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 162 – Her Opportunities Are None Of Your Business

08 Oct 2016

Song Hang wanted to teach Yang Chen a lesson, but in the end he was the one who was slapped across his face. Those hall masters and the Palace Master, whom he had previously asked to punish Yang Chen, had instead become spectators for his own humiliation, moreover he could not offend them and neither did he dare to have any thoughts of attacking Yang Chen.

The meeting was then disbanded, but the only one who left was Song Hang. None among the others left, waiting for Yang Chen to clarify that matter regarding the Da Cheng stage expert. Everyone could not help being curious. A Da Cheng stage expert was the target of every sect for roping in, how could it be so easy for Yang Chen?

Yang Chen would certainly not speak of this in the Nine Earth Manor, the group of elders this concerned the most were also not present, so Yang Chen did not say much and invited everyone to the Second Fierce Yang Courtyard, and even specifically asked for that group of elders to be requested over, so that everything could be cleared up.

Wang Yong only now heard about Song Hang's actions and was furious, but before he could do anything, everyone had already rushed to the Second Fierce Yang Courtyard.

Seeing Wang Yong so furious, everyone knew what the matter was. All of them greeted Wang Yong, one by one, and then began to praise his good fortune for having such a hardworking grand disciple.

When Wang Yong understood the events that had taken place, he was greatly comforted in his heart. The more face his grand disciple had, the more it would add to his own face. He greatly praised Yang Chen without any restraint and without any sense of modesty.

"What courtesy?"

When someone mentioned this, Wang Yong glared at him and said:

"My grand disciple has such great accomplishments, so naturally I will praise him. If you all do not like this, then you should try to find your own grand disciple with such great accomplishments!"

His intention to shield him was clearly displayed in his speech.

When the other elders heard something related to a Da Cheng expert, they also left all of the work at hand and hurried there. After everyone had arrived, Yang Chen asked Gao Yue to go and stay with them and only then he began to explain.

The reason why Yang Chen had asked Gao Yue to go and stay with them was because he wanted to pave the way for her success. These people not only included elders, but also the hall masters. If, in the future, Gao Yue wanted to enter the upper echelons of the Pure Yang Palace then she had to make good relations with these people.

But to everyone else, it seemed as if Yang Chen heavily respected his master, so they secretly nodded. At the same time, they also felt profound envy towards Gao Yue. Why couldn't they have such a good disciple?

Afterwards, Yang Chen didn't beat around the bush and directly made a report about the old tree demon, wanting to join the Eccentrics Hall to everyone. At the same time, he also invited them to attend the old tree demon's tribulation.

As soon as Yang Chen's words left his mouth, everyone in the Second Fierce Yang Courtyard immediately took a deep breath.

Among the people present, Wang Yong, who was merely at the peak YuanYing stage, had the highest cultivation. Among the other hall masters, elders and the Palace Master, many were just at the JieDan stage and hadn't even passed the thunder tribulation of the three tribulations. So, suddenly hearing that a peak YuanYing stage expert was going to go through his Yin Fire tribulation and all of them could attend the ritual, made everyone go crazy.

A Da Cheng stage expert was indeed a Da Cheng stage expert! According to Yang Chen's words, that old tree demon was very formidable and had suppressed the Yin Fire tribulation more than a dozen times by now. What kind of cultivation would he need to have to suppress a heavenly tribulation? Furthermore, how had he suppressed it?

Leaving aside the worth of a Da Cheng stage expert to sect, just with this one trick, if the sect could grasp it, then everyone at the peak YuanYing stage would be able to get countless opportunities.

Even without this, just being able to witness an expert pass the Yin Fire tribulation at close proximity was simply a great opportunity to touch upon the edge of the Da Cheng stage for everyone there. Especially for those elders, who were at the YuanYing stage, this was simply a heaven sent opportunity, which many people could not witness in their lifetimes.

Even for JieDan experts to be able to witness someone passing their tribulation was very beneficial towards their mental state and this kind of matter was surprisingly happening within their own sect and the one who made this possible was moreover a disciple at the initial Foundation stage. This could not be said to just be a miracle now, this was simply making the impossible possible.

Such a good opportunity had surprisingly fallen into the lap of the Pure Yang Palace. Everyone was looking at Yang Chen as if they were looking at some freak. To be able to entice an almost Da Cheng stage expert with just the initial Foundation stage, what kind of good fortune was this?

Such a great expert entering the Eccentric Hall of the sect, who would not approve? A Da Cheng stage expert… What would he need from the current Pure Yang Palace? If he wanted, he could just exterminate the entire sect without any tricks. So there was nobody who thought that there was any hidden goal or secret here. Apart from lamenting Yang Chen's good fortune, what else could they say?

"As for the matter of attending the ritual of his tribulation, the senior said that there shouldn't be too many people and he has allowed disciple to give away invitations."

After everyone had absorbed the shock, Yang Chen calmly continued:

"Within the next few days, disciple will send out invitations to everyone. At that time, I request the Palace Master to restrain those who don't have invitation cards. Senior has said those people who have nothing to do with it, should not show up."

As soon as everyone heard these words, they immediately understood that there wouldn't be many invitations, but at the same time, everyone of the Luminous Moon Hall heaved a large sigh in their heart. It would be a miracle if Yang Chen gave an invitation to Liang Shao Ming and Song Hang. Just now there was the matter of him not guiding disciples properly, so how could they expect him to return good for evil? At least the Palace Master didn't have any extravagant hopes.

It could clearly seen from the matter of Song Hang's cultivation bottleneck, and that Yang Chen had refused to tell him the method to resolve it. So for the opportunity of attending the tribulation, Liang Shao Ming and Song Hang should not even think about it. If they had known that Yang Chen still had such a card up his sleeve, would they still have constantly looked to create trouble for Yang Chen?

"This kind of opportunity, every disciple of the sect with a cultivation of the JieDan stage or higher must be allowed to witness!"

Elder Lin Yunfeng had come from the Luminous Moon Hall and he naturally understood what Yang Chen meant, so he couldn't help but speak up.

But he also didn't say it directly and rather talked about all JieDan experts. In this way, he had used the power of the group to force Yang Chen. Yang Chen also would not want to offend all of the JieDan expert of the sect, would he?

"Inappropriate!"

Wang Yong immediately shook his head. The Luminous Moon Hall's people have looked for trouble with Yang Chen more than once. If his great master didn't speak up for him there, then who would?

"How is it inappropriate?"

Lin Yunfeng rhetorically asked. He had to support his disciples.

"The senior has said there shouldn't be too many people. After including all of us elders, how many seats would there be left?"

Wang Yong shook his head:

"Furthermore, if we added all of the hall masters and the Palace Master, the number of people would be many. I fear that senior would find it annoying."

"Alright, then all of the hall masters should not be allowed!"

Initially Lin Yunfeng had wanted to get a seat for Liang Shao Ming. He had dragged in all of the hall masters as an excuse for this goal, but since Wang Yong had himself had made the decision for the hall masters, he naturally wanted to use this opportunity to get the final decision.

"The Luminous Moon Hall's hall master has been punished by all of the elders and the Palace Master unanimously to meditate and examine his conscience for twenty years."

Wang Yong also knew the intentions of his grand disciple and directly eliminated Liang Shao Ming:

"So it will not be good to interrupt him!"

"This!"

Lin Yunfeng creased his brows:

"This is a rare opportunity. He can just come out to attend the ritual and then go back to examining his conscience again, wouldn't that be alright?"

Liang Shao Ming being penalized to examine his conscience was a public matter in the sect, so Lin Yunfeng hadn't boldly supported him and only used a conversational tone to help him.

"Elder Lin, hall master Liang has been punished because he has sinned!"

But Wang Yong didn't back down even in the slightest. Even now the Luminous Moon Hall had tried to harm his grand disciple. If they could still obtain benefits from him, what would that mean? So he directly nodded his head:

"If he comes out to receive the benefits and then returns after getting the benefits, what kind of punishment is this? Everyone must know that playing with my Pure Yang Palace is not a child's matter."

These words of Wang Yong were completely reasonable. People who had committed offence, went out to get benefits and then went back, what kind of punishment would that be? It would be just an inconvenience. Once he said these words, the Palace Master had no option other than interrupting the discussion.

Lin Yunfeng still wanted to argue more, but the Palace Master deeply sighed:

"Senior brother Yun, regarding Liang Shao Ming's matter, the decision will be according to senior brother Wang's words! People who are being punished should not come out."

"But, Palace Master!"

Lin Yunfeng became anxious. This was such a good opportunity, he just couldn't accept his disciple being unable to witness it.

"Don't say anything more!"

The Palace Master immediately stopped Lin Yunfeng:

"Although my Pure Yang Palace is not one of the big sects, sect rules are still sect rules, not some child's play. If everyone started to look down on them, how would we restrain our sect's disciples?"

After the Palace Master used the sect's rules, there was no more room for discussion. Lin Yunfeng could only shut up, but he glared at Yang Chen with a bitter gaze. All of these matters were because of this Yang Chen, including the matter of his grand disciple Chu Heng turning into a sect traitor. Everything was done by this Yang Chen.

Once Lin Yunfeng shut up, the other elders could already see that this line of Wang Yong, from great master to master to grand disciple, were all gritty people. As soon as they were wronged, they would immediately pay it back.

Among all of them, a few were very happy as their relationship with Wang Yong's line was very good, especially with Yang Chen. This included the Medicine Hall's master Zhu Chen Tao, Foreign Affair Hall's master Xu Cheng Xin and Law Enforcement Hall's master Meng Xian, who were extremely grateful to the heavens for giving them the opportunity to make such a young friend, whose luck was completely in defiance of the heavens. This made countless people envious to death. This kind of disciple had to be guarded and cultivated properly.

Which disciple had broadened the master vein of the Pure Yang Palace? Which disciple had discovered a new spirit vein and had still left rooms for them? Which disciple could help the sect with Elder Wu's cultivation experience, even when he could have kept it all for himself? Which disciple would invite them for the opportunity of witnessing a tribulation? Other than Yang Chen who could do all of this?

In comparison, what had the Luminous Moon Hall done for the sect? Apart from enjoying the natural resources of the sect, what benefits had they given back in return? A person's true value could only be determined by comparison and everyone could see who was better.

"In fact, it is not impossible that hall master Liang will have the opportunity!"

Just when everyone thought the dust had settled, Yang Chen suddenly opened his mouth. Not only that, the words he said startled everyone.

"What kind of opportunity?"

Lin Yunfeng was exalted, at that moment he didn't mind Yang Chen being a junior and hastily asked.

"Although this disciple hasn't seen the Yin Fire tribulation, I know that, during the time of the tribulation, the energies of heaven and earth fluctuate greatly and it is not confined to a single region, it will cover almost the entire area of our MeiQing mountains."

Yang Chen continued further:

"As long as they are within the area of our Pure Yang Palace, anyone can sense the turmoil in spirit power."

These words were indeed reasonable and everyone who heard these words happily nodded. But Yang Chen had not finished speaking and continued:

"Disciple has also seen some past records of tribulations of other seniors: during the time of tribulation, if the cultivation is not sufficient, then it will be better to watch it from afar. If the distance is too close, they won't be able to protect themselves and will be affected by the tribulation. During that time, the only ones who can watch the tribulation are the elders."

Once these words came out of his mouth, everyone's complexion immediately turned awkward. Although these words were to provide an opportunity to Liang Shao Ming, it was the same as not actually providing it. Moreover, these words completely eliminated Lin Yunfeng's previous suggestion of letting all JieDan stage experts watch the show.

Until now, every JieDan expert was looking hopefully at Yang Chen, because of Lin Yunfeng's proposal, but after Yang Chen declared this, everyone with an insufficient cultivation could not approach. So from the start, there was no opportunity. Who could still blame Yang Chen for not giving them an opportunity?

Although it was reasonable, the color on every hall master's face changed. According to Yang Chen's words, they would not have the opportunity to go close and could only sense it from far away.

"If a few hall masters want to watch, the elders can cooperatively protect them."

Immediately after Yang Chen had spoken, several JieDan experts looked at the Palace Master with hopeful gazes.

Excitement could be seen in everyone's eyes. They hadn't thought of this, but after Yang Chen's warning, all of them began to think about this problem. Apparently, the few YuanYing stage elders in front of them, protecting them would still be problematic. Even without adding Liang Shao Ming, these few people would be unable to save themselves.

In these kinds of circumstances, it was impossible for Lin Yunfeng to add more people because, for Liang Shao Ming to come, someone had to go out and every one of them had the same status, so why would someone give up their seat for Liang Shao Ming, who was being punished?

"So then, only the elders in addition to everyone present here."

Lin Yunfeng could only concede that Liang Shao Ming didn't have good fortune. But he still attacked another person: Since his disciple didn't have such good fortune, their's shouldn't, also.

"Since Gao Yue is also not a hall master, shouldn't she be excluded with them?"

While saying this, Lin Yunfeng hadn't looked at Gao Yue, but rather Yang Chen, as if waiting to see what Yang Chen would do if Gao Yue did not get this opportunity.

"Naturally!"

Yang Chen conceded, without caring in the least:

"Elders, you just need to concern yourselves with these few uncle masters. This disciple will handle his master's matters."

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Chapter 163 – Attending The Yin Fire Tribulation

Because there was absolutely no other opportunity, Lin Yunfeng fought for his face one last time, but other than feeling vexed, he didn't feel anything.

The old tree demon was addressed as 'senior' by the group of people headed by the Palace Master. That old man, whether in terms of age or cultivation, was their senior.

Finally, after the discussion between these few people, the Palace Master, acting as a master receiving disciples, accepted the old tree demon into the Pure Yang Palace and the old tree demon became one of the few top-most cultivators in the Pure Yang Palace. Simultaneously, he also became the hall master of the Eccentrics Hall.

She Kui and Xie Sha didn't have any objection to this. They never knew anything about power struggles and the cultivation of that old tree demon was very formidable, so both of them accepted that he became the hall master.

All of the elders began to prepare to defend as many peak JieDan experts as possible at the time of the ritual, so that as many people could attend this incomparable encounter as possible. Yang Chen, together with Gao Yue returned to her courtyard, concerned about her injury.

"Currently, I don't feel anything wrong."

Facing Yang Chen's care, Gao Yue's face had turned a little red and then she replied with confidence:

"Not just that, my spiritual power cultivation has also increased by a lot."

After saying that, Gao Yue looked at Yang Chen with a face full of worry and asked:

"Your spiritual power cultivation has greatly decreased, is there anything to worry about?"

"No, it will be back to normal in a few days."

Yang Chen said that with an indifferent expression. He definitely would not let Gao Yue feel guilty about this.

"This time, you have greatly offended Elder Lin and the people of the Luminous Moon Hall!"

Gao Yue anxiously continued, but she immediately patted Yang Chen's shoulder:

"But they were also trying to take advantage of you, so you do not need to mind them. If this sort of matter happens again in the future, directly go and find master. Master will definitely get you out of any predicament!"

This lineage of Wang Yong, Gao Yue and Yang Chen, didn't have any other people they could rely on, so they had to take care of it themselves. This time, it clearly were the people of the Luminous Moon Hall who had made the first provocation, but Yang Chen returned it with a ruthless slap.

"Furthermore, you said that I will be your responsibility."

After Gao Yue said this, her gaze turned to Yang Chen again:

"Don't tell me you have some method to defend me from the influence of the tribulation?"

"Be at ease, disciple will take care of that!"

Yang Chen patted his chest and guaranteed:

"I guarantee to get you front row seats!"

If other people had said this, Gao Yue may not have believed it, but after Yang Chen had opened his mouth, Gao Yue was completely convinced. After such a long time, Gao Yue had a blind trust towards Yang Chen. Especially after he had healed her through the pair cultivation for spiritual awareness, this confidence had become even deeper.

