Realms In The Firmament

Like a huge wave clapping the seashore, an army landed on the ground, but nobody made a sound.

With a flash of light, these men all appeared on the ground, and it became a huge formation of an army.

Every man’s eyes were full of murderous intent and solemnness!

These people were so powerful and it made Ye Xiao sweat with fear!

Ye Xiao knew about armies and wars. He used to lead a great army to fight the war in the Land of Han-Yang, and he had killed the enemies on the battlefield and taken down the enemy’s flag. That was why he knew how difficult it was to lead an army as powerful as this one he was staring at.

The army he looked at didn’t have a higher morale than the army of his father Ye Nantian, or the army of his father-in-law Su Dingguo, even the army of Lan Langlang’s father, General Lan and the army of Wenren Jianyin. However, this army was incredible! After all, these people were all cultivators in the Human Realm Upon Heavens. Individual power was much more important in this world than the Land of Han-Yang!

It was a horrible and frightening army he was looking at.

There were more than ten thousand men, who were beyond the sixth level of the Divinity Origin Stage!

That was such a powerful army with such great disciplines!

The purple-robe old man looked around, and Ye Xiao hurriedly lowered his head. That was a brilliant act of a cowardly little man in the martial world. Apparently, Ye Xiao was so good at pretending. Even though the other great actor, Han Bingxue wasn’t with him, he could act a perfect play by himself.

“Wu Lingkuang!” The old man shouted loudly.

The tough man who arrived first ran to the old man and said, “Yes, Master!”

“Who are those people?”

“Perhaps… They are just passerby…” He didn’t seem to be certain.

“Perhaps? Is this your answer? You are not certain of it, and you give it to me as your answer, don’t you? You are brilliant!” The purple-robe old man looked cold. He said, “Get him down. Ten slashes as a punishment!”

The tough man didn’t say a word. Several men came over and dragged him away. After that, the sound of whipping was heard somewhere far away.

Ye Xiao was shocked.

He recognized the material of the whip from the sound of it. He happened to have the same material.

It was exactly the black dragon skin!

The whip which was made from the black dragon skin could not only hurt people’s physical body but also bring pain to one’s soul. That was quite some suffering for the man…

Because he gave an uncertain answer to the old man, he was punished with such severe pain! The purple-robe old man was such a brutal leader of an army. However, none of his men showed any expression. Everybody was calm and expressionless.

It seemed they were used to it as if it was normal!

“Go and ask!”

The purple-robe old man didn’t even move his eyes, just casually pointed at Ye Xiao and the ladies.

A yellow-robe cultivator left the troop and walked to Ye Xiao. With an expressionless face, he asked Ye Xiao.

“What is your name?

“Where are you from?

“Who are the ladies to you?

“Why are you here?

“Can’t you get past this place?

“Why didn’t you change your route?

“Why do you stay here? What are you after?”

One question after another and the man didn’t even give Ye Xiao time to think. Ye Xiao answered all the questions without hesitation. He was shivering and his face turned colorless. It looked like he was terrified by the man.

In Ye Xiao’s answers, he was an itinerant cultivator with his wife and two sisters who were heading to the famous Hall of Life and Death for help…

His wife was severely ill and nobody could save her anymore. The Hall of Life and Death was the last chance he had. As they reached this place, the Foggy Miasma Mountain stopped them. If they changed the route, they had to go back and cross the ocean. It was millions of miles away, which was impossible. That was why they stayed here, and none of them knew what to do next…

All in all, Ye Xiao made up a story of a piteous man with his poor wife and sisters! It was such a sad story!

The yellow-robe man rolled his sharp eyes around and looked at Xuan Bing. “Are you his wife? What is the disease you got? How do you feel? I know a little about medicine. Let’s me check your condition, and perhaps you can be cured!”

Ye Xiao had done such a great job to make up the story, but the man in the yellow robe still didn’t trust him. That was cautious!

“I…” Xuan Bing said one word, and the man in yellow robe already grabbed her wrist. Suddenly, the man’s spiritual energy got into Xuan Bing’s wrist.

