Chapter 687: Manipulation

"With whom?" This question was very important. The Qingyang State Preceptor privately refined and sold immortality medicine, so she would definitely be held accountable by the Heavenly God. It was not strange at all for her to be tried in the Tiangong.

The key was, who sent her up? "The Emperor."

As expected. He Lingchuan let out a long breath: "It seems they have indeed reached an agreement. Did you hear what she confessed?"

Zuoju shook its head: "The barrier of the Star-Plucking Tower will block my peeping."

It was also curious, but unfortunately, it couldn't hear a word.

"Then has she gone down the mountain?"

"Still in the Tiangong." This couldn't be hidden from Zuoju.

He Lingchuan thought for a moment: "By the way, can you make the teleportation array up and down Mount Tianchu fail?"

"No!" Zuoju said angrily, "Suppressed by the Spirit Gathering Array, I cannot destroy the buildings and arrays on Xushan!"

"But after the array is broken, can you?"

"Of course!" Zuoju said confidently, patting its chest until sparks flew, "You just need to be responsible for breaking the Spirit Gathering Array; leave the rest to me, and watch me show my divine power!"

The array eye was not in the void; it had confirmed this itself, and its confidence greatly increased.

He Lingchuan laughed: "Each performs their own duties, right?"

"Must!"

Afterward, He Lingchuan took out a pair of shackles from his bosom and said to Zuoju: "Come, let's make a contract."

Zuoju examined the shackles and asked suspiciously: "What is this?"

"Oath chains." He Lingchuan introduced it, "We each wear a shackle, and then swear to help each other, not to go back on our word. If not followed, we will surely suffer the backlash of inner demons."

He smiled: "This is a product of the Demon Heart Furnace; even ancient immortals couldn't escape it."

Zuoju's face was also covered in raging flames, and its expression couldn't be seen, but the flames all over its body seemed to freeze.

"What does this mean?" It said sternly, "You don't trust me?"

"The premise of cooperation is honesty and trustworthiness." He Lingchuan smiled, "Since you and I are sincere, what's the big deal about wearing shackles?"

"My sincerity doesn't need proof!" Zuoju said angrily, "Who knows what kind of ghost thing this is?"

He Lingchuan raised his hand, and the chains made a crisp sound: "Such a treasure, anyone who touches it lightly knows what it's for."

The magic treasure didn't come with an instruction manual; how would someone who just got it use it? Intact ancient magic treasures usually gave one insight upon touch, without needing extra explanation. Another reason for the so-called identification in later generations was either because the magic treasure's spirituality had faded, or it wasn't intended to be known upon touch when it was cast.

Of course, there could be another reason, which was that it was not an object of this world.

Zuoju stared at He Lingchuan: "You want to go back on your word? There's no such cheap thing here!"

When it got angry, both of them felt the flames scorching their faces, and that bat demon puppet simply hid behind Dong Rui.

Seeing it furious, He Lingchuan also restrained his smile. This rock fire monster suddenly flew into a rage, indicating that it had its own little schemes and didn't intend to keep its promise seriously. "If we don't set a contract, our cooperation ends here."

He said after stepping back two steps, paused, and turned to leave.

Dong Rui also turned silently, sweating coldly in his hands. He understood the logic, but this was Zuoju's turf, and the rock fire monster could easily blow them away without much effort.

Even riding the Snail Toad, what was the chance of successfully escaping in front of this mountain marsh? "Want to leave?" Zuoju indeed hit the ground with a heavy punch, and a weathered giant rock on the mountain fell instantly, smashing into eight pieces, just blocking the passage where He Lingchuan and the two were leaving.

These stones, the smallest of which weighed several tons, had a shocking smashing effect, not only stirring up dust and haze but also scaring the birds nesting at night into flapping and screaming.

Such a big movement would surely alarm the Tiangong guards.

"Obediently fulfill the contract, otherwise I will blow you into fly ash in one breath, or hand you over to the Tiangong!" Zuoju reached out, its palms steaming with flames, "Choose for yourself!"

When it got angry, the flames all over its body even turned scorching white, and the nearby trees melted without a sound.

With its ability, neither of these two choices was an exaggeration. Dong Rui couldn't withstand the scorching flames and retreated several big steps, still feeling his face burning like fire.

Others encountering such supreme power might be scared to the point of trembling and yielding on the spot.

He Lingchuan stood still. Protected by the divine bone necklace, he only felt a breeze on his face: "Your prison break plan will fail along with us, and you will only be able to continue being a beast of burden for the Heavenly God in Xushan. If you can't show your divine power to deter Lingxu City, the dog food the Ke family feeds you will only get less and less."

He said coldly: "If you starve for ten years, can you still be so majestic? Even if you can wait for the second group of rescuers, I don't know if you will keep your promise when they offer you conditions then?"

Zuoju clenched its fist, the flaming fist larger than a door panel, smashing directly toward He Lingchuan's head!

This momentum was unparalleled, and Dong Rui retreated two more steps, blinking his eyes many times.

Even if He Lingchuan could be immune to fire damage, if he were really hit by this punch, he would be half-disabled if not dead.

However, he didn't even dodge, just looked up at Zuoju, as if what was falling wasn't burning fire rock, but a fluttering butterfly.

