Zhanxian

by Stayrr

Gripes have their origins and debts have their creditors. We haven’t crossed each other in days past or present, nor formed any grudges. I am but duty-bound to carry this out, so apologies in advance! In his past life, Yang Chen was a gentle person who was oppressed for his whole life. Now that he’s reborn, he chose to become an executioner and severs ties and grudges with his ex

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Chapter 117 – Both Happy And Scared

Once these words came out of Yang Chen's mouth, it immediately gave rise to nervousness on the part of the three other people. How could he speak with Elder Wu in this kind of tone? Elder Wu had agreed to hear him, that was already heaven defying luck, but still going so far as to haggle over the price? Even if everyone in the entire Pure Yang Palace was counted, nobody would have any doubt that Elder Wu was extremely clear about what he wanted!

Elder Wu's complexion was formal, his gaze as cold as ice, glaring at Yang Chen. A noiseless pressure appeared and shrouded Yang Chen.

Even though it did not spread to the other people, the Palace Master, Wang Yong and Gao Yue still felt a chill. The pressure exerted by a peak Da Cheng stage expert, even if it was them, they would still be frightened stiff.

"Senior, please be lenient!"

Gao Yue herself did not know what she was thinking, surprisingly daring to yell at this critical moment, but even she could not understand her own voice, as her voice had already started trembling.

Although the Palace Master and Wang Yong heard it, they could also only helplessly worry but could do nothing, anxiety clearly visible on their faces. Facing Elder Wu's formidable pressure regardless of their identities, they didn't say anything. If really they had said something at this moment, especially the Palace Master, that would mean that the dust had settled and that there would be no other option than becoming hostile.

What made everyone astonished was that the person bearing this pressure directly, Yang Chen, seemed as if he hadn't sensed anything and still had the same mischievous smile as before, not even sweat had broken out on his face or body, as for trembling, such a thing never happened. Elder Wu, who was sitting in front of him, releasing his pressure, was apparently just a guardian of his in Yang Chen's eyes, so he could act shamelessly and moreover he had to act shamelessly in front of him.

"Senior, even if you can't give a reward, there is also no need to be angry!"

With this sentence, he woke up everyone from their stupor, but at the same time he made the three people from his sect feel gloomy within their hearts.

"Good! I want to listen to you first, and see if your version is worthy of reward!"

Elder Wu smiled, throwing away the angry aura, and then burst out laughing. Towards the Palace Master, Wang Yong and Gao Yue, he nodded his head:

"Can you three please step back a little, I must see what he has to say!"

"Senior, Yang Chen is only a little mischievous and naughty……"

After seeing that Elder Wu still had some traces of that anger, Gao Yue immediately got panicky in her head, unable to deal with the fear, she opened her mouth again to make a plea for leniency.

"Don't worry, this old man knows how to act properly, I will not bother much with a junior!"

Elder Wu waved his big hand and after that, the three people were unable to utter even half a letter and their bodies involuntarily, as if being pulled by an invisible arm, were dragged out through the door at lightning speed.

The door was closed from the inside and soon afterwards, powerful restrictions had sealed off Yang Chen's room. The Palace Master, Wang Yong and Gao Yue looked at each other in dismay, feeling extremely anxious within their hearts. Just now Elder Wu had dismissed them with a wave of his hand and these three people didn't even have the strength to protest. This kind of might made the three of them feel despair.

"Good, there isn't anyone here now, if you want to say anything, speak freely!" After laying down the restrictions, Elder Wu had again become amiable and was not as imposing as earlier. He had just received some hint from Yang Chen's words, so he could only put up such an arrangement.

But Elder Wu was still slightly astonished that Yang Chen was able to endure his pressure. In the mortal world, even if it was a YuanYing stage elder, facing Elder Wu's pressure with full strength, they would also not be able to remain nonchalant like this, but just a moment ago, Yang Chen had surprisingly played down the gradually increasing pressure of Elder Wu and dismissed it very skillfully, how could Elder Wu not be amazed?

"Your master is not bad, wanting to save her disciple at such a crucial time, you have good taste!"

Even in great astonishment, Elder Wu did not forget to praise Gao Yue. Although Gao Yue had also faced the same pressure just a moment ago, she hadn't thought about abandoning her disciple, which was indeed rare.

"Of course, whose master do you think she is?"

Yang Chen immediately became filled with pride, puffing up his chest.

"Tell me about that matter now!"

Elder Wu could not bear to see Yang Chen proud like this and directly interrupted his arrogance and had him immediately get to the point.

"Elder brother, your ascension is just around the corner, I have some words for you!"

Yang Chen nodded his head and directly went to the seat on his left hand side to sit down and started explaining:

"From the beginning we were talking like strangers, so it is not good to start talking but now if we do not speak, in the future we will no longer have an opportunity."

"You speak, I will listen!"

Elder Wu faintly nodded his head. Although he had hit it off with Yang Chen, it was just a friendship based on the refining of a Heaven Seizing Pill from the beginning. But actually, after parting with Yang Chen, he was able to comprehend many things from the discussions he had with Yang Chen, this only increased the value of Yang Chen in his mind.

"Elder brother, after ascending, if you encounter people with this mark; if you can avoid offending them, then you must not offend them; if you can make friends with them, then you must do it, it will have many advantages!"

While speaking, the Achievement Ring on Yang Chen's hand shone brightly. In reality, at this moment the Achievement Ring was just a tattoo on Yang Chen's finger and did not have the appearance of a ring, only its design was quite unique.

"What is this?"

Elder Wu's eyes opened widely, he attentively stared at the design that had appeared on Yang Chen's hand and within his heart he couldn't help but be astonished. From where did this design appear? He surprisingly couldn't sense anything. With his cultivation, even if Yang Chen took out something from his qiankun pouch, he would still be able to discover it, yet he was unable to see how the Achievement Ring had emerged.

"This is the mark of the people I have mentioned."

Yang Chen could not tell him everything, he only gave him some slight awareness. In any case, Elder Wu's ascension was imminent, so those people would surely have prepared for all of this and would be waiting for him with a commander and a few servants, so Yang Chen did not have worry about it and he did not care much about letting him know.

Hearing Yang Chen's words, Elder Wu complexion was overwhelmed with shock, he could not help but extend his hands towards the sky:

"Above?"

"En!"

Yang Chen nodded, although in a tacit understanding he hadn't told him any names, but had admitted to Elder Wu's guess.

Again when he looked at Yang Chen, Elder Wu's gaze was filled with shock and simultaneously also filled with some sudden understanding, no wonder Yang Chen did not care about his pressure, no wonder Yang Chen knew how to handle the last step of the Heaven Seizing Pill, no wonder Yang Chen could do such earth shattering acts, he surprisingly had such an exalted status.

"But you also must maintain your distance, it may possibly cause some unnecessary troubles."

Yang Chen again warned him, he feared that if Elder Wu walked too close with them, then at the time when he had to set about on his task, it would not be good if Elder Wu was pressed from both sides.

Elder Wu only nodded, but his face was filled with expectation, to be able to know about things of Spiritual World before ascending, this was just an opportunity which could only be found by luck and not by looking, if he passed up on this opportunity, then he would not be Elder Wu.

"I got it!"

Elder Wu replied like a child listening to an elder.

"Knowing too much about the matters of the next realm is also not good."

Yang Chen naturally knew that Elder Wu wanted to know more, but he would not say much, lightly warning him was enough:

"Only, when you have just ascended, don't be too arrogant, remain a little low key, you should act and do things as a youngster, so that you don't lose face!"

Elder Wu only nodded, he had been mentally prepared for this fact, all people went to the Spiritual World after ascending, those people who had ascended first were definitely seniors. Although he had been accustomed to acting as an elder in the Mortal World, at the Spiritual World he was not even worth a sneer, he was bound to remain low key for a period of time.

Naturally, it's not like he didn't have the confidence that, with his powerful strength, after passing the calamity he would be able to spread his name in the next realm, but apparently such a thing was clearly not that easy. With Yang Chen's formal words like this and with Yang Chen's identity, Elder Wu also didn't dare to have any big ideas.

"Your Heaven Fleeing Shuttle must also be fused with a suitable immortal cave only then can it be upgraded by another level, I just happen to have such a suitable region."

Yang Chen had also previously spoken about the flaws of the Heaven Fleeing Shuttle, but wishing to fuse the Heaven Fleeing Shuttle together with some Immortal Cave, the resources it would take up were basically unimaginable, it could only be accomplished in the Spiritual World.

Within Yang Chen's mind, there were many immortal caves left behind by people which were sufficient for him. With the friendship he had with Elder Wu, he could easily gift one to him. Moreover, after being grateful for his kindness, Elder Wu could also be considered as Yang Chen's forerunner in the Spiritual World, then when the time would come, he would have a place to rely on. This kind of investment in the future, no other person would be more proficient in it than Yang Chen.

"The directions to the immortal cave are…"

After telling the directions to Elder Wu, which he properly remembered, he clapped his hands:

"When you ascend, first fuse with this Immortal Cave, afterwards you will have some assets to get out of a predicament. If you want to cultivate, you can have a place to cultivate, if you want to flee, you can have a magic tool to flee, then being a little arrogant is also not a problem.

"Younger brother, you………."

Elder Wu's words seem to be stuck in this throat, not knowing anything proper to say. He wanted to know Yang Chen's identity, opening his mouth he could only say younger brother, but after that could not even utter a word.

"As for my identity, after you ascend, perhaps you will be able to guess."

Yang Chen smiled while waving his hand, but he didn't explain anything to Elder Wu. This kind of matter, in any case he would obtain a lot of information, but Yang Chen did not want to reveal everything to Elder Wu right then.

"A great favour cannot be thanked by words, younger brother, I request to pay my respects to you!"

Elder Wu, a person who meets gains or losses with composure, also no longer questioned him closely; standing up towards Yang Chen, he cupped his hands in submission.

Yang Chen hastily tried to evade, but was unable to resist against Elder Wu's strength, so he received the ceremony. He understood Elder Wu's gratitude. Many little pieces of information could be life saving at the right time.

"Why are you looking at me, do you still want me to reward you?"

After paying his respects, Elder Wu again resumed the attitude of an elder, doing what he wanted. His ascension was already imminent, his nature was magnanimous, so he basically did not care about some false friendships and also did not care much about saving face among seniors and juniors, doing what he wanted.

"This youngster wants your cultivation experience!"

Yang Chen actually was not even a little modest, directly extending his hand towards Elder Wu he said:

"I require some things to quell the pressure from my sect, elder brother, you must not also be too attached to things!"

"Hold this then!"

Elder Wu directly fished out more than ten jade slips from his qiankun pouch, but he had prepared this long ago. Elder Wu was a loose cultivator, he cultivated very diligently, but he had failed to take in a disciple, let alone a successor disciple. These things were originally set aside for people who had been brought together by fate, but since Yang Chen had asked for them, how could Elder Wu deny him?

"Now I will have a good explanation for the sect."

Yang Chen raised his brows in delight, seeing the jade slips within his hand, he was rejoicing and tossing it up and down. Although Yang Chen's experiences were not very different compared to Elder Wu, Elder Wu provided him with a very good pretense, so when the time came, many of his cultivation gifts could be blamed on Elder Wu.

By this time, the private conversation between them had already finished under the eyes of the Pure Yang Palace's Palace Master, Wang Yong and Gao Yue who were outside, waiting to enter. If Yang Chen had some ideas, he could just claim it came from Elder Wu. Having a source like this, who would get suspicious?

For these reasons, Yang Chen had even deliberately extended his meeting with Elder Wu. While inside of the room, he was just drinking tea on one hand, while on other hand he was chatting about Elder Wu's path of cultivation. Elder Wu was a well known person in the Spiritual World, but he had taken a detour on his path of cultivation, Yang Chen had just wanted to tell him about the proper path earlier, believing that, with Elder Wu's support, he would quickly be able to rise above others in the Spiritual World.

Listening to Yang Chen, Elder Wu was just feeling as if he had met a heavenly being. Many things which he hadn't thought off or probably couldn't even figure out were mentioned in a few sentences by Yang Chen and often gave him a sudden insight. His happiness couldn't be described in words. Even if Elder Wu's ascension was imminent and he was already past showing expressions on his face, he could still not help but show his excitement with a smile.

Time passed at lightning speed, two people were feeling happy while chatting, but on the outside four long hours had already passed. Thinking about the time, Yang Chen opened the room to the three people waiting outside.

While Elder Wu and Yang Chen were chatting, outside, the Palace Master was restlessly waiting with Wang Yong and Gao Yue, afraid that Yang Chen's sentence had provoked Elder Wu's ire and the Pure Yang Palace had drawn the misfortune of sect extermination. But they didn't know what was happening inside, surprisingly there hadn't been any sound of people from the inside, but they also did not dare to attack the restrictions and could only bitterly wait on the outside.

When Yang Chen opened the door, the smile on Elder Wu's face entered the eyes of the three people. Looking at Elder Wu's smile, the three people finally heaved a sigh, Yang Chen had seemingly settled the dispute.

Originally they still wanted some benefits from Elder Wu, but Elder Wu no longer intended to help everyone, he burst out laughing and walked away from the sect, and raising his thumb he began to praise Gao Yue:

"Good, young lass, you dared to protect your disciple in front of me, very good!"

After he finished praising Gao Yue, Elder Wu greeted the Palace Master of the Pure Yang Palace:

"Sorry for the inconvenience today, and many thanks for your troubles. This Wu is going to ascend soon, so I will return now!"

After he finished speaking, regardless of what other people thought, he took out his Heaven Fleeing Shuttle, which the disappeared in a flash with a 'Xiu' sound.

The three people looked at each other in dismay, then Palace Master looked at Elder Wu's figure until he disappeared. Only then did everyone shout towards Yang Chen's room. Soon after that they immediately set out on the task of cutting down the restrictions, then they asked Yang Chen:

"What did you and Elder Wu discuss?"

"Elder Wu thought disciple was worth cultivating, so he had given disciples some pointers regarding cultivation."

Yang Chen did not hold back even a little bit in flaunting himself as a disciple worth cultivating, and he was also not afraid that Elder Wu would deny this in someone's presence.

Seeing the three elders still have lingering fears because of the trauma, Yang Chen smiled and produced the jade slips:

"Before leaving, Elder Wu had given this disciple some cultivation insights, disciple did not dare to use them without authority, so I ask Palace Master to make a decision!"

Once these words came out, the three people's eyes shone brightly, with their gazes fixed on those jade slips.

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Chapter 118 – Isn't Instant Cultivation Amazing?

13 Jul 2016

Insight into Elder Wu's cultivation? This was the entire cultivation experience left behind by a Da Cheng stage expert who was just about to ascend! This would be considered as a treasure among treasures at any sect, even if someone wanted to exchange it for a rare cultivation method, obtaining it was still impossible.

But Elder Wu had set it aside for Yang Chen just before ascending? The three were staring at the jade slips like people who hadn't eaten and were seeing a meat bun. Being shocked to the extreme, they could not even dare to believe it.

"This, is it really Elder Wu's?"

Gao Yue was the person with the lowest cultivation among the three and also the most impatient one, naturally she was the first to ask.

"That's right, master!"

Yang Chen nodded his head with complete confidence and afterwards he did something which surprised everyone.

Yang Chen divided these jade slips in three parts, handing over one to the Palace Master and Wang Yong:

"Palace Master, Great Master, this is the experience of the YuanYing and Da Cheng stage."

"Master, this is about the cultivation at the JieDan stage!"

Yang Chen also gave an introduction while delivering them to Gao Yue.

Yang Chen placed the remaining one in his qiankun pouch:

"The remaining one contains the experience of the Foundation stage, after this disciple has studied it for a few years, I will hand it over to the sect!"

Even though he said things like this, they were copies which Yang Chen had made in front of Elder Wu. Elder Wu was a metal attributed cultivator and Yang Chen just happened to require knowledge of this field. This kind of knowledge he would absolutely never leak, Yang Chen did not want to obtain these things through the consent of some elder.

The Palace Master and Wang Yong were ecstatic when holding their portion of jade slips. They were YuanYing stage cultivators and although their attribute of the five phases was different from Elder Wu's, the destination was the same, so with the help of Elder Wu's cultivation experience, they would also obtain new insights about their cultivation, saving them from taking many detours in their cultivation.

"This!"

Wang Yong absolutely hadn't anticipated that Yang Chen would surprisingly be so generous, the things that Elder Wu had privately set aside for him, he was surprisingly contributing it for the benefit of the sect. According to the conclusion of the previous discussion between the elders and the Palace Master, there was absolutely no need to hand over one's personal possessions.

"Good! Good!"

The Palace Master was so excited that even his hands started trembling. It wasn't that the Pure Yang Palace didn't have any senior who had ascended, nor was it that they hadn't left behind their cultivation experiences previously, but Yang Chen being so considerate of the sect, how could it not excite him?

If he previously purely used to think of Yang Chen's development potential and the future possibility of him becoming a high level pill concocting master, taking proper care of him for that just reason, then currently it could be said that he was extremely satisfied with Yang Chen and intended on cultivating him from the bottom of his heart. If this kind of disciple was not developed properly, then should an ingrate like Chu Heng be developed instead?

What made the Palace Master was most excited by, was that Elder Wu was a metal attributed cultivator and he himself was also metal attributed. The cultivation experience contained in the jade slip was simply a great assistance for him.

"Yang Chen, this time you have established a great merit again. I don't know how to reward you."

The Palace Master's mood just could not be described with words at that moment. He was also increasingly kind towards Yang Chen:

"Name anything, if you want it, as long as the Pure Yang Palace can obtain it, it's yours!"

Honestly speaking, Pure Yang Palace's little legacy was really not much in Yang Chen's eyes, but since the Palace Master had already said so and moreover had made the promise so happily, Yang Chen definitely didn't want to go against the Palace Master's wishes, otherwise wouldn't he just spoil the fun?

"Disciple once again seeks the opportunity to enter the Secret Pavilion!"

Yang Chen spoke up, the Secret Pavilion of the Pure Yang Palace contained many good items, but one could only enter for a fixed amount of time, Yang Chen had no other option than to fight for a few chances.

"Twice!"

The palace master extended two of his fingers in front of Yang Chen without any hesitation:

"Your contribution this time is too big, so you will be allowed two chances, adding onto that the one chance of last time for a total of three times, you can enter the Secret Pavilion!"

"Many thanks, Palace Master!"

Yang Chen hastily expressed his thanks, even Wang Yong couldn't get this type of opportunity several times, while Yang Chen had already gotten three such chances. Gao Yue standing on the side was also very happy for him.

"Yang Chen, why did Elder Wu give these things to you?"

After receiving the items, the Palace Master made a meaningful signal towards Wang Yong and then asked Yang Chen. First grabbing the benefits, then asking for the problems, the Palace Master was actually quite a pragmatic person.

"I listened through Elder Wu's ranting: Elder Wu was full of complaints and hatred, it just happened that we were talking to each other and we really hit it off, there he had saved some things as a gift to me!"

Yang Chen casually passed on this lie, without stuttering even a little.

It sounded like a trifling matter, but in the eyes of the Palace Master and his Great Master, Wang Yong, this was something completely different.

"Elder Wu really is generous!"

On the side, Wang Yong deeply sighed:

"Speaking of gifts, he really gave you such a huge gift, he is truly all-knowing, I am vastly inferior! Ah!"

Gao Yue still couldn't make sense of what she was hearing, but the Palace Master nodded, his heart full of distress. Not sticking with this question, he changed it for another:

"It seems that the Hall of Eccentrics can be established at Pure Yang Palace openly!"

The earlier obstructions to this were no longer obstructions. Having the support of Elder Wu and adding the fifth earth True Qi, even if everyone figured out that She Kui and Xie Sha had fifth earth True Qi, it would still not draw anyone's suspicions. Since the sect disciples had not researched a method to use this hard earned treasure of Pure Yang Palace, using it for demon beasts was also acceptable. In addition to that, the merit of guarding the Secret Pavilion was quite high, thus if they didn't do this, then maybe other demon beasts would not receive the news and come?

Elder Wu had come suddenly and also left very quickly, the majestic welcoming ceremony had only ended just a few hours ago, he didn't even enjoy a decent meal at the Pure Yang Palace and had already departed hurriedly. Apparently the Pure Yang Palace was still lacking in proper manners, but luckily that one sound from Elder Wu before leaving had already informed everyone, so the other elders quickly came to the Second Fierce Yang Courtyard.

These few elders didn't have any relation with Yang Chen and Gao Yue, so they thoughtfully didn't go to Gao Yue's room. These elders then went to the official business hall of the Second Fierce Yang Courtyard, where the Palace Master was waiting for them to discuss the earlier incident.

Naturally, the matters of the Desolate Valley were confidential and they could only discuss about the Hall of Eccentrics and the things that Elder Wu had left behind. Once they heard that Elder Wu had left behind a bottle of fifth earth True Qi and his cultivation experiences for Yang Chen, these elders were astonished. Although it was known that Yang Chen had good relations with outsiders, they hadn't anticipated that his friendship with Elder Wu was so deep.

Regarding the reward, nobody dared to question it. This time, the one questioning it would not only offend the Palace Master, but also offend Yang Chen's Great Master, Wang Yong. Who would be such a fool?

At Gao Yue's room on the other hand, another scene was happening.

It was not Yang Chen's first time here, but Gao Yue had an unprecedented coldness spreading across her entire face. Facing Yang Chen, she started berating him:

"Yang Chen, do you not know that the things you do have a lot of risks?"

Her own disciple had done so many earth shattering things which could not be talked about, so it was not that Gao Yue was not very happy, but once she thought of the risks of these, Gao Yue couldn't control her anger.

Facing her own disciple, Gao Yue was at a loss for words. From the time she had accepted him as a disciple, Gao Yue had sensed that Yang Chen was certainly unique, but she had never heard of someone who had been so emotionally stirred at the time of accepting a master that he had started crying. With Yang Chen's constant daring acts, him shedding tears was just an impossible matter, but this had happened before her own eyes.

After Yang Chen such a thing happened, apart from giving her pointers in cultivation, he had apparently always worked incessantly, seeking benefits for Gao Yue. This made Gao Yue very happy but at the same time also very concerned. The things that Yang Chen did were very risky, if he slipped up, he would not be let off.

Even the matters regarding Desolate Valley, if even a little bit of the truth was leaked, then Pure Yang Palace would surely have their sect exterminated by others, and Yang Chen himself, he would be hunted crazily by a few big sects. But Yang Chen actions were completely considering Pure Yang Palace's benefit, so she also didn't have any reasons to say anything to him about it and could only berate him using this reason.

"Master, I am very clear about what I am doing!"

Facing Gao Yue's reprimand, Yang Chen was absolutely calm, he knew that she was doing this for his own good, but for some matters he had no choice but to act:

"But master, Chu Heng dared to insult you, then he must die. Any people who insult you must not be left alive!"

"You!"

Gao Yue wanted to say something, she couldn't say anything. The anger of Yang Chen after he had heard Chu Heng's words was something Gao Yue had seen with her own eyes, she could tell real from fake. Such a protective disciple, Gao Yue couldn't feel anything but sweetness in her heart. She did indeed not know how to reprimand Yang Chen anymore.

"In the future, I will not allow you to do such things, even if it is for me, you should still not!"

Gao Yue had no choice other than putting on the face of a master and command very seriously:

"A few words, cannot hurt you, so why should you get angry over it? This also affects your cultivation!"

"Yes, master!"

It was Gao Yue's command, so Yang Chen had to reply positively. Even if he did not accept it as true, in front of her, he would not disobey and immediately promised his master.

"I have already begun to refine your flying sword, but it will still require two years to be completed."

Gao Yue knew that with her cultivation she could not help Yang Chen much, but what she could do was provide Yang Chen with additional assistance. She still warned him very seriously:

"You have just reached the Foundation stage and still haven't had much time in consolidating it, you must at least dedicate yourself to it for two years. You cannot be greedy and advance prematurely. The road of cultivation is not a highway, you must not try to rush! Bear this in mind, bear this in mind!"

"Yes, master!"

These words were priceless wisdom, of course Yang Chen would remember them, and at that moment he was also following them. After reaching the Foundation stage in the Five Phases of Yin and Yang secrets, he had directly went to cultivating. Even after receiving the fifth earth True Qi he had not tried to rashly increase his cultivation, but rather had remained at the Foundation stage.

But after Gao Yue had spoken about advancing prematurely, Yang Chen suddenly recalled a matter which would happen not too long in the future.

After two years, a type of accelerated cultivation method would spread in the cultivation world: the Long Tai Spirit Supporting secrets. This type of cultivation method would rely on something known as a Heavenly Meteor Heart Crystal and would rapidly increase the realm of cultivators. This kind of a cultivation method would spread very quickly in the cultivation world after someone had started offering Heavenly Meteor Heart Crystals in large numbers.

People would use this Heavenly Meteor Heart Crystal and this cultivation method and quickly increase their cultivation. Moreover, this Long Tai Spirit Supporting cultivation method was not divided into five attributes and simply increased the Spirit Power, which would attract countless people to cultivate it.

But what people didn't know was that this was huge conspiracy. The originator of this evil practice was a devil cultivator known as Lin Cheng He, and the so called Heavenly Meteor Heart Crystal was a type of spirit object, which was formed from a trace of Lin Cheng He's soul which is used in his devil cultivation method known as Great Mother Devil Tai cultivation secrets within the Grand Maternal Devil Tai method, the Long Tai Spirit Supporting secrets were actually the Grand Child Devil Tai method's cultivation secrets.

As the name implied, the Grand Maternal Devil Tai method's cultivation, precisely used the Grand Child Devil Tai method's cultivation to produce Spirit Power, but the Spirit Power produced by the Grand Child Devil Tai method's cultivation had the relationship of a child to his mother, that meant that efforts of those people who painstakingly used the Heavenly Meteorite Heart Crystal and Long Tai Spirit Supporting secrets to increase their cultivation, would instead entirely be shifted to Lin Cheng He.

After the cultivation of this Long Tai Spirit Supporting secrets, because of the use of Heavenly Meteorite Heart Crystal, the cultivator was basically unable to control his own Spirit Power in the end, and after Lin Cheng He thought the time was ripe, that painstakingly cultivated Spirit Power would be turned into Lin Cheng He's cultivation, while the that person's cultivation was crippled to the extreme. An extremely evil cultivation method.

This kind of cultivation method, which was used to harm others for one's personal benefit, naturally could not be tolerated by the cultivators of the righteous path. But by the time everyone discovered this, Lin Cheng He's situation had already changed and he had already reached the Da Cheng stage. At that time, in order to exterminate him, all of the big sects had to invest their full strength.

Only after paying a price of two Da Cheng, and several YuanYing stage cultivators, was Lin Cheng He devoured by the devil method and died. Luckily he could not refine and purify the heterogenous Spirit Power in time, otherwise the consequences would be too horrible to imagine. Even under this condition, there had been a loss of two Da Cheng and several YuanYing cultivators, which also greatly decreased the strength of sects on the righteous path, which couldn't be restored even after several hundred years.

At that time, the Pure Yang Palace had lost three Yuanying stage cultivators, so when facing against the Greatest Heaven Sect, they didn't have the strength to hit back, which was also part of the cause of that tragedy. How could Yang Chen allow this to happen again in this life?

"Master, if really a type of common cultivation method appeared, and even other people also confirmed the cultivation result, would you also cultivate it?"

Yang Chen began to rack his brain, thinking about how to draw the discussion to this topic. This time he also did not want to get the limelight for himself, instead he wanted his master to establish a great merit.

"Where can I find this type of cultivation method? If there really is such a cultivation method, then wouldn't it fall under the category of the devil path?"

Gao Yue wrinkled her brows, suddenly asking Yang Chen:

"Yang Chen, do you know something? Why did you suddenly bring up this kind of question?"

"It is not me, master, it was Elder Wu who told me!"

Yang Chen suddenly thought of the ultimate excuse, known as Elder Wu, on which any matter could be blamed:

"Elder Wu has found some signs, only he still wasn't particularly clear about it."

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Chapter 119 – What About A Water Attributed Method?

"An instant cultivation method, regardless of the results in cultivation would certainly bring unsteadiness to your mind."

Gao Yue shook her head:

"The shallower the cultivation, the more serious the heart's devil. Cultivating quickly leaves behind many dangers, thus the losses do not make up for the gains. This is certainly a cultivation technique of the devil path and you must not be infected by it by any means!"

"Elder Wu had only said there had been some development regarding this matter, but didn't tell me anything specific."

Yang Chen was using ambiguous words as much as possible to speak about this matter:

"Do not support the Palace Master's suggestions regarding this matter, in the future, if this kind of thing appears, try to restrict the disciples of the sect from such a cultivation method by any means, ok?"

Yang Chen's aim was to make Gao Yue get the Pure Yang Palace out of a predicament. In his previous life, Gao Yue was the Hall Master of the Fierce Yang Hall, but unfortunately she died an untimely death. In this life Yang Chen had to make her the most influential person in the Pure Yang Palace. He had to make Gao Yue aim for being the sect leader of the Pure Yang Palace. But to accomplish this, she had to constantly increase her prestige.

Gao Yue firmly believed Yang Chen's words, most of all after Yang Chen had revealed the secrets about those matters of the Desolate Valley, she felt that Yang Chen had no reason to lie to her or deceive her, adding to that the effect of the ultimate excuse, Elder Wu, Gao Yue's trust towards him increased even more.

"This is not the right time, if this matter comes out now, then surely the Palace Master would be burdened many troublesome but trifling issues."

Gao Yue was not a person person who pandered to others, otherwise she couldn't have become the Hall Master of the Fierce Yang Hall in his previous life. Now she had begun to slowly ponder the general situation and started thinking thoroughly about handling these affairs:

"Since this is not very urgent, I will speak about it with the palace master in three to five months, at that time it will still be your achievement."

Gao Yue hadn't thought about coveting Yang Chen's credit for herself from the beginning, so Yang Chen sighed gloomily, but then again, if it were not that Gao Yue had shown such concern and care for him in his previous life, why would he have done everything while keeping Gao Yue in mind? Handling it like this was also good. In any case, the future was still far, Yang Chen had no need to be anxious.

"Master, this disciple has a presumptuous request, but I don't know whether master will approve."

Yang Chen suddenly thought of a possibility and carefully raised it.

"A presumptuous request?"

Gao Yue glanced at Yang Chen very oddly, and smirked at him:

"Since you know it's a presumptuous request, how can you raise it?"

"Disciple asks for forgiveness for being rash!"

Yang Chen sighed in his heart with disappointment on his face. But his master speaking with this kind of expression made Yang Chen remember her tenderness increasingly clearly.

"But since you are being so careful, there is no harm in telling me about the matter."

Seeing the disappointed expression on Yang Chen's face, Gao Yue put on a very calculative appearance and returned to the topic of discussion, rolling her eyes as if teasing Yang Chen:

"If it is not a very difficult matter, maybe I can also help you."

"Master!"

Yang Chen raised his head because of that pleasant surprise and looking at Gao Yue's crafty gaze, he couldn't help but smile.

"Speak, what is the matter?"

Gao Yue coughed once and again assumed a serious face, allowing Yang Chen to talk.

"Master, can I request you to cultivate another cultivation method?"

Yang Chen carefully arranged his wording and proposed it to Gao Yue:

"Such as… a water attributed cultivation method!"

"Cultivate a water attributed cultivation method?"

Gao Yue scowled and she immediately realized something:

"You are thinking of making me experience other attributes by myself to improve my fire controlling arts?"

Yang Chen was caught off guard with this, but he immediately remembered that he had duped a lot of people using this reason and now even his master completely believed this reason. But this was also good, at least this was an acceptable reason. Thinking about this, Yang Chen earnestly nodded his head.

"I have thought about it, but actually this path of cultivation is not very suitable for me."

Against Yang Chen's expectations, Gao Yue surprisingly flat out refused Yang Chen's proposal:

"You concoct pills, therefore trying to perfect your control over fire is understandable, but I am not the same, I can't concoct pills, neither am I very good at refining tools, there is no need for me forcefully improve my fire controlling ability."

"Master!"

Yang Chen hastily called, but before he could say anything, he was forcefully interrupted by Gao Yue.

"I know what you want to say."

Gao Yue shook her head towards Yang Chen with a smile:

"Although you and I are master and disciple, you have your path, I have mine. What's suitable for you might not be suitable for me. I want to cultivate like a spirit of raging flames, which would break rather than bend and not gracefully control flames like water, do you understand?"

With Gao Yue's nature, she would indeed rather die than submitting, otherwise she would not have chosen that kind of option under the Greatest Heaven Sect's pressure. Currently, Yang Chen had no way dissuade her and could only sigh with regret in his heart. It seemed that this time's probe had already been defeated.

Fortunately, Yang Chen knew that Gao Yue was not someone who could be easily persuaded. Until he revealed the secret about her postnatal water attributed full spirit, Gao Yue would absolutely not agree to cultivate a water attributed cultivation method. Yang Chen intended to continue to hide this secret for the time being, until he could find some more powerful people to be recruited for the Pure Yang Palace.

This topic was a casual discussion between a master and disciple and hadn't strained the relationship between them. Yang Chen asked Gao Yue some questions as before and afterwards left her by herself to ponder, and returned to his room.

The elders had long ago departed from the Second Fierce Yang Courtyard, so he had a lot of free time. Finding the time, Yang Chen went to take a look for other people at the Second Fierce Yang Courtyard. Regardless of whether it was Du Qian, Shangguan Feng or Wang Yuan, everyone was diligently cultivating. Such a great cultivation environment like the Second Fierce Yang Courtyard was occupied by these people, every one of them knew the preciousness of this opportunity.

Yang Chen's four servants had also performed pretty good. Within the time they spent in the Second Fierce Yang Hall, they had cultivated even more painstakingly; and within a period of just two years, they had vigorously forged ahead in their cultivation. Every one of them had stepped into the seventh qi layer. Looking at this trend, within ten years, they would surely reach the Foundation stage.

As for Yang Chen, he had stayed in the Second Fierce Yang Courtyard to consolidate his current realm properly. All ten types of Spirit Power at the Foundation stage required a substantial amount of Spirit Power each day for cultivation. Every day, apart from using Profound Yang Fruits, he still required a large amount of the Di Mai's abundant Spirit Power at the Second Fierce Yang Courtyard.

But Yang Chen had only cultivated in the Second Fierce Yang Courtyard for one month when suddenly he recalled an important matter.

A cultivation talent in his previous life, the one who had already sowed karma with Yang Chen at the execution ground, Sun Qing Xue, apparently also had cultivated the Long Tai Spirit Supporting Secrets. Since fate had already made them meet and Sun Qing Xue moreover had a favourable impression of Yang Chen, Yang Chen did not mind stopping her from following the same disastrous road again.

Wanting to cultivate quickly, Sun Qing Xue had cultivated the Long Tai Spirit Supporting Secrets, but fortunately her cultivation at that time was quite shallow and only had just reached the Foundation stage. So although it was completely wasted, after spending ten or so years, she was already able to build her foundation again. The lesson she learned had actually tempered her deposition and in the future she turned into an immortal whose name shook all three realms.

But because of this incident the innate qi in her body became insufficient. Although her natural talent was enough to make countless people go green with envy, she still couldn't compare to Shi Fairy.

Currently Yang Chen was hesitating about whether to let her go through that torment once again, which would resolve her heart, or to prevent this, allowing her to maintain that innate qi, so that she could press towards the peak of the cultivation world.

After much pondering, Yang Chen decided it would be better to prevent it. The trials in life could be encountered another time, but it was not easy to recover one's innate qi. Moreover, in Yang Chen's perspective, if he could have formidable assistance who would have heavenly achievements in the future, he naturally wished to have the most powerful assistance possible.

In this life, he had luckily been able to meet Sun Qing Xue before she could become immortal, and Sun Qing Xue was moreover grateful towards Yang Chen. This kind of opportunity had to be be grabbed firmly. Previously he wasn't able to go out easily because he was at the qi layer, but he currently did not have that kind of restriction. This was just about the time when Sun Qing Xue should have been expelled from the Green Jade Immortal Island and before she would enter the Clear Sky School.

But before he left, Yang Chen did not forget to refine all of his magic weapons once at the Second Fierce Yang Courtyard. Last time, just after he had reached the Foundation stage in all attributes, he had heard about the matter of Chu Heng insulting his master, so in his anger, Yang Chen hadn't even refined his magic weapons and directly left for the Desolate Valley.

The Profound Spirit Furnace, the Immortal Executing Blade, these two had to be refined. Currently Yang Chen's fifth attribute Spirit Power had been completely changed to fifth earth True Qi, and the first wood attribute had also assimilated the formidable properties of the PengLai Divine Wood. After refining this time, the crazy growth of these two magic weapons would be visible to the naked eye.

Adding onto that, the Profound Spirit Furnace had already absorbed a portion of Profound Cyan Metal Crystal, its resistance against fire could astonish anyone. Pouring in the formidable fifth earth True Qi again, the Profound Spirit Furnace had a completely different appearance after four layers of the Heavenly Stars secrets and Six layers of the Earth Fiend secrets had been refined.

At this moment, Yang Chen could finally proudly claim that the Profound Spirit Furnace was a middle grade magic tool. Compared to the time when he had obtained it, it had been upgraded by an entire realm. It had two types of flames inside, which allowed Yang Chen to refine even more powerful and higher grade elixirs, and was furthermore not limited to pill concocting.

The Immoral Executing Blade was put into the Profound Spirit Furnace, the Cyan Profound Metal Crystal could not be refined so easily, it could only be refined by using a powerful flame like the Real Sun Fire. Again, one tenth of the Cyan Profound Metal Crystal was added into the Immortal Executing Blade, making its grade rise even higher.

After the four layers of the Heavenly Stars secrets and six layers of the Earth Fiend secrets were refined, one hundred different paths of Yang Chen's thousand and eighty Spirit Threads were already illuminated, almost ten percent. Although Yang Chen was currently consolidating his realm and hadn't tried to increase his cultivation, his attack and defense had improved considerably.

It took two months until all of this was complete. During this time, the Greatest Heaven Sect had also delivered the compensation to the sects.

The Five Phases Sect had obtained the complete Fifth Earth True Qi, and the Greatest Heaven Sect not only had to give compensation to the Five Phases Sect, but also had to offer an apology. As for the losses of the Greatest Heaven Sect in the war, nobody raised that topic. Who asked them to go against reason and steal someone else's belongings.

The few sects, as well as Elder Wu, who had mediated between the two sects, had also received their respective benefits. At least Yang Chen had known that Elder Wu had received a bottle of fifth earth True Qi from the FIve Phases Sect before it was over. As for the compensation given by the Greatest Heaven Sect, that was every sect's secret, nobody made it public, but it was sure that everyone had obtained some benefits, because tightly holding on to things and not releasing would probably be a deadly offense for the Greatest Heaven Sect.

