Chapter 700: Chapter 8: The Hall Debate Chapter 700: Chapter 8: The Hall Debate However, Bai Xiao remained indifferent, idly fiddling with her fingers.
This time, Mo, Yang, and Li San had risked their lives, and they should have received the most. Although it wasn’t explicitly stated, it was generally assumed that of the remaining three items, each of the three would pick one and then compensate the others with some points as a token.
Li Yan wasn’t going to use the Sky Demon King’s artifact. As Mo was looking to retire and had come here to make some Yan Fu points, it made no sense for him to spend money to buy a Sky Demon King’s heritage and take it back.
Seeing Bai Xiao’s lack of interest, Li Yan suggested to Mo directly, “I think Old King should take it back and auction it off. Whatever you sell it for, it’s all yours. Without you, we wouldn’t have these treasures.”
“Okay,” Mo nodded. “But like I said, I’m retiring. I’m not that greedy. Whatever it sells for, I’ll take half. The rest will be divided evenly.”
“Then we’re left with just these two items,” Li Yan said.
In his left hand, Li Yan held a white ruyi, and in his right hand was a transparent black cicada shell.
[Four Pillars Dragon Eye Fiend] (Incomplete)
Category: Ultimate Yan Fu Secret Stash (Ranked Earth*Jiazi two hundred fifty-nine core product)
Quality: Unique
The essence of the left eye of the Dragon Vein, combining the fierceness of the Four Pillars Fiend, lacking only the Gu Luan Fiend and the Ten Evils Grand Defeat. Assembling all the Life Fiends enables one to complete any phase of any ultimate Yan Fu event directly.
[Bitter Instrument Embryo]
Category: ??? (Special product exclusive to the “Eight Sufferings Life Realm” unspecified fruit series)
Quality: Legendary
A wish embryo that ordinary people can use, existing in any form of the host’s wish: including but not limited to any one-time consumable, non-unique equipment, summons. Massive specialization, massive Awakening Degree, free life, and so on.
Feed it with one’s own flesh and soul, and upon maturation, one can harvest a wish.
Compensation: Suffer one of the Eight Sufferings in hell, never to transcend.
Forgiveness: A Suffering recognized by the Sifan Master can ignore the compensation, and one Bitter Instrument can be used.
“This thing, in the era before the Yan Zhao Club, it was enough to make anyone turn pale at the sight,” Yu Shiqie said upon seeing the black cicada shell, seemingly lost in memories, her expression indescribable. “One Bitter Instrument Embryo, coupled with a set of sufficiently high-quality Yan Fu Heritage, can create a Six Ministries-level Yan Fu entity in a short period. Although such achieved Six Ministries generally aren’t very strong at first, it’s crystal clear how formidable the Bitter Instrument is. Sifan Master once widely spread Bitter Instrument Embryos across various fruits, and many tempted Yan Fu entities could not resist, ultimately turning to his side.”
“To suffer one of the Eight Sufferings without being able to transcend. If one carelessly suffers the Death Suffering, will they die on the spot?” Bai Xiao asked curiously.
This object was both unfamiliar and novel to her.
“You won’t die on the spot, but slowly experience the annihilation of the five senses, dissipation, rotting. Dying bit by bit until nothingness,” Yu Shiqie explained.
“And the Life Suffering…”
Bai Xiao wanted to ask more, but Li Yan knocked on a weighing post, and the muffled sound cut her off. Only then did Bai Xiao notice that Yu Shiqie’s complexion was already looking quite bad.
“Sorry.”
“It’s fine,” Yu Shiqie said, smiling seductively at Bai Xiao. “But that’s all in the past. These items are going to be discontinued, so if you want one, you’ll have to be quick.”
“What does ‘discontinued’ mean?” Ren Ni asked.
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“You don’t know yet?”
Yu Shiqie spoke, “It happened while we were carrying out the retrieval operation. Scales Lord Zhuo Jiu led the team, with Third Eye Global assisting. Scales Lord, Ghost Master, Jie Master. Heaven, gods, more than ten first seats, and over twenty second seats launched an exterminating strike on the Eight Sufferings Life Realm indulging in the Leaf Sea. The Suffering of Illness was slain on the spot, Wu Yin Flourishing, old, born, severely wounded fled. Resentment Club was captured, Sifan Master Ben Wu’s one hand was cut into five fingers, and suppressed in the deepest part of Mother Crown. This battle was a complete victory, the Eight Sufferings Life Realm was thoroughly damaged, the Bitter Instrument Embryo thus became extinct, and as for Sifan Eight Sufferings, it’s now in name only.”
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December 2, 2015 AD.
