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Title: Lofty or Lowly
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The day of the devil emperor's birthday celebration was finally here.
Today, of the four palace in the four directions, countless people gathered there. Also, within, an imposing majestic army with enough power to suppress everything on the island could be seen standing at attention here. Nobody would dare to try anything here today.
The Fallen God Emperor naturally was the strongest expert in this entire region. A command from him would make the lords of all the islands here do his bidding. His words were the law. And hence, the birthday celebration of the devil emperor every hundred years was naturally the grandest occasion in the Fallen God Region.
Today, the devil kings of tens of thousands of islands came by to offer their congratulations, bringing with them their subordinates, as well as the talented youngsters from their islands.
A countless number of youngsters from major powers could be seen in all four directions outside the four palace. Naturally, the people here to spectate was even more. After all, only a minority would have the qualifications to gain entry.
But even so, the people there were in extremely orderly lines, with no hints of chaos at all. With the powerful guards from the devil emperor's army everywhere, nobody dared to cause any trouble. There were even powerful devil senses sweeping the crowd frequently, who would dare to create chaos ehre?
Shun, Zimo, Da and a few other young men from the Ye Clan stood together. They were currently heading towards one of the devil palace and queueing up to gain entry.
"The clan lord and the elders have entered." The young man beside Zimo glanced at a group of experts in the air who entered the devil sect directly. The Clan was a powerful major clan on the Fallen God Island and their clan lord naturally could bring some powerful expert devil kings to enter. They just need to state their identities and they would be able to gain entry. This was the same for the other major powers as well.
As for the many islands in this region, only the ruler and their subordinates who were at the devil-king level, would be able to qualify for entry.
Only people who were at the chakra sea realm needed to take the entrance test as they were simply too many in number. They had to depend on their own talent and strength to enter.
Hence, Shun, Zimo and the rest were queueing up here. This was just the first entrance, and there were many more checkpoints they had to clear as they ascended up the stairway.
Shun and Zimo appeared finally arrived outside one of the four devil sects. The center of their brows flashed with light from the token and they entered directly with no obstruction. The speed of entry was very fast. After they entered, an usher could be seen directing them, they followed the instructions and headed into the depths of the devil sect, walking towards the core area where they could head up to the floating palace in the air.
Finally, they came to the bottom of the stairway that led up to the floating devil emperor palace.
"What a heavenly design." Qin Wentian inclined his head staring at the structure as he spoke in admiration.
"The residence of the devil emperor is naturally incomparably majestic. Let us go up." Zimo stated as he stepped forth. Shun and Da followed behind, ascending the stairway, bringing them up to the clouds.
After stepping up onto the stairway, guards could be seen here as well. Long lines of geniuses could be seen proceeding forward, as though all heading towards a pilgrimage.
The floating palace was extremely vast, just like an entire fort by itself. The place where they were heading to now was none other than the battlefield in the floating palace. That place was the location of the celebration, as well as the location where he appointed his generals.
Finally, Shun and his group came to an incomparably vast floating platform. This place had spectator stands in the shape of a curve with as much as hundreds of thousands of seats available.
And right in the center, the most prestigious seat was located there. That is where the devil emperor would be sitting and below him would be the supreme experts of the major powers of this region, and below them, the other devil kings who ruled the islands.
After the devil kings, the seats were for those with the entry token, they would be arranged according to the grade of their tokens. The holders of the highest grade - that of darkness, would be seated virtually on the same level as the devil kings but the crowd also discovered that right below the devil emperor's seat, there were several other seats that were very close to his with his seat at the center.
The gazes of the geniuses here were all filled with yearning when they stared at those seats.
If they could sit there, they would be very close to the devil emperor. What glory was this?
Shun glanced at the countless figures heading over there via the guidance of the ushers. Despite the numbers, they didn't seem packed at all in this boundlessly vast location. This place was just too large, the place furthest from the devil emperor would require one to have the eyesight of a powerful cultivator. Ordinary people basically didn't have good enough sight to see it.
"The devil kings are already seated." Shun saw the Blackstone Devil King in his seat, the devil king was currently chatting with the other devil kings next to him.
Other than Shun, Yuruo and Yuxin were there as well. When they spotted the Blackstone Devil King, Yuruo smiled lightly, "Sadly father isn't able to bring me with him or I would be able to view the devil emperor from close up."
"Forget it, just honestly stay at your sector. I will accompany you, your brother-in-law and his friends all have outstanding talent and can sit closer to the devil emperor. However, before them there were still the violet-gold and darkness-graded tokens. But in any case, the people with such high graded tokens wouldn't be many, only a few are qualified to obtain them." Yuxin spoke in a light tone of voice.
The princess didn't really bother about how Yuxin was boasting about Aden and his buddies. Her beautiful eyes turned about, staring at everything in the area. When she glanced at a certain direction, she suddenly froze. A moment later, she called out excitedly, "Shhn, I'm here!"
