Chapter 37: Nest

Seeing Pei Ye did not know where he was being taken.

The pitch-black mountain shadows passed beneath his feet, Fenghuai was left far behind, and the shape of the mountains became increasingly high, steep, and unfamiliar.

Why didn't it kill him? Was it taking him to its nest?

Suddenly, amidst the fierce wind at high altitude, Seeing Pei Ye thought of a possibility—could it be that it had seen through the contract of shared life and death and was taking him to the Black Dragon to kill him, then taking advantage of the Black Dragon's weakness to deliver a fatal blow?

Unable to care about the guilt welling up in his heart, Seeing Pei Ye hurriedly called out to the Black Dragon in his heart, asking it to quickly break the contract with him.

"Don't panic, it has nothing to do with me." The Black Dragon's tone was focused, "Just see where this is."

Seeing Pei Ye was stunned, his body falling abruptly; it was the Qiongqi suddenly diving, falling into a high, hidden mountain valley.

It seemed as if firelight flashed across his field of vision; before Seeing Pei Ye could look closely, he had already been rudely thrown to the ground, his chest and abdomen aching from the shock.

Huge dust rose from behind, and at the same time, the sound of flapping wings came; the Qiongqi did not linger for a moment, leaving straight away.

Seeing Pei Ye supported himself on the ground, just about to get up to see where this was, when two pairs of boots landed on the ground before his eyes; the pair on the right had some dust on them, while the pair on the left was extremely clean.

This familiar cleanliness startled Seeing Pei Ye; he raised his head abruptly.

However, it was not the return of the dead; before him were two strangers in purple robes looking up at the Qiongqi's departing back.

"More and more are waking up..." the person on the left said.

"Yes..." the person on the right replied.

After the exchange, the two lowered their heads to look at Seeing Pei Ye; the two ferocious, monster-like faces in the night startled Seeing Pei Ye's heart, and only then did he realize they were masks.

"Where did this one come from?"

"Little Wu's branch, I suppose."

"Hmm..." the purple-robed person on the left narrowed his eyes and stared; Seeing Pei Ye felt his heart being tightly gripped by a huge hand—Jing Ziwang and the Qiongqi had not brought him such a terrifying feeling by far.

From the night he entered the rain to fight the two white-robed men, Seeing Pei Ye's narrow cognition had been constantly pierced through; each one was the strongest enemy he had ever encountered, yet they were always worthless before the next one.

By now, Seeing Pei Ye was completely unable to judge what level these two purple-robed men were at; was killing Jing Ziwang as simple for them as Jing Ziwang killing Wu Zai Gu?

"Forget it, it's all the same." The purple-robed ghost-faced man seemed not to care what had happened between Seeing Pei Ye and Wu Zai Gu; he bent down and picked up Seeing Pei Ye. Seeing Pei Ye only felt the wind tighten by his ears, the scenery before his eyes blurred, and he had already arrived before a stone cave.

This stone cave was as big as his own small courtyard, and inside, twenty or so people were sitting or lying down.

That purple-robed man left straight away; the black-robed man at the door stuffed a plaque into Seeing Pei Ye's hand. Seeing Pei Ye lowered his head to look, and it was engraved with "Twenty-four." Before he could look closely, he was rudely pushed inside, and the black-robed man closed that dispensable wooden door behind him.

Seeing Pei Ye stood in the stone cave; coldness and the stench of blood surrounded him, and it felt as if countless poisonous insects were crawling on his body; his hair stood on end involuntarily—those were the cold, malicious gazes cast by twenty-plus people.

Seeing Pei Ye stiffened his body, slowly moved to a corner and sat down, vigilantly sizing up this room full of evil owls.

These people were old and young, from fifty or sixty down to sixteen or seventeen, more men than women; many of them were stained with varying amounts of blood, some already dark brown, some still remaining fresh red.

Seeing Pei Ye adjusted the state of his body while sorting out everything he had seen in his mind.

The most worthy of deep investigation was the attitude of the Qiongqi and the purple-robed men toward him; the reliance for his survival was clearly that he was a "useful object" in their eyes.

And the source of this "usefulness" was easy to guess; it was very likely the dragon tongue entry he had borne in place of Wu Zai Gu.

Then why did the purple-robed man say "it's all the same"? Did it mean that the dragon tongue that had accumulated energy was the key, and it didn't matter which body was used to carry it?

Then... did everyone in this stone cave carry a "palace" for that noble seed to move into?

Did every one of these "palaces" have twelve living lives behind it?

With such a scale of killing, how could the Immortal Platform not have discovered it?

Hmm... perhaps they had accumulated these human-shaped dragon tongues bit by bit over fifty years, and only now had they gathered them all here.

Seeing Pei Ye raised his head again to observe carefully; this time he discovered something different.

Although these people sitting or lying in robes all looked like ferocious tigers and leopards, those hostilities seemed to be directed only at him, and while some of them were injured and some had blood-stained hands, there was no vigilance among them.

Opposite him, an old man with a gloomy face sat leaning against the wall; his black robe was tattered and dirty, his eyes half-open and half-closed, his injured left arm resting softly on the leg of the person beside him. At this moment, sensing Seeing Pei Ye's gaze, he flipped up a pair of gray-white pupils and stared coldly over.

Leaning on his left shoulder was a head of messy, withered hair; at this moment, it also raised its head to stare over. Although its face was stained with blood, one could still see that it was unexpectedly young—a girl of seventeen or eighteen.

A father and daughter.

Seeing Pei Ye thought, silently withdrawing his gaze.

There were two or three other such combinations in the cave—sisters, friends, uncles and nephews... it was hard to determine what the relationship was; the only common point was that they were all like starving wolves licking each other's wounds, enjoying the last bit of warmth together.

As these scenes entered his eyes, Seeing Pei Ye gradually had some bad premonitions.

At this moment, the wooden door was pushed open with a "creak," and a tall but hunched figure appeared before the door. This person was not wearing a black robe, but a gray shirt, which was also tattered and dirty at this moment, with fresh red blood beads dripping from his hair.

As soon as this person entered, Seeing Pei Ye immediately felt the hostility accumulated on his body disappear, all of it shifting over.

This person held his head high and looked down, surveying the stone cellar, the corners of his mouth pulling into a frivolous, provocative smile.

His gaze paused at Seeing Pei Ye, seemingly noticing the difference in his attire, and he walked straight over, sitting down against the wall beside him.

The black-robed man guarding the door said: "【Seventeen】 wins two, next group 【Nineteen】, 【Twenty】."

A man stood up from the depths of the stone cellar, and at the same time, the girl opposite Seeing Pei Ye also stood up.

She came before the person beside Seeing Pei Ye, her eyes dense with bloodshot veins staring fixedly at him, saying fiercely: "I will kill you."

The man grinned, revealing white teeth: "Before that, you have to kill your father."

The girl's fists clenched until the bones cracked; just as she was about to speak, the man walking from the depths of the stone cellar placed his hand on her shoulder, saying in a flat voice: "Favored by God, even if fighting to the death, they remain intimate; abandoned by God, even if father and son or brothers, they are just harboring ulterior motives."

The girl calmed down, raising her head proudly to look at the man beside Seeing Pei Ye, saying: "Not bad, we will live forever in the body of the god, you pathetic non-believer."

She snorted coldly and turned to walk out the door. The man sat on the ground, watching her back, his arrogant face seemingly solemn and heavy for a moment, but he turned his head toward Seeing Pei Ye, still with a sloppy smile: "Hey, did you kill one of them too?" ===== CHAPTER 38 =====