Representative Yan was inferior to Zhang Tiande, yet he had still plundered a considerable amount of income from pirates. There were quite a few rare and peculiar treasures.
After killing the two men and taking their storage rings, Ling Xiao and Leng Mei blended back into the crowd.
It was as though nothing had happened.
Most of the crowd consisted merely of Celestial Realm warriors. Mingling among them made it even easier to conceal their identities.
As the sky grew darker, the lights burned ever brighter.
The people from the Water Temple finally reappeared.
This time, it was no longer cannon fodder, but the Heavy Water Protector, Tian Hai Zhenzhu, and several experts from the Water Temple.
Of course, this was not their full force.
Revealing all their strength at once would easily make them a target.
“Sun Ran, Ji Qing, this old man accepts your proposal. We are willing to bring out the Imperial Seal so everyone can study it together.”
The speaker was the Heavy Water Protector of the Water Temple.
They were not acting out of fear, but simply because their own exhaustive searches had yielded no results. They wished to borrow the power of these people.
In plain terms, it was mutual exploitation.
No one was a fool, yet many were greedy.
Those with lower cultivation did not necessarily have poor insight. With more people, someone was bound to discover hidden secrets.
“Good. The Heavy Water Protector’s choice spares us much bloodshed and sacrifice. This is an absolutely correct decision that benefits the entire martial world.”
The Medicine King Sun Ran stood up, exuding an air of profound mystery.
In the crowd, Ling Xiao could not help curling his lip. How grandly phrased, yet was it not simply to obtain the Human King’s Notes?
This fellow was truly hypocritical enough.
“Indeed. Let us begin sharing the Imperial Seal now. I have a treasure here that can transmit the information from the Imperial Seal to everyone present. If any secret is discovered, this treasure will indicate it. Should anyone attempt to monopolise the secret, do not blame us for being impolite.”
Ji Qing also stood, taking out a strangely shaped treasure as he spoke.
Though he too was a transcendent expert, he could not escape the allure of the Imperial Seal.
Moreover, as a representative of the Tianlong Trading Company, he naturally had to take some action.
The Heavy Water Protector nodded, then tossed the Imperial Seal into the air, controlling it with inner force so it steadily descended towards the treasure.
However, at that moment, Ling Xiao’s brows suddenly furrowed in the crowd.
His soul force had detected a powerful and terrifying aura.
This aura was not only sinister and cold, but bone-chilling, as if it truly came from the Nine Nether Hell.
Then, everyone noticed a black palanquin appear. A pitch-black chain sliced through the night sky, actually coiling away the Imperial Seal.
The palanquin was carried by four little giants, icy and grim. No one knew who sat inside, for there was only a seemingly very heavy bronze coffin.
Surrounding the black palanquin were more than a dozen black ghost-god hounds, along with dozens of fierce and bizarre prisoners.
Just as in the massacre at the city gate earlier, they had truly appeared.
The people of the Ghost God Temple had seized the Imperial Seal right in front of so many warriors.
They truly held the warriors here in no regard at all.
They were quickly surrounded by the warriors.
Having taken the Imperial Seal, no one was willing to let them leave.
This applied to the Water Temple, and equally to the Ghost God Temple.
The Ghost God Temple might have a resounding reputation and great fame, yet these were not people from the main hall. They could not produce complete deterrence.
Moreover, the allure of the Imperial Seal was simply too great. Many people, even knowing there might be mortal danger, still wished to contend for it.
Suddenly, one of the prisoners wearing a bronze mask turned his eyes towards Ling Xiao’s direction.
The chain in his hand was suddenly hurled over. The iron padlock at the end shattered the air, producing terrifying sonic booms.
The powerful and horrifying aura charged directly at Ling Xiao, though those who suffered first were the warriors standing in front of him.
The chain was too fast. They had no time to dodge, only hastily block.
Yet in an instant, four or five warriors were smashed into meat paste by the massive iron padlock.
Even those who barely blocked it suddenly found a black aura sweeping over their bodies. In that moment, their bodies began to rot. It was simply too ghastly to behold.
What a bizarre attack!
What terrifying martial arts!
At the same time, the other prisoners performed almost identical attacks.
Only then did Ling Xiao realise that this fellow had not actually intended to attack him specifically, but was indiscriminately slaughtering everyone.
Was this the Ghost God Temple?
Did they intend to intimidate all the warriors in the square through such means?
For a time, screams rang out continuously. In mere moments, over a hundred Celestial Realm warriors had died, along with several Cave Heaven Realm warriors.
These prisoners were too strong. Judging purely by cultivation, the weakest among them was at the complete stage of half-step Cave Heaven Realm.
The strongest, Ling Xiao could not yet determine, for he simply had no time to assess it.
The attack had already reached him. The iron padlock was now only inches from his head.
Yet, a moment later, his body shifted laterally, effortlessly dodging what seemed a fatal strike.
Hm?
The prisoner wearing the bronze mask appeared somewhat surprised.
Among the several people he had attacked, Ling Xiao’s cultivation could only be considered average. The others had either been directly smashed to death or corroded by corpse poison.
Yet this young fellow had easily evaded his attack, and not even the corpse poison could affect him?
He suddenly let out a furious roar, clearly enraged.
Originally, he had used only one chain, and it was an area attack.
Now, however, he hurled both chains from his hands, and the target was solely Ling Xiao.
“Leng Mei, do not act yet.”
Ling Xiao prevented Leng Mei from intervening. Firstly, he wished to temper himself. Secondly, he feared Leng Mei might be poisoned by the corpse toxin.
This deadly poison must never be underestimated. Even Cave Heaven Realm warriors would face great trouble if poisoned.
Ling Xiao himself was immune to all poisons, but Leng Mei was not.
Leng Mei nodded silently, stepping aside to observe the fight, though she remained ready to strike at any moment.
If Ling Xiao faced mortal danger, she would definitely slay this strange prisoner on the spot.
The two iron padlocks, like heaven-shattering hammers, tore through space. In an instant, they reached Ling Xiao. One aimed for his head, the other blasted towards his chest.
“Hmph. You are merely the weakest among those prisoners, yet you dare press me so. Do you seek death?”
Ling Xiao gave a cold snort. Towards someone attempting to take his life, Ling Xiao had no intention of holding back.
Two Crimson Sun Cones suddenly appeared in his hands, cleanly deflecting the two chains.
The opponent was a warrior at the complete stage of half-step Cave Heaven Realm, while his own cultivation, thanks to refining hundreds of thousands of pills, had reached the growth stage of half-step Cave Heaven Realm. The gap was very small.
Against such an enemy, Ling Xiao had no reason to fear.
Rage!
Absolute rage!
Two attacks had actually failed to kill a fellow of lower cultivation. This caused the prisoner in the bronze mask to fly into a thunderous fury.
