already decided in his heart: "Since the rumors have already spread through the Divine Realm and have caused that many Heavenly Deities to cause me trouble, I also cannot continue to hide myself. Since they want to create troubles for me, I must take up their challenges."
When Qin Yu walked out of the Pity Fragrant Building, he actually saw Wu Gang and Wu Liu in the road ahead of him. Wu Gang and Wu Liu have only arrived at the Yuchi City yesterday. Thus, the two of them have decided to first go check out the tracks of Qin Yu and continue to slowly wait for Qin Yu if they were unable to find any tracks.
"Big brother, where should we go to find that Qin Yu?" Wu Liu asked.
Wu Gang had already thought about this problem before. He smiled and said. "Second brother, according to my estimation, that Qin Yu is either hiding in the region around Mount Bewitch You, or has already left the range of Yuchi City's territory."
"Oh?" Wu Liu was a bit confused by his older brother's judgement.
Wu Gang displayed a confident expression. "If he dared to take on the killing intents of all these Heavenly Deities, then he would not run away and would naturally remain in the surrounding of his old headquarters. If he was afraid... then, after over a thousand years, he would've already left the territory of Yuchi City."
Wu Liu nodded.
"Second brother, we must definitely be careful when trying to kill Qin Yu. Although the two of us are both peak Low Level Heavenly Deities and have never lost to any Low Level Heavenly Deities when we join hands, this Qin Yu possesses a High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact. We cannot be careless."
"Big brother, you can rest assured. I am well aware of this." Wu Liu's expression turned serious.
Soon after, Wu Liu and Wu Gang proceeded to leave Yuchi City and advanced towards the direction of Mount Bewitch You.
While Wu Liu and Wu Gang were still enroute, Qin Yu had already arrived at a wilderness region beside Mount Bewitch You. Of course, Qin Yu had used his teleportation to arrive there. After a thousand and eight hundred plus years, Mount Bewitch You, that had been burned to a barren mountain, already had new flowers, plants and trees growing.
However, the enormous mountain fire from back then caused a change in the structure of Mount Bewitch You. It had even created an enormous waterfall.
"Back then, Mount Bewitch You was destroyed by fire. Today, I shall once again occupy this Mount Bewitch You and greet the guests that have come from all over the Divine Realm. I reckon that this group of guests will be arriving pretty soon." Qin Yu had a smile on his face.
Standing in the air, Qin Yu directly flew to an alpine lake on top of the Mount Bewitch You. This alpine lake was also formed after the sudden change of the Mount Bewitch You. Qin Yu created a wooden house beside this alpine lake.
"It's not that easy to fight with me. You must first be able to pass through my formation arrays."
Qin Yu stood on top of a large tree beside the alpine lake. He looked to his surroundings. Qin Yu had a slight smile on his face. "It should be enough to use formation arrays to take care of ordinary Low Level Heavenly Deities. Only experts would require me to personally set out to take care of them... I am now already able to set up level four formation arrays. Even if Mid Level Heavenly Deities were to show up, my level four formation arrays should be able to trap them for some time."
Qin Yu immediately started to sit cross-legged on top of the tree. He had started to set up great formation arrays.
Right after Qin Yu set up an enormous level three Trapping Array in the surroundings of Mount Bewitch You, and had begun setting up another great formation array, the Wu Clan Brothers arrived.
"Master, they have come." Said Uncle Fu respectfully.
Uncle Fu's 'One Aura Amplification Array' possessed an ability to detect that was greater than even ordinary Heavenly Deities. This 'One Aura Amplification Array' was a level seven formation array taught to Uncle Fu by the Craftsman God Chehou Yuan. It was created by him and was extremely mystical.
"They've come?" Qin Yu opened his eyes. "Well then, this shall be considered the first battle of me, Qin Yu, against those Heavenly Deities. Although the opponent of the first battle are merely two Low Level Heavenly Deities, I shall also give them some face and personally set off to fight them."
Like the wind, Qin Yu descended to the ground.
The brothers Wu Gang and Wu Liu saw Mount Bewitch You in the distant. They immediately sensed that there was a surging aura at the mountain. That aura instantly caused the two of them to be on guard.
"Could it be that Qin Yu is here?" Wu Liu's face was filled with an unbelieving expression.
No one managed to find Qin Yu in over a thousand years. Wu Liu and Wu Gang originally thought that Qin Yu was hiding on a certain mountain in the surrounding of Mount Bewitch You. However, to their surprise, they discovered that Mount Bewitch You was actually surging with such an energy.
"Second brother, be careful." Wu Gang had a cheerful expression on his face.
Once they thought of the legendary treasures that Qin Yu possessed, the two of them were unable to refrain their hearts from shivering.
As they approached Mount Bewitch You, Wu Gang suddenly discovered that the scene before them had changed. Although it was originally a mountain forest, it had now turned into a desolate desert.
"Big brother!" Wu Liu's voice seemed to be slightly tensed. "We've entered an illusion array. It seems that it is truly Qin Yu."
"An illusion array is nothing serious. Stay still for a moment." Wu Gang started to twist the space surrounding him. He then slowly spread out the distortion. One could easily cause the surroundings to return to normal after controlling the change in space.
The desolate desert that originally surrounded them disappeared. Wu Liu also appeared beside him.
"Second brother, we must stay close to each other. You follow behind me as we continue forward. I originally was not very certain, but after seeing this great formation array, I am certain that Qin Yu is definitely here!" Wu Gang's gloomy eyes burst forth with a radiant light.
Wu Liu also nodded.
"Haha... welcome to Mount Bewitch You. As my first group of visitors, I, Qin Yu, will personally welcome the two of you." A clear and bright voice sounded.
"Mn?" Wu Gang and Wu Liu's expressions changed. Almost instantly, the two of them had their backs against each other. They were extremely alert.
Low Level Heavenly Deities do not possess a very strong control of the space. Thus, the range of their spatial distortion was not great either.
Right when the Wu Clan Brothers were on their guards...
"Bang!" A scarlet sword silhouette suddenly appeared from over ten meters away. The sword silhouette appeared too suddenly and was extremely fast. By the time the two brothers managed to discover it, they were only able to take out their curved blades and proceed to block the incoming swords alongside each other.
After blocking the scarlet sword for a short period of time, the scarlet sword silhouette chopped the two curved blades in half.
Low Quality Heavenly Divine Artifacts were simply unable to defend against a High Quality Divine Artifact with the special characteristic of 'sharpness.'
"Puchi!"
Slashed apart at the waist!
Wu Liu and Wu Gang were instantly chopped in half.
"Ah~~~ show yourself!" Wu Gang shouted. Wu Liu was also filled with fury. At the same time, they started to agitate their Jade Blood Golden Pellet to reform their bodies.
The brilliant scarlet sword silhouettes once again filled the entire view of the two people.
Wu Gang and Wu Liu did not have any power to resist at all. Merely, all of these sword silhouettes were horizontal. They continued to beat the two's body for several hundreds of times and caused the two of them to vomit blood unceasingly. Even their Nascent Souls were trembling.
At the same time, a black clothed youth appeared.
Qin Yu had finally shown himself. Merely, at this moment, neither Wu Liu nor Wu Gang had the slightest power to resist. Qin Yu raised his left hand. A stone pagoda appeared in his palm.
The stone pagoda was shot out. It flew following the wind and then started growing. In an instant, it had become enormous. Wu Liu and Wu Gang, who were originally heavily injured, began to feel drowsy after being attacked by the soul attack of the God Sealing Pagoda.
Qin Yu appeared behind them. He said a word to the two brothers... "Absorb!"
Chapter 44 – Huge Ruckus
Wu Gang and Wu Liu, who were originally heavily injured, were knocked into a muddle headed state after taking on the soul attack from the Grandmist Spiritual Treasure God Sealing Pagoda. Thus, the two of them did not have the slightest amount of power to resist the absorbing energy of the God Sealing Pagoda.
Just like that, the two of them were absorbed into the God Sealing Pagoda.
Right after being absorbed into the God Sealing Pagoda, Wu Gang and Wu Liu were completely woken up right away. At the same time, the two of them also sensed the binding placed onto their souls by the God Sealing Pagoda.
They knew that they had already become Qin Yu's servants!
"Big brother..." Wu Liu looked to his older brother. Usually, if something major were to happen, it would always be Wu Gang who makes the decisions. However, at their current situation, Wu Gang could only smile bitterly.
Wu Gang sighed and said. "We had originally planned to follow behind other Heavenly Deities so that we could get hold of a chance to obtain a treasure or two. We can only blame ourselves for discovering Qin Yu... discovering that master was here and becoming greedy for the treasures that master possesses. We only ended up in this sort of situation because of our wishful thinking."
The binding of the soul was an extremely serious matter. Even Godking level experts are unable to undo the binding. Only the legendary Exalted Celestials are able to undo the bindings.
The two brothers could only smile bitterly and agitate their Jade Blood Golden Pellets to recover their bodies of injuries.
After some time, Wu Gang and Wu Liu felt that they suddenly lost their ability to move freely. The two of them were sent out from the God Sealing Pagoda and appeared beside the alpine lake on top of the Mount Bewitch You.
Seeing the black gowned youth before them, Wu Gan and Wu Liu were able to clearly sense the connection between their souls. Immediately, Wu Gan and Wu Liu said. "Master."
Qin Yu looked at the two Low Level Heavenly Deities before him.
"Uncle Fu, say, with this many Heavenly Deities being greedy for my treasures this time around, with this many Heavenly Deities that want to kill me to steal my treasures, shouldn't I try to seize this opportunity to capture some servants?" A trace of smile appeared in Qin Yu's eyes.
Qin Yu felt that he had too few subordinates. Seeing as he cannot always personally appear to do things, he felt that capturing some Heavenly Deities as subordinates was a pretty good thing to do.
"Back then, my old master wholeheartedly sought after the path of artifact craftsmanship. That's the reason why he did not capture any servants. The reason why my old master left the God Sealing Pagoda for master, this old servant thinks that it was precisely so that master could use it to capture some servants." Said Uncle Fu respectfully.
Qin Yu slightly nodded.
He turned around and looked to Wu Gang and Wu Liu who were extremely respectful toward him.
"Wu Gang, Wu Liu, from today on, the two of you are my, Qin Yu's, servants. In normal circumstances, I will not make the two of you do anything. The two of you can just set your mind at rest and train. If you need Divine Spiritual Stones, you merely need to ask Uncle Fu for it. Remember, you must treat Uncle Fu as if he were me." Contained within Qin Yu's voice was a trace of imposingness.
