Chapter 256: Xiao Huang

"Karma…" Lu Zheng thought over the word. He knew the meaning of the word. Divine justice for the virtuous and the evil. Lu Zheng never believed in anything divine.

This was a world where battle strength was everything. Whatever you wanted, you must be able to take it for yourself. Crying for help would not change anything. 

This was what Lu Zheng believed in.

~But karma path exists. That must be what that person that attacked Immortal Star was speaking of… the movement of karma~

Lu Zheng decided against killing the golden silkworm. It was a rare intelligent beast and it had the rare karma path dao imprints. Killing it was completely unwise.

"Tell me, why did you bind my friend?" Lu Zheng probed the golden silkworm.

"Me!?" The golden silkworm felt wronged. "I was merely enjoying myself in the pools of karma around Karma Divine Tree when that man took me and used his technique on me. He unravelled me into golden threads of karma"

Lu Zheng could sense that he and the golden silkworm shared a beast contract. He would be able to sense if the golden silkworm was lying and now, the golden silkworm's expressions were honest.

"Well, you are now my beast pet. I won't kill you. What is your name?" Lu Zheng asked.

"A name? I don't have any" The golden silkworm replied. 

"Hmm, what about Xiao Huang?" Lu Zheng smiled.

"Xiao Huang? What!? I'm not little. I'm a great rank seven beast that has lived for hundreds of years. How am I little?"

"Then, Xiao Huang it is then" Lu Zheng nodded to himself and stopped transmitting his voice to Xiao Huang.

"We're here" Cangxiang Zihan's voice broke the silence between the five people as the floating cloud descended.

The cloud descended beneath the other clouds in the sky and the outline of a great city filled Lu Zheng's sight.

Eight Extremities Palace was a righteous path force with its territory placed at the centre of eight mountains. The eight mountains were exceedingly large that they easily dwarfed Bai Xi Mountain. The peaks of the mountains pierced the clouds and many martial practitioners went in and out of it. Many rooms were inside the mountains in which martial practitioners practiced their techniques in solitude.

"The eight mountains are the Eight Extremities and are at the eight cardinal points; north, north east, east, south east, south, south west, west and north west. They all belong to an Extremity, an Original realm expert of Eight Extremities Palace. Only the King has the ability to make them move" Cangxiang Ziwu explained the place to Lu Zheng and Immortal Star.

"That means that Eight Extremities Palace has at least eight Original realm experts" Immortal Star nodded in understanding. He was beginning to understand more of the main world.

Eight Extremities Palace was exceedingly strong. The force did not use a clan system like other Southern Border righteous path forces and had many martial practitioners. The Eight Extremities were all strong Original realm experts that could easily beat martial practitioners at their cultivation base.

The King of Eight Extremities Palace was even stronger. He was an Extent realm expert.

Lu Zheng gazed at the layout of the place. He could see a grand formation that was laid out like a great spider web from the centre of Eight Extremities Palace. The eight mountains were like the eyes of the grand formation that constantly absorbed ambient Qi from Southern Border into the space between them.

"Eight Extremities Palace must also have a Grandmaster artificer" Lu Zheng remarked. He knew that it was impossible for any Master artificer to inscribe such a grand formation that used the natural dao imprints of Southern Border's mountains to support itself.

Only a Grandmaster artificer could create such a formation.

Cangxiang Ziwu's eyes lit up as she replied: "Friend Lu Zheng must have deep attainment in formations. This formation was inscribed by Grandmaster Pan, a Grandmaster artificer. Including me and Grandmaster Shang, we make the three Grandmasters of Eight Extremities Palace"

Immortal Star squinted at the large land below him but no matter how hard he tried, he could not see the shadow of any formation. Eventually he gave up and stared at Lu Zheng and Cangxiang Ziwu: "Monsters"

Cangxiang Zihan controlled the floating cloud to land in a certain place in Eight Extremities Palace. Immediately after, Cangxiang Ziwu dragged Lu Zheng to a certain building.