đź“– Chapter 948 - Confrontation
The moment Wang Baole’s voice rang out, the lightning all around him seemed to understand his words and suddenly rumbled outwards. Although the range of the lightning only widened around a hundred more meters, that two-hundred meter range instantly turned into a vortex of lightning.
The center of the vortex was pitch-black, as if it contained an endless abyss. There was a strange suction force coming from it. This suction force didn’t affect cultivators at all, but when it came to magical treasures, it seemed to be fatally attractive!
As soon as the vortex appeared… before the bell girl could react, the drumstick that had just solidified in front of her suddenly began trembling violently. Then, in an instant, it disappeared!
To be exact, an invisible black hole suddenly appeared around the drumstick, directly swallowing it up. At the same time, in front of Wang Baole… an identical drumstick appeared, emitting rays of dazzling light!
Everything happened too quickly. Not to mention the bell girl, even Wang Baole, who had already been prepared, could hardly react to this miraculous scene. Naturally, the others were even more astonished.
But the drumsticks that formed at that moment weren’t just the one that Wang Baole snatched. There were three!
As soon as the bell girl’s drumstick materialized, the drumstick of the scholarly young man from the top sect of the Heretical Dao also solidified, as did that of the masked woman. Both were also shining with rays of dazzling light.
The three drumsticks appeared at almost the same time. Although this would have attracted attention, it originally wouldn’t have caused any waves. At most, it would just make the rest of the Chosen work harder.
But now… After a short silence, an astonishing uproar broke out.
“What’s going on?!!”
“The drumstick was stolen?!”
“Xie Dalu stole Xu Yinling’s drumstick!!”
As shocked voices rang out, almost everyone’s gazes immediately gathered on Wang Baole. The only exception was the young man in black, who had a cold expression on his face as he focused on his own drumstick.
Wang Baole’s expression didn’t change as he fell under everyone’s gazes. He was very used to this sort of thing. But this was his first time hearing the bell girl’s name, and he felt that it was a little distasteful.
“Xu Yinling? Sure enough, a person with a bad personality has a bad name as well.” After scoffing internally, Wang Baole’s face revealed a look of satisfaction. He grabbed toward the drumstick in front of him, making it immediately fly into his hand.
As Wang Baole held the drumstick, the bell girl in the distance finally seemed to wake up from her daze. Her expression immediately turned extremely gloomy, and her eyes were full of fury. Her entire body trembled, and in the end she let out a harsh bark of laughter.
“Xie Dalu, you’re courting death!!” Her voice contained extremely dense killing intent. As soon as she spoke, the bell girl shot out like a sharp sword, slicing through the sky and setting off sonic booms as she charged toward Wang Baole. The power of her cultivation base completely erupted.
With a wave of her hands, the sound of bells echoed in all directions. Sound waves erupted crazily all around her, with power that could topple mountains and overturn seas. She formed a hand seal, and an enormous dragonfish appeared behind her. Swimming in the sea of sound waves, it flicked its tail and followed the bell girl with world-destroying momentum, charging straight toward the lightning pond where Wang Baole was!
Right now, there was only a single thought in the bell girl’s mind – slaughter this detestable Xie Dalu, and take back the drumstick!
This one thought had already overriden everything else.
The bell girl had never suffered such a huge loss in her entire life. When she thought about all the effort she put into hastening the drumstick’s materialization, only for someone else to snatch it away at the moment of success, made her feel like she was going crazy. Her pride, her status, everything about her made it so that she was completely unable to accept his humiliation. With towering killing intent blazing in her eyes, she closed the distance between her and Wang Baole at an astonishing speed. It took mere moments for her to appear just outside his pond of lightning.
Without hesitation, the bell girl rushed into the lightning pond. Her fury had already gone to her head, making her unable to think of anything but killing Wang Baole as soon as possible.
In fact, the bell girl had secretly acquired a few new war slaves since coming to the Starfall Realm. At this moment, all of them gritted their teeth and rushed over to help her. However, before they could get close, terrifying rumbles immediately echoed out, and the bell girl suddenly shot back out of the lightning pond at full speed.
