Chapter 405: Leave Directly After Responsibilities Are Over (1/2)
Chapter 405: Leave Directly After Responsibilities Are Over
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”Humph, do you think that the world revolves around you and everyone must do what you want them to do?”
”Of course not!” Zhou Bao and Elder Chen arrived at the front of the bedchamber. Zhou Bao walked up to the transparent Space Rampart and ran his hands over it as if he was searching for something. As he touched it, he said, ”But there is no other choice. You know I'm the most powerful person now and also the one who is most likely to change the situation here. Besides, my wife is pregnant. Anyway, I can't let her down at this time. So this world will inevitably revolve around me!”
”Why do you trust people such as Grand Tutor so much? If they are the ones who initiated this matter and then threaten you with Princess Qingyang, what will you do?”
”God knows!” Zhou Bao smiled. ”If they really did it and use my wife as a means to threaten me, actually, I have no choice but to do everything according to their will. I will be humiliated and my wife will be disappointed. She will get angry and curse me for a few days!”
Zhou Bao's voice sounded indifferent, but Elder Chen could sense a chilly undertone to it.
”Well, here it is!” Before Elder Chen could say anything more, Zhou Bao suddenly uttered a cry of surprise. He felt a strong suction pulling at him, and then his body was involuntarily drawn to the bedchamber.
His body flew rapidly and crashed into the Space Rampart that surrounded the imperial palace. It seemed that he was on a suicidal course.
”Oh no—!” he exclaimed. Just as he was about to collide with the sturdy Space Rampart and he imagined that his head would split open like a ripe watermelon, the situation suddenly changed.
The tough Space Rampart seemed to ripple like a wave. Then he felt himself stepping into the Rampart. That feeling was similar to that of being pulled into a body of water, but it was not so cold. He was suddenly plunged into chaos. It seemed like a very long while before a sudden light came into his eyes and the scene in the bedchamber unfolded before his eyes.
”Ah!” Sensing something, Yan Yuntian, with a white and drawn face, suddenly turned around, only to see Zhou Bao and Elder Chen coming out of the Space Rampart.
”Your Majesty, Your Majesty, are you all right? I beg your forgiveness for being late, Your Majesty!” Elder Chen rushed to Yan Yuntian's side without regard for anything else.
”Are you tired of living?” Seeing the state Yan Yuntian was in, Zhou Bao sensed that there was something amiss and pulled Elder Chen back.
The situation in the bedchamber was quite bizarre. Yan Yuntian sat cross-legged on the ground and held Luo Xuehuan's corpse in his arms with Gang Qi surging around him. Over his head floated an ancient character that blocked the white light column in the sky and forcibly created a space that was less than 10 feet high in the bedchamber.
”It seems that you are in trouble!” Upon feeling the obscure atmosphere, Zhou Bao smiled and slowly walked up to Yan Yuntian, saying, ”Are you being poisoned?”
”Yes, it's a strange kind of poison and I'm afraid that I can't hold on much longer!” Yan Yuntian sighed and added, ”However, I have no more regrets in this lifetime because I am able to die with Xuehuan!”
”Come on, Your Majesty, it's useless to put on such a brave front. I'm here to rescue you!” Zhou Bao smiled. Although Yan Yuntian looked embarrassed, Zhou Bao's intention was not to force him to admit his mistake. After all, this had nothing to do with him. He would be able to fulfill his promise to Yan Yunfei as long as he got Yan Yuntian out of this mess.
”You managed to gain access into this place despite it being under such a tight blockade, so I guess the people around the world really underestimated you!”
”That will be the best. The more they overestimate me, the more flustered I will be!” Zhou Bao chuckled and the cyan light glittered around him. Then, a blast of Yang Qi permeated the entire space.
”Pure Yang Celestial Device? Do you have another Pure Yang Celestial Device?” When Yan Yuntian felt the Pure Yang Qi, he looked quite surprised. Soon afterward, he saw the cyan light swirling around his Gang Qi like a breath of fresh air. Just as the light poured into his Gang Qi, the obscure power that had mixed with his Gang Qi suddenly disappeared without a trace, and at the same time, his strength was restored to its fullest in a flash.
The talisman over his head suddenly glittered and shone with a regal brilliance, pushing the white light column to a height of more than 10 feet.
”Don't waste your energy. I can bring you all out. But before that, you'd better let me take a look at the Queen's body!”
Yan Yuntian's expression suddenly changed. Zhou Bao's words sounded quite abrupt. But when he thought that the reason why he was there, trapped and unable to move a muscle, had something to do with Luo Xuehan's corpse, he did not get mad but sighed gently and let Zhou Bao walk up to him to check on the body.