Naturally Yang Chen was not just talking big, he directly returned to the old tree demon and began to help him in finding a suitable location. This location had to be at the MeiQing Mountain, furthermore, if he failed, there shouldn't be any damage to the Pure Yang Palace. But the possibility of failure was extremely low: the old tree demon had suppressed the tribulation several times now and with the Body Dividing Secrets, he absolutely could not fail.

This location should also be beneficial for the disciples of the Pure Yang Palace: the spirit power would greatly fluctuate during this tribulation, so the location had to be chosen such that a majority of people could sense it.

But this matter was for the Palace Master and them to think about. Yang Chen did not need to care much about it. He just had to come at a certain time and take the best seats.

Regardless of anything, Yang Chen was convinced that there would be no better place for the ritual than where the old tree demon's main body was. But the only people who could be present near his main body while he was going through his tribulation would the ones whom he trusted with his life, otherwise the old tree demon would definitely not agree.

But the strange thing was that the old tree demon readily agreed to Yang Chen's request. Nobody knew why he had so much confidence in Yang Chen, or if he thought that an initial Foundation stage and an initial JieDan stage cultivators could not be a threat to him. In any case, that old tree demon agreed without any hesitation.

Within less than a day, the entire Pure Yang Palace became aware of this news. Everyone within the range of the MeiQing Mountain was looking forward to it in high spirits.

Unfortunately, the time of that old tree demon's tribulation was very soon and was going to begin just the next day, otherwise, if they could notify their friends and relatives, even if they could not look at it personally and could just sense the fluctuations in the heavens' and earth's spirit power, it would be greatly beneficial for them.

The region was properly chosen: it was a place between the Nine Earth Manor and the Pure Yang Palace, slightly closer to the Pure Yang Palace. This place was found to be the most suitable region after careful calculation, so the old tree demon also didn't have any objections to it.

The group, including the Palace Master hadn't discovered that only an incarnation of the old tree demon was present with them and not the main body. She Kui and Xie Sha knew this fact, but they didn't say anything and only followed the group of the Palace Master and the elders who were arranging the defensive spell formations. They were greatly astonished after experiencing the spell formation and at the same time also silently learnt it.

It took a whole day for the Palace Master and the elders to arrange the defensive spell formations, but all of them were very happy. This kind of opportunity did not come every day.

Last time, Yang Chen had allowed people of the Clear Sky Sect to witness the tribulation of elder Hua Wanting, but he had worried that he could not get such an opportunity for the Palace Master and the elders. The arrival of the old tree demon was just like a shipment of charcoal in the deepest winter and had satisfied Yang Chen's small wish.

Everyone was nervously waiting for the tribulation to begin. The elders had already prepared everything properly and all of the hall masters were protected within the spell formation and they were also the last line of protection and at the same time they had also prepared to sense everything at close range.

Under the eyes of the entire MeiQing Mountain, the old tree demon triggered his Yin Fire tribulation. Strictly speaking, his incarnation triggered the Yin Fire tribulation.

An imaginary fire began to burn from the second body of the old tree demon. Soon afterwards it penetrated into the mud and the entire body of the old tree demon seemed to be shrouded within imaginary fire. His entire person seemed to have turned into a human shaped torch, burning brightly.

The old tree demon again and again tried to push down the Yin Fire, but the Yin Fire continued to burn his body. The formidable spirit power triggered the energy of heaven and earth to fluctuate, which could be sensed throughout the entire MeiQing mountain.

Even at a distance the sensation was the same, but the few YuanYing stage experts had turned pale with fright. This kind of formless and shapeless Yin Fire was the final roadblock on their path towards the Da Cheng stage. Just looking at this kind of strength, if this Yin Fire really reached their bodies, how would they handle it?

That old tree demon's resistance was extremely great: after suppressing the Yin Fire for the ninety second time, all of the Yin Fire flames attached to his body completely vanished. Soon afterwards, an extremely formidable pressure, which made everyone unable to look at him directly, began to slowly burst out from his body.

The energy of heaven and earth seemed to have lost control and the old tree demon's body seemed to be an enormous whirlpool which frantically emptied all of the spirit power in a radius of several hundred miles.

The divided body of the old tree demon was floating in the air in front of everyone and began to complete the final transformation of reaching the Da Cheng stage. The frightening spirit power submerged his body like a wave and the Yin Fire from a moment ago had cleaned all of the impurities in his body completely. At this moment, after being rinsed by the spirit power, the old tree demon had broken through the YuanYing stage and entered the realm of the Da Cheng stage flawlessly.

Under everyone's gazes, the old tree demon's body rose into the air and countless rays of life started to emerge from his body and, like goose feathers, snow began to fall to the ground, covering almost the entire MeiQing mountain and then it disappeared.

Soon afterwards, in the regions where the light rays had fallen, young cassia saplings emerged from the ground and began to grow quickly under the nourishment of the spirit power, becoming fist thick in a short time.

By now, the entire MeiQing Mountain was completely below the shadow of cassia trees, so that the young saplings in Yang Chen's backyard were nothing out of the ordinary, submerged among countless cassia trees. Apart from Yang Chen and Gao Yue, nobody else knew the location of the Cassia Tree Demon's main body.

The defensive spell formations arranged by the elders effectively resisted the dispersed spirit power from the Yin Fire and also allowed all of the hall masters to observe this grand occasion.

This was the first Da Cheng expert in the Pure Yang Palace in several hundred years and this was moreover also everyone's first time personally witnessing the birth of a Da Cheng stage expert. This implied that the Pure Yang Palace would get even more formidable from now on and the sect's strength would increase even more.

The group of elders and hall masters were unable to control their excitement and were regretting being unable to enter seclusion immediately. But a Da Cheng stage expert had just been born and he was also the hall master of their eccentrics hall, how could they forget their manners? Therefore, after the spell formations were removed, the first thing everyone did was to congratulate the old tree demon.

Near the old tree demon's main body, Yang Chen and Gao Yue were very scared, seeing the old tree demon extinguish the Yin Fire ninety two times and complete the tribulation.

Compared to outside, it was much less intense at the location of the old tree demon's real body. Only a faint flame would burn and be suppressed, but Yang Chen knew that this small flame contained at least ninety percent of the Yin Fire Tribulation's might. Even if it just seemed like ten percent to the outside.

With such a close distance, Gao Yue could also sense the frightfulness of the Yin Fire tribulation and, looking at it tensely, she clenched her fist and her face lost color in her nervousness.

Those people who hadn't gone through a tribulation could not sense the frightfulness of that small Yin Fire, but they would still be intimidated, like Gao Yue, who was thinking how she would handle it if this frightening power came onto her body at this moment?

"Master!"

Yang Chen promptly caught the anomaly within Gao Yue and immediately grabbed her sweaty hand:

"Attending this ritual is to increase your knowledge, not to strike at your confidence!"

As soon as she felt the warmth from Yang Chen grabbing her hand, Gao Yue was quickly roused from her depression and she seamlessly struggled free from his hand, immediately recovered her senses.

"You are just at the initial JieDan stage right now, the Yin Fire tribulation is indeed slightly frightening for you right now, but believe me master!"

Yang Chen had fixed his gaze onto Gao Yue's eyes, making her gaze back into his eyes:

"All of these heavenly tribulations will not be a barrier to you!"

Yang Chen's words touched the sore point in her heart. Indeed, the ritual was just to increase her knowledge and not to strike at her confidence. Moreover, Gao Yue had such blind trust towards Yang Chen that, as long as Yang Chen said that she could, she would immediately feel the same way.

While, with Yang Chen, Gao Yue's mood had quickly changed, over at the old tree demon, who had completed his Yin Fire tribulation, he began to rapidly absorb spirit power. Yang Chen and Gao Yue, who were the closest to his main body, had naturally clearly experienced this entire process.

"Congratulations! Congratulations!"

Yang Chen cupped his hands and congratulated the main body of the old tree demon. Gao Yue also followed suit.

Next, in a grand ceremony, the Pure Yang Palace declared the old tree demon to be the hall master of the Eccentrics Hall and at the same time, with absolute certainty, also declared that the Pure Yang Palace had a Da Cheng stage expert.

Many envoys from friendly sects dropped in congratulate them and the sect was once again busy with receiving visitors and other trifling matters. The Pure Yang Palace had once more become the focus point, giving rise to the attention of countless sects and cultivators.

Only, none of this was related to Yang Chen. In fact, after the end of the ritual, the group of people who had witnessed the tribulation entered a short seclusion to comprehend everything. Gao Yue was no exception and Yang Chen had also entered seclusion to inspect his body.

From the time he had went to save his master, he had been very busy and did not even have the time examine his body, but now that everything was finished, he could properly examine all of the transformations which had happened in his body.

Although he was able to save Gao Yue using the Great Profound Heart Sutra, the price he had to pay was extremely high. His spiritual awareness had fallen from the initial YuanYing stage to the peak JieDan stage, by an entire realm. Even the area of his spirit sea had decreased greatly.

But despite this, Yang Chen discovered that, after passing through the pair cultivation, the framework of his spirit sea had become even more stable. Also, the decrease in spiritual awareness was not like it had disappeared, instead it was more like the spiritual sea had been forcefully compressed and the spiritual awareness had been compressed.

Discovering this, Yang Chen immediately became delighted. He would not have even blinked even if he had to use his entire spiritual awareness to save Gao Yue, but he had surprisingly discovered that his condition was not as bad as he had estimated, so naturally he had become very cheerful.

During the practice of the Three Purities Secrets, Yang Chen quickly discovered something different. Compared to before, cultivating the Three Purities Secrets had become even more smooth and easy.

Originally, he had already reached the third layer of the Three Purities Secrets, but cultivating it every time, it was somewhat difficult. But at that moment it had become very smooth. There were almost no obstructions, and since the area had decreased, the circulation had also become much easier.

After spending several days, Yang Chen had finally inspected his body completely. Apart from his spiritual awareness and his spirit sea, there was no remarkable change in any other parts.

By the next day, his spiritual awareness had once again reached the bottleneck. People still continued to visit the Pure Yang Palace, but this did not have any relation with him, so Yang Chen returned to the Nine Earth Manor to continue with his duty as the Merit Transferring Disciple.

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Chapter 164 – First Appearance Of The Devil Cultivation Method

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Sorry for the recent unreliability, there have been quite a few RL events that have made life quite chaotic for me (Editor). We'll be back to our regular schedule soon!

Holding the Red Sun Metal Soul, Gao Yue began to refine the flying sword for Yang Chen again. Gao Yue had thought much about this flying sword and really wanted to complete it, at least in a few years.

With the Red Sun Metal Soul now, the main material of the flying sword was already complete and only some assisting materials remained, but this time, Yang Chen did not dare to let Gao Yue go out to seek the materials alone again, and called out to She Kui and Xie Sha, asking them to take out all of the materials they had obtained at the Hao Yi Manor and give them to Gao Yue to choose.

Despite already knowing that Yang Chen, She Kui and Xie Sha, together with Scarface and the old tree demon, had exterminated the Hao Yi Manor, upon seeing this many qiankun pouches being opened before their eyes, even the Palace Master and Wang Yong were alarmed.

Although the Greater Mountains lacked in spirit power, they were extremely enriched in natural resources. The Hao Yi Manor had been raking in materials for more than a thousand years now, so their collection of things almost couldn't be counted.

Everyone was stunned looking at all of these things, crammed inside of the Second Fierce Yang Courtyard and their heart were filled with shock. Even Wang Yong was doubtful that, had he been in Yang Chen's place at the Greater Mountains, he would have been able to bring down that immense manor just by himself.

So many materials! Even the entire Pure Yang Palace may not be able to produce them so easily. Not to mention the other things, there were at least ten materials at the grade of Red Sun Metal Soul and as for spirit stones, their numbers couldn't even be counted.

"This…..this….."

The Palace Master, who had already remained calm also began to stutter at this moment. His eyes began to glow passionately, as if someone, who had been hungry for more than ten days, had seen the food of a masterchef.

If it were not for the previous meeting regarding the Second Fierce Yang Courtyard, where it was declared that everything obtained by disciples would not have to be submitted to the sect, the Palace Master would have wished to immediately announce that all of these things would be confiscated.

Looking at this, Yang Chen shook his head repeatedly. Fortunately he had not taken out those things he had got from the master and the young master of the auction house, otherwise, wouldn't these people have gone crazy?

But in the end, these were just worldly possessions to people who had a high cultivation, the Palace Master also quickly pacified his wavering heart and turned his attention to Yang Chen.

"Yang Chen, can I consult you about something?"

The Palace Master asked in a pleasant manner. If people of other sects heard this, they would have surely joked that there was no difference between seniors and juniors in the Pure Yang Palace. The Palace Master was going as far as to show this much courtesy to an initial Foundation stage disciple, shouldn't he order him? Why did he still need to show this much courtesy?

But it would perhaps be very difficult for outsiders to comprehend the Palace Master's behaviour towards Yang Chen. Even, apart from the hall masters and elders, the ordinary disciples of Pure Yang Palace would not understand it. The reason was that, currently, even the Palace Master could not dare to say that his contribution to the Pure Yang Palace was higher than Yang Chen's.

Let alone the matters of getting face for the Pure Yang Palace, just finding the spirit vein of the Second Fierce Yang Courtyard, as well as enticing the two YuanYing stage and one Da Cheng stage experts of the Eccentrics Hall were sufficient to make the Palace Master treat Yang Chen favorably.

If his contribution of guiding the outer disciples was added in, it raised Yang Chen's status above all of the JieDan experts in the Palace Master's eyes. So, let alone using a consulting tone, if Yang Chen's cultivation wasn't very low, the Palace Master would have already offered the seat of an elder to him. Furthermore, even if Yang Chen became the Palace Master, replacing him, he would not mind.

"As Palace Master commands!"

At this moment, Yang Chen did not dare to trust the Palace Master's friendly tone very much and hastily replied.

"You see, all of these things here, you will not be able to use all of them completely in a short time."

The Palace Master happily continued:

"Can you allow our sect's disciple to purchase them for spirit stones, or perhaps exchange for some other suitable things? Furthermore, be relieved, the price will be same as the market value, so you will absolutely not suffer losses."

The request was not very excessive, Yang Chen had already talked about this with She Kui and Xie Sha. They hadn't taken out the real high quality products, so aside from the things needed for Yang Chen's flying sword, they had intended to sell these things, which they had carried from there. While returning from the Greater Mountains, they only concentrated on bringing as many things as they could.

So many things certainly could not be used by them entirely and originally they had intended to give them in return of favors. Naturally, they would not give them to anyone for free, spirit stones were a must, but the Palace Master had said that they would priced according to the market value, so he was not just asking them to do a favor.

"Among this, one portion is master's, two others belong to the senior's of the Eccentrics Hall."

Yang Chen happily replied:

"These things, are sold at very high rates in markets, but in reality, about eighty percent of the market price will be fine. After master has chosen, I will deliver everything to fellow apprentice Shangguan to help me in taking care of them. If anyone within sect wants them, they can get them at the Second Fierce Yang Hall at eighty percent of the market rate."

Although Shangguan Feng had reached the Foundation stage, his innate talent was limited and so his future accomplishments would also be limited. A person at Yang Chen's level could not waste his time with these things, therefore, he required someone who could handle these matters. Shangguan Feng had been the manager of the Ye Xiu Manor for several decades and had gotten very adept at dealing with these kind of situations.

When Yang Chen met with Shangguan Feng the last time, he had talked to him about things like this. Shangguan Feng was also aware of everything about himself and he knew that, with his aptitude, reaching the JieDan stage was the peak, but he actually liked handling these kinds of matters, so he readily agreed and patted his chest, guaranteeing that he would certainly deal with them properly.