The Pure Yang Palace had also received compensation and an apology from the Greatest Heaven Sect because of Chu Heng's matter. The Greatest Heaven Sect had to take care of this matter with extreme care if it wanted to maintain its previous position as an upright and honest sect.

The four gravely injured disciples of the law Enforcement Hall, who had been carried back, had received four Lingzhi Gyokuro Pills in addition to a defensive magic tool. This could be considered as a huge price, even for the Greatest Heaven Sect. One Lingzhi Gyokuro Pill could heal any kind of injury for cultivators under the YuanYing stage, as long as he was not completely crippled. This was certainly a precious object which could not even be bought at an extreme price. The four Law Enforcement Hall disciples could be said to have profited from this disaster.

The apology for the Pure Yang Palace was even more generous: a cultivation method for each phase after the Foundation stage, five recipes for pills and at the same time also materials for refining various sorts of tools, but it just so happened to be enough for all Hall Masters, the Palace Master and the elders' use.

When receiving these things, the Palace Master was not happy, instead his face was absolutely grim. The Greatest Heaven Sect surprisingly did not even need to ask what kind of materials the elders needed and had taken everything out easily, apart from a compensation, this was also a demonstration of their power.

Everyone was clear about the underlying meaning, we know everything you want and what you can't find, we can easily give to you, regardless of whether it was public knowledge or inside information, the Greatest Heaven Sect was something to which a measly Pure Yang Palace could not compare. They should just take these things, shut up and understand their position.

Naturally, since they had admitted their mistake, the disciples who had committed the crime would be punished. The two pitiful JieDan disciples who had already died were made into scapegoats and all the blame was pushed onto them, including the matter of Chu Heng. Teaching him to manipulate the Spell Formation, leading to Chu Heng attacking the YuanYing stage ancestor of the Five Phases Sect, everything was the responsibility of the two deceased people.

Since the attack was done by Chu Heng, that greatly reduced the blame on the Greatest Heaven Sect, this was counting chickens before they had hatched and also stopped all sects who received their compensation from being able to say much.

Although crisis had been averted for the time being, the Greatest Heaven Sect had bled a lot this time. Several years of their hard work had gone to waste, and the losses on their side were disastrous, which had injured their overall strength. Recovering to their previous grandness would take at least ten years.

When the Greatest Heaven Sect was clearing up its mess, Yang Chen had happily stepped on the path of looking for Sun Qing Xue. But his good intentions did not persist for a long time and were completely destroyed by the female cultivator of the Blue Green Jade Island of Immortals who was responsible for receiving the visitors.

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Chapter 120 – Today's Disgrace Must Be Repaid

"You are Yang Chen of the Pure Yang Palace?"

That female disciple of the Green Jade Immortal Island had a huge change in her complexion after hearing Yang Chen's name. She wanted to confirm whether he really was Pure Yang Palace's Yang Chen.

This time Yang Chen did not want to cause any trouble, he only wanted to cultivate peacefully and had come here to meet with Sun Qing Xue while passing by, to warn her not to covet a quick increase in her cultivation by cultivating that Long Tai Spirit Supporting Method. This was his only concern..

On the whole journey Yang Chen was entirely content by himself, on one side observing everything and sensing the changes in heaven, earth and natural laws, and on the other side, hastening on his journey.

In order to show his respect for the Green Jade Immortal islands, Yang Chen didn't even use his flying sword to cross the sea and instead employed a fishing boat and personally showed the way to the Green Jade Immortal Islands.

Since its name was Green Jade Immortal Islands, naturally it was located on an island, cut off from the rest of the world, but with plentiful Spirit Power. An exceptionally good location for cultivation. Strictly speaking, the area of the island was not that big, but the countless small islands in a thousand miles radius were all under the influence of the Green Jade Immortal Islands.

On almost all of these small islands, disciples of the Green Jade Immortal Islands had immortal caves, some high level experts had even established their water mansions below the sea.

Yang Chen was hurrying precisely to the small island nearest to him. This small island was also the gate of the Green Jade Immortal Islands to the outside world. If someone had come for a formal visit, then they had to first be admitted to this small island.

The Green Jade Immortal Islands stressed more on taking in female disciples, almost ninety percent of the disciples were female, so the person responsible for receiving a visitor was also female.

Normally speaking, Yang Chen who had slowly ferried over there and hadn't even used his flying sword in the area of influence of the Green Jade Immortal Islands, was already giving more than enough face to the Green Jade Immortal Islands, but this female disciple seemed to think of Yang Chen as a personal enemy. If it were not that she was responsible for receiving visitors, maybe she would have already attacked him.

"Precisely that is myself!"

Yang Chen was very puzzled, he had clearly stated his identity just a moment ago, but this female disciple still had to ask again. Could it be that all disciples of the Green Jade Immortal Island were forgetful like this?

"The Green Jade Immortal Islands does not welcome you, get lost!"

After hearing Yang Chen confirm his identity, that female disciple revealed her anger and shouted towards Yang Chen standing at the gate.

In this life, Yang Chen was not that benevolent and forgiving. How could Yang Chen endure this female disciple, whom he had never met before, pointing her finger at him and insulting him?

If it was any other person getting this kind of treatment, he would have first definitely stormed out and then argued. But Yang Chen was not like that. That female disciple wanted Yang Chen to get lost, but Yang Chen did not make any movement, sitting upright at the same place and coldly snorted towards that female disciple:

"Has the Green Jade Immortal Island issued any kind of decree, that among all the people in the world, this Yang must not be allowed to enter?"

The female disciple did not dare to fabricate a rule of the Green Jade Immortal Island. Although she actually wanted to affirm this, she couldn't say anything and only glared at Yang Chen, full of rage, as if staring at her mortal enemy.

"If the Green Jade Immortal Island hasn't decided this, then this Yang is just a guest, but you haven't even offered a cup of tea. Is this how the Green Jade Immortal Island treat their guests?"

The other party was fuming with rage but unable to tell any underlying reason, so Yang Chen immediately realized that there had to be some ulterior motive. Then he sat even more casually, putting one leg over the other and began to argue about etiquette:

"You shouldn't talk like this, even if we were mortal enemies. But still, I paid my respects to your sect, shouldn't the Green Jade Immortal Island return basic courtesy like other big sects?"

Sparks were coming out of the female disciple's eyes, but what each word Yang Chen had said was spot on. She had no choice but to accept that what he was saying was correct. But she had been receiving visitors for many years now and was extremely experienced in this matter and immediately thought of a proper response:

"This is the territory of my Green Jade Immortal Island, it's not in the hands of an outsider like you to teach my sect about treating guests. The Green Jade Immortal Island does not welcome you, please leave!"

The female disciples tone was extremely polite and she had even used the word 'please', but the intention of a strong refusal was clearly conveyed. This time, if Yang Chen didn't leave, he would certainly be the shameless one.

Standing up, Yang Chen turned around to leave. Although Yang Chen was baffled about the attitude of the people of the Green Jade Immortal Island towards him, this was their sect. Investigating too much was not proper.

Wanting to meet Shi Shan Shan was perhaps not possible for today.

Even if Yang Chen's temperament was even better, he still couldn't have suppressed the anger of being insultingly driven away by the people of the sect without any good reason. Sitting at the edge of the island, at one moment, Yang Chen had even intended to release the blood colored river within his Spirit Sea and use it to scare all people of the Green Jade Immortal Island.

"Ehh? Grandmaster Yang?"

A sudden cry of surprise reached Yang Chen's ears from not too far away, and when he looked at the direction of the sound, he saw a familiar male on a flying sword.

Addressing him as Grandmaster Yang could only be someone from the Immortal Falling Well. Yang Chen pondered about it again and immediately determined the person's identity, he was precisely the first person who had asked Yang Chen for these two foundation stage pills, Heavenly Sword Villa's Foundation stage disciple, Yong Zhu.

"So it was Fellow Daoist Yong!"

Yang Chen stood up at his position, calmly waiting for Yong Zhu to fly over.

"What happened, Grandmaster Yang?"

Seeing that Yang Chen's expression was not good, Yong Zhu was completely puzzled and curiously asked.

"I have been driven away by these people!"

Yang Chen did not care about anyone looking at his embarrassment, in fact until now he hadn't fully understood what the matter was.

"What?"

Yong Zhu turned his head around to look at the gate of the Green Jade Immortal Island and that female disciple was still fiercely glaring at Yang Chen, as if she would only let the matter go after Yang Chen left. After turning back, Yong Zhu asked with astonishment:

"Grandmaster, how have you offended the Green Jade Immortal Island?"

"How should I know?"

Yang Chen shook his head, he was unable to make heads or tails of this mystery and didn't know where to release the anger he was holding. Yong Zhu's question only added hail to the snow.

"Could there be some misunderstanding?"

Yong Zhu wrinkled his brows; even after much deliberation he couldn't think of anything. After Yang Chen had come out of the Immortal Falling Well, apart from the incident involving Chu Heng, his name had not come up a lot, he did not even have any kind of relationship with the Green Jade Immortal Island, so why was he driven away by them?

Since Yang Chen had come here, he had to have some matters to attend to, so Yong Zhu immediately found an opportunity and hastily said:

"Grandmaster Yang, wait here for a moment, I will go and make some enquiries, perhaps there is some misunderstanding."

"No need!"

Yang Chen shook his head:

"This Yang will not go as far as to insist on this, this day's insult is certainly a great lesson. Fellow Daoist Yong if you want to, assist me in making some enquiries about the situation of a person which Shi Fairy had brought back ten years ago, Sun Qing Xue."

He still hadn't entered the sect but was driven away, he hadn't provoked or angered anyone, so how could Yang Chen swallow this insult. But the Green Jade Immortal Island was one of the big sects, Yang Chen could also not be too arrogant and start killing people at another sect.

But killing people was not the only way of exacting revenge against a sect. Yang Chen had plenty of methods for this. Just like the loss of the Greatest Heaven Sect at the Desolate Valley, if they would have known earlier that it was because of Chu Heng, they would absolutely have been ready to exchange ten Chu Heng's if it would stop the incident from occurring.

Turning his head around to take a last look at the gate of the Green Jade Immortal Island, Yang Chen stepped on his flying sword and departed at lightning speed. Leaving behind Yong Zhu by himself, and that female disciple of the Green Jade Immortal Island in the distance still giving him angry looks.

Making Yang Chen go away without paying any attention to rights and wrongs, this kind of insult was something Yang Chen had to pay back and moreover make the Green Jade Immortal Island bleed to the soul, but still be unable to say anything. If they knew who did it, they could take their revenge, but it they didn't know who did it, they would be forced to suffer in silence. That was the most depressing thing.

Flying on the flying sword for a while, Yang Chen's anger still hadn't dissipated when he was looking at the great ocean with violently surging waves beneath his feet and he suddenly thought of something. Unable to bear the urge, he steered the flying sword to turn around and flew towards another direction.

The Green Jade Immortal Island was located in the ocean and a place Yang Chen remembered was not very far from there. To be more precise, approximately two thousand miles away. Yang Chen rushed the flying sword with all of his strength and only had to spend three or four more days. This was nothing much, the flying sword which Yang Chen was using currently did not have a very fast speed.

These few days, Yang Chen had almost stuck to flying near the surface of the sea, originally there were many rogue cultivators in the vicinity of the Green Jade Immortal Island, but after Yang Chen had flown one thousand miles, there wasn't any signs of human presence. By the time, he had flown two thousand miles, apart from Yang Chen, only seabirds were present.

He continually released his Spiritual Awareness to look for the signs of human along the journey. The whole journey was several hundred miles long, only after finding small reef shapes did Yang Chen stop.

These several reefs illuminating the ocean surface was precisely the location he had been looking for. Yang Chen again confirmed that nobody was present and then he removed the flying sword from below his feet and directly fell into the ocean, disappeared beneath it in a flash.

After entering, Yang Chen used his Tenth Water Spirit Power; Tenth Water was precisely ocean water. Yang Chen was just like he had returned home, even within the water he was just like walking on ground.

This area of water was absolutely clear, but when one went down the sea far enough, it would turn as dark as night, nothing would be visible. From time to time, a loud, violent noise could be heard, most likely the roars of some unknown sea beasts.

Yang Chen's entire body was as if it had turned into seawater, blending in with the seawater, submerging effortlessly. He did not even have to make any movements, the Spirit Power in the surroundings was frantically rushing towards him, so for just this trivial action, he absolutely did not need to use any Spirit Power.

With this speed, Yang Chen estimated that the seabed would be around thousand meters ahead. What was even more baffling was that, when Yang Chen was travelling in this water, apart from a few small fishes or some lobsters and such, no formidable sea beasts appeared.

Once he stepped on the seabed, Yang Chen's Spiritual Awareness had already explored everything long ago, this was precisely the region which Yang Chen had remembered. After he noticed a few oddly shaped sea rocks, a smile was at last revealed on Yang Chen's face.

"Right here!"

Talking loudly to himself, Yang Chen did not pay the attention to that pressure bearing upon him with the immense weight of a huge chunk of iron, and directly rushed towards that region.

A series of Spell Formations were formed by Yang Chen's hands and together with the Tenth Water attributed Spirit Power, these Spell Formations acted upon the tens of meters long cliff in front of Yang Chen.

"Begin!"

At the center of the cliff, not far from Yang Chen's feet, an entrance suddenly appeared and a beam of light from the entrance appeared in front of him.

Just at the instant the entrance appeared, Yang Chen had already entered it. Soon after Yang Chen had disappeared within the cave, the traces of the cave entrance disappeared at lightning speed and it transformed into a sea rock covered with huge coral again, nothing strange about it.

Within the cave's entrance was a long corridor, completely packed with huge rocks. Along the cave walls, some sort of symbol language was twinkling with radiance. Yang Chen remembered something, these were some sort of ancient language, if he had not used the trick just a moment ago to open the cave entrance, these characters would immediately have turned into sharp weapon which would have demanded his life.

After passing through the corridor, he came across a huge open space. The huge space was completely covered with bright floor tiles. The surrounding area was filled with huge night pearls. The light was completely reflected by the floor, so the entire region was well lit, even more so than during the day.

Yang Chen stopped at the edge of that large open space. Within his memories, he went over all of the fine details about it and soon after that he launched a series of signal Spell Formations, together with some Tenth Water Spirit Power to attack the open space.

Immediately some changes began to happen with the bright open space, it no longer had that bright and smooth appearance but in its place a huge Nautical Map appeared. If a high level expert looked at it from high above, he would surely discover that the huge Nautical Map in front of Yang Chen was precisely a Map of this ocean.

On top of the huge Nautical Map, the blue colored sea surface, as well as the islands were extremely clear. With the region below his feet as the center, the entire ocean in the surroundings was included entirely within this huge Nautical Map. All of the Green Jade Immortal Island's several hundred islands only occupied a very small fragment within this huge area.

On this huge Spell Formation, there were several, continuously extending, bright spots;, some big, some small. The Green Jade Immortal Islands were precisely these bright and small spots, flickering continuously.

Yang Chen simply did not care about anything else and directly walked to the region of the Green Jade Immortal Island and fished out the bottle of the Medicine Garden. Because of the PengLai wood trees last time, the remaining Spirit Power was only one tenth of the original.

He bent down and placed the bottle on the brightest spot and soon after that extended his hand again to form another Spell Formation.

"Without any grievances or hatred, without any cause or reason, you insulted and drove me away, Green Jade Immortal Islands."

The Spell Formation within Yang Chen's hands entered the brightest spot.

"I am not a pushover, as revenge I will take away ten years of your Spirit Power, Green Jade Immortal Islands!"

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Chapter 121 – The Treasure At The Dragon King's Palace

This cave at the seabed was a secret treasure house which the Dragon King had told Yang Chen about, when he was beheading him. This huge open space at the bottom of the sea was also a magic tool to control the ocean within the palace of the Dragon King at the bottom of the sea, the East Sea Nautical Map.

The East Sea Nautical Map was able to illustrate all mountains or creeks above the sea bed, even including the topography of the sea bed. On top of it was the distribution of formidable ocean beasts and at the same time also the distribution of Spirit Veins within the ocean.

Those bright spots were precisely the distribution within the East Sea, every bright spot meant a Spirit Vein and the size and illumination showed the Spirit Power concentration of the Spirit Vein. The larger and the brighter, represented clearly how much more Spirit Power the Spirit Vein had.

The Green Jade Immortal Island's were within the territory of the East Sea, naturally they had to accept the control of the Dragon King of the East Sea, but the Dragon King of the East Sea had long ago concealed this place, so even the currently acknowledged Dragon King didn't have this treasure.

This Nautical Map of the East Sea furthermore had a very important use, that was that the person controlling it could move the Spirit Power within the East Sea Territory however he wished. Yang Chen thoroughly understood how to control the tricks of this treasure and he could extract and move the Spirit Power within these Spirit Veins at all times.

Placing the Bottle of the Medicine Garden on top of the area representing the Green Jade Immortal Island, Yang Chen began to exhaust the Spirit Veins from the Nautical Map of the East Sea.

The region occupied by the Green Jade Immortal Island was indeed a region with abundant Spirit Power: a large number of their veins were enough to rival the master vein of the Pure Yang Palace. These formidable veins had also contributed to the countless experts of the Green Jade Immortal Islands and also made the Green Jade Immortal Islands one of the top sects.

Without caring for any of these, Yang Chen was solely engrossed in controlling the Nautical Map and began to extract the Spirit Power of that region. Immediately, only slight traces of the hundred, previously bright, spots remained, and a thin thread of Water Essence had congealed in the surroundings of the bottle and started entering it.

The congealing speed greatly astonished Yang Chen. The bottle which had required a whole year to be completely filled at the Immortal Falling Well had already been filled by so much within such a brief time, at lightning speed. If this continued, then it would only be a matter of a few hours before it was filled completely.

This was moreover the purest type of tenth water Spirit Power, it basically did not require any kind of transformation and could be absorbed by the bottle of the Medicine Garden directly. Such a great thing, where else could he find it?

What made Yang Chen most happy was that this enormous amount of Spirit Power, was already sufficient to allow him to refine the bottle of the Medicine Garden. What Yang Chen had been able to do previously was at most to receive the medicine garden and lay down an imprint of his Spiritual Awareness, so that the defending sword spell would not attack him, but refining it properly was a completely different matter.

The refining would allow the Medicine Garden to become even more formidable as well as become a treasure intimately bound to Yang Chen. This Medicine Garden was such a luxurious natural resource, how could Yang Chen not treasure it?

The Heavenly Stars Treasure Refining Secrets were unleashed at lightning speed and began the first layer of refining. Previously, because his cultivation was not sufficient and he did not have an enormous supply of Spirit Power, he could not have done anything about it. Even at the Second Fierce Yang Courtyard Yang Chen was not willing to thoroughly extract the Spirit Power of that Di Mai for this kind of thing.

But currently, after the female disciple of the Green Jade Immortal Islands had insulted and driven away Yang Chen without any cause or concern, how could Yang Chen still be courteous? He directly extracted about half of the Green Jade Immortal Islands' Spirit Power. The enormous amount of Spirit Power was enough to allow Yang Chen to completely refine the medicine garden to the first layer.

But the grade of Medicine Garden was very high, refining it forcefully was just barely enough and he needed to fully concentrate on this. This region of the ocean was completely deserted, with only Yang Chen present so he could concentrate fully on refining and had no need to be vigilant.

Even if Yang Chen was already at the Foundation stage and moreover all attributes of the Five Phases of Yin and Yang secrets were at the Foundation stage and he was also already able to use the fourth layer of the Heavenly Stars Treasure Refining Secrets, in front of the Yang Mountain Medicine Garden, he could only refine the first layer of the Heavenly Stars Treasure Refining Secrets.

The Medicine Garden had transformed into a bottomless pit for Spirit Power and began to crazily absorb the Spirit Power, which was also purifying its main body, under Yang Chen's control, allowing it to become even more purified. This process lasted for a whole twenty days. Only then was the first level of the cleansing by Spirit Power completed.

Following this, it was permeated by all types of Spirit Power, each of them inserting the Heavenly Stars Treasure Refining Secrets trace by trace, as if demanding to completely absorb the entire Spirit Power within Yang Chen's body. The Spirit Power transmitted by the Nautical Map was crazily transformed into Yang Chen's Spirit Power, which allowed him to sustain the consumption by the medicine garden.

Even though it was hard work, Yang Chen did not stop for even for a moment; whether it was day or night, he continued to refine. The Spirit Power of other attributes was still not bad, but when the fifth earth True Qi began its refining, small changes suddenly appeared in the bottle of the medicine garden.

The soil in the Medicine Garden was apparently just crudely selected and refined afterwards, but after suddenly receiving the nourishment of the fifth earth True Qi, with this kind of origin Spirit Power, the soil began to transform quickly.

It seemed as if dark oil was added in the yellow soil, frantically absorbing and transforming. A part of the ground had already turned black. Those cultivation resources growing on it were also as if they had received some nourishment and began to grow quickly.

Immersed in the refining, Yang Chen couldn't even sense the passing of time. The Spirit Power within his body was crazily used up, leaving none behind and afterwards, Spirit Power entered from outside of his body and transformed at lightning speed. Then it was was used up again, once again leaving nothing behind. This cycle continued for a long time.

After Yang Chen had reached the Foundation stage, what he needed to do was to consolidate his realm. What was meant by consolidating the realm was precisely to allow him to get completely familiar with the conditions of the meridians in his body, allowing him to get familiar with the cultivation of this realm and the consumption of Spirit Power, so that he would be able to adapt and not lose a realm due to the backlash after consuming an enormous amount of Spirit Power.

The most simple method for this was training for a long period of time. But what Yang Chen was doing currently was precisely something which could be described as that kind of enormous consumption of Spirit Power. But the most fortunate thing was, that his body had an unending stream of Spirit Power, so he didn't need to worry about being unable to absorb Spirit Power, or that perhaps his Spirit Power absorption rate was not sufficient, leading him to lose a realm of cultivation.

The Green Jade Immortal Islands and Yang Chen had no hatred in his previous life, therefore Yang Chen would not do such a thing as destroying their foundation. But Yang Chen was also not someone who allowed others to insult him for no reason, so he had to teach them a lesson.

When the soil within the Medicine Garden had transformed into fertile black earth, which was full of fifth earth True Qi, the bottle of the medicine garden shook once and then produced a brilliant white light, signifying that the first layer of the Heavenly Stars Treasure Refining Secrets had already been refined completely.

At this moment, Yang Chen was counting the time that had passed since he had started refining on his fingers and two months had already passed. Within these two months, the Green Jade Immortal Islands would have probably sunken into chaos.

The Spirit Power emitting rate of the Spirit Veins previously filled with Spirit Power had suddenly slowed by many times, and the Spirit Power rushing forth had also become thinner by much. Any person who was cultivating could sense this situation clearly.

Originally the people had believed that the Spirit Power in the Spirit Vein at their location had dried up and that's why this was happening, but when the news was reported to the higher ups, the elders of the Green Jade Immortal Islands discovered that this kind of situation was happening throughout the entire Green Jade Immortal Islands.

In the end, nobody knew what had happened. Several YuanYing stage expert immediately began their investigation and even a Da Cheng stage expert in seclusion was disturbed, but even after one month of thorough investigation, no results were obtained.

The Green Jade Immortal Islands was as if facing a huge enemy. Everyone knew what the drying up of their Spirit Veins implied. Everyone who knew about this matter, was asked to seal their mouths. Countless disciples were ordered to go out and look for any suspicious signs in a radius of two thousand miles.

Since such a big affair had happened, those female disciples at the gateway were also called back and investigated regarding what had happened recently. Who had come, what did they want, every single piece of information was thoroughly inquired about. Maybe something among this information was related to this affair.

Everyone knew how critical this situation was, so nobody dared to hide anything and told them about who had visited and regarding what happened very clearly one after another, allowing the higher ups of the sect to analyze them.

When the time of Qi Yun Rou, the one who was responsible at the time when Yang Chen had visited, she told them very clearly about everything, but was hesitating whether or not to tell them regarding Yang Chen's matters, but having been seen through by the elder responsible for the investigation, he asked her strictly:

"Are you still hiding something?"

"Disciple does not dare!"

Qi Yun Rou hastily replied and afterwards, clenching her teeth, began to speak about the matter of driving Yang Chen away.

"He had come for an official visit, why did you drive him away?"

The investigating elder deeply wrinkled his brows, his eyes fixed on Qi Yun Rou, he suddenly asked:

"Do you have some hatred towards the Pure Yang Palace?"

"No, elder!"

Qi Yun Rou hastily replied.

"Then do you have any hatred towards this Yang Chen?"

The elder asked again, he had to clearly inquire about this matter, maybe something important was concealed in this.

"I do not, elder!"

Qi Yun Rou replied by shaking her head.

"That youngster, Pure Yang Palace's Yang Chen, did he show proper etiquette or was he arrogant?"

The elder wrinkled his brows even more, the questions also became more and more pointed.

"He was not, elder!"

Qi Yun Rou was feeling wronged all of a sudden, why was the elder asking her these things?

"Then how did he come, you must know, right?"

The elder had already loosened his brows, but nobody among the female disciples responsible for receiving visitors in the surroundings dared to make any sound. They all knew about this elder's temperament, the angrier he was, the friendlier he seemed. Even when his brows were not wrinkled, he was clearly a little angry.

"He had come in on a boat."

Qi Yun Rou remembered everything very clearly, from the time Yang Chen had landed on the coast to the time he had been at the gate.

"Then what do you think, could he use a flying sword or not?"

The elder asked again, nicely.

"He could, elder!"

Qi Yun Rou didn't dare to be neglectful and replied quickly:

"When he was departing, he left using a flying sword."

"Oh, so it was like this!"

The elder nodded his head, he seemingly recalled something suddenly and he asked with a consulting tone:

"Qi Yun Rou, what do you say, since he could use a flying sword, why did he use a boat to come here?"

It was not like nobody had come using a boat before, so Qi Yun Rou naturally knew the reason. Currently she had a faint feeling that things were far from encouraging, but she also had to reply to the elder's question and could only reply, bracing herself:

"He had come using a boat, to convey his respects for my Green Jade Immortal Islands!"

"Yes, he wanted to convey his respects to my Green Jade Immortal Islands, therefore he came by boat!"

The elder nodded his head, using a tone as if he had suddenly gained enlightenment. Suddenly he said:

"But unfortunately, you had no grievance or hatred towards him and the Pure Yang Palace hadn't provoked you and the Pure Yang Palace had also not offended my Green Jade Immortal Islands. Someone else's disciple came to visit us in good faith, but you have driven him away. Is this how my Green Jade Immortal Islands treat fellow daoists of the same path?

The elder's tone was very kind, but Qi Yun Rou did not dare to remain standing anymore and hastily knelt down on the ground, knocking her head against the ground, not daring to lift it up anymore.

The Green Jade Immortal Islands was one of the big sects, so it had to pay clear attention to these etiquettes. As the disciple responsible for greeting visitors, going so far as to neglect a visitor, not just neglecting, simply insulting the visitor, this was precisely throwing away the face of Green Jade Immortal Islands.

Let alone Yang Chen being a fellow daoist, even if he was a mortal enemy, since he had given them respect, they also had to respect him back. Even if they had to fight a huge battle, they still had to wait until the situation had changed. But Qi Yun Rou had gone too far handling the matters like this, how could the elder not be angry?

"Elder, junior apprentice sister Qi has just recently joined the outer disciples and does not understand all of the rules! I request elder to to be lenient in her punishment!"

The responsibility of receiving visitors was naturally not only with Qi Yun Rou, one person of the other senior and junior apprentice sisters on duty said this, and immediately they all kneeled on the ground, pleading for leniency over Qi Yun Rou's matter.

"Qi Yun Rou, you give me a good reason. If your reason is justifiable, then I will also not punish you!"

The elder was not someone who did not allow people to speak their reason, glancing at everyone kneeling down asking for leniency for her, his gaze rested on Qi Yun Rou again.

"This disciple… disciple… had heard that he had used despicable means to climb to the peak of the Heavenly Stairs, thus surpassing senior apprentice sister Shi's record. The troubled senior apprentice sister Shi has been in seclusion, cultivating painstakingly ever since the news had come through."

Qi Yun Rou lifted her head and explained to the elder in a pitiful tone:

"He made senior apprentice sister suffer through that sort of hardship, therefore, this disciple thought…thought…"

"In your opinion, is your senior apprentice sister Shi someone who can't accept a defeat?"

The Elder said this in one breath and then slowly asked:

"My Green Jade Immortal Islands also can't accept a fair defeat, is that right?"

"Disciple does not dare!"

Qi Yun Rou hastily kowtowed again:

"Disciple only thought that he had cheated to climb the Heavenly Stairs and he had also used Senior Apprentice Sister Shi's name to abuse people in the Pure Yang Palace before, he even made the Merit Transferring Disciple let him leave when he just at the qi layer, therefore……"

"Therefore you thought of teaching him a lesson, is that right?"

Affection or tenderness had already appeared on the elder's face and his tone was also gentle.

"Yes, elder, this disciple only thought of teaching him a lesson, that's all!"

Qi Yun Rou did not dare to lift her head again, nor could she look at the elder's expression and replied while kowtowing.

"How did you know that he used despicable and shameless means to climb to the peak of the Heavenly Stairs?"

The elder continued to ask while shaking his head:

"And moreover how do you know that he used the name of your senior apprentice sister inside the Pure Yang Palace to oppress people?"

"This disciple was told by Greatest Heaven Sect's Fellow Daoist Li."

This time Qi Yun Rou didn't dare to hide anything and revealed everything:

"Last time when Fellow Daoist Li had come to visit Senior Apprentice Shi, he said this."

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Chapter 122 – Can Only Look But Not Collect

25 Jul 2016

"He said this, but have you seen this with your own eyes?"

As if the elder had intended to give Qi Yun Rou a lesson for a lifetime, he asked about every detail clearly.

"No, elder!"

Qi Yun Rou knocked her head on the ground again, not daring to make any movement, only able to drop her head in response.

"Then you must have confirmed it from various sides and not just dismissed him by listening to just one side, right?"

The elder again asked.

"I haven't, elder!"

Qi Yun Rou also did not dare to say any useless words, and replied at lightning speed.

"Then I will tell you the truth!"

The elder took a deep sigh and slowly said:

"You say Yang Chen has used shameless and despicable methods to climb to the peak of the Heavenly Stairs. At that time, Cheng Wen Cai of the Greatest Heaven Sect also had questioned this, so afterwards he gathered ten JieDan experts to initiate the Heavenly Stairs again, but Yang Chen was yet again successful in climbing the Heavenly Stairs, Cheng Wen Cai and other nine on the other hand had decided to go against the established precedents and had attacked Yang Chen and thus suffered backlash."

"He didn't cheat, only, before he became a cultivator, he was an executioner. He had killed many people, so the land of illusions were unable to affect him."

The elder who clearly knew about all the details spoke quickly.

"As for you saying that he had used your Senior Apprentice Sister Shi's name to bully the Merit Transferring Disciple…"

The Elder paused.

"Although I don't know the exact details, but that Merit Transferring Disciple betrayed the Pure Yang Palace and became the sect's traitor."

"Surely you would remember the Greatest Heaven Sect's matter at the Desolate Valley? They harboured evil intentions towards the Five Phases Sect. The reason this matter had come out was precisely because of that traitor, Chu Heng."

The Green Jade Immortal Islands was one of the big sects which had personally stepped in to mediate between the Five Phases Sect and the Greatest Heaven Sect, therefore he was extremely clear about this matter:

"Moreover, this Chu Heng was a close friend of Li Qing Chen of the Greatest Heaven Sect. That Fellow Daoist Li you were talking about would probably be him, right?"

"Yes, elder!"

Qi Yun Rou completely hadn't anticipated that there would be such a deep backstory. She had been painstakingly cultivating all this time, so she had paid no attention to outside matters, how could she know so many matters had occurred?

"Only relying on Li Qing Chen's opinion, you have driven away Pure Yang Palace's Yang Chen."

The elder suddenly smiled:

"Previously, Yang Chen had come using a boat for the visit. When that Li Qing Chen had come, did he also use a boat?"

"He did not, elder!"

Qi Yun Rou was almost at the point of weeping, how could she have thought that a trifling person like Yang Chen would make her incur the elder's rage like this?

"Since you don't understand the ways of the world and don't know how to distinguish between right or wrong, making a mistake is difficult to avoid."

The elder had finally made a decision:

"Fine then, you can go to the Law Enforcement Hall yourself to receive your punishment! Seal half of your cultivation base and go to a city to temper yourself, when you start understanding the world, you will be able to open your seals and come back to the island for cultivation at that time!"

"Yes, elder!"

Qi Yun Rou did not dare to say anything more and obediently replied.

The punishment for Qi Yun Rou was merely a minor disturbance, which was quickly engulfed in the major matter of the drying up of the spirit veins. After the first two months of great chaos at the Green Jade Immortal Island, the Spirit Power of the Spirit Veins suddenly returned to normal again, as if nothing had happened in the last two months.

At this time, Yang Chen was holding the Bottle of the Medicine Garden within his hand and was laughing loudly. The bottle within his hand had been passed through the first layer of refining by the Heavenly Stars Treasure Raising Secrets. Adding onto that the nourishment by the fifth earth True Qi, its grade had risen greatly.

The size of the Medicine Garden's space had increased by several tens of hectares, but the growth of those herbs within the garden made him even more happy. Under the nourishment of the fifth earth True Qi, although they hadn't matured much, their quality had increased greatly, with at least a thirty percent increase in their medicinal efficacy.

Under the nourishment of the enormous amount of Spirit Power and fifth earth True Qi, the original piece of master root that had been cut off by Yang Chen had already been completely restored and all of the PengLai Divine Wood branches had grown a lot taller compared to before. Originally it was only three meters tall, now it had increased to more than six meters. The thickness of the trunk, which was only thigh thick initially, had also changed to being as thick as a waist, which made him very happy.

The bottle had been completely filled with Spirit Power, recovering its azure color. The bottle's lid was similarly full of golden Spirit Power.

The more Yang Chen looked at it, the more delighted he became. There were numerous Spirit Veins in this ocean, all of them scattered completely, but if Yang Chen wanted to, he could find sufficient Spirit Veins for cultivation.

This was only one use of the magic tool 'Nautical Map of the East Sea'. Actually the huge rock in which Yang Chen was concealed was a treasury left behind by the Dragon King of the East Sea.

The riches in the palace of the Dragon King were something coveted by everyone. As the Dragon King, he had no option but to carefully conceal all of the most precious items as he could not arrange them brazenly at his palace.

This was the treasury where the real treasures of the Dragon King were hidden. The items there were absolutely not as low-quality as the publicly displayed giant machete or the 3600 catties nine pronged trident, or the 7200 catties Heavenly Halberd, or the 13500 catties stick and so on, placed in the open to scare people.

Things that only rely on weight to scare people are certainly not any high grade material, not even worth looking at for Yang Chen. Those things, apart from changing shape, didn't have any other use. They were also only suitable for people who depend only on brute force.

The Nautical Map of the East Sea was the first treasure within the treasury. Walking past this huge space which formed the Nautical Map of the East Sea, was a lofty palace. The palace was a dazzling sight, richly ornamented and had an aura of treasures soaring to the heavens. Not to mention other things, just this palace alone had surpassed any other palace in the mortal world. Even compared to the Heavenly Palace in Yang Chen's memory of his previous life, this palace did not lose by much.

Walking to the center of the palace, he saw two huge jaden gold scallop shells, arranged on the broad throne at the center of the palace hall. The mouth of shell was widely opened and within the center of the shell an extremely bright pearl was placed. From the pearl a wave of Dragon Qi was being emitted, which could make anyone shiver. Even Yang Chen needed to release a little bit of his blood colored Spiritual Awareness to resist it.

This was a pure Dragon Pearl, the number one treasure within this palace hall. Within the entire palace hall, apart from the Dragon Throne directly facing the gate, there were still eight tables in the surroundings. On top of each was a different type of thing, every one of them was releasing a bright treasure aura, which dazzled people and stunned them, and making them feel an urge to continue even if they didn't want to.

One picture scroll, one long rope, one bottle gourd, one pointed shuttle, two forks like a pair of antlers, one small golden ball and a cup filled with water, on top of the eight tables, these eight things were placed. All of these things seemed extremely delicate, but all of them were at most two feet in size. The difference from the Dragon Pearl was that these things weren't emitting any sort of presence.

Before his rebirth, Yang Chen hadn't seen even one of them. Because in his previous life, these things were too far from his reach. But in this life they would all belong to him.

Although the appearance of these eight objects was ordinary, Yang Chen knew that, since the Dragon King had concealed them there, these were absolutely great treasures which could make anyone drool. Compared to these, those things with just a lot of weight and a big and mysterious appearance were just garbage.

Completely ecstatic, Yang Chen directly rushed into the main palace hall. Naturally, bearing the brunt of his greed was that large dragon pearl. But as soon as he reached the region three meters in front of the Dragon Throne and tried to take a step forward in his excitement, a barrier of light suddenly appeared, barring his way. Regardless of whatever method he tried, Yang Chen was unable to step forward.

The Dragon King of the East Sea had once raised this point: the concealed treasures within the Palace of the Dragon King, all of them had a cultivation restriction. Only if their cultivation could support it, could people break through the Spell Formation and enter the main hall.

There was another way for this too, that was to refine the entire treasury of the palace into one's own magic tool. But this method was even more difficult than the previous one. At least before Yang Chen reached the YuanYing stage, he could not even think about it.

Although Yang Chen could only look at these things, this did not dampen his excitement. These were the concealed treasures of the Dragon King! These tightly hidden goods were already the finest kind of magic tools in the mortal world. So many precious treasures were placed there, waiting for Yang Chen to collect them slowly.

The Dragon Pearl was clearly the core treasure of the palace hall, but Yang Chen had no way to collect it. Having no other option, Yang Chen turned to other regions. Yang Chen attempted all of the jade tables once, but apart from one, he was unable to access the others. The only one which he could access was that one pointed shuttle.

With great excitement, Yang Chen quickly went to the edge of the table and picked up the pointed shuttle and delicately sized it up.

This pointed shuttle seemed to be made of gold but was not gold, seemed to be made of jade but was not jade. For some time Yang Chen was unable to determine which material it was manufactured from. Both of its ends were pointed, as if two speed boats had been fitted together.

His Spiritual Awareness explored the pointed shuttle, inside there was no trace of the original master's Spiritual Awareness, surely it was the Dragon King's concealed treasure. With ease, Yang Chen's Spiritual Awareness laid down an imprint of his own Spiritual Awareness at the core of the Pointed Shuttle. For the time being, this was enough to add the pointed shuttle to Yang Chen's possessions.

