Flame Dragon stared at Wu Jiu, and then turned to stare at Soul Slayer, still unable to believe all of that.
“Soul Slayer, just what….. are you thinking? It’s the Spirit Lord who created the Spirit World and that gave all of us a place to live in, allowing us to escape the fate of living as homeless wandering spirits. You clearly know that Wu Jiu and that imposter have evil intentions, so why would you go stand on their side! ? Soul Slayer! Answer me!”
Flame Dragon’s sense of loyalty caused it to be unable to accept Soul Slayer’s betrayal.
Flame Dragon was not on too familiar terms with Soul Slayer, hence, when Soul Slayer had fought aggressively during the struggle for fourth Serene Spirit Tower, and when Soul Slayer had chosen to stand on Wu Jiu’s side when they were trying to capture the Spiritual Bear, though Soul Slayer’s choices were showing a lack of righteousness and justice, Flame Dragon could still see it as Soul Slayer caring more about the strengthening the might of the Weapon Spirits and Soul Slayer might have been bewitched by Wu Jiu. But when it came to loyalty to the Spirit Lord, how could it choose to be a traitor?
To betray the Spirit Lord who gave them everything here?
Why?
Wu Jiu glanced at Soul Slayer, the corners of his mouth curling up with a smile, seeming like he wanted Soul Slayer to answer Flame Dragon’s question.
Soul Slayer was silent for a rather long while before its voice then rang out within the grand hall.
“Don’t the humans have a saying that people are willing to die for riches and birds die for food? I am very grateful to the Spirit Lord for what he has done, that allowed all of us to have a place to live in. But a person will climb up to greater heights while water flows down into lower depths. Flame Dragon, I do not think there is anything wrong with the choice I made. What Wu Jiu promised to me, is what the Spirit Lord is unable to give. So what is wrong with choosing as per my wish?”
“Soul Slayer!” Flame Dragon’s eyes were filled with shock, unable to believe that it had just heard such callous and unfeeling words coming out from Soul Slayer’s mouth.
Wu Jiu nodded his head in satisfaction and turned to say to Jun Wu Xie and the others: “Is there anything wrong with what Soul Slayer has chosen to do? I promised Soul Slayer that if they help us complete the construction of the fourth Serene Spirit Tower, not only will we give to them more powerful might, we will give them back their original bodies, where they no longer need to live as spirits.”
New bodies…..
That was something that so many spirits could only dream of. Although mighty power of the spirit was great, it could not beat having one’s own body, where the allure of being able to live in the world was just irresistible.
And Wu Jiu was using just that most enticing temptation to reinforce Soul Slayer’s determination in his betrayal.
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“It’s not just for Soul Slayer, Poison Ivy, and Flame Dragon. If all of you are willing to submit to us, I can also let all of you regain back your bodies. How does that sound? To be able to live in the state like you had before in the world, no longer limited to within the confines of the Spirit World, no longer tied by the constraints of having to become a human’s Ring Spirit before you are able to leave this place. Throughout the vast skies and the limitless seas, where you will be able to go wherever you want to.” Wu Jiu said, extending a highly irresistible invitation to Flame Dragon and Poison Ivy.
“In your dreams! To have to work together with someone like you to bring harm upon the spirits, I would rather continue to live as a spirit forever!” Poison Ivy said with a cold sneer.
“I shall not rest till I see thou meet thy death!” Flame Dragon avowed solemnly.
“You don’t know what’s good for you.” Wu Jiu jeered, and he turned his head to look at the imposter.
“My Lord, since they have refused our generous offer, we do not need to let them have the opportunity to see that happen.”
The fake Spirit Lord nodded his head and then stood up from the throne, where he then came down slowly a step at a time. A powerful blast of power of the spirit then swirled around his entire body, and an oppressive spirit aura then filled the grand hall. In just one instant, Jun Wu Xie and the others immediately felt an aura so oppressive like nothing they had ever felt before.
