Free Web NovelChapter 850: Chapter 849: No One Escapes
Everyone followed the sound and looked over.
And saw.
In the corner of the private room sat a woman. She wore a plain green dress, her figure tall and slender, long delicate fingers pinching a wine cup, a glassy jade bracelet hanging from her snow-white wrist.
"Who is she? She actually dares tell Lu Xingzhou to go fetch her?" someone sneered.
Beside him, Zhao Jing’s face changed drastically, his legs turned to jelly, and he could no longer hold himself up. With a loud "thud," he dropped to his knees, face deathly pale as he stammered, "Su... Elder Su..."
This green-robed woman was none other than Su Moran!
"The one from Heaven-Shocking Peak?"
Seeing Zhao Jing so terrified his soul seemed to have fled, the crowd who had been full of smug pride just moments ago suddenly remembered something, their expressions shifting as a wave of dread surged up in their hearts.
Someone still managed to remain standing and asked in a trembling voice:
"Su, Elder Su, why are you here?"
"What, I go somewhere and have to report to you now?" Su Moran toyed with the wine cup in her hand and said coldly, "I’m here drinking, and you lot are driving people out and making a move. Are you trying to provoke my Heaven-Shocking Peak?"
At these words, everyone completely lost their color.
How would they dare have such guts?
Even those few Supreme Elders of Taotian Palace felt a massive headache whenever they saw this young madam. As for these disciples, they couldn’t hide fast enough—how would they dare provoke and challenge her?
The few disciples who had tried to use Lu Xingzhou’s name to pressure others went even paler with fright and stammered, "Elder Su, we didn’t know you were here. We’ll leave right away..."
Seeing this, the others didn’t dare say more either. They hid behind the crowd, terrified that Su Moran would notice them.
"No need to leave. Since you love throwing your weight around so much, then stay here for good!" Su Moran snorted coldly and set down her wine cup.
"What?"
"This is bad!"
Everyone’s faces twisted drastically.
They had never expected Su Moran to flip faces so fast. In truth, this was all because their fellow brothers from Seven Stars Peak were far too arrogant.
Boom!
Almost without a hint of hesitation, their bodies twisted and turned into streaks of escape light, shooting madly into the sky, fleeing in all directions without a care!
"Trying to run?"
Seeing this scene, everyone’s hearts trembled violently.
How could they dare not run? From the moment they saw Su Moran, it felt like their hearts had fallen into a bottomless abyss. This was Su Moran, the First Earth Immortal of Taotian Palace! They didn’t even have the courage to face her!
"Haha, want to run? Not a single one of you is getting away!"
They saw Su Moran sweep her long sleeve, and a terrifying power exploded forth.
In that instant, Li Zhengyi and the others felt their vision go dark, as if the entire heaven and earth had dimmed completely. When they opened their eyes again, all those Half-Step Earth Immortals were gone without a trace; even the unconscious Bai Yujing had been taken into her sleeve.
The only one left, Zhao Jing, seeing this scene, felt as if his spine had been ripped out. He kowtowed repeatedly, crying, "Elder Su, spare me, Elder Su, spare me..."
"Roll back and tell Lu Xingzhou to come and reclaim his people!"
"If he doesn’t come, I’ll suppress all of them beneath Heaven-Shocking Peak!"
With that, she ignored Zhao Jing, whose face was the color of gold paper, and turned to Ye Qingchen. "That’s about enough. It’s about time we left as well!"
"All right." Ye Qingchen nodded.
After he spoke, he rose slowly, gestured to Li Zhengyi and the others in a way that said they’d stay in touch later, and then left with Lu Yanwu, the Sea of Zhou, and the rest, leaving behind only Zhao Jing, collapsed on the floor, and the Yingxian Tower Shopkeeper, whose face looked extremely unpleasant.
Zhao Jing, kneeling on the ground, didn’t dare move at all. He knelt for a full quarter-hour. Only when he could no longer hear the voices of Ye Qingchen and Su Moran did he slowly climb to his feet, discovering his back was already soaked with cold sweat.
"Hah, I finally kept this little life of mine!"
"If they’d listened to me and left earlier, how would something like this have happened? Ye Qingchen, and that Su Moran—how could they be people we can afford to offend?"
He said through gritted teeth.
...
"Heavens, they really hit an iron plate this time! I thought Bai Yujing had this in the bag and couldn’t possibly lose. Who would’ve thought there’s always someone stronger, and he even ended up folding himself in?"
Once Ye Qingchen and the others left, the originally deathly silent Yingxian Tower suddenly erupted into an uproar.
No one had expected a scene like this.
Originally.
Everyone thought Bai Yujing’s strength was enough to suppress everything. Who knew he’d run into an even more terrifying Ye Qingchen? They had assumed that by invoking Supreme Elder Lu Xingzhou, they could force Ye Qingchen and the others to bow their heads.
Who could have guessed that Su Moran was actually sitting right there at the table!
"You could say that while Bai Yujing is indeed formidable, he’s still a notch weaker compared to Ye Qingchen. He just got back from Thunder Light Sect and had no idea how fierce Ye Qingchen is; otherwise, how would he have dared provoke this existence?"
"Exactly. What kind of person is Ye Qingchen? He hasn’t been in Taotian Palace long, but his name is already bigger than those big shots on the Seven Peaks... To provoke this Fierce God, guess they were just blind!"
Someone clicked their tongue in amazement and kept shaking their head.
...
The Yingxian Tower Shopkeeper had even less expected this outcome.
Today, for him, had been full of twists and turns.
He’d thought he could easily drive Li Zhengyi and the others away, but who could have imagined the guest they had invited was actually Ye Qingchen, and that Su Moran was among them as well, even taking Bai Yujing and the others away without the slightest politeness!
Thinking of this, the way he looked at Li Zhengyi and the others had already changed.
Previously.
He’d thought they were just a few Local Bullies without much backing. He hadn’t expected they would latch onto the thick thigh that was Ye Qingchen, and even have someone like Su Moran as their patron.
Forcing himself to suppress the storm in his heart, the Yingxian Tower Shopkeeper hurriedly apologized and, with utmost respect, invited Li Zhengyi, Zheng Lin, and the others to another private room, repeatedly instructing the attendants to make sure they were well taken care of.
...
After leaving Yingxian Tower, they parted ways, and Ye Qingchen took the Three-tailed Demon Fox straight back to Hidden Dragon Mountain.
"I’ve now reached the Half-Step Earth Immortal Realm. If I take one more step, I can Enter the Earth Immortal Realm!" Ye Qingchen exhaled a long breath of turbid air. He hadn’t expected that in just a short year, he would already be able to reach this Realm.
"If I can reach the Earth Immortal Realm, I might be able to enter the xtreme North and search for the Ice and Snow Divine Palace!" Ye Qingchen pondered silently.
He had also gone to ask Su Moran about the Ice and Snow Divine Palace.
But unfortunately.
Even Su Moran knew nothing. The Ice and Snow Divine Palace was far too mysterious and rarely appeared before outsiders. Beyond missing Ye Qing, what gave Ye Qingchen an even bigger headache was that he had completely lost all trace of Ye Nantian.
"For now, I should think about stepping into the Earth Immortal Realm first!"
Ye Qingchen sighed inwardly.
However.
He had just recently reached Half-Step Earth Immortal. Wanting to step into the Earth Immortal Realm in a short time was no different from ascending to heaven.
So even Ye Qingchen could only grind away slowly.
In a flash, three days passed.
In the blink of an eye, the day of the investiture arrived.