A moment after becoming its master, Yang Chen immediately discovered the use of this pointed shuttle. This pointed shuttle was a flying tool, comparable to Elder Wu's Heaven Fleeing Shuttle. But what made it more formidable compared to Heaven Fleeing Shuttle was that not only could it rapidly fly in the sky, it could also move at high speed within water. What surprised Yang Chen even more was that it could still move effortlessly on land, only compared to the sky and water, the speed was a little lower.

This kind of precious item was just a well timed assistance for Yang Chen. Among Yang Chen's flying swords, there was none specialized in speed. The speed of controlled swords was pretty ordinary and he lacked a magic tool which could fly at high speeds. Who could have thought he would find it among the treasures hidden within the Dragon King's Treasury?

This pointed shuttle didn't have any name, so according to its properties, Yang Chen thought of an extremely simple name: Flying Shuttle. For Yang Chen, this was only a tool for flying nothing more. It wasn't worth choosing a dominating name, like Nine Heavens Tenth Earth Magical Fleeing Shuttle or something like that, absolutely pointless.

With a thought from him, the Flying Shuttle turned into a huge sailboat. This was another form of the Flying Shuttle, which was used to float on water. The speed could be controlled by Yang Chen just by his intentions. Although it was a sailing boat, this appearance was merely an ornament, for actually moving it still required Spirit Power. Naturally, when truly exhausted, it could also make use of the natural winds, but at that time the Flying Shuttle would only be like a normal sailboat.

The Flying Shuttle had already been refined by the Dragon King, so with Yang Chen's current level it was unthinkable for him to continue refining. Being perfectly satisfied with receiving the Flying Shuttle, Yang Chen began to move towards the backside of the palace. He had already received so many surprises in the front, what would the backside have?

At the back there was a huge group of palace halls, manufactured in accordance with the Dragon King's palace's style. All kinds of living facilities were available inside, everything that one could think of. Yang Chen knew that this hidden treasury was originally another palace prepared by the Dragon King for himself, though it was unknown whether it was a plan to fall back on it in times of need or just a golden house to keep his mistress. In any case, currently all of this would help Yang Chen.

These halls formed a confinement, on the inside, it had bedroom, a kitchen, a study, a drawing room and so on. All of the facilities were installed completely, and all of the things inside could dumbfound anyone. Any random item, even a teacup or a tray, if it was shown off to any imperial palace of this mortal world, it could easily make the emperor die from shame.

This was simply a natural cultivation cave and moreover an immortal cave with extremely abundant Spirit Power. Compared to Yang Chen's Second Fierce Yang Courtyard, it was more formidable by multiple times. The only unfortunate thing was that Yang Chen could not collect it for the time being and could only hide this region, so that when his strength had sufficiently increased, he could come back again.

After walking around once through the Dragon King's palace, the more Yang Chen saw, the more he grew fond of it. In his previous life, until he had died, he did not own a decent immortal cave, the irony being that, in this life, he could possess the best immortal cave in the mortal world after a short while.

After resting for some time in the immortal cave, Yang Chen estimated that after the chaos for two months, the Green Jade Immortal Islands would have discovered that the Spirit Veins had returned to normal again. He departed from the palace of the Dragon King and, using the Flying Shuttle, directly rushed to the entrance of the Green Jade Immortal Islands.

Within the Flying Shuttle, Yang Chen happily discovered that this Flying Shuttle was so perfectly refined, that Yang Chen did not even need to input Spirit Power, as long as he entered enough Spirit Stones, it was capable of extracting the Spirit Power from the Spirit Stones and use it for flying. Without much hesitation, Yang Chen directly put one of the top grade Spirit Stones, which he had obtained from the Mountain God's place, into it and started enjoying the sensation of flying on the seabed.

The circumstances on the outside could be clearly seen from the inside, but currently, deep within the sea, where everything was pitch black, the surroundings could only be probed by Spiritual Awareness. In his path, every kind of sea beast started to appear, from extremely formidable to very weak. Several powerful beasts also sensed the existence of the Flying Shuttle and wanted to attack it, but in front of the extremely fast speed of the Flying Shuttle, they could only give up.

While coming there from the Green Jade Immortal Islands using his flying sword, Yang Chen had to spend several days, but using the flying shuttle, he only needed a few hours to reach the area.

Collecting the Flying Shuttle, Yang Chen rushed to the surface of the sea and once again used his flying sword to reach the beach outside of the entrance gate. He had entrusted Yong Zhu with the matter of making enquiries about Sun Qing Xue. At that time, they hadn't agreed about the meeting place, so Yang Chen could only try his luck.

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Chapter 123 – A Confrontation It Is Then

Yang Chen had underestimated his position within Yong Zhu's mind, as soon as his figure emerged on the beach, he immediately heard Yong Zhu's surprised voice.

"Grandmaster Yang! Myself has waited for you for two whole months!"

Just as Yang Chen had put away his flying sword, Yong Zhu's voice reached his ears. Immediately looking over, Yong Zhu's figure appeared in his view.

"Sorry for the troubles, fellow daoist Yong!"

Yang Chen smiled, this Yong Zhu had waited for him, so this much courtesy was normal. Although Yang Chen had killed a lot of people, he was still not someone who did not understand the ways of the world.

"Grandmaster, when you were not here, a lot of things happened."

Yong Zhu lamented. At that time the Green Jade Immortal Islands had suddenly taken on a vicious temper and called all loose cultivators and fellow daoists of the same path together and imprisoned them. Every person was asked in detail why they had come to this place, as if they were some kind of thieves. This had really given them a scare.

One of the few big names in the Mortal World suddenly showing such menace made them keep quiet in fear. Nobody dared to say anything and they obediently accepted the arrangements of the Green Jade Immortal Islands, with nobody daring to rebel.

Fortunately, Yong Zhu was considered as an acquaintance, he had friendly relations with some disciples of the Green Jade Immortal Islands, so his situation was a lot better when compared to others. Taking advantage of the opportunity that came from being investigated, Yong Zhu who had known nothing, had quietly asked about the whereabouts of Sun QingXue.

Yang Chen was astonished to find out that the Green Jade Immortal Islands didn't have any disciple by the name of Sun QingXue. Hearing this, Yang Chen was at loss. Could it be that Shi ShanShan hadn't taken Sun QingXue to the Green Jade Immortal Islands? Sun QingXue had a postnatal full spirit root, even though the innate spirit root was different, how could it be possible that she could not fancy the Green Jade Immortal Islands?

But regardless of what was said, the Green Jade Immortal Island didn't have any disciple named Sun QingXue. If he wanted to find her whereabouts, Yang Chen had to look for Shi ShanShan and ask her about it clearly.

If he wanted to find Shi Shan Shan, maybe he would have to go through last time's embarrassment again. Yang Chen wrinkled his brows, he was pondering if he was rushing in trying to establish friendly relations with Sun QingXue. Although he had sown karma with her, and the feeling from that time was moreover pretty good, but if he had to be disgraced by that female disciple of the Green Jade Immortal Islands again, then Yang Chen was not again willing to go through that.

While he was hesitating, somebody had already seen Yang Chen. She was also a female disciple of the Green Jade Immortal Islands, responsible for receiving visitors, moreover she was also there at the time when Qi Sun Rou had embarrassed Yang Chen, only she had not interfered personally.

After Qi Sun Rou had been punished by the elder, she had her cultivation sealed and had been sent to a city to temper her nature. These female disciples didn't dare to be neglectful, seeing Yang Chen, she hastily rushed over there and slightly bowed to him:

"Could it be fellow daoist Yang? Since Sire honored us with his presence, how may I help Sire?"

This exchange left Yang Chen puzzled, could it be that his extracting of spirit power really had an effect on them and they changed their behaviour? But since the other party had asked him, Yang Chen would also not hide. In any case, he had already said that last time, this time he didn't need to say many things, even if he didn't succeed, Yang Chen would remain indifferent.

"Myself is looking to meet with your sect's Shi Fairy, to ask about someone."

Since the other person was polite, Yang Chen would also be polite and revealed his goal.

"Let me first invite fellow daoist Yang! I will immediately notify Senior Apprentice Sister Shi!"

This female disciple responsible for receiving visitors hadn't even led Yang Chen to the lounge and had already replied. Her reaction puzzled Yang Chen even more, not knowing how such a switch from arrogance to deference had come.

But this was also good. Since the attitude of the Green Jade Immortal Islands had suddenly changed, Yang Chen would also not let the previous incident affect the relationship between him and Sun fairy.

Yang Chen settled himself within the visitor's residence of the Green Jade Immortal Islands. Yong Zhu didn't care much about appearances and immediately followed after Yang Chen. He would become a joke if he missed any opportunity to become friends with a pill concocting master who could refine a second grade foundation stage pill while he had just reached the Foundation stage himself.

While waiting for Shi ShanShan, Yang Chen was thinking about her life carefully. She had been a cultivation genius all along, whether it was within her sect or after her ascension to the Spiritual World or the Immortal World, being cold and without any mate, she had obtained the nickname of snow plum fairy.

Last time when he had seen her, Shi ShanShan was already at the peak of the Foundation stage and travelling outside. This time, she should have already reached the JieDan stage.

The manner of the Green Jade Immortal Islands had been very proper, they didn't let Yang Chen wait for long. On one side they properly settled Yang Chen, on the other side they immediately sent a summoning flying sword back to inform the sect. The disciple there immediately informed Shi ShanShan, who was in the middle of cultivation.

"Yang Chen? Pure Yang Palace?"

Shi ShanShan basically didn't have any impression of Yang Chen. Frankly speaking, at that time at the execution grounds, meeting an ordinary executioner, although the things he had said had some impact on her, she hadn't asked Yang Chen's name at that time, so naturally she did not remember him.

But after it was mentioned that Yang Chen was from Pure Yang Palace, Shi ShanShan immediately recalled Yang Chen's identity. The Greatest Heaven Sect's Li QingChen had admired Shi ShanShan for many years and had frequently tried to get in her good graces. While talking with her, he had also mentioned some new cultivation talents and Yang Chen's name was one among them, but the comments regarding him were not particularly good.

Moreover, when Yang Chen had climbed to the peak of the Heavenly Stairs, his name had greatly resonated. Naturally it had also passed to Shi ShanShan's ears. But she had only heard the name of Pure Yang Palace's Yang Chen. As for who the specific person was, she absolutely did not think of the ordinary executioner she had met at the execution ground.

But thanks to Li QingChen, Shi ShanShan knew that Yang Chen was precisely that executioner she had met previously. When she heard that Yang Chen had wanted to meet her, Shi ShanShan was extremely baffled, but hearing that Yang Chen only wanted to know about a person's whereabouts, Shi Shan Shan immediately realized that Yang Chen wanted to know about the whereabouts of Sun QingXue.

Shi ShanShan didn't have a bad impression towards Yang Chen. An executioner kills people, although he had killed many, Yang Chen's words from that time, 'Every debt has a debtor, you and I have no past grudges, nor recent hatred, this is my place of duty, executing orders, please pardon me!', told that investigating the reason was not Yang Chen's responsibility.

But, even without caring about Li QingChen's words, Yang Chen's reputation in her mind was not very good.

Most of all, Shi Fairy had recently heard that one of her junior apprentice sisters, Qi Yun Rou, who had yet to congeal her dan had been punished because she had been driving away Yang Chen, by an elder. Although Shi ShanShan also felt that Qi Yun Rou had to travel outside to train, Yang Chen being the fuse had caused her to loathe him.

"Just when the sect is in troubled times… Fine, I will meet him and tell him about the whereabouts of Sun QingXue and immediately ask him to beat it!"

Shi ShanShan made her decision and rapidly flew towards the visitors' residences.

From Shi ShanShan's cave to the sect's visitors' residences, it was at least several hundred miles. Shi ShanShan was a core disciple, so her cave was located within the depths of the Green Jade Immortal Islands, but apparently she had a very fast flying sword. After just one night had passed and the sky turned bright, Shi ShanShan had already arrived there while Yang Chen was chatting with Yong Zhu.

Yang Chen was chatting with Yong Zhu in full swing. Yong Zhu was fond of travelling, he knew more about some recent matters than Yang Chen, which he was ecstatically explaining to him, while making gestures with his hands and feet. On the other side, Yang Chen was also concentrated on listening and nodded in agreement from time to time.

Suddenly Yang Chen made a gesture with his hand to stop him and his gaze turned outside. Yong Zhu was also startled, then he also hastily turned his gaze to the outside and saw a white figure flash through the sky. In the next moment, Shi ShanShan's cool and elegant face appeared in front of the two of them.

Nobody had had said anything when Shi ShanShan had already turned towards Yang Chen's face. Only after glancing at him for few seconds did her gaze turn again, to Yong Zhu's body this time. When looking at Yang Chen, there was nothing in her gaze, but when looking at Yong Zhu, a trace of shine flashed through her eyes.

A portion of the formless pressure of a JieDan stage expert pressed upon Yong Zhu, who was at the peak of the Foundation stage. He immediately realized that he was wedged between Shi Fairy and Yang Chen and had perhaps was causing some inconvenience.

"Ah, Myself has suddenly remembered something, I still haven't paid a visit to a good friend of mine, that won't do, I will immediately hurry over to meet him!"

Facing the cold as frost Shi Fairy, Yong Zhu immediately understood his wrongs and using the pretense of meeting a friend, he immediately rushed out of there, not even daring to turn his head.

Shi Shan Shan's gaze turned to Yang Chen again, but the recent pressure which was put on Yong Zhu wasn't removed, instead it was pressing on Yang Chen with even greater intensity.

Yang Chen did not care much about this kind of pressure, but seeing that Shi Fairy still hadn't said anything and was pressuring him, Yang Chen couldn't help but feel anger and said to her:

"Shi Fairy, I am an executioner, who has killed many without feeling any guilt. What I am completely unafraid of is precisely this kind of killing intent. Shi Fairy, if you have something to say, say it clearly."

While speaking, Yang Chen was sizing up Shi Fairy's body without even blinking.

Shi ShanShan's appearance hadn't changed much compared to when he had met her all those years ago. In this realm, as long as Shi Fairy did not cross half of her life expectancy, her appearance would basically remain the same. But Yang Chen was unconsciously somewhat amazed by this.

If it were not for finding Sun QingXue, Yang Chen would never have taken the initiative to provoke the cool and elegant snow plum fairy of later generations.

"Why did you want to meet with me?"

Shi ShanShan coldly asked. Seeing Yang Chen wantonly gaze at her body, Shi ShanShan became more and more convinced that Yang Chen was not a good person, but since Yang Chen had properly visited her, Shi ShanShan would also not become hostile.

"I want to know the whereabouts of Sun QingXue!"

Yang Chen did not have anything in common with Shi Fairy. If he was allowed to pick, he would rather prefer people like Yong Zhu, who were entertaining to converse with and moreover knew the ways of the world. Therefore, Yang Chen's manner was not very good and he had directly asked his problem. As long as he received his answer, Yang Chen planned to immediately turn around and leave.

"Little Sister Sun has already been arranged to go to the Clear Sky Sect!"

Shi ShanShan hadn't concealed any information, even after seeing such an attitude of Yang Chen. Hearing her words, the relationship between her and Sun QingXue relationship was not that shallow, since she had used 'little sister' to address her.

Yang Chen was startled, originally he had believed that in this life, since Sun QingXue had been taken away by Shi ShanShan, would not enter her original sect, but he hadn't anticipated that, although the affairs of life were not constant, she had still entered the Clear Sky Sect.

What had truly happened was something Yang Chen could not know. It could only be assumed that he would find out the truth after he could find Sun QingXue. Thinking this, Yang Chen immediately stood up and cupped his hands towards Shi ShanShan:

"Many thanks, I will take my leave!"

Concise and compact, without any nonsense, he directly walked towards the gate of the visitors' residences, intending to leave immediately.

"Yang Chen!"

Shi ShanShan hadn't wanted to stop him. Initially she had only wanted to take a look at this person who had used her name to bully others, but at the same time, when Yang Chen brushed past her, she suddenly thought of something and called him.

"What's the matter?"

Yang Chen was also not in a good mood, Shi ShanShan had been coldly staring at him the entire time, as if he owed her some kind of gratitude and her tone of speaking was also very rude.

"In the future, never use my name!"

Shi ShanShan threw this sentence and directly turned around, not caring whether Yang Chen had heard her or not. Now, even after the words had been said, if Yang Chen still continued to be stubborn, she wouldn't mind teaching him a lesson.

Shi ShanShan wanted to leave, but this time Yang Chen did not ignore her. Turning around, he directly obstructed her path:

"Wait a minute, Shi Fairy, explain your words. Who said that I used your name for my affairs?"

"You should know about the matters you did yourself!"

Shi Fairy's tone had already become cold to the point which could make people tremble. Surprisingly Yang Chen had still denied it. This person had already entered the list of names with whom she would never associate.

Li QingChen was very skilful with his words. The matter regarding Yang Chen and Chu Heng had been expressed very tactfully. Within Shi ShanShan's mind, it was already an exception for the Pure Yang Palace to accept Yang Chen, who was an executioner, but Yang Chen had still used her name to bully his teacher. This was simply the greatest sin below the heavens.

Normally, from where would Yang Chen, an ordinary mortal, learn cultivation, if not from the Merit Transferring Disciple? But who would have thought that Yang Chen would force Chu Heng out of the Pure Yang Palace and even made him a traitor? This was simply not loyal or filial, but he still had the nerve to act puzzled.

"Explain your words!"

As if the air in Yang Chen's lungs had exploded, the blood colored river within his Spirit Sea came out as a huge wave, a formless killing intent came out and attacked Shi ShanShan:

"Although this Yang Chen is not a great talent, I still haven't degraded enough to use another's name to handle my affairs!"

Suddenly the scenery before Shi ShanShan's eyes turned dark. The huge curtain of frightening killing intent was completely submerging Shi ShanShan. Even though she was at the JieDan stage, at this moment she could not bear Yang Chen's wrath. At this moment Shi Shan Shan was feeling as if she was within an ocean of blood, unprecedented fear was making her body shiver uncontrollably.

But Shi ShanShan was stubborn and hadn't completely lost her persistence. Under the onslaught of Yang Chen's killing intent, biting her teeth tightly, Shi ShanShan firmly stood her ground in front of Yang Chen's killing intent. After facing this round, Shi Shan Shan forced herself to say:

Don't tell me that one of the successor disciples of the Greatest Heaven Sect is accusing you wrongly? Do you dare to have a confrontation with him?"

"Good! A confrontation it is! You should ask that son of a bitch to meet me in the Pure Yang Palace. I will keep him company to the end!"

Yang Chen, in his fierce anger, threw this line, then he turned around to step on his flying sword and disappeared in a flash.

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Chapter 124 – Let's See Who Is Faster

31 Jul 2016

Yang Chen was so angry that he wanted to leave immediately, but he had forgotten that this was the territory of the Green Jade Immortal Islands. The killing intent he had released without any restraint just a moment ago had alarmed the experts of the Green Jade Immortal Islands.

Because of the anomaly last time regarding the Spirit Veins, the Green Jade Immortal Islands had arranged for elders to guard even the inside of the sect. The killing intent which had suddenly been released by Yang Chen had made the elder, Guan Yueying, who was overseeing the gate of the sect angry.

"Who dares to behave so atrociously at Green Jade Immortal Islands?!"

Her loud voice resounded over the entire island.

Just as Yang Chen had used flown to the seaside, that voice resounded in his ears. Not only the voice, even the formidable Spiritual Awareness contained within the voice exploded within his ear.

Bang!

Yang Chen's Spirit Sea suddenly erupted and clashed with the formidable Spiritual Awareness, but in the end, Yang Chen's cultivation was still too shallow. Even though he had formed his Spirit Sea, it was also only at the level of a peak JieDan stage expert, how could it compare to the Spiritual Awareness of that other person, who had cultivated for several centuries? Just merely clashing with the Spiritual Awareness immediately made a shock pass through his mind, as if his consciousness was hit by a huge hammer, and he directly fell off the flying sword.

While his body was still in the air, Yang Chen could not help but spit out a mouthful of blood. Nevertheless, in his ear, a faint gasp of surprise resounded.

Yang Chen did not dare to be careless and just before he was going to fall into the water, he had stopped the chaos in his spirit sea from increasing with great difficulty and tried to ease up the acute pain rampaging in his body; calling back his flying sword, he wrapped himself in his Flying Shuttle. The Flying Shuttle formed a perfect parabola and rapidly advanced into the sea surface headlong.

"Where are you going!?"

A loud sound resounded within his ears again, but this time it was not an attack through Spiritual Awareness, but rather elder Guan Yueying personally chasing behind him on her flying sword. In the clash just moments ago, she had already left behind a Spiritual Awareness imprint on Yang Chen's body. How could she tolerate a youngster escaping in front of her eyes?

Although it was true that the Green Jade Immortal Islands was passing through troubled times, it was still not so bad that a junior could behave atrociously at the Green Jade Immortal Islands. Yang Chen had gone too far releasing his killing intent. Who did he think he was? Most excessive was that, after committing the act, he had still thought of running away, as if it was such an easy matter.

In Guan Yueying's eyes, if they allowed Yang Chen to depart just like that, then it would certainly be a slap on Green Jade Immortal Islands' face. No matter why Yang Chen had come, no matter which sect Yang Chen belonged to, since he had dared to provoke the Green Jade Immortal Islands, he had to receive his punishment!

Initially she had believed that just the loud shout containing his Spiritual Awareness would be enough to make Yang Chen lose consciousness and then he would be easily captured and dealt with. But she hadn't expected that Yang Chen surprisingly would clash his Spiritual Awareness with her and even more surprisingly, that the blow would be able to distract her.

Over these past years, her words had been of enormous weight in the Green Jade Immortal Islands, she had already forgotten the last time someone had dared to ignore her commands, but currently Yang Chen wanted to flee in spite of everything, which was extremely ludicrous to her.

With her command, her flying sword flew out chasing after Yang Chen within the sea. Elder Guan Yueying was water attributed, but surprisingly Yang Chen still thought that he could flee from her within the sea, truly laughable.

Guan Yueying did not want to kill Yang Chen immediately, she had only thought of teaching him a lesson. With her control over her flying sword, she absolutely did not have to worry about Yang Chen's life. But just a moment after she had urged on to chase after Yang Chen, she surprisingly discovered that Yang Chen's speed was quicker than hers.

Within the sea, the Flying Shuttle hadn't lost even a bit of its speed. And moreover, since Yang Chen had already put in a top grade spirit stone, even if he couldn't use even a trace of spirit power at this moment and was seriously injured, it was still capable of fleeing at high speed according to Yang Chen's thoughts.

Yang Chen had still not lost consciousness and although Elder Guan Yueying's Spiritual Awareness was formidable, Yang Chen's spirit sea had erupted with unfathomable strength and had firmly blocked the attack of the peak YuanYing stage elder and he had only spat out a mouthful of blood, but still without losing consciousness.

So long as Yang Chen was awake, he was capable of using the highest possible speed. This time he had no other alternative than rushing towards the direction with the most open area. Desperately rushing the flying shuttle onward, he did not even dare to turn around.

Yang Chen knew how bad the contact between the Spiritual Awareness' was just a moment ago. Not to mention the Green Jade Immortal Islands, even at the Pure Yang Palace, such a capable person would certainly be considered carefully. At that time, he was so angry that he forgot to restrain his breath, the consequence of which was the current situation.

The anger of a YuanYing stage expert was absolutely not something which Yang Chen could endure. Apart from desperately running away, he had no other option. Fortunately, as long as Yang Chen himself could control the flying shuttle without using spirit power, he would get enough time to heal.

Yang Chen knew who the person chasing him was. Elder Guan Yueying was famous for her fiery temper, if Yang Chen had not run away at that time, he would first have his cultivation crippled, everything else would be left for later. Apart from fleeing with all of his might, he had no other way.

The collision between the Spiritual Awareness' had turned his spirit sea into an earth shattering mess. Although Yang Chen had tried to resist with great difficulty, it was still out of sorts. First he swallowed a healing medicine, slowly restoring the injuries in his body, then he sat down in the posture of Five Hearts Towards The Heavens and began to cultivate the Three Purities Secrets. In this realm, what could be a better way to nurse his Spiritual Awareness than the Three Purities Secrets?

While Guan Yueying pursued him with all her might, Yang Chen began to silently treat his injuries within the Flying Shuttle. In any case, the Flying Shuttle had already been set in a definite direction. Covering several thousands of miles would take at least several days, even with the high speed of the flying shuttle. Until Yang Chen controlled the flying shuttle and stopped it, the Flying Shuttle could only rush forward.

Currently Yang Chen had discovered that although Guan Yueying's speed was not quicker than him, Guan Yueying had left an imprint of Spiritual Awareness on him. Before his Spiritual Awareness hadn't recovered completely, he could not throw Guan Yueying off his trail, so he might as well just heal calmly.

The more Guan Yueying chased, the angrier she grew. She was a peak YuanYing stage expert, an elder whose words had enormous weight at the Green Jade Immortal Islands. Even within the entire cultivation world, let alone the 'righteous path alliance', if someone among the devil disciples of the devil path confronted her, they would also be considered extremely foolish even among their brethren.

But right now, she had been thoroughly infuriated because of Yang Chen. Other than behaving atrociously at the gate of the Green Jade Immortal Islands, he was surprisingly still daring to flee under her nose? If Yang Chen was allowed to escape, how would the Green Jade Immortal Islands raise their head among sects of the same path again?

The quicker Yang Chen's flying shuttle fled, the angrier Guan Yueying became. She had even used some cultivation secrets to increase her speed and had exchanged the ordinary flying sword under her feet and began to chase in the direction in which Yang Chen was fleeing. On the sea surface, she left behind a long, white mark, as if a sharp blade had streaked across it.

With one heavenly circulation of spirit power, the extreme chaos within Yang Chen's spirit sea eased up by a lot. Swallowing a second grade healing pill, Yang Chen began to analyze the circumstances.

The damage caused to the spirit sea by Guan Yueying's first attack made Yang Chen admire the strength of these old timers, but he himself had also not done too bad. For a person who had just reached the Foundation stage not too long ago, to be able to resist the attack of a YuanYing stage expert and merely sustaining a few injuries and even being able to escape, this was not any humiliation, instead it was an achievement!

Once he thought of other party's chase, Yang Chen could not help but turn around to take a look. The Flying Sword was at the seabed and the darkness around him made him unable to see anything. Guan Yueying had left a trace on Yang Chen's body and was not worried about losing him, even if he escaped to the ends of the world. She was flying above the surface of the sea without any intention of entering.

Although Yang Chen could not see the force chasing after him, he was clearly aware of the approaching danger. This kind of faint sensation was constantly on his mind, making Yang Chen feel nervous and uneasy at all times.

Even Guan Yueying hadn't anticipated that Yang Chen would be capable of sensing how near she was. Yang Chen's spirit sea was formidable and Gao Yueying was chasing Yang Chen from the trace of spiritual awareness she left on his body. But from the trace, Yang Chen could also sense her proximity, even though Yang Chen's spirit sea was still rummaging about.

This was completely out of his expectations. All along he had believed that apart from releasing killing intent and imitating demon beasts, his spirit sea only had a formidable strength, but he hadn't anticipated this kind of pleasant surprise.

Although the condition of the spirit sea had become better, Yang Chen was not able to suppress the anger within his heart. Shi ShanShan this woman, how highly did she think of herself? 'I, Yang Chen, need to use your name to handle my affairs?'

Clearly Shi Shanshan did not know how to conduct herself. Though she herself had not investigated this matter, she surprisingly wanted Yang Chen to have a confrontation with the instigator, Li QingChen. Could there be anyone more foolish in the world?

Demanding a confrontation with Li QingChen clearly explained that, after Li QingChen had 'informed' her, she had betrayed him. After anyone heard about that, who would dare to be at ease and tell her anything?

In addition to that, demanding a confrontation in someone's presence was a mistake within mistakes. Leaving aside the question whether Li QingChen would agree or not. At that time, if Shi ShanShan was unable to gather them successfully, that would certainly cause great damage to her reputation. Even if she was able to gather them successfully, from where would Li QingChen gather evidence of Yang Chen using her name to handle his affairs?

In case this happened, Shi ShanShan's criticism towards Yang Chen would be completely fruitless and she would moreover leave behind an impression an egomaniac who heard what she wanted to hear. The Green Jade Immortal Islands certainly did not educate its disciples properly, if this kind of talented disciple did not know how to handle even this simple kind of matter.

Another person who made Yang Chen angry was the elder Guan Yueying who was pursuing him relentlessly. She did not go to ask the disciple of her sect about the matter and instead stubbornly chased behind Yang Chen to maintain the face of her Green Jade Immortal Islands. Yang Chen was also not someone who would go down without a fight.

Only because of a trifling matter like this, she had left all major affairs she was responsible for as an elder and was still pursuing him relentlessly. Whether for good or bad, Yang Chen still possessed his memories as a Great Principal Golden Immortal. This was the first time in this life that someone had put him in such a sorry state.

The more he was forced, the more stubborn Yang Chen became. 'Do you want to chase me? I will allow you to chase me! In any case, since you can't even catch me within the sea, how could you even hope to do so in the sky?'

Guan Yueying's cultivation base of the peak YuanYing stage couldn't make Yang Chen bow down, instead evoking his fighting spirit. He had enough top grade spirit stones to insert into the flying shuttle for several years. If one piece was not sufficient, he still had eight more. If Guan Yueying, a peak YuanYing stage expert was ready to chase after a Foundation stage expert for nine years, then she should bring it on!

On the surface of the sea, a marvelous scene could be seen: Green Jade Immortal Islands' elder Guan was controlling her flying sword and could be seen flying towards the East China Sea. Elder Guan was fuming with rage, which could seen on her face, and nobody knew the person who was responsible for provoking her to this extent.

Guan Yueying also couldn't help her anger. She had already been chasing after Yang Chen for a full twenty hours and not only had she not caught him, she had also chased him for a long distance. Normally, a Foundation stage junior flying with all of his strength, being able to maintain this speed for such a long time under the pressure of a peak YuanYing stage expert was already an extraordinary achievement, but not only had Yang Chen persisted for such a long time, he wasn't showing any intention of stopping, which made Guan Yueying even angrier.

When had a trifling Foundation stage cultivator forced a peak YuanYing stage expert to chase with all her speed for such a long time? Moreover this was also when Yang Chen was injured and had already spat out blood, if this matter came out, what would remain of Elder Guan's face? What would remain of the Green Jade Immortal Islands' reputation?

Both of them were extremely stubborn, none willing to bow first. Moreover in Yang Chen's case, he had no other choice. If he stopped, he would be immediately captured by Guan Yueying, which would mean that at least his cultivation would be abolished, to maintain Green Jade Immortal Islands' reputation. How could Yang Chen be ready to become another sect's stepping stone? Most of all the sect of a haughty person like Shi ShanShan.

After this chase had lasted for three days, in the Flying Shuttle: Yang Chen's injuries had already stabilized and his spirit sea was also not that chaotic anymore, having begun to restore to its original state.

Because of this time's damage to the spirit sea, Yang Chen had made a pleasant discovery, the long blood river within his spirit sea and the fifth earth soil, together with PengLai Divine Wood had formed a strong framework. Regardless of how many injuries the spirit sea received, all of them would be supported completely and it would not collapse because of them. This was certainly a nice surprise for him. If it were not for the injuries this time, he would also not have discovered that his spirit sea was so formidable.

The alleviation of the spirit sea's injuries allowed Yang Chen to have an even greater ease in fleeing. Very quickly after he had finished the cultivation of the Three Purities Secrets, he discovered a dot of light within his spirit sea.

That was precisely the trace of Spiritual Awareness which Guan Yueying had left within his spirit sea. Above this dot of light, an extremely thin thread could be seen, barely connecting the rear of the Flying Shuttle with some other region. Yang Chen knew that this was Guan Yueying's spiritual awareness pursuing him.

The extremely small trace of spiritual awareness had raised great interest in Yang Chen. Under the effect of the Three Purities Secrets, the spirit sea hadn't suffered any critical injuries and had almost healed. Currently, Yang Chen could already use about eighty percent strength of his spirit sea and he could begin to deal with this spiritual awareness mark.

What gave Yang Chen some headache was if he should completely refine this mark, which would make Guan Yueying lose his trail or if he should seize the opportunity and make Guan Yueying suffer something of which she could never speak of?

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Chapter 125 – Want To Die? I'll Help You!

31 Jul 2016

Within the sky, Guan Yueying did not have to face any attack from formidable sea beasts as, first, they would be unable to catch up with Guan Yueying's speed, and second, attacks from the water could not reach Guan Yueying within the sky, so throughout the entire journey she hadn't received any attacks from sea beasts.

The most formidable sea beasts did not come above two hundred meters within the sea and Yang Chen flying speed was even more rapid than Guan Yueying. At the same time, the Flying Shuttle was also able of concealing its traces, so his path within the ocean was even less obstructed.

In the end, Yang Chen still hadn't restored his spirit sea to the state before the spiritual awareness mark was made. In his previous life, Yang Chen had patiently bore everything, so in this life Yang Chen could also endure facing such a powerful enemy.

After three more days had passed, Yang Chen sensed that, within six days, he had already fled several thousands of miles, but Guan Yueying was still chasing him. Although the distance between them was continuously increasing, she had the spiritual awareness imprint to show the way and hadn't stopped for even one moment.

Finally Yang Chen's spirit sea had recuperated properly. At that time, Guan Yueying had struck suddenly and hadn't caused any irreparable damage to his spirit sea. Under the formidable recovery ability of the Three Purities Secrets and after six days of recuperation, his spirit sea was finally restored to the same state as before.

According to Yang Chen's perception, the restored spirit sea had become even tougher and stronger compared to before. The frame of fifth earth true qi, the blood river and the PengLai Divine Wood trees had become even more robust. Although there was no large improvement in the overall amount of spiritual awareness, the quality had still slightly improved this time.

Guan Yueying was still persevering in her chase. She had also sensed that Yang Chen was relying on an exceptionally good magic tool to escape from her and his injuries still hadn't healed completely. But fleeing continuously for six days, without stopping had already won some admiration in Guan Yueying's heart. There was no Foundation stage junior who could persevere with Guan Yueying chasing them for a full six days and six nights.

Suddenly, Guan Yueying discovered that her spiritual awareness imprint on Yang Chen's body had been accessed by someone and a voice suddenly appeared within her mind:

"Senior, you and I have no past hatred, is it absolutely necessary to go all out?"

Actually Yang Chen had just used the Beast Controlling Secrets to penetrate that marking with his own spiritual awareness, as, in simple terms, it could be said to be an ability for people to exchange their thoughts and was similar to the time when Yang Chen had communicated with She Kui and Xie Sha in the beginning.

At first, Guan Yueying was greatly startled. She had never before thought that someone could unexpectedly communicate through the spiritual awareness imprint she had made and that it would moreover happen directly within her mind. This sudden shock made this peak YuanYing stage expert cry out in fear.

But after the initial shock had passed away, the only thing left behind was the suppressed anger. Not only had Yang Chen behaved arrogantly in the territory of the Green Jade Immortal Islands, afterwards he had also escaped, fleeing punishment and was now going as far as asking her about going all out. Thinking about this, Guan Yueying hated that she could not capture Yang Chen immediately and teach him a lesson to the bones.

"You have behaved arrogantly at my sect's gate, but I am ready to forgive you for this chase, as long as you agree to seal your cultivation and kowtow at the gate of my sect for one month as a warning for others. Then I am ready to let go of this matter!"

Guan Yueying was an elder of the Green Jade Immortal Islands. Although she was enraged, she had not forgotten the appropriate behaviour as an elder in these kinds of matters. Yang Chen's crime was not as serious to get him a death penalty and as a cultivator who had cultivated for so long, she would not change her principles just because of a minor offence. She hadn't thought of killing Yang Chen from the beginning, only capturing him.

Yang Chen completely believed elder Guan's words, he was convinced that, as long as he sincerely and obediently knelt at the gate of the Green Jade Immortal Islands for one month, the higher ups of the Green Jade Immortal Islands would not look into the matter. But believing her words was a completely different matter from following them.

"Sorry, I am very busy and have no time to delay over here!"

Yang Chen's intentions were passed on within Guan Yueying's mind and clearly expressed his rejection.

"Then I will not only capture you, but after capturing you, I will contact your sect and ask them what your master has been teaching you!"

Yang Chen's refusal made Guan Yueying angry again. This time, even Yang Chen's sect was implicated.

Guan Yueying hadn't anticipated that her words would have completely offended Yang Chen. Hearing that Guan Yueying would cause trouble for Gao Yue in the future, Yang Chen exploded with anger and immediately made his resolve.

"Since you have not given me face!"

Yang Chen's thought, filled with threatening menace was directly passed on through Guan Yueying's spiritual awareness imprint:

"Then you must not blame me for being impolite!"

The Flying Shuttle suddenly turned around and started rushing towards Guan Yueying's direction. Hearing Yang Chen's words, Guan Yueying was also furious. A trifling foundation stage youngster was daring to be impudent in front of a YuanYing stage ancestor? Who did he think he was?

"Youngster, you are courting death!"

Naturally Guan Yueying did not care about Yang Chen's threat, but since Yang Chen had turned around and was rushing towards her, she had no need for chasing him, she could easily capture him now.

Her fated flying sword immediately flew out. This time, Guan Yueying did not plan on giving Yang Chen any opportunities. The main problem was Yang Chen's flying tool. Guan Yueying absolutely could not tolerate Yang Chen running away in front of her again and again. When they come into contact, Guan Yueying had to destroy that flying tool first.

At this moment, Yang Chen was also extremely enraged. He had no great hatred with Guan Yueying. If she tried to find the whole story, she could easily see that this incident was caused by Shi ShanShan, but she was hell bent on making Yang Chen kowtow and apologise. But if this could be tolerated what could not? If Guan Yueying was not so deeply settled on teaching him a lesson, Yang Chen would also not have talked in this tone.

The distance between the two people was diminishing very quickly. Originally the distance between them had stretched to several hundred miles in six days and six nights, but with Yang Chen and Guan Yueying's speed, the distance between them had now almost dropped to zero.

Guan Yueying had already prepared properly. She had to teach this youngster, who did not know the immensity of heaven and earth, a good lesson and make him know that that Green Jade Immortal Islands were not something which anyone could casually insult.

Without waiting for Guan Yueying to respond, Yang Chen had already controlled Guan Yueying's spiritual awareness imprint and threw it into the blood river.

Bang!

That unbounded killing intent which could make even a Da Cheng stage expert frightened stiff, directly invaded Guan Yueying's mind through that spiritual awareness imprint.

