Chapter 173.1 Swore Loyalty to the Demon Sovereign (1/2)
Chapter 173.1 Swore Loyalty to the Demon Sovereign (1/2)
"Blarrgh, Wang Ke, I can’t do it anymore! I can’t!" the Snake King said weakly.
"Why can’t you? We are searching for my compensation recipients. I didn’t even direct you to places with more people, and I avoided areas with large demonic beasts. Besides, my essence Qi is almost depleted, and I didn’t even say a thing about giving up! Why the hell are you trying to stop?" Wang Ke reprimanded his aide with a frown.
After much effort, they rescued more people and placed them in God Wang Tower’s main hall.
Wang Ke was able to handle many unconscious cultivators and demonic beasts, but his essence Qi was limited. He could also die if he kept at it for too long; even if his turbid essence Qi regenerated at a fast rate, it was still unable to catch up with usage. Wang Ke didn’t have enough turbid essence Qi in one of the outings and was almost cut in half by the frenzied cultivators. He would have died if not for the Snake King tanking for him.
"I haven’t complained even once! What are you crying for?"
Wang Ke’s face froze. What should I do?
"Forget it, most people left in the mist are already dead. Almost all the first batch of cultivation hopefuls were dead. Some of the righteous and the demonic disciples are fighting and running away at the same time; I can’t even catch up. As for the demonic beasts, I’m not even familiar with them; let them be. A pity that I only saved eight of the ones who bought my insurance. Sigh! What a terrible loss!" said Wang Ke.
"Loss your *ss!" the reptile cursed and said, "You pillaged things from every corpse along the way. Look at yourself! How many storage bangles have you looted! How many enchanted artifacts! How many flying swords! Loss your *ss!"
"Okay, okay. Enough talk! I’ve used up my turbid essence Qi anyway; I can’t go on much longer. Let’s go back!"
The Snake King felt annoyed. I’m the one talking too much?
Despite his annoyance, he still took Wang Ke back to the tower.
It wasn’t them being unwilling to leave the Dragon Gate Assembly. Se Yutian and the blood dragon were still circling around the outer rim of the assembly grounds. They would be in big trouble if they encountered him while on their way out.
And so, snake and man rushed back to the God Wang Tower.
"Blarrgh!"
The Snake King followed Wang Ke upstairs while vomiting. Finally, they passed the twenty-fifth floor and reached the top.
Almost a hundred people were resting on the top floor by that time. There was a clean separation between the two sides, each on alert against the other as they healed themselves.
Although rescued and recuperating, they were each others’ nemeses, so all of them kept their guard up. Both sides felt uncomfortable at the fact that Wang Ke had also saved their respective opponents.
"Brother Wang is back!" someone cried out.
"Thank you so much, Brother Wang!" disciples from both sides expressed their gratitude.
On one side, Zhang Zhengdao laid strengthless on the floor. "Wang Ke, I can’t do this anymore! I’m going to collapse from all this vomiting! Please don’t ask me to compensate for anything!"
He was suffering the same fate as the Snake King, almost spewing their entrails.
"Okay, fine. No matter how much the compensation, you’ll be left out of it!" Wang Ke said.
"Thank goodness!" Zhang Zhengdao passed out.
The Snake King glanced at Zhang Zhengdao. Wang Ke fooled you! The compensation is just a tiny fraction compared to the amount of money he’s about to earn!
"Everyone, the mist was too dense down there. I didn’t know who was who, nor did I know whom I saved! I only tried saving as many as I could. Everyone, please, no need to thank me!" Wang Ke waved his hands.
"I told you! In all that chaos, my junior apprentice-brother only wanted to save people! He didn’t know who he was saving! How can all of your thoughts be so crooked! How dare you blame my junior apprentice-brother for saving demonic disciples? Doesn’t your conscience hurt?" Tie Liuyun reprimanded his peers indignantly.
The others looked down in shame.
On the other side—the demonic disciples were also sighing.
One of Wang Ke’s Mahjong buddies berated his fellow demons, "I told you! The Second Parlor Lord wants us dead! But Wang Ke is close to the Third and Fourth Parlor Lords, and he risked his life to save us! We would have died had he not gone down there, even disregarding his own safety! And you’re blaming him for saving righteous disciples when he couldn’t see clearly who he was saving? All of you would be long gone if Brother Wang took more time choosing who to save!"
A bunch of demonic disciples lowered their heads in shame.
However, Wang Ke didn’t have any more time to spare speaking to them. His focus was on the situation at ground level.
As most people died, the Blood Nourishing Dragon Array became clearer, and the massive blood dragon revealed itself again before all the survivors.
Second Parlor Lord Se Yutian sat on the dragon’s head, looking satisfied with how the dragon was working for him. The blood dragon had absorbed countless clouds of dragon Qi, and the remaining demonic beasts were on their last throes.
"Se Yutian, you will die a horrible death!" Tie Liuyun cursed in anger.
"Second Parlor Lord, you even killed demonic disciples! You’ve really gone too far!" The demonic sect disciples also felt indignant.
Wang Ke was instead looking around, however.
Other than Zi Chongshan and Zi Bufan, there should be other cultivation powerhouses in town!
Where is the Demon Sovereign? Where is Mo Sanshan, that *sshole?