Chapter 197: Goodbye Dongfang Wuji

Yan Shanhai and Linghu Shang walked slowly toward the great prison. Logically, the aura inside the great prison is the heaviest; they should have detected it quickly with their divine sense, but Dongfang Wuji obviously restrained his own true qi and also concealed the prison's aura, so outsiders could not discern it, thinking it merely a hidden cave.

After Dongfang Wen pointed out the direction, the great prison's location could no longer be hidden; they went straight there.

"Dongfang Wuji is quite strange." Yan Shanhai pointed at the cave sealed by a huge rock and said.

No wonder they couldn't find it!

"It seems Dongfang Wen didn't deceive us." Linghu Shang said with a smile, "Heh, let's go in, what are we waiting for?" Having said that, he was about to step forward.

Yan Shanhai suddenly stretched out his hand to block Linghu Shang. Linghu Shang looked at him puzzled.

Yan Shanhai said to Linghu Shang, "Let me go in. If I encounter any mishap, you should quickly leave this place; he is seriously injured now and cannot catch up."

"Hahaha! How could I let you face danger alone?" Linghu Shang laughed and asked Yan Shanhai.

"That's still better than our entire army being destroyed!"

"Since we've come here, we've prepared to die at any moment!" Linghu Shang argued, "We are brothers, so there's no need to say more; but since you brought it up, I'll say it too: this time, let me go, you wait here."

Linghu Shang turned the tables.

In this cave before them hid the legendary Dongfang Giant Demon, Dongfang Wuji! Even though he is wounded now, dealing with any of them poses no problem.

"Alright, alright, then I'll wait here for you." Yan Shanhai waved his hand, seeing Linghu Shang's determined expression, he could only follow Linghu Shang's wish.

However, this was all his pretense. He opened his arms, wanting to give Linghu Shang a farewell hug, and said sadly, "If everything goes as imagined, I will soon wait for you to come out; if things change, we may be separated forever."

Linghu Shang is a broad-minded person; he didn't expect Yan Shanhai to be so emotional at a critical moment, so he stepped forward to hug him.

The hug between two big men was simple, but Yan Shanhai had other thoughts; he placed one hand on Linghu Shang's back, where true qi had accumulated, intending to knock him half-conscious with a palm, then rush in himself.

Yan Shanhai said apologetically, "Brother, sorry......"

Just then, a pebble pierced the huge rock and struck Yan Shanhai's hand back; the true qi in his palm instantly dissipated.

The pebble came from deep inside the cave; not to mention its extreme speed, just its accuracy is astonishingly high.

"Hahaha! Do two grown adults need to be all lovey-dovey? Knowing you sympathize with each other, I won't kill you; since you risk your lives to see me, I'll give you this chance—come in." Dongfang Wuji's loud laughter echoed from the cave, shattering the huge rock; the pitch-black cave mouth appeared before Yan Shanhai and Linghu Shang.

Seeing this, the two outsiders no longer hesitated and stepped into the cave in unison.

This cave had once imprisoned Dongfang Xing for over half a year; she lived an inhuman life here, solely to revive Dongfang Wuji. As the saying goes, even a tiger does not eat its own cub, yet Dongfang Xing's cold-hearted father treated his own daughter this way.

If Dongfang Jie knew this would be the outcome, would he still have done it?

The cave is not large; the Dongfang Clan does not need a big prison, facing mostly clansmen, few of whom are heinous, so the great prison is often unused.

Yan Shanhai knew he was stepping on white bones, fresh white bones, yet he could not utter a hint of surprise or dissatisfaction, fearing to offend Dongfang Wuji.

This time they came, after all, because they had a request of the other party.

After walking a short while, they reached the cave's deepest part, where Dongfang Wuji sat. Eyes tightly shut, holding his breath and focusing, a faint demonic qi emanated from him, the demonic qi pervading the cave like layers of mist clinging to the surrounding rock walls, threatening to devour this heaven and earth at any moment.

"Dongfang Wuji......" Yan Shanhai wanted to speak but stopped.

"After several days, I meet you again," Dongfang Wuji spoke first, his eyes never opening, "I truly don't know if this is fate......"

"Yes." Yan Shanhai nodded in agreement.

"Hahaha! Sect Leader Yan, Sect Leader Linghu, I greatly admire your courage. But if you want to take advantage of my serious injury to take my life, just the two of you have no chance; bringing a few more people might still give you a fighting chance. Cough cough......" Dongfang Wuji's breath today is obviously weaker than before, even mixed with coughing when he speaks, clearly showing how severe his injury is this time.

This is indeed the best opportunity to kill Dongfang Wuji.

"This is also the best time for you to kill us." Yan Shanhai said calmly.

"Hahaha! Kill you?" Dongfang Wuji laughed again; when he laughed, the demonic qi around him trembled, as if the demonic qi external to his body were linked to his heart, fluctuating with his emotions.

"Isn't that so?"

"Indeed."

"Then why don't you act?" Yan Shanhai pressed Dongfang Wuji.

Dongfang Wuji suddenly wiped his smile, then with a grim face said to Yan Shanhai and Linghu Shang, "You really are annoying."

"You're the ones who let them out; aren't you thinking of cleaning up? Or preparing to collect our corpses?"

"Hahaha! Hahaha! I am among the Sevenfold Heaven, the strongest under heaven; what is there to clean up?" Dongfang Wuji said proudly, "They killed all of you; wouldn't that save me a lot of trouble?"

"Do you think they'd tolerate you standing by after they killed us? Their eyes cannot tolerate even a speck of dust; to them, you are just dust. Understand?" Yan Shanhai said, "What about being in the Sevenfold Heaven? You should know better than us the strength of those three; it's probably not just simple Sevenfold Heaven."

He continued, "Aren't the experts of the Sevenfold Heaven most wary of those equal in strength to themselves? Otherwise you wouldn't have fought to the death with Zhang Huayu, right?"

"They come from the Heavenly Dao......" Linghu Shang added.

"Heavenly Dao......" Dongfang Wuji's face rarely showed a wary expression; the memory sealed for three hundred years was reopened.