Although Guan Yueying was already a peak YuanYing stage expert, at this moment, she was no different from the people Yang Chen had already killed. This killing intent could scare even the immortal officials of the Heavenly Court, compared to them Guan Yueying was just a mere YuanYing stage youngster of the mortal world, who absolutely didn't have the power to resist. After an instant of alarm, she immediately lost consciousness.

Elder Guan was flying at high speed, her body still on the flying sword, but she had already lost consciousness. Her natal flying sword suddenly lost control and automatically entered her body. Her white clothes made her seem like a Immortal, forming a beautiful parabola in the sky, similar to the time Yang Chen had entered the sea at the Green Jade Immortal Islands.

Fortunately, by this time, Yang Chen's Flying Shuttle had also hurried over there and had caught Guan Yueying's body before falling into the sea. Otherwise, even if Yang Chen had not attacked, Guan Yueying's body would have been completely devoured by sea beasts. It was not like she would have woken up by falling into water after having been stunned by Yang Chen's killing intent.

Now a YuanYing stage ancestor was lying not too far from him. The space inside of the Flying Shuttle was big enough for Guan Yueying to lie down.

Although she had already lived for hundreds of thousands of years, she still had a young face. It had to be said that the Green Jade Immortal Islands pay good attention when picking disciples. This elder Guan Yueying would be considered a gorgeous woman at any sect.

But at this moment, Yang Chen was certainly not in the mood for looking at a beautiful woman. He was thinking about how to resolve this matter.

Guan Yueying was not an ordinary person, she was an elder of the Green Jade Immortal Islands and a famous person in the cultivation world. The Green Jade Immortal Islands was a big sect, comparable to the Greatest Heaven Sect. Yang Chen certainly could not offend the Green Jade Immortal Island at this time, otherwise, maybe the sect extermination would happen even earlier.

If he killed Guan Yueying, it would clearly mean that he had become hostile to them. Yang Chen did not want to create troubles for Pure Yang Palace and Gao Yue, but unfortunately, Guan Yueying who was currently lying in front of him, would certainly be difficult to deal with.

Not to mention about dealing with her, how would he manage Guan Yueying after she woke up? He could not kill her, but how could he make her abandon her investigation? That was the most important matter.

Yang Chen had already completely taken care of the spiritual awareness mark made by Guan Yueying. With Guan Yueying captured, things would be much easier.

When Guan Yueying woke up, the first thing she saw was not Yang Chen, but rather a sharp flying sword pointed between her eyebrows, the pointed end already slightly pricking her skin.

After some slight movements, the color of Guan Yueying's face changed. She could not use even a trace of spirit power as if her cultivation had been sealed by someone. This made Guan Yueying completely terrified. Nobody would like the sensation of being taken advantage of.

Now, she started remembering that, before she lost her consciousness, there was a sea overflowing with blood. It still gave her a shiver. What sort of person could have that sort of killing intent? Surprisingly even a peak YuanYing stage expert like her couldn't withstand it?

"I don't want to kill people!"

Yang Chen's voice echoed in her ears. Afterwards he appeared in front of her, looking at Guan Yueying:

"But I am not afraid to kill people! Do you believe me?"

Nodding her head, although she was a little panicky looking at Yang Chen, Guan Yueying was after all a peak YuanYing stage expert. She had seen a countless number of such spectacles and had also seen many battles. After her initial panic, she quickly regained her calm.

But for some unknown reason, Guan Yueying suddenly thought that the youngster in front of her was very frightening. This was not her logical judgement, it was a reaction from her body.

Guan Yueying's body suddenly started trembling, that sort of unconscious tremble. Even when meeting a Da Cheng stage expert, she never had this kind of sensation. In front of Yang Chen, she was feeling fear out of instinct.

She absolutely did not think that Yang Chen was just bragging. Just relying on the killing intent which had made her lose consciousness, if Yang Chen wanted, creating a massacre on the Green Jade Immortal Islands was not a difficult matter at all. As for whether Yang Chen was afraid of killing people, if a person possessing such a terrifying killing intent was afraid of killing people, then who wouldn't be?

"Who are you? How have the Green Jade Immortal Islands offended you?"

Although she was still frenetic within her heart, her body still trembling as before, Guan Yueying still clenched her teeth to ask these questions. Since Yang Chen had not killed her when she was unconscious and instead said this to her as soon as she woke up, it clearly explained that this matter could still be saved.

"Myself is Pure Yang Palace's Yang Chen, initially I did not have any grudges with your sect, but your sect has tried to bully me, whether it was insulting me or trying to kill me without any cause, do you think this Yang is so easy to bully?"

Although Yang Chen was sitting in front of Guan Yueying, he did not remove the flying sword pointed between her eyebrows.

"This is a misunderstanding!"

Hearing Yang Chen, all kinds of rumors flashed through Guan Yueying's mind. Afterwards she immediately thought of the matter regarding Qi YunRou driving away Yang Chen, but at the same time she also became clear about everything and hastily said:

"Regarding the matter of Qi YunRou driving you away, I have already punished her and sealed her cultivation and sent her to live in Fang city to temper herself!"

"That is the internal matter of your Green Jade Immortal Islands, it has nothing to do with me!"

Yang Chen looking at Guan Yueying, slowly said:

"I am also ready to overlook the matter of you injuring me, but, there is one condition, next time you shouldn't provoke me!"

"Are you threatening me?"

In any case, Guan Yueying was also an elder of the Green Jade Immortal Islands, Yang Chen's words really didn't give her any face. Guan Yueying couldn't help but be angry:

"Do you want to make an enemy of my entire Green Jade Immortal Islands?"

"I never do these meaningless matters."

Yang Chen shook his head:

"If you want to silently disappear, I can help you accomplish that!"

"Kill me. Do you believe you can escape the Green Jade Immortal Islands' hunt?"

Guan Yueying was fighting for the Green Jade Immortal Islands' face. Even if she was facing someone she was afraid of, she did not change her intentions.

"You think your Green Jade Immortal Islands have someone who would believe that you, a peak YuanYing stage cultivator have been killed under the hands of an initial Foundation stage cultivator like me?"

Yang Chen bluntly pointed out the flaw in Guan Yueying's plan:

"Let alone believing this, would those great experts of your Green Jade Immortal Islands be willing to admit that you, a peak YuanYing stage cultivator have been killed by me?"

"But in the end, I have gone missing after I have started chasing you, isn't that so?"

Guan Yueying already knew that she did not have any support, but she was still trying to appear strong.

"When they find me, I will just say I don't know!"

Yang Chen gently laughed:

"If worse comes to worst, I can just say that you had caught me and I had promised to kowtow as apology and afterwards you disappeared. Tell me, wouldn't they believe these words, or would they think I am lying after killing you?"

"Weren't you against kowtowing and apologising?"

Guan Yueying got even angrier after hearing this. If Yang Chen was ready to kowtow and apologise, what was this chase for?

"Killing a peak YuanYing stage expert of Green Jade Immortal Island would be a great matter, kowtowing is just kowtowing. Not such a great punishment."

Yang Chen sneered.

"It looks like elder Guan has already planned on dying. Even if you are an elder of the Green Jade Immortal Islands, you are still an elder in my possession. Decide how you want to die and I will help you achieve it!"

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Chapter 126 – You Are My Heart's Devil

Seeing the indifferent attitude of Yang Chen, Guan Yueying had finally realized that the pressure of the Green Jade Immortal Islands didn't work in front of Yang Chen. Disappointed, she gave up struggle and unwillingly asked:

"What do you want?"

"I have already said, if you don't want anything, don't provoke me!"

Yang Chen said, closing his eyes:

"From the beginning, you didn't have the intention of killing me, that's why I am giving you face, but by all means, you must not think that I am afraid to kill people!"

Speaking until here, Yang Chen stretched out his hand.

Whoosh!

The flying sword which had been pointed between her eyebrows suddenly disappeared. Immediately after that, Guan Yueying discovered that the spirit power in her body was no longer restricted and she had turned into the omnipotent peak YuanYing stage expert again.

But this time Guan Yueying didn't retaliate against Yang Chen. Even though, with her strength of the YuanYing stage, she would easily be able to control a Foundation stage disciple like Yang Chen.

It was not simply because of those words about renouncing all hatred which Yang Chen had said just a moment ago, instead it was because Guan Yueying had suddenly discovered that, the instant Yang Chen had stretched out his hand to take back the flying sword, a black imprint had appeared on Yang Chen's finger. Moreover that imprint clearly had an extremely strange design.

Although Guan Yueying's cultivation was not high enough to notice that Yang Chen had not stored that flying sword into the qiankun pouch on his belt, but rather in that imprint. But that imprint on Yang Chen's hand was really extraordinary. Guan Yueying had some vague recollection of such an imprint.

The Green Jade Immortal Islands was a famous sect which had an enormous influence, even in the Immortal Realm. Although passing news from an upper levels to lower level was extremely difficult, some crucial information was still passed down. The design on Yang Chen's finger was also among that.

A person of the upper realm? Guan Yueying did not dare to judge this, but when she thought of Yang Chen's achievements, she also couldn't think of anything else.

If he was not a person from the upper realm, how was he capable of refining the Heaven Seizing Pill at the Foundation stage? If he was not someone from the upper realm, then how could he restrict a peak YuanYing stage expert such as her? If he was not from the upper realm, how could he have a magic tool which even a peak YuanYing stage expert, chasing with all her might, couldn't catch? If he was not from the upper realm, then how could he have that sort of killing intent?

The more Guan Yueying thought about it, the more certain she became, but she didn't dare to be completely certain. Transferring even a little information from the upper realm to a lower realm needed a big sect like the Green Jade Immortal Islands to invest a price which made even them feel bitter. How difficult would it be to transfer a person from the upper realm? Even if the Green Jade Immortal Islands used their entire strength, they still wouldn't be able to achieve it, but then which sect would have such resources to spend? The Pure Yang Palace? Was that even possible?

Therefore, regardless of any evidence, Guan Yueying did not dare to be completely certain that Yang Chen was someone from upper realms. Regardless of whether he was or not, there were still a lot of mysteries which didn't have an explanation. The person of Yang Chen was becoming more and more mysterious within Guan Yueying's mind.

What baffled Guan Yueying most was that, all this time after freeing her, Yang Chen hadn't taken any precautions. These two people sitting so close in front of each other, if she wanted, she could capture Yang Chen in a moment.

Guan Yueying had not been able to understand this matter from the beginning, it had to be known that, in the beginning just by the attack of her spiritual awareness, Yang Chen had sustained injuries and fallen down. Then why… Could it be that he was not worried that Guan Yueying would become hostile again?

"In any case you are an elder of the Green Jade Immortal Islands!"

As if Yang Chen had seen through Guan Yueying's doubts, he faintly smiled:

"By all means, do not allow me to think that the words of the Green Jade Immortal Islands' elders are not in good faith!"

The harder a person tried to defend their sect's reputation, the more he cared about the sect's reputation. Clearly, Guan Yueying was such a person, otherwise why would she have chased after Yang Chen for several days and several nights, just to make him kowtow and apologise?

"The people of my Green Jade Immortal Islands do not eat their words!"

Guan Yueying coldly snorted, no longer saying anything. She started looking around herself, but was amazed to discover that she was on a sail boat, travelling on the surface of the ocean.

"This is a small world, we will surely meet again!"

Discovering this, Guan Yueying wasn't in the mood for staying any longer and greeted Yang Chen. Then, calling out her flying sword, she disappeared without a trace.

But even Guan Yueying herself had not discovered that she had already stopped treating Yang Chen as a Foundation stage junior and was instead using proper etiquette and words which she used when dealing with people on the same level.

Seeing Guan Yueying's disappearing silhouette, Yang Chen released a long sigh. As he did not wanted to kill someone who didn't have any intentions of killing him, he only had two options: either entice her or scare her, but his status as a Foundation stage disciple of the Pure Yang Palace would rather make her laugh than scare her, so he only had the option of being a fox to exploit tiger's might and used this method to create more mystery.

Fortunately, Yang Chen knew that the Green Jade Immortal Islands had people in the upper realm, who passed on crucial information to them and moreover, as elder, Guan Yueying knew information like that. The mystery provided Yang Chen with a lot of unspoken arguments.

Estimating that, for the time being, he wouldn't have a lot of problems from the side of the Green Jade Immortal Islands, Yang Chen took the control of the Flying Shuttle and adjusted its direction, hurrying towards the coast. He still wanted to go to the Clear Sky Sect to find Sun Qing Xue.

Guan Yueying was using her flying sword again. Spending several days, she quickly returned to the Green Jade Immortal Islands. Carefully investigating the circumstances at that time, she finally knew that Yang Chen had communicated with Shi ShanShan and Shi ShanShan had returned to the inner islands to cultivate. There was no need to mention it, Guan Yueying immediately hurried to the inner islands and found Shi ShanShan, questioning her closely about what kind of matter had actually happened.

Hearing about the circumstances of Shi ShanShan making the appointment with Yang Chen, Guan Yueying stood dumbly on the spot. These kinds of groundless accusations, Shi ShanShan had surprisingly believed them to be true and moreover had still demanded that Yang Chen confronted Li QingChen in her presence?

Suddenly Guan Yueying understood the reason for Yang Chen's anger at the sect's gate. If it were any other person, they would also not feel better when accused of such actions. At the same time, while she understood Yang Chen's behaviour, she also felt great despair about her sect's most talented disciple.

"ShanShan!"

Guan Yueying's tone had become extremely gloomy, but the meaning within her tone leaked an unspeakable undertone:

"Do you think that our Green Jade Immortal Islands is already an unparalleled sect in the whole world and everyone will give us face at all costs?"

"No, elder!"

Shi ShanShan still had that cool and elegant look on her face, she hadn't even changed in front of her sect's elder.

"Then do you think that your reputation is sufficient to give rise to revere within some sects?"

Guan Yueying asked again:

"Can Yang Chen, using your name, command the entire Pure Yang Palace, which has more than ten YuanYing stage elders and hundreds of JieDan stage experts?"

"Disciple does not dare to say that!"

Shi ShanShan's face still hadn't changed.

"Then why do you think that Yang Chen could use your name to run rampant in the Pure Yang Palace and moreover still get away with it?"

Guan Yueying could not understand this point. Could it be that the disciples cultivating within her sect did not understand the ways of the world?

Guan Yueying was extremely furious. If it were not for Shi ShanShan being so stupid, she would not have gone to chase and provoke an enigmatic person such as Yang Chen.

"Because of the words of a clansman of elder Li Yunyu, Greatest Heaven Sect's fellow daoist, Li QingChen."

Shi ShanShan continued to answer calmly.

"Do you think everything elder Li's clansmen say is absolute?"

Guan Yueying did not know what to say anymore.

"Everything he says is completely false!"

As soon as Shi ShanShan opened her mouth this time, it immediately confused Guan Yueying even more.

"No matter what he says, like the many other people pursuing me, saying that I am a fairy, a heavenly talent and so on, I will not be influenced by it."

"Then why did you still want to make Yang Chen confront Li ChenQing in your presence?"

Guan Yueying immediately realized that Si ShanShan had some other plan in mind and asked her with a frown.

"Li QingChen is elder Li's relative and elder Li was helping him trying to make me his Dao Companion. He comes frequently to bother me and disciple hasn't found any suitable reason to refuse him!"

Shi ShanShan's complexion hadn't changed even now. All along, she had that cool and elegant face.

"If he was exposed in his confrontation with Yang Chen, he would not have any face to come and bother this disciple. As for Yang Chen, disciple will apologise to him at that time!"

In reality the reason why Li QingChen hated Yang Chen to the core was because, whenever Li QingChen came to meet Shi ShanShan, at some appropriate moment, she would bring up the topic of Yang Chen. It was not like she had taken much fancy to Yang Chen, instead she only wanted to know about how Yang Chen, the executioner whom she had given a body refining pill, had been fairing recently.

Each and every time, Li QingChen had smile on his face but hatred in his heart. Whenever he replied to Shi ShanShan, he used the most offensive and shameful words to describe Yang Chen. His cultivation was the lowest among the lowest, his character was inferior among inferiors, he spared no efforts in striking at Yang Chen's image, but because of this, fellow daoist Li's character had been clearly revealed.

Shi ShanShan had also become extremely vexed, but unfortunately, because of his relationship with Li YunYu, she was unable to do anything and could only emptily agree. But Li QingChen continued to harass her, he even enticed the senior and junior female disciples in her surroundings, who incessantly praised him, leaving Shi ShanShan with no other choice. In order to completely eradicate this trouble without any after effects, she could only use this kind of method.

Hearing Shi ShanShan's reply, Guan Yueying had been speechless for a long time. Li QingChen was a relative of Li YunYu, in reality an offspring of one of his later generations. Having such a powerful grandmother, he could come to the Green Jade Immortal Islands anytime and anywhere. Shi ShanShan was not just extremely beautiful, her cultivation talent was also exceptional. Just right for a dao companion in some people's mind. For this, Li YunYu would naturally like to see one of her offspring become a dao companion of Shi ShanShan.

Shi ShanShan did not have any good defence, since Li QingChen had Lin YunYu's support, so she was basically unable to break away from his constant nagging. Refusing frankly would have incurred Li YunYu's anger, so the best method would be to make him withdraw by himself.

Meeting Yang Chen was a good opportunity for Shi ShanShan, with the premise that Shi ShanShan and Li YunYu's relationship would not be damaged, this situation could resolved perfectly. The only somewhat inappropriate thing was that this matter involved an outsider, Yang Chen.

Qi YunRou was a person roped in by Li QingChen, that's why she had driven away Yang Chen without thinking of right or wrong. But she was also Shi ShanShan's junior apprentice sister, who had been punished because of Yang Chen. Although it was not Yang Chen's fault, in the end Shi ShanShan also put some blame on him, so when she saw Yang Chen, after the proper business was finished, Shi ShanShan meticulously laid out this plan.

If she had not met Yang Chen, Guan Yueying would have supported Shi ShanShan in handling matters this way. Li Qingchen would withdraw, elder Li would have nothing to say and the relationships between everyone would not be damaged. But after meeting and knowing Yang Chen's mysteriousness, Guan Yueying thought Shi ShanShan had made a mistake.

After being exploited by Shi ShanShan, what use would an apology be? Not to mention the fact that Yang Chen would not only have to face Li QingChen and the Greatest Heaven Sect behind him, but at the same time also offend Green Jade Immortal Islands' Li YunYu. Even if one forget about these people, why would he let him exploit himself? Shi ShanShan was really taking him for granted too much.

After speaking about all of her apprehensions, Shi ShanShan had gone quiet. Only after a long time did she raise her head and said:

"If you think what disciple is doing is not good that is appropriate, but what has been done cannot be undone, there is no method to change it. Once this matter has been resolved, disciple will offer her humble apology to Yang Chen and ask for punishment!"

"What if Yang Chen asks for you to be his dao companion?"

Guan Yueying gloomily sighed and deeply asked:

"Wouldn't that just be like having resisted the tiger in the front door while the wolf had entered from the back?"

Apparently Shi ShanShan had not thought about such a possibility. After hearing this, she was rooted to the ground, as if suddenly thinking about what she could do.

"Ai!"

Guan Yueying gloomily sighed again:

"Even if Yang Chen does not raise this kind of request, ShanShan, don't you think that doing something like this is extremely selfish? We are cultivators. The greater our desires are, the more serious the tribulation is. Using such methods after all is said and done…"

In an outsider's eyes, Green Jade Immortal Islands' Shi ShanShan was a pretty good talent, but in Guan Yueying's eyes, this elder of the Green Jade Immortal Islands, she was only a talented youngster. Admittedly, her cultivation gift could alarm people, but her nature had always been a problem.

"Elder, how should disciple…?"

Guan Yueying saying these words in this way made Shi ShanShan break out in cold sweat. These few sentences made her realize the problem with her method. If it had only brought some trouble for Yang Chen, it was still a trivial matter. At worst, she could simply cancel the confrontation and offer him an apology, but the main problem was that Shi Shanshan herself had developed Heart's Devil because of this matter.

Since she could settle the dispute, Shi Shanshan was unable to cross over this threshold all along, this was certainly not a problem which could be solved just by tempering herself, training outside. Since this had some relationship with Yang Chen, then it didn't need to be said that the solution could only come from Yang Chen.

Guan Yueying knew this point clearly, but she did not express it to Shi ShanShan. Some things one had to realize by themselves and only then could they get the best results. Since Shi ShanShan had already reached the JieDan stage by relying on her good innate talent, then, one day, she would surely think of this. If she called her attention at this time, Shi ShanShan would not be satisfied.

But Guan Yueying was still somewhat anxious, even when she had confronted Yang Chen, she had been incapable of making sense of anything and Shi Shanshan was a cold and detached person. When the time came, how would she confront him?

"Whoever hung the bell on the tiger's neck must untie it!"

Guan Yueying mysteriously said, taking her attention once. At least she had given her a hint, but she had not told her the exact details. In reality, she also did not know how to undo this situation, but it didn't need to be said that they had to take every step carefully.

Shi ShanShan's clear vision had seemingly also become somewhat blurred, not knowing what she wanted anymore.

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Chapter 127 – A Genius With Inferior Perception?

Yang Chen did not encounter any trouble on the way to the Clear Sky Sect. Flying on his flying sword, he also hadn't seen any people until he had entered the region under the influence of the Clear Sky Sect.

The Clear Sky Sect was also situated near a major city, only it was still in a mountain area. In the opinion of these common people, the Clear Sky Sect was at most an ordinary cultivation sect.

Yang Chen hadn't thought that he would meet the Snow White Fairy, famous in the future, under such circumstances.

The shy expression was just like the one Yang Chen had seen at the execution ground, which could make anyone behave tenderly towards her. When Sun Qing Xue saw Yang Chen at the gate of the visitor's courtyard, her eyes started shining and she immediately ran towards him, showing a pleasantly surprised smile on her face.

"Elder brother, is that you?"

Initially Sun QingXue was baffled. She had no connection with anyone from the Pure Yang Palace, so why had someone asked for her? But the instant she saw Yang Chen, she immediately remembered him:

"I have looked for you for a long time, but I haven't been able to find your whereabouts!"

All these years, Yang Chen's appearance hadn't changed much, so Sun QingXue recognized Yang Chen, her gleam of hope when she had given in to despair. That warm feeling had permeated into Sun QingXue's days of cultivation.

"I was just passing by, so I came to see you!"

When Yang Chen looked at Sun QingXue, his heart was also filled with joy. Discarding formalities, Yang Chen very much admired Sun QingXue's gratified nature, especially when he was the one receiving the gratitude.

"Are you happy at the Clear Sky Sect?"

Yang Chen casually asked, looking at Sun QingXue happily preparing tea for him. His eyes constantly staring at her merry figure.

Hearing Yang Chen's voice, which was still gentle and soft like on the execution ground, Sun QingXue suddenly stopped for a moment, then, adjusting her mood again, she started mixing the tea plants. Afterwards she sighed again and slowly sat down, facing Yang Chen. Looking at Yang Chen having an expression of being wronged across her entire face, she slowly asked:

"Am I stupid?"

For a time, Yang Chen couldn't understand what she meant. What kind of question was this? So he could only ask her suspiciously:

"What happened?"

"I know I am very stupid!"

Sun QingXue slightly drooped her head, as if she was losing face, even tears had started coming out of the corner of her eyes:

"I have followed master to cultivate, but in ten years, I have only been able to reach the ninth qi layer and have no way to rush towards the peak qi layer, let alone the Foundation stage. Elder brother, what do you think, am I not stupid?"

Hearing Sun QingXue's words, Yang Chen didn't know what to say. The famous Snow White Fairy of the later generations, Sun QingXue, an extraordinary cultivation talent, surprisingly questioned whether she was slow in cultivation. This dumbfounded Yang Chen completely.

Seeing that Yang Chen did not say anything, Sun QingXue's head drooped down even more, with emotions choking her voice she said:

"I know I am very stupid, but at that time, whether it was older sister Shi or my master or Great Master, all have said that my innate talent was very good and I am a rare cultivation talent. I have failed to live up to their expectations!"

These words, made Yang Chen clearly realize Sun QingXue's distress. Surprisingly, Sun QingXue originally had such complications regarding cultivation and didn't have any confidence.

Although the case was clear, Yang Chen still was at a loss of words. Sun QingXue was definitely a cultivation talent, there was no need to doubt this, but from the time she had been carried away from the execution ground, around thirty four years had passed and her cultivation was only at the ninth qi layer; it was really strange. According to reason, thirty four years were already enough time for Sun QingXue to successfully reach the Foundation stage, why was she still at the upper qi layer and hadn't even reached the peak qi layer?

Carefully remembering his previous life's memories, Yang Chen was convinced that there was nothing like that in his memories. Sun QingXue was such a famous fairy, how could Yang Chen know her mistakes in his earlier life? How then could the current situation be explained? Could it be that Sun QingXue had deviated at the time when she had begun her cultivation?

"That should not be!"

Muttering to himself, Yang Chen suddenly could not help but think aloud.

Yang Chen's voice made Sun QingXue very surprised, raising up her head, she suddenly asked:

"What should not be? Elder brother!"

"You should better call me Yang Chen or perhaps Elder Brother Yang!"

Yang Chen was attentively watching Sun QingXue. First correcting her address of him, then he put his sights on Sun QingXue and began to size her up. On one side he was sizing her up, while saying on other side:

"I am saying that your cultivation speed should not be slow like this."

"Why, Elder brother Yang?"

Sun QingXue was completely submissive and directly turned changed her address to elder brother Yang. Moreover, Yang Chen's words gave Sun QingXue a new hope, similar to the time on the execution ground, when Yang Chen had informed her that she would certainly not die. Sun QingXue seemingly already blindly trusted Yang Chen.

"Your cultivation should certainly not be so slow!"

Yang Chen declared his judgement again very certainly, soon after that he reached out his hand:

"Come, let me hold your wrist, I will check your pulse to see what the problem is."

For cultivators, using spiritual awareness to examine was a simpler method then checking her pulse and the results were also far better, but Sun QingXue was a woman, Yang Chen could not use an unbridled method, such as using spiritual awareness, to examine Sun QingXue's body. This was a problem because of being male and female and was not related to cultivation.

If it was an enemy, Yang Chen would not have paid any attention, but Sun QingXue was a friend. Yang Chen wanted to help, so this was basic courtesy.

"Elder Brother Yang, do you think my body has some problems?"

Sun QingXue didn't refuse Yang Chen even a little and directly extended her snow white hand:

"But master has said that my body has no problems!"

Yang Chen closed his eyes and started inspecting Sun QingXue's pulse. Just from the information from the pulse, Sun QingXue's body didn't have even the slightest problem and was absolutely fine.

"Could you find anything?"

Sun QingXue was very nervous and asked in a low voice.

Hesitating for a moment, when Yang Chen looked at Sun QingXue's face which was full of expectations. He released a low sigh within his heart and then opened his mouth:

"I want to use spirit power and spiritual awareness both to thoroughly inspect your body. The premise is, you have to release your spiritual awareness and must not try to move any spirit power, allowing my spirit power and spiritual awareness to enter your body.

Hearing Yang Chen's words, Sun QingXue's face flushed red. Completely releasing her spiritual awareness and spirit power, this clearly meant that her body didn't have any reservations in front of Yang Chen, she was a girl, how could she not blush?

Previously, even her master and great master had also done this, but they were elders and in addition to that they were also female, Sun QingXue would naturally not resist. But Yang Chen was male and at a similar age, how was this even doable?

In reality, Sun QingXue was living under privileged conditions at the Clear Sky Sect. At the time, she had entered to formally become disciple, she was discovered to have an almost-full wood spirit root. This kind of cultivation talent was rarely seen. The Clear Sky Sect immediately gave the green light to this kind of greatly talented disciple: not only was she given a master who had already reached the JieDan Stage, but also all the resources she needed.

Because of this, Sun QingXue felt even more pressure. Even after cultivating for 34 years she had only reached the ninth qi layer. This was completely unsuitable with her extremely high cultivation talent. The only possible explanation was that, although Sun Qing Xue's spirit root was good, her perception was extremely bad, otherwise she would not have such bad performance.

Sun QingXue's hesitation was perfectly normal, otherwise Yang Chen would not have asked such a question. Although Yang Chen wanted to help Sun QingXue to settle her problem, some things Yang Chen also had to pay attention to. In case something went bad, it would certainly not remain a matter between Yang Chen and Sun QingXue and could even involve the entire Pure Yang Palace and Clear Sky Sect. Yang Chen had already learned this from the incident regarding the Green Jade Immortal Islands.

"Little Xue, this fellow daoist of the Pure Yang Palace has good intentions, but he has only reached the Foundation stage not too long ago, so you need not trouble him!"

Sun QingXue still hadn't made her decision, when suddenly a tranquil voice was heard from outside the door.

"Master!"

Sun QingXue's body suddenly jolted, apparently she hadn't anticipated to hear her master's voice there.

Following Sun QingXue's call, an extremely beautiful woman slowly walked in from outside of the gate. Looking just around twenty four or twenty five years old, she was composed and dignified, a silent pressure being emitted from her body. After entering, she swept a glance at Sun QingXue and then her gaze shifted to Yang Chen and she started sizing him up.

"My respects to senior!"

Yang Chen also had to respect Sun QingXue's master, so he greeted her according to the rules of respecting one's elder.

Zhou Sulan was completely satisfied by Yang Chen's etiquette, even though Yang Chen was Sun QingXue's old friend, his courtesy made her treat Yang Chen in a completely new light.

Zhou Sulan was Sun QingXue's master, so she was very clear about Sun QingXue facing such pressure. But no matter what kind of inspection she did, she couldn't find any problem in Sun QingXue's body, which left behind only one possibility: that Sun QingXue's perception was insufficient.

Initially Zhou Sulan had not intended to appear personally, she cherished Sun QingXue very much and after these few decades she even considered her as her own child. But hearing Yang Chen wanted to do such an inspection on Sun QingXue, she became afraid that Sun QingXue would lose hope again, so she immediately stopped it. If it was just not effective, that was a trivial matter, but if such an inspection gave her other worries, then the losses would certainly not make up for the gains.

"I have checked little Xue's body many times, there were no problems with it."

Zhou Sulan sat down in front of Yang Chen. She did not assume the airs of an elder in front of Yang Chen and instead directly occupied the seat Sun QingXue had occupied just a moment ago and pulled her towards her side.

Sun QingXue, taking advantage of the opportunity, directly snuggled into her body. She was good to Sun QingXue and Sun QingXue also liked to snuggle up to her.

"There is definitely some problem, senior!"

Yang Chen knew that Zhou Sulan was just worried that his actions would increase Sun QingXue's worries, so he continued:

"Little Sun is like my younger sister, I request you to let this junior be slightly impudent, maybe I can find a solution."

"Elder Wu's Heaven Seizing Pill, were you the one who refined it?"

Zhou Sulan didn't reply directly and instead asked an unexpected question.

"This junior had only participated in it. The refining was done by other people!"

Yang Chen naturally would not reveal everything in front of other people. But Zhou Sulan didn't seem to believe that.

Pondering by herself for a moment, Zhou Sulan turned to Sun QingXue and asked:

"Little Xue, do you believe fellow daoist Yang?"

"I believe elder brother Yang!"

Sun QingXue had a trust in Yang Chen which couldn't be expressed in words. Hearing her master's question, she slightly bit her lip and replied, nodding her head.

"Fine then, you can inspect little Xue!"

Perhaps it was Sun QingXue's trust, or perhaps it was Yang Chen's achievement of refining the Heaven Seizing Pill which stopped Zhou Sulan from insisting. Infact, she also wanted Sun QingXue to break away from this trap. This last decade, Sun QingXue had truly stopped speaking much.

Completely releasing her spiritual awareness, releasing her spirit power and ignoring Yang Chen's spirit power and spiritual awareness entering her body… Even if Sun QingXue knew that this was for her diagnosis, her face still had completely turned red. This was even more shameful than letting Yang Chen see her naked.

When a cultivator wanted to examine someone, he could only do it as long as the other party was willing. If not, it could not be done thoroughly. But Sun QingXue was in the end a woman, so even if she knew that Yang Chen was doing this for her own good, she could not help but feel shy.

But at this moment, Yang Chen was not concerned with her expression. He was wholeheartedly immersed in examining Sun QingXue's body. From top to bottom, he left no stone unturned, he was inspecting her very thoroughly. A cultivation talent unexpectedly thought herself to be slow, then surely there had to be some problem with her body.

What made Yang Chen even more apprehensive was that he still couldn't find any problems with her body. Surely her master and great master would have also researched this and with Yang Chen's confirmation, this point became even more clear.

A weak perception? Nonsense! Otherwise there wouldn't have been the Snow White fairy in his previous life. But even in his previous life, Sun QingXue was indeed not very famous in the beginning, only after the incident with the LongTai Spirit Supporting Secrets had she risen to fame, so could it have some relation with the LongTai Spirit Supporting Secrets?

So only after her cultivation had been crippled, she had become an overnight success? What kind of problem was this? Yang Chen suddenly seemed to think of something and suddenly grabbed Sun QingXue's hand:

"Pass some spirit power to me, I will take a look!"

Sun QingXue passed a trace of spirit power without any hesitation. Yang Chen quickly discovered that, the spirit power passed on by Sun QingXue surprisingly contained both the first wood and the second wood attributes at the same time and not just first wood.

"How many cultivation methods have you cultivated to lay your foundation?"

Yang Chen seemed to have grasped something and asked again. He had only asked how many and not which cultivation method, so that he did not seem to steal them.

"One!"

Sun QingXue glanced at her master and only then answered:

"Master said not to bite off more than I can chew, there I have practiced only one cultivation method."

"Who taught this cultivation method?"

Yang Chen's gaze turned to Zhou Sulan, he had already determined that the problem laid with this cultivation method.

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Chapter 128 – How Can I Make You Believe Me?

03 Aug 2016

"It was me, why?"

Zhou Sulan was startled, she hadn't thought that Yang Chen would call the cultivation method of the sect in question. But this matter concerned her favourite disciple, so she did not care that much about Yang Chen's tone, which lacked the proper courtesy and she asked him with knitted brows:

"Why, is there some problem with this cultivation method?"

"First wood is first wood, second wood is second wood. Senior, aren't you making Sun QingXue bite off more than she can chew? What about not making her cultivate many cultivation methods? Why are you making her cultivate a cultivation method which contains both first wood and second wood together?"

Yang Chen turned around and asked Zhou Sulan in an extremely discontent tone.

"Cultivating first wood and second wood together? How is that possible?"

Zhou Sulan asked with great alarm:

"This clearly is a first wood cultivation method!"

"It is?"

Yang Chen watched attentively while staring at Zhou Sulan, extremely suspicious of her. He even believed that Zhou Sulan was doing it on purpose, deliberately using such a cultivation method to destroy Sun QingXue. Or maybe she just didn't understand, but how was this possible? How could a JieDan stage expert not understand the difference between first wood and second wood spirit power?

"Little Xue, pass me your spirit power for me to see!"

Yang Chen's gaze made Zhou Sulan feel extremely insulted, she could not put up with this youngster, who had just reached the Foundation stage and was questioning her knowledge and experience. But this also made her think: previously, apart from checking Sun Qing Xue' body, they hadn't checked her spirit power and cultivation method, because according to her, how could there be any problem with sect's cultivation method?

Sun QingXue gripped Zhou Sulan's hand tightly and began to slowly pass spirit power, but after a moment, Zhou Sulan's complexion turned deathly white. Just as Yang Chen had predicted, she was a wood attributed JieDan expert and clearly knew the difference between first wood and second wood spirit power. Inside of Sun QingXue's spirit power both first wood and second wood were mixed, nobody could deny this fact.

Since she was a new disciple, it was was pardonable that Sun QingXue didn't know the difference. From the beginning she had only practiced one cultivation method, training in it all the time. Whenever she found a problem, she consulted her master, but her master and the people of the sect called her comprehension into question, which had created a lot of pressure on her, leading to the current situation where she had no self confidence.

Indeed, she had been Zhou Sulan's disciple for more than ten years, but surprisingly the problem was with her disciple's cultivation method, which needed an outsider, a youngster who had only recently reached the Foundation stage to point out. This was simply an extraordinary shame.

"Senior, have you personally chosen this cultivation method?"

Taking that opportunity, Yang Chen began to question Zhou Sulan. He and Sun QingXue didn't have any relationship in their past life, but since they have intersected in this life, naturally he had to allow her to have an even better development.

"Yes, Uncle Master Mo has chosen it personally, saying that it was the most suitable cultivation method for little Xue!"

At this moment, Zhou Sulan had been shocked by the discovery on Sun QingXue's body and completely hadn't realized, that currently her thoughts were completely in Yang Chen's hands. She was even replying to any question asked by Yang Chen without hesitation.

"The cultivation method is not much of a problem, as long as little Xue stops it and is taken to some senior for examination."

Yang Chen smiled, so as to ease up the mood, but he immediately asked:

"This Uncle Master Mo, does he have some disciple or grand disciple, who has some talent and is considered valuable within the sect?"

"Uncle Master Mo's grand disciple Zhu Yanchun had reached the Foundation stage five years ago and was the one who had the best talent among the disciples of that generation and was also considered to be the number one disciple among the official disciples."

Following Yang Chen's train of thought, Zhou Sulan quickly answered.

After she had finished speaking, Zhou Sulan suddenly thought of something. Opening both of her eyes widely, an unimaginable expression spread across her face. Staring at Yang Chen like she was looking at a ghost, she stammeringly said:

"You…you…"

"I haven't said anything, it's just that I have seen things like this many times!"

Yang Chen faintly shook his head. No wonder that Sun QingXue's power had exploded only after her cultivation had been crippled in his previous life. Inside of a big sect, everyone was like a huge family, so there were bound to be many scheming matters. Even if the person was an immortal, he would also be like this.

"But, Uncle Master Mo, she……."

Zhou Sulan only said these words, but could not continue. She was that much of an idiot, that she wouldn't understand the relationship between them even now. But Uncle Master Mo destroying a talent like Sun QingXue just in order to get her own grand disciple out of a predicament, this kind of thing was too much for her to accept.

"I think, as fast as possible senior should have a discussion with the sect leader of your sect about this matter! With senior's status, you alone can not solve it."

Yang Chen faintly smiled and called this to Zhou Sulan's attention.

At this moment, Zhou Sulan was completely shocked, she was agreeing to anything Yang Chen was saying, after all, if this kind of matter came out, it would really shock people. It didn't need to be said, she could only go to the sect leader for guidance.

"What should I do?"

Sun QingXue also understood everything. Looking at her master and Yang Chen, she asked in a low voice.

"Abandon your cultivation progress, change your cultivation method to a proper one and start anew!"

