Chapter 322: End of an Immortal
Chapter 322: End of an Immortal
The Council meeting lasted for two long hours. Once the God of Life announced the punishment for Elder Zheng and showed more than enough evidence of his crimes, the guards were ordered to send the Elder to the Heavenly prison.
However, the guards returned moments later to inform that the Elder had escaped on his way to prison. Heavenly Emperor commanded a group of elite guards to chase the Elder and capture him.
On the other hand, Elder Zheng had only one place in mind as he appeared at the border of Mortal Realm and North Sea Realm. There was only one person who could save him.
He had long discovered the location of the secret hideout of the Dark Force and he headed there without a second thought.
The island was surrounded in a heavy mist and an eerie silence as he made his way toward the caves hidden deep within the mountains. He easily made it through the protection barriers and appeared at the mouth of a huge cave where two dark soldiers were standing guard.
They became alert as soon as Elder Zheng appeared there, with their swords pointed in his direction. Elder Zheng quickly raised his hands in surrender as he spoke, "I’m no threat. I want to meet your leader. I have information that can help him."
"How can you help us?"
Before the guards could have decided what to do with Elder Zhang, the chief of the Dark Force arrived at the entrance of the cave, demanding an answer from the Immortal.
"It’s you." Elder Zheng immediately relaxed when he recognized the man who first approached him a while ago to work together to take down the Demon Emperor and the Spirit Beast King. "Our plan failed. I was so close to getting rid of those from the Lower Realms when that God of Life suddenly appeared from nowhere and saved them. He also knew about my connection with you. In order to save my life, I ran away from there. I’m here to make another deal with you."
The chief of the Dark Force remained silent with a straight face. He was studying Elder Zheng, contemplating how to handle the Immortal when he received a command from his Lord.
"Bring the immortal to me."
Without contemplating or wasting another moment, he followed his Lord’s order. "Follow me. The Lord wants to meet you." He told Elder Zheng before he turned around and started walking deep into the cave.
After what seemed like ten or so minutes later, they arrived at a huge cave room which was filled with the dim lights coming from the lanterns hanging around the place.
"My Lord, the Immortal is here."
Immortal Zheng followed the line of the Chief’s sight and found himself looking at the back of a person standing at a distance with a cloak covering him from head to toe.
"Zheng Zhu ran, can you recall the agreement that the chief of my Dark Force made with you?" The cloaked man suddenly asked, momentarily surprising Elder Zheng who wasn’t used to hearing anyone calling him by his name and also not showing any respect toward him at all.
He could tell by that powerful dark aura surrounding the cloaked man that he was none other than the Shadow Lord himself. Still, he felt that he deserved some respect as an Elder of the High Council. But he held himself back from reminding the same to the Shadow Lord.
Instead, he cleared his throat and answered, "The agreement was for me to take down the Demon Emperor and the Spirit Beast King during the High Council’s meeting based-"
"Exactly."
The Shadow Lord spoke up before Elder Zheng could finish speaking.
"You were told to take care of only Xin Cheng and Li Dao Ming. Then how come you started targeting High Immortal Xing?" The Shadow Lord demanded, and this time, his voice came out louder and angrier.
Elder Zheng was taken aback by the anger that was pointed at him. He wasn’t expecting to be questioned about such a small matter. "You don’t have to worry about that Immortal woman. She tried to help those two demons, so I decided to take her down along with them. She’s a disgrace to the upper Realms for even thinking about helping those lowly men from lower Realms-"
"Don’t speak another word about her."
These words were spoken by the cloaked man in a low voice, but for some weird reason, they carried the most weight among everything that he had said so far. Each word was carrying immense evil power in it, and it turned the atmosphere inside the cave room overwhelming.
For the second time within an hour, Elder Zheng found it impossible to breathe because of the immense power that was carried by a person. "You... w-why... she’s just a..."
He never got to finish his question as the Shadow Lord suddenly turned to face him and grabbed his neck with one of his hands. Elder Zheng struggled against the deadly grip on his neck and became immensely terrified when he felt his legs leaving the ground.
"No one is allowed to hurt her." The Shadow Lord spoke the words as he clenched his fingers around the immortal’s throat, squeezing the life out of him with each passing second. "No one can hurt her. I will remove anyone who will even think about hurting the woman I’m protecting."
Elder Zheng struggled wildly, his hands trying their best to loosen the grip on his neck. He even reached out to his divine powers to help him, but nothing worked. Even his fifty thousand years of divine powers weren’t enough to fight against the Shadow Lord. His fate was sealed.
Moments later, a dark mist covered Elder Zheng’s body for a moment before the man suddenly burst into thousands of sparks and disintegrated into nothingness.
The cloaked man retracted his hand and cast a spell to clear off the nonexistent dirt from it. He needed to meet the High Immortal Xing to congratulate her on her promotion.