Chapter 504: Chapter 70: His True Identity
For the Jiaolong Clan, revealing one’s name to another party signifies a degree of submission.
Only the truly strong and members of the noble Divine Clan recognized by the Jiaolong Clan will be told the Jiaolong Clan’s names.
Upon learning that Yue Jinghua would not force a contract with her, the Dual Attribute Jiao Long Jixuechen—who had black skin and amber-green pupils—breathed a sigh of relief.
According to the memories inherited from the Jiao Clan, becoming a Contracted Beast meant enslavement. Jixuechen could not accept a Human Race Dark Practitioner as her contract master; at most, she could only agree to sign an equal, mutually beneficial pact with a Dark Practitioner.
After letting down her guard, and learning from Yue Jinghua that her father’s killer, Mo Kang, had been dealt with, the Time-Space Ice and Snow Jiao Dragon, Jixuechen, told Yue Jinghua it belonged to the Jiao Clan, and its parents had migrated from the distant Ancient Outer Sea.
About the Ancient Outer Sea, its memories were scant, only knowing that there were extraordinarily powerful members of the Sea Clan living there, as well as some mixed bloodlines left from the Ancient Holy Race.
After inquiring and confirming that no more secrets of the continent could be unearthed from Jixuechen, Yue Jinghua, along with several members of the July Mercenary Team, rode the Black Flood Dragon back to Five Saints Town.
With the whistling of wind in her ears and clouds billowing like waves by her side, Yue Jinghua couldn’t help feeling melancholic as she remembered the experiences from the past few days in the Sky Dragon Palace.
Her scalp tingled as she gazed up into the sky; it felt as though a gaze was fixed firmly upon her from behind.
After rapidly sweeping her surroundings with her Spiritual Sense, she found nothing unusual. Soon after, the Sky Dragon Palace was left far behind as the Black Flood Dragon Jixuechen flapped its wings.
Above the Sky Dragon Palace, amidst the layered seas of clouds.
Zong Shaoqing stood tall and straight, his silver-white hair cascading like a waterfall in the wind. At his fingertips, a gleam of dark light flickered.
The Sea Suppressing Square Ring, which Yue Jinghua mistakenly thought had fallen into the Dragon Transformation Pond, was properly worn on Zong Shaoqing’s finger.
In front of him, a Mirror Sound Stone floated. This Mirror Sound Stone had a unique shape.
It was like a six-sided prism, with its surface cut into six large segments, each reflecting the scenes which had unfolded across the Sky Dragon Palace, and all had fallen into his sight one by one.
"Emperor, your plan?" Kneeling emotionlessly before Zong Shaoqing was the Ascetic Monk Ran Wu.
"It doesn’t matter, the goal of this trip has been achieved," Zong Shaoqing brushed his forehead hair, with a sliver of a smile at the corner of his mouth, "Her growth is indeed astounding," "You take the Emperor Dragon Boots and go back to the Five Saints Branch first."
Having successfully acquired the Holy Artifact Emperor Dragon Boots on this trip would elevate Ran Wu’s status in the Mercenary World even further.
Receiving the command, Ran Wu immediately employed the Sky Ascending Technique, plummeting through the clouds.
"Divine Son, what should we do with this guy?" Song Mu kicked Luo Yun, who was bound by Prohibition and dared not even breathe loudly.
After entering the Opportunity Transmission Array, not only did Luo Yun fail to catch up with Yue Jinghua, but he also fell into Song Mu’s hands.
"Release the Prohibition, let him catch his breath," Luo Yun stared, fraught with panic and confusion.
Initially, when Luo Yun fell into Zong Shaoqing’s hands, he was puzzled as to why Zong Shaoqing, a Divine Son of the Divine Court, would be together with people from a Mercenary Branch.
But after watching scene after scene on the Mirror Sound Stone, Luo Yun was so terrified that he was shaking in his boots.