Dong Rui also knew that this punch shouldn't land, but he had no way to be as calm as He Lingchuan.

Wasn't human fear of the strong deeply rooted in the bone marrow?

The fist stopped three feet above He Lingchuan's head, the powerful fist wind making the weeds on the ground sway.

Red magma dripped down, less than an inch from He Lingchuan's nose, and with a few hisses, it burned several holes in the ground.

Dong Rui felt hot just looking at it, but He Lingchuan turned a blind eye.

"I dare to plot against the Tiangong, yet I would fear you, a small mountain marsh?" He talked eloquently, seeing through Zuoju's bluff at a glance, "Is it to put on the oath chains and fulfill the contract seriously, or to tear up the agreement and suffer both losses? The Tiangong guards are coming soon; choose for yourself."

Zuoju was indeed in a dilemma.

It was thinking about escaping, but it didn't want to offend the Tiangong to death. Therefore, it didn't take He Lingchuan's subsequent plans, such as bombing the Star-Plucking Tower or kicking the Heavenly God Platform, to heart.

Just agree first; when it couldn't be done, it naturally couldn't be done. What could this little human do to it?

But it didn't expect this little thing to even come up with oath chains, so what was said had to count.

This didn't conform to the rock fire monster's faith.

Zuoju was very unhappy, feeling it had been tricked.

He Lingchuan waited for a few breaths on the spot, and seeing it hesitant, he said to Dong Rui: "Let's go."

Sure enough, as Xu Shichu and Fang Canran said, this monster was very cunning.

You want to cooperate with it, but it calculates how to maximize its interests, and might even pit you back later. This kind of person, this kind of country, he had seen before, not fresh.

Dong Rui turned his heels and was about to leave with him, when Zuoju finally spoke:

"Wait, I'll wear it!"

He Lingchuan also stopped and looked at it: "Thought it through? Once worn, you can't go back on it. This job must be done to the end!"

He waited until tonight's test of the array eye trajectory was successful before taking out the oath chains. He had to let Zuoju understand that such an outrageous operation actually had a hope of success, and then it would be determined to make a contract.

Otherwise, this fickle fellow might have turned against him on the spot.

Zuoju looked up.

Looking down at the underground dark valley from the mountain peak, the view was blocked by large giant rocks, at most seeing a little firelight. But the movement caused by the falling weathered rock was too big, and at this time, guards were already running down the small path, intending to see what happened below.

Zuoju waved its hand, and a fire spirit clone went to meet them.

After meeting the Tiangong guards, it would explain the situation to them.

"Bring it here!" Zuoju helplessly reached out to He Lingchuan and touched the chains.

Sure enough, it immediately sensed the characteristics of the oath chains.

This could indeed be called the power of contract, which even it couldn't disobey.

Afterward, He Lingchuan clicked, and the shackles were locked on both wrists.

Human hands and the rock fire monster's arms were clearly not the same thickness, but fortunately, immortal treasures could be scaled freely, and one could always find a size that suited you.

The runes on the shackles lit up one by one, in a beautiful crimson gold.

Both sides swore an oath to the shackles, listing the subsequent matters to be handled clearly. Zuoju still wanted to play a trick at this time, playing some word games, but was mercilessly pointed out by He Lingchuan.

He even set the time limit.

After the oath was recited, Zuoju looked at the shackles. The chain between the two shackles seemed to fall into molten steel, slowly melting in the crimson light until it disappeared completely.

From this moment on, the oath would remain in effect until it was fully completed.

The shackle on He Lingchuan's wrist turned into an inconspicuous silver bracelet, single-loop without decoration, without any magic power fluctuation.

Zuoju's shackle turned into a complex-patterned arm cuff, at least two feet wide.

This shackle was quite intelligent, knowing how to change its appearance to fit.

But its existence inevitably bound both parties to complete the contract; even if the hand was chopped off, or a clone was made, it would accurately appear on the person who took the oath, like chewing gum that couldn't be shaken off.

Zuoju said sullenly: "Satisfied? Get lost!"

According to the oath, it had to bombard the Star-Plucking Tower immediately after breaking out of prison, and help He Lingchuan obtain the divine object with all its strength; a big battle was inevitable.

On this point, it was really unhappy.

After it was done, He Lingchuan might be able to run away, but it and the Tiangong were a pair of neighbors who couldn't move; the relationship was so stiff, I don't know how to get along in the future.

Those people in the Tiangong were mean; they might not be able to clean it up on the surface, but they could sprinkle a lot of bad water in the dark.

He Lingchuan was full of concern: "Confirm one more thing: there is no opponent of yours in the Tiangong, right? I heard that there was a big earthquake in Lingxu City more than ten years ago, and it was finally calmed down by the Heavenly God."

Now they were partners, so it wasn't easy to speak too harshly. More than ten years ago, at the final assembly moment of the Spirit Gathering Array, Zuoju woke up and acted, causing countless deaths and injuries in the earthquake in Lingxu City, and finally, the Tiangong invited "Divine Descent" to suppress this mountain marsh.

That is to say, last time Zuoju was defeated by the Heavenly God, will it be beaten to the ground again this time? It's 520! The way to celebrate today is to eat a boxed lunch at home.

So the book circle's point event is still two posts short, who will fill it~~~?

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 688 =====