Chapter 17 - The Palace Battle
Although Chen Nan did not get a clear answer, but things have taken a fundamental turn, now his "value" and the Sima family is comparable, the emperor can only pull him in, will not easily offend him.
After walking out from the palace, he was in a much more relaxed mood.
After arriving at the new Qi Shi Mansion, he saw the old poisonous monster with bloodshot eyes at once, the old man staring at him viciously like a wolf.
A chill ran down Chen Nan's spine as he turned around and fled.
"God damned brat, stop right there, you demolished the Qi Shi Mansion and scattered all of my treasures ...... I'm going to poison you ten thousand times over!"
"Look at the moves! Carrion Poison, Crane Top Red, Broken Intestine Grass ...... Bone Transformation Pill, Seven Step Soul Breaking Scattering ......" The old Poison Monster shook his hand and threw a whole bunch of poisons at Chen Nan, packets of medicinal powders dispersed near him, and his whole body was shrouded in a large poisonous fog.
Chen Nan shouted, "Perverted old man are you playing for real? Quickly throw the antidote, I can't do it anymore ......" As soon as he opened his mouth, the poisonous mist drifted into his mouth and nose, and he felt a wave of dizziness.
"I said, I will poison you ten thousand times, if you die, I will save your life, if you live, I will poison you again ......"
Chen Nan didn't dare to open his mouth to speak again, he fully operated his family's Xuan Gong, dots of golden light, a faint golden aura penetrated his body, a thin layer of golden halo appeared on the surface of his body, blocking out the poisonous mist. At the same time, the true qi in his body flowed rapidly, circulating within the hundred veins, and the little bit of poisonous mist that had begun to be inhaled was forced out of his body by him.
Seeing that a long time had passed and Chen Nan had not yet collapsed, the old Poison Monster aggravated the weight of the poison, more than two dozen packets of poison were struck at the same time, smoke billowed out at the gate of the Qi Shi Mansion, the warriors standing guard were scared and dodged far away.
The commotion here attracted a large number of Qi Shi to gather around, on the spot there were two people were put down by the poisonous gas drifting over from afar, the old poisonous monster casually threw a few packets of antidote before those two people were out of the danger of their lives.
Most of these Qi Shi were profound cultivators, they could tell at a glance that Chen Nan had managed to block the poisonous gas out, and were deeply shocked by his exquisite power.
Step by step, Chen Nan penetrated out of the poisonous fog area and walked towards the old poisonous monster.
"Perverted old man, are you still finished, do you want to keep playing?" He said as he clenched his fists, deliberately making a crunching sound from his bones.
The old poisonous monster looked greatly all over, and finally cried and said, "There is no heavenly reason ah, a few days ago there was a look if incontinence, and now it is actually strong and so perverted, and is not even afraid of poison, I poison, I continue to poison ...... me to poison you 10,000 times!"
Packets of medicinal powder once again spread out near Chen Nan, and the onlookers of the Qi Shi retreated to the distance in unison.
Chen Nan also didn't expect that he would be able to resist poison as his family's Xuan Gong stepped into the third heaven, this unexpected discovery surprised him. He passed through the poisonous fog area once again and smiled toothily at the old poison monster, pointing his right hand towards the old man's feet, a sword qi penetrated through his finger and pierced through the marble at the old poison monster's feet.
The old Poison Monster was startled and quickly retreated backwards.
So many of the Qi Shi who were watching from afar were martial artists with high cultivation levels, and they revealed shocked expressions when they saw the radiant sword qi. They could not imagine that such a young scion was a third ranked martial artist who had reached the realm of sword qi coming out of the body, not at all inferior to those of them who had been cultivating for decades.
Sima Lingkong's eyes shot out two rays of cynicism as he clenched his fists hard, itching to immediately rush up and blow up that originally ordinary and incomparable fellow.
"God damned kid, don't come over!" The old Poison Monster kept retreating backward.
Chen Nan stepped forward and pulled his arm, saying, "Do you still want to play, perverted old man?"
Looking at the faint golden halo outside of Chen Nan's body, the old man hastily shook his head and said, "No more games, how come I'm so unlucky, the neighbors I met are more perverted than one another, and one is crazier than the other!"
Chen Nan whispered, "Don't complain, I'll give you something, you'll definitely be happy."
The old Poison Monster looked listless as he said, "What kind of crap? Martial arts don't interest me, a bit of self-defense is enough."
