Chapter 297: The Unrest of Prince Ning (2/2)
”It's correct that because of the weapon we can't confront him now. If we do, not only is it a waste of time, it will also do harm to His Royal Highness. It's better to push him against others.”
”Others? Who? Who can deal with him?”
”Your Royal Highness, what do you think?” The young intellectual did not answer Prince Ning directly, he gave a mysterious smile instead. ”What is the most important part of your plan?”
”You mean—!” Prince Ning was shocked for a moment, and his voice also raised. But half-way through speaking, he lowered his voice down.
”You mean we can let the guys from Kunlun Mountain go to deal with him?”
”Who is not eager to get a Pure Yang Celestial Device? Kunlun Mountain was a famous organization in Northern Yuan before. Although it is not comparable to the Palace of Destruction Demon, it is crowded with masters of martial arts. In addition, the Kunlun Master still exists. Hence, nobody dares to find trouble with them. The only problem is that Northern Yuan is extinguished, and Living Buddha Ba Siba was also killed by Ma Tianchang, so they don't dare to take any big action now. However, in this way, their power is retained successfully. Your Excellency, it is also because of their retained power that you intend to cooperate with them, isn't it?”
”Right! I do want to cooperate with Kunlun Mountain. But even if I have established cooperation with them, it is not suitable for us to reveal that matter.” Prince Ning sneered, ”How can I let them get my face back?”
”Your Royal Highness, your plan is huge and amazing, so there are many difficulties to realize it. Our behavior can't be hidden from those who keep an eye on us. What you need to do now is to disturb things in the north. Then the people won't be able to figure out your real purpose. As for cooperating with Kunlun Mountain, it is the first step to disturb things. Our scheme should go like this: Kunlun Mountain finds trouble with Zhou Bao in order to get his Pure Yang Celestial Device. Simultaneously, Your Royal Highness is about to find fault with Zhou Bao. Fortunately, before you find him, Zhou Bao is defeated by Kunlun Mountain and has lost his Pure Yang Celestial Device. At that time, if Zhou Bao still lives, things will be easy for us.”
”Your reasoning quite makes sense!” Prince Ning nodded nonstop after hearing the young intellectual's words and added, ”But what if Kunlun Mountain cannot deal with Zhou Bao either? Don't forget one thing: Zhou Bao also has a powerful influence behind him!”
”If Kunlun Mountain can't take him down either, Your Royal Highness needs not to deal with him anymore. We'd better make friends with him!” The young intellectual smiled bitterly. ”Everything is illusory when one is that powerful. The alternative is to instigate trouble between him and other influences. In a word, we shouldn't encounter him directly.”
”Humph!”
Prince Ning knew that the young intellectual's words made sense, but they still made him angry. ”I am Prince Ning, descendant of the Celestial Emperor, do I really have to submit to that wild boy?!”
The young intellectual was silent. He lowered his head and was still smiling like an innocent lamb.
”Alright. In that case, go to Kunlun Mountain and ask for cooperation. Bai Qinghu, you go with him.”
”Yes, Your Royal Highness!”
Suddenly, a man stood up near the desk. He bowed to Prince Ning and spoke respectfully.
”Your Royal Highness, now that we want to use Kunlun Mountain to deal with Zhou Bao, we still need to make our stance clear before it happens!” At that moment, another intellectual stood up and said, ”If we don't show them our attitude, people will think we are truly afraid of that wild boy.”
”Yes, you are right. Yu Cai, please dispatch somebody to start trouble with Zhou Bao right now. And one more thing, the subordinates cultivation shouldn't be too high. A Level Three or Four cultivation is enough. I guess Zhou Bao won't deal with the people whose cultivation is so low!”
”Yes, sir. I'm on my way.”
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”Eh, this bastard Prince Ning, what's his purpose? Is he crazy? How can he dispatch only a few of them here? Their strength is so lame, but their attitude is unyielding in contrast. What on earth do they want?” Since Zhou Bao had expelled the martial artists who had snuck into his territory with violence, his territory immediately became quiet.
Zhou Bao already felt bored, but the quietness made him even more bored. Since he established the sentry post, nobody dared to trespass on his territory and the small town using Lightness Skills or martial arts. Although martial arts practitioners would also go through this area, all of them followed his rules. After all, it was a joke to attempt to fool a Level Seven expert's spiritual mind in such a small town.
Meanwhile, they were also well-behaved when they entered the town. Except for asking about rumors, they never did anything exceptional. Hence, Zhou Bao appeared rather bored now. As for the yard, few would even go there. The reason was simple: scouts who had entered there already knew what was there.
