Chapter 1553: Memory Pearl
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
BOOM!
With a thunderous noise, it immediately felt as if the air was being shattered by a blast and the surrounding void was being sucked away by some mysterious force.
The shadow of a figure sprang up from the ground, holding a staff in his hand, which he pointed at the ground.
The ground instantly surged with numerous rays of light and runes that were circulating and completely imprisoned the area where Xuanyuan Wanrong and b.u.t.tface were standing.
Xu Que had seen everything that was happening through the calamity-foreseeing art. When he’d shouted at Duan Qide, he’d quickly retreated and managed to withdraw outside of the scope of the spell. He had evaded being imprisoned by Duan Qide’s spell.
SWIs.h.!.+
Suddenly, Duan Qide’s figure had also appeared. His appearance seemed somewhat different from what Xu Que had seen during the day. During the day, Duan Qide had seemed extremely young, and his facial features had held only a kind of familiar feeling.
Now, however, it was as if Duan Qide looked almost identical to Duan Jiude with his traitorous looks.
Obviously, this was Duan Qide’s true face. If Xu Que had seen this face during the day, he would certainly have a.s.sociated him with Duan Jiude right away.
“Come on, quickly tell me! How did you find out?” Duan Qide asked anxiously and glared at Xu Que the moment he’d landed on the ground.
He was completely surprised. In fact, he was in shock. Xu Que was only a Golden Celestial of the Great All-Embracing Heaven, but even if Xu Que had been at the Celestial Emperor stage, it would’ve been impossible for him to detect his existence.
But now Xu Que had not only exposed his hiding place, he was even aware that he had set up a spell formation. Furthermore, it was almost like he’d known in advance and had actually escaped the boundary of the imprisonment Array. It was a little freakis.h.!.+
Xuanyuan Wanrong and b.u.t.tface also looked surprised by the unexpectedly noiseless arrival of this man. He had laid his ambush so deeply and set up the spell formation so well.
To their astonishment, it didn’t seem that Xu Que and this man had planned this in advance.
If it had been premeditated, then the fortunate timing of Xu Que’s evasion wouldn’t have been so odd. But the man, Duan Qide, acted even more surprised than they were, indicating that the two men weren’t accomplices. This made the whole sequence of events even more intriguing.
With their levels of strength, they hadn’t been able to detect Duan Qide’s existence, so how had Xu Que found out?
“Could it be that his Soul Strength had already risen above the cultivation stage of a Celestial Emperor and had reached the cultivation stage of a Taoist Prime?”
“Ha, ha, ha, Brother Duan, the important thing is not how I found out. The key is that you have plotted against me. This seems a little unreasonable, isn’t it?” Xu Que stood outside the spell formation and looked at Duan Qide with a smile.
Duan Qide frowned and then suddenly burst out laughing, “Ha, ha, ha, well, everyone has his own secrets. I won’t ask how you knew if Brother Slayer doesn’t want to tell me. But Brother Slayer, don’t misunderstand me, while you were all within the scope of the spell formation just now, I had planned to first launch the spell formation and then to release you after you were imprisoned.”
“Oh? I see.” Xu Que nodded with a smile.
SWIs.h.!.+
The next moment, his figure flashed, and he suddenly leapt away from his original spot to appear a few hundred yards away. He looked at Duan Qide with a smile again.
“How is that possible?” Duan Qide’s face instantly went through a major change.
His voice had just faded away when there came another sound of a BOOM! The ground trembled, and the original position where Xu Que had been standing had been covered by a large swathe of golden light shooting upward.
Obviously, from the moment that Duan Qide had opened his mouth and laughed, the staff in his hand had touched the ground and his Celestial Core Power had pa.s.sed through the staff to noiselessly drill into the ground. Then it had laid down the spell formation again and gotten ready to capture Xu Que.
But who would have thought that Xu Que would be able to evade it once again by seeming to know in advance it was going to happen?
This really frightened Duan Qide. He’d been more careful in setting up the spell this time than the last time, and he’d made sure not to leak the slightest hint of what he was about to do. But Xu Que had still managed to avoid it.
“F*ck!” b.u.t.tface was so startled when he’d seen this scene that he’d cried out loud.
Xuanyuan Wanrong also looked deadly serious. Her eyes had once again looked toward Xu Que with curiosity.
Even though Duan Qide had set up the spell in front of them this time, they’d also not realized it. However, Xu Que had coped with it so easily. Obviously, this man was not so simple.
