Nine Nether Heavenly Emperor
Chapter 323: The Temptation of the Martial Venerable Realm

Chapter 323: Chapter 323: The Temptation of the Martial Venerable Realm

"My... my lord! I was wrong, I deserve death, I am a beast! I beg for your mercy, my lord!" Seeing the person before him who completely held his life in his hands, Dongfang Li’s face showed full repentance as he pleaded with Wu Xiaoyun for mercy.

"Spare you?" Wu Xiaoyun bellowed coldly, his fierce and twisted visage filled with murderous intent.

"My Lord, please forgive my youthful ignorance, I didn’t kill you back then! Women, I will give you women! Ten, a thousand, I am willing to compensate you with a thousand women to atone for the beastly crime I committed back then! And we could establish a Master-Servant Contract. From now on, I, Dongfang Li, will be your most loyal servant!"

"A thousand women?" Wu Xiaoyun’s expression turned even colder upon hearing Dongfang Li’s words.

Dongfang Li nodded repeatedly, continuing to beg for mercy, "Yes, my lord, whatever you say, as long as you don’t kill me, I’ll do anything!"

"Heh, not kill you!" Suddenly, a ruthless smile appeared on Wu Xiaoyun’s face, and then, with a "boom," a burst of fiery flames ignited from Wu Xiaoyun’s hand, instantly burning towards Dongfang Li’s head, engulfing his whole head within it.

"Ahhhhhh!" Amidst the fiery red flames, the piercing and painful wails of Dongfang Li could immediately be heard.

Listening to the anguished wails from the flames, Wu Xiaoyun continued to grab Dongfang Li’s head, his sinister smile intensifying under the light of the fire. Today, he had finally waited for this moment! During countless sleepless nights, this was the very moment he had dreamed of!

"Qin’er, your husband has finally avenged you, you can rest in peace now, ah!"

"Hahahaha!" Following this, Wu Xiaoyun let out a hearty and unbridled laughter toward the sky, "Members of the Dongfang Family must die! Today, all of the Dongfang Family will bury themselves along with the beast Dongfang Li, haha, hahahaha!"

With a single sentence from Wu Xiaoyun, he had condemned the hundreds of people in the Dongfang Family to death.

"Ah, no, my lord! Please spare my life, my lord!"

"My Lord, the person who offended you was Dongfang Li. Although I belong to the Dongfang Family, we have never gotten along."

Upon hearing Wu Xiaoyun’s words, one after another, members of the Dongfang Family hastily pleaded with Wu Xiaoyun.

Wu Xiaoyun, however, turned a deaf ear to the pleas of the Dongfang Family, completely disregarding those people. His left hand struck out again, "Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!" His palm slamming fiercely onto Dongfang Li’s body, every struck part instantly turned into solid ice, followed swiftly by the spreading freeze across Dongfang Li’s entire body.

"Ahhhhhh!" Again, the pitiful wails like those of a slaughtered pig arose from the head now aflame with fiery red flames.

"You beast, you’re dying now, too! Did you ever think this day would come?"

...

In the distance, Shi Feng quietly watched Wu Xiaoyun releasing his emotions fully. He believed that after today, Wu Xiaoyun would truly become a new man. With a Martial Arts Talent that was not bad, after this mental knot was untied, it was certain that following Shi Feng, Wu Xiaoyun would be able to go much farther on the path of Martial Arts.

Afterward, Shi Feng turned his gaze toward the Kirin King beside him and spoke, "Young Master has a task for you to undertake, are you willing?"

"Young Master Feng, please speak," the Kirin promptly replied with respectful obedience upon hearing Shi Feng speak.

Shi Feng said, "Now that the Heavenly Mist Empire has been destroyed, send someone to inform Emperor Long Chen of the Yunlai Empire to come and take over this empire. Also, regarding the previously affiliated countries of the Heavenly Mist Empire, I hope you send someone to visit them and tell them that from now on, they will be affiliated countries of the Yunlai Empire! Can you do this?"

"No problem!" the Kirin King readily promised, saying, "Should any empire dare to defy Young Master Feng’s decree, I will personally make a visit to that empire!"

"Good!" Shi Feng nodded and continued, "From now on, you will still be the Kirin King, but you will be the Kirin King of my Yunlai Empire, second only to me and ranking above millions. Your title will be hereditary!"

"Then, I thank Young Master Feng," said the Kirin King with a smile. In truth, the title of Kirin King did not stir much joy or anger in his heart. The best outcome now was to have gained Shi Feng’s favor and avoid being his enemy.

Hearing the Kirin King’s thanks, Shi Feng waved his hand dismissively and said, "Don’t thank Young Master too soon. You’ve been at the Nine-star Martial Sect Realm for many years now, haven’t you?"

Perceiving the implication in Shi Feng’s words, the Kirin King’s eyes widened as he exclaimed in surprise, "Young Master Feng, what do you mean?"

Shi Feng nodded slightly and answered, "That’s right! Since you’ve helped Young Master quite a bit, Young Master will help you break through the Martial Sect Realm and step into the Martial Venerable Realm!"

"What!" Although he had already guessed Shi Feng’s intent, the Kirin King was truly shocked when he heard Shi Feng articulate it, "Young Master Feng, are you serious? Can you really do it?"

Even Princess Zi Yun, who overheard the conversation between Shi Feng and her father, the Kirin King, had her expression change dramatically. The Martial Venerable Realm, the legendary realm that for hundreds of years in the Heavenly Mist Empire had seen countless peerless talents, yet how many had been stuck at the Martial Sect Realm all their lives, dying of old age without breaking through to the legendary Martial Venerable Realm. And here, this person claimed he could help her father reach the Martial Venerable Realm.

However... he himself was only at the Martial Sect Realm. Could he really help her father reach the Martial Venerable Realm?

The Kirin King had been stuck at the Nine-star Martial Sect Realm for nearly ten years. In these ten years, he had not even touched the threshold of the Martial Venerable Realm.

"If Young Master says it can be done, then of course it can!" Shi Feng coolly replied, then questioned, "Does Young Master look like someone who makes empty claims?"

"Certainly not!" Replied the Kirin King hastily, lured by the prospects of reaching the Martial Venerable Realm, and then he added, "If Young Master Feng enables me to enter Martial Venerable Realm, I am willing to offer the Sixth-stage Peak Flame Kirin Earth Fire in tribute to Young Master Feng."

The Sixth-stage Peak Kirin Earth Fire, though precious to the Kirin King, could not compare to the lure of the Martial Venerable Realm.

Not to mention battle power—battle power between Martial Sect and Martial Venerable can hardly be mentioned in the same breath, even if the Kirin King had the Kirin Earth Fire at his disposal. Stepping into the Martial Venerable Realm would at least extend one’s longevity by twenty years in comparison to the Martial Sect Realm.

And Martial Venerable masters were like legendary beings within the Heavenly Mist Empire, with no Martial Artist within the empire not yearning for this status.

"Agreed, it’s a deal!" Shi Feng, having heard the Kirin King’s willingness to trade the Sixth-stage Peak Earth Fire, certainly didn’t refuse. The Sixth-stage Peak Earth Fire, now that his own Martial Arts Realm had been elevated to Nine-star Martial Sect, consuming the Sixth-stage Peak Earth Fire would not enable him to directly enter the Martial Venerable Realm, but it was a massive amount of energy that would bring him one step closer to the Martial Venerable Realm.