Chapter 878 - Geniuses Gather
“Flap! Flap!” As Ximen Bao and Bai Wuxue chatted idly, a bird flew in. Ximen Bao asked curiously, “Who is that from?”
Bai Wuxue retrieved a piece of paper from the bird’s leg. He said, “I asked an elder of the Full Moon Pavilion to help me keep an eye on Xiao Chen, to see how many military merits he has.”
Ximen Bao did not like Xiao Chen. He laughed loudly and said, “There is no need to check on him. That brat is not comparable to Brother Bai. He is an Inferior Grade Martial Sage. No matter how powerful he is, that is all he amounts too. This time, Brother Bai will ruthlessly trample on him.”
After Bai Wuxue unrolled the piece of paper, he appeared stunned. He was in disbelief. After reading it a few times, he verified that he had not seen wrong.
“He has a bright purple skull. He killed the Black Stone Old Revenant and gained ten thousand military merits. Furthermore, he killed so many Demonic Corpses, it is hard to tabulate.”
When Ximen Bao heard Bai Wuxue read out the contents of the paper, the winecup that he had raised to his lips fell to the floor and shattered. His mouth hung open for a long time without closing.
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The army of the Corpse Race already completely occupied the second line of defense. One of the islands here could produce Black Patterned Stone, the ore for the refinement of the rare Black Patterned Gold.
The output for Black Patterned Stone was low. Even so, there would be a significant amount accumulated after eight to ten years—more than sufficient to use to refine a Sub-Divine Weapon.
This island was called Black Patterned Island, the main island for the second line of defense. The White Bone Sovereign’s descendant, Long Fei, and the Underworld Fire Sovereign’s descendant, Wei Hua, were currently in a hall on the island discussing matters. The expressions on their faces were incredibly relaxed.
There were two other people besides Wei Hua and Long Fei. One of them was Wang Can. Although he was the descendant of a Corpse Race Emperor, he was not a descendant of a Sovereign Martial Emperor, so his position in the Corpse Race was not as high as Long Fei’s and Wei Hua’s.
The other person had an extremely interesting identity. It was hard to imagine that he would appear together with Wei Hua once again.
This person was the Iron Hand Sovereign’s descendant, Kui Dou. Back then, the grudges between the Iron Hand Sovereign and Underworld Fire Sovereign caused a great commotion. The younger generation even had many rumors about their dealings.
The White Bone Sovereign’s descendant, Long Fei, was completely white. He was dressed in a scholarly manner and held a folding fan. His appearance formed a great contrast to the other Corpse Race cultivators.
Because of their special body tempering methods, the Corpse Race all had dark skin. Furthermore, they cultivated the death Dao. This made them look sinister. Few of the Corpse Race would have a white complexion and a scholarly look like Long Fei.
Long Fei looked at the silent Kui Dou and waved his folding fan as he smiled faintly. “Brother Kui Dou, you have no regrets over not going back to the Starry Heaven Silver Lake, right?”
Kui Dou was Long Fei’s good friend. The two of them could be said to be intimate friends. Half a month ago, Kui Dou and Wang Can left the Starry Heaven Silver Lake because of injuries. Then they heard that a Starry Heaven Storm was approaching the Starry Heaven Silver Lake, and they coincidentally received Long Fei’s invitation. So they came to this Dragon Wood Star with some doubts in their hearts.
In the letter, Long Fei had gone into detail about the benefits of occupying a resource star, claiming there were many more benefits there than in the Starry Heaven Silver Lake.
At first, Kui Dou and Wang Can had not believed him. Resource stars were rare. Every race would guard them heavily. How could it be so easy to occupy resource stars? When they came to Dragon Wood Star and saw that Long Fei and Wei Hua had easily claimed most of the ocean region, their doubts dissipated.
After two years, Kui Dou’s physical body had become even more powerful. He seemed to be showing signs of breaking through to a Rank 4 Sage Body. A casual attack from him could achieve one thousand five hundred tons of force as well. When using his Martial Techniques, he could produce two thousand five hundred tons of force.
