Towards Eternity
Ch 573's. The Ocean (II)

In the middle of Fenshu Island, there is a building shaped like a magnificent palace.

The palace had an area of two hundred times five hundred meters, and had a gigantic wall surrounding it. There are two large squares on the left and right side of the palace, and in front of the palace there is a beautiful garden and planted by various types of plants.

Du Zhe opened his mouth wide as he and Weng Lou reached the top of the palace by riding a flying sword

This palace was much larger than the palaces in the Fanrong Empire. The comparison is the same as a luxury house with a simple house. The two fields to the left and right of the palace were equally large and there were far more complete training grounds than he had ever seen.

In the front garden of the palace, some beasts were seen roaming freely, such as deer, horses, and there were even some not-so-dangerous beasts inside. Du Zhe could not help his astonishment at seeing all that. She was led into a beautiful dream by Weng Lou.

Weng Lou smiled seeing the reaction of the student, he controlled his sword to bring them down.

At the front door of the palace, several people had gathered and were waiting for their arrival. The crew of the Weng Lou was already there, they had already been taken by Weng Lou, while Du Zhe was still cool in training with the Black Ape Fighters.

"Du Zhe's! You're finally here!"

"We've been waiting for you!"

"Du Zhe!"

They one by one approached Du Zhe, while Weng Lou let them and chose to walk towards the people behind them. Their faces seemed foreign to Weng Lou, but he could quickly figure out that all of them were subordinates of Chizi Ryuan who had now been freed from her restraints.

"Good afternoon, generals all. I hope you guys aren't angry because I asked you to come and listen to some words from me" Weng Lou said with a big smile on all of them.

The aura of power they exuded had all been at the Soul Unification realm, the weakest were at stage 3 and the strongest were almost at stage 6. But Weng Lou was not at all afraid of the aura they were emitting, instead he smiled broadly in return for the radiance they emitted.

Weng Lou's smile contained a lot of mysteries and secrets for the Generals in front of him, they chose silence and quickly brought Weng Lou and the others into the palace. They walked towards a room twenty by ten meters in size with a long table placed in the middle of the room.

Without being told, Weng Lou had already sat on one of the seats, and was followed by the Generals and the crew of Weng Lou and Du Zhe who seemed hesitant for a moment. How not, the chair they were sitting on was made with a blue jade and emitted a cool air that was clearly not cheap at all.

When everyone had sat down, one of the oldest-looking Generals stood up and stared at Weng Lou calmly.

"Well, we've all gathered here, now can you tell us here what you want to say?" he asked in a calm voice, as if he was a tree that was hundreds of years old and had gone through many lifecycles.

Weng Lou smiled and shrugged his shoulders. He took out Samsara from the scabbard, and soon all the Generals who were there stood up and took out their weapons. Their faces were serious and ready to fight Weng Lou.

"Pfft-Bahahahaha....What's wrong with you guys? Aren't you guys too uptight? I can't speak well if you guys put a gun like that on me." Weng Lou raised both his hands, a sign that he had no intention of doing something that the Generals considered a threat.

The general who had previously spoken to Weng Lou squinted his eyes. After a while, he sighed and immediately put back a large sword in his hand and immediately raised his left hand, signaling the other Generals to keep their weapons as well.

After all of them had their weapons back, Weng Lou put Samsara, his twin sword on the table.

"Hey, can you bring out some residual aura from the person you previously absorbed? I know you haven't finished digesting it. I'm not going to ask for anything, you just show the aura for a few moments and then absorb it back."

Right now, the figure of Samsara appeared next to Weng Lou. He no longer wore his non-permanent form, but rather he wore the look of Chizi Ryuan which he had half absorbed. Samsara simply kept silent and blinked before then waving his right hand, and the aura from Chizi Ryuan was immediately released by the two twin swords of Weng Lou.

The aura instantly made everyone in it feel shocked, and they re-installed the standby position, but without taking out their weapons like before. Instead, this time they put up a position like the appearance of their master who was a ruler who had caused trauma to all of them.

After a while, the aura disappeared and the tension disappeared slowly.

Weng Lou looked at the Generals one by one while chuckling. He did not expect these people to scare their own leaders so much like that. Chizi Ryuan is a monster to them, and Weng Lou can tell her. From his thoughts, Chizi Ryuan must have arranged for every action taken by his disciples, just like someone controlling a puppet with thin threads.

"As you have heard from the two men Chizi Ryuan sent to search for my whereabouts, it was I who killed your emperor. And I'm here to make a deal with you. Chizi Ryuan did not bring any precious treasure with her when fighting me, so I believe she must have kept that treasure somewhere and among you there must be someone who knows the location."

"I will not mince words, I want his possessions and am willing to share with you all who are here. The division is 60:40, with me taking 60 and you 40. Hows it? You interested?"

The information regarding Weng Lou who had killed Chizi Ryuan had clearly been heard by all of them. The news spread very quickly like the wind and many did not believe that it was Weng Lou who had killed him.

But the confidence shown by Weng Lou by coming alone a few hours ago to the palace had made everyone believe. Moreover, he had killed Chizi Ryuan's right hand, that of the Palace Servant Chief who possessed strength in the intermediate stage 6 Soul Unification realm. The incident happened very quickly and was witnessed by several soldiers and servants in the palace.

