The Domineering King of the Netherworld and His Sweetheart

70. Inducement

Translator: Ning LL

Feng Xi’s body went frozen right away.

However, he was not the kind of person who could keep his equanimity for a long time. After a short while, he looked askance at God of Books and said, “Bookworm, why did you tell me not to move?” Feng Xi had no idea how domineering he looked just now. After all, he only had that kind of manner once in a blue moon.

However, the Sky Breaking Beast that had just flinched suddenly stopped. As it gained its consciousness back, it flew into a rage again. As it remembered that it had been terrified by a human being, it felt greatly humiliated. At the moment, the murderous intention in its eyes seemed even more obvious. It believed that as long as it killed the boy and those three creatures, no one would know what had happened here today.

While the Sky Breaking Beast was thinking about that, it was more certain that the only way to save its reputation was killing without mercy. Then, as it jumped out from the crack, the crack closed and disappeared in no time.

God of Books rubbed his forehead helplessly while waving his little hand, saying, “Master, your domineering air has completely vanished. What a waste!”

“Vanished? How come?” Feng Xi looked at himself in doubt.

God of Books, mouth twitched, thought to himself, ‘Domineering air is an unsubstantial thing, how’s it possible for you to see it with your eyes?’

“You don’t have to look at it anymore, it’s all gone!”

“Why didn’t you tell me earlier?” Feng Xi said that in an angry voice, regretting that he had looked for his domineering air everywhere.

“All right, it’s my fault. I shouldn’t have called you just now. Anyway, what can we do now? That Sky Breaking Beast is still gazing at us now.” God of Books shrugged helplessly because there really was nothing he could do now. Over the past few days he had tried every means to get rid of the Sky Breaking Beast, but that beast was too shrewd with a keen sense of smell and never lost track of them.

At present, the Sky Breaking Beast was staring at them in the sky because it had scruples about Hairless Chicken’s power, which gave Feng Xi and his fellows enough time to discuss a countermeasure.

Now they only had one day left to finish the task. If Feng Xi failed the task, they really dared not face the King and Uncle White back in the Heaven Peak Palace.

After all, it was hard to explain why Feng Xi had failed with so many helpers around him. By then, if King of the Netherworld was irritated, the two Gods and the chicken might be forced to return to their original forms. That was something they never wanted to happen.

As a result, as the two Gods were trying their best to think of a measure, Hairless Chicken looked at the Sky Breaking Beast the whole time to prevent the latter from launching a surprise attack.

“Does Sky Breaking Beast have any weakness?” Feng Xi squatted behind Hairless Chicken and asked that with his eyes fixed on God of Books who was floating in the air.

“Well, the greatest strength of Sky Breaking Beast is tearing the space, that is something we can do nothing about. If any of us know Space Art, we could block that beast’s route of retreat. Unfortunately, none of us knows about a top-level art like that.” As God of Books said that, he glanced at his master secretly.

As far as God of Books knew, there were fewer than three people who knew how to employ the top-level art.

At present, everyone knew that the great King of the Netherworld was able to employ that kind of art. Although God of Books didn’t know how skillful the King was in employing that art, he was pretty sure that the King was the best in that area.

What was more, God of Books believed that as long as Feng Xi begged the King for help, the latter wouldn’t refuse for sure since the King valued the boy so much.

However, that was also a dead end, because they were not even able to defeat the Sky Breaking Beast.

Feng Xi scratched his head and said, “Space Art? Why does that sound so familiar?”

God of Books, with his eyes sparkling, asked right away, “Master, has the King told you something about that?”

“That’s right, my leader has said that once. When we were in the Desire Sea, he said that he would teach me that, but I forgot about the whole thing afterwards.”

God of Books and God of Bad Luck were totally speechless.

Space Art was something that everyone in the Three Worlds was yearning for. So many people strived for such a chance that they, when being gathered, could circle the God and Demon Kingdom thousands of times. However, the person who had a chance to learn the Space Art had just forgot about it at once. What a waste! Shame on him! How annoying that was!

“Alas, there’s no use saying that since you can not employ the Space Art. Actually, Sky Breaking Beast should have another weakness other than loving to collect treasures.” After God of Books pondered for a while, he sighed and said that.

“What is that?” Feng Xi who didn’t know what God of Books was thinking asked right away.

“Reaching the next grade. Sky Breaking Beast is a Demon Beast with lots of potential and its bloodline is also very precious. However, due to the preciousness of its bloodline, this place is already not suitable for its cultivation. Therefore, also this Sky Breaking Beast has lots of potential, it is still not able to enhance its cultivation base, which is also the reason why all the Sky Breaking Beasts are not able to reach the Saint realm. You see, the Sky Breaking Beast has the potential to become a Mythical Beast. However, if it can not reach the Saint realm, its potential would be of no use.”

