1374 Up For Discussion
Sensing the immediate danger, Ling Lan instantly activated both of her domains to resist against the pressure created by the domains of the five lords.
Boom!
Suddenly, a white flash of light blinded everyone’s vision. When they regained their vision, they only saw a wide snowy landscape densely covered with fog. Water molecules in the air could be seen clumping together to form exquisite snowflakes. The main hall had turned into an icy image of itself.
Without warning, the entire foundation of the rainbow palace shook as if a ma.s.sive earthquake was to ravage the Lawless Lands. If Ling Lan hadn’t ordered everyone to temporarily retreat out of the rainbow palace earlier, just this force alone was enough to shock them to their core, instantaneously killing them.
Even Ji Ming and Yu Shangfei, who were an inch away from the front door of the main hall, were also severely injured by the large shockwave. They each spat out a mouthful of blood.
The two of them pitifully fell to the ground. Their eyes dilated and their face drained of blood out of fear. Even so, curiosity took the better of them, as they turned to look directly at the source of fear behind them with apprehension.
The current Ji Ming was very worried for the well-being of the new Lord Gen. Lord Gen was facing five lords by himself. Could he escape out of their clutches with his life?
Ji Ming didn’t dare to think of the other likely possibility. Lord Gen already shocked the whole Lawless Lands by killing the previous Lord Gen, and if he were to fend off five Lords simultaneously, none could ever match his prestige.
Ever since he knew the new Lord Gen was related to his nation, the Huaxia Federation, he felt a feeling of kins.h.i.+p with Lord Gen. As a sort of distant kin, he didn’t want anything happening to him.
After Ling Lan endured the combined efforts of the five Lords, she swallowed the blood that was about to rush past her throat with an unchanging expression on her face. She calmly scanned at the five lords who had surrounded her, looking as though what they were doing were of no threat to her.
In reality, if Ling Lan had only used her ice element, the only consequence wouldn’t be just blood rus.h.i.+ng up the throat. Luckily, her Profound Insight innate talent was a concept that was somewhat heaven-defying. Tying the Profound Insight concept with the ice element concept created a monstrosity, being sub-zero ice that could disintegrate everything it touched.
The main advantage of the disintegrate concept was that it could disintegrate foreign concept energies that were coming from all sides as fast as possible.
However, the more pressure Ling Lan was under, the more energy the disintegrate concept had used. Her fully filled tank of Profound Insight concept energy only held on for less than 20 seconds before it was completely depleted. Even with just 20 seconds, it was still enough to disintegrate more than 70% of the incoming concept energies, leaving the leftover energy for the ice element Domain’s strong defensive strength to handle.
Even so, Ling Lan was still severely injured by that exchange. It was just that Ling Lan was used to tolerating any internal pain from her body, which disallowed any of the five lords to discover that she was indeed injured, not like how she seemed on the surface.
Not seeing the results they had expected, the five lords were frozen in shock.
Right as they were about to attack again, they heard Ling Lan said, “Although they got here late by a few minutes, they still arrived. Really, do think about whether you really want to continue this farce?”
Lord Holy’s eye’s glimmered, looking as though he was calculating something. Suddenly, a decisive gleam showed in his eyes. He instantaneously disappeared and reappeared in front of Ling Lan with a fist aiming directly towards Ling Lan’s solar plexus.
That one fist had all of Lord Holy’s domain concept condensed into one giant amalgamation of glowing energy. He was hoping to kill Ling Lan before she could uphold the end of her deal.
Already sensing what Lord Holy was going to do, Ling Lan’s eyes flickered and a cold smirk appeared on her face. She preemptively flew up from her throne and a large spatial tear suddenly appeared in front of the throne. The lighting angles shone on the tear made it seem as though it had sharp white canines that were ready to swallow everything coming its way.
Lord Holy could clearly feel the limitless suction force from the spatial tear in front of him. Alarms soon blared his mind with the warning of danger.
In that moment, Lord Holy made a swift decision to retreat. He flickered in the air before appearing beside his allies.
The five lords carefully watched the fearsome spatial tear before them. Twice they fought with Ling Lan, she had always shown a different concept. The first encounter was the ice element. This time, it was even more exaggerated than the already crazy powerful ice element, she revealed to them the most legendary and heaven-defying concept in the known universe, s.p.a.ce concept.
The s.p.a.ce concept was too applicable in every situation. It could be used defensively. It also had incredibly strong killing potential. At the same time, it was also the best concept for escaping. In layman’s terms, it was called the concept of undying. No matter if it was used for attacking, defending or protecting one’s life, it didn’t have any weaknesses. It was even considered the strongest in all of those aspects. How could such a concept not be heaven-defying and not be feared by others?
The killing intent in Lord Holy’s mind slowly dissipated as calmness quickly took over his brain.
“You are truly someone from the Soul Society. I have nothing but respect for you.” Lord Holy’s att.i.tude did a 180 to appear nothing but humble. It was as though the person who had just attempted to take out Ling Lan wasn’t him, but someone else.
Ling Lan spoke calmly, “You’re too kind.” Her expression was unwavering, looking as though the scene about Lord Holy trying to kill her never happened.
The five lords looked at each other, and in the end Lord Zhen smiled. “Young friend, since you can keep your side of the deal, then I can’t heartlessly refuse such a cooperative business partner just because the s.h.i.+pment was late by a few minutes, right?”
After saying that, Lord Zhen looked towards the other four lords and said, “Let’s vote on it.”
Before the others could speak, Lord Zhen casted his vote out loud, “I vote to continue our business with our little friend here.”
Seeing his shameless att.i.tude, Lord Card just rolled his eyes towards Lord Zhen. Now, with no grounds to reject Ling Lan’s deal, Lord Card instantly said, “I don’t have any problems with that.”
When Lord Demon saw the two of them make their choice, he cheekily covered his mouth as he snickered. That snicker caused the a.s.sets on his chest to shake, creating a sight that was mesmerizing to the less informed, but to the informed, it would only incite looks of disgust..
“Our little friend here is so pretty and tender. I really like him a lot. I finally don’t have to look at these old bags of skin around me anymore. After so many years, I’ve already got sick of it.” When Lord Demon looked at the other four wrinkly old lords, he also had a look of disgust. However, when his gaze landed on Ling Lan, he looked lovestruck as though he wanted to gobble up Ling Lan. He then smiled sweetly. “I’m very pleased that you can join us.”
Ling Lan could feel gooseb.u.mps all over her body. The veins on the sides of her forehead also popped out. She suddenly had the urge to immediately punch someone in the face.
Lord Yu on the other hand, seemed to be used to Lord Demon’s antics as he wasn’t affected in the slightest. He still calmly spoke out his opinion, “It can be discussed.”
Seeing the other for lords all settling for peace, Lord Holy could only reply unwillingly under his breath, “I also don’t have any problems with it.”
Ling Lan glanced at Lord Holy before looking away indifferently. She waved her right sleeve and five ice thrones appeared out of thin air on both sides of the main hall.
“Have a seat!” Ling Lan raised her hand as she gestured for the five lords to sit down.
The five lords chose the ice thrones closest to them and sat down without speaking a single word of thanks to Ling Lan. Instead, they turned their gaze towards the entrance of the main hall in unplanned unison.
Similarly, Ling Lan didn’t speak as she also set her gaze at the door.
Everyone was waiting. They were waiting to feel the energy fluctuations of a landing stars.h.i.+p.
These energy fluctuations were usually very weak because of how far they were from the source. Standard domain realm masters might not be able to sense it, but for imperial realm masters like them, it was definitely something they could sense.