Skymist Hai's finger tapped on the table, emitting tip-tapping sounds. He stared at Qin Wentian with a malicious smile that contained needles.
"You are not someone from the Evergreen Immortal Empire?" Skymist Hai stared at the indifferent look on Qin Wentian's face. "In that case, you are an admirer of Princess Qing`er or Princess Glaze? It's understandable that one would have moments of impulse when the topic is the ones they admired. But such impulsive moments naturally come with their costs."
Several figures abruptly appeared beside Skymist Hai, exuding fearsome might. Not only around Skymist Hai, the heaven chosen from the other regions all had experts appearing around them. These were all immortal king characters. After they appeared, they stood behind their young charges calmly, adopting a manner like watching a show.
"My Skymist Immortal Empire is here to broach the subject of marriage to the Evergreen Immortal Empire because of the agreement, and we can be considered valued guests of the Evergreen Immortal Empire, right? But now I, Skymist Hai, am being insulted by an outsider. Nobody would mind if I kill him right?"
Skymist Hai's fingers tapped on the table, his eyes on the immortal king from the Evergreen Immortal Empire. In his calm words, there was an unmasked killing intent.
"Naturally, you can't." A melodious voice drifted over. A group of figures mounted on greater demon mounts could be seen riding over from the distance. Among them, there was an extremely beautiful woman mounted on a blue luan. This woman exuded an aura of nobility and elegance, her eyes shone with radiance and around her, there were several experts for protection. There was also an older woman riding side by side with her, this woman similarly radiated an aura of nobility.
Qin Wentian turned his head and stared at this group of people. Many among them were familiar faces to him. He had met Princess Glaze once before at the Eastern Sage Immortal Sect. Beside Princess Glaze, the older woman was actually Qing`er's aunt, Princess Changping. Even her husband the Crimson-Eyed Marquis, was there as well.
Skymist Hai's eyes instantly shifted to Princess Glaze. He didn't hide any of his nefarious intents as his eyes roamed her graceful figure freely. There was a clear hint of desire flickering within them.
"We pay our respects to Princess Changping, Princess Glaze and the Crimson-Eyed Marquis." The troops of the Evergreen Immortal Empire bowed, their words causing the eyes of everyone to flicker. So it turned out that the beautiful young lady among this group of people was none other than Princess Glaze. She is truly a phoenix among women.
"Princess Glaze." Skymist Hai smiled. This was also his first time meeting Princess Glaze. He was extremely satisfied. If he could marry such a beauty like her and make her dance for him, how wonderful would it be?
"Skymist Hai from the Skymist Immortal Empire greets the two princesses." Skymist Hai spoke, but he still sat there unmoving.
"It's forbidden to kill people in the royal capital of our Evergreen Immortal Empire." Princess Changping calmly spoke as she stared at Skymist Hai.
"But what about him crippling the immortal foundation of an expert earlier?" Skymist Hai pointed to Qi Da who stood beside Qin Wentian as he spoke.
"Is there something like this that happened?" Princess Changping stared at Qin Wentian as she asked.
"That expert started the provocation first. He wanted to kill me before the guards of the city arrived. My friend could only act in self-defense and unleashed a heavier strike than normal. I hope Princess can understand the circumstances." Qin Wentian clasped his hands to Princess Changping. The two of them were acquainted long before this, they naturally had a tacit mutual understanding.
"So that's what happened. In that case, it means you guys are the one who intended to flout the rules of our capital first? By your words, you don't want others to defend themselves even if you want to kill them?" Princess Changping turned her gaze to the people from the Solarsky Mountain as she coldly spoke. Clearly, she wanted to shield Qin Wentian.
"What crappy logic is this? One of my men's immortal foundation was shattered but we are in the wrong?" An expert from the Solarsky Mountain stated, unwilling to accept that no punishment was going to happen.