These kinds of things were exactly what the Palace Master had been seeking. Why would he not agree. Even these things were only for the inner disciples of the sect, outer disciples and servants should not even think of using an external object and concentrate single mindedly on reaching the Foundation stage. Naturally, it would also be taken care of, that nobody could take advantage of these difference in prices and make a profit. Once someone was discovered doing that, everything in their possession would be confiscated and they would not be provided with anything anymore.

Obviously, some people were an exception: Gao Yue and Wang Yong could take anything they wanted, this was out of Yang Chen's respect for them. They were his master and great master, so others couldn't say anything.

After Gao Yue had picked sufficient material, she closely began to discuss with Wang Yong about how to refine a flying sword for Yang Chen. Shangguan Feng also became a big shopkeeper at the Second Fierce Yang Hall.

Very quickly, the Second Fierce Yang Hall became the point of talks in the Pure Yang Palace again. It was continuously bustling with people looking for Shangguan Feng all day. The number of people coming there was even higher compared to those going to the sect's store.

With all of these matters settled, Yang Chen wasn't worried anymore and put his mind to his duty as the Merit Transferring Disciple and, at the same time, began to prepare for the predestined event of the Long Tai Spirit Supporting Method's emergence.

If this world's developments hadn't changed, then, apparently, within the next few months, the Long Tai Spirit Supporting Method would emerge, and would spread across the entire world like wildfire.

After Yang Chen returned to the Nine Earth Manor, he carefully inspected, and gave pointers to each and everyone. On one side he checked how much the cultivation of the outer disciples and servants had grown, while on the other hand he earnestly reminded them that they should not cultivate a cultivation method of unknown origins. As for inner disciples, they would get their arrangements from the Palace Master.

Yang Chen had even suggested to the Palace Master to wait until the first signs of developments and then immediately publicly announce not to cultivate this cultivation method. This was not Yang Chen being very kind, but rather Yang Chen knowing that, even if the Pure Yang Palace made such an announcement, the majority of people would still not care to follow.

In his previous life, the Long Tai Spirit Supporting Method gave rise to attention of many people. The majority of people did not believe it at first and everyone adopted the strategy of waiting and watching. Especially the experts: especially those who had just entered a bottleneck, they would be ready to try any method to make the breakthrough.

Even the big sects were the same: as long as any big sect had more than a thousand inner disciples, they were bound to have a Method Researching Hall, which would do a study on every cultivation method, in order to perfect the older cultivation methods or perhaps create all new cultivation methods.

This was a very good system for improvement and innovation. No cultivation method was born perfect, instead it would become perfect over time, after passing through the amendments of different people.

These people looked for every method to promote the sect, so they would certainly not ignore this. Within every big sect, aside from those disciples at a bottleneck, the biggest loss would precisely of this cream. If it was not for them, Lin Cheng He would certainly not have been considered as the target, when in reality he had harmed the foundations of every big sect.

Very few people would indulge in this kind of research, but among these few victims there was no lack of YuanYing stage experts, as they didn't have anyone to guide them on their side. It was not like they did not understand that haste was waste, but unfortunately they had to cultivate to find out. Therefore, with the Pure Yang Palace issuing such a warning, it would certainly gain a good reputation after the event, and there would be no change to the event itself.

People loved to draw conclusions after the event and could only remember the gems of wisdom they had heard at that time and when such a moment came. The Pure Yang Palace's reputation would increase even more in all of the big sects.

"Really, there is such a troublesome cultivation method, where even researching it is out of the question?"

Although the Palace Master considered this very important, he also had the same thoughts. Even researching it was out of the question?

"No need to have such wishful thinking! Like the elder of the Clear Sky Sect who had not believed that the Blood Phantom Vine would break through the qiankun pouch."

Yang Chen used the matter of the Clear Sky Sect's elder to remind the Palace Master:

"In this matter, even a simple mistake should not be there. If the Palace Master does not want to lose any disciple of the sect, then the best is not to even look at this matter."

Yang Chen's words had a very profound impact on the Palace Master's mind, after such a serious warning, the Palace Master also knew good from bad. A matter which could even make Elder Wu afraid would naturally not be so simple. A ban was quickly introduced in the Pure Yang Palace and those who violated it would be evicted from the sect. Such a serious punishment was unprecedented in the sect.

Around this time, the rumors of the Long Tai Spirit Supporting Secrets had already started floating and some people had even tried to cultivate it. So when the Pure Yang Palace's prohibition news spread to the outside, many sects began to joke about it. Why was the Pure Yang Palace being so careful, as if it had eaten a bad medicine.

They were so intimidated of a minor cultivation method, even after getting a Da Cheng expert? What little courage.

Very soon, every kind of crazy words began to spread, thick and fast. Even with a grand Da Cheng stage expert overseeing them, the Pure Yang Palace had such little courage, why were they still acting like an immortal cultivating sect? They should go become a farmer somewhere!

Even many JieDan stage disciples and YuanYing stage expert objected to it. It was just a cultivation method, was it so serious as to call for an eviction from the sect? Apart from Yang Chen, Gao Yue, Wang Yong and now the Palace master, everyone thought this was going too far.

But this time, the Palace Master had become unshakable like a tortoise, not going back on his decision and using his authority as the Palace Master over the elders. Even if the elders broke this rule, they would be punished severely.

Regardless of whatever the outsiders were saying, the Pure Yang Palace had sealed itself, paying no more attention to them.

Yang Chen also seriously inspected and examined the cultivation of all the disciples at the Ye Xiu Manor and Nine Earth Manor and then after guiding them once, he became carefree.

Very soon, the calamity regarding the devil cultivation method would happen and Yang Chen would certainly not miss this opportunity. She Kui, Xie Sha and even that old tree demon, all began to refine their destined magic weapons under Yang Chen's guidance.

She Kui had four of his poisonous fangs, Xie Sha had the sting of his tail as well as big claws, while the old tree demon had chosen an extremely strong trunk and thick roots.

Although all three demon beasts had a strong cultivation, regarding the refining of tools, they were just children in front of Yang Chen. The demon race's tool refining methods were different from normal cultivators, so apart from obtaining pointers from Yang Chen, they would only get such an opportunity after ascending to the Spiritual World and obtaining guidance from their seniors.

The formidable cultivations of those three allowed them to obtain outstanding results and within the short time of half a year, their destined magic weapons had already formed their embryos. After all, this had to be refined, suiting them mentally and physically, so that their wasn't any rejection. Yang Chen on the contrary hadn't made any progress himself lately.

What Yang Chen wanted to refine was a second wood attributed flying sword, fitting with his Great Five Phases of Yin and Yang secrets, using the Blood Phantom Vine.

The Blood Phantom Vine had already absorbed the blood of someone who was about to become a Da Cheng stage expert at the Greater Mountains, it had absorbed the blood of countless people at the Hao Yi Manor, including both dao and devil cultivators. Being enriched with blood had allowed the Blood Phantom Vine to get the opportunity to become healthy and strong. This occasion was also the best opportunity for Yang Chen to refine his flying sword.

Naturally, with Yang Chen's current cultivation, the most he could refine was the sword embryo of the second wood flying sword.

According to Yang Chen's plan, after the arrival of the huge calamity of the devil cultivation method, this sword embryo had to be completed by the time the cultivators of the dao sects surrounded Lin Cheng He. This sword embryo would have an important use for Yang Chen.

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Chapter 165 – Spread Of The Devil Cultivation Method

19 Oct 2016

The main part of the vine in addition to the luxurious master root also included the main vine. This main part of the Blood Phantom Vine vine contained ninety percent of its strength, which would be used as the main material for the second wood flying sword.

If Yang Chen had not already spent so much time to subdue this Blood Phantom Vine just to obtain this master vine, getting it wouldn't have been so easy. Even after this, it would still take at least one month to completely take out this main vine.

After losing the master root and the master vine, the Blood Phantom Vine had lost all of its strength. Yang Chen spent two months on it and only then did it regain some vitality. But it was only a trace of liveliness and not the earlier formidable strength which, it could only obtain after absorbing the blood of a formidable expert.

The remaining work was just to refine the second wood flying sword. But the main part of the Blood Phantom Vine wasn't sufficient by itself and Yang Chen still had to add many other materials. Fortunately, this time his harvest at the Hao Yi Manor and the auction house of the Devil Flame Valley had been quite extensive: some assisting materials were of even higher quality than the main ingredients of most people's flying swords.

The consequence of having many high grade materials was the difficulty in refining: nobody could have it both ways in this world. Fortunately, Yang Chen had the Profound Spirit Furnace, moreover this Profound Spirit Furnace had already absorbed the Real Sun Fire, so it was capable of smelting a large majority of the metal ingredients, otherwise Yang Chen really wouldn't dare to have any thoughts of refining the sword embryo.

Another thing which made Yang Chen refine the second wood flying sword before all others was because, currently Yang Chen's second wood spirit power was basically the same as the Blood Phantom Vine's spirit power and thus had a common origin with the sword, so it would be quite easy to control and the difficulty of refining it would decrease by a lot.

Yang Chen's Immortal Beheading Blade was being warmed within the blood river in his spirit sea, which Yang Chen wanted to treat as his destined flying sword. Apart from upgrading the materials and the technique of refining it, the sword box could also receive the sword souls and increase its grade, in addition to that, the second wood flying sword was only one flying sword of the ten attributes of his Five Phases of Greater Yin and Yang.

Even creating the sword embryo was quite the laborious task. With Yang Chen's current cultivation, there was no other way but using all of his spirit power in every turn, according to the method required to make the sword embryo.

In reality, even if Yang Chen's cultivation had been high, he would still have to use a similar method. The reason was: the higher the grade of a flying sword, the firmer it should be under the control of its master. This method of using the entire spirit power in every turn raised this kind of coordination.

And what was different from his previous life was that, in this life, apart from normal methods, Yang Chen also had three cultivation methods which could make most people go green with envy. The Universal Treasure Raising Secrets, the Heavenly Stars Treasure Refining Secrets and the Earth Fiend Sacrificial Formation Secrets. Whichever one he would use, he could even make countless people of the Immortal World start drooling.

Apart from practicing his normal cultivation, he would first cultivate in accordance with the ordinary cultivation methods, then the Heavenly Stars Treasure Raising Secrets, after that the Earth Fiend Sacrificial Formation Secrets, and then the Universal Treasure Raising Secrets. This was Yang Chen's daily routine. Moreover, after completing this, he would also practice the Three Purities Secrets once. This would take up the entire day.

While Yang Chen was calmly and methodically preparing his sword embryo, the LongTai Spirit Supporting Method had already begun to spread in the cultivation world.

Nobody knew where this cultivation method had come from, but they knew that, within a night, this cultivation method had become famous everywhere. The ban of the Pure Yang Palace also played a role in this. Because of the Pure Yang Palace's ban, every big sect came to know of these Long Tai Spirit Supporting Secrets.

Many people also disapproved of the Pure Yang Palace being so frightened, which was only natural. The first ones to cultivate it were some rogue cultivators who started with the intention of testing it, since they didn't have to change their original cultivation method and it also increased their cultivation.

The Heavenly Meteor Heart Crystals could very soon be found everywhere in the cultivation world. This ore was essential for the cultivation of the Long Tai Spirit Supporting Secrets.

Using the Heavenly Meteor Heart Crystal, those people who had cultivated the Long Tai Spirit Supporting Secrets for the first time had gone wild with joy. It could remove all kinds of hearts devils and could even transform the hearts devil to increase the efficiency of one's cultivation, which bewitched everyone.

The Long Tai Spirit Supporting Secret, or perhaps the Son Cultivation Method of the Great Devil Mother Son cultivation method, was originally the cultivation method of the devil sects, but at that moment it was slightly decorated so the people couldn't see the truth. Compared with the dao sect's cultivation methods, it could transform all negative thoughts and increase one's confidence, thus it fascinated people even more than all of the cultivation methods of the dao path combined.

Nobody had ever heard of a method which could use their heart's devil or those unpleasant thoughts and even distracting thoughts and refine them into their cultivation before. By comparison, the methods of the dao sects, which required them to always keep their guard up, fell short of the Long Tai Spirit Supporting Secrets.

A cultivation method which could even convert distracting thoughts into cultivation, it was easy to imagine how attractive it would be. Under the Pure Yang Palace's ban, the efficiency of the cultivation method continued to be discussed in private.

Which cultivator didn't have some old friend or best friend? On the road of cultivation, over several hundreds of years time, who didn't have one or two people whom they would relax with? Who would want to spend their final years all alone? After seeing such a cultivation method, many people naturally thought of their best friends first.

If there was some kind of secret method, then people would cultivate it in secret, but this cultivation method has spread everywhere and wasn't limited to a few people. Moreover, those who did not let their friends take advantage were unworthy friends.

The more people started to cultivate it the larger the scale became and the cultivation method began to spread. Very quickly, everyone discovered another benefit of the Long Tai Spirit Supporting Secrets.

Some servants of a small sect discovered that, those who originally didn't have any prospects for cultivation, even those mediocre people who couldn't even sense qi, had unexpectedly broken through the first qi layer after cultivating the Long Tai Spirit Supporting Secrets and entered the ranks of cultivators.

Those servants of the small sect had cultivated it without permission and also had a pleasant discovery: that their cultivation had increased quickly, even compared to those official outer disciples of the sect. Those servants who had lowered their heads for many years unexpectedly had a chance to blow off their steam someday in the future! This disturbed the calmness of those outer disciples and created a fear that they would lag behind those servants and thus they also began to cultivate it.

This was the most fatal discovery. Who didn't know that these disciples who ensured that the sect would continue for the coming years. If, by cultivating this Long Tai Spirit Supporting Secrets, even the disciples with the worst aptitudes could enter the sect, would the sects still have have to worry about their reserve disciples not being enough? Wouldn't the sect strengthen further?

As for the devil sect's cultivation method: the easier they could be cultivated in the beginning, the more difficult they would get at higher level, but when their cultivation was bearing fruits like this, nobody paid any attention to such an important detail. Even if someone took note of it, they wouldn't be convinced. After all, it was such a majestic cultivation method, how could there be a devil sect's trick behind it?

Small sects and rogue cultivators. The crazy cultivation drive of the Long Tai Spirit Supporting Secrets began to spread and within half a year, the power of many low level qi layer cultivators had advanced by leaps and bounds and the pressure of removing the shame and disgrace provoked even more people in various regions to cultivate it.

This time, many people recalled the Pure Yang Palace's warning and did not dare to touch it as if facing a huge enemy. But when the cultivation of people around them began to rise crazily, they also couldn't help it.

Since there weren't any problems with the people cultivating this method, who would take the Pure Yang Palace's warning seriously? Even the small sects, including all of their disciples began to research these new Long Tai Spirit Supporting Secrets.

After a few JieDan experts had also joined in, it brought this mysterious cultivation method to the attention of genuine experts who had also entered the main forces of the cultivation world were holding all sorts of goals.

After a year, the effectiveness of this cultivation method was spread throughout the entire cultivation world. From most junior cultivators, who hadn't even sensed spirit power, to JieDan experts, everyone's cultivation had unexpectedly increased. What kind of expert had created this top notch cultivation method?

Experts who had participated were naturally different from those low level disciples. They cared about their original cultivation method even more. But after few months, they pleasantly discovered that this cultivation method not only didn't conflict with their original cultivation method, but moreover even complemented their efficiency.

The dao sect's cultivation methods required a lot at the time for cultivation. Although all of the JieDan experts had enough cultivation experience, in the end they were still people. They still hadn't entered the stage of having no desire and having no distracting thoughts, and these seemed to be the key strengths of the Long Tai Spirit Supporting Secrets.

