Chapter 382: A Forced Testimony
Translator: StackThatCoin Editor: Hitesh
Three streets away from the Wings Pavilion, in front of the door of a nine-floored pavilion that measured nearly one thousand feet wide, Catfish-flood-dragon and Lord Xiansheng were surrounded by a large crowd. Numerous onlookers were gesticulating and talking in low voices, explaining what happened to those people who had just arrived. They animatedly described how the Catfish-flood-dragon opened her big mouth and swallowed Yun Wuqi, the disciple of Eminent Cloud Sect who was stationed in Green Cliff Planet, in just one mouthful.
Shockingly, although Yun Wuqi was an early-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, he failed to even put up a fight, and was swallowed alive in just a twinkle. In the eyes of the onlookers, Catfish-flood-dragon was simply a ferocious, savage demon who came out of nowhere to wreak a havoc in this place.
Even more startlingly, this demon had an identity medallion of Yuan Hua Sect's disciple hanging on her waist belt. This had baffled every person present.
When Wu Qi and Princess Zhang Le arrived at the scene, nearly one hundred cultivators with cultivation base ranging from peak Xiantian realm to early-stage Nascent Divinity realm had already circled around Lord Xiansheng and Catfish-flood-dragon, all set for a showdown. The only early-stage Nascent Divinity cultivator gnashed his teeth in anger, his eyes shot with blood as he bellowed, "I don't care where you come from, you'll be punished with death as you've killed Young Master Yun! Even a thousand deaths would not be enough to wash off your sin!"
Lord Xiansheng's face was dark as thunder, but he did not say anything. His arms were spread, shielding a pair of petite teenage girls who stood shivering behind his back.
Wagging her big head, Catfish-flood-dragon turned to look at the early-stage Nascent Divinity disciple from Eminent Cloud Sect, then chuckled and said, "I didn't kill him, I ate him! You will see blood when someone is killed. But when I eat a human, I never spill the blood! So, I didn't kill him, I just ate him!"
She opened her big mouth. A few dragon whiskers were swaying on the side of her mouth. Clasping her hands behind her back, she said, "Your Young Master is not a good man. They are here to sell spirit medicines. However, not only did he steal these two poor little girls' spirit medicines, he even wanted to make them his cultivation vessels! Aye, I'm not a fool! How could that be a good thing by letting two little girls be his cultivation vessels? I reckon they will turn into two dried corpses in just a few days of time! You cannot do that!"
Using her big palm, she gently patted the two teenage girls hiding behind Lord Xiansheng, who were trembling with fear. "Look, they are two nice little girls. How could I allow your rascal Young Master to ruin them?" She said smilingly.
Wu Qi heard Catfish-flood-dragon as he pushed through the crowd with force. Even as he did so, a few Gold Core cultivators amongst the onlookers shouted angrily, "Who is this jerk? Why are you pushing me?"
The words of these few Gold Core cultivators were nasty. Wu Qi glared at them, but before he could say anything, Princess Zhang Le had already pulled up a burly man and given him a round of slapping on the face. The brutal beating threw the guy into utter confusion and made him lose his sense. After that, Princess Zhang Le cast a restrictive spell of celestial fiends which she inherited from her mother's bloodline, before throwing the man tens of miles away.
Clapping her hands lightly, Princess Zhang Le rolled her eyes and said with a cold snort, "Who else is not satisfied? I can make him sincerely convinced!"
Vaguely, a five-colored auspicious gleam was swirling in her eyes, as she was sending forth a powerful spiritual pressure that made the surrounding onlookers bow their heads. No one dared to say anything.
Wu Qi gave her a big thumb up and praised, "Beautifully done!"
Princess Zhang Le responded with a charming smile. She produced a white handkerchief and wiped her hands, then threw it to the ground before following Wu Qi through the crowd and standing next to Catfish-flood-dragon. Wu Qi gave the daggered drawn Eminent Cloud Sect's disciples a glance and said coldly, "What's going on? What does Eminent Cloud Sect, hmm, Luo Ling Palace want? Are you trying to assault Yuan Hua Sect's disciples?"
The early-stage Nascent Divinity cultivators from Eminent Cloud Sect shouted angrily, "Junior! Your Yuan Hua Sect's disciple has killed Young Master Yun. You..."
