Chapter 72 Grand Completion at the Green Touring Palace When Princess Dragon Ji had realized that she had been stabbed, she would flee to the northwest without pursuit. As Hong Jin and the princess regrouped their remaining soldiers, they would immediately send an urgent report to Jiang Ziya. After receiving reprimand from Jiang Ziya, they would thoroughly explain the arrival of Fiery Spirit — and the disastrous resolution that resulted. Upon the hearing of Jiang's arrival, Fiery Spirit would emerge from the Shang camp immediately and clash blades with the former. At the same point in time in which Jiang Ziya was crucially stabbed through the breast by Fiery Spirit, the new Zhou camp roared with flames once more. As the distance between Jiang and Fiery Spirit drew closer, the latter managed to hit him with a hammer and thus move forward to put an end to the rebel leader. Unexpectedly however, Paragon suddenly appeared and used his Haze–Sweeping Shirt and Sky Overturning Stamp to effectively absorb the latter's light and smash her skull into two. With Fiery Spirit now dead, Paragon took her golden coronet (the item she had previously used to create light). After healing Jiang Ziya's wounds and bringing him to his feet, Paragon headed to the Green Touring Palace in order to return the former's coronet. While making his way to the Good Dream Pass, Jiang Ziya suddenly caught sight of his destined enemy from the heavens, Shen Gongbao. In the former's attempt to hide himself in a thick neighboring forest along the path, Shen Gongbao caught sight of Jiang Ziya and effectively ordered him to come forward. Griming with delight over this chance to attain revenge, Shen Gongbao would slash continuously at Jiang Ziya with his sword. Due to being old and seriously wounded, Jiang Ziya fled at the greatest of speed atop his horse lest he was to be killed. Using his legendary Sky Breaking Pearl, Shen Gongbao sent Jiang Ziya tumbling to the ground in a state of near death. Under orders from the Jade Emptiness Palace, Krakucchanda would unfortunately appear to sully Shen Gongbao's resolve. Now being fully aware of the situation, the former fled quickly to the heavens atop his pearl–coated tiger. After effectively capturing Shen Gongbao with his Immortal Binding Rope, Krakucchanda would order his genii to take the former to the Unicorn Cliff and await his punishment. After Jiang Ziya had been essentially treated with elixir by the former, he would express his inner dignity towards the immortal before heading back on his way. Krakucchanda would thus head quickly to Mount Kunlun to await Master Celestial Primogenitor's judgment upon Shen Gongbao. Upon Primogenitor's arrival at the Unicorn Cliff, he ordered for Shen Gongbao to be placed under the mountain until Jiang Ziya had created the gods. Shen Gongbao, however, would manage to avoid such a fate by vowing that if he was to attack the former again, might his body be thrown into the North Sea. Celestial Primogenitor, Krakucchanda, and Shen Gongbao would thus head to their own separate paths after such an oath had been created. As Paragon had arrived at the Green Touring Palace, he waited for a long period of time before the gates had been opened by a lad to hear his request. As the former entered the palace and
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stood before the Nine Dragon Lignaloe Platform, he kowtowed before Grand Master of Sky with Fiery Spirit's golden coronet in his hands. With no true resentment over his disciple's death, he declared to the former that if any of his comrades were to ever act against his word and attack Jiang Ziya, it won't matter to him if they were to also meet their own end. After Paragon had emerged from the palace, he would be forced to flee back to Grand Master of Sky's residence three separate times due to the unparalleled hatred and vows of revenge that the latter's disciples felt towards Paragon.
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