Invincible Dad-Chapter 525 You Can’t Beat Me_1
Chapter 525: Chapter 525 You Can’t Beat Me_1
「Mass Burial Mound.」
It connected the three domains of the East and had been the subject of countless rumors throughout history.
From the mind of the Purple Smoke Holy Master, Baize found several useful clues, any one of which would be enough to shock the Immortal Domain.
「During the narration.」
Even Xu Lai was slightly surprised. "Two lives as an emperor? That’s a ruthless one."
He then handed the other half of the Purple Smoke Stone to his senior sister. "Senior sister, you don’t have a personal magic artifact, do you? Use this material to refine one."
"..." Yu Guiwan was on the verge of a breakdown.
Junior brother, can’t you stick to one topic when you speak?!
She hesitated for a moment but ultimately accepted the Purple Smoke Stone. She was, in fact, in great need of such a precious Artifact Refining material.
Baize spoke slowly, "Taotie is two hundred miles to our southeast, and the place where the Corpse Emperor attained his emperorship is one hundred miles to our northwest. Where should we go first?"
"You can see hundreds of miles away?" Xu Lai looked deeply at Baize beside him.
The fog blocked Divine Sense and obscured vision. Even with Xu Lai’s Emperor Realm senses, he couldn’t see thirty miles ahead. Yet, Baize could see so far, which was truly astonishing.
"The eyes of the Baize clan can see through illusions by nature," she explained. "This fog... though its origin is unknown, it’s merely fog to me."
The second Divine General was quite frank. "Actually, I can’t see clearly either. I can only sense things vaguely."
Xu Lai was still staring at Baize, who said calmly, "If The Supreme Emperor fancies them, I can dig out one of my eyes for you."
Xu Lai’s head began to throb.
What kind of person is this?
One moment she’s beating a drum to gather 400,000 wisps of Sword Intent, the next she’s offering to gouge out her own eyeball. It’s no wonder Taotie adamantly refused when I tried to play matchmaker for them back in the day.
"So the First Divine General once refused me. My heart is truly broken," Baize sighed, though there wasn’t a hint of sadness in her voice.
Xu Lai was stunned.
Baize can see my thoughts? How is that possible?
"It is strange," Baize said. "I couldn’t see them before, but in this fog... I suddenly can. I’ll have to collect some of this mist later to study it."
Xu Lai cleared his Divine Sense to prevent Baize from prying any further, and Yu Guiwan did the same.
They decided to find Taotie first.
The brutish fellow was two hundred miles away, locked in a fierce battle with a massive Corpse Vulture. It was a Six-Winged Corpse Vulture, one of the few creatures capable of withstanding the deathly aura of this place. Countless heads of various beings hung from its wings, clanking like bells with its every great movement!
SPLAT—
With a casual palm strike from Xu Lai, the Six-Winged Corpse Vulture battling Taotie shattered, disintegrating into ash.
"WHO WAS THAT!?" Divine General Taotie roared. He had finally found a beast that could last thirty to fifty rounds with him, only for it to be obliterated.
But when he saw Baize and the others...
He exclaimed with delight, "The Supreme Emperor, you’re finally here!"
"Hmm, he’s upset that we arrived too early, depriving him of a satisfying battle," Baize mused.
"..." Cold sweat beaded on Taotie’s forehead as he hurriedly explained, "The Supreme Emperor, no, absolutely not!"
Baize continued, seeming to pluck thoughts right from his mind, "Who is Liu Wan? And why are you so afraid of me finding out? Relax, I’m not interested in who you associate with."
She went on, "Hmm, so Divine General Taotie was planning to give her a birthday present next week. No wonder he was in such a hurry to get to the Mass Burial Mound—he wanted to find a Chronoflower to preserve her eternal youth."
Baize feigned surprise. "So Divine General Taotie does understand a thing or two about romantic notions."
"The phrase ’romantic notions’ is an idiom from Earth. Did you really think I wouldn’t understand it?" Taotie retorted gruffly.
Baize pursed her lips and smiled faintly.
