Chapter 1883 - 1911: Toll Fee [Third Update]
"Break for me!" Lord Ba Dao roared, whipping out his blade in an instant. Flame Dao Principle and Thunder Dao Principle simultaneously coiled around the blade, the sound of rending Void echoing through the emptiness.
In just the blink of an eye, the terrifying blade aura slammed into that defensive barrier, triggering an explosion.
"Boom~~~" A heaven-shaking, earth-shattering roar reverberated through the Void. The barrier rippled with waves of light, yet did not suffer the slightest damage, not even the faintest tremor.
Lord Ba Dao knew this was a first-grade Holy Level grand Formation; with his current strength, there was no way to forcefully break it.
Lord Ba Dao furrowed his brows, turned, and looked at Ye Feng. "Feng Ye, what is the meaning of this?"
Ye Feng smiled faintly. "Lord Ba Dao, did you forget I set up a Trapping Formation? Since it’s a Trapping Formation, aside from suppressing and sealing the people or things inside, the ones within also can’t just walk out whenever they want, right?"
Lord Ba Dao flew into a rage, barking, "You bastard, you think I need you to explain that? Since you know, hurry up and let me out!"
Ye Feng smiled lightly. "If you want out, that’s fine—but you have to pay a toll. Otherwise, I’m not opening the Formation."
Right then, Su Yourong got excited. "What Feng Ye said is right. Since you want to leave, you have to pay the toll. How could we just let you two walk out so easily?"
Seeing Su Yourong acting like a petty villain reveling in success, Lord Ba Dao felt extremely displeased, his face full of anger.
However, just as Su Yourong was feeling smug, Ye Feng said coldly, "Su Yourong, if you want to leave, you have to pay a toll too."
"You!" The instant he heard Ye Feng’s words, the smugness on Su Yourong’s face vanished, replaced by intense awkwardness. He hadn’t expected Ye Feng to demand a toll from him. "Feng Ye, don’t joke around. We’re both Disciples of the Green Lotus Sword Sect. How can you charge me a toll?"
Ye Feng’s expression was calm as he said flatly, "Right now you’re inside my Trapping Formation, so naturally I have the final say. If you’re not convinced, then don’t leave..." Su Yourong’s face instantly turned extremely ugly as he glared at Ye Feng. "Then how much are you going to extort?"
Ye Feng replied, "Not much. Hand over half of all the valuables on you, and that’ll be enough..."
"What! Half?" Su Yourong practically jumped up in agitation, his face filled with anger. "You’ve got to be kidding me! Half my wealth? Why don’t you just go rob people on the road? Isn’t this a bit too ruthless?"
Ye Feng spoke with patient calm. "Half your wealth isn’t much. If you’re unwilling, you can just stay here. But my Trapping Formation won’t weaken for at least several thousand years. There’s no nature’s spiritual energy inside the Formation. Without Spiritual Energy replenishment, your cultivation will regress, and if your lifespan shortens and you die, that has nothing to do with me."
Su Yourong immediately fell into helplessness. Although they’d harvested countless medicinal herbs, truly consumable ones were extremely rare, far from enough to sustain them for several thousand years.
At this moment, Lord Ba Dao’s expression had turned as dark as ink, as if water might drip from his face at any time.
Lord Ba Dao said coldly to Ye Feng, "If I take out a tenth of my wealth, that should be about the same as half of Su Yourong’s. How about you let us leave then?"
However, Ye Feng shook his head. "That won’t do. Su Yourong is one of our Green Lotus Sword Sect people; you’re not. If the two of you want to leave, you both have to hand over everything you’re carrying. Otherwise, you’re not going out..."
"Everything!" At Ye Feng’s words, not just Lord Ba Dao, but Su Yourong and Long Yu were all startled.
They were deeply shocked. They hadn’t expected Ye Feng’s appetite to be this huge—he actually wanted all of their wealth.
Ye Feng chuckled, looking at Su Yourong. "Now do you see? I really wasn’t asking much from you at all."
Su Yourong felt a lot better inside. After all, Ye Feng was demanding all of Lord Ba Dao and the others’ possessions.
The killing intent on Lord Ba Dao’s body spread out, growing increasingly dense, his eyes filled with madness.
Ye Feng, however, still looked completely relaxed and composed, utterly unconcerned, letting that killing intent wrap around him.
"Courting death?" At last, Lord Ba Dao spat out the four words coldly, each one like an icy steel needle stabbing into Ye Feng’s body again and again. Yet Ye Feng didn’t care in the slightest.
"Kill me? You’re not worthy." Ye Feng said with disdain, not putting Lord Ba Dao in his eyes at all.
"Die!" The moment Ye Feng’s words fell, Lord Ba Dao erupted in fury, instantly surging his aura to the absolute limit. The terrifying aftershocks of his True Essence rolled toward Ye Feng like a tidal wave.
Endless flames and thunder coiled around Lord Ba Dao’s body. He was like a frenzied Heavenly God, exuding an incomparably violent aura. Lord Ba Dao drew his blade in one motion, True Essence wrapping tightly around the weapon.
"Not good!" Su Yourong and Long Yu both tensed up. Lord Ba Dao’s combat strength was comparable to a Semi-Saint expert, and he was the strongest one here. Once he started fighting, no one would be able to stop him!
"Boom~~" But in that very instant, a massive beam of condensed energy suddenly formed in the Void.
The energy beam descended from the sky, slamming straight down onto Lord Ba Dao’s body. He had no time to react before a terrifying suppressive force crashed onto him. His knees bent in an instant.
"Bang!" With a thunderous crash, Lord Ba Dao’s energy shattered. His True Essence slipped completely out of his control. In that split second, he couldn’t withstand that horrific pressure at all, and his entire body was forced flat to the ground.
Lord Ba Dao felt his strength completely suppressed; he couldn’t mobilize his True Essence whatsoever.
"What!" Seeing this scene, everyone came to their senses. This was Ye Feng’s Trapping Formation; weren’t those three straw men suppressed by Ye Feng in this very way? Since Ye Feng could suppress the straw men, he could naturally suppress Lord Ba Dao as well.
Inside this grand Formation, Ye Feng had absolutely no reason to fear Lord Ba Dao!