Chapter 418 - Pushing Through (1/2)
Translator: StarReader
Editor: Elitecoder
“Sir Leng, what are you doing here?”
At the super secret huge array thousands of meters under Caged Dragon City, the tough and muscled figure of Huangpu Fenglei walked up from behind Leng Wuchang.
Heart tense, Leng Wuchang replied, “What I must.”
“Sir Leng should oversee the situation outside and not keep watch over the Dragon Vein seal. You need to deploy the Venerables!” Huangpu Fenglei’s tone was cold, “Information has been received from the imperial capital. The Divine Dragons are on the move and the emperor is alone. You must have an idea about what we need to do next!”
“Wait and see.” Leng Wuchang’s reply was on point.
Huangpu Fenglei frowned, “Sir Leng, please reconsider before making hasty decisions. This is our best chance.”
“Nothing is more important than this moment. Our best choice is to wait and see.” Leng Wuchang’s eyes never left the array.
Huangpu Fenglei felt something was off. Being around Leng Wuchang for so long, he knew this was not his usual style.
[Wait for what?]
Huangpu Fenglei glanced about, “Sir Leng, how come I haven’t seen Estate Lord around? Usually when one of you is around, the other is not far behind. What is he up to being missing for so long?”
“Estate Lord has his own thoughts. It’s not something High Venerable needs to worry about.” Leng Wuchang tightened his fists, doing his best to maintain calm.
Huangpu Fenglei scanned the trembling face and frowned, his suspicions heightened, “Sir Leng, Estate Lord is the leader of Regent Estate and in these pressing times he needs to be on duty, to look out for the house’s interests. What exactly is going on with him? Sir Leng, you are the steward and must tell me as the High Venerable. It is within my right to know.”
Leng Wuchang took a deep breath and maintained a straight face.
Huangpu Fenglei grew ashen by the second, his aura flashing stronger.
He didn’t get to squeeze harder as dragon roars came from the center of the array.
Roar~!
Wails of agony echoed in between every roar. Huangpu Fenglei could identify that voice from anywhere.
“W-wha-, is Estate Lord inside the seal?”
Huangpu Fenglei watched it stunned, then became shocked as the eight dragon souls inside the seal raved. He snapped a savage look on Leng Wuchang, “Sir Leng, what the hell is going on here? Why did the Estate Lord enter the array?”
Knowing when to quit, Leng Wuchang sighed as he explained the events. High Venerable instantly identified the issue. The two had gone over the gathering of elders and used the Bodhi Root to train the Nine Dragons Diamond Body.
Huangpu Tianyuan was the Estate Lord, but this crucial decision was too important to be left to one man’s decision.
“This isn’t a game!”
Huangpu Fenglei spat, “Have you two forgotten the rules of Regent Estate? How can the two of you make light of the entire house’s future? And that Huangpu Tianyuan’s talent is lacking, not reaching the Radiant Stage in decades. He cannot bear the power of the dragon souls!”
“Letting him go in there, you’ve sent him to his death. No, I have to get him out!”
Huangpu Fenglei made a sign to open the seal.
The question was, did he care so much for that poor man’s life? Hell no. If the Estate Lord kicked the bucket, there’d be plenty more candidates where he came from.
What the High Venerable cared about the most was the eight dragon souls getting tamed and by someone other than him.
He was the High Venerable here, the peak of Regent Estate’s power. The Nine Dragons Diamond Body should be his. Why waste it on a waste who couldn’t even enter the Radiant Stage?
He couldn’t and wouldn’t accept it!
Leng Wuchang moved faster, grabbing his hands, “High Venerable, don’t be rash. With the Estate Lord training in the Nine Dragons Diamond Body, it has incited the dragon souls. Open the array now and the dragons will doom us all! “
Huangpu Fenglei was still considering, but let his hand rest in the end.
Leng Wuchang saw through his desires and advised, “With Estate Lord’s talent, achieving it will be for the best, but any mistake is life-threatening. Albeit a tragedy, at least the dragon souls will remain and finding the next candidate will be easy. We won’t be losing much at all in this.”
The speech hit right where it mattered, making him relax.
[Yeah, once he drops dead, only I’ll be worthy of training in Nine Dragons Diamond Body. I can’t just risk my future by releasing the dragon souls in the heat of the moment.]
Ah!