Chapter 1862: The Trail of the Blood Wasp Ashuran King
Xian Gongming’s gaze went through several changes as he very reluctantly said, “I’ve… lost!”
He had no choice. With so many eyes staring at him, if Xian Gongming was a sore loser, and attacked with his own body, not only would he lose face, but also greatly damage his reputation.
“You have cultivated four great Saint Aspects… Forget me, even Crone Qushan may not be your match.”
Immediately after, Xian Gongming continued, “But, if this was a battle of life and death, the gulf between us is still very wide.”
Zhang Ruochen knew that Xian Gongming was very bitter about the loss and smiled. “What you said is true. If it is an all-out fight, the difference between me and senior Xian Gongming is not minor.”
Xian Gongming said, “I only need to use 50 percent of my strength to be able to defeat you.”
For him to take advantage when Zhang Ruochen had given him room to step back.
Zhang Ruochen hid his smile and solemnly said, “According to our agreement before the duel. You have lost to me. Then when the Blood Wasp Ashuran King appears, you must be the vanguard and take point.”
Who would want to be the first to challenge the Blood Wasp Ashuran King?
However, he had no choice. Xian Gongming could only swallow his wounded pride and coldly said, “I naturally will fulfill my promise, and you don’t need to remind me.”
Putting away his heaven and earth aspects, Xian Gongming returned to the Dizu Crown Prince’s side and angrily said, “Li Ruohan is a very scheming person, and not an easy character to deal with. Your Royal Highness, you must be careful.”
The Dizu Crown Prince nodded and said, “Senior brother Xian, how about you find an excuse to temporarily leave Luoshui. It would be quite detrimental to you should the Blood Wasp Ashuran King show up.”
For Xian Gongming to become one of the twelve Gongmings of the Shentian Sect, he was naturally not an impulsive fool and said, “Now, I can only avoid the headwinds.”
“A man should be able to stand tall or submit as required, and staying alive is much more important than anything else.”
As the Dizu Crown Prince was thinking about what excuse he should give to let Xian Gongming leave the Nine Carols Star, at this moment, a cloud of blood rushed through the atmosphere and slammed heavily against the ground.
Booom!
In the direction where the blood cloud fell, a storm of dust was kicked up.
“It’s the aura of Junior Brother Yun.”
Xian Gongming stared into the distance with a surprised look on his face.
The Dizu Crown Prince’s expression changed as he said. “Yun Gongming had stayed behind at the Warsoul Star. Why is he here at the Nine Carols Star, and he seemed to have been seriously injured.
“Let’s have a look.”
The Dizu Crown Prince and xian Gongming was worried deep down, and lead a group of cultivators from the Dizu Divine Dynasty and immediately flew over, as they rushed to the place the blood cloud fell.
Zhang Ruochen, Li Miaohan, and others also rushed over.
Yun Gongming was Xian Gongming’s junior, but his combat power was actually slightly higher than that of Xian Gongming’s. He was a renowned genius in the Imperial Path Macroworld. Even the Dizu Crown Prince with his extraordinary status would need to be wary of him.
But at this moment, Yun Gongming had collapsed at the bottom of a ma.s.sive pit hundreds of meters in diameter, and could not stand up.
On his body were dozens of blood holes.
One of the blood holes was as huge as the mouth of a bowl, puncturing through his abdomen, and broke his spine. The saint blood in his body continuously flowed outwards, turning into blood clouds.
The moment Zhang Ruochen saw Yun Gongming, he was able to conclude that the latter was wounded by the Blood Wasp Ashuran King.
That’s because his injuries were exactly the same as the Fool’s.
Moreover, there were also Ashuran Battle Qi escaping from his body.
It was due to the Ashuran Battle Qi that his wounds could not close, and his saint blood continued to flow outward.
The Dizu Crown Prince took out a healing pill and fed it to Yun Gongming.
Yun Gongming’s injuries improved slightly but soon continued to deteriorate. The Ashuran Battle Qi in his body was rampaging across his body, and destroying his body tissue, blood vessels, and meridians.
