Free Web NovelChapter 1484: Chapter 144: It Seems You’ve Made Up Your Mind
The request for more money hadn’t even been brought up, and yet a request for help was already made first.
Jiang Wang paused for a moment.
He was quite sensitive to the word "help" now.
Initially, he was hiding in Zhao Country, cultivating diligently to solidify his foundation and steadily advance to the External Building Realm. It was because he wanted to "help" someone that he ended up running all the way to Broken Soul Gorge.
What he thought was something that could be easily handled nearby turned out to be something that took him out of the city and the country, over mountains and ridges...
After traveling such a long distance, he ended up getting himself injured.
If the world hears about how he’s in such a miserable state today, what will they think?
The hero with one ear? The one-legged Sword Immortal?
Jiang Wang’s complex feelings were hard to put into words.
As Master Ku Jue would say with philosophical depth, "What a stubborn turtle wearing shabby straw shoes!" freeweɓnøvel.com
And now this old trickster was asking for help again?
How could he have the nerve?
A tattered peace charm, which he had practically forced onto him at that, and now he wants him to risk his life multiple times for it?!
The more Jiang Wang thought about it, the angrier he got, and the angrier he got, the more he thought about it.
But when it came to turning around and leaving, he still...
The previous debts weren’t settled yet!
The External Building Realm was now within reach, and top-tier Dao Techniques of this level... were indeed very much needed.
And twenty Prime Stones were not a small number...
Jiang Wang thought and thought, and finally decided to prop himself up with his cane and walk in.
Who would’ve thought that the fall on the street of Linzi would somehow lead to Broken Soul Gorge?
It was Yu Beidou who fell, but it was I who ended up crippled?
Struggling "valiantly," Jiang Wang walked into the cave and saw——
A total of forty-nine stone columns, connecting the top and bottom, forming a circle within the cave, like a stone prison. Inside the "stone prison," Yu Beidou sat suspended mid-air, a ghost head knife pierced into his head and his face covered in blood.
He seemed even more miserable than Jiang Wang!
Yet, this old trickster still maintained his previous posture, one hand forming a seal, the other pointing downward with a sword gesture. But lying on the ground wasn’t just the previous Blood Demon, there was yet another person.
A middle-aged man dressed in a literati’s robe, somewhat lean. His long beard soaked with blood and matted, his five fingers all severed on his left hand, making it a bloody sight.
This person lay horizontally, pressing against the Blood Demon below them. Both lay face-up, one horizontal and one vertical, crossed together.
This bizarre posture was truly baffling.
"Stop looking for now!" Yu Beidou suddenly spoke: "Hurry and help me!"
He probably felt his tone was too harsh and added another sentence: "Little friend."
"Haha." Jiang Wang gave a forced smile: "Look at my state, missing an ear and a leg, it’s hard just to walk. What exactly can I help you with?"
"..." Yu Beidou said: "Hang in there a bit longer."
"No need!" Jiang Wang decisively said: "Settle the reward and let’s be done. I’m anxious to return to Qi Country to recuperate."
"Jiang You, can’t we negotiate a bit?" Yu Beidou’s tone carried some pleading.
Jiang Wang refused: "My life isn’t sturdy enough to withstand your negotiations."
"That’s not right!" Yu Beidou dryly laughed: "We can resolve things amicably..."
"All I want now is to go back and heal."
"Seems like you’ve made up your mind."
"Or are you trying to default?"
"Ah, how deeply you’ve misunderstood me, little friend!" Yu Beidou sighed: "In that case, the Prime Stones and the Cultivation Technique are in my Storage Box. Take them yourself."
Jiang Wang raised an eyebrow: "Take it myself?"
Yu Beidou, with impatience, said: "Do I look like I have a hand free?"
Indeed, he had one hand forming a seal and the other a sword gesture in suppression, sitting suspended in mid-air without a move, not even bothering with the knife on his head!
