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Zhou Bao did not expect the Fifth Manor to be absent at such an important time. But come to think of it, it was not hard to understand why they did so. Zhou Bao himself seemingly sunk in this Dharma Ending Tribulation saga. He could not control how the Fifth Manor thought.
âSeems like I have to find another place.â Zhou Bao said, sighing to himself. Zhou Bao felt the Fifth Manor on Longevity Mountain to be the safest place in the whole Immortal Realm. But now, it seemed like his plan failed.
Since he could not expect the Fifth Manor to be of assistance anymore, he placed his hopes on the other side â Wang She.
He refused to roam around in the Void Immortal Realm as he was unfamiliar. If he happened to intrude into the wrong place, he would be in deep trouble.
Hence, after leaving Longevity Mountain, the first thing he did was to seek out Wang She.
âYouâve attained the Heaven and Earth Secret Technique and want to find a place to practice? The Fifth Manor is missing?â
Wang She felt overloaded with information. âYou killed two Crown Princes!â
âNo! Only one! The other one has been constrained by me!â Zhou Bao did not try to hide anything. âI used the Dark Garbha-mandala Canopy to seal him. This is not the Treasure-snatching Rock, I worried once I freed him, the Jade Emperor Sage would sense his spirit and locate him!â
âOf course such would be the case! Did you believe youâre still in the human world? How daring of you! According to what I know, the Jade Emperor Palace acts crazy recently. Almost half of the Earthly Immortals left the palace to find and kill you. Youâre currently the number one target of the palace!â
âThe number one target of the palace!â A sensation tugged at Zhou Baoâs heart, but instantly subsided. He laughed, âThis Immortal Realm is not run by him, do his words even count?â
âAlthough the Immortal Realm is not run by the palace, the Jade Emperor is one of the three remaining Celestial Immortals in the Immortal Realm. He holds much greater influence than the area of control the palace possesses. Many influences in the Immortal Realm listen to what he says. Even if they donât, he has ways to make them do so. Hence, donât believe the Immortal Realm is big! There arenât many places you can hide. If I were you, I would either go to Eye of the Storm or Chaotic Poisonous Sea. In the Immortal Realm, only these two have the capabilities to keep you safe. If you want to practice in peace, you can only do so in these twoâs territories. However-â
âHowever what?â
âHowever, their territories are not good places. Be it Eye of the Storm or Chaotic Poisonous Sea, theyâre known for being places of chaos. Even Earthly Immortals would be unwilling to journey to those places!â
âPerhaps thereâs another place that I can go.â
âDonât think about going to the ruins of the Sacred City of Fate! That place is like a holy city to those from the human world, especially for the Fate Creators. But for the Emperors in the Immortal Realm who are also Earthly Immortals, itâs not much. You have to understand, all Earthly Immortals can refine their own macro world and become the Fate Creators of it. There is no obstruction between them and the ruins of the Sacred City of Fate. It is merely a land of ruins to them, which is why no one ventures there. If you went there, I can promise that that place will be flooded with Earthly Immortals within three days. Even the Jade Emperor Sage himself would come for you. Youâll have no chance of escape!â
âThatâs to say, Iâm only left with Eye of the Storm and Chaotic Poisonous Sea to choose from.â
âThatâs right! You can only choose from those two, but you have another problem to ponder.â
âAnd that is?â
âEscape from the chasing and killing! Be it the Eye of the Storm or the Chaotic Poisonous Sea, theyâre both 10,000 miles away from here. It is too far. Under the law of space of the Immortal Realm, you cannot rip open spaces to forward. You also cannot use your Supreme Fairy Weapon. I promise you, once you draw it, the Jade Emperor Sage will notice. Hence, your only choice is to hide your body and proceed slowly. You wonât be able to travel quickly. Even if things progress smoothly, youâll need at least two to three years to arrive at your destination. Can you wait that long?â
âYou surely jest!â Zhou Bao almost jumped from the news. He just attained the last technique of the Seven Wonderful Techniques and was so eager to find a place to practice it. Now, Wang She informed him it took two to three years to reach a safe place. This was too much for Zhou Bao to handle.
