Chapter 231 - The Third Divine Dragon (2/2)
In this cruel world, it was kill or be killed. Even innocent killings were the order of the day. And in the case of enemies, there was even less remorse.
[Steward Zhuo is truly a man who will make countless sacrifices.] Li Jingtian sighed inside.
“And then?” Zhuo Fan and Li Jingtian asked in unison.
Glaring at his three bros to curb their interruption, Violent Demon continued, “He-he-he, what followed next was a prime example of how a true demonic cultivator should act. In but half a year, the kid fulfilled his promise, wiping out every place he went to until his onslaught had covered half the empire. Any and all who heard his coming, sent the people fleeing for their lives. The seven houses’ Venerable joined hands to surround him, to no avail. The kid still went on killing regardless of opposition. He then started to be referred as the All-ravaging Child! To show that everywhere he went, he left ravaged lands behind him!
“The imperial family could no longer take it, seeing the seven houses in disarray. If it didn’t intervene now, the empire would be done for. So it sent its 50 Divine Dragons…”
Violent Demon started sputtering as he spoke from the excitement. As if he was the one laying Tianyu to ruin instead. Zhuo Fan waved him off, “Hold on, How many Divine Dragons was that again?”
Violent Demon raised five fingers, “Fifty, why?”
Sss~
Gasping, Zhuo Fan was shocked, “There were fifty Divine Dragons then? You mean to say fifty Jade Flute Divine Sword Fang Qiubai at peak Radiant Stage?”
“He-he-he, Steward Zhuo, you’ve got it all wrong. The aptitudes of Divine Dragons at the time weren’t as high as the current ones. How could there be fifty Jade Flute Divine Sword?”
Zhuo Fan nodded and sighed. Fifty Jade Flute Divine Sword was a dreaded sight. More to the point, it would be even more damn frightening if the kid escaped from them as well.
Before he even had the chance to calm his thoughts, Violent Demon continued, “The imperial family was still going strong at the time, having around twenty experts like Jade Flute Divine Sword. And the other thirty were at least in the 5th layer of Radiant Stage. Three among them were even called Immemorial Sages by the world, stronger than even Jade Flute Divine Sword. Even Invincible Scamp had a hard time dealing with them!”
“What?” Zhuo Fan cried and looked at Li Jingtian. They two were incredulous the imperial family ever held so much power.
Easily guessing their thoughts, the Four Scheming Demons started their creepy jeer, “Hi-hi-hi, how ignorant you are. You think Tianyu’s imperial family and the seven houses of now only have this little power after a thousand years? Just three centuries ago, the imperial family had fifty Divine Dragons, the Regent Estate a hundred Radiant Stage experts and the other houses in the tens. This is what kept the houses in a delicate balance.
“But in the war with Gu Santong, the seven houses’ united force of hundreds of Radiant Stage experts were almost wiped out. Even the imperial family’s fifty Divine Dragons were destroyed, leaving but only the three Immemorial Sages alive. This battle waged for a whole year in a devastating fashion. Two of the sages ultimately succumbed from in this war of attrition, leaving behind the strongest Immemorial Sage to contend with the little monster. But at this time, both of them were nearing their limits, with the end looking to be drawn in mutual destruction…”
Zhuo Fan and Li Jingtian were wide eyed.
[Thank god Invincible Scamp wrecked Tianyu three hundred years ago or the Luo clan would’ve never got to rise above the seven houses not even in a hundred years, not to mention ten!]
Zhuo Fan wiped his brow, cheering inside!
“By the way, how did their fight end? With the kid still alive, did the last sage die? If that is so, why then the kid hid himself for the past centuries?”
Nodding, Violent Demon smiled, “Precisely. The last sage was very smart. He knew if both died, the imperial family would be left stranded, and the seven houses ultimately dividing Tianyu! So at the very end, he read the kid’s nature and resorted to shamelessly dupe him into a thousand year agreement. He stated that if he stood his ground after receiving the kid’s ten punches, the kid would replace him in becoming the imperial family’s Divine Dragon and safeguarding the imperial family for a thousand years!
“If he died, then Gu Santong could do with Tianyu as he pleased, with no one stopping him! Hi-hi-hi, Steward Zhuo, don’t you think this is the most ridiculous joke you’ve ever heard? If the sage died, with all other Divine Dragons laying dead as well, who on earth remained to stop the little monster? This was the most obvious trap if I ever saw one, but the kid was duped just as easily, or perhaps overconfident in his strength. Once the ten punches were struck, the sage was peach perfect and Invincible Scamp had the rotten luck of being in the imperial family’s indentured servant ever since. Hi-hi-hi, what a moron! If it were me, I’d disregard the bet even after the punches, ha-ha-ha…
“I am tens of times wiser than that brat, a genius I tell ya!”
The other demons egged him on with thumbs up, and Violent Demon’s laughter only grew more rampant.
But Zhuo Fan and Li Jingtian were shocked speechless. Never in their wildest dreams had they conceived that Gu Santong was the imperial family’s third Divine Dragon…