The Human Emperor c1-2382

by Huangfu Qi (皇甫奇)

  Chapter 1488 - Close at Hand!

  Chapter 1488: Close at Hand!

  Translated by: Hypersheep325

  Edited by: Michyrr

  Thwishthwishthwish!

  Wang Chong and the Lone Silence Ancestor charged forward, but they were too late. As mud and stones spread through the underground river, the pair were forced to stop.

  “How could this happen!?”

  The Lone Silence Ancestor nastily scowled.

  The battle in the underground palace had actually affected the river, blocking their path. This was something that he had not imagined at the beginning.

  “Bastard! We can only force our way through!” the Lone Silence Ancestor said.

  He turned his head and looked behind him, his eyes erupting with fighting intent.

  Even if they won this battle, it would create many problems for them later on, but there was nothing to be done.

  Whoosh!

  But just when the Lone Silence Ancestor had resolved himself to fight with the men in black, he heard an enormous splash and felt a vast aura that was equal to the third bamboo hat man.

  Sensing two new auras rapidly approaching them caused Wang Chong and the Lone Silence Ancestor to pale.

  The Psychic Seal laid down by the Origin Immortal Lord was still present in the underground river.

  Although the Lone Silence Ancestor did not have the immense amount of Psychic Energy that Wang Chong had, his Gonggong Divine Art fused him together with the river. In certain aspects, he was even more sensitive to shifts in the river than Wang Chong.

  “It’s the other two bamboo hat men!”

  Wang Chong felt his heart sink.

  The eyes couldn’t see anything in the darkness of the underground river, but Wang Chong could clearly sense a vast danger approaching.

  Even if Wang Chong and the Lone Silence Ancestor couldn’t defeat one bamboo hat man, they could at least put up a fight. But with the three bamboo hat men gathered together with all their subordinates in their half–Lu Wu and Black Flame Asura forms, the pair simply didn’t have the power.

  As the sound of splashing water got closer and closer, Wang Chong and the Lone Silence Ancestor turned grim.

  “Young Master Wang, it will be difficult for this incident to turn out well. I’m better in the water, so I’ll do my best to hold them down while you try to escape,” the Lone Silence Ancestor sternly said, a certain resolve taking form in his mind.

  “Wait!”

  Wang Chong suddenly extended a hand and stopped the Lone Silence Ancestor. At the same time, countless thoughts were going through his mind.

  The Lone Silence Ancestor stared in shock at Wang Chong.

  There was no time to do anything, and those three bamboo hat men were extremely powerful. In such narrow confines, there was no way they could hide from them.

  Battle was their only option.

  The Lone Silence Ancestor couldn’t think of any sort of plan that Wang Chong might have to help the two of them escape this disaster.

  The boulder behind them had blocked up the river and could not be taken care of in a short period of time. By the time they did so, the men in black would have already caught up.

  Wang Chong said nothing, the expression in his eyes growing graver and graver. All kinds of ideas took form in his mind, but the time available to him was truly limited.

  ……

  Meanwhile, elsewhere in the underground river…

  The third bamboo hat man was traveling through the water in the form of a serpent dragon, but when he sensed the two immense energies behind him, he stopped and frowned.

  A few moments later, the other two bamboo hat men and their followers arrived.

  The third bamboo hat man gazed at his two comrades and asked, “What’s going on? Weren’t you supposed to stay up there?”

  The bamboo hat leader stopped and sternly said, “Seizing the Origin Immortal Art is his mission, not ours. What we should be doing is catching that brat. You all know what will happen if we fail this mission!”

  The third bamboo hat man instantly understood.

  The two of them were moving on their own without obtaining the approval of their lord, but given the situation… this was probably the only thing the three of them could do.

  “That’s true! We can’t bear the price of failure!” the third bamboo hat man said.

  “Where’s the brat?” the bamboo hat leader asked.

  “I haven’t found him yet, but there’s no need to worry. We’ll find him soon. This river is only so large! He can’t have gotten far!”