Cultivating their own cultivation method in addition to the Long Tai Spirit Supporting Secrets could certainly increase their original cultivation. The Long Tai Spirit Supporting Secrets refined all kinds of hearts devils and disturbing thoughts and instead turned them into a tonic for the original cultivation method, which would lead to their original cultivation method improving greatly

Naturally the sensations which a JieDan stage expert had were completely different. After many of them had started cultivating this cultivation method, it gave rise to the attention of many big sects. Thereupon, to understand this cultivation method's characteristics, a few YuanYing stage cultivators also entered the ranks of the researchers.

Speaking truthfully, if it were not for a few reputed JieDan experts who were patting their chests and assuring the safety of this method, no YuanYing stage expert would be convinced of such a ridiculous cultivation method. How was it possible? After cultivating to this realm, who of them didn't know that haste meant waste, so how was it possible to have such an accelerated cultivation without any backlash?

But those JieDan experts who had cultivated it made a solemn vow, guaranteeing the efficiency. After that, a few YuanYing experts began to investigate the principle of this cultivation method. But they only investigated and did not start cultivating.

Although most people had joked at the Pure Yang Palace's warning, these big sects hadn't completely taken it as a joke. At least some people in them were still alert, especially after everyone found that this Long Tai Spirit Supporting Secrets had spread crazily through the entire cultivation world in the short time of half a year.

Those who had cultivated to the YuanYing stage were naturally not idiots: all of them were extremely careful. All were carefully, trying to comprehend the underlying principle of this cultivation method and had also carefully analysed the composition of the Heavenly Meteor Heart Crystal.

Of those who cultivated the Long Tai Spirit Supporting Secrets, none had shown any problems. The only difference that all of them had experienced was that their cultivation speed had become much quicker than usual. The result of cultivation was quite high compared to before. This was something which was quite rare and these YuanYing stage experts also desired to understand the underlying principle of the cultivation method and improve their sect's cultivation methods according to it.

It had to be said that the trick in the Long Tai Spirit Supporting Secrets, which refined all of the negative thoughts, was quite exquisite and also tempted the YuanYing stage experts. They pushed down this temptation and carefully pondered, hoping to discover the secrets within.

Very soon the experts discovered an important property of the Heavenly Meteor Heart Crystal. YuanYing stage experts of different sects, after some time, convinced ordinary cultivators to train, using one tenth of the Heavenly Meteor Heart Crystal and afterward try to cultivate their own improved cultivation methods.

As if confirming their assumption, everything during the cultivation went according to the guesses and calculation of the YuanYing stage experts.

That kind of sensation of seizing control over all affairs, increased their confidence and their sense of superiority, produced by successfully improving their older cultivation method, made all of the YuanYing stage experts lose themselves within this sensation.

In their eyes, they hadn't cultivated the Long Tai Spirit Supporting Secrets, but instead referred to some of its principle and had gained enlightenment for their own cultivation. This was something that all of the real experts did and it was clearly not such a shallow cultivation method that even newly entered disciples could train to increase their cultivation.

In fact, this was not simple. Even if they were YuanYing stage experts, just to research a cultivation method and improve it based on others, would take at least one year of their time. Moreover, that was also only if they didn't take a wrong path.

It could be said that nobody cherished the things which they had obtained easily, but if they had obtained them through extremely hard work, it was completely different. Although they had improved their own cultivation methods, it still required a bit of the Heavenly Meteor Heart Crystal, but it was already their own cultivation method, so regardless of whether it was their feeling of cultivation or the grade of the cultivation method, it was completely different from the low level Long Tai Spirit Supporting Secrets.

The consequence of these experts participating was that, every big sect began to pay attention to this cultivation method and had specifically sent experts responsible to fuse the sect's most core cultivation methods and then try to make it completely perfect.

Finally, at this stage, it had completely spread in the entire cultivation realm. Apart from the Pure Yang Palace, which had strictly prohibited its disciples from cultivating it, even all of the big sects like the Greatest Heaven Sect, the Clear Sky Sect and the Five Phases Sect were included.

Yang Chen had been paying close attention to the news of the outside world all along. Fortunately, the Clear Sky Sect's elder Hua Wanting had entered closed door training with her newly accepted disciple, Sun Hai Jing, immediately after Yang Chen had left and still hadn't come out, so they didn't have an opportunity to come in contact with this pernicious cultivation method.

After three years of waiting, Yang Chen's Blood Phantom Vine flying sword's embryo had finally begun to take shape, day by day and gradually had the shape of a flying sword.

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Chapter 166 – Grand Disciple Will Settle Great Master's Bottleneck

22 Oct 2016

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The entire Second Wood flying sword's body was the same color as the Blood Phantom Vine and it was also long. Although it was a little flexible, it was extremely tough. The master root had turned into the sword hilt and the master vine had turned into the sword blade.

It was a long sword blade, around six feet long, but one of its edges was the edge of a blade. From this it could be seen that this second wood flying sword was more of a saber than a sword. Even the edge of the saber was formed after the deformation of the Blood Phantom Vine's master vine. Apart from possessing all of the abilities of the flying sword, this second wood flying sword also possessed the crazy strength of the Blood Phantom Vine.

Naturally, such a sword embryo was perfectly suited for Yang Chen, a reincarnated Great Principle Golden Immortal.

Every day he would refine the sword embryo and cultivate. After his Foundation stage had perfectly stabilized, all ten attributes of spirit power in Yang Chen's body simultaneously increased by one level and reached the second layer of the Foundation stage.

He had also cultivated to the fifth layer of the Heavenly Stars Treasure Refining Secrets and the seventh layer of the Earth Fiend Sacrificial Formation Secrets. Yang Chen used the Heaven Measuring Ruler from the beginning to carefully determine the effect of these formidable cultivation methods.

The Heaven Measuring Ruler had also undergone large changes after coming into Yang Chen's hands. Originally, it hadn't been properly cared for, but after being nourished by the Universal Treasure Raising Secrets, it no longer had that ruined appearance and instead changed to a brand new appearance, as if it had barely been refined.

Yang Chen hadn't refined the Heaven Measuring Ruler using the Heavenly Stars Treasure Refining Secrets and Earth Fiend Sacrificial Formation Secrets. He hadn't even imprinted a trace of his spiritual awareness on it, since this Heaven Measuring Ruler was to be used to help his friends to know once to make a breakthrough, so there was no sense in marking it and making it exclusive to himself.

The marks on the Heaven Measuring Ruler were used for measuring. One mark was roughly equal to the strength of spirit power in an initial Foundation stage expert. According to common sense, Yang Chen was only at the initial Foundation stage, even if all ten attributes in his body were at the Foundation stage, but it should still be considered as approximately ten marks, yet the reality was different.

A spirit power strength of thirty nine marks. This was the result of Yang Chen's spirit power on the Heaven Measuring Ruler. Shangguan Feng, standing at Yang Chen's side, only had a trifling three marks. Wang Yong was still slightly better than Shangguan Feng at four marks, while Du Qian could be said to be a lot better, with as much as seventy four marks, signifying that he had already reached the late Foundation stage.

At the same time, everyone's spirit power strength was accurately measured and it made all of them astonished. All three of them were at the initial Foundation stage, even Shangguan Feng and Wang Yuan who had reached the Foundation stage long ago, yet there was only a slight increase in their spirit power. What did Yang Chen use so that, even when all of them were at the nearly the same level, they had such vastly different strengths?

This was still the data before Yang Chen's strength had increased. After he reached the second layer of the Foundation stage and his cultivation of the Heavenly Stars Treasure Refining Secrets had reached the fifth layer and his cultivation of the Earth Fiend Sacrificial Formation Secrets had reached the seventh layer, the ruler showed his strength to be at an astonishing sixty eight marks. Using two types of cultivation methods to increase the spirit power was indeed terrifying. Yang Chen didn't even dare to reveal this to others.

Gao Yue was similar: her results were completely according to everyone's expectations, at one hundred and ten marks at the initial JieDan stage, after recovering completely. If speaking simply in terms of strength of the spirit power, a common initial JieDan expert was at one hundred marks. Gao Yue had also barely crossed this number and didn't seem very exceptional.

Looking at this data, Yang Chen' determination to convince Gao Yue to cultivate a Water attributed cultivation method became even stronger. This calamity of the devil cultivation method was a good opportunity, but it would depend on what tricks Yang Chen would use.

When Gao Yue had learned the use of the Heaven Measuring Ruler from Yang Chen, she disapproved of it. A ruler which could measure the strength of spirit power wasn't something to make a fuss about. Yang Chen had surprisingly spent one catty of high grade spirit stones to buy it? He really had become a wastrel.

But when Yang Chen properly explained the genuine use of the Heaven Measuring Ruler to Gao Yue, her eyes turned big, unable to hide her shock.

Who could have thought that such a simple item, which could only be used to measure the strength of spirit power, was surprisingly so useful? This item had clearly been at the auction house for quite a long time and people must have known that it could measure spirit power strength, but nobody had purchased it. It clearly showed that nobody had been able to think that the Heaven Measuring Ruler could also be used like this.

"Let's go find master, he seems to be having some trouble lately."

After knowing the real use of the Heaven Measuring Ruler, Gao Yue couldn't remain sitting and immediately led Yang Chen to find her master.

Previously Wang Yong's cultivation had advanced by leaps and bounds, but he had currently entered the bottleneck stage. Despite possessing the formidable stimulus of the Heaven Seizing Pill, he hadn't been able to make the breakthrough. Especially after looking at the tribulation of the old tree demon, the pressure on him had increased even more, so he was currently the most suitable person to use the Heaven Seizing Ruler.

Since Yang Chen hadn't intended to keep it for himself from the start, he did not hesitate to go to see his great master with Gao Yue. Once he heard the use of the Heaven Measuring Ruler, Wang Yong was extremely delighted.

He was at the bottleneck of the peak YuanYing stage, but after entering the bottleneck, he hadn't been able to sense any increase in his cultivation. With this Heaven Measuring Ruler, Wang Yong firmly believed that he would certainly not remain trapped in this bottleneck stage and would surely make the breakthrough with complete confidence.

After learning the use of the Heaven Measuring Ruler, Wang Yong immediately used it to determine his cultivation. Eleven thousand marks. This strength was already past someone who had just entered the Da Cheng stage. Naturally, all of these numbers were only a reference. Aside from the spirit power, nothing else was measured or explained.

But Wang Yong became filled with confidence. Especially after he discovered that his spirit power had already crossed the average threshold for the Da Cheng stage.

"Great master, perhaps your intense desire to make the breakthrough has instead created some obstructions. It would be better if you don't hurry and relax a little bit."

Yang Chen immediately began to entice Wang Yong:

"Perhaps you should refine a destined magic weapon?"

The Pure Yang Palace wasn't a big sect, so it didn't have many genuine magic weapons for high level experts. Although Wang Yong had entered the peak YuanYing stage from the late YuanYing stage with Yang Chen's assistance, he still didn't have a genuine destined magic weapon.

In his previous life, Wang Yong hadn't even been able to enter the Da Cheng stage and remained in the YuanYing stage because of his hesitation and had died with regrets. Since he was always busy with cultivation, where would he have the time to refine a mere worldly possession like the Heaven Measuring Ruler?

But it was different now. With Yang Chen's assistance, entering the Da Cheng stage was no longer a dream for Wang Yong. Even ascending to the Spiritual World was also no longer a far fetched dream. That time, a destined magic weapon could reflect the presence of an expert who had made a breakthrough.

"A destined magic weapon!"

Wang Yong bitterly laughed, while shaking his head:

"Right now, I don't have any good materials to refine!"

"Great master, this disciple has some materials and requests great master to take a look."

Hearing Wang Yong's words, Yang Chen replied with a chuckle.

"What is this?"

Looking at the pointed conical horn, both Gao Yue and Wang Yong became doubtful. It was the horn of some unknown beast, furthermore it was water attributed. What kind of use would it have for a fire attributed Wang Yong?

It was not like Wang Yong hadn't thought of making a magic weapon, but on one hand he had put all of his mind to cultivating and on the other, the materials were not sufficient. Even the materials Yang Chen had obtained from the Hao Yi Manor couldn't enter the eyes of a person at Wang Yong's grade. Rather than using third grade materials to make a third grade magic weapon, it would be better to use this time for cultivation.

Yang Chen had already known Wang Yong's thoughts, therefore he hadn't taken out the qilin's horn before. In the previous years, because of his increased confidence, Wang Yong's cultivation had increased by leaps and bounds, so bothering him with these things was clearly not suitable.

Finally, today, when Wang Yong had already reached the peak YuanYing stage's bottleneck, it made for the perfect opportunity: Since he had been painstakingly delving into cultivation, it had instead created a pressure on him because of his impatience to break through, and his cultivation hadn't moved forward; so relinquishing the thought of breaking through and refining a good destined magic weapon with all of his mind would disperse that pressure on him.

The Qilin's horn appeared to be ninth water attributed, since it had been scrubbed by ninth water for countless years, but the true attribute of the Qilin's horn was actually fire, perfectly suitable for Wang Yong.

"If I haven't identified this wrong, this should be a Fire Qilin's horn."

Yang Chen replied with a gentle laugh:

"It had been stuck at some place for tens of thousands of years and was scrubbed by a powerful ninth water attributed river and has thus taken on the ninth water attribute and this shape."

Bang!

When Yang Chen introduced the Qilin's horn and its circumstances in detail, Wang Yong and Gao Yue had already lost their minds because of the astonishment.

A Flame Qilin's horn? It was an item, which could only be found by luck and not by searching… How could it be in the hands of Yang Chen? Like all of the other times, how could he casually take out such terrifying things?

This was genuine treasure, but what both of them were wondering was how Yang Chen's luck was so heaven defying that, even under those kinds of circumstances, where he had gone to assist his master and take revenge for her, he had found such a treasure!

A flying sword made of a fire attributed qilin's horn in which the fire attribute was hidden beneath the water attribute… What kind of obstacle couldn't it conquer? Water and fire not encroaching on each other… As long as this could successfully be refined, it would certainly be a terrible surprise for his enemies!

When taking the Qilin's horn, Wang Yong's hands began to shake. Suddenly he had a thought: what kind of great luck did he have to receive such a great grand disciple like Yang Chen?

Apparently Wang Yong still hadn't discovered that his present cultivation was completely moving according to Yang Chen's plan. But this was not important. The important thing was that Wang Yong knew that he had received the assistance of the Heaven Measuring Ruler at the time of making a breakthrough and moreover had received a Qilin's horn to refine a destined flying sword. This was enough for Yang Chen.

The Qilin's horn required some special method to refine, but in front of Yang Chen's extensive knowledge, this was not a great problem. Wang Yong's ambitions had also begun to rise. He wanted to use this horn polished by nature and refine the most powerful destined flying sword in the Pure Yang Palace.

Because his cultivation had been stagnating, Wang Yong had become quite depressed, but now, Yang Chen had proved that, as long as he had the confidence, he could overcome every kind of heart's devil.

Naturally, this was not some blind confidence, but confidence born from his heart, which could be relied upon. Wang Yong's current confidence was precisely aroused by the Heaven Measuring Ruler and the Qilin's horn.

Because of the participation of the big sects, the problem of Long Tai Spirit Supporting Secrets had become much more critical. During this time, Yang Chen and the Pure Yang Palace had been watching from the sidelines, without any intention to participate.

But Yang Chen's confidence didn't have much of an influence on other people of the Pure Yang Palace. Since they had found out that other big sects had also participated, some elders strongly suggested to the Palace Master that the Pure Yang Palace must also not lag behind, that they should at least bring in the Long Tai Spirit Supporting Secrets and take a look.