What was even more terrifying was that he witnessed with his own eyes how the Sea Suppressing Square Ring, which was initially inside the Sky Altar, suddenly appeared in Zong Shaoqing’s hand.
"You... you... why... the ring," the Sea Suppressing Square Ring, capable of instantly imposing a tenfold increase in gravity, made Luo Yun’s head spin, nearly blinding him.
"Are you asking why this ring is in my hand?" Zong Shaoqing’s voice was gentle like a breeze in March, his hand slowly placed upon Luo Yun’s head, as if petting a small beast, "Because this ring was originally mine."
His slender fingers quietly closed, and Luo Yun only felt a white light flashing in his mind as his Spiritual Sense rapidly scattered.
In just a moment, he became an idiot who could only laugh foolishly.
After absorbing Luo Yun’s Spiritual Essence, the tips of Zong Shaoqing’s silver hair tinted with a trace of purple, which under the light of the sun, moon, and stars did not appear very obvious.
"Divine Son, why not kill him? He has repeatedly made things difficult for Miss Yue, and keeping him would probably be troublesome," Song Mu said, puzzled.
"No rush, before an ugly caterpillar transforms into a beautiful butterfly, it always has to go through some hardships," Zong Shaoqing said with a smile, his brows bright as moonlight yet tinged with a touch of wicked charm.
When Yue Jinghua saw Zong Shaoqing again, he had come to bid farewell.
Sha Xi was dead, and the Divine Court was in an uproar. Zong Shaoqing needed to take Sha Xi’s body back to Zhusen Mountain.
"Where did you go when at the Sky Dragon Palace?" After entering the Opportunity Transmission Array, Zong Shaoqing and his group mysteriously disappeared, and with them, Luo Yun, Ran Wu, and others.
Luo Yun had become a fool, and was taken back to the Five Saints Branch by Bo Xiyu and others for further treatment.
Yue Jinghua escorted Zong Shaoqing to the edge of Five Saints Town, where several eagles and vultures were already perched outside the town, Waiting for the Divine Court’s entourage.
"Bad luck, got trapped in the array," Zong Shaoqing said, his purple eyes sparkling, yet his demeanor revealed a bit of embarrassment.
Despite already knowing about the peculiarities of the Opportunity Transmission Array, Yue Jinghua did not believe that someone of Zong Shaoqing’s capabilities would be unable to get out of the Opportunity Transmission Array, especially when he was accompanied by a group of experienced Array Masters.
Yue Jinghua was skeptical, but Zong Shaoqing did not offer more explanations. Before leaving, he glanced at a cluster of shrubs behind Yue Jinghua and said faintly, "The Chaos Beasts of the Divine Court are a pitiable existence. However, their strength far surpasses that of ordinary Dark Beasts. If you can use them wisely, they will be a great help to you."
Yue Jinghua was taken aback, and after Zong Shaoqing spoke, he elegantly boarded the eagle and vulture. The entourage from the Divine Court, with their robes fluttering, turned into several specks in the sky.
"Come out, they’re gone now," Yue Jinghua turned around and said towards the cluster of shrubs.
A moon-white mantis walked out from behind the shrubs, bearing wounds left from an earlier battle.
After learning about the sad fate of the Chaos Mantis, and considering that it had not truly harmed anyone from the July Mercenary Team, Yue Jinghua did not intend to pursue its guilt.
"Why did he spare me," the Chaos Mantis uttered, with a tremble in its silver-white belly eyes.
It had killed Sha Xi, so why would that man with the scary purple eyes let it go?
"Perhaps he thinks you did him a big favor," Yue Jinghua shrugged, Zong Shaoqing was certainly not a simple man.
Yue Jinghua thought that Sha Xi’s death might just be what he wanted, "With Sha Xi’s death, the Divine Court will surely hunt you down everywhere; you have nowhere to go. Why not follow me? We should first meet Ximing; he really needs some comfort right now."