The Spirit Lord released his own power of the spirit at the same moment, that crashed against the imposter’s powerful aura.
The oppressive aura that engulfed Jun Wu Xie and the others suddenly disappeared.
“You think that you are able to stop me?” The imposter said as he stared at the Spirit Lord who was struggling to resist the oppressive aura and his eyes gleamed with a sliver of malice. He then immediately increased the intensity of the oppressive aura he was releasing.
The Spirit Lord’s power of the spirit already had a great part of it depleted and in his current state, he was not a match for the imposter at all. As the imposter’s oppressive aura intensified, the Spirit Lord’s face then began to turn more and more pale, and seeing that pale countenance, the imposter and Wu Jiu just felt nothing but glee.
“How dull and boring…..” A mirthful sigh sounded out from behind Jun Wu Xie and the others. The moment that voice rang out, Jun Wu Xie’s eyes immediately rose up with a smile.
A black shadow shot into the grand hall quick as lightning, as a tyrannical force with the power of a tempest swept in to completely crush both the auras of the imposter and that of the Spirit Lord!
The overwhelming power that had appeared so suddenly stuck hard, catching the imposter completely unprepared, as the oppressive aura was turned right around to rush straight onto his own body!
The imposter’s haughty and arrogant stance then wavered and tilted under the powerful force that came back to bite onto him, his feet falling back a few steps!
“Who is that! ?” Wu Jiu stared in shock at the imposter’s wretched looking figure, his eyes filled with utter disbelief.
[How is it possible? In this Spirit World, there was actually someone who was capable of hurting the Lord!]
“You are not even qualified to raise a question.” Filled with unmatched haughtiness, the graceful figure of Jun Wu Yao descended right before Jun Wu Xie. The instant that tall slender figure was revealed, utter shock and hopeless despair immediately showed on the faces of Wu Jiu and the fake Spirit Lord….
Jun Wu Yao who stood before their faces, was unbelievably graceful and composed, and the seemingly nonchalant stance of his body felt like it carried the dominating air that belonged to kings, while that pair of violet eyes immediately threw Wu Jiu and the fake Spirit Lord right over the edge into the deep pits of hopelessness!
“Dark Emperor…..” Wu Jiu stared with wide disbelieving eyes. In the instant he recognized Jun Wu Yao’s identity, all the confidence and arrogance he held immediately disappeared out of him without a single trace left, and his body began to shiver uncontrollably.
[How is this possible?]
[How is it even possible! ?]
[Why would the Dark Emperor appear here in the Spirit World! ! ?]
Mind numbing terror hung right over Wu Jiu’s head, and after getting a clear view of Jun Wu Yao, the fake Spirit Lord stood rooted in his spot.
No matter how much he was capable of, when standing before Jun Wu Yao, everything about them was immediately turned into one big joke!
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One with overwhelming magnificence who holds absolute power, in the true sense of the word….
The return of the king!
Jun Wu Yao raised up an eyebrow slightly as he looked at Wu Jiu and the fake Spirit Lord who were dumbstruck with terror. The pair of violet eyes then narrowed lazily, not i
n the least wary or guarded at all, like the two beings before him were two completely unarmed children, who were not even qualified to make him look at them seriously.
“Dark Emperor, why are you…..” Brimming with confidence just moments ago, the fake Spirit Lord who had thought himself invincible under the Heavens now stared at Jun Wu Yao in disbelief, where however arrogant he had been before, he was just as fearful now!
In the entire world, only one person had ever unified the Middle Realm.
Commanded the Dark Regions, fought the four sides, shook the Nine Temples, swept right through the Twelve Palaces….. making the tens of millions living beings submit themselves to his reign, the one and only ruler of the Middle Realm, the Dark Emperor!
In front of Jun Wu Yao, even the ever confident and arrogant fake Spirit Lord could not help but show fear in his gaze.
Even if they were beaten to death, they would never have thought that Jun Wu Yao would actually appear here! !
