Chapter 150: An Immortal King, would he joke with a child?

Having teased enough, Jumo retracted his spells and immortal artifacts. With a single reach, he snatched Daoyuan into his gigantic palm, struggling fiercely. He grunted, "I don't care who you are! I hit whoever deserves it! Here, I am the Star Lord, and I am supreme. Don't you all rush; once I take this little fairy as my concubine, I'll slowly torture every one of you to death. Enjoy your rest!"

Noticing the displeasure of the snake concubine as she stared at Yue Qi, he stretched out a hand to capture the youth, hoping to appease his beloved's mood.

Ant Camel cried out in alarm, attempting to flee with Yue Qi. Unexpectedly, his severed hind hoof lashed out in a kick, but missed its mark.

In a panic, he tossed Yue Qi like a ball through a torn spatial rift, trying to pass him to Third Elder and Little Bug. The two latter individuals reacted as if catching a glowing coal; taking him felt wrong, yet refusing was equally impossible.

With a slap, Yue Qi tumbled extensively through the void, shrouding his form until he vanished entirely without a trace.

At this critical juncture, Ant Camel still begrudged using his life-saving Emperor Strike. He would rather let his hind hoof shatter into eighteen pieces than fail to kick the opponent away.

"They always say pigs and horses share the same pen and belong to one family. All this fighting and killing—how unseemly!"

A long-lost voice sounded as Wuyun lazily ripped open space from behind Ant Camel and emerged. He looked left and right, only to find Yue Qi gone!

He swept his divine sense and calculated with his fingers, only to have his divination severed by Gao Le, who had followed closely through the spatial fissure. Gao Le was covered in injuries and bubbling with multicolored venoms, his body locked in a fierce battle against divine punishment from within and without.

Wuyun could not afford to treat such injuries. Thus, he had brought Gao Le along in search of Luohua Wu.

Seeing Ant Camel's perfunctory attitude infuriated him. Failing to find Yue Qi, he pointed a finger and extracted a crystalline Emperor Bone from the black horse's four limbs.

Then, amidst everyone's astonishment, Wuyun handed the bone to Gao Le, grunting like an elder brother: "This Emperor Bone can heal your wounds. Take it and run; we won't beg that little wench! You jinx, you get caught and captured everywhere you go. Let me calculate for you—ah, take the Emperor Bone, head to the Western Immortal Realm for experience, and you'll encounter romance, good omens, and successfully survive the Immortal King tribulation. Splendid!"

Even though Gao Le had thousands of words he wished to utter, he could not speak a single one as he stared at Ant Camel. The black horse protested, "Yue Qi is merely a child; you can't be serious. You can't just give away this bone casually. You still have to return it to me!"

With a glare, Wuyun urged Gao Le to leave. Hearing that he eventually had to return it, Gao Le used a newly learned spell to consecrate the Emperor Bone, shattering the blockade of the ten higher Xuanxian elders above. Before leaving, fearing he might depart without contributing, he unleashed ten successive strikes against Jumo's subordinates.

Empowered by the Emperor Bone, Gao Le felt divinely assisted. Remembering that Rongya and others had all left with Emperor artifacts, what was a mere piece of bone to him now?

And so he strode away, heading all the way west until he attained the status of an Immortal King, won the pursuit of a tribal princess, and finally realized upon completely refining the Emperor Bone that this very bone was actually Ant Camel's natal Emperor Bone.

Instantly, Gao Le's face streamed with tears as he felt boundless gratitude toward that black horse.

Wuyun wore a triumphant look, as if foreseeing all these futures, and was just about to open his mouth to lecture when the heavens and earth suddenly dimmed, and a surge of starlight descended.

Starlight was vast and mighty; how could the power of a single planet ever be measured by a mere shred of an Immortal King's law?

This torrent of starlight, combined with Jumo's laws, directly froze Wuyun into an ice sculpture, causing even his divine soul to tremble violently.

This cold was not mere freezing; it spawned malignant spirits within the soul, assaulting the soul directly.

Caught off guard, Wuyun fell victim to the trap. Regardless of possessing Emperor artifacts to suppress his body, with his soul imprisoned, everything was rendered futile.

