Chapter 1489: You Two Perverts
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
BANG!
A streak of glowing light flowed out from Xu Que's palm and instantly covered the entire wall, overwhelming the hidden restrictive barrier.
Cracking the restrictive barrier had only required Xu Que's Celestial Core Power. He had mainly relied on the System's ability to crack the restrictive barrier.
Perhaps the System had really wanted him to open this restrictive barrier and so hadn't mentioned the issue of charges to Xu Que. The System had started right up on its own getting rid of the barrier.
However, as the restrictive barrier slowly cracked open, Xu Que began to feel vaguely uneasy. He wasn't clear if he was alarmed by the actions of the System or if he himself really felt a sense of danger.
He immediately turned to look at Buttface and Duan Jiude and said in a low voice, "This restrictive barrier is not simple. You guys quickly set up a Trap & Kill Array outside. And, just in case, you must make it fierce and vicious."
After saying that, Xu Que looked toward Zixia Fairy and Jiang Hongyan as well as Liu Jingning and said, "Later, when this restrictive barrier opens, the commotion may be pretty huge. You should probably retreat a little now before it opens."
"F*ck, boy, do you place more importance on sex or friendship? You ask them to move a little farther back, but at the same time you want Your Holiness and Master Duan to throw away our lives?" Buttface suddenly jumped up and shouted. He had already retreated to the gate outside the Treasure Pavilion.
"D*mn, you don't need to be so terrified? It's just a small restrictive barrier. There's nothing to be afraid of. Come quickly and help me." Xu Que shook his head in disbelief.
"Your Holiness does not believe you. This restrictive spell is very dangerous." Buttface was very firm. He knew Xu Que too well.
"Come on, if you don't stay and help me, you won't get to have a share in the Divine Items inside… Oops, did I accidentally mention that there are Divine Items inside." Xu Que suddenly covered his mouth and looked chagrined.
"What? There are Divine Items?" Buttface's eyes instantly lit up, and he quickly rushed over.
Duan Jiude also smiled enthusiastically and rubbed his hands together as he came closer. He laughed mischievously and said, "Boy, we can set up the Array, but you can't gobble up all the treasures alone this time."
"Don't worry, no matter what's inside, you two definitely will have a share in it. It's fine too, even if you want to split it all equally." Xu Que nodded sincerely.
"Very well, that's settled then." Buttface and Duan Jiude were happy and immediately rolled up their sleeves to start setting up the Array.
Xu Que was also delighted. If he'd opened up the restrictive barrier and had really woken up the group of big shots inside, in case those people had started to go against him, then at least his side would have these Trap & Kill Arrays to delay them. After which, Xu Que could activate the System's retaliatory mechanism, which could at least wipe out a few Celestial Kings.
Xu Que didn't care about how many would be wiped out. As long as he could get his reward from the System, he would immediately steal away.
"Oh, no!" All of a sudden, Xu Que realized something and immediately called out the System, "System, I still have a problem. If the restrictive barrier was opened, but failed to wake up the powerful beings inside, what would this reward be, say?"
DING! "I have calculated that there is a 70 percent probability that you won't wake up the human beings. Thus, once no powerful beings are awakened, the reward will be invalid!"
"Then if I open the restrictive barrier and wake up those people, but can't kill a single one, does that mean you won't give out the reward? Then why the h*ll should I open the restrictive barrier?" Xu Que looked like he was about to give up.
The System was silent for a while before it responded, "As long as the host opens the restrictive barrier and wakes up the powerful beings, you can get all the reward."
"Hee, hee, hee, it's a deal! These terms are pretty good." Xu Que immediately beamed and was very satisfied.
Originally, he'd also felt that there was something odd about all this. According to reason, he and the powerful beings inside this restrictive barrier didn't have any feud. "If he opened the restrictive barrier and woke them up, this group of people wouldn't come charging at him to murder him for no reason, would they?"
But since the System's beep had signaled danger, it had certainly predicted this result, so he still didn't want to take any risks in breaking the spell.
If it had been only him, Buttface, and Duan Jiude, then they could still try seeking riches and honor. But now with Zixia Fairy, Jiang Hongyan, Liu Jingning, and others also around him, it would be difficult to take care of all of them in case something happened.
Zixia Fairy probably had the ability to defend herself, but the abilities of Liu Jingning, Mo Junchen, and Jiang Hongyan might not be able to keep up against the big shots.
Therefore, Xu Que made a decision. As soon as he opened the restrictive barrier and woke up a few powerful beings in order to cheat the System out of the reward it had offered him, he would immediately turn tail and beat it.
"Hmm, it seems that something's still not right. There's no reason for a profiteer like the System not to guess what I want to do. Why did it so easily agree to my conditions? Unless…"
Suddenly, Xu Que thought of something and frowned. Perhaps the System could be certain that once those powerful beings had been awoken, he would definitely not be able to slip away, and he would be forced to fight.
"D*mn, I've been deceived."
Xu Que's face underwent a transformation, and he was about to take back his hands.
BOOM!
Almost at the same time, a loud thud could suddenly be heard from the stone wall. The restrictive barrier on the wall suddenly solidified and turned into a bright curtain of densely packed runes, which instantly changed into a giant crack in the wall.
"Come on!" Xu Que immediately yelled and took his hand back.
But it was already too late. The rapid rupturing of the restrictive barrier couldn't be stopped at all.
Soon a piece of the restrictive barrier broke off the wall and the gap in the wall turned into a cloud of darkness. A piercing cold breeze wafted out of it. The air was even filled with the pungent smell of blood.
"Oh, Divine Items, Your Holiness is coming." Buttface howled excitedly and stretched out his paws to directly tear down the pieces of the restrictive barrier.
"Hee, hee, hee, don't try to keep everything for yourself." Duan Jiude smiled roguishly and followed Buttface.
"F*ck, you two dunces, quickly, stop…" Xu Que called out, frightened, and immediately reached out to drag Buttface and Duan Jiude back outside.
However, Buttface and Duan Jiude had touched the restrictive barrier. The whole restrictive barrier had become like a torn sheet of thin paper. It suddenly made a ripping sound and instantly crumpled into a pile of scraps.
Buttface and Duan Jiude quickly fell forward into the restrictive barrier. Xu Que had tried to pull the two of them out. However, unexpectedly, the restrictive barrier had shattered and the huge mouth of a black cave had been exposed. A powerful pulling force erupted from the mouth of the hole and dragged the three of them inside straight away.
"Xu Que!"
Zixia Fairy, Jiang Hongyan, and the others had seen everything that happened. Their faces experienced intense changes. They exclaimed in shock and gave chase.
"Don't come in here, there's danger." Xu Que yelled and followed closely behind Buttface and Duan Jiude to fall directly into the black cave mouth.
Zixia Fairy and several other people didn't stop and flew forward with determination.
However, in the black cave mouth, that wall of the newly broken restrictive barrier had been restored to its original appearance, and now it blocked out the few people remaining outside.
"Oh, no, this restrictive barrier has a recovery ability." Zixia Fairy suddenly looked grim.
…
Meanwhile, inside the dark cave, Xu Que, Buttface, and Duan Jiude all fell to the ground after being affected by the pulling force.
But, as soon as they entered the cave, the pulling force disappeared instantly. The surroundings were very chilly, and the air was filled with a strong smell of blood. There was even a powerful moldy presence.
"Ha, ha, ha, Your Holiness has touched a Divine Item. It's very hard." At this time, Buttface's loud laughter could be heard ringing out in the dark.
"I, the old man, have also found one. It won't budge no matter how much I try to move it. It must be absolutely a Divine Item!" Duan Jiude laughed out loud.
"Come on, you two brainless idiots!" Xu Que stood up from the ground. His eyes instantly gathered up his Celestial Core Power to restore his clear vision.
However, when he was able to see Buttface and Duan Jiude, he suddenly stood motionless and said, completely beside himself, "You two perverts, what are you doing resting on other people's bodies?"
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Chapter 1490: The Women
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
"F*ck!"
"Come on!"
The voices of Buttface and Duan Jiude rang out at the same time.
These two fools had also gathered their Celestial Core Power within their eyes to restore their fields of vision, and now they could finally see that they were both lying on someone's body.
Duan Jiude's face got dark with anger. This was no d*mn Divine Item. The thing he'd been touching was that person's private parts, and he'd actually bit it with his teeth.
However, that wasn't what made him the angriest. He was most angry that he actually hadn't been able to move it when he'd tried to bite it.
BAH! BAH! BAH! "F*ck, Buttface, quickly get some water for me, the old man, to rinse my mouth out!" Duan Jiude stood up and spat nonstop with a face full of disgust.
Buttface didn't care about the fact that he'd been touching something dirty. He stood up with a look of amazement and stared at those two people who were lying on the ground. Immediately after, he instantly scuttled backward to promptly hide behind Xu Que as he screamed.
"F*ck, d*mn it, these two people are still alive!" Buttface pointed to the front and shouted, "Master Duan, quickly kill them!"
"D*mn!" When Duan Jiude heard Buttface's words, he immediately jumped up and swore loudly. He also rushed to scuttle behind Xu Que straight away, and he hugged Buttface.
Xu Que didn't have the time or the energy to scold these two idiots. His gaze fell upon the two people on the ground, and he couldn't help but be startled.
These two people were almost entirely skin and bones. Their cheeks were completely sunken, but their eyes were wide open. Their eyes were scanning the room and staring closely at Xu Que, Buttface, and Duan Jiude.
It was precisely because of this that Buttface had been startled and had discovered that these two people were still alive.
"Strange, they have no presence, and their physical bodies have no vitality, but yet their eyes can move. What the heck is going on here?" Xu Que asked skeptically.
"You animals, you perverts!" Duan Jiude hid behind Xu Que and continued to yell at the two men on the ground.
Buttface had calmed down a bit at this time, and he walked out from behind Xu Que. He said with a frown, "No, these two people should've been dead for many years, but yet their physical bodies are not completely dead. Can it really be because there is some kind of Divine Item inside here?"
"Yeah, that's right, boy, where are the Divine Items?" Duan Jiude reacted and looked at Xu Que.
