Chapter 453: Chapter 309 ’Peace Token’ Invincible in the World! ’Golden Stick’ Brutally Beats the Witch! [Vote for Monthly Tickets!]
"Hmm?"
Liu Xin was taken aback.
She turned her head and signaled to her teammate, Shang Meng: "Go up and try."
"Alright."
Obediently, Shang Meng advanced with a knife, swaggering up to Wang Zhengyi and aiming a slash at his arm.
"Just cut."
Wang Zhengyi chuckled, neither dodging nor avoiding.
But as the knife was raised, a hazy light descended from the ’Peace Token’—
Clang!
The knife slipped from Shang Meng’s grip, clattering to the ground.
"Take my punch!" She was startled, quickly clenched her fist, and aimed it at Wang Zhengyi’s face. But another hazy light fell, hitting Shang Meng, and just like the knife, she collapsed weakly to the ground.
However, soon after, Shang Meng made a nimble kip-up, dusting off her arms and legs, unscathed.
"I’m fine—"
Shang Meng grinned, thinking she was alright.
But then her expression suddenly changed—
"Boo hoo!"
Unexpectedly, she burst into tears, her eyes brimming with tears as she looked at Wang Zhengyi, the Peace Token, and finally Liu Xin, feeling extremely wronged: "My ’Hand Taiyin Lung Meridian’ was just cleared recently, and now it’s blocked again!"
"This—"
Liu Xin was shocked.
Shang Meng had just broken through from the Postnatal Sixth Realm to the Postnatal Seventh Realm, advancing from the middle stage to the late stage, which was significant progress, clearing one of the Twelve Main Meridians, the ’Hand Taiyin Lung Meridian’.
Yet unexpectedly, with just a glimpse from the ’Peace Token’, a whole layer of cultivation was inexplicably shaved off, dropping from the seventh layer to the sixth layer, from the late stage back to the middle stage.
This was a huge loss!
The loss was immense!
"This ’Peace Token’!"
Liu Xin gritted her teeth!
Now she understood the ’Peace Token’ was real, declaring ’no battle’ meant ’no battle’; no one dared to disobey.
"Sister Xin, should we continue?"
The other three teammates were visibly afraid.
Liu Xin was also troubled.
Fight?
Would she dare?
Forget breaking through; even throwing out the ’Chasing God Blade’ for a three-pronged ranged attack, she didn’t dare, fearing the ’Peace Token’ might also reduce her cultivation by one layer, plummeting her from the peak, leaving her with no place to lament.
Didn’t dare to act!
Didn’t dare to draw the blade!
Nor dared to test that high-hanging ’Peace Token’ itself!
"Forget it!"
"It’s just an arena master, not worth the risk."
Liu Xin clutched her ’Chasing God Blade’, reciting the Heart Sutra to suppress her fighting spirit, but unwilling to descend from the stage now, she simply sat cross-legged, stalling on the stage with Yan Chuan and Wang Zhengyi.
Hai Character Arena.
The center hung high with the ’Peace Token’, ten people sat cross-legged on both sides.
The scene was truly bizarre to the extreme.
Everyone around was dumbfounded.
Even Wei Lingshan on the ’Zi Character’ arena couldn’t help but curse out: "How can they cheat like this?!"
...
"This—"
Emperor Yan glanced around, "Does anyone know the origins of this ’Peace Token’?"
Everyone fell silent upon hearing this.
Emperor Yan looked at the Mountain and Sea Department Director, He Hao, "Lord He, have you not heard of it either?"
"I haven’t heard of it."
He Hao shook his head.
Though he controlled the Mountain and Sea Department, overseeing all affairs of the Great Yan Court in the Mountain and Sea Realm, and was quite knowledgeable about it, this realm was vast, deep, and almost mythological, with boundless territories, countless legends, innumerable Absolute Skills, and varied rare treasures, all impossible to fully uncover.
For example, Wang Zhengyi’s current hanging ’Peace Token’, He Hao knew nothing about it.
Instead, one of the three Divine Monks of the Moni Temple, Saint Hand Tathagata, Divine Monk Ming Chan, recalled: "This old monk once read an ancient tome, recorded therein, during ancient times, the Mountain and Sea Realm’s fiefdoms waged mixed battles, with fierce generals, abnormal people, and ancient Qi Cultivators entering the fray. Among them, a lineage of Qi Cultivators specializing in ’Feng Shui’ created an Array, capable of unifying a city’s ’Heaven, Earth, and Human Three Qi’, namely ’Heavenly Mechanism Qi Fortune’, ’Earth Vein Earth Qi’, and ’Blood Qi’, transforming it into Divine Skills, making enemies hesitant to advance. It was originally a last resort to defend the city, a fight to the death, but later someone kept perfecting this Array until it finally became the exotic treasure known as the ’Peace Token’. The ’Peace Token’ can also unify the ’Heaven, Earth, and Human Three Qi’, but it doesn’t uproot them. It has limits, ranging generally from a few days to at most several months, avoiding battle and not venturing out, capable of delaying enemies from days to months, mainly used for recuperation, strategizing, and delaying tactics."
"Are there really such ’exotic treasures’?"
He Hao was amazed.
Beside him, the Cangwu Department Director Xu Yanfeng and the Director of the Travelers Department Tian Jing both took out paper and pen, recording every word of the Divine Monk Ming Chan verbatim.
Great memory isn’t as good as a lousy pen!
It’s only proper to record it.
"Peace Token."
Emperor Yan looked down at the Hai Character Arena, deep in thought.
One of the Five Friends of the Iron Clothes Sect, the Hidden Sword Immortal, Master Zhong looked down, hesitating: "Wang Zhengyi’s ’Peace Token’ seems not to have connected to any Blood Qi."
’Heavenly Mechanism Qi Fortune’ is mysterious!
’Earth Vein Earth Qi’ is hidden deeply!
Only ’Blood Qi’ is easiest to discern at a glance, but Master Zhong looked closely and saw no movement. He speculated that the ’Peace Token’ absorbing ’Blood Qi’ might be akin to the ’Star Gate’; he could discern the ’Star Gate’ movements, but could this ’Peace Token’ be even more obscure?
The Divine Monk Ming Chan chuckled at this: "In ancient times, the Mountain and Sea Realm’s ancient period could be thousands or tens of thousands of years ago. Many stories have long been buried in historical dust, and the ancient tome’s records about the ’Peace Token’ are just fragments. Presumably, over so many years, through endless evolution, Wang Zhengyi’s ’Peace Token’ is likely not the ’Ancient Treasure’, perhaps stronger or weaker than the original ’Peace Token’, with more changes; this all makes sense."
Indeed!
With time’s passage, things change as well.
The ancient ’Peace Token’ absorbed ’Heaven, Earth, and Human Three Qi’, but Wang Zhengyi’s might not.
"Bring the ’Nine Dragon Copper Treasure Mirror’!"
Emperor Yan couldn’t discern it either, so he ordered Shen Wu to fetch a stone box, which measured eight inches square and four inches thick. Inside was a copper mirror, with nine dragons coiling behind it, its scales and horns vividly crafted, shimmering light all around, emitting a piercing, cold light.