Chapter 1832 – A Sudden Change

Within the treasury of the Dragon Palace, a massacre was underway.

The casualties were already incomparably heavy. Among the Giant Whale Spirit Race experts, Jing Cheng was the only one left alive. His hair was disheveled, and he was covered in blood as he, Yun Jiu, and two other Great Martial Stage experts fought against Zuo Huai, Lin Gu, and Huang Chongjia.

The battle was fierce and brutal.

The three attendants still stood, but they were the only survivors in their camp. The experts of the Eastern Seas who’d fought alongside them had all been reduced to corpses strewn across the ground. The three of them were covered in blood, and it was unclear how much was theirs and how much was their enemies’.

The entire hall was covered in fragmented corpses, treasures, and puddles of blood.

When Su Yi and the others entered the hall, it was this vision of purgatory that greeted them.

Su Yi’s eyebrows rose. He’d initially thought it likely that grave peril lurked within the treasury. It was for this reason that he didn’t rush inside.

But now, he realized that the true danger lay in the human heart!

Who among the mangled corpses strewn across the treasury floor hadn’t been a first-rate expert of the Immortal Dao? Yet now, all that remained of them were scattered bits of flesh. The reason wasn’t hard to deduce, either—they’d died in the fight for good fortune.

“They lost their lives over a bit of treasure. How foolish,” sighed Fan Zhui. Sёarᴄh the ηovelFire.ηet website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

“If you found a treasure that could help you break through, wouldn’t you fight for it too?” asked Xi Ning.

Fan Zhui fell silent.

Xi Ning said icily, “And if Fellow Daoist Su hadn’t helped me fight Qing Xiao and the others earlier, do you really think our fate would have been any different from these fallen experts?”

Fan Zhui was instantly ill at ease. He whispered, “You’re right to chastise me.”

“Battles over good fortune have always been brutal,” said Xi Ning, a strange look on her face. She whispered, “And now, we’re right in the thick of one…”

Meanwhile, the combatants noticed Su Yi and his companions’ arrival. Both sides instantly looked stricken.

“This is bad!”

“How is this possible…?”

Zuo Huai, Lin Gu, Huang Chongjia, and the others’ hearts sank into the pits of their stomachs. They’d been eagerly awaiting the divine children’s arrival all this time. Seeing Su Yi and company get here first instantly put them on guard. 

All three attendants realized that this didn’t bode well. They retreated without the slightest hesitation, unwilling to remain locked in combat with Jing Cheng and his allies.

At the same time, Jing Cheng and company realized how serious the situation was. Their heads cleared, and none of them dared to remain in the fight. All of them retreated to the sidelines. The reason was simple: the way they saw it, Su Yi and his companions were an even greater threat than the people they were fighting!

The fierce, brutal combat came to an abrupt halt, for the simple reason that Su Yi and his companions had arrived!

The atmosphere was suddenly stifled and oppressive. The pungent smell of blood still permeated the air, assailing the nostrils. It was enough to make one retch.

“You can continue,” Su Yi said with a laugh. “I promise not to intervene in your battle.”

The crowd’s expressions filled with uncertainty.

“Your Excellency Xi Ning, might you leave us a path to life?” Zuo Huai took a deep breath, then said gravely, “After all, if we go all out, I’m afraid you’ll have to use your true cultivation base to take the three of us down, and in doing so, you’ll suffer a backlash from the Dragon Palace’s Laws. That will, in turn, affect your plans to achieve divinity. It isn’t worth it, don’t you think?”

Lin Gu and Huang Chongjia looked at Xi Ning too. The way they saw it, she presented a far bigger threat than Su Yi.

Xi Ning’s gaze was cold, and she said nothing in response. She just raised her hand and waved it through the air.

Bang!!

Zuo Huai split into pieces, and his soul scattered.

Lin Gu and Huang Chongjia freaked out. Their minds practically went blank with terror. Both of them clearly sensed that Xi Ning had just used her Great Profound Stage cultivation without reservation.

This was completely unexpected. None of them could imagine how she dared to be so bold.

“Run!” Lin Gu reacted the quickest and fled immediately, only for Xi Ning to stretch out her finger and tap the air. Lin Gu instantly exploded into countless meaty chunks, a grisly death.

Huang Chongjia’s eyes bulged, and he roared, “Xi Ning, aren’t you afraid…”

Bang!!

He exploded too, his body instantly reduced to ash.

From beginning to end, Xi Ning didn’t say so much as a single word to them!

Witnessing her tyrannical, terrifying methods made Jing Cheng, Yun Jia, and the others feel chills in their hands and feet. They felt as if they’d been plunged into an icy abyss, and their expressions filled with dread. They suddenly realized just how paltry and insignificant Great Martial Stage cultivators like them were in the face of a true Great Profound expert!

“Fellow Daoist, do you have any questions you’d like to ask them first?” Xi Ning looked at Su Yi.

It was just one light, airy sentence, but before Su Yi could even respond, Jing Cheng, Yun Jiu, and the others broke down.

Thud!

Jing Cheng knelt, lowered his head to the ground, and said, “Senior, please, spare my life! I know I was wrong, and I’m willing to pay any price to make amends!” 

Xi Ning ignored him. She was waiting for Su Yi’s response.

Su Yi thought for a moment, then said, “Have you ever seen the Book of Karma?”

Jing Cheng shook his head. “Never.”