Yang Chen had finally become clear about why had Sun QingXue's talent had exploded only after it had been abolished by Lin Cheng, as her spirit power was not pure initially.

Yang Chen's words made Zhou Sulan and Sun QingXue go dumb. Sun QingXue knew she had a problem, but she hadn't expected that it would be so big. She would even have to dispose of her cultivation and start anew.

Zhou Sulan had wanted to refute and was just about to open her mouth, but she suddenly discovered that she didn't have anything to say. Sun QingXue's currently accumulated spirit power was heterogenous, which could not be changed just based on cultivation. But abandoning a few decades of cultivation progress was really pitiful.

The knowledge of the two people wasn't sufficient, initially Sun QingXue was very happy hearing that the reason had been found, but hearing this information, both master and disciple didn't know what to do.

Yang Chen didn't believe that Sun QingXue's cultivation could be saved, so he had already begun pondering about how to abandon her cultivation progress without injuring her innate qi. It had to be known that, in the previous life, because of cultivating the LongTai Spirit Supporting Secrets, Sun QingXue's innate qi was damaged and that's why the Snow White fairy could not match the Snow Plum fairy's cultivation. In this life, Yang Chen would certainly not let that matter happen again.

This was the main intention of Yang Chen finding her. He wanted to warn her to not cultivate the LongTai Spirit Supporting Secrets, but since he had found the reason for her cultivating that cultivation method, there was naturally no need to be anxious about future matters.

After pondering a lot, Yang Chen found a method and that was precisely to use seventh metal and eighth metal spirit power to consume the heterogenous spirit power in Sun QingXue's body and then afterwards break her meridians down to make her incapable of using the original method to restore it.

Naturally, it should be just right, although it was destruction, her dantian could not be damaged. This required an expert, but Yang Chen was sure that with the influence and power of the Clear Sky Sect, there had to be many people capable of doing so.

"Little Sun, listen to your master's plan, if you still have further complications with your cultivation, then I have something for you!"

While saying this, Yang Chen took out a third grade Foundation stage pill, containing the essence of the PengLai Divine Wood and gave it to Sun QingXue.

"What is this?"

Sun QingXue didn't have as much knowledge and experience as the Palace Master of the Pure Yang Palace. Although she knew that it was a precious pill, she did not dare to be certain what it exactly was.

"This is a third grade wood attributed Foundation stage pill!"

Yang Chen very confidently replied:

"As long as you are able to cultivate to the peak of the qi layer, it will definitely allow you to reach the Foundation stage!"

When Yang Chen had taken out the pill, Zhou Sulan had already opened her eyes widely, but because of the formidable first wood spirit power, she did not dare to say anything. Hearing Yang Chen speak with such confidence, she was amazed and happy beyond measure at the same time.

"With this thing, little Xue does not need to abolish her cultivation!"

Zhou Sulan immediately said that. Since it was capable of guaranteeing the Foundation stage, then there was no need for abolishing her painstakingly accumulated cultivation progress.

But Sun QingXue heard another meaning from Yang Chen. Yang Chen had clearly expressed that if there was another serious complication in her cultivation, that meant that her current cultivation would certainly have to be abolished. This was completely different from Zhou Sulan's opinion. Sun QingXue looked at Yang Chen and then looked at Zhou Sulan again, really not knowing how to make the decision.

On one side was her own master, on the other was her elder brother, who had already brought hope into despair not once, but twice by now. Sun QingXue was sure that both were thinking good for her, but they clearly had different opinions.

Hearing Zhou Sulan's words, Yang Chen deeply sighed within his heart. She didn't think far enough, the level of Sun QingXue's master was ordinary. No wonder, she couldn't find the cause for several decades.

"About whether to dispose or not dispose of your cultivation, you must ask your sect's elders!"

Yang Chen did not want to dispute Zhou Sulan on this question, so he pushed it onto the elders. Naturally Sun QingXue's own wish also had to be taken into consideration:

"Additionally, also see what little Xue wants!"

Zhou Sulan wasn't someone who had her own fixed views, so hearing Yang Chen's words, she did not raise any objections. With the elders making the decision, she also would not have to make any efforts. Just when Sun QingXue was about to leave, Yang Chen smiled towards her and said:

"Senior, this junior has not met with little Xue for so many years and still has many things to talk about, what do you say…"

"Actually I was the one who had forgotten her manners!"

Zhou Sulan awkwardly smiled, Yang Chen had come and hadn't talked much with Sun QingXue, but she had directly followed behind her. The concern she had for her disciple was indeed real, but she was really looking after her very tightly. She turned around to instruct Sun QingXue:

"Little Xue, you reminisce with fellow daoist Yang, I will go and find master to make a report!"

Following Zhou Sulan's disappearing figure with her eyes, Yang Chen stood at the gate. All of a sudden, he said to Sun QingXue:

"Little Xue, don't blame me for blabbering, but this master of yours is mediocre. Her achievements are finite, do not delay yourself for her."

Hearing these words, Shu QingXue only glanced at Yang Chen and didn't refute, only said bowing her head slightly:

"Master is very good to me!"

"Her vision is finite. Although abandoning your few decades of cultivation can save innumerable years of future, she can't even see this and could only see a few decades of hard work and could not even make out other people's schemes. I am very worried."

Yang Chen pulled Sun Qing Xue back to the visitor's courtyard to sit:

"If you are not happy, I will give some pointers to you!"

"Master is very good to me!"

Sun QingXue repeated these words. Apparently, apart from Zhou Sulan's achievements being finite, she had shown a lot of concern to this disciple, otherwise Sun QingXue would not have emphasized this.

"Then you take care in the future!"

Yang Chen did not push this topic any longer and only warned her repeatedly:

"You are someone born at an official's home. You must have seen many scheming fights in your house. The cultivation world is not so different from the secular world. When you stick out, other people will try to conceal you, so that they are not engulfed in your limelight and you can only fight with them. There are fights between sect but there are also fights within the sect. You must take care!"

Glancing at Yang Chen's figure, Sun QingXue nodded heavily. At this moment she was completely able to sense Yang Chen's concern for her.

"If your foundation is not good, everything in the future will be shaky."

Yang Chen continued to speak:

"There is no method to purify heterogeneous spirit power, other than cultivating again. You must not distress over a few decades of cultivation, don't dwell on what can't be changed. Cultivators must be clear about what they want, their vision must be long-term."

Nodding her head again, Sun QingXue had already made her decision. Regardless of how much her master insisted, she had to dispose of her current cultivation and cultivate again. Yang Chen had not come this far to harm her, she was extremely clear about this point.

"You must not allow other people's opinion to influence your confidence!"

Yang Chen emphasized this point gazing fixedly towards Sun QingXue:

"You are a cultivation genius, even a Great Principal Golden Immortal cannot deny this. You must always keep this point in mind."

Yang Chen's words were absolutely not empty. There were not just one or two Great Principal Golden Immortals who had died at the hand of Sun QingXue in his previous life, this was a clear cut fact.

"Am I really not bad?"

Sun QingXue had really formed some kind of mental barrier at the Clear Sky Sect. The sneering of the people for such a long time, has possibly led to a hit on her confidence.

"Believe me, as long as you are willing, there will be no one who can surpass you in wood attributed cultivation!"

Yang Chen heavily nodded his head:

"You absolutely can!"

"Elder brother, can I trust you?"

Sun QingXue had as if again turned into the shy little girl at the execution ground, her two eyes some blurred.

"Do I have any reason to lie to you?"

Yang Chen smilingly asked.

"No you don't!"

Sun QingXue said this, but lowered her head and clearly still hadn't completely believed these words of Yang Chen. This made Yang Chen feel frustrated. If Sun QingXue didn't have any confidence, then it will prove to be a big hindrance in her cultivation. What is a heart's devil? This is exactly an example of a heart's devil.

"Speak, little Xue, what do you need in order to believe that you are not stupid, compared to them?"

Yang Chen also knew the root cause, but frankly speaking, it was his first time enlightening someone, so he basically didn't know how to do it and could only use the method of directly provoking her.

"You have a fire attributed spirit root, but if you can also cultivate wood attributed spirit power, I will believe you!"

Whether unconsciously or deliberately, Sun QingXue had raised this seemingly impossible request.

"Are you sure you want this as the proof that you are not stupid? To make a person with a fire attributed spirit root cultivate a wood attributed cultivation method, is supposed to prove that you are a wood attributed heavenly genius?"

Yang Chen asked this, not knowing whether to laugh or to cry.

"Are you not asking me to believe you? As long as you can achieve it, I will completely believe you, big brother!"

Sun QingXue nodded without the slightest hesitation, clearly stating her line of thoughts.

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Chapter 129 – You Have To Change Your Master

04 Aug 2016

Although releasing wood attributed spirit power was no big problem for Yang Chen, Yang Chen didn't do this. Currently Sun QingXue didn't have any confidence, but she was a person with a full wood attributed spirit root. If she really saw a fire attributed cultivator releasing wood attributed spirit power, then maybe her pathetic confidence would take an even greater hit.

"Give me a good reason!"

Yang Chen shook his head while speaking to Sun QingXue.

Yang Chen's gaze made Sun QingXue lower her head, as if not daring to be face to face with Yang Chen. Just when Yang Chen sighed, Sun QingXue raised her head again and, looking towards Yang Chen, earnestly said:

"Elder Brother, you are right, my master's vision is indeed limited, other than being good towards me, she doesn't have any other merit."

As long as Sun QingXue had said anything, Yang Chen would have been able to accept it. Hearing that Sun QingXue had perfect knowledge of her current situation, Yang Chen was completely satisfied.

"Master has gone to look for someone to discuss, she will certainly return without any results."

Sun QingXue slowly shook her head, her mood was very gloomy:

"With this matter, it is still unknown if I will be able to reach this level again after I had abolish my cultivation, even my life is not guaranteed. I do require some kind of miracle to happen to increase my confidence."

"As long as you want, any kind of miracle can happen!"

Yang Chen clearly understood Sun Qing Xue's desire. What she needed at that moment was not confidence in her cultivation, but rather the self confidence to keep moving forward, regardless of whatever happened.

A vigourous and robust spirit power suddenly rose in Yang Chen's hand. Within a moment, after Yang Chen had moved, Sun QingXue sitting in front of Yang Chen immediately sensed the extremely pure essence of first wood. She could not help but open her eyes widely, looking at Yang Chen as if looking at a monster.

"Carefully study it, this is pure essence of first wood spirit power!"

Yang Chen immediately pulled Sun QingXue's little hand and passed the first wood spirit power through it, making her experience this properly.

Sun QingXue was still in shock that a fire attributed cultivator like Yang Chen could produce wood attributed spirit power like this, when Yang Chen pulled her hand. She didn't respond and just looked at Yang Chen as if she was looking at a monster. Her small mouth opened slightly, as if not daring to believe that she was seeing.

Yang Chen slightly fluctuated the spirit power he was emitting, to rouse Sun QingXue from her shock. After waking up, the first thing Sun QingXue did was to use that other hand, which hadn't been grabbed by Yang Chen to cover her small mouth because of her surprise.

"What are you doing?"

Sun QingXue was not only extremely shocked but also terrified. Yang Chen was a fire attributed cultivator, a person with a fire attributed spirit root had suddenly produced such pure wood attributed spirit power, which was even more pure than hers, who was purely a wood attributed cultivator. How could it not make her extremely shocked?

"Just the miracle you need!"

Yang Chen smiled and continued to placate her:

"Carefully sense it, this is pure first wood attributed spirit power."

At this moment, Sun QingXue had finally gotten over her shock and begun to slowly experience it. Actually, even Zhou Sulan could have allowed Sun QingXue to sense first wood spirit power, but Yang Chen's was different. His first wood spirit power contained the essence of PengLai Divine Wood and was thus many times more formidable than Zhou Sulan's. Allowing Sun QingXue to experience it would have many benefits for her.

"So pure first wood spirit power is like this!"

Sun QingXue muttered after sensing it for a long time. Compared to her current heterogenous spirit power, Yang Chen's spirit power was much more formidable.

"No need to be discouraged, as soon as you abolish your current cultivation and cultivate from the start, when you use the wood attributed third grade foundation stage pill, you can also have similarly pure spirit power."

Yang Chen consoled her. He could see that Sun QingXue had already come out from the depression she was in just a moment ago, apparently allowing her to look at this trick had really provided her with great encouragement.

With regards to this, Sun QingXue was very clear about her current situation, but the most painful thing was that her master was not of much use. It was even possible that if Yang Chen hadn't come, she would have never even found the problem with her cultivation method.

But this was also good. At least knowing where the problem was and trying to find the method to solve it was many times better than confused people who did not know what they had to do.

"This is second wood spirit power, you should also sense this, but it is not as formidable as the first wood spirit power."

Yang Chen was someone who perfectly understood his cultivation. The first wood spirit power had been refined by the PengLai Divine Wood's essence, but the second wood spirit power was absolutely ordinary, maybe it would even be inferior to Zhou Sulan.

But Sun QingXue was very grateful. Zhou Sulan had never instructed her like this before. She very carefully, even greedily, experienced the spirit power Yang Chen was passing over, her two beautiful eyes closed shut.

Sun QingXue was someone whom Yang Chen had to try to rope in with vigor. He even had to help her cultivate, but the current situation didn't allow Yang Chen to feel relieved. But when he was saying that his second wood spirit power was inferior, a thought suddenly flashed within his mind.

"Have you thought about changing masters?"

Yang Chen suddenly asked.

"Changing my master?"

Sun QingXue was startled. After she had been shocked by Yang Chen's body possessing both first and second wood spirit power, Yang Chen's every word was like an imperial edict to her. The matter of changing her master had caught Sun QingXue off guard all of a sudden:

"How is that possible?"

"Even a person who has a fire spirit root like me can cultivate wood attribute spirit power, then why can't you change your master?"

Yang Chen used Sun QingXue's own argument to refute her own question. Since even the most impossible of matters had happened in front of her, then why were other matters impossible?

Sun QingXue was startled again, but suddenly a smile emerged on her face. This was the kind of smile that appeared after all pressure on her had been released. Yang Chen had already allowed her to look at an impossible miracle, so if he said that anything was possible, then it had to be.

"Your words are correct, your master will certainly return without any good results."

Yang Chen smiled:

"Her temper is really weak, in the future you will continue to get bullied. Exchange her for a master who is a little bit more powerful. Only then can you establish yourself firmly. Rest assured, I will take care of this matter. With this I will also solve the problem related to my second wood spirit power."

As for Yang Chen's words, the first ones were still normal, but the later ones did not make any sense. Sun QingXue was puzzled. How could changing her master have any relationship with Yang Chen's second wood spirit power?

But he did not explain Sun QingXue's doubt anymore. Yang Chen still remembered the goal he had come here for:

"In the future, if you run into a cultivation method which allows rapid progress and is applicable for all attributes, by all means, do not cultivate it! You must never spoil your foundation."

After he finished saying this, Yang Chen suddenly thought of something. Sun QingXue had been so shrewd, could it be possible that in her previous life, she had deliberately cultivated that cultivation method? But there was no way to verify this.

"I know, elder brother!"

Sun QingXue replied, just like a meek wife.

"The cultivation method has no problem!"

Zhou Sulan who originally had gone in a rage had returned dejectedly, her behaviour while facing Yang Chen was also not very good:

"You evil person made me go back for no reason and make such a slanderous accusation!"

Looking at her behaviour, she had already been convinced by someone and had conversely begun to blame Yang Chen and Sun QingXue. She certainly cherished Sun QingXue a lot, so the majority of her hatred was towards Yang Chen.

Such a person who could change what she was insisting on so easily… It would only be a miracle if she could instruct Sun QingXue properly. Even if Sun Qingxue was a heavenly talent, being taught by a mediocre person would also make her a mediocre person. Looking at this situation, Yang Chen was even more sure of his decision to convince Sun QingXue to change her master.

If separating her from the Clear Sky Sect was not a bigger problem, Yang Chen would have wanted to take Sun QingXue back to the Pure Yang Palace. But unfortunately, Sun QingXue had already been apprenticed there for more than ten years, she absolutely could not quit.

Yang Chen was even more resentful towards Shi ShanShan now for pushing Sun QingXue into this living hell. Although Sun QingXue had been in the Clear Sky Sect even in his previous life, the occurrences before the tragedy still hadn't changed.

"Senior. Junior's cultivation experience is finite and shortsighted, so mistakes are unavoidable!"

Yang Chen politely apologized, the following matters still required Zhou Sulan to act as a middleman, which could not be done without eliminating her anger.

Zhou Sulan was in a very bad mood, but Yang Chen had himself admitted his error, so she had no reason to flare up. Yang Chen was a guest who had come from far away and had never said that he had a vision like her, a JieDan stage expert. Moreover, Sun QingXue's spirit power really was the problem, so Yang Chen saying that there was some problem with her cultivation was not false at all.

"Don't mind it, don't mind it!"

Zhou Sulan helplessly shook her head.

"Ai, little Xue's comprehension is really very weak, she can't even comprehend the most basic of the cultivation methods!"

"Senior, apart from taking a look at little Xue, this youngster still has one more favour to ask."

Hearing that Zhou Sulan had again concluded that the problem was with Sun QingXue's comprehension, Yang Chen did not talk with her about it and started talking about his other aim, which he had thought of a few moments ago.

"What do you still want?"

Zhou Sulan again her brows again. What a shameless person, he still wanted to open his mouth.

"Junior wants to read in the Clear Sky Sect's library."

Yang Chen smiled while stating his request:

"Senior must not misunderstand, junior is definitely not asking for those books related to cultivation of the juniors of the Clear Sky Sect, only those which are not important. Junior just wants to increase his experience."

Yang Chen reputation of reading everything in the library of the Nine Earth Manor had also spread along with his reputation of refining the Heaven Seizing Pill, so this requirement was completely consistent with his behaviour.

But Zhou Sulan was not in support of this. Yang Chen's shortsightedness had caused her to suffer humiliation in front of her master and the sect leader. If it were not for the face of her cherished disciple Sun QingXue, she would have never seen Yang Chen again.

"Why do you want to read the collection of my Clear Sky Sect?"

Although Yang Chen's request was in accordance with his nature, it was not in the interest of the Clear Sky Sect, even if the material Yang Chen wanted to read had no relation to the cultivation of the Clear Sky Sect.

"Junior is willing to invest a sufficient price."

Yang Chen said very honestly:

"I'm exchanging this for things the Clear Sky Sect requires."

"You are a trifling Foundation stage cultivator, what kind of things can you take out, which can catch the eye of my Clear Sky Sect?"

Zhou Sulan said disdainfully. The Clear Sky Sect had as many as thousands of JieDan experts, so why would they be interested in anything a trifling Foundation stage expert like Yang Chen could offer? Yang Chen was really someone who did not know his place.

"Junior has a method to deal with the blood phantom vine, but I don't know if it will be sufficient to gain me the qualifications to enter the library?"

Yang Chen said with a smile as if he hadn't seen Zhou Sulan's complexion. At the same time, he also gave a reassuring glance to Sun QingXue.

"The blood phantom vine?"

A tremor passed through Zhou Sulan's entire body. Luckily she was a JieDan expert, so she was able to control her mental state in time. But the instant Yang Chen had said these words, she almost jumped on the spot:

"You know a method to deal with the blood phantom vine?"

Zhou Sulan could not help being terrified: A peak YuanYing stage expert of the Clear Sky Sect, Hua Wanting, was suffering from the complications caused by the blood phantom demon. His situation had already continued for many years now and initially Hua Wanting had been the most promising person for rising to the Da Cheng stage in the past hundred years, but the last time he had gone out to train, he had been attacked by a blood phantom vine and afterwards had fallen asleep to this day and had never woken up. If Yang Chen really knew a method to deal with a blood phantom vine, that would just be like sending charcoal to the Clear Sky Sect in snowy weather.

Yang Chen hadn't intended to raise Hua Wanting's matter so early. Although the complications received by the blood phantom vine had been too many, because of the constant struggle with the blood demon vine for a hundred or so years, Hua Wanting's cultivation was also crazily improving. In his previous life, when Hua Wanting had forcibly won the struggle with the blood demon vine and thrown it away, he had directly entered the Da Cheng stage after waking up.

This matter was something that would happen after 20 years. Yang Chen had planned that he would go back after ten to fifteen years and then rescue Hua Wanting and gain the friendship of a Da Cheng stage expert, but since this had already been shifted to an earlier date, Yang Chen was no longer sure if Hua Wanting's cultivation would still be able to attain the Da Cheng stage.

But because of Sun QingXue, Yang Chen decided to shift Hua Wanting's rescue to an earlier date. Although he could completely free himself without any help from Yang Chen, how could Yang Chen let go of such a matter which didn't cost him anything? Perhaps, by some mystery, Hua Wanting may not be completely unconscious and if Yang Chen saved him only after ten to fifteen years, he may say that he had already done most of the work. Moreover, saving him currently may just be the right time.

Sun QingXue completely didn't know what had happened. When she had heard Yang Chen say the words 'blood phantom vine' and had seen Zhou Sulan's reaction afterwards, it made her completely suspicious, but nobody explained anything to her.

At this time, how could Zhou Sulan remember that she had an apprentice waiting for an explanation? She directly took a step forwards and fixed her attention on Yang Chen:

"Is what you are saying true?"

"Senior, do you think junior would make a fun using this matter?"

Yang Chen rhetorically questioned. Who would dare to make a joke of a matter concerning the elder of the Clear Sky Sect. Not to mention Yang Chen, perhaps even the palace master of the Pure Yang Palace would not dare to speak about this matter casually.

"So many experts do not know, how can a junior at the Foundation stage like you know?"

Zhou Sulan was still somewhat skeptical, the entire Clear Sky Sect couldn't find a method, but suddenly a Foundation stage youngster appears, saying that he could resolve this, how could someone not be skeptical hearing this?

"At the time of refining the Heaven Seizing Pill, there wasn't anyone who believed that we could refine the Heaven Seizing Pill!"

Yang Chen revealed a mysterious smile:

"Junior has already said that this junior is fond of reading miscellaneous things and has also read a lot, so it is completely normal that many times I know things that others do not!"

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Chapter 130 – The Price For Renegotiating Is Certainly Higher

07 Aug 2016

Using the Heaven Seizing Pill was the best retort. Especially since Yang Chen's reputation of reading books was very well known, but this also saved him from having to explain too much.

"You really know how to deal with the blood phantom vine?"

After experiencing the problem regarding Sun QingXue's cultivation method, Zhou Sulan was extremely cautious and asked again to confirm.

"I had come this time mainly to read the library collection, I had no previous knowledge of little Xue's matter."

Although he did not give a direct answer, Yang Chen made Zhou Sulan understand that he was completely earnest.

Zhou Sulan had some confidence in her heart that, since it was just the library, there wouldn't be much of a problem. Sun QingXue's matter was indeed unexpected and Yang Chen had never before come to the Clear Sky Sect. It was his first time, so it was completely possible that he did not know Sun QingXue's circumstances.

Although, Zhou Sulan was relieved, she also intended to report Yang Chen's matter to the higher ups. She had made up her mind, but it still depended on the higher ups. She was only a JieDan stage expert and still didn't have the influence to make decisions for a peak YuanYing stage expert.

Very soon, Yang Chen was led to the main visitor's courtyard of the Clear Sky Sect, in the front of the Clear Sky Sect's sect master and a few YuanYing stage experts. After completing the proper salutations, Yang Chen put forth his plan of dealing with the blood phantom vine in exchange for a large number of miscellaneous books, which did not have any relation with the Clear Sky Sect's cultivation.

Since this matter concerned the life and death of a YuanYing stage elder, even the sect master of the Clear Sky Sect did not dare to be careless. Even if Yang Chen's words were a deluge of heavenly flowers, they still had to be checked seriously, and so she asked him clearly:

"This technique is something only this junior can perform."

But Yang Chen would remain silent to death. What a joke, if he told them the method first, then what would be his use?

"Then how can you prove that you can handle the blood phantom vine?"

The mood of the sect master of the Clear Sky Sect was not good. A trifling Foundation stage youngster surprisingly dared to be impudent in front of her. If it were not for Yang Chen's skill, she would have already made people teach a good lesson to this arrogant youngster. Naturally, she would make other people do this. This youngster did not have the qualifications to make her do it herself.

"Junior can experiment on the blood phantom vine surrounding Senior Hua's body for senior to look, without getting in contact with Elder Hua."

Yang Chen knew that, if he could not show them something, these people would not believe him. Using this method would not deepen Hua Wanting's injury but it would prove his skill.

As expected, after Yang Chen proposed this method, the sect master of the Clear Sky Sect also began to exchange glances with the few elders in order to communicate. The elders were also present on the scene and had heard Yang Chen's method, which appeared to be a dependable and feasible method, so all of them silently nodded towards the sect master.

"You only want large number of books from the library in return?"

The Sect Master was attentively watching Yang Chen's eyes, as if wanting to find something from Yang Chen's reply.

"Sect master must not underestimate these scrolls."

Yang Chen replied with a smile:

"Perhaps in the eyes of seniors, these books are of no use, but for this junior they are the best method to expand my horizons. Last time, when refining the Heaven Seizing Pill, I had obtained the required inspiration precisely from the hoard of miscellaneous books of my master. This time, when referring to dealing with the blood phantom vine, occasionally I will have to refer to these."

"What else do you want?"

Although Yang Chen had already stated his request indirectly, the sect master was still not convinced. How could the life of a peak YuanYing stage expert, extremely close to Da Cheng stage, be this cheap?

"If senior really thinks this is too little, then can you grant this junior the qualifications to participate in the Clear Sky Sect's auction?"

Against what they had expected, Yang Chen was not even a little formal. Since they thought he was asking for too little, Yang Chen did not mind getting more. But the things he wanted had no relation with substituting Sun QingXue's master.

Sun QingXue was really a girl with a rich background. From the beginning she had accompanied Yang Chen there, she had not even batted an eyelid, as if only treating Yang Chen as an acquaintance. She hadn't even opened her mouth.

"Since you can find the method from the books, then someone among the thousands of disciple of my Clear Sky Sect can surely also find a method!"

This time, the sect master hadn't said anything. Instead it was an elder sitting behind her, with her tone completely blunt.

"Oh, then forgive this junior for being rash, I will take my leave now!"

Yang Chen apologized, beaming with smiles. Saying his goodbyes, he turned around to depart, not dragging his feet in the least.

If they could have found a method, they would already have found it long ago, why drag it out until now? Yang Chen departing like this made the elder of the Clear Sky Sect remain dumbly rooted to the same place. Who could have thought that he would depart as soon as he said his goodbyes, without even explaining anything, how could he do this?

Originally the elders and the sect master had planned that one person would play the hero and one would play the villain and first grasp the method that Yang Chen knew. Although it was without success, the sect master did not care, but the elder felt somewhat wronged and wanted to haggle a little more over the price. She had only thought of suppressing Yang Chen's arrogant attitude a little to make him know that he was not the only one who could haggle, but who would have imagined that, against all expectations, Yang Chen would not fall for his trick.

Yang Chen leaving so swiftly was against the expectations of the upper echelons of the Clear Sky Sect. Although they were desperate to know, they also had to maintain their demeanour. They also could not be too overbearing towards a junior who had come as a guest, most of all a junior who was someone whom Elder Wu regarded as important. And Elder Wu still hadn't ascended.

The sect master hastily sent a meaningful glance towards Zhou Sulan. At this moment, only Zhou Sulan and Sun QingXue were suitable to call back Yang Chen. If other people present on the scene did this, what would remain of their face?

"Wait a minute, Fellow Daoist Yang!"

By the time Yang Chen had already departed to the door, Zhou Sulan hastily urged him, simultaneously also hinting towards Sun QingXue to step forward to stop Yang Chen.

"Elder Brother Yang, Elder did not truly think like that, you must not misunderstand."

Sun QingXue also cleverly showed off in front of the Sect Master and the other elders, while at the same time also acting like a spoiled child, making Yang Chen loosen his guard:

"She was only worried about Elder Hua, that's all."

"Yang Chen, with regards to the Pure Yang Palace and the Clear Sky Sect, both are on friendly terms, if anyone wants to say anything, they can say without any restrictions, it should never go as far as departing because of one wrong sentence from one side!"

The Clear Sky Sect's sect master had never thought before that, one day, she would talk to a Foundation stage junior with such amiable and friendly tone and moreover it was just her first time confronting Yang Chen.

The elder who had opened her mouth just a moment ago had already retreated behind the sect master's body, not daring to say anything anymore. Her head had been dropping a little, but while nobody was paying attention to her, a trace of discontentment flashed through her eyes.

"Since you have already found the method, we will not need to spend the strength."

On the sect master's face was a sincere smile:

"Moreover, in accordance to what you have said, if you are able to deal with the matter of the blood phantom vine, you will get ten thousand books and the qualifications to the auction."

"Senior, forgive this junior for being impudent."

On Yang Chen's face was a smile which seemed even more joyful compared to the sect master:

"Those were previous conditions, now it is twenty thousand books and the qualifications to the auction."

Yang Chen, with a smile all across his face was just like a cunning profiteer at that moment. The kind of profiteer who didn't mind making a counter offer when haggling, the kind of profiteer that any honest person would want to throw to the ground and kick to death.

The problem was, that the thing that they needed was in the hands of this profiteer and the starting price of that profiteer was moreover not that high, but when the Clear Sky Sect wanted to raise the price they had to pay even more.

Since they wanted to haggle with Yang Chen, this meant they had to accept Yang Chen's conditions. For the Clear Sky Sect, the life of a peak YuanYing stage expert who was going to break through to the Da Cheng stage was worth far more than twenty thousand books. This was one of the reasons Yang Chen had dared to increase the price.

Regardless of whether Hua Wanting was tormented by the blood phantom vine and his cultivation entered Da Cheng stage, just Hua Wanting's cultivation experience was equal to ten times the price asked for by Yang Chen. If the sect master of the Clear Sky Sect let this matter slip, let alone speaking of her face on the outside, just the voices of blame and reproach in the Clear Sky Sect would be too much for her to withstand.

"Twenty thousand books, I will immediately have someone prepare them!"

The sect master of the Clear Sky Sect who met losses and gains with equanimity, knew that their previous conduct definitely was not in accordance with a big sect's style, so to prevent Yang Chen from increasing the prices again, she directly agreed to Yang Chen's request:

"At what time, can we see the results of the tests you said you will conduct?"

"You can see it at any time!"

Yang Chen spoke directly, but within his heart, he was full of praise with regards to Sun QingXue's behaviour just a moment ago. With just a sentence, she had been tactful enough to allow everyone, most of all that elder, to get out of an embarrassing situation and was moreover still able to show her concern for Hua Wanting. These few favours would surely benefit her in the future.

"And what if you are not able to resolve the blood phantom vine?"

The elder who had spoken just a moment ago, suddenly lifted her head, her two eyes intently watching Yang Chen. Together with the formidable pressure of the YuanYing stage bearing down on him. She wanted to see whether Yang Chen would lose his self control and be alarmed, otherwise she would not have said said anything again.

The sect master was a little late in stopping her, the elder's pressure had already come out, so she had no alternative other than releasing her own pressure to cut it off at midway. But unfortunately, she was a little late. The elder's pressure had already reached Yang Chen's body.

Just when the sect master and the other elders started lamenting in their hearts, believing that Yang Chen would be witlessly scared and lose his mind, they suddenly discovered that Yang Chen was just the same as normal. He basically did not care about the elder's pressure and replied with a smile:

"If this junior cannot resolve the blood phantom vine, then be assured the blood phantom vine will be directly sucked in my body and I will die, what else can I say. All seniors, is this agreeable to you?"

Being ignored like this was like a tight slap on the face of the elder sitting behind the sect master, her whole face was flushed red. If it were not for the sect master and the other elders sitting in the room, maybe she would have already attacked him in rage. Allowing a Foundation stage youngster to ignore her like this, was seriously a little too hard for her to handle.

"This junior was formerly an executioner, so I'm innately not affected by killing intent or anything like that."

While Yang Chen explained with a gentle laugh:

"Afterwards I had climbed to the peak of the Heavenly Stairs twice, so I am even less worried about any pressure pushing on me. Seniors should not jest with me!"

Once Yang Chen's words came out, the elder who released the pressure was even more embarrassed, but she was unable to say anything. Her face had thoroughly turned red due to her embarrassment. She did not even intend to continue waiting for the results and directly left the room disappearing completely.

Once she walked out, apparently everyone's mood relaxed. Yang Chen had already said clearly that if he was not able to resolve the blood phantom vine, it implied that the blood phantom vine would kill Yang Chen. Everyone clearly knew about this point, who in the room did not know the ferociousness of the blood phantom vine? Even a peak YuanYing stage ancestor had been tormented by it, then what about Yang Chen, who was just a minor Foundation stage youngster?

Sun QingXue knew for the first time that the blood phantom vine could be terrible like this. If Yang Chen was not able to resolve it, he would have to pay with his life.

She wanted to stop Yang Chen, that he should not do this by any means, but in front of the sect master and the other elders as well as her master, how could she have any chance to speak? She could only continue to worry within her heart and at the same time feel warm towards Yang Chen.

That one person was willing to risk his life by himself to assist her in changing her status in the sect. This kind of feeling was something she had never before come across in this sect. Even if her master loved her dearly, it was not to the extent of risking her life for Sun QingXue. How could Sun QingXue not be moved?

The sect master together with the elders did not dare to be careless with regards to the matter of Hua Wanting and immediately led Yang Chen to the gate of Hua Wanting's courtyard. Everyone had a tacit understanding with each other and stopped at the doorstep.

After the blood phantom vine had coiled around Hua Wanting, she had rushed back to the sect with all of her strength. The blood phantom vine was extremely dangerous, even to the extent that the entire area in the vicinity of elder Hua Wanting's courtyard had been sealed. People did not dare to go near it for a reason. Even if it were these elders or the sect master, they also did not dare to come in contact with him without the restrictions of a few spell formations.

Just outside of the innermost restriction, everyone could see the situation inside clearly. The entire courtyard was similar to a sea of blood. The red coloured vine covered up the entire area within everyone's field of view. In the center of the courtyard, a figure was sitting upright, but it was already covered entirely by the blood phantom vine and the exact situation could not be seen.

Only one thing was sure, that it was elder Hua Wanting. Apart from any special circumstances, the blood colored vine required a large amount of spirit power and blood to survive. That the blood colored vine was thriving in this way clearly illustrated that Elder Hua was still alive and enduring the torment.

The sect leader and the elders did not feel good seeing this scene. It was also the first time for Zhou Sulan and Sun QingXue seeing such frightening circumstances. Zhou Sulan could still tolerate it, after all she had much more knowledge and experience, but Sun QingXue was forced to close her eyes.

"Elder Hua is inside."

The sect master said, pointing towards the motionless silhouette with a gloomy tone. But she also gave Yang Chen a chance to retreat:

"Yang Chen, if you don't have assurances, then you must not risk your life, I will not look into the words you said previously."

After all, Yang Chen was someone Elder Wu thought very highly of and while Elder Wu had still not ascended, nobody wanted to be responsible for Yang Chen's death.

"Senior, this junior has never withdrawn his words!"

Yang Chen smiled and afterwards, in accordance with the sect master's instructions, he opened the first layer of restrictions and entered. After entering the final barrier, Yang Chen did not stop for one moment and directly rushed to enter that courtyard in large steps.

Once Yang Chen's figure appeared in the courtyard, the blood phantom vine was like a hungry, carnivorous beast, which had seen fresh food. It directly rushed towards Yang Chen with an earth shattering might, wishing to cover him up.

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Chapter 131 – Expelling The Blood Phantom Vine

Although the people outside could not hear the sound, they could see the situation inside. Yang Chen could only take one step forward before he immediately turned into a huge cocoon bound by the blood colored vine. Not even a little of his figure could be seen anymore.

"Ah!"

Sun QingXue had been able to come over because of her relationship with Yang Chen, but she hadn't anticipated this kind of situation and immediately cried out in fear.

"Who is losing their head? Why has she come here!"

One elder watching the situation inside berated Sun QingXue after hearing her shout.

Only then did Sun QingXue discover, that the huge cocoon formed around Yang Chen was still mobile and was slowly moving towards Elder Hua. Although those blood colored vines had covered Yang Chen tightly, they were only enclosing him on the outside and could not touch Yang Chen's body.

"How is he able to do that?"

Looking at this scene, nobody had any more doubt about Yang Chen's ability to handle the blood phantom vine. Although the vine had attacked Yang Chen, it did not dare to get close to his body. Everyone seeing this was baffled. The blood phantom vine, in front of whom even elder Hua had been at her wits end, for which several tens of thousands of disciples of the Clear Sky Sect had been unable to find a solution. How could a trifling Foundation stage youngster accomplish this?

Naturally Yang Chen could not explain this. The blood phantom vine was a name famous even in the Immortal Realm for its dreadfulness. Apart from a few almighty experts, even if it was a Great Principal Golden Immortal, in front of a mature blood phantom vine, they also didn't have any means to control it. There was only one opportunity to control the blood phantom vine and that was to restrain it in its infancy.

The infant stage of the blood phantom vine was not counted in years, but rather the time before the blood phantom vine had ascended and was able to suck an immortal's blood. In his previous life, Hua Wanting was able to endure the torment of the blood phantom vine for a hundred years before struggling free from it and throwing it away. Only, at that time, she had been relying on her formidable cultivation, while Yang Chen was relying on some herbs and the essence of the eighth metal spirit power to control it.

The blood phantom vine was classified as second wood, the entire vine class were herbaceous plants, so it could be classified as second wood. Yang Chen previous talk with Sun QingXue in regards to improving his own second wood spirit power was precisely because of this. After he would subdue this blood phantom vine, which had been stuffing itself up with the blood of an expert infinitely near the Da Cheng stage, it would be sufficient to allow his cultivation increase with redoubled power.

The eighth metal spirit power wrapping up his entire body was precisely restraining this second wood. After adding some formidable herbs, the blood phantom vine basically did not dare to come close to his body, even if it did not have a consciousness, this kind of plants had instincts to sense danger.

Although it did not have any contact, the blood colored vine had still covered Yang Chen tightly. But wherever Yang Chen stepped, the vine in that area got out of the away.

Very soon, Yang Chen's huge cocoon had wiggled to the center of the courtyard, getting close to the region where elder Hua Wanting was sitting upright.

The hearts of the sect master and the few elders watching from the outside were hanging in their throats. This was the most crucial point and although Yang Chen had proved that the blood phantom vine could not injure him for the time being, removing the vine covering the entire body of Hua Wanting was not exactly a simple matter.

Within the darkness cast by the omnipresent vine, Yang Chen walked step by step, closing in on Hua Wanting's body and then stopped. Using his spiritual awareness, he began to examine the circumstances there.