Wu Gang and Wu Liu immediately bowed. "Yes, master!"
"Uncle Fu!" Wu Gang and Wu Liu respectfully bowed to Uncle Fu.
Uncle Fu nodded his head while smiling. Having two Low Level Heavenly Deities be respectful toward him was nothing extraordinary. Back during the time when he was beside Chehou Yuan, even High Level Heavenly Deities would have to treat him courteously. Otherwise, those High Level Heavenly Deities could not even enter through the gates of the Bewitching God Temple.
"Wu Gang, Wu Liu, right now I will be sending the two of you into the Jiang Lan's Realm. Remember to behave yourselves in the Jiang Lan's Realm!" Said Qin Yu coldly. He then waved his sleeve and Wu Gang and Wu Liu disappeared while in a state of shock.
Inside the second layer space of the Jiang Lan's Realm.
"Jiang Lan's Realm?"
Wu Gang and Wu Liu glanced at each other. They then looked at the vast and boundless mountains surrounding them and then sensed the weak restrictions that the Jiang Lan's Realm had toward them.
"It's a Spatial Divine Artifact. One actually cannot see the limit of this space. Furthermore, the binding this place have on us is extremely low. Our Divine Awareness is able to cover a distance of hundreds of millions of miles. Yet, we are still unable to detect the limit. This Spatial Divine Artifact is no ordinary Spatial Divine Artifact!" Wu Gang displayed a shocked expression.
Spatial Divine Artifacts were extremely rare in the Divine Realm.
Just by knowing the fact that even the Craftsman God Chehou Yuan did not like crafting Spatial Divine Artifacts, one would be able to guess that it would usually be Godkings that craft Spatial Divine Artifacts.
As for Godkings, there were only that many of them. And among them, those that are willing to craft artifacts were even fewer. Thus, one could determine how few Spatial Divine Artifacts there were.
"Big brother, this master of ours is even more amazing than what we have anticipated. With this Spatial Divine Artifact, master can just hide himself directly into this Spatial Divine Artifact should he encounter any danger. Who would be able to capture him? I reckon it'll be very hard to break through the Spatial Divine Artifact even if the person doing it were a High Level Heavenly Deity." Gasped Wu Liu in admiration.
Wu Gang shook his head. He frowned and said. "No, High Level Heavenly Deities are capable of destroying a portion of the space. Once master hides himself in the Spatial Divine Artifact, the true form of the Spatial Divine Artifact is still located outside. Even if the High Level Heavenly Deity cannot break through the Spatial Divine Artifact, he would be able to create a spatial crack and throw the Spatial Divine Artifact into the spatial crack. There is still a possibility for that to happen."
Upon thinking of this, Wu Liu was also startled.
"I hope that master does not encounter a High Level Heavenly Deity. Otherwise, we too would perish with him." Said Wu Gang helplessly.
However, Wu Liu and Wu Gang's knowledge and experience was actually lacking. Although ordinary Spatial Divine Artifacts might be thrown into the spatial cracks, the Jiang Lan's Realm was different.
As a Grandmist Spiritual Treasure, regardless of how great the absorbing energy of the Divine Realm's spatial cracks was, they would still be unable to move it in the slightest.
Furthermore...
The Jiang Lan's Realm was located in the Universal World. Other than Qin Yu, there was no one else that are capable of discovering Jiang Lan's Realm.
On Mount Bewitch You. Qin Yu was sitting cross-legged on top of a large tree beside the alpine lake. His hands were forming numerous hand seals. He was setting up various formation arrays that he had managed to deduce.
Qin Yu had sat like this for half a year already.
In the half year's time, Qin Yu had already set up several hundred formation arrays. These several hundred formation arrays were concentrated in the surroundings, the waist and various other locations of Mount Bewitch You.
Regardless of who it was, regardless of what direction they attack from, they would still be attacked by the formation arrays.
And at this moment, Qin Yu was wholeheartedly setting up a level four formation array!
All the various hundreds of formation arrays that he had set up before were level three formation arrays. To the current Qin Yu, setting up several hundred level three formation arrays was not a difficult task. As for level four formation arrays... it was instead extremely hard.
"Ah, fuck, let me out!" A short robust man was angrily yelling in a certain illusion array in the surrounding of Mount Bewitch You. This man was a small fry of the Black Dragon Pool. He was out to handle matters as per his orders, and fell into the illusion array after passing by Mount Bewitch You.
"Boom!"
In a level three Killing Array. Occasionally, White Pure Flames would fire out. Several people had already lost their lives to the disastrous White Pure Flames in this location. That short and robust man that was trapped in an illusion array was actually in a much more fortunate situation compared to the people that have been trapped in this Killing Array.
"Big sis, be careful."
In the Trapping Array, two women were walking while holding hands. The two of them were low level personnel of the Black Dragon Pool. The two sisters were lucky as they had stepped into a Trapping Array that does not possess any killing power.
In the half year's time, the two Heavenly Deities of the Black Dragon Pool, Daoist Liu Xu and Mei Ji, already took note of Mount Bewitch You. From the various formation arrays that had appeared on Mount Bewitch You, Daoist Liu Xu and Mei Ji both had a premonition... that Qin Yu had returned.
Having fought Qin Yu before and especially after knowing that even their boss, the Nine-headed Black Dragon Tan Jiu was also defeated by Qin Yu, how would the two of them dare to go and bother Qin Yu? The two of them merely relayed this information to Tan Jiu.
Yuchi City. Inside an Earth Numbered Pavilion of the Pity Fragrant Building.
A woman and three men were gathered together. These four Heavenly Deities had come from one of the sixty four cities of the Divine Realm's eastern region, the Ouye City's number one bandit power.
This woman's name was 'Chi Hongfeng.' She was the boss among the four. Her power had reached that of a Mid Level Heavenly Deity. The three male subordinates underneath her were all Low Level Heavenly Deities.
"Big sis, we have obtained news earlier that Qin Yu has shown himself. It was precisely at Mount Bewitch You!" Said a male among the group with excitement.
Chi Hongfeng was extremely beautiful. Her elegant almond shaped eyes swept past. She frowned and said. "You said that Qin Yu has appeared at Mount Bewitch You? Is he not afraid of death? Are you certain about this information?"
"Absolutely certain. This information is something I obtained from a person from the Black Dragon Pool. Many people from the Black Dragon Pool have been trapped in the great formation arrays at Mount Bewitch You. There were very few experts of formation arrays in the Divine Realm to begin with. I reckon that there would not be anyone bored enough to pretend to be Qin Yu here and run especially to Mount Bewitch You to set up formation arrays." That man promptly said.
Among the three males, the youth with the shortest and smallest size said. "Big sis, I think what third brother said was very probable. If that Qin Yu didn't run away from Yuchi City and actually dared to stay here, then it would be very probable for him to appear at Mount Bewitch You."
Chi Hongfeng pondered for a moment. She then stood up and said. "Good, we shall immediately set off!"
"Yes, big sis." The three males all stood up. They were all displaying excited expressions.
Not only them, this information was spread through the entire Yuchi City... The 'delicious cake' known as Qin Yu had returned! All the Heavenly Deities that obtained this news had started to move.
The Heavenly Deities obtained the news at different times. However, the gap between the time they obtained the news was at most several days.
The number of greedy Heavenly Deities in the Divine Realm was truly astounding. With merely those from the eastern region of the Divine Realm, close to a hundred Heavenly Deities had gathered in Yuchi City. There were also those from the other regions of the Divine Realm. When added together, they numbered close to two hundred.
The first group of Heavenly Deities that obtained this information had already set off towards Mount Bewitch You!
Inside an ordinary building in Yuchi City, a person was currently sitting cross-legged.
This person possessed a head full of short red hair that was spiking like steel needles. With a lean and dark skinned body, this person was precisely the Nine-headed Black Dragon Tan Jiu. From the battle against Qin Yu in the Black Dragon Pool, Tan Jiu had grown to fear Qin Yu.
"Spear, what sort of spear is that?" Tan Jiu was forever unable to forget about that black, with some dark yellow dots, spear.
When faced against that spear, adding on Qin Yu's teleportation ability, Tan Jiu simply had no way to defend himself against Qin Yu.
"Qin Yu, I thought that you had run back to your master. Humph, I truly never would've expected that you would have the balls to stay." A fierce light shines through Tan Jiu's eyes. "With this many Heavenly Deities gathered here, I refuse to believe that you can kill them all."
Upon thinking about those Heavenly Deities that have gone to kill Qin Yu, Tan Jiu displayed a grim smile on his face.
"Go there, go there... Qin Yu doesn't merely possess a High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact. By the time you all discover that spear of his, it would be too late for you all to run."
Tan Jiu was able to foresee, that among all those Heavenly Deities, many of them would definitely perish in Qin Yu's hands. However, Tan Jiu also believed that Qin Yu would ultimately be no match against all those Heavenly Deities.
"I shall be the final oriole." Tan Jiu stood up.
Back then, he had lost eight of his clones. The loss was extremely great. However, after over a thousand and eight hundred years of recovery, he had already recovered ninety percent of his strength.
This was because he was a Nine-headed Black Dragon. As long as one of his soul remained living, the other souls could be recovered.
The news regarding Qin Yu's appearance reached the Governor of Yuchi City, Yuchi Gonglan, in a very short period of time. At the same time, it had also reached the Utmost Eastern Region's Mount Dazzling Gold's Huang Jing. The Utmost Northern Region's Wood Mansion's Jiang Lan and Li'er had also obtained this information.
A lot of the people of the Divine Realm had their eyes directed at this location.
There were those who were interested in watching the play and there were those who were paying extremely close attention to the situation. After all... it was extremely rare for over a hundred Heavenly Deities to battle in times of peace.
In the surroundings of Mount Bewitch You. Eight Heavenly Deities were standing in the air. And at this moment, twelve more Heavenly Deities flew over from behind. Among these twenty Heavenly Deities, eighteen of them were Low Level Heavenly Deities and two of them were Mid Level Heavenly Deities.
This group of people was the first to obtain the information and the first to rush over.
"Friends, please do not be anxious. At this moment, the entire Mount Bewitch You is covered with various different kinds of formation arrays. If we are to enter rashly, then at the very least the Low Level Heavenly Deities would definitely die." A clear and sonorous voice sounded.
The person who spoke was a middle aged man with a goatee. He was also one of the two Mid Level Heavenly Deities among the twenty Heavenly Deities.