There was no need to be smart to know the contents of the heads of the Generals in the presence of Weng Lou. Eyes filled with greed could be clearly seen by everyone sitting around the table. Only one General remained to maintain his composure, which was none other than the General who spoke to Weng Lou before.

He was the longest serving butler of the palace who had been killed by Weng Lou. He is also the longest-serving person to have received a special tattoo from Chizi Ryuan. His life had been severely restrained for a long time, he had even almost forgotten what freedom was and had always acted on the Emperor's orders. To him, being freed from all the chains that bound him was a far more precious gift than Chizi Ryuan's hidden treasure.

"Fifty, fifty. We can't give you more than that. As you know, when the news of the emperor's death was widespread, we had to face a wave of rebel attacks intent on occupying the empire. Although I used to be restrained by the Emperor, but the Ryuan Empire can only accept Emperors from the Ryuan Family."

"We need resources for a worthy candidate to become Emperor, as well as for ourselves. Although it sounds shameless, but I beg you to understand the situation. We will not be able to survive without the help of sufficient resources" said the General with a slight bow to his head.

This statement made the other General shocked and unhappy. They deserve all of that treasure! Why would Weng Lou have to get half by himself?!

However, before they could protest, their leader had already unleashed his Soul Power and instantly made the other Generals speechless. There was a distant difference between stages 4 and 5 in the realm of Soul Unification. The amount of Soul Power that people in the 5th stage Soul Unification realm would have multiplied many times compared to stage 4, he said, therefore the power of the leaders of the Generals was clearly incomparable to the other Generals. Moreover, he stayed just a little up to stage 6.

Weng Lou only laughed sarcastically at the behavior of the Generals in front of him. If only Samsara had not counted the opponent's Karma before it could be used, he would have already killed everyone in the palace and taken all the rewards for himself. But after Weng Lou thought carefully, it was Chizi Ryuan who had caused him trouble, so it was not good to kill those who had nothing to do.

"All right, I agree. We'll split half. But still I'll choose the treasure first, I hope you don't mind. Take it easy, don't really need the training resources, I've got enough for myself."

"Agreed."

Weng Lou and the Generals immediately got up from their places and together walked back out, while Du Zhe and the others were still silent in their seats.

"Servant! Prepare our guests for a lavish dinner that is often done when there is a celebration! Serve all your best menus to all of them! We'll be back in a minute!"

After giving some brief directions, Weng Lou and the Generals immediately went out of the palace and went to a place located in the middle of a dense forest, about two kilometers more than where the palace is located.

There was a secret underground room in that place, which led deep down. Together with the Generals, Weng Lou began to descend the steps in the dark hallway without the slightest lighting. Fortunately Weng Lou was already able to use his Soul Power back, so this did not mean much to him.

They continued down, until they reached the last step that led them to a hallway with several doors on either side. The hallway was illuminated by a torch which was inside the mouth of a bear statue protruding on the wall.

"This is the Emperor's meditation place, we're all sure he's keeping his treasure somewhere here. We previously did not dare to look for him because this place was one of the few regions that he marked especially with his Soul Power. He was able to guard this place all day without the slightest gap for intruders to enter," explained a General who had a thin but extremely tall body. In fact, his height was completely abnormal. He had to bend his body so that his head would not hit the ceiling.

They all split up and searched the entire hallway. They searched every room behind the door carefully and missed nothing. However, after they finished searching, their faces looked gloomy because they did not find any clues.

Each room in the hallway only contains an empty and plain room that does only have a function as a place to meditate.

"We won't be able to find it if it's like this, don't you guys have the slightest clue?" asked Weng Lou with a frown. Clearly he had used all of his abilities in order to find the place where Chizi Ryuan kept his treasure, but his abilities could not help him at all.

The Ryuan Empire's Emperor was clearly a Soul Ruler, his strength was real, those who were only in the realm of Soul Unification could not find a place where he hoarded his treasures.

"Actually, although there are several meditation rooms in this place, but there is only one room that is often used by the Emperor. The rest is just a spare room that has never been used by him."

That explanation made Weng Lou's expression change and he immediately asked where the room that was often used by Chizi. They immediately entered one of the meditation rooms once again. This time, Weng Lou placed his entire concentration on the entire room, he even spread out his Soul Power and tried to find the slightest gap in the room. Mana but, after five minutes of searching, he found nothing.

"Samsara...Can you once again give off the aura of Chizi Ryuan?" Weng Lou spoke to the look-alike figure of Chizi Ryuan beside him.

The figure was just silent and flicked his finger, a hint of aura belonging to Chizi Ryuan also flowed out from within the twin swords of Weng Lou. The aura was like a lighter that immediately made the room they were in vibrate, and instantly the floor of the room collapsed and made them all plunge freely.

Fortunately, they were all Martial Practitioners of the Soul Unification realm, who could certainly fly freely. Weng Lou himself had to walk on the wall with the help of Soul Power and move down the hole. The hole was pointing very deep down, there was not even the slightest light present to illuminate the hole.

After ten minutes of slowly descending, they finally reached the bottom of the hole, where there were many sharp crystals pointing upwards.

The generals who floated down, stood gently on top of the crystal and gazed into a dark passageway that was only one-by-two-and-a-half meters wide. A reddish glow was seen from the end of the passageway, and they all looked at each other before finally nodding together, and began to walk into the narrow passageway with the leader of the Generals, and the last one was Weng Lou.

**Short Note:

Ignore the title of the chapter, the author was lazy to think the title🗿**