King's Awakening

Chapter 714: Chapter 714: Incident at Bald Dragon Island!
 

Lucy was full of doubts.

She knew White Mitchell and the others well after staying with them for so long.

White Mitchell and the others were merely ordinary cultivators.

They did not have any astonishing backgrounds or extraordinary talents. They confronted their powerful adversaries and the challenges of life with their own two hands.

However, it was precisely because of this that Lucy was more worried about their safety.

Even though the people of the four major cities seemed insignificant to the Beast Controlling Sect, those cities were still formidable in the eyes of ordinary people.

Although White Mitchell and the others were very confident and tightly-knit, four hands couldn’t be beaten by two; in the face of absolute power, any techniques were powerless.

Lucy sincerely didn’t want to see White Mitchell and the others being oppressed by the people of the four major cities.

But, at this point, as a genius of the Beast Controlling Sect stranded on the outside, she was a burden without her spiritual beasts, unable to help White Mitchell and the others at all.

Lucy was so angry with herself. Why hadn’t she worked harder to cultivate when she was in Beast Controlling Sect? Why hadn’t she taken more magical weapons with her?

If she had, she wouldn’t have become a burden to White Mitchell and the others.

Thinking about this, Lucy couldn’t help but tear up.

Seeing this, White Mitchell smiled calmly and comforted, “Silly girl, if something really happens, you don’t have to worry about us. Run as far away as you can, understood?”

“No way! Absolutely not! How could I leave you all behind?” Lucy said, full of conviction.

Hearing this, White Mitchell continued, “I’m just saying ‘what if’. After all, if a fight really breaks out, I might not be able to protect you. You’ll have to rely on yourself. We’re merely strangers who happened to travel together, each for our own reasons, so you don’t need to feel obligated. Even if you choose to disassociate from us right now, I won’t blame you.”

“No way! Absolutely not! No means no!” Lucy insisted staunchly.

White Mitchell sighed, “Then do as you wish, but remember to stay close to me later.”

Lucy nodded vigorously, like a child following a teacher’s command.

Just then, the Spirit Boat suddenly began to shake.

“Everyone, get into the cabin immediately! Quick! Quick! Quick!” The person from Treasure Pavilion cried out in haste, as if something unexpected had happened.

The Spirit Boat carrying Mr. Leon and the rest was also experiencing the same situation. Without a second thought, they hurried into the cabin.

Seeing this, White Mitchell guided the God of Heaven War and the others into the cabin as well.

Once inside the cabin, a representative from Treasure Pavilion said, “The situation at Bald Dragon Island this year is somewhat different from previous years. The wind and waves have been particularly strong. However, there’s no need for you to panic. Just stay calm in the cabin. We in the Treasure Pavilion will handle everything else but remember, do not leave the cabin without a good reason under any circumstances. If any problems arise, we cannot guarantee your safety.”

Wind and waves?

The explanation puzzled White Mitchell.

He had carefully examined the construction of the Spirit Boat after boarding.

The wood used in the Spirit Boat was made of thousand-year-old spiritual trees. Even seasoned cultivators at the Innate Level couldn’t harm the Spirit Boat, let alone the wind and waves.

Moreover, the Spirit Boat had a special defensive system installed that could resist external interference, an important reason why the Spirit Boat could sail on this mysterious lake.

But now this heavily constructed and strongly defended Spirit Boat was being affected by the wind and waves?

Clearly, this was just an excuse given by Treasure Pavilion to pacify the crowd.

The real reason was probably much more serious than they were letting on.

But for now, White Mitchell was left in the dark about the true cause.

On the other hand, the others who had entered the cabin didn’t take the Treasure Pavilion’s words to heart.

Their attention was completely focused on White Mitchell and his group. Regardless of the wind and waves, as long as they kept an eye on White Mitchell, wealth and glory were within reach.

Even if the sky were falling, it wouldn’t be as important as White Mitchell!

They had to keep White Mitchell under strict observation, they couldn’t let him escape, especially undetected.

Some of them even stood guard at the exit of the cabin, waiting for the Spirit Boat to dock.

Once the Spirit Boat tests him, these restless fellows would swarm them and try to take control of White Mitchell and his companions.

White Mitchell clearly understood this and was considering how to escape with the least cost.

What he needed to do now was to take advantage of the time when Mr. Leon and the others hadn’t yet surrounded them as the boat was docking and to handle these annoying people quickly.

Only like this would he stand a chance to break free.

Otherwise, once Mr. Leon’s people surrounded them, they probably wouldn’t avoid a fierce battle.

However, a sudden change disrupted White Mitchell’s plans.

Now that people were guarding the exit of the cabin, it would not be easy to deal with these people immediately.

“It looks like I’ll need to find another way to escape,” White Mitchell thought to himself; then he signaled the God of Heaven War and Earth War God.

Both understood him immediately and approached without delay.

“Apart from us, there are roughly forty people in the cabin, the strongest one is probably in the Innate Eight Stages while the rest are not below the Innate Six Stages.” God of Heaven War reported.

