Chapter 1774: Stubborn Rock

Lu Yin’s eyes lit up the moment he heard Qing Shaohuang’s words; treasury? compensation?

"I can choose anything?" Lu Yin asked.

Qing Shaohuang nodded. "Yes. No matter if it's a national treasure or something from my own private collection, as long as Alliance Leader Lu likes it, you can take it away as compensation for this matter. While my Divine Venom Dynasty has had little contact with the outside world, we are not inhospitable. If word of this incident spreads, my Divine Venom Dynasty will lose face and trust. There’s no need for Alliance Leader Lu to be polite in this."

Little Mountain God gritted his teeth and stared at Qing Shaohuang. What was this man trying to do? Did he want to deal with Lu Yin or not?

Wen Yao and the others were not able see through Qing Shaohuang’s intentions, but regardless of how Qing Shaohuang dealt with Lu Yin, it would have nothing to do with the Wen family, and the Wen family would not participate.

"Since His Majesty Qing Shaohuang is so generous, I will have to impose upon you." Lu Yin was suddenly in a good mood. Who did not like free gifts? Lu Yin was quite eager to see if he could find something useful in the treasury.

Qing Shaohuang immediately asked someone to show Lu Yin to the treasury, as he needed to spend time with the other guests who were leaving. However, Lu Yin refused the offer.

"I want him to take me." Lu Yin pointed to Attendant Yi.

Qing Shaohuang's eyes flickered. "Alliance Leader Lu, that servant will be punished severely, so there is no need for you to trouble yourself."

Lu Yin laughed. "Don't worry, I have no intention of doing anything at all to him; I just need him to lead the way. Your Majesty, rest assured, I won’t do anything at all to him. Such a person is not worth me breaking a promise."

Qing Shaohuang glanced over at Attendant Yi, who was still screaming, and nodded. "Very well."

𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

The emperor then sternly stared at Attendant Yi. "Take Alliance Leader Lu to the treasury. If he likes something there, let him take what he asks for."

Attendant Yi had scratched at his skin all over his body, and he looked miserable. Terror filled his eyes and blood covered his body. "Yes, Your Majesty. This slave understands."

Chang Wu woke up at this moment, and the first thing he saw upon opening his eyes was Lu Yin, which caused the man to believe himself to be dreaming. He gritted his teeth. "It's you! You’re the reason I was tortured! I’m going to die, and you won’t even think of me again! Release me! It’s all because of you! It’s your fault…"

Everyone looked at the man with sympathy, as he had been truly unlucky, as he had suffered entirely because of his association with Lu Yin.

Lu Yin pursed his lips. "You aren’t dead. Take a good look at where you are."

Chang Wu was startled, and he quickly glanced around. He instantly saw Qing Shaohuang seated on the highest seat, as well as the miserable-looking Attendant Yi. When the shop owner saw the people who were around him, he instantly collapsed. Eh? Where was the pain? There had clearly been a great deal of pain before?

The man’s injuries had all been cured by the medicinal pill that Lu Yin had given the man, but the recovery had been so fast that Chang Wu did not dare believe his recovery himself.

"Alright, send him off. No need to humiliate him any further," Qing Shaohuang said.

Chang Wu blankly stared at Lu Yin blankly, his eyes fully expressing his loss and confusion at his situation.

Lu Yin nodded. "You can head on out. No one will touch you again in the future."

Chang Wu was quickly taken away. From beginning to end, he never understood what was happening. All he knew was that his fate had somehow changed, and only the future would tell if it had changed for the better or for the worse.

Some people were certain that the man would not see any luck again in the future, but others felt that the man had a bright future.

Attendant Yi led Lu Yin away from the banquet and towards the imperial treasury.

The treasury was located within a spatial crack in a corner of the imperial palace. Several Enlighters protected the location, and there were countless other defensive measures in place, the most common being jincans.

Lu Yin was eager to see what the Divine Venom Dynasty’s treasure might hold.

Attendant Yi walked in front of Lu Yin, trembling the entire way. He no longer showed any trace of the arrogance and overbearing demeanor that he had demonstrated before. The man trembled with every step as there was a person right behind him who absolutely wished him dead and could kill him at a whim.

