Chapter 20 (1/2)

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Acquaintances Reunited

There were ten of these gigantic pillars within the palace. There were five on each side, each filled with carvings of rows and rows of text and pictures.

Li Chengfeng went up for a better look, only to realise that the pillars were stacked using countless blocks of cut stone. There was some sort of mechanism inside so that these stone pieces moved slowly to form groups of characters and pictures.

He initially thought the text did not make any sense at all but when the mechanisms clicked to a stop, he realised that they had been rearranged to look like ordinary common characters, plus the images were easily distinguishable.

He stood before the first gigantic pillar and started to a.n.a.lyse the pictures on it. It was like a totem pole with flower and gra.s.s carvings on it and rows of golden text.

Li Chengfeng skimmed through them first but when he was about to read in detail, there was an abrupt rumble outside the palace. It was a terrifying sound, as if the sky had split open. The vibrations were enough to raise gooseb.u.mps all over his skin in a second.

He immediately rushed out to look outside but what he saw shocked him so deeply he felt his scalp tighten.

At this moment, the palace among the clouds was surrounded by all sorts of immortals. These immortals rode on tigers, cattle, cranes, even rare beasts he could not recognise. All of them held various treasures in their hands, either scattered above the palace or blocking the front of the palace in a formation.

There was a man standing in front of the crowd. His face was too far away to be seen clearly but with one look, Li Chengfeng felt a stifling aura of arrogance radiating off him.

This man's hair floated around his shoulders. He was topless, and the long pants he wore were unbelievably tattered. Compared to the sky full of immortals, he looked savage. However, he stood there with empty hands and Li Chengfeng could feel his power and regality amongst the immortals!

At this moment, the doors blasted open as the beauty named Nunu rushed in. Panting, she said frantically, “My lord! Three Heavenly Kings, nine Star Lords, twelve Island Lords, forty Imperial Disciples, nine thousand Immortal Generals, a hundred thousand Immortal Soldiers… They're all here to attack us!”

Before Li Chengfeng could reply to the beauty, he saw the man with the dishevelled hair move, then appear on the palace's stone steps in a flash.

Li Chengfeng felt as if he was locked in place by the man's aura. With the light s.h.i.+ning behind him, the man's face was in shadow but Li Chengfeng could still see his eyes burning intensely, locked in a deathly glare on… himself!

Li Chengfeng's eyes met the man and he felt his muscles stiffen. He could not move so he was helpless as he watched the man approach slowly, getting nearer and nearer… When he could almost see the man's face, the man suddenly lifted an arm and extended a finger at Li Chengfeng. Li Chengfeng could only watch helplessly as the tip of the finger pointed directly at his forehead.

Immediately after, the man made three mudras and slammed his palm forward. Li Chengfeng witnessed the palm inflate until it took up his entire field of vision. The palm hurled forward, seemingly taking up the entire ceiling, then came right down from the top of his head!

“Aaaaah!!!”

Tianjing City, Daqi. A bedroom within Chengxian Building at the palace.

A girl who looked about eighteen screamed shrilly as she awoke from her large bed and splendid cotton covers. She was drenched in sweat and in shock but although she was distraught, she still looked beautiful. She had an adorable round face, exquisite features and a beauty mark beneath the corner of her eye the size of a sesame seed.

The girl looked around but her large room was dark. The bed was just a boat amidst the vast ocean.

But soon after, the royal handmaidens outside who'd heard her immediately burst into the room with lanterns in their hands. The first handmaiden to arrive quietly lit the candles in the room, covered it in a pretty lampshade. The rest quickly entered behind her and the room was bathed in red candlelight and dancing shadows.

The lead handmaiden curtsied. “Princess, was it a nightmare?”

She did not speak, her eyes darting around. After a while, she peeled her cotton blanket off and said, “Comb, I'd like to speak to my father!”