  The bamboo hat trio and all the men in black swiftly advanced, a sharp gleam in their eyes.

  While advancing, the trio carefully searched their surroundings, leaving no stone unturned. Fifty meters, forty meters, thirty meters… the group was getting closer and closer to the location of Wang Chong and the Lone Silence Ancestor.

  For a moment, it seemed like the waters of the river had frozen.

  Danger was imminent, a fierce battle set to occur at any moment, and given the abilities of Wang Chong and the Lone Silence Ancestor, it was bound to be an extremely dangerous one.

  Buzz!

  At this moment, Wang Chong pulled the Lone Silence Ancestor backward, into a crevice in the wall.

  “Senior, please do as I say. Unless it’s absolutely necessary, don’t attack!”

  Above this underground river was an extremely tough metal ore vein, but this was not the case for the other directions.

  Wang Chong and the Lone Silence Ancestor were completely capable of immersing their bodies in the walls to hide themselves.

  “Young Master… what are you doing?!”

  The Lone Silence Ancestor’s eyes went wide in shock.

  How could it be possible to deceive these powerful experts at such a close distance? If not for Wang Chong’s cold and calm expression, the Lone Silence Ancestor would have wondered if Wang Chong had gone mad from the danger.

  “Senior, listen to me and do as I say. If my method isn’t effective, we can still try the attack,” Wang Chong sternly said, as if knowing what the Lone Silence Ancestor was thinking.

  “Fine!”

  After a few moments of silence, the Lone Silence Ancestor clenched his teeth and nodded.

  “But this is still far from enough…”

  The Lone Silence Ancestor looked around and quickly noticed some large rocks that had fallen into the river. He opened his hand and had a stream of water pile these millstone-sized rocks in front of the pair. These rocks became a barrier that further concealed them.

  Wang Chong nodded in approval.

  The Lone Silence Ancestor truly did possess abundant experience. He had been planning to ask the Lone Silence Ancestor to do exactly this, but the Lone Silence Ancestor had done so without prompting.

  “Now let’s see if this move will work!”

  A moment later, as the Lone Silence Ancestor watched in surprise, he erupted with Psychic Energy.

  Unlike before, he gathered the tangible Psychic Energy and had it wrap around their hiding spot, merging it with the wall.

  After doing this, the Psychic Energy began to turn dark and heavy.

  The Lone Silence Ancestor was rather confused at first, not knowing what Wang Chong was up to, but when he saw the Psychic Energy starting to transform, eventually becoming like steel, he suddenly paled in shock.

  “How could this be?!”

  The metal tube that Wang Chong had shaped his Psychic Energy into was actually identical to the Psychic Seal left by the Origin Immortal Lord.

  In addition, Wang Chong’s Psychic Energy was continuing to retract, closing around the pair and the rocks that concealed them.

  One second later, Wang Chong was still Wang Chong, but to the Lone Silence Ancestor’s senses, he was slowly turning into a rock.

  The Lone Silence Ancestor had lived many years in the martial arts world and had seen all kinds of abilities and bizarre martial arts. But he had
never seen someone like Wang Chong, able to use Psychic Energy to imitate stone and make himself exude the same aura as natural objects.

  The Lone Silence Ancestor knew that he would also appear like a rock to the senses of others.

  Incredible! I didn’t think that his Psychic Energy was this strong.

  The Lone Silence Ancestor was deeply stunned. This level of Psychic Energy proficiency was not something he had believed possible.

  Understanding Wang Chong’s aim, he immediately sealed off all his pores and restrained his energy. He truly became like a rock that was embedded into the cave wall.

  Their surroundings soon fell silent.

  The only sound around them was the surging of the river.

  In the distance, water splashed as three immense energies began to approach.

  Surrounded by storms of energy, the three bamboo hat men arrived. The mood in the underground river instantly became tense.

  “The path ahead has been blocked!”

  “They can’t have gone far!”

  “Carefully search the area! They must be here!”