Wu Qi's body flickered suddenly. A celestial fiend puppet rushed out from behind his back and thrust forward, giving the early-stage Nascent Divinity cultivator a cruel slap on the face. A crystal clear smack was heard as half of the cultivator's face was torn. Howling miserably, he collapsed heavily to the ground.
Originally, celestial fiend puppets were precious treasures crafted by ancient almighty experts with the purpose of guarding their bases. Now, after spending many efforts to train them, these celestial fiend puppets had cultivated their celestial fiend Battle the Heaven Script to the peak-stage of Nascent Soul realm, at par with Wu Qi's fake Nascent Soul realm. Furthermore, they were all nourished with innate earth element energy, and had devoured countless rare and precious metals in Great Yan Dynasty's secret vault. As a result, their bodies were at least one hundred times stronger than Wu Qi's, which had also been strengthened with Dark Yin True Water. So, how could this ordinary early-stage Nascent Divinity cultivator defend himself against the powerful attack?
It was like smashing a piece of tofu with an iron hammer. Naturally, the iron hammer would be intact, while the tofu would be smashed into shreds.
With half of his face badly mutilated, the Nascent Divinity cultivator pointed at Wu Qi and cried stammeringly, "You... How dare you?"
Wu Qi stared at him coldly. With a thought, the celestial fiend puppet suddenly dashed forward and grabbed the cultivator by the neck, twisting it and producing a loud crack. A bloody Nascent Divinity soared up into the sky while letting out a tragic howl. Suddenly a large tongue rolled over from a corner, pulling it down into Catfish-flood-dragon's large mouth, and was swallowed by her in just a twinkle.
Patting her stomach, Catfish-flood-dragon said naively, "The taste is not bad, at least better than that Yun Wuqi, who was all empty inside!"
After indulging Catfish-flood-dragon in eating that Nascent Divinity cultivator before the public, Wu Qi forced a smile, clasping his hands behind his back as he looked at those Eminent Cloud Sect cultivators, who were struck dumb and were trembling with fear. "Actually, what I am trying to say is... this is just a misunderstanding!"
A Nascent Soul cultivator jumped to his feet suddenly as he bellowed, "This is not a misunderstanding!"
Another celestial fiend puppet dashed out from behind Wu Qi's back, rushing before the Nascent Soul cultivator at lightning speed. With a punch, it pierced his heart and pulled out his Nascent Soul while leaving his body. Catfish-flood-dragon did not stand on the ceremony as she swallowed the Nascent Soul immediately.
Wu Qi nodded smilingly and said, "I've told you, this is a damn misunderstanding!"
The look in his eyes turned cold as he said ruthlessly, "I've said that this is a misunderstanding. Does anyone have any objections?"
His finger moved. One hundred Long Bo men of Gold Core realm rushed out of the Spirit Breeding Ring while howling and yelling furiously, running towards the nearby streets and cordoning off this part of the street. After that, celestial fiend puppets flickered and walked out from behind his back one after another, each taking a different look of a Daoist. Springing into the air on clouds, they began to roam about in the sky. Finally, Wu Qi had his divine spread out, blanketing the nearby streets in a blink of an eye, bringing himself a clear vision to every single movement of all the peoples in the area.
In the meanwhile, a divine gleam was seen flickering in Princess Zhang Le's eyes as she began to recite an incantation in a low voice. A vast, dark mist leaped up from the ground, amidst which, countless faintly visible ghost figures shot up into the sky while making shrill cries, completely surrounding the nearby streets.
The people from Eminent Cloud Sect's Luo Ling Palace were all dumbfounded. They watched fearfully how Wu Qi cordoned off the street, then one of them shouted at the top of his voice, "Y-yo-you... What are you trying to do? This is Green Cliff Immortal Market! There are many fellow Daoists here. They won't... They won't let you off!"
Wu Qi gave a cold harrumph, shaking his head helplessly as he said with a sigh, "The world is never lacking rascals! Although they were killed because of the nasty things they did, that's not the end as more rascals are jumping out to defend them! Yes, my friend has eaten your Young Master Yun, and for sure Eminent Cloud Sect will never let this matter off easily. So, what can I do? I don't have the power to fight against the Eminent Cloud Sect now!"
