Chapter 1194: Chapter 1193: Captive Peak Turmoil

Emperor Xia recalled the intelligence reports from the Seek Dao Sect and found them all to be absurd.

The Luoshui Guards of the Nine Palaces were shrewd generals, analyzing the Ruthless Sect’s intelligence day and night for half a year. They had just roughly pinpointed Yang Kongdong’s location when Lu Yang had already eliminated him.

Was establishing the Luoshui Guards superfluous?

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Seek Dao Sect, the entrance to Captive Peak.

The new prisoner stood at the entrance to Captive Peak, lost in thought. He lamented how his lifelong reputation had come to such a tragic end, imprisoned in jail, truly a pitiful and lamentable outcome.

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"Old Duan, is the line in my cultivation technique saying that we, as cultivators, should maintain a pure heart and practice abstinence?" Mo Xiaochou, at the mid-stage of Spirit Transformation, asked Duan Qingshui, who had been captured with him by Lu Yang and imprisoned in Captive Peak. Among the powerful figures of Captive Peak, Mo Xiaochou’s cultivation level ranked last, and Duan Qingshui’s was the second to last. The two often exchanged cultivation insights.

During their incarceration at Captive Peak, although unable to practice cultivation, their experience and knowledge had grown exponentially.

Duan Qingshui glanced at the line that puzzled Mo Xiaochou, shook his head gently, and kindly suggested, "Not sure, why don’t you ask Blood Demon Venerable? He wrote that line, right?"

Blood Demon Venerable, the last National Master of the Great Yu Dynasty, in a place like Captive Peak where Transcendance Tribulation Stage cultivators abounded and Body Integration Realm cultivators were nothing more than dogs, could barely be considered an important figure.

Mo Xiaochou indeed had this intention, but then he heard the quiet discussions gradually turn into arguments.

"What’s wrong with speaking a few truths? Why should we be afraid of letting these Great Qian cultivators hear it? You all be the judges, in what way are they from Great Qian better than us from Great Yu?" Master of All Laws bellowed, initially just telling the surrounding prisoners about the decadence of Great Qian, but unexpectedly the Great Qian Dynasty prisoners overheard, and his companions pulled him back from speaking recklessly, provoking Master of All Laws’ dissatisfaction.

"Our Great Qian has far more Semi-Immortals than your Great Yu!" Si Lei God Lord shouted in anger. Master of All Laws looked down on the Great Qian Dynasty, and he looked down on the Great Yu Dynasty too. With the two dynasties’ rivalry transcending time and space, he believed that Great Qian Dynasty would undoubtedly be the ultimate victor.

"Semi-Immortal numbers?" Master of All Laws snorted disdainfully, "Proud of your Dao Fruit Outlines that are cobbled together by the Power of Faith? The kind of watered-down Semi-Immortals like you, I alone could take on two!"

"Arrogant!"

Hearing this, Si Chen God Lord became even angrier than Si Lei God Lord, "You’re just a lucky Semi-Immortal, thanks to your long-lived Immortal body. What’s there to show off about having a natural advantage? I, with my Five Spirits Root, reached the Transcendance Tribulation Stage, and it is my fortune to have been favored by Lord Controller, who bestowed upon me the Time Dao Fruit Outline."

"If you had only the Five Spirits Root, whether you could reach the Body Integration Realm would be debatable!"

"A Transcendance Tribulation Stage achieved through murder and plunder, how valuable is your success?" Wu Youdao, the Sixth Emperor of Dayu, and the second most talented of all Emperors, scoffed, "The resources spent on you would have been enough for me to raise three Pass Tribulation cultivators!"

"A waste of resources, a heinous crime against nature, no wonder the Great Qian Dynasty declines with each generation, to be replaced by our Great Yu."

Caught in the middle, Mo Xiaochou and Duan Qingshui didn’t dare to interject or even ask their question about cultivation technique at this moment; they were cultivators from Buddha Country, not belonging to one of the two major powers of Captive Peak.

In fact, despite its three hundred thousand years of history, Buddha Country hadn’t even produced an Immortal, at most only Semi-Immortals; they had no place in this debate.

