Chapter 42: Beating Qian Xunji
"Ah! What are you doing?" Gu Yuena growled and screamed a little as Percy began to cover her with clean clothes that he had in his storage bracelet.
"Oh, shut up!" Percy growled and said, "We don't even know if we ended up in the past or the future. It would be bad if someone recognized you, because in either case, there are now two Silver Dragon Queens."
Gu Yuena moved her lips, annoyed and displeased, but she knew that Percy was right. If by chance one of the few existences that knew her saw her right now, only annoying moments awaited them.
"Who are you guys!? How dare you enter this king's palace!"
"Hey!" the two space travelers looked to the side at the same time. But expecting to see someone annoying, they saw a blonde man and a naked woman chained to a bed. Gu Yuena's eyes coldly looked at the man, and Percy's eyes were red as he saw such a scene.
"To think that we actually ended up in the past," Percy raised the corner of his mouth in a cruel smile.
"Even more, it seems that the Pope really is an ugly and disgusting man."
"You..."
"Shut your mouth!" Gu Yuena growled coldly as she released immense pressure towards the man, causing the room that seemed more like a prison to become much colder. And as the man froze due to the pressure, Percy walked over to the woman and covered her with some new clothes.
He already knew who this woman was who was trembling with tears running down her eyes. She was young, younger than the last time he saw her.
Percy took the chains and forcefully broke them, causing the woman to immediately back away and cover herself with the offered clothes.
"You… Who are you?" Qian Xunji asked as he clenched his fists. His plan to make Bibi Dong stay in the spirit hall forever had failed because of these two people. He was really not satisfied, he was angry, but he couldn't do anything about the pressure crushing his body and falling to his knees on the ground.
His hiding place was also ruined; the wall on one side was destroyed by the arrival of these people, just as he was about to desecrate the body of his disciple, Bibi Dong.
"The time and amount of space you can maintain without others finding out?" Percy asked.
"Five minutes, five hundred meters. After that I won't be able to maintain anything else with my space ability. I will also have to wait some time to replenish my energy."
"Enough," Percy smiled cruelly and looked at Qian Xunji, who felt terror run through his body. Using his spiritual power, Percy already knew that this place was far away from the main palace of the spirit hall. It was a place that had an underground path and was near a mountain.
Qian Xunji suddenly felt his feet lift off the ground. His eyes widened as he saw that he was being pulled away with a hand on his face. Another wall was destroyed before his body collided with a rock wall that immediately exploded. Seconds later he noticed that he was in the sky, but before he could move, a blow to his face sent him spinning through the air.
The pope's body looked like a meteorite falling from the sky, and when it embedded itself in the ground, it created a huge crater that made the ground tremble.
"I will kill you! I will destroy your body!!" Qian Xunji roared as he stood up with three pairs of wings on his back.
"I don't know how you have the nerve to get in the way of the spirit hall's plans, but you won't achieve anything."
Percy raised his head slightly and looked down with a mocking smile.
"This space was sealed by an existence with power over level 100. If you think you can defeat an existence at the level of gods, then you're even more of a fool than I imagined."
"Impossible! There's no such existence in this world!" Qian Xunji growled, but having sensed Gu Yuena's power, he still felt nervous.
Percy just stared at him. He wasn't doing this because he was a good person, but he had already saved Bibi Dong in his time, he didn't want to cause any strange paradoxes. And since I didn't know much about space, I preferred to follow the story that seemed to have already happened, but not yet.
Anaklusmos appeared in front of Qian Xunji's eyes and its annihilating and murderous aura manifested at that moment. Seven spirit rings appeared from Percy's feet, but before Qian Xunji could sneer that he was a titled douluo, Percy moved at a speed that was almost blinding and used all of his saber intent to cut off one of the man's arms.
With no chance to resist, Percy held the man's head with one hand and his flea-like finger stabbed into one of his eyes. Blood exploded from the pope's left eye and he screamed in pain.
"I understand now..." Percy didn't know how Qian Xunji lost to Tang Hao when the latter's wife sacrificed herself for him to obtain a 100,000-year spirit ring. The pope had brought several titled douluo and other powerhouses to deal with Tang Hao and his wife, but he was unable to defeat him.
Even with a hundred thousand-year spirit ring, Qian Xunji should still be able to resist and even forcefully land a few blows against Tang Hao. And while Tang Hao did end up with injuries, it was still too little for what a true titled douluo could do.
"You are weak, too weak. Even as a level 95 titled douluo, you are stupidly weak. You have a supreme martial spirit in the form of a seraph, and even a father who should have given you the best cultivation grounds and materials for the same."
"It should be your arrogance; such a thing caused you to become weak and not train at your weakest," Percy sneered as he smiled, but it was a cold smile.
"How disappointing…"
"Mm?" Percy looked at his wrist, noticing Qian Xunji's hands gripping it tightly as one of the man's ten thousand year rings glowed with power.
"Seraph Descent!"
BOOOM!
A radiant explosion in the form of a golden pillar of light covered the two as the figure of a six-winged seraph appeared in the sky. The huge figure was the size of a large building and flapped its wings before it charged towards Percy.
Percy's apathetic eyes only stared at this figure. In his eyes, even if the holy and powerful aura of the seraph descended upon him, he felt no fear at all. He only raised his God-Slaying Sabre and slashed forward, splitting the huge figure into two. The glow turned into tiny specks as if they were fireflies about to die.
"Impossible... No... That shouldn't be possible."
"If it was a hundred thousand year old skill it could hurt me, but not this," Percy let out a sigh before he looked Qian Xunji in the eyes. And in that instant, horrible images appeared in the pope's mind.
"AH! AAHHHHHH!!" A horrible scream came from Qian Xunji's throat as his body began to sweat. His feet moved and kicked at Percy, but Percy didn't move. The eye of annihilation was slowly withering away at his mind as he suffered the worst. Qian Xunji's bright eyes seemed to lose their color little by little as he tried to break free from Percy's grip.
"Stop!" A sudden shout made Percy shift his gaze to the side. Down on the ground, Bibi Dong screamed.
"..."
"Why?"
"I want him to suffer more," Bibi Dong replied. "A filthy beast like him doesn't deserve to die so easily. Let him live, I want revenge myself. I will make his life a mockery, and only then will I kill him."
Percy just stared at her for a long moment, thinking that Bibi Dong really was a decisive and cruel woman when wronged. Both she and Liu Erlong were a demonstration of the saying 'hell hath no fury like a woman scorned'. Bibi Dong's beautiful eyes right now held nothing but a cold and horrible determination to make her enemy suffer.
Percy smiled and looked back at Qian Xunji, beginning to erase his memories of this encounter and make him think that he had succeeded in his plans. That way, he wouldn't suspect anything for the time being. In the end, he dropped him to the ground from the great height. He wouldn't die, but perhaps some bones would break.
As for his crushed left eye and severed arm, well, that would be left to a battle against a powerful spirit beast.
. . . .
"What shall we do now?" Percy asked curiously as he watched from the top of a building as Bibi Dong ran with Qian Xunji on her back. Guards and spirit masters were horrified to see the Pope with such injuries and listened intently as Bibi Dong narrated the story of the battle with a spirit beast.
"We have to wait," Gu Yuena replied. "My power is already recovering once again. Perhaps in a couple of months we can return."
"How?" Percy asked as he frowned. "There are no space rifts that allow us to travel like we did not long ago"
"But we can find some. It's not that it's impossible, they're just rare to see. They're usually invisible except for people who have a certain mastery with the spatial element"
"If one appears not too far away, I'll be able to sense it"
"I see...", Percy nodded and looked up at the sky, noticing the starry sky.
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