"Since you feel that you are right. Why don't both parties go with me into the imperial city of our Evergreen Immortal Empire? I will meticulously investigate this matter. How about it?" The Crimson-Eyed Marquis took a step forward, speaking as he stared at the immortal king from the Solarsky Mountain. His eyes flashed with hints of redness, giving off a terrifying feeling. The expert from the Solarsky Mountain wouldn't be foolish enough to trust the Evergreen Immortal Empire. Even if they did go, the marquis would still repeat Princess Changping's words. It would only be a wasted trip.
"Hmph." That expert snorted coldly, he was extremely unhappy.
"In that case, are we going to forget the fact that he insulted me?" Skymist Hai continued. Although he had the title of a silk pants young master, he was no kind person. He naturally wouldn't stop so easily.
"What do you want?" The Crimson-Eyed Marquis stared at Skymist Hai and asked.
"It's not what we want. No matter what, we are considered guests. If your Evergreen Immortal Empire doesn't handle this matter properly, my Skymist Immortal Empire will just have to handle it for you then."
"What do you mean by handling it?" The Crimson-Eyed Marquis coldly asked.
"Kill." Skymist Hai spat out, in an extremely rude manner.
"HAHAHA, what big words." An uproarious laughter rang out, causing the space to tremble. A moment later, several experts appeared, directly standing behind Qin Wentian as they stared ahead.
"How will you kill him?" The person who laughed earlier spoke with indifference in his voice. In the surroundings, countless experts all turned their gazes to this scene, feeling the emotions in their hearts rise up and down like that of a rollercoaster. How interesting, more and more supreme experts have appeared. Since this young man dared to verbally insult Skymist Hai, even if he wasn't from the Evergreen Immortal Empire, he should have an extraordinary background as well.
"Who are you exactly?" Skymist Hai stared at Qin Wentian. Being able to have so many immortal kings protecting him, the identity of this man surely wouldn't be simple. Even if his background couldn't be compared to the Skymist Immortal Empire, he would also have an immortal emperor supporting him from the back.
"He is a guest of my Evergreen Immortal Empire." Princess Changping coldly stared at Skymist Hai. "He is unlike someone who openly says that they are guests of our empire yet uses words to demean and insult our princesses. For disrespectful guests like these, pardon me for not welcoming them."
"Does that mean that the Evergreen Immortal Empire is preparing to break the agreement?" The immortal king standing behind Skymist Hai coldly spoke.
"The current Evergreen Immortal Emperor has never promised your Skymist Immortal Empire anything at all. The agreement clearly wasn't made by him. Everyone under the heavens know of this point, what do you mean by destroying the agreement?" Princess Changping replied.
"Very good. In that case, we will ascertain what you say by paying a visit personally to the Evergreen Immortal Emperor in his imperial palace." That immortal king coldly laughed when he saw the domineering manner of Princess Changping. After that he pointed at Qin Wentian, "However although this man is a guest of your empire, he insulted a prince of my Skymist Immortal Empire earlier. We will have to settle this debt with him no matter what."
"That's right, my Skymist Immortal Empire doesn't care what status he has. He will definitely have to pay a price today. How can the important agreement between both our empires be shot down by some random brat. Is he even qualified to talk?" Another immortal king also tyrannically stated. Since Princess Changping didn't acknowledge the agreement, they would not bring up this matter temporarily. But they have already invited experts from all the major powers to gather here today, it wouldn't be too good to let things end like this as their reputation would suffer damage if they simply let Qin Wentian go.
Hence, they wanted to use Qin Wentian as the poor fish that gets chopped on the chopping board. No matter what status Qin Wentian has, their Skymist Immortal Empire wouldn't care.
"The Skymist Immortal Empire is actually so tyrannical? But I wonder if you guys have the capabilities to act this way." Princess Changping's expression turned heavy. "Since you want him to pay a price, I have a method that concurs with the laws of the royal capital of my Evergreen Immortal Empire to resolve that. Since you said this man has insulted Prince Hai, they can fight each other to settle their dispute. If it is a fair fight, my Evergreen Immortal Empire wouldn't interfere in it."
The countenances of the experts from the Skymist Immortal Empire froze. Why was Princess Changping so confident with regards to that young man?
