“No, this really won’t work, Zhi IX. You shouldn’t bully people. Wang She is one of the 28 constellations of the Immortal Palace. I cannot leave him with you at the Divine Wind Palace, I will take him with me.”
“White Tiger, this is not up to you. So many people have gone to the Infinite Star Sea, and now only he has returned alive. This is very serious. We need to find out what happened. Before this is cleared up, he can’t leave the Divine Wind Palace!”
“You’re joking! Even if we check in the Immortal Palace, when would it be your turn to check in the Divine Wind Palace?” White Tiger’s voice grew even angrier. “I think you have an ulterior motive!”
“None of this vicious slander!”
“Hmph, slander? Don’t think that I don’t know! Your School of Five Virtues has been messing around with the Dark Sect for a long time. Their Pneuma-sucking Skill is no secret to you…!”
Before White Tiger finished speaking, Zhi IX interrupted in exasperation. “I’m telling you, Wang She will stay here. When things will become clear, he will leave…!”
“I must take him away!”
“You can try. But I’m going to see if the renowned Penglai White Tiger has the ability to do something shocking.”
This was the Treasure Light Tower in the Divine Wind Palace. White Tiger and Zhi IX did not listen to each other. And those present except those from the Divine Wind Palace and Immortal Palace, and every single man from the other four major sects, all seeing clouds of resentment, seeing both sides quarrel, the light in their eyes constantly shifting moods, did not know which side to support.
One side of Treasure Light Tower erupted in uproar, and the other side, by the Grand Transmitting Formation, was stifled with worry.
The candidate for Human Emperor, Yan Yuntian, was sitting in the main seat, with his eyes lowered. He didn’t know what to make of it either.
“I’m sorry, King Wuyang, what about our friends at the Immortal Palace? Please go back. Right now in the Divine Wind Palace, every sect of suzerain is discussing official business with the Elders. They can’t be disturbed. Please don’t embarrass us!”
Beside the Grand Transmitting Formation, the four Genuine Immortals of the Venerable Realm from the Divine Wind Palace made a simple battle array and surrounded Zhou Bao and the Golden Rooster to try and force them back to the Formation. But when they saw Zhou Bao’s glare, they were filled with fear. This guy defeated Hong Taihe. The Eight-tribulation True Immortals and the Lord of Heaven Realm are not adversaries to him. How could the four Venerables control him? They depend on the Divine Wind Palace after all. They are all betting that Zhou Bao would not dare cause trouble on Divine Wind Palace territory. At the end of the day, although he is powerful, the Divine Wind Palace is not weak. A powerful dragon cannot defeat a snake in its own domain. Here in the Penglai Region, Zhou Bao will not destroy everything around him just to fight.
Surprisingly, Zhou Bao did not buy it at all. He glanced at them severely. “Golden Rooster, just stay there chatting. Meanwhile, I’ll work on getting us out!” Then, he ignored them. In an instant, the Three Realms Division that was being used right between the four people disappeared, and the four Venerables were bound and helpless. Their gazes all settled on the Golden Rooster.
This Golden Rooster is a Level Nine. Even the Mysterious Realm had not trained to this level. Facing the pressure from the Venerables, how could he resist? He sat down on the floor. He was not at all terrified, not even afraid. He just smiled mischievously. “Gentlemen, I bear no malice, and do not want to storm the Divine Wind Palace. I will just wait here. What do you think?”
The four men exchanged a look, and there flashed a trace of hopelessness in their eyes. “Okay then, but you’d better not move, otherwise, we can’t guarantee we won’t teach you a lesson!”
Actually, it was their dereliction of duty to let Zhou Bao out of their control. But this dereliction of duty was to be expected. They would only be reprimanded once they got back, if at all, so they didn’t care.
For Venerables, being placed in the Seven-deity Regions was indeed an amazing existence, but in a place like the Divine Wind Palace where there were as many immortals as dogs, they were only upper-middle class people. There were four of them, no more, no less.
But Zhou Bao said that he had come once to the Divine Wind Palace. With his current power and understanding of the Law of Space, he had found the palace quickly. However, this time the Divine Wind Palace was obviously very wary of outsiders, and they started to enforce a strict ban.
“F*ck. This must be on purpose. D*mn Divine Wind Palace. Don’t tell me you want to go to war with the Immortal Palace?!” Zhou Bao cursed to himself in rage. Seeing the Sword Qi coming to attack him head on, he dodged it.
But the inhibition of the Divine Wind Palace is not at all easy to deal with. This Sword Qi was just the beginning. After Zhou Bao dodged the Sword Qi, his surroundings changed suddenly, and the hollow he had been facing turned into a world of ice and snow. Endless blizzards swept, and a torrential hurricane raged from the ground to the sky, seeming as if it could at any time split open the earth and drag him into it.
Zhou Bao wanted to avoid it, but there was no way, because in this space everything was engulfed by the hurricane. Inside the hurricane, all the pneuma was condensed and formed into ice crystals. These ice crystals were compressed by intangible forces, forming blades harder than diamonds, rotating at high speed, filling the space between heaven and earth.
