728: Chapter 484 728: Chapter 484 Jiang Tang made another discovery: the children had vacant stares, just like the people outside, with no signs of life in their eyes – they looked like wooden figures!
He conjectured that they must have been cursed, their soul force drained away, which turned them into dazed, puppet-like beings.
How young these children were to be treated so cruelly.
Jiang Tang decided he would take these children in and treat them.
For him, it was no difficult task to rescue the unsuspecting people, and he needed to search the city for more children like these or perhaps slightly older ones.
He even wanted to know if, aside from the city treasure, they had hidden people elsewhere.
Using these children for cultivation, siphoning their soul power – was it to make them commit evil deeds, or to turn them into tools under their control?
For now, Jiang Tang could only speculate.
He simply signaled to the Hell Palace Artifact Spirit to collect the opposing Magical Treasure City into the Hell Palace treasure.
The Hell Palace Artifact Spirit, upon receiving its master’s command, glanced at the Magical Treasure City – regardless of whether he disliked the people within, he fancied that Magical Treasure City.
His treasure contained mountains, water, and land but lacked a city – this city treasure would surely fit well within his Hell Palace.
The Hell Palace Artifact Spirit opened the gate of the treasure and, using a suction force, attempted to draw the other Magical Treasure into its space.
The queen, who controlled the entire treasure, was caught off guard when she found the city’s people and possessions being pulled away by a force.
This was not the force of wind but of suction, and it was no natural phenomenon but seemed man-made.
Just as she was rallying everyone to search for the enemy’s traces, she hadn’t anticipated someone tampering with their treasure.
By the time she became alert to this possibility, she found that their treasure had entered a foreign place.
The queen realized the situation and began chanting a curse to resist the intruder, attempting to move the city treasure back to where it had been.
But she found that the doors ahead had closed.
As she recited the curse to force her Magical Treasure City out, she discovered that her city treasure crashed against the walls of the opposing treasure, hearing only a “bang” as her own treasure’s walls remained unmoved while her city shook.
Panic ensued within her Magical Treasure City, with people stumbling and falling all around.
She tried to chant a curse to contact General Maria only to find that she could not reach General Maria – her treasure was inside the other’s, cut off from the outside world.
The queen grew frantic – incessantly chanting curses, she tried to move the Magical Treasure City outside.
But no matter how many methods she tried, she couldn’t achieve her desire.
“Your Majesty, what’s going on?
How did we end up inside someone else’s treasure?”
“We can’t stay, we have to get out now, or we’ll all be killed!”
“What should we do, there are so many demonic beasts outside – won’t the Demonic Beasts enter the treasure?”
“Ah, Demonic Beasts, ghosts!”
The queen heard her ministers chattering and arguing inside her great palace, creating a racket.
These useless people, instead of thinking about how to deal with the situation, were panicking and incessantly babbling in fear.
Was this any help at all?
Is your bickering helpful?
Join forces and chant the curse so we can move our treasure outside!”
“Right, right, let’s escape from danger first!”
The queen forcibly calmed herself and, together with her panicked ministers, started chanting a curse, hoping to move the Magical Treasure City outside.
They also had to confront the rival treasure.
The Hell Palace Artifact Spirit simply ignored these beastly creatures who did not resemble humans.
Watching the spectacle enjoyably, he knew that his Immortal Treasure was far superior to any of their treasures.
How could they compare to his?
While watching the spectacle, he incited the Demonic Beasts to launch a violent attack on the Magical Treasure City.
He did not care if that Magical Treasure City got damaged; it could be repaired if broken.
Right now, as the opposing side tried to escape his control, he ordered the Demonic Beasts within his treasure to terrorize them.
The Hell Palace Artifact Spirit dispatched the creatures and ghosts it had previously captured.
The only beings not under his control were the two recently captured Dragon King teams.
The Dragon King teams, with their pride, thought that being mere Artifact Spirits, how could they be controlled by a treasure?
They were Dragon Kings – how could they be subject to the control of a treasure?
They were already unpleased at being under the treasure owner’s control and were incessantly requesting to be released.
The Hell Palace Artifact Spirit, realizing that the Dragon King team was beyond his control and that conveying messages was not easy, decided to ignore them!
The Dragon King team fumed with rage, most of all Ao Guang, the East Sea Dragon King, whose lifetime of pride was now helplessly at the mercy of the present treasure and its owner.
Meanwhile, Jiang Tang continued his search, combing through every corner of the city, every basement, or prison cell.
He first gathered the children he had just encountered into a Flying Artifact and asked Hua Xian’er and Su Feifei, who were doing alchemy, to help give the children the Nourishing Soul Pills and Vitality Pills.
Su Feifei and Hua Xian’er, upon seeing the dozens of children who had been taken in by the seven beauties as disciples,
Felt pity for the children before them and dutifully carried out their task.
They planned to heal the children and were also considering taking them as apprentices.
They intended to pass on their Alchemy Skill to them.
They found out that these dozens of children also possessed a Spiritual Root; they simply had not used it to cultivate yet.