The other harpy was scared out of her wits. In a panic, she threw aside the three human youths who were still wrapped up in the hurricane. Her reddish-brown wings flapped rapidly as she fled in a panic.
The harpy maintaining the city-protecting array revealed an uncontrollable shock and fear in her sharp eyes. The Origin Energy she used to control the treasures became somewhat chaotic. In an instant, the large hole in the city-protecting array rapidly healed.
Golden lines appeared high up in the sky. The fleeing harpy was slashed by a bloody sword wound from time to time, but she didn't care about it. She recovered several times and rushed out of the range of the great array against the pressure. The two harpies escaped without a trace.
The Great Chang emperor heaved a sigh of relief. He waved his sleeves and ordered the various departments to rescue the injured.
He looked at the figure high in the sky with mixed emotions, shock, respect, and other emotions. Finally, he reined in his emotions and walked through the void.
…
If the Great Chang imperial city had built a sub-territory or set up the World Tree Array, Tang Yu had no doubt that he could have harvested a massive wave of Telekinesis points.
He looked relaxed and nonchalant, but in fact … he had not expended much effort.
However, his Origin Energy had been completely depleted.
Transcendent Grade Origin Energy that could fight for several days and nights with all its might, the vast Origin Energy lake dried up in just three seconds.
It had been a long time since he felt a sense of weakness. The last time he felt this weak was when he had just learned Glass Flame.
However, he did not panic.
Origin Energy was precious at the Extraordinary level. It was difficult to replenish it, but the recovery of Origin Energy was simple. In just a few breaths, the Origin Energy lake had accumulated a thin layer of Origin Energy. Another thirty seconds of recovery would be enough to support him in simple combat.
If he was given a few minutes, he might not even be able to use Glass Flame again … He decided to forget it.
His body could not be emptied too often.
…
The next time he met with the Great Chang emperor, he was in the imperial palace.
Exquisite delicacies were placed on the dining table. They were placed in a myriad of different shapes. Some of them were small beasts that were ready to pounce. They were made with the meat of Extraordinary beasts as the main ingredient and had been shrunk countless times. Some precious fruits were carved into flower stamens. Most of their energy had been lost, but this was the norm on the dining table.
Everything was done with the most exquisite and delicious ingredients. Cooking or medicinal methods that were easier to absorb or aid in breakthroughs were not within the consideration of the imperial chefs.
At the very least, that was the case when entertaining important guests.
An ingredient that could make a High Awakened break through immediately, in everyone's eyes, there was only the concept of "eating".
Tang Yu was not the only one who came to this formal banquet. Bamboo Rat Chestnut, Fanny, and other people from the Immortal Sect were also invited, but they stayed in the outer hall.
It had to be said that the Great Chang Imperial Palace's constantly improving culinary skills over the past ten thousand years left Tang Yu feeling delighted.
In order to maintain his cool, he didn't eat much. He just took a little from each dish and tasted it.
On the other hand, the bamboo rat Chestnut ate fiercely. Her cheeks were bulging, and she ate pieces of food here and there, making the waiters who served the dishes feel ashamed.
However, no one belittled her. Bamboo Rat Chestnut's childish appearance did not make her look like a bumpkin. Instead, she looked adorable like a hamster foraging for food. However, the Great Chang Nation's emperor and other transcendents could not forget the scene of Bamboo Rat Chestnut fighting the harpy head-on.
It made the Transcendents of the Great Chang empire feel that he was a fake Void Treading expert.
"Thank you, everyone from the immortal sects, for your help. Let me toast all of you," said the Great Chang emperor as he raised his wine vessel.
He no longer had the arrogance of a monarch of a large empire. His words were filled with a desire to rope them in.
"I wonder if your esteemed immortal sect has any plans to develop in Great Chang. My Great Chang can designate a mountain forest with high Genesis Qi as the immortal sect's base."
"Our immortal sect has plans to set up a branch in Great Chang, but we are still considering the details."
As they chatted, the Great Chang emperor tried to probe the immortal sect's origins from the side.
Tang Yu wasn't good at politics, but he knew how to bluff. Based on the knowledge he had gleaned, he packaged the immortal sect as a reclusive sect that lived in the Heavenly Moat mountain range.
