The Ethereal Domains

Chapter 1703: The Black Town

The Black Town . . .

Apparently, Cha-Eun Xiao had made a decision that was against his braveness and boldness. As the Flower King introduced, the Foggy Miasma Mountain must be pretty dangerous, but the threat was only the fog. For most cultivators, it was impossible to overcome such a difficulty, but for the Lord Monarch, who was immune to poisons, followed by the King of Poisons, the poisonous fog shouldn't be a problem…

When they talked about the Matchless Soul Valley before they got to the first pass, Cha-Eun Xiao chose to break the rule and challenge the owner of the Matchless Soul Valley, even though he knew how dangerous it was. How come he decided to stay away from the danger like a coward this time?

It didn't seem to be something the Lord Monarch would do!

The Flower King didn't understand the decision either. "Lord Monarch, maybe you have misunderstood the situation of the Foggy Miasma Mountain. For ordinary cultivators, the Foggy Miasma Mountain is like hell, but for us, it is not. The Foggy Miasma Mountain is close to the Matchless Soul Valley, so I have watched this place for many years. I am sure the poisonous fog is the only dangerous thing in the Foggy Miasma Mountain. A few poisonous beasts rule the mountain, and there are definitely not any powerful cultivators hiding there.

"We can easily kill those beasts, and killing the beasts isn't pointless. According to what I learned, there is a treasure on the mountain… I was restricted, so I never thought about taking the treasure, even though it was so close to me. Now, the treasure is right there calling us! It would be a pity that we don't get it! Lord Monarch, you are special. You are a bane to all poisonous things. The Foggy Miasma Mountain should be easy for you!"

The Flower King thought that he must have exaggerated the danger, so Cha-Eun Xiao was over-cautious. In fact, he wanted Cha-Eun Xiao to get into the fog of the Foggy Miasma Mountain and take the treasure out.

"Well, we are flying over it." Cha-Eun Xiao looked a little nervous. He said, "Sure, I want the treasure. However, I am not here for treasures. I have been trying to spread my name to the world because I want my brothers, my family to come and find me. As long as they heard the news about me, they will come for me…

"We don't fear the poisonous fog, but my brothers do, and my families do.

"When we come back to this place, we will get the treasure.

"I can't let my people get hurt in this Foggy Miasma Mountain. If they are hurt, I will regret it for the rest of my life."

The Flower King was touched. "Lord Monarch, you are such an honorable and honest man. Let's fly over the mountain then. We should go now."

The Flower King had been away from his home and family for so many years, so he understood Cha-Eun Xiao. Nothing, not any treasure in the world, was better than a warm union with good friends and families!

…

The three of them didn't hesitate. They flew up and dashed ahead.

A thousand feet!

Three thousand feet!

Ten thousand feet!

Thirty thousand feet!

The King of Poisons started to breathe heavily, but they were still didn't get beyond the rolling fog of the Foggy Miasma Mountain. It seemed the poisonous fog of the mountain was beyond the clouds!

Thirty thousand feet over the mountain, the wind blew strongly like sharp knives. It cut the three men's faces like cold blades.

It wasn't so bad for Cha-Eun Xiao and the Flower King, but the King of Poisons was only at level one of the Saint Origin Stage. He was getting powerless. The Flower King quietly reached out one hand to hold the King of Poisons on the shoulder. Suddenly, they moved even faster.

The King of Poisons was grateful. He knew that he was a burden to the other two men at the moment, but the Flower King chose to help him! That was such a big favor!

For the Flower King, it was nothing, but the King of Poisons kept it in mind forever. He decided that he would return the favor to the Flower King someday!

The three of them kept rising. When they were a hundred thousand feet high, they finally saw the blue sky!

"Brother Flower King, you are right. There must be some splendid treasure on the Foggy Miasma Mountain!" Cha-Eun Xiao looked down at the mountain. The sharp wind was so strong that it could blow off a mountain and kill a Saint Origin Stage cultivator, but it actually couldn't scatter the fog on the mountain. He took a cold breath in shock.

'It is only some fog, but the strong wind actually can't move it. Why?'

'What does it mean?'

"I am the King of all Flowers, so I love to spend my time with all kinds of flowers, and I hate fog and miasma… However, I am curious. What treasure is it that is being kept down on the mountain." The Flower King looked at the Foggy Miasma Mountain and thought.

The King of Poisons stayed behind the other two men, and he frowned.

He was much weaker than the Flower King and Cha-Eun Xiao indeed, but he knew much better about poisons than them. He knew something about the poisonous fog because he had read an old book when he was living in his clan. However, it was a long time before, so he couldn't think of anything useful at the moment…

They just stuck to the plan. They were surprised and amazed by the weirdness of the poisonous fog, but it didn't stop them from going ahead. The Flower King led the way, and the three of them flew to the other side of the mountains in the howling wind.

When the three of them were right over the Foggy Miasma Mountain, something happened!

A long and horrible shout sounded underneath them.

It was abrupt, but no matter what it was, it was none of their business. What shocked them was the fact that they all felt dizzy when the shout sounded. The King of Poisons was the weakest, and he almost fell off the sky when he got hit by the dizziness.

