Chapter 75: The Heavenly Tablet
“I said this is a secret!” Manager Liu should know the rules of the auction house better than anyone, right? Qi Huang was a little displeased. She didn’t understand what was wrong with this woman’s brain to insist on asking until the last detail.
“Please calm down, sir! The rules are indeed like this, but as I just said, these are all rare treasures, and most of them are unique in the Xihui Dynasty. If you obtained them through legitimate means, we naturally wouldn’t have any pressure to auction them. But if their origins are unknown, once we put them up for auction, you should understand the consequences.” Liu Yingyue reminded him cautiously.
Qi Huang’s expression changed. She finally realized that while precious treasures were good, if they were too rare, their original owners would know as soon as they were exposed. Although Qi Huang was not afraid of Ye Donglai, she also didn’t want to reveal her background. After a moment of hesitation, she gave up: “Thank you for the reminder, Manager Liu. I will not auction these items for now!”
“Please rest assured, young master. Yingyue has never seen these things today.” Liu Yingyue also stated her position very cleverly. It seemed that she could only take these treasures to other countries for auction, Qi Huang thought.
After bidding farewell to Liu Yingyue, Qi Huang went to see Huang Di to understand the recent situation. “The situation is getting worse and worse.” Huang Di transmitted his thoughts with a serious expression.
“What’s wrong?” Qi Huang’s heart tightened slightly.
“Brother, you should understand that because the Demon General has captured most of the Nine Nether Demonic Cats of the immortal sects in the Xihui Dynasty, the entire Cultivation World is now lacking Cat’s Eye Tears. And since the Juyin Auction House is constantly selling them, it will naturally become a target of suspicion. Therefore, the cultivators who come to investigate are getting stronger and stronger, and I am finding it increasingly difficult to cope.” Huang Di explained in a heavy tone.
“I knew this would happen!” Qi Huang took a deep breath.
“Then what should we do now? Stop cooperating with Manager Liu? If we continue to cooperate with her, problems will eventually arise. We can run, but what about her, an ordinary person?” Huang Di asked anxiously.
“Stop cooperating? Then we’ll cut off our source of income. I, a majestic Heavenly Punishment Realm master, why should I run?” Qi Huang said confidently.
“But I…” Huang Di hesitated to speak, showing an embarrassed expression on his face. He wanted to say that he was only at the Peak of the Huashen Realm.
“Sorry, I overlooked your cultivation level.” Qi Huang suddenly came to her senses. With a thought, two to three hundred Ghost Tomatoes appeared on the table.
“Your spiritual sense is at the Peak of the Huashen Realm. With these hundreds of Ghost Tomatoes, you should be able to enter the Shentong Realm. From now on, as long as those three real Shentong Realm masters don’t come to cause trouble, you can handle them easily.” Qi Huang said as she handed the Tongming Comb over.
“Thank you, brother!” Huang Di thanked her with trembling lips.
“What is there to thank? We are one.” Qi Huang said casually. As time went by, she understood a problem more and more: the main body and the clones are a community of interests, sharing prosperity and adversity. Therefore, at critical moments, she must not be stingy. Just like now, if the safety of the Juyin Auction House cannot be guaranteed, then she will have no stable source of income in the future.
“Then I’ll have to trouble you for now. After I ascend to immortality, I will announce Yaoyao’s existence and then openly possess all the Nine Nether Demonic Cats in the Xihui Dynasty… no… the entire Cultivation Continent in her name. Let’s see what those cultivators can do to me!” Qi Huang smiled maliciously. Because her spiritual sense had reached the Heavenly Punishment Realm without attracting a heavenly tribulation, she could confidently increase her strength. Moreover, since she only cultivated her spiritual sense and not her body, she would not collapse space like Lu Yao, which meant she could stay in this Cultivation World no matter how strong she became.
Qi Huang returned to the HongHua Sect. Since she ran out of Anemia Ointment, she didn’t have to train with her main body (Body-Substitution Technique) for the time being, so she focused her main energy on finding a way to solve the feminization, sleeping day and night.
Heaven rewards the diligent. That night, Qi Huang finally saw Cheng Ling’s memory again, and thus saw Lu Yao, who had ascended to the Immortal Realm, once more. In the deep starry sky, terrifying fluctuations bloomed like fireworks. Wherever they passed, meteorites and smaller planets were annihilated. The two fighting parties were naturally Lu Yao and that Du Jie.