"What? You guys don't dare?" Princess Changping spoke. "If you all want to bully someone in our Evergreen Immortal Empire just because you have some status, I'm sorry, you won't be able to do so no matter who you are."
"There's no dare or not dare. He isn't worthy for a prince of my Skymist Immortal Empire to act against personally." The immortal king from the Skymist Immortal Empire icily snorted. "So from the looks of it, your Evergreen Immortal Empire is bent on shielding this man no matter what?"
"It's not that we must shield him. No matter who you are, you have to obey the rules of our Evergreen Immortal Empire if you are in our royal capital." The Crimson-Eyed Marquis domineeringly spoke. If the Skymist Immortal Empire could do what they wanted in their royal capital, wouldn't the Evergreen Immortal Empire become a joke in the eyes of others?
The Skymist Immortal Empire wanted to talk about the agreement made years ago by someone who was not the Evergreen Immortal Emperor? In that case they would show them how dominant they can be. Wanting princesses of their Evergreen Immortal Empire to marry into the Skymist Immortal Empire? Absolutely impossible.
"Fine then, we will do things in accordance to the rules of your empire." The immortal king behind Skymist Hai spoke in a loud voice. He turned his gaze to the crowd and spoke, "This time around we came here to pay a respectful visit to the imperial palace but we haven't had the chance to do so yet. Three days later, the people of our Skymist Immortal Empire will visit the Evergreen Immortal Emperor. By entering the palace, firstly we can pay a call to our in-laws and old friends and discuss the marriage agreement properly. Secondly, we will allow the juniors to spar among themselves and discuss the cultivation path together, building up their relationships. And also when the time comes, I invite the various powers who are here today to visit the imperial palace together with us so you guys can take a look at the capabilities of geniuses of the Eastern Regions. How about it?"
"If the Skymist Immortal Empire is really sincere in being a guest, our Evergreen Immortal Empire will always welcome you." The Crimson-Eyed Marquis spoke.
"Can you even make this decision?" The other party stared at the marquis as he tyrannically asked.
"Since the marquis has spoken, he naturally can make the decision. In any case, my Evergreen Immortal Empire is the host in this territory, we have no need of the Skymist Immortal Empire playing host and inviting experts from the other powers to come visit our imperial palace. If anyone is interested to enter the imperial palace, our Evergreen Immortal Empire would do our utmost to welcome you." Princess Glaze replied.
"Since Princess Glaze is so straight-forward, we can forget about the matter today temporarily." That immortal king laughed loudly. He then turned to Qin Wentian and the others, "According to the rules of the Evergreen Immortal Empire, both sides are willing parties if they agree to a fight to settle their differences. No matter who you are, I hope when the time comes, you wouldn't hide away like a craven coward. Farewell."
Skymist Hai then stood up, he surveyed the crowd and smiled, "Everyone, let's gather here again after three days."
After that, he turned his gaze onto Qin Wentian. He inclined his wine cup in Qin Wentian's direction before slowly turning the cup over. The wine in the cup drizzled down to the ground drop by drop.
"I hope you will always dare to be so audacious." Skymist Hai laughed. After that, he turned and left the area with his group of people, walking away in a swaggeringly arrogant manner.
Everyone's eyes gleamed as they stared at his departing back. Three days later, the Skymist Immortal Empire will enter the imperial palace. They are coming with ill intentions.
"Farewell." The other experts from the various factions clasped their hands and left as well. Very quickly, none of the experts from earlier still remained at the Juxian Tower. Qin Wentian stared at Princess Changping and her husband as he smiled, "Princess, Marquis."
"Did you come to our Evergreen Immortal Empire upon knowing that Qing`er is in trouble?" Princess Changping smiled at Qin Wentian.
"Mhm." Qin Wentian nodded his head lightly.
"Do you want to come back with me into the imperial palace?" Princess Changping asked.
"No need. I will pay a visit there after three days." Qin Wentian spoke. Princess Changping nodded, "Okay, see you in three days then."