Jiang Wang thought for a moment and unsatisfactorily said: "You only asked me to deal with the Blood Demon, you didn’t say there’d be four Human Demons. I almost died outside, shouldn’t you... add a bit more?" fгeewebnovёl.com
"Your point isn’t unreasonable." Yu Beidou replied without hesitation: "Take it yourself."
"How much should I take?"
"Take as much as you feel compensates for your injuries." Yu Beidou said calmly: "It’s all up to your morality and sense of shame to weigh."
To dare say that!
If Zhongxuan Sheng were standing here, they’d leave Yu Beidou with nothing but a Daoist Robe.
But Jiang Wang was the one standing here.
He thought for a while and decided to only take some extra for healing costs, beyond the agreed payment.
"Alright!"
Jiang Wang rolled up his sleeves, steadied himself on his cane, and squeezed between two stone columns to reach Yu Beidou.
He politely asked: "Pardon me. Where’s your Storage Box placed?"
"Just over there..." Yu Beidou suddenly exclaimed: "Why did you come in?!"
Jiang Wang was a bit dumbfounded.
Weren’t you the one who told me to come to fetch the reward?
All of a sudden, the area surrounded by the forty-nine stone columns was filled with a bloody glow, and cries of deities and ghosts echoed. Looking back at the way he came, he couldn’t see any gaps.
The supposedly disrupted array suddenly began to operate.
Yu Beidou, in an urgent tone, said: "This is the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths’ Ultimate Killing Soul Annihilation Array, only those at the Dongzhen realm can exit. Once the Killing Array activates, anyone below the Deity realm won’t last three breaths. You must leave quickly, I can’t involve you!"
Jiang Wang: ...
Damn you old turtle in ragged shoes! Got tricked again!
Deceived into the formation.
No need to guess, the formation which was completely still one moment then turned chaotic the next, must’ve been due to this old trickster’s manipulation.
First, you say no one but those at the Dongzhen realm can escape, and next, you tell me to leave quickly. Just for show, isn’t it?
"Weren’t you just saying that this array, this and that, couldn’t be exited except by those at the Dongzhen realm?" Jiang Wang said calmly.
"Oh, right." Yu Beidou suddenly seemed to realize, his tone turning grave: "At this point, there’s only one way!"
Jiang Wang had no interest in playing along, staying silent.
However, Yu Beidou seamlessly continued: "Do you see the guy with severed fingers on the ground? He laid this Killing Array; it’s connected to him. Kill him and the array will dissolve!"
"Hehehe."
Lying on the ground, the Diviner who had been watching coldly for a while now laughed disparagingly: "After all these years, you’re still on the same deceitful routine."
Jiang Wang had escaped from the Innate Chaos Array, leaving behind the four Human Demons within. This legendary achievement far exceeded his imagination.
But what’s done is done, and regret is meaningless; now he has to face the consequences.
Initially unsure of the exact relationship between Yu Beidou and Jiang Wang, he stayed silent, observing coldly. Figuring out the situation, he decisively spoke.
"Do you know Jiang Wang’s current position and status? Such a peerless genius with limitless potential, yet you tricked him into risking his life at Broken Soul Gorge. Others treat you with sincerity, yet you respond with deception! Yu Beidou, isn’t your conscience troubled?"
Unfortunately, he was lying on the ground, with a Blood Demon as a cushion beneath him—his righteous speech somehow sounded less impactful.
Yu Beidou, looking speechless at the Diviner, turned to Jiang Wang and said: "This person is that fortune-telling Human Demon who once used the Blood Divination to calculate against you, attempting to seize your Immortal Palace. I expended a century of cultivation to fend off his attack with a peerless top-tier protective amulet for you. Today, within the Innate Chaos Array, I risked my life to guide you, creating an opportunity for you to defeat one of the Human Demons alone. He also manipulated things to bring four Human Demons together, forcing you to fight against all four..."
His tone was earnest: "If I were you, this grudge wouldn’t go unavenged, not even overnight!"