Su Yi looked at the enormous Nine Dragons Cauldron at the center of the hall. “Then do you know that treasure’s origins?”

Jing Cheng grimaced. “To be honest, Your Excellency Su, we didn’t have enough time to investigate that treasure.”

It seemed ridiculous. So many of them had died or been injured, but they still didn’t even know what the Nine Dragons Cauldron was!

But that’s just how struggles for good fortune were. The winner was whoever survived until the very end. Do that, and all of the good fortune would be yours.

Su Yi said directly, “I’ll give you a chance. Go investigate and see what’s hidden in the cauldron. If you survive, I’ll let you leave here alive.”

Jing Cheng shook, his expression suddenly full of uncertainty.

But then, High Elder Yun Jiu of the Church of the Pure One suddenly said, “Does your offer apply to us, too?”

“Of course.” Su Yi nodded.

“Very well!” Yun Jiu, Xie Changque, and the other surviving Great Martial Stage experts all agreed. 

They knew full well that terrifying danger was most likely waiting for them within the Nine Dragons Cauldron. Su Yi just wanted them to risk themselves in his place.

But they couldn’t refuse his offer. Refuse, and they’d die beyond a doubt. Accept, and they might well have a thread of a chance!

“This old man… agrees too!” Jing Cheng gnashed his teeth and stood up.

Immediately afterward, they turned and approached the Nine Dragons Cauldron at the far end of the hall. All of them were cautious and fully on guard.

“Fellow Daoist, have you perhaps discovered something?” asked Xi Ning. She didn’t transmit her voice, perhaps because she disdained to do so, perhaps because she thought it unnecessary.

“I just get the sense that there’s something dangerous about that cauldron,” said Su Yi, his profound gaze focused on the distant Nine Dragons Cauldron. He whispered, “I just don’t know what kind of danger.”

Xi Ning nodded.

“I see it! It’s that book!!!” Jing Cheng shouted in excitement. “It’s the Book of Karma! I’m sure of it!”

At the same time, Yun Jiu, Xie Changque, and the others saw it too. A book floated above the tripod cauldron, shrouded in an obscure rain of chaos light.

It was about the size of an adult’s palm, and it was dull gray throughout, as if it had been condensed of chaos energy. Floating there, it seemed incomparably mysterious.

Su Yi and Xi Ning exchanged glances. They were excited too.

Earlier, they’d tried to use their divine senses, but when their divine senses neared the cauldron, a taboo power blocked them. They couldn’t see anything clearly. All they could sense was an indescribable, dangerous aura.

Now, they were certain that the Book of Karma was hidden above the Nine Dragons Cauldron!

“You have to be careful,” said Su Yi. “Of course, whoever brings me the Book of Karma can leave this place alive.”

Jing Cheng and the others called down. All of them looked hesitant. 

“I’ll do it!” Yun Jiu said suddenly. He pulled a glittering golden rope from his sleeves and tossed it into the air. It wrapped around the Book of Karma floating above the Nine Dragons Cauldron. 

The Book of Karma didn’t budge in the slightest. The rope did nothing at all.

However, the cauldron suddenly started rumbling and booming, and the nine dragon statues wrapped around it suddenly seemed to come to life. All of them erupted with dazzling Dao Light.

Boom!

Dao Light swept outward, instantly reducing the golden rope to ash.

The light swept across Yun Jiu too, and he instantly caught ablaze, burnt to cinders before he could even scream!

Jing Cheng, Xie Changque, and the others turned and fled.

Even Su Yi and Xi Ning were solemn. Both of them sensed that a terrifying power seemed to have awakened within the Nine Dragons Cauldron!

It was then that a raspy voice resounded from within the cauldron.

“No one in this world can take the Book of Karma from me. No one!!”

Every word was full of horrifying murderous intent. It resounded throughout the entire hall. 

As this voice rang out, the Nine Dragons Cauldron erupted like a volcano. Blood-red, stingingly bright light burst forth like a current of blood.

Jing Cheng and the others immediately tried to flee, but it was as if their bodies had been locked in place. Try as they might, they couldn’t move a muscle.

Their faces paled with fright, and they were overcome with despair.

“No——!!”

“Help… Help me!”

Desperate cries rang out, then came to an abrupt halt.

Su Yi and his companions watched as Jing Cheng, Xie Changque, and the other Great Martial Stage experts were instantly enveloped by that stingingly bright light and eradicated, their souls scattered. Not even a trace of their auras remained!

And when the red radiance swept outward, it shook the entire hall. Moreover, it was headed directly for Su Yi and his companions!

Xi Ning’s pupils constricted, and without the slightest hesitation, she drew her Epoch Treasure, the Seven-Star Seal.

But just as she was about to attack…

“Allow me.” Su Yi stepped forth before they got the chance, then used the power of Profound Ruin to condense a curtain of light around himself, Xi Ning, and Fan Zhui.

Boom!!!

The blood-colored divine radiance surged forth like a tidal wave or avalanche, slamming into the curtain of light. It shook violently as if about to fall.

For all their vast breadth of experience, and despite their ironclad hearts, Xi Ning and Fan Zhui couldn’t help but break out in cold sweats.

That blood-red light was full of the taboo power of karma!!

In the end, Su Yi put everything he had into the barrier, and the blood-red light dispersed without breaking it.

But before he and his companions could sigh in relief, they were shocked to discover that an unbelievable change had occurred in the treasury!