“You’re awesome, Sect Leader!!”
Shang Qingxue could not help but cheer behind Chu Kuangren with admiration in her eyes.
“Let’s leave!”
Wang Tianteng and the others decided to leave.
That was when an inexplicable chill suddenly engulfed him and made him shudder.
“All of you can leave, but the ones that attacked my Black Heaven Sect disciple must stay.”
The moment Chu Kuangren said that, Wang Tianteng instantly turned into a ray of light and darted towards the distance.
He wanted to flee.
However, Chu Kuangren raised his hand and unleashed an invisible surge of mind power in all directions.
Wang Tianteng may be fast, but how could he compare to the speed of Chu Kuangren’s mind power?
All it took was an instant to trap Wang Tianteng’s figure in mid-air, and he could not break free no matter how much spiritual power he channeled.
It was as if a huge invisible arm was gripping him tightly.
“Stop. That person is a sky-pride of the Wang clan, who is an archaic orthodoxy. If you dare kill him…”
Gu clan’s Boundary Emperor yelled. As the Wang clan’s vassal, the Gu clan’s Boundary Emperor could no longer watch on.
Bam!
Wang Tianteng’s body exploded into a bloody mist in the air.
Chu Kuangren tilted his head as he looked at the Gu clan’s Boundary Emperor. “You were saying? If I dare kill him, will something happen??”
“Y-you…”
The Gu clan’s Boundary Emperor looked at Chu Kuangren. He was so enraged that he could not utter a full sentence.
“Me? What is it? You can’t even speak clearly for heaven’s sake, and you call yourself a Boundary Emperor?”
Chu Kuangren snickered. Then, he looked at Princess Zhu and Sima Ren.
Both of them immediately turned pale with fear upon noticing his glare. They immediately ran and hid behind the Boundary Emperors of their respective orthodoxy.
It was a clear sign that they were terrified of Chu Kuangren.
“Fellow Daoist brother, my Snow Spider Tribe is willing to give you one hundred and fifty kilograms of soul emblem to spare Princess Zhu’s life.”
“My Sima clan offers the same as well.”
Soul emblem was a higher form of spiritual qi crystal that was more valuable than soulstones and spiritual marrows.
Half a kilogram of soul emblem was worth as much as fifty million kilograms of top-tier soulstones.
Boom, boom!
However, as soon as the two Boundary Emperors finished speaking, several runic swords suddenly appeared beside Princess Zhu and Sima Ren.
In a blink of an eye, the runic swords surged forth and instantly engulfed both Princess Zhu and Sima Ren in an explosion of runic energy.
“Princess Zhu!”
“Sima Ren!!”
The Snow Spider Tribe’s and Sima clan’s Boundary Emperors’ expressions changed drastically.
A top-notch sky-pride was an extremely valuable resource for any orthodoxy. Yet just like that, these several orthodoxies’ sky-prides had been killed off in succession.
It pained the Boundary Emperors very much.
All of them stared daggers at Chu Kuangren. If eyes could kill, they would have ripped Chu Kuangren to shreds.
“Let’s leave!”
The Boundary Emperors gritted their teeth and left the area with the remaining people.
They did not dare to go against Chu Kuangren any further. If they did, there was a chance that more sky-prides would die as a result.
This was especially true for the Snow Spider Tribe, who had lost a Boundary Emperor and top-notch sky-pride today. They could no longer afford to suffer anymore.
“Just you wait, human! We won’t let this go so easily!”
The Boundary Emperors cursed secretly as they left.
…
When everyone had left, Chu Kuangren looked at Shang Qingxue inside the Snow Lotus and activated his Eye of Revelation.
“Deep Freeze Physique upgrade in progress, overall completion – ninety-four percent…”
“Alright, now tell me how you got here,” Chu Kuangren asked.
“I’m not sure myself as well. After entering the Emperor Road, I was transported by a surge of mysterious spatial energy to an empty space under this Heavenly Pool. A few moments after communicating with you, I fainted, and when I woke up, I realized that I was on top of the Frosted-Core Snow Lotus…” Shang Qingxue told him everything that had happened.