  The three bamboo hat men floated on the river, their eyes bright and cold. The bamboo hat leader floated above the river, his bamboo hat only half a foot from the ceiling. The other two stood on the surface, their feet firmly planted on the water.

  Time seemed to grind to a halt.

  The three of them scanned the area, and behind the rocks, Wang Chong and the Lone Silence Ancestor had closed their eyes, becoming like statues.

  Their minds, however, were extremely tense.

  Chapter 1489 - Imitation Psychic Seal!

  Chapter 1489: Imitation Psychic Seal!

  Translated by: Hypersheep325

  Edited by: Michyrr

  Wang Chong’s move had been extremely inspired and his abilities incredible, but it had yet to be determined whether it was effective against the three bamboo hat men.

  “Come!”

  A vast Psychic Energy began to spread out from the trio, getting closer and closer to the concealed pair.

  Wang Chong was still calm at this point, but the Lone Silence Ancestor was incredibly anxious, and energy began to gather in his palm. Although Wang Chong possessed an extremely high-level Psychic Energy, it was still different from the Psychic Seal created by a formation. If Wang Chong’s trick was exposed, the Lone Silence Ancestor needed to immediately take action.

  Even though they were outnumbered, they could only fight.

  Time seemed to stop. Wang Chong held his breath, his expression completely focused.

  Wang Chong had derived this technique from the Origin Immortal Lord’s Psychic Seal, but this was his first time using it. He was still not sure he could deceive experts like the bamboo hat men.

  The Psychic Energies of the trio were getting closer and closer to Wang Chong’s tube of Psychic Energy, and Wang Chong was getting nervous.

  Three, two, one…

  Wang Chong silently counted down.

  Suddenly, as the Psychic Energies of the trio were just about to touch the cave wall, Wang Chong’s eyes flashed and he sent his Psychic Energy on the offensive.

  Boom!

  Wang Chong’s Psychic Energy divided into countless streams that attacked the trio’s Psychic Energies from all sides.

  A moment later, Wang Chong’s Psychic Energy struck the three streams of Psychic Energy at the same time.

  The collision seemed enough to sunder mountains, and the three bamboo hat men were caught off guard.

  “Ah!”

  “What’s going on here?!”

  The three were stunned by this abrupt assault, but by the time they had reacted, Wang Chong’s Psychic Energy was already launching an even fiercer assault.

  Moreover, unlike normal martial artists, Wang Chong did not attack directly with his Psychic Energy. Instead, his countless threads of Psychic Energy traveled on strange courses as they battered away.

  For the bamboo hat men, it was like they were facing numerous opponents at once.

  The three bamboo hat men only had time to punch once, during which Wang Chong would punch countless times, each fist coming from a different direction and with a different level of strength.

  A few moments later, the Psychic Energy sent out by the trio was distorted, shattered, and twisted, ultimately vanishing.

  Their Psychic Energies hadn’t even managed to touch the wall.

  They had already been destroyed.

  “How could this be!?”

  Before Wang Chong or the Lone Silence Ancestor could react, the three bamboo hat men cried out in surprise.

  “The Origin Immortal Lord’s Psychic Seal!”

  Their expressions were clearly unsettled. While Wang Chong and the Lone Silence Ancestor couldn’t hear their voices, Wang Chong had been connected to their Psychic Energies this entire time, and the Lone Silence Ancestor could sense what was going on through the changes in the water.

  The reaction of the three bamboo hat men was enough to see what was going on.

  “!!!”

  The Lone Silence Ancestor felt even more shocked by Wang Chong’s feat than the three bamboo hat men.

  He actually used Psychic Energy to imitate the effects of the formation!

  The Lone Silence Ancestor’s mind was in turmoil, and he found it hard to calm down.

  If he hadn’t witnessed it for himself, he would have never believed that a single person could use their Psychic Energy to flawlessly imitate the attack of the Psychic Seal.

  None of the three bamboo hat men were weaklings, but it was clear that Wang Chong had imitated the Psychic Seal well enough to fool them.