“Nerd, what do you say we bring this Sky Breaking Beast back to the Heaven Peak Palace?” Feng Xi suddenly said that.

“Master, are you crazy? We can not even get rid of this beast right now, how can we catch it? Let alone that the biggest problem for us right now is its ability of tearing the space.” God of Books was in shock and gazed at the boy in disbelief.

“Just hear me out first.” Feng Xi waved his hand to let God of Books stay calm with a hopeful look on his face.

In fact, Feng Xi had this thought long ago. However, these days he had been running about all the time being chased by this beast, which left him no time to think about other things. So he hadn’t brought that up. Now that God of Books had mentioned it, Feng Xi was suddenly enlightened and had an idea.

“Haven’t you just said that Sky Breaking Beast couldn’t reach the Saint realm? I think I can use the Fruit of the World to lure the beast. Also, just think about it, we have already made a long journey into the Wetlands and there is less than a half day for us to finish the task. Even if we try our best to hurry back, there’s still not enough time. Since the Sky Breaking Beast has the ability to tear the space, why can’t we let it take us away? It’s like killing two birds with one stone!” When finishing his last sentence, he couldn’t help being proud of himself.

God of Books and God of Bad Luck opened their mouths wide for a long while.

They couldn’t believe their master had just thought of such a clever idea. After all, one minute ago, the boy was still quite ridiculous. How was it possible for him to have such a clear mind and think of an idea when the two Gods had been completely stuck.

‘Is it possible… that master’s intelligence is also improved after his cultivation level has been raised?’

However, the two Gods didn’t know that King of the Netherworld was the one who made a great contribution to Feng Xi’s sudden miraculous cleverness.

When Feng Xi and the King were in the Desire Sea, the King had reminded Feng Xi, “You have to use your brain when I am not around you. You can not rely on others all the time and sit there doing nothing. Being a burden would eventually invite the disdain of others.”

Only the strong ones could gain others’ respect. If Feng Xi didn’t want to be disdained by others, he had to be powerful.

King of the Netherworld only made such statements for Feng Xi’s own good. Although most of his words were intended for intimidation, his last sentence reflected the harsh realities.

Feng Xi, a boy from the Human World, had been in lower class from a very young age. Therefore he knew exactly the feeling of being disdained. So his determination was rather firm.

That explained his behavior just now.

After the three of them discussed for a long while, they nailed down a final plan.

In the meantime, the Sky Breaking Beast had already lost its patience. It suddenly roared and lowered its front legs to make an attacking posture. The next second, the windstorm which it had just created blew to Feng Xi right away.

However, the windstorm was stopped by Hairless Chicken a few meters away from Feng Xi. After a loud bang, it disappeared right away!

Seeing Hairless Chicken easily resolving the crisis, Sky Breaking Beast howled to the sky anxiously while rubbing the ground with its legs and rolling its eyes fretfully. It seemed that this beast was worrying that some accident might happen, so it wanted to go back to its cave as soon as it killed Feng Xi and his buddies. However, it still dared not act rashly for fear of the powerful Hairless Chicken.

Then as the beast was about to launch a critical attack at any risk, there was suddenly a faint sweet scent floating in the air and lingering around its nose, which refreshed the beast right away.

With its eyes sparkling, it followed the smell and then looked to the boy underneath. Then it saw a green fruit in the boy’s hand, which was supposed to be the resource of that smell. The Sky Breaking Beast sensed the enormous Spiritual Energy inside the fruit instantly and and showed a greedy look on its face. However, as it saw the complacent smile on the boy’s face, that greedy look vanished immediately. Then it stared at the boy with an alert look, saying,

“Boy, what do you mean?”

In the beast’s view, human beings were shrewd creatures who would never be nice to anyone for no reason. Since the boy had held out an olive branch, the beast assumed that he must be plotting something.

Although the beast was yearning for the fruit on the boy’s hand, it was not stupid enough to be tricked so easily.

“Big monster, do you want this fruit or not?”

Feng Xi waved the fruit in his hand. He believed that the fruit which even the two Gods were longing for was enough to attract the Sky Breaking Beast. The obsessed look on its face was hard to hide, so Feng Xi knew that this Beast actually wanted this fruit a lot. Now he was waiting for the Beast to walk into his trap. Perhaps this was what the King had called ‘Letting them swallow the bait.’

Feng Xi was proud of himself for he had used that knowledge so soon. He believed his leader would definitely praise him after knowing about this.