Xu Que shook his head and reached his hand out to point toward the depths of the cave as he said, "I'm not sure whether there are any Divine Items, but I'm certain that there are Celestial Kings as well as Celestial Primes. They are all inside. How do you want to divide them up?"
"How would they divide them up?"
"Divide my ass!"
Buttface and Duan Jiude immediately glared at Xu Que.
"D*mn, no wonder. Your Holiness thought it was strange that you would be so generous. You already knew there was only danger in here from the beginning."
"F*ck, I, the old man, sacrificed the chastity of my mouth, and you tell me that you don't know if there are any Divine Items?"
These two idiots' facial expressions got very indignant.
Xu Que smiled disdainfully and didn't pay any attention to them. His eyes were still busy appraising those two people on the ground.
The System had not yet prompted any news about the reward, which indicated to him that he hadn't woken up the powerful beings yet. But who were these people on the ground? They lay on the ground, all dried up in this manner, but yet they weren't dead. It was too bizarre.
Moreover, he couldn't identify the cultivation stage of these two men, but from the look of the clothes they were wearing…
"These people are from the Heaven Palace Academy?"
Xu Que couldn't help but stare blankly.
Although the clothes of these two people on the ground were shabby, the emblem of the Heaven Palace Academy was embroidered on their chests, and it was still clearly visible.
"What? The people from the Heaven Palace Academy have been here?"
Buttface and Duan Jiude came forward when they'd heard these words about the two men.
Immediately after, Duan Jiude smacked his forehead and said, "F*ck, I, the old man, remember that when I first came to the Heaven Palace Academy, I had heard that there were two Elders missing. Could it be these two men?"
"No, how could it be? The disappearance of those two Elders would have been about four or five year ago. How could they have decayed to such a state?" Buttface said in astonishment.
"Unless someone has imprisoned them in this place and has been absorbing their vitality and their Celestial Core Power all this time." Xu Que spoke up and looked serious. His eyes instantly locked onto the depths of the cave.
His eyes gathered more Celestial Core Power and the space between his eyebrows lit up as he activated his Divine Eye. He finally saw clearly what the depths of the cave looked like.
Inside, there were dozens of coffins made out of jade. They were entirely dark green, and they were translucent and sparkling. There was one coffin made of bronze with a surface engraved with densely packed rune carvings, which emitted wisps of black gas.
All the coffins had been placed here in a very messy manner. Xu Que couldn't see any mystery in it. It looked as if they had been very hastily dumped here by someone.
But the area where the coffins had been located was on a circular platform similar to an altar. It seemed to have sealed off these coffins.
"No, this cannot be. If one of them isn't awake, the System won't give me the reward." Xu Qu was thinking to himself and having doubts. He was getting ready to call the System to inquire.
"Hee, hee, hee!" Suddenly, the crisp sound of a woman's amused laughter rang out in the silent cave.
"F*ck!"
"F*ck, f*ck!"
Buttface and Duan Jiude were once again scared to death, and they screamed.
BANG!
Almost at the same moment, Xu Que felt a hand suddenly grab his foot.
His subconscious reaction was to fight back, but he soon realized that the other side didn't seem to have any intention of attacking. He looked down. It actually was one of the people on the ground, reaching out his hand to him.
"Kill…kill me, please I beg you." The man on the ground opened his mouth and made a strange sound, which was full of agony and pleading.
"Hee, hee, hee…"
At this time, the playful laughter sounded out again.
This time, it was not one person, but it sounded as if there were several women giggling.
This kind of laughter didn't have one single ounce of purity in it. Instead, it carried a hint of flirtatiousness and even sounded a little lascivious.
"D*mn, where's the laughter coming from?"
"It sounds as if it's coming from above."
Buttface and Duan Jiude held each other tightly and were very nervous.
Invisible enemies were always the most terrifying, because the other side's strength was powerful enough to be invisible.
POP!
Suddenly, the sound of a thud could be heard, and Buttface abruptly jumped away from Duan Jiude's side. He stared wide-eyed and asked, "Damn, Old Man Duan, why did you touch Your Holiness?"
"F*ck, clearly you're the one touching me… Hey, what's going on?" Duan Jiude had just gotten halfway through his sentence when he suddenly fell back and lay on the ground face up like those two other people they'd seen before.
The next moment, Duan Jiude shouted, "F*ck, who are you? Why are you wearing so little? Aren't you cold? Hey, hey, hey, why are you sitting on me, an old man? Boy, come and help, this woman is crazy. She's sitting on an old man like me. Clearly hatching a sinister plot."
OOWW! Almost at the same time, Buttface also suddenly lay on the ground and shouted, "Your Holiness also has a woman lying on him. Damn, go away, you ugly c*nt. Your Holiness doesn't like your type. Don't touch Your Holiness's d*ck. You'll never find it."
HISS!
Xu Que immediately gasped.
This was really h*ll. Buttface and Duan Jiude were shouting that women were lying on their bodies. But the problem was that he himself simply couldn't see the so-called women on their bodies!
However, according to his experience of watching countless porno films, Xu Que seemed to have understood something.
The two men lying on the ground in front of him were not being sucked dry, but squeezed dry.
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Chapter 1491: A Piece of Black Cloth
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
"F*ck, boy, come quickly and help!"
"D*mn you woman, you'd better stop now. I, the old man, have been moral and virtuous for many years. I absolutely will not let you have your way with me."
Buttface and Duan Jiude continued to shout, one after another.
Xu Que looked around, but he didn't really worry that Buttface and Duan Jiude were in any real danger.
It was clearly an illusion that was forcibly squeezing cultivators dry.
But Xu Que was very curious. "Why had Buttface and Duan Jiude both fallen into the trap, but he himself was still safe?"
"Unless…I, the Act-Tough Saint, am so pure of heart that these illusions don't work on me?"
Xu Que stroked his chin and fell deep in thought.
"Sure enough, it was a good thing to be a pure person."
DING! "Under the defense mechanism, the host is immune to illusions for a certain amount of time. Your current immunization time has only ten minutes left. Will the host please seize the time to crack the illusion." The System beep chimed, reminding him to get to work.
Xu Que immediately jumped up and smiled coldly, as he shook his head.
"He'd been so naive."
"So what if the immunization time ends? Am I, Xu Que, afraid of this illusion? No matter how many women come onto me, I can't be overcome by this illusion."
"F*ck, boy, how much more do you want to watch? Your Holiness is going to be unable to protect my chastity soon." Buttface's shouts rang out again.
Only then did Xu Que narrow his eyes and say with an impish chuckle, "Your chastity was gone long ago back in the Five Elements Mountain. That's only an illusion. Why are you so scared?"
"Illusion, my ass, this is too real… ah, and it also can limit the power of Your Holiness." Buttface shouted again, trying to make Xu Que understand how serious this was.
"Boy, this thing is absolutely not so simple as you think. If it can reduce two True Celestials of the Great All-Embracing Heaven into this state, you shouldn't underestimate the enemy." Duan Jiude also shouted at Xu Que.
"Okay, let me see what the illusion is actually doing." Xu Que smiled and his gaze suddenly swept up to the top of the cave.
Before the illusion had appeared, a woman's giggles could be heard from somewhere in the cave. It seemed to have come from above the cave.
If he'd guessed right, the illusion must've been deployed from the top of the cave.
SWISH!
However, the moment that Xu Que lifted his head to look up, a dark shadow suddenly glided down from above.
Xu Que's face instantly changed. Without a thought, he took out the Tough-Acting King's Purple-Gold Rod. However, mysteriously, the dark shadow passed by in a flash and vanished without a trace. Even his Soul Strength hadn't been able to capture its presence.
"What's going on? Are there any other living things in here?" Xu Que was startled, and he almost thought that he had been tricked by an illusion.
SWISH!
All of a sudden, there was another sound like a blast of air, and a black shadow once again passed through the air. Its speed was extremely rapid, and the naked eye could only capture a trace of the shadow.
Xu Que frowned and waved his hand, ready to pull out the Tough-Acting King's Purple-Gold Rod from under his arm, getting ready for the opportunity to strike.
If the shadow reappeared again, he was confident that he could intercept it.
"Be careful behind you!"
At this time, a warning rang out. It didn't come from Buttface or Duan Jiude, but from an unfamiliar woman's voice.
Xu Que quickly turned around to look behind him. But it was empty behind him. There was nothing at all.
"F*ck, it's a trick!"
Xu Que suddenly realized something and turned around once again. He swept the Tough-Acting King's Purple-Gold Rod with force toward the back without hesitation.
BANG!
With the sound of a thud, it was obvious that the Tough-Acting King's Purple-Gold Rod had hit something.
Xu Que also felt a shock in the area between his thumb and forefinger of his hands. He also caught a glimpse of a black shadow being swept away from the corner of his eyes. But he hadn't sensed any existence or presence throughout the whole process.
There were two solutions to this situation: Either this was an illusion, or the other party was not a living thing.
"Hey, the woman is gone!"
"I, the old man, am all right here too."
Almost at the same time, Buttface and Duan Jiude got up from the ground with looks of surprise.
"Be careful, this thing is not ordinary." Xu Que warned in a low voice. His eyes were still looking around vigilantly.
He'd started to understand what'd been going on now that the System had reminded him that he was immune to illusions under the defense mechanism.
So that dark shadow just now had definitely not been an illusion.
The dark shadow kept appearing and disappearing in a flash. However, it didn't leave even the slightest bit of presence or trigger the Mind Sense. Even the most powerful beings at the levels of Celestial Primes and Celestial Kings couldn't do this.
So Xu Que figured out that basically the dark shadow couldn't be a living thing.
"Can it be…is it possible that it could be the Artifact Spirit of a Celestial Artifact? Even a Divine Item?" Xu Que was having some pretty strange ideas, and he was actually becoming a little excited.
Under these circumstances, it seemed that only an Artifact Spirit of a Celestial Artifact or a Divine Item could explain this thing without a presence.
"Buttface, Duan Jiude, hurry, set up a Trap & Kill Array. The next time it dares to appear, take it down with one strike." Xu Que had an idea.
"You don't need to spell it out. Your Holiness is already setting it up," Buttface said.
"Hey, how dare you touch me, the old man! I will make you bear the consequences." Duan Jiude was scornful.
These two dunces had already started to plot their revenge.