"Poison Scripture."
"What?!" The old Poison Monster exclaimed in shock, "Really?"
"Of course it's true, I wanted to give it to you when I left the Qi Shi Mansion, but seeing as you have this look of hating me now, I'd better give it to you before it's too late."
The old Poison Monster pulled Cinnan by the hand and ran towards his courtyard, after shutting the courtyard door tightly, he eagerly said, "The Poison Scripture is there?"
Cinnan pulled out a crumpled roll of shoddy paper from his bosom and said, "Here."
The old Poison Monster jumped up at once, saying, "You god damned bastard boy, you're still playing me for fun even now, taking a roll of straw paper to fool me ......"
Chen Nan shoved the roll of paper in the old man's hand and said, "Believe it or not."
With a suspicious look, the old Poison Monster opened the roll of paper and slowly looked at it, the more he looked at it, the more excited he became, and finally he couldn't help but shout, "It's really the Poison Scripture! Great!" He quickly flipped the paper, and when he reached the last page, the old man called out, "How come it seems like it's missing a few pages?"
Chen Nan scratched his head and said, "Last time I went to the toilet, it seems like I used three sheets."
"You ......" The old Poison Monster was practically about to vomit blood in anger, pointing his finger at Chen Nan, saying, "You ...... actually used the Poison Scripture as hand paper? Heavens, the Poison Ancestor manifested himself, poison this brat ten thousand times!"
"Perverted old man have you got it wrong, I'm the one who gave you the Poison Scripture, you actually cursed me so ......"
The old man said with a bitter face, "Who let you 'desecrate' the last three poison scriptures ah, do you still remember the content above?"
"Well, it seems to be a bit impressive, I guess when I go to the toilet again, I'll remember it all."
"You ......" the old poisonous monster was angry and out of temper.
"Perverted old man look at your bitter face, the last three are actually very little, listen ...... well."
The old poison monster was overjoyed, and memorized it by heart.
"Well, all memorized it, don't chase me to the toilet to ask me when the time comes."
Old Poison Monster glared, "How in the world did you, this asshole kid, get this book? Could it be that you found it in the royal canonization room some days ago?"
"Right answer."
"I don't know how to thank you, this book is really too important to me, well, let's just write off that bill that you surprised me by scattering all my treasures."
"You're too stingy, aren't you?"
The old Poison Monster said, "Just now I heard you say that you had planned to give me this Poison Scripture again when you left, are you going to leave?"
Chen Nan said, "I'm only familiar with you in the Qi Shi Mansion, and I only trust you, so I don't want to hide it from you, sooner or later I'll leave, but please keep it a secret."
Old Poison Monster nodded and said, "I knew you would leave, are you going to leave after marrying Cool Water? Don't forget my old man after you leave."
"You perverted dead old man, don't worry, in the future I'll think of you every time I go to the toilet ......," Chen Nan laughed as he left in large strides.
Three days later, Chu Emperor Chu Han's 60th birthday was held grandly in the palace, civil and military officials came to congratulate him, and the rare treasures as birthday gifts piled up like mountains. Of course, the most dazzling or the little princess to send the petal crystal sparkling fire immortal lotus, wisps of fragrance refreshing.
The splendid palace hall is full of songs and dances, silk and bamboo, and all the officials are singing praises to the emperor, and the words of praise are endless. After accepting the congratulations of the officials, Chu Han ordered a banquet to be organized, and in a short while, there were a lot of drinks in the hall, and the aroma of wine poured out of his nose.
Although the birthday gifts sent by the people of the Qi Shi House are not rare, but they are listed as the guest of honor, the table is not far away from the emperor, and those important ministers sit on an equal footing, the crowd pushes the cups and exchanges, and the intention of the wine is very strong.
The hall is filled with the color of celebration, singing and dancing, music curls, the king and the ministers talk about wine.
Wine after three rounds, food after five flavors, the expected thing came, the banquet in the banquet stood up a person, to Chu Han salute: "Chu emperor your majesty, you do not think that these songs and dances are too soft, dang da chu, territory of ten million miles, the founding emperor to martial arts to establish the country, is it the next generation of children and grandchildren after sitting on the 10,000 miles of rivers and mountains, only know how to appreciate the sound of the music of the wind and water?"
These words could be described as irrational, the ministers all changed color and spoke out angrily.
"You are an envoy of the Heavenly Sun Affiliated Kingdom? How dare you, how dare you be so unreasonable!"
