660 The Response of the Divine Wind Palace (1/2)

This was the place where the Master of Celestial Mystery of Divine Wind Palace had predicted that Wang She would cross the tribulation.

Divine Wind Palace had been passed down through tens of thousands of generations. It had been dominated for thousands of years by the Four Eastern Regions school, who had countless tricks and strategies. For Zhou Bao to destroy this leviathan was not an easy task at all. Even if he had the strength to fight a Human Immortal, he couldn't just kill them without putting too much thought to it first; he could only make small, surreptitious moves to slowly weaken their power.

Maybe it was because of his strength, or maybe it was due to luck, but everything Zhou Bao had done until now had gone through without a hitch. Even though there some twists and turns, he had not run into any severe difficulty or danger.

Because of this, Zhou Bao looked down on Divine Wind Palace.

But he did not know that inside Divine Wind Palace there were countless people, aside from the powerful masters, who for thousands of years had spared no effort in cultivating strange talents. These talents in antiquity times were called necromancers, and these necromancers had stopped their activities during those times. The necromancers cultivated now at Divine Wind Palace were naturally no match for those from antiquity times, but they still had many strange powers, as did the Master of Celestial Mystery.

Yu Taixu was the lord of Divine Wind Palace. It had been a daunting prospect for him to go personally to the Thunder Emperor's touring abode. Before he left he went to look for this Master of Celestial Mystery to get a prediction of how it would go. Unfortunately, at that time the Grand Design had been concealed by some mysterious force. The Master of Celestial Mystery could not foretell Yu Taixu's future, so he urged him to be careful. Yu Taixu had faith in his strength and he had his Supreme Fairy Weapon with him, so he didn't believe that he could come to any harm. If something bad should happen, he believed he could easily escape. So he didn't heed the warning from the Master of Celestial Mystery, but went resolutely ahead and perished as a result.

Yu Taixu's death had caused a huge uproar at Divine Wind Palace and even throughout the Seven-deity Regions. Of course, Divine Wind Palace could not do anything about it. Mr. Feng IX concluded it was an accident and summed it all up as due to Yu Taixu's misfortune. But in fact, it was a true tragedy. How could a guy from Divine Wind Palace be so naive?

The Master of Celestial Mystery did not predict anything about Zhou Bao, but he came to the conclusion that what Mr. Feng IX said had nine truths and one lie in it. If any part was untrue, which part was it? It was clear that he was hiding something. Could it be that he was the one who had killed Yu Taixu?

The Master of Celestial Mystery quickly ruled this out, so then what had really happened at the Thunder Emperor's touring abode?

This mystery of Yu Taixu's death was a source of frustration for the high levels of Divine Wind Palace, and they blamed Mr. Feng IX for it. This guy had clearly concealed the truth about Yu Taixu's death and given his version of it, but they had no way of forcing him to come clean. Feng IX was no ordinary person, he was the Highest Elder of Immortal Palace, an eight-tribulation Lord of Heaven with unspeakable strength. At Immortal Palace he had sublime status. With Divine Wind Palace's current strength it was unwise to fall out with Immortal Palace, so they had no choice but to go about the matter in another way.

But the Master of Celestial Mystery was also no ordinary man. He had figured out the intentions of all the men who had gone to the Thunder Emperor's touring abode. He didn't suspect any of them, but what about Zhou Bao?

He could not figure it out!

He could not make sense of Zhou Bao's behavior, so Divine Wind Palace could not make a judgment. Zhou Bao's strength exceeded that of Yu Taixu and Feng IX. The Master of Celestial Mystery noted that Zhou Bao's strength was much more than anyone had imagined, and also worked out that there were numerous untruths in what Mr. Feng IX said. The master considered Zhou Bao a suspect, but it was just a suspicion. The Master of Celestial Mystery reckoned that Yu Taixu died from trying to resist two Supreme Fairy Weapons. Because the loss to the Great Constellation Palace was so huge, the Supreme Fairy Weapon was no match for the suspect, and so he perished.

They also imagined at one point that the suspect who possessed the Supreme Fairy Weapon was Zhou Bao, but it was just speculation. Once Zhou Bao had come onto the scene they had his background checked thoroughly. Perhaps he was just a local born-and-bred guy from the Heaven Realm macro world who had just been lucky? This type of person, lucky as he may be, could never master a Supreme Fairy Weapon. Besides, the last time a Supreme Fairy Weapon was used in Divine Wind Palace, Zhou Bao had not been around. Therefore, in the end, Immortal Palace was the biggest suspect.

Immortal Palace!

This suspicion was unexpected, but after careful thinking, it was justifiable.

What was Immortal Palace like?

It was one of the five biggest sects in the Four Eastern Regions, with powers second only to Divine Wind Palace. Its Uniform Dao had been passed down from antiquity times. It had an immeasurably long history. A Supreme Fairy Weapon was hidden inside the palace, which even though was surprising, was not difficult to believe.

It was just pure speculation, but if it were true, it would explain many things.

How did Zhou Bao emerge so suddenly with such unimaginable powers? Previously, Divine Wind Palace believed that Zhou Bao had someone with greater powers supporting him, but they were clueless as to who this was. But when the secret relationship between Zhou Bao and Immortal Palace was exposed, Divine Wind Palace then had many more clues to go by. This Zhou Bao could have been secretly raised by Immortal Palace to deal with the weapons in the palace. This way, many of the unfathomable things that happened around Zhou Bao could then be explained.

Once it was explained, everything became very clear.

At last, after the elder had deduced everything, the whole matter became like a story. The reason was that Immortal Palace was dissatisfied with Divine Wind Palace having full domination over Heaven and Earth, so they raised Zhou Bao, a man of exceptional talent, and placed him where he could cause trouble. He provoked people and attracted a lot of attention which, intentionally or not, was directed to Divine Wind Palace. They waited until people stopped paying attention, and got to work eradicating the peripheral power of Divine Wind Palace and secretly killing their experts. He finally availed himself of the Supreme Fairy Weapon, and when it was least expected, in one fell swoop, overthrew the Lord of Divine Wind Palace. Although Mr. Feng IX did not kill Yu Taixu himself, his actions this entire time did not help him. But, he said that when Yu Taixu finally entered the boundless hollow at the Great Constellation Palace, how could he have just happened to come across another Supreme Fairy Weapon? The only credible explanation was that Mr. Feng IX was at work behind the scenes. He informed the suspects so that they would emerge at the Great Constellation Palace's weakest moment, and dealt them a fatal blow. Only this could explain things. If not, why would Feng IX keep to himself the reason he survived the showdown between the two Supreme Fairy Weapons, and when he finally did give a reason why did it sound so dubious?

Now the truth was clear!