Chapter 900 Terms of the deal (5)

Chapter 900 Terms of the deal (5)

Even with the faintness of the voice, everyone could feel the grand presence and power within. All, from the core formation experts present to the domain experts, were slightly affected by the sense of majesty and power within that voice.

How could they not, when said voice was delivered through one of the most powerful dao natural treasures known in the entire continent, the Ten Thousand Dao World Jade Tree, the foundation of the behemoth that was Jade Leaf Empire and the aforementioned Jade Leaf Academy. A natural treasure rumored to have escaped the confines of a saint-grade treasure.

Feeling just a tiny bit of the profound power it contained, Yang Qing couldn't help but feel curious about how it would feel like standing before the real thing if just a tiny portion of its aura was this impactful.

Just this tiny exposure left him feeling like his mind had been given a sudden jolt as countless ideas that he had been ruminating on over the past few months were suddenly being transformed from a jumbled mess with no clear path, and now they were being smoothened out and he could roughly sense the path he should tread on.

Yang Qing's look turned pensive as a certain memory surfaced in his mind, triggered by his current state.

"This feeling.. it is eerie similar to the feeling I got from that book. However, the reaction is different. The book's effect was much more tyrannical. It seemed to have had a demand on one's comprehension.

My comprehension isn't bad even when compared to those from the Order, but even with old Lei reducing the book's effect, the flood of insights rushing into my mind made me feel like my brain and soul were about to explode, but the jade tree's sensation is different. It is milder, more like a patient and kind teacher meeting the student at the level they are art.

With such a treasure, no wonder the Jade Leaf Empire has existed for so long. With its effects, who knows how many hidden dragons and tigers lurk within it? Them being dubbed a quasi-holy land may be an underestimation of their true strength.." thought Yang Qing as his attention drifted off to the rest.

They all had mixed reactions with the most intense being on Duan Hu, whose impassive look finally had strong emotions reflected on it, and it was of fear and shock.

When he walked into the courtroom, he instantly recognized Wu Mingli and his mother. When Wu Fang's matter happened, he investigated everything related to him, and that of course included his family.

As long as he was the only one to pay that price, he was okay with it, but Wu Mingli had him worried, and it wasn't the defeat that had him worried, but rather the implications behind his strength.

Someone doesn't just become that strong, in such a short amount of time, without a force behind it. Over 200 years ago, Wu Mingli was just 16 years old and in the qi refinement realm, but jump forward 200 years, he was already a quasi-

palace stage expert, with terrifying foundations.

Such a result could have only been the work of something powerful. Either a powerful treasure that can do astronomical things such as give a 16-year-old youth a stupendous transformation to the quasi-palace stage, or there was a powerful organization behind the transformation. He was more inclined to believe the latter. Such an implication terrified him because it meant whoever his backer was, they could produce a powerful quasi-palace realm expert like him in a short 200 years.

By his guess, not many organizations could pull that off, and those that he thought could, were bound to be organizations that the Red Maple Empire could not afford to offend. As an emperor and the chaos surrounding him, he had long grown accustomed to assuming worst-case scenarios, rather than best-case scenarios, so he is not caught flatfooted, and in his worst-case scenario, he had Wu Mingli belonging to an organization that was maybe at the same caliber as the Golden Bamboo Pavilion, not once had he thought he would have a behemoth like the Jade Leaf Academy backing worth.

The Red Maple Empire wasn't worth a fart when compared to such an institution. Wu Mingli belonging to some rank two organization already made him nervous to no end, as he thought of the possibility of Wu Mingli using said backer to not only punish him, but the entire Empire, ...but the Jade Leaf Academy ....his mind was shocked beyond comprehension, to even contemplate the implications of having created an irreconcilable feud with one of their members.

He had gone beyond just feeling frightened. Even their founder, despite his domain-level strength, would not be able to subvert the danger if the Academy was dead set on destroying the Empire. The threat factor of the academy was at a different level. It was to the level that even figures like one of the leaders of the Golden Bamboo Pavilion Lin Guiren, or a haughty person like Cai Hong, or the Imperial Household Manager of the Gold Leaf Empire, a rank one entity, itself, the same as the Academy, all of them without exception had grim expressions on their faces, when that warning was issued.

All Duan Hu could think of was in trying to avoid a mess he had ended up creating a disaster. He wondered at this point if his life was even enough to quell a bit of that disaster.

The fact that the Academy was willing to threaten a renowned rank two organization like the Golden Bamboo Pavilion meant that Wu Mingli was valued by them. It was for this reason that Duan Hu didn't feel his worries about the Empire currently hanging at a precipice, being too outlandish. It was a very real possibility.

"What kind of luck is this?" he bitterly thought as he hoped Wu Mingli's ire would just be on him, Shao Ren, and the deceased commander.Updated chapters at novelhall.com