Chapter 1821 - Sacrifice for Wealth; Kill for Power!
Chapter 1821: Sacrifice for Wealth; Kill for Power!
Henyee Translations
Meng Wuzhenâs anger pierced through the clouds, riding over the tide.
âSend a message to the Dark Hall! Get ready! I want everybody out for the next battle! I want the Monarchâs Hall crushed! I want Ye Xiao ripped into pieces!â
That was exactly what Ye Xiao expected.
The great forces always hid their true power under the table. People could only see a small part of their true power. They all had a hidden force that they wouldnât use unless they had to!
The Dark Hall was the hidden force of the Hall of Returning Nature, the real power of Meng Wuzhen!
In fact, there were only nine people in the Dark Hall!
These nine people were cultivators who could shake the entire martial world!
The Flower King was nothing compared to any of the nine people if he hadnât improved a lot with Ye Xiaoâs help. Chihuo used to be only one step away from the Undead Stage, but even so, he still couldnât defeat any of these nine people!
These were horrible monsters!
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Ten days were gone.
Ling Wuxie came to the Monarchâs Hall and took his dan beads. After that, he left the city immediately.
The seven great ancestors of the Seven Lotus Clans were missing. They went out together, but nobody knew their whereabouts!
In the ten days, people of the Monarchâs Hall had mostly recovered. They were at least seventy percent as powerful as they used to be.
After the big fight, these survivors had improved their mind power a great deal. They had recovered after the ten days, and they had improved quite a lot in cultivation. They didnât stop improving yet. In another word, only less than ten percent of the people of the Monarchâs Hall survived, but these ten percent became even more powerful! The Monarchâs Hall was actually stronger than before!
The Hall of Returning Nature was full of fury. The Monarchâs Hall was too!
Neither of them could forgive the other! There was so much hate!
Perhaps, one thing, a little bit of stimulation could lead to a big war!
One day.
The headquarters of the Hall of Returning Nature was in a fuss. A message spread to the world!
The Jade Phoenix, one of the head managers, was assassinated near the headquarters of the Hall of Returning Nature. She was saved by her own people and nearly died on the way back to the Hall of Returning Nature.
Information from the witnesses indicated that the assassin was wearing all black clothes. The assassin was tall and slim, holding a sword which gave people a feeling of farewell.
The evidence pointed at the Great Executor of the Monarchâs Sword, Bu Xiangfeng!
Further evidence indicated that the Jade Phoenix said something before she was attacked. She was in shock. âBu Xiangfeng! Your⊠Your powerâŠâ
The assassin put her down with one strike, and then immediately flew away.
The assassin did not say even a word!
He flew away like a bird, riding the wind. Nobody saw him after that. After one sword attack, he just left, without checking if he had successfully killed the target of not!
What an assassin!
One hit, and he left.
If it missed, he was gone anyway!
After that, Young Lord Meng of the Hall of Returning Nature kicked over a table because of the anger!
His anger frightened everybody around him!
âYe Xiao! You are not the only one who is good at assassination! We can do it too!â
Meng Wuzhen was furious.
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âWe didnât do it. The assassin isnât Bu Xiangfeng!â Xuan Bing said.
Xuan Bing was holding the meeting in the Monarchâs Hall. She was sitting on the high chair on the south side.
Yue Shuang and Yue Han were beside her, one on the left, the other on the right. Since Xuan Bing became the new commander of the Monarchâs Hall, the three ladies had been staying together.
The others were Chihuo, the Flower King, Bu Xiangfeng, Meng Youjiang, Qiu Luo, and Qu Wuliang.
Ye Xiao was present. There were only ten people in the meeting, but these ten were the most important people in the Monarchâs Hall!
Ye Xiao was sitting on the north side, opposite to Xuan Bing. He was sitting on a huge chair, which was made from purple crystal. There was even an energy-gathering power formation under the chair, so there was a purple mist rising up, which made it dark around Ye Xiao. It made him look like a king looking down upon his people.
Xuan Bing specially arranged a platform on the north side of the meeting room. It was thirty feet higher than the south side. On the edge of the south side, the floor slightly rose up.
Ye Xiao owned a big area on the north side.
People who were having the meeting had to sit lower. When they looked at Ye Xiao, they had to look up. However, they couldnât see clearly, because Ye Xiao was in a cloud of mist.
That was his prestige!
âA great man makes strict rules. A great man must be upon all the others!â
They all agreedâŠ
After the war against the Hall of Returning Nature, Ye Xiao had become an absolute legend in the Monarchâs Hall!
