Chapter 71 - Lord Xiāo (1/2)

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When Prince Ren heard that voice in the distance, he felt relieved. Earlier, he invited Yan Zaizen on board not to discuss whether Lady Di should be left alive or not, but to stall for time. Luckily, he could stall for an extra minute or two, and this was sufficient enough for the Xiāo City Lord to arrive. If he didn't, then his Origin Consolidating Pill would've been lost, and his chances of breaking through to the mid-Origin Core Realm before the Xiantu Dao Trials would be like smoke — quickly dissipating with the wind.

Before Yan Zaizen's arrival, he crushed a transmission talisman that relayed a message to Lord Xiāo. In it detailed the circumstance they were in and their possible fate of death. Unfortunately, he knew this wouldn't move Lord Xiāo an inch, so he made a deal.

If the Xiāo City ensured all of their safety, including Lady Di, then he would give him an Aurora Manifestation Pill.

Originally, he obtained it from an ancient treasure trove and kept it a secret for his own preparations for the Xiantu Dao Trials. The pill was similar to the Origin Consolidation Pill, it could help one manifest their Aurora Soul. It was priceless. However, with the current circumstances, he felt it was worth it to prevent his own death. Unfortunately, Yan Zaizen had stolen the Aurora Manifestation Pill and even severed his connection with his spatial ring.

How was he to know that Yan Zaizen would be so decisive and rob them over their connection with Lady Di instead of killing them in anger?

Lord Xiāo's eyes were filled with greed when he heard of the Aurora Manifestation Pill in Prince Ren's possession. Normally, he wouldn't care about the Imperial Family's fate, but that pill was incalculable in terms of value. The development of the Aurora Soul typically required not just resources but enlightenment also, and despite having cultivated the soul for thousands of years, he couldn't manifest his Aurora. The Aurora Manifestation Pill was one of the few things that could bypass that enlightenment requirement.

Now there was a chance to obtain it, and he was going to take it.

Lord Xiāo had deep black hair and eyes, a middle-aged appearance filled with masculinity, a goatee, bronze skin, and robust body. He truly looked like a powerful city lord.

Yan Zaizen's brows furrowed and his eyes behind the mask narrowed. After some quick calculations, he knew he didn't have the ability to outrun this newcomer. Soul energy may be able to move at an incredibly fast speed, but when it came to flight, qi cultivation was king, while dashing speed on the ground had body cultivation at the throne. Not to mention, he didn't have any soul art based around movement to use, unlike this newcomer.

Lord Xiāo saw Yan Zaizen not move at his words, he couldn't help but feel uneasy, but when he considered his cultivation base and arts, he sped up with confidence.

Yan Zaizen didn't intend to let Lord Xiāo arrive in grand fashion while doing nothing, he waved his hand directly knocking Lady Di unconscious, and then she vanished in thin air, stored directly into his Meteor Ring at a remote corner.

”That worked?!” He was inwardly surprised at what had just happened. Despite performing the action himself, he didn't fully believe the Meteor Ring could store living things within it. I mean, he had his suspicions due to its differences to a normal spatial ring, but he wasn't absolutely sure.

Anyways, if Lady Di had died due to entering the Meteor Ring, who cares? Fortunately for him, she was just unconscious in the isolated world of the Meteor Ring. Unfortunately for her, she was just unconscious in the isolated world of the Meteor Ring.

When Lord Xiāo saw Lady Di disappear suddenly, his eyes widened with surprise and couldn't help but stop a few kilometers away from Yan Zaizen. What had just happened surprised him, but if she was dead, then what could he do? Should he fight this man with an Advanced Aurora Soul Cultivation to the death to save a dead person? What would be the point?

Yan Zaizen didn't care about his doubt. A flash of silver-blue light exploded violently around his body as several thousand sharp tendrils the size of arms erupted from his body. He took a step and soared towards Lord Xiāo with a fierce momentum.

Lord Xiāo snorted in response. His body erupting with an incredibly dense emerald green light filled with true-essence, the sheer pressure caused the surrounding mountains the tremble, the ground to fracture, and the sky to roil about violently. He stood there looking like a god of his own world, the sky quickly developed an emerald tint, and his energy waves fluctuated for dozens of li.

Yan Zaizen saw this and immediately realized what was happening. An aura-based qi-art was being executed. As he approached in range, he could feel his body suddenly grow heavier as if he had a mountain on his shoulders. If one didn't have a profound body cultivation, they could be squashed to sheer dust from this pressure alone.

Fortunately for him, this pressure was insignificant to him who possessed the Immortal Herculean Physique.

Yan Zaizen powered through the emerald sky without pause. Lord Xiāo was shocked seeing this. It didn't seem like Yan Zaizen was using his soul energy to resist the power of his aura, but simply resisted it normally with his physical body. His eyes narrowed in solemness. He grabbed at the space before him, causing the surrounding aura to condense into a ball of pure emerald energy.

Lord Xiāo shouted a battle cry that caused the ground to tremble and the spectators watching with a cultivation under the Origin Core Realm to drop to their knees.

He readied his arm as the energy condensed and landed in his palm. He viciously threw the ball of energy towards Yan Zaizen. Its speed was like lightning as it traveled through the sky causing the surroundings it passed to be compressed, as if the ball of energy was a planet with its own gravitational force.

Yan Zaizen reacted by using hundreds of soul tendrils to intercept the ball of energy, but as they got near, the tendrils bent in odd ways as if getting pressured by intense gravity. Some of the tendrils collapsed then and there. Yan Zaizen's eyes widened at this but didn't panic. He pushed forward until the tendrils collided with the ball of energy to intercept.

BOOM!!!