218 The Alma of the Great God Pangu (1/2)
The sounds of fighting seemed to have ceased all of a sudden to a deadly silence!
When Yi Ping, Alice and Isa arrived at the middle of the hall, thick smog was still everywhere but the fighting seemed to have stopped as everyone could be seen gathering one by one around the brilliant stellar light of the Flower of Life!
And Lele was suspending in mid-air as though she was being held in temporal stasis!
Yi Ping called out panicky to her, ”Lele! Lele!”
But there was no response from her; her eyes were closed and she was not even moving!
The Jade Emperor, the Goddess Asura, Yi Si, Ye Ying, the Celestial Liege and the Martial Sage were staring at the scene in front of them; Lele was fluttering in mid-air in the midst of the stellar light!
Her eyes were closed and the unmistakable artefact of the Universal Harmonic Chain was beaming on her bosoms!
Staring at Lele, on the opposite side of the Jade Emperor were Old Man Xuantian the Dark Primordial Heavenly King, Yun Dingzhong the Ascetic Heavenly King and six other Heavenly Kings!
At the same time the Sacred Embodied Heavenly Goddess, the Western Paradise Heavenly King and the Ancient Heavenly Sage King were standing on one side and they were staring fiercely at a group of six heavenly kings!
The expressions on everyone, friends and foes were startled and even more startled when they saw the Divine Golden Kirin that was lumbering behind Yi Ping, Alice and Isa!
The Goddess Aiel and Han Lin were the first group to approach Yi Ping jovially, followed by the Great Desolate Goddess Nuwa who looked as fresh as ever and the Goddess of Mercy Gusu Xiang who was looking terribly weary!
Yi Ping was startled as he asked Xiang, ”You…are you alright?”
The Goddess of Mercy shot the Great Desolate Goddess Nuwa a frightening look and she was trembling, ”Yi…Ping…I almost didn't make it to see you…”
Nuwa growled, ”What is there to worry? I am there with you. After all, didn't we already settle those four Heavenly Kings?”
Xiang shot Nuwa a cold hateful look. It was obvious she had suffered much and the ordeal that she had been through was too punishing!
Everyone could see that she was literally speechless with the callous attitude of the Great Desolate Goddess Nuwa!
The rest of the maidens silently made up their minds never to be alone with Nuwa for no matter whatever the reasons were going to be!
That was because they did not want to be put through the same ordeal as the Goddess of Mercy Xiang!
Yi Ping was also speechless as he stared coldly at Nuwa but he really could not bring himself to be anger with her. When he looked at Nuwa, he was simply reminded by the words of the Great God Pangu to treat her good…
So what else could he do except to sigh regretfully to himself?
He did not know how to comfort Xiang except to grip hold of her hands to say, ”I am sorry that I have put you through to this ordeal. Forgive me…”
Xiang shook her head and was comforted by his concern even though she was still trembling nonstop, ”I…I am…alright now!”
Yi Ping felt an agonizing pain in his heart when he saw her wretched state and he was determined to make up to her in the future…
”Ping'Er!”
It was the Universal Old Man and he was running excitedly to him!
Yi Ping broke into a smile when he saw that his brothers, the Universal Old Man, the Lord Supreme, Skylord Jun and the Immortal Saint of Swords were all safe and sound!
And a broader smile when he saw Yu'Er, Mei'Er, Youxue, Yunzi, Lingfeng, Xingyue and the Ascension Goddess Ye Yin when they appeared out from the smog!
Xian'Er was also here and she was with two Heavenly Kings that he had just fought earlier.
He thought, ”Aren't they our opponents earlier?”
Xian'Er smiled as she said to him via their secret dual celestial whispering skill, ”I am alright. They are not our foes now and are on our side now…”
Alice gasped immediately, ”This is your secret whispering?”
Nuwa appeared to be startled, ”Huh? Alice is able to hear us? Does it mean that she is able to dual celestial with Yi Ping as well?”
Lingfeng chuckled, ”It does appear to be so! What a surprise. So what is going on? Care to explain it?”
Alice immediately whispered shyly, ”I will explain later…”
Yi Ping panicky whispered, ”I will explain it to you later. We must save Lele!”
Yixian nodded and said, ”She is still alive…”
Nuwa said warily, ”The Universal Harmonic Chain is actually an ancient desolate artefact. I have never expected it to be the key to unlock the Flower of Life. And this Lele is actually the key…”
Yun Dingzhong could be heard whispering as he stared coldly at Yi Ping and his group, ”Where are the Tribute Heavenly King and the Lord of the Enigma Chaos?”
Somehow everyone knew instinctively that everyone that should be presented here was already here!
There were supposedly to be eight heavenly kings that should be presented but they were all missing now!
Yun Dingzhong and Old Man Xuantian were extremely weary and they were looking at everyone cautiously now that the Tribute Heavenly King was not here.
Others may not know the true strength of the Tribute Heavenly King but for Yun Dingzhong and Old Man Xuantian, they knew how formidable he was!
But if he was killed then the tide of the battle may turn around for them!
