Chapter 2647: Demon Emperor!
The owner of the stall, honored as the "Nine Heavens Immortal Emperor," was momentarily stunned upon hearing Fang Bai call himself the "Wushuang Immortal Emperor."
In the Immortal Realm, any immortal daring to use the title "Wushuang" is undoubtedly a top-level powerhouse in the same realm, confident in being invincible within it.
This young immortal before him, though possessing a high rank in the Immortal Emperor realm, hadn’t been in this realm for long given his immortal age. Attempting to achieve invincibility at the same level seemed unlikely.
Therefore, when Fang Bai proclaimed himself as the "Wushuang Immortal Emperor," the Nine Heavens Immortal Emperor felt a certain disdain in his heart.
However, the other party’s cultivation level was enough to indicate his complicated background; he might even be a direct disciple of some Immortal Emperor.
Thus, although he felt otherwise, the Nine Heavens Immortal Emperor did not reveal it outwardly, to avoid displeasing the other party.
On the side, Hongyu Fairy swallowed the antidote for the Erosion Pill given by Fang Bai immediately, but she did not leave right away as she worried the antidote might be fake. She waited to see whether the antidote would take effect.
Seeing Hongyu Fairy take the "antidote," Fang Bai slightly curled his lips, revealing a hint of a smile.
Hongyu Fairy noticed that his smile seemed to contain a mocking intent, causing her heart to skip a beat, sensing something was amiss.
She intended to suppress the potency of the "antidote" with her immortal power but was a step too late.
The power of the Immortal Pill quickly surged upward, instantly invading her Sea of Consciousness. She only felt a burning pain between her brows, and in the next moment, her consciousness became muddled.
"I forgot to tell you, the pill you just swallowed is a Soul Capturing Pill. Familiar with it? It’s an Immortal Pill that can control an immortal’s divine sense... Heh, soon, you and the Lone Mountain Three Companions will be reunited."
Fang Bai transmitted a message to Hongyu Fairy, and upon hearing his last word, her consciousness no longer belonged to her.
The Nine Heavens Immortal Emperor noticed Hongyu Fairy suddenly looked lost and soulless, which made him feel strange, but not knowing the relationship between Fang Bai and Hongyu Fairy, he didn’t inquire further.
"To be honest, Immortal Friend Nine Heavens, this purple sword was originally the Immortal Artifact of an immortal friend of mine, and that friend is now missing. So I’d like to ask, where did you obtain it?"
Fang Bai stood in front of the Nine Heavens Immortal Emperor’s stall and asked with a smile.
"I acquired this Immortal Artifact a long time ago, as for where precisely..."
The Nine Heavens Immortal Emperor frowned, muttered, "Let me think... let me think..."
He lowered his head, pretending to ponder, but a bloodthirsty demonic glow swiftly flashed through his eyes as he glanced at the ground.
Although Fang Bai did not see anything unusual about the Nine Heavens Immortal Emperor, he keenly sensed an extremely dangerous aura from him.
Out of instinct, Fang Bai instantly filled his body with Chaos Immortal Qi from his Qi Sea and formed a Defense Qi Shield in front of him while rapidly retreating.
During his retreat, he stored away the purple sword and then, with a wave of his left hand, placed Wu De, Great Sage Sun, Zhuge Lian, Xiao Ying, along with the controlled Hongyu Fairy, into the Five Elements Space Ring.
He retreated a hundred feet in a flash and then transformed into a stream of light, shooting into the void.
With all his might, Fang Bai’s movement was incredibly swift, even the few Immortal Emperor Realm Peak experts in the Cultivation Resource Exchange Market, who hadn’t understood what was going on, admitted to themselves they were inferior.
"Heh heh... A mere small Immortal Emperor realm immortal, how could you escape from the hands of this emperor?"
The Nine Heavens Immortal Emperor raised his head to look at Fang Bai’s retreating figure, sneering disdainfully, and then reached his right hand towards Fang Bai.
At the moment of reaching out his hand, a majestic pressure erupted from him, far beyond what an Immortal Emperor Realm Peak expert could reach. All immortals in the Cultivation Resource Exchange Market felt darkness over the skies, and their breathing hitched.
"Imm... Immortal Emperor!"
One of the Immortal Emperor Realm Peak experts, sensing the pressure, pointed at the Nine Heavens Immortal Emperor and screamed in shock.
The other immortals in the Cultivation Resource Exchange Market were all astonished upon hearing this. They could never have imagined that this Nine Heavens Immortal Emperor, who seemingly only had high-rank Immortal Emperor Realm cultivation, was truly an Emperor Realm expert.
But, what purpose does an Emperor Realm expert have in concealing their presence in Qingping Immortal City?
Why did he suddenly make a move on that young immortal?
After the Emperor Realm expert reached out his right hand towards Fang Bai’s retreating direction, a crack appeared in the void above Fang Bai’s head, and an Immortal Qi Palm stretched out from the crack, grabbing towards Fang Bai’s head.
"That Nine Heavens Immortal Emperor... is a Demon Emperor!"
From the Immortal Qi Palm overhead, Fang Bai sensed a hint of demonic aura, and his heart quivered with fright.
He couldn’t comprehend how this Demon Clan Emperor Realm expert came to the Immortal Realm, concealed his aura, and hid in Qingping Immortal City.
If not for Fang Bai’s keen perception, which far exceeds that of immortals of the same realm, and his rapid escape, he might have already fallen into the Devil Emperor’s hands earlier.
Fang Bai also couldn’t understand why this Demon Emperor suddenly attacked him, and it seemed the other party didn’t wish to kill him, but wanted to capture him alive instead.
The demonic aura palm above, covering a thousand-foot radius, exerted heavy pressure, and he was like being trapped in a Heaven’s Net, unable to escape.
Since his rebirth and return to the Immortal Realm through soul swapping, this was the first time Fang Bai faced such a dangerous situation.
He knew that if he fell into the demonic aura palm of the Demon Emperor, life and death would be uncertain. Gritting his teeth, he threw the controlled Hongyu Fairy out of the Five Elements Space Ring to face the demonic aura palm.
In a brief moment of one or two breaths, Hongyu Fairy’s aura surged, and her body began to swell at a visible pace.
"Boom!"
As Hongyu Fairy was about to collide with the demonic aura palm, her body exploded with a tremendous roar, and a powerful shockwave spread in all directions.
In an instant, the span of a thousand miles, including the demonic aura palm, collapsed into darkness, and torrential turbulence ensued, even Qingping Immortal City was thrown into chaos, many solid Immortal Palaces and Halls crumbling under the impact of the shockwave.
Fang Bai, using Hongyu Fairy through self-detonation, resolved the demonic aura palm from the Demon Clan Emperor Realm expert attempting to grab him, while he hid within the Five Elements Space Ring at the moment of Hongyu Fairy’s self-detonation, avoiding its impact.
Hongyu Fairy’s cultivation level was that of an Immortal Emperor Realm Peak expert, and the impact from her self-detonation was not weaker than a blow from an Emperor Realm expert.
Finally, under a shockwave comparable to an Emperor Realm expert’s strike, that demonic aura palm disintegrated and vanished, while the Five Elements Space Ring, which Fang Bai was hiding in, flew off with the shockwave, landing in a mountainous forest a thousand miles away.
"Huh?"
The Demon Clan Emperor Realm expert didn’t expect Fang Bai to nullify his capture attempt this way. When he used his divine sense to search for Fang Bai, he found no trace of him, not even his aura.