The Black Dragon King took only a moment to soak in his resurgence as a mid-stage class seven soulbeast. Raising his head up to look above him, he raised his right hand in front of him and swished. A ripple formed from where his hand traveled and allowed him to step into it to disappear!
He would reappear in another tunnel completely separate from the cave he had been in earlier. He swished his right hand out to travel through another ripple!
In general, the act of teleportation would not be done in rapid succession like this. Most would use it a few times at most before flying in between intervals, else they risk using up more soulforce than one would like. For the Black Dragon King to do this one after another meant that he was very unwilling to remain here in the tunnels for even a second longer than possible.
Ā Ā ā¦ā¦
On the surface.
āWhat was that, Long Lan? What Black Dragon King?ā
Several people had turned to look at Long Lan when he spoke. It was Xiao Nan who asked him for clarification, however.
āThe Black Dragon King?! One of the Eight Soulbeast Rulers?! Didnāt he die a few years ago? I heard they even brought back his corpse!ā
Hu Sha exclaimed from the sidelines.
Long Lanās eyes were narrowed as he thought. āThis is definitely the Black Dragon King. Heās not truly dead. Yunfei and I were there when he was cornered, but we were too weak to do anything then but watch from a distance. We even had to flee before it was over, so we didnāt see the ending, but the Black Dragon King was definitely not dead. Whatever he did to survive mustāve dropped his power levels since he became an early-stage class seven soulbeast. Butā¦heās Mo Niās soulbeast partner now!ā
āWhat?! Is that true?!ā
Xiao Nan, Zhao Jie, and Hu Sha all had wide-opened eyes at what Long Lan said. None of them had thought there could be more to the story.
Tang Xinyun was comparatively less surprised since she had heard Bai Yunfei mention something along the same lines of that to her before. āBut the Black Dragon King is here? Then wouldnāt that meanā¦that person just now was Mo Ni?! Yunfei said before the Qin brothers death was strangeācould Mo Ni be the one responsible for that?!ā
āItās very likely!ā Long Lan nodded.
āMo Ni? Whoās that?ā
Xiao Nan was utterly mystified by the conclusion Tang Xinyun and Long Lan were reaching.
āMo Ni is from the Soul Refining School!ā Tang Xinyun was looking frantic now, āItās possible heās one of the disciples of their headmaster! Heās already tried to kill Yunfei multiple times beforeā¦oh no, what if Yunfei was taken to a place with multiple soul refiners!!ā
Tears formed in her eyes as she began to worry about the grim possibilities.
āThe headmasterās disciple?!ā
Again, Xiao Nan gasped out loud in shock. He never imagined meeting such an individual here of all places, but it all made sense now. If any one person were to have such an antique soul armament like that, it would definitely be someone like Mo Niā¦
āDamn!!ā Long Lan swore. He had been silent at first as if trying to sense for something. āThe Black Dragon Kingās aura is gone, I canāt find him! We mightāve been able to find where Yunfei was if we followed him!!ā
Tang Xinyun fell into despair at that. She had been hoping theyād be able to capture the Black Dragon King and possibly interrogate him on where Bai Yunfei mightāve been, but now that hope had gone up into smoke. It was enough to make her legs feel weak.
āYunfeiā¦please come back safe and soundā¦ā
She wished to herself as she looked to the skies, her eyes blinking rapidly as if trying to hold back the tearsā¦Ā
Ā Ā ā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦
Now then, where in the world had Mo Ni transported himself and Bai Yunfei to?
Soul armaments that could transport people were especially rare in the modern-day soul cultivator world as Xiao Nan said. Soul armaments that could transport over a very long distance was even moreso, and ones that could bring people to a āpre-determinedā location was something thatād most likely be seen from soul armaments of the ancient past. So, Xiao Nan had to guess that Mo Ni used a soul armament that could only transport people to a random location.
Unfortunately, Xiao Nan was wrong.
Mo Ni had in fact three soul armaments capable of transportation. The three jadeite disks that he normally used as defensive soul armaments. They belonged to a set and had power far beyond what would be normally assumed.
The first disk was used when he first fought against Bai Yunfei during the struggle for the pills. It was what allowed Mo Ni to escape the fatal blow and had only transported him a few hundred meters away.
The second was used during the battle outside of Mo City when Bai Yunfei was coming after him. That one had brought him a greater distance away and allowed him to escape the Core Stoneās range of detection.
Those two disks were only capable of random transportation.
But the last one Mo Ni usedā¦was not one thatād randomly transport people! It belonged to the type Xiao Nan explained last, the type that was almost like a treasure even in the ancient pastā¦a soul armament that could transport people to a pre-determined location!
And the location was a place no one would ever expect to think ofā¦a place of extreme danger!
Ā Ā ā¦ā¦
āSwishā¦ā
Bai Yunfei felt like the whole world was being forcibly thrown for a loop with how his head was slammed. The nausea he felt was making him so sick that he wanted to puke.
āAhhhh!!!ā
It was Mo Niās scream that snapped Bai Yunfei out from his thoughts. Whirling around, he saw Mo Ni just barely avoid being stabbed straight through by the Fire-tipped Spear before falling to the ground onto his behind!
A flash of cold light entered Bai Yunfeiās eyes. He was about to attack again when he suddenly realized the place he was in and gasped!
He could see where he was now now that the white mist was gone. The floors he stepped on shined with light rather than being dull like the stony ground from before, and the area around himā¦
He was in a large palace hall!
While he was in shock at the sudden change of scenery, five powerful auras suddenly sprung into Bai Yunfeiās senses to alert them of their rapid convergence to this area!
āHaā¦haā¦hahaha!! You actually came here! Here!! Hahahaha!! Youāreā¦youāre dead for sure now! Hahaha!!!ā
The loud braying of laughter from Mo Ni had Bai Yunfei turning back his way. It was strange to see that Mo Ni, who had previously been so terrified of him that he fell onto his behind, was now laughing madly with glee at Bai Yunfei!
It was foreboding to say the least, and Bai Yunfei couldnāt help but feel panicked a little. Without anything else to be said, he immediately began to prepare his soulforce for an attack!
Fearing that Bai Yunfei was about to attack him, Mo Ni moved to dodge, but he wasnāt the target! Bai Yunfei was still standing in the same place!
Mo Ni was surprised, but he hadnāt the foggiest idea on what Bai Yunfei was doing. He watched as several near-transparent ripples undulated from his person beforeā¦he suddenly disappeared from sight!
He gaped for a moment. This wasnāt something he expected.
But then a mocking snarl appeared on his face next!
āTeleportation, is it? The Core Stone? Giving up on trying to kill me and get the Soul Sealing Mandate, Iāll give him points for that, butā¦
āItās useless! Bai Yunfeiā¦today, you die here!!ā