Chapter 724: 724
The Oracle who had stopped Wu Qi from bringing Ao Buzun and the dragon python sisters into the Secret Palace was sitting cross-legged beneath a stone pillar outside the entrance . The dragon python sisters had coiled up together calmly, their bodies shrunk to about a foot long each . They were carefully glancing at the surroundings, seemingly curious about everything here .
But, Ao Buzun was in a sorry plight . Sprawling on the ground, he was cursing the Oracle's ancestors at the top of his voice .
Just now, Wu Qi had tied his mouth up by using his own body, but it did not take him too much of an effort to undo the complex bow . Subsequently, he was quite restless and wild: he was either making obscene comments about the appearances of the female Oracles walking past them, or was constantly trying to sneak into the Secret Palace .
It had greatly annoyed the Oracle who was responsible for keeping an eye on them . Although most of the Oracles in the Secret Palace were mild in disposition, that did not mean they would not flare up upon repeated provocation . When Ao Buzun tried to sneak into the Secret Palace using an escape art combined with an illusion for the thirty-seventh time, the Oracle produced a talisman and placed it atop his body, locking him in place .
Lying flat on his belly, Ao Buzun could not move his body, except for his mouth and eyeballs . Fuming with rage, he began to curse the Oracle's ancestors . However, the Oracle just turned a deaf ear to him, sitting cross-legged beneath the stone pillar and paying him no heed .
As the air rang with Ao Buzun's vicious curses, a very old Great Oracle walked up the long flight of stone steps to the entrance with dozens of white-robed Oracles . The clamor drew his attention, and he halted to look over . "Oh, a black dragon!" said the old Oracle as his eyes gleamed . "A black dragon with five claws! And look at the shape of his scales . . . He seems to be a pure-blooded heir of the ancient Five-clawed Black Dragon! How strange! Is there still a pure-blooded black dragon nowadays?"
He smacked his lips, then turned to look at the dragon python sisters . "Amazing, these two are dragon pythons!" He exclaimed while clapping his hands, "…And not only that, they are the fiercest Dragon Pythons of Fire and Ice! Aye, it's said that their viscera and blood can be used to concoct supreme-grade spirit medicines, and their skins, bones, and tendons can be used to craft supreme-grade magical artifacts! How wonderful!"
Like the dozens of Oracles behind him, the old Oracle wore the standard white robe of the Secret Palace, but on his chest was a ferocious image sewed with blood-red threads, which looked very different from Yu Chen's star map . The image was the skull of a six-horned celestial fiend, with a strange bone dagger stabbed into its crown . A bloody vine twisted out of the skull's mouth and coiled around the bone dagger, then bloomed into a blood-red flower near the hilt with a hideous grinning face of a Ghost God inside .
He was Wuchang Chi, the First Master of the Thousand Spirit Palace, which was one of the Secret Palace's divisions, and the Elder of the Wuchang clan from the Directorate of Celestials . As the current holder of the Right Minister of Directorate of Celestials position, his clan held great reputation and power amongst all the Oracles of Great Yu .
Today, the post of Grand Oracle was held by Baihuang clan, who together with Gouchen clan and Wuchang clan was known as the three great divine magus clans of Great Yu . Among them, Wuchang clan was ranked the third . Its members were fond of studying the spells and mystic arts of Evil League and Ghost League, and the Thousand Spirit Palace, presided by Wuchang Chi, was a place where the Oracles specialized in the study of evil mystic arts .
The favorite trick of the Oracles in Thousand Spirit Palace was transplantation . For example, they had taken the head of an azure dragon and sewed it on the neck of a black tortoise to see if the new creature could possess the formidable power of an azure dragon and the bloodline magic of a black tortoise . They had also tried transplanting the heads of a fire phoenix and an ice phoenix to the body of a green luan to see if the new freak could possess the attributes of ice and fire, and if it could breathe fire and ice at the same time while having the ability to control the wind .
They had conducted other bizarre experiments as well, such as forcing the people of Long Bo Kingdom and Featherman mate with each other, feeding them all kinds of secret medicines while they were having sexual intercourse to see if they were able to give birth to a brand-new race with a massive body and a pair of wings . They had also forced different kinds of demons who had cultivated their human forms to mate with each other, with the hope that they could produce some new powerful demons . All in all, ethics and morality had never been their concerns .
For seasoned Oracles of Thousand Spirit Palace like Wuchang Chi, their happiest moment would be when they discovered some strange and eccentric specimens, especially those with ancient bloodlines which were thought to be extinct . Whenever they came across a rare specimen, they never listened to the specimen's opinion, but would bring it to the Thousand Spirit Palace by means of threatening, seducing, or even violence, and then . . .
Most of the time, specimens brought into the Thousand Spirit Palace never showed up again . Once, when some apprentice Oracle of Thousand Spirit Palace was chatting with apprentices of other divisions, he had accidentally mentioned things like 'the stewed dragon tendons were chewy', and 'phoenix wings roasted with honey tasted fragrant and sweet' .
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