Moreover, they were inside the Pangu Monument now, a place that could multiply their afflictions ten times over and it was a place that none of them could recover their martial strength!
Everyone was looking weary and staring at the sight of Lele. None dare to make a false move after the last fight!
The heavenly kings now knew that Yi Ping's group was truly formidable and they were still startled at the disappearance of the other eight heavenly kings!
The Great Insight Heavenly King was cursing softly, ”If we all haven't been trying to conserve our martial strengths, this new group will not have the opportunity to stand in front of us! While we are doing so, they were fighting us with everything that they got! Do they even know that their martial strengths are unable to recover in this place?!”
Several of the heavenly kings were nodding and staring coldly at Yi Ping and his group!
The Universal Old Man, the Lord Supreme, the Immortal Saint of Swords and Skylord Jun were solemn; they knew that this Great Insight Heavenly King was indeed speaking the truth. Earlier when they had fought with him, he had purposely spared them.
He had said to them, ”Now that only the five of us are here. You can't beat me but I don't want to kill you either. So shall we have a deal?”
The Immortal Saint of Swords was exhausted after executing the Inverting Eternal Occurrence, his most powerful sword technique formation but this Great Insight Heavenly King had actually survived it unscathed!
The Lord Supreme skidded to a side as he gasped out, ”…What…do you mean?…”
The Great Insight Heavenly King interrupted with a cold smile, ”You can probably see that I have stayed my hand and I have even allowed myself to be hit by you at the cost of my personal wellbeing. So, no hard feelings. You can probably tell that we are split into several groups and some of us have been struck here for several months. We are conserving our strength to obtain the Flower of Life. I can probably obliterate your group in no time but I choose not to.”
The Universal Old Man coughed weakly, ”What…do you mean?”
All of a sudden the Skylord Jun, the Universal Old Man, the Immortal Saint of Swords and the Lord Supreme had all ceased their attacks as they could see that the Great Insight Heavenly King had suddenly stopped moving.
The Great Insight Heavenly King smiled when they ceased their attacks, ”Great. So you are open to negotiations. Listen, I don't want Old Man Xuantian, Yun Dingzhong, the Tribute Heavenly King, the Lord of the Chaos Enigma or any of their group to obtain the Flower of Life for they are dark practitioners. I am not. I have only the lofty ambitions to be the new emperor of the Immortal Realm.”
Skylord Jun hummed coldly, ”Lofty indeed!”
The Great Insight Heavenly King laughed, ”Indeed, indeed. That Yi Ping is indeed formidable and so are the two other maidens that are with him. They are all Eight Immortal Positioning immortals. I admit that I am not their match. If I kill the whole lot of you, I am afraid even before I can obtain the Flower of Life, I will already be killed by him.”
The Universal Old Man stammered out, ”That is right! If you kill us then Brother Yi Ping will surely avenge us!”
The Lord Supreme added, ”So what do you propose?”
The Great Insight Heavenly King laughed as he whispered, ”It is nothing really hard. We just pretend not to see each other. I will go my own way and you will go your own way. If your group emerges victorious then I only ask that you will plead on my behalf to give an exit or not to pursue me when you are done. How is that?”
The Immortal Saint of Lords, the Lord Supreme, the Universal Old Man and Skylord Jun said almost at the same time, ”Deal!”
The Great Insight Heavenly King nodded, ”And so, I will continue on my pretense with the other Heavenly Kings. Don't be offended if I seem to be provoking your group. After all, we don't ever want the other heavenly kings to know that we have already struck an agreement.”
The Universal Old Man clapped as he laughed jovially, ”Right, right! We will pretend to curse you while you can do the same to us!”
The Great Insight Heavenly King raised his eyes to stare at the Universal Old Man while Lord Supreme muttered, ”Do you always have to do something like this all the time?”
The Universal Old Man laughed, ”Even though it is only an act but we do have to be convincing!”
Back to the present…
Yi Ping was not in a mood to engage in a staring game with these heavenly kings. Instead, he asked anxiously, ”What is going on around here? What has happened to her…”
His voice was not loud but it had reached out to the ears of everyone with crystal precision as though he was just beside them!
Lie Qing was the first to speak as she said with trembling voice, ”We are all fighting desperately earlier and Lele was pushed to the edge of the stellar light. The next thing that we see is a brilliant burst of blinding light and Lele was in the middle of the Flower of Life…”
The Goddess Asura was ashen as she added quietly while taking a glance at the Jade Emperor, ”Lele has been in this state for some time. We don't know exactly what has happened. Maybe the Jade Emperor knows about it. One of the heavenly kings had tried to grab the Universal Harmonic Chain but he was instantly pulverized into nothingness. Now no one dares to approach the middle.”
The Jade Emperor was also trembling as he muttered, ”Lele…”
Yi Ping quickly went up to him to bow respectfully, ”We have met again. I didn't know that you are the Jade Emperor…”
The Jade Emperor heaved a melancholy sigh as he cast a look at Yi Ping and his group, ”So what if I am the Jade Emperor? So what if I am not?”