"The envoys of the tiny Tianyang country even chided the emperor of the Hegemony Country, do you want to revolt?"
"How dare you, do you, the Tianyang Kingdom, want to plot against us?"
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The envoy of the Tianyang Kingdom did not panic and said, "The little minister really has no intention of offending the dragon's face, he just wants to ask the emperor to appreciate the plagiarism of a martial artist."
The Chu Emperor laughed, "Good, I have heard that Tianyang Kingdom has many strange people, although the country is small, the number of supreme masters is no less than that of any large country, let me open my eyes today."
Chu Han waved his hand and the singers, dancers and musicians all retreated.
Not long after that, three people walked in from outside the hall, all three were in their twenties, and each of them was tall, with muscles like gnarled dragons on their bodies, full of explosive power.
After the three men saluted Chu Han, one of them said, "It's not interesting at all for us to perform martial arts on our own, we would like to invite the young heroes of Chu to come down and spar."
One of the ministers in Chu said, "Are you guys making a blatant challenge, wanting to fight against my great Chu heroes?"
One of the three said, "If Your Excellency thinks so, it's not impossible."
That minister said angrily, "You ...... you guys are so bold!"
"The land of Chu is full of heroes, I don't think that you will be afraid of a challenge from the three of us, right?"
At this time, the Grand Princess Chu Yue spoke, "If you guys want to see the stature of my Chu Kingdom's young cultivators, I can reply on their behalf and can accept your challenge."
The three were overjoyed.
"We are Dragon Knights and have our own dragons, it is impossible for us to compete within the palace hall."
At this time, Chu Han opened his mouth, "Then let's go to the palace's martial arts arena, I didn't expect my birthday to be this wonderful, I can actually see Dragon Knights dueling against people, hehe ......" Chu Han had a hint of a smile on his face, as if he had already seen what would happen to the three Dragon Knights who had lost miserably. Indeed, with Chen Nan, who was able to draw the Hou Yi bow, present, he wasn't worried at all.
However, the happiest person in the arena was none other than the little princess, who was the first to jump up and say, "Great, finally we can see the big dumb dragon flying in the air and fighting, hehe ......"
The ministers looked at each other in disbelief as they listened.
The Empress pulled the little princess and nodded her forehead, saying, "You little naughty boy are really not afraid of the world, you!"
The little princess laughed cheekily.
The civil and military officials accompanied the emperor to the palace's martial arts arena, Chu Han sat high above the center grandstand, the empress accompanied next to her, flanked by a few imperial sons and two princesses, and all the ministers accompanied him above the lower grandstand.
One of the three Dragon Knights walked to the center of the field, the sky long whistle, the sound like rolling muffled thunder in general, far away from the open. Not long after a black dot appeared in the distant sky, the black dot grew bigger and bigger, a six or seven feet long flying dragon flew to the sky above the martial arts arena, hovering in the air.
The dragon knight waved his hand into the air, and the flying dragon dashed straight down and landed beside him, creating a wild wind in the arena and causing those civil officials to scream in shock.
The dragon knight flew and leaped onto the dragon's back, and said to the crowd of onlookers, "Before we go out there are some words that must be stated, it is impossible for the three of us to have consecutive battles, therefore Chu can only elect some representatives, preferably nine, and each of us will pick up three, but we need to go on the field one by one."
This Dragon Knight was very conceited, the implication was that three Yingjie from Chu could not stand up to one Dragon Knight from Tian Yang Kingdom, which immediately caused many angry voices to be heard.
The people in the Qi Shi Mansion sat together, and the old Poison Monster whispered, "Mad enough, but has the money to be mad." He turned his head to Chen Nan and said, "You know, although the Tianyang Country is small, there are many cultivators, and the number of high level cultivators in the country is not at all less than that of the Chu Country, so the experts that come out of this country should definitely not be underestimated."
Chen Nan nodded, he had long since sensed the formidable power of these three people, each of them had already reached the level of a second stage cultivator. However, among these three, only the one who had not spoken had caught his attention, he sensed that that person was about to step into the realm of a Third Order Cultivator, a truly powerful opponent.
Chu Yue said, "There is no need for nine people, three is enough." She turned her head and said to the crowd of onlookers, "Who is willing to learn the high moves of these three Dragon Knights?"
Those young masters in the army stood up one after another, willing to fight the Dragon Knights.