Nobody could easily get close to a legend!
People worshiped gods, but nobody ever saw a god!
Mystery was the most powerful curtain!
âMaster has shown his incredible power. I have to be cautious from now on. I should be careful.â The Flower King said.
Everybody else agreed with him.
They only started to use this meeting room. It was new. Ye Xiao sat on his chair, entangled by the purple qi. He didnât say a word, just sat there. In the end, he made the decision.
Xuan Bing ran the meeting. People wanted her to do it.
She wasnât perfect, but she had done a good job being the leader of a big sect in the old days. Even Chihuo couldnât do better, nor Meng Youjiang who used to own an entire mountain.
Most of the others were independent in the past.
âIt must be somebody else who killed the Jade Phoenix. Whoever did that must want us to have a fight with the Hall of Returning Nature again. Somebody wanted to sit there and watch us die.â
Xuan Bing sat on the chair of the host. She looked cold as usual. Her sharp eyes were like a blow of cold wind from the ice mountain.
Even Chihuo, the Flower King, Meng Youjiang, and Bu Xiangfeng felt a chill in their souls when they had an eye contact with Xuan Bing.
They just shivered!
âThere are a lot of people in the world who can stick a hand into the business between the Hall of Returning Nature and us. In fact, if we have a fight again, everybody else gets the benefit.â
Xuan Bingâs mind was clear. âThe Brotherhood Alliance, the House of Chaotic Storms, the Xuan Bing, the new Great Ye Army⊠It could be any of them. In fact, there are forces that are far away from us that can get benefit from our war⊠The royal forces of the five Sky Kings. They would love to build a stable force of their own.â
Xuan Bing said, âHowever, with or without the assassination, we wonât be friends with the Hall of Returning Nature! We will start the war again. It is only a matter of time.
âWe donât have as many people as we did. We won the war, but it was difficult. We canât even keep the Monarchâs Hall running normally. The Hall of Returning Nature lost the battle, but they were still a powerful organization. It didnât hurt their foundation. They couldnât come and attack us in a short time though. Anyway, it takes time to start a second war.
âThe assassination was planned to provoke Meng Wuzhen. Somebody wanted Meng Wuzhen to start the war earlier!
âThe target was the Jade Phoenix, one of the Three Phoenixes of the Hall of Returning Nature. The lady was nice and thoughtful. She is always careful. Nobody, even in the five Sky Kingâs royal forces, could compare her! Meng Wuzhen liked her the most! She was the best assistant he had! She belongs to Meng Wuzhen!
âKilling the Jade Phoenix would be stabbing a knife into Meng Wuzhenâs heart.
âAttacking the Jade Phoenix was to hurt Meng Wuzhen in his soft part. Meng Wuzhen would definitely hate us even more, and it would also weaken him a great deal.
âThe assassination was such a dirty move. Whoever did this, he didnât even try to hide it from us⊠No matter what it is, we and the Hall of Returning Nature are already enemies. No matter what the truth is, we wonât be able to explain. That was an obvious move!
âHe knew Meng Wuzhenâs weakness. He did it at the perfect timing. He left no trace for the Hall of Returning Nature! We wonât go to explain ourselves, and nobody would believe us anyway.
âThe world would believe that Bu Xiangfeng did the assassination!
âThe Jade Phoenix was hurt. Meng Wuzhen must have lost control. It broke his plan, also his clear mind. Whoever did that, he did it well⊠In the Limitless Ocean, there are only two people who could do that.â
âWho are they?â Chihuo asked.
Xuan Bing took a deep breath and said, âShangguan Lingxiao is one. He built the strong foundation of the Brotherhood Alliance almost on his own!â
Xuan Bing said the name, the others nodded.
Shangguan Lingxiao was powerful, experienced, and smart. He definitely could do that!
Nobody would doubt that.
âBai Chen was the other one. He is always casual and wise as if nothing could disturb him. When he wants to do something, he always does it perfectly!â
Xuan Bing looked afraid.
Xuan Bing knew Master Bai. He was a legend!
In the Qing-Yun Realm, Master Bai and his House of Chaotic Storms shook the world even after he left. Nobody dared to talk about him. Hearing the name of the House of Chaotic Storms gave people a chill in the heart.
Xuan Bing heard a lot about Master Bai from Ye Xiao. She knew how he manipulated the Land of Han-Yang, controlling the rise and fall of the world. A history of a world seemed to be just smoke in the air for him.
In the Human Realm Upon Heavens.
How long since Master Bai came back to this world?
