Immortal Martial Emperor

"You all better watch closely. This treasure of mine is dazzling enough to blind you!"

Wang Lidin said with great confidence.

A smug smile was plastered across his face.

Fu Shuo and Zhangg Kang also wore smug expressions, looking as if victory was already in their grasp. They believed that as soon as this treasure was revealed, Hong Yu and his group would be completely flabbergasted.

Having Wang Lidin step forward to crush Hong Yu’s group with a priceless treasure was the first part of Zhangg Kang’s three-part face-smacking plan.

In their eyes, the treasure Wang Lidin was presenting was a rare find even in the Aolai Kingdom. It was sure to open the eyes of these country bumpkins from the mainland.

It had to be said, the trio’s posturing had certainly piqued everyone’s curiosity.

The thousands of sailors temporarily forgot the trio’s earlier insolence, waiting with unblinking eyes for the treasure box to be opened.

Even Hong Yu showed a playful expression, curious to see what the three could possibly produce.

CLICK!

The treasure box slowly opened.

A wave of jeweled radiance shot out, with halos of red light circling one after another in a dazzling display.

Judging from its grand entrance alone, it was clearly a rare treasure!

HUM!

The light gradually receded, withdrawing back into the treasure box.

At last, the crowd got a clear look at the treasure’s true form.

It was blood-red all over, covered in peculiar patterns that looked like two deep-sea red dragons coiling around each other, fighting over a luminous pearl in the center that was the size of a fist.

Wang Lidin announced with an arrogant look, "This is an extremely rare piece of Flame Coral, ’Two Dragons Playing with the Pearl.’ The Luminous Pearl on top alone is worth thirty million Gold Coins. Add to that the two-dragon-shaped Flame Coral, and this entire ’Two Dragons Playing with the Pearl’ is worth a full one hundred million!"

GASP!

The many sailors all revealed looks of shock.

After all, the Aolai Kingdom was a maritime trading nation, and its families and powerhouses were indeed quite wealthy.

To casually present a treasure worth over a hundred million... this was truly on another level of opulence!

Wang Lidin’s face was a mask of arrogance.

Zhangg Kang and Fu Shuo were also excited and smug, sensing the shock and awe in the eyes of the numerous sailors.

In reality, this ’Two Dragons Playing with the Pearl’ was something Wang Lidin’s family had entrusted him to bring to the Xiahuang Ancient Kingdom to serve as the signature treasure for their family’s shop.

Bringing it out this time was all for the sake of viciously slapping Hong Yu and the others in the face!

Seeing that the ’Two Dragons Playing with the Pearl’ had achieved the desired shocking effect, Wang Lidin laughed heartily. "So? I bet you’ve never seen a treasure like this before, have you? I told you, compared to our Aolai Kingdom, you mainland kingdoms are nothing but poor, remote backwaters!"

That wasn’t too much of an exaggeration.

There were plenty of families in the mainland kingdoms with assets over a hundred million, but those who could casually present a single treasure worth hundreds of millions were truly as rare as a phoenix feather or a qilin horn.

Zhangg Kang stepped forward, patted Wang Lidin’s shoulder, and said with feigned righteousness, "Younger Brother Wang, didn’t I tell you not to take out anything too valuable? We don’t want to demoralize everyone too badly. That’s not what we want to see! After all, not every kingdom is as rich and powerful as our Aolai Kingdom!"

Wang Lidin immediately put on an expression of admitting his mistake and said repeatedly, "Oh, my, the Crown Prince is right to reprimand me! My apologies, everyone. I just don’t have much else on me, so I grabbed this casually. I’m not trying to flaunt my wealth, I’m really not, haha!"

As he spoke, he gave the ’Two Dragons Playing with the Pearl’ in his hand a little shake.

At this, the expressions of the sailors from the Ice Kingdom changed.

With them acting in such perfect, coordinated harmony, who couldn’t see that they were doing it on purpose?

This was a blatant attempt to crash the party!

Everyone turned to look at Landy.

Landy also looked frustrated. He was on his way to the Xiahuang Ancient Kingdom for the True Dragon Competition; why would he be carrying any valuable treasures?

"Lord Hong Yu, Lord Landy, our Aolai Kingdom has presented a treasure for everyone to admire. Aren’t you going to take out one or two of your own for us to see?" Fu Shuo looked at Hong Yu, his chin held high in arrogance.

