Wayfarer

Chapter 798: The Second-Generation Immortal Emperor

Ultimately, Xiao Nanfeng accepted the Immortal Emperor of Dahan's surrender. He ordered that his body and soul be split up and sealed individually.

Though the Immortal Emperor of Dahan's soul was at the level of a late-stage True Yin cultivator, it didn't pose a threat after being sealed.

"Please forgive me, Lady Yaoguang. I was deceived by the head of Snowborne. He manipulated me into asking for your hand in marriage, and into abducting you as well! I'm innocent!" the Immortal Emperor begged for mercy.

Lan Yaoguang ignored his pleading. HEr expression was ice-cold.

"How do you want to deal with him?" Xiao Nanfeng asked.

"I don't really care. Deal with him however you want," Lan Yaoguang replied.

Xiao Nanfeng nodded.

After leaving the black coffin hidden realm, Xiao Nanfeng put away the black coffin and began to interrogate the Immortal Emperor of Dahan while Ye Sanshui and the others tended to their injuries.

"There were three Boundless Immortals opposing me in Dahan's capital: you, the head of Snowborne, and someone else. Who is he?" Xiao Nanfeng asked.

"I don't know."

"How can you not know?"

"The head of Snowborne tricked me! He deliberately plotted against me, and I didn't realize that my proposal would rouse your attention. I didn't even know that he had come to Dahan's capital, let alone that he had brought others with him."

"How are you even an Immortal Emperor?"

"I never wanted to be emperor in the first place! While my father lived, all I had to do was enjoy my life as the crown prince. I drank the best wine, always had the most fun, and surrounded myself with the most beautiful women. Life was wonderful. One day, however, my father returned to the palace badly injured. He told me that he was about to die. Before he did so, he infused all his cultivation into my body, leaving me a Boundless Immortal. Then, he completed the ritual of succession before his soul dissipated. Now that I'm the Immortal Emperor, I have to worry about all sorts of schemes daily. It's driving me crazy. I miss the past, and I miss my father!" the Immortal Emperor of Dahan exclaimed. His voice was choked with emotion.

Xiao Nanfeng and the others glanced at him, their eyes twitching. When had they ever come across an Immortal Emperor who was so pitiful?

"Your Majesty, what if he's just acting? Maybe he's attempting to trick us," Tu Feng suggested.

"Trick you? I'm telling the truth!" the Immortal Emperor of Dahan fumed.

"Lock him up for now. We'll investigate later," Xiao Nanfeng ordered.

"Understood!" everyone replied.

Xiao Nanfeng also performed a cursory inspection of the Immortal Emperor of Dahan's storage treasures. Indeed, he had vast wealth, perhaps his father's inheritance. Unfortunately, there were no Boundless Immortal treasures to be found.

After dealing with the Immortal Emperor of Dahan, everyone turned to the second black coffin.

"Who could be within this coffin?" Xiao Nanfeng murmured.

"Why don't the three of us Boundless Immortals go take him down together, just like before?" the Demon Child asked.

"We should easily be able to succeed," Ye Sanshui added.

"I will give it my all," Tu Feng said.

"Let's strike, then—but be cautious. Don't underestimate your opponent. Go all out from the start."

"Understood!" the three cultivators replied in unison.

With a clang, Xiao Nanfeng opened the coffin lid. The three Boundless Immortals rushed in.

This time, Xiao Nanfeng and Lan Yaoguang didn't step inside. They waited patiently. Last time, Xiao Nanfeng had overseen the fight against the Immortal Emperor of Dahan in order to let Lan Yaoguang vent her frustrations on him. Now, though, there was no need to be involved—they could simply wait for the outcome.

After some time, a huge crash came from the black coffin. The Demon Child was flung outside by incredible force.

"You think I'm easy to bully just because I'm young? You target me over the two adults? I'll kill you!" the Demon Child roared.

Then, Ye Sanshui was also sent flying from the coffin. He quickly stabilized himself in mid-air.

Finally, Tu Feng was thrown out as well.

The next moment, a middle-aged man in green robes stepped out of the black coffin. His clothes were torn and tattered, his face bruised. Though he had managed to expel the three Boundless Immortals, he had clearly paid a hefty price to do so.

"How troublesome," the green-robed man muttered coldly.

"Die, you bastard!" the Demon Child shouted. He summoned a massive array of swords.

"Die!" Tu Feng and Ye Sanshui charged in simultaneously.

This green-robed man was far stronger than the Immortal Emperor of Dahan. He rushed toward the Demon Child, crushing his nascent technique with a fist and sending him stumbling back. Then, he took on Tu Feng and Ye Sanshui simultaneously, defending against their combined attack. Both parties were driven back.

