Battle Through the Heavens: Purple Heaven Thunder Emperor

Chapter 61 The Old Man

"Found it!"

On a dilapidated shelf in the corner, Xiao Bai picked up a palm-sized, tattered image from a pile of failed, discarded maps. The material was exactly the same as the one he had obtained in the cave.

"You want to buy a map of the Tagor Desert, right?" an old voice rang out in the shop.

Turning around, I saw that the old man had stopped drawing and was still looking down at the map on the table.

Xiao Bai slowly walked to the table, held up the incomplete map of the Pure Lotus Demon Flame, and shook it at the old man, asking with a smile, "Old sir, do you have any more maps like this here?"

Upon hearing this, the old man's withered hand trembled slightly. He slowly raised his head, glanced at the incomplete map in Xiao Bai's hand, his eyes narrowed, and a strange meaning flashed across them.

"Have you seen this kind of fragmented map before?"

Xiao Bai finally saw the old man's true face. His face was old and his eyes were peaceful, but there was a horrifying scar on his left cheek and at the corner of his eye, which added a touch of ferocity.

Xiao Bai shook his head and said, "I've never seen it before, but I feel a connection between this item and me!"

"Fate? That's a strange notion," the old man glanced at Xiao Bai. "However, this painting isn't for sale. It seems you're destined to have it but not to be with it!"

"If you want to buy a map, go to the counter and choose one. If you don't want to buy one, you can leave the incomplete map in your hand and go!" After saying that, he lowered his head and focused his attention on the unfinished map on the table.

"Oh? What if I told you I was determined to get this map?" Xiao Bai said with a smile.

He wasn't particularly interested in the Pure Lotus Demon Flame, but he was quite interested in the old man in front of him, as he was very helpful for some of his later plans.

Putting everything else aside, this old guy is very trustworthy, and most importantly, he's truly there for you when something's wrong! His character is impeccable!

"Little guy, don't even think about taking this map. I don't care about money, and don't even think about robbing it. That won't do you any good!" The old man glanced at Xiao Bai and said indifferently.

"That's right. It's understandable that a former Dou Huang powerhouse wouldn't be interested in money, but to say that there's no benefit in forcibly taking it is not necessarily true!" Xiao Bai nodded and chuckled softly.

With a "crack," the old man's drawing pen snapped in half. A great ripple stirred within him. He slowly raised his head, staring intently at Xiao Bai, a faint chill gradually emanating from his body.

"Who exactly are you?"

He had initially thought that the gray-haired young man had no fighting spirit fluctuations and was just an ordinary person with a special temperament, but now it seemed that he had misjudged him.

Knowing his strength, yet remaining so calm and composed, he is no ordinary person.

"Boom!" The old man tapped a spot on the table lightly, and the open door closed instantly.

His gaze was sharp as he stared at Xiao Bai, and a cold and powerful aura pressed down on him fiercely.

But the old man was astonished to find that the young man in black robes opposite him remained calm and composed in the face of this imposing aura, showing no sign of being moved in the slightest.

"Kid, I didn't expect you to have some skill!"

"Hehe~, you flatter me, sir!"

"But with just this much skill, you can't take the map away!" the old man said calmly.

As soon as he finished speaking, his white hair moved without wind, icy fighting spirit swirled around him, a murderous aura flashed on his face, and the scars on his face wriggled, adding to his fierce appearance. He stomped his foot hard on the ground and headed straight for Xiao Bai.

As the old man flashed by, a chilling aura quickly spread, enveloping the entire shop in a cold mist. Xiao Bai found his body feeling cold and stiff.

The little Bing inside him seemed to sense his condition. A faint crimson light emanated from his body, and the temperature around him rose rapidly. The surrounding ice crystal mist instantly began to vaporize.

Since arriving in Mo City, Xiao Bing has gradually become more active, unlike when he was listless in the Monster Mountain Range.

"Eh!" A surprised exclamation rang out from within the white mist. The old man saw the crimson light emanating from Xiao Bai's body. Although he didn't know what it was, looking at the red light, a faint sense of crisis lingered in his heart.

Xiao Bai was speechless. This old guy was known as the Ice Emperor, not the Fire Emperor. Why was he so irritable?

Just as he was about to speak, his soul power suddenly sensed several icicles attacking him from his right front. Xiao Bai flicked his fingers a few times, and several streaks of crimson lightning flew rapidly toward the attacking icicles, instantly shattering and vaporizing them.

Now the old man finally knew what the red light was. It was a special kind of crimson lightning, which had both the power of lightning and the intensity of fire. It was truly magical!

Seeing the old man make a move, Xiao Bai also took the initiative to attack; passively taking hits was not his style.

It was a good opportunity to test his current physical strength. Sensing the old man's location with his soul power, a flash of lightning appeared beneath his feet, and he appeared in front of the old man, raising his fist to deliver a serious punch.

The old man was surprised to see that the ice-attribute battle qi had not restricted his speed and appeared in front of him in a flash. However, when he saw that there was no battle qi on the fist that the black-clad youth was attacking, he became a little angry. Who did he think he was?

"Ice Spirit Palm!"

The old man's palm was covered with a thick layer of frost, and he slammed his fist into Xiao Bai's.

"Bang!"

The old man took two steps back, while Xiao Bai slid several meters across the ground. His right arm was now covered with a layer of frost, and he felt a chilling aura slowly creeping up his arm and into his body.

With a thought, a crimson light appeared on his shoulder, flowing down his arm and instantly consuming all the ice-attribute energy in his right arm.

After moving his arm around and finding nothing seriously wrong, Xiao Bai felt relieved.

"It seems that physical strength alone is no match for a fighting spirit!"

This collision made him clearly aware of the limits of his physical body. This was only because Xiao Bing had some restraint over the ice attribute. If it were other attributes, it would not be as easy as it is now to clear the energy that had invaded his body.

Just as Xiao Bai was marveling at this, the old man opposite him was even more shocked. Looking at Xiao Bai, who was now moving his right hand unharmed, he knew very well that he hadn't held back at all in that palm strike.

But this kid didn't use any battle aura at all; he withstood the attack with his bare body and was completely unharmed. What a freak!

The crimson lightning that gave him a sense of danger, the abnormal physical body, and the unknown cultivation level made the old man's expression a little solemn. Could there be such a person in the Jiama Empire?

Although he was unsure of Xiao Bai's cultivation level, he knew that Xiao Bai's level should not have reached the Dou Ling stage, otherwise, with these methods, he would have been lying down long ago.

He had traveled extensively in his early years and knew that there were some super forces and super strong people on the Dou Qi Continent. In the eyes of these forces and strong people, the Jia Ma Empire, a place where even a Dou Huang could dominate, was simply a joke.

"Could this black-clad, white-haired youth be from one of those super powers?" A sense of dread flashed through the old man's mind, and under the shock of this thought, he could no longer maintain his composure.

"Who exactly are you? In the Jia Ma Empire, neither the Yunlan Sect nor the royal family could possibly have produced someone like you?"

(End of this chapter)