With slightly burnt hair and streaks of lightning chasing after her as she retreated, she cut a rather sorry figure. Although those streaks of lightning dissipated as she exited the range of the lightning pond, the intense sense of crisis they had given her still forced the bell girl to suppress her anger and calm down.
But just because someone wanted to be calm didn’t mean the world would let them. Seeing that the bell girl couldn’t get close to his position at the center of the lightning pond, Wang Baole fiddled with the drumstick and smacked his lips while looking at her.
“What, why don’t you come in? Get over here!”
“Xie Dalu!!” The bell girl had already been absolutely furious, feeling an unprecedented amount of killing intent. The heart that she had originally been trying to calm down immediately rippled with Wang Baole’s words, but she really couldn’t do anything. After that first try, she knew that even if she went all out, it would be nearly impossible for her to reach the center of the lightning pond.
This lightning pond was extremely strange, as if it was fused with the world itself. Fighting against it was like fighting against heaven and earth, a futile endeavor, so the bell girl gritted her teeth and forcibly suppressed her sullenness. After glaring at Wang Baole like she was looking at a dead man, she abruptly turned around, shooting straight toward… a furnace mountain which had a 70% materialized drumstick.
The three cultivators occupying the mountain paled. One of them was about to speak, but before he could, the bell girl attacked in fury.
Countless sound waves burst forth, forcing the three original occupants to retreat.
“If you want to blame someone, blame Xie Dalu!” With those words, the bell girl stopped paying attention to the trio she had kicked out. Sitting down cross-legged on her new furnace mountain, she glared at Wang Baole while circulating her cultivation base to accelerate the materialization of the drumstick.
At the same time, the three cultivators who had been kicked off their mountain were full of anger. However, they knew that this wasn’t the time to act out, so they quickly scattered, charging toward other mountains with vicious gleams in their eyes.
As a result, aside from the scholarly young man and the masked woman who had already obtained their drumsticks, the rest of the Chosen in the trial were all affected to some extent. Of course, the young man in black and the little girl who knew the Underworld Law weren’t affected much, considering their personal strength. At most, there were a few more gazes cast on them, but the owners of those gazes had no choice bu to restrain their greed.
Watching all of this happen, Wang Baole narrowed his eyes. Although he didn’t consider himself a petty and vengeful person, since the bell girl had targeted him so many times, just snatching her drumstick once couldn’t satisfy him. He quickly launched into a series of hand seals, once again activating the technique of Grafting a Flower onto a Tree. His target this time was… the bell girl again!
When he turned his gaze on her, the bell girl’s heart trembled. It wasn’t that she didn’t think about the possibility of Wang Baole trying to snatch her drumstick again, but she believed that he had only succeeded due to her previous unpreparedness. If he tried to do the same thing twice, she didn’t believe he could succeed.
But even so, she still felt a little uneasy as he stared at her. Glaring back at him fiercely, she was about to speak, but Wang Baole’s eyes suddenly widened and he let out a loud roar.
“Divine Might Devil Exterminating Thunder, this Seat wants that drumstick! Go get it for me!”
His roar immediately made everyone look over again. The bell girl’s heart skipped a beat, and she immediately formed a series of hand seals. Standing up, her cultivation base burst forth with full power, but… After waiting for quite a while, she realized that nothing was happening with the drumstick in front of her. A leisurely voice came from Wang Baole.
“This time I was just kidding. Next time, it’ll be the real thing.”
“Xie! Da! Lu!!” The bell girl felt like she was about to explode. She gnashed her teeth as she glared furiously at Wang Baole.
Seeing her glare, Wang Baole just snorted. He didn’t speak immediately, but waited a few more moments. Once he saw that the bell girl’s drumstick was about to materialize, he slowly spoke.
“If this daddy doesn’t give you a traumatic experience today, I won’t be called Xie Dalu!”