Chaos Beasts - 437

After leaving the history records of the white palace city, Zhu Yi walked around the city some more.

Under the orders of Chen Jie, no person above the Foundation Establishment realm was allowed to enter the city. Along with that, no person at all was allowed to enter the white palace, under any circumstances.

As Zhu Yi walked around, Zhou Fan thought of another piece of information shown in the history records of the white palace city.

It mentioned that Chen Jie, without injury, defeated a "Chaos Beast" on the same level. While Zhu Yi simply saw it as another piece of information on Chen Jie's long list of victories, Zhou Fan saw the word differently.

The word "Chaos" in Chaos Beast gave him a bad feeling. It could be called intuition, but he felt that Chaos Beasts were not as simple as they seemed.

After all, in the history records, it stated that defeating a Chaos Beast on the same level was a great achievement of Chen Jie, but Chen Jie was known as invincible. He had never known defeat, much less to someone on the same level. Yet still, it was listed there.

The feat of defeating a Chaos Beast on the same level also had a surprising lack of information. It was as if something was being hidden from low level cultivators.

While Zhu Yi walked around, Zhou Fan spoke.

"Ask some of these people if they know anything about Chaos Beasts." He said.

Zhu Yi nodded and proceeded to do just that.

However, not a single person knew what he was talking about except for an avid Chen Jie fan that had memorized Chen Jie's accomplishments.

"I've also wondered what a Chaos Beast was, especially for it to be labeled as a great achievement of his." The man had said.

Even Zhu Yi became suspicious at the lack of information on the topic, but he was doing his best not to pass out on the street. After all, he had gone too long without sleeping while in the history records.

Zhu Yi found an inn which charged a silver a night. Zhu Yi was stunned, but chalked it up to the fact that they were all cultivators.

The next morning, Zhu Yi awoke to a knock on his door. After a few moments of stretching and rolling around, Zhu Yi got up and answered it.

Outside was a man with a gray hood covering his head. His body was covered in robes.

"My lord wishes to speak with you. Please follow me." 

Zhu Yi looked at him in confusion. "Who is your lord?"

"My lord is a nascent soul realm cultivator. It has been heard that you've been asking about Chaos Beasts. My lord handles such matters." The hooded man said.

Zhu Yi's eyes widened and he looked at his shoulder.

"Go ahead." Zhou Fan said.

Zhu Yi nodded. The hooded man took that as a yes to following him and led the way.

Zhu Yi silently followed. It was early morning, but the streets were still as active as ever. Even Qi gathering cultivators could go a few days without sleeping, and there was no lack of them in the white palace city. After all, it was like a historic monument that a person could only visit when younger and weaker, though very few would ever reach the core formation realm.

This seemed to be a relatively low level cultivation world.

Zhu Yi took twists and turns before heading out of the city. Regardless of the situation, core formation realm cultivators and above were simply not allowed in the city.

Shortly after leaving the city, Zhu Yi was led to a thick tree with a door.

"Wait here." The hooded man said as he knocked on the door and left.

A few moments later, Zhu Yi heard a voice. "Come in."

Zhu Yi twisted the doorknob and entered the tree. Inside was a relatively cozy environment. The walls were lined by books and an old man was sitting behind the desk, writing something.

Zhu Yi closed the door behind him and quietly waited as the old man wrote.

"I hate people who act like this." Zhou Fan said on his shoulder. It was clear that the old man was trying to establish some sort of superiority by making Zhu Yi wait.

After nearly three minutes, the old man finally looked up from his paper and stopped writing.

"I am the protector of White Palace City, and it has come to my attention that you've been asking around about Chaos Beasts." The old man said without giving Zhu Yi any room to speak.

"I'll put this very simply. Do not even think about Chaos Beasts until reaching the core formation realm. Don't speak to anyone about Chaos Beasts before reaching the core formation realm. It is restricted information. The only reason it is on the wall of Chen Jie's achievements is to give credit for the fact that it happened. We occasionally get someone like you who asks about them. However, they all die if they do not heed this warning. Get." The old man said before making a shooing motion with his hand.

Zhu Yi silently and calmly turned around and left. Both he and Zhou Fan were abnormally silent until reaching the city.

Only then did Zhu Yi's fists clench into a ball. "How dare some old man talk to me like that!" He said with clenched teeth.

To both Zhu Yi and Zhou Fan, it was an unfamiliar feeling. When had they ever been talked down to like that. As if they were some sort of ants.

"Master! I want to beat that old man up until he is begging for his life!" Zhu Yi said quietly through his teeth.

"Don't worry." Zhou Fan said. "If you don't beat him until he is begging while you're in the core formation realm, my name isn't Zhou Fan."

Zhou Fan was equally angered. There was a sense of powerlessness he had never felt. There had been times when he had been outmatched in terms of power, such as when first feeling the great attractors long ago, but he had never been looked down upon by an intelligent lifeform and been unable to do anything about it. 

Although it was not actually happening to him, it was happening to his disciple. It was no less humiliating.