However, from when they started to set up the Trap & Kill Array until the setup of the Trap & Kill Array had been finished, the dark shadow never appeared again.
The cave was eerily calm, and they still had no idea when the two "used-up" people on the ground had finally closed their eyes and completely lost their lives. This time, those two men really seemed to be dead.
"F*ck, don't tell me it has run away? Why doesn't it show itself?" Buttface was getting a little impatient.
"No, it can't run away. This place is tiny. Where can it go?" Duan Jiude was a little suspicious.
"It looks like I probably hurt it with a strike from my rod just now, or I might have scared it. But now that it's not around us, it's probably just hiding in another place." Xu Que spoke in a low voice, and his gaze slowly drifted down to look toward the dozens of coffins deep inside the cave.
"Is it over there?" Buttface and Duan Jiude also immediately came forward. Their eyes also looked deep into the cave.
SWISH!
Sure enough, the dark shadow appeared again and flashed through the depths of the cave.
"After it!" Xu Que immediately acted and charged forward.
But just after he had taken only a few steps, the dark shadow suddenly rushed out from inside the cave and transformed into a large piece of black cloth to block the entrance to the depths of the cave.
"Stop!" A crisp female voice rang out from the black cloth.
"F*ck!"
"F*ck, f*ck, a cloth that speaks."
Buttface and Duan Jiude exclaimed at the same time.
"Hey, it is an Artifact Spirit!" Xu Que quickly registered what the appearance of this piece of black cloth signified and finally confirmed that his guess had been correct.
"D*mn, Your Holiness was almost sullied by a piece of black cloth?"
"Such a perverted black cloth was trying to overcome an old man's chastity?"
Buttface and Duan Jiude looked extremely angry.
"Shut up, you insignificant creatures with no power! How dare you break into the sacred grounds. I only set up a small trick and made you fall for an illusion." The woman's voice within the black cloth scolded.
"Fall for an illusion? Hee, hee, hee, I'm afraid it's not that simple. These two people were squeezed dry until they looked like this. Oh, and I guess they died after their essence had been exhausted." Xu Que laughed coldly.
The deaths of the two people from the Heaven Palace Academy had nothing to do with him. But this piece of black cloth had just made a move on them. If it had not been for his own wits, perhaps this piece of black cloth would've succeeded with the sneak attack it had mounted against them.
So, they still needed to settle the score.
Moreover, he still hadn't gotten the System's reward. "If he didn't go in to wake up a few powerful Celestial Kings, did it mean he would have to return empty-handed?"
"What kind of nonsense are you talking about? I'm not the one who sucked out their essence. I just started the illusion, that's all." The woman in the black cloth responded with exasperation.
"It wasn't you? Then who sucked them?" Xu Que could not help staring blankly.
Buttface and Duan Jiude looked flummoxed and somewhat in a daze.
"Boy, who are you talking to?" Buttface asked in surprise.
"Yeah, he's looking at that piece of black cloth and talking to himself. Can it be that he has fallen for an illusion?" Duan Jiude looked terrified.
Xu Que was surprised, and he asked, "What's going on? I'm talking to this piece of black cloth. Didn't you hear it talking? There may be an Artifact Spirit inside."
"What the h*ll? You're talking to a piece of cloth?" Buttface stared wide-eyed.
"You must have been tricked by an illusion," Duan Jiude said with certainty.
"It's not an illusion. You really can't hear it talking?" Xu Que was a little surprised.
He was very certain that this piece of black cloth was really talking, and it hadn't been a soundless communication or an illusion. How could Buttface and Duan Jiude not have heard it?
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Chapter 1492: An Extraordinary Power?
"F*ck, boy, you must be bewitched!" Duan Jiude stared wide-eyed at Xu Que.
"Forget bewitchment, Your Holiness can guarantee upon my head that he has absolutely been deceived by the illusion." Buttface solemnly swore and was very certain.
They had met with the illusion just now, and only Xu Que had been fine after. It was not surprising that now it was Xu Que who had been struck by the illusion.
But the problem was that Xu Que was in the defense mechanism mode of the System and thus could be immune to the illusion for a period of time.
At this moment, he was very sure that the immunity period was not over yet and that it was absolutely impossible for him to have been struck by the illusion. He still unconditionally believed in the System's words.
However, if that was the case…what was going on here?
Xu Que frowned and directly summoned the System. An idea had come into his mind. "System, check what this piece of black cloth is.���
DING! "After testing, the object is a shroud that has absorbed the last wisp of breath from a number of Celestial Primes, and this has given rise to a trace of spiritual intelligence." The System responded immediately.
"It gave rise to spiritual intelligence? Is that an Artifact Spirit? Why am I the only one who can hear her talking?" Xu Que was a little puzzled for the moment.
DING! "Due to the shroud's insufficient level, it doesn't have enough spiritual intelligence to develop into an Artifact Spirit. But in various environments, the spiritual intelligence of the shroud has transformed into an existence similar to that of an Artifact Spirit, although far less strong than an Artifact Spirit. It has been described as actually much closer to a ghost as described by mortals. Only a small number of people can perceive her voice." The System gave a detailed explanation.
Xu Que stared blankly and said, "So, in other words, I belong to a minority of people? Is it because of my inner purity and dashing appearance?"
DING! "As your intelligence is higher than the average person's, you can perceive this kind of voice."The System replied blandly.
"Ha, ha, ha, ha!"
Xu Que immediately laughed out loud.
"My intelligence is higher than the average person's."
Ha, ha, ha, this made sense. With the intelligence of Buttface and Duan Jiude, it was really normal that they couldn't hear the voice of this piece of black cloth.
"Boy, why did you burst out laughing?" Buttface was baffled by Xu Que's laughter.
"It's over. The illusion is too powerful." Duan Jiude's face became grim.
"No, no, no, it's not an illusion but a test of intelligence. Only people with superior intelligence can hear the voice of this piece of black cloth." Xu Que grinned and looked at Buttface and Duan Jiude. The corners of his lips ticked upward in amusement.
Buttface immediately sneered. He looked toward Duan Jiude with a face full of disdain and contempt.
Duan Jiude was instantly confused. He could understand that Xu Que had looked at him in this way. But what gave Buttface the right?
"Damn, Buttface, stop pretending! Can you hear the voice of the black cloth?" Duan Jiude immediately chided him.
"Utter nonsense! How do you know that Your Holiness can't hear it? Your Holiness just doesn't want to say it, that's all." Buttface looked smug.
"F*ck me, you're shameless…"
"Okay, okay, stop making a fuss. Let's take care of the black cloth first, and then you two can take care of proper business." When Xu Que saw that the two dunces were about to bicker again, he hurriedly interrupted Duan Jiude's words.
At the same time, a burst of fire leaped out from his palm. His eyes locked on the black cloth as he calmly smiled, "I'm giving you to the count of three. Hurry up and move aside. Otherwise, I'll throw a fire at you to burn you up."
"No, you horrible people, I'll never let you hurt my masters," the female voice behind the black cloth shouted.
Xu Que raised his eyebrows and shook his head as he chuckled and said, "Don't pretend, you devious wh*re. You weren't so innocent when you touched me just now. You relied on a broken shroud to grow to this point, but you also dared say that you didn't absorb the essence of these two dead people?"
"….." The black cloth instantly fell silent. It seemed that Xu Que had exposed its true colors, and it somehow didn't know how to continue.
"Hurry up and move aside. To be honest, it has nothing to do with me that you killed these people. I just want to wake up some of the powerful beings inside that room, and then I'll leave here right away. You don't have to try to stop me," Xu Que said with a smile.
Truthfully, he really was finding it very tiresome to deal with the black cloth. All he wanted was just to wake up a few Celestial Kings and then get a reward from the System so that he could immediately get the h*ll away from here.
However, as he finished talking, the black shroud abruptly emitted a murderous aura. And, with a WHOOSH, it swiftly disappeared.
"Huh?" Xu Que frowned. The piece of black cloth was really gone, but something was obviously not right about that murderous aura.
OOWWW!
Almost at the same time, Buttface howled in surprise and suddenly sprang up. "F*ck, this black cloth has struck me. D*mn it, she's sucking the blood of Your Holiness." Buttface growled and explained what was going on.
Xu Que looked over. The black shroud had completely coiled itself around Buttface's neck and was hanging there.
"It looks like you're really asking for death." Xu Que's face immediately darkened and he snarled in a deep voice.
"Oh, you think you can deal with me with the little ability you have? Do you think I only know how to produce illusions? Since the illusions are useless against you, I tried to be nice, but you refused to treat me as an equal. So don't blame me for making this fierce move." The female voice in the black cloth cackled in an extremely evil manner.
Xu Que shrugged his shoulders. The source of the black cloth's spiritual intelligence came from the last breaths of several Celestial Primes. It seemed as if this spiritual intelligence had more or less inherited the inner dark side of these Celestial Prime Elders.
But Xu Que was not inclined to try to eradicate evil. He also couldn't be bothered dealing with this ridiculous black cloth. But now that the black cloth had messed with them, he just couldn't take it any longer.
"System, turn on the retaliatory mechanism for me and help me get rid of this d*mn shroud." Xu Que had an idea and commanded the System.
The most troublesome thing about the black cloth was that it appeared and disappeared in a completely unpredictable way. It was so fast that he couldn't capture its tracks.
But under the System's retaliatory mechanism, there were strong tracking capabilities. Previously, it had been able to locate Li Xuanqi's Celestial Artifact. Now Xu Que was sure that it would be easy for it to locate the shroud.
DING! "Because the target's level is so low, it is not recommended to deploy the retaliatory mechanism. The host can use the enforced plunder function. According to the target's level, only 100 Acting Tough Points will be used up!"
The System beep sounded.
Xu Que stared blankly for a second and then asked, "If I deploy the retaliatory mechanism, how long is the whole process expected to take?"
DING! "At least 11 seconds!"
"Well, forget it then. Just use the enforced plunder function," Xu Que said.
The retaliatory mechanism required ten Acting Tough Points per second, which meant that 110 Acting Tough Points would be used up within 11 seconds. It was ten Acting Tough Points more than the enforced plunder function. Xu Que definitely didn't want to waste his Acting Tough Points.
