Chapter 93 - Luo Tiange

In the Sky Sabers Life and Death Array, miserable shrieks rang out without end!

Gu Hai was standing before the Dragon Turtle Palace, operating the entire grand array by manipulating a weiqi board piled up with spirit stones with his True Qi.

Standing behind him were Gao Xianzhi, Shangguan Hen, and Scar.

"Greed is one of the seven deadly sins! What a pity!" Gu Hai could not help but heave a sigh upon listening to the shrill cries coming from everywhere. (1)

"My Lord, you don't need to pity them. Most of the people among them are bandits of the Thousand Islands Seas! Many among us have suffered injustice, we have not caused any disasters anywhere. These bandits are the true scourge," Scar stated, shaking his head.

"Oh?"

"Perhaps my lord isn't exactly clear about the Golden and Silver Horns. They are the tumors of the Thousand Islands Seas. They have a gang of pirates under their control, who specialize in plundering natural sea resources, burning, and pillaging. There is no crime they have not committed. In some places, they have even set up checkpoints, where if a merchant s.h.i.+p doesn't pay the toll, they will be robbed, even some of the islands are pillaged. Why can twenty thousand people so quickly launch an organized a.s.sault on the array? It's all because of these two. A majority of these twenty thousand men are also roving pirates. The Golden and Silver Horns have quite a bit of fame, they can rally mult.i.tudes of people with one call!" Scar explained in a deep voice.

"Roving pirates?" Gu Hai's eyebrows twitched.

"My Lord doesn't need to pity ridding the world of these pests. Sure, there are some people among these twenty thousand men from some sects, but since they have banded together with these bandits and are planning on plundering and killing, they are also not necessarily good men. My Lord, you have already placed a sign outside the array, telling them not to come in. But, they still haphazardly rushed in, we can't be blamed!" Scar continued firmly.

Narrowing his eyes, Gu Hai nodded and said, "I was only regretting the fact that the Golden and Silver Horns look too weak, far worse than Li Wei! They are so weak that my arrangements would be badly handled."

"Oh? Subordinate jumped to a premature conclusion?!" Scar asked, unable to say anything more.

"Too weak? My Lord wants them to break the array?" Shangguan Hen asked with a frown on his brow, worried now.

"Yes, Meng Tai is still waiting!" Gu Hai said, narrowing his eyes.

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Outside the Sky Sabers Life and Death Array...

Numerous cultivators gazed at the grand array, terrified. The shrill shouts coming from inside aptly augmented the sign hung outside of it.

Whoever breaches the array without permission will be killed!

Previously, these very words were treated as no more than a joke, but now, none dared to laugh at them.

"Gu Hai can actually arrange an array, even without the support of the heaven and earth rules of Xiantian Endgame World?"

"Aren't there twenty thousand men inside? Can't they even resist a little bit?"

"We have to inform Senior Brother! Gu Hai can't be taken lightly, they mustn't make a move on Gu Mansion!"...

Numerous cultivators looked in the direction from where the screams were coming from with gloomy looks on their faces.

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With Feng Ling in his embrace, Meng Tai narrowed his eyes, staring at the grand array. "Golden and Silver Horns, what good-for-nothings you are! Two Nascent Soul Stage cultivators can't even find their own bearings? If your five sense are confused, can't you rely on other things to confirm the direction? Useless things!"

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On another site, the Ninth Young Master was sitting under the eaves, taking a sip from a teacup as he watched the proceedings quietly.

 A subordinate quietly walked up to Ninth Young Master from behind and reported, "Ninth Young Master, Luo Tiange is here, do you want him to come over?"

"Haven't I made it clear? I haven't been here before, what good will meeting him do?" the Ninth Young Master replied in a cold voice.

"Yes!"

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Outside the Colosseum, atop a high mountain...

A man stood there, dressed in white robes. Five chains were slowly dancing behind him, like octopus tentacles growing from his back, swaying in the wind.

A dozen subordinates were following the white-robed man. All of them had serious looks on their faces, and were studying the distant grand array with the white-robed man.

"Sky Sabers Life and Death Game? Ha!" The white-robed man's eyes shone brighter.