Xuan Bing gritted her teeth. She wanted to get rid of him, but the man was too powerful, so she had to endure the touch.

The man in yellow robe ran his spiritual energy in Xuan Bing’s Jing and Mai. He found that Xuan Bing’s Jing and Mai were intermittent. Some parts of the Jing and Mai were almost broken. Her dantian had a hole through which her life qi was running away… Her life was almost drained…

That was such severe injuries. Even the most powerful doctors in the world were unable to cure her, not to mention the man in yellow robe!

Xuan Bing was such an experienced cultivator who had already reached the top of the Saint Origin Stage, one step away from the Immortality Stage. She was at a much higher level than the man in the yellow robe, so it was easy for her to disguise her real status.

“Oh. I see.” The man in yellow robe frowned and let go of Xuan Bing’s arm.

Ye Xiao was anxious, and he asked, “Master, do you get to know my wife’s situation now? Please, tell us something… Please, save her life… Please, my lord…”

The man in yellow robe impatiently said, “I am not a doctor. I don’t know anything about your wife’s disease!”

He humphed, turned around, and walked away.

Ye Xiao was anxiously shouting, “Master, didn’t you say you knew medicine? Why don’t you just give me a diagnosis? Just tell how she is… Please… Why do you do this to us?”

The old man in the purple robe was quite powerful, and he definitely heard Ye Xiao, which made him feel annoyed.

The man in yellow robe hurriedly came back to the old man and said, “Master, I got their names. They are… They are here because… It is such a severe disease. Her dantian is broken. Her life energy is running out. Her Jing and Mai are incomplete… She is at the end of her life…”

“The man is telling the truth. Please give us further instruction, Master.” The man in yellow robe said and bowed.

“Hmm.”

The old man in purple robe blandly said, “Since they are already in trouble, let’s not make any more troubles for the poor people. As long as they don’t get in the way of us. Tell them. When we break the Foggy Miasma Mountain, they can get past it. It is their great luck to have us here. We shouldn’t send people to death out of no reason.”

“Yes, Master. It is so kind of you.”

The man in yellow robe turned back and said to Ye Xiao, “You are lucky. We are here to break this Foggy Miasma Mountain. Listen to me. Stay far away from the mountain. Don’t get in the way. After we break the mountain, the road will be clear, and you will be free to go through it. You are going to reach the marvelous doctor soon!”

“Thank you, my lord… Thank you so much…” Ye Xiao bowed and kept saying thanks to the man, almost got his tears out.

He held Xuan Bing with one hand and dragged the two ladies with the other hand. The four of them hastily walked to the edge of the forest. After a while, they disappeared in the forest.

The old man in purple robe seemed to keep his eyes closed, but he was actually watching Ye Xiao all the time.

His spiritual mind followed the four of them to the forest. When Ye Xiao started to set tents, the old man finally withdrew the spiritual mind. The old man was relieved. ‘So they are not the Sky Kings’ people…’

He finally felt relieved, so he waved a hand to send people to do other jobs. “Go around and make sure nothing goes wrong around the mountain!”

The man in yellow robe waved his hand and shouted, “One hundred men of the yellow team, step out and search around.”

A group of people in yellow clothes quietly walked out. After that, with a cracking sound, all of them had put on their weird armors, which even covered their eyes.

After wearing the armors, they pressed some spot on the armor, and the armors on them suddenly shined in dim lights.

After that, the leader of the group took the first step ahead. The one hundred men after him followed his lead in order, marching to the dense fog!

After a while, the group of one hundred men disappeared in the fog.

In the forest, Yue Shuang blinked and said, “Brother, do you think their weird armors can resist the poisonous fog?”

Ye Xiao looked confused. “I supposed so. Yes, they surely can. Your sister-in-law’s life depends on these lords!”

While he was speaking, he shook the finger to Yue Shuang before his chest. The ladies understood immediately.

No, those armors couldn’t resist the poison.

