novelraw Chapter 247 : Want to Renew the Contract
Chapter 247 : Want to Renew the Contract
At this critical moment, Sixth Senior Brother's move was like a divine intervention from the heavens. Chu Sang couldn't help but feel tears of gratitude welling up in her heart. Indeed, heaven had not abandoned her.
With the help of the Divine Transformation Pill, Chu Sang finally managed to protect her remaining half-life. She guided bolt after bolt of tribulation thunder towards the Demon Emperor at extremely tricky and unpredictable angles. The Demon Emperor was gritting his teeth in hatred. No matter how desperately he dodged, he couldn't avoid being struck by several bolts.
In this back-and-forth, he ended up sharing nearly half of the thunder's power with Chu Sang.
"Boom!"
As the final, most intense bolt of heavenly thunder fell, both of their figures were simultaneously obliterated by the heavenly thunder.
Mo Qingchen's pupils shook slightly, and he instinctively wanted to rush forward. Seeing this, Gu Chang'an quickly stopped him, shaking his head, "Trust Little Junior Sister. She'll be fine."
Little Junior Sister never did anything without certainty.
Even with his words, everyone present held their breath tightly. The several Divine Transformation stage cultivators present all knew in their hearts that this tribulation was extraordinarily unusual. They had all experienced Divine Transformation tribulations before, but this was the first time they had encountered such a powerful, terrifying Divine Transformation stage tribulation. Even they might not be able to survive it now, let alone Chu Sang who was only at the peak of late Nascent Soul stage...
The final bolt of tribulation thunder, concentrating the power of all the previous dozen or so bolts, struck down. She had little chance of survival...
Mu Chihuai's fist clenched slightly in his sleeve as he stared intently at the movement of the tribulation, not knowing if the Divine Transformation Pill had worked...
Fortunately, heaven favored Chu Sang. When the tribulation dispersed, that proud figure still stood, unbowed like a plum blossom. Her entire body could be described as in a sorry state, but her eyes were particularly sharp and spirited. In contrast, the Demon Emperor's condition was even more miserable than hers. Regrettably, protected by the dragon's heart scale, the Demon Emperor wasn't directly struck dead.
The battle situation had been completely disrupted by Chu Sang. Staying any longer would mean certain death. The Demon Emperor immediately wanted to use his remaining strength to escape quickly.
Chu Sang weighed the pagoda that appeared in her hand out of thin air. "How about making amends?"
"Wuu wuu, we agreed before that I would only help you once. I just helped you trap him once, you should return my freedom now!" The small pagoda spirit said in a milky voice.
"Yes, we agreed that you would help me trap him, but you didn't actually trap him. In the end, I had to do it myself, didn't I?" Chu Sang retorted.
Immediately, the small pagoda spirit's little face turned red, and it lowered its head, unable to refute.
She stopped teasing it and sincerely proposed, "Do you want to renew our contract?"
The small pagoda spirit knew that the contract renewal she spoke of wasn't simply extending it one more time, but formally signing a contract with her, a life-and-death bond.
Under normal circumstances, this level of innate divine artifact was proud and aloof, and would not form contracts with human cultivators. Even if it were to form a contract, the chosen master would definitely be an unparalleled genius... It admitted that along the way, Chu Sang's talent was sufficiently astonishing. Breaking through to Divine Transformation before twenty was worthy of being called an unprecedented genius in the cultivation world. But it was a divine artifact from the upper realm. The geniuses of the lower continent were merely a handful to it. It didn't want to casually give itself away...
Chu Sang saw its hesitation and didn't force it. She continued, "If I'm not mistaken, swallowing a Beast King can help you repair your pagoda body. This isn't a one-sided transaction, but a mutually beneficial equal exchange... How about it? I'll give you three breaths to reconsider. Do you want to continue cooperating with me?"
Chu Sang had long noticed that there were very obvious signs of damage on the Demon-Locking Pagoda's body. She had specifically asked Fifth Senior Brother to investigate the original materials used to forge the Demon-Locking Pagoda and came to a shocking conclusion. The materials used to forge the pagoda were not from the cultivation world, which left only one other possibility...
She narrowed her eyes and glanced faintly at the calm sky above, formally confirming that the Demon-Locking Pagoda was a divine artifact from the upper realm.
In this situation, it had only one way to repair its pagoda body, which was to devour powerful forces, such as the power of the various Beast Kings.
The Demon-Locking Pagoda's real name wasn't the Demon-Locking Pagoda. It was just an external name, convenient for people to help it find Beast King flesh and blood...
The Demon-Locking Pagoda's heart tightened. It hadn't expected its background to be guessed seven or eight tenths by a human. To be honest, it was a bit tempted.
Either way, this master was stronger than other cultivators. Following her wouldn't be a loss.
"By the way, after imprisoning that Demon Emperor, help me extract the Demon Emperor's memories. I have some things I need to investigate," Chu Sang said.
After signing the contract, she learned another function of the Demon-Locking Pagoda: it could extract the memories of demon beasts inside the pagoda.
When the Demon Emperor was at full strength, facing the damaged Demon-Locking Pagoda, he would have had the ability to break out. But after being struck by thunder, the Demon Emperor was already at the end of his tether. In no time at all, after the Demon-Locking Pagoda completely refined him, it retrieved his remaining memories.
Among them, Chu Sang had the pagoda spirit pay special attention to memories related to the female protagonist Qin Xixue, but discovered a surprising fact—In the Demon Emperor's memories, any memories related to Qin Xixue were very blurry, as if they had been forcibly erased by some power.
She could only roughly deduce that after Qin Xixue was completely expelled from the cultivation world, in order to find a place to belong, she had no choice but to seek refuge with the Demon Emperor.
But where the contract of her allegiance to the Demon Emperor was, was unknown.
Could it be through the Demon Emperor's long-dead demon race Young Master?
But that Young Master had died so long ago, how could Qin Xixue still use this bridge?
Chu Sang instinctively felt that other changes must have occurred in between, but unfortunately, the memories were covered up, and the truth was unknown.
After searching through the memories, the demon core and demon bones weren't wasted either. After taking out the Demon Emperor's demon core, Chu Sang divided it evenly into several portions and shared them with the other sects according to their merits.
As for the Demon Emperor's complete waist bone, she planned to have Fifth Senior Brother use this Unity stage demon bone to make a demon bone sword and give it to Big Senior Sister.
"Big Senior Sister, you haven't collected this variety before, right?"
"......"
Hearing her serious words, the others' hearts twitched. This person had pulled out the Demon Emperor's demon bone and was going to make it into a sword as a gift? And she could smile so innocently and casually? Wasn't that too cruel and terrifying!
Indeed, these Lingqing Sect people were all abnormal, and Chu Sang was the worst of them!
The affairs in the demon realm were finally concluded. When they returned, an even more significant piece of news struck them. Immediately, not only the cultivation world but the entire Spirit Abyss Continent was about to fall into great panic...
Mo Baizhou hadn't gone with them to the demon realm earlier. He had been secretly sent by the Master to the demon realm to gather intelligence.
The demon realm and the beast realm had some communication with each other. Soon after Chu Sang and the others returned to the sect, Mo Baizhou brought the latest news—The demon race had also received news of a Divine Decree appearing in the world.
Almost at the same time, Chu Sang also received news from Ling Yu, whom she hadn't seen in a long time. The ghost race had also received news of a Divine Decree appearing in the world?!