Chapter 529: Chapter 521: The Fury of Thunder could be called Reverse Scale

The music and dance had ceased, and Wu Bu stood alone in the arena, feeling rather awkward without a response.

Across the banquet, many nobles held their wine cups, their eyes filled with mocking amusement as they watched the youth who had suddenly leaped out to issue a challenge.

Although they too hoped that tonight’s banquet wouldn’t just quietly pass by, and someone stepping forward to challenge the City Lord’s position was indeed a very good start,

that didn’t mean they had the leisure to watch a nineteen-year-old, who had only recently broken through to the Kaiyuan Realm, make a fool of himself.

Wu Bu felt the contemptuous and mocking gazes from all directions, which made him quite uncomfortable.

He had not been under the eaves of Sword Master Yu for very long. He had ascended Bai Tuo Mountain at the age of six and had studied the Thunder Technique at the side of the Sect Master. Although it seemed like a long time—thirteen years—it was but a flick of the fingers in the eyes of these distinguished masters of the Taoist Technique.

Moreover, as Young Master Yu was low-key and modest, even though he had recruited a talented Innate Thunder Body, he would not deliberately publicize it to the outside world.

Let alone these outsiders, even Senior Sister Yun Rong, who was seated at the banquet today and would be his fourth Senior Sister in the future, was meeting him for the first time.

Therefore, Wu Bu’s identity seemed somewhat awkward in the eyes of others at this moment.

Like a monkey performer being watched, Wu Bu’s face slowly turned red. He glared at Baili An and said, “You’re not scared, are you?”

As soon as he said this, laughter filled the hall.

Although most of the people present didn’t take the new City Lord seriously, they also knew that the one sitting on the dais was a Cultivator of the Sea Expansion Realm.

And this young Kaiyuan was bold to utter such words, one wondered where he got the courage from.

Compared to the laughing crowd in the hall, Qing Xuan, the female official, calmly glanced at Wu Bu and spoke softly to Baili An,

“This youth, with his Innate Thunder Body, broke through to the Kaiyuan Realm at the age of nineteen; he can be considered a one-in-ten-thousand talent among mortals. As for his powers, he’s not as strong as you.

But the Thunder Spear in his hand is made from a spine bone left from the fall of an ancient Thunder God; with his innate Thunder Body, judging by his stance, it seemed he must have spent over a decade specializing in the Thunder Spear technique.”

She chuckled softly and shook her head, “It’s not a man wielding a spear, but the spear wielding the man. He has come here full of conviction, relying purely on the power of that Thunder Spear. With his Innate Thunder Body and the Thunder Spear, if he uses Blood Burning as a price, he can indeed exert the power of the Chengling Realm for a short time.”

Thus, this seemingly unknown young man, who was risking his life, could be considered one of the strongest among the younger generation in the hall, besides those three eminent figures.

Baili An put down his jade chopsticks. He looked at the young man Wu Bu, brimming with a fighting spirit, and said, “I accept your challenge.”

Wu Bu’s eyebrows arched high. The hand holding the spear crackled with electricity, and his entire body gradually emitted a brilliant blue light. With a grin, he shouted loudly, “Please instruct me, my lord!”

Seeing this, the spectators’ expressions suddenly changed, and they exclaimed in surprise, “Innate Thunder Body!”

“Could the spear in this child’s hand be the Divine Thunder Spear Lei Wu belonging to the master of the Tianxi Sword Sect?!”

The surrounding gazes changed drastically in a moment. People whispered, “With the Thunder Body and Divine Thunder Spear Lei Wu naturally matched, he can momentarily burst into the combat strength of the Chengling Realm. With such a fierce and wild person making the first move, the new City Lord might have a hard time.”

“Having agreed so readily earlier, now he’s probably regretting it like crazy.”

A part of the crowd instinctively looked towards Young Master Yu, thinking the insightful Heavenly Seal Sword Master had indeed lucked out by finding such a talented Thunder Cultivator.

But, if they remembered correctly, in the Tianxi Sword Sect’s Thirteen Swords, Jin Sheng was also a Thunder Cultivator…

Marquis Changming, known as “Heavenly Sea Sword,” smiled inscrutably as he lowered his head to sip his drink, “This is getting interesting.”

Baili An rose from his seat, not carrying any weapon. He looked at the eager Wu Bu and extended a hand, saying, “Hand it over, then?”

With spine tensed as if a bow ready to shoot, Wu Bu’s face showed confusion: “What?”

Baili An said indifferently, “Your spear, give it to me.”

Wu Bu was immediately speechless, the radiant blue light and electricity on his body slowly receding.

Baili An took two steps forward, seeing him motionless, he tilted his head, his face stretched like that of an elongated donkey, “Do you intend to have your cake and eat it too?”

“Pfft…” Someone in the audience couldn’t hold back and laughed out loud.

That person was the female official Qing Xuan.

In Xianling City, there was a rule: whoever challenged the City Lord’s position during the night banquet must first exchange an Immortal Artifact for the right to do so.

And Wu Bu had only one Immortal Artifact, which was his high explosive Divine Thunder Spear Lei Wu.

If he handed over this spear, he would just be a regular Kaiyuan Realm practitioner.

Wu Bu stood there, holding his spear, looking somewhat foolish.

It seemed he had just realized the cause and effect, dumbfounded for quite a while. With his face turning red, he said with a negotiating tone, “Can’t you let me finish this fight before I give you the spear?”

The hall once again erupted in laughter.

Wu Bu felt increasingly embarrassed.

Baili An smiled slightly: “Have you ever seen someone waiting patiently for their opponent to find a sharp knife to cut them with right before they’re about to be hit?”

Baili An’s smile was innately harmless, but at this moment, used in such a context, its malicious power was unparalleled and heart-wrenching.

Wu Bu’s face turned redder and redder, feeling like a clown in that moment, with the laughter in the hall grating unbearably.