Whoos.h.!.+
Fairy Tianchu descended from the sky and appeared at the edge of the b.l.o.o.d.y pit. She struck a talisman out and suspended it above Yun Gongming’s body.
A white brilliance radiated from the talisman.
The Ashuran Battle Qi in Yun Gongming’s body slowly escaped and were gushed towards the talisman.
When the Ashuran Battle Qi had fully dissipated, the wounds on Yun Gongming’s body began to slowly heal, as he regained consciousness.
Zhang Ruochen said to himself, “The Tianchu Civilization had been fighting with the Ashurans for so long now, and seems like they have refined many methods to deal with them.”
A smile appeared on the Dizu Crown Prince’s face, as he said. “Thank you, Fairy, for the help. I will definitely repay this favor back in the future.”
When Yun Gongming woke up, he said in haste, “Your Highness…. the Blood Wasp Ashuran King had gone the Warsoul Star…”
The Warsoul Star was also a planet floating on the surface of Luoshui and was occupied by the Dizu Divine Dynasty.
There were many sacred medicines, saint stones, saint metals, and many other valuable resources on the planet, and could be seen as the Dizu Crown Prince’s main base in Kunlun Realm.
Li Miaohan smiled and transmitted a telepathic message to Zhang Ruochen. “The Dizu Crown Prince must be p.i.s.sed. He wanted to seize a supreme opportunity in the Nine Carols Star, but his own lair fell instead.”
Zhang Ruochen could not laugh as his expression was grim, saying. “At the polar point of the Warsoul Star is a lake made out of divine blood, there’s also a divine corpse there. If the Blood Wasp Ashuran King seized all of this and use it to feed his Blood Wasps, then how powerful would those Blood Wasps get?”
“You’re right.”
Li Miaohan took a deep breath and realized the seriousness of the situation.
The cultivators on the Nine Carols Star started to discuss loudly.
Some advocated to stay and defend the Nine Carols Star, deploying formation arrays to deal with the Blood Wasp Ashuran King’s attack, and the main representative was this faction was s.h.i.+qing Shenzi.
Some argued that they should rush over to the Warsoul Star, and seize the initiative to attack the Blood Wasp Ashuran King, this faction was represented by the Dizu Crown Prince and the Fourteenth Prince. This was because, in their view, all of the resources on the Warsoul Star belonged to the Dizu Divine Dynasty.
On this point, the two of them actually saw eye to eye.
There were also some cultivators who say Yun Gongming was beaten to the point of dying, and fear grew in their hearts as they prepared to escape Luoshui.
After arguing for a long while, it was to no avail.
In the end, all of the cultivators looked at Fairy Tianchu, hoping that she would help them make up their minds.
There were advantages in staying behind at the Nine Carols Star because the Tianchu Civilization had deployed many means across the star.
It could deal with the Blood Wasp Ashuran King. If they were to include the Eight-Rank array that s.h.i.+qing Shenzi and Elder Lu were to deploy, then at least they could remain invincible.
However, if they were to go to the Warsouls Star, and attack the Blood Wasp Ashuran King, then the deployed arrays on the Nine Carols Star would be useless.
Moreover, the advantage will be with the Blood Wasp Ashuran King, and they will be the disadvantaged side.
A decision that could mean the life and death of many cultivators, Fairy Tianchu would need to be cautious with her decision-making.
“We have so many cultivators with us, even if the Blood Wasp Ashuran King had three heads and six arms, he is still a dead man,” the Butcher said.
Clearly, the Butcher was one of the hawks.
Zhang Ruochen’s fingers stroked his chin, as he raised his head and looked around, seemingly looking for something.
Fairy Tianchu noticed Zhang Ruochen and asked, “Ruohan, what do you think?”
In fact, Fairy Tianchu had long arrived at the place where Zhang Ruochen and Xian Gongming dueled, so she knew that Zhang Ruochen was now under the alias of ‘Li Ruohan’. However, she had confidence in Zhang Ruochen’s abilities, so she did not stop him from dueling Xian Gongming.
“Master is asking you something.” Li Miaohan whispered.