The surrounding cultivators felt a chill running down their back. They regretted making the decision of coming here to watch the happenings suddenly. Wu Qi had cordoned off the streets, so what could he possibly do now? Would he kill everyone present so as to prevent the leaking of the incident? But this was Green Cliff Immortal Market, there was no way he could kill all the witnesses. Unless he murdered everyone here in Green Cliff Immortal Market, he could never escape from Eminent Cloud Sect's retaliation.
Wu Qi lowered his head and pondered for a brief moment. After that, he pulled out a lot of writing brushes, ink, and papers from Black Dragon Spirit Ring. "Those who wish to live, write down your testimony in detail. Yun Wuqi is a bully who took advantage of little girls and the people in the market, Catfish-flood-dragon was trying to defend the little girls against injustice, but she was forced into a tight corner by him, leaving her with no alternative but to kill him in self-defense. I'll narrate the details. If you miswrite even one word, I'll kill you!"
All the surrounding cultivators rolled their eyes. 'Writing down everything you narrate? Doesn't that mean you could say anything you like?'
Suddenly, an Eminent Cloud Sect's disciple yelled, "Let's split up and flee..."
But before he could finish, Wu Qi exercised his willpower and made a tremendous magnetic force rush whistling out from underground, wrapping around the man. A pressure one thousand times greater than normal crushed the Gold Core cultivator. He shrieked painfully, and his body collapsed, turning into a meat paste flat on the ground. Blood splattered everywhere, as the tremendous magnetic force even crushed his Gold Core into a thin slice.
Wu Qi turned to look warmly at the rest of Eminent Cloud Sect's disciples, then smiled and said, "Your Young Master Yun seized someone's spirit medicines with force, and even trying to abduct innocent girls. To me, that means all of you are rascals who assisted the evildoer. I can kill you without feeling guilty. So, either you will write down the details of the event according to what I tell you, or you can die here, right now."
The cultivators from Eminent Cloud Sect looked at each other, their faces blank and not knowing what to do. Wu Qi moved his finger again, shooting out a sword beam and chopping off the heads of three peak Xiantian cultivators. Blood sprayed up high in the air.
Nobody dared to utter another word again. Nearly one thousand cultivators laid on their stomach on the ground, hands holding a writing brush as they began to write down the details of the event as Wu Qi kept narrating. According to Wu Qi, Yun Wuqi had seized someone's spirit medicine with force and was trying to abduct innocent girls. He was an evil villain who had done something that could never be forgiven, and his execution made all the onlookers applaud in great joy.
Forced by Wu Qi, the Eminent Cloud Sect's disciples even wrote down all the nasty deeds which Yun Wuqi did in the past, all in a very detailed manner.
In the meanwhile, Princess Zhang Le was comforting the twin sisters who looked about ten years old. Using a handkerchief, she wiped their faces clean, revealing their cute and delicate looks. Both of them only had a very basic cultivation base, roughly at the level of Qi Refinement. They had calloused palms full of scars. Obviously, those were the traces from climbing up cliff walls with wisteria in the woods.
Wu Qi looked at the twin sisters, who were clearly frightened as they kept holding on Princess Zhang Le's hand and dared not to move. He threw his head back and bellowed, "Yun Wuqi, you're damn inhuman! How could you harm a pair of little girls like this? An unscrupulous scum like you should have died a long time ago!"
Wu Qi's roar made him look like a man with a high moral standing, a man who would stand up against injustice. However, those cultivators who were lying on the ground writing testimony were on the verge of weeping. Once their written statements were used as evidence by Wu Qi, as they had branded their palms with blood on the testimony, it made them completely offend the Eminent Cloud Sect!
Right when these cultivators were on the verge of weeping, each hoping they could just kill themselves here, several hundred sword beams were approaching rapidly off in the distance.
"Who is so daring to stir up troubles in Green Cliff Immortal Market?!" Daoist White Sparrow's voice echoed out from afar.
A few muffled snorts were heard. Those Long Bo men who Wu Qi sent out earlier were forced back by the sword beams, and their leader, Long Yuan, was covered in blood from the attacks.
Wu Qi's face turned cold instantly, reaching out his hand and performing a grabbing gesture. Over one thousand testimonies on the ground flew up and landed into his palm.