"So it's actually old brother Xianyu." Chi Hongfeng flew forward. Her tight fitting red colored battle armor was stuck to her skin completely, outlining her devil like body figure.
"Seeing old brother Xianyu here, this matter will be easy to take care of now. I am quite familiar with old brother Xianyu's accomplishments in formation arrays." Said Chi Hongfeng with a smile on her face.
However, the Heavenly Deities gathered here are from all over the place. Not all of them were convinced about that Xianyu Yang.
Xianyu Yang coldly smiled. "You all wait here and see!" Several hundred Divine Spiritual Stones started to float above Xianyu Yang's palm. Various seals, marks and symbols were floating above the several hundred Divine Spiritual Stones.
Soon after, like sharp arrows, the several hundred Divine Spiritual Stones started to fly toward the various locations of Mount Bewitch You.
The moment when these several hundred Divine Spiritual Stones entered the great formation arrays.
What occurred was...
"Chi Chi!" Lightning started flickering at a certain corner of the Mount Bewitch You. Countless electric snakes were roaming through that formation array.
"Boom!" A large number of White Pure Flames suddenly covered a large formation array in the surroundings of Mount Bewitch You. This caused all the Low Level Heavenly Deities present to have a great change in their expression. Low Level Heavenly Deities were practically unable to block White Pure Flames.
Flames, Lightning, all sorts of different attribute energy attacks...
The entire Mount Bewitch You was like hell. Traps had covered the entire place. There were some places that did not give off any reaction at all. However, those places instead caused one's heart to palpitate even more. The unknown was even more scary.
The facial expressions of all twenty of these Heavenly Deities had instantly turned extremely ugly.
Chapter 45 – Advance Dauntlessly in Wave Upon Wave
Qin Yu was sitting cross-legged on top of the stone with his eyes closed.
"Finally finished." Qin Yu opened his eyes. He face naturally displayed a smile. His body then moved and arrived beside the alpine lake.
Uncle Fu was currently beside the alpine lake. He immediately bowed and said. "Master, at this moment, twenty Heavenly Deities have already gathered below Mount Bewitch You. They seemed to be chatting right now. I suspect they are discussing how to break the formation arrays and come inside."
Qin Yu slightly nodded.
"It would be a bit troublesome for me to take care of them if they were to unite. Mn, I must use some tricks now!" Qin Yu suddenly started flying. He flew to the sky above Mount Bewitch You. The twenty Heavenly Deities at the foot of Mount Bewitch You, all managed to clearly see Qin Yu.
"Is that black clothed youth, Qin Yu?" Asked a female Low Level Heavenly Deity.
The twenty Heavenly Deities, including Xianyu Yang and Chi Hongfeng, all stopped their discussion and looked to the far away Qin Yu.
Chi Hongfeng flew upward and toward Qin Yu She then loudly shouted. "I am Mid Level Heavenly Deity Chi Hongfeng. Qin Yu, you, as a mere Low Level Heavenly Deity, ought to know about the gap between us. Even if you managed to hide yourself for a short while by relying on your great formation arrays, you would still end up dying by our hands in the end. As long as you hand over your treasures obediently, then I, Chi Hongfeng, shall swear upon the Heavens that I would definitely not kill you."
"Hand over my treasures obediently?"
Qin Yu's voice was ice-cold. "Has there ever been such a charity like that? Although I, Qin Yu, might be a mere Low Level Heavenly Deity, do you all actually possess the ability to kill me?"
At this moment, the twenty Heavenly Deities started discussing with each other through Divine Awareness Voice Transmission.
"Big brother, this Qin Yu is currently in the sky and not in mountain. There are no formation arrays in the sky. As long as our speed is fast enough... we might be able to kill Qin Yu by seizing this opportunity."
"That Xuanyu Yang and Chi Hongfeng are both Mid Level Heavenly Deities. If we were to follow behind them, we would definitely not be able to get any treasures in the end. Let's go and capture Qin Yu with our fastest speed!"
At this moment, many Heavenly Deities had been aroused by Qin Yu's appearance.
After all, once Qin Yu hid himself inside the great formation arrays, they would be unable to find out where he would be at all. If they wanted to kill Qin Yu then, they would have to break through the formation arrays one by one. However, since Qin Yu was in the air, it meant that they had an opportunity to kill him!
"Everyone, you must definitely not alert Qin Yu." Said Xianyu Yang via his Divine Awareness Voice Transmission.
Xianyu Yang was naturally able to guess what everyone was thinking. However... would these Low Level Heavenly Deities listen to Xianyu Yang's commands? Right when Xianyu Yang turned his head back to look at Qin Yu, six Low Level Heavenly Deities instantly entered into the ground.
The ground was filled with soil.
With the strength of Low Level Heavenly Deities, moving through the ground was not a difficult task. All six of them were proceeding toward the other side of Mount Bewitch You through the ground. All of them were thinking of rushing toward Qin Yu from a location that he cannot see and then killing him with a single move!
"A group of disgraces!" Xianyu Yang instantly discovered that six Low Level Heavenly Deities have disappeared and started to display an enraged expression. "These dumbasses truly do not know how the word 'death' is written."
As for Chi Hongfeng, she remained silent. She merely smiled as she looked at Xianyu Yang.
In order to capture Qin Yu, she must rely on this formation array expert Xianyu Yang. Although he was considered a formation array expert, he was merely able to be considered as one amongst the group of bandits.
After all, ordinarily, one must learn through the scrolls of formation arrays in order to become an expert of formation arrays. Unless one possessed a significant background, it was simply impossible for one to learn those formation arrays of the Divine Realm. For true masters of formation arrays, they are either super experts themselves, possess a very powerful sect or were born into powerful clans.
However, what about bandits?
It was truly hard to find a master of formation arrays among those bandits that could match up against Qin Yu.
"Old brother Xianyu, how much certainty do you have in breaking the formation arrays?" Asked Chi Hongfeng as she smiled.
Xianyu Yang already had an idea about it when he tested the might of the formation arrays earlier. He immediately smiled and said. "As long as everyone listen to me, I have absolute certainty in breaking the formation arrays. Merely... it might take some time to break through them!"
Although Xianyu Yang did not have the guidance of formation array experts, he had researched the scrolls of formation arrays that he managed to obtain for over billions of years. Thus, he managed to, with great difficulty, reach the peak level of level three formation arrays. Xianyu Yang's talent in the formation arrays was not high nor does he have the guidance of experts. He merely managed to reach his level of accomplishment through researching formation arrays for a long time.
However, the overwhelming majority of the formation arrays that Qin Yu had set up were level three formation arrays. Only the three formation arrays located in the most center region of Mount Bewitch You were level four formation arrays. For level three formation arrays, Xianyu Yang possessed enough strength to break them.
"Good. In that case we shall follow behind you, old brother Xianyu..." Chi Hongfeng only managed to speak half of what she wanted to say when she suddenly stopped. She looked to Qin Yu who was in the sky. That was because she saw two figures rapidly charging toward Qin Yu from behind him.
Qin Yu seemed to not have realized.
"If you all have the ability, then come and catch me." Qin Yu said to the direction of Chi Hongfeng and Xianyu Yang. He then started falling downward.
The two people that were charging at him from behind were startled.
"Wretched. This Qin Yu got lucky. Humph. He's inside that great formation array, after him!" Said the leader among the two people via Divine Awareness Voice Transmission.
Even now the two of them still thought that Qin Yu had yet to discover them and had merely been lucky.
And at this moment, from a different direction to the side and back of Qin Yu came four more people rapidly rushing toward him. They also proceeded to chase Qin Yu. A total of six people were chasing after Qin Yu.
At the moment when Qin Yu descended to the surface below him, his figure suddenly stopped. He raised his head and looked to the sky. Upon seeing the six people that were flying toward him rapidly, Qin Yu displayed a brilliant smile.
The six people immediately stopped their movements. This Qin Yu had set up great formation arrays. The six of them didn't dare to casually charge into those formation arrays.
"Everyone, what should we do now?" Asked one of the Low Level Heavenly Deity among the six.
The other five Low Level Heavenly Deities were also uncertain about what to do at the very instant. After a short moment, a golden clothed man among them said. "Won't we still be required to charge into the formation arrays if we follow that Xianyu Yang? Let's go and charge into that formation array. It's nothing more than a mere formation array. The chances of it killing the six of us is extremely low. The six of us shall join hands and kill Qin Yu first."
"That won't do. What if it was the sort of formation array that used White Pure Flames to attack? What do we do then?" Said a white clothed woman as she frowned.
And at this moment, Qin Yu who stood before the surface of the formation array naturally knew what these six people were thinking.
"This is merely an illusion array. I'm giving you all the chance to catch me." Said Qin Yu with a light smile on his face. He then entered into the illusion array.
Upon hearing that it was an illusion array, the six Low Level Heavenly Deities glanced at each other. They then rushed to the surface of the great formation array. After that, one of them attempted to enter into the formation array while distorting the surrounding space.
"It's an illusion array!" Said that person to the other five people with a clear voice.
The five people immediately burst into happiness and rushed into the formation array.
Qin Yu did not deceive them. This was indeed an illusion array. Upon entering the illusion array, the six people immediately started to control the Divine Realm's Spatial Energy to distort the space surrounding them and dissipate the illusions.
The six of them stood very close to one another. Their combined range of spatial distortion was truly pretty huge.
"Where is that Qin Yu?"
"I can't see him at all!"
These six people grew a bit anxious. Suddenly...
"He's over there!" The white clothed woman was the first to charge toward the front. The other five people immediately followed behind her. However, by the time these six people rushed over, they entered into a great formation array beside the illusion array... they have entered into a Trapping Array!
While illusion arrays are easy to break through, Trapping Arrays are instead very hard to break through.
"Oh no!" The six of them all felt that the situation had turned bad.
Back when Qin Yu fought against Xiong Hei, he had a couple of his formation arrays smashed apart by Xiong Hei using brute force. From that, Qin Yu came to understand the importance of setting up a small scale defensive barrier in the foundations of the formation array. Regardless of how frantically these six people attacked the Trapping Array, they wereunable to take a step out of the Trapping Array.
The Trapping Array contained illusions within it. It also contained actual matters, attacks and various other things. These six people have already lost one another and scattered about after entering into the Trapping Array for a short period of time.
A Low Level Heavenly Deity was walking extremely cautiously. Cold sweat was dripping from his forehead.
