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Chapter 776: 776: Can this stuff be forcibly conquered?
Chapter 776: 776: Can this stuff be forcibly conquered?
Chapter 776: Chapter 776: Can this stuff be forcibly conquered?
No one in the audience could believe that Jiang Xiaobai had such a card up his sleeve.
This was too freakish!
However, after a moment of bewilderment, Huo Shuyu, Huo Qitian and others understood the intent behind his move.
They could see Jiang Xiaobai’s true motive!
In a battle to the death, Jiang Xiaobai could obliterate Qin Zicheng without breaking a sweat.
If he killed Qin Zicheng, the Qin family might be pissed, but the Hegemony Sect behind Qin Zicheng would be powerless to retaliate!
When all was said and done, this duel was something Qin Zicheng himself had demanded.
Moreover, this guy had never stepped into the gates of the Hegemony Sect.
Though he was a disciple of the Hegemony Sect, if he died, the sect wouldn’t miss a mere genius.
After all, Jiang Xiaobai had the backing of the Purgatory God Sword Sect and killing Qin Zicheng would only serve to demonstrate his strength.
Ultimately, the matter would escalate into a conflict between two sects.
Of course, the Hegemony Sect wouldn’t make any fuss, because losing means losing.
“Who would have thought that Qin Zicheng’s mind was so misguided?”
A sense of elation surged in Huo Shuyu’s heart.
She desperately wished for Qin Zicheng to sign the agreement swiftly.
Qin Zicheng, on the other hand, was utterly bewildered.
He was simply bluffing, but Jiang Xiaobai took him seriously!?
A death match was a grave matter; despite the young prodigies’ constant bravado, almost none of them would willingly agree to such a duel.
Now, Qin Zicheng felt as though he was on the grill.
If he agreed, there was a risk of his own death. If he declined, where would he put his face? Especially when Jiang Xiaobai was watching him with a taunting gaze, waving the Heaven’s Pact contract in his hand. It was infuriating!
“Why are you blushing? Weren’t you acting like a hotshot just now, eager to fight me to the death?
So now that I’ve agreed, come on, come at me!”
Jiang Xiaobai laughed mockingly.
He was acting so annoyingly smug!
All the bystanders were now chuckling at Qin Zicheng, reveling in his foolishness.
“How dare you! Who do you think you are, to act so arrogantly in front of me?”
Qin Zicheng gave a cold snort, choosing to ignore him and pretend that nothing had transpired.
He felt it was fine as long as he didn’t agree with Jiang Xiaobai.
But Jiang Xiaobai wasn’t interested in engaging with him and blurted out,”One word, are you in?”
“Why the hell are you still harping on this!?”
An exasperated Qin Zicheng roared, “A death match? I don’t have the time for it!
The Huo family, huh? Very good, very good indeed. I’ll be leaving. But you remember this!”
“I, Qin Zicheng, will return.”
With a cold snort, he turned to leave without hesitation.
None of the people who had watched the proceedings took it seriously.
Oblivious to them all, Jiang Xiaobai held his ground.
He charged towards Qin Zicheng, yelling, “Hey, you backstabber, turn around!”
Qin Zicheng was seething.
This bugger was undeniably too much to bear!
He was a man of reputation, after all!
About to turn back and berate him, he heard a sudden alarmed cry by his side.
“Master, be careful!”
Simultaneously, he turned around but found no sign of Jiang Xiaobai.
Next thing he knew, he felt a sharp pain in his hand and something being pressed into his palm.
Instantly, he was flabbergasted!
All present were dumbfounded, both Li Tian and the high-ranking members of the Huo family stood up, disbelieving, looking at Jiang Xiaobai as if he were a ghost.
There, right in Jiang Xiaobai’s hand was the Heaven’s Pact contract now bearing a fresh, blood-red hand print.
Turns out, he had forcibly made Qin Zicheng sign the contract!
This time, everyone was stumped.
Who the hell knew you could play around with the Heaven’s Pact like this?
Have some shame!
Many high-ranking members of the Qin family who had come were furious, ready to lash out at Jiang Xiaobai and crush him on the spot.
Could they not see that Qin Zicheng was no longer interested in playing this game?
When someone was visibly unwilling to participate, what was the point of insisting?
At that moment, Li Tian raised his hand.
A wave of terrifying force descended instantly, suppressing all the high-level members of the Qin family on the spot.