Ye Xiao clearly knew it. The scales on the Silver-scaled Golden-caruncled Snake were almost as strong as the dragon scales. However, the scales of the snake were still eroded within a short time in the fog. The Silver-scaled Golden-caruncled Snake should be able to resist most poisons but still couldn’t resist the poison in this place. The poison in the Foggy Miasma Mountain was horrible.

The group of one hundred men seemed to wear some really strong armors, but they probably couldn’t resist the poison either. Besides, these men would definitely go deeper into the fog than the Silver-scaled Golden-caruncled Snake. The men moved quickly, but they didn’t do this in full power.

All in all, those men were never going to leave the fog safely! They didn’t stand a chance!

Absolutely not!

As expected, after a while, a screech sounded from somewhere deep in the fog. It was horrible and full of despair. “The poisonous fog is too strong. Our armors don’t work! Great General, please, be careful! Brothers, take care!”

When the man said the last few words, it was almost too weak to be heard.

Apparently, whoever spoke to them was dead.

After the screech, everything was back to silence.

The dense fog was still rolling in the air. It was peaceful and quiet.

Everybody looked at the dense fog quietly and the penetrative chill hit everybody deeply in the bones.

One hundred men.

Those were not ordinary soldiers, but a group of powerful cultivators. They ran into the dense fog but only shouted out those words to warn the others. Nobody survived. What a horrible poison it was!

The old man in purple robe looked pretty upset and annoyed. He stared at the Foggy Miasma Mountain for a while and said in a deep voice, “Zi Wu!”

A strong young man who had been standing behind him immediately stepped out.

“Put on your armors. Raise a spiritual energy shield inside the armors. Go inside and check the situation as fast as you can. Do not stay long. Do not test the poison. Get out as soon as you can!” The old man in purple robe gave the young man instructions.

“Yes, my lord!”

The man, Zi Wu, quickly took off the robe and put on the armors that were the same as the one hundred men were wearing. He slowly walked to the dense fog and took a deep breath.

After that, Zi Wu suddenly became a long stream of light. It was like a bolt of lightning striking into the dense fog.

‘Level four of the Saint Origin Stage.’ Ye Xiao spoke in his head.

Within just a short time, about the time of a breath, a bolt of lightning flashed over again. Zi Wu, who had just entered the fog, ran out with a dash. As he left the fog, he actually got down on the floor and rolled ahead fast…

The armors on Zi Wu’s body were all gone because of the erosion. His face and skins were all injured. He had only stayed in the fog for a short time, but the erosion had hurt him everywhere. That was why he kept rolling on the floor painfully as he went out. He wanted to ease the pain a little bit, and also to wipe off the poison on his body on the floor…

The old man in purple robe stepped ahead and held the man down still with both hands. He raised up his foot and quickly kicked Zi Wu up to the sky. After that, the lights of a saber flashed…

Within a second, over a hundred pieces of skin with blood were cut off from Zi Wu’s body.

Those were the parts where the poison was on. The old man in the purple robe had a pair of sharp eyes and his saber moves were accurate and fierce. Every piece of skin that was eroded by the poison was cut off. Some of the bones were exposed…

Blood flashed everywhere…

The skin and flesh on the floor only stayed for a few seconds before they became purulence…

The old man checked Zi Wu’s body and made sure there was no erosion anymore before he withdrew the saber and fed Zi Wu a whole bottle of dan beads.

After that, he pasted medicine to every wound on Zi Wu’s body.

After a long time, Zi Wu finally stopped shivering and opened his eyes. However, he was still sweating because he tried so hard to endure the pain.

“My lord, that was…” Zi Wu’s face was colorless, and he said, “The corrosive poison in the fog is beyond our imagination… When I just got into the fog, the armors and my energy shield were all invaded. I did not stand a chance to resist the erosion. My protective energy did not defend me even a bit… The energy shield was corrupted as soon as the armors were gone… The men before me are dead. Their bodies are about a thousand feet from here… They are all just rotting bones on the floor… Nobody survived…”

After saying the last few words, Zi Wu passed out again.