He built everything from nothing. Within a short time, the House of Chaotic Storms became one of the most powerful forces in the Limitless Ocean. He could turn over the world with the power in his hands.
The most horrible thing about this man was that he always got things to develop in the way he wanted.
The assassination on the Jade Phoenix was an example.
The assassin must be Bu Xiangfeng, and the world believed it was Bu Xiangfeng. Denying it wouldnât change anything!
Nobody could change it! It became a fact!
âIn fact, Ye Changqingâs rise and fall was a plan of Shangguan Lingxiao and Master Bai. They didnât work together, but they happened to want the same result. The return of the Heavenâs Leaf became difficult because of these two men! The name of the Great Master Ye became less powerful because of it!
âEven though the people of the Heavenâs Leaf kept coming to support Ye Yunduan, the power of the Great Ye Clan couldnât rise in a short time.â
Xuan Bing said a lot, and the others just nodded.
That was right. The Seven Golden Lotuses used to look forward to the return of the Heavenâs Leaf.
When they tested Ye Xiao and found the blood of the Heavenâs Leaf, they were so happy. They were so confident all of a sudden! They couldnât hold down the excitement in their heart!
However, because of the fake Master Yunduan, the Seven Lotus Clan lost their faith in the Great Ye Clan. Master Bai and Shangguan Lingxiao wanted that. The Seven Lotus Clans wanted to follow the true powerful descendant of the Great Ye Clan, but what if the Heavenâs Leaf wasnât as good as they expected?
The two wise men had destroyed the Heavenâs Leaf!
Ye Xiao was listening to Xuan Bing, and he kept nodding.
He didnât give Xuan Bing any advice for the meeting. Xuan Bing did her own work to prepare for the meetingâŠ
The conclusion she had was exactly what Ye Xiao had in mind.
âI am sure the assassination was the brilliant work of one of these two men. Shangguan Lingxiao is a sharp-minded person, but he is more passive. He wouldnât do anything extreme if he didnât have to. After all, it was the West Sky King behind the Hall of Returning Nature. Shangguan Lingxiao might not want to get involved so soon. He wouldnât want to mess with a Sky King and us at the same time. That aside, he wouldnât want to get the Brotherhood Alliance into this war.
âTherefore, I think Master Bai, Bai Chen of the House of Chaotic Storms was more suspicious!
âIf we think deeper, he must have made the plan after we showed the world our power, which could compare the Hall of Returning Nature. What was it that he wanted? The House of Chaotic Storms and the Hall of Returning Nature are enemies. However, neither of them is our friend!â
Xuan Bing said, âWe are not dealing with the Hall of Returning Nature now! In fact, we are facing the House of Chaotic Storms, which is even more dangerous!
âThey wouldnât take a move if they didnât have to, but if they did, they did it sharp!â
Xuan Bing said, âWe have to be careful. We need a plan. We canât fear the enemies. We fight, and we kill. However, we must be cautious when the enemy is scheming.â
Chihuo said, âWhat should we do? We have to fight the House of Chaotic Storms, which is even more dangerous than the Hall of Returning Nature.â
Xuan Bing took a deep breath and said, âThat is why we are having a headache. We must fight one, but we have to keep an eye on the other at the same time.
âWhen the Hall of Returning Nature comes with anger, we must fight in full power, because we arenât powerful enough. If the House of Chaotic Storms comes at the same timeâŠâ
Xuan Bing frowned.
They knew everything now, but they couldnât come up with any ideas on how to deal with it.
They were powerless. Even if they had a plan, they didnât have enough people to do it!
They slowly looked at Ye Xiao one by one.
The One Meter Higher Sky, the Xiao Monarch, the hero, was the only person who could make the impossible possible!
He was totally covered by the purple qi. His voice suddenly sounded. âWe have to fight. However, we must know how to fight. The Hall of Returning Nature wants to crush us once and for all. We are not going to give them the chance. Why would we?
âWe didnât have to fight the war as they wanted it to be. We still donât. We should downscale the battle!â Ye Xiao blandly said, âIf the battle is small, we donât need as many people as they are. Even if they have one million men, so what? Can they break the shield of the fortress of trees?â
The others were all shocked. They said, âBrilliant!â
Suddenly, they felt relieved and started laughing.
Ye Xiao had a plan that nobody else could do, not even the five Sky Kings!
Only the Monarchâs Hall could do it.
The Monarchâs Hall had the Hall of Life and Death!
The fortress of trees was built unbreakable. As long as the Monarchâs Hall didnât get out for the battle, everybody could just stay inside and continued the cultivation!
