THE GOD EATER

Sword Maestro would have thought that that Tepid Scholar’s behavior was weird if not for the fact that Martial Will was not the only one who was distracted at the moment.

Every other Dao Lord was too focused on what was going on in the Blessed Heaven World to allow them to indulge in asking questions and arguing with each other. In light of this, he seemed to be the weird one for worrying about something other than the fate of Black Chains.

This made him scoff inwardly and mutter to himself, ”I don’t know what they are worried about. It is not as if the sky is about to fall.”

Then he sighed, thinking, ’Maybe it is because I am the youngest and haven’t experienced or lived under his tyranny as much as they have.’

He didn’t think that there was anything special about Black Chains other than admitting that his former master was very strong. Because of this, he believed that anyone would be as fearsome and troublesome to deal with at Black Chains if they had the same amount of strength.

So now that Black Chains had met someone who was more than his match in strength, there was nothing else to expect other than defeat and death. In fact, he was looking forward to seeing the death of his master.

The only thing that made him anxious was his impatience in getting to see Black Chains forced to meet a brutal end. So just like everyone else, he also spared some of his attention to see what was going on down below.

He saw the dragon walk over to the silver monkey next. Then he saw the dragon lay the palm of his hand on top of the head of the silver monkey.

A second later, he saw the silver monkey fragmenting, dying with a stoic face and eyes full of defiance. As the silver monkey’s body gave out, a glowing white ball made of pieces of metal woven together in harmony and balance like the strings in a ball of yarn was left in its place.

At this point, three of Black Chain’s avatars had died. So only two more avatars were remaining.

The remaining avatars were supposed to be the two most important avatars for Black Chains. Therefore, if he had some hidden cards that he hadn’t played yet, now was the time to play them before he lost his last avatar.

The world seemed to halt and freeze in place, which it did because of the pressure of the attention of the Dao Lords who didn’t want to miss a single thing, as the dragon went over to the black monkey.

In this frozen world, only the dragon could move. They saw the dragon release the black monkey from its prison and place his hand on the monkey. Then they saw the black monkey collapse.

As if in disbelief, Martial Will asked, ”Are you really not going to do anything?”

His question seemed to be directed at Black Chains, but for all intents and purposes, his question wasn’t received by Black Chains. The Dao Lord of the Four Directions Sect ignored him and his questions and everything else going on.

Like the avatar that just died, Black Chain’s will and determination remained unbroken in the face of challenges. Only Black Chain’s constantly weakening presence indicated that he wasn’t as unmoved by the affairs of the world as he appeared to be.

While they were wondering what he was thinking about, a voice from below said, ”I’ve fulfilled my part of the deal, so it is time you do yours.”

In response, Heavenly Eye said, ”You know what, I don’t regret making the deal at all. This has been worth it so far.”

As she spoke, she picked up a piece of divine crystal and dropped it into the Sea of Worlds through the rift in front of her.

But as soon as she let go of the divine crystal and it began to fall away from her, she said, ”I was wrong. I regret it. I shouldn’t have offered so much.”

Hearing this, Tepid Scholar snorted and said, ”If I could pay someone to help me kill Black Chains, I would have done so a long time ago regardless of the price.”

”Easy for you to say,” Heavenly Eye said with a scoff. ”You’re not the one losing a thousand years’ worth of divine crystals?”

”Wait a minute!” Martial Will said. Then he asked, saying, ”That doesn’t look like it can sustain a thousand years of usage. Are you lying right now?”

Instead of answering the question, Heavenly Eye groaned and said, ”Look at me, I’m so distraught that I’ve gotten bad at lying. What will become of me now?”

Rolling his eyes, Tepid Scholar said, ”Don’t be dramatic. You’re deceiving no one with your antics. That divine crystal is worth at most two hundred years. And that’s even with the minimum level of usage.”

”Tell you what, if you can help me negotiate a deal with the dragon and make him sell the Forging Pathway to me, I will give you half of what you spent. I will give you a hundred years’ worth of divine crystals.”

With a sneer, Heavenly Eye asked, ”Don’t you mean 500 years’ worth? If I remember correctly, that’s what half of a thousand years is. Or do you take me for a fool?”

In response, Tepid Scholar became angry and said to her, ”Don’t try to cheat me. How much you paid has already been exposed. You can’t fool me into believing that some piece is worth a thousand years. You’re not that good.”

But Heavenly Eye insisted, ”Who cares if I’m good at fooling you or not? What matters right now is that you need my help.”

”You know you need my help, and I know you need my help. We both know it, so what remains is to see if you will let me fool you or not.”