Chapter 381: Striking A Palm On Ravengale Island, How Should This Matter Be Settled
Tremendous amounts of spiritual power gathered and formed into a gigantic vortex above Ravengale Island. All the cultivators on the island had felt its incredible aura. Even the only Sage there had sensed it too.
“This aura, can it possibly be……”
The Sage of the Ravengale Island, the old man with a talon-shaped nose who previously went to demand the Ravenblade Sage’s corpse from the School of White Lotus, suddenly opened his eyes.
He stared into the skies above the Ravengale Island with a face full of horror.
There was no way he would mistake that particular type of aura!
“Godd*mnit, why is he here of all places?!”
The talon-shaped nose old man cursed and hurriedly flew into the air.
In the sky, a vast and majestic Buddhist Light radiated from the spiritual power that Chu Kuangren was channeling and formed into a huge golden palm sign which came down to the island!
The whole Ravengale Island was already trembling violently before the palm sign landed.
“That palm energy is horrifying!”
“If that palm attack were to land on us, I don’t even know whether Ravengale Island will still exist after that. That’s bad. We have to stop that attack!”
The Ravengale Island cultivators were extremely terrified.
Some of the stronger ones among them teamed up and launched multiple bursts of Daoist Rhyme continuously at the incoming golden palm attack.
However, the golden palm was so powerful that it easily destroyed every surge of Daoist Rhyme that landed on it. It was unstoppable.
A thousand meters, seven hundred meters, five hundred meters, three hundred meters……
As the palm sign got closer to the island, its horrifying pressure instantly caused the weaker disciples to explode and die.
That surge of energy was hard to deal with even for Battle Monarchs and Honorables. All of them fell to the ground and hopelessly watched as the golden palm came crashing down.
During that moment of crisis, a figure suddenly appeared before everyone.
It was the talon-shaped nose old man.
He roared and channeled his spiritual power. When his Sage Daoist Rhyme erupted, it formed into a black barrier that blocked the incoming palm sign.
The whole island shook crazily the moment those two energies collided.
“I’m going to block this no matter what!”
The talon-shaped nose old man growled while he desperately channeled his spiritual power.
However, his black barrier eventually succumbed to the might of the incoming attack and shattered, allowing the golden palm sign to strike the island.
With an earth-shaking boom, the sea shook.
The palm sign hit the ground and smashed a hole on the ground, sending billows of smoke and dust everywhere. The area of impact was destroyed, and huge cracks were spreading outwards like a spiderweb……
A burst of wind from the aftershock sent countless cultivators flying……
Multiple shock waves spread outward from the island and into the seas……
By the time everything was calm, what everyone saw was the devastated island which had crumbled into pieces……
There was a large pit at the center of the remaining Ravengale Island. As countless waves crashed, numerous gigantic cracks spread outwards from the center before the whole Ravengale Island was split into dozens of pieces!
That scene shocked everyone.
They then looked at Chu Kuangren, who was dressed in white and hovering in the air with a resentful and fearful gaze!
The talon-shaped nose old man glared and screamed at Chu Kuangren in the air. “Chu Kuangren, what the h*ll do you want?!”
Chu Kuangren’s eyes were as cold as ice. “Shouldn’t I be the one asking that instead? When did your balls get so big, huh? How dare you lay your hands on items that belong to me!”
The talon-shaped nose old man froze for a while. He was slightly confused.
When did they touch Chu Kuangren’s items?
“What do you mean?”
“What do you think? Hand over the Cloudflow ore right now! Otherwise, I shall send Ravengale Island into the depths of the ocean once and for all!”
One of the elders among the crowd instantly turned pale the moment he heard Chu Kuangren’s words.
The disciple beside him was no better too. The former’s legs immediately went limb, and he slumped onto the ground with a horrified look on his face.
“Cloudflow ore; I can’t believe that the supply of Cloudflow ore belongs to you,” that Ravengale Island elder said in horror while he looked at Chu Kuangren.
The talon-shaped nose old man immediately returned to his senses the moment he heard that. He could not believe that the Ravengale Island people had taken something that belonged to Chu Kuangren.
