Chapter 7: Illusory Immortal palace

“Husband!!/Uncle!/Dad!?” They exclaim at the same time before feeling more relaxed.

Zhu Songtian stands up, picks up his guandao before walking to the remaining of the black cloth man group in rage.

He uses combat arts and transforms himself into a beast-man, his muscles getting larger, his long hair and facial hair become golden bright, and his face and eye become more feline, and fang protrude out of his feline mouth.

“Shit!! Golden Lion Zhu Songtian!!” The few remaining spirit king black cloth experts exclaim in panic. While Zhu Songtian golden Spirit qi aura explodes in rage, his Advance grade spirits Emperor realm cultivation display it’s dreadful might directly at the remaining black cloth experts.

“Die!!”

Zhu Songtian shouts like a raging beast and attacks the first black cloth man. His guandao crushing at the black cloth man chest and the bone-crushing sound sends a chill to all of his adversaries before the body of an unlucky black cloth man got crushed on the ground. 

At the same time, The sound of warcry and victory aloud from the distant and Tian Feng lead his royal guard to surround all of the Black cloth Man. Every royal guard of his is the Spirits King Expert.

The reinforcement of the black cloth man has all been killed by Tian Feng royal guard, and the remaining one just gets captured. The field medic quickly treats the wound of Zhu Yinbing and Xiao Lan while Tian Feng strolling to the place where Zhu Wushang is sitting on the ground with one of the field medic still treating his back injury.

“Hi, teacher surprise?” Tian Feng asks smugly.

“No, Your surname is Tian, right? and my father is working for your father as his general so why should I be surprised.” He answers blandly.

“Hmph! You're no fun” Tian Feng snorted, then looking at the corpse of the Spirits King expert that Zhu Wushang killed.

“Hey! Teacher, can you give that poison recipe to me? I want some merit in my name to get the crown prince title.” He asks Zhu Wushang directly.

“No, I don’t want to get dragged into a power struggle. It’s bad for my health. Besides, isn't your sister already a crown princess?”

Zhu Wushang's answer makes Tian Feng turn his head and look at him like looking at an alien lifeform.

“Wait, You didn’t know!?”

“Know what?” Asked Zhu Wushang.

But before Tian Feng said anything, the great spirit qi pressure suddenly appeared and pressured everyone to kneel on the ground.

“What!!” Zhu Songtian is immediately looking to the skies where the pressure came from.

The two figures of middle aged man levitate in the air above them. The first one has a noble aura and a demeanor of a person in ruler position and looking at them with a calculative smile.

The second one is a young man looking like 20-25 and the source of this great pressure. He’s looking at them in disdain like looking at the lowly insect. The pressure from him is so dense it’s like his cultivation is beyond Ascension!!

“Duke, Is that cripple the one that has treasure blood called Origin God Blood?” The youth ask and look at Zhu Wushang in disdain.

“That’s right young master Li” The middle aged man replied in subservience.

“Duke Tian Dong!!!” “Your grace!!” Both Zhu Songtian and Wang Zhao shout at the same time but with different emotions. Zhu Songtian shouts in rage while Wang Zhao shouts in relief and reverence.

Duke Tian Dong is a man with great ambition. No one knows who he really is, but he appeared 30 years ago as a field captain with great strategy. After that, he worked his way to the top and eventually got the rank of Duke. Few had known about his treacherous mind and grand ambitions of his that wanted to become the sole emperor of The Great Phoenix empire.

“So!! you work for Duke Tian Dong for all along!! Didn’t His Majesty and I treat you well for all these times!? I even treat you as a brother!!! What do you want!!!” Zhu Songtian asks Wang Zhao in rage. This brother of his had saved his life on a battlefield when he was just a vice general under his wife's command.

“Hmph! Slave of a false emperor! Do you even want to ask!? Of course, I want your wife!! back then it was you who stole her from me!!” Wang Zhao retorted back.

“No!! I don’t even like you, in fact, I even dislike you a bit, and now I know why!!” Zhu Yinbing refuted instead of her husband and made Wang Zhao face black in anger.

“Shut up! Bitch!! Back then you said to both of us that you would give us a chance to pursue you! Back then, I had both money and power. I was even born in a noble family even higher than his!, but you have to choose a farm boy from a backward continent like this Desolate Continent like Zhu Songtian! If that bastard didn’t use underhand means then why did you!!..”

