Performance?
Performance?
This left the Celestial Race's Sky Supremes at a loss.
"Could it be that he wants them to put on a show?"
The sky supremes couldn't help but mutter to themselves.
This really put them in a difficult position.
After all, these Heavenly Sovereigns were all reputable figures on the Divine Mountain. They'd always focused on their own cultivation.
In their spare time, they might listen to a song or watch a performance.
But those who made a living by making people smile were the lowest rung of society.
Now they were being asked to perform? Did they want to lose face?
Obviously, they didn't care about their reputation.
After a few seconds of hesitation, a sky supreme wielding a pair of hammers stepped out of the crowd. He was more than two meters tall, and all the muscles on his body looked like they were about to explode. However, what made people's eyes widen was that he was actually using his life treasure as a juggling tool to perform acrobatics.
With someone taking the lead, the other sky supremes didn't hesitate.
They danced with their weapons, sang and danced, swallowed their swords ….
It was like the Eight Immortals crossing the sea, each displaying their own divine abilities.
The only one who didn't move was Chen Jiannan. In truth, he'd wanted to go up too, but in the end, he'd chosen to save face.
Chi Mei's mouth fell open. As far as she could remember, she'd never seen a sky supreme perform acrobatics. The two sky supremes from the Sea of Innocence and the Four Directions Pavilion felt their faces heat up. This was too embarrassing.
They couldn't help but glance at Ye Zichen, then at the sky supremes doing their best to put on a show. They silently closed their eyes.
"What are they doing?"
Even Ye Zichen was at a loss. He'd told them to perform, and they'd really do it?
Had they cultivated their brains so hard that they'd gone stupid?
Didn't they see what he was doing?
If you called it a performance, that was fine. But what were they doing?
Acrobatics wasn't exciting or funny, and poetry writing left him speechless. Furthermore, their folk dance was an eyesore.
"Stop!"
Ye Zichen couldn't bear to watch any longer, so he called the sky supremes to a halt.
"What are you guys doing here?"
The sky supremes stopped in confusion. Didn't Ye Zichen tell them to perform? Why did they stop now?
"Hey, why did you ask them to stop? It's pretty good!"
"If you want to see it, go home and have a look yourself."
If this kind of performance was good enough to watch, Ye Zichen was starting to doubt Chi Mei's sense of beauty. Moreover, his goal was not to let them perform.
"You guys are Heavenly Sovereigns. Don't you care about your face?" After scolding Chi Mei, Ye Zichen looked helplessly at the group of sky supremes. "I'm ashamed of you!"
"Sir, it's not you …"
Just as someone in the crowd spoke up, Ye Zichen glared back.
"What did I do? I asked you to perform, but did I ask you to swallow your swords? I asked you to perform because … "
Ye Zichen rubbed his fingers together. This time, the sky supremes finally noticed. Only now did they understand exactly what Ye Zichen wanted.
The sky supremes frantically pulled down their spatial rings and lined up to deliver them to Ye Zichen.
Money was just a worldly possession. So long as they were alive, they could get anything back.
Before long, twelve spatial rings appeared in his hands. These were the spatial rings of sky supremes. They were far more valuable than the ones Ye Zichen had robbed the Axe Gang at the foot of the Divine Mountains.
Ye Zichen scanned the rings with his divine sense. The space inside was frighteningly large, and the resources inside were quite impressive.
"Not bad."
He nodded at the sky supremes in satisfaction, who smiled apologetically and nodded in response.
"You …."
Ye Zichen ignored the sky supremes and turned to Chen Jiannan.
The other sky supremes looked at him as well. He was the only one who hadn't paid a protection fee. Some of his friends sent him private transmissions, telling him to hurry up and hand over his spatial rings.
Chen Jiannan was vexed!
He really was vexed.
He'd been a proud son of heaven ever since he was a child. Everyone had always looked up to him. When he was only an immortal king, the Lightning Emperor's Estate accepted him as an inner sect disciple. From then on, his meteoric rise had skyrocketed.
But now he'd been captured by an earth supreme and had to pay a ransom.
He was absolutely furious.
"What are you just standing there for? What? Do you want to die?"
Ye Zichen's words snapped Chen Jiannan out of his daze.
He was a fish on the chopping block.
Even if he was furious, what could he do?
Could he be stronger than the Yao-Sealing Pagoda?
Could he be stronger than a ruler?
Chen Jiannan gnashed his teeth. He looked down and plucked the ring off his finger, then placed it in Ye Zichen's open palm.
Ye Zichen scanned the ring with his divine sense. As expected of the leader of the sky supremes.
Chen Jiannan was a ninth-stage sky supreme, and the wealth in his ring was comparable to that of all the other supremes combined.
There were mountains of celestial coins, and countless divine herbs and medicines.
However ….
"Where did your divine sword go?"
"It broke. Didn't you see?" Chen Jiannan furrowed his brows.
"Don't try to trick me. That broken divine sword isn't the same one you used to begin with. Do you think I don't know? Hurry up, I like your sword. Hand it over, "snorted Ye Zichen.
"Don't go too far!"
"Do you want to die?"
Ding.
A divine sword stabbed into the ground right in front of Ye Zichen's feet. Ye Zichen smiled calmly at Chen Jiannan's livid expression, then took out the sword and handed it to the ruler.
"Help me erase his mark."
With Chi Mei's help, Elder Liu reached out and wiped the blade.
Chen Jiannan immediately felt his connection to the sword disappear. He coughed up a mouthful of blood.
He'd nourished the sword with his blood for thousands of years. Now that it had changed masters, his strength had dropped by more than half.
"Not bad."
The two words "Listen to the Sea" were engraved on the sword. That was probably its name.
Ye Zichen fiddled with the sword and couldn't help but chuckle.
In the past, he'd only used immortal and demigod artifacts. Now, he finally had a divine artifact he could use.
"Alright, I can feel your sincerity. You're all safe now." Ye Zichen put the sword back into the Yao-Sealing Pagoda, then turned to the sky supremes. "But Chen Jiannan, you can't leave."
"What do you mean?" roared Chen Jiannan. "I've already fulfilled all your demands. You …."
"Don't get so worked up." Ye Zichen shook his head and sighed. "You've passed my test, but you haven't passed Chi Mei's test yet. Isn't that right, Chi Mei?"
As he spoke, Ye Zichen shot her a frantic glance.
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