“What is the meaning of this?!”
The talon-shaped nose old man remarked coldly towards that elder. By then, he already really wanted to skin the elder alive.
‘Knowing full well of Chu Kuangren’s tremendous strength and that he is someone who shouldn’t be provoked, why did you guys still go looking for trouble? Do you want to die?’
‘You guys can die for all I care, but why do you have to drag Ravengale Island into this!’
The talon-shaped nose old man felt very helpless.
“Honorable Sage, the story is this. When we were gathering sacrificial offerings, we came across a merchant ship which had a large pile of Cloudflow ore onboard……”
The elder then explained how things happened.
He looked at Lu Jia, who robbed the merchant ship, with a gaze that could swallow him whole. ‘Of all the ships you can rob, why did you guys have to go for the one with Chu Kuangren’s stuff onboard!’
Lu Jia’s face was so scared that his face paled and his heart was about to explode.
He then looked at the black-clad cultivator beside him with a similar gaze. It was all because of that person. If not for that person’s idea to rob the merchant ship, how would he and the Ravengale Island indirectly incur Chu Kuangren’s wrath?
The black-clad cultivator looked around but could not find anyone to blame.
He, too, looked at Lu Jia with a troubled expression.
‘Can you even blame me?!’
‘If you want to blame someone, go and blame the Serpent Deity. If not for its demand for sacrificial offerings, why would we need to kidnap people at sea in the first place? And to anger Chu Kuangren as well!’
“Hand over the items now.”
The talon-shaped old man ordered coldly.
The elder could only hand out a Yin and Yang Ring obediently. Chu Kuangren immediately sucked across the air and took it in his hand before he urged his spiritual thoughts to sense its contents.
His expression suddenly turned cold. “Are you messing with me? This Cloudflow ore is not all of it. I know there’s still more!”
The amount of Cloudflow ore he wanted was ten thousand tonnes, yet there were only seven or eight thousand tonnes in that Yin and Yang Ring. It was clear it was several thousand tonnes short.
“Sect Leader Chu, this is all the Cloudflow ore that we obtained. We’re really telling the truth,” that elder uttered innocently.
However, Lu Jia’s face paled even more, and his expression kept shifting.
He did not dare to come clean with the truth.
That was because he had secretly kept the remaining Cloudflow ore for himself. If he were to admit this, the elders would never let him off that easily.
If he remained, his elders and the Sage could deal with Chu Kuangren.
He was just a nobody after all.
He figured that Chu Kuangren would never blame him no matter what. Besides, that stash of Cloudflow ore was hidden so well that Chu Kuangren would never find it.
“Very well, it’s good to hear that you’re not lying to me.”
Chu Kuangren sneered.
He then activated his Treasure Locating Skill and headed in a certain direction.
The talon-shaped nose old man and others followed on as well.
Soon, everyone arrived at a quiet and empty mountain valley. One glance and there was nothing there at all.
However, Chu Kuangren came to a particular side of the mountain.
A streak of sword qi soon swept out from between his fingers.
When the sword qi landed on the mountain wall, it touched an invisible barrier, and the mountain wall revealed a cave.
It was a misleading formation technique that could conceal the cave entrance well.
Without careful observation, no one would notice it even if someone’s spiritual thought swept past.
Hidden inside was the remaining thousand tonnes of Cloudflow ore!
Lu Jia’s face turned even paler the moment he saw this.
That elder trembled with rage, and after he had put the pieces together, he looked towards Lu Jia and roared, “I’m going to f*cking kill you!”
The elder unleashed a palm attack, and Lu Jia instantly erupted into a mist of blood!
Chu Kuangren watched on with an indifferent look as he kept the remaining Cloudflow ore into his Yin and Yang Ring.
After that, he uttered, “First you guys steal my Cloudflow ore, and then you hide some of them even though I’ve come looking for them. So tell me, how should this matter be settled!”
Chapter 382: Extremely Unreasonable, The Thirty-Six Oceanic Islands’ Sacrificial Offerings, Three Thousand Young Boys And Girls
“So tell me, how should this issue be settled?!”