Zhang Ruochen snapped back, and pondered for a moment, before saying with a smile. “Everything shall be decided by Your Highness.”
“You are one of the masters of the Tianchu Civilization. I want to hear your opinion.” Fairy Tianchu said.
The eyes of all of the cultivators present all landed on Zhang Ruochen, as they said to themselves. “This Li Ruohan’s bears considerable influence in Fairy Tianchu’s heart, and for her to ask his opinion in such a critical moment.”
Zhang Ruochen pondered for a moment, and his tone became firm. “I advocate for attacking the Warsoul Star.”
“Why?” Fairy Tianchu asked.
Zhang Ruochen said, “Because the Warsoul Star has a divine blood lake and a divine corpse. It is very possible those could help all of the Blood Wasps the Blood Wasp Ashuran King has to evolve into the realm of a Nine-step Saint King. By then, no matter how strong the Nine Carols Star’s defenses are, they will not be able to stop him. Staying in the Nine Carols Star is as good as waiting for our doom.”
s.h.i.+qing Shenzi sneered, “You think it’s that easy for the Blood Wasp to evolve into a Nine-step Saint King realm? Even if he could do it, it will take a very long time.”
Zhang Ruochen said, “He doesn’t even need to get them to the realm of Nine-step Saint King, he only needed to evolve them to the realm of a Four-step Saint King for the Blood Wasp Ashuran King to be able to lock the entirety of Luoshui down. By then, we cannot even leave the Nine Carols STar, and stepping out means death.”
s.h.i.+qing Shenzi wanted to refute, but he had to admit that what Zhang Ruochen said was the truth.
“I say now is the best time to escape Luoshui. If we wait any longer, we won’t be able to escape,” a cultivator said.
The Dizu Crown Prince snorted coldly. “Escape? we have so many cultivators gathered here, and we are talking about escaping, and then handing all of the cultivation resources in Luoshui to the Blood Wasp Ashuran King on a silver platter? Aren’t you lot afraid of being the laughing stock of the various realms in the Celestial Court once word gets out?”
The Fourteenth Prince stood out and said. “This battle is unavoidable. Fairy, the matter of besieging and taking down the Blood Wasp Ashuran King, we shall follow your lead.”
“No rush.”
Zhang Ruochen said. “I think we should invite elder Crone Qushan. If she is willing to act, even if we cannot kill Blood Wasp Ashuran King, we have a very good chance of pus.h.i.+ng him back.”
“Crone Qushan is not at all afraid of the Blood Wasp Ashuran King. She only wants to cultivate to the realm of Supreme Sainthood as soon as possible, how would she dirty her hands on this matter?”
“Inviting Crone Qushan may sound easy, but if you make a mistake, you might die!”
“It’s said that Crone Qushan had cultivated the path of souls. Just by exchanging a few words with her, she could see through the heart of another person. As long as it is a treacherous person, she will kill him immediately.”
…
Whispers then rang out.
All of the cultivators present hoped that Crone Qushan would join the battle, but all of them knew that it was very risky to invite Crone Qushan.
If they were to accidentally anger her, their end would be terrible. Plus, who had never done anything wrong before, and if they were found out by Crone Qushan, would they not lose their lives?
Who dared to invite her?
Fairy Tianchu wanted to get rid of the Blood Wasp Ashuran King but did not hope to see the Tianchu Civilization suffer heavy losses, so she said, “I’ll go and invite elder Crone Qushan.”
Li Miaohan wanted to follow along but was stopped by Zhang Ruochen. “Help me keep an eye on Xian Gongming. Don’t let him slip away!”
Immediately after, Zhang Ruochen caught up with Fairy Tianchu and said, “I’ll go with you.”
The two then walked side by side as they disappeared before everyone’s eyes.
The Fool let out a sly smile as he said towards the Butcher. “I was right, no? He is really a good man. You see, aside from him, who else dared to go into danger with Her Highness?”
“I did not say he wouldn’t do. I always felt that Her Highness lacked such a person beside her.” The Butcher glared back at him.