The Emperor Reigns Them All - Chapter 498
Chapter 498 Move Together
Zhao Batian flushed. He spared no efforts in trying to pine Li Ye’s arm down. He decided to win this competition as quickly as possible to prove himself.
As he expected, Li Ye’s arm began dropping toward the table. Soon it would touch the surface of the table.
“Stupid boy, you are about to lose. Prepare yourself for the punishment!” Zhao Batian bellowed excitedly.
Li Ye did not answer.
Then Zhao Batian’s eyes widened, the confusion becoming plain in his eyes. He looked at Li Ye in stunned disbelief.
This was because Li Ye’s arm suddenly stopped moving, no matter how hard Zhao Batian tried. Zhao Batian felt like his strength had crashed into a current and was being sent back by the water.
What was going on?
The spectators were also confused. They thought Zhao Batian was so close to victory, but then they felt Zhao Batian was not trying at all? Why? They wondered if Zhao Batian did it to humiliate Li Ye by giving him hope before he lost.
It had to be like that.
They had never expected that Zhao Batian would be defeated by Li Ye.
Although Zhao Batian was arrogant and petulant, he was a true talent. No cultivators at or under the level of Real Immortal Realm was his match in Zhenjiang City.
Zhao Batian’s face gradually turned purple. He found Li Ye’s wrestling arm beginning to rise. No matter how hard he tried, he could not reverse the situation.
What made Zhao Batian even more desperate was that his wrestling arm began going downward. Though it was dropping slowly, the process seemed unchangeable.
Zhao Batian roared like a beast. “Damn it boy! Stop it!”
Li Ye did not say anything.
All the cultivators of Zhenjiang City looked confused. They all wondered if Zhao Batian was about to lose.
But then they thought it was impossible. They believed that Zhao Batian definitely did it because he wanted to humiliate Li Ye. He would definitely win at the last minute in order to avenge himself.
However, what they were expecting did not happen. Alongside a booming sound, Zhao Batian’s arm was pinned down on the table firmly.
All the spectators gasped, except for those who were from Liuxi Town.
Zhao Batian, who had never been defeated by a cultivator below the level of Real Immortal Realm, had been defeated by a cultivator of Ground Immortal Realm?
Indeed, he lost. The cultivators could neither accept nor deny it.
All the cultivators who had taunted Li Ye previously clammed up and felt ashamed. They all hoped that no one heard or cared about what they had said before.
They were not stupid. From the result, they realized that Li Ye, who just defeated Zhao, was not someone they could mock. So when they looked at Li Ye again, there was awe in their eyes.
Noticing the change in their expressions, the cultivators from Liuxi Town all held their heads high. They somehow felt proud of Li Ye’s triumph.
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Zhao Batian was still sitting there, stunned as if he could not believe that he lost the match. His expression was similar to the other cultivators who had been defeated by Li Ye previously.
“Thanks, Childe Zhao.” LI Ye had a huge smile on his face. Before Zhao Batian realized what happened, he had taken all the storage bags on the table. “Thanks for all these storage bags.” He sounded very complacent.
Zhao Batian suddenly felt as if he was having a heart attack as he watched those bags being taken away. Those bags were all he had. Subconsciously, he reached out his hands, trying to grab the storage bags.
But Li Ye was swifter. Zhao Batian caught hold of thin air and he had a terrible look on his face, as if he ate something extremely unpleasant.
“Childe Zhao, I believe you are true to your words. You want to break your promise in front of so many cultivators?” Li Yan laughed, and it sounded like a taunt to the others.
“You…” Zhao Batian sounded very angry.
“My lord, should we…?” A Taiyi Real Immortal descended beside Zhao Batian and asked tentatively. His intention was clear. Li Ye was only a cultivator of Ground Immortal Realm and there were not that many cultivators around him. They had the advantage of numbers, which would enable them to take back those bags.
Zhao Batian’s facial expression changed in turns. Finally, he looked up and sighed, “Never mind. We can still get magic treasures by killing more beasts. But what I can’t stand is the loss of face.”
“My lord…” The Taiyi Real Immortal intended to convince Zhao Batian.
Zhao Batian was distressed and impatient. He was petulant but not stupid. “Did you hear what I said. I am to be the Lord of Zhenjiang City. What will they think of me if I am humiliated yet again? Will they obey my orders in the future?”