In the beginning the Palace Master was completely on Yang Chen's side and had strictly prohibited the disciples of the Pure Yang Palace from cultivating it, otherwise they would be expelled, but as the issue got more and more intense, the Palace Master was also slowly becoming unable to resist the pressure.

The elders also wanted to research it under the pretense of thinking about the sect. After all, since the other sects were researching it, if only their little sect remained aloof, then wouldn't they lag behind others? Moreover, they could simply not allow common disciples to come in contact with it, but what was the harm in letting the YuanYing stage experts research it?

Without anything in his support, the Palace Master could only go over and consult with Yang Chen, after all, the matter was raised by Yang Chen and the warning was also given by him, so he probably should consult with Yang Chen about the issue.

But how could Yang Chen agree? Even losing common disciples was very unfortunate, so about losing YuanYing stage experts? Did those big sects think that the main problem was the Long Tai Spirit Supporting Method? The crucial point was the Heavenly Meteor Heart Crystal! As long as they used even a little, they would be invaded by the heart's devil and at that time, they wouldn't have the freedom to act independently.

"Our sect has already delayed the research for so long compared to other sects, so what's the harm in delaying it a little more?"

Yang Chen knew that there would inevitably be someone who would get impatient. Seeing the cultivation of the people in their surroundings rising leaps and bounds, these YuanYing stage experts were also feeling the pressure.

"Then how long should we delay it?"

The Palace Master had been under a lot of pressure and nodded approvingly towards Yang Chen's method.

"Two more years!"

Yang Chen replied with certainty:

"In any case, we are already late, so one or two years won't make much of a difference. After two years, if those sects don't have any problems then the elders of our sect can also start researching, but if they have any accidents, we will be saved from it."

This was a good method which would satisfy everyone. The years on the path of cultivation were long, even more so for YuanYing stage expert. Since they had waited for the past three years, they would also not be that anxious.

The impatient elders agreed to the proposal after some consultation. After all, this method had appeared very recently and had attracted everyone, but nobody knew where it had come from. So, first taking a look at how the other people were cultivating would be better.

Apart from Yang Chen, nobody knew at the moment that there was no need to wait for two years. After just one year, Lin Chenghe would appear, revealing the true character of the devil cultivation method.

Only, the consequence of this would be that everyone who had cultivated the Long Tai Spirit Supporting Method or who had used it as a reference and taken the Heavenly Meteor Heart Crystal, no matter how high or low their cultivation was, would all become handicapped.

And the cultivation of all these people would become the tonic for the devil Lin Chenghe, whose cultivation would directly rise to the Da Cheng stage.

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Chapter 167 – And The Pure Yang Palace Had Been Mocked

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Among appreciation and criticism, the Long Tai Spirit Supporting Method continued to spread for another entire year. Within this year, countless people were able to take their revenge with their increased cultivation, which also helped spreading the Long Tai Spirit Supporting Secrets.

Meanwhile, the dispute between the cultivators of both paths had never stopped. One day the disciple of a dao sect discovered a deeply hidden devil cultivator and chased him to kill him.

That devil cultivator had concealed himself quite deeply: he had been an officer within some city and acted like normal people on an ordinary day. If it were not that this dao cultivator had accidentally discovered that there was a large amount of Heavenly Meteor Heart Crystal stored there, he would have been deceived by him.

A petty official among the normal people having such a great number of Heavenly Meteor Heart Crystals, which could only be used by cultivators was completely abnormal. That dao cultivator was just about to investigate this matter thoroughly when the devil cultivator, knowing that he couldn't back out, took the initiative to attack him first.

The devil cultivator's cultivation was very low, so he was defeated by the dao cultivator very quickly, but the most astonishing thing was that the devil cultivator used some kind of trick and within a short amount of time, his cultivation surprisingly rose greatly. Seeing that things were far from reassuring, the dao cultivator hastily ran away and finally escaped with his life.

Since everything was already exposed, regardless of any worries, the devil cultivator began to increase his cultivation crazily. By the time when the dao cultivator had returned with several others to eliminate him, he was astonished to discover that, within the period of a few days, that devil cultivator's cultivation had risen from the Foundation stage to the JieDan stage and was still rising.

While the devil cultivator's cultivation was rising, those qi layer and foundation stage cultivators who had cultivated the Long Tai Spirit Supporting Secrets on the other hand, suddenly discovered that in one night, their entire strength had disappeared completely, without rising in the least. Not only this, but their dantians were also more or less destroyed.

This thing happened with a countless numbers of people, reaching over ten thousand. This disaster made everyone who had previously cultivated the Long Tai Spirit Supporting Secrets experience hell.

After everyone discovered that something was not right, the matter was taken to experts who came to the conclusion that this devil cultivator was using some kind of special method to steal everyone's cultivation base – and the special method was precisely the Long Tai Spirit Supporting Secrets and the Heavenly Meteor Heart Crystals.

After seeing the situation of the qi layer and Foundation stage cultivators who cultivated the Long Tai Spirit Supporting Secrets, even those JieDan stage experts who had cultivated it began to get panicky.

Currently, their cultivation base was still safe, but one thing was clear: if the enemy wanted to seize their cultivation, they wouldn't be able to do anything.

The devil cultivator had disappeared into thin air, nobody knew his real identity, only that he was a small government official named Lin Chenghe in the world of mortals. Under the joint search from everyone, Lin Chenghe had hidden himself, but the calamity hadn't been resolved, instead it had just begun.

After a period of one month, the JieDan experts also began to suffer from the effects. Since their cultivation was even higher, the time it took to lose their cultivation was even longer.

What was more terrifying was that they didn't lose their cultivation all at once, and instead lost a small amount every day, as if Lin Chenghe had eaten his fill of the day and couldn't digest any more, so he was waiting for tomorrow to absorb some part again.

The reality was very much like this. Every day the absorbed cultivation needed sufficient time to be refined, but this refining was many times faster compared to ordinary cultivators.

But those JieDan expert who had already fallen into the trap could only helplessly stare at their cultivation being stolen, day by day. What could be more tormenting than losing all of their cultivation and becoming a cripple? This process continued every day, but it could not be stopped. This kind of immense torment even made many psychologically weak JieDan experts commit suicide.

These experts, had reached the JieDan stage after a long time of training and had been accustomed to living a comfortable life. How could they endure being the same as ordinary humans again?

Not everyone was like Sun Qingxue, who had been very fierce and completely determined in the previous life and had risen so abruptly after her cultivation was destroyed. The loss of their cultivation was very painful for the great majority of people and could make them mentally collapse, unable to rise again.

After just two months of the JieDan experts, it was time for the YuanYing stage experts. The YuanYing stage experts were usually very cautious and had only used the Long Tai Spirit Supporting Secrets to improve their own cultivation methods, so they believed there wouldn't be much of a problem, but when their cultivation also began to vanish gradually, it gave rise to a great panic.

At least ten YuanYing stage experts had been participating in this, moreover these people were the main supports of their respective sects and schools. Moreover the existence of YuanYing stage experts was the main strength of any sect. But during the calamity caused by Lin Chenghe, these main pillars of support suffered a devastating damage.

Up until now, this whole matter came to be known as the 'great calamity of the devil cultivation' among all of the dao sects, since it had given a huge jolt to the entire cultivation world.

More than ninety percent of dao sects began to panic and madly unleashed their manpower, sparing no efforts to find the devil Lin Chenghe.

But Ling Chenghe seemed to have disappeared completely. Apart from the fact that experts were still losing their cultivation slowly, which proved that he was still hidden at some secret location, Lin Chenghe left no trail.

Those ten YuanYing experts asked the group of experts within their sects to think of anything to save their cultivation and then slowly began to sink into a depression as their cultivation kept on declining. Regardless of what pill they took, or whatever kind of method they used, it was of no use.

People of those sects also could only watch the main support of their sect with helplessly. Seeing those experts like this, nobody could imagine how they could have been so excited when they cultivated this cultivation method.

It was said that even two Da Cheng stage experts had participated with those ten YuanYing stage experts. Although the influence still hadn't reached them, by the looks of it, they would be the next target.

Finally someone remembered, that even if the enemy was a devil cultivator, when trying to break through to the Da Cheng stage from YuanYing stage, it would certainly lead to the Yin Fire tribulation, which would cause the spirit power in the surrounding thousand miles to fluctuate. Perhaps, with this, they would be able to find the whereabouts of this devil, Lin Chenghe.

Apparently, the best opportunity to strike would be when Lin Chenghe was going through his tribulation. If someone was disturbed during their tribulation, if that person's cultivation was not sufficient, they would certainly die. As long as they were able to find the location where he was going to take the heavenly tribulation, that would be the best opportunity to defeat the devil and protect the dao path.

The news of people's cultivation being stolen also reached the Pure Yang Palace. When they heard this news, the first reaction of the elders was wondering if someone was distorting the truth or had gotten something wrong.

When even more news came in and even some rogue cultivators of the MeiQing mountain suffered from the calamity, everyone remembered the ban which the Palace Master had put and then started to sweat, thinking of the time when they had pressured the Palace Master to allow research, but were grateful to the Palace Master for postponing it.

Fortunately, the Palace Master had listened to Yang Chen's advice and had placed a strict ban at that time. Otherwise, wouldn't the Pure Yang Palace also have suffered a great loss, like the other sects?

All of the elders were even more traumatic. If they had forced the Palace Master without giving him any other option, then wouldn't they also have followed on the other victim's footsteps? Miserably despaired, losing their cultivation little by little every day until they became completely crippled…

The loudest voice against Yang Chen's proposal, elder Lin Yunfeng was also greatly scared. It had to be known that, at that time, in order to strike at Yang Chen, he had convinced some elders to try and force him to repel his ban. The person who was behind this entire opposition was elder Lin Yunfeng.

But at that time, Yang Chen had said in front of him that, if elder Lin Yunfeng wanted to cultivate this method in any case then he would absolutely not stop him. But the other elders could not follow his footsteps and finally, following Yang Chen's advice, the Palace Master had postponed the method by two years.

Originally elder Lin Yunfeng wanted to make a joke out of Yang Chen after two years and teach him a lesson: a trifling Foundation stage disciple neither had the qualifications nor the strength to speak in an elder's matters, but now he had found out that, if it were not for Yang Chen, he, who was a majestic YuanYing stage expert, would have become a cripple.

At that moment Lin Yunfeng didn't know how he should act towards Yang Chen – should he thank him, or should he just not appear before him? Should he just continue to see him as an enemy? Having no choice, elder Lin Yunfeng awkwardly entered closed door training, thinking that this was perhaps the best option right now.

The Palace Master and the few elders who had supported Lin Yunfeng at that time, only remembered about their disciple, Yang Chen, after suffering from a bit of lingering fear. If it was not for him, the Pure Yang Palace would have also suffered a great loss.

If anything would have happened to them, then the Pure Yang Palace would have certainly degraded to become a third tier sect. For big sects like the Clear Sky Sect or the Greatest Heaven Sect losing a few YuanYing stage experts was nothing, but for the Pure Yang Palace it would have been a disastrous blow.

In his previous life, this calamity had sown the seeds of the Pure Yang Palace's destruction. In this life, Yang Chen was finally able to save the Pure Yang Palace. After this incident, the Pure Yang Palace seemed to have started to walk on the path of becoming a top grade sect.

Among all of the dao sects, only the Pure Yang Palace hadn't suffered any losses during this calamity. Furthermore, not even one of the lowest level disciples had been lost. It could only be said to be a miracle when ninety nine percent of the sects had sustained damage and only the Pure Yang Palace had survived.

Only at this time did someone recall that the Pure Yang Palace had warned everyone about the Long Tai Spirit Supporting Secrets at the beginning and had also officially informed all of the sects and had moreover placed a strict ban on this cultivation method inside of the sect.

In these past few years, when the calamity of the devil cultivation had erupted completely, there was no sect whose disciples hadn't mocked the Pure Yang Palace, especially those who had cultivators who cultivated with this cultivation method.

The Pure Yang Palace which was only a second rate sect, they couldn't even follow the general trend. Countless people treated the Pure Yang Palace as a subject of ridicule and, even when they ran into some disciple of the Pure Yang Palace who was travelling outside, they would taunt them, making it difficult for the disciples of the Pure Yang Palace to leave the sect.

Finally when the calamity had started, everyone discovered who the real fool was and it surely was not Pure Yang Palace.

Many people also wanted to blame the Pure Yang Palace, since the Pure Yang Palace had known about this devil cultivation method, but didn't try to stop everyone with their full strength, but they could only think like this in their heart. At that time, the Pure Yang Palace had again and again sent out notifications to all of the sect leaders, but nobody had paid any attention. On what reasons could they now blame the Pure Yang Palace?

Regretting now was already too late. The only thing they could do was to find the location where Lin Chenghe would be undergoing his tribulation and completely destroy him. Only that would make the hatred in everyone's hearts disappear.

All of the dao sects in the entire world put their whole strength behind it. The Pure Yang Palace was no exception. All of the disciples within the sect who weren't undergoing closed door training were sent out. All such disciples were divided into groups and each group was headed by a YuanYing stage expert with one objective: to find the whereabouts of Lin Chenghe.

Naturally Yang Chen was together with Gao Yue and at the same time they were following his great master, Wang Yong, in his group. Apart them, the group also contained more than a dozen JieDan experts and over a hundred Foundation stage experts, all of whom were scattered in a hundred miles radius and were always in contact.

Yang Chen naturally remembered the position of Lin Chenghe's tribulation, but it was not suitable for Yang Chen to reveal that at this time. Originally, Wang Yong would have been the most suitable person, but Yang Chen had an even more suitable candidate now.

The establishment of the Eccentric Hall within the Pure Yang Palace had given risen to a heated discussion: they were people whom the dao sects had always fought, how could they accept them? But over the fear of Elder Wu, nobody had publicly said anything. This opportunity was the best opportunity: as long as it could be proven that the demon beasts could also contribute for the dao sects, then the voices against them would get smaller and smaller.

After three days, there was finally some news from the side of the old tree demon. Although, the cultivation of YuanYing stage experts was still being taken away bit by bit, that old tree demon's Da Cheng stage spiritual awareness had already locked on to the position of that devil Lin Chenghe. He had to be in a hundred miles area from that location.

The news was passed on secretly to all of the big sects. At the same time, another news was also spread: the date of Lin Chenghe's tribulation should be in three or four days.

In reality, there were already experts of every sect who hadn't lost their cultivation spread in this region, but nobody was able to discover the location of Lin Chenghe. The Da Cheng stage old tree demon on the other hand, relying on his spiritual awareness, had discovered the tracks of the spirit power stolen by the devil cultivation method and confirmed the location.

After the verification, no sect had any doubt: all of them sent their elites to surround the area in a radius of several hundred miles, such that not even an ant could escape. This time, that devil Lin Chenghe would not escape!

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Chapter 168 – Betting For A Kowtow

Although experts from every sect had surrounded the area in a radius of a hundred miles, all of them were lying low and had concealed their presence, waiting for Lin Chenghe to trigger the heavenly tribulation.

But while all of them were hoping, this was just their wishful thinking. Yang Chen knew that, not only would Lin Chenghe survive the tribulation and enter the Da Cheng stage, he would also take away the cultivation of those Da Cheng stage experts and would only then die from the backlash from absorbing too much spirit power.

So after all was said and done, Lin Chenghe finally died thanks to his own actions, which were not influenced by the dao sects very much. If one absolutely wanted to prove that a trace of a connection existed, then it would only be that the pressure which the dao sects had put on him had made him absorb this large amount of spirit power in such a short time, nothing more. If he hadn't become underconfident at that time, then he would definitely not have faced this kind of problem.

Before the Palace Master had dispatched anyone on the mission, he had consulted Yang Chen about how should they approach this.

