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Published at 27th of December 2018 05:37:36 PM


Chapter 87

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Zan Rong and Mei Ling traveled down their own separate path as if they were walking through a park. As time passed, they felt the strange aura get closer and closer as wind blew in their faces. The end of the path was getting closer and closer as a bright light began to shine in their faces and finally they arrived to a new destination.

It was an outside area completed with trees and grass. Even some animals like rabbits and birds were moving around quickly. The only reason the two people could tell they were still underground in the secret town was due to the fact that the sky was just rocks with lights sticking out of it instead of real stars.

"Someone sure did put a lot of effort into building this place. It's not a bad hobby to take up actually...building a miniature forest, how interesting." Zan Rong looked around with an impressed look and imagined how he could turn this concept into a man cave.

Mei Ling kept facing forward while her eyes slid over to face her husband, "You're thinking of something extremely silly aren't you?"

"A man's dreams are not silly!" Zan Rong immediately became defensive while Mei Ling gave off a smug look in his direction. As they walked further into the forest, a single man stood next to a pond in order to greet them.

He looked like an old man with a long flowing gray beard, long black robes, and eyes that contained a hint of insanity. The man showed a toothy grin while opening his mouth and releasing a roaring laughter.

"Welcome Zan Rong and his beautiful wife! I'm glad that you've come to visit this old man's little garden, isn't it wonderful? I've worked so hard to build it, I was also the one who personally installed those lights in the ceiling. It's like a starry night sky here, Hehehehehe!" The old man talked to them as if he was introducing some old friends to a collection of objects that he had been gathering over the period of several years.

Both Zan Rong and Mei Ling stared at the man with suspicion in their eyes. Zan Rong stepped forward with a humph and asked, "Who are you and how do you know of us?"

The man gave off a chuckle as he said, "How could I NOT know about you? The power couple whose combined strength is supposedly able to match up even the Divinities! Having you stand here is my greatest honor. Also, you ask for me to state my identity but I can't do this so simply. I guess the simplest thing to say is that I am the refinement elder of the Shadow Guild."

The eyes of Zan Rong and Mei long shot wide open in interest as the old man revealed his identity. If it was any other person standing in front of them, they might've called these words a bluff. But the old man in front of them had the unmistakable scent of someone who had been a refiner for an uncountable number of years, not only that but his strength was great enough that he could definitely be made an elder of a powerful group like the Shadow Guild.

Zan Fu also had a sort of knack for telling if someone was lying or not, and he was getting the feeling that the old man was speaking the truth. The objective for this raid was to obtain information on whether or not the Shadow Guild had been creating Living Pills. But what was better than getting information? Capturing the man who was considered the head of all crafting in the organization.

While the Shadow Guild would probably be outraged by what they were about to do, they could easily use the excuse that it was necessary in order to prove whether or not they have been making taboo and forbidden objects.

Zan Rong held out his hand and the shell materialized within his grasp. He didn't throw it this time since the space they weren't in was a bit smaller than any battlefields his weapon was originally meant to be used on.

Instead, Zan Rong planned to use it as a weapon that he could use for bludgeoning. The old man gave off another toothy grin as he reached into his robes and pulled out several dozen random bowls containing many different colored liquids, "The young today sure do love fighting, but if you wish for a fight from this old man, then I will grant it!"

He popped the lid off of several of the vials and emptied them into his mouth. Afterwords, his strength increased exponentially and his crazy eyes became even more insane.

Zan Rong charged in right at that moment and swung hi shell the old man's way. The old man ducked down and slid under his swing in order to pop back up in front of him and slam his forehead into Zan Rong's. This caused the orb of them to stagger back a bit, but not for long as the shell in Zan Rong's hand split in half and he slapped it onto his body.

"{Celestial Turtle}" he took on the form he used to battle against Weiceng Shuguo and with that his power and defense has increased by 30%. The old man didn't flinch as he popped out another vial and consumed it like it was his addiction.