The Taiyi Real Immortal found it hard to deny this fact.
“Your name is Li Congjing, right? I have to admit that I am impressed. Don’t worry, you earned the prizes. I am not that narrow-minded.” Zhao Batian’s usual confidence was restored, “You are worthy of your title. Why don’t you think about following me! I promise that you will always have a seat at my table!”
This time ‘following me” meant something else. Zhao Batian was treating Li Ye like a true talent instead of a servant.
But Li Ye smiled inwardly, ‘To be honest, I played a trick. It is just that you were not aware of it.”
“Let us talk about this later. We need to deal with the beast tide first.” He had no interest in Zhao Batian’s offer and he did not plan to go to Zhenjiang City. He had planned to go to Macaque Mountain to confront Macaque King after he was done with Blackstone Ridge.
“Fine. We will deal with the beast tide first! I will show you what I am capable of. I am sure you will be willing to follow my lead by then!” Zhao Batian waved his sleeves imposingly.
Li Ye was still elated by the prizes, so he did not mind being nice to this man. “I am expecting it.”
Combined with the Magic Treasures from the cultivators and Zhao Batian, the Luke Sword could now be leveled up to the middle rank. It was a solid enhancement of strength, which made Li Ye very delighted.Read More chapter on Novel Time Z
The arm-wrestling was only an interlude of their journey. Since Zhao Batian did not seem to expect more trouble from Li Ye, he did not mind going along with this man. He believed that he could coax more valuable things out of this man. He was especially eager for Zhao Batian’s group of cultivators.
The beasts in the campsite were resting on the ground, trying to recover. Over three thousand beasts joined the combat, but only about four hundred survived, which made White Wolf very upset.
In the territory of Macaque King, White Wolf might be the only one in the demon clan who could communicate with these beasts and control them. So his connection with these animals was also hard for the others to understand.
It was complicated.
Both of his parents had been killed by these fierce beasts. He had been searching for the reason why there were beast tides. During the search he had to get close to them to get to know them better.
The two thousand beasts under White Wolf’s command were a great helper for Li Ye, if they did not encounter any Immortal and White Wolf was willing to follow Li Ye.
“Elder Brother Ye is after the Immortals. Will he be in danger?” Wu You asked, while looking at the eastern sky worriedly, her hands propping up her chin.
The proprietress gently stroked the girl’s hair, much like a mother. “Don’t worry. His Highness is very powerful. He will be okay.”
Right after she said it, a dark could suddenly approached.
When it got closer, the cultivators under the sky found that the cloud was made up of about 600 Great Cultivators!
The Duchess, who just seemed to be like a kid, lurched to her feet and said seriously, “Prepare for defense!”
All the cultivators in the campsite drew their magic weapons, in preparation for combat.
A beam of light pierced through the dark cloud and descended on the ground. It was Li Ye and the sparrow.
The Duchess walked over to Li Ye jauntily the moment she saw him.
“Elder Brother Ye, what took you so long?” The Duchess asked, as she lifted her little head up.
Li Ye said sternly, “I made a rich friend on the way.”
Then Zhao Batian and the other cultivators from Liuxi Town descended. When they were in midair, they were almost ready to attack when they saw the thousands of beasts below. But Li Ye explained to them. They all looked shocked when they saw how tame these beasts were now.
Li Ye introduced Zhao Batian to others, “This is Childe Zhao Batian from Zhenjiang City. I suppose you all know him. His group is here and he knows the location of the beasts’ den. We will cooperate with him from now on.”
Zhao Batian held his head high when he was being introduced. He thought all these cultivators should have heard of his name before.
But few cultivators from Liuxi Town knew of Zhao Batian. Some of them had heard of his name. They greeted Zhao Batian politely when Li Ye introduced this man, which delighted Zhao Tian extremely. He even looked at them in a friendly way, as if they were all his followers.
“We had better march on now.” Li Ye commanded the cultivators of Liuxi Town. Then he asked White Wolf, “Master White Wolf, will you follow us with the beasts?”
Without any hesitation, White Wolf answered, “Of course. The chance of finding the beasts’ den is rare. I will not flinch!”