While they were gazing at the grand array, some of the cultivators around them recognized the man dressed in white.

Suddenly, someone among the audience cried out in shock, "Luo Tiange, the Thousand Islands Seas' Eastern Thief King!?"

"Over the course of a century of his reign, the heavens know how many sects have been destroyed by him, how many Nascent Soul cultivators have fallen under his hands?"

"Why is he here?"...

An ugly look immediately took over the cultivators in the vicinity. Experts of various major sects were not willing to provoke this scourge.

Dressed in white, Luo Tiange, with his long hair combed in a pompadour style, looked rather handsome. His eyes shone with a sinister gleam as he gazed at the grand array, before turning his gaze towards a nearby mountain forest.

That forest was the place where one of Ninth Young Master's subordinates was present.

The Ninth Young Master's subordinate shook his head, indicating that the Ninth Young Master did not wish to meet him.

Luo Tiange's eyebrows twitched as he took a long, deep breath.

"I still don't have the qualifications to meet with him? If not for Grandmaster Guanqi's inheritance, do you think I would be willing to become your subst.i.tute? Hmph, all right, take a good long look!" Luo Tiange's eyes flashed with arrogance.

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"Ah! Great Brother, I have a solution. Even if our five senses are confused, even if we can't make out the directions, the rain is still falling from the sky. We can find the direction along with the rainwater. Quickly!" Silver Horn's voice reverberated from the grand array.

"Where are you running!" another shout came from the array.

Two silhouettes suddenly soared up into the sky.

"We have come out, we are out, hahaha!" Golden Horn's peals of laughter reverberated across the sky.

At this moment, the Golden and Silver Horns' clothes were in a mess, and they were in a sorry state. Earlier, they were chased by almost a hundred men wielding the sky sabers.

Had it been outside the array, that band of men would be seeking death for sure. But inside, with the sky sabers in their hands, it was a completely different thing. The sky sabers was in no way weaker than their own sword qis. Under the pursuit of a hundred men, the Golden and Silver Horns felt awfully wronged. They could not escape, no matter where they ran and what they did. Furthermore, they could not make out where they were going. Meanwhile, their hunters only grew in number. The two Nascent Soul Stage cultivators were thoroughly depressed. However, they had finally escaped.

Once they were out of the array, the duo's countenances immediately turned horrid.

Because, in this short span of time, the shrieks coming from the array had already fallen considerably. It appeared that almost all of twenty thousand men had been annihilated.

Twenty thousand men, completely annihilated? The Golden and Silver Horns were struck with a jolt.

Just as they two took a step, wanting to leave, two chains suddenly rushed over to them.

"What?" the duo's face distorted as they waved their giant swords to greet the oncoming chains.

The chains and the long swords collided with loud bangs, sending the Golden and Silver Horns flying immediately.

The two crashed into the ground, coughing blood. With shock apparent in their eyes, they turned their gazes in the direction of the chains.

It was none other than Luo Tiange, who was still standing atop the peak, gazing at the duo whose backs had been heavily injured by the chains with a gaze as cold as ice.

"Nascent Soul Stage? Ha, you are too weak, nonetheless!" Luo Tiange sneered.

"You...you are Luo Tiange!?"

"The Eastern Sea Thief King!"

The Golden and Silver Horns' expressions changed for the worse.

Immediately, two chains arrived before the duo, pointing straight at them. A terrifying killing intent rushed straight at them, dropping the temperature around them by a few degrees instantly.

"Though you are good-for-nothings, you are Nascent Soul cultivators in the end. Now, I will give you one chance, submit to me immediately!" Luo Tiange stated with an icy tone.

"You think you can make us submit!? Fat chance!" Silver Horn glared at Luo Tiange, his eyes wide.

"Eastern Sea Thief King, we have never interfered with your business! Furthermore, we too are Nascent Soul cultivators!" the Golden Horn spoke up, looking to negotiate.

"Hmph!" Luo Tiange only let out a cold snort in response before the chains grew longer, shooting straight towards the duo.

"Not good!" The duo's faces distorted as they brandished the long swords in their hands once more.

The two swords with an overwhelming sword aura circling around them clashed with the chains with a loud bang.