“Did I allow you to speak?” Jun Wu Yao’s violet eyes swept over the figure of the fake Spirit Lord, and he lifted one hand slightly, where a stream of black mist shot straight towards the fake Spirit Lord’s face in an instant!
A loud clear smack immediately reverberated within the grand hall!
The fake Spirit Lord was actually thrown off his feet by the smack from the stream of black mist, his tall body crashing right onto the throne behind him, where upon that face that had a congealed layer of his own power of the spirit, suddenly showed cracklines that spread across in a web!
The fake Spirit Lord fell heavily onto the floor, and he found himself unable to even stand up.
Wu Jiu on the side was already so terrified he was shaking all over, acting just like a startled fledgling.
Back when he had concealed himself at the Spirit Lord’s side to play the part of an obedient disciple, he had witnessed the Dark Emperor’s majestic glory. But the battle between the Dark Emperor and the Spirit Lord was witnessed only by the previous Spirit Master alone, leaving him clueless about the Dark Emperor’s power. The only thing they knew about when the Dark Emperor came to the Spirit World was that within a short half an hour, the Spirit World had submitted down at his feet.
Half an hour…..
The time the battle between the Dark Emperor and the Spirit Lord had taken merely a blink of an eye.
Such mysterious and powerful strength, one that caused all the spirits in the Spirit World to tremble before it.
And when Wu Jiu was witnessing with his own eyes Jun Wu Yao’s power, paralysing fear shrouded his entire body. His legs shook uncontrollably, feeling so weak that he did not even have enough strength to remain standing where he fell to his knees with a crash, his terror filled eyes staring at the languid and completely calm Jun Wu Yao.
Just how strong the fake Spirit Lord was could not be any clearer to Wu Jiu. Even pitted against the Spirit Lord at his peak, the fake Spirit Lord still possessed enough power to battle him.
But even for such a powerful pugilist, before Jun Wu Yao, he could not even withstand a single strike!
It was merely a slight lift of the hand and it already delivered such powerful damage….. Fear like he had never known before poured out from Wu Jiu’s heart. One who was so unimaginably powerful….. how could they even stand against him at all?
No need to talk about standing against him as before Jun Wu Yao’s overwhelming might, Wu Jiu did not even dare to harbour the slightest thought of escape.
Jun Wu Yao’s might had not only almost scared the living daylights out of Wu Jiu but even Poison Ivy and Flame Dragon were staring wide eyed. It was the same for them just like Wu Jiu, where the battle between Jun Wu Yao and the Spirit Lord was something they knew nothing about, but just a thought that remained in their heads, where they had assumed that the disparity in power between the Spirit Lord and the Dark Emperor was not that hard to imagine.
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But it was till today in the instant when Jun Wu Yao delivered that one single strike that Poison Ivy and Flame Dragon realized their thinking before could not be any more laughable…..
[Not that great a difference?]
[Are you joking! ?]
[Jun Wu Yao’s powers had truly far surpassed the limits of anything they could imagine!
The fake Spirit Lord’s powers and the Spirit Lord’s power was not that far different. But before Jun Wu Yao, those powers made them useless pieces of trash that were unable to retaliate at all.
Flame Dragon and Poison Ivy immediately understood that this man who had once unified the entire Middle Realm under his reign was mighty way beyond anything they could imagine and the Spirit Lord’s decision to lead the entire Spirit World to submit at the feet of the Dark Emperor could not have been a more correct decision to make!
[Going against this great demon lord with such heaven defying powers?]
[What else could it be but to court death! ?]
“Everytime I see Big Brother Wu Yao bash people up, I always feel such an indescribable comfort deep inside.” Qiao Chu said as he rubbed at his chin, his eyes sparkling as he stared at Jun Wu Yao’s back.
[This here is what true might is!]
The holder of absolute might, where it reflects the true meaning of a supreme existence capable of executing an instant kill of all powerful pugilists!]
“If I am able to achieve even one percent of Big Brother Wu Yao’s power in this life, I will be content.” Fei Yan said as he clutched at his chest, his worship of Jun Wu Yao like the endless torrents of a raging river, flowing out incessantly.