Third Elder and Ant Camel felt a sudden, heavy sinking in their chests. This senior was simply too unreliable! At a time like this, he still wasn't using the power of an Emperor artifact to fight back? It was equivalent to someone holding a cannon being knocked out first by someone with a hand pistol.

Strike first and gain the upper hand, strike last and suffer disaster—Wuyun was the living embodiment of this truth.

"Hah!"

Ant Camel finally unleashed his Emperor Might. Wherever the Emperor Might reached, the entire mountain ravine trembled. The array formations he had set up, the family members and dependents of people like Jia Youke, and the incoming reinforcements from Jumo's subordinates in the air were all blasted apart.

Like a small nuclear explosion, it scraped a layer of skin off the heaven and earth wherever it passed!

Yet this mighty Emperor Might, an attack capable of piercing a planet, was enveloped by a formless force and forcibly placated. After absorbing the explosive energy of the Emperor Might, this massive barrier directly contracted onto Ant Camel. Just as Ant Camel, Long Yi, and the fleeing Third Elder and Little Bug were about to be compressed to a fatal point by the starlight, Luohua Wu was startled awake.

"Migu lariqi, stunsiqi!"

She was still murmuring when she sensed that something was amiss around her, coupled with the distress signals sent by Daoyuan and Ant Camel.

Looking closely, she saw that Yue Qi's avatar, carrying the Emperor artifact, was trapped, while Ant Camel, Long Yi, and the others were in mortal danger and on the verge of losing their physical forms. She hurriedly sacrificed an item!

Aside from the Hundred Towns and Thousand Evils Trapping Pagoda, she possessed another immensely precious treasure prepared specifically for surviving the Emperor Tribulation—the Second-Grade Medium-Grade Immortal Artifact: the Eight-Revolution Returning Soul Pill Furnace!

To put it bluntly, this furnace was equivalent to her own internal organs, which was why she never used it unless facing life-and-death adversity.

Who would ever use their own internal organs to fight an enemy?

Luohua Wu made her move, a trace of anger lingering on her face. How much time had passed—and yet someone dared provoke the Star Lord!

At the brink of life and death, Jumo let out a sound of astonishment before beholding the appearance of a peerlessly gorgeous, breathtaking Immortal King.

As Luohua Wu manifested, Jumo moved even faster. He captured the immortals, slapped restrictive seals of life and death upon them, and set them aside. Waving a hand to dismiss his concubine, he spoke respectfully, "I wondered who it might be; so the Valley Master of Hundred Flowers is here. If you had informed me beforehand that you were coming to seek refuge, I would have welcomed you with full honors!"

"Long time no see, I trust you have been well?"

As it turned out, Jumo had once visited the Valley of Hundred Flowers in search of medicine, and Luohua Wu had been his host.

"Thanks to the Valley Master's immense fortune, my injuries have been suppressed and are gradually improving. Full recovery is just around the corner."

As he spoke, Jumo walked within a hundred meters of Luohua Wu. She sighed, "General Zuo is still the same old self, with a divine sword of lust hanging over his head. Have you forgotten the devastation brought upon you by that snake emperor?"

"You are not allowed to slander my master! My master..." Snake Concubine started to speak, but Jumo waved a hand and banished her into a spatial pocket. He chuckled, stepping another hundred meters closer, "The White Venom Snake Emperor is one of the imperial snake sisters. I once said I was willing to suffer that."

"Such righteousness, so touching—willing to sacrifice your own cultivation to help her grow!" Luohua Wu hovered her immortal artifact behind her head, cautiously taking half a step back as she asked doubtfully, "What, is General Zuo planning to use the power of the star core to detain me?"

Hearing this, Jumo looked somewhat regretful. He halted his steps and sighed, "Hearing that the Valley Master was injured, it turns out to have been a mere rumor. This starlight power merges with me; every bit I use is gone forever, and I never use it unless a matter of utmost gravity arises. It delays my cultivation!"

He reached out and pulled the terrified Daoyuan toward him, saying, "This daughter of Mount Dao is unsatisfied with her twin-cultivation partner, so she might as well become my concubine and gain official status. Her father the king doesn't dare show his face right now, but if I attain the emperorship, I will certainly pull my father-in-law up with me!"

Luohua Wu was finally amused by Jumo and sighed, "Their predestined affinity is ordained by the heavens, and even I cannot alter it. However, why don't you wake this little fellow up and ask him what my current status is? After all, I am merely his maidservant!"

