I Can See Your Combat Power

Chapter 792: Chapter Eighty-Six: The Wind Stops

“Brother Gong has misunderstood me. The Earth Spirit clan dislikes conflict; how could we possibly sow discord between the Flame and Water clans?” Huang Yuan smiled. “As for the forty percent Divine Jades, they were previously promised to be left to Brother Gong and Brother Zhu. Sadly, Brother Zhu has departed us now, therefore this forty percent would naturally belong to Brother Gong. Where is there any manipulation, Brother Gong, you’re misunderstanding me too deeply.”

“Whether it’s misunderstanding or manipulation, the fact that Zhu Xiao died under my Frost Spike is already a fact.” Gong Quan said coldly, “The storm will cease in half a day. Please Brother Huang bury these Flame City warriors first. If the traces of the Earth Divine Light are exposed, it will spell trouble.”

“Brother Gong is certainly fair.” Huang Yuan smiled and gave a thumbs up, “Although we, spirit practitioners, each serve our own interests, we still fight to death when in war. But it has nothing to do with personal stances, only belonging to different factions. In truth, I greatly admire Zhu Xiao’s straightforwardness. He truly embodied the demeanor of a Spirit King. Sadly, two generations of heroes died here. They deserve a proper burial.”

“Let’s use this valley as a tomb with heaven and earth serving as its burial site. I request brother Gong to erect a monument for him. May future generations remember that the Flame Tribe once had a Spirit King named Zhu Xiao and the brave spirit practitioners of Flame City fought to their death.”

Despite trying to absolve himself, his words were respectful. Gong Quan said with distaste, “I finally understand why Zhu Xiao despised you so much.”

He glanced at Huang Yuan, condensed frost into twenty ice coffins, then used his spiritual power to raise a gravestone from the earth. He wrote Zhu Xiao’s life story on it with his finger.

Meanwhile, Huang Yuan didn’t seem bothered at all. He turned towards the storm in the valley, a smile of satisfaction on his face. He was quietly calculating that, after obtaining the Sixty Percent Divine Jades from the storm, how could he distribute it to ensure that the Houtu City remains the strongest force in the Han River region for the next few centuries.

Staring into the valley, he was caught off guard when he saw a fleeting silver glint in the black void storm. Huang Yuan was taken aback.

He knew that even Spirit King-level practitioners would have a hard time escaping the void storm once they were unceremoniously thrown into it. Their spiritual power eventually drains and they find it hard to escape.

Could it be that besides the Four Spirit Divine Jades, there’s something else divine in this void storm?

Huang Yuan couldn’t help but speculate. He stared harder but didn’t see the silver Divine Light appear again, as if the fleeting sparkle was just an illusion.

After a long while, he gave up and turned to inspect the traces of Earth Divine Light on the dead Flame City spirit manipulators. He thought to himself: the truth will reveal itself once the storm stops.

Meanwhile, in the middle of the void storm, Tang Luo was in a state of despair. He felt that his initial idea of going in the void storm to get the jade coins was sheer “genius”.

He was such a clever fool. Tang Luo couldn’t help but mock himself. He had been rolling in the void storm for half a day now. Even with his impressive physical endurance, he felt like vomiting.

The sensation was like endlessly rolling over 720 degrees. It wasn’t just the world that was churning; the entire space seemed distorted in the void storm!

The problem was, Tang Luo couldn’t tear the storm apart to stop it. After venturing deeper into the storm, he was dismayed to discover that the Four Spirit Divine Jades were not treasures swept into the Minor Spirit Realm by the void storm from nowhere. Instead, they were the crystals formed after the Spirit Qi and matter from the Four Imperial Spirit Realms were swept into the storm and annihilated.

In other words, as long as the storm didn’t cease, the more Spirit Qi and matter it swept up, the more crystals it produced. Hence, Tang Luo didn’t only have to not halt the storm, he had to work with the storm’s churning. He must not exert force against the void storm, as that would consume the storm’s energy.

He was truly miserable. His only consolation was that a new jade coin formed in the storm every few breaths. Each time he carefully plucked one, he felt the joy of harvesting fresh cabbages from his own field. Even the sensation of deathly churning didn’t seem so unbearable any longer.

By midday, he had swallowed thousands of jade coins formed in the void storm into his stomach and stored them in Void Stomach No. 6.

The diligent jade-coin collector was on standby in the storm, completely oblivious to the events outside. By evening when the storm ended, Tang Luo stood satisfied on solid ground. When he looked up, he saw a group of agape middle-aged and elderly men on the cliff.

“Um…” Tang Luo pondered, guessing that this group was probably surprised by his sudden appearance. He coughed delicately, “I didn’t expect you all to be enjoying the moonlight on such a long night. I shall not disturb you then. Goodbye!”

The two factions from Houtu City and Han River Village would never have guessed that after the storm, instead of the scattered Four Spirit Divine Jades, a hairless, no-eyebrowed young man would appear. Huang Yuan, naturally cautious, found it strange that this young man survived the void storm unscathed. He wanted to observe first.noveldrama

But Gong Quan wasn’t as patient. The others didn’t know who Tang Luo was, but he did, thanks to Gong Wang and Gong Yang’s reports. He knew Tang Luo was the outsider. Although his survival in the void storm set Gong Quan’s heart pounding with shock, he would never allow him to have all the Four Spirit Divine Jades!

An ice pillar descended from the sky and blocked Tang Luo’s path. Gong Quan, standing on the cliff, said coldly, “Leave the Four Spirit Divine Jades, and I will let you leave. Otherwise, this Ghost Orchid Valley will be your graveyard!”

Tang Luo shrugged, looking back. He said helplessly to the sky, “What if I told you that there were no Four Spirit Divine Jades in the void storm? Would you believe me?”

No one replied. Only dozens of figures lit up on the cliff. Blue and yellow light shadows appeared, along with the raging Earth and Water primary energies in the valley.

“So, you really want to fight? Tang Luo cracked his knuckles and tried to reason, “You…don’t stand a chance. Perhaps it’s best to just give up.”

“All you have to do is hand over the Divine Jades from the storm. We’ll have no qualms with you.” Huang Yuan laughed, “Young man, you’re the first outsider to enter the Four Imperial Spirit Realms in a thousand years. I have many questions to ask. If you surrender the Divine Jade, we can turn foes into friends. You’ll be Houtu City’s honored guest. What do you say?”

“No thanks, bye!”

With a swift movement of his ghost-shadow step, Tang Luo escaped from the Frost Array, dashed into the mid-air from the valley’s bottom that carried increasingly heavier Water and Earth Primary Qi, and headed south at high speed.

After obtaining so many Four Spirit Divine Jades, he was destined to be the winner of the second round. Even if he activated the jade coins and teleported away now, there would be no issues. But from when he entered the second round, he started having doubts and wanted to find answers.

As for the pushovers surrounding the valley? He had no interest in fighting them. After all, as long as he flew fast enough, they wouldn’t even be able to catch up to him.

Huang Yuan and Gong Quan never expected Tang Luo’s flight speed to be so astonishing. They knew that the average spirit manipulators could only eat his dust even if they chased him. They looked at each other, understanding each other’s thoughts, and ordered in unison, “You all, return first!”

As soon as the words were out, two streaks of light, one blue, one yellow, leapt from the rocks, chasing after the silver light.