"Die!" everyone shouted.

A chaotic battle erupted as the four Boundless Immortals fought. The green-robed man was clearly incredibly powerful; he could hold his own against the three Boundless Immortals working together. He never lingered in one place for long, engaging only for a brief instant before breaking away again and continuously forcing the three Boundless Immortals to retreat. His fist technique was extraordinarily refined.

Xiao Nanfeng narrowed his eyes. He turned to glance at Blue Lantern, who quickly nodded in response.

With a wave of his hand, 361 stars appeared overhead. Beams of starlight tracked the green-robed man.

The green-robed man scowled. "A formation!"

Entangled by the three Boundless Immortals, however, he was unable to flee. The beams of starlight quickly homed in on him as a barrier of blue light enveloped him.

He punched the blue barrier, causing it to crack—but the next moment, the three allied Boundless Immortals struck at him simultaneously. The Demon Child's swords, Tu Feng's fox tails, and Ye Sanshui's fist technique struck the man head-on, shattering his qi barrier and causing him to spit out a mouthful of blood.

"Xiao Nanfeng, I'll kill you!" he roared.

He frantically attacked the blue barrier, but Blue Lantern, a formations master, was able to continuously restore the damage with the power of the stars. Meanwhile, the three Boundless Immortals' attacks continued unabated.

The green-robed man grew weaker and weaker.

"Die!" the three Boundless Immortals howled.

Blood poured from his wounds. His bones snapped.

Xiao Nanfeng didn't motion for his subordinates to stop. The three Boundless Immortals pummeled him viciously. His injuries worsened; one of his arms broke.

If this continued, he wouldn't just be crippled. He might well die.

Unlike the Immortal Emperor of Dahan, however, this man didn't beg for mercy. He shouted, "Xiao Nanfeng, if you don't free me now, we shall be bitter enemies unto death."

Xiao Nanfeng's gaze turned icy. "And who are you?"

"That's none of my business. All you need to know is that you can't afford to provoke me. This is just my avatar. If my main body were here, you'd already be dead."

Xiao Nanfeng scoffed. "That's what Saint Chi Hai told me as well. In the end, I captured him. If your main body is really so powerful, why haven't you been rescued yet? Or are you unable to show yourself?"

The green-robed man grimaced. He didn't expect Xiao Nanfeng to be so difficult to deal with.

"Let me go and I'll let bygones be bygones," he said coldly.

Xiao Nanfeng's eyes grew colder. "Do you think I'll take your words at face value? If you had caught me, would you have freed me? Since your main body can't show itself, all the better. Destroying this avatar will only serve to weaken you."

"Die!" the green-robed man roared.

"Die!" Ye Sanshui, Tu Feng, and the Demon Child roared back.

Their attacks grew fiercer and fiercer. The green-robed man was drenched in blood. He wouldn't last much longer.

Finally, the man's eyes flashed with a vicious glint. "Explode!"

"Be careful!" Ye Sanshui shouted.

With a deafening explosion, the man self-destructed, shattering the barrier of blue light trapping him and sending the three Boundless Immortals flying.

Just then, a pillar of green light flashed into existence beside Xiao Nanfeng. The man's soul grabbed Xiao Nanfeng and Lan Yaoguang.

"You're a saint?!" Xiao Nanfeng exclaimed.

"Come where my true body is. I'll make you pay!" the man's soul roared.

With a whoosh, Xiao Nanfeng and Lan Yaoguang's souls were plunged into a green tunnel.

The two cultivators reacted quickly. Lan Yaoguang slashed at him with her sword, while Xiao Nanfeng punched at the man's soul. Even so, the man didn't care. He would rather have his avatar destroyed then allow them to go free.

As the man's soul was torn apart from their combined attacks, he laughed. "I'll be waiting for the two of you, haha!"

His soul dissipated into thin air, but by then, Xiao Nanfeng and Lan Yaoguang were already being sent across space and time.

"To think this saint would have been able to forcibly drag your soul out of your physical body..." Xiao Nanfeng murmured.

Wary, he had transformed into his yin body ahead of time, but Lan Yaoguang wasn't quite so fortunate.

Lan Yaoguang glanced around anxiously. "What do we do now?"

The tunnel seemed to be pulling them apart, but Xiao Nanfeng grabbed ahold of her hand tightly. "Don't worry. We'll be fine."

With a wave of his hand, he activated his candleflame powers.

A red portal appeared before him. He and Lan Yaoguang jumped in and vanished from the tunnel in spacetime. They found themselves in a snowfield, a blizzard rising up around them.