Chapter 292: Kill Him or Keep Him? (1/2)

The moment the shining light vanished, the Heavenly Knight narrowed his eyes. Xue Wei was standing as intact as before, but the cell was a different story. Fissures had appeared all over it, and even the metal of the cell door was warped from the sheer amount of pressure that had been released earlier.

The cells were not made to keep Qi cultivators at bay. In fact, Xue Wei was easily able to destroy the door and leave if he wished to do so, however, there was only one way to leave the dungeons, and that was through the building on top of the dungeons—the building where all the Baili family’s guards resided.

Although Xue Wei was rather arrogant and had great faith in his own abilities, he did not think he could take on a few Heavenly Knights alongside dozens of Sky Knights. He did have the golden dragon spirit protecting him, but there was a limit to this protection.

Even now, when he had relied on the golden dragon spirit, he had sensed that he could no longer call it out. It was so filled with energy from those soul needles that it was about to burst.

It was currently lying in his mind palace with closed eyes and a pained expression on its face, trying to consume the overwhelming energy that it had absorbed just moments before.

Fortunately, the Heavenly Knight knew nothing about this. He was unaware of what Xue Wei had done, about which tricks he had up his sleeve and about his real species.

He had thought he was a mere human, but now he was starting to seriously doubt himself. Was that dragon a Primordial Beast that followed him around? But if it was a Primordial Beast, how could it have appeared out of nowhere and then completely vanished without a trace.

Spiritual energy cultivators had the best perception of all cultivators. It was near-impossible to sneak up on a spiritual energy cultivator, and even harder to hide under their noses, yet this beast had appeared and vanished just like that.

Since it could vanish, was this just a technique? A Qi technique that he had never heard about before? But it had obviously drawn in the energy that the soul needles consisted of. How could Qi consume spiritual energy?

The Heavenly Knight was getting more and more perplexed and confused, but he did not have a lot of time to consider it, as the screeching roar of the dragon had alerted every guard in the entire family—not to mention the elders.

It did not even take the time it takes to brew a cup of tea before the entire dungeon was filled with high ranking guards and elders from the Baili family. All of them were looking at Xue Wei with hesitation and doubt evident in their eyes.

No one spoke though, all of them were just filled with uncertainty and slight apprehension. The roar had shaken the entire family compound, the sheer force from it was so powerful that it was impossible to ignore.

Finally, the grand elder made an appearance. He gazed at Xue Wei with solemn eyes and then gestured for everyone else within the hall to leave.

Although the roar had sounded powerful, there was no way that the roaring beast would be capable of dealing with the grand elder, so all of them proceeded to withdraw, taking a glance at Xue Wei without hiding the curiosity in their assortment of eyes.

Once only Xue Wei and the grand elder remained in the dungeon, the grand elder finally spoke, “It seems that we have underestimated you.”

“I am not sure if you underestimated me, or if you knew nothing about me from the start,” Xue Wei said with a shrug of his shoulders. “What did you actually realize about me? I am new to this continent, so many of my secrets are very well guarded, and it is not like I am going to spill them just because you have locked me up in a dungeon.”

Hearing Xue Wei’s words, the grand elder’s face turned rather ugly. He too had to admit that all their attempts at coercion had been a failure so far, but he was not worried.

Unlike Xue Wei—who was doing all in his power to make time pass by as fast as possible so that he could give the Gu and Yuan families as much time as possible to prepare—the Baili family were taking everything very slowly.

They were unaware of what exactly Xue Wei had gifted the other families, so they did not know that they were currently planning to usurp the position of number one family in Yan Dalu, nor would they suspect the two families would be a legitimate threat anyway.

To the Baili family, time was nothing more than a number. Xue Wei was in their clutches, and it was clear that one way or another, he would submit to them. It was inevitable—they just had to find the right method first.

“So you are a beast?” the grand elder could not help but ask as he looked at Xue Wei. “The roar was rather magnificent; it felt as if there was an earthquake. In fact, I bet that even someone outside of the family compound will have heard it.”

The light in the grand elder’s eyes shone with greed; he was looking at Xue Wei as if the young man was a priceless treasure. “We do not have a tendency of taming beasts here on our continent,” he continued.

“I heard about your friend’s amazing power of enslaving Primordial Beasts. This is a rather useful ability. Of course, our Baili family has no enmity towards beasts, and see no reason to tame the Primordial ones. However, Fierce beasts are not so intelligent. To make an army of Fierce Beasts could prove to be rather useful.”

The more the grand elder spoke, the more annoyed Xue Wei became. When he had come here, they had threatened him with his friends, and he had been close to forgetting the bigger picture and had just wanted to kill them all.

Now once again, they were threatening to harm his friends and family, and he once more had an urge to kill them off, but he stopped himself when he remembered that he was not any match for this man.

Since he could not hope to match his power, then why not try to use his wits?