"Just the best among dwarves, reaching the Transcendance Tribulation Stage makes you think you’re something, still presuming to represent Great Yu?" Nightmare Supreme, who ended the Great Qian Dynasty and lost to the combined efforts of Wu Yao and Guan Shanhai, sneered, his experiences leading him to conflict with the Great Yu Dynasty.

"Ha, you wiped out the Great Qian Dynasty and still have the nerve to stand on the side of Great Qian," laughed a Great Yu Pass Tribulation Cultivator, spilling the beans without mercy.

"Even a Pass Tribulation cultivator dares to chime in!" Struck where it hurt, Nightmare Supreme turned red with shame and anger. If they had been outside, a mere glance from him could have plunged the other into an endless nightmare, never to awaken, but within Captive Peak, neither Dao Fruit Outlines nor magic skills could be used.

𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

Thinking of this, Nightmare Supreme angrily threw a slipper through the bars of the cage, striking the opponent’s face and leaving a clear imprint of the shoe.

The Pass Tribulation Cultivator from Great Yu first froze, then flew into a rage. Being at Captive Peak, what did a Semi-Immortal amount to? Besides, he had Guan Shanhai backing him.

"Hardy to hit me, brothers, pummel him!"

Soon enough, slippers went pattering towards Nightmare Supreme.

"Just because you’re from Great Yu, you all gang up? Let’s go together!" shouted Si Lei God Lord, and the Great Qian Cultivators, seeing Nightmare Supreme bullied, knew they couldn’t stand by. Nightmare Supreme had taken those hits while standing up for Great Qian!

Captive Peak descended into chaos, everyone from Semi-Immortals to those in the Body Integration Realm joined in.

Towards the end, the Great Qian side ran out of weapons. Si Lei God Lord had a stroke of genius and began throwing balled-up newspapers at the opposition.

Seek Dao Sect respected rights; they would issue newspapers to the prisoners at Captive Peak each time they were printed, allowing them to keep abreast of the outside world.

The Great Yu Cultivators followed suit, crunching up newspapers into balls, and both sides launched their paper projectiles amidst anger and verbal assaults.

For a moment, the air was filled with flying newspaper balls, as if in a snowball fight.

Suddenly, a newspaper ball hit Guan Shanhai, who was lying on his side resting. Both sides immediately fell silent, daring not to make another move.

They secretly cursed, wondering who was the blind fool that threw the newspaper ball in the direction of the Imperial Teacher, especially since those papers had been printed by Guan Shanhai himself.

Guan Shanhai sat up, his calm eyes blazing with waves of fury as he clenched the newspaper ball and spoke deliberately.

"Is this what newspapers are for?"

Guan Shanhai sat boldly, his tranquil gaze sweeping over the Great Qian and Great Yu Cultivators, and slowly uttered two words:

"Blatant folly."

Both sides trembled, keeping their heads down, afraid to meet Guan Shanhai’s eyes.

"What a laughable question, which is stronger, Great Qian or Great Yu? If Great Qian were powerful, how could they have been replaced by our Great Yu? Is such a foolish question worth discussing?"

The Great Yu side secretly rejoiced, for surely the National Master was standing with them.

But hearing this, the Great Qian side was hot with the urge to contest Guan Shanhai, arguing that Great Qian Cultivators were merely hiding to lessen the impact of the Power of Faith, without which there would have been no stage for Guan Shanhai and Wu Yao.

Especially Si Lei God Lord and The Controller, who had followed Mid-heaven Emperor Lord and The Controller in conquering the heavens, and held the deepest affection for Great Qian, they were the most eager to speak these words.

However, in the face of an Immortal, they harbored a deep-rooted fear, a psychological shadow left by Mid-heaven Emperor Lord. In the presence of Guan Shanhai, himself an Immortal, they could never stand tall; they had words, yet dared not speak.

"This is your room now," Yun Zhi’s voice broke the unusual atmosphere at Captive Peak, bringing in a new prisoner.

The Controller looked at his two trusted subordinates, Si Lei God Lord and Si Chen God Lord, not sure what to say.

They must have been hoping that he could rescue them, but he would have to disappoint them, as he himself was trapped and unable to escape.

Si Lei God Lord and Si Chen God Lord, seeing The Controller, had tears in their eyes.

"Lord Controller, we’ve been longing for you for ages, and you’ve finally arrived!"