“Hey, Brother Duan, what are you doing here anyway?” Xu Que said, laughing, as he stood hundreds of yards away.
If it hadn’t been for the calamity-foreseeing art, he would’ve really been imprisoned by Duan Qide.
Just as he’d expected, whether it was b.u.t.tface in his previous life or Duan Jiude’s grandfather, none of them had been good guys.
Their hearts were so dirty!
HMPH! “Since we’ve come to this point, I’m not going to pretend with you any longer. You’d also better not play dumb with me. I heard everything just now. Your real name is Xu Que, and you’ve come to the Heaven Palace Sect under the a.s.sumed name of Slayer Lord. You must certainly be there for the treasure room, right?” Duan Qide stopped with his false smiling and stared at Xu Que with a blank face as he spoke.
“I’m not really there for the treasure room.” Xu Que spread his hands, still wary of Duan Qide.
In terms of strength, he was far less capable than Duan Qide. Once Duan Qide really made his move, then he had no other choice but to run away.
But thankfully, because of the two consecutive warnings from the calamity-foreseeing art that had allowed him to evade Duan Qide’s spell formation, Duan Qide was now completely on guard against him and thus had stayed his hand for a short while.
It also implied that there was the possibility of negotiating for peace!
“Oh, my young friend Xu, shouldn’t we try to be honest with each other this time? If you didn’t come for the treasure room, then why did you mess around with the Mountain’s Protective Spell Array near the Heaven Palace Sect?” Duan Qide asked, sneeringly.
In his view, Xu Que had messed around with the Mountain’s Protective Spell Array only in order to create a huge chaos and then take advantage of it to ransack the treasure room.
But he hadn’t expected that the Mighty King had actually gotten there a step ahead of them all.
“Ha, ha, ha, Brother Duan has really misunderstood. In fact, the Mighty King is right. My target wasn’t the treasure room, but Xuanyuan Wanrong.” Xu Que said and laughed.
Xuanyuan Wanrong’s face instantly got dark, and her eyes looked ice-cold with a boundless murderous aura.
Duan Qide was also startled. He looked at Xu Que and then he glanced at Xuanyuan Wanrong. He was delighted.
It turned out that he had encountered a ravisher, and such a handsome ravisher at that. B*stard!
“Why do we need to fight if our goals aren’t in conflict? The Mighty King can belong to you, and Xuanyuan Wanrong will belong to me. So, how about it?” Xu Que spoke up again.
Duan Qide also didn’t hesitate, and he immediately nodded his agreement.
b.u.t.tface, who was trapped within the spell, immediately shouted, “Come on, Lord Brother, how can you be like this? We’ve agreed to be good brothers. How can you so easily sell Your Holiness out? You are acting so randomly.”
“Not randomly at all. I’ve thought deeply about it. I can only love one person in this life, and that is Miss Xuanyuan,” Xu Que replied.
Xuanyuan Wanrong raised her eyebrows and continued to stare at Xu Que with an intensifying murderous aura.
She could see that Xu Que was not a wastrel given to l.u.s.t. He even vaguely seemed to give her a kind of feeling of wanting to get as far away from her as possible. To say that Xu Que’s target was the other female disciples, she might believe it. But to say that Xu Que’s target was her, she really couldn’t feel it.
But all this guy talked about was her, which made her very uncomfortable!
“Come on, don’t be like this, Lord Brother. The relations.h.i.+p between us brothers is not over yet! Just think of our previous lives long ago when I called you Lord Brother and you called me b.u.t.tface, when we joined forces to plunder the world’s treasure troves. How brilliant that was!” b.u.t.tface still wouldn’t give up as he cried out loud.
“That was all in the past. A real man doesn’t boast about his past achievements.” Xu Que waved his hands, while walking toward the spell formation.
As long as there’d been no warning from the calamity-foreseeing art, he basically could determine that Duan Qide really wanted to cooperate.
“d.a.m.n, you really are shameless. Your Holiness has told you, if you really hand Your Holiness over, you will absolutely regret it. You don’t know how much bounty Your Holiness has reaped from the treasure room. There is also a memory pearl that holds the secret to Xuanyuan Wanrong’s past history. Your Holiness was even thinking that if I couldn’t escape from Xuanyuan Wanrong’s pursuit, I would hand it over. But I didn’t expect to fall into your hands first.” b.u.t.tface was obviously very annoyed.
The faces of Xuanyuan Wanrong and Xu Que changed instantly when they’d heard that.
A memory pearl containing Xuanyuan Wanrong’s past history?
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