“Shut up!!!” Zhu Yinbing angrily shouts she partly releases her full cultivation to temporarily reduce the pressure from the youth spirits qi aura.

Young master Li eyes flash with interest and look at Zhu Yinbing Feature closely before a cold smile appears on his face. Now he is looking at the direction of the manor like he is thinking of something.

“Don’t you know it? I chose him exactly because He is a farm boy who didn’t have any background but has the guts and skill to reach out to me. Yes, I don’t mind sharing my beloved with other women, but he needs to have the responsibility and can see me and love me occasionally even if they have other women. What would happen to me if I marry you? Did you ever ask yourself that? What happened to all of your women until now?”

The question of Zhu Yinbing made him speechless. Yes, He has many women, and He changes new women like a cloth, he even sometimes forgets who his women are. Sometimes some of his women can’t take it and confront him and He kills them without much thought even though he had given them the promise to take responsibility and will never hurt them.

Now he knows why, but his ego can’t take it. No matter what he must make this woman his!! But before anyone can do anything, Young master Li flies through the kitchen roof, opens a cupboard in the kitchen and brings the girl who's hiding in there. She’s trying to resist Young master Li's hand.

“Xian’er!!” Everyone in the Zhu family shouts in panic including Xiao Lan when they see the youth pick up Zhu Xian’er out of the cupboard.

“You ants should feel honored, your daughter has both Ancient golden lion bloodline and Ice demon bloodline in a perfectly harmonious state. This is one in a thousand chances that you ants would be able to conceive her. Our Illusory Immortal palace will train her to be a heaven-defying expert!.” The youth talk in disdain but looking at Xian'er is like looking at a treasure before he brings a talisman out and crushes it. Now He has the excuse for coming to the lower realm without raising suspicion from his elders and other disciples.

The blue space vortex appears mid-air, but Zhu Yinbing releases her full cultivation without considering any consequence and uses her sword to attack the youth with the cultivation of the peak grade spirits emperor realm.

“Hmph!” The youth just snorted, then struck his hand countering the attack without bothering much.

<Pow!!>

The might of the youth palm sent Zhu Yinbing flying through the air with the blood flowing out of her mouth before her body caught by a golden hair muscular man.

“Dear?” Zhu Yinbing looks at her husband who’s in a half beast form. He nodded at his wife and gently placed her on the floor.

“Yes, In your perspective we are ants, But how about…”

At that moment, the spiritual qi in the atmosphere within the 10-kilometer radius staying still like it has been suspended by some kind of power the then it rushes into the body of Zhu Songtian.

- Emperor realm primary stage...

- Emperor realm Peak stage...

- Ascension primary stage...

- Ascension peak stage...

Zhu Songtian cultivation raising non-stop. His height and muscle expand to be a 3-meter hulk, but his muscle is not overly big like a bulk of muscle that would lose its shape. Instead, it has a well defined build that goes along well with his increased height. The beast feature vanishes, his claw and fang retract to its normal human form. The hot flame aura emits from his body and his long golden hair whips around from the sacred qi the surging from his body.

- Half step Spirits Celestial.

“Being bitten to death by an oversized ANT!!” 

His body vanished.

<Slash!!>

Complete silence… Like the tie has slowed down, everyone even forgot to breathe at the mind breaking in front of them. Everyone had a dumbfounded look except Zhu Yinbing Who’s smiling at the corner of her mouth.

“Arrrrrrgggg!!” Young master Li screams in pain. His arm had been severed without him noticing.

Without a signal or word, Zhu Yinbing knew what she needed to do and quickly caught Zhu Xian'er, the young master Li severed-arm.

“You damn a..rrfhhh!!” Not being able to utter a word ant. His stomach has been punched with tremendous force. If he hadn’t cultivated the body strengthening technique he might already be dead from his stomach being punctured.”

“By the way, my bloodline is not a Golden Lion but a Sacred Flame Devourer Lion!!” He shouts before unleashing his strongest attack while Young Master Li is still stuck in his iron grip that grabs at his stomach.

Sacred Flame Devourer Lion!! this is the king of the beast since the primordial era. It has many features similar to the golden Lion but Its bloodline is purer and stronger than Golden Lion, and it ate any source of sacred flame as their staple food source. Phoenix is the creature that a lot of cultivators revered but, This Sacred Flame Devourer Lion is their natural predator even the Golden Dragon or Sky Emperor Dragon that breath out sacred flame needs to avoid this beast hunting ground.

[Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit! I’m screwed!! I’m screwed!! this damn ant!!]

“Messing with my family is an unforgivable sin, thus let it burn with this sacred flame along with YOUR LIFE!!!”

With his shout, The burning hot sacred flame unleashed from his hand with great intensity, It’s burning light lit the area around the Zhu Manor with the white-golden light like the sun.

“Arrrrrrggghgggghh!!!” Screamed with agony, young master Li skin and muscle slowly burnt away.

Young master Li brings out a talisman; it's his life-saving treasure and quickly uses it, but the spiritual qi within his body has been burnt away with this sacred white-golden flame.

A disdainful smirk appeared at the corner of Zhu Songtian mouth while young master Li tried his hardest to struggle for his life.

“Songtian! Stop!!” A familiar voice sounds out behind his back. He immediately looked and saw Duke Tian Dong held his daughter and his wife hostage. He can see Zhu Yinbing lay on the ground, her cultivation sealed and a sword pointed at his wife and daughter ready to penetrate it.

The sacred flame stops burning young master Li but his iron grip still grabs young master Li's stomach. Some of young master Li burnt black while some areas are still affected slightly by the sacred flame thanks to his body strengthening technique; otherwise, he would already become a burnt corpse.

“Swear with your soul that if I released this hooligan to you, You'd not hurt my family.” Zhu Songtian negotiated.

Duke Tiandong smile nonchalantly and chuckling”

“Ufufu I must admit. Your bloodline information did surprise me, General Zhu and nearly ruined my plan. I know that you use your secret technique to increase your fighting prowess. But… I wonder. How long can you hold out?”

At that moment the golden-flame-like blood gushed out from Zhu Songtian's mouth and nose, his body trembling with intense pain before he couldn't hold on and vomit the golden-flame-like blood. He released young master Li and fell to the ground, collapsed, his body and muscle shrank to his original size.

“Husband!!” Zhu Yinbing screamed in a sorrowful tone. She wants to rush to her husband's side, but Wang Zhao still holds her tightly while taking advantage of her body in a lewd manner.

“You!! DAMN!! ANT!!” Young master Li kicked Zhu Songtian's stomach in rage and sent him flying to Zhu Manor. Zhu Songtian's body crushed through many walls before stopping in the inner courtyard. 

Young master Li quickly eats the recovery pill and his injury is getting much better but his injury from the sacred flame still persists and not recovered that much. He’s walking to Zhu Xian’er who’s sleeping in Duke Tian Dong arm because Zhu Yinbing pokes at her sleeping meridian.

“Ant, You know what? Your daughter now is worth more than I thought. The bloodline of Sacred flame devourer Lion and Ice demon in perfect harmony is as rare as a spirit of golden sand in the desert of the lower realm.” He said as he grabbed Zhu Xian’er and tossed her in the blue hole that he had opened.

“Nooooooo!!!” Zhu Yinbing cry out miserably. But instead of fainting, she glares at Young master Li with killing intent. Yes, She’s not the woman that can’t take a hit she’ll remember this face and sworn to herself to take revenge some days.

"Oh? what's that eye ant?" The youth is walking to Zhu Yinbing in a bad mood. He doesn't like an ant that doesn't know its place.

Zhu Wushang sees that, and quickly brings up a topic.

"So? Then why is the honorable one from Illusory Immortal Palace coming here? I guess it's not just helping that Duke to mess with my family isn't it?" Zhu Wushang asks directly and looks at the youth. He kept all of his hatred and anger hidden behind the business-like smile.

Thinking of his original goal, Young master Li answered.

"That's right; this young master comes here because of your Origin God Blood."

"My Origin God Blood?" Zhu Wushang asks in confusion.

"Oh? You don't know? Didn't your parents tell you?" The youth is looking at Zhu Couples in disdain.

"How stupid of you. You knew you had a living treasure sit in your home for four full years, but you didn't tell him his worth because you care about his insignificant feeling!?" Zhu Yinbing looking at the youth with hatred while Zhu Wushang is looking at his adoptive parents in a speechless manner, but it follows by the respect and thankful feeling within his eye.

"Then, young master. How do these Origin God Blood things work? I fill my blood in a cup and give it to you, or you need to drink it directly from my body while I need to die in the process?" Zhu Wushang asked.

"That's what we're going to experiment now" Young master Li answers then produces a white porcelain cup with a mortal grade dagger and lightly throws it to Zhu Wushang who's sitting in the ground.