The blood phantom vine was capable of effectively isolating spiritual awareness probes, so Yang Chen was only capable of using the movement on the ground to sense Hua Wanting's circumstances.

Hua Wanting was still alive and fighting tenaciously, but the signs of her life had already dropped to a minimum. Yang Chen could not even sense her heartbeat. But Yang Chen knew that Hua Wanting had controlled the systems necessary for living to the greatest extent, because the quicker the blood flow, the quicker the blood phantom vine would suck the blood. At this moment, Hua Wanting's body had formed a balance with the blood phantom vine.

"If it were not little Xue, I would have not come here to save you!"

Yang Chen said, unafraid that anyone outside would hear it. He knew that the layers of restrictions completely isolated sound. These words were said only for Hua Wanting to hear.

"A talented disciple with an almost completely full wood spirit root, but unexpectedly, just because of someone's selfishness, someone played tricks with her cultivation method, wasting a few decades of her cultivation and producing mixed spirit power throughout her entire body."

Yang Chen was as if talking to himself, like venting his anger:

"The Clear Sky Sect is still considered to be an upright sect? Pah! What a joke!"

If someone among the upper echelons of the Clear Sky Sect heard his words at this moment, nobody would believe that he was meticulously trying to save Hua Wanting and would only be under the impression that, since his realm was very low, he was unable to control his anger.

But Yang Chen knew that he was saying all of this for Hua Wanting to hear. Hua Wanting had been sober headed from the beginning and had never loosened control of her body in her fight against the blood phantom vine. Hua Wanting heard every word and every letter of what Yang Chen was saying clearly.

While speaking, Yang Chen's hand had already begun to extend towards Hua Wanting's body. Hua Wanting, sitting upright, was naturally able to sense Yang Chen's movement, but Yang Chen's casual movement, had almost made her mind lose her defence.

She had reached this equilibrium after a hard struggle, believing that after some more time, she could struggle to the winning position and afterwards slowly take care of this blood phantom vine. But if Yang Chen displaced her slightly, her entire fight of a hundred years was going to be burnt. Unfortunately, despite being anxious, her body was not capable of making even the slightest movement, not even a warning movement or sound. She could also not issue even a trace of spiritual awareness, because she was being blocked by the vines.

Yang Chen's hand stopped half an inch away from Hua Wanting. The intense medicinal qi and the eighth metal spirit power made the vine surrounding Hua Wanting's body move a little bit, but not much. This was not as bad as giving rise to backlash from the spirit power inside elder Hua's body.

Elder Hua's body was sealed tightly, Yang Chen only knew that this meant that she was alive, but he did not know that what kind of circumstances were under the blood phantom vine. Once the vine displaced, it immediately revealed a crack and Yang Chen's spiritual awareness immediately rushed in through that crack.

In a moment, Yang Chen knew the exact situation. Just as he had anticipated, the blood phantom vine's root had already penetrated into elder Hua's stomach and the master root had penetrated her heart, swallowing the blood produced in her body at all times. No wonder he could not sense any pulse, there simply was no pulse.

But even under these circumstances elder Hua was alive which clearly proved how formidable she was. No wonder she shook the heavens and the earth in the future. After being tempered for a hundred years there, her willpower had become extremely firm and persistent, what else could cause any problems for her?

"I am going to take care of this blood phantom vine, but you have to cooperate with me!"

Yang Chen said this like a doctor giving instructions to a sick person and then suddenly added:

"Ah what stupid thing I am doing? You can't hear anything!"

In short, he had already warned Hua Wanting to make her preparations but at the same time also cleverly covered his tracks. 'I believed you couldn't hear anything, so no one can blame me!'

The blood phantom root's master vein had already penetrated Hua Wanting's heart and there were also many fibrous roots filling her arteries. Removing them was not an easy matter.

"In any case, since you can't hear me, you also won't mind a little bit of pain!"

Yang Chen said again, but suddenly many long needles appeared within his hand.

These long needles were completely ordinary. Apart from being hollow, they didn't have any speciality, even the materials used were completely ordinary. Previously, Yang Chen hadn't thought that he was going to save Hua Wanting this time, so he hadn't prepared enough and had only refined them while waiting for Zhou Sulan, hurriedly and crudely.

But despite being simple, they were already sufficient at this moment. The main use of hollow acupuncture needles was to input medicinal qi into the body of elder Hua Wanting, so using precious materials would just be a waste.

With one shake of his hand the needle punctured Hua Wanting's skin. Luckily, this region was elder Hua's arm and once the needle entered, a portion of dense medicine qi, carrying eighth metal spirit power with it, immediately rushed forth.

The blood phantom vine in the vein where the needle had entered, began to withdraw at a rapid speed. But within a hundred years, these vines had already fused together with elder Hua's body, so suddenly being forcibly separated produced an immense pain, as if flesh was being ripped apart.

The fierce pain made Hua Wanting almost lose her mind. But fortunately Yang Chen had already warned her, so she was prepared and after enduring these hundred years of constant torment, her capability to endure pain had increased by a large extent. Her mental state had become even more tenacious than heavenly silk, forcibly enduring the pain without budging even a little. Other region's hadn't loosened even a little.

Along with Yang Chen putting in the medicinal qi and spirit flow in a constant stream, the blood phantom vine in Hua Wanting's veins began to slowly pull back and very soon the blood demon vine could neither enter nor control that region again.

As soon as the sensation and control of this region were restored, Hua Wanting's heart relaxed. Yang Chen really was able to settle the blood phantom vine and was not just making trouble.

Outside, the sect leader and the elders of the Clear Sky Sect had nervously clenched their fists. Until now, everything appeared to be normal and this also made their desire even greater. The closer to success they thought they were, the more nervous they got. This concerned the life of a Da Cheng stage expert. If they had Hua Wanting, Clear Sky Sect would be even stronger than currently.

At this moment, Yang Chen's movement had been stopped. His spirit power had already been exhausted by being crazily pushed into the body of a Da Cheng stage expert for just a moment. This was not strange at all. Although Yang Chen had already reached the Foundation stage, this was still quite lacking to consume the blood phantom vine, which had caused so much suffering to Hua Wanting.

Yang Chen stopping his movements made Hua Wanting so nervous that her heart had come to her throat. Fortunately, after some moments of rest, Yang Chen again began to push out medicinal qi and spirit power, which started increasing the area under Hua Wanting's control.

Under the cover of the vines, other people could not see what kind of thing Yang Chen had used, as nobody was concerned about what kind of elixir Yang Chen had used to recover his spirit power. Everyone was only looking at the vine trembling incessantly within the courtyard. This kind of change was something they had never seen before.

The process seemed to be very simple: Yang Chen was pushing his medicinal qi and spirit power into her body, but this process lasted for a full ten days. Only then was Yang Chen able to expel the vine from one arm of Hua Wanting.

The needle with medicinal power and eighth metal spirit power was pressed into Hua Wanting's vein to block the blood phantom vine from entering again. Hua Wanting had also realized this point, so she didn't let her wood attribute spirit power appear in that area, fearing that, if she was not careful, she might counteract Yang Chen's pathetic eight metal spirit power, which could cause all of this hard work to go to waste.

"Ahh, I am on the point of dying, I must go out to recover!"

After inserting the needle, Yang Chen who had completely worn himself out, spat out these words. Spending his last bits of energy, he soon slowly left the courtyard and made his way out of the courtyard at lightning speed. Afterwards, without caring for face or saying anything, he immediately fell to the ground and began to gasp for breath.

The sect master of the Clear Sky Sect appeared at Yang Chen's side in a flash and immediately squeezed a yuan cultivation pill into Yang Chen's mouth, afterwards, without making a difference about being male and female, she reached out her hand to explore Yang Chen's body and passed on her spirit power, assisting Yang Chen in recovering faster.

"How is elder Hua?"

On the side, the elders were worried about Hua Wanting. On the side, while the sect master was still helping Yang Chen recover, one of the elders asked impatiently.

"Shut your mouth!"

The sect master berated the elder. Yang Chen had already strained himself to his limits and was unable to support himself, anyone could see this, so the question was really ill timed.

The elder also realized his mistake and obediently shut up, not saying anything anymore.

With the assistance of the sect master, Yang Chen only needed half a day before recovering fully to having a dragon's energy and a tiger's fierceness. Once he opened his eyes, Yang Chen directly stated the conditions inside, without anyone asking:

"It will still require some more time, I have already undone an arm!"

After he finished speaking, without saying anything anymore, he entered the courtyard again, this time changing to the other arm, and continued to work.

First were the four limbs, then was the belly, following which was her neck and finally he focused on the pit of her stomach. Settling all of them one by one, the only thing that remained was the master root in her heart. This entire process had already taken a full three months.

During this whole time, the Clear Sky Sect's master, together with her group of elders had been waiting outside of the courtyard. Even Sun QingXue was allowed to stay there because of her relation to Yang Chen.

During the process of waiting, Sun QingXue's complication was analyzed by the group of elders. With Yang Chen's warning, the sect master and the group of elders could clearly see the problem. Even Sun QingXue's cultivation method was taken out and researched by the group of elders. What was most embarrassing for them was that, this time they discovered that the problem really did lie with the cultivation method and not with Sun QingXue's comprehension.

A talented disciple of the sect had been plotted against by someone of the sect and it moreover had been discovered by an outsider. Furthermore, when that person said this in the beginning, nobody trusted him. If it were not for Yang Chen spending so much time resolving the matter of the blood phantom vine and everyone having discovered that her comprehension was not inferior, they would have been unable to find this problem.

Obviously, the one most embarrassed because of this problem was precisely the sect master of the Clear Sky Sect. But the matter of elder Hua Wanting had been urgent, so it didn't need to be said, Sun QingXue's matter could only come afterwards.

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Chapter 132 – An Elder Can Also Make Mistakes

14 Aug 2016

When only the master root was left, Yang Chen stopped. This was the most crucial step. As long as he succeeded, it implied that elder Hua Wanting would not have to endure further torment from the blood phantom root, but this was also the most challenging step and he wouldn't be able to achieve it with just medicinal power and spirit power.

If he just wanted to remove Elder Hua Wanting's pain and resolve the blood phantom vine, it was still comparatively simple, but the problem was that Yang Chen wanted to use this opportunity and wanted to collect this blood phantom vine's root, which, although it had sucked the blood of a Da Cheng stage expert, was still only in it's infancy. This was going to be a lot more troublesome.

Naturally, for Yang Chen, this was not an impossible task. This was a good opportunity to show his friendship towards the Clear Sky Sect, to seek benefits and furthermore an opportunity to conceal his true aim. Otherwise, in case they found out that he had collected the blood phantom vine, it would actually increase his troubles in the future rather than decreasing them.

"This youngster must remove a piece of flesh from elder Hua's chest, so I must be disrespectful. Myself requests that seniors forgive me for being disrespectful!"

Apart from medicinal power and spirit power, Yang Chen could only use his flying sword to remove the blood phantom vine when it had centralized in one place. Once the blood phantom vine entered the human body, it would certainly never leave and he could only use such a cruel method.

Since he pretended that elder Hua Wanting wasn't conscious, Yang Chen naturally had to request the elders of the Clear Sky Sect in order to make her understand, otherwise he would be charged with being disrespectful towards the person he had saved for no reason.

Fortunately the elders had already understood his goal and they also knew about the blood phantom vine's characteristics, so they didn't have any objection and nodded in affirmance.

"I require an empty qiankun pouch!"

Yang Chen raised this request towards the people of the Clear Sky Sect:

"The courtyard is still highly toxic because of the blood phantom vine, you all cannot go in. If you come in contact with the qiankun pouch containing the main part of the blood phantom vine, you must destroy it immediately, understood?"

Who could say that they wouldn't? Everyone nodded their heads in agreement. But Yang Chen obviously wasn't satisfied, so he asked again earnestly:

"Everyone knows this blood phantom vine is a treasure, but even elder Hua Wanting was unable to resist it, I do not think it will be good to try."

These words clearly had a hint of teaching people, the expressions on the faces of the Clear Sky Sect's elders turned unsightly.

But Yang Chen was as if he did not care, he continued speaking while minding his own business:

"Perhaps everyone can think themselves to be lucky and may think that keeping it inside their qiankun pouch would not be a big deal."

Looking around, Yang Chen glanced at the elders of the Clear Sky Sect and smiled:

"I will take the responsibility of informing everyone that the blood phantom vine will break through that qiankun pouch in at most three breaths of time. Within these three breaths, you must completely destroy it. The space of the qiankun pouch being destroyed will turn the blood phantom vine into fine powder. Apart from this, there is no other good method."

Although Yang Chen's words were solemn, these YuanYing stage experts did not accept it. All of them were YuanYing stage ancestors, but that one immature and inexperienced Foundation stage youngster, dared to make a show of his knowledge and experience in front of them?

"You must not push your luck at any cost, seniors!"

Yang Chen repeatedly warned them, persuading them patiently:

"Elder Hua's qiankun pouch has already been smashed into pieces, I wonder if she thought she would be lucky and was instead entangled by the blood phantom vine. I have said all I could, seniors can think for themselves, this junior will immediately shut up!"

From the qiankun pouch, he fished out two porcelain bottles and walked to Sun QingXue and handed them to her:

"Little Xue, of these two porcelain bottles, one can make the blood phantom vine avoid you and one can bring you relief from the high toxicity of the blood phantom vine, take them."

Placing them into her hand, he warned in a loud voice again:

"If something happens, use them immediately, your cultivation is the lowest here, so don't try to act bravely!"

Although it appeared that he was repeatedly warning Sun QingXue, in reality he was warning the elders of the Clear Sky Sect in disguise. If an accident happened, it would also be an insurance for Sun QingXue.

Once he had completed this, Yang Chen extended his hand towards the sect master of the Clear Sky Sect and handed over his qiankun pouch. Then he entered the courtyard again.

"This is the last and most crucial step: if senior can hear me, then please prepare properly."

Yang Chen said to Hua Wanting:

"The blood phantom vine's master root is isolated, so senior must immediately circulate your cultivation to dissolve junior's eighth metal spirit power and force the medicinal power out of your body. Without the blood phantom vine, that medicinal power will erode your body."

Hua Wanting's finger slightly moved in response to Yang Chen's proposal. This was her first movement since Yang Chen had expelled the blood phantom vine. Thanks to Yang Chen getting rid of the blood phantom vine from within her body, it left her with some strength to gain control over her body.

Yang Chen's spiritual awareness had covered the entire region so he had acutely discovered this point and was immediately pleased beyond his expectations:

"Having senior's cooperation, junior holds much more assurance."

That kind of friendly tone, let alone speaking of the current moment, even if Hua Wanting had ninety nine percent control over her body, she would still be unable to hear any deceit even she heard this face to face.

"For clearing away the master root of blood phantom vine, this junior will have to remove a part of flesh above your heart. This will hurt even more, so senior, please be careful!"

Yang Chen first reminded her before starting his work.

With just this last step left, Hua Wanting absolutely did not want to give up and slightly moved her fingers two times, affirming Yang Chen's words. Seeing this, Yang Chen also began his preparations calmly.

The needle was directly inserted into her heart and began to pour in medicinal power and eighth metal spirit power. But this time, the master root of the blood phantom vine didn't shrink back rapidly like the other times, instead it slowly formed a small ball, but still occupied a corner in the heart.

This was still near the chest, so Yang Chen carefully inserted it even deeper. The huge amount of medicinal power and spirit power started to pour in, which made the blood phantom vine leave most of the heart and concentrate in a very small section.

Suddenly, Yang Chen's hand moved rapidly, a sharp flying sword directly penetrated into Elder Hua Wanting's chest, following along the root of the blood phantom vine and rapidly sliced off a part. Immediately following this, Yang Chen threw it into a qiankun pouch, following which, the blood phantom vine which had been filling up the courtyard, was like it had suddenly received a great pull and began to concentrate on Yang Chen's hand.

During this commotion, nobody noticed that the master root of the blood phantom vine had entered the Achievement Ring on Yang Chen's hand. The majority of the blood phantom vine was directly sucked in by the Achievement Ring and only a small part was actually placed into the qiankun pouch.

Originally, with Yang Chen in everyone's field of view, nobody would have thought that he could cheat. The blood phantom vine which was spread everywhere in the courtyard had all been squeezed into the qiankun pouch and no traces of it were left within the courtyard.

Yang Chen also rushed directly to the edge of the restriction and hurriedly used the method to open it and threw that qiankun pouch outside.

Once he threw out the qiankun pouch, Yang Chen no longer stayed and directly rushed back to Hua Wanting, whose body was finally free from the vine. In midair, a porcelain bottle had appeared within his hands. Once he stopped, the porcelain bottle had already been opened and the medicinal powder was quickly sprayed on elder Hua Wanting's chest wound.

Being sucked dry for almost a hundred years by the blood phantom vine, elder Hua Wanting's body didn't have even a drop of blood, so even with such a huge wound, not even a drop had trickled out. Her face was incomparably pale, resembling a corpse.

Once the medicinal powder was sprayed on her, the wound began to heal and a trace of flesh began to grow rapidly.

Not having even a single free moment from the beginning, Yang Chen had finally finished the process. Furthermore, under his observation, drops of blood had already begun to seep out of that wound, which clearly implied that elder Hua's body had already begun to recover the blood making function.

Strictly speaking, elder Hua had forcefully suppressed her production of blood using her cultivation, so that the blood phantom vine could not suck it. Currently, without the restrictions of the blood phantom vine, it had begun to restore immediately.

Now that there was no major restriction on elder Hua's side, after the blood phantom vine had been thrown out, it was the same as getting rid of mortal worry for her. The only thing left now was nursing her back to health. With elder Hua's cultivation, Yang Chen was certain that, within a few months, her cultivation would be restored and would even be able to increase more.

Only then did Yang Chen have the time to look at the qiankun pouch he had thrown out. Not out of his expectations, even after his repeated warnings, someone had tested his luck in trying to collect the blood phantom vine.

The instant the qiankun pouch was thrown out, an elder reached out her hand to catch it and without hesitation, her spiritual awareness immediately entered the qiankun pouch.

"Don't!"

Clear Sky Sect's sect master yelled, but was unable to prevent the elder's movement.

Bang!

Like the blooming of a rose, following the elder's spiritual awareness, more than a dozen blood phantom vines immediately came out of the qiankun pouch and engulfed the elder who had released the spiritual awareness.

Meanwhile, six elders, together with the sect master had already attacked the qiankun pouch. The seven YuanYing stage elders' combined strike made the qiankun pouch directly explode into fragments, turning the blood phantom vine inside into powder.

The unfortunate thing was that because of the greediness of that elder, more than ten vines had escaped. These vines were like living animals and, perceiving people's presence, they began to pounce towards the people in the surroundings.

The reason why the blood phantom vine was so terrifying was because within a short time, even if they were separated from the main part, they would not die and as long as they had access to fresh blood, these vines were capable of coiling around the source and enter the skin. After entering the skin, they would give birth to more roots, forming a brand new vine.

Of the people on the scene, everyone had the necessary knowledge about the blood phantom vine. Apart from the knowledge that the blood phantom vine could follow their spiritual awareness, they were clear about other things. Therefore, everyone attacked the small vines left behind.

Peng! Peng! Peng! Peng!

Several sounds echoed. A few elders, turning pale with fright, had successively attacked several small roots, but two or three had still escaped their attacks and began to pounce towards other people.

Sun QingXue's cultivation was very low and she was also one of the targets included. But she was not even a little flustered. When Yang Chen had given her the medicine bottles earlier, she knew that Yang Chen would not do anything useless, therefore she was always on alert. When Yang Chen threw away the qiankun pouch, she had already opened the medicine bottle and had sprinkled the medicinal powder on her body.

When that one vine throwing itself towards Sun QingXue suddenly sensed the medicinal power, it stopped midair and was immediately crushed.

The medicinal bottle within Sun QingXue's hand immediately disappeared and appeared within the sect master's hand. Soon after that, a large portion of medicinal powder was sprayed towards two more elders whom the vine was going to attack. The two vines immediately fell to the ground and began to twist around.

The several elders didn't dare to be careless and immediately attacked the vines which had fallen down just a moment ago, which made them turn into powder. Only then did everyone take a sigh of relief.

But the matter was far from over, the blood phantom vines, in addition to coming out, were also extremely toxic. Initially, the restrictions had sealed the toxicity of the blood phantom vine in the courtyard. If, in accordance with Yang Chen's words, they had destroyed the qiankun pouch, this kind of matter would not have happened, but unfortunately that elder wanted to fulfill his evil schemes.

The result of his evil schemes was clear, everyone apart from Sun QingXue sensed a wave of numbness. Even if they did not breathe, the blood phantom vine's poison was still going to corrode their body.

The sect master suddenly sensed something was abnormal and immediately learned from Sun QingXue and swallowed the powder inside the medicinal bottle before spraying it over her body. Immediately, the sensation of numbness began to fade.

After knowing that there was nothing wrong with the medication, the sect master immediately divided it for all other elders on the scene. Nobody dared to be neglectful and hurriedly swallowed it, which brought relief from the numbness, causing everyone to relax. It seemed that everyone had escaped from mortal danger.

Everyone's gaze the focused on the elder who had been rash just a moment ago. Apart from Sun QingXue, everyone's gaze was filled with contempt, especially the sect master's, which even had a trace of anger.

Even after Yang Chen's repeated warnings that they were not to be careless and try to push their luck, that elder still couldn't accept it. If it were not that Yang Chen had left that medicinal powder with Sun QingXue, they may have lost three or four people at this moment. Saving Hua Wanting but losing three four people in the process, if such a thing had really happened, that would certainly have been a disaster for the Clear Sky Sect.

The mistaken elder also knew her fault and had lowered her head in guilt without saying anything. This time, whatever punishment the sect master gave her, she would abide by it without any resistance. If it were not for her reckless actions, this kind of matter would have not occurred.

After giving a fierce glance to the elder, the sect master turned her gaze towards the courtyard again. Yang Chen was still carefully providing medicine to elder Hua Wanting, seemingly without having looked over there. Rejoicing, the sect master suddenly had a feeling of not being able to confront Yang Chen. This was her first time coming across such a feeling after advancing to the YuanYing stage.

Even the sect master did not know why she felt that way towards Yang Chen, whether it was because Yang Chen had saved an elder of their sect or because Yang Chen had left a surplus of medicine powder with Sun QingXue. In any case, what the sect master wanted to do right now was precisely to wait for Yang Chen to come out and then express her gratitude properly.

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Although the outside was a complete mess, inside, Yang Chen was laughing slyly. The majority of the blood phantom vine had already been collected by him into the Achievement Ring and moreover, when putting them in the ring, he had already placed them into the medicine garden of the medicine bottle.

Although it could not survive in ordinary conditions, the master root was still wrapped within the flesh of elder Hua Wanting's heart. This was a Da Cheng stage expert's flesh and blood, which the blood phantom vine couldn't absorb completely even in a hundred years, this was enough to allow the blood phantom vine to survive for a short duration.

While everyone was believing that the blood phantom vine had been destroyed with that qiankun pouch, in reality, the main portion was still with Yang Chen.

Naturally, Yang Chen would not tell that to anyone, including Sun QingXue. What he had to do at that moment was to establish friendly relations. Since the issue of the blood phantom vine had already been resolved, what was left was just to eliminate the toxicity remaining in the courtyard and give some slight assistance to elder Hua Wanting in recovering. There was no need for Yang Chen to back down from such simple task.

It had to be known that, in his previous life, elder Hua Wanting had killed the blood phantom vine by relying on her formidable cultivation. Soon after that she had slowly refined the blood phantom vine's toxicity and, in the end, was not only able to restore her cultivation, but had furthermore stepped into the Da Cheng stage.

What Yang Chen actually needed to do was this. Elder Hua Wanting had been able to achieve this in less than one year. This was a favour which would cost him nothing and there were not many opportunities like this, so Yang Chen certainly did not want to miss out on this.

Since this was a favor to a person who was about to become a Da Cheng stage expert and he was moreover wanting Hua Wanting to take Sun QingXue as a disciple, Yang Chen decided to invest sufficient resources to restore elder Hua Wanting's injury properly this time.

He fished out a thousand year matured ginseng and placed it into the Profound Spirit Furnace standing in front of elder Hua Wanting and rapidly refined the ginseng liquid. Then he directly poured it into Hua Wanting's mouth without using any other herbs.

For the past hundred years, Hua Wanting had not received any replenishment and had supported herself completely by relying on the spirit power of her spirit vein and her formidable cultivation. Almost all of her vitality had been drained from her body and although the spirit power she had access to was extremely pure, it was also extremely scarce.

Once the ginseng liquid entered her mouth, she immediately recognized what it was. For her, who was extremely weak, it was well timed assistance.

With her cultivation, it was impossible to overwhelm her with a tonic that was too strong. With the remaining small amount of spirit power, she quickly circulated the ginseng liquid to each and every part of her body.

Her flesh, which had almost wilted away after being sucked dry by the blood phantom vine, was as if it had come alive and hungrily absorbed the ginseng liquid. Soon, a tinge of pink appeared on her deathly pale skin, which did not have any color before. Her entire body was exuding an aura of liveliness.

The change of skin in elder Hua Wanting's body was extremely quick and soon the pink color had transformed into the usual bright red. It seemed as if, within this short instant, elder Hua Wanting's blood had been reborn.

Following which, the enormous amount of spirit power within the thousand year ginseng started to be refined and absorbed by her body. The impurities in the ginseng liquid had already been eliminated and it could thus be absorbed very easily. Soon, the thousand year ginseng's spirit power had completely entered Hua Wanting's body.

While elder Hua Wanting was recovering her spirit power, Yang Chen sprayed a few bottles of medicinal powder around, which made the acute poison of the blood phantom vine which was sealed in the restricted area disappear.

After completing all of this, only then did Yang Chen turn towards the sect master and the elders waiting outside of the restriction and hinted that they could enter now.

The elders waiting outside the courtyard had started to grow anxious for some time, seeing Yang Chen's gesture, the sect master immediately cut open the restrictions and then the elders almost charged into the courtyard.

"You must not move elder Hua Wanting!"

The sect master saw that all of the elders apparently showed an indication of assisting elder Hua Wanting, so she immediately shouted in a loud voice.

The elders also understood the seriousness of the situation and immediately stopped their hand and surrounded elder Hua Wanting. By this time, they had also stopped paying any attention to Yang Chen and had forced him out of the encirclement.

Yang Chen did not mind it and with a smile called out to Sun QingXue, who was also outside of the encirclement and hinted to her that she was not to obstruct these YuanYing stage elders under any circumstances.

Just when everyone had released their spiritual awareness to probe the current situation of elder Hua Wanting, an extremely pure and enormous spirit power was suddenly released from elder Hua Wanting.

Bang!

The formidable spirit power blew apart everything in the surroundings.

Nobody among the several elders in the surroundings, including the sect master, was capable of stopping this spirit power and everyone was involuntarily pushed back.

Although Yang Chen and Sun QingXue were standing fairly far away, they were still pushed back by the spirit power. But when Yang Chen was hit by this spirit power, he couldn't help but cry in fear within his heart:

"This can't be!"

This kind of situation clearly implied that the time for Hua Wanting's tribulation had come.

Although he knew that she had stepped into the Da Cheng stage in his previous life, immediately after taking care of the blood phantom vine, he hadn't anticipated that, just after she had resolved the blood phantom she would also immediately go through her tribulations in this life. It could be assumed that a hundred years of tempering herself had made Hua Wanting have a sufficient foundation and that thousand year ginseng liquid had allowed Hua Wanting to receive well-timed replenishment, so she may want to enter the Da Cheng stage in the spurt of energy.

For Yang Chen, this was an extremely beneficial event. Hua Wanting entering the Da Cheng stage was a definite fact, but currently she had started to undergo her tribulation under his influence. Regardless of whether she admitted it or not, regardless of whether the Clear Sky Sect admitted it or not, in this situation, they were the ones who would owe him.

Under the dumbstruck gaze of the elders and the unbelieving gaze of Sun QingXue and the complacent gaze of Yang Chen for his scheme succeeding, elder Hua Wanting, who had been sitting upright motionlessly for the past hundred years, was wrapped by a dark red light and began to rise into the sky.

At this moment, everyone understood what was happening. Expressions of excitement appeared on everyone's faces. Most of all, the sect master and elders of the Clear Sky Sect, they were already YuanYing stage experts. To be able to witness a peak YuanYing stage expert undergo the yin fire tribulation at this moment… What could be a better opportunity than this?

The yin fire could not bee seen, so there wasn't anyone who knew what Hua Wanting had been going through, but one thing they could see clearly and that was that, the longer Hua Wanting's body was burning under the yin fire, the more smooth her skin appeared, and she did not have the previous withered appearance anymore.

First, second, third,… ninth, when the ninth tribulation of yin fire was over, elder Hua Wanting had already turned into a twenty five year young woman and her body had once again regained that sparkling and translucent appearance.

The only problem was that, under the erosion by the blood phantom vine for a hundred years, elder Hua Wanting's clothing had already been ruined. The only thing left behind was some tattered cloth, which covered a few important parts. Other than those, her bare skin was completely revealed.

Hu!

The sect master immediately reacted and threw a piece of clothing towards Hua Wanting, who was still in the sky.

Within the air, the figure of elder Hua Wanting flickered once and in the next moment, she had already put on those clothes, the tattered clothes which she had been wearing turned to dust. Soon afterwards her figure flashed again and she appeared in front of Yang Chen.

"Many thanks, fellow daoist for saving me!"

Elder Hua Wanting, who had entered the Da Cheng stage just a moment ago, bowed towards Yang Chen after passing through the tribulation of yin fire in front of all elders and the sect master.

"Junior doesn't dare…!"

Yang Chen hastily bowed even deeper than Hua Wanting to return the politeness. What a joke, she was a Da Cheng stage expert, he was only a Foundation stage youngster, how could he accept this gratitude?

Yang Chen was not being unreasonable, if both of them were alone, Yang Chen would not have cared much about the greeting, but he was currently in other people's territory. The Clear Sky Sect's sect master and the other elders were also standing on the other side, if he acted too arrogantly, wouldn't the good opinion and relation he had established with so much difficulty be in vain? Then Yang Chen would lose a lot just for saving a little.

"I am indebted to young friend for saving my life, this Hua Wanting does not know how to repay the favour at this time, so I owe young friend a favour, should you ask."

Hua Wanting was absolutely straightforward and did not bother getting consent from her sect master about the repayment for Yang Chen:

"Young friend, in the future, if you have any request for this Hua Wanting, this Hua Wanting will go through water and tread on fire to accomplish it!"

When the sect master had heard her first words, she was already dissatisfied, but after hearing those final words of Hua Wanting, she couldn't help but start complaining endlessly within her heart. The Clear Sky Sect was ecstatic at Hua Wanting reaching the Da Cheng stage, but a great senior of the Da Cheng stage owing a debt to a Foundation stage youngster? Wouldn't it be a great humiliation?

But Hua Wanting had already said it, so she could not take back her words. Moreover, after thinking carefully, her words were also logical. If it were not for Yang Chen, who would have dealt with the blood phantom vine? Not to mention entering the Da Cheng stage, even surviving was dubious, so owing him a favor was a must. After thinking along these lines, the sect master also didn't feel so resentful.

"Little girl, your innate talent is not bad!"

Without waiting for the elders to come over and exchange the conventional greetings, Hua Wanting's gaze fell on Sun QingXue, hiding behind Yang Chen's body.

When she was tangled within the blood phantom vine, although she couldn't budge, Yang Chen's words echoed clearly within her ears. After personally seeing Sun QingXue's talent, she immediately verified Yang Chen's words. Slightly moving her spiritual awareness, she clearly realized the situation of mixed spirit power within her body.

"Which mediocre teacher has decided on your cultivation method? How can there be such a disciple within my Clear Sky Sect which hampers their disciple's progress?"

Hua Wanting was barely able to control her anger. She didn't want to discuss the shady business of the Clear Sky Sect in front of an outsider like Yang Chen, so she only gave the evaluation of an incompetent teacher.

"This kind of beautiful and talented disciple is instructed by a mediocre teacher, what a waste!"

Hua Wanting, without caring about the opinions of the elders and the sect master, directly asked Sun QingXue:

"What is your name, are you willing to accept me as your master?"

Sun QingXue could not believe what she was hearing, but Hua Wanting was really standing in front of her. This time, Sun QingXue's first response was surprisingly not immediately replying to Hua Wanting's question, instead, in her vision, Yang Chen's face appeared, asking her full of confidence if she was ready to change her master.

"Disciple Sun QingXue pays her respects to master!"

After a moment of surprise, Sun QingXue immediately agreed. Without further objections she directly fell to her knees and kowtowed three times in front of Hua Wanting.

The Clear Sky Sect's master and the elders all knew the problem regarding Sun QingXue's cultivation, but giving face to elder Mo Qian, nobody said anything unpleasant. But at this moment, nobody could have anticipated that, as soon as she had survived her tribulation, Hua Wanting would take Sun QingXue as a disciple. Initially all of them were ashamed in their hearts, but Hua Wanting had been straightforward. But without waiting for anyone to say anything, Sun QingXue had already kowtowed, taking her as master.

"Senior Apprentice Sister Hua, this…"

The sect master who was standing on the side had embarrassment across her entire face. In fact Hua Wanting's words just a moment ago also implied that she hadn't properly supervised the Clear Sky Sect, but at this moment, Yang Chen was still present on the scene, so she couldn't say much, except one word.

"What, does sect master think it is not appropriate?"

Hua Wanting replied only after Sun QingXue had kowtowed. After entering the Da Cheng stage, her status had taken a huge leap in the Clear Sky Sect, even her junior apprentice sister, the sect master, had to talk very formally with her.

"It's not inappropriate."

Who would dare to become hostile with elder Hua over one disciple? The sect master replied, forcing a smile:

"It's just that this sudden increase in seniority of Sun QingXue may not be accepted by the other disciples."

"Who would not accept this? Tell them to come and find me!"

Hua Wanting said with a faint smile:

"I am choosing my disciple, who are they to interfere?"

After she finished saying this in her domineering manner, she turned to the elders and the sect master and said, bowing her head:

"For the past hundred years, thanks for the trouble, junior and senior apprentice sisters!"

"Congratulations senior apprentice sister!"

"Congratulations junior apprentice sister!"

The group of elders all bowed to congratulate her, each and every one smiling from ear to ear. With the increase in the number of Da Cheng stage experts, the strength of the Clear Sky Sect had increased greatly, so how could they not be happy?

After making the salutations, all of the elders began to converse with elder Hua Wanting regarding what she had felt during those years. It was a joyous and harmonious sight.

Yang Chen hinted towards Sun QingXue. These two people obediently retreated to outside of the confinement. They didn't have the qualifications to speak there, so getting out of their own initiative was best.

"I haven't lied to you, right?"

Looking at everyone chatting not too far away, Yang Chen softly asked Sun QingXue. These words, Yang Chen had once asked her at the execution ground and this time again.

"En!"

Until today, Sun QingXue couldn't believe everything that had happened. If it were not for Yang Chen asking this, maybe Sun QingXue would have first pinched herself, so as to confirm that she wasn't dreaming.

"Everything can happen, as long as you are willing!"

Yang Chen once again said this to Sun QingXue.

This time, Sun QingXue was no longer skeptical, instead slightly biting her lips, she nodded heavily, revealing a firm look on her face. When she turned to look at Yang Chen, Yang Chen saw a light in her eyes which he had not seen before.

Similar to Sun QingXue, Yang Chen currently also had an unreal sensation. The Snow White Fairy of the future had surprisingly established this kind of relation with him, even if they didn't have another encounter, just this was sufficient to fill Yang Chen's bowl.

"Helping others really is a joyous affair!"

Not knowing what to say, Yang Chen suddenly thought of this, which involuntarily came out of his mouth.

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Chapter 134 – Even If You Speak, We Can't Believe It

This time, Yang Chen had to invest a fully matured thousand year old ginseng, as well as some other, normal herbs. But, in return, he had been able to establish friendly relations with a Da Cheng stage expert and had also obtained a favor from her. Other people did not realize this now, but he had also obtained the gratitude of the one who would be known as the snow white fairy in the future, and he had still received a blood phantom vine, which had sucked on a Da Cheng stage expert's flesh until it was full.

It may be true that Hua Wanting passing her tribulation at that time was convenient for the upper echelons of the Clear Sky Sect, but Yang Chen also knew that, even if he hadn't used that ginseng, people who could pass their tribulation would pass it regardless and it would still have been the same for these people, but it would not have been as good as the current situation for him, investing a little bit to get so much in return.

Hua Wanting had promised Yang Chen a favor immediately after passing the tribulation because she had discovered that Yang Chen had used a thousand year ginseng for her. That, for her, who was weak in health, was the most suitable tonic. For this favour, she had to owe him.

Very quickly, the sect master of the Clear Sky Sect realized that Yang Chen, this outsider, was still on the scene. Stopping her conversation with Hua Wanting, she walked over to Yang Chen and sincerely expressed her thanks.

What did the number of Da Cheng experts in a sect imply? Everyone clearly knew this. This time Yang Chen had not only resolved the matter regarding the blood phantom vine, but he had also helped in increasing the strength of the Clear Sky Sect.

In return, Yang Chen had also gained a benefit which could make anyone jealous, the gratitude of a Da Cheng stage elder. Even if elder Wu ascended immediately, Yang Chen would still have the cover of a Da Cheng stage expert. Other people still wouldn't dare to touch him.

When looking at the general situation, the sect master of the Clear Sky Sect had to look at the larger picture when compared to other elders of the Clear Sky Sect. Originally, she still had some suspicion towards Yang Chen, that he had come here to create trouble, but the instant Hua Wanting passed her tribulation, she realized many things. At least her own thoughts had become much clearer.

Within the sect master's eyes, Yang Chen's great fame was by no means a fluke. First was elder Wu, now elder Hua Wanting, two Da Cheng stage experts had shown such consideration towards Yang Chen. Who would believe this was just a coincidence?

Even if it was considered fortuitous, the sect master did not care much, she would not refuse to establish friendly relations with such a fortunate person. Moreover Yang Chen had come from a sect, famous for it's righteousness, so he would not create any trouble for the Clear Sky Sect. Especially after she had found out that Yang Chen was a third grade pill concocting master at this age, she would care about other things even less.

"These are the rewards we had previously agreed upon!"

The sect master handed Yang Chen a qiankun pouch. The qiankun pouch contained twenty thousand duplicated jade slips of the scrolls from their library, which had been previously agreed on.

Initially they had only agreed to let him browse through them, but now the sect master had directly gifted him duplicated copies. It could be clearly seen from this, that the sect master was completely satisfied with Yang Chen this time.

