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Title: Devil Army
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If it wasn't for the fact that he had no other choice, Shun wouldn't come here to see the emperor and use the chakra fruit as a source of temptation.
He was very clear on how dangerous this was. If the Vast Sky Emperor wasn't interested in the chakra fruit or didn't want to waste time on him, he would be in an extremely dangerous position.
However, Monoshiki already obtained the help of the Fallen God Island.
Right now, the Vast Sky Emperor was contemplating Shun. That pressure was still present and although it was no longer as tyrannical, it was heavy enough to make Shun sweat, extremely hard to endure. A chakra sea expert talking terms with an emperor was clearly an impulsive action.
"Is it true that the art you used allowed you to establish a perfect-grade chakra sea? Since you used the art before, how effective do you think it would be on emperor-level characters?" The emperor calmly asked.
Shun didn't dare to lie.
"I don't dare to say that it's entirely due to that but this art was also used by a few friends of mine. Right now, the weakest among their chakra sea is at the king-grade level. Da is his name an I guarantee that although his limit would be the King realm, he would be an invincible existence in that realm." Shun honestly replied.
The Vast Sky Devil Emperor pondered for a moment. His daughter Yue was staring at Shun. This art would be of utmost use to her, able to provide the assistance needed to push her into the King realm.
However, she wouldn't open her mouth to request for anything.
The Vast Sky Emperor cast a glance at Yue before speaking, "You should have an extraordinary identity in the outer realms. If you are from an empire, how can I be sure that you wouldn't play any tricks?"
This place was the Myriad Islands, and currently within his territory hence, Shun naturally wouldn't dare to try anything funny. But if they reached the outer realms, he wouldn't have any control over Shun.
"Both of us have no conflict of interest. If you are willing to aid me is this, how would I try any tricks to fool you? In addition, how would I dare to lie to a character like yourself? Even if I have chakra-emperors behind my back, I don't want to live a life where I'm filled with unease everyday, fearful for your revenge." Shun spoke.
"When do you want to move?" The emperor suddenly asked. Shun's eyes flashed, "The sooner or better, let me wait for my friends to arrive. Once they are here, we can leave immediately.
"I admire your guts. Go bring your friends then." The emperor waved his hands. Shum bowed to the emperor and smiled, "Thanks for your assistance."
As he spoke, Shun directly turned and left. Things being able to be so smooth did indeed cause Shun to feel joy. Right now his chakra level was still weak. When he stepped into the chakra king realm, he would make good use of the corpses he'd gathered so far.
"Father, you agreed to him so easily?" Yue asked.
"Since we really need his help, there's no need for us to play any tricks on our side or we may end up empty-handed in the future. It's better for things to be more simple." The Vast Sky Emperor spoke. "If he really dares to try anything funny, even if there are chakra emperors behind him, I will take his life for sure."
"Father is right. I will send him out then." Yue left and followed after Shun.,
After Shun left this place, he instantly returned, and brought Da and Ria to the palace with haste. At the same time, the Vast Sky Emperor summoned his subordinates and when Shun returned to the palace again, a fearsome great army was before his eyes.
"Let's move out. My emperor palace has a teleportation formation leading to the space around the Fallen God Region, we can reach there very soon." The Vast Sky Emperor spoke.
Shun nodded, Da and Ria felt shock in their hearts. This fellow Shun…What methods did he use exactly? He actually managed to convince a emperor to activate his army for him?
Shun was truly making a legend.
"Right." Shun nodded, prepared to move out.
And at this moment, on the Fallen God Island, the emperor's birthday celebration had already ended. Many devil kings have all left, returning to their respective islands.
Naturally, the promise the emperor made to Monoshiki, has already been accomplished. He gave the order to the different devil kings, telling them to prepare a suitable island filled with resources to be handed over to him.
As for the death of the three other devil kings, the people discussing them grew fewer and fewer.
That young man who dared to reject the reward of the emperor on his birthday celebration was also gradually forgotten by people.
He would only occasionally be brought up when talk of the celebration banquet surfaced.
However even today, everyone was still speculating at how the three great devil kings died exactly.
That arrogant young man, could it be he really could kill the three devil kings?
Nobody knew what happened exactly but no matter what happened, things would gradually lessen in intensity with the flow of time.