He slurped his lips as he charged back toward Zan Rong with his arms bulging red from the effects of the liquid. Punches and kicks were exchanged with Zan Rong mostly being on the receiving end. Luckily, the defenses of his shell protected him from most of the attacks, but the same couldn't be said for the refinement elder.

Although it seems like a one sided battle, Zan Rong was almost depleted of all of his strength. This was from using his {Celestial Turtle} form twice as well as a weird effect the old man gave off whenever he struck made contact with Zan Rong.

It seemed that he was somehow draining Zan Rong's strength but it wasn't entering back into the old man himself. It seemed that it was just dispersing into the air, but this didn't worry him too much.

"Clever old man, you've turned this into a war of attrition haven't you." When Zan Ron said this, the old man gave off a chuckle as he nodded, "Although you are strong Zan Rong, you don't have that much strength left after fighting in that little war of yours." He drank his nineteenth vial and his wounds began to heal at a visible rate. Even his energy was returning to him a bit quicker than usual.

Zan Rong gave off a sigh as he turned to his wife, "I guess it's your turn." Lei long stepped up to the stage with a smile on her face, "Since you had a strategy developed for my husband, you must have had a plan for me as well. Am I correct?"

Once again he pulled out a bottle of some strange powder, but this time it was different. There was no opening to the bottle and he did not attempt to drink it. Instead he showed it off to them while winking.

Zan Rong scrunched his brows together and asked, "What is that?"

The old man gave off a smirk as he said, "Flame Ivy Roots."

Zan Rong's eyes shot open wide as he screamed, "You can't!"

"Oh but I can, as you know this root is one of the most poisonous things in the planet. Once this thing lands onto someone's skin, they will swell and deteriorate until only their skeleton is left. I was planning to use it to kill a Divinity or something but I decided that using it on you two will be good enough. Now prepare yourself little girl!" With a shout the refinement elder threw the bottle at Mei Ling, who instinctively punched it, shattering the bottle to pieces and allowing the roots to shoot onto her face.

"Hahaha! A direct hit!"

Zan Rong looked at his wife in horror as the powder began to fall to the ground, Mei kings appearance was revealed. The old man looked at the scene in shock while Zan Rong turned around and ran back through the pathway in which he and Mei Ling originally came from.

This was because the change that took place on Mei Ling was that her luscious black hair, had suddenly turned white. Black liquids fell off of her head onto the ground and an angry expression grew on her face, "That was the number one best selling hair dye that soul crystals could buy. It was suppose to never come off unless they came into contact with an extremely powerful poison!" Her eyes darted from the ground where the black liquid fell to the refinement elder over and over again.

A sense of dread began to build in the old man's heart as he felt as if he made a terrible mistake.

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Zan Rong was still running down the pathway when he heard horrible shrieks and shouts come from the forest behind him. He didn't look back as he increased his speed and popped out a phone in order to make a call.

"Hello customer, Do you need something?"

"Youthful Immortals ballad hair dye!"

"Are you sure mister, the prices on this item is sky high right now, I suggest you think this through before-"

"Please! Youthful Immortal black hair dye! Before it's too late. Deliver to the Zan Clan's estate as soon as possible!"

"That will be one hundred top tiered soul crystals sir."

"I'LL PAY ON DELIVERY!" Zan Rong ended the fall quickly as he kept moving forward. While running, he spotted Zan Fu and the others limping back while Shu Rong and the youngest boy were being carried by Kai Jun and Zan Fu.

Zan Fu waved over to his father when he spotted him and said, "Dad, good new and bad news. We found the boss of this club, but we kinda... sorta... might've killed him."

Zan Rong stepped up to hi son and Zan Fu prepared himself for a scolding, but instead his father kneeled down and grabbed his shoulders, "Don't worry about that. The situation will clear up soon. I jus want you to remember something Zan Fu."

"What is it?"

"Do NOT judge your mother, everybody dyes their hair understood?!"

"Everybody what?"

"EVERYBODY DYES!"




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