"Attendant Yi," Lu Yin suddenly spoke up.

The man quivered and slowly bowed low. "A- Alliance Leader Lu."

Lu Yin stared at the man intently. “Was the emperor aware when you captured Chang Wu?"

Attendant Yi was startled, and he grew incredibly pale. "His Majesty- Of course His Majesty knew nothing!"

Lu Yin continued to stare at the man for a while. "Really."

The two continued on towards the imperial treasury. They soon crossed half of the imperial palace, and then suddenly an indescribably terrifying spiritual force surged, and it encompassed all of Venom King City in an instant and even caused the sky to change color.

Qing Shaohuang leaped to his feet, and his expression changed drastically. "Not good!"

He was not the only one, as everyone felt an overwhelming spiritual force suppressing all of them.

It was from the Second Nightking.

As the spiritual force surged, the voice dripping with resentment echoed through Venom King City, "Little Lu, I didn't expect to wait for you. I said that I would hang you from the stone tablet in the Daynight clan’s ancestral land to torture you for 10,000 years."

After the voice spoke, an even more terrifying spiritual force exploded into the void, destroying the city’s defenses.

On the city walls, the strange toads instantly exploded and died. The iridescent poisonous gas that protected the entire city was transformed into raindrops.

Qing Shaohuang's complexion truly changed at this moment, as if those raindrops showered the city, there would be very few people who would be able to survive.

Yuan Taishi and the others were completely stunned, but there was not even any opening for them to try to take action.

"Second Nightking, aren’t you afraid the Chief Justice will find you?" Lu Yin's anxious voice reached everyone's ears. Suddenly, the palace building that stood between the voice and the banquet was instantly destroyed, and everyone was blown back by a powerful wind.

The Second Nightking raised his hand and reached out for Lu Yin. "You have no chance!"

The void congealed, and then shattered, allowing everyone to peer into the true universe. This was the Second Nightking's spiritual force. When it was used in front of everyone, all of them, no matter their cultivation, felt like nothing more than an ant.

Lu Yin's eyes went wide, and he looked up towards the source of the spiritual force and stepped forward. It was like a mayfly trying to shake a tree, though also like a stubborn rock facing wind and rain, refusing to crumble.

This attack was something that Qing Shaohuang had planned, though Lu Yin had also instigated by sending the Second Nightking to prod the emperor.

It was no surprise that all of the city’s defenses were destroyed by the Second Nightking’s spiritual force, as this had been Lu Yin's goal. Also, he was curious to see how well he could resist the Second Nightking.

The Second Nightking's spiritual force suppressed the entire continent, and Lu Yin recited the Origin Progenitor’s Sutra. At that moment, the mainland changed. No matter if it was Wen Sansi, Ling Gong and other youths, Yuan Taishi, Qing Li, and the other experts who were approaching the level of an Envoy, or even Qing Shaohuang and the Second Nightking, everyone felt as though they had heard voices from an ancient era.

Throughout history, from the moment that humanity had been born, humans had gathered with one voice to speak prayers, chants, or other such things. These ancient voices sounded like they formed the voice of heaven and earth.

As for the Second Nightking, his pupils instantly constricted, and he gaped at Lu Yin in disbelief. While the ancient powerhouse could not tell where the voices came from or who was behind it, he instantly guessed that the voices had something to do with Lu Yin. What had that brat done?

Naturally, the Second Nightking’s spiritual force greatly surpassed Lu Yin’s, after all, he had been able to easily stun the youth in the Celestial Frost Sect’s Ruins. However, at the moment, the Second Nightking could do nothing at all.

Qing Shaohuang flew through the sky with a huge, double-headed centipede on his back. That centipede was his jincan. As the double-headed centipede rushed forward, its size increased until it completely filled the sky above the city and casting a shadow on the metropolis. “Leave my Venom King City, Second Nightking.”

The Second Nightking removed all distracting thoughts. No matter where that voice that had affected him had come from, it was no threat to him the moment. "Qing Shaohuang, this has nothing to do with you."

As he spoke, he raised a finger and pointed it at the two-headed centipede, and one of the two heads exploded. Celestial Being Shows the Way.