Seeing this, the Earth War God also spoke, “According to my observation, these people are mostly in groups of five. This configuration makes the most sense.

However, these people are not united, each of them trying to take all the credit.

Maybe we can scheme something around this.”

White Mitchell nodded; Earth War God had analyzed it clearly.

These people all wanted to take all the credit and reap potential rewards from Mr. Leon. This indeed could be taken advantage of.

If they could instigate infighting among these people, perhaps he could escape easily.

But as White Mitchell was contemplating the next step, the swaying of the ship became more severe.

Gradually, the entire cabin appeared to shake as if an earthquake had struck.

The intense shaking gradually instilled fear in everyone in the cabin.

However, everyone present was an experienced treasure hunter and managed to keep their composure.

However, what happened next left even seasoned treasure hunters unable to keep their composure.

From outside the cabin came the deep roar of a beast.

Roar! Roar! Roar!

Each roar was deafening, as if a huge spiritual beast were watching them. It filled everyone with awe just by hearing it.

“What… What is happening? Could it be that a spiritual beast at the bottom of the lake is attacking the Spirit Boat?”

“Impossible. The material of the Spirit Boat combined with the special formations can isolate everything. The Spiritual Beasts at the bottom of the lake wouldn’t attack the Spirit Boat. I’ve been to Bald Dragon Island several times and have never encountered such a situation.”

“Then what’s going on with this beast roar? It couldn’t be my ears playing tricks, right? Guys, did you hear it too?”

With these words, everyone nodded in succession.

This sight made the self-proclaimed veteran treasure hunter silent.

Sure enough, he had also heard the beast’s roar very clearly.

But he had never encountered such a situation before. What was going on?

“Where are the people from the Treasure Pavilion? Ask them, they should know what’s going on?” someone suggested.

However, looking around, there wasn’t anyone from the Treasure Pavilion on the scene.

The people from the Treasure Pavilion were all in the pilot cabin of the Spirit Boat; no one was in the cabin.

This unusual situation made everyone have some palpitations, and the uneasiness grew stronger.

At that moment, the swaying of the boat suddenly stopped.

Everyone looked at each other.

Some couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.

A false alarm?

Everyone’s mood gradually calmed down.

Before they could even relax completely, the same voice appeared in everyone’s mind.

The voice was eerily ethereal, vaguely resembling the voice of a woman.

“Are you, all here to keep me company? Are you, prepared? You, all of you, must die…” The ghostly voice, towards the end, suddenly took on a sinister tone.

The moment the voice echoed, everyone felt an abrupt chill rushing from their backs, straight to the top of their heads.

Frightful!

Terrified!

The breath of death!

All these complex emotions surged into everyone’s minds in an instant.

Just then, the light in the cabin suddenly disappeared.

This was absolutely unexpected, because the illuminating tools used in the cabin were valuable Spirit Stones.

These Spirit Stones were used as illumination tools.

Only the extravagant master of the Treasure Pavilion could afford to use them.

Such lighting tools wouldn’t extinguish for dozens, or even hundreds of years.

But, mysteriously, the impossible happened. The inside of the cabin suddenly turned pitch black.

It was as if something had swallowed all the light.

In that moment, everyone in the cabin felt waves of intense unease surging in their hearts.

“Is… is this a haunting?”

“Have… have we encountered some dreadful entity?”

“I’ve heard that the lake where Bald Dragon Island is located is always restless. Could it be that some Evil Charm is playing tricks?”

For a while, there was a flurry of chatter, a gloomy and terrifying atmosphere spread among the crowd.

Some of the faint-hearted immediately hugged their companions, trembling with fear.

As for White Mitchell, Lucy had already been scared to shivers, tightly clutching onto White Mitchell’s sleeve, an expression of terror on her face.

“Heaven, Earth, come here!” White Mitchell quickly decided.

Upon hearing this, the God of Heaven War and the Earth War God both immediately stuck close to White Mitchell. The three of them stood in a triangular formation, back to back, ready to face any unknown danger.

Meanwhile, White Mitchell was constantly recalling those words in his mind, his hand tightly clutching the dagger.

Inside the dagger was the consciousness of the Red Fire Azure Bird.

The Red Fire Azure Bird was a spiritual beast born within Emperor Qing’s relics. Perhaps it had some insight into the current situation.

Moreover, no matter how much he had questioned it before, it had always avoided answering.

It was clear that it knew something and hadn’t told him.

Thinking of this, White Mitchell calmed his mind, started communicating with the Red Fire Azure Bird, “Now that things have come to this point, you should be able to tell me what you didn’t want to say before.

I know you’ve been avoiding my questions because you’re afraid I’ll back down. But now that it’s come to this, there’s absolutely no way to back out.

The things I want to know, you should be able to tell me now, right?”

“What are you talking about? I don’t understand,” the Red Fire Azure Bird responded coldly.

“Still playing dumb?” White Mitchell laughed, immediately picked up the dagger and walked towards the edge of the cabin.

