Chapter 37: Emergence of Miracle Commerce (1/2)
Ye Xiong gathered his Devil Wolf’s spirit energy, raised his two hands high, already shattering the rocks in proximity as his energy radiated in an outwards radius. Everyone felt the pure energy whittling past them, even if it couldn’t be seen, as if a sharp energy piercing through space itself, arching and shot straight towards Chu Tian with inhuman speed.
HONG!
The cold energy of the Polar Bear spirit.
Xiong Bing reached out his left hand. A swirl of biting cold congealed into an icy wall, and in an ear-splitting crash, the force viciously bit into the ice wall, forcibly cracking the ice wall, marring it with wide splits, and yet… it remained intact.
Blocked by Xiong Bing again!
“Xiong Bing!” Ye Xiong howled. “You really think I can’t kill him?”
A scroll full of pictures slid to the floor from a sleeve.
Ye Xiong raised his arm.
HONG!
The devil wolf energy spirit, as if feeling its master’s rage, violently slashed a huge paw on the scroll, a muddy golden light obliterating the scroll to fine powder that was picked away by the wind.
Nan Guan Yi, Zhang Li Qing, and Xiong Bing were all stunned silent. Did Ye Xiong destroy… Could he have destroyed Chu Tian’s soul contract?
Ye Xiong’s reddened eyes widened as he threw his head back in laughter. “Lowly slave! Die!”
This was an era of slaves. One city with two or three million citizens could have as much as two or three hundred thousand slaves. Even the smallest families with a bit of money could buy slaves for their services. Poor families voluntarily gave up their people to gain a slightly well-off living in return.
The prevalent buying and selling of slaves was on a big part, based on security.
Slave owners had in their possession a stamped contract holding their slave’s life within. This kind of slave contract, once signed, was impossible to break. Whoever had the slave scroll was the slave’s owner.
When the scroll was destroyed...
The slave’s spirit would immediately crumble. No deus ex machina could save them.
Ye Xiong had initially planned to torture Chu Tian little by little until death, but now his mind clouded over with rage and revenge. Who had anticipated Xiong Bing would block him and deny him of revenge? And so he decided to directly destroy the contract and watch Chu Tian’s spirit slowly crumble to disintegration; let him die painfully under the eyes of everyone.
So what if he had shocking, raw talent?
So what if he was crazy talented and once in a lifetime?
He was and would always be a lowly, vulgar slave! Humiliating Ye clan and killing the eldest, prized son, this enemy cannot- must not- be spared!
The audience stared up at the elevated stage.
One second, two seconds… ten seconds ticked by.
And Chu Tian was still standing in one whole defiant piece up on the arena.
Ye Xiong’s fury and shock mingled together. What was this? Why was he not dead?
“Ha! Didn’t expect this did you, you old cur?” Chu Tian grinned, looking far from someone in pain. “Ye Clan’s cuckolds only have this little third-rate trick up their sleeves, but what can you do to me?”
His spirit had been destroyed, but the person was still alive?
Impossible!
Du Zhen Tian was unable to sit idly by any longer.
Even though the Du Clan had no direct grudge against Chu Tian, he was motivated enough to eliminate a possible threat.
“Wild thief! I’ll help you!”
Du Zhen Tian released his energy spirit. His energy spirit was different compared to the others. It was shockingly pitch black double bladed hatchet five times the size of a normal one. It had a fiery destructive aura. Du Zhen Tian grabbed at empty air as if wrapping his fingers around an imaginary handle. The incorporeal black hatchet raised itself up, hurtling itself towards Chu Tian.
“Chop!”
Chu Tian stepped aside to avoid the hit.
A black hatchet crashed down from the air down to where Chu Tian had been standing mere milliseconds ago, and the arena splintered and gave way to a huge crack. What a destructive power.
Ye Xiong, Li Zhang Yun, Du Zhen Tian: the three Soul Awakening fighters had simultaneously released attacks. Zhang Li Qing and Xiong Bing alone would be hard-pressed to defend Chu Tian. It looked like he was really in a bit of a tight spot.
Meng Qing Wu and Meng Ying Ying saw this event unfolding from afar, and their hearts seized with worry.
Why else would Chu Tian fight so hard but for their commerce? If they knew the situation would be this risky, they would have rather Chu Tian stay as a nobody and not attract all this dangerous attention.
Everything was too late now.
What should they do now?
“Enough!”
The entire plaza was affected with vibration. A fiery and deafening roar filled the air. It was as if the world were coming to an end. The rolling echoes of the roar filled their eardrums with a piercing pain. “Do you still think I, the mayor, am important?”
A frightening intimidation swept across the entire land.
The power of red flame emitted out, a strong heat shrouded the arena, which congealed into a large spirit. The spirit looked like the mouth of a volcano, burning lava roil on it’s surface, spurting hot magma, a poisonous miasma assailed the nose.
The mayor Nangong Yi made his move.
It was a volcano spirit!
The volcano represented the strength of the earth, the volcano represented the strength of nature. A volcanic eruption of sufficient magnitude could cover the entire lands under heaven, causing misery to all living things, and in the end make a whole country perish!
The spirit of the warrior represented the warrior’s ability and potential!
The volcano awakened with world-shaking power, it was as if a calamity was descending onto Tian Nan City, making everybody feel alarmed.
The Nangong clan were all wielders of fire spirits.
Nangong Yun had awakened her godly Fire Phoenix Spirit and became famous in the whole continent.
Nangong Yi held the post of mayor, he was prudent and cautious. Nobody had ever seen him make a move, so nobody knew Nangong Yi’s true strength and thought he was weak.
Even though the Volcano Spirit could not compare to his daughter’s Fire Phoenix Spirit, it still had extreme destructive power. If one were to reach the pinnacle of cultivation, it would not be inferior to the godly spirits.
The power of the volcano.
It was still brewing!
If this power were to be released, the experts on the same level would be no match for it. From the looks of Nangong Yi’s imposing manner, his power was above everybody in the field!
These Spirit Awakened cultivator could not necessarily come out victorious!
Is this the true power of the mayor?
Is this the legacy of the Nangong clan, one of the three great families?
Nangong Yi changed his usual modest and scholarly manner, he reprimanded in a tyrannical manner, “Ye Xiong, you are being impudent! Every year in the Tian Nan General Assembly, casualties are difficult to avoid. Don’t tell me that only your son is allowed to kill other people, and that other people cannot make a move against your son?”