"Pff!" A scarlet sword silhouette suddenly appeared out from the wall beside him. It instantly pierced through a Low Level Heavenly Deity's throat. At the same time, a strand of aura was shot toward the Jade Blood Golden Pellet.
The Jade Blood Golden Pellet was jolted. Fortunately Qin Yu was lenient or else this Low Level Heavenly Deity's Jade Blood Golden Pellet would've shattered.
Qin Yu suddenly appeared beside him. He held the God Sealing Pagoda in his hand. The God Sealing Pagoda emitted a soul attack. Actually, the God Sealing Pagoda only had one kind of attack, the soul attack. As for absorbing... it cannot be considered as an attack.
The heavily injured Low Level Heavenly Deity was easily absorbed into the God Sealing Pagoda.
"That's one!" Qin Yu lightly smiled. With a movement of his body, Qin Yu disappeared. This great formation array was set up by him. Thus, it was extremely easy for him to come and go through the formation array. Furthermore, Qin Yu knew teleportation. Thus, he was moving about the formation array like a fish in water.
In merely a short moment, all six Low Level Heavenly Deities were absorbed into the God Sealing Pagoda by Qin Yu.
Soon after, Qin Yu flew into the sky again. He looked to Xianyu Yang and them with a smile on his face like last time. With a clear voice, he said. "I'm giving you all an opportunity to catch me. The next time around, I will be hiding myself within the formation arrays."
None of the fourteen Heavenly Deities dared to move. Although none of them saw the endings of the previous six Heavenly Deities, they were all able to anticipate what had happened.
"Everyone, follow behind me and watch me break through all of his formation arrays." Said Xianyu Yang with a clear voice. With the support of Chi Hongfeng, the two Mid Level Heavenly Deities and twelve Low Level Heavenly Deities started to move together.
The fourteen Heavenly Deities were flying in the sky. Xianyu Yang smiled coldly as he looked at Qin Yu. "Qin Yu, if you have the skills then continue to stay within a formation array so that we can compete our formation array's stage. Do you dare?"
"Compete our formation array's stage?" Qin Yu who was standing in the sky was startled.
The level of formation array does not represent one's strength. Especially the first stage of the formation array, it was different for everyone.
With a smile on his face, Qin Yu said. "What stage formation array are you?"
"I ought to have comprehended the first stage of the formation array. Although my stage cannot be considered as being high in the Divine Realm, but I am more than capable of breaking your formation arrays. What about you? What stage of formation arrays have you reached?" Xianyu Yang shouted.
"I have yet to even reach the first stage." Replied Qin Yu honestly.
Xianyu Yang was startled.
Xianyu Yang did not believe that Qin Yu had yet to even reach the first stage in formation arrays. After all, when he first comprehended the first stage of formation arrays, it was absolutely impossible for him to set up formation arrays like the ones before him. And now, he had already walked the path of the first stage of formation arrays for a very long time now and his strength already increased by a lot.
"However, are you able to break my formation arrays?" Qin Yu lightly laughed. Then, like a falling meteor, Qin Yu descended into a formation array.
Xianyu Yang's gaze swept through the formation array. He then said to the people behind him. "Everyone, listen carefully. Regardless of when, all of you must stay within my and Miss Chi's Spatial Domains. Only through this would I be able to guarantee your lives!"
Spatial Domain. The Spatial Domains of Mid Level Heavenly Deities.
If one were to step into a Spatial Domain, wouldn't that mean that the person who possessed the Spatial Domain could kill them if they wished to?
Chi Hongfeng has four people in her camp. Xianyu Yang has five in his camp. The other five Heavenly Deities were from all over the place. These five Heavenly Deities glanced at one another. Ultimately, they could only endure it.
All fourteen Heavenly Deities were in Chi Hongfeng and Xianyu Yang's Spatial Domains. The Spatial Domains were only able to guarantee their safety within the range of the Spatial Domains.
"Spatial Domain?" Qin Yu laughed coldly. In a clear voice, he said. "You all, listen carefully. It is indeed very easy for you to break those formation arrays with Spatial Domains. Good. In that case, I shall stay within this great formation array. As long as you all managed to break through this great formation array, I would stop fleeing!"
At this moment, Qin Yu arrived in the sole Trapping Array among the three level four formation arrays. Qin Yu did not want to lure them into his level four Killing Array because he wanted to capture these people.
Xianyu Yang saw the great formation array that Qin Yu was in. He was unable to refrain his heart from tightening. "This great formation is very complicated?" However, upon thinking that he had already reached the first stage of the formation arrays while Qin Yu have yet to even comprehend the first stage.
"I refuse to believe that I cannot break through it!"
With Xianyu Yang as the leader, a total of fourteen Heavenly Deities flew into that level four Trapping Array. Upon entering this level four Trapping Array, Xianyu Yang felt a burst of a headache.
"Old brother Xianyu, how long would it take to break this formation array?" Chi Hongfeng asked impatiently.
She felt that the situation was far from good the moment she entered the great formation array. This Trapping Array contained various kinds of attacks. It even possessed matters and objects. Its defense was also extremely astonishing. If she were to maintain her Spatial Domain for a long period of time, it would also consume a lot of her energy.
"Don't worry, it'll take some time, it'll take some time." Xianyu Yang was inspecting the formation array unceasingly. He was testing the response of the formation array unceasingly. Cold sweat started to seep out from his forehead. He had started to panic.
Just by looking at what Xianyu Yang did in this short period of time, Qin Yu had determined that Xianyu Yang most certainly does not possess the strength of level four formation array.
"An overly confident guy who thought himself to be infallible." At this moment, Qin Yu had flew to the sky. "If he had the strength of level five formation arrays, then I reckon he wouldn't even need to break the formation array and could already travel unobstructed within the formation array. Even if he possessed the level four formation array level, it would still not be that simple for him to break this Trapping Array of mine."
Qin Yu didn't care about Xianyu Yang and the others. Qin Yu was prepared to wait a while later when after this group of people was tormented by his level four Trapping Array to a certain extent and then go in and capture them one by one.
Qin Yu suddenly saw that, in the skies far away, there were numerous other Heavenly Deities flying toward Mount Bewitch You.
"Oh? There's more Heavenly Deities coming? Exactly how many Heavenly Deities are there? Well, forget about it. My God Sealing Pagoda shall absorb as many as arrive." Qin Yu lightly smiled. Just like that, he stood on the airspace above Mount Bewitch You.
Chapter 46 – Crazily Capturing Servants
Qin Yu stood in the air. With a glance, he managed to determine the amount of incoming Heavenly Deities. The amount of Heavenly Deities were not great, there was merely nine of them. They were led by a man with long hair and beard and with the appearance of a lion. However, the hair was fiery red. Even his eye were fiery red. He was emitting a very imposing and overbearing aura.
This man was Lanshan Huo. He was the bandit boss of the largest bandit group of Yuanling City, one of the sixty four cities of the eastern region of the Divine Realm.
"Lord Lanshan, ahead is the Mount Bewitch You." Said a Low Level Heavenly Deity respectfully.
Lanshan Huo's fierce and fiery gaze swept through the entire Mount Bewitch You. His gaze was then fixed upon Qin Yu who was standing in the middle of the air. He immediately shouted. "Are you Qin Yu?"
Qin Yu smiled. This overbearing man before him was truly straightforward.
"Precisely! Which Heavenly Deity are you? Speak your name." Said Qin Yu with a clear voice.
Lanshan Huo took a deep breath. His chest bulged outward. He then said proudly without a sense of fear. "I am the 'Fire Lion' of Yuanling City, Lanshan Huo. I reckon that you also knew about my prowess. There is a great gap between the two of us. It's best for you to obediently hand over your treasures. If you don't..."
[TL: Lanshan Huo's name literally names Bluemountain Fire]
Lanshan Huo suddenly stopped in mid speech. That was because a Heavenly Deity subordinate of his have sent a Divine Awareness Voice Transmission to him. "Lord Lanshan, according to the information we've obtained, that bitch Chi Hongfeng already arrived before us. However, she is not here right now. I suspect she has fallen in the hands of this Qin Yu. Lord Lanshan, you must be careful."
Because of the fact that the majority of the people who had rushed over to the Yuchi City to kill Qin Yu have stayed in the Yuchi City for a period of time, they have all grew relatively familiar with each other. Thus, Lanshan Huo knew that Chi Hongfeng rushed over before them.
Lanshan Huo suddenly narrowed his scarlet eyes. Only a thin line remained from what was previously his eyes. A ruby like shine leaked out from his eyes.
"Even that bitch Chi Hongfeng died?" Lanshan Hou immediately raised the status of Qin Yu in his heart by a lot. "That bitch Chi Hongfeng fought against me before. Even I am unable to do anything to that bitch Chi Hongfeng. Yet this Qin Yu..."
Lanshan Huo had grown hesitant.
"Lanshan Huo, why did you only speak half of your sentence? Come, tell me, what would you do to me if I do not obediently hand over my treasures?" Qin Yu was still smiling as he stood in the air with his gown fluttering in the wind.
Lanshan Huo took a glance at those formation arrays. He coldly humped. He was thinking in his heart. "Merely a Low Level Heavenly Deity. Wasn't it only his formation arrays that are a bit strong? We aren't even certain that bitch Chi Hongfeng arrived here before us. Maybe she changed her route in the middle of the journey. Even if that bitch Chi Hongfeng was trapped in the formation arrays, but with her Spatial Domain, it would also not be that easy for her to die!"
Right when Lanshan Huo was pondering...
"Boom!" A violent explosion was heard from one of the great formation arrays within the Mount Bewitch You. That great formation array was precisely the sole Trapping Array within Qin Yu's three level four formation arrays.
"Qin Yu, all you could do is trap your granddaddy's in here. If you have the skill, then come and fight us head on!" An angry roar sounded from within the great formation array.
"Shut your mouth. Quiet down." A rebuke was heard.
Lanshan Hou's eyes shined. He was able to instantly recognize that familiar voice. "It's that bitch Chi Hongfeng. She was indeed trapped in that formation array. Merely, even that great formation array cannot do anything to a Mid Level Heavenly Deity!"
Lanshan Hou instantly had an idea in his mind.
He then turned around to the Heavenly Deities behind him and shouted. "Everyone, Miss Chi is currently within that great formation array and is attacking that formation array unceasingly. Everyone, follow me to kill that Qin Yu. Even if we are to enter into that great formation array, we shall also attack it together. I do not believe that Qin Yu's formation array would be able to handle it if there are too many people within the formation array."