Du Jie was panting. In the past hour, he had used all the stars within tens of thousands of miles to attack, but the female zombie in front of him showed no signs of exhaustion. Instead, she was getting stronger and stronger. This was all because her body was absorbing the Yin Energy of two worlds at an incredibly exaggerated speed, so fast that it was like a leak at the bottom of a dam. That’s right, two worlds! The Cultivation World and the Immortal Realm. The spatial rift between the two worlds had not yet closed, so Lu Yao could absorb the Yin Energy from the original Cultivation World.
“This is impossible! What exactly did you do? Why is your speed of absorbing Yin Energy so exaggerated?” Du Jie asked through gritted teeth, because he had never encountered such a strange thing. How could an evil creature become stronger the more it fought?
“Sorry, it’s congenital!” Lu Yao said calmly. Only she knew the real reason: it was the blood tear condensed with endless resentment under her right eye.
“I admit I underestimated you. I should have used my strongest attack methods against you from the beginning. Otherwise, if you continue to grow like this, all the people in the myriad worlds will suffer.” Du Jie’s expression became solemn.
“How shameless! Your descendant, who was your subordinate, insisted on mending the sky against the opposition of ordinary people for his own selfish desires a few hundred years ago. Now he’s talking about the people of the myriad worlds. Is this what they call cultivators? It’s truly eye-opening!” Lu Yao sneered.
“Sorry, in the eyes of cultivators, ordinary people are not people.” Du Jie replied with a disdainful look.
“So the true face of ‘Five Taboos’ is finally exposed? Very good, this way I won’t have any psychological burden when I kill you.” Lu Yao said with ease instead.
“It’s not certain who will kill whom! Do you know? I consulted Tian Ji Zi hundreds of years ago. He said that the ‘man-made calamity’ in my Heavenly Punishment has not completely passed, and today is my fated time, but I refuse to believe it!” Du Jie introduced to himself.
“Tian Ji Zi?” Lu Yao frowned.
“Tian Ji Zi is an immortal who can penetrate the Heavenly Dao’s Will. They know the past and predict the future, and they rarely make mistakes. However, today I will let him know that he was wrong.” Du Jie said, and then shouted: “Heavenly Tablet! Appear!”
At the same time, a stone tablet about a zhang high appeared before him! Lu Yao looked closely. This stone tablet was no different in size from the Immortal Tablet before, but its texture was clearly different, and the characters carved on it were also different. She remembered that the one in the Cultivation World obtained by Du Wu was inscribed with “Monumental Tablet of Ancestor Du Jie, the Old Immortal,” while this one was inscribed with “Monumental Tablet of Ancestor Du Qing, the Old Celestial Being.”
Celestial Being? Could this be a being that surpasses immortals? Lu Yao couldn’t help but speculate.
“Blood Mark First Style, Devour the Heavens!” Du Jie roared, splashed a stream of blood on the Heavenly Tablet, and then the Heavenly Tablet suddenly began to spin, directly distorting space. Powerful gravitational waves spread in all directions, attracting all star fragments within millions of miles.
Lu Yao was also affected by the gravity. Her body moved uncontrollably towards the “Heavenly Tablet.”
“The Cultivation World has the Immortal Tablet, and the Immortal Realm also has the Heavenly Tablet. Now let me show you the difference between the Immortal Tablet and the Heavenly Tablet.” Du Jie laughed wildly.
Lu Yao bit her cherry lips and struggled with all her might, her limbs flailing like swimming. Although this was among the stars, there was leaked air from the Cultivation World, so it could barely generate some resistance. However, how could this little resistance resist the powerful gravity of the Heavenly Tablet? So she, along with the air, was sucked over.
The Immortal Tablet absorbed countless stars and casually became as large as a star, its attraction becoming even more powerful. Anything that entered its gravitational range would be ruthlessly devoured.
“Hmph!” Lu Yao snorted coldly, extended one hand forward, and a surge of fierce Yin Energy gushed out, which was then attracted by the Heavenly Tablet.
The Heavenly Tablet absorbed the Yin Energy, and its surface began to peel off layer by layer due to corrosion. However, with the supplement of material, it could barely maintain its size. Unfortunately, Lu Yao, supported by the Yin Energy of several worlds, her strength increased rapidly, and the Yin Energy she released became more and more potent, finally covering almost all the space within tens of thousands of miles.
Finally, the rate at which the Immortal Tablet was replenished began to lag behind the rate at which the Yin Energy corroded it, its quality began to drop sharply, and its gravity also began to decrease.
Lu Yao stabilized her body and said coquettishly, “Heavenly Tablet… Nothing more than this!”