The Qi Shi in the Qi Shi House had a much smaller number of people sign up, mainly because there weren't many of them who were young.
In the end the people were selected, all of them were from the Qi Shi Mansion, the first person selected was a young middle ranked magician, his strength had already reached the level of a second ranked cultivator. The second person was Sima Lingkong, his injured flying dragon had long been healed by the old witch using holy light magic. The third person was Chen Nan, who had been chosen by the Grand Princess before he had the chance to enroll.
That magician was the first to come down to meet the battle, and he gently floated from the stands to the center of the field.
Long Qi Shi laughed, "Magicians are scarce in number and are rare to see on weekdays, I never thought that I would have the honor of dueling a magician who has reached the second rank realm today, what an honor!"
The magician said, "Good point, but dragon riders seem to be a rare species, today there are three dragons at once, it's really strange!"
Dragon Chisel sneered, "Hehehe, it seems that Dragon Knights are the guest stars of Wizards, today you're dead!"
The magician laughed, "Winning against me, you're blowing a lot of steam."
The two went toe-to-toe, their mouths showing no mercy.
Long Qi Shi held a dragonslayer spear in his hand, tapped his dragon's head, and the flying dragon rushed into the sky.
"Soft mage, do it."
The magician held his wand in his hand and softly recited a string of incantations, with a wave of his wand, a streak of lightning struck the Dragon Knight from the air, the strong electric current crackled in the air.
The dragon did not wait for its master's order, and quickly flashed to the side, and the lightning that struck the air all fell to the ground, striking a huge crater in the ground.
Flying dragon brought up a gale, rushed toward the magician, the magician in the air quickly drifting, wand again gently waved, dozens of ice gun issued a burst of ear-piercing sound, flashes of cold aura, a wide range of the dragon knight rushed to.
It was too late for the Dragon Knight to dodge again, he waved his Dragon Slayer Lance, a reddish colored fighting qi was inspired from the tip of the lance, which shattered the roots of the ice lances and fell to the ground. Then, he urged the Flying Dragon to slam into the magician again, at the same time, the Dragon Slayer Gun shook repeatedly, a channel of fighting qi like a sword blade emitted the sound of giggling, attacking the magician.
The magician hastily dodged, while reciting an incantation, holding up an aquamarine blue magic shield to protect himself inside. But the dragon knight's fighting qi is exceptionally powerful, seems to have the power of indestructible, the magic shield appeared a crack, causing the magician a burst of shrieks.
The Dragon Knight laughed out loud, "I've said it all, Dragon Knights are the guest stars of magicians, you're dead." The flying dragon kept chasing the wizard in the air.
The corner of the magician's mouth spread a cold smile, in the moment when the magic shield shattered, his wand gently waved, a large wind blade flashed coldly and shot towards the dragon knight, at the same time a huge lightning bolt followed, and a burst of strong magic fluctuation came from the air.
The Dragon Knight's face changed drastically, in his haste, his body erupted into a dazzling light, the crimson fighting aura blocked the ice blades and lightning, but only supported for a few moments, the light of the fighting aura gradually faded.
The onlookers of the Chu courtiers showed joyful expressions, but those Qi Shi House Qi Shi with high cultivation did not have the slightest expression.
It was the first time that Chen Nan had seen a battle between a Dragon Knight and a Magician, and he felt very novel about this kind of aerial combat. He secretly pondered, "At what level does a martial artist reach to be able to fly through the air with their own power?"
Suddenly, the situation in the air reversed, the clothes on the Dragon Knight's body suddenly burst into pieces, his long hair stood up upside down, and crimson fighting qi burned like a blazing flame outside his body.
"Die, soft mage!"
The crimson fighting qi protected the Dragon Knight and the Flying Dragon as they charged forward, the wind blades slid down to the sides, and the lightning's energy weakened and disappeared with a "crackling" sound.
The magician was horrified, and then wanted to hide already too late, hastily held up the magic shield, but in the dragon knight's powerful impact, not the slightest effect, blink of an eye shattered. The magician was hit by the huge body of the flying dragon, and screamed miserably as he fell towards the ground, leaving a trail of blood in the air.
The crowd of onlookers let out a gasp of surprise, the rescue personnel hurriedly ran towards the field, and under careful observation, they found that the magician's sternum was shattered, and he had already died of exhaustion.
The Dragon Knight raised his voice to the sky, and the Flying Dragon also followed with a whistling sound, tossing up and down in the air, so majestic.