The terrible cold struck, freezing Venom King City. Qing Shaohuang was furious, as he had offered the Second Nightking a chance to attack Lu Yin, but had also reminded the Second Nightking not to affect the city. However, the Second Nightking had already attacked the city twice, and Venom King City had suffered heavy casualties.

Enlighters throughout Venom King City stepped forward to hold back the cold, but they were instantly frozen.

Without any other options available to him, Qing Shaohuang tore open a wide rift in the void so that the cold air could enter the true universe.

Lu Yin's body was shrouded a golden battle force. "Second Nightking, the Chief Justice has an unfathomable level of cultivation, and had could appear at any moment. Why don't you just leave?"

The Second Nightking replied in a cold and arrogant voice, "Today is the day that you will be captured and flayed!”

Even more terrifying spiritual force burst out to form a blade that sliced down. This was Skybreaker, and it was an attack that Lu Yin had not anticipated. The Second Nightking was actually wanting to test out Lu Yin’s limits, as he also knew that Lu Yin could instantly restrain him with the Sealed Cage Technique at any moment. However, Lu Yin did not do that. This Skybreaker was an attack that did not even reach a power level of 700,000, though it truly looked impressive. Lu Yin intended to face the attack head on, as he wanted to see what his limits were when using the Origin Progenitor’s Sutra.

The Skybreaker fell down towards Lu Yin, slicing through the void and revealing the true universe. Lu Yin raised a hand and unleashed an endless torrent of Vacuum Palm, but they were simply erased by the descending blade. Lu Yin had underestimated the attack; this was an attack from the Second Nightking, and even though Lu Yin was an Enlighter who could fight against Envoys, the Second Nightking was not someone who was on the level of an ordinary Envoy. On top of that, Skybreaker was not an ordinary battle technique, but was a technique that had dominated an era.

All Lu Yin's techniques were useless against the Second Nightking's Skybreaker, and eventually, the sharp blade of spiritual force passed by Lu Yin.

Everyone stared blankly; was Lu Yin dead?

Qing Shaohuang, Little Mountain God, and many others grew excited, as they hoped for Lu Yin’s death, as that would be the best outcome for them.

Yuan Miaomiao grew nervous, and her fingers turned white.

Yuehua Mavis grew solemn. After all, Lu Yin had just suffered an attack from the Second Nightking, who was an ancient powerhouse.

Mr. You gritted his teeth and watched in excitement. "Let him die! It’s better if he’s dead!"

However, Lu Yin eventually slowly lifted his head to face the Second Nightking with a solemn expression. "You’re still too injured to kill me."

He then pulled out a blood red bell and shook it. It was the Chief Justice’s emblem.

Ring ring

Everyone felt like a massive hand suddenly covered everything in existence and started crushing down on them. This was the power of the Chief Justice.

Puff

The Second Nightking’s pupils fluctuated, and he suddenly spat out blood. His hair was a mess, and his face was pale. Blood could be seen at the corners of his mouth. "The Chief Justice’s bell… Qing Shaohuang, what are you waiting for? Work with me to kill Lu Yin! No one will know about it."

Lu Yin suddenly turned to stare at Qing Shaohuang with cold eyes.

Qing Shaohuang was startled and enraged at this suggestion. "Second Nightking, what sort of nonsense are you speaking?"

The Second Nightking roared back, "Even if you kill him, it will be said that I killed him, and no one will go after you. We also came to an agreement before, and so long as we achieve the results we both want, everyone else here can be killed."

Everyone grew pale when they heard the Second Nightking’s words, and wary eyes shot over to stare at Qing Shaohuang.

Qing Shaohuang ground his teeth so hard they were about to shatter. "Second Nightking, you are slandering me!"

Lu Yin lifted the blood red bell once again.

The Second Nightking was not able to stop himself from spitting out more blood, his eyes became scarlet from being so bloodshot. "Qing Shaohuang, if you don't kill him now, you will absolutely regret your decision!"

The ancient expert then shattered the void and disappeared.

Lu Yin ignored the Second Nightking’s exit, but instead kept a vigilant watch on Qing Shaohuang.