Hong Yu chuckled dryly. "I don’t have anything valuable on me!"

"Sigh, Younger Brother Wang, look what you’ve done. You’ve demoralized Hong Yu and his friends so much they’re speechless." Fu Shuo immediately turned around, winking and nudging as he spoke.

While apologizing, Wang Lidin said, "I didn’t expect them to be so poor, either. Just a ’Two Dragons Playing with the Pearl’ was enough to scare them. It’s a good thing I didn’t bring my family’s ’Six Dragons Pan Void’ with me. That’s an ancestral treasure worth a billion, second only to the legendary ’Venerable Emperor’!"

"Holy crap, your family even has a ’Six Dragons Pan Void’? That’s a Supreme Treasure!"

"Alright, alright, stop flaunting your wealth. Hong Yu and the others are too embarrassed to speak!"

Zhangg Kang chided with a righteous expression.

But the smugness on his face was so obvious even a fool could see it.

Just then, a low murmur suddenly sounded. "Venerable Emperor? Are you talking about the rarest ’Glowing Golden Coral,’ the one shaped like nine golden dragons coiling and fighting over five luminous pearls?"

The three, Wang Lidin included, were stunned and looked toward the speaker.

It was none other than Young Master Yeban.

Wang Lidin nodded. "I didn’t expect to find an expert here! That Venerable Emperor is a peerless treasure. Legend says it has only ever appeared once, but it was later taken by some unknown powerhouse. With the Venerable Emperor out of the picture, my family’s ancestral treasure, the ’Six Dragons Pan Void,’ is the emperor among corals!"

"Oh, so that’s how it is. Speaking of coral, I happen to have a small collection myself. They’re all just cheap things from street stalls, though. I definitely don’t have anything like that ’Two Dragons Playing with the Pearl’ in your hands! However..."

Young Master Yeban scratched his head, an innocent, harmless smile on his face. "I think I might have one of those Venerable Emperor thingies," he said guilelessly. "Hmm, hold on, let me look for it!"

As he spoke, Young Master Yeban lowered his head and started rummaging through his Storage Ring.

"Eh? This is a ’Three Dragons Cloud Void’... no, not this one..."

With a flick of his wrist, he tossed a stalk of greenish, three-dragon coral to the side.

"Whoops? Not this one either. Dammit, I think this one’s called ’Five Dragons Soaring’ or something!"

Another flick of his wrist, and he tossed out a stalk of blue coral.

"What’s this? Oh, it’s a ’Six Dragons Pan Void.’ So this is where it went after I couldn’t sell it at the street stall last time..."

He flicked his wrist again, tossing a stalk of dark gold coral with six coiling dragons aside as if it were trash.

While he was busy with his head down, searching...

Hong Yu and the others were desperately trying to stifle their laughter.

...Zhangg Kang, Wang Lidin, and Fu Shuo, however, were already ashen-faced. Or rather, their eyes were wide, their mouths were agape, and they were utterly speechless.

Every time Yeban tossed an item out, their hearts would jump with a THUMP.

Three Dragons Cloud Void, Five Dragons Soaring, Six Dragons Pan Void...

’Wasn’t every single one of these more precious and valuable than the ’Two Dragons Playing with the Pearl’ in my own hands?’

’I had treated my ’Two Dragons Playing with the Pearl’ as if it were my life, carefully packing it in a treasure box, afraid to even bump it while holding it. Yet this guy was tossing aside even more precious treasures like they were garbage!’

Wang Lidin’s face was already dark with lines of dismay.

Zhangg Kang and Fu Shuo were also sweating bullets, unable to speak.

"Aha, I finally found it! Take a look, is this the Venerable Emperor?" Yeban took out a stalk of coral that glittered with brilliant golden light.

Wasn’t its appearance exactly what Wang Lidin had just described as the Venerable Emperor?

THUD!

Wang Lidin fell directly to his knees.

’The Venerable Emperor!’

’This is the treasure my ancestors for eighteen generations had dreamed of but never once laid eyes on!’

The thought of himself smugly showing off his ’Two Dragons Playing with the Pearl’ while this person treated the Venerable Emperor like trash made Wang Lidin feel as if countless hands were viciously slapping his face.

Left and right, left and right...

His face was already swollen!