BOOM!
Almost instantaneously, an invisible pulling force surged out from Xu Que's body and instantly swept forward.
The enforced plunder function was an element that the System had had for a long time. But this function didn't play a big role. It was only able to plunder some low-level things. For example, Living Holy Water could be forcibly obtained using this function.
Now that he had run into some trouble with this piece of black shroud, this enforced plunder function was effective because the black shroud's level was pretty low.
"Ah! What is that? Stop it, I won't intervene in this matter, quickly stop!" When the power of the System appeared, the black cloth burst out screaming.
Xu Que crossed his arms in front of his chest, looking indifferent. "It's either that I, the Act-Tough Saint, don't act, or I do. However, once I make my move, how can you expect me to stop? No way am I going to do that!"
HISS!
A crisp sound rang out in the air, and the power of the System forcibly tore the black cloth, ripping it apart in an instant.
AAAHHH!
The female voice of the black cloth gave a piercing scream.
The next moment, only a SWISH! could be heard, and the entire black cloth was swept up in an instant. Xu Que raised his hand and gave a wave. The black cloth was immediately taken in by the System's storage space and put away in one of its drawers.
Buttface was finally freed and fell on the ground, panting. His face was full of anger as he said, "Oh, let me get my paws on that rag. Your Holiness wants to kill her."
"Don't even think about it. If you had used a little more strength and just waved your paws, she would have already been broken." Xu Que threw Buttface a contemptuous look.
The physical body of this fool was clearly so strong, but it had been so frightened by a broken shroud that it didn't dare to fight back. If Buttface had been a bit more courageous he wouldn't have needed to waste 100 points of his own Acting Tough Points.
DING! "Detecting the Spiritual Intelligence within the shroud. After the System recycles it, the host will acquire an Extraordinary Power. Shall the recycling commence?"
Unexpectedly, the System beep rang out in Xu Que's mind.
Xu Que stared blankly for a moment.
An Extraordinary Power?
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Chapter 1493: Open the Coffin and Look Inside
"What the heck? I'm a famous cultivator. What do I need an Extraordinary Power for?"
Xu Que's initial reaction was to be stumped. He felt like asking the System whether they were extremely stupid.
But then the next moment he suddenly realized what he was being offered.
"An Extraordinary Power? X-ray vision? Mind reading? F*ck yes, I want this extraordinary power."
Xu Que shouted excitedly to the system, "Yes, quickly recycle it and give me the Extraordinary Power. I want X-ray vision."
A cultivator could use his soul strength to understand everything clearly and to see an enemy's Celestial Core Power flowing within his internal meridians and vessels.
However, even though this ability was more powerful than an X-ray, it couldn't stir one's blood like X-ray vision could.
With X-ray vision, one could see under others' clothes at any time. Soul strength would just see through the outside of the body to the bones and meridians right away. The two functions were not the same thing.
DING! "A mutant shroud has been successfully recycled, and 1,000 points of Weapon-Refining Essence have been obtained, as well as an Extraordinary Power."
The System beep sounded, and at the same time an introduction of the Extraordinary Power popped up on its interface.
: The ability obtained from the recycled mutant shroud is the ability to communicate with any article of clothing that the host puts on to acquire the secrets of the owner of said clothing. (Note: the closer the clothing is worn next to the skin, the more secrets you will obtain.)
"What???"
After Xu Que had read the introduction of the Extraordinary Power, he looked dumbstruck for a moment and didn't move from where he was standing. He was completely baffled.
"Speaking Clothes Spell?
"And he had to wear the other party's clothes in order to communicate with them?
"Come on, this is a crazy Extraordinary Power. Wearing other people's clothes to talk with them, and it's better to choose the clothes that are closest to the skin? Ah, have I got no shame?"
"System, are you playing with me? What kind of d*mn use does this lousy Extraordinary Power have? If I want to know the secrets of others, I can just conduct interrogation by torture. If that is of no use, I can force the soul to reveal its secrets. That would definitely be stronger than this Extraordinary Power no matter what." Xu Que immediately called out the System. He was extremely annoyed and wanted to settle a score with the System.
His recycled shroud had been used up in exchange for such an insignificant lousy ability, and this felt like a loss.
DING! "Any object, once recycled, cannot be returned." The System responded with complete indifference.
Xu Que sneered and shook his head.
"Forget it, the System's behavior was only something that was going to bother him for a day or two.
"Furthermore, the broken shroud wouldn't have been of any use to him. This whole incident really wouldn't have any impact on his life at all.
"But since the matter of secrets had been brought up…"
Xu Que glanced toward Buttface. He had known Buttface for so many years. And this fool had always kept his origins secret in a very mysterious way. Even thought he had said countless times that he was the descendant of the Ancient Magic Dragon, it had never been confirmed.
The point was that if Xu Que could get his hands of some of Buttface's close-to-the-body clothes, he might be able to acquire some real secrets about Buttface's previous lives and origins.
But the most important question now was where would he be able to find some of Buttface's close-to-the-body clothes?
Xu Que looked at Buttface's bare buttocks and couldn't help but fall into a deep contemplation.
"F*ck, boy, what are you doing? Why are you looking at Your Holiness's lower body?" Buttface became suddenly alert.
"Nothing, it's nothing. Next time you shed some fur, remember to collect it. I can make you a defensive Celestial Artifact," Xu Que replied in a lighthearted manner.
Although Buttface didn't wear any clothing, he had dog fur on his body that could be used to make clothes. Xu Que decided that he would look for a chance to shave some fur off Buttface's body and make a piece of clothing to wear. Perhaps he would really be able to acquire a lot of Buttface's hidden secrets.
"Is that true or false? Your Holiness's fur can be made into a Celestial Artifact? As expected, Your Holiness's body is full of treasures. But now what Your Holiness really wants to know is what is this run-down place?"
After Buttface had showed off a little, he began to complain about their surroundings again.
The entire cave was not very spacious. There was the small entrance area where they were located, and the rest was just the deeper part of the cave that had an altar filled with coffins.
The reason they were here was inside those coffins: the Supreme Existence of the Celestial Kings and Celestial Primes, which made Buttface and Duan Jiude afraid to make any reckless moves at the moment.
"Even thieves have a code. We will not touch those coffins." Duan Jiude immediately spoke up when he realized that Xu Que's eyes had been fixed on the coffins the entire time that they'd been in here.
It was not that they had a code. In truth, he was scared and was pretty sure that they couldn't afford to provoke those Celestial Kings and Celestial Primes.
"I didn't say I was going to touch them. What are you getting nervous about? First, you set up a few Trap & Kill Arrays here. Then I'll go inside myself and take a look. I'll be back right away."
Xu waved his hands and rushed straight toward the altar.
In any case, he had to wake up a Celestial King and then leave again. Otherwise, those attractive rewards that the System was going to give him would disappear.
SWISH!
With the accompaniment of a loud sound, Xu Que landed lightly on the altar and found himself standing in the middle of the coffins.
His arrival didn't cause any movements. All the coffins remained just as quiet as they'd been before. The surroundings were also very quiet. Only Buttface and Duan Jiude stood outside, watching him.
"Heh, heh, heh, wake one up, get a reward, and run."
Xu Que's mouth opened slightly and his eyes locked on the coffin resting next to him.
From what he could sense of the soul, it wasn't difficult to figure out that the person in this coffin was a Celestial King. He had fallen into a deep sleep in a kind of suspended animation state. His breathing was very shallow, but his cultivation stage hadn't weakened at all.
BANG!
Xu Que didn't hesitate. He immediately got out his Magic Art and cut through the seal outside of the coffin. Instantly, the entire outside covering that was made entirely of jade cracked open.
Inside the casket, a bronze casket was revealed.
All these noises and movements still didn't seem to have caused any awakening of the powerful being. Even Xu Que's strike, which had been powerful and loud, hadn't disturbed the tranquility.
"F*ck, I have a bad feeling about this. Don't tell me that the hardest part of this whole challenge is to wake up the person inside?" Xu Que frowned and hurriedly summoned the System to inquire about the details.
The System responded as if it knew beforehand what the question was going to be.
DING! "The host can rest assured that the difficulty of waking up the other party is not high. The moment the coffin is opened, the other side will be awakened!"
"Very well, even though I'm not sure what kind of trouble you devious System is trying to create, I'm still determined to get this round of rewards." Xu Que smiled boldly, and gathered his Celestial Core Power into his palm to slam toward that bronze coffin.
BANG!
With a muted sound, the bronze coffin suddenly shook violently, following which the whole coffin's cover flew open.
Sure enough, the System hadn't lied this time. It really hadn't been difficult to wake the Celestial King.
With an easy punch from Xu Que, the bronze coffin had opened right up.
At this moment, he caught a glimpse of the person lying inside the bronze coffin. Clad in a white, immaculate long dress, the person wore a feathered crown that seemed to have been formed from the cold, sparkling and bright.
It was actually a woman.
More important, this woman's facial features and profile were vaguely familiar. It seemed as if he knew her.
"F*ck, Xuanyuan Wanrong? No, it can't be her…" Xu Que was startled, but he soon gathered his senses.
Although the woman lying in the bronze coffin looked a little like Xuanyuan Wanrong, the entire feel of her, including her face, was off. She was somewhat different from Xuanyuan Wanrong.
However, if he wasn't guessing wrong, this woman must have been a blood descendant of Xuanyuan Wanrong.
"Yes or no? Xuanyuan Wanrong seemed to have said that she'd always been alone. Then who could the woman in the coffin be?"
Xu Que's face turned serious as he started to ponder the situation.
Chapter 1494: Are You Trying to Kill Me with Laughter?
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
"Boy, how's it going? Who���s lying in there? Is he alive or dead?" Buttface asked curiously as he stood at the mouth of the cave on tiptoes, trying to peer inside.
But he didn't forget to stand quite far back. It was obvious that once he felt a hint of danger, he would immediately turn around and run away.
Duan Jiude was hiding behind Buttface, also looking very serious. He was likewise ready to escape at any time.
This kind of situation had become a common occurrence for Xu Que. He was too lazy to even say anything. Anyway, the two of them had set up the Trap & Kill Array at the entrance, which was the important thing. If there was really some danger going to take place here soon, then the Trap & Kill Array would be enough to create time for him to run away. So, at this point, he was not overly worried.