Everyone’s eyes were wide open with shock upon hearing what Chu Kuangren said.
‘What do you mean about settling this issue?’
‘You’ve already gotten the Cloudflow ore and smashed Ravengale Island into pieces. Shouldn’t we be the ones who have issues to settle with you?’
“Chu Kuangren, you are free to take the Cloudflow ores with you. As for the damage you caused to Ravengale Island, we shall let you off the hook. So, you better don’t take this too far!”
The talon-shaped nose old man said as he held back his anger.
“Let me off the hook? What is there for you guys to let me off the hook?!”
“Because your people stole my stuff, I had come all the way here and sought you guys out just to get it back. Some of you even dared to lie to me in the process as well. So let me ask once more, what is there for you guys to let me off the hook!”
Chu Kuangren questioned in a chilling tone. Then, a horrifying surge of Sword-based Daoist Rhyme emanated from his body, and like a mountain, its power weighed upon the talon-shaped-nose old man.
Under his suppression, the old man was so red with rage that his body trembled. “Didn’t we return everything to you? Besides, the one who tricked you was that disciple earlier and not us. So what else do you want us to do?”
“Hmph, who’s to say whether that person might be carrying out your orders instead. Since this issue was exposed, you killed him so that there is no opportunity for questioning. Do you guys take me for a fool? If you don’t come up with some compensation today, I will never let you off the hook!”
Chu Kuangren snorted coldly.
The talon-shaped nose old man and others were dumbfounded.
They had never encountered such a brazen and impudent person like him before!
He had damaged their Ravengale Island to such an extent, yet he was still demanding them compensation. Why was Chu Kuangren such an extremely unreasonable person?!
Then again, he had the capability and strength to show for it, so what else could they do but comply?
“State your terms then.”
Said the talon-shaped nose old man held his tongue.
“One billion soulstones!”
“You might as well go and steal it!” The talon-shaped nose old man replied in anger.
“Steal? Don’t lump me in the same category as you guys. I pride myself in doing things reasonably and will never do things like pillaging or killing others.”
“Y-you……” The talon-shaped nose old man’s face paled. His whole body was trembling, and his Daoist core was shaking so bad that he nearly spurted out a mouthful of blood.
“Alright, alright, we’ll do as you say.”
The talon-shaped nose old man had no choice but to agree.
They had no choice after all!
They could not defeat Chu Kuangren in a fight.
So what else could they do?
“I’ll give you all three months to prepare that amount. If I don’t see that pile of soulstones at my Black Heaven Sect within the next three months, I shall visit you guys again.”
Chu Kuangren uttered with a chilling tone.
Just as he was about to leave, he suddenly recalled something.
“When you robbed that merchant ship, what happened to the people on board? Don’t tell me you killed them all.”
Chu Kuangren asked with coldness seething through his gaze.
“No, they’re still alive, but they’re now on the way to the Serpent Deity’s Oceanic Domain.”
The talon-shaped nose old man bit the bullet and replied.
“The Serpent Deity’s Oceanic Domain?”
“That’s right. Today is the Serpent Deity’s sacrificial ceremony, and each of the Thirty-Six Oceanic Islands must offer at least ten thousand people as sacrifices.”
An uncontrollable rage erupted from Chu Kuangren. “So you’re saying that during the sacrificial ceremony, at least tens of thousands of people will be devoured by that so-called Serpent Deity?”
“Yes.”
“Did you guys kidnap all of those people as well?”
“Chu Kuangren, this is an internal matter only for those of the Thirty-Six Oceanic Islands. Do you truly want to meddle in this as well?” the talon-shaped nose old man asked coldly.
“I see. I don’t mind you presenting sacrificial offerings to the Serpent Deity. You can do anything you want as long as the people sacrificed do not come from my Black Heaven Sect’s territories. However, because the people tasked to deliver the Cloudflow ores are considered my workers, I have to check out the sacrificial ceremony,” Chu Kuangren replied coldly.
“Are you going to go against the Thirty-Six Oceanic Islands over a few low-leveled cultivators and common folk?”
The talon-shaped nose old man could not believe how Chu Kuangren could always do things that were beyond everyone’s understanding.