  “What’s going on? The underground river can’t be used to reach the core of the Origin Immortal Lord’s cave, nor would martial artists normally enter this place, so why is the Psychic Seal here?”

  The first to recover from the shock was the third bamboo hat man, and a sliver of doubt appeared in his eyes.

  He was the first to enter the river, and he had yet to encounter any Psychic interference here. It was far too strange for it to appear now. And why would the Origin Immortal Lord put down his seal in such an unimportant place as this river?

  “The Origin Immortal Lord could foresee the future and was a master of numerological divination. And those items we’re after are so important that he would never leave any weakness. The Psychic Seal here is probably to guard against anyone trying to use the river to enter the core.

  “And given the Origin Immortal Lord’s style, this is only a warning. If we head any deeper, we’ll probably encounter many dangerous traps.”

  A ripple of Psychic Energy came from the bamboo hat leader in the back, his eyes flashing with a pensive light as he communicated with his comrades.

  He was extremely cautious when it came to the Origin Immortal Lord’s cave, because the man as described in their records was far too dangerous.

  Even though he was dead, the traps and seals he had left had still inflicted grievous losses to the organization.

  “Hmph, it doesn’t matter if there’s a Psychic Seal! I’ll find that brat no matter what! Since we can’t use Psychic Energy to search here, I’ll just use Stellar Energy!” the third bamboo hat man spat out.

  He was like a hunting dog that was set on its prey and willing to go to any lengths to find it.

  Boom!

  The man’s body trembled as a flood of energy surged out.

  Behind the rocks, Wang Chong and the Lone Silence Ancestor paled.

  Wang Chong could use Psychic Energy to craft an imitation of the Origin Immortal Lord’s Psychic Seal that would fool the senses of the bamboo hat men, but he couldn’t use the same method to fool the Stellar Energy of a top-class expert.

  The moment the men in black began to search with Stellar Energy, Wang Chong and the Lone Silence Ancestor would be exposed.

  The third bamboo hat man’s flood of Stellar Energy was hurtling forward and would soon reach Wang Chong’s location.


  “Wait!”

  Suddenly, a hand stretched forward and grabbed the third bamboo hat man’s shoulder.

  The man trembled in shock, and his flood of Stellar Energy stopped several feet from the cave wall which hid Wang Chong.

  “Leader, what is this?”

  The third bamboo hat man turned to face his leader. He did not understand why his leader had suddenly stopped him.

  “There’s no need to go through all the trouble!”

  In the icy river, the bamboo hat leader’s expression somehow seemed even colder. He extended a finger and pointed ahead.

  “The length of this part is only several dozen meters. We can find out instantly if they’re here or not without going through all this effort.”

  Upon seeing this, the third bamboo hat man turned back to look, and he was instantly left speechless, his face turning green and red.

  He had been so intent on catching Wang Chong that he had failed to notice that the passage before him was only one hundred meters long.

  “…In addition, the one above is the person in charge of this operation. The Origin Immortal Villagers are cunning and he might need our help soon. If he reports this matter to our superiors, it might bring us even more problems. Let’s finish this quickly!”

  Suddenly, the bamboo hat leader’s face went slack while his cape suddenly went horizontal. Boom! Immense destructive energy swept forward, slamming into the section of the river in front of them.

  Boomboomboom! Explosions rang out through the river as the dense concentration of Stellar Energy sent chunks of rock flying out of the walls.

  The underground river instantly became even murkier.

  The three bamboo hat men floated in the underground river in their triangular formation, their expressions cold as they stared into the murkiness.

  All was quiet, the men in black behind them remaining silent as they scanned the area.

  At this moment, they would notice even the smallest activity taking place in this region of the river.

  After a long and indescribable stillness, the bamboo hat leader said, “Old Three, are you really sure that the kid is here?”

  His sharp eyes were no longer focused on the river, but on the third bamboo hat man in front of him.

  “What’s the meaning of this question?!”