Of course, he really didn't want to wake up all these the powerful beings that were in either the Celestial King or the Celestial Prime cultivation stage. If they all woke up at the same time, there would be big trouble.
"System, I opened this coffin. Why hasn't this person woken up?"
The woman lying in the coffin hadn't moved at all. Xu Que was dying to know how the System would explain it.
The System also seemed to be surprised about this. It stayed silent for a long time before it gave a response.
DING! "The host should use his own methods to try to rouse this person."
"I should try on my own to rouse this person? F*ck, are you saying that any method will do?" Xu Que was getting pretty angry.
"As long as you can wake up the target, you can still get a reward," the System responded.
"Oh, yeah. Why do I still feel like there's a conspiracy against me going on?"
Xu Que frowned. He wasn't in a big rush to start waking up this person.
"System, in fact, I'm still wondering. Aren't you afraid that I'll escape right away after I wake her up? In that way, I get the reward, but you don't get to achieve your goal of refining my cultivation. So, what's the point?" Xu Que voiced the doubts in his mind.
He'd been planning such a simple escape, but he didn't believe that the System wouldn't anticipate it.
DING! "After many calculations, I believe that as soon as the host wakes up the powerful being, the altar will start to move and seal the space. The host will have nowhere to escape to and be forced to stay and experience a life-or-death battle. After the battle ends, the host will be able to completely merge all his new Celestial Arts, and your strength will be completely consolidated." The System responded calmly.
"Well, this is just as I expected." Xu Que smiled calmly. In fact, he had long guessed that this was going to happen.
He hadn't guessed specifically what was going to occur, but he'd always been sure that the devious System would never do anything with such an obvious bug.
But now the System had patched the bug. Once the powerful being woke up, the restrictive barrier of the altar would start and seal the space. At that time, he wouldn't be able to escape.
Therefore, Xu Que was faced with a really big dilemma.
If he were to wake up the powerful being in the coffin, he would have to go through a life-or-death battle. Xu Que was fairly confident that he wouldn't die.
On the other hand, if he didn't wake up the powerful being, then there wouldn't be any danger. But then this whole trip would've been in vain.
"Alas, it's really hard to choose. I don't want to take this risk without some good reason. It's really too humiliating to be led around by the nose by this System." Xu Que shook his head. He felt somewhat worried.
What he'd wanted was to wake up this person in order to obtain the rewards and then escape right away. He felt it was really too troublesome to fight.
But now it seemed as if there was no way to get what he wanted without fighting.
DING! "Reminding the host again that once you wake up the other party, the altar will seal off the space immediately." At this point, the System beep sounded again.
Xu Que was feeling slightly annoyed by the System so he answered, "So?"
The System beeped again.
DING! "So…don't try anything stupid."
"Holy sh*t!"
Xu Que got furious.
"What does it mean by don't try anything stupid?
"It makes me so mad!
"How has the system gotten so arrogant?"
"Okay, I'm not going to try anything stupid today. So what if she is a powerful Celestial Prime. Once I throw out my hidden trump card, they'll have to die." Xu Que laughed coldly. He gestured with a big wave of his hand and instantly marshaled his Celestial Core Power to hit the woman in the coffin.
BOOM!
However, just as the Celestial Core Power got near the woman, it was suddenly deflected by an invisible light shade. The Celestial Core Power hit the bronze coffin, which immediately started to make a loud vibrating sound.
"What's happening?" Xu Que was startled.
However, the next moment, the woman in the bronze coffin suddenly opened her eyes. The first thing she did was to stare straight at Xu Que.
She was awake!
BOOM!
At this time, the spacious altar underneath Xu Que's feet started to shake and radiate a dazzling glowing light.
All the restrictive runes had been activated to form light beams, which rapidly interwove in the air, turning into a halo that completely enclosed the entire cave.
The whole process took less time than the blink of an eye. The cave that Xu Que was in had become a sealed space, and he was trapped.
"F*ck, she woke up just like that?"
Xu Que was taken aback. He had initially thought that he had to impart the Celestial Core Power to rouse the other party. He did not expect his Celestial Core Power to be deflected and to shake the bronze coffin, which in turn woke the sleeping Celestial Prime up.
Xu Que had been completely unprepared for all this to happen so fast. Before he'd even had time to take stock of his situation the entire altar had already finished activating, and then it directly sealed the space.
DING! "Congratulations to the host for completing the wake-up mission and getting the Strike to Kill Nature Mode."
DING! "Congratulations to the host for completing the wake-up mission and getting one free Debt Collector Beats Debtors service."
The System beeped twice, one time right after another.
Only this time it sounded to Xu Que as if the System beep's tone had a kind of smugness. It was obviously rejoicing in his misfortune.
"F*ck, boy, what's going on?"
"Why have we been locked up? The exit is gone!"
The shouts of Buttface and Duan Jiude could be heard from outside the altar. Apparently, they had also discovered that the space where they were had been sealed.
"Don't be babies! Get ready for a life-or-death battle!"
Xu Que answered them without turning his head. He didn't want to take his eyes off the woman in the bronze coffin.
They had locked eyes, and neither one of them had moved an inch.
But gradually, Xu Que realized that something was wrong with the Celestial Prime. "Why didn't the woman blink her eyes?"
Not only did she not blink her eyes, but she had been staring at him all this time and her expression hadn't changed at all. "Could this rigidity have been caused by bad plastic surgery?"
"Young lady, I'm Xu Que from the Exploding Heavens Faction and still single. How about you?"
The wheels had turned in Xu Que's mind, and he'd decided to change his strategy. He'd started to ask the woman about herself with a smile.
However, the woman's expression still didn't change in the slightest bit. She just continued to stare at Xu Que.
Xu Que couldn't help but frown. He was somewhat puzzled. "What was going on here?"
"System, what kind of situation is this? Didn't you say I should anticipate a life-or-death battle?"
Xu Que had to summon the System to ask it a question, because the situation had gotten so odd.
"….."
The System stayed silent this time. Then, after a long while, it indifferently responded.
DING! "The goal was only to awaken the other party, but she hasn't yet been restored to her operating power!"
PFFT!
Xu Que was stumped for less than a second when he heard those words, and then he burst out laughing on the spot.
"Ha, ha, ha! She's just been awakened, but her operating power hasn't been restored? System, are you trying to kill me with laughter? Is this what you call a life-or-death battle experience?"
Xu Que spoke smugly and patted his clothes with a face full of pride. He said with a roguish smile, "Well, System, since I've already gotten the reward, I'm going to leave. So long!"
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Chapter 1495: Have You Become a Pervert Now?
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
"….."
The System stayed completely silent.
It seemed as if it hadn't expected this kind of situation. In its meticulous calculations, Xu Que would wake up the powerful being in the bronze coffin, the altar would be activated, the void would be sealed, and Xu Que would be forced to stay and fight the powerful being.
However, it hadn't anticipated that, once the powerful being in the bronze coffin had been awakened, it wouldn't be able to move because its power hadn't built up enough to break the restrictive spell.
The reason that this had happened was that Xu Que had only used a little bit of his Celestial Core Power, and he didn't even really break the restrictive spell. He'd basically only jolted the other party awake when his Core Power had hit the coffin, shaking it and waking the Celestial Prime. If he had used his Act-Tough King's Leg, then the woman in the coffin would've definitely been restored to her full power.
"Oh, hee, hee, hee, there was a flaw in your plan. You actually overlooked something." Xu Que felt mollified. He'd actually managed to fool the System this once. Such an opportunity was hard to come by.
"Boy, how about it? Do we still have to fight?" Buttface asked anxiously. He was feeling very nervous.
Xu Que had previously instructed them to prepare for a life-or-death battle, making Buttface and Duan Jiude extremely anxious.
However, after Xu Que had opened the bronze coffin, everything had seemed to have been very calm, and there didn't appear to be any danger.
"Heh, heh, heh, this group of powerful beings are afraid to come out. They're in awe of me. All right, we don't have to fight. Let's find a way to break the seal and get out of here." Xu Que waved his hand, looking very proud of himself.
Buttface and Duan Jiude instantly let out long sighs when they'd heard what he said. There was no need to fight. That was truly fantastic.
But the seal…
"Boy, no way, the seal is not something we can crack open." Buttface had been thinking for a long time about how to crack the seal and escape, but he had been stumped by this. Everything that he'd tried basically hadn't worked.
"Why not?" Xu Que asked.
"D*mn, the spell core of the seal is that piece of altar. It requires the people in at least three coffins to get up for the seal to be able to be opened." Buttface had been deciphering the runes along the seal, and he'd discovered the only way to crack it.
Xu Que was struck dumb by this. They were in a real predicament now.
"The spell required the powerful beings from three coffins to be woken up in order to crack the seal?"
Someone is just messing with me. If three of them woke up, they would certainly take the opportunity to wake up the others, including all those Celestial Primes. I definitely wouldn't have time to slip away.
"Move aside, I'm going to try it to crack it with my Act-Tough King's Leg." Xu Que immediately decided to force open the seal.
Buttface's face changed dramatically, and he shouted, "No, you absolutely cannot use strong force to attack it. Otherwise everyone will wake up, and the seal will become more secure. This seal has a very high-level restrictive spell."
"F*ck!"
Xu Que was flabbergasted. He couldn't wake up all these other powerful beings in their coffins, and he also couldn't attack the seal. "How were they going to get out of here?"
"Buttface, is there any other way?" Xu Que asked.
Buttface shook his head and replied, "There is more than one way to break the restrictions on the seal, however, the restrictive spell on this seal is too high- level for us. Your Holiness is powerless."
"System, come out, solve the restrictive spell on this seal." Xu Que didn't hesitate for a moment, and he turned his attention to summoning the System.
The System seemed to have been prepared for Xu Que's request and immediately responded.
DING! "After researching this situation, the System has found that this level of seal exceeds the System's current level of ability to break it. Can the host please try with his own efforts?"
"….."
Xu Que was in a conundrum He'd originally thought that he had successfully fooled the System, but now he realized that he was up sh*t's creek.