“Qin Zicheng was the one who suggested this death match. Now that Xiaobai has agreed, does he intend to back out?”
Li Tian sneered continuously, “There’s no such thing as a free lunch in this world.”
The members of the Qin family were left speechless.
Defiant, Qin Zicheng said, “I never said I wanted to sign a contract!”
“I don’t care. The death match must commence anyway.”
This, in a subtle way, gave Jiang Xiaobai a boost.
With Li Tian around, no one there would dare to act recklessly.
Meanwhile, Jiang Xiaobai had also imprinted his hand on the Heaven’s Pact contract.
Thus, the contract was fully formed.
At that point, everyone realized that small loopholes were scattered all over the contract.
Upon closer inspection, they felt their scalp tingle.
Just as Yun Chujiu was deep in thought, Mao Suiqiu’s weak voice sounded:
“Master, the Great Void Mirror said that because you haven’t drunk blood recently and you’ve used it too many times, it wanted me to remind you to take it easy. Don’t use up all the remaining times.”
Hei Xinjiu couldn’t be bothered to say anything now. Anyway… it would be useless even if she said it.
She was not afraid of settling scores. The more this broken mirror was showing off, the more miserable it would be in the future.
Although the number of times was limited, if these bone-devouring shells were too terrifying, she could only enter the Great Void Mystic Realm.
At this moment, a bowl-sized bone-devouring shell rushed towards Yun Chujiu and spat out a black liquid towards Yun chujiu.
Yun chujiu subconsciously avoided it. Then, she saw the black liquid spread into the seawater, dyeing a part of the area black and causing bubbles that looked like boiling water to rise.
Yun chujiu was shocked. What was going on?
Could it be that the black liquid from the bone-eating shellfish had a strong corrosive effect?
This guy was shocked, but he soon realized that he was not afraid of Gouwei Bacao since he had it.
She tried to touch the bubbling sea water, but there was nothing unusual.
At this time, the Gouwei Bacao in Yun Chujiu’s Dantian waved its leaves desperately, looking impatient.
Hei Xinjiu curled her lips and handed over the control of her body to the Gouwei Bacao.
The gouwei Bacao said excitedly, “Finally, I can have a full meal! I didn’t expect that there would be such a good thing here. I really don’t need to be busy with the good fortune Bacao. It really makes me sick.”
While the Gouwei Bacao was talking, several streams of black liquid shot toward it.
Gouwei Bacao immediately swallowed all the black liquid into its mouth. Of course, it inevitably drank a lot of seawater.
This fellow couldn’t care less about this now. It wished it could swallow all the venom of the bone-eating shellfish into its stomach.
These bone-eating shellfish didn’t seem to have any other abilities other than spitting venom. Therefore, Gouwei Bacao directly rushed into the group of bone-eating shellfish and drank the venom happily.
Those bone-eating shellfish did not have high intelligence. They only knew how to spit venom desperately until all the venom was spat out.
As there were too many bone-eating shellfish, Gouwei Bacao drank until he burped:
“Burp, burp, I’m stuffed to death! But even if I’m stuffed to death, I can’t let go of such a good opportunity. Maybe after absorbing the poison, I’ll…”
Gouwei Bacao stopped abruptly at this point, blinking its eyes and changing the topic:
“Ahem, well, grandmother, these bone-eating shellfish don’t have any venom anymore and have no offensive ability at all. Do you want to try their meat? It might taste good.”
Yun chujiu knew that Gouwei Bacao was changing the topic, but she did not ask further. She let it dig out the flesh of the bone-eating shellfish while it absorbed the poison.
Gouwei Bacao, who was forced to work as a laborer, wished that it could slap itself twice!
Although the bone-eating shellfish were not very intelligent, they still had a basic sense of danger. When they saw their companions dying one after another, they turned around and ran in the direction they came from.
Gouwei Bacao looked at the direction where the bone-eating shellfish had left and felt a little complicated. She did not know whether she should regret that the food had run away, or she should rejoice that she finally did not have to work as a laborer anymore.
After Yun Chujiu regained control of her body, she immediately ran away, afraid that something else would happen.
But it was certain now—Qin Zicheng was destined to step onto the arena.
He stood on the stage, shooting rage-filled glances at Jiang Xiaobai while his aura swirled violently around him.
His current state was enough to highlight the rage surging within him.
“Jiang Xiaobai, your tactics truly opened my eyes!”
Qin Zicheng let out a cold snort.