Chapter 214: Breaking Out

Chapter 214: Breaking Out

The cultivators sucked in a breath. The crown prince of the Eastern Sea dragons was commanding Prime Minister Turtle to kneel? Wasn't it being too arrogant?

Two centuries ago, Prime Minister Turtle was nothing more than an old servant to the royal family of the Eastern Sea dragons. It would have been perfectly within reason for it to kneel to a core member of royalty—but how about now, two centuries later?

All the cultivators stared at the two spirits, as did the Wingform-realm spirit kings.

"What are you looking at? Have you forgotten your identity? Aren't you going to kneel upon seeing me, your rightful crown prince? Don't make me slap you!" Ao Zhou chided.

Prime Minister Turtle slapped the serpent and sent it smashing into the ground. A plume of dust appeared.

Ao Zhou sprayed out a mouthful of blood and cried out, "You dare hit me?!"

Prime Minister Turtle made a gesture with a flipper, causing the blood that Ao Zhou spat out to congeal into a ball of blood.

"And so what if I did? Do you think nothing has changed from two centuries ago? Who do you think I am, to command me to kneel?" Prime Minister Turtle replied acidly.

"Aren't you an old servant of my family? You're disrespecting your superior!" Ao Zhou cried out.

"The times have changed. The draconic clan has fallen—and I'm in the position of power, now!" Prime Minister Turtle laughed.

"You!"

"I thought that the royal dragons had all perished. I had given up hope on trying to find any of the royal bloodline, but to think that one would appear right by my doorstep! The heavens have truly blessed me, haha!" Prime Minister Turtle continued.

"What? What are you planning?!" Ao Zhou cried out. New novel chapters are published on

"Don't worry. I won't kill you, at least not just yet. You'll be very safe with me."

Within the crowd, Xiao Nanfeng had already retrieved a corroded Immortal relic and was planning to cause it to self-destruct. When he heard that Ao Zhou would be safe for the time being, however, he stopped short.

All the spirit kings' attention were focused on Ao Zhou, so he was naturally going to raid Prime Minister Turtle's lair and see if there were any treasures that it had kept hidden away.

Xiao Nanfeng retreated from the crowd and vanished from sight.

Meanwhile, Ao Zhou didn't back down. He replied proudly, "Kill me? You don't stand a chance. Do you think I'm here alone? Haven't you investigated my background?"

The turtle raised an eyebrow. "Are there other Eastern Sea dragons still alive?"

"Ha! Are those the only allies you can think of? Even if there were other Eastern Sea dragons around, I wouldn't want to associate with them. I have my own backers. If you dare strike me, none of you will live to see tomorrow!" Ao Zhou threatened.

Prime Minister Turtle narrowed its eyes. "You have backers?"

"Of course!" Ao Zhou promised. "If I reveal who my backers are, all of you will wish you were dead."

Prime Minister Turtle frowned. It turned toward the spirits that Ao Zhou had been fighting with. "Which of you have seen this black serpent's companions?"

"We all saw him. He was still here moments ago," the sea spirits immediately replied.

"Prime Minister Turtle, the crown prince's companion looked like this!" A crocodile spirit conjured an image out of fog.

"Xiao Nanfeng?" the turtle exclaimed.

"Isn't that the Ascension-realm kid I caught not too long ago? He's not dead?" the green lobster king exclaimed.

One sharp end of the red rope snapped toward Prime Minister Turtle's flippers.

The blow wasn't particularly strong; it was meant to convey the red rope's 'emotions', to make Prime Minister Turtle think that the red rope was chiding it for what it had done. The turtle released the serpent.

"Red Rope! You're finally saving me?" the serpent cried out, bloody all over.

It was dragged into a side room, causing the turtle to look over.

He saw Xiao Nanfeng grabbing ahold of the serpent and activating a corroded shield relic, from which radiant light burst forth.

"Xiao Nanfeng? Saving me the effort of looking for you, I see, and trying to impersonate the red rope's techniques too? You won't be getting away today!" Prime Minister Turtle shouted in excitement.

"Catch me if you can." Xiao Nanfeng sneered.

As the turtle leapt toward Xiao Nanfeng, it suddenly felt a sense of danger. The five Immortal relics within the tortoiseshell barrier were tangled up with a length of red rope. The red rope suddenly glowed with light, causing the five Immortal relics to light up as well.

"You're going to destroy them? Don't!" the turtle shrieked.

The five Immortal relics suddenly burst apart. The resulting explosion destroyed the tortoiseshell barrier, and the entire hall was drowned in roaring flames.

Prime Minister Turtle, right beside the tortoiseshell barrier, suffered grievous injuries. It shrieked in agony.

Xiao Nanfeng and the serpent were protected by the Immortal shield, but after the devastating blow, it looked as though it could break at any moment.

The serpent screamed.

Outside the hall, many cultivators were still reeling in shock at the crown prince of the Eastern Sea dragons' reappearance and subsequent capture by Prime Minister Turtle when they suddenly saw the hall, along with the mountaintop, explode in a mushroom cloud.

The Wingform-realm spirit kings outside the hall were sent flying, and the explosion was so intense that even they spat out mouthfuls of blood. A few smaller spirits imploded in an instant.

The cannon fodder at the bottom of the valley were likewise sent flying from the shockwaves that resulted from the explosion.

After that, everyone saw a multicolored shield burst into a shower of fragments to reveal Xiao Nanfeng and the serpent within. They too were stunned and disoriented, but largely uninjured.

The bloodied serpent seemed to barely be clinging on to life.

"Xiao Nanfeng, you bastard! You used my body as your shield! You've almost killed me!" the serpent cried out, spitting out a mouthful of blood.

"I just saved your life. Are you going to complain about that? You ingrate!"

The serpent looked at him aggrieved. "Should I not be upset that you've used me as a shield?!"

Xiao Nanfeng flew toward the Ancestral Dragon's Hall with the serpent in tow.

"Seize them!" Prime Minister Turtle roared from the epicenter of the explosion.

However, all the spirit kings, taken aback by the sudden explosion, were slow to respond to the turtle spirit's commands. By the time they did, Xiao Nanfeng had already flown into the distance. He was right by the Ancestral Dragon's Hall.

"I'm right here, you turtle bastard! Catch me if you can!" Xiao Nanfeng taunted.

Then, he rushed into the fog with the serpent.

Only then did Prime Minister Turtle emerge from the epicenter of the explosion, its body bruised, battered, and bleeding. Angry beyond measure, it roared, "I'll kill you! I'll kill you both!"

It furiously gave chase. The spirit kings followed after it.

The cultivators in the valley were taken aback. "That's Xiao Nanfeng? Is he that strong?"