Looking at the three Fiery Eyes, Zhou Bao sighed and put them back into his Space of Segmented Realms. He had benefited a lot, but at the same time, the events that had happened at the Azure Secret Area had been a wake-up call for him: he realized that dealing with the powerful influences in the world was not easy as they were all very sharp people.
The Divine Wind Palace’s superior stratagem had all the sects fooled. However, Zhou Bao’s inadvertent intervention resulted in them having to pay a double penalty. Due to this, neither the Divine Wind Palace nor the other sects would take it lying down. A ferocious battle was definitely on the cards. It was hard for him to escape from the whirlpool of this struggle, though he badly wanted to.
“The most important thing now is never to let anyone discover that I have entered the Mysterious Realm!” With this top priority in mind, Zhou Bao examined his body thoroughly and couldn’t help laughing, “Interesting, it’s really interesting! Haaaa, Primordial Demonic Ape Zhuyan, you really helped me a lot!”
It was because even though he was now at the level of Mysterious Realm, at the Full Closure stage, it was totally invisible, externally and physically.
When a Level Nine expert ascended to the Mysterious Realm, his whole Internal Qi would turn into Real Essence. However, that was just the general case. Zhou Bao’s Internal Qi had a tremendous quality. Even though he was at the early stage of Level Nine, his Internal Qi had already turned into Real Essence of the highest level and possessed the Dharma power and Divine Sense. This fact was known to almost all the people from some big sects who had been studying him, so it was nothing new to them. Now, he had entered the Mysterious Realm, and all his Real Essence was only about three times more refined than before, and there had been no qualitative change. Thus, he would not arouse any suspicion at this point. This was due to the role of the Natal Power of Primordial Demonic Ape Zhuyan. His Real Body was that of Zhuyan, and at the time of fusion, the Innate Deity’s strength that had accumulated in his body had flowed to every crevice of his body. This allowed his physical strength to evolve to an unbelievable degree. In fact, Zhou Bao was not really aware of how much strength he possessed. He just sensed that he seemed to have unlimited powers. He believed that he was able to smash a mountain with a single casual blow. What if he launched the Heavenly Jade Technique?
Zhou Bao did a little experiment. Using the Heavenly Jade Technique, he unimpededly broke through the hollow and Space Ramparts with his fist. In the unending hollow, a meteorite measuring about ten thousand feet in diameter, made entirely of iron, was shattered, while his hand remained unharmed.
“Hiss!”
Zhou Bao gasped at the strength of his blow. He slowly withdrew his fist and felt a little embarrassed.
“My pure physical strength alone is almost one millionth of the Primordial Demonic Ape Zhuyan. God, I can kill a Lord of Heaven with one blow! I have nothing to fear now!” All these thoughts echoed in his heart.
“No, no, better keep a low profile, I should keep a low profile. It’s better to lie low these days!”
After smashing a meteorite to smithereens with one blow, Zhou Bao had felt the obscure, near infinite repulsive force emerging from the depths of the hollow. If it had happened prior to the fight in the Azure Secret Area, he would not have known what the power was, but now, he was wiser. Just as the Azure Secret Area had repelled the Time-fixing Plate at that time, now it was the Principle of Great Ways of the whole universe that repelled him. The strength from his fist was able to destroy the structure of the world now.
Since his fist strength had affected the structure of the whole world, the world retaliated by producing a powerful repulsive force. If he were to strike again, it would now be against the world’s most original power. Accordingly the result would be disastrous, just like the incident with the Time-fixing Plate in the Azure Secret Area.
“Go easy on it, I’d better go easy on it. Although my strength is formidable, it is impossible to compete with the world’s original power now, even with the Critical Hit of the Snake-like Breath Holding Skill. I understand now what the crushing vacuum is all about. To break the world’s original power with one blow is the real crushing vacuum!”
The crushing vacuum!
It was a state passed down from the antiquity times, known as Extreme Realm of Force!
The so-called Extreme Realm referred to a state that could break apart the world’s original power and principle. And the Extreme Realm of Force was clearly the highest level for pure strength.
When Zhou Bao was a young child, he had experienced such a state and even executed this kind of punch when he first understood the power of the Universe Fist Intent. But that blow was not his power but the power of the universe from his previous life. It was the power, similar to that of the split of the universe and the Big Bang, that caused his blow to carry a trail of crushing vacuum and kill his enemy in an instant.
However, he was too young to know what that punch meant then. Now in retrospect, Zhou Bao remembered that he seemed to have been suppressed by an obscure force after that punch. But he activated his fist intent instantly and managed to break free of that repression. That was really an outstanding blow.