Chu Kuangren was amazed to hear her story. “It seems that luck is on your side to be transported into the Heavenly Pool, and the Frosted-Core Snow Lotus just happened to appear. Since your Daoist Physique’s attribute fits very well with the Frosted-Core Snow Lotus, you caused a reaction that enabled it to recognize you by default and allow you to obtain this fortunate opportunity.”
He had heard a few rumors about the Frosted-Core Snow Lotus as well.
If it were someone else who obtained it, he might step in and snatch it for himself. However, since Shang Qingxue was the one who got it, he felt happy for her.
After all, they were all part of the same family.
There was still some time left before the Frosted-Core Snow Lotus fully assimilated with Shang Qingxue, which triggered an upgrade of her Deep Freeze Physique. Hence, Chu Kuangren did not mind waiting a little while longer.
…
Meanwhile, when the cultivators from the Snow Spider Tribe and Snow Lion Tribe left the area, that barrier they had set up disappeared as well.
The Heavenly Pool was once again exposed before the likes of everyone nearby.
Many people rushed to the Heavenly Pool, seeking to obtain valuable treasures there.
The energy and ice crystal of the Heavenly Pool…
Those were extremely valuable to most cultivators.
However, everyone knew that the true treasure laid within the Heavenly Pool itself.
“The mysterious occurrence at the Heavenly Pool Mountain must be caused by something at the Heavenly Pool itself. That’s where the real Opportunities of Fortune will be.”
“However, a few great orthodoxies have suddenly left that area for some reason. Could they have obtained the Opportunities of Fortune within the Heavenly Pool?”
“Let’s go there and try our luck.”
Regardless, some of them still came to the Heavenly Pool, seeking to try their luck and find out whether they could obtain any leftover valuables.
As soon as they arrived at the Heavenly Pool, they saw the giant Frosted-Core Snow Lotus.
Nevertheless, the Snow Lotus leaves were still closed, as if it was an unopened flower bud.
“The Frosted-Core Snow Lotus!”
“I can’t believe a Frosted-Core Snow Lotus has shown up here. But why did those people take it?”
“It doesn’t matter. Since it’s in front of us now, we might as well take it.”
The group of men delightfully rushed towards the Snow Lotus.
However, a razor-sharp streak of sword qi suddenly slashed across the space, leaving a huge mark on the ground.
A Sage, who was closest to the sword slash mark, was so scared that a cold sweat began to form on his forehead.
If he had taken another step, that sword qi would have slashed him into two!
“Whoever passes this line, dies!”
An apathetic voice echoed from nearby.
Everyone looked towards a large bounder beside the Heavenly Pool, only to see a young man in white robes sitting with his back facing towards them. His black hair swayed with the wind, giving off an otherworldly presence to him.
“You’re just bluffing.”
The Sage took a look at the Frosted-Core Snow Lotus and could no longer hold back his desire for it. With a snort, he listed his foot, attempting to cross the line marked by Chu Kuangren’s slash.
The moment his right foot crossed the line, a streak of sword qi erupted from the mark before he could even move his left foot.
With a tearing sound, that streak of sword qi brutally slashed that person apart into two before the eye of everyone at the scene.
“There’s always a fool who wants to test me. So, are the rest of you fools like him as well?”
Chu Kuangren’s voice resounded in everyone’s ears once again.
At that moment, no one doubted his words anymore.
Everyone looked at the sword mark on the ground as if they were looking at the line between life and death. Hence, they hurriedly took a few steps back, no longer daring to cross it.
“This young man seems like that guy who barged into the Heavenly Pool earlier. By the looks of it, he’s the reason that the few great orthodoxies did not take the Frosted-Core Snow Lotus with them.”
“That must be the case. However, where the hell is this person from? To think that he can force the great past ancient orthodoxies to compromise for him?”
Everyone looked at the figure sitting beside the Heavenly Pool with admiration and fear.
A person who could force a few past ancient orthodoxies to compromise was undoubtedly not someone they could or should mess with.
At that time, the Snow Lotus in the middle of the Heavenly Pool suddenly trembled before its twelve petals slowly opened.