Almost at the same time, a long weird string that was thousands of feet long suddenly rushed up from the mountain!

It was a string made from the dense fog! It was approaching fast!

The string of poisonous fog was moving fast. It was going to hit the three of them off the sky at the same time.

Suddenly, the sword light flashed. Cha-Eun Xiao's face turned red.

The Monarch's Sword was out, and Cha-Eun Xiao had just operated the Extreme Purple Sword!

As the string attack was so fast, Cha-Eun Xiao had to make a reaction that was quick and effective at the same time. The sword move of the Extreme Purple Sword consumed a lot of energy, but it cut everything in the world, so he decided to use it!

What happened next proved him right.

A terribly shocking exclamation sounded from where the string got out. The string of poisonous fog was broken into pieces. In the string, there seemed to be something in red color, and it was broken too.

Some blood splashed out, and it smelled terrible.

The blood splashed about a thousand meters under their feet, but the smell of it rushed upward to them.

The Flower King made his move as well. He held the King of Poisons with one hand and created his flower sword with the other hand. He moved a little slower than Cha-Eun Xiao, but the attack from his flower sword moved out before Cha-Eun Xiao. The flower sword was powerful, but it didn't destroy the string. When Cha-Eun Xiao's purple qi appeared, his sword attack broke the string into pieces!

The Flower King scattered the petals and looked at Cha-Eun Xiao in shock.

He finally knew that Cha-Eun Xiao's martial art allowed him to fight beyond the limit of his cultivation level!

Cha-Eun Xiao could break whatever that locked him!

How magnificent was it?

The three of them kept flying ahead and didn't spend time to talk about that string attack.

They flew over the Foggy Miasma Mountain and kept going several hundred miles away. As they landed on the floor, Cha-Eun Xiao's face was still red. He immediately swallowed the blood in his mouth and took a deep breath. "That beast on the Foggy Miasma Mountain is truly powerful… I think it should at least be level-nine!"

'Level-nine!'

The King of Poisons was shocked!

The Flower King thought for a while and said, "I think it is better. Considering the poison, the geographical advantages, and the mystery of the mountain, I think the beast could be at level eleven… It could be even higher!"

Cha-Eun Xiao turned over and looked at the Foggy Miasma Mountain. He said, "That poisonous creature is useless for me, but maybe it means something for my pets and the King of Poisons. When we come back, we must walk through this place. We are not going to get over the treasure twice!"

The Flower King bitterly smiled and said, "Lord Monarch, it turns out I didn't get the right conclusion about this place. This beast is actually living on the top of the mountain. As we just saw, the thing was powerful. I am afraid it is not easy to defeat the beast in the Foggy Miasma Mountain, where we don't have any advantages. I was underestimating the situation. Many powerful cultivators have passed this mountain, but none of them got down to get the treasure. Some of them must know about the treasure's existence, but they just couldn't deal with this monster!"

Cha-Eun Xiao casually said, "You are thinking too much. The beast doesn't definitely have all the advantages either. First, you are taking your power back. You have been weakened in this place for the years you spent here, but from now on, you stay with me. Day by day, things get better. When we return to this place, you must be as good as you used to be… Second, the fog might be difficult for others, but it means nothing to me! Third, I should have been at the Immortality Stage when we return. I don't think it is a problem for us to take this thing down."

The Flower King was inspired. He said, "When we are back, I will be recovered…" He was spirited up. In a deep voice, he said, "If that is what will happen, we are going to have the chance to defeat this poisonous monster.

"Ahead of us, it is a three thousand miles long flat road. There are no traps or powerful cultivators. In front of us, it is the happy land in the Limitless Ocean."

The Flower King said, "I have been to this place once. That was forty thousand years ago… Maybe something has changed, but I don't know."

Cha-Eun Xiao said, "That is none of our business. We will just get through it, and that is all."

"People are ruling this area. Different people control different zones. I remember there is a town, the Black Town, which is a good place to take some rest. You get bored or tired, you rest in this town… People gathered in the Black Town."

The Flower King said, "I think we can ask around in the Black Town. We can ask about your friends, brothers, and families. It is a town full of information."

Cha-Eun Xiao's eyes lit up and he said, "Good!"

…

The Black Town!

It was a tiny place. It was even smaller than the smallest town. In fact, it was smaller than a small village. It was just a place among the forest, where the trees were cut off, and people built over ten houses. The town was only about thousands of feet wide.

The houses were for different businesses–a bar, a hotel, a casino, a brothel, a bathhouse…

It was such a small town with everything a town should have!

Outside the Black Town…

On a rock at the crossing of the road, there was a man in white clothes. He squatted there, and his face looked like an air-dried orange. He was watching Cha-Eun Xiao and the other two men approaching. His eyes were cold as the eyes of a poisonous snake.

The look in the man's eyes wasn't strange to Cha-Eun Xiao. It was quite a typical style in the Limitless Ocean. The men who tried to rob Cha-Eun Xiao but eventually got beaten up by Cha-Eun Xiao earlier all had the same look in the eyes.