“Cheap trick!” The ice blades filling the sky wreaked havoc. But Zhou Bao was not intimidated. He deployed the Gold Bracelet, which protected the front of his body. All around were ice blades, slashing towards him within 100 feet. They all cut into the Gold Bracelet, and were all destroyed. None of them posed any threat to Zhou Bao.
Zhou Bao scanned the area, carefully observing the space around him. There was a hole. He slowly narrowed his eyes.
“What a formidable inhibition. It was almost a perfect space. It did not have even a tiny hole. Even in the normal world, this couldn’t happen!”
The mightiest force was the force of nature, it was boundless. Even if it was released perfectly, it would influence space and time. But in this inhibition, it can be said time and space perfectly coalesced into one place. The power of heaven and earth within the inhibition simply could not be shaken.
However, Zhou Bao was not an ordinary person. He had the Gold Bracelet protecting him, and did not fear the endless attacks inside the inhibition at all. As soldiers are countered by arms, like must be met with like. Although the Gold Bracelet was just a Pure Yang Celestial Device, it was refined with the strangest of methods. The inside was actually connected to a black hole, a real black hole, which could absorb everything. The icy hurricane could do nothing to stop Zhou Bao. The surroundings changed again into a different scene: giant waves engulfing the sky.
The surroundings turned suddenly from an icy world with ferocious winds to a boundless ocean, with enormous waves billowing to the sky, morphing into the shapes of countless supernatural animals. Snarling, they threw themselves onto Zhou Bao.
Zhou Bai was like an ant among the waves rising thousands of feet high and the supernatural animals forming in front of them. It seemed at any time he could be smashed by the huge waves. But in front of him, the Gold Bracelet was stimulated, and expanded to more than ten times its size. Just like the hurricane, the fierce supernatural animals could not get to within 100 feet of Zhou Bao. Any wave or supernatural animal that got to within 100 feet of him was absorbed by the bracelet, with no escape.
This was the first time Zhou Bao had deployed the Gold Bracelet’s full protective power, the first time the Golden Bracelet was used at maximum power.
He blinked. Although he was a little anxious, he was extremely happy with the Gold Bracelet’s performance.
“This Pure Yang Celestial Device is powerful, if used in the right spot it could save countless effort. If I were to break in with force, even if I wasn’t injured, I could still be worn out. But now, with the Gold Bracelet, this inhibition can do nothing against me, I will suppress it without wasting my power. And the formation! It could have the chance to break it!”
With the Gold Bracelet protecting him, Zhou Bao really did save a lot of effort. He calmly looked around, telepathically connecting with the timeflow and ripples around him, slowly scanning for a tear in the formation. While he was searching, the scene transformed several times, but no matter what, Zhou Bao’s Gold Bracelet could not be broken.
“D*mn it, where did this boy find such a strange celestial device. With its protection, our formation cannot even touch him!” Then, in the myriad rooms of the Divine Wind Palace, the four Elders of the Divine Wind Palace were ashen-faced, looking into their mirrors. There before them stood Zhou Bao’s figure.
“This appears to be the fabled Gold Bracelet. But it is not genuine, it is a replica. Just another Extreme Yang Level celestial device, that’s all. Nevertheless, it is of exceptional quality, an Upper Grade Pure Yang Celestial Device. I’m afraid it wouldn’t be easy at all to break!” Someone among them knew of the history of the Gold Bracelet, and his face darkened. “Only if we can borrow the Bottle of All Manifestations from the Hong family, then can we overcome the power of the Gold Bracelet!”
“The Bottle of All Manifestations? Don’t even think about it! If Hong Taihe were to lose it, we would have nothing to bargain with. The Yu family are already hated, how could we borrow from them the Bottle of All Manifestations?”
“It’s not impossible. Don’t forget, who did Hong Taihe lose to? No other than Zhou Bao. If he hadn’t used the Bottle of All Manifestations to control the Gold Bracelet, he might have lost!”
“That was totally different. He was defeated by Zhou Bao, and his pneuma was seriously damaged. The Hong family’s power was diminished again, and although the Yu family lost the Emperor Xuan, their pneuma was not harmed. He is eager for the Divine Wind Palace to be lost in chaos. Why would we lend him a helping hand?” Another Elder sneered. “But supposing it had nothing to do with the Gold Bracelet, that the inhibition couldn’t harm him no matter what? All we need to do is trap him. The Gold Bracelet can withstand anything, but it can only protect his body. It can’t help him break open the inhibition. Well, what is he going to do?”
While the four men were discussing, the reflection in the mirror changed. In front of Zhou Bao appeared a layer of black haze. The haze was thin, but formed a 30-foot tall and 15-foot wide drape.
“What is that?” The four men were startled. Seeing the black drape, their hearts were struck with an ominous feeling.
They started to hear strange sounds emanating from the mirror.
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!