Yuxin's eyes flashed, she turned her head and also spotted Shun's silhouette. Shun actually came in from the same direction as her group. She couldn't help but to frown and remarked to her little sister, "You are still thinking of him? So what even if he came? There's a distance between him and us. Anyway Yuruo, there's countless geniuses in this place. You can just randomly pick anyone out and they would all be more outstanding compared to him.
"Just you wait and see." The third princess coldly smiled. Her charming eyes stared at Shun as though she was saying, 'You actually truly dared to leave me behind.'
Shun saw that trademark smile on the devilish female's face. He couldn't help but to smile bitterly as he shook his head. He then walked forward, moving towards them. Zimo and his clansmen followed together as well. They couldn't help but to be curious with regards to who this beauty Shun was walking towards, was.
"Third princess." Shun called out as he came before the devilish female. This caused Zimo and the others to stiffen, third princess?
"Hmph, you still recognize this princess? Where did you go to after disappearing for so many days?" The devilish girl cast a look of adoration at Shun while stretching her hand to pinch his waist, in an extremely affectionate manner.
"Yuruo," Yuxin who was by the side could no longer watch on. She coldly spoke, "Yuruo, take note of your identity, stop mixing together with a slave."
"Elder sis, enough." The devilish female snapped, "Are you trying to intentionally drive him away again?"
"Yuxin." Shun turned his gaze to her, his eyes flashing with coldness. "Although I'm a general under the Blackstone Devil King and I address her as the third princess, since you have already married out of your clan, I have no relationship with you at all. You best pay attention to your words."
"Are you threatening me?" Yuxin's eyes gleamed with sharpness. "A mere slave also dares to act so impudently before me?"
Behind Yuxin, Aden's gaze turned to Shum, "I'm condoning you due to Yuruo, hence I won't do anything to you. You better be more polite."
"Shun, who are these people? Their words sound so brazen." Zimo walked out and cast a cold glance at these people.
"You even got acquainted with a helper?" The people beside Aden laughed mockingly.
"The people of the Azureflame Clan. As for the others, I don't know them." Shun replied.
"Azureflame Clan?" Zimo started before he began smiling wryly. Upon seeing this scene, Aden's arrogance grew even more pronounced while Yuxin grew even more pompous. "Yuruo, see? This is the influence of a powerful clan like ours."
"This trashy clan of yours dares to act so arrogantly? Do your heads grow on your ass?" Zimo suddenly spoke. Did these people think he couldn't afford to offend them because he was smiling wryly earlier?
This, was truly interesting.
"You…" Yuxin's countenance turned cold. She glanced at Aden only to see his expression growing cold as well. He icily spoke, "Trashy clan? I really want to ask where did you come from. If you are unable to give a satisfactory answer, I'm afraid you wouldn't be able to afford the price."
"Even people of the Azureflame Clan dares to threaten me?" Zimo glanced at the descendants of the Ye Clan behind him, as all of them began to laugh.
"Zimo, seems like your fame is too weak. No one knows of you." Someone laughed.
"Naturally, we cannot assume that these people from trashy clans would have wide horizons and heard of you before. In any case, if news of you, Ye Zimo of the Ye Clan being threatened by the Azureflame Clan was to spread, it would be quite funny as well."
"You are Ye Zimo?" Aden's countenance changed. Ye Zimo of the Devil Rankings, Ye Zimo of the Ye Clan.
The expressions of those beside him also changed. They then glanced over at Zimo as they clasped their hands, "So it's brother Ye."
"Brother Ye? Do I even know you all? Where the hell did you scrubs come from?" Zimo coldly swept his gaze at them as his eyes instantly turned sharp. All of them froze and trembled, "We are merely passing by here, and are not familiar with the Azureflame Clan. We will take our leave now."
As they spoke, they instantly turned and departed.
Aden's expression stiffened, he only felt burning shame on his face. Shun actually got acquainted with Ye Zimo.
"Brother Shun, how do you want to deal with them?" Ye Zimo asked Shun.
Shun cast a mocking gaze towards Aden and Yuxin. He shook his head and turned to Yuruo, "Third princess, I will go over first."
"I will come with you." Just as she finished her sentence, she suddenly remembered that the entry tokens were separated into grades. She then gave an awkward laugh, "Seems like I can only watch you from afar."
"I will look for you later." Shun walked forward. Aden stepped aside. Ye Zimo glanced at Yuxin and spoke mockingly, "The dragon soaring up in the skies naturally wouldn't bother to lower itself to the level of the crawling ants on the ground. I met many girls like you before, feeling arrogant simply because you married into a better clan than your own, using their prestige to show off. You are nothing but a lowly slut, yet you think of yourself as a lofty existence. How utterly ridiculous."
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A/N: I don't know how tall feel about the Weird clan names but that's the best I've got. Azureflame just popped up while the rest like Ye, Yama, Mo and so on is the best I can do. It may sound weird but please just go with he flow.