Chapter 1681: No-Name (11)

Chapter 1681: No-Name (11)

"...What?"

Wei Wuyin's sudden offer was unexpected! Recover? Provide products to do so? What?! Additionally, the slight tug of a grin at his lips was enough to cause palpitations of the heart!

Almost instinctively, most of the leaders of the No-Name Galaxy's various organizations immediately recalled the details of the sworn oath. They ran through the conditions at lightning speed, combing through every word with extreme carefulness! While they had done this before agreeing, the uncertainty was enough to trigger this type of response!

"..."

"Hahaha! It seems World-Saint Neo-Dawn has quite the humor," Sage Nepit laughed heartily, his tone relaxed and his emotions stable. Just like the others, he had run through the wording, phrasing, and details of the Heaven-Bound Mythical Oath several times and had made several amendments prior to its finalization. Out of everyone present, he was the most certain that there was no hidden trick.

As if they understood Wei Wuyin's words, finally realizing he was making a humorous joke due to their overly cautious nature before agreeing, several leaders began to smile and chuckle in jest.

"Oh!"

"Haha! You almost had us worried there, World-Saint Neo-Dawn! Hahaha!"

"Good one! Good one! I haven't laughed like that in a long time."

The reactions were filled with laughs and the Main Hall was transformed into a comedy stage for a brief moment, invigorated and amused by Wei Wuyin's 'joking offer'. Yet the jokester in question was oddly silent holding a faint grin, his silvery eyes observing Sage Pakhet's stern stare.

Young Master Shang quietly shook his head. Others might not understand what trap these so-called leaders of the No-Name Galaxy had fallen into, but how could he not? With a conventionally established, logically sound, and incredibly reasonable thought process, it makes absolute sense to believe that, with the banning of almost all external elements, eight Earthly Saints could never match eight Sages.

With a 'reasonable' thought process...but they've never met Wei Wuyin, they've never seen any of his absurd Prime Ascendants, or they haven't witnessed his convention-breaking streak of a lifetime! After all, Wei Wuyin had battled an Enlightened Sage outside of the Sky Heart Galaxy and returned alive! No—he was victorious!

While Young Master Shang was unaware of Wei Wuyin's exact cultivation base, he was competent enough to know that Wei Wuyin was a frightening cultivator with plans upon plans! If not, how could he conquer two galaxies within the shortest period?!

Cao Cuifen's smile was extremely big, and her eyes shone with expectation and excitement. Wei Wuyin's tactics of transforming two galaxies into his vassal states were far different than this galaxy, and he was far more ruthless, yet seeing the ending near, her heart couldn't stop racing with powerful thumps!

Sage Khonshu had to mentally run through the oath and the details of the battle several times before his heart relaxed utterly and completely. "World-Saint Neo-Dawn is an interesting man of many talents. Who would have thought he could find prime comedic timing so easily and with only a few words?" he commented light-heartedly.

Cao Cuifen eyed this white-robed Sage curiously. "Do you not want to recover before the fight? My husband is being very generous right now."

"...?" Sage Khonshu frowned before turning to face Cao Cuifen who looked very genuine in her words, eyes, and facial expression. Moreover, the hyped excitement was pulsating from her heart and surging through her veins.

She added, "I recommend you take this opportunity to do so. You might regret not taking it later."

"..."

The world itself was a grand, flat, and sandy continent. At the very center of this isolated world was a great monument of a golden pyramid that towered over ten thousand kilometers in height effusing waves of beautifully colorful energies, cold and abnormal in origin. At the edges of the shell world, engulfing it were radiant, blazing solar flames exuding intense heat and yang aura. The entire Shell World was sixty-nine million miles long, being one of the largest shell worlds ever!

The two, the border and the centerpiece of the Shell World, created a natural balance.

Eight figures were together, segregated by a few dozen meters or so each, floating in the sky, and exuding a solemn aura. They were the eight Sages of the No-Name Galaxy! They were all outfitted in readied attire, suitable for battle, with Sage Khonshu in a full moon-white battle robe with crescent-moon pauldrons and silvery bracers.

Shockingly, they all emitted strong, healthy auras. Even Sage Pakhet and Sage Imentet, who suffered substantial injuries in the earlier fight against Zhan Jiangwen, were exuding robust and renewed auras! They were at their very peak. The remnant aura of accelerated temporal phenomenon lingered on their bodies.

However, while they had taken Wei Wuyin's offer of the Neo-Dawn Vortex-Zone Pellets' accelerated time fields, they didn't dare use his alchemical pills to recover and relied on their own means. Who was unaware that the utilization of an Alchemist's products could lead to all sorts of strange effects through their Alchemic Stars?! They weren't that careless!

"Are we seriously about to fight against eight Rune Kings with all of our strength?" Sage Khepri found this ludicrous as he adjusted his Heavenly Treasure, a golden disk the size of a wash bin etched with esoteric runes. They had exhausted a significant portion of their kept reserves to restore their exhausted mystic energies and recover from any ability-hindering injuries for this. Moreover, they were going to use the Supreme Sage battleground, the Battlefield of the Fallen Divine, a location that could withstand the intense conflict of Supreme Sages, for this? FOR THIS?!

"..." The other Sages didn't respond immediately, but their expression, while varied, all became increasingly overcast.

"We might have fallen for a scheme, so we have to be prepared. If the wager ends in our favor, what will these losses amount to? We'll receive ten Mystic-World alchemical products each century. Easily recovered losses," Sage Nepit reasoned while also readying his Heavenly Treasure. He hadn't—no, they hadn't expected this development, but the Neo-Dawn Alchemic Saint was clearly serious!

Sage Khepri pursued his lips.

"There's no need to think further about it," Sage Pakhet said, her voice laced with an icy chill, "It's almost time."

Her words were right! There was no need to think about it any further!

Then, from an established Gateway Door leading into the Shell World, eight figures walked through. At the lead was none other than Wei Wuyin in his signature combat outfit with his saber's scabbard at his waist! Behind him, Su Mei, Zuhei, Yao Houyi, Shui Fengbao, Tuo Bihan, a figure enveloped in hazy, indistinct darkness, and Wei Si!

They were all ready for battle!

"I have my eight," Wei Wuyin smiled. The others behind him took a concerted step back, as if practiced, and retreated to the edge of the Shell World without hesitation, while Wei Wuyin stood firmly alone.

"Eight?" The Sages counted seven.

"But they're not needed," Wei Wuyin said as he took a single step forward, his aura as a Mystic Star Phase expert finally leaking outwards! "I'll be your only opponent," the Alchemic Stars of Transcendent Purity glowed within his pupils as the perfected Celestial Eyes were fully activated!

"...!"

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