Sharky’s group rushed out of the water elent room in search of the activated chanism. However, they didn’t really have to search, they soon found out a ring of goblets surrounding a giant pond. In the middle was a tower. Next to the tower was a large and tall tree. However, its bare branches proved that it had already died a long ti ago.
Several different-colored lights erged from multiple directions. These were respectively the tal, wood, water, fire, and earth elents. As the elental power gathered, so formations lit up in five directions surrounding the elevated stage. They flickered with yellow, green, blue, red, and brown lines that reached toward the ancient tree at the very center.
The ancient tree blossod into brilliant radiance. Then, it seed to return to the peak of its life in spring. Its branches germinated, and its previously bare branches imdiately beca lush with leaves. What was even more shocking was that its leaves weren’t green.
Or at the very least, they weren’t only that; only a fifth of the leaves were green. The other four-fifths were yellow, blue, red, and brown. They clearly represented the power of the different elents.
"Co look, that tree has blood!" Catherine cried out while pointing at the center of the place.
Atop the tree, a large flower slowly took form. It resembled a hydrangea, and its petals also had five different colors. Brilliant splendor swirled across its surface. A powerful aura of life could be felt even from far away. It was clearly sothing extraordinary.
"Everlasting Spring Flower..." Catherine said in a shocked tone.
Sharky decided to take it, and he was about to rush over and pick the flower, but she held him back.
"What’s wrong?" Sharky was confused. Such a precious material was right before their very eyes! If they missed this chance, there might never be another one!
Catherine’s chest rose and fell continuously. She was getting emotional as well. However, she still calmly said, "You need to drill into your head that the prettier sothing is, the more likely it’s trying to deceive you. Look beneath that tree. What do you see?"
Sharky turned around. Only then did he see that there was a massive coffin underneath the tree. He hadn’t noticed it before because this tree was completely bare and the surroundings were dim. Now that the tree had blood and was flowing with brilliant colors, the surroundings had beco bright as well. The coffin was now visible.
"But still, I will tore it," Sharky replied, and he arrived next to the tree. The closer he got, the greater the pressure he felt from that massive bronze coffin. His heart began to beat faster and faster. But it was already too late to think about the consequences. He jumped onto the tree, and a powerful and refreshing fragrance surrounded him.
He didn’t know if the flower was poisonous, nor did he know if his poison immunity could resist the effects of such a strange flower that only blood once every few millennia. He gritted his teeth and picked it.
What was surprising was that nothing happened. The giant bronze coffin didn’t move at all. Sharky was ready to return back.
But at that mont, he suddenly felt alard. He quickly looked off to the side as a cold voice said from a distance, "Hand over that flower of immortality in your hands to . Otherwise, I’ll kill her."
He saw Zhao Ruizhi standing at the entrance with his hand on Catherine’s shoulder. With his cultivation, Catherine would imdiately perish if he exerted even a bit of force.
He Li and the other King George Manor soldiers finally caught up while wheezing. When they saw the flower in Sharky’s hands, their eyes lit up. It was swirling with brilliant colors and suffused with rich life energy. They quickly concluded that it was a symbol of immortality.
Sharky had never expected this man to arrive at such a bad ti. He also finally understood why the earth and fire rooms’ power had reached this place.
He decided to appease the other party with words first. "Let her go first; otherwise, what if you go back on your promise? Your cultivation is so high that we won’t have any power to fight back."
Mi Li raised her brows when she heard Sharky’s words. However, she still didn’t say anything.
"Stop speaking nonsense. You don’t have a choice right now. Hand that thing over, or else I’ll kill her imdiately," Zhao Ruizhi said coldly. With his status and temper, no one had the right to negotiate with him. He obviously understood the advantages of seizing the initiative.
Catherine scread, "Sharky, don’t worry about ! He won’t let us go even if you give that to him!" After having been in the imperial palace for so long, she already knew what kind of person the emperor was. If Sharky didn’t hand it over, she might still have a chance of survival, but they would instead be dead for sure if he did.
"Shut up!" Zhao Ruizhi’s palm tightened and Catherine felt extre pain in her shoulder. Her entire body was restricted by a mysterious energy, preventing her from speaking again.
Catherine said indifferently, "Either way, with how things are, I don’t want to live any longer. If you want to kill , just do it. Why bother trying to use to threaten him?"
Zhao Ruizhi had already been furious to begin with. However, his desire for that elixir of immortality made him hold himself back and patiently feign civility. When he saw Catherine continue to stare apologetically at Sharky the entire ti, he erupted into a rage. "Do you really think I won’t kill you?"
His palm slamd toward Catherine’s back as he spoke. He had already scanned the area earlier. At such a distance, forcefully seizing that flower of immortality wouldn’t be too difficult, so he quickly cald down.
This woman had dared to go against him, and she even continued to look flirtatiously at another man in front of his face! It would be better to just get rid of her earlier. Then, only by pulverizing Sharky to ashes would he be able to vent out all of his resentnt.
anwhile, Sharky was alard, he hadn’t expected the emperor to suddenly deal the fatal blow. With his terrifying cultivation, and the fact that the two of them were so close, there was practically no way to stop him.
