Chapter 677: Fief! (1/2)
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
”Mm, let's go.”
Wang Chong nodded his head and left with a wave of his sleeve.
The result of this battle was completely within expectations. Intentionally or unintentionally, the black-robed men had made a fatal mistake in disregarding the existence of Zhang Qiantuo.
Now was the time for them to pay the price.
”Everyone else, stand guard outside. Li Siye, you go outside as well. Without my order, no one is allowed to enter.”
Wang Chong issued out a string of orders and then turned to look at his master, the Demonic Emperor Old Man.
”Master, I've troubled you.”
”Hmph, I also want to know what sort of person can be so capable that they could create that strange monster.”
The Demonic Emperor Old Man slowly stepped forward.
By daring to attack Wang Chong and Wang Xiaoyao, these people had broken his taboo. Even if Wang Chong had said nothing, he would still have taken matters into his own hands and sought to uproot their organization.
Dragons were said to be enraged if one touched their reverse scale, and the Demonic Emperor Old Man's reverse scale was the lives of his last two disciples, Wang Chong and Wang Xiaoyao.
Anyone who dared to touch them would die!
Buzz!
The Demonic Emperor Old Man spread apart his fingers, and the black-robed leader on the ground was suddenly raised up by some invisible energy and brought to the old man's palm.
The Demonic Emperor Old Man closed his eyes and a thick black energy immediately entered the head of the black-robed man.
The evil path had many methods of searching a person's memories.
As the former hegemon of the evil path and its supreme expert, the Demonic Emperor Old Man knew a significant number of these methods. If powerhouses of the evil path like him wanted to know the truth of some incident, they wouldn't need to use torture tools and interrogation. They could extract the truth straight from the subjects.
Buzz!
Time slowly passed. The Demonic Emperor Old Man remained standing in place while the leader of the black-robed men floated in the air, his body shuddering and writhing, his lips letting out moans and groans as if he was experiencing some terrible pain.
The techniques of the evil path, especially those that had the goal of searching a target's memories, were all extremely domineering and cruel, with severe side effects.
The majority of the people subjected to this art would have their minds severely damaged and ultimately end up as idiots.
Wang Chong stood next to the Demonic Emperor Old Man, looking at his master with anticipation. Even in his own generation, the Demonic Emperor Old Man was still someone that the vast majority of people could only look up to and existed far beyond their reach.
If not even he could turn up any information on these people, then others certainly could not.
Everything has its reason. By capturing the leader of this group, I should be able to quickly find out their true goal, Wang Chong quietly said to himself.
Across the entire Central Plains and its surrounding foreign kingdoms, there was basically no secret that Wang Chong did not know. But these black-robed men did not seem to exist in any corner of history and Wang Chong had no memory of them. Everything about them seemed to be cloaked in a thick and befuddling fog.
Time continued to slowly pass, and the Demonic Emperor Old Man finally opened his eyes.
Wang Chong took two steps forward and asked with deep concern, ”Master, how is it? Did you find out their background?”
To Wang Chong's surprise, the Demonic Emperor Old Man did not immediately answer the question, only gave a long sigh of surprise.
”What a formidable mental seal! In my decades living in the martial world, I've never encountered such a powerful and top-notch mental technique. Chong-er, you're facing a true opponent this time.”
With these final words, the Demonic Emperor Old Man turned to Wang Chong, a hint of deep worry flashing through his eyes.
”Master, were you not able to find anything?”
Wang Chong felt his heart thump as he suddenly had an ill foreboding. His master's reaction was not that of someone who had succeeded.
Wang Chong found it very difficult to imagine something that not even his master, the greatest expert of the evil path, could resolve.
”Hmph, how could that be possible? No matter how formidable their seals are, it's not possible to completely hold me back.”
The Demonic Emperor Old Man snorted as his eyebrows slightly rose. His face exuded an aura of disdain and confidence.
”The other side has an extremely formidable master of mental seals. All the critical memories have been sealed, and carelessly touching them will immediately make these people explode and die. This naturally means that no information will be leaked.”
The Demonic Emperor Old Man extended a finger and pointed at the black-robed leader.
”However, nothing is absolute. No matter how formidable their defenses are, I still managed to find some information about them. These people call themselves the Children of God. They apparently believe that they're following some actual god. Hah, ridiculous!”
The Demonic Emperor Old Man ended his words with a snort.
As the greatest master of the evil path, the Demonic Emperor Old Man had never worshiped any god, much less believed in one. It was just a bunch of fools being fooled.
Moreover, if a god really did exist, wouldn't he himself be a god?
”…It's just a bunch of idiots play-acting as ghosts and gods.”
The Demonic Emperor Old Man showed disdain in his eyes. In the world of martial arts, the strong eating the weak had always been the indisputable and basic principle. If a 'god' really did exist, they would just be some even more powerful martial artist.
The minds of people were ignorant!
”A god?”
Wang Chong's brows rose and he seemed to fall into deep thought. This information was completely unexpected.
”Oh, that's right. Although this is a faction of ignorant, furtive, and shady people, they have a few extraordinary aspects. Your master has discovered from their memories that the monster we killed previously was a thing they called Lu Wu, a living being they say was created by God. Although I don't believe that any person in this world can call themselves 'god', that monster truly was rather good.”