Chapter 564: The Pneuma-sucking Skill & Failure to Succeed for Lack of a Final Effort
Translator: Transn Editor: Transn
“That d*mn woman, would you dare to come out and fight with me—the king, for three hundred rounds?”
This angry shout startled the heaven and earth and made the supernatural beings cry. All the people present were in a daze due to this shout.
Zhou Bao was King Wuyang of the Jin dynasty. It was appropriate for him to call himself the king, but it would be quite rude to call the woman who had attacked him “that d*mn woman”.
Hidden in the darkness, the woman was also startled by Zhou Bao’s angry shout. But soon, she flew into a rage.
She was a woman of blue blood and looked extremely distinguished. Later, she married Yu Taixu. She had by far got everything she wanted. No one dared to speak to her in bad language and act so arrogantly in her presence.
“Zhou Bao, you’re courting death!”
Therefore, after the woman reacted to these words, Zhou Bao heard a hysterical voice. A golden streamer broke through the void and came directly toward his face.
“Stupid!” Zhou Bao just let out a sneer as he saw that golden streamer. The Natal Sword above his head shook once and then, some sword light flashed past, shattering the golden light.
The woman must have gotten stupid due to his words. It should be noted that even the Taihao Fairy Weapon could not do much harm to him. Exasperated, she attacked him with a Pure Yang Celestial Device. Did she really have a death wish?
And this attack, evidently, had exposed her position. The sword light of the Yin and Yang Heavenly Sword split up immediately and formed an invisible storm of sword blades, shattering that s.p.a.ce entirely.
“Ouch…!”
Obviously, the woman hadn’t expected that Zhou Bao would be so merciless. Being caught off guard, she was unable to withstand the attack, and thus, exclaimed in shock.
“How dare you, little b*stard!”
In the Grand Divine Wind Palace, Yu Taixu could no longer sit in his seat with ease. After all, this was the Divine Wind Palace, his territory. If Zhou Bao injured his wife here, the Divine Wind Palace certainly would suffer great humiliation. Therefore, he was obliged to take action.
“Lord Yu, you finally showed up!” Feeling the wind on Yu Taixu’s fist coming closer, Zhou Bao just let out a sneer. However, this time, he didn’t use the Yin and Yang Heavenly Sword anymore. To everyone’s surprise, he withdrew the Natal Sword of the Yin and Yang Heavenly Sword in his body and let the black smoke of the Infinite Poison Banner gather around him.
“Sizzle…!” The wind hit the Infinite Poison Banner and made it shake sharply. But the banner managed to disperse the whole power of the fist.
“What an idiot! Why did you hit me with your fist since you know nothing of punching skills? I don’t know what you are thinking about!” Warding off this attack with his Infinite Poison Banner, Zhou Bao despised the lord of the Divine Wind Palace a lot on his attainment of punching skills.
After this blow, Yu Taixu showed up with dazzling golden light emanating from all over his body. Behind him was an ashen-faced woman in white, who was staring at Zhou Bao with a malicious gaze, as if she was going to devour him alive.
“Lord Yu, how hot-tempered you are!” Zhou Bao directly ignored the gaze of that woman and fixed his eyes on Yu Taixu.
“At least I’m better than you!” Looking at Zhou Bao’s strange facial expression, Yu Taixu’s face was a little bit darkened. Thus, he said these words in an unfriendly way.
“Of course I’m hot-tempered. w.a.n.g She is a member of the Immortal Palace. No matter what he did, we’ll handle it. When did the Divine Wind Palace have the right to punish him?”
“He came back alone from the Infinite Star Sea. So we need to figure out a lot of things from him!”
“He surely will account for this matter to all of us, but not in the Divine Wind Palace!” Zhou Bao said determinedly, “I’ll take him back. What do you think, Lord Yu?”
“That’ll be fine. However, w.a.n.g She is severely injured. I’m afraid that his pneuma will be greatly undermined if he were taken away now!”
“Lord Yu won’t need to bother about that!”
“Well, there’s one more thing.”
“What?”
“You burst into my Divine Wind Palace and arbitrarily killed people here. Do you really think of the Divine Wind Palace as the Immortal Palace?”
“All right. Don’t try to reason with me. There’s nothing to reason about. Since it’s your territory, you can determine how you would like to handle it!” Zhou Bao said these words decisively.
Yu Taixu smiled and replied, “Okay, since you have said so, I will surely teach you a lesson. I need you to know that the Divine Wind Palace is not a place that you can act wildly!”
Just when Yu Taixu finished speaking, the light in the Treasure Light Tower was extinguished suddenly. All the people in the Treasure Light Tower were Individual Immortals or Genuine Immortals, who were able to see everything around them clearly even without a light. But now, they could see nothing.
Everything before them was pitch-dark as if they were trapped in an environment of emptiness.
The Self-world!
With a keen mind, Zhou Bao felt a slight fluctuation in the surrounding s.p.a.ce. His expression changed and quickly unfolded the Infinite Poison Banner.
Sizzle… Sizzle…
“Eh?!” Obviously, Yu Taixu had underestimated the power of Zhou Bao’s Infinite Poison Banner. It was extremely powerful because it was able to corrode the inhibition of the Divine Wind Palace.
As was known to all, Yu Taixu was very confident of his Self-world.
In terms of hardness, he thought it was not inferior to the protective inhibition of the Divine Wind Palace. But the problem was that he had misjudged a matter.
