Chapter 138: The Great Lord Of The Earth Wolf King’s Army
Shocked screams and curses came from inside the overturned earth in the distance. Shi Liuyu was flung up like a dirt monkey, then fell back toward the ground, his body beyond his control.
In mid-air, streams of magic energy rivers wound and flowed, like flood dragons possessing wisdom, coiling toward him and suppressing him.
“Roar!”
At this life and death moment, Shi Liuyu let out a long howl. Green flame erupted from every pore in his body, shooting into the sky. He spat out an axe-shaped magic tool from his mouth, its blade glowing red, releasing dense and profound scriptures, slashing toward the magic energy rivers wrapping his body.
Hidden Lord’s figure flashed, soaring into mid-air and smashing through all the scriptures, seizing the axe-shaped magic tool into his hand.
With a “bang,” Shi Liuyu could not resist the dozens of magic energy rivers. His withered, twig-like body was firmly suppressed back to the ground. The more he struggled, the tighter the coils, making it hard for him to breathe, his bones creaking.
Shi Liuyu wailed loudly: “I submit, I concede, dispel the spell!”
On another small hill not far away, Li Weiyi peered at the shocking shattered earth where Shi Liuyu was suppressed, his heart shaken, emotions surging.
With a wave of his hand, heaven and earth overturned, suppressing even a leader-level figure.
What level had Hidden Lord’s cultivation reached?
Shi Liuyu was already unfathomably deep, able to flee a hundred zhang in an instant. The green flame he cultivated burned the earth to scorched soil, yet he had no power to fight back.
Yin Er, Yin Shisan, Yin Twenty-Three, and Yin Twenty-Four had eager eyes, full of longing and aspiration.
Hidden Lord carried the five-foot-long crimson battle axe as he walked over: “Not running anymore?”
“Can’t run anyway!”
Shi Liuyu was full of regret, wanting very much to slap himself twice.
If he’d known, he wouldn’t have tracked and followed, or even come to this immortal realm space. Thinking it over, the root was not sending Li Weiyi to Hidden Sect, burying disaster for himself.
Hidden Lord said: “Since you’re being honest, first help him dispel the Six Desires Talisman.”
“No way!”
Shi Liuyu shook his head desperately, clenching his teeth: “If I don’t help him dispel the Six Desires Talisman, this Law King might still live. Once I do, death is certain.”
Hidden Lord’s eyes darkened slightly. He pressed the battle axe to Shi Liuyu’s chest, sinking his ribs one by one to the limit: “This seat need only use a tiny bit more power, and a dozen bones on you will break. Your lung leaves and sea of qi probably won’t be spared either.”
Shi Liuyu’s face flushed purple then red, his round eyes bulging, yet he stubbornly refused to yield.
“Unexpectedly, still a tough bone.”
This lecherous hungry ghost of a barbarian thief was tougher than Hidden Lord had anticipated.
Thus, he raised the battle axe, its edge hovering between Shi Liuyu’s legs: “For a person like you, if castrated, it should be more unbearable than death, right?”
“You…”
Shi Liuyu was utterly terrified, but soon regained calm, wailing mournfully: “Cut then cut, nothing big about it. Ever since walking out of the wolf den that year, this thing’s been as good as useless. What’s the point of keeping it?”
Enduring immense humiliation, dignity in tatters, the old wound ripped open bloody by his own words, he sang tearfully: “Spring departs, flowers remain; people come, birds unstartled.”
Li Weiyi knew what wolf den meant and hurried to Hidden Lord’s side: “Don’t trust him. This Six Desires Law King was still scheming about Yang Qingxi a few months ago!”
Shi Liuyu said: “Bullshit, clearly you wanted the reward, wanted to make her flowing stream.”
Li Weiyi felt pairs of astonished eyes turn to him and quickly said: “Slander, he’s slandering me. It was them insisting on giving the reward.”
“At Chang Lin Gang mansion, didn’t you actively demand it? I remember it crystal clear for you.” Shi Liuyu roared.
Li Weiyi felt like he’d lifted a stone only to smash his own foot. This was hard to explain clearly, and the more he explained, the more it might be misunderstood. Composed, he said: “That was just me pretending.”
Dropping this, he quickly retreated.
But he heard Yin Twenty-Four suddenly whisper beside him: “What does flowing stream mean?”
Li Weiyi didn’t know if she truly didn’t understand or was doing it on purpose, saying: “I share an irreconcilable enmity with Yang Qingxi. If one day she falls into my hands, I’ll make her blood flow, tears stream like rivers.”
Yin Er and Yin Shisan both had unnatural expressions.
Yin Twenty-Three said solemnly: “Not that simple. Yang Qingxi’s cultivation is quite formidable. Nine Springs Pure Immortal Body, very likely the number one person of Sui Sect’s younger generation. Her mind and methods are exceptional too. Making her flowing stream isn’t easy.”
You really don’t understand?
Li Weiyi stared at Yin Twenty-Three, his face also unable to stay natural. He really didn’t want to dwell on this topic.
Yin Er advised: “How about planting a Six Desires Talisman on him too?”
Shi Liuyu paled in fright and hurriedly said: “I’m really not lying! If not at a life and death moment, which man would reveal such a face-losing, dignity-destroying hidden ailment? Would you? Would you… would you all? As long as Your Excellency swears on the Jiu Li God to spare my life, I’ll immediately help him dispel the Six Desires Talisman.”
Hidden Lord neither swore nor planted a Six Desires Talisman. He suddenly raised his head.
The entire grassland fell unusually still.
Even the wind vanished!
“Rumble!”
The ground trembled slightly, growing more intense.
After several breaths, the earth turned into undulating waves. Everyone stood atop it, sometimes at mountain peaks, sometimes plunging into deep valleys.
