561 Killing the Chicken to Warn the Monkey (1/2)
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!
The sound was strange and clear. It was like a dropping a big ladle of water into a scalding hot deep fryer.
As the sound continued, something happened which stunned the four men. Zhou Bao started to wave the black drape. Wherever the black drape flittered, the solid space started to fall apart piece by piece.
The black drape melted the edge of the damaged space, like wax under a high heat, turning it into a monstrous green-yellow color like pus extruding from an ulcer. The men watched, eyes filling with panic.
But the thing that truly sent chills through them was that the edge of the space had no way of healing itself. Under the black drape, this perfect, stable space would be damaged forever.
”What on earth is that thing? How could it have such a terrible force? Where did he get hold of this strange object?!” One of the Elders shouted. When he looked back into the mirror, Bao Zhou's figure had already disappeared.
”Oh god, he broke the inhibition! Quick! Back to the Treasure Light Tower! Go, go!”
The quarreling continued in the Treasure Light Tower. White Tiger's exasperated ranting and Zhi IX's leisurely drawl melded into a bright and beautiful harmony.
Any discerning person would know at first glance that even with his glib speech, White Tiger was at the losing end. This was the Divine Wind Palace, Zhi IX's home ground. What was more, Zhi IX ripped off the tiger skin from the other three great sects. With every sentence, ”Us Four Great Sects”, he would suddenly push the tiger skin to the opposite side of the four great sects. If he was holding the tiger skin, he needed to set about the task. But this was the Divine Wind Palace, Zhi IX's nest. If he was going to start, there was no way he would get what he wanted. For a while, there was no other way. It was urgent. The more he spoke, the more he was driven. As if he were holding the pearl of wisdom, soon when Zhi IX seizes total victory in this quarrel, it would all change.
”Who would dare break into the Treasure Light Tower!?” From the outside the Treasure Light Tower came fierce shouting.
”Get out of here!”
Zhou Bao simply had no intention of chattering with the gatekeeper. He just stormed straight into the Treasure Light Tower.
This was the Treasure Light Tower of the Divine Wind Palace. Even if the gatekeeper was an Individual Immortal from the Mysterious Realm, he would not allow Zhou Bao to break in. Holding celestial devices, they beat Zhou Bao back.
”Such an undiscriminating thing!” Seeing the celestial devices coming for him, Zhou Bao's complexion turned cold, and with one in each hand, used the two celestial devices the men were holding to break into the palace.
”Zhou Bao, how did you get in!?”
Two figures flew in from outside the tower. Two thuds followed. In his fists, Zhou Bao grasped the dark energy. Even though the two men were Metaphysic Individual Immortals, they were beaten down by Zhou Bao, and for a while could not get back up.
When Zhi IX saw the figure storming in, his heart clenched with anger. But seeing the men of the Four Great Sects in the Treasure Light Tower, his resolve was strengthened. He shouted fiercely, asking:
”White Tiger, you're really getting old, nattering on so much! Why don't you just bring people straight in?”
”You!” Even if Zhi IX had some self-restraint, he was still angry at seeing Zhou Bao completely ignore him. Zhou Bao, who do you think you are? Just a powerful and lucky young lad. Your father wasn't even born when I was roaming unimpeded throughout the world. And now you dare ignore me, look down on me. It really is so arrogant!
”Haha! King Wuyang, you think so highly of yourself! It brings me straight back. Could it be that our people died in vain?” At that moment, a wretched voice came from one side.
Zhou Bao stared. It turned out to be a man wrapped from head to foot in a layer of black air. The eerie, dense air was terrifying. Whisps of dark air radiated from his body. From one glance he could tell that it was a master of martial arts of the Dark Sect.
”A member of the Dark Sect?!”
”Qiao Huai of the Dark Sect!”
”Qiao Huai?!” Zhou Bao had never heard this name, but others did.
”Qiao Huai. It's really Qiao Huai, the Supreme of Demons!”
”Yes, I never imagined he was Qiao Huai, the Supreme of Demons. He had been shrouded in the black air all day long, I thought it was the Dark Lord!”
”How could it be the Dark Lord? How did you imagine the Dark Lord could enter the Divine Wind Palace?”
”I guess you're right!”
”But it was actually the Supreme of Demons!” Zhou Bao was a little surprised, the Dark Lord was a Genuine Immortal of the Venerable Realm. The Dark Sect's methods were furtive, and their practice methods were brutal beyond compare. So when they were undergoing the Thunder Tribulation, their power was two, even three times that of a Genuine Immortal. After they had undergone the Thunder Tribulation, their power was still much stronger than that of a Venerable.
However, Zhou Bao had no qualms about all this. He looked Qiao Huai, the Supreme of Demons up and down, and laughed strangely. He lurched towards Qiao Huai, startling him. ”This is not good”, Qiao Huai mumbled to himself. Before the thought even cleared his mind, Zhou Bao's hand had already breached his protective Dark Gang, and he was holding him up by the neck.