âIsnât there a Transmitting Formation in the Immortal Realm?â Zhou Bao asked. âI can use the Transmitting Formation to get there!â
âThese are two individual places, the Transmitting Formation cannot get you there!â Wang She said lightly. âEye of the Storm and Chaotic Poisonous Sea are not connected to the outside world. If you want to go there, you must do so on foot!â
âIt canât be that troublesome!â
âHmph, thatâs the Celestial Immortalsâ territory, did you think itâd be so easy to gain entrance?â
âThere must be a quicker way on earth!â
âYes there is! I know a person who can assist you reach those two places in no time. However, it is not easy to communicate with them!ân/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om
âForget about that! Who is he? Where is he located?â
âThe Sky-walking Emperor is a strong practitioner who had entered the Earthly Immortalâs Way for tens of thousands of years. He already practiced the Great Way of Heavens and Realms of the 3,000 Great Ways until perfection. He can still find the weak points of the law of space in a spacetime like the Immortal Realmâs. Although he cannot journey to the two places whenever he wished, just like in the human world, it is still not a difficult feat for him. He can help you to save ten times the duration of the distance.â
âTen times! That means, even if the Sky-walking Emperor agrees to help me, Iâll still need two to three months to arrive at my destination!â
âThis is the only way. Besides, you have to get moving soon in order to stop the people from Jade Emperor Palace from finding him first. If not, youâll be in a dire situation!â
âWhere is this Sky-walking Emperor?â
âIâll bring you there.â
Immortal Realm, Jade Emperor Palace.
In the dark crowd of palaces, divine Qi surged everywhere. The fairy fighters rushed through the palace in an orderly manner. A small quiet hut was located in the deep corners of the seemingly endless palace. Two middle-aged men sat across each other in the hut. One of them had a contemplative expression on his face. His gaze was full of energy and hid a sense of omnipotence. The other man emitted a sinister energy from his entire body. Him sitting there warped everything like a black hole, capturing the light and heat from his surroundings, as if he was going to devour all things in the world.
The two of them sat like that quietly. After a period of time, the contemplative middle-aged man sighed. âI will kill that Zhou Bao!â
âJust because he killed your two sons?â The middle-aged man emitting dark energy said, lifting his head slightly. A sinister smile spread across his emotionless face. âDonât forget, it was your son who wanted to kill him first in order to steal his fate, and become a Tribulation Taker.â
âWhatâs the point of saying all this to one who is not even an Earthly Immortal?!â The contemplative man said coldly. âBesides, this is not the reason why I wanted to kill him. As a Tribulation Taker, his fate is too strong. Now that he also gained Huang Leiâs fate, he might become uncontrollable if left unchecked.â
âUncontrollable? You people who practice the Way of the Emperor all like to be in complete control. You lot go after those that you cannot make subservient. I almost forgot about this.â The other man seemed to have thought of something and his sinister smile intensified. âToo bad, Jade Emperor Sage. You will never gain total control. You used to be able to control the whole of the human world. But now, we are in the Immortal Realm. You can only control your mini scale territory. You can never gain total control over the other two sageâs territory, as well as over the vast Immortal Realm.â
âWhat if I can, but you just cannot see it?â Jade Emperor Sage smiled. âI have already spread word of the news. Other than those two territories, does Zhou Bao have any other place to hide? See? This means I control the majority of the Immortal Realm? There are various measures to achieve the same purpose.â
âBack then, you used this method to enter the Celestial Immortal Realm. Hmmm, control... measures... these things I do not understand. It is your credit for understanding the Celestial Immortalâs Way. But this time around, why do you need me? Is this Zhou Bao really worth such drastic measures?â
âHe is indeed worth it. He is the Tribulation Taker with the brightest fate and strongest capabilities. I believe he has already acquired all of the Seven Wonderful Techniques. As long as he practices them successfully, he will be difficult to handle even if he doesnât step into the Earthly Immortalâs Realm. Iâm unable to take action now, but you donât have many options.â
âZhou Bao and I donât have anything against each other, so it seems futile for us to engage in combat. Also, youâve said so yourself, he possesses an incredibly powerful fate. Men like him are not easy to defeat. If I happen to have bad fate and end up in his hands, all my years of cultivation would go to waste.â
âAre you trying to negotiate with me?â
âNo, Iâm rejecting you!â The emotionless middle-aged man stood up. âI will not fight Zhou Bao!â
âDonât you desire his fate and his Seven Wonderful Techniques? By seizing them, youâll have the chance of stepping into the Celestial Immortal Realm! You can even become the Omnipotent Sage of this era! Donât you want that?â
âThis must be your trickery, Jade Emperor Sage! Youâre enticing me with what others own. You do not wish for me to become the Omnipotent Sage, you merely desire an Omnipotent Sage you can manipulate!â The emotionless middle-aged man laughed coldly. âJust like how you controlled that bunch of necromancers back then!â
Jade Emperor burst into laughter. âAre you so fearful of me, brat? So much so that you donât even want me to hear me out and would leave with such haste?â