At that moment, however hopeless Wu Jiu and the Spirit Lord felt, Qiao Chu and the others were feeling equally just as excited!
Jun Wu Yao would clearly not spare Wu Jiu and the fake Spirit Lord who had the audacity to imprison Jun Wu Xie. His fingers hooked up slightly and two streams of black mist immediately shot towards the fake Spirit Lord in an instant to immediately wind around their necks, and lifting them up into the air.
“Dark Emperor….. Mercy…..” Wu Jiu’s face was already tear streaked and sobbing with terror. He had thought that Jun Wu Xie and the others had not known what was for their own good and came running here to seek death, never having expected that the ones courting death was themselves instead!
With such a great demon lord standing behind them like a deity, where in the entire Middle Realm would Jun Wu Xie and the others not be able to reach?
“Hmm?” Jun Wu Yao glimpsed at Wu Jiu lazily, and the black mist choking Wu Jiu’s neck immediately tightened.
Spirits did not need to breathe and strangling their necks would not bring them any discomfort. But that only applied to other people. In the instant when the black mist constricted, Wu Jiu immediately felt a strong surge of power spreading out from his neck, his entire body feeling as if it was being struck by lightning, the pain so agonizing that he almost lose consciousness!
“ARRGGGHHH!” A pitiful wail exploded out from Wu Jiu’s mouth, his entire body twitching violently in midair.
Spirits did not share the limitations of a flesh body and unless they suffered highly severe trauma, it was hard for them to lose consciousness. Jun Wu Yao had struck right at the very edge of the boundaries before they would faint, so that they would suffer the most immense torment, while at the same time maintaining consciousness.
People who had the temerity to harm Little Xie. How could he possibly let them die off so easily?
Wu Jiu already could not speak at all, but to only wail pitifully in agony.
And the fake Spirit Lord’s situation was not any better than him in any way. He had already been severely injured by Jun Wu Yao’s first strike earlier, but as his power of the spirit was stronger than Wu Jiu’s, the amount of hurt he could withstand was also higher by a few folds. Jun Wu Yao had naturally not treated him kindly, and the addit
ional torment he inflicted upon him caused the fake Spirit Lord’s face to turn from white to purple, the pain so excruciating he could not even make himself cry out, every single spot upon his body feeling like he was being burnt within a blazing fire!
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The amount of torment that Wu Jiu and the fake Spirit Lord suffered was something that was hard to imagine by normal people. Seeing their faces contorted and twisted up in agony, it caused Soul Slayer to become completely stunned. At that moment, despair and fear filled its body as all his words of betrayal earlier stuck onto his body like life sucking talismans.
“Spare my life, Dark Emperor! Spare my life!” Soul Slayer was unable to kneel and it could only fall flat onto the ground, where its body was seen to be trembling faintly, his words of plea accompanying Wu Jiu’s mournful wails that reverberated through the grand hall.
However, Jun Wu Yao did not even once glance towards Soul Slayer at all, as if even giving hims a single glance would be too much of a waste in his eyes.
“That fool there, will be left for you to deal with.” Jun Wu Yao said with a sidelong glance at the Spirit Lord.
The Spirit Lord immediately fell onto one knee and lowered his head to say sincerely: “Thank you Dark Emperor for your help, the Spirit World will forever submit ourselves to you.”
After having experienced all this, the Spirit Lord finally understood that there was no disadvantage in pledging their allegiance to Jun Wu Yao. Jun Wu Yao was not a tyrannical ruler and he only seeks for them to submit themselves to him. To people who submit to him, he never made harsh demands, and would not order them to do anything that went against their morals or Heaven’s ethics.
Back when Jun Wu Yao unified and ruled the Middle Realm, besides the initial thrashing he gave till they submitted, he had not struck against them anymore after that, and did not interfere with their ways at all. Things had gone back to being as peaceful as if he had never appeared before.
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