"Yes Your Lordship!" Immediately there were people who loudly voiced their acceptance of the order.
Among these eight Low Level Heavenly Deities, three of them were Lanshan Huo's subordinates. As for the other five, they were merely with Lanshan Huo to rely on him.
"The five of you, listen carefully. After we enter into the great formation array, hide within my Spatial Domain. If you all are not at ease about that, then just stay here! Subordinates of mine, let's go!"
Lanshan Huo shouted loudly. He immediately then took the lead and soared into the sky.
His three subordinate Low Level Heavenly Deities immediately followed behind him. As for the other five Heavenly Deities, they merely paused for a moment before also flying to the sky following Lanshan Huo. The eight Low Level Heavenly Deities, while being in Lanshan Huo's Spatial Domain, rushed toward Qin Yu to kill him.
Seeing these nine people charging toward him, Qin Yu's body did an arc. He had directly entered into the Trapping Array.
"If there are too many people trapped within this formation array and if they are to attack it incessantly, then they would indeed be able to cause the collapse of the formation array should their attack power surpass the amount that the formation array can handle. However... this great formation array was able to handle this amount of people."
Qin Yu was extremely clear about the situation of the Trapping Array.
Inside the Trapping Array.
Chi Hongfeng's brows were slightly creased. She looked to Xianyu Yang beside her. Ever since they entered into the great formation array, Xianyu Yang had been trying his hardest to study this formation array the entire time. However, even now, Xianyu Yang was still unable to break through this formation array.
"How is that possible? Logically, shouldn't it be at its maximum overlay? How is the water and fire elements, two completely different elements, able to fuse together? Furthermore, how did they fuse with the golden property defensive barrier? No, this is absolutely impossible..."
Xianyu Yang was unceasingly analyzing the formation array before him.
In Xianyu Yang's point of view, according to the first stage array path, the quintessence of the formation arrays that he had comprehended, the formation array that Qin Yu had set up simply does not follow the 'quintessence of the formation arrays' that he had deduced.
In other words, in theory, this formation array before him should not exist at all.
Of course, this theory was merely Xianyu Yang's personal theory.
Even now, Xianyu Yang did not know at all that the first stage of the formation arrays that he prided himself in was actually false and was a hundred and eight thousands of miles away from the true quintessence of the formation arrays.
[TL: a hundred and eight thousands of miles is a chinese term signifying a very large distance.]
"Old brother Xianyu, it's been so long, is there any progress?" Chi Hongfeng's expression turned somewhat gloomy.
"Don't worry!" Xianyu Yang shouted lowly. He had also grown anxious from trying to analyze the formation array. At the same time, Xianyu Yang once again created some barriers to test out the formation array.
A frantic lighting bolt ruthlessly struck down. Lighting flashes and thunder rolls. All sorts of water element, fire element and other element energies were frantically striking down from above.
Xianyu Yang and Chi Hongfeng were maintaining their Spatial Domains and incessantly blocking off the attacks from the outside.
Other than Chi Hongfeng, there were six other people in Chi Hongfeng's Spatial Domain. As for Xianyu Yang, he also have six other people in addition to himself in his Spatial Domain.
"The three of you, leave my Spatial Domain." Chi Hongfeng suddenly turned around and coldly said to three Low Level Heavenly Deities.
Chi Hongfeng only had three subordinates. As for the other three people, they were all lone operators. For Chi Hongfeng to resist all sorts of attacks with an expanded Spatial Domain, it consumed a lot of her energy.
Those three Low Level Heavenly Deities' expressions immediately changed,
Telling them to leave the Spatial Domain, wasn't that the same as telling them to die?
"Chi..." Before the three of them could say anything, they sensed that the Spatial Domain decreased in size and had directly repelled all three of them out. At the same time, all sorts of energy attacks landed on their bodies.
Analyzing the formation array was a task that was exhausting to the mind to begin with. At this moment, Xianyu Yang also directly decrease the size of his Spatial Domain and repelled two Low Level Heavenly Deities that were not his subordinates.
The five Low Level Heavenly Deities looked to Xianyu Yang and Chi Hongfeng resentfully. After that, they could only try to rapidly flee.
Chi HongGeng expression as she looked to Xianyu Yang already turned extremely vicious. "Old brother Xian Yu, it's already been an entire hour since we've come in." Said Chi Hongfeng word by word.
Xianyu Yang turned around to look at Chi Hongfeng. His face was a bit pale and his forehead was filled with sweat. With a helpless expression, he finally sighed and shook his head. "Miss Chi, please forgive me. I am truly powerless. You should try to figure out for yourself."
The three Low Level Heavenly Deities behind Chi Hongfeng immediately wanted to curse in rage. However, Chi Hongfeng extended her hand and stopped them. Chi Hongfeng coldly glanced at Xianyu Yang. She then lead her three subordinates and left.
Qin Yu knew very well about the situation of the things within the formation array. The Heavenly Deities within this formation array were primarily separated into four groups. The first group was four people led by Chi Hongfeng. The second group was five people led by Xianyu Yang. The third group was the nine people led by Lanshan Huo that have just charged in. The last group was the five Low Level Heavenly Deities that were just abandoned.
"I shall go and take care of these five Low Level Heavenly Deities first. Otherwise, the five of them will lose their lives soon." Qin Yu spoke out loud. "I better quickly accelerate my speed. I'll directly use the Divine Spear Waning Snow."
When inside his Trapping Array, Qin Yu did not fear of others seeing his Divine Spear Waning Snow. Furthermore, the Devouring Soul ability and the Dark and Yellow Energy of the Divine Spear Waning Snow were both able to attack the soul which in turn allowed Qin Yu to take care of others even easier.
As time passed, Chi Hongfeng and her three subordinates were running around the Trapping Array in a sorry state as they tried to escape the formation array. Chi Hongfeng's Spatial Domain's range turned to only cover an area three meters surrounding her.
"Big sis, what should we do?" Asked one of the men. This man's face was filled with anxiety.
Chi Hongfeng surveyed her surroundings. At this moment, before her was a vast and boundless swamp. Clearly, it was an illusion from the Trapping Array. The reason why Trapping Arrays were powerful was because it was capable of integrating all sorts of different formation arrays.
"I do not believe that I, Chi Hongfeng, who have moved about unhindered in the Divine Realm for this many years, would fall to a mere formation array!" Chi Hongfeng was emitting a real fierce and sharp aura from her body.
Although she was a woman, she was equally brave and possessed abilities a match for men.
"The three of you, listen carefully. Even if we are unable to escape, it would still be impossible for that Qin Yu to kill us." Said Chi Hongfeng confidently. "We merely need to wait. There are a lot of Heavenly Deities that wanted to kill Qin Yu. Once more and more people arrive, there are definitely going to be someone capable of breaking through this formation array."
Chi Hongfeng looked to her surroundings. "Right now, I will only form a Spatial Domain of a three meter circumference. With this amount, the consumption of the soul energy would be the same as the speed at which my soul energy recovers. We do not need to be worried that the Spatial Domain cannot last."
"Big sis, you mean..." These three Low Level Heavenly Deities somewhat realized.
Chi Hongfeng continued to proceed onward. They arrived at a maze formed by multicolored walls. She then directly sat down cross-legged and said calmly. "We'll wait here. We'll wait till a large amount of Heavenly Deities come!" Although Chi Hongfeng spoke with confidence, she felt slightly anxious from the bottom of her heart.
However, she was unable to understand why she was anxious.
There was a prerequisite for her plan: Qin Yu being unable to kill her!
Was Qin Yu truly unable to kill her?
"That Qin Yu does not possess any means to kill me. Even if he possessed a High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact, I am a Mid Level Heavenly Deity and possessed a Mid Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact!" Thought Chi Hongfeng.
"Miss Chi, it is not good to be overly confident." A Divine Awareness Voice Transmission directly sounded in Chi Hongfeng's mind.
Chi Hongfeng's eyes immediately burst forth with light. She immediately held her soft sword straight. Chi Hongfeng had grown alert. She carefully looked to her surroundings. The three Low Level Heavenly Deities behind her have also became on guard.
However...
Out of nowhere, a figure suddenly appeared before Chi Hongfeng. This sort of appearance had caused Chi Hongfeng to be shocked. At the same time, the Divine Spear Waning Snow that Qin Yu held in his hand was launched.
"Trying to kill me with a mere High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact? In your dreams!" Thought Chi Hongfeng in her heart. At the same time, she dramatically increased her Spatial Domain's range and covered even Qin Yu. She was planning to use her Spatial Domain to bind Qin Yu and the spear that he held.
Several hundred spatial cracks of hair strand thickness appeared in the space surrounding the spearhead of the Divine Spear Waning Snow. The Spatial Domain was simply unable to bind it at all.
Chi Hongfeng's expression instantly changed. At the same time, she impatiently tried to block the incoming spear with the soft sword in her hand.
"Bang!"
Like a whip, the soft sword immediately coiled around the Divine Spear Waning Snow. However, a layer of Dark and Yellow Energy appeared on the surface of the Divine Spear Waning Snow. With a vibration from the Dark and Yellow Energy, the soft sword was shocked loose.
"Puchi!"
The Divine Spear Waning Snow pierced through Chi Hongfeng's chest. At the same time, a burst of wave energy started to directly attack Chi Hongfeng's Nascent Soul. This was one of the two great special abilities of the Divine Spear Waning Snow... Devouring Soul.
The strength of the Devouring Soul skill was something that Qin Yu could control. After absorbing the Dark and Yellow Energy, the Devouring Soul and Body Break abilities have grown much more astonishingly powerful.
Chi Hongfeng only felt that her mind have been shocked. After that, she weakly fell to the ground and sat there in a paralyzed state.
The three Low Level Heavenly Deities were unable to believe the scene before them. As for Qin Yu, he teleported three more times in succession. His Divine Spear Waning Snow was shot out three more times. The three Low Level Heavenly Deities also fell to the ground.
"Why didn't this Qin Yu kill me?" Chi Hongfeng was confused. And at this moment, a little stone pagoda appeared in Qin Yu's hand.
The stone pagoda started growing later. Soon after, it became a three storied tall pagoda.
"Absorb!"
Qin Yu shouted. The four Heavenly Deities who already had their souls damaged from receiving the soul attacks was absorbed into the God Sealing pagoda.