The corner of Zhangg Kang’s eye twitched. He also hadn’t expected Hong Yu’s group to be so wealthy!

They could even produce the legendary Venerable Emperor.

This first part of the three-part face-smacking plan—flaunting wealth—was clearly a complete failure on their side.

With an anxious look in his eyes, Zhangg Kang nudged Fu Shuo.

Fu Shuo snapped back to his senses with a start. He swallowed hard and forced himself to say, "Ah, haha, corals and Gold Coins are just material possessions. We’re all Martial Artists. To a Martial Artist, Gold Coins and the like are just fleeting clouds! Let’s compare Primordial Weapons instead!"

The mention of Primordial Weapons made Fu Shuo much more confident.

His Fu Family was the number one Artifact Refining Family in the Aolai Kingdom!

"This Primordial Weapon is a dignified Fifth-grade Middle-level weapon! It was personally forged by my great-great-grandfather and then refined over several generations by my Fu Family before finally being completed as a Divine Weapon!"

A trident appeared in Fu Shuo’s hand.

Golden light flowed over the trident, which had a great dragon coiled around it. With a flick of Fu Shuo’s wrist, an illusion of a golden dragon soared into the sky and exploded a thousand meters out at sea with a BOOM, kicking up a hundred-meter-high wave.

His face was full of smugness. "A Fifth-grade Middle-level Primordial Weapon. I’m afraid that apart from some ancient powers and experts in the Xiahuang Ancient Kingdom, very few people possess such a thing, right?"

"My father gave me this Primordial Weapon in the hopes that I would shine brightly at the Xiahuang Ancient Kingdom’s True Dragon Competition!"

Fu Shuo swept his gaze over Hong Yu and the others with contempt.

In fact, when Fu Shuo took out this Fifth-grade Middle-level Primordial Weapon, even Zhangg Kang, who stood to the side, couldn’t help but look on with fiery desire.

He himself also had a Fifth-Grade Primordial Weapon.

It was a gift from his father, the King, when he became number one in the Aolai Kingdom’s martial tournament.

But compared to a Fifth-grade Middle-level one, it still fell a bit short!

’Good. With this Fifth-grade Middle-level trident here, they shouldn’t have any Primordial Weapons that can compare to ours!’ Zhangg Kang thought to himself, secretly sighing in relief. ’We were careless and let them smack our faces once just now. This time, I’d like to see what you can possibly do! Hehe...’

Zhangg Kang was incredibly confident.

The vast majority of Primordial Embryo Realm powerhouses used Fourth-Grade Primordial Weapons. Even he, a Crown Prince of a kingdom, only used a Fifth Grade Junior one.

He refused to believe that Hong Yu’s group would possess Primordial Weapons surpassing the Fifth-grade Middle-level.

However... just as he was gloating to himself, Xu Wudi yawned, and with a SHWIIING, a black shadow dropped from her waist.

She smoothed a lock of hair at her temple and said to Zhangg Kang and the others, "Oops, sorry. This Primordial Weapon is a little heavy; I couldn’t hold on to it." As she spoke, she casually flicked the Dragon and Phoenix Long Whip in her hand. Five Spirit Array Runes pulsed with a light that surpassed the trident’s. "Hong Yu, the grip on this Fifth-grade Middle-level Dragon and Phoenix Whip is a bit rough. Next time, refine a Fifth Grade High Level one for me!"

CLACK!

Landy took out a pair of Blue Light Gloves and clapped them together. Their power was in no way inferior to the Dragon and Phoenix Long Whip. He said in frustration, "For my birthday last time, Uncle Wang said he would refine a Primordial Weapon for me, but he ended up making a pair of gloves. I don’t really like them. If it weren’t a Fifth-grade Middle-level weapon, I would’ve thrown it out long ago!"

Young Master Yeban rubbed his nose. Blue light pulsed beneath his feet as the mighty power of a Fifth-grade Middle-level Primordial Weapon surged. "Fifth-grade Middle-level? I think mine is one too!"

Zhangg Kang and his two companions were dumbfounded.

And just then, the innocent and naive Little Chenxi spoke up. Her words were like a sledgehammer smashing directly into the faces of Zhangg Kang’s trio, swelling them up...

"What’s a Fifth-grade Middle-level Primordial Weapon? Is it better than this one?"