Chapter 70 - Taking It All! (2/2)

However, Elder Lu's next words turned everyone's mind to a blank, ”Sir, this is my offering to your disciple. I hope you can forgive me. To be honest, I wanted to help your disciple, but I simply didn't have the authority.” He had a look of deep regret plastered across his face, one could see the sincerity within.

In truth, this wasn't false. He'd worked for the Imperial Commander before his rise and cultivated all the way up to this point, but he truly hated the Commander and this daughter of his. For nearly two thousand years, he worked and worked, did things he felt was immoral, all because of a debt he owed.

Now that he was in a life-or-death crisis due to their action, he felt aggrieved and no longer willing. He was done. The debt had been paid with his two thousand years of service.

”Please allow me to leave!”

Yan Zaizen felt completely blindsided by the course of events. He didn't know about the specifics of the commander's reputation or his daughters myriad of deeds that felt horrible to most, but he couldn't help but empathize with that aggrieved voice.

He gave a soft nod, grabbing the spatial ring. Elder Lu took off like a beam of light, penetrating the sky and disappearing in a few seconds. Just like that, Lady Di lost her protector. Her emotions as she watched Elder Lu leave her to her fate felt incredibly complex, and then venomous as she cursed him heavily for his cowardice.

”I'll find you and have you killed, you bastard!” She screamed viciously.

As for the others, they were cultivators who reached their current levels in this dirt pit of an environment due to their decisiveness. The crew immediately took off their respective spatial bags and rings, throwing it to Yan Zaizen, exiting the skyship, and waiting for the others. They were smart enough to know that if this was a robbery, this skyship will definitely be taken.

One of the individuals wanted to keep a spatial bag for himself, taking off, but a flash of silver-blue light caused him to tumble towards the ground as a corpse. This startled everyone, especially the high-status individuals on the ship who were reluctant despite the situation in front of them.

”He wanted to pay with his life instead of his wealth. I accepted.” Yan Zaizen commented coldly, a spatial bag flying out of the corpse and into Yan Zaizen's hand. When everyone saw this, their hearts turned cold. For those earlier, they felt lucky they weren't greedy.

”You either pay with all you have or with all you are.” His words were a like a basin of cold water on everyone's faces. The others were quick, delivering their respective wealth to him, not hiding a cent, and taking off immediately. The first person amongst the Origin Core Realm cultivators to take action was Lady Bao's protector. He removed her ring and bag as well as his own, threw it towards Yan Zaizen and took off despite Lady Bao's persistent protest.

Who would be willing to give up everything they've earned and gained? All of their lucky chances, all of their accumulated wealth, and do so willingly? Some prideful individuals would rather lose their lives before giving up their possessions.

But the protectors' job is to protect their life, not their belongings.

”You all have fifteen seconds to make a decision.” Yan Zaizen said, looking towards Xiāo City as he felt something approaching rapidly. His expression under the mask turned solemn, and he looked towards the only two groups left — Prince Ren's and Lady Su's.

A deep sigh resounded from Lady Su's protector, and he took the same course of action as Lady Bao's. Despite Lady Su's protest, he took her and flew away. Elder Mei and Prince Ren were the only ones left on the skyship. Prince Ren took the initiative to speak, ”Senior, I thi-”

”Five seconds.” Yan Zaizen interjected, not paying him any mind.

He withdrew his spatial ring from his finger and threw it. His eyes looked at the spatial ring with a great amount of reluctance. It had the Origin Consolidation Pill as well as many fortuitous encounters he'd come across, but none of that mattered if he was dead. Elder Mei followed suit, grabbing Prince Ren and taking off from the skyship.

Yan Zaizen immediately wrapped all the possessions with his soul energy and deposited them into the Meteor Ring. When that happened, every last Origin Core Cultivator, including Prince Ren, Lady Bao, Lady Su, and Lady Di coughed up blood several times. They even fell out of the sky, their eyes filled with fear and surprise.

When Yan Zaizen saw this, he was startled as well.

Then he thought about what had just happened, and his eyes turned cold as he recalled Xuanwu City. That was a rebound from a formation being forcefully disconnected or broken. It's likely each of their possessions had a profound formation on it in case someone decided to deprive them of their possessions, or perhaps there was something inside their ring that held a tracking formation. Regardless, when it entered the Meteor Ring, the connection was forcefully cut.

He knew that the greater the formation, the greater the rebound. Fortunately, the Meteor Ring is like an isolated dimension, it would immediately break any formation that tried to track its location. Yan Zaizen was pleasantly surprised at this newly discovered feature. ”I wonder how you'll feel from this.” He said, placing his palm on the imperial skyship, and then it entered the Meteor Ring.

Tens of thousands of li away, in a particular Imperial Palace's formation master's room, a sudden explosion took place. The defenders of the room rushed in with vigilance. After a quick survey of the room, they saw the bloodied corpse of the formation master who implanted a tracking formation on the skyship. The formation on the skyship was of the grand-rank, something equivalent to the True Essence Realm, but when it was forcibly disconnected, the feedback shattered his soul and exploded his body instantly.

Yan Zaizen didn't know what had just happened, but he was truly hoping something like that would occur. However, when he looked at the Origin Core Realm cultivators being fine, he couldn't help but sigh in disappointment. ”It must've been someone else…” He mumbled.

Yan Zaizen swiftly directed his gaze back to Xiāo City. He could see a resplendent emerald light shooting towards this way from a distance like a comet. A loud, thundering voice resounded for thousands of li. ”Leave Lady Di unharmed and depart!” It was incredibly domineering and carried endless authority as if it didn't allow any objections.

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