The emperor wouldn't feel any ripples because of the death of a few mere devil kings. He didn't regret the decision he made at the banquet. To him, that was only a minor matter.
And although the Old man Kan was enraged, his anger quickly calmed. He has merely lost a subordinate devil king but the benefits Monoshiki had given him was much more valuable in comparison.
What a pity that he didn't manage to capture Shun, or he would have gained more supreme treasures.
During these few days, on one of the rare breaks the devil emperor took, the Old man Kan was currently playing chess with the Fallen Emperor as they drank tea.
With such an old friend, the Old man Kan would naturally spend some time to fortify their relationship during the times where the emperor took breaks, in case their relationship ever grew estranged.
After all for characters on the emperor-level, every jourmey they embark on might last for an extremely long period of time.
Right now in the emperor palace, the emperor and Old Kan were chatting as they played, with many devil kings around them. The atmosphere was very harmonious.
"Old Kan, very soon I may have to leave for a period of time." The Fallen Emperor placed his chess piece down and spoke to the Old man.
"Are you going to roam the Myriad Islands again? I really envy you, able to roam into places where I'm not qualified to be." Old man Kan shook his head and smiled.
"Envy?" The emperor laughed. "At my current level, it's gets harder if I wish to advance a single step. I can only go and roam those unknown grounds, putting my life at stake, this Myraid islands is a place of legends after all."
"Even if you don't improve, you are already the overlord of a region." The Old man consoled.
"You should know that in this world, if you don't advance it would only mean that you would be left behind, surpassed by others. In addition, us lords of a region aren't as free as you imagine. Only powers around the Myriad Islands Sovereign can be considered those truly at the peak. For us, sometimes if we are not careful, we may enter a situation where there is no hope of any reprieve." The emperor spoke in a light voice.
"That's right, at different levels, the things we see are naturally different. Right now, I only hope to reach your level as soon as possible. Yet as for you, you are already thinking of advancing further. I wonder if there's an endpoint." Old man Kan inclined his head and stared at the skies.
"Endpoint?" The emperor pointed his hands at the skies, "How could there be an endpoint to the skies?"
The voice of the Fallen Emperor contained a sigh. Even as a emperor, he had no idea if there were any limits to cultivation or not.
The stronger he grew, the weaker he found himself. Before low-level experts, he might seem to be lofty and immeasurably deep.
But as he grew stronger, his perspective would change, and the world in his vision would naturally expand as well.
"Yeah, the countless constellations, the astral rivers. Where is an endpoint, if there is any?" Old man Kan sighed as well.
Emperor-ranked characters were able to directly borrow the strength of the world, merging as one with them. However, ultimately they were still merely borrowing the strength of the constellations, it wasn't truly theirs.
At this moment, the sound of footsteps rang out. A devil king appeared not far away and bowed, "Your Majesty, there's strange news from the boundary. There are many experts entering our island."
"Strange news?" The Fallen Emperor shook his head. "With me on the island, what could possibly happen?"
"That's true, your Majesty." The devil king nodded, thinking that the emperor was right. Since he was here, what else could happen?
At the boundary of the Fallen God Island, countless people stared at the skies as their bodies trembled madly. An expression of disbelief could be seen in their eyes. Didn't the celebration end already? Where did all these powerful experts come from?
Also, even if it was the birthday celebration of the Fallen God Island, such a strong external army shouldn't appear, right?
In the air, a huge army robed in black could be seen, the waves of might they exuded swept over everything, enveloping this region.
The might exuded was so powerful that demonic beasts prostrated themselves and the experts all felt a stifling pressure strong enough to crush everything.
"Isn't that young man the same person who rejected the reward?" Someone saw the silhouette of Shun. The eyes of that person froze there, as though he couldn't believe what he saw.
"How can this be? That young man was being hunted down by three devil kings, yet he actually returned and brought such a powerful army here? Could it be that there's a very terrifying expert supporting him from behind?" Some of the experts in the surroundings who had attended the banquet began to speculate in shock.
However in just a moment, this entire army started to advance forward imperiously, not hiding the fact that they were here. News naturally travelled back to the emperor palace but the Fallen God Emperor merely replied with a single sentence, 'With me on the island, what else could possibly happen?'
Since that was the case, who would still dare to disturb him?
Since the emperor was around, no matter what would happen, it would only be a minor issue!