Cultivation Online novel Chapter 353

Chapter 353 - Dragon Palace

After leaving the Dragon Palace, Captain Cheng returned to the building where Yuan and Wang Xiuying were being held.

"Are the humans still inside?" Captain Cheng asked the guards standing outside.

"Yes, Captain! Nobody has entered or left this place ever since you left!" The guards responded.

"Good."

Captain Cheng went inside a moment later to see Yuan and Wang Xiuying sitting in their jail cell with bored-looking expressions on their faces.

"Guards! Open the cells!" Captain Cheng said to them.

"Yes, Captain!" The guards didn’t question him and immediately opened the cell doors.

"Are we free?!" Wang Xiuying’s face immediately brightened.

"No, you’re not free. You’re coming with me now." Captain Cheng said to them. _{fгee𝑤ebɳoveɭ.cøm}

"Oh..." Wang Xiuying sighed after hearing this and returned to look dispirited.

Once they were outside, Captain Cheng carried the two of them into the skies using Qi Manipulation.

"You’re... a Spirit King?" Yuan recognized his spiritual energy. However, it was much more powerful than Senior Nie’s and even Xiao Hua’s cultivation. If he had to take a guess, this person was around the peak of Spirit King.

Captain Cheng looked at Yuan and said, "You can tell? Not bad for someone only in the Spirit Grandmaster realm."

"Only?" Wang Xiuying raised her eyebrows. "How powerful are the people here when you make it sound like Spirit Grandmasters are insignificant?"

"Hmph. You’re from the Lower Heavens so Spirit Grandmasters are probably the peak of cultivation there and are revered by everyone and their mother. However, in this world, Spirit Grandmasters are only qualified to become bodyguards at best!"

"What? Bodyguards at best?" Wang Xiuying stared at him with a dazed look on her face, as she was having trouble imagining the power scale of this place.

"Just where are we, exactly?" Yuan asked him a moment later.

"You’re currently in the Ancient Dragon City, a place isolated from the Nine Heavens. In other words, we don’t belong to the Nine Heavens. However, if we were, we would probably exist somewhere in the middle of the Nine Heavens."

"So even higher than the Spirit Heavens? Amazing." Yuan expressed his admiration.

"Spirit Heavens? Hah! That place is like a backwater area compared to our sacred place!" Captain Cheng laughed out loud.

Sometime later, Yuan asked, "By the way, where are we heading? We’ve been traveling for almost an hour now."

"It’s a place that’s too good for you humans, that’s for sure. We’re almost there. I’ll explain it more once we get there."

A few more minutes later, Captain Cheng started descending from the skies.

"That’s... a palace? What a beautiful place." Yuan expressed his admiration for the palace made out of white jade.

"A breathtaking place, indeed..." Wang Xiuying mumbled with a dazed look on her face.

"Aaah! Yuan!" Wang Xiuying shouted in a terrified voice.

Yuan subconsciously responded to Wang Xiuying’s voice, and he immediately summoned the Empyrean Overlord and stood between Captain Cheng and Wang Xiuying, protecting her from him.

"Y-You! How dare you point a weapon at me! A mere human!" Captain Cheng’s Spirit King cultivation base exploded from his body.

*Cough*

Wang Xiuying coughed up a mouthful of blood after experiencing Captain Cheng’s tyrannical cultivation base. Yuan wasn’t much better. Even with his talents, the disparity between Spirit Grandmaster and Spirit King was simply too much. Furthermore, his opponent was a dragon.

However, he wasn’t just going to stand there and do nothing while Wang Xiuying was feeling pain.

But before he could really do anything, the middle-aged man sitting at the end of the room suddenly stood up and shouted in a loud voice, "Halt!"

A powerful aura that was far stronger than Captain Cheng’s aura suddenly filled the place, yet it didn’t hurt Yuan or Wang Xiuying. Instead, it canceled out Captain Cheng’s aura.

Captain Cheng immediately withdrew his pressure after hearing the middle-aged man’s words.

"Who told you to treat the guests so roughly, Captain Cheng?! If you’d hurt them or worse— killed them— the death sentence would be the least of your worries!" The middle-aged man exclaimed, shocking him.

"T-This subordinate was wrong!" Captain Cheng immediately kneeled on the ground and apologized.

However, the middle-aged man ignored him and approached Yuan and Wang Xiuying.

"Be at ease, guests. Things had gotten out of hand just now, and it was never our intention." The middle-aged man said to Yuan with a friendly smile on his face.