“It was a good thing that I didn’t die after that punch! How lucky I was!” Thinking back to the situation at that time, he congratulated himself inwardly.
“Although now I can’t reach the Extreme Realm of Force, the crushing vacuum, I can still sense it, which will allow me to study it. By the time I fully understand how it works, I will not be far from the crushing vacuum. Yeah, the crushing vacuum. I will undergo Thunder Tribulation after a thorough study of the crushing vacuum. Soon I’ll have the ability to get through nine Thunder Tribulations in a row in order to reach the other worldly Realm of Human Immortal that is talked about in legends. Then, I don’t have to worry about anyone else!”
With these thoughts going through his mind, his eyes sparkled with a thin ray of light and then slowly closed. He began to recover his pneuma.
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Apart from the fact that Zhou Bao had already escaped from the Azure Secret Area and was now recuperating in his cave, and that Yu Taixu didn’t gain anything from Fate Creation Boy, the sudden closure of the passageway of the Azure Secret Area caused a major disturbance among the big sects of the Four Eastern Regions.
The underhanded tactics of the Divine Wind Palace were also exposed to the public. Even as they were negotiating with these big sects, they had sent someone to sneak into the Azure Secret Area to try to capture it. This had undoubtedly aroused the anger of all the big sects. What made these sects even more furious was that after the passage was closed, the Divine Wind Palace readily admitted their role in this scheme. Divine Wind Palace was really in serious trouble now.
“Damn you!” In the Immortal Palace, with a snarl, three emissaries of Divine Wind Palace were sent flying by a powerful force. White Tiger punched an emissary in the face and knocked him to the ground. Then he lifted his foot and kept stomping on the emissary, “Bullshit, bullshit! Damn it, how dare you trick me! What’s the matter with you Divine Wind Palace? Go back and tell Yu Taixu to restore the passage to the Azure Secret Area immediately! Otherwise, I’ll never let you go!” He roared in extreme rage and turned to beat up the other two.
“Stop it, White Tiger! If you go on like this, you’ll kill them!”
“So what if I do? Tell Yu Taixu to come to me!” White Tiger shouted angrily, although he eased up on his beating. Watching the three golden-robed men gasping for their lives, he grinned and yelled at them, “Get out of here! Now! From now on, no one from Divine Wind Palace is allowed to come to the Central Mainland Region. Go back and tell the bastards of Mingyi School to get out of this land, or I’ll go to Mingyi School in person!”
“How, how dare you!” The leader of these emissaries was still recalcitrant despite having several of his bones broken by White Tiger. Perhaps this was the problem prevalent in the Divine Wind Palace.
“Well, you wait and see! Three days, you only have three days. In three days, I’ll kill the people of Mingyi School, who are still in the Central Mainland Region!” White Tiger gave a roar of anger and with eyes inflamed with rage shouted, “Somebody, somebody, throw them out, throw them out!”
Hearing White Tiger’s roar, three Level Seven experts jumped out of the shadows and carried the three emissaries out.
“White Tiger, you’re really too impulsive!” Elder Qing, who had been looking on, sighed in despair after the three experts had carried those emissaries out.
“I’m too impulsive? Humph, if I’m not impulsive, the Divine Wind Palace will think we Immortal Palace are real pushovers!” White Tiger, who still looked furious, had regained his composure. But his eyes were like chips of ice, and a terrifying chill emanated from him. “Divine Wind Palace went too far this time. Who does Yu Taixu think he is? How dare he do such a thing! And putting the blame on us who are actually the victims!”
“He didn’t put the blame on us. Maybe Yu Taixu really didn’t gain any benefits in the Azure Secret Area this time!”
“So what? Old Qing, I will not back down this time! If we continue to back down, they will become even more uncontrollable.”
“I know it, of course. If not, I would not have just been a spectator while you kicked those three guys around!” Elder Qing said with a nod. “You take charge of the expulsion of Mingyi School. And I will go to Taihua Mountain!”
“Good!” White Tiger nodded.
“Haaa, are we finally going to show our true colors after being in the background for so long?”
In Wuyang Region, Zhou Bao was looking at the information in his hands and an odd smile flashed across his face. Mingyi School had been defeated overnight by a mysterious expert. Three of their Individual Immortals had died in battle. It was said that a shadow of a huge white tiger appeared in Mingyi Lane that night. The growl of the tiger reverberated through the sky, and a white light passed through the moon. The West Capital was shocked.
Needless to say, it was White Tiger.
It seemed that all the big sects of the Central Mainland Region had been very unhappy with what Divine Wind Palace had done and had started to retaliate. The expulsion of the Mingyi School was just the first move.