Chapter 502 (1/2)

Chapter 502: 30,000 Years

Translator: Radiant Editor: Radiant

“She’s a wanted criminal now?” The White Sand City Lord was holding a wine flask, slowly pouring wine for Xue Ying and himself. After he finished pouring for the two of them, he said, “Brother Dong Bo, what exactly did you even do to make the Bloodshed God Palace dispatch a squadron to capture Venomous Ying? Unless I’m mistaken, the Bloodshed God Palace only dispatches a team when there’s sufficient evidence, and it’s only after the officials responsible for such matters are informed that they’ll send down the order.”

Xue Ying flashed a mysterious smile. “They just received the evidence they needed. I went to the Temporal Temple to obtain all the relevant information regarding past collection of faith energy from every single planet with life within the entire White Yang Starfield.”

“That’s quite the ruthless move. How much was it?” White Sand asked.

“Three billion,” Xue Ying replied, unable to hide his aching heart.

“Nobody else would do such a thing!” The White Sand City Lord sighed. “That Nest of Myriad devils collects faith energy from a total of thirty-two starfields, and they’ve been doing so over a long period of time. Your evidence was based solely on the past ten thousand years of collection from a single starfield. Usually, such a meager level of corruption would not be worth dispatching a first class legion squadron over. Venomous Ying also has that older brother of hers, so those officials won’t be too harsh or demanding. At most, they would have first given an order to question her! She could have found a scapegoat, saying the crime was caused by a greedy subordinate of hers, and she would only have had to pay a fine of several times the original amount for this matter to be easily covered. Or so would have happened in most cases.

“Unfortunately for her, it was you, ‘His Highness Dong Bo,’ who acted this time! Those officials immediately took to your side, and they surely passed a swift judgement to send the legion over and capture her directly.” The White Sand City Lord shook his head and laughed. “To think that you would frighten Venomous Ying to the extent that she would rather run away, not daring to even approach the Bloodshed God Palace.”

Xue Ying replied, “It’s like she has a ghost in her heart.”

“Is there a superpower out there who can truly say they’re clean? Can someone who’s done no wrongs truly feed the lives of so many subordinates?” the White Sand City Lord remarked.

“I’m aware of that, but it’s also true that the people who are as greedy as Venomous Ying are a minority,” Xue Ying retorted. “Throughout the eastern region of the Calm Sea Prefecture, the overall situation dealing with the collection of faith energy is still within norms; it’s only those thirty-two starfields under the governance of the Nest of Myriad Devils that reported a much smaller value than normal.”

The White Sand City Lord nodded. “That’s true. Other superpowers who don’t have any strong background with the Bloodshed God Palace would never dare be so rampant. In most cases, their greed will bring them to subvert a slight amount of faith energy, like 10 or 20%! Venomous Ying was much more ruthless than that.”

“The mistake she made falls within my authority as a supervisor envoy. Nobody can call me out for the way I deal with her. If she wants someone to blame, she should blame herself for seeking death!” Xue Ying casually said. “This time, she simply had Monarch Wu Chen protecting her, or she would have never been able to escape the legion with her own combat power.”

“In any case, she’s no longer a cause for concern.” The White Sand City Lord continued drinking his wine. “The Bloodshed God Palace already placed her on an arrest-on-sight list, so she has to be prudent at all times. She can’t even enter any of the territories ruled by the Bloodshed God Palace! Since she no longer has an official rank, anyone can just kill her as they please.”

Xue Ying nodded.

At the moment, Venomous Ying was restricted in how she could move, yet it was still difficult to find any trace of her.

Even so, it was no cause for concern. Xue Ying’s combat power was still weak, so he had room to rapidly improve in a short period of time. Naturally, the further he improved, the more time he would need to advance further! Passing stage three to become a stage four World Deity, he would need a much longer time than previously. But the process of becoming a powerful existence as a stage four World Deity… it was like a gulf between the heaven and earth! Many heaven-shakings talent would fail to ever take this final step. In any case, Xue Ying was still only at the stage where he was trying to become a stage three World Deity, and that, in addition with his absolute art, would be enough to make him a tyrannical figure in most circles. By then, he would only have to spend a little more effort in searching for Venomous Ying and finding an apt opportunity to eliminate her directly.

In reality, Xue Ying had already begun to disregard Venomous Ying. Right now, he was already more concerned about the one who had once led him into the realm of Transcendents, the Eternal Wind Knight, Chi Qiu Bai. Chi Qiu Bai had always taken care of him, and they had long since developed a good relationship. Xue Ying found the feeling of seeing Chi Qiu Bai die very hard to bear.

The only issue was that he could not hope to enter the Dark Abyss with his current combat power!

The Deity World and the Dark Abyss were at odds. Only a powerful existence might hope to entertain some friendly relations between the two, but, at a fundamental level, World Deities would slaughter each other on sight. Great Demonic Gods would not give a damn about Xue Ying’s identity. As soon as they laid eyes upon an outsider from the Deity world, they would immediately think up any way to either kill them or capture them alive for use in all sorts of bloody experiments. It must be stated that the will of the abyss would reward any abyss lifeforms for killing outsiders.

Meanwhile, the will of the material realm focused more on blessing and protection. Against a form of life found within the material realm, even the killing power of the Bloodshed God Emperor would drop rapidly. Without the right pledge, such beings could kill stage two World Deities from a single thought at most. Inside the Deity world or the Dark Abyss, the Bloodshed God Emperor and other existences of his level would be at least a few times stronger.