Unless he'd decided to remain in this stupid tomb forever, he would have to wake up a few powerful beings if he wanted to get out.
"No, something's not right about this situation. We may not know other ways to crack this seal, but that doesn't mean that this woman doesn't know. Look at the location of her coffin. Her status must not be low. Heh, heh, heh,…" Xu Que seemed to remember something. His eyes lit up and he began to grin.
"Brother Que, have you figured out a way out of here?" Buttface and Duan Jiude looked at Xu Que in surprise.
"There's definitely a way. As to whether it's effective or not, I have to try to find out." Xu Que nodded and beamed. He turned around again to look at the woman in the bronze coffin.
At this time, the woman's eyes were able to move, and she was looking all around. She'd fixed her gaze on Xu Que, and she looked as if she was full of anger and murderous intent.
Xu Que didn't understand this kind of murderous fury.
"Obviously, we've only just met for the first time, and I even helped to wake her up. Furthermore, I, the Act-Tough Saint, have such a handsome face. Anyone who sees me knows that I'm not a bad person. Does she have to look at me with such deep hatred?"
"Young lady, don't you look at me in this way. I meant no harm. It's just that the weather has turned cool recently, and the cave is rather cold. I would like to borrow some clothes from you. Do you mind?" Xu Que was acting gentle and refined. He smiled and looked at the woman politely as he asked.
Only her eyeballs could move, but her pupils began rapidly contracting. Her extreme anger became more obvious, and she also gave off a vague sense of shock, as if she'd realized what Xu Que wanted.
"Well, Brother Que, you're not thinking of taking off her clothes, are you? Don't even think of it. We plunderers still have a code, and we can't commit these kinds of atrocities." Buttface rushed forward and started to try to persuade Xu Que patiently.
"Yeah, there's no need to do this, boy. You have to be kind." Duan Jiude also nodded his head in agreement repeatedly.
"Don't f*cking be ridiculous. Am I, Xu Que, that kind of man?"
Xu Que was annoyed. "Would he have needed to take off the woman's clothes if he didn't want to get out?"
But after all, it was still impolite and rather insulting, so…
"Young lady, I, Xu Que, am not the kind of person you'd imagined. I'm facing some difficulties. So, if you are not willing to give me your clothes, you can shake your head. Oh, you can't shake your head, then you can blink your eyes. If you don't want me to take off your clothes, just blink your eyes. Then I promise not to touch you," Xu Que said as if he was making her an honorable proposition.
Buttface and Duan Jiude also immediately looked at the woman in the bronze coffin.
The woman had opened her eyes wide. She looked furious and murderous, but she stared blankly and couldn't blink.
"Oh, my God! She didn't blink her eyes." Buttface exclaimed in surprise.
"F*ck, young lady, what's wrong with you? How can you say yes to this kind of thing? Don't be deceived by this kid's face. You can't encourage him. Quickly blink your eyes." Duan Jiude also tried to persuade her.
However, the woman didn't move an inch. She just continued to open her eyes wide.
In fact, if she could have blinked her eyes, she would have blinked 100 times already. But the problem was that only her Mind Sense had woken up. Her physical body was still shackled by the restrictive spell, and she basically couldn't move at all.
But the only good news was that she had already begun to feel the power of the restrictive spell slowly weakening. Soon she would be able to regain her mobility.
"Well then, stop trying to persuade her. Don't you understand this young lady's wishes? She just wants to give me her clothes. Do you know what that's called? It's called charm." Xu Que smiled with pride, while reaching his hands out toward the woman's waist.
He gently tugged at the white silk belt around her waist and pulled it outward. The outer layer of clothes of the woman in the coffin was suddenly untied.
Immediately after, watched by the woman's angry eyes as well as the shocked looks of Buttface and Duan Jiude, Xu Que's hands could be seen giving a wave and, then in a dazzling display, removing the woman's outer layer of clothes, which then appeared in his hands.
This technique was so seasoned and swift that it prevented people from seeing clearly what he had done.
"F*ck, Brother Que is awesome and good at taking off people's clothes." Buttface immediately exclaimed.
Duan Jiude asked in exasperation, "Boy, what the h*ll are you playing at?"
"I'm really not messing around this time. I am just trying to find a way to get out," Xu Que shrugged his shoulders and said with a resigned air.
The cave was sealed off, and they had no way out, so the only possibility was to find a way out from these bodies of the powerful beings.
But he couldn't release these people, so Xu Que recalled his insignificant Extraordinary Power that he had gotten after the black shroud had been recycled: the Speaking Clothes Spell.
Xu Que himself hadn't expected that the Extraordinary Power he had initially thought of as pretty useless would come in handy so soon.
But for the sake of world peace, Xu Que didn't plan to go overboard. He just took off the woman's outer layer of clothes and didn't expose her bare skin.
"Boy,what does taking off someone's clothes have to do with finding a way out?" Duan Jiude looked at Xu Que and asked curiously. He was confused.
"It has a lot to do with it," Xu Que replied as, at the same time, he put her white clothes on his body.
According to the description of the Speaking Clothes Spell, the more close-fitting the clothes were, the more secrets he would find out, and he had to wear the clothes in order to discover their messages.
As a result, he had to put on the woman's outer layer of clothes.
"Oh my God, little brother, what's wrong with you? You're wearing women's clothes. Have you become a pervert now?"
The moment he put on the clothes, a powerful woman's voice instantly rang out in Xu Que's mind.
Chapter 1496: Why Are You Talking about a Child?
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
"D*mn, who is that talking?" Xu Que shouted.
At first, he looked at the lady in the bronze coffin. After quickly confirming that she wasn't the one who had been doing the talking, he started scanning the surroundings.
"Sh*t, buddy, are you starting to hear voices?"
"Could it be that one of those shrouds is somewhere around here?"
Buttface and Duan Jiude were startled and started asking Xu Que questions.
Neither of them had heard anything just now like Xu Que had.
"Hey, buddy, can you hear me? My name is Moon-Glazed Outfit." The voice rang out again.
Xu Que returned to his senses. Then he looked down at himself. It was his clothes that had been speaking.
He had activated the seemingly useless Speaking-Clothes Spell. Apparently, it was quite powerful because he had started to hear the voice immediately after he had put the clothes on.
However, all Xu Que knew for sure was that the Speaking-Clothes Spell was only effective on other people's clothes. It didn't seem to have had any effect on his own clothes. Otherwise, he would have heard voices before now.
"Moon-Glazed Outfit, that's quite a decent name. What's the name of your owner?" Xu Que asked, grinning widely.
Buttface and Duan Jiude's eyes had both gotten enormously wide. They sounded completely shocked as they said, "Buddy, have you gone mad? Who are you talking to now? Moon-Glazed Outfit? Are you talking to a piece of clothing?"
"Ha, ha, ha." Moon-Glazed Outfit burst out laughing. "You can really actually hear me. They're saying that you've gone mad. That's hilarious."
"….." Xu Que was confused. "What was the point of talking to a piece of clothing? Its sense of humor stunk… No, it didn't have a good sense of humor at all."
"Hey, why aren't you talking to me anymore. Don't be like that. Please talk to me. You're the first person who's ever been able to talk to me. Please don't stop talking to me." Seeing that Xu Que stayed silent, the Moon-Glazed Outfit grew anxious and started begging Xu Que.
Xu Que shook his head and threw up his hands. "Then please answer my questions. What's the name of your owner? Is she someone from the Heaven Palace Sect? Is she single?"
"Okay, okay! My owner's name is Xuanyuan Hong. Yes, she's from the Heaven Palace Sect, but no, she's no longer single. She's with a man named Wu Zhenlin. They're both here," the Moon-Glazed Outfit said in an excited voice. The outfit reacted just as if it had been a top student in a class who had managed to answer a question correctly.
"D*mn, so she is really related to Xuanyuan Wanrong." Xu Que stared into space. "No wonder he had thought that the woman looked similar to Xuanyuan Wanrong."
"Xuanyuan Wanrong? Oh, I know about her too. My owner and she have a bad relationship. She once tried to kill her," the Moon-Glazed Outfit said.
Xu Que was stunned when he heard this piece of news. "A bad relationship? For what reason?"
"That, I'm not too sure about." The Moon-Glazed Outfit started to look a little bit distressed.
"What? Then you must be a loser. You don't even know that?" Xu Que said disdainfully
"I…I just don't know. You can ask me something else. I'll be able to answer." The Moon-Glazed Outfit started to look as though she was feeling insulted by being called a loser for being unable to answer a question.
"All right, then I'll give you one more chance." The corner of Xu Que's lips turned up into a smile, and he asked, "Do you know how to break the spell to get out of here?"
"Eh?" The Moon-Glazed Outfit looked surprised, but then she said, "I don't know! But Xiao Huang must know."
"Who is Xiao Huang?" Xu Que was stunned. "Who the h*ll was Xiao Huang?"
"Xiao Huang is the young girl who lives inside Xuanyuan Hong. I'm sure she will know," the Moon-Glazed Outfit answered Xu Que's question.
"The young girl who lives inside Xuanyuan Hong?"
Xu Que was completely thrown off balance. He observed the woman in the bronze coffin again, and he seemed troubled.
"What does she mean? What does inside her mean?"
"Oh, forget it. In any case, there are lots of items close to her. I can use my skill again." Xu Que was too lazy to ask any other questions of the Moon-Glazed Outfit. He waved his hands and everything went blurry. He managed to summon a pale yellow belt from the woman in the coffin's body.
Even though he'd taken the belt, the rest of the woman's clothes remained intact, and thus she didn't lose any of her dignity in the operation.
Buttface and Duan Jiude who had been standing next to Xu Que, watching what he was doing, were shocked into silence. Once again, they had been taken aback by Xu Que's skills.
It wasn't enough that he had managed to summon an outer coat from the woman in the coffin. Now he had also managed to undo her belt, which had been hidden under other layers, and summon it to himself. He had also managed to do all of this without leaving any traces. "What kind of crazy skills does he have?"
"So is this Xiao Huang?" Xu Que looked at the pale yellow belt in his hands, grinning. It was still slightly warm.
Buttface and Duan Jiude exchanged a look. They found this entire situation unbelievable.
