Chapter 283: Easy Pickings

Chapter 283: Chapter 283: Easy Pickings

"Run! Split up! Whoever makes it out alive must bring the news that Blood Sword is still alive back to the Imperial Army Mansion!"

Shrieking in terror, the Yellow Robe Couple transformed into two streaks of yellow light and shot off in different directions.

They understood. Back when Yi Xiaoyao had killed a fourth-realm Nascent Soul Transformation expert, he was only in the Nascent Soul Realm. Now, he had already stepped into the Nascent Soul Transformation Realm himself. His strength was bound to be even more terrifying than before.

This level of power was enough to demand the full attention of the Imperial Army Mansion. That was why they had to split up—to ensure at least one of them survived to deliver the message.

’Splitting up to escape? Not a bad idea.’ Yi Xiaoyao saw their tactic and gave a cold smile. Under normal circumstances, he would indeed only be able to chase one of them, leaving the other to escape.

But what Yi Xiaoyao said next sent a tremor of fear through the couple’s hearts.

"But it’s useless!"

The moment the words left his lips, the expression on the man in the yellow robe, who was fleeing in a panic to the left, froze. Yi Xiaoyao had suddenly appeared right in front of him, his hand plunging into the man’s Dantian.

Yi Xiaoyao gave the man a wicked grin. "I’ll be taking your Nascent Soul."

SQUELCH!

The man in the yellow robe let out a bloodcurdling scream as he watched Yi Xiaoyao rip out his Nascent Soul and place it into a Storage Pouch.

Then, Yi Xiaoyao reached out and grabbed the man, who was about to fall now that he had lost all his Cultivation, preventing him from splattering into a pile of gore like that fat young man.

These two couldn’t die. Not yet.

Meanwhile, the woman in the yellow robe, fleeing in the opposite direction, saw that her husband had fallen into Yi Xiaoyao’s demonic clutches. A look of terror and rage crossed her face, and she pushed herself to escape even more desperately.

Yi Xiaoyao glanced in the woman’s direction and smiled faintly. Although she was already quite far away, she still wouldn’t escape his grasp.

Several Flame Illusion Bodies appeared at once. Yi Xiaoyao used Instant Illusion to continuously swap places with them, and in the blink of an eye, he reappeared before the woman in the yellow robe.

"You two are husband and wife, after all. How could I bear to watch you abandon your husband and flee?"

Looking at the woman, whose face was a mask of absolute terror, Yi Xiaoyao smiled faintly. "So why don’t you go and keep your husband company?"

"No!!"

At this moment, the woman was filled with nothing but despair. After letting out a useless, horrified shriek, she suffered the same fate as the man.

Her Nascent Soul was taken, and all her Cultivation was lost.

Yi Xiaoyao had harvested two Nascent Souls from the Nascent Soul Transformation Realm. He smiled in satisfaction. "Now this should make Three Treasures happy."

Then, carrying the couple, he flew toward the King of Shang.

At this moment, everyone who witnessed the scene was so shocked they were rendered speechless.

This was especially true for the King of Shang. He knew how powerful the couple was, yet in Yi Xiaoyao’s hands, they had their Nascent Souls ripped out and were captured alive in the blink of an eye.

Taking the Nascent Soul of a Nascent Soul Transformation Realm expert was as easy as reaching into his pocket!

No wonder that couple had been so terrified upon seeing Yi Xiaoyao and had chosen to flee without hesitation.

’So, Yi Xiaoyao is this terrifying!’

Before the King of Shang could recover from his shock, Yi Xiaoyao had already arrived before him.

"Senior, the little problem has been dealt with," Yi Xiaoyao said with a smile to the King of Shang.

The corner of the King of Shang’s mouth twitched. This was a catastrophe for the Great Shang Dynasty, but to Yi Xiaoyao, it was just a "little problem."

But after witnessing what had just happened, he had to admit it was true.

"Then how should we answer to the Imperial Army Mansion?"

The King of Shang calmed the turmoil in his heart and asked with some concern.

Yi Xiaoyao held up the couple in his hands and said, "Senior, you don’t need to worry. The reason I haven’t killed these two yet is to ensure Great Shang isn’t implicated. I will handle the rest."