Except for the Elixir of Nine-headed Fierce Beast, there was also the Peach Blossom Miasma in Zhou Bao’s Infinite Poison Banner.
What a saying said was true: “A specialist only masters his own field.” Although the Peach Blossom Miasma was less toxic than the Elixir of Nine-headed Fierce Beast, it was something that was specifically used for destroying the pneuma.
Based on the Gang Qi, the Self-world still required two other elements, which were time and s.p.a.ce. Not a single one could be omitted.
The Infinite Poison Banner could, for a moment, do nothing to the s.p.a.ce and time of the Self-world, but it managed to engulf all the pneuma inside Yu Taixu’s Self-world. Immediately, it ruined the foundation of his Self-world.
Yu Taixu was quite decisive. He immediately withdrew his Self-world after giving an exclamation. “It’s the Peach Blossom Miasma. I didn’t expect that you would infuse such an insidious thing in the Infinite Poison Banner!”
“It doesn’t matter if it’s insidious or not. It’s good as long as it can work!” Zhou Bao’s fingertips moved slightly. The Infinite Poison Banner, which had expanded to a height of more than 100 feet, was now transformed into a wisp of black smoke, circling around his fingertips. “Lord Yu, there is indeed something unique about your Self-world, but it won’t be that easy for it to trap me!”
Yu Taixu now looked terrible. He stared at Zhou Bao and finally sighed helplessly. “Right, you’ve grown up and become quite powerful now. It’s not easy for all the people in the Divine Wind Palace, or even for me, to wipe you out. Besides, if I do that, I’ll have to pay some price. It’s not worth doing that for w.a.n.g She alone!”
“Taixu, you…!”
“Don’t say that anymore. It’s not the time to fall out with the Immortal Palace!” Yu Taixu waved his hand and sent a strong divine thought into the mind of that woman. “Where did you imprison that man?”
The woman’s facial expression looked quite terrible. She glanced at Yu Taixu and sent a divine thought back.
Yu Taixu’s expression changed suddenly and he looked at the woman in anger and shock.
Obviously, others didn’t know the specific content of the spiritual communication between them. But Zhou Bao realized that things were positively much more complicated than he had thought as soon as he saw the change of Yu Taixu’s expression. The woman seemed to have done something without telling Yu Taixu. Zhou Bao’s expression immediately changed and he asked, “What on earth did you do? You’ve already killed him, right?!”
“That’s impossible. But it’s somewhat troublesome. Come with me!” said Yu Taixu to Zhou Bao. He had already regained his composure at this moment and cast an angry glance at that woman.
While Zhou Bao was acting wildly in the Treasure Light Tower, something was happening to w.a.n.g She in the depths of the Phantom Sea Pavilion of the Divine Wind Palace where there was an unknown s.p.a.ce hidden inside.
This unknown s.p.a.ce was not big. It just looked like a huge jail, in the center of which was an altar. Cast entirely in black iron, it was emanating evil spirit.
It was a circular altar with a diameter of about 30 feet. Carved on it were many talismans, with each of which were emanating extremely evil spirit.
These talismans formed patterns of vicious animals which had all sorts of strange looks. Without exception, they were ferocious and hideous, emanating dense murderous intent and smell of blood. With a lower cultivation, one would inevitably be trapped in illusions and even don’t know the reason of his death once he came nearer to it.
Inky black water gushed from the surrounding area of the altar and pervaded the entire s.p.a.ce-time.
w.a.n.g She was tied to a tall and huge totem pole on the altar. Countless hairlike veins were all over the body and they all connected to the totem pole. A young man was sitting atop the totem pole. If Zhou Bao were to see this man, he would find it was the lad named “Zhe-er”, who had been humiliated by him in the Human Emperor Palace on that day.
“Yu Nanzhe, you… You are crazy…, You really want to stir, stir up the battle, between, between the Divine, Divine Wind Palace, and the Immortal Palace?” w.a.n.g She looked extremely pale now and his spirit was quite weak. Everyone could be aware that he was severely injured at the sight of him. His pneuma was greatly damaged.
“w.a.n.g She, don’t exaggerate it just to scare me. Hmph, you’re lucky. Not only did you return alive from the Infinite Star Sea, but you obtained so many benefits. So many elites, from the five biggest sects, including a Lord of Heaven, entered the Infinite Star Sea, but only you came back alive. Why don’t you think about whether the other people will let you go or not? I guess you might as well die here. Haha, anyway, you were already severely hurt when you came back, and it will be quite normal for you to die here without living through it!”
“It’s just your wishful thinking!” w.a.n.g She let out a sneer. Although he was seriously injured, he was no pushover. He forcefully activated his Real Essence, but it all flowed out along his hairlike veins as soon as it was activated.
“It’s useless. The more violently you struggle, the more pain you’ll suffer. Be obedient and let me absorb your Kunpeng Bloodline. You can save yourself a lot of trouble if you die this way. Hahaha, little did I expect that you could profit from a misfortune and thus obtained the Kunpeng Bloodline. As long as I rob you of your Kunpeng Bloodline, I shall have the opportunity to enter the Genuine Immortal Realm and even the Lord of Heaven Realm. At that time, I’ll certainly let Zhou Bao die miserably. Hahaha…!”
“I don’t think you can wait for that day!”
As Yu Nanzhe was laughing triumphantly, a palm suddenly appeared in the void and hit him right in his face.