Chapter 728: The First Day of Missing Huyan Bin (I)

Amid the snowy mountains of the Northern Regions, it was bitterly cold for tens of thousands of zhang.

The Whale-Riding Immortal stood before a deep, dark pool that seemed to stretch on for a thousand li. Yet, when he stepped on it, there was not even the slightest ripple. It turned out that the deep pool had frozen over many years ago.

With his bare hands, the Whale-Riding Immortal carved a circle on the frozen surface of the deep pool. He stuck his palm onto the circled ice and then pulled upward, tearing out a large icicle with a loud rumble. Then he turned his hand over, instantly destroying the icicle. It turned into countless fine particles that dispersed in the air.

After pulling out the icicle, he could now see a huge cavity beneath the ice.

The Whale-Riding Immortal took out a golden fishing rod—a legendary ancient enchanted tool that was said to have once been used to catch the Black Devil Whale.

He then turned to look at the light blue humanoid apparition and put on a devilish grin. "Come on."

Unimpressed, the apparition replied, "Jiang Tiankuo, you'd better act like a proper human being."

This light blue soul apparition was, of course, the West Sea's Sword Emperor, who had been hanging around with the Whale-Riding Immortal of late.

The Sword Emperor was now an Eminent One at the seventh and a half realm. Despite only surviving with his soul, he still possessed some of his combat ability. However, some humans and demonic beasts only saw him as a rare cultivation resource, placing him under constant threat.

Consequently, the Sword Emperor left the Sword-Hanging Kingdom under Daoist Yan's protection and followed the Whale-Riding Immortal on a journey across the world. He was hoping to find a corporeal body to house his soul.

Nevertheless, it was no easy task to find a suitable corporeal body for an Eminent One of his level. If it were simple, beings like Hallowed Yang and the Demon God would not be so difficult to resurrect.

The Whale-Riding Immortal assured him solemnly, "Don't worry. My methods are absolutely top-notch."

As he spoke, he turned the Sword Emperor around and attached the hook of the fishing rod to him.

The Whale-Riding Immortal said, "It's a bit deep below, so let's go slowly."

He then kicked the Sword Emperor down with a swift motion.

Whoosh!

Becoming a blur of blue, the Sword Emperor plunged into the bone-chilling cold of the icy abyss below.

After a while, the Sword Emperor's voice finally drifted to the surface. "It's so cold."

"You're at the seventh-and-a-half realm. Why are you afraid of the cold?" the Whale-Riding Immortal replied lazily.

The Sword Emperor complained miserably, "It's because I don't have a corporeal body."

"All the more you shouldn't be afraid of the cold. Just hold on, it should be over soon!" the Whale-Riding Immortal said, cheering him on.

"Stop talking nonsense up there. Why don't you come down and see for yourself?" the Sword Emperor retorted angrily.

"Hey, I would love to go down there, but I can't exactly leave you up here to do the fishing, right? Do you have my awesome fishing skills?" the Whale-Riding Immortal asked with a laugh.

The Sword Emperor finally exploded in exasperation. "Nonsense! You have no skills at all! Don't think I don't know what you used to fish back then! Hurry up!"

The Whale-Riding Immortal shrugged helplessly. "All right, all right."

He extended his left hand and raised it high above the hole in the ice. Then he stuck out his index and middle fingers of his right hand, forming a knife-like shape. With that, he gently sliced across the wrist of his left hand.

Drip, drip.

The blood of an eighth-realm Eminent One with a Transcendent Spirit contained spiritual qi that was irresistibly attractive to any demonic beast, so much so that they would do anything to consume it.

The Whale-Riding Immortal only let two drops of blood drip down. It could not be more than that. Otherwise, his blood might draw in all sorts of strange creatures that were living in this deep pool that had been frozen over for ten thousand years. Even if it would not place the Whale-Riding Immortal in danger, it could easily ruin his plan.

He quickly wiped his fingers across the wound, healing it in a flash.

As the drops of Transcendent Spirit blood fell into the icy abyss, the situation below changed immediately. There was a sudden rumbling like that of a boiling liquid, accompanied by the sounds of surging winds and approaching thunder.

Rumble, rumble, rumble.

The Sword Emperor's deep voice reverberated to the surface. "It's coming!"

"Keep it down. Don't scare it off," the Whale-Riding Immortal replied at a lower volume.