Taotie didn’t quite understand the meaning behind the second Divine General’s smile, but he had an uneasy feeling that something was wrong. So much so that he felt a sudden urge to fight her to the death. This woman was truly infuriating!
"You can’t beat me," Baize said leisurely.
Taotie suddenly deflated.
The Quasi-Emperor realm has Nine Heavens, with each one being a world of its own. After ascending the nine, one enters the Emperor Realm. He was only at the fifth heaven, while Baize had already stepped into the sixth.
"Coincidentally, I have two Chronoflowers right here," Baize said, her eyes gradually narrowing. "One for me to eat, and the other..."
Taotie’s ears perked up as he looked on in anticipation.
"The other is for Yan Chunfeng. She’s asked me for it several times."
"..."
Taotie fell silent, once again retreating into his shell.
"However, if Divine General Taotie is willing to be with me, I could give you one," Baize said, tying her long hair into a bun with a beaming smile. "How about it?"
Taotie fell into deep thought and was about to refuse with a serious face when Xu Lai, his expression dark, kicked him. "Baize is just teasing you! Did you really take it seriously?"
Taotie, enraged, was about to strike back when Baize casually tossed him a peculiar flower. Its three petals were constantly withering and blooming, perfectly mimicking the passage of time—this was a Chronoflower.
"Thank you, Divine General Baize!" Taotie exclaimed in delight as he accepted it, cupping his fists. "I will remember this favor."
Xu Lai sighed.
I must have been out of my mind to ever consider pairing Taotie with Baize. If they actually got together, Taotie wouldn’t even know how he died. Their emotional and strategic intelligence aren’t even in the same dimension.
The group of four—an Emperor Realm, two Quasi-Emperors, and one Immortal Venerable—flew together toward the place of awakening from the Purple Smoke Immortal Venerable’s memories.
Along the way, many Corpse Doves with glowing green eyes rushed toward them, eager to devour the fresh meat that had intruded so deep into the Mass Burial Mound, but they all exploded without exception.
By the time they arrived at their destination, the mist had clearly become much thicker—so thick that Xu Lai’s field of vision shrank again, now limited to a hundred-meter radius.
Baize’s delicate brows furrowed slightly as her senses grew even sharper. "There’s something strange here. About ten miles ahead, there seems to be a teleportation light screen."
A few breaths later, Xu Lai and the others saw the light screen Baize had mentioned. It was, in fact, a massive waterfall. It flowed silently from some unknown point high up in the pervasive mist. Even more bizarrely, the waterfall produced no splash as it landed. It didn’t seem to be flowing at all, but rather resembled a static image.
Only Xu Lai’s expression changed drastically.
Because that waterfall... was the Netherworld!
Beneath the river flowed the ghostly Yunmeng Blue Sand, and on both banks of the Netherworld grew bewitching Other Shore Flowers, their beauty breathtakingly perilous.
"The Supreme Emperor, is this the same Netherworld you saw recently? And the old ferryman on it, could he be the one who was an emperor in two lifetimes?" Taotie scratched his head, offering his theory.
"Let’s not even consider whether a Corpse Emperor from dozens of eons ago is still alive," Baize said solemnly. "Just in terms of combat power, they aren’t the same person."
Xu Lai nodded. The old ferryman on the Netherworld had been repelled by him. His cultivation was between the peak of a Quasi-Emperor and the Emperor Realm—the strength of a Ninth-Heaven Quasi-Emperor.
"Don’t tell me we have to enter the Netherworld to reach the place where the Corpse Emperor achieved his emperorship?" Yu Guiwan’s expression shifted slightly.
The Netherworld was a subject of endless legends not just on Earth, but even more so in the Immortal Domain, for it was intertwined with the laws of life and death. This was a kind of causality that even beings in the Emperor Realm were unwilling to touch.
"Could it be," Baize spoke up suddenly, "that the Corpse Emperor is the corpse of the Great Emperor Youming, which then achieved emperorship on its own?"
Chapter 525 You Can’t Beat Me_1
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