Then, Yi Xiaoyao looked down below and, infusing his voice with Spiritual Power, announced, "Everyone, you are all citizens of Great Shang. I’m sure none of you wish to see harm come to our dynasty. That being the case, just pretend that what you saw today never happened."

"Otherwise, the consequence is a single word: death!"

As soon as Yi Xiaoyao finished speaking, the people below all roared in agreement.

After all, no one wanted to hand over a staggering eighty percent in taxes, much less become someone else’s slave. Naturally, they would all heed Yi Xiaoyao’s words.

Next, Yi Xiaoyao bid farewell to the King of Shang and flew away, taking the Yellow Robe Couple with him.

’That kid, Xiaoyao... just what did he experience in the Great Xia Empire?’

The King of Shang murmured to himself, watching Yi Xiaoyao’s retreating figure, the shock in his heart not subsiding for a long time.

But he would probably never be able to imagine what Yi Xiaoyao had truly experienced in the Great Xia Empire.

Because in the Chaotic Alliance Domain, any one of the minor alliances that Yi Xiaoyao had annihilated was countless times stronger than the entire Great Shang Dynasty!

The King of Shang couldn’t even begin to imagine what Yi Xiaoyao would do next when he made his comeback to Great Xia and returned to the Chaotic Alliance Domain.

However, there was one thing he could predict: a dazzling figure like Yi Xiaoyao, who shone brightly no matter where he went, was bound to do something earth-shattering next!

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Meanwhile, Yi Xiaoyao returned to the Seven Kills Star Hall.

Inside a room, Jin Sanbao was engrossed in making puppets. After receiving the Copper Body Puppet from Yi Xiaoyao, the fatty hadn’t slept all night, working right up until now.

"Three Treasures, look what I brought for you."

With a wave of his hand, Yi Xiaoyao presented three Nascent Souls of varying sizes before Jin Sanbao.

The fat on Jin Sanbao’s body trembled. His eyes were glued to the three Nascent Souls, and feeling the terrifying aura they emitted, his face lit up with ecstatic joy.

"These Nascent Souls contain such powerful energy! With this much energy, I can utilize at least ninety percent of it!"

Jin Sanbao exclaimed excitedly, then said to Yi Xiaoyao, "Xiaoyao, wait for me for a bit!"

Following that, Yi Xiaoyao watched as Jin Sanbao tinkered away. Several hours later, he saw Jin Sanbao roll out three strangely shaped objects.

"What are all these?" Yi Xiaoyao asked, puzzled.

"This is a Spiritual Power Cannon! It uses the Eighth-Realm Nascent Soul as an energy source and can unleash all its Spiritual Power in a single blast, comparable to a full-powered strike from an Eighth-Realm Nascent Soul expert!"

Jin Sanbao said, pointing to one of the tube-shaped objects. Then, he introduced the two puppet-like objects next to it.

"And these two are Combat Puppets. They’re each fitted with a Nascent Soul from the Nascent Soul Transformation Realm. They just need two people to sit inside and operate them, and they’ll be equivalent to two Nascent Soul Transformation Realm experts."

Hearing this, Yi Xiaoyao’s heart jolted, and he exclaimed in astonishment, "What? You can use Nascent Souls from the Nascent Soul Transformation Realm to create puppets comparable to experts of that realm?"

Jin Sanbao nodded proudly. "Of course! I’m a genius, you know. The Spiritual Power that you Cultivators use is just a type of energy. And since I have the technology to minimize energy loss during conversion, I can naturally do this."

"However, even with this, there’s still some energy loss. So, of course, these two Combat Puppets can’t match the strength of the Nascent Souls’ original owners."

"Also, once the Spiritual Power in the Nascent Soul being used as an energy source is depleted, the Combat Puppet will lose all its combat capability. It will need a new Nascent Soul."

Jin Sanbao listed all the puppets’ shortcomings, but a look of ecstatic joy still appeared on Yi Xiaoyao’s face.

He had just been worrying about how to establish his own faction after returning to the Chaotic Alliance Domain. But now, if Jin Sanbao could produce these puppets in large quantities, then everything would be solved!

At this thought, Yi Xiaoyao looked at Jin Sanbao as if he had just found a priceless treasure and said, "Three Treasures, next, you’re coming with me to the Chaotic Alliance Domain in the Great Xia Empire!"

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