But he wasn’t soone who willingly resigned himself to fate. He tossed the Everlasting Spring Flower inside his pocket. Then, with flickers of black and white light. Catherine suddenly appeared beneath the tree.
Sharky had taken Catherine’s spot!
Catherine felt dizzy. Before she even realized what had happened, her expression changed greatly. Even if Sharky’s body had experienced a three-fold tempering, he still wouldn’t be able to withstand an attack from the emperor!
Zhao Ruizhi was also surprised. There was actually soone who could rescue a person from under his grasp in such a situation? Even so, in the end, he was experienced and knowledgeable. He quickly realized what had happened, his eyes narrowing as he exclaid, "Principal Scarlett’s Sacrificial Piece?"
Catherine saw him use his life to protect hers, tears imdiately trickled out of her eyes. "Sharky!"
Zhao Ruizhi’s cultivation made him unstoppable. His palm pressed against Sharky’s back, but he didn’t imdiately use all of his strength. He said with a sneer, "I didn’t expect you to actually be willing to save her by sacrificing your own life. You really do invest everything into your girls! In that case, I’ll help you accomplish your goal!"
He felt endless hatred for Sharky. This ti, he didn’t show any rcy and smashed his palm against Sharky’s back.
"Pfft!" Blood gushed out crazily from Sharky’s mouth. His entire body went limp, and he collapsed.
He Li sighed in amazent. How is even the prettiest woman as important as your own life? Young people really are too reckless...
"You don’t know what I am going to do," Sharky replied, and he activated Hoppervine powers to recover himself, although he was not able to completely recover himself.
He then used Electronic X powers to hit the Emperor. A streak of red light flashed past Zhao Ruizhi, and his eyes imdiately narrowed. He quickly raised his hand to defend himself.
Boom!
Zhao Ruizhi’s body flows backward through the air. When he finally managed to steady himself again, he felt a movent in his throat. A streak of blood trickled out from the corner of his lips. This guy had actually injured him!
He knew that he had suffered serious injuries from his battle against the two mysterious generals. He was only half as strong as he would be at his peak. But even so, he had been certain that this entire situation was within his control. And yet, he had ended up being injured by this guy!
Sharky’s complexion was also pale as white paper. Bloodstains were all over his mouth. He smiled and replied, "You didn’t even see my full power."
Zhao Ruizhi’s eyes twitched when he saw Sharky was still fine, "Why aren’t you dead?" He hadn’t held back at all on his last attack. Even though he was far from his best condition, killing Sharky should have been an easy task.
"You don’t know anything about . You even didn’t know that I am the sa guy, who you have decided to kill a few years ago," Sharky shouted looking at the Emperor.
"You didn’t even know how much you have taken the things from , you have killed my father, my mother, I Sharky Valor take back everything from you." Sharky shouted and he decided to not hide anything from now on.
"What are you saying?" The Emperor asked in shock, even He Li and others didn’t understand what Sharky was saying.
"Did you rember the Immortal Phoenix Technique and Phoenix Clan? I was a mber of it. Just for a technique and so blood, you have killed my whole family, today I am going to take back the revenge," Sharky shouted looking at the Emperor.
The Emperor was shocked to hear it, he didn’t know that sothing in the past was going to haunt him back. But then he recognised the situation, and he was still stronger.
"Then how are you going to take the revenge, did you gain sothing strong, or you yourself have beco the stronger," Emperor asked looking at him funny.
"Activated Watchhard," Sharky said, and then he used these powers to bring back the ti on the Emperor’s body, when he was just injured.
Suddenly Zhao Ruizhi’s entire body erupted with golden light. And he felt waves of pain coming from his stomach. With his cultivation, he would never get sick. How long had it been since he felt a stomachache?
"Is it a lingering effect from that sickle wielding fellow?" Zhao Ruizhi was puzzled. It was only a dull ache at first, but then it quickly beca a powerful and intense pain. He had no choice but to lower his leg and grab his stomach.
He Li and the others were also stunned. What is going on here? Why does the emperor look like he’s in such pain? Are his injuries that bad?
Sharky’s sword instantly thrust outward. Just as it was about to pierce into Zhao Ruizhi’s body, two fat fingers thrust out, clamping down on the Tai’e Sword. No matter how he tried, Sharky couldn’t push his sword forward any further.
Zhao Ruizhi slowly stood up straight. He said through gritted teeth, "Do you think this bit of pain is enough to stop ? You have no idea how severe my injuries were during the war against the fiend races. I didn’t even utter a single sound... Ugh..."
A gripping pain tore through his stomach before he even finished what he wanted to say. Even with his willpower, he almost collapsed with a groan.
He’d thought that he had already gotten used to the pain, but he couldn’t have known that the pain of labor wasn’t a sustained and prolonged one, but one that would ease up, and then hit with another intense burst of pain.
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