Chapter 170 - The Bloom of The Lightning Pool (2/2)
“Kof! Kof! Do you think I am so poor? Although these things are precious, they are nothing to me. But, no one would bring so many things with him all day. Besides, your shabby array isn’t worth that much. How about I give you twenty thousand superior-grade Primordial Stones and you give me that array diagram?”
“What? Twenty thousand? Superior-grade or supreme-grade? Did I hear that right?” Yunxiao widened his eyes and looked incredulous.
Zhu Jin said angrily while blushing, “One hundred thousand then! I won’t pay more than that! Your shabby array diagram isn’t worth even ten thousand!”
Yunxiao snorted. “One hundred thousand superior-grade Primordial Stones? We respect you as an expert and a senior, and yet you treat us like beggars! We prefer death to humiliation! We will live or die with the array diagram today, and we will not bring shame to our sect!”
Zhu Jin flew into a rage and could hardly hold himself back. ‘I am a mighty Martial Emperor! I can’t believe I’ve wasted so much time talking nonsense with these juniors! If it weren’t for the fact that there are other divine senses around, I would have killed and robbed them! But, someone is watching me now, and if this were to spread, the whole world would be laughing at me!’ He ground his teeth and said, “Don’t push me too far, boy! Name your price!”
Yunxiao snorted coldly. He knew what this Zhu Jin feared. It seemed that Firecrow Empire was also in constant internal strife. He held up three fingers and said, “Three hundred thousand superior-grade Primordial Stones, or you can kill us right now!”
Zhu Jin sucked in a cold breath. Although he could afford three hundred thousand, it still pained him to fork out so much in one go. But, when he thought of the array diagram that could attract lightning, his heart was immediately filled with excitement. He was cultivating a lightning-type cultivation technique, which was extremely rare and difficult to cultivate. However, if he could attract lighting at any time, he was certain that his cultivation base would take a great leap. Therefore, he had to get that array diagram!
“Fine! I will give you three hundred thousand! But, if I find something wrong with the array diagram or if it isn’t worth the price, you will taste my wrath!”
The old man briskly threw out a storage bag, which Yunxiao took over and put away without even looking at the contents. Since he was too embarrassed to rob them, he would not be dishonest now. While smiling, he threw over the simplified array diagram.
Zhu Jin’s eyes lit up as soon as he gave it a careful look, and he put it away excitedly. The pain in his heart was gone in an instant, and he said with satisfaction, “Not bad, it is indeed interesting! Take care of yourself, since you’ve just given the Xingyang family such great humiliation. Don’t think you can hide from everyone. Firecrow Empire is not as big as you think.”
Yunxiao smiled and said, “I will, if they still have the power to do anything. Thank you for the generous compensation senior. Till we meet again!”
Wasting no more time, he sent several incantation seals into the chariot, which immediately zoomed into the distance at maximum speed.
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In the sky over the Xingyang family, Xingyang Yi and a group of elders were looking at the Outworld Dark Jade in the lightning pool. The power emanating from the stone shocked and terrified even them. Although they were all experienced and knowledgeable people, they could not recognize it, and did not know how to retrieve it from the lightning pool.
“My lord, do you think we should retrieve these twelve chariots first? The lightning pool seems to rely on them to operate.” One of the elders suggested.
“You are right. This stone should be the key to finding the culprits. They should have fled before they could take it with them. We will find them with this stone!” Xingyang Yi’s face was grave. Even if the culprits were found and chopped to a thousand pieces, the humiliation his family had suffered would not be washed away. He was certain that the whole imperial city would be talking about this incident tomorrow, and many people would be laughing and making fun of him.
At the thought of that, Xingyang Yi felt he was about to explode with anger as he threw out a palm and slapped at one of the chariots.
As his palm hit the chariot, it suddenly glowed with white light, bright like it was scorched under high heat. Then, the rest of them lit up as well. They floated in the air like twelve luminous objects, illuminating everything within hundreds of meters around them.
“This…”
Xingyang Yi was startled, and a bad feeling surged in his heart. Meanwhile, the Outworld Dark Jade in the lightning pool seemed to sense something and began to turn transparent while beams of extreme cold energy shot out of it, freezing the air.
An elder sucked in a cold breath and then bellowed in horror, “Not good! These chariots are going to blow themselves up!”
Only then did Xingyang Yi wake up from his shock. He flew into a rage instantly and roared, “Everyone, protect the members of the family! Listen up, the descendants of the Xingyang family, run for your life!”
The twelve chariots were only third-tier mystic weapons, so they could still resist the explosion, but the Outworld Dark Jade in the lightning pool gave him a deep sense of fear and shock. In the face of the cold energy emanating from it, he felt as if his soul were about to freeze. If that thing were to explode…
At the thought of that, he felt his whole body turn cold, and he could no longer calm down.
All Martial Grandmasters of the Xingyang family unleashed their trump cards and attacked the lightning pool together. At the moment when their family was facing a deadly crisis, everyone united as one and exerted their greatest strength. But…
RUMBLE!
The twelve chariots exploded, blowing apart like twelve mini suns in the sky, filling all eyes with a blinding light and shaking the world with a tremendous blast.
But very soon, a blue light broke out, devouring all of the white light as it bloomed like a huge blue lotus flower in the sky over the capital. For a moment, the whole Shangyang turned pale blue. The blue light that devoured all the other light and power did not make any sound, but it gave everyone a sense of emptiness as if the world had ended.
All the explosions quieted down under the blue light. Almost all the experts in Shangyang were terrified, and they shot up into the sky one after another to find out what had happened.