Chapter 623: Not to be Trifled With

Chapter 623: Chapter 33: Not to be Trifled With

The Two Elders of Youxuan took out a Seven-Colored Lotus Seedpod and sent it floating over to Fang Cheng.

Fang Cheng glanced at the two of them and asked, “Just one?”

The faces of the Two Elders of Youxuan stiffened. With a wry smile, one said, “We truly only managed to find this one.”

The two of them were used to the business of killing for treasure and were not actually skilled at exploring for treasures themselves.

Fang Cheng accepted the Seven-Colored Lotus Seedpod. After a moment of contemplation, he refined the black-robed cultivator’s war chariot, sat down on its throne, and said coolly, “I’m still in need of two charioteers. Since you two can’t hand over any more lotus seeds, you’ll just have to come with me and keep looking.”

The expressions of the Two Elders of Youxuan flickered with uncertainty, but at that moment, they were locked onto by the Taixu Sword Intent, and a chill ran through their bodies.

They felt as if there was nowhere to hide in the vast world, and the slightest movement would result in their decapitation by a single sword strike.

It wasn’t that the two of them hadn’t considered counterattacking or fleeing, but their intuition told them their chances of success were less than twenty percent.

The Two Elders of Youxuan also knew that Fang Cheng had obtained a Sixth-rank Magical Artifact and had yet to use his even more formidable techniques. Antagonizing him now was clearly not a wise move.

“We are willing to serve you, sir. We only ask that you grant us our freedom after we leave this place.”

After a moment’s thought, the Two Elders of Youxuan gave in.

Fang Cheng smiled and said, “If you two help me find fifty Seven-Colored Lotus Seedpods, I will let you go.”

“This…” The two elders smiled wryly. Finally, they could only cup their hands and say, “Thank you, sir.”

The two of them then boarded the chariot and personally cast their Divine Techniques. Several streams of ghastly white light danced and swirled outside the chariot, blocking all the Water Light Blades.

The pair steered the chariot toward the depths of the sea, continuing their search for Seven-Colored Lotus Seedpods.

Fang Cheng reviewed Pan Lang’s Spiritual Memory and learned that these two were infamous in Black Universe Heaven. They were Supreme Elders of the top-tier Nether Saint Sect, and when they joined forces, their combined combat power ranked in the top five of that World Heaven.

Over the years, the two had killed countless people. They had rampaged through World Heavens under the jurisdiction of both the Beiming Immortal Race and the Dongyang Immortal Alliance, frequently slaughtering entire sects and clans. Their methods were so cruel that few dared to provoke them.

A Nine-Tribulation Great Power had once personally hunted them down, but they had managed to escape.

Now, with the two of them working together, they easily blocked the Water Light Blades from the sea, allowing Fang Cheng a much more leisurely ride.

“That way.”

Fang Cheng sat imperiously upon the war chariot’s throne, pointing in a direction.

The Two Elders of Youxuan immediately adjusted the chariot’s course and headed that way. Before long, they did indeed see a Lotus Treasure Mountain rising majestically from the water’s surface. Hundreds upon thousands of seven-colored lotus petals rotated slowly, shimmering with divine light.

The war chariot flew above the Lotus Treasure Mountain. Seeing that the lotus seeds were still inside, one of the Two Elders of Youxuan flew down. He plucked the seedpod, refined it, shrank it down to about a foot in size, and brought it back to the chariot, respectfully presenting it to Fang Cheng with both hands.

Fang Cheng nodded in satisfaction, took the lotus seedpod, and said with a grin, “On to the next one.”

The two men nodded in agreement, their expressions humble and slightly restrained.

Through this recent experience, the two were shocked to discover that the Divine Sense of this mysterious cultivator, whose body seemed forged from Profound Gold, was far superior to their own. They had to follow his directions for hundreds of miles before they could even faintly detect a trace of the Seven-Colored Treasure Lotus.

The war chariot continued to fly over the sea, searching.

Fang Cheng toyed with the lotus seedpod, thinking to himself, ‘This Seven-Colored Treasure Lotus is truly a prize. A Tier Six Spiritual Object is a rare sight in this world. This treasure will be of great use to both my true self and my Spiritual Mechanism Incarnation. I must find more of them.’

‘Even if I have no use for them in the future, I can leave them in the family Treasure Vault for my descendants to use.’

…

「A few days later.」

Fang Cheng now had twenty-seven Seven-Colored Lotus Seedpods. Each seedpod contained exactly thirty-three lotus seeds, for a total of 891 seeds.

As time went on, the lotus seedpods became harder and harder to find. Many of the Lotus Treasure Mountains were completely empty, evidently having been picked clean by others.

During this time, they encountered several Tribulation Realm Cultivators exploring alone. Without a word from Fang Cheng, the Two Elders of Youxuan would surround them and force them to hand over their lotus seedpods.

It was basically daylight robbery.

The two were notorious throughout the many nearby World Heavens. The other cultivators could only curse their bad luck, hand over their lotus seedpods, and flee in a panic, keeping a wide berth from the Two Elders of Youxuan.

Ordinarily, given their character, they would have killed the cultivators and taken all their treasures, but Fang Cheng stopped them with a cold command.

Seeing this, the two were secretly pleased.

One day, on the vast, boundless sea, a Lotus Treasure Mountain bobbed on the waves. Five Tribulation Realm Cultivators had just flown out of the flower when they saw an imposing war chariot flying toward them from a distance.

On the chariot, two emaciated, skeletal old men in hemp robes stared at them sinisterly, their ghost-fire-like green eyes glinting with a hint of excitement.

“Everyone, hand over your lotus seedpods. Someone has forbidden us from committing any more senseless slaughter, so don’t make things difficult for us,” one of the Two Elders of Youxuan said with a smirk that was not quite a smile.

The five were dressed in magnificent attire and had an extraordinary air. Their leader was a middle-aged beauty with a cold, stunning face but a lush and graceful figure. She had a Five-Tribulation Cultivation.

The four people behind her, two men and two women, all had cultivation levels of the Third Tribulation or higher. They looked at the Two Elders of Youxuan with expressions of caution and vigilance.

The cold beauty said icily, “Two Elders of Youxuan, can it be you don’t recognize me, Beiming Qingqiu? To think you’d dare to rob the Beiming Immortal Race. You’ve got some nerve!”

The Two Elders of Youxuan chuckled. “It’s not like we brothers haven’t killed people from the Beiming Family before. What, you think your Beiming Family is a cut above everyone else?”

The beautiful woman sneered and looked at the two of them. Then she glanced at Fang Cheng, who was sitting on the chariot’s throne. Her long, shapely brows furrowed as she said with a cold laugh, “Let me make this clear to you both. Our family’s Supreme Elder, Beiming Long, is also in this Immortal Mansion right now. If you dare to act so brazenly, I’ll see to it that you don’t leave this place alive.”