Chapter 954 - What Are Your Chances? (2/2)

"Before such an explosion, he is probably dead," said Old Man Xuan and Qi.

Is Mister Yi still alive?

Imperial Emperor Xian Tian immediately returned to the wreckage upon noticing Heavenly Monarch Di Ming's glances and blocked off his vision.

Suddenly, a metal clanking was heard and from the ruins emerged a bloodied hand before Zhong Yue crawled out from the wreckage covered with blood. When he crawled out, he was seen holding a piece of thin metal plate and the metal clanking noise was caused by this metal plate.

"Mister Yi."

Imperial Emperor Xian Tian approached him and he was lost of words after seeing Zhong Yue making through the explosion that mowed down countless compounds despite located at the centre of explosion!

His vision then locked onto the metal plate as it seemed like it was this metal plate that helped Zhong Yue survived the explosion.

After taking another look on the metal plate, Imperial Emperor Xian Tian staggered as the metal plate looked like the bottom of the Tian Pan and not a defensive item as he thought.

Or it might have been Zhong Yue that picked it up after the item exploded into pieces.

But how did he survive?

Imperial Emperor Xian Tian was intrigued as he examined Zhong Yue. At the centre of the explosion, not even Creators like Fu Li could survive!

But Zhong Yue survived, which meant that there was something else that he used to survive the blast!

He then kept his confusion deep in his heart and started helping Zhong Yue.

"My lord, I am fine."

With a trembling body, Zhong Yue said, "The centre of the explosion was the safest place compared to the other places. There were not much shockwaves around there and I am merely looking messed up on my appearance. That's all."

Without showing a sign at all, the confusion in Imperial Emperor Xian Tian remained but he laughed, "It must have been scary still. Did you managed to get what you wanted?"

"Not quite, but I do have a general idea of it already."

Zhong Yue spat out the clogged blood in his chest and said, "I call it the [Innate Eight Trigrams], an art that could explain the wonders in Daos. Through everyone's strength, I've managed to form a scaffold but I never expected that my item would explode."

Imperial Emperor Xian Tian then replied, "Everything is fine as long as you are alive. By the way, do you mind easing us our curiosity? The art that needed our help to calculate is definitely going to be a very outstanding one!'

His suggestion was turned down by Zhong Yue, "My lord, you will witness it during the ceremony."

"Then I will be waiting for you to shine during the ceremony."

At the same time, blood kept flowing out from Zhong Yue's nose, ears, and mouth. After attending it briefly, a voice rumbled in his mind, "Can you win against Zhu Xie now?"

Zhong Yue thought for a second and replied Celestial Monarch Jin Wu, "I'd say I stand only 10% chance to win against him."

"Good."

Celestial Monarch Jin Wu said again, "If you win against Zhu Xie, Imperial Emperor Xian Tian will definitely lose his trust in you as beating Zhu Xie would mean you would be capable of beating Imperial Emperior Xian Tian as well! You should know what to do, yes?"

Zhong Yue's heart thumped and he immediately thanked Celestial Monarch Jin Wu for the advice.

Meanwhile, as the incident slowly cooled down, cleaners from the Heaven Court started removing the wreckage and built new palaces.

As time slowly passed, the ceremony was just around the corner and Zhu Xie had also stirred up some attention; from the bottom, he fought his way up and now, he was challenging a Deity Overlord with his True Deity level. In just a few days, he had already fought his way up to the third place and attracted a lot of attention!

Zhong Yue, however, did not head over to observe the battle but he returned to North Heaven Gate and cultivated patiently. Meanwhile, his wife, Yin Fanxuan, headed over towards the arena from time to time. When she returned, she looked worried and showed Zhong Yue every technique Zhu Xie performed. She asked afterwards, "What do you think of your chances?"

"20%?"

On the second day, Yin Fanxuan repeated the same actions and went to peek on Zhu Xie's strength, reperformed these techniques to Zhong Yue and asked, "How about now?"

"30%"

On the third day, Zhong Yue replied, "40%"

"50%"

And Yin Fanxuan shouted, "How are you cultivating so quickly!"

Zhong Yue then explained, "I have yet to learn much about the [Innate Eight Trigrams] but now that I've digested its knowledge. I have more than fifty percent confident. If the ceremony were to be postponed, Zhu Xie will be dead for sure!"