Trading a Life

The once bustling and prosperous city lord's mansion has been reduced to ruins.

Under the scorching heat of the inextinguishable flames of the Fire Seal, even the stone that made up the main hall of the city lord's mansion had softened and melted into a strange shape on the ground. Several charred corpses lay sprawled in the ruins, still in their deadly positions under the sudden burst of high temperature, but they would turn into the finest ashes and disappear with the slightest touch.

Among these charred corpses were two Demon Kings, Flying Tiger King and Kui Ox King. Having achieved his goal, Bai Qiuran saw no need to hold back against them. Furthermore, both Demon King were still recovering from serious injuries, so they naturally could not escape this misfortune.

However, under Bai Qiuran's deliberate control, the White Bear King did not die. The shockwave blasted him away the moment the fireball exploded, and the high temperature caused severe burns to most of his body. But for Demon King- level demon, this was not an incurable injury.

Stepping through the ashes, Bai Qiuran crossed the ruins, grabbed the White Bear King by the neck, and lifted him from a pile of building debris.

Where are the Map Fragment of the First Ancestor Demon Emperor?

Bai Qiuran asked.

"Pooh!"

The White Bear King Bai Qiuran, but the latter was prepared and dodged it by tilting her head to the side.

"Well, actually I was just saying that to fit the mood."

Bai Qiuran threw the White Bear King to the ground, then took out the Wisdom Immortal hanging from his waist and faced the White Bear King.

"The ring on his thumb is a storage Magic Treasure."

After looking for a moment, Wisdom Immortal's eyes blazed with green sparks as she spoke.

"You... you are a living being?"

The White Bear King fell to the ground and asked in astonishment.

However, Bai Qiuran and Wisdom Immortal ignored him. The former stepped forward and easily snatched the ring from the weakened White Bear King, casually broke the restriction on it, and then took out the Map Fragment inside.

After carefully collecting the Map Fragment, he put the Storage Ring back on the White Bear King's thumb, patted the latter's face, and said, "See, I only take Map Fragment, I won't rummage through other people's Storage Ring. That's good manners. Bye-bye, you can lie here for a while."

Why don't you kill me?

The White Bear King asked, panting.

"Why?"

Bai Qiuran and laughed, "Of course we'll keep you around because you're useful, Xiong Da. The Demon Realm still needs you to fight for racial equality."

Leaving behind the White Bear King, Bai Qiuran her Spiritual Sense to lock onto Cloud Kun Chancellor and tracked him down.

He wasn't afraid that the critically wounded and dying White Bear King would be finished off by the Ape King and the Dragon King while lying on the ruins. According to the results of his Spiritual Sense scan, neither of the two Demon King nor the new Demon Emperor Cang Huangyu were currently in the city. Moreover, not to mention that there was a fox outside the city, even Su Xiangxue wouldn't just stand by and watch the White Bear King, the leader of the rebellion, be killed by the Demon Emperor Faction.

As for Cloud Kun Chancellor, this guy is even more cunning than White Bear King. He is currently carrying Map Fragment and traveling at full speed, having already quietly headed to the desolate wilderness hundreds of miles away from this City.

Bai Qiuran followed him all the way, through forests, over mountains, into canyons, and deep into caves. Finally, deep in the cave, the Cloud Kun jumped into an underground lake.

Bai Qiuran followed Cloud Kun Chancellor down to the bottom of the lake, which was hundreds of meters deep. They entered an underground river through a cave at the bottom and advanced several hundred meters before surfacing from another underground lake. Only then did Cloud Kun Chancellor finally stop.

Bai Qiuran hid in the water, secretly observing as the Monster Race Chancellor used his internal energy to evaporate the water vapor on his body and walked towards a stone platform in the cave.

On the stone platform sat a treasure chest. Cloud Kun Chancellor approached the chest but did not open it. Instead, he turned around, cupped his hands in greeting towards the underground lake, and said, "I have long admired you, Sword Ancestor of the Human Race."

Bai Qiuran raised an eyebrow, but did not appear.

Cloud Kun Chancellor stood still for a moment, then muttered to himself, "Hasn't he come?"

He then turned around, opened the treasure chest, took out Bai Qiuran's Map Fragment from his sleeve, and put it into the treasure chest.

"Wow, you've got quite a few tricks up your sleeve."

Bai Qiuran Mobile over instantly and stood behind Cloud Kun Chancellor, saying, "That question he just asked into the air was so impressive it gave me goosebumps."

Bai Qiuran's sudden voice startled Cloud Kun Chancellor, who Consciousness turned around and unleashed a set of Cloud Combination Hand, but Bai Qiuran easily countered them, knocking him to the ground with a single palm strike.

"You were faking it all along."

Slumped to the ground, Cloud Kun Chancellor said with a wry smile, "It seems Master was right. You are a terrifying opponent that even the entire Demon Realm couldn't handle."

Who is your master?

Bai Qiuran asked, "Is this the person who taught you this set of fist and palm techniques?"

Cloud Kun Chancellor remained silent.

"Okay, it's fine if you don't want to tell me. But I roughly know what you're up to."

Bai Qiuran looked up at the treasure chest.

"Are the Map Fragment inside fake?"

Cloud Kun Chancellor remained unmoved, his face expressionless.

"Your composure is quite impressive... but it's no use denying it. I have special identification techniques, and I'm determined to dig up the grave of your Monster Race Progenitor today."

Bai Qiuran grabbed Cloud Kun Chancellor by the neck and lifted him up.

"Mulberry Divine Palace, Eastern Isles, right?"

Cloud Kun Chancellor's pupils contracted slightly.

"I have plenty of time. Once I've taken care of this important matter, I'll go find it myself. It's no use you not telling me; I'll find out eventually."

Bai Qiuran raised his other hand and slowly clenched it into a fist, gathering destructive power in his fist with True Qi.

"And you, dying won't do you any harm, but living you pose a certain threat to Human Race. So I'm sorry, young man, I admire you, but I still have to kill you... because I am human."

After saying that, Bai Qiuran threw a punch at Cloud Kun Chancellor's face. Just then, a scream suddenly rang out from the direction of the underground lake.

"Stop!"

Bai Qiuran's fist stopped in front of Cloud Kun Chancellor. The terrifying wind from the punch passed over Cloud Kun Chancellor's cheek, blowing the skin and hair off his face.

The force of the punch pierced directly through the rock wall behind Cloud Kun Chancellor's head, creating a bottomless hole.

Bai Qiuran threw Cloud Kun Chancellor to the ground, turned his head to look to the side, and saw a young man he had never met before, but who was wearing a purple-gold robe, looking at him with a look of fear in the underground lake.

Of course, what made him stop was not the strange boy's scream, but the blue jade pendant he was holding.

"Someone told me that this jade pendant could save your life."

The young man mustered his courage and, panting, said, "Now I will use it to save Chancellor Yun's life."