Cha-Eun Xiao walked over and asked, "Please, could you…"

"Ten purple spirit coins." The man in black clothes rolled up his eyes and said in a low voice.

"What is it?"

"You need to give me ten purple spirit coins. Ten purple spirit coins for one question. I just answered one, so you owe me ten." The man in black clothes showed an expressionless face and pointed at a rock beside him.

"One question, one answer, and ten purple spirit coins. No lies, no tricks, fair price. You ask, and I will answer. You have my honesty, and I swear to the heavens."

One question cost ten purple spirit coins!

That was the more expensive question in the world!

How was that a fair price?

It was not fair at all!

'Why don't you just rob a bank or something? That's much more reasonable!'

The purple spirit coin was the most valuable coin as a currency in this world. People normally didn't use it to do daily business. One purple spirit coin was as much as a hundred million yellow spirit coins. Ordinary people couldn't earn that much money in life. High-level cultivators had many purple spirit coins, but ten or eight purple spirit coins were all a cultivator could have in his life. The King of Poisons, as a Saint Origin Stage cultivator with a famous title, only had about fifty purple spirit coins, and that made him a rich man in the martial world… Well, that was only a few questions in this place!

Cha-Eun Xiao didn't even ask the question he really wanted to ask. The man in black clothes already claimed ten purple spirit coins!

The King of Poisons nearly slipped the abusive words out of his mouth.

Cha-Eun Xiao stared at the rock and read the words on it.

'You have my honesty, and I swear to the heavens.'

Cha-Eun Xiao pointed at it and said, "Did you write these?" He handed over twenty purple spirit coins.

"Yes, I did." The man in black clothes took over the coins and said,

'It has been a long time since I met a rich bastard like this last time. He doesn't care about wasting the first question, and he even wasted the second question on purpose. If people all give me money to ask problems like this, I should have been rich!'

"Is it a vow?" Cha-Eun Xiao handed over ten purple spirit coins again.

"Yes, it is." The man took the money.

Cha-Eun Xiao nodded and smiled. He wasn't angry, and he didn't hesitate. He immediately handed over ten purple spirit coins again.

The King of Poisons was lost. Forty purple spirit coins were gone just like that! 'Master, do you know what you are doing? Forty purple spirit coins are gone! Come on! I don't even have forty purple spirit coins! Do you have to spend money this way? Did you get the money that easily?'

Cha-Eun Xiao really didn't care about money. In fact, he might be the richest man in the Limitless Ocean. He didn't have many other things, only an incredible amount of purple spirit coins. He earned a lot in the Hall of Life and Death. Forty purple spirit coins were nothing to him. He could actually spend four hundred thousand purple spirit coins to get what he wanted! It wasn't a big deal!

The man in black clothes stayed there and didn't move. He reached out a hand and the coins were gone.

"Did any strangers show up in the Black Town these days?"

"No."

That was ten purple spirit coins going, as simple as that.

Cha-Eun Xiao thought for a while and handed over ten purple spirit coins again. "Did any incredibly powerful cultivator go past the Black Town?"

"No!"

The man in black only said the same word twice, and he got twenty purple spirit coins!

The King of Poisons wanted to kill this guy because that was quite an easy money to earn.

Sixty purple spirit coins were gone, which was equal to six billion yellow spirit coins!

Cha-Eun Xiao thought for a while and handed over ten purple spirit coins once again.

This time, not only the King of Poisons but also the man in black was shocked. He raised up his head and asked Cha-Eun Xiao, "Are you sure you still want to ask?"

Cha-Eun Xiao gave the man ten purple spirit coins and said, "Of course."

The man in black clothes took the money and said, "Okay. Go ahead."

Apparently, he was enjoying it.

"Please, which house in the Black Town is the most horrible one? Point it out for me." Cha-Eun Xiao said.

That was weird and unexpected. The man in black clothes abruptly stood up and stared at Cha-Eun Xiao.

Cha-Eun Xiao blandly asked with a smile, "Ten purple spirit coins for one question. I can ask any question I want, as long as I have the coins. I don't think there is a limit to it. I paid, so you have to give me the answer. It is a simple question, and you just need to show me which house."

The man in black clothes humphed and turned around. He pointed at a wooden house and said, "That one."

"Thank you for the instruction." Cha-Eun Xiao handed over ten more purple spirit coins.

The man in black clothes didn't look so good anymore. His face was expressionless at first, but then it turned red, and then white, and then cyan, and then green… In the end, his face was dark.

Cha-Eun Xiao kept asking questions that he didn't really want to answer…

"Who is the most powerful cultivator in the Black Town?"

"What is his name?"

"What is his personality?"

"What is his weapon?"

"What level is he at?"

"What…"

"Who is the second most powerful cultivator in the Black Town?"

"What level?"

"In the Black Town…"

Cha-Eun Xiao asked over a hundred questions, and he had paid the man over one thousand purple spirit coins.

The man in black clothes kept taking the money, but it only made him sweat with anxiety.