No matter how many enemies were outside, nobody could break the shield of the unbreakable fortress!
The Purple Dragon King and the Golden Phoenix King hadnât succeeded anyway!
If the Monarchâs Hall felt good about having a small fight, they could go out and start it. If they didnât want to, nobody could force them out!
The enemies were free to attack the Hall of Life and Death.
The Great Formation of Stars had become stronger and stronger. The automatic counterattack of the shield would definitely damage the enemy!
People might think that the Monarchâs Hall people were cowards, but the Monarchâs Hall would survive. The House of Chaotic Storms and the Hall of Returning Nature had great power to support them behind. The Monarchâs Hall didnât. They had to use the fortress and made it an advantage of them!
They didnât have many people anymore, and that meant the fortress could hold them all. It could only hold less than five thousand people!
The Monarchâs Hall didnât have many people! It was big enough!
The Monarchâs Hall only had a little more than four thousand people!
âThe war is coming soon. We have the fortress of trees, but we still have to be cautious.â Ye Xiao blandly said, âTell everybody to keep improving!
âI believe the great loss we suffered earlier is an alert. If we have to face the battle after all, we accept our fates!â
Ye Xiao blandly said, âOnly a small part of the Hall of Returning Natureâs real power almost destroyed us. What if the five Sky Kings come to us? We must keep improving as fast as we can. We have to be powerful ourselves!â
After that, Ye Xiao stood up and left.
Xuan Bing stayed quiet for a while and said, âLetâs call it a day.â
Everything was settled. There was nothing more to say.
Xuan Bing and the other two ladies followed Ye Xiao out.
The six people who stayed behind were blank. They looked at each other and didnât know what to say!
Bu Xiangfeng was sweating. Meng Youjiangâs face turned pretty red like he was drunk all of a sudden. Qiu Luo looked calm, but he was grabbing the handle of his weapon. Li Wuliang was gasping. The Flower King was excited. Chihuo looked ambitious!
Ye Xiao had alerted them all with just a word.
He talked like it was nothing.
However, it was shockingly powerful.
âWhat if the five Sky Kings come to us?â
It terrified these people!
After a while, the Flower King calmed down and blandly smiled. âChihuo, everybody, I think you all understand what he said, donât you?â
Chihuo didnât say a word, but nodded.
âOur view is shallow. A little bit of the Lord Monarchâs great plan has shocked us to hell!â The Flower King smiled. His face was getting redder because he was excited. âWe will fight the five Sky Kings!
âIn fact, Lord Monarch has never cared about the Limitless Ocean! The battles in the Limitless Ocean, against the Hall of Returning Nature, the House of Chaotic Storms, the Brotherhood Alliance, are just practice! That is all!â
âThis is not what we are eventually after!â The Flower King smiled.
âBrothers, we were itinerant cultivators. We wanted somewhere to stay, but nobody wanted to have us. Who doesnât want to be remembered by history? Who doesnât want to create his own greatness? Who doesnât want to be admired? Who doesnât want to manipulate the world?
âWe didnât have the possibility! We didnât even have anything to die for. Today, Lord Monarch gave us a goal. To get the goal, it will be more difficult to climb to the heavens!
âIt is difficult⊠but, Lord Monarch gives us hope!
âIf the five Sky Kings can reach the top of the world, why canât we? People of the Monarchâs Hall are monarchs. We can get the world from their hands!
âWe survive, and we reach the top together!â
The Flower King said, âDo you understand?â
âWe do.â
The others felt their blood boiling.
Bu Xiangfeng took a long breath and said, âNow I know why he named the organization the Monarchâs Hall. It wasnât just about his title.
âHe wants us to be monarchs. He wants every one of us to become kings!
âI see!â
Bu Xiangfeng was trying to hold down the excitement. âI know why he want the Five Kings to be reserved!
âHe hasnât chosen the five men yet! This is why!â
Everybody was excited.
It had been a long time since Ye Xiao told them about the Five Kings. They felt like hearing him speak again.
âThe better one gets the higher position! The weaker one loses the higher position! If you are good, you should join the competition! Even if you are just a cook, you can reach the top of the Monarchâs Hall! If you are powerful enough, you can be the leader of the unit, one of the Seven Stars, the head of a department, and even one of the Five Kings!â
Everybodyâs eyes lit up.
They finally understood what the Five Kings meant.
Five KingsâŠ
Whoever defeated the five Sky Kings would take their positions! That was clear!
That was obvious!
People of the Monarchâs Hall were all monarchs! Why?
How big the Human Realm Upon Heavens was?