Not only had Xu Que talked to the woman in the coffin's clothing, he had even stolen her belt. Now he was smiling at the belt and had named it Xiao Huang.
"Teacher Duan, how would you describe this?" Buttface asked in all seriousness.
"He's either gone mad or is possessed," Duan Jiude said severely.
The man and the dog took a step back at the same time. They loved their lives, and, because of that, they needed to move a little farther away from Xu Que.
"The two of you, stop making wild guesses. Go rest somewhere. I'll explain everything to you guys later on." Xu Que put the woman's belt on.
WAA! WAA! WAA!
After he'd put the belt on, Xu Que could hear the voice of a young girl.
"Wh…what?" Xu Que asked.
"Hey, uncle, how do you do? Can you hear me?" The belt asked curiously. It sounded just like a young girl.
"Uncle can't hear you, but big brother can hear you." Xu Que smiled.
"Wow, uncle, you can really hear me." The belt seemed agitated.
"I already told you, I'm big brother." Xu Que frowned. "There must be something wrong with the belt's eyesight. Would it know how to break the ban?"
"Hello, big brother." Finally, the belt stopped insisting on addressing him as uncle.
Xu Que smiled, "Come on, Xiao Huang, tell big brother. Do you know how to break this ban and get out of here?"
"Of course I do. I've seen my owner do it a couple of times. Brother, would you like to get out of here?"
"That's good news. Yes, big brother would like to leave. Could you please teach big brother how to accomplish this." Xu Que was pleased.
"Oh…" The belt hesitated, and then asked, "Big brother, once you go out, will you take Xiao Huang along?"
"Hmm, bring you along?" Xu Que was confused. "How could he do this? He was the Act-Tough Saint. How could he go around in life carrying this belt?"
"That's right. I'm so bored. Can't big brother take Xiao Huang along when you leave?"
Xu Que made up his mind. "Okay, okay, I will definitely bring you with me."
"Wow, big brother, you're great!" Xiao Huang became joyful again.
"Of course. Come on, tell big brother how to break this ban. Then I'll take you out to have fun." Xu Que smiled. It was easy to please a child.
"All right!" Xiao Huang replied cheerfully.
Then she quickly explained to Xu Que how to break the ban. It was through an mixture of occult and hand techniques. The entire spell was like something that had been inherited from the series of sealing spells. It was extremely complex.
Xu Que was surprised. "If he'd been able to steal the clothing of these supreme existences, did this mean that he'd be able to learn all of these high-level techniques?"
BANG!
Suddenly, a loud noise erupted from inside the room where the coffins were lying and disrupted Xu Que's train of thought.
"D*mn!"
"Are they waking up?" Buttface and Duan Jiude exclaimed at the same time.
Xu Que turned to look at the bronze coffins. The banging sound he had just heard had come from a coffin not too far away. A strong Celestial King or Celestial Prime might have just awakened from one of the coffins.
"Hee, hee, hee, big brother, that's just my owner sending her cultivation companion some Celestial Core Power. Her cultivation companion will be awakening soon, and you better watch out, he might kill you." Xiao Huang's voice rang out in Xu Que's head.
"What?"
Xu Que's expression changed as he looked at the woman in the bronze coffin once again.
Indeed, the hand that was lying underneath her clothes had started to shine. The shine was projecting through the bottom of her coffin, and into the seal on the coffin, and through to another bronze coffin.
It was precisely because these seals illuminated themselves that Xu Que and the others hadn't notice the light shining.
"D*mn, what a cunning person. Buttface, Duan Jiude, time to run!" Xu Que shouted, and also sent a couple of spells, throwing them onto the coffin of the woman and her cultivation companion.
Although his spells wouldn't be able to contain these two for a long time, they would be able to buy Xu Que, Buttface, and Duan Jiude sufficient time to break the ban of the cave and escape.
BOOM!
In an instant, Xu Que put all his energy toward the exit of the cave. He waved his hands, summoning his Celestial Core Power, and throwing his spell in record speed.
Beams of light started to form everywhere, turning into a web that stretched across the exit of the cave. The seal started to shake as it contorted. Finally, it started to be torn apart.
BANG!
At just the same time, a loud noise rang out from the altar behind them.
The lid of the bronze coffin flew up and started to break apart in all directions.
"D*mn, a Celestial Prime…" Buttface exclaimed and quickly rushed toward the gap that Xu Que had created and ran out.
"Time to run, time to run!" Xu Que shouted. He didn't even have time to remove the woman's clothes. He rushed out of the cave together with Duan Jiude.
"Sc*mbag, you dare to taint my wife. Do you still have her child Xiao Huang? I will kill you!"
Just as Xu Que rushed out, an angry shout from a man rang in Xu Que's ears. He almost fell to the ground.
"D*mn it, I just stole two pieces of clothing, why are you talking about a child?"
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Chapter 1497
: Shameless Disciple
POOF!
After the seal spun around for a bit, Xu Que, Buttface, and Duan Jiude managed to successfully escape.
Behind them in the cave, they could hear an angry commotion that seemed to be getting louder and louder.
BANG!
An extremely loud sound rang out, and one of the bronze coffins shattered. A burly middle-aged man appeared. He waved his palm and summoned a strong gust of wind. It was directed toward the bronze coffin that Xu Que had opened.
This coffin, too, was shattered into pieces. A lady dressed in white appeared, and her restriction spell had been broken also. She was full of anger, and she was glaring at the middle-aged man.
"Why are you looking at me like that? Whose child is that?" The middle-aged man asked, furious.
"You know very well whose child it is? If you don't want it, I'll destroy it." The lady in white answered coldly.
The middle-aged man froze, and then it struck him. He felt a sense of closeness and he could sense the same blood as the child's coursing through him.
Finally, he heaved a sigh of relief. The child was his.
"H*ll yes, I want it, I want it, I want it. It's my child. Why wouldn't I want it." The middle-aged man smiled and tried to pacify the lady. "Hong-er, don't be angry. I was foolish and hadn't seen things clearly yet. I didn't know that you were already pregnant before you went into a deep sleep. It's been so many years, our poor child."
HMPH!
"I don't blame you. It's that b*stard. He went too far." The lady in white, Xuanyuan Hong, said coldly. Recalling what Xu Que had done to her, she gritted her teeth.
Having been in cultivation for so many years, it was not like she hadn't met any lecherous cultivators. However, ever since she had become an Immortal Cultivator, she hadn't met these kind of cultivators for a long time.
This time around, it had been a dude from the Celestial Stage of the Great All-Embracing Heaven who had been so shameless. He had stolen her clothes, including some that were very close to her.
"It was because I saw that he was wearing your…ahem…your closest clothing. That's why I got this mistaken idea about you. I am sorry." The middle-aged man nodded, looking stern.
"He must be one of those disgusting people with a strange fetish. A shameless fool!" Xuanyuan Hong was furious. Although she hadn't been violated, and it was only her clothing that had been stolen, it was still an enormous insult.
"What lady in the world would be able to endure having her closest piece of clothing stolen by a man?"
"That b*stard. He must have a thing for the clothing of ladies. What a man with such a strange fetish. This is the first time I've ever met someone like that. Hong-er, rest assured, I will wake up the others. Then we will hunt him down," the middle-aged man said solemnly.
Xuanyuan Hong stared at the exit of the cave and replied coolly, "He has woken us up a century early. That's already an unimaginable crime. When we get out of here, the first thing we have to do is to hunt him down. As for what happened to me just now, there's no need to tell the others."
"Hong-er, rest assured. I'm not that dumb. I wouldn't tell the others about what just happened." The middle-aged man smiled very caringly.
With that, he waved his palm, and the Qi in the entire cave was summoned and entered the other bronze coffins.
Although Xu Que had only woken the two of them up earlier than they should have been, now that they had been woken, they couldn't allow the rest to continue hibernating."
..…
At the same time, things were going on outside the cave, in the treasure vault of the Heaven Palace Academy.
Zixia Fairy and the others were still trying to break through the entrance. However, now Xu Que, Buttface, and Duan Jiude had returned. The three of them looked anxious, but didn't look hurt.
"Oh, guys, let's run, Brother Xu has created huge trouble." Buttface had just landed but he shouted immediately toward Jiang Hongyan and the others.
"What happened?" Zixia Fairy, Jiang Hongyan, and all the rest of them wanted to know.
Then they looked toward Xu Que. He was wearing a lady's white clothing and carrying a pale yellow belt. No one could understand why he was dressed so strangely.
"Dude, what did you do inside there?" Liu Jingning smiled meaningfully, her left eye winking at Xu Que.
"Don't make any mistakes. I'm only dressed like this so we could get out of there," Xu Que said seriously.
At that moment, he was definitely not in the mood to joke around. There were so many Celestial Kings and strong Celestial Primes in there.
If they hadn't been awakened, he would be able to calm down now.
However, when he'd come out, it was clear that one of the Celestial Primes had woken up. Hence, there wouldn't be much time left before the rest of them had woken up too.
If the whole lot of them came after him, he would really be in deep trouble.
���So that you could escape? You needed to wear those? These clothes are from which sl*t?" Liu Jingning laughed.
Jiang Hongyan and Zixia Fairy also stared at Xu Que without speaking.
Xu Que rolled his eyes and explained impatiently, "You guys won't believe this, but I can speak to clothes. However, I need to wear them to speak to them. From this belt, I learned how to break the restriction spell. If you guys don't believe me, ask Buttface and Duan Jiude."
"I swear on my name that Brother Xu is speaking the truth."
"That's right. I didn't believe him initially either, but later I saw it with my own eyes."
Buttface and Duan Jiude nodded.
However, the words of the duo had long been disregarded by the masses. Nobody believed them anymore.
Xu Que noticed that Jiang Hongyan and the rest wore strange expressions. He added, "If you don't believe me, pass me your closest clothing. I will prove it to you guys."
PFFT!
Liu Jingning signaled her disapproval.
"Shameless," Zixia Fairy said.
Jiang Hongyan smiled, then shook her head, indicating no.
"D*mn, I'm telling the truth." Xu Que was very frustrated. "This d*mned skill…"
BOOM!
Right at that moment, a commotion resounded from behind the stone wall of the treasure vault. It sounded as if someone was casting spells.
Xu Que, Buttface, and Duan Jiude's expressions changed.