The two chains roared in unison, as if they had transformed into two iron dragons.

A loud bang immediately reverberated across the surroundings as the sword auras collapsed into nothing, shooting a cloud of dust and stones in the air.

When the dust finally settled down, the scene at the center was slowly revealed.

A shocking sight was finally presented to the onlookers. The two chains had shockingly pierced through the heads of the Golden and Silver Horns. The heavens knew whether it was blood or brains smeared over the ends of the chains, it was all muddy.

The Golden and Silver Horns had stopped breathing.

The cultivators in the vicinity held their breaths as they looked towards Luo Tiange on the peak with panic apparent on their faces.

"Good-for-nothings who don't know what's good for themselves. This King taking a fancy to you was your good fortune, yet you actually dared to refuse, hmph!" Luo Tiange rebuked them posthumously, his voice faint and cold.

The chains quickly shrank back. The Golden and Silver Horns' breathless bodies crashed to the ground.

Luo Tiange didn't take another look at them. c.o.c.king his head, he looked at the grand array filled with clouds.

 Luo Tiange, narrowing his eyes, shouted towards the array, "Gu Hai, right?"

His voice wasn't that loud, but it was heard everywhere, even piercing through the grand array.

"I am Luo Tiange. Dispel the array now and let me deal with you, otherwise, all of you won't see the day tomorrow!" Luo Tiange declared coldly.

The cultivators in the surroundings looked at Luo Tiange, their eyes wide. Are you f.u.c.king crazy? However, Luo Tiange had his own infamy to back him up, none of the many cultivators dared to interrupt him.

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Looking at the distant Luo Tiange, Meng Tai's eyes gleamed brightly, "Finally, someone decent is here!"

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The Ninth Young Master, drinking tea, looked at Luo Tiange atop the peak. "He sure is crazy enough. As for his capability, it will depend on his performance!"

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Luo Tiange's voice naturally rang across the array.

Inside the array, many of the men blanched. Apparently, the infamy of Eastern Sea Thief King running amuck in the Thousand Islands Seas for a hundred years had spread everywhere. Many had heard of him.

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In front of the Dragon Turtle Palace...

"My Lord, this Luo Tiange is the Eastern Sea Thief King...!" Scar wanted to report Luo Tiange's history.

"I know, Chen Tianshan mentioned him once!" Gu Hai interrupted him calmly.

"Yes!" Scar no longer interjected.

"Gu Hai, dispel the array! Don't make me come to you!" Luo Tinage's voice spread across the array once more.

A sliver of a cold smile appeared on Gu Hai's lips as he gazed back. "If you have the ability, come and break it! If not, shut your trap, so noisy!"

Gu Hai's voice immediately spread everywhere.

The jaws of the cultivators outside dropped as they heard his retort.

"Has Gu Hai gone nuts? He is just a Xiantian Stage cultivator!"

"Break through the array? I have heard that Luo Tiange had broken through arrays of many sects alone!"...

Countless cultivators held their breaths.

In contrast, Luo Tiange's eyes flickered with a cold light. "You say I am being noisy? Once, a sect of Six-Five Island had also said that! Ultimately, I dismembered everyone from their clan!"

"What rubbis.h.!.+ Heaven, Earth, Void, and Death Companies, don't pay any attention to this nonsense and continue to kill for me!" Gu Hai's shout spread everywhere.

"Yes, my Lord!" Loud acknowledgments immediately rang out from the grand array.

"Hmph! You are looking to die!" Luo Tiange said coldly.

Suddenly, the five chains behind Luo Tiange soared into the sky, growing longer and longer. In the blink of an eye, endless flames emerged from the chains as the five chains, just like fire dragons, rushed towards the Sky Sabers Life and Death Grand Array.

Under Luo Tiange's control, the five fire dragons extended to tens of li in length as they stormed down from the sky, apparently wanting to bind the entire grand array.

With a loud bang, the entire Sky Sabers Life and Death Array was bound by the five fire dragons.

"Break for me!" Luo Tiange shouted.

With a loud bang, overwhelming flames rushed out from the five fire dragons, as if they wanted raze the entire grand array down to nothing.

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