“Awoo! Awoo! Awoo…”
Muffled roars came from underground, like wolf howls, tiger roars, or dragon’s roar.
Shi Liuyu, suppressed on the ground, brightened with joy, then laughed heartily: “You’re dead, dead for sure, haha!”
“Boom!”
Dozens of zhang away, two small hills exploded, vast amounts of soil and grassland shooting skyward.
Eight dragon-headed copper wolves, larger than mountains, burst out side by side from underground, their bodies exuding thick bloody aura. Each was twenty or thirty meters long, with fangs and sharp teeth, brimming with explosive power.
Dragon-like majestic heads, wolf bodies, covered in ancient bronze scales, eyes burning with flame.
Hidden Sect’s people stood before them, tiny as matchsticks.
They had absorbed dragon soul and swallowed more than one kind of ancient immortal giant beast blood. In the Earth Wolf King Army, they were called “Earth Dragons,” invincible in sieging cities and seizing strongholds.
“Clang!”
Iron chain sounds echoed through the clouds.
Each of the eight Earth Dragon Wolves had two bowl mouth thick magic tool iron chains locked around their necks, connected to a palace hall-sized carriage bursting from underground behind them.
The carriage was seven zhang square, itself a magic tool like a mansion, wrapped in bright scriptures and magic energy radiance.
The aura inside was as strong as a god descending, thicker and more intimidating than all eight Earth Dragon Wolves combined.
The one driving the carriage was Shi Jiuzhai.
His sturdy upright figure stood proudly on the four-foot-wide platform outside the carriage, holding a long whip crackling with purple lightning, laughing loudly: “Liu Se, is even day-time Mo Fei not satisfying you anymore? Trying the tightness of earth crevices now?”
Shi Liuyu, pinned immobile on the ground, roared: “Cut the crap, hurry and act! I’m about to be played to death! Great Lord, save me!”
The Hidden People’s expressions all changed drastically.
Yin Er and Yin Shisan, with higher cultivation and greater knowledge of under heaven, didn’t even dare breathe.
Even Li Weiyi, a martial cultivator who’d been in this world only a few months, knew the resounding fame of “Great Lord.” The Earth Wolf King Army’s number two, often wielding it in practice, coordinating all affairs.
Li Weiyi secretly glanced at Hidden Lord and saw his eyes under the metal mask remained calm, steadying his heart.
Clearly inside the carriage, but Great Lord’s voice came from all directions, tone flat: “Worthy of the ten-million-year ancient clan’s Hidden Sect. Just a slight show of strength, and here you are. How should I address you?”
Hidden Lord said: “Hidden Lord.”
“Hidden Lord, this old man crossed ten thousand li upon invitation to see you. Shouldn’t it be your turn to board and meet me?”
Great Lord’s voice carried a forceful tone, sharp words aiming to seize more initiative before this secret negotiation.
Hidden Lord did not board, hands behind back, smiling: “In Li Zhou, Jiu Li are the masters. If Great Lord comes as guest, we welcome heartily. If as enemy… I’m afraid you won’t return to Shu Zhou!”
“Haha, such big talk.”
After the laughter, the carriage fell briefly silent, then thunder exploded from flat ground: “Your Jiu Li have no sincerity at all!”
Hidden Lord took a two-foot-long metal box from his boundary bag, holding it in his palm: “Sufficient benefit is sincerity.”
Great Lord reined in his anger, voice rising quickly: “Is the item in this box…”
Hidden Lord said: “Correct, the treasure Heavenly King dreams of. Of course, if Great Lord is interested, you may claim it.”
Inside the carriage, Great Lord wore a gold-trimmed merchant robe, sitting alone playing black stones.
Opposite, a hand hovered.
Only forearm and palm, accompanying his chess.
Great Lord’s finger paused, then he threw the stone back into the jar, realizing the opponent was peak wisdom. In this negotiation, he was being led by the nose, even dug into a pit.
He regarded this Hidden Lord with utmost seriousness, focusing before saying: “You’re sure you want to discuss such a major matter in front of a bunch of juniors?”
Hidden Lord said: “All in Hidden Sect are trustworthy. This seat stakes his life on it.”
Great Lord naturally knew the other had tossed the dilemma back to him.
If he insisted Hidden Lord board to pay respects, it meant distrusting Shi Jiuzhai and Shi Liuyu.
But this matter was too vital, no leaks allowed. Hidden Lord dared stake his life, but he couldn’t gamble so boldly.
“Young people are young people, always speaking too boldly before life’s big setbacks.” Great Lord pressed verbally, then shifted to warm laughter: “Hidden Lord, please board for a talk!”
Though he’d successfully forced an invitation aboard, Hidden Lord’s heart held no joy.
The “young people” address clearly saw through his disguise and age, revealing Great Lord’s terrifying insight, experience, and cultivation.
Hidden Lord was of course not young, but it depended on comparison.
Boarding the Earth Dragon Wolf carriage, Hidden Lord held the metal box and pushed open the door.
From outside looking in, the interior was pitch black. All light swallowed clean, as if stepping in meant falling into an abyss, never to emerge.
Another show of force!
Hidden Lord didn’t hesitate, strolling in casually.
…
“What does this mean?”
Shi Liuyu regained freedom and stood quickly, squinting toward Great Lord’s “Eight Dragon Chariot.”
Shi Jiuzhai, sitting outside the carriage, spread his palms toward him, indicating he didn’t know either.
All the Hidden People, including Yin Er in charge of Hidden Sect’s external affairs, showed bewilderment.
How long had Hidden Lord been in contact with Great Lord? Bypassing him, through which channel?
It seemed Hidden Sect had another operating mechanism.