Sun QingXue had also become the disciple of Hua Wanting, so Yang Chen did not need to be anxious that her dantian would be injured when crippling her cultivation or whether her future cultivation would be smooth or not. Since nothing necessary remained and Yang Chen didn't have any intentions of seizing the opportunity to use Hua Wanting to make more connections, he said his goodbyes.

Yang Chen taking his leave was also agreeable with everyone. Apart from Sun QingXue being slightly reluctant on parting with him, the other people were very satisfied towards this youngster, who knew when to advance and when to retreat. Nobody had a big urge to keep him. Sun QingXue volunteered herself to see Yang Chen off to the outside of the Clear Sky Sect.

"Elder brother, will you still come back to meet me?"

Currently, Sun QingXue adored Yang Chen to an extreme, naturally she hated to part with him.

"Certainly!"

Yang Chen smiled towards Sun QingXue:

"As soon as I have free time, I will come to find you. If you want to meet me, then you can also come to the Pure Yang Palace to look for me."

Under Sun QingXue's reluctant gaze, Yang Chen finally left the Clear Sky Sect and started his journey back home. The outcome this time had already exceeded his expectations and Yang Chen was eager to return home.

After departing from the Clear Sky Sect, Yang Chen immediately went to a region devoid of humans and took out his flying shuttle. After that he rapidly began to fly towards a distant location. He hadn't carefully distinguished the direction of the Pure Yang Palace, instead he was just flew in a random direction.

After flying for a long time, Yang Chen stopped at a small valley, which was seemingly concealed. There he looked everywhere to confirm that there wasn't anyone else. Afterwards, he took out the bottle of the medicine garden from the Achievement Ring and quickly entered the medicine garden.

The blood phantom vine had already been moved into the medicine garden, but was only stuffed in, because he was pressed at that time, so Yang Chen couldn't plant it perfectly. One of the reasons why he had departed to suddenly was because of this. He wanted to properly settle the blood phantom vine before it would deplete elder Hua Wanting's flesh.

The blood phantom vine required very harsh conditions to grow, but fortunately, the medicine garden was capable of imitating such environment. This was because of Yang Chen cultivating both yin and yang of all the five attributes but at the same time it couldn't be done without the formidable spirit power supply of the medicine garden. Naturally, the most crucial point was that, within Yang Chen's memory, there was a method to grow a young blood phantom vine.

Time was pressing, the blood phantom vine had already started to wither. Yang Chen hastily transplanted the blood phantom vine to a place which perfectly imitated the harsh surroundings required for its growth and soon after that he controlled the spirit power of the medicine garden and, in accordance with the method he remembered, began to pour the spirit power in, to nourish the blood phantom vine.

Since it couldn't consume blood, the spirit power requirements of the blood phantom vine were double, or even triple the normal. But fortunately, during the trip to the ocean, Yang Chen had completely filled the bottle of the medicine bottle to the brim, so there was no worry about spirit power being depleted.

Only after spending several hours was Yang Chen able to perfectly plant the blood phantom vine, which had been at its last breath and could assure its survival. Looking at the blood phantom whose vitality had been restored again, Yang Chen finally revealed a slight smile.

The crucial first step had been completed and the blood phantom vine had survived. Afterwards, as long as he could subdue and refine it, it would be as good to Yang Chen as getting a helper comparable to YuanYing stage experts. What tempted him most was that, after being subdued, the blood phantom vine would even attack people according to Yang Chen's thoughts and he also didn't need to worry about it spreading uncontrollably after a fight.

But this was still not the complete picture: the blood phantom vine was a divine object of the second wood attribute, so with the support of this fierce blood phantom vine, Yang Chen's second wood attribute spirit power would completely transform.

These were all matters for the future, Yang Chen also knew that such good deeds could not be accomplished easily. Looking at the blood phantom vine's restored growth, he was extra relieved and gently retreated from the medicine garden.

Just as he was about to return to the original world, Yang Chen discovered something strange. It was as if he had suddenly been bound by a formidable force and he was unable to move even a single step. He also didn't have any opportunity to return to the medicine garden.

What made Yang Chen most terrified was that his spiritual awareness had also been completely sealed. Initially Yang Chen intended to use the blood river's killing intent to defend himself, but now he was completely powerless.

There was never a moment, when Yang Chen had thought that he would be as powerless as this.

His spiritual awareness was sealed, his spirit power was sealed, the movement of his body was also sealed, only Yang Chen's senses still remained. He was able to see and hear everything in the surroundings. To discover what was wrong, Yang Chen swept a through the surroundings and immediately discovered that he was trapped within a type of sealing spell formation.

The most astonishing thing was that this grade of sealing formation required at least a YuanYing stage expert to use it fully, so why was a YuanYing stage expert dealing with him? Moreover, why would a YuanYing stage expert require a sealing formation to deal with a Foundation stage youngster like him?

But one thing was clear, the enemy did not want to allow him to die, he did not even want to allow him to struggle. Yang Chen immediately concluded this because of his countless years of experience in fleeing and fighting.

Since he would not die immediately, Yang Chen felt slightly relieved and his mind also quickly calmed down and began to ponder which person could deal with him like this.

"Humph, looking for you is really troublesome!"

A voice suddenly appeared in Yang Chen's ears and soon afterwards the person it belonged to appeared in front of Yang Chen. It was not just one person, but seven and taking the lead was a familiar woman.

"You are the elder from the Clear Sky Sect?"

Yang Chen recognized her in a single glance. This was unexpectedly the elder who had haggled with him and in turn had increased the price at the Clear Sky Sect.

"You recognize me? Unfortunately it is of no use!"

The woman sneered:

"I know that you are Pure Yang Palace's Yang Chen, but surely you do not know my name, I am known as Mo Qian and am an elder of the Clear Sky Sect. The cultivation method of little Xue which you have discovered was also my doing!"

"Because she was hindering your grand disciple's road?"

Although he couldn't move his body, Yang Chen was still able to utter a response. Hearing Mo Qian's words, Yang Chen immediately replied to her.

"That's right!"

Mo Qian did not have an ounce of fear when confessing all of this to Yang Chen:

"What, you wanted to get my confession? You think I will allow you to leave alive? I just wanted to know somethings before you die. So if you have anything to ask, ask away, I will tell you everything I know."

"How did you find me?"

Yang Chen's formidable mental state basically allowed him to read between Mo Qian's words without being worried about his life and death, since the other party had sealed him like this, they must have some plan and once he knew their plan, he could concentrate on saving himself. But then again, first he had to unravel some mysteries.

"Speaking of which, youngster, you travel very quickly. In such a short time you have already travelled such a long distance, which grade of flying sword do you have? Ah well, after you die, it will also belong to me."

Mo Qian didn't answer directly:

"Just to let you know, the jade slips which you received from the sect master, among them, at least half have been tempered with, so wherever you go, you cannot escape my trailing ability."

Hearing Mo Qian's words, Yang Chen immediately had an urge to slap himself. He had faced this kind of circumstances many times, so how could he forget this lesson.

Regarding this, Yang Chen hadn't been cautious enough. At that time after taking those jade slips filled bag from sect master's hand, he had put them directly into the qiankun pouch which he had gotten from his great master, Wang Yong, so that the various elders would not find out about his Achievement Ring. But he had forgot to put them into the Achievement Ring even after coming out and had thus provided Mo Qian the loophole to make use of.

"Your presence disappeared somewhere around here, so surely you also have an immortal cave which you can carry around or a magical tool, like a medicine garden. It seems my luck is not bad!"

Mo Qian said, feeling proud of herself. The female disciples behind her also didn't have any favourable feeling towards Yang Chen and were only calmly looking at the exchange between Yang Chen and Mo Qian.

"The Clear Sky Sect does have some good methods!"

Yang Chen again sneered:

"Secretly killing the sect's benefactor so that in the future I cannot use this favor."

"Just accept your death!"

Mo Qian was not at all enraged hearing Yang Chen's sneering:

"In fact, this matter has no relation to my Clear Sky Sect, I just want you to die."

So it was not Clear Sky Sect's conspiracy and instead Mo Qian's conduct. Yang Chen was quickly trying to think of an idea, incessantly trying to rouse his spiritual awareness or rouse his spirit power, but no matter how hard he tried, he was unable to break away from the current circumstances.

"You are a Foundation stage youngster and first you helped elder Wu refine the Heaven Seizing Pill, soon afterwards you dealt with the blood phantom vine and you moreover also refined third grade Foundation stage pills!"

Mo Qian slowly walked towards Yang Chen while she continued to speak:

"The Pure Yang Palace is not a sect focussed on pill concocting, yet you have created so many wonders in pill concocting, explain, how did you do that?"

"As you have realized, I have an amazing item related to pill concocting!"

Yang Chen said as if he had slipped, but he wasn't flustered or frightened because of being sealed:

"However, do you think I would keep that with me at all times?"

"Then we will all go together to find it."

Mo Qian slightly raised her corner of mouth:

"You are not an idiot, why would you carry such a precious object with yourself? Moreover, I still think you won't easily tell where it is concealed, isn't that right?"

"Naturally, you will not let me go, informing you means death for me, not informing you is also means death for me, then why should I fulfill your desires?"

Yang Chen calmly said this while facing Mo Qian, who was standing in front of him.

"Frankly speaking, you are the first person I have seen who has shown such boldness in such a situation."

A trace of admiration flashed in Mo Qian's gaze before disappearing:

"What a pity!"

"I also understand the fact that, before you get hold of it, I am still safe for the time being!"

Yang Chen did not loosen his guard because of Mo Qian showing admiration for him. He replied, coldly staring at Mo Qian and the people she had brought together.

"I think I must introduce you."

Mo Qian suddenly stepped aside revealing the six women she had brought together:

"They all are my disciples."

"You must be curious regarding why I have introduced them?"

After Mo Qian had introduced her disciples, she confronted Yang Chen again:

"They are all JieDan stage experts and the most important thing is that their spiritual awarenesses are in complete harmony. If mine was also added with them, we barely have the qualifications to cultivate an extremely strange cultivation method together.

"You and I both are cultivators, so naturally you also know that knowing the things in other people's minds is an impossible matter."

Mo Qian revealed a complacent smile:

"But fortunately, this cultivation method which we can cultivate together can directly invade your spirit sea and fish out all of your memories, one by one."

"In other words, whether you speak or not, it basically makes no difference to us."

Mo Qian arrogantly declared her own victory:

"Even if you tell us, we still can't believe you, we will only be convinced by what we find."

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Chapter 135 – To Kill Or To Refine?

19 Aug 2016

Yang Chen was stunned by Mo Qian's words.

Just as Mo Qian had said, wanting to know what the other person was thinking was simply impossible. The most unpredictable thing in this world was a person's mind, even for immortals it was an impossible thing to accomplish.

But memory was different, if someone released their spiritual awareness, allowed another person to probe it and the other person had by luck grasped some unique spiritual awareness cultivation method, then it was very possible to examine someone's memories.

The trump card within Mo Qian's hand was precisely such a cultivation method, but it required the cooperation of her and her six disciples to accomplish it. It could be assumed that in such a huge fight, at least half of the resources would be used to suppress the spiritual awareness of the person the spell was targeted at.

What stunned Yang Chen was that Mo Qian surprisingly had the intention of attacking his spirit sea, wishing to invade his spirit sea with the aim of obtaining his memories. She could choose many bad options, but she actually had to select his spirit sea?

Initially, Yang Chen had believed that he would not have to face trouble this time, but his own carelessness had allowed Mo Qian to find his trace and while he was busy with nursing the blood phantom vine, they had arranged the sealing spell formation to trap Yang Chen. But surprisingly, at such a critical time when he was standing at death's door, there had been such a favourable development.

Mo Qian was not someone who wanted to talk with Yang Chen. After informing him of the entire situation, she followed through with her words to make Yang Chen realize that nothing could save him. The master and disciples did not talk anymore and under Mo Qian's command, they quickly sat around Yang Chen, forming a circle.

Bang!

With Mo Qian controlling the spell formation, Yang Chen's body started shaking as if his mind was being struck, again and again. Darkness quickly spread in front of his eyes and he immediately lost consciousness.

"Master, I will now remove the restrictions, immediately suppress his spiritual awareness and afterwards invade his spirit sea at once!"

Apparently they had done this many times, so Mo Qian and her disciples were quite familiar with it. With Mo Qian's command, the disciples immediately dispersed and took their seats in the pre-arranged seats, forming the shape of the Ursa Major constellation.

Yang Chen was right at the position of the North Star and Mo Qian was the person closest to him. The six disciples had each extended their hands, one placed at the other's shoulder and the final disciple's arm was placed on Mo Qian's shoulder.

Mo Qian was sitting in front of everyone, moving her hands to strike both formation secrets, which immediately eliminated the sealing spell formation acting on Yang Chen and he immediately fell to the ground. Mo Qian sneered and pointed her finger towards Yang Chen's yintang acupoint.

The reason why they had talked with Yang Chen and not directly started their task was because of the spell formation's limit: that it could only be maintained for a few hours. If they had started directly, finding the correct portion of memories from Yang Chen's birth until now would be just like finding a needle in a haystack.

As for why the previous conversation was necessary, it was so that Yang Chen's attention would be concentrated on that matter, which was the same as Yang Chen already keeping the answer ready before they even started, ready for Mo Qian to come and fetch it.

Mo Qian and her JieDan stage disciples had already done this kind of thing countless times and were completely compatible with each other. When Mo Qian's finger pointed towards Yang Chen's yintang acupoint, the spiritual awareness of the the last disciple directly rushed towards the disciple sitting in the front.

After the spiritual awareness of these two people combined, it then rushed towards the third disciple sitting in front of her and soon afterwards towards the fourth disciple, then towards the fifth, the sixth, finally it rushed into Mo Qian's body.

Mo Qian's cultivation was the highest and she was also the backbone of the whole spell formation. After proficiently combining the spiritual awareness of the six disciples behind her, she forwarded it to her finger pointing at Yang Chen's yintang acupoint and from where it directly rushed into Yang Chen's spirit sea.

Bang!

After the wave of familiar blackness had passed, the spiritual awareness of the seven people reached an unfamiliar location. This was completely different from the vast expenses of whiteness they had seen in other people's spirit sea. Actually there was only a thick fog of blood and nothing else.

Every person's spirit sea was different, the seven people knew this fact. With Mo Qian's spiritual awareness leading them, the seven spiritual awarenesses gathered and rushed into that fog of blood together.

Suddenly, with Mo Qian in the lead of these seven people, it was as if they had seen the most frightening thing in their life. Every person's face revealed an expression as if their soul had flown away and scattered. Soon afterwards, without saying any words, they directly lost their consciousness. Including Yang Chen, all eight people lightly fell to the ground, losing their awareness.

After a long time, Yang Chen was the first one to wake up. He had only lost consciousness because of the attack of the spell formation. He hadn't received any substantial harm. Since he was no longer controlled by Mo Qian and her disciples, he automatically woke up.

After waking up, Yang Chen discovered the other people who had fainted, lying on the ground. With a sneer, he first inspected his body's condition, regardless of whether Mo Qian and others were living or not.

His biggest concern was still that sealing formation. It was really troublesome, they had surprisingly sealed both his spirit power and spiritual awareness. Fortunately, before extracting his memories, they had to make Yang Chen release his spiritual awareness, therefore they had removed the spell formation, otherwise Yang Chen would have been in great trouble.

"Heaven had a road but you chose not walk it, while hell didn't have any gate yet you still chose to burst in!"

Looking at the elder Mo Qian and the six other disciples lying on the ground, Yang Chen got up and began to bind them, one by one.

Yang Chen was very surprised that Mo Qian was just unconscious, but the first disciple behind her had died in fear. The five disciples behind her had also sustained severe injuries of different degrees, based on their proximity to Yang Chen. Mo Qian had also survived because of her cultivation being higher and although she hadn't lost her life at that moment, her spiritual awareness had also sustained injuries. If nobody helped her for some more time, she would certainly die on the spot.

"What a stupid attack, absolutely insisting on invading my spiritual awareness!"

Yang Chen said, muttering to himself. This was already the second time within half a year that someone's spiritual awareness had rushed into his spirit sea.

The first time was Immortal Island's Guan Yueying, she had been dragged into the river of blood through the spiritual awareness imprint and had been so scared, that she immediately lost consciousness.

The second time was this, the only difference with Guan Yueying was that, at this time Mo Qian had seized the initiative and had led the combined spiritual awareness of her and her six disciples directly into the river of blood.

If just a trace of blood river could make Guan Yueying unconscious, then what would happen if the entire spiritual awareness entered the blood river? The consequences of that could be clearly seen from the state of the disciples lying behind Mo Qian.

While they were still unconscious, Yang Chen used his soul stunning technique on Mo Qian and the five disciples who were alive, making them completely dormant. Other than Yang Chen waking them by his own accord, they could only be saved by someone at the level of Elder Hua Wanting, the Da Cheng stage expert, otherwise they would certainly never wake up.

There was no other option: the enemy was a YuanYing stage expert and even the worst among her disciples was at the JieDan stage. Yang Chen's cultivation base was quite low compared to them, so he could only restrict them. For additional control, after using his soul stunning technique, they were thrown into the medicine garden.

His topmost priority was to immediately deal with those troublesome jade slips. These jade slips had been tampered with by Mo Qian and had given away his position, so he had to immediately take care of these hidden dangers.

From their previous words, as long as he entered the medicine garden, they would be unable of tracking Yang Chen. Mo Qian knew that Yang Chen had the space of a medicine garden, so they could only lie in wait, deploying the spell formation at the original place.

Yang Chen would not repeat that disastrous policy again. Even if he put these jade slips into the Achievements Ring, Yang Chen could not feel sure, so dealing with them immediately was comparatively better.

Urging on his flying shuttle again, he rushed to another region. After deploying a few spell formations to warn him, he immediately released the sword spell guarding the medicine garden. Only after dwelling in the main hall of the palace in the medicine garden, did he feel safe again and began to carefully inspect those jade slips.

Yang Chen attentively searched each and every jade slip using his spiritual awareness and only after confirming that there were no problems with a jade slip did he put them into the Achievements Ring.

Since Yang Chen cultivated the three purities secrets, his spiritual awareness was very sensitive. Very quickly he found some jade slips with a hidden mark on them. Fortunately these marks were not imprinted very strongly: as long as Yang Chen carefully applied a bit of force, they could be erased easily.

Even if it was not very difficult, Yang Chen still had to spend one entire day on this matter. Only after he had inspected all twenty thousand jade slips did he feel relieved.

This situation was a lesson for Yang Chen. In the future, if he received anything from other people, as long as he could, he first had to inspect those for any such marks which could be used to trace him, otherwise even he himself wouldn't know how he died.

Finally, after everything was done, Yang Chen felt relieved. He wanted to kill Mo Qian immediately, and after thinking about it, he urged his flying shuttle to another region and then carried Mo Qian alone into the dome of the medicine garden.

Since all of the controls were in Yang Chen's hand, Yang Chen quickly removed the effects of his soul stunning technique, but he didn't release her completely, he still wanted to interrogate her properly.

"Strange!"

Even after removing the effects of the soul stunning technique, Mo Qian still didn't wake up, so he had no choice but to use another technique in the same category as the soul stunning techniques and gave a few jolts to her spiritual awareness. Only then did Mo Qian, who had been deeply unconscious, start to wake up.

Once Mo Qian opened her eyes, Yang Chen immediately discovered something wrong. Her listless eyes were not that of a YuanYing stage expert in any way, they were just like a person who had lost her soul.

"No way?"

Although Yang Chen knew that the blood river within his spirit sea was quite a calamity, he hadn't anticipated that it would be so formidable to make a YuanYing stage expert lose her mind.

"Who are you?"

Yang Chen asked Mo Qian, who had a lifeless look within her eyes.

"I… am… who?"

Replying to Yang Chen's question, Mo Qian, whose eyes were still without any expression spoke as if she had become demented.

He extended his hand and waved it in front of her eyes, but Mo Qian's gaze didn't focus on him and completely ignored his actions. When he used his spiritual awareness to probe her body, it entered her body without any hinderances, as if she had set up no defences against Yang Chen.

Had she really become a vegetable? Yang Chen clenched his teeth and suddenly tore a big hole in her clothes, exposing her smooth skin, but even after this, Mo Qian didn't even bat an eyelid.

In great surprise, Yang Chen carefully sealed Mo Qian again and afterwards grabbed one of her female disciples. After eliminating the soul stunning technique and giving shocks to her spiritual awareness, he forcefully woke her, only to find out that she had also become a vegetable.

The other four disciples were also forcefully woken up, but Yang Chen was very disappointed that none among these female disciples still retained their minds. Surprisingly all had turned into vegetables who had no capacity to think. It seemed that, after they had entered Yang Chen's spirit sea forcefully, they had all lost their souls.

This was somewhat uncomfortable for Yang Chen. Originally, Mo Qian had led these people to kill him and steal his treasures, so they were simply enemies. Even if he killed them, Yang Chen would not feel any mental burden. But currently, one had been scared to death, while the remaining six had turned into vegetables.

What to do? The first idea within Yang Chen's mind was to kill all of them and remove their traces. This was the most straightforward and easiest method and there would also be no problems for him in future. In all likelihood, Mo Qian and them would not have informed anyone that they were going to kill Yang Chen, so even if they went missing, there would be no traces leading to him.

But as soon as this thought came, another thought followed. It had to be known that Mo Qian was a middle YuanYing stage expert, since she had already become a vegetable, killing her would be a great loss.

Yang Chen knew at least three methods by which he could refine Mo Qian into his puppet, without harming Mo Qian's cultivation base. His success would mean that he had a middle YuanYing stage puppet as his secret weapon. For current Yang Chen, this was extremely attractive.

Similarly, the rest of the five disciples could also be refined into puppets, so that when the time came, the six puppets could form an offensive spell formation with Mo Qian as the core for the spell with the five JieDan stage disciples operating the spell. This would certainly be enough to deal with experts at Mo Qian's realm.

But this method of refining living people into puppets was certainly a technique of the devil path. If someone found out, Yang Chen would definitely be labelled as a devil cultivator.

The greatest danger was the Clear Sky Sect, if the Clear Sky Sect knew that an elder and JieDan disciples of their sect had been refined into puppets, it would certainly enrage the sect, which was counted among of the top five sects; and they would certainly eliminate Yang Chen. Even the friendship he had developed after healing Hua Wanting would be of no use.

Kill or refine into puppets, these two thoughts were coming and going within Yang Chen's mind. One moment he would be partial towards one side another other moment he would be partial towards the other. It was really very hard for him to make a decision.

Ultimately, the scene of Mo Qian trapping him in the sealing formation, where even his death was not in his hands, appeared in his mind. That kind of helpless was certainly not very pleasant. Since Mo Qian was so fond of controlling people and reading their memories, then she also had to be ready to pay the price, so death was really quite fitting for her.

Those five disciples were also not any better. Looking at their proficiency in the technique, this was certainly not the first or the second time. Thinking about this, Yang Chen was no longer indecisive.

'Mo Qian, since you wanted to kill me, then be ready to be killed in turn, if you can't. Since you wanted to read my memories, I will turn you into my puppets.'

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Chapter 136 – In Books There Are Houses Made Of Gold

Yang Chen had finally decided to turn Mo Qian and her disciples into his puppets, which certainly was not something he could achieve overnight, so taking them with him was better.

This time, after warning Sun QingXue, Yang Chen had intended to return home. From the time Yang Chen had departed, fifteen whole years had already passed since he had last seen his home.

Yang Chen wanted to spend half a year at his home, so that he could get enough time to spend time with his family and also tighten their villa's defenses.

After finding the right direction, Yang Chen steered his flying shuttle and started flying towards the direction of the villa where his mother and father were settled. Leading a life while concentrating on cultivating was not bad, but once he thought of going home, Yang Chen suddenly had grown a little impatient.

That villa had been arranged in a place where people usually didn't come, so generally speaking, in case of a war, the chaos would not involve that region. In addition to purchasing a large quantity of servants, he had also left behind a sufficient number of talismans for their defense, so there should not be any great problems.

The whole journey could be said to have been as fast as lightning. After spending just a few days, Yang Chen had already reached to the mountain where his mother and father had been settled.

From a distance, Yang Chen had immediately discovered that there had not been much change in the illusion spell and the others which he had set up at that time. While flying on the entire journey, he had not discovered any problems. When he reached the mountain, Yang Chen stopped his flying shuttle and began to walk on the road just outside of the mountain.

The villa had a mountain on one side and a river on the other. In those days Yang Chen had recruited a group of servants which had people specialized in all respects and whose numbers counted in the hundreds. The entire villa was self sufficient in terms of fulfilling basic needs, without any need to rely on the outside too much. As for some necessary things, he had recruited people specialized in transportation and purchasing, so it was very safe.

Compared to the days when Yang Chen had left, the villa seemed even livelier, and many small courtyards had also sprung up. Fifteen years of time was already enough for one generation of people to grow up and settle down, which was the reason why so many houses had been built.

The life within the mountains was away from the chaos outside and was thus carefree and the people he had found at that time were also very honest. Even until now, everyone talked about Lord Yang and Madam Yang's son with great respect. If it were not for Lord Yang they would have been drawn in by the flames of war a long time ago, then where could they have enjoyed such a carefree life like the last ten years?

In the eyes of the people in the villa, Yang Chen was just a stranger. Apart from some old servants recognizing him, none of the youngsters was familiar with Yang Chen and were thus on guard against him. But after Yang Chen proclaimed his identity, he immediately received a very enthusiastic welcome.

When Yang Chen's mother and father heard that Yang Chen had returned, they were so excited that they were unable to stop themselves from coming out. Seeing that their son still had the appearance like when he left the house, these two people surrounded him and in their surprise questioned him while sizing him up. Only after talking for most of the day, did they remember to take him inside.

His father and mother were healthy, which made Yang Chen very happy. Not only that, in these fifteen years, his father and mother had once again given birth to two sons and one daughter, which indeed exceeded the necessary quota for fulfilling the mission of carrying on the Yang family line.

Because of his cultivation, Yang Chen had clearly stated that he would not produce any offspring for the time being. So with his two little brothers and one little sister, the Yang family could continue to remain in the following years. When Yang Chen returned, his little brothers and sister looked at him very strangely, but still they greeted their elder brother with excessive courtesy.

The villa had not only craftsmen, but also many scholars. All of the children in the villa had learnt to read and had been receiving education from the start. This had made Lord Yang extremely satisfied. Initially he was only a peasant, but now their family had developed greatly in the field of education. Towards the education of his sons and daughter, he spared no pains.

In the entire world there were no unfilial immortals, even if Yang Chen was a cultivator, he still didn't forget this point. Unfortunately, his father and mother didn't have any aptitude for cultivation and after Yang Chen's inspection, he found that his younger brothers and sisters spirit root were also very ordinary, but this was also good: They would be able to enjoy their life, carefree, without any worries or illness. This kind of life was far better than that of a majority of cultivators and ordinary people.

Resting in his villa with his parents and other relatives, Yang Chen felt the familial warmth which he hadn't felt for a long time. This feeling was very comfortable and his heart was completely calm. Even within his sect, he did not have this kind of pure happiness without any pressure.

In those days, when he had given his mother and father the body refining pill and had left, his cultivation was very shallow: only at the first qi layer. Those illusionary spells which he had deployed outside of the mountain were also quite limited and only had the purpose of defense in the most dire of times. But now Yang Chen was already at the Foundation stage, naturally he had to lay new formations.

Since he now had two younger brothers and one younger sister, Yang Chen decided to increase the extent of the villa. To leave sufficient space for their growth, he expanded the extent of the villa by ten folds.

On the surrounding mountain tops Yang Chen arranged even more large-scale illusion spells and within the main hall of the Yang family's villa, he had arranged the new spirit gathering spell and a defensive spell formation.

The spirit gathering spell would assemble the spiritual influence of the surrounding hundred miles slowly at all times. As long as anyone lived inside of the villa, the spell would continuously improve their physique, keeping all illnesses away from them. As for the defensive spell, Yang Chen had given two tiles to his mother and father. As long as someone from the Yang family dripped their blood on them, they would immediately be recognized as the master and could control the spell formation.

Within the surrounding farmlands, Yang Chen had sprinkled enough soil from the medicine garden that this soil, which had been nourished by spirit power over all those years, had transformed these farmlands into the best agricultural lands of the mortal world.

He also revealed his flying ability to his parents and his siblings once, to convince them that he was not an ordinary mortal anymore and was already walking on the path to become an immortal, which became the source for extreme astonishment to his relatives.

Yang Chen left many such things for them, such as the elixir from refining thousand year ginsengs which could be used at a crucial moment to save someone's life, or the body pills which were to be used for the improvement of the physique of later generations of the Yang family. At the same time, he also gave all of them five colours of spirit stones, which could be used to test whether the later generations had a cultivation spirit root or not. In case any of the later generations could cultivate, they should break a jade slip to notify Yang Chen and Yang Chen would personally come to take them to an immortal sect.

With these arrangements, the Yang family villa would certainly prosper more and more with the abundant harvest of all kind of crops, for at least the next hundred years.

After he finished making all such arrangements, Yang Chen began to integrate into this kind of calm livelihood of an ordinary person. On one side he was enjoying the family affection with which he did not come in contact often, while on the other side he was reading those twenty thousand jade slips he had gotten from the Clear Sky Sect.

Last time Yang Chen had only removed the hidden marks from them, but now he was reading all of them in detail. From the beginning, he had the absolutely clear goal of requesting these jade slips with miscellaneous information and the reason why he had spread a reputation of himself as a great bookworm at the Pure Yang Palace was also with the purpose that he could request other sects for such jade slips.

The previous generations had recorded many secrets and all of them were recorded within such books.

It was not that Yang Chen was not emphasizing on his cultivation, but cultivation was actually not just a simple matter of training and increasing spirit power. If it had been such a simple matter, then wouldn't anyone who had spirit root simply skyrocket? In reality, those who were capable of becoming JieDan stage experts were like phoenix feathers and unicorn horns.

Everyone who had just advanced had to consolidate their current realms. This process of consolidation could last from three to five in the least, to eight to ten years at the most.

The more firmly the realm was consolidated, the easier the breakthroughs would be. As for those people who intend to break through a few layers in short time, the quicker their cultivation was, the more troublesome it would be in the future.

Yang Chen who had gone through rebirth was even more clear about this process. Other people who had built their foundation in only one type of spirit power did not have to be so cautious, but currently he had reached the Foundation stage in all ten types of the Five Phases of Yin and Yang, so he was extremely cautious and didn't dare to advance prematurely.

While enjoying the peaceful life at his home and reading these books, Yang Chen simply indulged in pleasure and had given up his duties.

The reason why these were all miscellaneous books was because the things written in them were not very significant and had no relation to cultivation, but with regards to expanding one's horizon, they were invaluable.

With one cup of tea with a hint of thousand year ginseng on the side on a table, Yang Chen was reading one of the jade slips with his spiritual awareness while lying on his couch with his eyes closed. Yang Chen clearly knew that even immortals could not have such a lifestyle frequently.

He was reading each one of them, one after another. If something was useful, Yang Chen immediately remembered it and noted it down. If it was not useful, Yang Chen still read it to pass the time and then forgot about it. After he had cultivated to the third layer of the three purities secrets, his memorizing ability had already reached an astonishing level.

Most of these jade slips were a waste because of Mo Qian's interference. What Yang Chen wanted was some travel records and things like that to increase his knowledge, how could Mo Qian allow Yang Chen, the person who had uncovered her conspiracy, to have his wishes fulfilled? Even if he wanted to increase his knowledge, these were just not suitable.

The majority of such folk stories were just ridiculous fantasies of some people for the entertainment of others and didn't have any connection with cultivation in any sense. Mo Qian never had any good intentions in her heart, but she had not expected that Yang Chen would look at these with keen interest.

In Yang Chen's eyes, most of the things for cultivation, especially in the field of pill concocting, tool refining or spell formations, could mostly be described as products of creative imagination. One could only achieve something if one thought of it. If one didn't even dare to think about it, then there wouldn't be even a small desire for it.

These things were just what Yang Chen had wished for, so he was looking at every slip very carefully. Apart from this, there was still one more important reason, currently Yang Che was lacking Eighth Metal True Secrets among his Great Yin and Yang secrets, the information of which was reportedly written in the folklore of the Clear Sky Sect.

This was a memory from his previous life. Yang Chen did not specifically remember which folklore it was, but he definitely remembered that it was some disciple of the Clear Sky Sect with some free time, who had been reading the vernacular folk stories and had discovered this from therein.

These vernacular folk stories were similar to fiction. Most of them were about cultivators, some were about some qi layer cultivator whose cultivation had increased very quickly, some were about the experiences of experts who had gone to temper their disposition and cultivate their mental level. All of them had one common principle, which was that they were based on real events as much as possible, but never involved the real cultivation method of the cultivator or things like that.

But there was one exception and that was a folklore which the Clear Sky Sect had obtained from somewhere else. As it happened among the tales of fantasies, a small folklore containing an expert's cultivation method was mixed in.

This portion containing the cultivation method was at the end, and the length of the folklore was long, containing at least several millions of character. Those ridiculous plots ahead of it made many cultivators discard it before reaching the end: those who were capable of persevering to the end were truly very few.

By some lucky coincidence a qi layer outer disciple who was hopeless about reaching the Foundation stage had discovered a mysterious cultivation method at the back of the folklore. After asking for guidance from his Merit Transferring Disciple, it caught the attention of an elder. Only then was it discovered that this was a copy of the Eighth Metal True Secrets.

From the beginning Yang Chen had inspected these slips to the greatest extent possible in anticipation of that day. Apart from indulging in the fantasies of people increasing their cultivation realm, he was looking for precisely that piece of folklore.

Twenty thousand jade slips, hundreds of millions of characters. Yang Chen did not even know if the one he had been looking for was in this collection or not, he also didn't remember its name, thus he could read every single one of them.

Yang Chen knew that cultivation stressed on Karma, therefore it could not be forced, so he would have to work hard to find the one. Even after a few months had passed and he had read over ten thousand jade slips, he still couldn't discover the one which he had been looking for.

Distant from worldly matters, the days of life were calm and free of worry. Yang Chen didn't have any extravagant hope that he would be able to take the Eighth Metal True Secrets from the Clear Sky Sect at the first try. If bad came to worse, he could just go again and find an excuse to obtain some more books of the Clear Sky Sect. As long as the he could get a large number of books, he would surely be able to find it.

As for the case that it was first discovered by the people of the Clear Sky Sect, according to his memory, that was a matter which would only happen a hundred years in the future. These hundred years were sufficient for Yang Chen to obtain all of the books which were not related to cultivation from the Clear Sky Sect.

With this attitude, Yang Chen was calmly reading the books which he had, while recording all things which were useful or which he believed would come to use in future.

After he had gone through first eighteen thousand jade slips, he suddenly came across one which was very long and contained several millions of characters. He discovered this after he swept it once with his spiritual awareness. Immersing his mind, he had only read the beginning but he could not help shaking his head again and again. How could someone write such a ridiculous tale and then at that length?

Suddenly he remembered something which made him excited: weren't the Eighth Metal True Secrets also inscribed in such a ridiculous and long tale? Thinking about this, Yang Chen accelerated the speed of reading and very quickly reached the last portion. Actually he had entirely skipped the plot of the tale and only looked at the portions which contained the cultivation method.

Trying to find the script overflowing with an ancient intention was very easy: within half a day, Yang Chen had found what he was looking for. After carefully comprehending it a few times, he finally confirmed that this was the Eighth Metal True Secrets which he had yearned for all the time.

'To travel far and wide only to find something easily', Yang Chen suddenly remembered this sentence. Feeling happy, he burst out in happy laughter, but then another thought flashed through his mind.

In books there are sumptuous houses and graceful ladies, in books there are a thousand bushels of millets, in books there are regiments of war chariots.

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Chapter 137 – The Challenge Must Be A Life And Death Duel

23 Aug 2016

Obtaining the Eighth Metal True Secrets was like a great burden being removed from Yang Chen's heart. His entire body was relaxed and happy.

Initially he had thought that he would not be able to obtain the Eighth Metal True Secrets from the Clear Sky Sect the first time. It should be known that the libraries of the Clear Sky Sect contained information accumulated over countless years, something which a small sect absolutely could not compare to. Even the Hidden Pavilion in the Pure Yang Palace had a few million jade slips, then how many would the Clear Sky Sect have?

Who would have thought that, because of Mo Qian's dirty tricks, he would be able to obtain these most unreasonable kinds of books which would allow him to obtain the Eighth Metal True Secrets the first time. Thinking about this made Yang Chen very happy.

Cultivators attached great importance to karma. Apparently, these Eighth Metal True Secrets were destined for Yang Chen somehow, otherwise he would not have obtained them on the first time.

But Yang Chen did not begin cultivation immediately after obtaining them. Since he didn't have the origin spirit power, the eighth metal true qi, he would not be able to cultivate it successfully. Not too long ago, Yang Chen had collected fifth earth true qi, but before he could understand it thoroughly, Yang Chen did not intend to go and look for other true qi.

He had already read eighteen thousand jade slips and had still two thousand left. After Yang Chen had finished them at a moderate pace, he tidied up everything and bid farewell to his mother and father.

Despite being greatly unwilling to let him go, they did not say much, other than reminding him repeatedly to come back from time to time. They already understood clearly that Yang Chen was in a different world from them.

While Yang Chen was enjoying his peaceful days with his family, a lot of sensational matters had happened in the cultivation world. Strictly speaking, they all had something to do with Yang Chen.

First was the Pure Yang Palace, which had grandly established its Hall of Eccentrics. Although a second rate sect establishing a hall for their subordinates was not something to make a fuss about, as it happened this Hall of Eccentrics had two YuanYing stage experts.

Actually just two YuanYing stage expert was not something which could astonish people, but these two YuanYing stage experts were demon beasts. This fact was sufficient to gain the attention of other big sects.

Demon beasts entering the sect, how was this possible? People are people, demons are demons. When running into a demon, not killing it was already an immense favour, so how could they tolerate them entering their sect?

But the explanation given by the Pure Yang Palace removed all their problems. They had guarded the sect painstakingly for thousands of years, so what else should they be rewarded with? Thinking that the Pure Yang Palace had already presented the two demon beasts with the fifth earth true qi which elder Wu had given as a present for Yang Chen; had that helped them reach the YuanYing stage?

Even the Five Phases Sect had fifth earth true qi, but it could not compare to the Pure Yang Palace's style. Everyone knew that the Pure Yang Palace did not have a cultivation method to refine fifth earth true qi, so even if they kept it, it would still be of no use. But they had given them as a present to the two earth attributed demon beasts. Other sects had never used such a method.

Once the Hall of Eccentrics was established, it gave rise to the attention of many sects and at the same time, many guardian spirit beasts which had been subdued by other sects also expressed their expectations for the Hall of Eccentrics. This caught all of the big sects unprepared.

