Chapter 298: Kunlun Mountain (1/2)
Chapter 298: Kunlun Mountain
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Hearing the sound of Zhou Bao, Zhu Ba dared not neglect it and hastened to withdraw his Demon Devil Needles. Then he sniggered and said, ”It's all attributed to Your Excellency's teaching. If not for the fact that Your Excellency is generous enough to impart to me the Demon Devil Needles, I would still...”
”Good, good. As I've mentioned, don't be so polite to me. Although I passed down the Demon Devil Needles to you, considering you've done so much for me over these years, we're even now. Plus, I don't have many experts on my team. The more powerful your strength is, the greater use you will provide me. Meanwhile, since my use of the Demon Devil Needles keeps lessening, who else would I give it to except you?”
”Right, right!”
The Demon Devil Needles were the first celestial device that Zhou Bao had obtained. Although it was at the Psychic Level, it was extremely useful and had weathered Zhou Bao through loads of dangerous situations. But later, many of the needles were snapped into pieces during his encounters with strong enemies, and as the cultivation of Zhou Bao grew gradually, he used it less and less and finally shelved it away. Then, as Zhou Bao wanted to practice the Extreme Yin Heavenly Sword of the Yin and Yang Heavenly Sword and began to search for the Earth Vein Evil Qi with the Cold Attribute, he happened to find several places with the Earth Vein Evil Qi suitable for practicing the Demon Devil Needles, though he failed to get ahold of any earth vein that was fit for his practice of the Extreme Yin Heavenly Sword. Thus, with the idea of ”the more, the better”, he refined the Demon Devil Needles once more and conveniently gifted it as well as the Demon Devil Formation to Zhu Ba to enhance his strength.
However, it was almost impossible to make Zhu Ba, a man with a careless mind, figure out the wonder of the Demon Devil Needles and operate them as freely as Zhou Bao had. After several tries, Zhu Ba completely abandoned the idea of practicing the Demon Devil Formation, but only focused on exercising his control over the 49 Demon Devil Needles with his own divine thoughts.
Speaking of Zhu Ba, he was truly a lucky guy, for he succeeded in activating his hidden bloodline and got the hang of divine thoughts with a cultivation merely at Level Five. Now, with the 49 Demon Devil Needles, he would have a chance to fight back even when facing Seventh-level experts. But of course, wanting to bombard his enemies to death and bypassing ranks like Zhou Bao had done was something out of the question.
Also, when Zhou Bao exited training, the most excited one was, of course, Zhu Ba. The one who benefited most from Zhou Bao among those original commanders of the Navy of Jiang City was still Zhu Ba.
”Your Excellency, thank god you finally exited training. We're having an eventful time recently!”
”Eventful?” Zhou Bao's eyes narrowed a bit, and a shilling trace of murderous intent was given off by him. ”What's up? Another guy who should know better about us wants to seek undue advantages?”
”Not that actually. It's just that Kunlun Mountain has sent someone here!”
”Kunlun Mountain? What Kunlun Mountain?!” Zhou Bao was a little confused.
”I'm not clear about that, either. But Jiang Xiao seems to know something. He is having a headache about this these days. That damn ambassador from Kunlun Mountain has a cultivation of Level Seven and powerful Gang Qi all over his body! I'm not his match, but fortunately, that bloke has been sensible enough not to make any trouble after learning that Your Excellency was busy doing closed-door training. He only said that he would further the discussion with Your Excellency after you exited training.”
”First, go and summon Jiang Xiao here!” Zhou Bao nodded to show that he got it, and asked Zhu Ba to fetch Jiang Xiao.
”A Level-Seven expert! A school which can send out Level-Seven experts! Their strength should never be underestimated. It seems that another school has come for my Pure Yang Celestial Device, the Golden Flame Mirror. Level Seven, Level Seven! Isn't Golden Rooster here? I wonder whether they've bumped into each other or not!”