Zhou Bao felt aggrieved as he noticed that Yan Yuntian was displeased. If it were not for his wife, he would not be at all willing to inspect a corpse. After all, he was not a legal medical expert!
However, he did not do anything to the Queen's corpse. He approached the corpse and carefully observed her face, murmuring, ”Oh, it's really a curse!”
Zhou Bao passed his hand over Luo Xuehuan's head. Suddenly, he caught hold of a wisp of smoke from the place between Luo Xuehuan's eyebrows. It seemed to be alive. After being caught by Zhou Bao, it dispersed suddenly and tried to get away. However, it could not escape from the fist-sized circle enclosing it.
”It is a well-thought scheme, Your Majesty. Without me, I'm afraid that you would have died this time!” Zhou Bao held out his index finger and suddenly a soul vortex glittering with mysterious brilliance appeared in the fist-sized space, encircling the faint fog and dispersing it totally.
Zhou Bao had executed a Divine Sense called Soul Cutting.
The curse was one that affected the spirit directly and it harbored the essence of the spirit. In a certain sense, it was equal to an Evil Spirit. The Soul Cutting Skill was its nemesis.
On seeing that Zhou Bao was able to remove the curse from Luo Xuehuan's corpse so easily, Elder Chen could not stop his canthus from twitching.
”Damn! Didn't those idiots say that this kind of curse is foolproof and no one could ever break it? How is it that this guy was able to eliminate it so easily?”
He had actually misunderstood the spellcaster. The reason why Zhou Bao could eliminate the curse so easily and quickly was because Luo Xuehuan was already dead, and thus, the power of the curse had weakened considerably. If Luo Xuehuan was still alive, Zhou Bao would not have dared to use the Soul-cutting Skill because if that was the case, Luo Xuehuan's soul would have been shredded instantly.
”Let's go. Let's not waste any more time here. It's just a bedchamber!” After removing the curse, Zhou Bao looked up at Yan Yuntian and said gently.
Yan Yuntian nodded in agreement and replied, ”Yes, it's just a bedchamber. Zhou Bao, I owe you my life this time!”
”Haha, it doesn't matter. Yunfei already gave a life back to me. That is more valuable than yours!”
”What?” For a moment, Yan Yuntian did not understand what he was talking about.
”Your Majesty, Princess Qingyang is pregnant!” Standing aside, Elder Chen seized this opportunity and answered him.
”Yunfei is pregnant?” Yan Yuntian was dumbfounded. Later, he forced himself to smile and said, ”Well, I guess I'd better offer my congratulations!”
”The same to you, haha!”
”Humph, I don't see anything worthy of congratulations! Having too many sons is not necessarily a good thing. I don't know which bastard did this deed today!” The killing intent revealed in Yan Yuntian's eyes made him look very ferocious.
”No matter who did that, you can investigate it after you get out of here. We'd better get out now!” Zhou Bao did not want to face the murderous intent of this Human Emperor.
”Fine!” Yan Yuntian nodded in agreement and held Luo Xuehuan's corpse tightly in his arms. None of them spoke another word. Elder Chen stood beside Yan Yuntian, who stood in front of Zhou Bao. At this moment, the big character over Yan Yuntian's head became brighter. When they had all vanished from the bedchamber, the white light column then touched the ground for the first time.
”Boom!”
The imperial palace together with the entire Western Capital shook violently. However, all of these were none of Zhou Bao's business. Since he had rescued Yan Yuntian, his mission was accomplished.
”God bless His Majesty! God bless His Majesty!”
Just as they showed up safely outside the bedchamber, Elder Chen immediately shouted out loudly. Since he had no martial arts skill and no Internal Qi, he just yelled with all his might. However, his yell set off a big uproar in the entire imperial palace.
Behind him, the Queen's bedchamber together with the white light column in the sky disappeared, leaving no trace behind.
It was raining buckets in the Western Capital, as if the sky had sprung a leak. Standing on the huge ground outside the bedchamber, Yan Yuntian held on to Luo Xuehuan's corpse with the golden Gang Qi encircling him. No one knew what was going on his mind.
With the exception of Zhou Bao, no one dared to bother him now. However, Zhou Bao was not in the least concerned about him. In the side chamber, his pregnant wife was waiting for him.
He rushed towards the side chamber as he exited the bedchamber. With Grand Tutor standing in front of the door to guard his wife, nothing dangerous would happen. Upon seeing Zhou Bao running towards him, Grand Tutor was greatly relieved and made an unusual gesture. He saluted Zhou Bao, and then said, ”Your Excellency, luckily, I lived up to my promise!”
Zhou Bao smiled and pointed in the direction behind him, showing that he had managed to get Yan Yuntian out.