“I think, with your enhancement, this Holy Artifact should easily break through the array of the Spirit Boat. If I throw this dagger out, what do you think will happen?” White Mitchell said calmly.

“You dare!? If you do that, you won’t live either!” the Red Fire Azure Bird coldly replied, there was a hint of anger in its voice.

Upon hearing this, White Mitchell waved away the threat, “Right now, the outside is full of dangers, whether I can survive is yet to be determined. Rather than that, why not go down fighting, right?

And maybe, after I hand you over, I might still have a chance at life.

If I’m not mistaken, the woman’s voice just now should be someone you know, right?”

“You…how could you guess?!” the Red Fire Azure Bird exclaimed in shock, it clearly hadn’t expected White Mitchell to guess correctly.

Indeed, the voice just now was an old acquaintance, or rather, its arch-enemy.

They had fought for thousands of years in Emperor Qing’s relics.

Its current downfall was largely due to that adversary.

However, it had never divulged these matters to anyone. How did White Mitchell guess?

“Is that so hard to comprehend? From the moment you started to dodge the topic, I had my suspicions that you had quite a significant relation to Bald Dragon Island. But before that, I simply thought that Bald Dragon Island was your old lair.

However, when that mysterious voice appeared, I realized the situation isn’t as simple as I thought it might be.”

Since Bald Dragon Island isn’t your place, the only reason for your secretiveness must be your enemy…” White Mitchell said with a smile.

Swiftly changing his tone, White Mitchell carried on, “And, I was guessing, but it seems I guessed right, didn’t I?”

“You’re trying to trick me into talking!? Despicable human! You think you can fool me?!” Red Fire Auzre Bird was furious upon hearing this.

If only it had control of its own body, it would have spewed out a breath of true fire and burnt White Mitchell to ashes!

“We’re on the same boat now, can’t you cooperate a little?” White Mitchell calmly replied, not caring at all about how angry the Red Fire Auzre Bird was.

Hearing this, Red Fire Auzre Bird felt incredibly frustrated, and responded angrily, “Despicable humans! You pushed it too far!”

“Cut the crap, tell me quickly what has happened. Whether we can get out alive or not, it’s all up to you now.” joked White Mitchell.

Upon hearing this, Red Fire Auzre Bird couldn’t help but roll its eyes, and grumpily replied, “You guessed right. The voice that just appeared in your minds indeed was my enemy.

We vowed to battle each other until death. A thousand years ago, we fought a great battle. She destroyed my true body, and I sealed her on Bald Dragon Island, leaving us both critically injured.

I had intended for you to bring me to the Bald Dragon Island, so I could personally slay that old mixed breed.

But now, it appears that the old mixed breed may have found a way to break the seal. I can sense that the seal I laid down has begun to loosen.

I fear that this time, she can genuinely break my seal.

All of you might very well end up being nutrients helping her break the seal, just as she said—everyone will die!

Because once you all die, she could use your power to break through my seal.

At that point, even I wouldn’t be able to match her, let alone you.”

Hearing this, White Mitchell nodded and continued asking, “This old mixed breed you mentioned, what is it? A human or a spiritual beast?”

“That old mixed breed originally was a seven-colored peacock, but it lucked out and obtained a drop of phoenix blood. This purified its bloodline, transforming it into a nine-colored swallow-tailed kite!

That drop of phoenix blood was originally mine, but the damn thing stole it.

If it weren’t for that, how could my noble bloodline be harmed by that old mixed breed?!” Red Fire Auzre Bird raged.

Even though this happened millions of years ago, every time it talked about the incident, it was brimming with righteous indignation. It wanted nothing more than to kill that nine-colored swallow-tailed kite.

Regrettably, its physical body was destroyed by the seven-colored swallow-tailed kite making it far less powerful than it used to be.

Once the seven-colored swallow-tailed kite that possesses phoenix blood breaks the seal, it would undoubtedly destroy its soul completely.

By then, not only it, but White Mitchell, and anyone else on the island, would be doomed.

This is why Red Fire Auzre Bird initially didn’t want to tell White Mitchell anything.

Because it was genuinely worried that if White Mitchell knew the truth, he would choose to retreat.

Then, it wouldn’t know how long it needed to wait for another chance at vengeance.

“So, given the current situation, what could possibly be done to stop her?” asked White Mitchell.

Red Fire Auzre Bird replied, “Yes, there is a way, though it isn’t easy. The top priority is to get on the island swiftly.

Once we get on Bald Dragon Island, you have to find the formation I laid down back in those days as quickly as possible.

Only within the formation could we possibly eliminate that old mixed breed.

However, before that, you should first deal with a spiritual beast on Bald Dragon Island!”

A Spiritual Beast?

What level is the Spiritual Beast?

White Mitchell queried curiously.

Red Fire Auzre Bird replied indifferently, “It’s not a strong Spiritual Beast, at least not for your human clan. It’s likely an Innate Nine Stages Transcendent.”

How much?

Innate Nine Stages?

Sorry!

My interruption!

Goodbye!