While thinking, he saw Zhu Ba come running toward him followed by Jiang Xiao, who had an anxious expression on his face. Zhou Bao immediately knew that there was some trouble.
”Your Excellency, you finally have left the training! Recently, I have been almost worried to death!” At the sight of Zhou Bao, Jiang Xiao began to pour out his grievances as if he was going to drown Zhou Bao in them.
”Worry? What for!” Zhou Bao smiled. ”Merely some guy from Kunlun Mountain came here. Why are you so upset? Well, what on earth is this Kunlun Mountain? Why do you care about it so much?”
”Your Excellency, you don't know what Kunlun Mountain is?” Hearing Zhou Bao's words, Jiang Xiao was a little taken aback.
”Should I know?”
”Your Excellency, Kunlun Mountain is one of the largest schools in Northern Yuan, only second to the Palace of Destruction Demon. Kunlun Master, one of the Three Grandmasters in Northern Yuan in previous years, is from Kunlun Mountain!”
”Kunlun Master!
”One of the Three Grandmasters in Northern Yuan!”
At this point, Zhou Bao did recall that when Northern Yuan was still in existence, this Kunlun Master, along with Dark Lord Mie Chen and Living Buddha Ba Siba as the so-called Three Grandmasters, was indeed receiving offerings from Northern Yuan.
Only because the war initiated by the Great Jin was way beyond anyone's expectation and its result was also extremely surprising that the performance of these Three Grandmasters during the war paled in comparison with the legends about them. And many people even believed that the Three Grandmasters were not worthy of their reputation.
But Zhou Bao never dared to think as they all did.
Among the Three Grandmasters, Dark Lord Mie Chen was the one who he had come across, and that encounter was not a comfortable memory at all.
At that time, his strength still belonged to another realm and no Pure Yang Celestial Device was at hand, but he oddly injured Mie Chen with his Fiery Eyes and gave Wang She an opportunity to rise and devastate Mie Chen.
Although he was badly injured in that fight, he shared the current idea of the people in thinking that the Three Grandmasters were nothing more than this.
But as his strength was growing day by day, every time he looked back upon that prior situation, he started to realize how lucky he had gotten in that fight.
The cultivation of Mie Chen was about to break through Level Nine then, which was in the Demi-Mysterious Realm. If Mie Chen had not been that reckless, he would not have had the opportunity to even activate his Fiery Eyes. Further, if his Fiery Eyes had not been able to directly attack the spirit, which was really beyond the expectation of Mie Chen, Wang She might not have successfully imposed a sneak attack on him!
It was a string of accidents and coincidences that enabled them to miraculously turn the tables. But now, if you asked Zhou Bao to repeat his victory once more, he would stand no chance to achieve that.
That was a miracle!
And as for Ba Siba and Kunlun Master, they had not gotten the chance to show off their abilities—Ba Siba's cultivation already topped the Metaphysical Realm, but he was subdued by a fairy weapon, which was the most helpless situation a man could be caught in. Precisely because he never had an opportunity to strike, others had not been able to witness the real demeanor of this Living Buddha with the Golden Body.
Once a fairy weapon struck out, it was time to retreat and recoil even if you had thousands of armed forces.
Kunlun Master reluctantly withdrew his forces to Kunlun Mountain, and since then, not even a single piece of information about him had ever trickled out.
Exactly for this reason, no one had ever seen any of the Three Grandmasters strike in a fight, except for a handful of people. Such a dim performance that they presented to the world was far inconsistent with their titles as the Three Grandmasters. Therefore, after a long time, people reduced this moniker to something that was in name only!
In name only!
Although others might have thought that, Zhou Bao was not stupid enough to believe it. Thus, with the words of Jiang Xiao, Zhou Bao felt his heart sink to his stomach.
”Bring me to meet them!”
”Yes!”
The people from Kunlun Mountain were staying right in the little town at the foot of Jilei Mountain.