Nobody knew! It was too big!
People in the Monarchâs Hall were powerful cultivators! When the Monarchâs Hall reached the top of the world, how powerful were these people in the outside world?
They would all become rulers of different areas of the world!
They were monarchs!
âSacrifice for Wealth; Kill for Power!â
The Flower King smiled and said.
Everybodyâs eyes turned red!
If it was in other organizations, even in the Hall of Returning Nature, or the House of Chaotic Storms, if the leader said something like Ye Xiao had just said, the people might not feel so confident. What Ye Xiao had said was that they were going to be fighting against everybody else in the Human Realm Upon Heavens.
The Monarchâs Hall was special!
The Monarchâs Hall had the Hall of Life and Death.
Saving a life from death was not a big deal. The unbreakable shield wasnât attacking. The cultivating environment inside the Hall of Life and Death was incredible! It made supreme cultivators!
Cultivating one year inside the Hall of Life and Death meant cultivating outside for a few years!
The improvement would get faster and faster!
When the Hall of Returning Nature came to attack, they wouldnât have to go out and fight. They could try to have some fights and stayed most of the time cultivating inside the Hall of Returning Nature. When they were powerful enough to defeat the enemies, they would be out and finished them! They improved fast!
Within a short time, there would be thousands of Undead Stage cultivators in the Monarchâs Hall. These men were at least at Saint Origin Stage now. They were going to become Immortality Stage cultivators soon. Many of them would reach an incredible level!
They just needed time, and it was possible to defeat the five Sky Kings someday!
Nobody dared to even have such an idea, yet these men believed they could do it. They were thrilled!
âGuys, if we want to be monarchsâŠâ The Flower King smiled. âWhat we have now, this is not enough. You know I am right.
âSome youngsters may replace our positions soonâŠâ
He smiled and said, âI donât know what you think. I donât want to be replaced. I am going to cultivate now.â
After that, he left fast.
âCultivating! Cultivating!â
The other five people were enlightened, so they all left quickly.
At this moment, they realized time was running!
They could be caught up by the young people if they wasted time on meaningless talksâŠ
In the Hall of Life and Death, every second was valuable! Wasting time in this place was shameful!
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Ye Xiao watched the six men leaving for cultivation, and he smiled.
The message would spread in the Monarchâs Hall soon, and everybody would be thrilled, so they would cultivate even harderâŠ
Ye Xiao nodded and entered the Boundless Space.
Erhuo put its tail on the dragon egg and phoenix egg as usual. It didnât dare to move. It had to use the essential qi of the world to stop the little creatures from getting out.
It was such a difficult job.
If the little things hatched and Ye Xiao wasnât there for them, things wouldnât be good.
The Blood-bond had to be made when they first saw the world. Otherwise, the Blood-bond wouldnât be perfect!
Things kept happening one by one. Ye Xiao broke through the barrier and got to a new level, the fourth level of the East-rising Purple Qi, and then he was lost in the trial for three months. As he came back, he went to the battlefield as soon as he could. After the victory, he had to give treatments to everybody who was hurt. In the end, he had to deal with Ling Wuxie. He just didnât have time for Erhuo!
âMeowâŠâ Erhuo shouted.
âWhy is he still not here?â
âI am not going to make it any longerâŠâ
âI am holding the two powerful lives from hatching⊠Come on, come back!â
âIf the two little things saw me when they first open their eyes⊠Well, I really donât want it. Who do you think I am? They arenât qualified for making a Blood-bond with me. They just canât!â
Erhuo should be good enough to suppress the two things, but⊠Erhuo was exhausted! People kept getting hurt in the fights, so they needed a massive amount of dan beads⊠Erhuo had been working really hard to keep making dan beads. Ye Xiao gave the wounded men diagnosis, and Erhuo had to make the dan beads for them. Besides, Erhuo had spent a lot of time making those Agerasia Dan beads. It hadnât made such fine dan beads for a long time, but it had to do it this time!
When Erhuo was complaining about itâŠ
Ye Xiao came!
âMeow!â Erhuo meowed.
âMy stupid master⊠Finally, you are here.â
âOh, my heavensâŠâ
When Ye Xiao entered the Boundless Space, Erhuo felt relieved and flew out like a snow-white piece of cloth. In fact, it was pushed away by a strong power.
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At the same time, the energy of life kept rising up from the two eggs.
Beyond the two eggs, there were some colorful clouds! It seemed the colorful clouds were waiting for something to come out!
The next moment, some indescribable scent was filling the entire Boundless Space.