There were traces of humans in the Heavenly Moat mountain range. There were some human tribes living in its periphery. During Fanny's exploration, she discovered traces of human creations. However, she roughly estimated that they had been eroded by at least a few centuries of time.
In the beginning, Fanny wasn't certain that they were traces of humans living in the past. She even believed that they were traces of mutated beasts that had mastered tools to create them. However, after seeing the Great Chang empire and understanding the boundary between the Mystic Cloud Plateau and the Heavenly Moat mountain range, she was certain that there were human tribes living in the mountain range.
However, those tribes couldn't survive for long. Once they encountered mutated beasts at the Void Treading or Unity realm, they could cause a calamity to befall ordinary human tribes.
The Great Chang emperor didn't suspect anything. He was only astonished that the immortal sect was able to nurture so many experts in the dangerous and harsh environment of the Heavenly Moat mountain range.
Be it the younger generation or the older generation.
"To the southwest of my Great Chang, adjacent to the Heavenly Moat mountain range, there are a few human tribes living there," said the Great Chang emperor.
"Those tribes still maintain a rather primitive way of life. Due to various reasons, they are outside the empire. However, they are similarly threatened by harpies … It would be too hypocritical to say that they sympathize with them. However, harpies are different from other mutated beasts. Mutated beasts compete and kill each other, but harpies are the mortal enemies of humans.
Once harpies strengthen, we humans might end up as their slaves. "
The Great Chang emperor paused for a moment before saying, "It's impolite not to reciprocate. I plan on organizing a hunt for harpies. Sect Master Tang, are you interested in joining?"
Tang Yu smiled without answering.
"My Great Chang can give twenty percent of the spoils of war from the harpies. If there aren't any suitable ones, we can exchange them for other treasures. My Great Chang has accumulated over ten thousand years. I believe there are quite a number of treasures that will catch your eye," said the Great Chang emperor.
Tang Yu shook his head slightly. "Fifty percent."
"What a joke!" A Void Treading realm expert slammed the dining table in the banquet hall. "The harpies have seven to eight Unity realm experts and more than a hundred Void Treading realm experts. To hunt the harpies, our Great Chang will need to mobilize large numbers of Void Treading and Unity realm experts. Your immortal sect only has three at the Void Treading and Unity realm. Twenty percent is already too much!"
"Oh, then you can hunt them yourselves."
"It's good that you know … Uh, what did you say!?" The Void Treading realm expert was taken aback.
The Great Chang emperor waved his hand. "I can give you 2.5% of the profits. That is already a huge amount of wealth. After all, the intelligence on the eagle demons was something my Great Chang spent thousands of years investigating."
"But haven't you been able to kill a single Unity realm harpies in thousands of years?" asked Tang Yu.
"Without our participation, your Great Chang would be evenly matched with the harpies. You might even be slightly inferior. How would you be able to hunt the harpies?" added Tang Yu.
He knew that the Great Chang emperor thought highly of his trump card, a killer move that could completely kill a Unity realm expert.
Regardless of the price or the prerequisites, the Great Prosperity Nation's emperor knew that it was impossible for the few of them to kill a Unity realm existence. Even if they surrounded her … the number of Unity realm experts the harpy had was in no way inferior to theirs.
However, fifty percent of the spoils of war was too much!
In this hunting war, many of their Void Treading realm experts might even perish. Unless he had no other choice, the Great Chang emperor was unwilling to launch a war against the alien races. Even if he won, he would suffer a great loss. Furthermore, there were other alien races watching covetously.
He frowned as the stalemate turned the atmosphere somewhat stiff. Only the bamboo rat, Chestnut, did not seem to mind as she stuffed delicacies into her mouth.
Tang Yu flicked his finger, causing ripples to suffuse the air as though an invisible air belt had passed through.
"Pachi ~" There was a soft sound.
The bamboo rat, Chestnut, rubbed her forehead as she looked around, her eyes welling with tears.
After Tang Yu completed the achievement of eating, sleeping, and beating bamboo rats, he looked at the Great Chang emperor and said in a seemingly nonchalant manner,
"What if … the immortal sects' participation can wipe out the harpies?"
The frowning Great Chang emperor suddenly looked up.
The Void Treading realm expert could not help but suspect that he was hallucinating.
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