After a moment, there was a tremor from below, followed by a loud crash!

The Whale-Riding Immortal's eyes lit up with a burst of divine light. Golden flames engulfed his right hand and spread to the golden fishing rod, which was glowing brilliantly with divine light. He raised the fishing rod with thunderous force!

Rumble, rumble, rumble.

There were sounds of a huge struggle coming from below. Despite that, the Whale-Riding Immortal kept his arms steady, focused only on raising the rod. The air seemed to freeze for a moment, then a massive chunk of the surface ice shattered as a giant mountain-like monstrous fish burst through the ice to the surface of the deep pool!

The monstrous fish had extraordinary scales and resembled both a whale and a dragon. It even appeared to have a pair of wings on its back.

Hanging out of the monstrous fish's mouth, the Sword Emperor laughed heartily and remarked, "This thing's got pretty sharp teeth!"

The monstrous fish was a sea demon. So, as a fish demon living outside the sea, it had only managed to retain thirty percent of its immense power. That disadvantage had allowed the Sword Emperor and the Whale-Riding Immortal to catch and kill it with ease.

The Sword Emperor reached out with both hands and sliced off one of the monstrous fish's razor-sharp teeth.

The Whale-Riding Immortal exclaimed, "The more vicious, the better! This Draconic Kun is the king of the Icy Abyss. The stronger it is, the better the effect will be when its dragon bones are ground into powder. The corporeal body I'm going to reconstruct for you will have a raised golden spear that will never fall. With it, you might be even more powerful than before!"

The Sword Emperor: "?"

...

Meanwhile, on the northern side of the frozen pool, a graceful and slender young lady dressed in white stood holding a translucent ancient jade. She was clearly uninterested in the joys of the two middle-aged men.

The ancient jade lit up with golden text.

[Chu]: "What are you doing?"

[Jiang:] "Fishing with the two elders."

[Chu]: "I'm drunk."

[Jiang]: "Why have you started drinking?"

[Chu]: "No, you should be asking me what I'm drunk on."

[Jiang]: "...What are you drunk on?"

[Chu]: "I'm drunk on the thought of being with you, forever and always."

[Jiang]: "..."

[Chu]: "Why, why, why?"

[Jiang]: "..."

Seeing the ellipses that Jiang Yuebai sent him, Chu Liang laughed giddily before setting down the United Hearts Jade.

Lackey A had just entered Chu Liang's office and caught sight of that scene. He grinned mischievously and teased, "Chatting with Senior Sister Jiang again?"

Chu Liang cleared his throat with a cough. "

Ahem

. Don't pry into unrelated non-work matters during work hours. What's up?"

To lighten his workload, Chu Liang had reassigned Lackey A, the most intelligent of the Four Overlords, to work directly alongside him. He basically made Lackey A his secretary.

Actually, if it were up to Lin Bei, he would assign eight to ten beautiful female secretaries to Chu Liang, making for a pleasant and impressive sight.

𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

However, Chu Liang had firmly rejected the idea.

Does he really think that Senior Sister Jiang never gets angry?

...

A few days ago, Old Li Ba wanted to take Chu Liang as a son-in-law, but Chu Liang rejected the offer outright on the spot. Yet, Jiang Yuebai still ended up being annoyed with him for several days straight.

Out of nowhere, she would remark that it wouldn't be bad if his child took the surname Li and then took his given name, forming the name "Li Chu." It sounded great; it was a very handsome name.

At that point, Chu Liang would tactfully reply that "Jiang Chu" sounded pretty nice as well.

Jiang Yuebai would then glare at him.

"What are you talking about? My family does not accept sons-in-law marrying into the family. We, the Jiang Family, are a fallen aristocratic family. How could we possibly have the ability to do that?"

She was so unlike her usual self that it made Chu Liang wonder if she was the one studying the Great Dao of Yin and Yang.

He did not even dare to think about what would happen if he had not been so firm in his refusal and ended up going on a date for a potential arranged marriage. The next day, Chu Liang would probably find himself hanging from the highest branch of the tallest tree on Azure Falling Peak, and Daoist Yan certainly would not allow him to be taken down.

Although Di Nufeng adored Chu Liang, it was obvious to him who she would choose if it was between him and Daoist Yan.

So, the best that Chu Liang could do was have a male secretary.