Her words drew Jumo's attention back to Yue Qi's avatar. He slightly unsealed a strand of law, and Wuyun's cursing voice immediately rang out: "You damned, deserving-to-be-slaughtered beast! I will hack off your pig head, braise your four trotters in red sauce, pickle your heart and liver as cold cuts, and steam your little pig tail with chili and salt—though it might taste a bit salty!"

As the curses poured forth, Jumo applied a tiny bit more force. Suddenly, a resonant hue appeared within the starlight encompassing Wuyun. Seeing this, Jumo grunted, "So you had an Emperor artifact hidden within your divine soul. Humph, with your cultivation, how much of its power can you actually wield? Before a Star Lord, you still dare act arrogant. Do you really think there is no way to deal with you?"

He glanced at Jia Youke, who was hiding behind Daoyuan. The latter was trembling from Ant Camel's Emperor Might strike—and that was only because Ant Camel had deliberately deflected the direction; otherwise, apart from Jumo, not a single survivor would have remained.

Jumo pointed a finger, conjuring a mirror. Inside the mirror, for every piece of flesh that formed, a corresponding piece would vanish from Wuyun's trapped body.

"Break!"

Seizing the opportunity, Wuyun attempted to summon the might of the Emperor artifact, but the starlight was like a boundless ocean, enveloping the mountains and rivers. Every time he tried to erupt, he was ruthlessly suppressed.

If the Emperor artifact could not be used, how could he subdue the enemy?

Wuyun, dizzy with drunkenness, grew anxious. Jumo sneer-grunted, "I am a major general under Immortal King Jumo's thirteenth star system. If the White Venom Snake Emperor hadn't sucked away all my immortal power, my cultivation would still surpass Immortal King Jumo's!"

"Yet why did I willingly allow myself to reach this state? Do you take Immortal Kings for fools? How many fools can ever attain the realm of an Immortal King? If I hadn't done this, a great disaster would have befallen me! Overshadowing the master with too much merit! Having a cultivation higher than the master brings the same shadow and invites certain calamity!"

"I was even willing to forgo my cultivation; do you call this supreme wisdom or sheer stupidity? So you'd better put away your little clever tricks!"

As he spoke, Jumo reached out, plucked a piece of flesh from Wuyun, and stuffed it between his teeth, only to spit it out with a gag: "An immortal's meat is too lowly; it's not even fit for this king to eat!"

When had Wuyun ever suffered such mockery? Stimulated on both fronts by physical torment and soul trauma, the Emperor artifact slowly began to push back the starlight. As long as it reached a certain threshold, he would be able to break free and use the Emperor artifact to suppress his opponent.

Yet Jumo merely toyed with him, denying him the slightest opportunity.

Luohua Wu smiled. Just as she opened her mouth to speak, Wuyun cried out for help: "Little maidservant, come help me! Let's roast this pig together!"

"It seems you are the one begging me right now, isn't it?" Luohua Wu shook her head. She wanted to see the true nature of Yue Qi's avatar and witness his final struggle!

With a snap, Ant Camel unleashed his might once more, as an aura of mortal danger enveloped him. This strike was an assault on the soul, forcing him to abandon his physical body and escape via soul projection.

A massive concentration of divine sense condensed into a ball, while his painstakingly forged equine body was crushed into dust.

Jumo's methods were vicious, and seeing that Luohua Wu did not plead for them, he was not surprised in the least. At the level of Immortal King duels, even having parents or children placed right before one's eyes could not sway one's fighting spirit!

Pleas for mercy could solve nothing; they only served to intensify the suffering.

Left with only his soul, Ant Camel did not flee. Instead, he charged toward Long Yi, enduring a direct blow. This time, his soul was injured, withered and listless, showing signs of disintegration. Given his Greater Immortal cultivation, had he not possessed life-saving treasures, he would have long since been crushed to death by the sheer pressure!

Seeing Jumo flick his fingers twice more, Long Yi and Ant Camel were facing inescapable doom. Luohua Wu watched Wuyun with amusement. Tipsy and dizzy, Wuyun could perceive her seriousness and blurted out in astonishment, "You're really not going to make a move?!"

"I am an Immortal King about to undergo the Emperor Tribulation. Do you think I'm playing games with a child like you?"