In fact, the Palace Master consulting a disciple who had just recently become a Foundation stage disciple was really quite outrageous. But the Palace Master couldn't help being careful regarding this great calamity of the devil cultivation. Yang Chen had shown great excellence, if it were not for Yang Chen, the Pure Yang Palace would not have gotten off so easily.

Although Yang Chen had said that this information was offered by Elder Wu, in his heart, the Palace Master knew clearly that Elder Wu still hadn't ascended but, he hadn't said anything regarding any such matter. It was not that Elder Wu didn't have any friends among such experts, but he had never interfered with any matter before.

Naturally, all of this was within Palace Master's head, and he had never mentioned it to anyone. By now, he had stopped treating Yang Chen as a mere disciple and had instead started treating him as an elder. Yang Chen's advice could easily influence the Palace Master's attitude at all times.

"Lin Chenghe is not a simple devil, we shouldn't simply follow the general conviction about him."

Yang Chen didn't hide much from his Palace Master:

"In any case, when we said our warnings, nobody had listened to us, but if we don't fight with them, everyone will resent us. So when the time comes, we must send some forces, but they should not force themselves to fight and try to avoid casualties."

"So you mean that Lin Chenghe will not be killed this time?"

Yang Chen's words made the Palace Master suck in a deep breath. From the time Yang Chen had strongly advocated that no disciple of Pure Yang Palace should be allowed to come in contact with the Long Tai Spirit Supporting Secrets, even though it had shown huge benefits, until now, Yang Chen's ability of making judgements had received a large amount of respect in the Palace Master's eyes, so hearing Yang Chen's words this time, he immediately asked with alarm.

"Have you already forgotten the tribulation of the old tree demon?"

Yang Chen asked rhetorically:

"At that time, apart from genuine Da Cheng stage experts, who would be able to approach it? And if no one can approach it, then what else is there to do?"

"But Hall Master Cassia Demon is a Da Cheng stage expert. If he doesn't contribute at that time, wouldn't it look bad?"

The Palace Master asked with some anxiousness. The Pure Yang Palace had established a good reputation with great difficulty, so he didn't want it to get destroyed so easily.

"The Greatest Heaven Sect and the Clear Sky Sect have many Da Cheng experts, my Pure Yang Palace has only one."

Yang Chen shook his head. Although the Palace Master could also think of this, he didn't know if he should do anything about it or not. Yang Chen also only declared his point of view. After that, it was up to the Palace Master to judge this himself.

After conversing with Yang Chen, the Palace Master formed a tacit understanding with the old tree demon that, he would not instruct Gui Shanyou, the old tree demon, to fight until death. In any case, the Pure Yang Palace had acquired a Da Cheng stage expert after such a long time, so there was no need to fight with other sects over reputation.

Gui Shanyou had lived for countless years and had thought about this matter very thoroughly. The Palace Master's instructions were exactly what he wanted, so after hearing those instructions, he left, understanding the exact situation.

As Lin Chenghe's tribulation was slowly approaching, day by day, the number of cultivators in the region also kept increasing, but nobody dared to enter within a hundred miles of that region. Nobody wanted to fail at the last step because of impatience.

People like Yang Chen and Gao Yue were at the most outer perimeter of the encirclement, while Wang Yong was at the very center. The cultivation of people of his kind were simply not of any use. In fact, from the beginning, after they had found the position of the devil Lin Chenghe, the cultivators of the JieDan stage or lower had already been of no use in the matter. Yang Chen had only come here to participate and take a look at everything and hadn't intended on participating.

But not everyone followed Yang Chen's way of thinking: especially a few JieDan experts of the Greatest Heaven Sect, whose losses had been the most disastrous. Seeing Yang Chen acting so leisurely, they started to spread baseless rumors.

"Ohh, isn't this Pure Yang Palace's fellow daoist Yang? Does fellow daoist Yang intend to show his brilliance in such a situation again?"

From within a group of cultivators, a tone filled with incomparable contempt was heard, but the person who had spoken was someone whom Yang Chen knew, someone who had already been humiliated by him at the Heavenly Stairs: Cheng Wencai.

By now, several years had passed from the time of the previous incident, but Cheng Wencai was still brooding. At that time, due to his mistake, he had not only caused harm to JieDan experts of his sect, but also those of other sects, including himself, who had fallen to the Foundation stage from the JieDan stage and had moreover suffered from a decrease in his life expectancy by many decades.

In these several years, with the help of medicines and his own hard work, he had once again attained the JieDan stage, but he still resented Yang Chen, the perpetrator of his misfortune from the bottom of his heart.

He was also the uncle master of Li QingChen, who had been killed by Yang Chen a few years ago. Although it was a life and death duel and no side could ask for compensation from the victor, Cheng Wencai remembered Yang Chen's name clearly.

Moreover, in this great calamity of devil cultivation, the Pure Yang Palace had been the main leader, making all of the big sects, including the Greatest Heaven Sect embarrassed. A second rate sect could see clearly and be on guard, but these top notch sects had made such a simple mistake… They really couldn't say anything.

Cheng Wencai could feel that this was his sect's mistake, but he wanted to put some blame on the Pure Yang Palace, yet he had realized that it was obviously not possible, but what was the problem with spreading rumors? The humiliation of the sect added with his encounter with Yang Chen in those days, combined both the new and old hatred upon seeing Yang Chen again, so naturally a lot of thoughts rushed to his head, making it impossible for him not to speak out.

"How can this kind of situation be something where juniors like me can interfere? This junior only followed after master to broaden his horizons."

Yang Chen wasn't fazed in the least by Cheng Wencai's taunt, but since the enemy had ridiculed him, he would definitely not let him slip by and so, with a courteous smile, he asked back:

"But senior Cheng on the contrary, whom junior admires greatly, is the best candidate for eliminating the devil to defend the dao."

Even if Cheng Wencai had again reached the JieDan stage, the price of decreased life he had to pay in return and his dantian had also been damaged. Now there was a limit to his cultivation. Besides, even if there wasn't any wear and tear, he was a trifling JieDan stage expert. For such an occasion, just being able to remain at the boundary of a hundred miles was the limit. As for defeating the devil to protect the dao, he was still too far.

Yang Chen's sarcastic retort, made Cheng Wencai even angrier. If not for the wear and tear of that time, Cheng Wencai would have cultivated the Long Tai Spirit Supporting Secrets. But that time he was recuperating his dantian, so he could only see the opportunity go by. When the entire truth was revealed however, he was delighted over missing such an opportunity.

But when someone had some prejudice, he could not see clearly anymore. In Cheng Wencai's eyes, not only wasn't he grateful to the Pure Yang Palace for warning them promptly, it had also not warned them properly in his opinion, which had led to everyone being trapped.

When his personal malice with Yang Chen was added in, Cheng Wencai flew into a rage, which was something even a JieDan expert like him couldn't handle, so he directly ridiculed Yang Chen:

"Do you even know what you are talking about? Your trifling Pure Yang Palace dares to talk wildly about defeating the devil and defending the dao? You are all just humiliating yourselves here!"

But he had also insulted the Pure Yang Palace while trying to humiliate Yang Chen. Hearing these words, not only was Yang Chen infuriated, but so was Gao Yue. From the start, Gao Yue was a person with a fiery temper, so she could not let Cheng Wencai's comments, insulting the Pure Yang Palace and her master Wang Yong, slip by easily, not to mention the insults to Yang Chen, her only disciple, with whom she went through pair cultivation for spiritual awareness.

"Fellow Daoist Cheng, if you do not immediately take back your words, then, even though this Gao Yue is a woman, I will not tolerate your disgusting remarks about my Pure Yang Palace!"

Gao Yue's expressions became stiff and she immediately blurted out these words.

"Why, has this Cheng spoken something wrong?"

Cheng Wencai sneered again:

"Aren't you both master and disciple still outside of the hundred miles perimeter? Or is there someone from your Pure Yang Palace that is in the frontlines? In the end, let alone eliminating the devil and protecting the dao, you cannot even touch the hair of the devil."

Without waiting for Gao Yue to retort, Cheng Wencai continued:

"In this Great Calamity of the Devil Cultivation, almost all of the sects had disastrous losses and only your Pure Yang Palace hasn't suffered any losses. If you hadn't been in cahoots with that devil Lin Chenghe, you wouldn't have the courage to ignore that devil cultivation method. And if you really didn't have the courage, then how are you going to cultivate to immortality? I advise you all to go back and hole up in your MeiQing Mountain, so as to not give up your lives."

"Senior Cheng, since you have said that my Pure Yang Palace have been cahoots with Lin Chenghe, then do you have some evidence to prove your claim?"

Not waiting for Gao Yue to open her mouth, Yang Chen loudly asked:

"Furthermore, is this only your opinion or of the entire Greatest Heaven Sect?"

"It doesn't matter whose opinion it was, you all don't have any use. It would be better if you all behaved properly and returned and cultivated on your gutless path to immortality!"

Since the sect had also been involved, Cheng Wencai did not dare to open his mouth and only gave a vague reply, but the contempt in his words wasn't disguised even a bit:

"So that you don't interfere with everyone else's work here!"

"By these words, does senior Cheng mean that we, both master and disciple, would be a hinderance here?"

Yang Chen's tone had become even milder, he was still calling him as 'senior', but those familiar with Yang Chen could sense that he was already furious.

"You all are just a burden!"

Cheng Wencai continued with his rude words. He had several JieDan stage fellow apprentices on his side, and he furthermore also had one YuanYing stage uncle master with him, so in case of a dispute, he was not worried about Gao Yue becoming hostile. With this opinion firm in his mind, Cheng Wencai became more and more rampant:

"Incompetent people can't even harm a hair of the devil and still talk of defeating the devil to protect the dao?"

"Then senior, if this junior can touch that Lin Chenghe's hairs, what will senior Cheng do in return?"

Immediately following after Cheng Wencai's words, Yang Chen asked full of smiles.

"How can that be possible?"

Cheng Wencai didn't agree to anything and only continued to sneer:

"You little Foundation stage cultivator still dare to say such big words?"

"This youngster just wants to bet with senior Cheng."

Yang Chen still continued full of smiles:

"This junior will get Lin Chenghe's hair. Does senior Cheng dare to take the bet?"

"Bet what?"

Cheng Wencai's eyes shone, seemingly realizing that this Yang Chen had provided him with an opportunity to humiliate himself, so he hastily asked.

"If this junior loses, then this junior will kowtow in front of senior and admit that this junior is a burden!"

Yang Chen directly put his stake forward, as if wanted to put himself in danger:

"What do you say?"

"Good! I will agree to that!"

Expressions of Cheng Wencai and his fellow disciples of the Greatest Heaven Sect became more and more cheerful hearing the terms. If they could humiliate the Pure Yang Palace, which had caused their sect to lose so much face in the recent years using Yang Chen, that would be a great thing.

"But, if this junior wins then what does senior Cheng intends to bet?"

Yang Chen didn't give any opportunity to get a loophole to Cheng Wencai and directly asked:

"What do you say about betting kowtow against kowtow?"

"You are just a Foundation stage disciple! A kowtow is too much!"

Cheng Wencai was not fooled and directly shook his head.

"What if I am also added?"

However Gao Yue, who had extreme trust in Yang Chen also pitched in:

"If Yang Chen loses, we both master and disciple will kowtow to you."

"Good, since it is like this, then this Cheng will also get two people to admit their fault!"

Since Gao Yue was also a JieDan expert like him, Cheng Wencai did not have any more rights to deny them. But he didn't believe that he had any chance of losing this bet and laughed very arrogantly:

"When the time comes, this Cheng will invite all of his friends to make them see both of you kowtowing to me!"

Since there were so many people on the scene, they also didn't need to take any oath. All of them were JieDan stage experts so they would not say anything carelessly. Very quickly, this news began to spread among all of the cultivators.

A Foundation stage youngster thought that he could touch Lin Chenghe's hair. He was either extremely reckless or extremely arrogant. Anyone who heard this news thought the same thing.

"Yang Chen, if you dare to lose, then I myself will drive you out of the sect and will not acknowledge you as my disciple anymore!"

Gao Yue was extremely angry and ordered Yang Chen to win. Although she herself did not know what methods Yang Chen had, she could not believe that Yang Chen would lose. This was a trust which was created from the successive miracles Yang Chen had produced.

"Then if disciple wins, what will I get?"

However, Yang Chen was enjoying seeing Gao Yue like this.

"What do you want?"

Gao Yue blankly gazed at Yang Chen and slowly asked.

"This disciple only wants master to promise me one thing!"

Suddenly Yang Chen thought of something and thought that his good fortune had finally helped him while raising this request.

"Good!"

Gao Yue agreed readily without asking for any details.

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Chapter 169 – The Attackers Become The Nourishment

19 Nov 2016

Since last time, after she had performed the pair cultivation with Yang Chen, she had started avoiding Yang Chen with the excuse of refining his flying sword, because she was afraid of meeting Yang Chen.

But this time, in the campaign against Lin Chenghe, Gao Yue feared for Yang Chen having an accident. She knew that Yang Chen had the tendency to invite disaster, so she had been sticking to Yang Chen's side, sternly and carefully looking after him; in short: trying to avoid having Yang Chen harmed by anyone.

But when Cheng Wencai tried to underestimate Yang Chen, and with Gao Yue's disposition, she naturally became angry and immediately lost her self control. All of a sudden this had become a matter of honor for master and disciple.

Only after that did Cheng Wencai and his party leave, laughing loudly and feeling proud of themselves. Gao Yue turned to Yang Chen and asked:

"A bet is a bet. Because of you I had to agree, so how do you intend to win?"

"Just wait for the meat pie!"

Yang Chen was unable to give an adequate explanation to Gao Yue, but he could say this:

"In any case, only a hair of Lin Chenghe is at stake, which I can easily obtain with the help of old man Gui!"

Initially, Gao Yue still had some doubts, but once she thought of Gui Shanyu's formidable strength, she nodded, feeling relieved. For a Da Cheng stage expert like him, maybe killing Lin Chenghe would be difficult, but getting a hair during the fight should be very easy.

"Then what should we now?"

At this moment, Gao Yue absolutely did not appear like a master and was instead just following Yang Chen's commands.

"It's a good opportunity to practice my newly obtained magic weapon!"

Yang Chen mysteriously smiled and spoke. While speaking, he clutched the sword embryo made from the Blood Phantom Vine and inserted it into a thick tree on the side.

"What kind of magic weapon is this?"

Gao Yue suspiciously looked at Yang Chen's actions and asked in bewilderment:

"How can it be used?"

"This is a wood attributed magic weapon which hasn't taken shape completely. It needs to absorb a large amount of first wood spirit power to form completely!"

Yang Chen casually told a lie:

"If it started absorbing, normal trees wouldn't be able to bear it and I also don't want to harm those trees of the MeiQing mountain so I thought of using it to absorb some of the larger trees here."

There was wood attributed spirit power surrounding it, so Gao Yue wasn't able to discover if it was first wood or second wood spirit power at that moment. But since Yang Chen had explained everything without any hesitation, she didn't have any suspicions.

Although Cheng Wencai had left, he had left behind a foundation stage disciple of the Greatest Heaven Sect to keep an eye on Yang Chen. That disciple had clearly heard Yang Chen's words, but he did not think about it much, sneering at Yang Chen for a moment.This large tree was thick enough that it could not even be encompassed by both arms, but it had very low spirit quality, what use would there be to absorb such trees?

Following this, under the gaze of that disciple filled who was with contempt and astonishment, Yang Chen and Gao Yue continued the way they had planned. Gao Yue was following after Yang Chen, going from place to place, looking after such large trees and then inserting the blood colored sword embryo into the trees to absorb their spirit power.