"This is the first group. Next group, the Xianyu Yang's group of five!" Qin Yu retrieved his God Sealing Pagoda and disappeared. Qin Yu started to frantically attack the Heavenly Deities in this level four Trapping Array. Without restraint, he started to absorb these Heavenly Deities into his God Sealing Pagoda.
The amount of servants that Qin Yu possessed was being increased unceasingly. Over ten were absorbed. Gradually... over twenty were absorbed. Not a single Heavenly Deity was able to win against Qin Yu who possessed the Divine Spear Waning Snow and the teleportation ability in a one against one battle.
Qin Yu who was not hiding his strength at all was truly astonishingly terrifying.
Chapter 47 – The Appearance of a High Level Heavenly Deity
From the time when Qin Yu attacked Chi Hongfeng and her subordinates till the time he finished absorbing them, only a moment had passed. This time around, all twenty three Heavenly Deities that came to attack Qin Yu were captured by Qin Yu at once.
Adding on the six from earlier, and the Wu Clan Brothers, Qin Yu had obtained thirty one Heavenly Deity level servants.
Mount Bewitch You. Beside the alpine lake.
The water of the alpine lake was calm like a mirror, reflecting the sky. Occassionaly, mountain wind would blow past, causing a layer of ripples to form on the surface of the water. Qin Yu was standing beside the alpine lake with his hands behind his back, his long gown being blown adrift by the wind.
With a wave of his hand, the twenty three Heavenly Deities who Qin Yu had just captured appeared before him.
Chi Hongfeng, Xianyu Yang and Lanshan Huo stood to the front whereas the other twenty three Heavenly Deities were behind them. At the moment the twenty three Heavenly Deities saw Qin Yu, they all bowed and respectfully said. "Master!"
Once one was captured into the God Sealing Pagoda, one's soul would be bound. Thus, these twenty three Heavenly Deities could only accept their fate and follow Qin Yu.
Chi Hongfeng, Xianyu Yang and Lanshan Huo looked at Qin Yu with gazes filled with shock and awe. When they saw each other in the God Sealing Pagoda, they knew that the other person was also captured by Qin Yu.
Why was it that the three of them, all Mid Level Heavenly Deities, did not possess even the slightest power to resist when faced with Qin Yu, a Low Level Heavenly Deity? They were unable to understand why. Thus, the 'master' that stood before them appeared even more mysterious to them.
Qin Yu glanced at everyone present. He then said. "From today hence, you all shall be my servants. As for all the matters that you all need to do, it will be in the care of Uncle Fu." With an intention from Qin Yu, Uncle Fu appeared beside Qin Yu from the Jiang Lan's Realm.
"Uncle Fu." All twenty three of these Heavenly Deities were extremely respectful and modest.
Uncle Fu already knew about Qin Yu's intention. Upon seeing this group of Heavenly Deities, Uncle Fu bowed to Qin Yu and said with a smile. "Never had I anticipated that in the blink of an eye, master would capture twenty three Heavenly Deities."
"Uncle Fu, they shall be under your administration." Said Qin Yu with a light smile.
"This old servant will definitely manage them well." Uncle Fu looked at the twenty three Heavenly Deities. He nodded. Then, with an intention, Qin Yu moved Uncle Fu and the twenty three Heavenly Deities into the second layer space of Jiang Lan's Realm.
Like a cat, Qin Yu was standing on top of a tree and looking to the distance.
"It will likely be a while before the next group of Heavenly Deities arrives." Qin Yu did not want to wait here in vain. Thus, he directly flew into the Trapping Array. Qin Yu proceeded to sit cross-legged in the center region of the Trapping Array.
Qin Yu didn't care about when those Heavenly Deities would come, because he knew that in the end, those Heavenly Deities would definitely enter his Trapping Array to find him.
"I reckon that I will be able to reach a breakthrough in my soul within a hundred years. By the time my Divine Energy transforms into Heavenly Divine Energy, I reckon I'll be able to open the third layer space of Jiang Lan's Realm. At that time, I will be able to see Li'er again." Qin Yu had a slight smile on his face.
Qin Yu was very certain about his own soul's level. Qin Yu had been at the peak of the High Level Deity stage for numerous years. When his comprehension of formation arrays reached the level four formation array level, it meant that Qin Yu had broken through the membrane that separated the High Level Deity stage from the Low Level Heavenly Deity stage.
A hundred years should be more enough for Qin Yu to completely surmount the threshold of Heavenly Deity.
Training in formation arrays was indeed also a means of increasing one's soul's level. With a flip of his hand, Qin Yu took out a golden scroll. This golden scroll was the scroll that contained the detailed descriptions of level seven and level eight formation arrays by the Craftsman God Chehou Yuan.
Qin Yu understood that for level one formation arrays to level six formation arrays, the method to deduce them goes from simple to complicated. Although he was currently only at the fourth level of formation arrays, Qin Yu was confident that as long as he had sufficient time, he would be able to reach the sixth level of formation arrays.
However, the level seven formation arrays and the level eight formation arrays were instead extremely simple. One could tell how simple they were by the fact that a single golden scroll managed to contain the information regarding both level seven and level eight formation arrays.
"What sort of mysteries do the level seven and level eight formation arrays contain?"
Qin Yu began to read the scroll carefully once again. It would require a very long time just to set up ordinary level three or level four formation arrays. For level five and level six formation arrays, the amount of time it required to set them up was frighteningly long. However, for level seven and level eight formation arrays, one could set them up in a couple breaths worth of time.
"The level seven formation arrays seem to be very simple. However, how could such simple methods be able to contain such great amount of power?" Qin Yu was unable to understand this.
This was already not the first time Qin Yu read the information regarding the level seven formation arrays. He had read it time and time again, yet he was still unable to solve the mystery of its profoundness. Qin Yu then proceeded to look at the final formation array... the sole level eight formation array.
"Senior Chehou's highest accomplishment in formation arrays is truly astonishing. With the five elements of gold (metal), wood, water, fire and earth as the foundation, yin and yang as the darkness and light, and lightning as punishment. It's simple and logical. However, this great formation array formed through this method, its might seems to be overly powerful."
Qin Yu was unable to set up this great formation array. Thus, he was unable to personally experience the might of this formation array.
He was only able to read the descriptions regarding this great formation array left behind by Chehou Yuan himself. According to Chehou Yuan, once this formation array finished being set up, there would be no need for foundations for this formation array. It would be able to absorb the frantic Divine Spiritual Energy of the Divine Realm and use it to create a miniature world. This formation array was so powerful that no one, other than experts at the Godking level, would be able to break through it.
Without the need for formation foundations. Capable of creating a miniature world. This formation array could be said as having no flaws.
"It truly is that powerful? Unfortunately I do not know whether Senior Chehou Yuan is alive or dead now. If Senior Chehou Yuan is still living, then I would be able to personally see the might of this great formation array." Qin Yu sighed in his heart. Suddenly, Qin Yu's ears moved. A smile appeared on his face. "More Heavenly Deities have come?"
At the foot of the Mount Bewitch You. At this moment, over a dozen Heavenly Deities were gathered. This group of Heavenly Deities were led by a pair of sisters. These two sisters were both very pretty and enchanting. The sisters were the only two Mid Level Heavenly Deities among these people.
"Big sister, why isn't there anyone else other than us here? That shouldn't be the case. There were many other Heavenly Deities that set off before us." Le Yurao, who wore a pink gauze dress, frowned as she asked.
Le Yurao and Le Yuyao were the famous 'Enchanting Sisters.' These two Mid Level Heavenly Deities possessed strength that one cannot underestimate.
"That Xianyu Yang and Lanshan Huo all set off before us. Regardless of what happened, there should be many Heavenly Deities here." Le Yuyao looked at Mount Bewitch You extremely cautiously. "If they were to fall to Mount Bewitch You, we most definitely cannot allow ourselves to also fall to it."
Le Yurao nodded.
Right when these two sisters were bewildered by what was happening, another group of ten plus Heavenly Deities flew over from behind. In this group of Heavenly Deities, there was a single Mid Level Heavenly Deity.
"Little Enchanting Sisters, to see you two here is truly a happy occasion." A clear voice sounded. The leader among the group of ten plus Heavenly Deities, a cultured and refined white clothed youth, took the lead and descended to the ground.
Le Yuyao and Le Yurao immediately greeted the incoming person with loud and clear voices. "Hello, Young Master Yigong."
Le Yuyao and Le Yurao had long since heard about the distinguished name of 'Yigong Shu.' One must know that there were also distinctions between Mid Level Heavenly Deities. The strong ones among them were those like the Nine-headed Black Dragon Tan Jiu, Liu Yuxi and them. For them, even handling five or six Mid Level Heavenly Deities by themselves wouldn't be too hard.
As for Yigong Shu, he was someone at the same level as Tan Jiu.
Wearing a scholar's headpiece and a white gown, Young Master Yigong lightly smiled and said. "Little Enchanting Sisters, why are you the only people here? Where's Miss Chi? I know that she has arrived already."
"We haven't seen her." Said Le Yuyao.
Le Yurao continued. "When we set off from Yuchi City, we obtained information that Lanshan Huo and Xianyu Yang had already set off. However, when we got here, we couldn't find a single person. We suspect that they are either dead or trapped in the great formation arrays."
"Xianyu Yang?" Yigong Shu frowned. "This Xianyu Yang is an expert of formation arrays. Even he has fallen to Qin Yu?"
Le Yuyao and Le Yurao also nodded. "That's the only possible explanation."
Yigong Shu turned around to look at Mount Bewitch You. He was able to clearly sense that the entire Mount Bewitch You was radiating energy from different kinds of formation arrays. His heart grew heavy. "It seems that the formation arrays that this Qin Yu has set up are very powerful."
"That's right, they're very powerful." Le Yurao and Le Yuyao also looked at Mount Bewitch You.
This two groups of people, that numbered close to thirty, all quietly looked at Mount Bewitch You. They felt a sudden burst of shivering in their hearts. They were able to imagine exactly how many formation arrays there were around Mount Bewitch You.
The quiet Mount Bewitch You appeared like a vicious beast lying in wait. Whenever someone passed by this vicious beast, they would be swallowed up by it. For a moment, not a single one of the close to thirty Heavenly Deities dared to proceed onward.
As time passed, Heavenly Deities in groups of seven or eight, or two or three started arriving. The number of Heavenly Deity experts at the foot of Mount Bewitch You became bigger and bigger.
However, the more people arrived, the more certain they became of one thing... Chi Hongfeng, Xianyu Yang and Lanshan Huo, three Mid Level Heavenly Deities who possessed some reputation, had all fallen to Mount Bewitch You.