Legend had it that a Heavenly Dragon that existed in the Immortal Epoch could achieve five thousand tons of force in one strike. This became the basis for one unit of Dragon Force. Two thousand five hundred tons of force was already half a Dragon Force.
Kui Dou relied on his strong physical body to burst forth with half a Dragon Force. Although he was not as well regarded as Di Wuque in the Starry Heaven Silver Lake, he was still doing very well. If he had not gotten the worst of a newly risen Asura Race genius, he would not have had to withdraw temporarily.
Hearing Long Fei’s question, Kui Dou smiled faintly and replied, “There are plenty of benefits in the Starry Heaven Silver Lake. There are uncountable ten-thousand-year-old Spirit Herbs, Spirit Beasts with powerful bloodlines, and all sorts of rare materials. However, Di Wuque’s group monopolized most of them. The main attraction of the Starry Heaven Silver Lake is comprehensions from battle.
“If it were just me, there are many more benefits in this Dragon Wood Star than the Starry Heaven Silver Lake. The only thing lacking is demonic geniuses for me to fight, which make my battles somewhat tedious.”
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Wang Can walked over and said, “Brother Kui Dou, there is no need to worry too much. This time, the Martial God Palace has sent experts over. According to rumor, the Azure Emperor’s descendant, Xiao Chen, who vanished two years ago, is among them.”
Even Bai Wuxue and the others had not known that Xiao Chen would be leading the Supreme Sky Sect’s group. Despite that, this Wang Can actually knew; this was really queer.
Kui Dou felt that there was more to Wang Can’s information. However, this was something he expected. Long Fei and Wei Hua had already taken over two resource stars. If there was no special reason, how could they succeed in taking the prepared Dragon Wood Star?
However, this was not Kui Dou’s concern. His concern was Xiao Chen!
“This is good timing. After not seeing him for two years, I hope he will not disappoint me,” Kui Dou said with a sullen expression. Two years ago, Xiao Chen had beaten him down like a dog with a single punch at the Sage Mark Monument. This was an unforgettable experience.
Wei Hua walked over with a cold expression. He said, “Don’t worry. It would have been fine if he had hidden forever. Now that he reappeared, I will show him that there are some people that he cannot trick.”
Although Wei Hua had not fought with Xiao Chen two years ago, he had fallen miserably for Xiao Chen’s trick. While he had not lost that much, the subsequent rumors embarrassed him greatly.
Wei Hua was a bona fide descendant of a Sovereign Martial Emperor. In this age of geniuses, he had to stand above the rest. How could he let such a stain on his reputation remain?
The white-faced Long Fei waved his folding fan. Feeling a strong curiosity in his heart, he commented, “You are all outstanding talents, heroes of your people, yet you all suffered at the hands of this brat. I really want to see how powerful this person is.”
“The two Young Masters, the scouts already retreated and organized a detailed battle report.”
A Corpse Race cultivator outside the hall quickly came in and unfurled a stack of battle reports before kneeling on the floor.
Wei Hua’s face lit up in joy. He quickly went over and picked up the battle reports. He smiled and said, “Good. Let me see how strong the reinforcements sent this time are.”
Taking out the first battle report, Wei Hua showed disdain on his face. With a faint sneer, he said, “The Thousand Mystery Sect’s Hua Dao and the battle realms’ Niu Deng. Indeed, it is as I expected. They are somewhat strong, but that is all there is to them.”
Moving on to the second battle report, Wei Hua’s look of disdain vanished. He frowned slightly and said, “This Bai Wuxue is rather tricky to deal with. With the Snow Race inheritance he obtained, he actually destroyed a group of Monarch Grade Demonic Corpses and killed ten Medial Grade Martial Sages. He even nearly managed to kill Elder Xun, who led the group.”
When Kui Dou heard this, he said, “I fought with this Bai Wuxue in the Starry Heaven Silver Lake. He is indeed a powerful person.”