The attitude of both people was very casual and completely relaxed, as if treating the matter of Lin Chenghe as just another incident to gain knowledge and experience.

Only for the sake of appearances in front of other people, did they not do anything unusual. Let alone Yang Chen, who was just a Foundation stage expert, even the JieDan expert, Gao Yue, was not of much use in this 'Great Calamity of Devil Cultivation'. They were just two voices among the shouting of the crowd present.

While the two people were relaxing, the day of Lin Chenghe's tribulation arrived. When the Yin Fire tribulation descended, all of the cultivators within a radius of several hundred miles of that region immediately sensed that formidable power.

The cultivation of that old devil was so formidable that the power and momentum of the Yin Fire had exceeded the expectations of those experts, who had intended to jointly attack him from a distance.

Those experts who had been feeling complacent with their plans previously began to grow nervous under the formidable Yin Fire Tribulation. Even those Da Cheng stage experts did not dare to advance lightly before this tribulation. All of these people even had the thought that, if they advanced, they would also be targets of the tribulation.

Even though these Da Cheng stage experts had already passed their Yin Fire tribulation, because they had already experienced it once, they knew how formidable the Yin Fire was. They hadn't anticipated that the tribulation triggered by Lin Chenghe would be so formidable. The more powerful a heavenly tribulation was, the more formidable was the cultivation of the person.

After thinking of this, everyone had almost given up all hopes. If they could not use the time of his tribulation to attack him, then with this kind of cultivation, after passing the tribulation, he would definitely come to kill everyone who had attacked him, which was something nobody wanted to see.

In such a situation there was only one way, which was that those Da Cheng stage experts, together with the YuanYing stage experts, would attack Lin Chenghe, who was undergoing his tribulation with their most powerful magic weapons. Even if their magic weapons were destroyed by the effect of the heavenly tribulation, they had to distract Lin Chenghe.

The heavenly tribulation had already started and the occasion demanded immediate action. At this moment, those who had suffered this bitter pain of this great calamity clearly realized that trying to kill Lin Chenghe after he had passed the tribulation would be even more difficult.

Especially those sects to which those Da Cheng stage cultivators who had cultivated the Long Tai Spirit Supporting Secrets belonged, would be unable to bear the loss of these Da Cheng stage experts after Lin Chenghe had reached the Da Cheng stage. Countless JieDan and YuanYing stage cultivators had already proven that, as long as Lin Chenghe's cultivation exceeded their's, their cultivation would certainly become a tonic for Lin Chenghe, without exception.

Under such circumstances, the few sect's experts joined together and, taking out their magic weapons and destined magic weapons, under the leadership of a Da Cheng stage expert from the Greatest Heaven Sect, who had cultivated the Long Tai Spirit Supporting Secrets, they all took out their magic weapons and rushed to attack Lin Chenghe within the perimeter.

In this matter of finding the region where Lin Chenghe would undergo his tribulation, the old tree demon, Gui Shanyou had played a pivotal role. And at the time of attacking Lin Chenghe, the old tree demon uprooted a small mountain and smashed it into the location of Lin Chenghe.

But although he was very formidable, he still couldn't be compared to those experts who had their destined magic weapons with them. He couldn't be blamed however. Even now, he still didn't have a destined magic weapon. Being a demon beast, he had an inherent weakness regarding the refining tools which everyone knew about, so he couldn't be blamed.

Within the rumbling sound, the most powerful attacks of those YuanYing stage and Da Cheng stage experts, with their most powerful magic weapons had triggered a fluctuation in the energy of heaven and earth, which made all of the ordinary people and animals within a hundred miles radius immediately lose consciousness.

Within a ten miles radius of Lin Chenghe's location, other than those YuanYing and Da Cheng stage experts, none could enter.

Under the bombardment of countless magic weapons, even Lin Chenghe was distracted, having to deal with them. But the Yin Fire Tribulation helped him greatly.

As long as something approached the region of the heavenly tribulation and was affected by the spirit power in the region, the tribulation also spread to it. Once those magic weapons entered the region, they immediately began to burn from the Yin Fire.

Countless YuanYing experts had to bear the pain of their magic weapons being burned by the Yin Fire. Their cultivation was not sufficient to trigger the Yin Fire tribulation, but they still had to bear at least twenty percent of the Yin Fire tribulation. Those magic weapons which were bearing the brunt also began to burn immediately.

Everyone had realized that, this time, those magic weapons would not return. Although those magic weapons were precious, compared to a sect's prosperity and their own lives in the future, they could be abandoned at any time. Even if they sustained such a loss, but were in turn able to inflict heavy losses on Lin Chenghe, it would still be worth it.

The figure of Lin Chenghe was suspended in the air within the tribulation. Lin Chenge was a devil cultivator and the most prominent characteristic of devil cultivation was that, although it was very easy for a devil cultivator to start on the path of immortality and his cultivation in the earlier stages would also increase quite rapidly, as the devil cultivation reached the later stages, cultivation became more and more difficult and under the continuous attacks of heart's devils.

Within the short time of one year, Lin Chenghe's cultivation had risen from the qi layer to the peak of the YuanYing stage. Not to mention a devil like him, even if it was Yang Chen, someone who had been reborn and whose mental fortitude exceeded even those of the Da Cheng stage, he still wouldn't remain completely unaffected.

It had to been said that the techniques of dao sects were completely fine. He was already unstable to begin with and then at the time of his tribulation, he suffered from a joint attack by everyone. Even if Lin Chenghe had two lives, he still would be swallowed by the tribulation.

Lin Chenghe was extremely formidable, but everyone had attacked him together, pouring their complete strength into this one attack. Yet this reckless attack was of no use.

Although the attack had created large complications for Lin Chenghe, at the same time they had also given him a huge opportunity: The magic weapons of countless YuanYing and Da Cheng stage experts had scattered a majority of the Yin Fire tribulation's strength.

The instant the attacks reached his body, Lin Chenghe had a sensation of certain death, but when he had completely relinquished everything and had accepted his certain death, he was surprised to discover that the Yin Fire tribulation had lost the majority of its strength.

What was most surprising for Lin Chenghe was that, when he had believed that he would certainly die, it had made him forget all of the distracting thoughts and lose sight of the attacks from all these people, making him feel completely relaxed, which had made him achieve a sudden enlightenment at the time.

To be able to use this cultivation method to cheat so many people, Lin Chenghe was an extremely intelligent person. During this flash of realization, it made him discover the method to overcome the heart's devils. Moreover, he also had countless magic weapons suffer the burden of the heavenly tribulation, so even though initially, he had lost all of his spirit power and was spitting blood, appearing to be at his last breath, at that moment, he was tenaciously bearing the test of the Yin Fire, while at the same time also shedding impurities.

No one had anticipated this, including Yang Chen. He only remembered that Lin Chenghe hadn't died because of everyone's attacks while undergoing his tribulation, but he didn't know the complete story.

Meanwhile everyone was going all out to resist the Yin Fire burning their magic weapons and were weakly attacking Lin Chenghe, with the expectation of Lin Chenghe being burned to ashes by the Yin Fire. With each attack of Yin Fire on Lin Chenghe, his figure became more and more dispirited, with each attack, everyone could see him madly spitting blood.

This kind of appearance made everyone become even more hopeful, so everyone pooled their strengths to resist the Yin Fire. Their magic weapons were moving with difficulty, trying to attack and slice through Lin Chenghe's body. With every attack, Lin Chenghe continued to deteriorate steadily, appearing as if, with just one slight attack, he would immediately fall and turn to dust.

Only a trace of life seemed to be left within of Lin Chenghe in everyone's eyes and in their spiritual awareness. By this moment, all of them had become completely confident that Lin Chenghe would die at any moment.

A Fifth attack, a sixth, a seventh, an eighth, a ninth… In front of everyone, continuous attacks of Yin Fire fell upon Lin Chenghe's body, but, like a cockroach, Lin Chenghe remained tenacious, with just that trace of vitality.

By the time of the ninth tribulation fire, that Da Cheng stage expert of the Greatest Heaven Sect couldn't help but rush forward, towards him with a speed comparable to lightning.

Lin Chenghe ought to be in the weakest state at the instant the tribulation had just ended and, seeing Lin Chenghe's appearance, with just a small attack, the mission of eliminating the devil to defend the dao, would be accomplished, while his fame would reach new heights.

But, just as the elder reached within a hundred feet of Lin Chenghe's body, Lin Chenghe's eyes suddenly opened and two rays of light, completely bloodshot, directly shot towards his face.

"Nooooo!"

The Greatest Heaven Sect's Da Cheng stage elder suddenly discovered that the spirit power in his body had gone out of his control and had begun to disappear rapidly, but Lin Chenghe's vitality on the other hand began to grow stronger and stronger.

For Lin Chenghe, those cultivators who had cultivated the Long Tai Spirit Supporting Secrets were simply the best kind of potion. Moreover, this elder of the Greatest Heaven Sect had delivered himself to his doorstep at this most dire time.

Before the other people could respond, the elder of the Greatest Heaven Sect had already lost the ability to move and was completely under the control of Lin Chenghe. Within a short time, his outstanding cultivation became a potion for Lin Chenghe. His original appearance of a middle aged man had quickly turned into that of an old man.

The situation happened too fast and by the time others realized, Lin Chenghe had already reached his peak condition. His bloodshot eyes glaring at everyone. Suddenly he started sneering, while flying in the air.

"It's terrible! Elder Liu has fallen under his evil schemes! Everyone attack immediately!"

Another elder who had also cultivated the Long Tai Spirit Supporting Method also realized the imminent catastrophe in front of him and hastily reminded everyone.

Unfortunately, he was already too late. He had just yelled this when he suddenly lost control of his body. His body started to decay in front of his eyes and very soon he became an old man with a white beard, at his last breath.

Soon after that, Lin Chenghe continued to smile mischievously. In front of him, spread in the radius of a hundred miles were several ashen faced YuanYing stage experts.

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Chapter 170 – Surround And Kill The Devil

23 Nov 2016

Numerous YuanYing stage experts had their destined magic weapons destroyed and had sustained injuries. The other YuanYing experts who didn't have a destined magic weapon also had their most powerful magic weapons destroyed by the Yin Fire, which had greatly lowered their strength.

But unfortunately, at this frightening time, in front of them was this frightening devil, who had just passed the Yin Fire tribulation. The fact which made the situation even more hopeless was that two of their most powerful experts had been turned into his cultivation resources.

The only remaining expert was Green Jade Immortal Islands' elder Min Huafeng, as well as Pure Yang Palace's Gui Shanyou. Obviously, elder Min Huafeng had become everyone's last hope.

But before elder Min Huafeng could do anything, that Da Cheng stage elder of the Greatest Heaven Sect, who was the first to attack returned. With his body gradually getting older and seeming to be hanging by a thread, like a puppet, he quickly returned to everyone's side.

Bang!

Under everyone's gaze, the bodies of both Da Cheng experts suddenly exploded. Pieces of flesh filled with a crazy amount of energy came flying towards the YuanYing stage experts.

The countless YuanYing experts weren't on their guards and they hadn't expected that Lin Chenghe could be so malevolent that, even after stealing their cultivation, he would also explode their bodies.

Since nobody was on guard, those YuanYing experts didn't have a presentable defense and just when everyone was going to be injured by this ruthless attack, everybody was covered by a huge net, which firmly held those pieces of flesh outside.

Actually the old tree demon Gui Shanyou had tried to stop the attack, by trying to stop those pieces of flesh, but even then cracks started to appear in some of the branches of the network. Those YuanYing experts who were exposed, started shuddering and spat blood.

With just this one attack, the disparity in strength between the old tree demon and Lin Chenghe was clear. The enemy still hadn't attacked directly, but the branches of the old tree demon had already suffered damage. Clearly the difference in strength was not small.

Only, at this time, nobody made any cynical remarks. This time, the old tree demon had obstructed this attack and saved the lives of countless people. That precisely was comradery, and comrades who have anger towards a common enemy should deal with it together.

Then Green Jade Immortal Islands' elder Min Huafeng directly rushed towards Lin Chenghe. Regardless of how many people's cultivation he had stolen, he had just reached the Da Cheng stage and should still be weak. He also hadn't consolidated his realm, so even though he appeared to be extremely formidable, he still couldn't completely cover up his injuries.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Countless violent sounds started to echo in the surroundings. The violent fluctuations in the air made those YuanYing stage experts shiver.

"Heal yourselves quickly!"

The old tree demon's voice echoed in the ears of every YuanYing stage expert in the group:

"I can't support you for long!"

Following the words of old tree demon, one by one, small medicine bottles began to fly towards those YuanYing experts.

Within the bottles were third grade yuan cultivation pills refined by Yang Chen. Although the effect on severe injuries was not much, it was very good against regular wear and tear. Everyone was conscious of the situation, so nobody showed any modesty and directly took the pill, healing on one side, while watching the battle on the other.

One can easily imagine how berserk a battle between two Da Cheng stage experts would be. The aftershocks of that crazy battle was even reaching their location and even those branches of the old tree demon, which were protecting those YuanYing experts, issued cracking sounds with some small branches directly disintegrating.

Wise people also noticed something: at the beginning, people were still afraid of the Da Cheng expert of the Pure Yang Palace, but now, although the old tree demon was far more powerful than them, compared to genuine Da Cheng experts of the dao and devil sects, the disparity was too large.

Not only did he not have any destined magic weapon, but he was also being harmed by the aftershocks from the battle between those two experts. These facts added together with some more things, like him rushing in without caring for himself and then providing everyone with pills in their time of need, made everyone quickly acknowledge him.

Originally, he was only invited to the campaign as a formality, but right now, since he wasn't a great threat and would also not influence the harmony of the sects, moreover he had indeed shown great valor, the fact that Gui Shanyou was a demon beast didn't seem so outstanding anymore. Thus, Pure Yang Palace's Eccentric Hall was genuinely accepted by everyone with its hall master.

The effects of Yang Chen's third grade yuan cultivation pill was astonishing. Very quickly these YuanYing experts discovered this anomaly and after their bodies had recovered, they rushed out of the old tree demon's confinement to join the battle. Only a few experts, who had suffered severe injuries to their spiritual awareness because of their destined magic weapons being destroyed, remained behind within the protection.

If he was really pitted against Lin Chenghe, then with his profound strength, the old tree demon could easily match or maybe critically injure him. But after hearing Yang Chen's explanation, he understood what was going on and did not show much of his strength.

In any case, after finding Lin Chenghe's location without any losses, the Pure Yang Palace had already gained the greatest glory. Now the mission of destroying the devil to protect the dao should be handled by these big sects, so that they could also save face. This method was beneficial to everyone.

From the time when he was at the Greater Mountains, Gui Shanyou had learned the art of patience. He had concealed himself so well at the Greater Mountains that he wasn't discovered by anyone for several decades. Playing the role of an expert whose cultivation was not completely pure was an easy matter for him to acquire the trust of these people.

"Currently, he hasn't properly consolidated his realm, so attack fiercely! We must not allow him to reach his prime!"

With the addition of several YuanYing experts, the pressure on Min Huafeng had decreased greatly and she also began to organize their attacks.

Everyone knew that, if they did not take advantage of this situation, eliminated this old devil and let him escape, then he would certainly become a nightmare for all of these sects in the future. That's why nobody shrunk back, even if it was a battle between Da Cheng stage experts, they still rushed forward to attack.

Immediately, casualties began to appear. Initially, the battle was between two Da Cheng stage experts who were both equally matched, but after those several YuanYing stage experts had joined in, the battle was completely different.

Bang!

One YuanYing expert was beaten and thrown out of the fight, flying on one side, while puffing blood. One of the old tree demon's branches rapidly grabbed him, brought him back and forcefully fed him a yuan cultivation pill.