The yard was only a place that Zhou Bao used to practice his martial arts. And people who could sneak out of the yard all had a good cultivation. Therefore, they could notice the Evil Qi under the mine vein. It turned out that the rumors were real. Zhou Bao decided to build his yard there to practice a sort of special technique because an Earth Vein Evil Qi was located there. The refined-iron mine was nothing compared to a powerful special technique for a practitioner!
So Zhou Bao felt rather bored. After a Level Seven expert was killed, Prince Ning finally had made a reaction yesterday. He dispatched an intellectual with guards whose cultivation was less than Level Five. They had come here in a threatening manner, asking to take back the head of the expert who had been killed and demanding an explanation for killing Prince Ning's subordinate. Of course, Zhou Bao did not spare a glance at them and expelled them immediately. But things were weird from his point of view.
It did not seem like Prince Ning's normal way of doing things!
”He only dispatched a few subordinates here. And they merely spoke a few threatening words. They left here without even fighting. What did Prince Ning want? Was he showing his white feather? Or did he have other intentions?”
Among the sons of the Jin Emperor, Zhou Bao was most familiar with Prince Ning. And he was also most afraid of Prince Ning. Obviously, Zhou Bao would not believe that Prince Ning would let it go just like that after losing his face in a humiliating manner because this prince was always famous for his bloody and iron conduct.
That was impossible. Even if Zhou Bao was not familiar with Prince Ning, he would not be so silly to believe that Prince Ning would just let it go.
Since he would not let it go but, instead, did an eccentric thing, the only explanation was that Prince Ning had concocted a scheme for Zhou Bao.
”Things are so troublesome, really freaking troublesome. As Royal Highness, why on earth do you come to the north and find fault with me? Can't you stay in the Central Plains to enjoy an easy life?” Zhou Bao cursed Prince Ning in his mind. ”The north is bitterly cold, it is not suitable for a prince to live here. He even bought some territories here. What does he want to do? Could it be that he plans to do business here?!”
Zhou Bao recalled his talk with the Level Seven expert whom he had met on the Blacktail Plain, then he thought about Prince Ning's recent eccentric behavior, but he could not figure out what Prince Ning wanted.
Since he could not figure it out, Zhou Bao decided to ignore his doubts. And it did not take long for him to be drawn by another matter, which was practicing.
Of course, he was not focused on his own body's practice. He was actually focusing on the Green-scaled Poisonous Scorpion's practice. Controlled by his thoughts, the Green-scaled Poisonous Scorpion had become his puppet. In addition to the Demonic Cultivation Technique that he had gotten from Green Spirit, its strength had improved dramatically. If nothing else, the poisonous needle on its tail was now unimaginably powerful and indestructible!
It was indeed unimaginably powerful and indestructible. It would also take him a while to deal with the tail if he used his Pure Yang Celestial Device, the Golden Flame Mirror.
The Golden Flame Mirror was a multifunctional celestial device that combined offense and defense together. It had different functions, including a golden light that had a powerful attack and a constraint force that was used to attack Black Demon Chama; Green Lotus that could block out the four holy mountains when faced with the Octupole Exquisite Pagoda; and the mysterious flame that removed Yan Fei's spiritual brand from the Octupole Exquisite Pagoda.
As a matter of fact, if nothing else, Zhou Bao was quite sure that the Golden Flame Mirror's golden light could be offensive and defensive at the same time.
However, after some experiments, he found that no matter if it was the Golden Flame Mirror's golden light or the cyan scattered light of the Innate Green Lotus Flame, none of them could stop the Green-scaled Poisonous Scorpion's stinger from thrusting in. The stinger could stab into the Golden Flame Mirror's body more than one inch, and it almost injured the Golden Flame Mirror's pneuma. For now, the Green Spirit Scorpion Sting had merely reached the Basic Level. Even he could not imagine what kind of power it could have when it reached the Advanced Level.
Only then did Zhou Bao realize that the evil beast's Natal Power might also be more powerful than a human practitioner's celestial device.
Zhou Bao was upset about the fact that the Golden Flame Mirror was deeply injured by the stinger. Although the device was still powerful, it already had a weak point. So, he had no choice but to use Natal Qi to cultivate the Golden Flame Mirror. It took half a month to repair the Pure Yang Celestial Device. During this period, there were three times that he almost reached Level Eight. But with great effort, he managed to suppress the intense impulse, which still left him annoyed now.
After finishing half a month of closed-door training, the first person Zhou Bao saw when he opened the door was Zhu Ba, who was practicing in the yard. 49 Demon Devil Needles floated around Zhu Ba's body, emitting an extreme cold spirit and scattering in different directions.
Zhou Bao could not help but smile in appreciation, for in his eyes, even though the Demon Devil Needles seemed disordered, they were actually insidious enough.
”Zhu Ba, it seems that you haven't wasted your time during these days. You have improved your understanding of Demon Devil Needles!”
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