However, Long Fei seemed unconcerned. He said, “They were just Monarch Grade Demonic Corpses. No matter how many he destroyed, there is no need to feel any heartache over it. This is the same for the fall of those Medial Grade Martial Sages. Elder Xun was able to return. All this in exchange for testing him out is worth it.”
Wei Hua thought this way as well. While Bai Wuxue was powerful, Wei Hua did not fear him. His eyes were just somewhat gloomy when he picked up the third report.
This battle report recorded the events that took place when the Black Stone Old Revenant led the group to probe Azure Monarch Island. When Wei Hua spread the battle report, his expression changed drastically after one glance. He exclaimed, “What?! The Black Stone Old Revenant died?! With one hundred people, they could not even delay him?!”
Wang Can, Long Fei, and Kui Dou were all startled. They quickly took a look at the report, and their eyes filled with disbelief.
“What great courage! He dared to block a hundred of my Corpse Race cultivators alone!” Long Fei shouted in rage as he closed the folding fan in his hand in one move.
Wang Can said somewhat worriedly, “Clearly, this fellow was only interested in killing Elder Black Stone. He purposely let those Inferior Grade Martial Sages go, simply not caring about them.”
Kui Dou smiled coldly and said, “Good. This makes it more interesting when I turn him into a bug and trample on him.”
“Whoosh!”
An iron sword pierced through the walls and flashed towards Wei Hua. He stretched his hand out and caught the sword. Then, he slowly revealed a smile on his face. He said, “Good, this will be a great help to us. In less than two months, Dragon Wood Star will fall into our hands.”
Wang Can asked quickly, “Brother Wei, what made you so happy? What is the news from that person?”
Wei Hua casually moved his hand and shattered the iron sword. He replied calmly, “This Xiao Chen will die for sure. Someone already helped us to think of a countermeasure. Come, let’s go and make some preparations and wait for the good news, so we will be ready to make a move at any time.”
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At Azure Monarch Island, Xia Feng, the yellow-robed old man, and Qin Wu, the three in the island’s upper echelon, all came to Xiao Chen’s residence.
For the past few days, Xiao Chen had remained indoors and never left. He continuously focused on comprehending and refining his Dao. He did not place all his time on his cultivation.
Currently, his saber Dao was the most important thing. He had already reached a critical period. Every day, he thought of new ideas and quickly verified whether these concepts worked or not.
At the same time, he was waiting for someone to make a move. Today, they finally came.
“Little Friend Xiao Chen, the two of them already reflected over the earlier matter at the great hall. Allow this old man to chip in and apologize on their behalf once again. Let us consider this a friendship forged through battle,” Qin Wu said sincerely to Xiao Chen. The moment he came in, he humbled himself.
Smiles also filled Xia Feng’s and the yellow-robed old man’s faces; it looked like they, too, were very sincere.
Xiao Chen smiled coldly to himself, but his expression did not change. He looked at Xia Feng and said, “Island Lord Xia, I believe you did not come here just to apologize, right?”
Xia Feng did not show any anger on his face. He said somewhat apologetically, “Little Friend Xiao Chen misunderstands. This time, my main purpose in coming is to apologize to this little friend. At the same time, I brought Senior Huangpu’s medallion. I hope that Little Friend will come out and participate in battle, harassing the armies of the Corpse Race.”
Keep pretending. It is likely that once I go out, you will immediately reveal my movements to the upper echelon of the Corpse Race. Only death will await me.
After Xiao Chen received the medallion, he casually placed it on the table and said coldly, “If I’m not wrong, Island Lord Xia must have spent a lot of effort to obtain this medallion from Senior Huangpu, right?”
These words hit straight to the truth of the matter. A stunned look appeared on Xia Feng’s face. Even though he quickly concealed it, he could not hide it from Xiao Chen’s eyes.
Xiao Chen did not bother saying anything more. He closed his eyes, indicating that he did not intend to play along.
“Hmph! Excellent. How courageous. To think that you even dare to disobey Lord Huangpu Feng’s order. Just you wait. I will definitely report this matter. The Martial God Palace will not let you off so easily.”