552 Taking the Opportunity to Expose Himself (1/2)

Yu Taixu was the lord of the Divine Wind Palace, the most distinguished person in the Four Eastern Regions, and an uncrowned king.

Even though the candidate for the Human Emperor had already appeared, he had little scruples about everything and simply did what he had to do as usual. The candidate for the Human Emperor was a little bit distinguished, though, in the end, he was merely a high-level puppet of the five biggest sects. The only difference was whether the Divine Wind Palace had more or less control over him.

Due to the miscalculation of the Human Emperor-selecting Ceremony, the Divine Wind Palace had already lost the opportunity to completely control the candidate for the Human Emperor. However, even if the candidate for the Human Emperor wasn't from the Divine Wind Palace, he would be bound by the five biggest sects. In particular, the Human Emperor Palace was in the Divine Wind Palace and, most of the subordinates of the candidate for the Human Emperor were from the Divine Wind Palace. Although they would obey him in ordinary times, at the most critical moment, they would take sides with the Divine Wind Palace. The Divine Wind Palace could make the candidate for the Human Emperor a mere figurehead at any time and let him become a commander of no power.

Thus, even if he himself was not the candidate for the Human Emperor, Yu Taixu had nothing to worry about.

He was still the lord of the Divine Wind Palace who could control everything.

His position was the most distinguished and terrifying one as well.

”Oh, it turns out to be the son of the lord. Haha, he's far worse than Yu Nantian!”

”Nantian often talks to me about you. He said you've done him a lot of favors in the Sea Area. He's a lot more mature after he came back from there!” When Yu Nantian was mentioned in their conversation, Yu Taixu, who was always serious, wore a smile on his face. ”I heard that you have helped him a lot when he was in the Sea Area!”

”Everyone was in a precarious state in the Sea Area. We were just supporting each other, and it was far from doing anyone else a favor.”

Zhou Bao and Yu Taixu were totally unrelated to each other before. Furthermore, there was a huge gap between their positions. If it was 10 days ago, Yu Taixu would not even bother looking at Zhou Bao seriously. But now, he spoke to Zhou Bao frankly with assurance in the Human Emperor Palace, as if they were old friends. The reason was that Zhou Bao had defeated his old rival, the Family Head of the Hong Family, Hong Taihe, in one fell swoop.

No one had ever thought that Hong Taihe was actually an Eight-tribulation True Immortal and the Level Nine Senior Grand Tutor Hong, who was usually shown in front of the public, was merely a puppet.

Any practitioner who had reached the Mysterious Realm would violate the Law of Heaven if he interfered in the worldly affairs. Let alone an Eight-tribulation True Immortal who was at the Lord of Heaven Realm?

However, with hindsight, everyone thought it was just normal. If everything went well, there was no need for Senior Grand Tutor Hong to worry about the punishment of violating the Law of Heaven.

The Golden Book of Fate had always been controlled by the five biggest sects, among which the Divine Wind Palace was the most powerful one. As the second largest family of the Divine Wind Palace, the Hong Family had certain control over the Golden Book of Fate as well. Therefore, it was not difficult for it to use this control authority to conceal Hong Taihe's true cultivation level.

On the other hand, the candidate for the Human Emperor controlled the general trend of the world and was on behalf of justice. Thus, he had the right to rule the Law of Heaven. Nominally, though, as long as he insisted on forgiving a man who had broken the Law of Heaven, it would be quite easy.

An Eight-tribulation True Immortal had already practiced the Self-world to perfection. With such a strength, Hong Taihe was absolutely able to get Emperor Yang the Human Emperor's position. If everything went well, Emperor Yang would ascend the throne. At that time, Hong Taihe's puppet would definitely pardon Hong Taihe for interfering in the worldly affairs earlier, in the name of the candidate for the Human Emperor. It would be done quite easily. After all, Hong Taihe had a sense of propriety and hadn't gone too far even though he had intervened in the worldly affairs. The Li dynasty was originally a dynasty with great fate. Strengthening its position with the help of the imperial power may have exerted a lot of influence on the secular world, but it failed to affect the interest of the five biggest sects. Therefore, the other four sects would not put Hong Taihe in a pickle and they would surely turn a blind eye to this matter.

Of course, the so-called ”everything went well” meant that everything would occur in accordance with Hong Taihe's plan.

However, no one had ever expected that there would be accidents at the Human Emperor-selecting Ceremony.

In the end, among the two accidents, one was evidently caused by Yu Taixu and the other was a real accident. Even if such accidents occurred, Hong Taihe's plan had not been affected. His combat capability had suffered no damage and these two accidents had unexpectedly helped him to get rid of more of his competitors. Instead, the situation became more favorable to him. At that moment, he thought he was the strongest person among all the competitors, and that was why he required the Human Emperor-selecting Ceremony to be continued. However, to his surprise, he had suffered a setback due to carelessness and was defeated by Zhou Bao.

Zhou Bao had defeated Hong Taihe head-on. He displayed both his terrifying attack force and inscrutable hollow travel body movement.

What surprised these experts in high positions was that they could only think of Zhou Bao employing such a weird hollow-travel power to assassinate Hong Taihe rather than fighting him head-on with his own horrifying attack force. Who was able to ward off Zhou Bao's attacks if he acted according to these experts' thoughts?

Perhaps even a Lord of Heaven could not do that, unless he executed the World-solidifying Skill, just like Hong Taihe.

The World-solidifying Skill!