"Things aren't good. Hurry, we must retreat!" Xu Que shouted as his waved his hands and started to draw a Celestial-Grade Escape Emblem.
FLASH!
Before the others had any time to react, a light shone from Xu Que's hands. It sucked all of them in, entering the void.
By the time the bunch of them had regained their composure they found themselves in a corner of the Ziwei Celestial Realm. It was an ancient city that was quite a distance away from the Heaven Palace Academy.
Nobody realized that Xu Que and his group had appeared outside the city's entrance.
"What did you guys bump into inside there?" Zixia Fairy asked severely after taking in what Xu Que had done.
"Things are urgent. Talk later!" Xu Que couldn't let his guard down. Based on his skills now, he would be asking for death if he had to face so many of those Celestial Kings and Celestial Primes. There was absolutely no need for that.
He had summoned the Information Interface of the System and immediately retrieved a couple of fake puppets. He distributed them to Jiang Hongyan and everyone else. They all changed their looks completely.
Even Buttface had his looks changed. He'd been turned into a small pig and was being held by Duan Jiude.
It was only after they had entered the ancient city and found a place to rest that Xu Que started to relax.
"Dude, is there going to be a problem with this?" Duan Jiude asked. He was feeling kind of nervous.
"It's fine now. The Celestial Prime didn't manage to make a mark on me. Now that I've changed my looks, he shouldn't be able to trace us." Xu Que waved his hands and sat down.
"Celestial Prime?" Zixia Fairy and the rest heard that and couldn't help but be startled.
"There was a Celestial Prime inside the Heaven Palace Academy?"
Xu Que nodded and summed up what had happened inside the vault. As for how he had stolen the clothing of Xuanyuan Hong, he did not say much.
After Zixia Fairy and the rest heard the story, they sank into silence.
They had just resolved the Heaven Palace Academy issue. They hadn't expected that the long-vanished Heaven Palace Sect would reappear.
"What this means then is that, back then, the strong rivals from the Heaven Palace Sect didn't vanish, but they were asleep in that room?" Mo Junchen said thoughtfully.
"Things are not so simple!" Xu Que shook his head. He could still remember clearly what the belt had said. Xuanyuan Hong had once given chase to Xuanyuan Wanrong. Xuanyuan Wanrong had sunk into a deep sleep in the Celestial Burial Valley of the Four Continents. There must be some further story behind this.
As for what had exactly happened, the belt had no idea.
"Oh, right." Xu Que recalled something and looked at Jiang Hongyan. "Hongyan, how's Fei Fei doing these days?"
Back in the day, they had brought Xu Fei Fei to the Four Continents from Earth. Before they had had the chance to rescue her, she had fallen into the Celestial Burial Valley. Fortunately, Jiang Hongyan had been keeping her under protection, allowing her to recuperate and train.
It had been so many years that had passed now. Xu Que was very curious to know how far Xu Fei Fei had gone in her training.
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Chapter 1498: Enlightenment
"It's not been so long since she entered the Original Infant Stage," Jiang Hongyan said softly, a little embarrassed."It's not been so long since she entered the Original Infant Stage," Jiang Hongyan said softly, a little embarrassed.
"That's good. To be able to enter the Original Infant Stage after a couple of years is already pretty decent," Xu Que grinned as he tried to console Jiang Hongyan.
After all, Xu Fei Fei had started her cultivation much later than others. Besides, she had lived on Earth. In terms of both her physique and her potential, she wouldn't be able to match up to any of the cultivators.
Despite all that, Xu Fei Fei did possess several mystical items, such as the Good Fortune Jade Disk. She'd also had the guidance and protection of Jiang Hongyan. These conditions were much better than those of other cultivators. Besides, to be cultivating under the Good Fortune Jade Disk, she would progress much faster than others.
To be able to enter the Early Infant Stage in just a couple of years was already considered very fast to most cultivators.
However, for Xu Fei Fei, who had had so many advantages, it was considered rather slow.
Jiang Hongyan had also trained under the Good Fortune Jade Disk. After the Crossing Calamity Stage, she had entered the Half-Celestial Stage. After that, and in no time, she had entered the Golden Celestial Stage.
To most common cultivators, disregarding the elites, to be able to cross over these stages would require at least a few thousand years.
What that meant was that by practicing under the Good Fortune Jade Disk, Jiang Hongyan was able to shave off a few thousand years.
However, Xu Fei Fei had only just entered the Early Infant Stage.
This was why Jiang Hongyan had looked stressed. Clearly, she had been disappointed in Xu Fei Fei's progress in cultivation. It was turning out to be much slower than she had hoped for and expected.
Xu Que understood deep down that there was only one reason for that: Xu Fei Fei was born with an inferior potential.
"The Good Fortune Jade Disk is able to improve the Spiritual Root. Besides, it is also able to refine the muscles. Over the past years, Fei Fei's physique has achieved perfection. However, for some reason, she is unable to catch up on the cultivation speed." Jiang Hongyan shook her head lightly, brows knitted.
Obviously, she had been mulling over this issue.
"It's okay. Once we have resolved the problems of the Heaven Continent, I will check in with Fei Fei. I don't think it'll be a huge problem." Xu Que was calm. As long as there was time for him to test out the System, the problem of Xu Fei Fei's cultivation could be easily resolved in a matter of minutes.
However, it was not the time now to do that. Right now, the priority was the strong opponents from the cave. There were more than ten Celestial Kings and Celestial Primes. All of them came from the Heaven Palace Academy back in the old days. After they were awakened, it wouldn't be tough for them to escape the seal. In no time, the top elites in the Heaven Continent would be changed.
This meant that huge mess would fall upon the Heaven Continent. Under such circumstances, it wouldn't be the most brilliant plan for Xu Fei Fei to appear.
Xu Que decided to continue to wait for a while.
Meanwhile…
A few days passed.
Xu Que and the others remained in the Resting Inn in the ancient city. However, in the outside world, it seemed that there was no news of those strong opponents.
Instead, there was news about how Xu Que had single-handedly killed so many Celestial Kings that spread throughout the Heaven Continent.
He first used the Tribulations to kill ten Celestial Kings outside Tian Sha City. While doing that, he had managed to scare off two Celestial Primes who had come from outside the area. Then Xu Que had gone to the Heaven Palace Academy. With his own skills, he'd managed to kill three Celestial Kings and destroy the Heaven Palace Academy.
That had shocked countless cultivators in the Heaven Continent. They were in disbelief.
"My goodness! I initially thought that Xu Que's father was very skillful. I didn't expect that Xu Que would be even more ruthless."
"That's too scary. If it hadn't been for the fact that so many people saw it with their own eyes, I wouldn't have dared to believe one bit of this story."
"I heard that Xu Que is only at the level of Disbanded Celestial of the Great All-Embracing Heaven. However, he's managed to kill the founder of the Heaven Palace Academy, Li Xuanqi."
"No, I heard that he is a True Celestial of the Great All-Embracing Heaven. He was up against two, and he killed two Ancestral Celestial Kings from the Sage Sect."
"That's not true. He is really a Golden Celestial of the Great All-Embracing Heaven. Someone said that after he killed the two Ancestral Celestial Kings from the Sage Sect, his body emitted some sort of strength. He's obviously a Golden Celestial of the Great All-Embracing Heaven."
"Regardless, that man is truly scary!"
In every corner of the Heaven Continent, people were discussing Xu Que's skills.
While everyone was shocked by his skills, nobody dared to question them.
The Heaven Palace Academy had really been left in shambles. All of the deans and the Elders had been killed off. The disciples had all fled, returning to their respective clans and sects. Also, in less than one day, these clans and sects had announced that they wanted to get along with the Exploding Heavens Faction. Some of them had even willingly requested to join the Exploding Heavens Faction, to be affiliated with the Exploding Heavens Faction.
Regardless of how the outside world had been shaken, Xu Que persisted in not revealing himself.
He was very curious why the powerful beings from the Heaven Palace Academy had yet to appear. That was strange.
More than ten days had passed!
Xu Que finally could wait no longer.
Now, close to one month had passed, and there was still no news of those higher beings from the Heavens Palace Academy. However, Xu Que was certain that they must have left that place. It was just that they didn't want to show themselves.
"This can't do. We need to get someone to check it out. We can't hide forever." Xu Que summoned everyone over and made a suggestion.
"That's right, I agree! However, I haven't been feeling my best lately. I'm afraid I can't go." Buttface first agreed with Xu Que and then acted like he was ill. He was trying to show that he was unable to take on the task of checking out what was going on outside.
"Me, the old man, will have to prepare for Crossing a Tribulation. I really don't have the bandwidth to check out the beings from the Heaven Palace Academy, although I would like to." Duan Jiude sighed and spoke regretfully.
Indeed, he had been making progress in his practicing. The Heavenly Tribulations would come soon, hence, he wouldn't be able to help.
However, it was clear to everyone that even if Duan Jiude didn't have to face the Heavenly Tribulations, it was impossible that he would take on the task. The regret on his face right now was fake, and he was really good at acting.
Xu Que threw a look of scorn at Buttface and Duan Jiude before he smiled and said, "Shut up, the two of you. I didn't say that I'm asking one of our own to go. We can just ask someone else to help."
"Someone else? Who?" Buttface and Duan Jiude heaved a sigh of relief.
The rest of them also looked at Xu Que, expectantly.
The corner of Xu Que's lips twitched, and he said, "It's time to make a trip to Jade Lake."
"What? Going to Jade Lake to cause trouble again?" Duan Jiude said, wide-eyed.
"What do you mean causing trouble! Jade Lake has been sealed, and they said that they will wash their hands of all matters. However, I guess they can't wait for us to knock on their doors." Xu Que laughed, "After all…they don't know that there are still people from the old days in the Heaven Palace Academy."
"You're not being too nice to them," Duan Jiude said as he shook his head.
"Chill, this time we won't bully them. We are just going to give them some enlightenment." Xu Que laughed.
"What? What kind of enlightenment? Give me some first." Buttface rushed forward, looking ecstatic.
Xu Que gave his head a push and then said contemptuously, "If you were half as beautiful as the ladies at Jade Lake, then I wouldn't mind giving you some enlightenment."
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