743: Chapter 741: Never Look Back!
[Eighth Release] 743: Chapter 741: Never Look Back!
[Eighth Release] “You brazenly defy the order, a death sentence!”
The Heavenly Blue Bull Python’s icy gaze fixated on Xiao Yi and the others, its bloodshot eyes emitting a vivid crimson glow, its voice booming like thunder, deafening to hear.
A foul, raging wind swept through.
It turned the complexions of the strong ones on the shore deathly pale.
Hu Junyi burst into laughter, his eyes filled with triumph, as he looked towards Ye Ling and the others, “You see?
I told you they were courting death by doing that.
An ancient being like the Heavenly Blue Bull Python, which has survived since Ancient Tis, values its dignity above all else.
The authority of a divine beast must not be challenged.
If it asked us to use black bamboo, then it absolutely doesn’t allow any other materials to deceive it!”
“As expected of Brother Hu, everything is within your expectations!”
“Luckily, we heeded Brother Hu’s advice.
If we had tried to cut corners like Xiao Yi and the others, we would surely have offended the Heavenly Blue Bull Python too!”
“Do you think the Heavenly Blue Bull Python will really kill Xiao Yi?”
The crowd turned their gazes towards the shore.
Yue Shanchuan and the others felt their hearts in their throats.
Yet, Xiao Yi just smiled, looking straight at the massive Heavenly Blue Bull Python, their eyes eting, the corners of his mouth slightly raised as he spoke, “Senior Heavenly Blue Bull Python, you just said that as long as we felled the black bamboo and made rafts, we could cross the Tianqing River.
I’m not wrong, am I?”
The Heavenly Blue Bull Python nodded its massive head, its voice rumbling like thunder, “You’re not wrong, indeed I did say that.”
Xiao Yi kept a close watch on every movent of the Heavenly Blue Bull Python, not missing even the subtlest change in its expression, growing more sure of his conjecture.
Then he said, “In that case, I haven’t done anything wrong.
You had them chop the black bamboo to make what is naturally called rafts.
But I didn’t use a raft; I made a wooden boat.
You didn’t forbid the use of wooden boats to cross the river.
Why bother laboriously felling black bamboo if I can cross the river with a wooden boat?
Unless you can give a reason I must use black bamboo, there is nothing wrong with my actions.
Do you agree with what I’m saying?”
“Has Xiao Yi gone mad?
He’s actually trying to fool the powerful Heavenly Blue Bull Python with such a flimsy excuse?”
“Does he think the Heavenly Blue Bull Python is a fool?”
Hu Junyi shook his head, his voice dripping with sarcasm and mockery, “If he can get past this with such subterfuge, I’ll swallow this piece of black bamboo myself!”
Under the watchful eyes of the crowd…
The Heavenly Blue Bull Python’s large head gave a slight shake, a hint of puzzlent flashing in its eyes, and then, to the astonishnt of all present, it said, “You’re correct; I didn’t forbid the use of other things.
You may go.”
Splash!
The Heavenly Blue Bull Python imdiately stepped aside, Xiao Yi bowed his hands to it, and pushed the wooden boat into the river.
Majestically, they sailed towards the opposite bank.
Hu Junyi: “…”
Everyone: “…”
Ye Ling silently passed the section of black bamboo, which Hu Junyi had finally cut, to him, “Eat up!”
“I…”
Hu Junyi held that piece of black bamboo, his face a picture of dumbfounded confusion.
At that mont, he felt the urge to die.
An unrelenting face-slapping.
Hu Junyi realized that since eting Xiao Yi, the halo of fortune that had once cloaked him had vanished.
Ti and again, he was rcilessly humiliated.
“Brother Hu, shall we also go chop down so trees?” a disciple from the Nantian Holy Institute suggested.
Hu Junyi’s eyes lit up.
Suddenly, a group of strong ones flew towards the forest and began to chop down trees.
Above the Tianqing River.
Chai Yi looked back at the increasingly distant Hu Junyi and the others, a puzzled expression on his face, asking, “Boss Xiao Yi, why did the Heavenly Blue Bull Python agree to let us leave on the wooden boat?”
Doubt was written on everyone’s faces.
Xiao Yi smiled and shared his conjecture, “That wasn’t the real Heavenly Blue Bull Python, but rather a manifestation of its consciousness.
It’s sothing the Heavenly Blue Bull Python left behind when it was still alive.
Such manifestations of consciousness don’t possess much independent thought; they simply carry out fixed commands.
As long as one doesn’t directly contravene these commands, they won’t be triggered!”
That was the very strangeness Xiao Yi had initially sensed from the Heavenly Blue Bull Python.
Although everything was real, the Heavenly Blue Bull Python gave Xiao Yi a sense of being too rigid.
Logically speaking, such divine beasts that had existed for countless years should be extrely cunning, but the one by the Tianqing River seed quite dull.
Because of this…
It was why Xiao Yi had chosen to cross the river by wooden boat, and the result was as he had expected.
It was indeed just a conscious avatar.
They had saved ti by not cutting the black jade bamboo and had built a wooden boat, which allowed them to arrive on the other shore more safely.
The eight hundred li of Tianqing River.
Under the propulsion of their vital energy, Xiao Yi and his group broke through the waves with the wind, and soon arrived on the opposite shore.
With Xiao Yi using a wooden boat to cross, Hu Junyi and the others followed suit, which ant that everyone managed to proceed without delay, sailing on the Tianqing River.
The Heavenly Blue Bull Python remained still, standing quietly on the riverbank, making no move to pursue them.
On the shore…
Xiao Yi and his three companions took the lead, and before them lay an endless plain.
On the plain, hundreds of flowers blood in competition.
Only a narrow blue stone path lay in the midst.
On either side of the path stood towering statues, eleven in total.
Five on each side.
And another one directly ahead.
The statues on the left and right sides varied in shape, among them was the Heavenly Blue Bull Python, Xiao Yi muttered, “These should be the ten Demon Marshals of the Yunng Dynasty…”
“So the statue at the very front is the Yunng Demon Emperor?”
Everyone’s gaze simultaneously shifted forward.
These statues were all imnsely majestic, like mountains standing tall.
The statue at the front depicted a giant demon with the body of a human and the tail of a snake, with a cascade of blue hair falling behind.
Her graceful figure stood erect before them.
Above her head, a purple and gold crown added to her noble air, and her eyes seed alive, sparkling with bright light.
This was the Yunng Demon Emperor!
The forr ruler of the Yunng Dynasty.
“Who would have thought that the legendary Yunng Demon Emperor could be so beautiful?”
“Beautiful?
The real person is even more beautiful than this statue, but the more beautiful things are, the more venomous they tend to be.
It’s said that the Yunng Demon Emperor has a miraculous ability, that anyone who looks at her with evil thoughts in his heart will be directly petrified, turned into a statue, and this includes even the strong ones from the Longevity Secret Realm…”
“No way?
That horrifying?”
While they were discussing,
Xiao Yi heard a rustling sound of footsteps coming from behind and also heard Hu Junyi’s frustrated voice shouting, “Xiao Yi, prepare to et your end!”
Whoosh!
The sound of sothing cutting through the air was getting closer.
The gale had already reached behind them, making a whistling sound that sent chills down their spines.
“Not good!”
“Be careful!”
Yue Shanchuan and the others’ faces changed abruptly, ready to turn back and fight.
But in that critical mont…
Xiao Yi suddenly grabbed them, yanking them back and yelled with a grave expression, “Don’t turn back no matter what!”
As the words fell…
The slicing sound behind them, accompanied by the cold edge of a blade, had already struck Xiao Yi’s body…
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