After half a day, the number of Heavenly Deities gathered here was already greater than fifty.
At this moment, there were also five Mid Level Heavenly Deities. Other than the Enchanting Sisters and Yigong Shu, there was also the ice-cold Heavenly Deity beauty Liu Bing and... Nine-headed Black Dragon 'Tan Jiu.'
Tan Jiu who had hidden himself for so many years, had finally shown himself today.
"Are we are still waiting?" Liu Bing's gaze was cast towards the other four Mid Level Heavenly Deities. Liu Bing was tall and possessed an amazing figure. Her silver hair increased her aura of coldness. Especially that pair of eyes of hers, they appeared to be eternally void of emotions.
Le Yuyao smiled charmingly. "Little sister Liu Bing, do not be anxious. Three Mid Level Heavenly Deities have already fallen inside those formation arrays. Unless we have absolute certainty, it's best for us to wait a bit longer."
"I think that we should set off to break the formation arrays." A shiny light flashed through the scholarly Yigong Shu's eyes. "Those three Mid Level Heavenly Deities, their strength can only be considered mid-tier. However, us here... there's Black Dragon and I. If even we are unable to kill that Qin Yu, then it would truly be strange." Yigong Shu was filled with confidence.
Among the current five Mid Level Heavenly Deities, Yigong Shu and Tan Jiu possessed the strongest strength.
Yigong Shu and Tan Jiu each possessed strength that was greater than Xianyu Yang, Lanshan Huo and Chi Hongfeng combined. With the two of them, they indeed possessed a real great possibility of success.
"Since young master Yigong is in approval of setting off, then I shall also approve of it." Said Tan Jiu coldly.
Tan Jiu had come this time precisely to be the oriole behind the mantis. However, it required much skill to properly play the role of the oriole. If he were to wait to attack, till after everyone had already taken the treasures, then wouldn't he be unable to get anything? Because of that, Tan Jiu had shown himself.
Yigong Shu smiled and said. "Good. Since Brother Black Dragon also approves of it, then this matter shall be simple. What is the most important now is who among our fifty plus Heavenly Deities shall be the leader, giving the orders and controlling the situation?"
Liu Bing, Le Yurao and Le Yuyao all looked towards Yigong Shu and Tan Jiu.
The leader of this group could only be either Yigong Shu or Tan Jiu. If one were to become the leader, then he would have the authority to order what everyone must do. Thus, this person would naturally have a higher chance of obtaining Qin Yu's treasures.
Yigong Shu looked at Tan Jiu. He knew that this 'Lord Black Dragon' was someone who was very hard to talk with. However, in order to obtain the treasures that Qin Yu possessed, Yigong Shu knew that he must certainly become the leader.
"I am not interested. Young master Yigong can be the leader." Said Tan Jiu indifferently.
Yigong Shu was startled. He had even prepared many excuses and arguments to persuade Tan Jiu. Yigong Shu immediately smiled and said. "Good. Since Black Dragon has said so, then I shall be the leader of this group of fifty six Heavenly Deities. From now on, everyone must listen to me and do as I say."
Yigong Shu's gaze was cast towards all the Heavenly Deities. None of them protested.
Even the cold and proud Liu Bing did not oppose it. After all, strength was the most important aspect.
Tan Jiu glanced at Yigong Shu. He was laughing coldly in his heart. "Do you think that Qin Yu will be that easy to take care of? Humph... if you are careless, then you'll only suffer death." Tan Jiu was forever unable to forget about the spear that Qin Yu had.
At this moment, Yigong Shu had already started assigning what everyone would do with a smile on his face. "Enchanting Sisters, the two of you will lead twenty Low Level Heavenly Deities, after all..." Yigong Shu stopped in the middle of his speech right after starting it.
Three figures were flying over rapidly.
"Everyone, listen up. My Lord has ordered, and you all must listen to my Lord's order in how to break Mount Bewitch You's great formation arrays and killing Qin Yu." A loud shout sounded from far away.
The fifty six Heavenly Deities immediately looked over to the distant place.
"Who dares to be this arrogant?"
"It's only three people. They don't seem to be very powerful. Why should we listen to them?"
"Jin Kong, it's Jin Kong and his brother!" Le Yuyao suddenly said in shock. "For them brothers to come, then... that Lord that they spoke of. Wouldn't it be..."
Yigong Shu and Tan Jiu's expression changed. Yigong Shu's gaze turned cold. He then said two words. "Mister Qiuzhong!"
In the Divine Realm, Mid Level Heavenly Deities were generally extremely powerful beings in bandit powers. As for High Level Heavenly Deities, they were individuals that all the major powers fought each other for. How many High Level Heavenly Deities would actually go and become bandits?
In sixty four cities of the eastern region of the Divine Realm, the strongest person among all the bandits... Mister Qiuzhong was the sole High Level Heavenly Deity among all the bandits powers present.
No one had ever imagined that Qin Yu was actually able to attract even Mister Qiuzhong. After all, Mister Qiuzhong already possessed a High Quality Heavenly Divine Artifact.
"Fuck. The situation has turned bad." Tan Jiu's expression had grown gloomy.
He had hidden the fact that Qin Yu possessed the spear shaped Grandmist Spiritual Treasure and Nine Petaled Magnificant Lotus precisely because he feared that people too powerful would come. Now that a High Level Heavenly Deity have arrived, how would he, Tan Jiu, possibly be able to obtain the treasures?
Chapter 48 – Formation Array 'Universe'
When Qin Yu flew out from the formation array to inspect the surroundings, he was still thinking about the level eight formation array from the golden scroll.
"This level eight formation array, how, how..." Qin Yu had a sort of uncertain feeling that he was unable to explain.
This formation array seemed to be very familiar.
That's right. It was extremely familiar. Qin Yu seemed to have a memory in his mind that was related with this formation array. However, regardless of how hard Qin Yu thought, he was unable to recall when he had seen this formation array before.
As he continued to think about the level eight formation array, Qin Yu saw the large group of Heavenly Deities located at the foot of Mount Bewitch You.
"Mn, Tan Jiu has also appeared." Qin Yu's eyes shined. That dark skinned youngster with scarlet short haired and scarlet colored brows, wasn't he Tan Jiu? And at this moment, Tan Jiu was bowing to a green clothed scholarly looking man.
"That Tan Jiu can already be considered as having reached the peak of Mid Level Heavenly Deity, why would he be that respectful to that blue clothed scholarly looking man?" The scene that Qin Yu saw had shocked him.
To be able to make Tan Jiu this respectful, what sort of strength would this person have?
"Could it be that there are truly High Level Heavenly Deities that have come for me?" Seems like this has turned troublesome." Qin Yu frowned. The current Qin Yu was no longer as relaxed as he was before.
Tan Jiu, Yigong Shu, Le Yuyao, Le Yurao and Liu Bing all respectfully bowed and said. "Mister Qiuzhong."
Qiuzhong Fu was a very prideful person. He disliked what the title that ordinary bandit bosses addressed themselves as: Lord, Boss, and such. Instead, he demanded other to address him as 'Mister."
Qiuzhong Fu wore blue clothes. Beside him were his two personal subordinates, Jin Kong and his brother Jin Long. In normal circumstances, these two brothers would follow Qiuzhong Fu wherever he goes.
"Mn." Qiuzhong Fu lightly nodded. "In a short while, I will be breaking the great formation array and will then kill that Qin Yu. If there is anything in Qin Yu's body that I do not fancy, I will gift them to you all. However, I do not wish for you all to take your own initiative and not listen to my orders. Understand?"
"Understood!" Even Yigong Shu and Tan Jiu were extremely respectful and didn't dare to have the slightest amount of disrespect.
Qiuzhong Fu lightly nodded. He then ordered. "Jin Kong, you are in charge of the people here. Remember, allocate how many Low Level Heavenly Deities a Mid Level Heavenly Deities leads according to their strength."
"Yes, my lord." Said Jin Kong respectfully. He then coldly looked at the other Mid Level Heavenly Deities. "Le Yuyao, you are to lead those six Low Level Heavenly Deities." Jin Kong pointed and marked six Low Level Heavenly Deities with his Heavenly Divine Energy.
"Yes." Le Yuyao lightly smiled and accepted the order.
One by one, the orders continued. Le Yuyao, Le Yurao and Liu Bing ended up leading close to twenty Low Level Heavenly Deities combined. As for the rest, they were being led by Tan JIu and Yigong Shu. Tan Jiu and Yigong Shu were extremely powerful. Their skills in using the Spatial Domain was also much better than the three women.
"Brother Jin Kong, are you all not going to lead any Low Level Heavenly Deities?" Said Yigong Shu with a light smile on his face.
As Jin Kong and Jin Long always follow Qiuzhong Fu, their status was naturally high. However, their own strengths were inferior to Yigong Shu. Thus, their attitude toward Yigong Shu when talking was still respectful.
"Of course we'll be leading. Our men are still on their way. Their flying speed is much slower than ours." Said Jin Kong with a smile.
Yigong Shu and Tan Jiu started to curse in their hearts.
Doesn't this mean that this Mister Qiuzhong has rapidly flown over here so that he can make everyone listen to his commands? Everyone was able to guess the intention of this Mister Qiuzhong. He did this precisely because he feared that Yigong Shu and them would be able to obtain Qin Yu's treasures before him.
After a long period of time, twenty three Low Level Heavenly Deities had arrived. These twenty three Low Level Heavenly Deities were all Qiuzhong Fu's subordinates.
Yigong Shu and them were originally fifty six Heavenly Deities. With the addition of the twenty six new Heavenly Deities, Qiuzhong Fu, Jin Kong and Jin Long, they now numbered a total of eighty two Heavenly Deities.
The eighty two Heavenly Deities were separated into seven groups led by the seven Mid Level Heavenly Deities.
As for Qiuzhong Fu, he was standing in the air by himself and looking at Mount Bewitch You in the distance.
"Jin Kong, you seven groups are to cooperate in breaking the formation arrays. If you discover any formation array that you cannot break apart, you are to come and inform me about it." Ordered Qiuzhong Fu indifferently.
"Yes." Jin Kong, Jin Long, Tan Jiu, Yigong Shu and the rest of them all bowed to accept the order. While on the surface everyone was extremely respectful, Tan Jiu and Yigong Shu were actually madly enraged in their hearts.