“Cut the crap and bring me to that so-called Serpent Deity’s Oceanic Domain!”
Chu Kuangren uttered indifferently.
“Alright, alright. Let’s see what you can possibly do to the Serpent Deity under the Thirty-Six Oceanic Islands’ very noses!!”
The talon-shaped nose old man said coldly. After all, the main reason why he agreed with Chu Kuangren’s demand was that he, too, had some plans of his own.
The amount of one billion soulstones would prove too huge of a burden on Ravengale Island. However, if they could borrow the strength of the Serpent Deity, they might be able to have Chu Kuangren dealt with.
By then, they would not have to provide the soulstones.
“Let’s go.”
The talon-shaped nose old man said as he led Chu Kuangren towards the Serpent Deity’s Oceanic Domain……
At this time, somewhere in the seas.
Thirty-six huge ships slowly gathered, and onboard each ship, there were groups of people who were bound together.
The people who were bound to the deck seemingly knew the fate that was to befall them, as all of them looked as white as paper.
Eventually, all thirty-six huge ships had gathered.
“Greetings, fellow Chieftains.”
The Chieftain of the Ravengale Island put his hand into a fist salute and greeted each Chieftain.
“A good day to you as well, Ravengale Island Chieftain.”
“Sapphire Island Chieftain, I notice that your sacrificial offerings this time are not bad at all.”
“Haha, you’re overpraising us.”
The Chieftains of the Thirty-Six Oceanic Islands continued to greet each other.
At the same time, they were secretly noting down what everyone else had brought as sacrificial offerings too. In some way, the sacrificial ceremony was indirectly a comparison of the Thirty-Six Oceanic Islands. Whoever had the best sacrificial offerings would obtain the blessings of the Serpent Deity.
That was somewhat the main consensus among the Thirty-Six Oceanic Islands.
For instance, in hopes of a successful ascension to become a Sage, the previous Ravengale Island Chieftain sacrificed his wife to the Serpent Deity. As such, he received an ascension treasure item which ensured his success in becoming a Sage.
“Take a look at that. The Sapphire Island Chieftain has brought a lot of people this time!”
Everyone then looked at the Sapphire Island Chieftain.
His huge ship was crowded with people. There were at least thirty or forty thousand of them, all of whom were strong men.
Many of them were cultivators as well.
“Sobs……”
A burst of crying was heard.
Everyone looked in the direction of the sound in shock.
There were many children, who were around the age of seven or eight, aboard another huge ship. As if sensing that something was about to happen, all of the kids started bursting into tears.
“Papa, mama, where are you……”
“Sobs…… I want to go home.”
On that ship stood a benevolent-looking elderly man dressed in white robes and holding a cane in his hand.
“I only have three thousand young boys and girls with me. It’s nothing much.”
The elderly man chuckled.
The other Chieftains looked at him with a cautious gaze.
“Three thousand young boys and girls, huh? Tsk, I guess only the Whitesmoke Island Chieftain is crazy enough to do something like this.”
“He beat all of us this time.”
“It seems like the Whitesmoke Island Chieftain will be taking first place in this sacrificial ceremony.”
The sacrificial-offering people on board the other ships were all mad when they saw the three thousand young boys and girls.
“All of you are animals! How can you stomach doing such an inhumane thing!”
“Those are kids for heaven’s sake! You b*st*rds, imbeciles! People like you should suffer the pain of a thousand cuts and go to f*cking hell! F*ck all of you!”
“You animals! If you still have any bit of decency left in you, please let the children go! You can pick on us instead. I dare you!”
“*sshole. *ssholes like you guys will not die in peace……”
No matter how the people cursed and yelled, the Chieftains of the Thirty-Six Oceanic Islands were unmoved. They simply only stared at the people with a cold gaze.
They had long gotten used to that scene.
“Why are these sacrificial offerings always so noisy during the Serpent Deity’s sacrifice offering ceremony? They buzz like a bunch of flies,” one of the Chieftains complained.
“Let them curse all they want. They’re not going to last long anyway.”
“I think the Serpent Deity is going to come anytime now.”
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