Table of Contents

(Teaser) ›

Wang Juemie glared at Tang Jie, his chest heaving up and down.

After a long while, Wang Juemie suddenly threw his head back and laughed. “Good! Good! Good! A fine job, Tang Jie! Beautiful work! Fooling me by selling back what was mine in the first place! You’ve got guts!”

Tang Jie coldly replied, “You’re wrong about one thing. These goods aren’t necessarily yours. I just don’t think they’re worth fighting over. You really think I ran over just to capture your juniors and play you for a fool?”

As Tang Jie spoke, several dozen streaks of light rushed out.

Upon closer inspection, this was several dozen people, some of them riding on the wind, others mounted on clouds, some on lotus flowers, and still others on flying swords.

Their leader was none other than Bei Canghan, the previous number one genius of Basking Moon Academy, asked to help by Peng Yaolong. He was the strongest person in this group.

Besides him were Peng Yaolong, Ye Tianshang, Qi Shaoming, Cai Junyang, Liu Hongyan, Ping Jingyue, and Wei Tianchong, along with twenty-some others. They far outnumbered Wang Juemie’s crew.

These people flew up to the red light of the formation outside the valley. Bei Canghan saluted Wang Juemie. “Canghan pays respects to Great Brother Wang.”

The others shouted in unison, “…Paying respects to Great Brother.”

For a moment, their voices rumbled like thunder, but their tone was meek and polite.

While they had not appeared previously, they had been observing the battle in the valley using spell arts and basically knew what had transpired.

Wang Juemie had challenged three True Persons to battle, and while it had their blood pumping, it also had their hearts quailing.

No one could have imagined Wang Juemie to be this fierce, contending against three Celestial Hearts with his Mortal Shedding body. Even if he had the assistance of a Dao armament and a formation, this in no way watered down the terror of his own body’s power. One could basically be certain that Wang Juemie was invincible against his peers.

If they had initially disapproved of Tang Jie’s cautious attitude, they now completely approved of it.

Peng Yaolong was also a body refiner, so he had the keenest understanding of the gap between himself and Wang Juemie, and he also understood the sort of painful price to reach this level. Long before they had arrived, he had told everyone else of the gap between them and him.

Wang Juemie saw that the Basking Moon Sect disciples had arrived and grunted, “Tang Jie, you think these people are enough to deal with me?”

Just like Wang Juemie, Tang Jie had not notified the Basking Moon Sect for this operation, so no True Person had come.

Without a Celestial Heart True Person, Wang Juemie really didn’t care about twenty or thirty Mortal Shedding disciples. Once he really got going, he could easily take them all down.

Tang Jie chuckled. "I'm naturally not that naive. But Great Brother, when you challenged three elders all by yourself, despite your prodigious strength, didn't you still need the help of your junior disciples? Moreover, Great Brother, while you might be able to get whatever cultivation resources you seek, the same might not be true for money. This formation must have been very expensive, difficult for one person to pay for. Many people doesn't just mean additional combat power, but also additional support. Am I right?"

Wang Juemie paled.

In terms of strength, Mu Yi and the other sixteen disciples put together couldn't compare to a single Wang Juemie, but without them, there would be no spiritual energy channels. Without them, there would not be the resources needed for the formation. Without them, there wouldn't be a plan, and so even if he had the resources, he wouldn't be able to lay down the formation.

His junior disciples had been of significant assistance to him!

As Tang Jie spoke, in the distance, Peng Yaolong laughed, and a small red pearl appeared in his hand.

Others also began to reveal small red pearls.

Upon seeing these items, Wang Juemie blurted out, "Heavenbane Lightning Pearls?"

These were none other than the Heavenbane Lightning Pearls of the Heavenly Extinction Sect. These items possessed immense power, with a single one being able to sunder mountains. Several dozen being thrown out wouldn't just annihilate the three formations laid down, they would also pulverize Wang Juemie's diamond-like body.

Wang Juemie gasped. "These are the sect treasures of the Heavenly Extinction Sect. The Heavenly Extinction Sect has always been unruly and untameable. How did you manage to get so many?"

Ye Tianshang coldly said, "No matter how unruly it is, they're only allowed to be unruly with the permission of my Basking Moon Sect. Moreover, it's not like we stole them. We bought them, and at market price. What reason did they have to refuse?"

The price of a Heavenbane Lightning Pearl was difficult to calculate and would differ from person to person. In order to guarantee procurement, Tang Jie had offered a price of 25,000 spirit coins per pearl—the price of a low-grade art relic. For a one-time-use tool, it was quite the high price, so even though they had wanted a lot, the Heavenly Extinction Sect still clenched its teeth and handed them over.

Tang Jie himself wasn't able to buy all these Heavenbane Lightning Pearls, so he had pooled money with everyone else to afford them. Just as Tang Jie had said, the more people there were, the more resources available.