Who among them didn't wish to obtain Qin Yu's treasures? However, what could they do now? They had turned into Qiuzhong Fu's lackeys. It was not that they wanted to be lackeys but rather that they had no choice but to be lackeys. If they dared to resist Qiuzhong Fu, Tan Jiu and Yigong Shu were a hundred percent certain that Qiuzhong Fu would directly kill them.
The seven groups took to the sky simultaneously. All seven of them spread out their Spatial Domains.
Although everyone was restraining their power, Tan Jiu and Yigong Shu's Spatial Domains were still spread to a circumference of three to four hundred meters. As for the other five people, their spatial domains were only about a hundred meters circumference. With all of them working together, ordinary illusion arrays were simply unable to stop them at all. As for the Attacking Arrays, they too were unable to break through the Spatial Domains. With extreme ease, they destroyed the surface of Mount Bewitch You thoroughly and broke through the formation arrays with brute force.
One, two, three... in a blink of an eye, over twenty great formation arrays were broken through.
At the moment when they broke through thirty great formation arrays, the groups finally stopped. Jin Kong said to Qiuzhong Fu who stood in the air. "My Lord, it is a bit hard for us to break through this great formation array."
The formation array before them was a relatively large Trapping Array. It was a Trapping Array at the peak level of level three formation arrays. If Yigong Shu and Tan Jiu were to use a large amount of their energy, it was still possible for them to break through this formation array. However, at this moment, Yigong Shu and them did not want to exhaust a large amount of their energy.
"Oh?" Qiuzhong Fu glanced at this formation array. He smiled indifferently and said. "Merely a small formation array. You all, step aside."
The numerous Heavenly Deities immediately stepped far away. Qiuzhong Fu merely grabbed the space before him a couple times as he stood in the air, and a couple places in that peak level three formation array completely shattered. In an instant, one of this Trapping Array's foundations had been broken.
A Trapping Array with a foundation broken naturally became a lot weaker. Even Mid Level Heavenly Deities were capable of easily breaking it now.
"You all, continue." Said Qiuzhong Fu coldly.
Tan Jiu and Yigong Shu both felt shiver in their hearts. There was a difference in the area of space that a High Level Heavenly Deity could destroy. When they saw the area that Qiuzhong Fu had instantly destroyed, they knew right away that Qiuzhong Fu was a relatively powerful High Level Heavenly Deity.
"Spatial Destruction? As expected, he's a High Level Heavenly Deity." Qin Yu who was within the vast forest of the Mount Bewitch You was quietly watching all that was unfolding.
Upon seeing that Qiuzhong Fu easily destroyed a small region of space, the small bit of hope that Qin Yu previously had also instantly vanished.
"If I were to rely on teleportation and my Divine Spear Waning Snow, killing this High Level Heavenly Deity..." Qin Yu started to simulation the battle in his mind. In the end, he shook his head. "There's no certainty of winning!"
Qin Yu knew very well that High Level Heavenly Deities knew more than just 'Spatial Destruction.' They also knew 'Spatial Domain.' Furthermore, the binding ability of their Spatial Domain was even greater than those of Mid Level Heavenly Deities.
Once Qin Yu were to get caught into his Spatial Domain, the Divine Spear Waning Snow would be caught into a very powerful restriction energy and its speed would definitely not be fast enough.
And at that moment, his opponent was totally able to come and attack him instead.
Although he could escape with teleportation, he would be unable to kill his opponent. Thus, it was not worth it for Qin Yu to disclose his hidden trump cards.
Qin Yu who was hiding within the center of the dense forest suddenly sent a binding gaze. In reaction, he turned to look over. It was precisely that Qiuzhong Fu who was standing in the sky.
"He discovered me?" Qin Yu was startled.
"Qin Yu!"
Qiuzhong Fu's gaze turned cold. He suddenly shouted violently. Like thousands of rolling thunders, his voice sounded in Qin Yu's ears. At the same time, an overbearing Divine Awareness directly rushed into Qin Yu's mind.
Divine Awareness attack!
Qin Yu felt a burst of shock to his mind. And at this moment, that Qiuzhong Fu rushed downward with lightning speed. Qiuzhong Fu's eyes were filled with confidence. "A mere Low Level Heavenly Deity, after receiving my Divine Awareness attack, by the time your mind becomes sober, I'll already have caught you."
Divine Awareness attack was the same as soul energy attack. If the gap between the two people's soul levels were too great, using Divine Awareness attack would be an extremely fast type of attack. However, if there was barely any gap between the two parties, using Divine Awareness attack would injure both parties.
From Qiuzhong Fu's point of view, as he was a High Level Heavenly Deity, if he were to use his Divine Awareness to attack a Low Level Heavenly Deity, he would at the very least cause this Low Level Heavenly Deity to be in a muddleheaded state for quite some time.
However, Qin Yu merely had his soul jolted for a moment. His Meteoric Tear emitted rays of green lights. In a blink of an eye, Qin Yu had woken up.
"What a powerful High Level Heavenly Deity." Gasped Qin Yu in his heart. With lightning speed, Qin Yu rushed into the level four formation array beside him.
"Mn?" Qiuzhong Fu was startled. "He's already recovered? Could it be that he's a Mid Level Heavenly Deity and that the information gathered about him before was mistaken?"
If the gap between them was not great, and was instead only a single level, the Divine Awareness attack would not amount to much.
"You think you'll be okay after hiding in the great formation array?" Qiuzhong Fu had a smile on his face.
Inside the level four formation array.
Qin Yu was now met with two choices. One was to fight against this Qiuzhong Fu. The second was to directly escape into his Universal World. Having stirred up the entire Divine Realm, Qin Yu truly do not wish to end up hiding himself.
"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!" ...
Sounds of explosions continued outside. Qin Yu knew that the formation arrays outside were being broken through one by one by the combined force of those Mid Level Heavenly Deities. Level three formation arrays were indeed unable to stop Tan Jiu and them for a long time.
"Qin Yu, are you truly planning to hide yourself in the great formation array?" Qiuzhong Fu's voice sounded. "I suggest that you should come out. Otherwise, if you were to fall into the spatial cracks, there would be no one capable of saving you."
Qin Yu smiled coldly as he stayed in the formation array.
"He wants me out?" Qin Yu completely understood what Qiuzhong Fu was thinking. If he remained in the great formation array, then this Qiuzhong Fu would not dare to rashly use his 'Spatial Destruction' to destroy this level four formation array.
That was because Qiuzhong Fu didn't know where in the formation array Qin Yu was hiding. If he were to destroy the area of space where Qin Yu was,while breaking the formation array, then not only would Qin Yu get sucked into the spatial cracks and be killed, the treasures that he possessed would also drift into the spatial cracks and Qiuzhong Fu would not be able to obtain them.
Thus, while Qin Yu could be killed, he couldn't be sent into a spatial crack.
Outside the level four formation array.
Qiuzhong Fu had an ice-cold expression. Standing behind him awaiting the orders were the seven Mid Level Heavenly Deities and the large number of Low Level Heavenly Deities they led. Jin Kong asked in a low voice. "My lord, what should we..."
"You all are to stay here. I will go and break the formation array!"
Like a meteorite, Qiuzhong Fu smashed into the great formation array. As a level four Trapping Array, although it only appeared to have a circumference of several hundred meters from the outside, it actually possessed greater than ten thousand meters circumference on the inside.
This was similar to the Bewitching God Temple.
"Not good." Sensing that Qiuzhong Fu had charged into his formation array, Qin Yu had a bitter smile on his face. "In order to kill me, this Qiuzhong Fu is actually willing to do such complicated things. There's nothing I can do about it either."
Qin Yu was able to anticipate what Qiuzhong Fu planned to do.
This Qiuzhong Fu was going to use his 'Spatial Domain' to search whether Qin Yu was in a region of space. If Qin Yu was not in that region of space, then Qiuzhong Fu would directly use his Spatial Destruction to destroy that region of space.
The area Spatial Destruction could destroy was generally not great. However, when inspecting the great formation array from within, one must inspect a very large area. To break the formation array or coincidentally destroy a formation foundation was a very complicated process.
"Buzz~~" "Buzz~~" "Buzz~~" "Buzz~~" ...
The sound of space being destroyed continually echoed out. Without stopping, that Qiuzhong Fu was destroying a small region of space after another. As many little things adds up to a great amount, he ultimately succeeded.
"It had been destroyed by a High Level Heavenly Deity this easily? Is there really nothing that could truly trap a High Level Heavenly Deity?" Qin Yu felt hatred in his heart.
Suddenly, the level eight formation array appeared in Qin Yu's mind.
"That's right, that level eight formation array is capable of binding High Level Heavenly Deities. Even High Level Heavenly Deities cannot escape it. Unfortunately, I am unable to deploy that..."
Qin Yu was suddenly startled.
He had a familiar feeling regarding the level eight formation array the entire time. However, he was unable to think of why it was so familiar. After thinking about it for so long, Qin Yu finally remembered at this moment.
"Splitting the Heaven and Earth apart. That's right. It was splitting the Heaven and Earth apart!"
[TL: remember, splitting the heaven and earth apart refers to the creation myth of pangu and his Universe world.]
Qin Yu suddenly closed his eyes. At this moment, he began to feel the ancient aura like that of the flour paste space. The profound sensation that he had when he split the Heaven and Earth apart to create the Universal World once again descended upon him.
Why did he have such a familiar sensation regarding this level eight formation array?
That was because the principle behind this level eight formation array was already relatively approaching the principle behind the Universal World that was formed through splitting the Heaven and Earth apart. During the time when he created the Universal World, Qin Yu merely knew about what how to do it but not what the principle behind it was.
Although he was unable to understand the principle, he remembered the profound sensation.
At this moment, after he entered that sort of profound state, the process of the creation of the Universal World emerged in Qin Yu's mind.
The peak of formation arrays was merely creating a space through the comprehension of the spatial laws.
Although Qin Yu had not comprehended the spatial laws, he had created his own Universal World. Thus, he naturally understood the spatial laws of the Universal World!
"So this was the case!"
A smile appeared on Qin Yu's face. He lightly streaked his hand across the air. Several rays of light flew out from Qin Yu's hand. Like meteors, they fell to various locations surrounding Mount Bewitch You.
"Formation array 'Universe,' form!"
Qin Yu lightly shouted.
In merely an instant, everyone in the surrounding several thousand miles, including even Qiuzhong Fu who had just broke the level four formation array, felt that their sky and earth was being turned upside down. The scenes before them all ceased to exist. Instead, what appeared in their surroundings was a vast and boundless land.