If they did not give them benefits, maybe the guardian spirit beasts would escape, but it would still pain them to give the guardian spirit beasts some rewards. Moreover, those guardian spirit beasts who had restrictions put on them also began to show the will to rebel, which gave headaches to the sect leaders of all big sects. And this matter was supported by Elder Wu, so others could not oppose it.

Regardless of what is said, the Pure Yang Palace had not only left a good mark of their name in the realm of demon beasts, they had also raised two YuanYing stage experts within the sect and this was an undeniable fact.

The Pure Yang Palace's reputation spread far and wide, some things were good some were bad. Some people who couldn't accept that demon beasts were shown such consideration felt very repulsed. Many loose cultivators thought that, since they could ensure the safety of demon beasts, surely they would try to defend their disciples to the greatest extent and started coming in large numbers, which made the Foreign Affair Hall's master, Xu Cheng Xin, quite delighted.

Another sect which was the center of an important event, similar to the Pure Yang Palace, was the Clear Sky Sect. The Clear Sky Sect's Hua Wanting had finally thrown off the blood phantom vine after a hundred years of struggle and had successfully passed the yin fire tribulation. The Clear Sky Sect publicized this news with great fanfare and every sect sent their representatives to congratulate them.

Yang Chen's contribution was mostly concealed by the Clear Sky Sect. They had only said that, just after Elder Hua had broken away from the blood phantom vine, she was very weak and Yang Chen had provided her timely support by giving her a thousand year ginseng, so she could pass the tribulation in one stroke. With this relationship, Elder Hua had specially reminded the Clear Sky Sect to maintain a courteous relationship with Yang Chen and the Pure Yang Palace.

Although elder Hua reaching the Da Cheng stage was a delightful occasion, even more people were envious of Yang Chen's good fortune. First was elder Wu and now elder Hua. Why was he able to gain favours from all those Da Cheng stage experts? Why couldn't other people encounter this kind of good fortune?

As for the disappearance of Mo Qian and her few disciples, nobody had raised this topic, as if the Clear Sky Sect itself wasn't aware of it.

Mo Qian and her six JieDan stage disciples had gone out together to pick some herbs, so other people hadn't seen their presence. But this kind of matter was very common and Yang Chen himself wouldn't return to the sect for many months or years, so nobody found it strange and went to look for the whereabouts of Mo Qian and her disciples. Perhaps after a few decades or hundred years someone would look into this matter.

Currently Mo Qian and her five disciples were sitting upright in the domed main hall of the medicine garden within the bottle, motionless and were cultivating aimlessly, relying on instinct. They had already completely lost their minds, even these actions were commanded by Yang Chen using the soul stunning technique.

The latest news however concerned someone from the junior generation, which had a direct relation to Yang Chen. Green Jade Immortal Island's most talented core disciple, the fairy, in young cultivators eyes, Shi Shanshan, had issued a piece of information, requesting a confrontation between the Greatest Heaven Sect's Li QingChen and Pure Yang Palace's Yang Chen in the presence of people to settle a misunderstanding or a conflict.

What astonished people was that Yang Chen, after leaving the Clear Sky Sect, had completely disappeared and hadn't responded to the news. According to Fairy Shi, Yang Chen had already agreed to the confrontation and she was only waiting for Li QingChen's response.

The response from the Greatest Heaven Sect actually startled people even more: Li Qingchen had completely disagreed with Shi ShanShan's request and had even said that Yang Chen had deceived Fairy Shi and directly issued a challenge to Yang Chen saying that, as soon as Yang Chen appeared, he would immediately go and challenge him.

After returning from the Yang family villa to the cultivation world, he had discovered this news. Hearing this, not only was Yang Chen not angry, he was actually filled with joy.

Li QingChen, this person had tried to obstruct Yang Chen in every possible way since he had joined the Pure Yang Palace. He had even used his relationship with Chu Heng to make Chu Heng suppress him. Yang Chen wanted to settle this debt for a long time, but he hadn't found an opportunity, but now that Li QingChen had taken the initiative to challenge Yang Chen personally, Yang Chen couldn't help but burst out in happy laughter.

The last time when the palace master of the Pure Yang Palace had asked elder Xu to ask for compensation from the Greatest Heaven Sect, the Greatest Heaven Sect had said that this was a private matter between Yang Chen and Li QingChen, so the sect would not interfere and they should settle it privately.

But Yang Chen knew that, although the Greatest Heaven Sect had said these words, the palace master of the Pure Yang Palace had not desired for Yang Chen to knock on Li QingChen's door and settle his private grudges. If not for any other reason but because the influence of the Greatest Heaven Sect was too great.

Now however they could not stop Yang Chen, as the perpetrator of this matter was Fairy Shi of the Green Jade Immortal Islands. Although the Greatest Heaven Sect had great power and influence, it could not suppress the Green Jade Immortal Islands.

Since he could not blame Shi ShanShan, he could only blame Yang Chen. The problem was that Li QingChen clearly did not dare to accept the request for the confrontation in presence of people, but had surprisingly used this kind of method to pressure Yang Chen.

After hearing the news from the mouth of other cultivators, Yang Chen understood the general situation and since he couldn't do anything at that time, he directly returned to the Pure Yang Palace. In any case, he could not miss this opportunity, since Li QingChen himself had knocked on his door, Yang Chen certainly did not mind taking care of him forever.

"How did you buy your way into establishing relations with Hua Wanting?"

After returning to the Second Fierce Yang Hall in Pure Yang Palace, Yang Chen first paid a visit to his master. When Gao Yue saw Yang Chen, the first thing she did was ask this question.

Gao Yue could not help becoming concerned: her only disciple, although he was only at the initial Foundation stage, had still given her many things to worry about. Elder Wu still hadn't ascended and he had already enlisted elder Hua Wanting, truly enviable.

"No, wait for the Palace Master and the Great Master to come over, then we will talk about it!"

Yang Chen knew that, once they heard that he had returned, the Palace Master and the Great Master would certainly come to question him, so he didn't wanted to say too much.

Gao Yue angrily glanced at Yang Chen once and then commanded her servant to go and inform the Palace Master and Wang Yong. Yang Chen, this disciple of hers, was certainly a troublesome disciple, but at the same time he was also the disciple who didn't cause her any worries, which really made Gao Yue feel conflicted.

She considered him troublesome because he dared to provoke anyone, first it was elder Wu, then it was elder Hua Wanting. Both were Da Cheng stage experts, but he acted recklessly and was also not afraid of being killed by anyone.

Saying that he did not cause any trouble was because Gao Yue herself did not need to worry about anything: cultivation, refining pills, refining tools, spell formations and so on; she completely did not need to bother with any of these things for Yang Chen, since Elder Wu and elder Hua Wanting had publicly given their support to Yang Chen, so nobody easily dared to create trouble for him.

It was as if his master was completely unnecessary, which was part of the cause for Gao Yue's gloominess. But even then, she was extremely satisfied with Yang Chen. She could completely sense the concern and care from Yang Chen. Having a disciple like this, what else could she want?

The Palace Master and Wang Yong arrived very quickly. Especially the Palace Master; from the time he had heard the news about elder Hua Wanting, he had been in shock. Yang Chen surprisingly had the good luck of establishing relations with a Da Cheng expert again and the Da Cheng stage expert furthermore even owed Yang Chen a favour. This made the Palace Master exceptionally happy.

This also implied that as long as this relationship was used appropriately, it would also establish a good relation between the Pure Yang Palace and the Clear Sky Sect. From the Pure Yang Palace's perspective, this only had advantages and no disadvantages.

Yang Chen was simply the lucky star of the Pure Yang Palace. From the time he had joined the Pure Yang Palace, regardless of if it was the xun qi pill or the spirit vein of the Second Fierce Yang Hall, no matter if it was Elder Wu or Elder Hua Wanting, no matter if it was the Hall of Eccentrics or being a third grade pill concocting master, he had brought a lot of pleasant surprises.

Every time, something related to Yang Chen happened, it had apparently become a tradition for the Palace Master and Wang Yong to come to the Second Fierce Yang Hall after Yang Chen returned. The Palace Master knew that, apart from himself and his master, Yang Chen did not trust the other elders too much, therefore there was no need for other people. Just them and Yang Chen's master, Gao Yue, were present.

After hearing Yang Chen colorfully describe the events with Fairy Shi at the Green Jade Immortal Islands and the matter at the Clear Sky Sect, Gao Yue immediately expressed her dissatisfaction.

"At what time has Yang Chen used fairy Shi's name to deal with affairs? Why didn't I know?"

Gao Yue couldn't bear to see Yang Chen accused wrongly and vented her resentment very strongly.

"Those are all small matters. Doesn't that youngster of the Greatest Sky Sect already have a guilty conscience?"

Different from Gao Yue extreme hatred, the Palace Master and Wang Yong were more focused on the Da Cheng stage expert, Hua Wanting, and the Clear Sky Sect.

Nobody could believe that Yang Chen could deal with the blood phantom vine with the information from a book containing miscellaneous information, this clearly seemed far fetched. The blood phantom vine was certainly an extremely formidable object, if someone had records, it would only be within the records of extremely high level experts in tool refining and pill refining. It was certainly not possible to have it in the Hidden Pavilion in the Pure Yang Palace.

"How did you know how to deal with blood phantom vine?"

The palace master hadn't opened his mouth and was thinking about how to ask this, but the Great Master, Wang Yong, on the other side, asked with a meaningful glance. He did not interrogate him however, instead, to make him feel secure, he said:

"You do not need to worry, regardless of whatever method it was, even if you killed someone, your Great Master will safeguard you!"

That last line was said to Yang Chen, but actually it was directed at the Palace Master. In any case, regardless of what Yang Chen had done, no blame could be pushed onto Yang Chen.

"This is not a great secret, Elder Wu has given this information to me last time."

Yang Chen directly pushed the blame onto Elder Wu. It wasn't like anybody could verify it in any case and even if someone could, Elder Wu would also confirm it.

The palace master and Wang Yong suddenly understood everything. It seemed like this was another layer of security which Elder Wu had left for Yang Chen before ascending. In any case, his ascension was imminent and he already didn't need any favours, so he had given Yang Chen this chance, which would also be a sort of protection for Yang Chen. Fortunately, this had happened before Elder Wu's ascension. This really was a great coincidence.

"What was the matter with Sun QingXue of the Clear Sky Sect? Why did you suddenly remember to look for her?"

The Palace Master asked again.

"Because Elder Wu had warned me of a matter."

Yang Chen seized this opportunity to talk about the Long Tai Spirit Supporting Secrets. Regardless of the other sects, Pure Yang Palace could not lose many disciples. Not everyone was like Sun QingXue, who could still shake up the whole world, even after she had abolished her cultivation once.

The palace master very seriously listened to Yang Chen, but within his heart, he had already secretly become alert.

"That youngster from the Greatest Heaven Sect challenging Yang Chen, how should we settle that?"

After listening for a long time and seeing that the matter of Yang Chen's challenge had been raised, Gao Yue suddenly asked.

"Very simple, master!"

Yang Chen answered with a smile:

"Ask Hall Master Xu to release the news. If Li QingChen with a strength of the peak Foundation stage wants to just compare notes, then I admit defeat. If he really wants to challenge me, then it has to be a life and death duel!"

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Chapter 138 – He Is Already Doomed To Die

These words were the same ones Yang Chen had said to Han Jiande of the Tian Quan Sect at the Heavenly Stairs when he had come, looking for trouble with Yang Chen. At that time, when Han Jiande, who had a higher cultivation, had challenged him, Yang Chen had immediately admitted defeat.

But who could have known that Yang Chen was not truly admitting defeat and was instead just forcing Han Jiande to accept a life and death duel with Yang Chen. Now Yang Chen had used the same words, so surely he had to have some kind of mortal enmity with Li QingChen.

"He is at the peak of the Foundation stage, Yang Chen, do you have complete confidence?"

Gao Yue naturally did not wish for Yang Chen, her first disciple, to fight a life and death duel with an expert who was at the peak Foundation stage, so she immediately asked, filled with worry.

"Whether I am confident or not, I must fight. In any case, it's better than making the experts of the Greatest Heaven Sect bear grudges towards me and not allowing me live peacefully from now on!"

Yang Chen replied with a smile.

"Why?"

Gao Yue clearly didn't know the reason for this. While the Palace Master and Wang Yong on the contrary, both nodded with a knowing smile after hearing Yang Chen's words. This movement confused Gao Yue even more.

"Li QingChen will never agree to a confrontation with me in front of others, because that would certainly make him lose all face."

Yang Chen knew that his master had not yet matured to the level of his previous life, where she understood everything. Since she couldn't think of everything, Yang Chen patiently explained it to her.

"This is also the case for the Greatest Heaven Sect: they will absolutely not want a disciple who is sowing discord between two people by distorting the truth. Therefore, they will surely do everything they can to prevent that confrontation."

The Palace Master once again nodded slightly at Yang Chen's words.

"This is similar to how the sect traitor, Chu Heng, humiliated the sect."

As if he had received encouragement, Yang Chen continued:

"The Greatest Heaven Sect would rather send some inferior disciple, as they also would not be willing to allow their sect to be disgraced by a lowly cultivator like me."

When comparing the the reputation of a person with inferior skills and a person with bad name representing the sect, the former was preferred more by people. After all, a person with inferior skills had a lot of factors against them, so if they were unable to beat the opponent and lost, they would not lose face. As for losing face, it was the reputation of Li QingChen alone and would not damage the Greatest Heaven Sect.

Gao Yue understood this point clearly, but she was still slightly doubtful:

"They are not willing to carry the name of being a loser, so what relation does it have with you not accepting the challenge? Why would the experts bear grudges?"

"If I had not agreed to the challenge and had asked to arrange the confrontation, then Li QingChen would not be able to avoid losing face and the Greatest Heaven Sect would also become the target of everyone's ridicule."

Yang Chen continued explaining with a smile:

"Under such circumstances, the experts of Greatest Heaven Sect who would not dare to take out their anger on the Green Jade Immortal Islands will turn towards me and the result of such an event will be the loss of my life."

Gao Yue repeatedly nodded her head hearing after this. Suddenly she couldn't help raising her head to glance at Yang Chen, who was speaking with confidence. This disciple's mind was seemingly clear headed indeed.

"But if I promised a life and death duel, that would mean that, this is just a private matter between Li QingChen and me. This way the Greatest Heaven Sect will also have a way out of an embarrassing situation."

Seeing that his master was looking at him, Yang Chen rejoiced even more:

"With the attitude of the experts at the Greatest Heaven Sect, since it was a private affair, then regardless of whatever the outcome was, they would not meddle too much."

"Compared to not replying to the challenge and then becoming the target of grudges for the countless experts of the Greatest Heaven Sect, I would prefer to fight a life or death duel with Li QingChen and settle our grudges."

Yang Chen knew that Gao Yue had already begun to realize slowly, so his concluding words were simple.

"Then even if you accept his challenge, what is the need to insist on a life or death duel?"

Gao Yue was only thinking about Yang Chen's life and death and did not care much about anything else.

"Because if we do not consider it a matter of life and death, the Green Jade Immortal Island would make us two confront each other, which would be completely unacceptable for the Greatest Heaven Sect."

Yang Chen helplessly replied:

"Since the Greatest Heaven Sect has already said that this was a personal grudge between us, there was no other way but to issue the challenge to me. In fact, regardless of whether it was a life and death duel or not, for us it would have been the same. So rather than this, I would prefer to formally issue a life or death challenge, which would also give them a way out."

"Wasn't elder Hua Wanting very considerate of you?"

Gao Yue suddenly recalled Hua Wanting's matter, which Yang Chen had said just recently, and hastily asked:

"If you do not agree, could it be that they would risk angering elder Hua Wanting by killing you?"

"The Greatest Heaven Sect is the only one sect which can ignore Elder Hua Wanting's consideration towards me and accept the life and death challenge to kill me without having to worry about retaliation from elder Hua Wanting."

Yang Chen clearly knew that some matters could not just be settled by a person's determination:

"In fact, Li QingChen is very pathetic: he has already been abandoned by the Greatest Heaven Sect."

"Why?"

Gao Yue asked with suspicion, confused again by Yang Chen's words.

"Because regardless of the outcome, he cannot escape death."

Yang Chen's smile grew large. This was the part that made him most happy:

"If he wins, I die and then Li QingChen will also be executed. On one side to settle elder Hua Wanting's anger, on the other side for the Greatest Heaven Sect to take up the position of placing righteousness before their family and admitting their errors in front of the Clear Sky Sect and the Green Jade Immortal Islands."

"What if you win?"

Gao Yue asked like a curious kid in front of Yang Chen.

"If I win, he dies."

Yang Chen replied with a smile:

"But the Greatest Heaven Sect will still admit their errors before the Green Jade Immortal Islands, conceding that they accepted an unworthy disciple."

"Aren't you just saying that the Greatest Heaven Sect is not willing to take responsibility for his actions as their disciple?"

Gao Yue refuted, opening her eyes even wider.

"They just don't wish to be forced to admit their mistakes, that's all."

Yang Chen slowly shook his head:

"In fact, once the confrontation with Fairy Shi is over, the Greatest Heaven Sect will be forced into a corner. Rather than being forced to admit their mistakes, it would be better to admit it by their own initiative. But since any such thing which could make them bow their heads hasn't happened, they also don't wish for it."

"Therefore, they arranged a challenge to get themselves out of the embarrassing situation?"

Gao Yue asked angrily. The Greatest Heaven Sect had gone too far by making Yang Chen take the risk for their matters, so how could Gao Yue accept this?

"Right!"

Yang Chen nodded his head:

"Actually, right now many people in the Greatest Heaven Sect are hoping that Li QingChen dies under my hands, as this is the best possible outcome. With this, they completely don't need to worry about elder Wu and elder Hua Wanting's anger and as long as they hand over a proper compensation to the Clear Sky Sect, this matter will be over."

While Gao Yue and Yang Chen were conversing, the Palace Master and Great Master Wang Yong were listening to them on the side full of smiles, but did not say anything. The more they heard, the wider the smiles on their faces became. They were looking at Yang Chen and his master as if they were some kind of precious treasures.

"So, it is because this matter also involves the Green Jade Immortal Islands, otherwise, they would have held the confrontation secretly, and would not have had a need to proclaim this confrontation to the whole world, correct?"

After understanding the reasons Yang Chen had given her, Gao Yue's mind was like an open tap, the more she pondered over this, the more questions she asked:

"Then aren't they just exploiting you?"

In his previous life, Gao Yue was a very careful thinker, otherwise she would not have become the Palace Master of the Fierce Yang Hall. Once he heard these words, Yang Chen immediately understood that his master had begun to think over things.

This was a good thing. Yang Chen desired for his master to be safe and sound her entire life, but it was also impossible for him to accompany her everywhere, so he wanted her to have the ability to defend herself.

Although cultivation was one aspect, another was the ability to precisely judge the circumstances. This was the strongest ability she could rely on for self defence. The more Gao Yue began to ponder over this matter, the more it implied that her safety increased.

"Repulsive! How can the Green Jade Immortal Islands be like this?"

Gao Yue scolded them, feeling aggrieved:

"How can they just drag in my disciple?"

"Because of the new Da Cheng stage expert at the Clear Sky Sect, all big sects, including the Greatest Heaven Sect,the Five Phases Sect and the Green Jade Immortal Islands are feeling pressure."

This time, it was not Yang Chen who replied, instead it was the Palace Master:

"Initially, all big sects were in an equilibrium, but the current problem is that the Green Jade Immortal Islands have to also look for something to maintain the balance."

While explaining to Gao Yue, the Palace Master nodded towards Yang Chen in admiration. The words Yang Chen had said just a moment ago, simply caught the Palace Master and Wang Yong by surprise. A disciple who had just reached the Foundation stage not too long ago could analyze the disagreement between sects so thoroughly. This just made them pleasantly surprised.

This kind of intelligence and luck, moreover someone who could also look at the general situation as a whole… Such a disciple was simply an innate heavenly talent. At least ninety percent of JieDan experts in the Pure Yang Palace could not think about such a problem, not to mention the Foundation stage or qi layer disciples. If such a disciple was not properly cultivated, then the Pure Yang Palace could only be called extravagant.

"Yang Chen, you must go out in the near future and attentively cultivate, waiting for Li QingChen to drop in and throw away his life!"

After the Palace Master had explained to Gao Yue, he had turned around to Yang Chen:

"We will discuss again after this matter has been settled."

"Yes, Palace Master!"

Yang Chen hastily bowed and replied.

This time, Gao Yue also didn't say anything. She had clearly understood Yang Chen's words, regardless of whether Li QingChen lived or died, in the end, he would not be able to escape his death. Even the people of the Greatest Heaven Sect wanted him to die. His odds of success in this life and death challenge were really very low.

Even if Li QingChen, at the peak of the Foundation stage, had a higher cultivation than Yang Chen, who in the Greatest Heaven Sect would agree to incur the anger of both elder Wu and elder Hua Wanting at the same time? Furthermore, since the Green Jade Immortal Islands were also participating, the Greatest Heaven Sect would absolutely not allow the Green Jade Immortal Islands to have their wishes fulfilled, so the best option would be to give up on a peak Foundation stage disciple.

After finishing the conversation, the Palace Master and Wang Yong didn't stay for much longer and departed together, releasing some information to the other elders. Inside of Gao Yue's room, only Gao Yue and Yang Chen remained.

"Yang Chen, this Li QingChen has been focusing on you all along, allowing him to die like this… Wouldn't it be very convenient for him?"

Currently Gao Yue was thinking about this problem from Yang Chen's point of view, she knew everything that Li QingChen and Chu Heng had done to Yang Chen, therefore she particularly wanted to know what Yang Chen would think about it.

"Master, did you not realize it?"

Since the Palace Master and Wang Yong were not in the room anymore, Yang Chen spoke to his master even more freely:

"Previously, Li QingChen had asked Chu Heng to deal with this disciple, relying on the power of being an official disciple of the Greatest Heaven Sect. But currently, they are expecting him to die. Compared to this, what could be more painful to him? What could be a better revenge than waiting for him to come and throw his life away? What else could be a more wonderful outcome than this?

"What if he is not willing and instead attacks you, facing death's door?"

Gao Yue was still somewhat doubtful. She couldn't help it, since this affair involved Yang Chen. This question however did not need Yang Chen to be answered, she herself knew the answer. Since the upper echelons of the Greatest Heaven Sect had decided it, then how would a minor, peak Foundation stage disciple, dare to rebel against that?

Once she thought this was the result of scheming and plotting between various sect, Gao Yue couldn't help but feel a wave of anxiety. They would even abandon their sect's disciples without the slightest hesitation! This was simply cruel.

"Aren't they cultivators who have cultivated meticulously for so long? How can they all be like this?"

Gao Yue suddenly asked Yang Chen in a tone as if she was speaking to herself.

"I do not know about others."

Yang Chen bluntly said:

"But you will not!"

If Gao Yue had been like that, then in his previous life, then why would she have chosen death to defend Yang Chen?

"How do you know?"

Gao Yue was quite puzzled at Yang Chen's determined reply:

"Even I myself don't know!"

"Because you are my master, so I know!"

Yang Chen casually answered Gao Yue on the surface, but in his heart he secretly added for himself:

"Because in my previous life, you have already used your life to prove that you are not that kind of person!"

"Then can you change into such a person?"

Seeing Yang Chen reply so confidently about her, Gao Yue seemed to be very happy and in turn asked Yang Chen.

"Towards others, maybe!"

As before, Yang Chen gave a reply which made Gao Yue feel even happier:

"I will forever not become like that towards master!"

"You will not, but if other people can then what?"

Gao Yue had seemingly sunk into a line of thought and had begun to drill Yang Chen on this question.

"Then I will turn into a person who other people cannot abandon!"

Yang Chen also understood what kind of thoughts Gao Yue was having. If Gao Yue was unable to get over this, then it could cause her to have a Heart's Devil very easily. Therefore he very patiently straightened things out:

"With this disciple's achievements and connections with people, they can only select Li QingChen to die and could not do anything to disciple!"

"With your connections, are you just making friends so that you can have formidable supporters to rely on?"

Gao Yue's eyes suddenly flashed and she was very resentful towards Yang Chen's attitude of seizing every opportunity.

"Disciple's cultivation is quite shallow right now, so this is a plan for convenience!"

Yang Chen smiled:

"As soon as disciple's cultivation starts rising, then at that time, we can decide who to abandon and who to protect according to our logic."

"Decide according to our logic?"

Gao Yue shook her head. Apparently hadn't realized that Yang Chen had used the word 'our':

"I will never become such a person!"

"Then you will basically become someone whom the people close to you will not even dare to think of abandoning, regardless of whatever the matter is!"

Yang Chen said with great heroic spirit.

These words of Yang Chen had struck a chord within Gao Yue's heart. She had the nature of advancing bravely in front of all difficulties and wished to control her life by herself and not being controlled by others. She immediately replied with a smile:

"I like this. We will try to become this sort of people!"

After she had said this, her tone became even more cheerful, as if she had untied a knot in her heart, otherwise she would have remained entangled with this question. After this troublesome matter had been resolved, her nature had been tempered even more. After realizing this, Gao Yue smile's became even wider.

"Master, be at ease!"

Yang Chen said as if he was replying to Gao Yue, but even more it seemed like he was making a pledge with himself:

"With disciple here, even if an earth shattering matter happen, master need not worry, disciple will take care of it!"

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What Gao Yue and Yang Chen hadn't seen was that the Palace Master and Wang Yong, who had been returning, had stopped mid-way.

The Palace Master found a place to sit down and then put up a restriction spell. Then the Palace Master said to Wang Yong, who had been following just behind him:

"Senior disciple, this grand disciple of yours really leaves people speechless!"

"Are you envious?"

Wang Yong and the Palace Master were fellow apprentices, so in private they were more casual than when they were in front of people:

"Being envious is useless, it was just my good luck that I have such a good Grand Disciple!"

"Yes, Yang Chen's fortune can make people go mad with envy!"

Palace Master did not hide his jealousy, but he was only envious towards Yang Chen and not envious of Wang Yong.

"Having good fortune is also a skill!"

Wang Yong was trying to safeguard his Grand Disciple in every possible way, but when hearing the Palace Master's bare jealousy, he paid no mind to it. The Palace Master was unlikely to do anything to Yang Chen because of a little jealousy.

"He is greatly pushing himself."

The Palace Master shook his head:

"The largest trees catch the most wind. After this challenge, for the time being, don't allow him to go out to train, so that others don't harm him."

"Staying at the sect is also good! Only, should we let him do what he wants?"

Wang Yong completely consented to this point, if a talent showed off excessively, making people secretly envious, even with great fortune, who could say when a person's luck would run out. Although the big sects were extremely polite and amiable on the surface, if the times demanded it, they would not hesitate to backstab, like the Greatest Heaven Sect had done towards the Five Phases Sect or like the Green Jade Immortal Islands had done to the Greatest Heaven Sect.

"Spirit power of the five attributes at the Foundation stage, and he is also extremely well educated and knowledgeable, so surely guiding the outer disciples has to be enough?"

Apparently the Palace Master had already thought this through.

"Yes!"

Wang Yong nodded, being a Merit Transferring Disciple at the Nine Earth Manor, Yang Chen would have to remain at Meiqing mountain within the territory of the Pure Yang Palace. If he did not have to face some calamity on the level of having his family exterminated, it would be just impossible for him to go out. Not to speak of the fact that he also didn't have to worry about security, these arrangements made by the Palace Master were extremely brilliant and did indeed make use of people to the greatest extent.

Yang Chen didn't know that he was already confined in one place under disguise by the Palace Master and Wang Yong in such a short time. After he had settled his issues and consolidated his realm for such a long time, the foundation realm of the complete Five Phases of Yin and Yang secrets had been fully consolidated, so he could attempt to break through to the next realm.

However, before that Yang Chen had to settle his dispute with Li QingChen.

After two months Yang Chen and Gao Yue appeared on a small island in the territory of the Green Jade Immortal Islands. This island was a region which was decided for his life and death duel with Li QingChen.

Li QingChen was also there with a JieDan stage expert of the Greatest Heaven Sect. A duel between two Foundation stage youngsters to settle their personal grudges was still unworthy for any high level expert to witness, not to mention travelling here.

What was unexpected was that two YuanYing stage experts had appeared from the side of the host, the Green Jade Immortal Islands, as well as the concerned party, Fairy Shi.

Among the two YuanYing stage experts, one was Guan Yueying with whom Yang Chen had already crossed swords once, the other was someone he didn't know, but the other expert seemingly had some relationship with Li QingChen.

"Yang Chen, I am sorry!"

Before the duel had begun, under the hateful gaze of Li QingChen, Shi ShanShan walked to Yang Chen and apologised to him.

Yang Chen could clearly see that Shi ShanShan was not acting like an unreasonable person who could easily be duped like before. This sentence clearly proved that she had borrowed Yang Chen's name to deal with Li QingChen in the previous matter.

With regards to the apology from the Cold Plum Fairy of the future, Yang Chen began to feel slightly bitter. If it were not for Li QingChen, Yang Chen would not have received so much trouble at the Pure Yang Palace.

Sure, Yang Chen only treated his experience as troublesome and not as life and death crisis to temper himself. But he also knew that, with Shi ShanShan's cold personality and her nature of not easily communicating with other people, the cause of everything would have been how Shi ShanShan had treated Li QingChen, who had thought that his love was being reciprocated. Then again, not all of this could be completely blamed on Shi ShanShan.

"In the future, don't drag me into your affairs!"

Since settling this time's affairs still depended on the intentions of the Green Jade Immortal Islands, Yang Chen did not intend to nag too much on this matter, so after saying this, he closed his eyes and began to rest, no longer paying any attention to his surroundings.

Seeing Yang Chen's attitude towards her, Shi ShanShan was astonished within her heart. From the time she had entered the Green Jade Immortal Islands until now, she had been constantly pursued by people and had never seen a male fellow daoist like Yang Chen treat her so coldly. This was both new and odd for her at the same time, though it was while was still feeling guilty. Speaking of which, it seemed like Yang Chen still hadn't completely understood the situation.

"You must be careful!"

Shi ShanShan said with an unvarying expression, in low voice:

"Li QingChen is related to my sect's elder Li Yunyu and has received pointers from her, so by all means you must be extremely careful in this life and death duel."

This information seemed slightly troublesome to Yang Chen. If the situation was like this and he killed Li QingChen, then the Pure Yang Palace and Green Jade Immortal Islands could be in disagreement, rather than being put into trouble with the Greatest Heaven Sect.

But at this moment, the arrow had already been released from the bow, so other matters would have to be put off until this one was settled. Regardless of whoever was behind Li QingChen, it was impossible for Yang Chen to use his own life to make up for it, Li Qing Chen had to die.

"This matter has arisen because of me, if you fail in the challenge…"

Saying this, Shi ShanShan suddenly bit her lip, the color of her face turned red and finally, after making her resolve, clenching her teeth she said:

"If you lose here, then I will live as your widow!"

After saying this, Shi ShanShan directly turned around and left, without waiting for Yang Chen's reaction and returned back to the side of elder Guan Yueying. Bowing her head, she again resumed her cool and elegant appearance and then stood calmly.

Many people had come to watch the fight, but all of them were standing slightly far. Since the duel hadn't begun yet, no one dared to use their spiritual awareness and risk provoking the two YuanYing stage experts. Although Shi ShanShan had said this in a low voice, the few people near them, including two people from the Greatest Heaven Sect, the two YuanYing stage experts from Green Jade Immortal Islands and Gao Yue had all heard her words clearly.

Yang Chen was also startled. Widow? What did this mean? Among ordinary people, it referred to a wife, who did not marry again after her husband was dead or a woman who did not marry for her whole life after her fiance was dead. Among cultivators, this meant not looking for a Dao Companion after their Dao Companion was dead. The problem is, did Yang Chen have such a relationship with Shi ShanShan? How could Shi ShanShan say such a thing?

Bang!

While Yang Chen's side still hadn't recovered from their astonishment, Li QingChen had already gone berserk due to anger. Without waiting for the agreed upon time, he started approaching Yang Chen while shouting loudly:

"Yang Chen, you die for me!"

Not just Yang Chen and Li QIngChen, but Guan Yueying, Li Yunyue, the two YuanYing stage experts and Yang Chen's master, Gao Yue, were completely stunned hearing Shi ShanShan's words.

Shi Shanshan had simply expressed her opinion, she did not think Yang Chen had much of a chance of winning this duel. This was completely normal as Li QingChen was at the peak of the foundation stage, a core disciple of the Greatest Heaven Sect, still under the guidance of a YuanYing stage expert. His cultivation was unfathomably deep.

On the contrary, Yang Chen had only built his Foundation not too long ago, and he was moreover a disciple of a second rate sect. When Yang Chen was just an executioner, Li QingChen was already training and travelling with Shi ShanShan. Although she did not know the exact troubles Yang Chen had faced later, Li QingChen must have given him many troubles, she was completely sure of this, therefore she had come to this conclusion.

Just as Shi ShanShan had said, she thought this matter was because of her, therefore she had to take responsibility. Previously, Guan Yueying had guided her regarding the problem in this field, if she did not obtain a thorough understanding of Yang Chen, then Shi ShanShan would give in to her Heart's Devil and would be unable to extricate herself. Since it was already hopeless for Yang Chen, Shi ShanShan might as well prepare herself for living as Yang Chen's widow, this calmed her feelings.

Gua Yueying clearly understood the feelings in Shi ShanShan's heart, but she hadn't expected that Shi Shanshan would surprisingly put out such resolve. She also hadn't discussed this with Guan Yueying and had assumed the identity of Yang Chen's widow all by herself.

Once she remembered how Yang Chen had dealt with a her, a YuanYing stage expert, so easily, Guan Yueying couldn't help but issue a bitter laugh. Shi ShanShan, this stupid child, why did she make such a vow? If Yang Chen was certain that he would lose, why would he initiate a life and death duel?

On the other side, Li Yunyu had completely different thoughts. She had long ago decided to make Shi ShanShan and this descendant of her clan Dao Companions. Therefore, she had all along spared no efforts in helping Li QingChen gain a favourable impression in Shi ShanShan's eyes. This time, Shi ShanShan had gone too far saying such words. This was simply trashing her face.

At this moment, Li Yunyu was even angrier than Li QingChen. Shi ShanShan had clearly expressed her intentions, even if Yang Chen died here, she would never become Li QingChen's Dao Companion. With the efforts of so many years going to waste, how could it not make elder Li feel bottomless anger?

Gao Yue was completely stunned and then worry began to rise. She absolutely had not anticipated that Shi ShanShan would surprisingly say such words. If the Green Jade Immortal Island's Li Yunyu was left out of consideration, then Yang Chen held the upper hand in this challenge and was completely out of danger. But with the sudden appearance of this YuanYing stage expert on the scene, nobody was sure what would happen next.

Under that constant worry, Gao Yue was also greatly proud. Her disciple was really outstanding, even the world famous Fairy Shi had taken the initiative to become his widow. If Yang Chen did not die, then wouldn't it mean that he had got an exceptionally good Dao Companion?

But after feeling complacent, Gao Yue also felt a little angry, apparently everything she liked was always snatched by other people, this was very uncomfortable.

This sensation had only lasted for a split second, before Li QingChen's loud voice woke her up. Surprisingly before the appointed time had come, he had already attacked. A sword light like a great general was flying rushed towards Yang Chen.

"Despicable!"

Gao Yue loudly cursed. Just as she was about to block it, she suddenly felt a wave of killing intent and was forced to put in all her strength to deal with it.

The killing intent had come from Green Jade Immortal Island's Li Yunyu. After finding that Gao Yue had the intention to block it, Li Yunyu pressed down on Gao Yue by using her spiritual awareness. Since this was a life and death duel between Yang Chen and Li QingChen, others could not casually interfere.

But Yang Chen just calmly raised his head, his hands had already gripped onto the Immortal Beheading blade. Taking a step forward to meet the flying sword, he raised the blade high and slashed towards the sword light.

"Humph, who taught this youngster? He can't even use a flying sword! What is he doing, using a blade to show his strength?"

Before the outcome of the clash was clear, Li Yunyu ridiculed Yang Chen.

If she had only said this, then it would not be of much concern, but when she said this she used spirit power to carry her voice far. All people in the surroundings clearly heard this, including Yang Chen. This kind of method of disturbing someone's mental state was definitely considered to be a disgusting trick to interfere from the outside, but she was not concerned in the least about how other people viewed her.

Even if everyone thought it was despicable, Li Yunyu was a YuanYing stage expert and this was the territory of the Green Jade Immortal Islands, so who would dare to say anything against her?

But the most regretful thing was that some matters could not distract a determined person, even such tricks, in front of absolute strength, they were a mere joke.

Ding!

Accompanying Li Yunyu's ridiculing words was an extremely melodious sound, as well as a dazzling spark. The blade in Yang Chen's hand had accurately slashed at the flying sword. The immensely powerful strike had directly thrown the flying sword to the ground.

A flying sword only controlled by spiritual awareness against the blade in Yang Chen's hand which was controlled both by spiritual awareness and his physical body… The superior one was obvious.

Speaking of spiritual awareness, Yang Chen was already at the peak of the JieDan stage while Li QingChen was only at the peak of the Foundation stage, the difference between them was an entire realm. Speaking of strength, Yang Chen's body had been nourished by the blood of countless immortals, so his strength had reached outrageous levels. Speaking of the quality of flying swords, the Immortal Beheading Blade was a weapon which had taken a peak JieDan expert several hundred years to refine, so how could Li QingChen's flying sword, which he had only received a few decades ago from Li Yunyu compare to it?

Sparks flew in all directions and a big nick appeared in Li QingChen's flying sword. As for Li QingChen, who had an extremely close connection with his destined flying sword, he released a loud shout, as if, when the flying sword was damaged, his spiritual awareness also suffered heavy losses.

But Yang Chen never had the habit of showing mercy to an enemy, after the first slash, he rushed forward, and while his body was in the air, he had raised the Immortal Beheading Sword again.

After his foot reached the ground, Yang Chen was already three feet in front of Li QingChen. His Immortal Beheading blade chopped down fiercely, without showing any mercy.

Li QingChen immediately sensed danger, and resisting the pain from the wounds in his spiritual awareness with great difficulty, he released the defenses on his body. Immediately, a faintly discernable armor appeared on his body and at the same time, many flickering light balls appeared in Li QingChen's hand. Even an evil grin appeared on his face.

"You can not!"

A loud cry of fear immediately echoed. The owner of the voice was none other than elder Li Yunyu, who had mocked Yang Chen just a few moments ago. But this time, her voice was full of pleading people didn't know to whom she was saying this.

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