Yan Fu, greencopper ancient hall. Sixteen months later, the Ten Masters convened a council meeting again.
Attendees: Human Master Zhao Jianzhong, Scales Lord Zhuo Jiu, Feather Lord Cao Yuanchao, Landlord Hou Tu, Ghost Master Su Ling, Jie Master Zhan Yuejin, a first seat of the divine class, Wuwei Sanzang, a first seat of the heavenly class, Bu Yang, with no one to represent the absentees.
Cao Yuanchao woke up.
In fact, he had woken up a month ago, but until today, except for a few first seats, the news of Feather Lord Cao Yuanchao’s early awakening had not been leaked.
“Why didn’t you wait for me to come back to exterminate the Eight Sufferings Life Realm?”
Zhao Jianzhong gently asked.
“The value of swift action in war is to avoid complications. Old man, you would have taken action upon your return anyway, it was just a matter of sooner or later.”
The speaker was Zhuo Jiu, who looked even more decayed, with sparse white hair and eyes that could barely open, while his left thumb had vanished without a trace.
Zhao Jianzhong did not speak, but simply stared at Cao Yuanchao.
Cao Yuanchao spread his hands, “I merely lent the Feathered Divine Soldiers to Shanjiu. Yan Zhao Club’s war resolution must be obeyed by Third Eye Global, which also complies with the rules you set. I stayed at Heaven Jiazi Nine all along.”
Zhao Jianzhong narrowed his eyes, wondering if the Scales, Ghost, and Jie Masters alone were enough to exterminate Sifan… He felt a bit dazed for a moment, but the reality was right before his eyes. In just two years, Yan Zhao Club, which he had founded, had grown increasingly powerful, no longer like the past, at his fingertips. When did it start? Was it when Zhan Yuejin and Su Ling were promoted to Ten Masters? Or was it after An’s death?
Zhao Jianzhong then asked Zhuo Jiu, “You stirred up such a big fuss with so many people along. Besides taking revenge for An, was there any collateral damage? How extensive was it? Do you have an account in mind?”
“Weiyue Yan pinpointed the approximate coordinates. There were sixteen suspected fruits. We searched one by one, and only on the ninth did we find the Eight Sufferings. How many were affected before that, I don’t count ordinary lives anymore, the slain overflow color bubbles, roughly, about twenty or so.”
The so-called overflow color bubbles are those like Yang Sanjing, born extraordinary. If Chang Yu could live long enough, he would also count as one; such people were often the pride of an era, one in ten million, and it was a stroke of great fortune to have one.
Zhao Jianzhong was silent as the others signaled each other with their eyes. They all felt that today’s council meeting would be hard to endure.
“The Tang dynasty figure Li Yan wrote a story ‘The Tale of Liu Yi.'” Zhao Jianzhong finally spoke up: “The story says that Lord Qiantang, angered, flooded the lands, harming the common folk, and was punished by the Heavenly Emperor, chained within Dongting Lake. Later, upon hearing scholar Liu Yi delivering a letter, his niece was married far away to Kokawa Kozuke and mistreated by Kokawa Kozuke dragon, Lord Qiantang burst in anger, broke the jade pillar gold lock, showed his lightning eyes and blood tongue, spanned Nine States, embraced the Five Mountains, swallowed Kokawa Kozuke dragon in one gulp, and rescued his niece. That day, a grand banquet was held in Dragon Palace. During the banquet, Lord Qiantang’s elder brother asked how many innocent lives were harmed, and Lord Qiantang replied, six hundred thousand. Asked how many crops were destroyed, Lord Qiantang said, crops extending eight hundred miles.”
Zhao Jianzhong only recited a few lines from the story, omitting the beginning and the end. Sёarch* The NovelZone.fun website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.
“You must have heard this story, and I will not continue.”
Zhuo Jiu closed his eyes and tilted his head back, his brows deeply furrowed.
Zhao Jianzhong continued, “Of course, Lord Qiantang was not just a cruel beast; he could also be dignified and graceful, with a comely appearance, capable of playing ‘White Snow’ and reciting supreme learning. With stirring aspirations and refined conversation. When Liu Yi pointed out his wrongdoing, he admired Liu Yi’s righteousness and readily accepted it, but after all, where is there a distinguished person who has destroyed crops for eight hundred miles, in which scholar is found the will to kill six hundred thousand lives?”
“Enough!”
Zhuo Jiu shouted.
Cough, cough, cough cough~”
Zhuo Jiu was just about to speak but was choked by coughing. At first, no one paid much attention, but Zhuo Jiu’s coughing grew more severe, and he looked like he wouldn’t be able to sit up straight soon. Zhao Jianzhong, who was closest to him, quickly supported him, helping him catch his breath.
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