At the same time, elder Min Huafeng's attack fiercely hit Lin Chenghe, making that cunning devil recoil, raging again and again.

The scene immediately grew lively, but those JieDan experts outside of the hundred miles confinement simply could not come in. Not to mention people like Yang Chen, who were farthest outside and had just come to broaden their horizons.

Still, Yang Chen was not very concerned about the situation inside. In any case, that stupid Lin Chenghe would finally die because of the backlash caused by the surplus in spirit power he had consumed, so Yang Chen wasn't worried even a little about him remaining alive. Absorbing other people's cultivation was nice and easy, and the cultivation would also increase very rapidly, but absorbing the cultivation of two Da Cheng experts, moreover with both of them having different attributes, was just a surefire way to die quickly.

Apart from Yang Chen, perhaps only Lin Chenghe understood this point. The present him, had to be regretting that he had become so overwhelmed by the pressure that he had completely absorbed the cultivation of a second Da Cheng stage expert as well.

The spirit power in his body seemed to be boiling. Both experts had different attributes and thus a completely different cultivation method, which were basically the opposites of each other. So the inside of Lin Chenghe's body was currently also like a battlefield, with spirit power crazily fighting itself.

For the onlookers, although he was dealing with the Green Jade Immortal Islands' elder Min quite proficiently, he himself understood the trouble with his spirit power.

If he had only absorbed the cultivation of one Da Cheng expert, then maybe the problem would not have become so large, and he would have been in advantageous state. But the only one to be blamed was Lin Chenghe's greed. Together with his usual habits, with those Da Cheng stage experts in front of him, he just had to absorb their cultivation, no matter how many people were in front of him.

There were not many YuanYing stage experts who had cultivated the Long Tai Spirit Supporting Secrets, but there were still a dozen of them. Although they also had different attributes, they contained all attributes, so a balance could be formed. But unfortunately, there were only two Da Cheng stage experts and their attributes were such that one attribute restrained the other, which finally made him taste the punishment for his greed.

Although he had been able to forcefully bear the damage caused by the interference with his tribulation and had been able to hide the damage, but after he had absorbed the cultivation of these two Da Cheng experts, who had opposing attributes, in order to recover, Lin Chenghe was just a spent force.

Although elder Min of the Green Jade Immortal Islands' hadn't thought of this point until later, once she noticed, she was sure that passing through the tribulation was not that easy for him.

With the attack by the group of experts in coordination with the elder, they very quickly forced Lin Chenghe into a corner. This time, everyone could see that, even though Lin Chenghe had many remarkable abilities, he still couldn't escape the net of so many experts.

Lin Chenghe's condition had become very bad and the spirit power within his body had already started revolting, together with the force of many people attacking him with their weapons, this has incessantly been consuming his strength. Furthermore, whenever he attacked a YuanYing stage expert with the intent to kill, he would always be blocked by the old tree demon just after he had injured the YuanYing expert and wanted to finish the job.

The injured YuanYing stage experts would somehow always bump across the old tree demon's attack and when Lin Chenghe wanted to escape from the entrapment by using the confusion it created, he would be stopped by the attack of the old tree demon at the most crucial time and then his entire effort would be ruined. After several tries, Lin Chenghe almost went crazy because of his anger.

This time, he also did not dare to hold anything back before thinking of leaving here alive. Suddenly he clenched his teeth and loudly shouted, signifying that he had used some forbidden technique.

Within the mother son devil cultivation, there was a Demon Body Cultivation Method which would increase the cultivation of a person rapidly in return for a heavy price, including a decreased life span and vitality. Lin Chenghe had unleashed precisely this forbidden technique.

Bang!

Suddenly everyone who was surrounding Lin Chenghe discovered that his speed had increased. Those YuanYing experts who were only daring to attack him from a distance were caught off guard, as nobody had anticipated this kind of development and many of them immediately went to the netherworld after being pierced by Lin Chenghe.

Previously, elder Min had planned to attack with several YuanYing experts and slowly kill that devil, but when such a large number of casualties appeared suddenly, elder Min became furious and immediately renounced that plan. The furious elder Min was even planning to charge in without caring for her injuries and take down Lin Chenghe together with her.

But after using the forbidden technique, Lin Chenghe's speed became terrifying, moreover, it was clear that his cultivation had also increased greatly. But he still didn't want to tangle with elder Min and instead wanted to deal with those surrounding YuanYing stage experts.

Seeing that the turn of events was far from encouraging, the old tree demon also joined the fray, but he could only protect a few YuanYing experts in time and these people were only YuanYing experts from sects which Yang Chen had repeatedly reminded him about. As for other YuanYing experts, they were frantically hunted by the raging Lin Chenghe.

Within just a few moments, many YuanYing experts had been killed by Lin Chenghe. But by the time they were killed, elder Min had also caught up with him and began to crazily attack him.

At this moment, Yang Chen was inserting his sword embryo, formed of the Blood Phantom Vine, into the huge tree trunk of a very old tree. This old tree was many times thicker than those trees which Yang Chen had found earlier.

"Within three to four hours, they should be done, right?"

Looking in the direction of the ferocious battle and sensing the fluctuation in the energy of heaven and earth, Yang Chen asked himself.

This was already the hundredth tree which Yang Chen had emptied, so after some thought, he reached the conclusion that, after this tree, he would not need to expand a large amount of effort but this magic weapon was also essentially completed.

"Let's wait a second!"

Gao Yue also looked in the direction of the battle. Equally concerned, but not knowing what to do. The wager between Yang Chen and Cheng Wencai still hadn't been completed, yet Yang Chen hadn't shown any traces of worry and this baffled Gao Yue.

After killing the YuanYing experts, Lin Chenghe sensed that he wouldn't be able to fight for long. If he did not run away at this moment, later he would not get any chance to flee.

"I have been greatly entertained today and this Lin is grateful for that, but this Lin will now take his leave!"

Lin Chenghe sneered and turned into a ray of light, entered the ground and disappeared from everyone's view.

Mysterious Devil Five Phases Blood Evasion. This was the most powerful escaping technique which Lin Chenghe had mastered. Using this method, his body would turn into a ray of light, and regardless of the attribute of the material, he could escape through all.

Shua!

Elder Min also chased after Lin Chenghe's presence, pursuing him closely and the old tree demon loudly shouted, releasing all of the experts, after which his body flashed once and he also chased after him.

How could Lin Chenghe still even dare to think of fighting with two Da Cheng experts, while continuing to crazily use the devil cultivation? He couldn't even pick a proper path in his panic.

During the whole journey, Lin Chenghe had sensed the presence of dao sects' JieDan cultivators just above him. He sneered within his heart, but didn't appear openly and simply immersed himself deeper to escape.

Rapidly, he had reached the outermost layer of the perimeter formed by the dao sects. Lin Chenghe didn't have any more worries after he had left Gui Shanyou and elder Min far behind. Sensing the presence of younger generations ahead, he looked for a large tree between them and escaped.

Yang Chen ony sensed a trace of someone's presence and immediately pulled Gao Yue behind him and retreated. Soon afterwards, everyone saw a person's silhouette rushing away from the top of a tree. But the silhouette had barely ascended a few meters, when it suddenly separated into two parts and fell down.

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Chapter 171 – The Matter Of Dao Companionship Was Not Concluded

The only people on the scene were Yang Chen and Gao Yue, as well as the Foundation stage disciple of the Greatest Heaven Sect. Suddenly seeing such circumstances, apart from Yang Chen, both others were intimidated.

"With so many people chasing to kill you, you still want to flee through this road?"

Yang Chen sighed in his heart:

"For every grievance someone is responsible, for every debt there is a debtor, this is a sin which you yourself have committed and you will have to pay for it!"

Immediately after sighing, Yang Chen swiftly turned and appeared at the side of the large tree, stretched his hand to take out the sword embryo and, without looking, he immediately returned it to the Achievement Ring.

Then his figure flashed again and Yang Chen's silhouette could be seen at the top of the tree, where both parts of the corpse were hanging, yet no bloodstains were visible in the surroundings. Without saying anything, Yang Chen first took the qiankun pouch. These were his spoils of war, it would be better to take them. After collecting them, he jumped down from the tree, collecting both parts of the corpse.

"Who is there? Did you see it? Not only did I touch his hair, but he was actually killed by my flying sword!"

Yang Chen yelled rudely towards that disciple of the Greatest Heaven Sect.

"What?"

That disciple of Greatest Heaven Sect was greatly astonished. Pointing towards the two halves of the bloodless corpse, he was stunned and asked:

"You say this is the devil Lin Chenghe? What kind of joke is that?"

Just as he was speaking, Green Jade Immortal Islands' elder Min appeared in front of everyone and, following her, the old tree demon, Gui Shanyou, also appeared.

Seeing the body of devil Lin Chenghe cut in two halves, elder Min asked exultantly:

"Who killed him?"

"This junior!"

In front of a Da Cheng stage expert, Yang Chen didn't act that arrogantly and respectfully replied. Then he turned towards Gui Shanyou and greeted him, since according to the hierarchy of the sect, Gui Shanyou was Yang Chen's elder.

"You?"

If it was Gao Yue who had admitted to killing him, then it was believable, after all Lin Chenghe was already a spent force, so he could be injured by a JieDan expert, but if a Foundation stage cultivator like Yang Chen said he had killed him, elder Min really could not believe it:

"How is that possible?"

"Nothing is impossible."

Yang chen replied with a smile:

"This junior was nourishing his flying sword with the wood attributed spirit power of this large tree, when he suddenly tried to escape through it."

Yang Chen did not need to say what happened further, as everyone realized what had happened.

Yang Chen's flying sword was horizontally inserted into the huge tree and was also wood attributed. Lin Chenghe was using the five phases evasion method and thought of using the wood evasion to flee through the tree and didn't pay attention to the flying sword, which was the same as delivering himself to the blade of the sword and was cut in two halves.

The five phases evasion technique was also not omnipotent, at least in some circumstances. A refined flying sword was of one such circumstances. If that was not the case, then as long as someone could use the five phases evasion technique, they would not be injured by anything in the world; wouldn't that just be a joke?

But, regardless of what was said, Lin Chenghe had died under Yang Chen's sword, this was a fact set in stone.

That disciple of the Greatest Heaven Sect who until now hadn't dared to believe that the corpse belonged to Lin Chenghe, didn't have any doubt after seeing elder Min. Moreover, a group of YuanYing experts also followed and reached there, which included experts from the Greatest Heaven Sect. Seeing this, there was basically no need to doubt the identity of the corpse.

The problem was that this disciple of the Greatest Heaven Sect was left behind by Cheng Wencai to keep an eye on Yang Chen. Cheng Wencai had bet with Yang Chen and Gao Yue, that, if Yang Chen could even touch a hair of Lin Chenghe, then he would kowtow and admit his defeat. But Yang Chen had not only touched his hair, that devil himself was even killed by Yang Chen!

Originally Yang Chen had not intended to put the sword in horizontally, but upright instead. Although the sword embryo of the Blood Phantom Vine had been refined, it still hadn't completely taken the shape of a blade so it still couldn't be considered as complete. The best method to sharpen the edge of a flying sword was to let it drink the blood of an expert.

In this realm, the most powerful experts were Da Cheng stage experts. When the Blood Phantom Vine wasn't turned into a flying sword, it had already absorbed the blood of elder Hua Wanting for several decades, only, that time, elder Hua wasn't a genuine Da Cheng stage expert, instead just a peak YuanYing stage expert.

But now, the Blood Phantom Vine flying sword had finally drank the blood of Lin Chenghe. The reason why the corpse didn't have any blood was precisely because of this.

Strictly speaking, it was not just one Da Cheng stage expert, since Lin Chenghe had also just absorbed the cultivation of those two Da Cheng stage expert some time ago.

But this was obviously not the time to analyze the changes in the sword embryo. There was a large group of experts in front of his eyes to deal with.

Not only had Yang Chen killed Lin Chenghe, but he also had the old tree demon, Gui Shanyou, at his side, so nobody dared to demand the qiankun pouch of Lin Chenghe from Yang Chen. The group of people could only curse Lin Chenghe as much as they could. When they looked at Yang Chen, their intestines turned green with envy. How much heaven defying luck could one have, that a Da Cheng expert got himself cut by a stationary flying sword?

Speaking of this, many sects had sent countless experts, they had even paid the price of two Da Cheng experts' and tens of YuanYing stage experts' lives, but nobody had expected that the person who would get the fame of killing the devil to protect the dao would be a trifling Foundation stage expert.

Though most people could not accept that all of their hard work for such a long time after paying such a bitter price had just helped a junior succeed, nobody showed it. Everyone on the scene was at the YuanYing stage, while a Da Cheng stage expert was also present, so how could they lower themselves to embarrass a junior?

After looking at the dead corpse of Lin Chenghe with their own eyes, everyone was somewhat glad in their hearts. At the final moment, Lin Chenghe had surprisingly used a forbidden technique and escaped. If it were not for Yang Chen, maybe he would have been successful in fleeing. And if they had failed to kill Lin Chenghe, then the dao sects and schools would have to face the counterattack of that cunning devil in the future. Nobody would have been able to take the responsibility for that.

Yang Chen killing Lin Chenghe, regardless of whether it was intentional or unintentional, was a great service to the dao sects. Nobody could deny this; so after the initial moment of unwillingness, everyone showered Yang Chen with praise.

Those who heard of Yang Chen also began to envy Yang Chen's heaven defying luck. Which sect wouldn't want a disciple who had such great luck?

This time, the one who most embarrassed, was the Foundation stage disciple of the Greatest Heaven Sect. Seeing the elders of his sect, he had to come forward and greet them, but when they asked him for the reason of being there, he stammered and could not say anything.

It was not that he could not say, but he did not dare to say it. His uncle master Cheng Wencai was a JieDan expert, so maybe he didn't care about a YuanYing expert's grandeur, but he was a trifling Foundation stage expert, so in front of so many elders, he could not speak a single word because of the their pressure.

"He is just an eyewitness of the bet between fellow daoist Cheng of the Greatest Heaven Sect and me!"

But Yang Chen exposed the gamble in front of all the elders without any hesitation:

"Fellow daoist Cheng had said that this youngster could not even touch a hair of the devil Lin Chenghe."

After saying this, Yang Chen bent down and plucked a hair from Lin Chenghe's head and then said to everyone loudly:

"I request all the elders to be witness!"

Saying this, he used his hands to pull the hair in two parts:

"Junior has touched Lin Chenghe's hair properly!"

The matter of the bet had been spreading for a long time. In the beginning, the group of experts had thought it to be a joke, but after hearing it from the mouth of the party involved, they had to believe that it was genuine.

Other than the experts of the Greatest Heaven Sect, all of the experts began to laugh, seeing such circumstances. This kind of bet was really a joke. But Yang Chen's luck was so monstrous that people killed themselves by his sword, so Cheng Wencai losing was not an injustice.

Two YuanYing experts of the Greatest Heaven Sect snorted without saying anything. Naturally, they also couldn't say anything. The result of this matter was indeed beyond their control.

"Yang Chen!"

Elder Min carefully tried to remember this somewhat familiar name:

"You are Shanshan's dao companion, right?"

"What?"

Hearing this, the group of YuanYing experts revealed shocked expressions.

Also, only some people had heard about the duel between Yang Chen and Li Qingchen. But that JieDan expert of the Greatest Heaven Sect hadn't reported to the elders of his sect because, in his view, this was only a joke. If he even reported such a joke to the elders, wouldn't they think he was not earnest?

The events that happened afterwards were also somewhat in his expectations, in addition to that, the matter of Shi Shanshan and Yang Chen becoming dao companions was not formalized, so he believed that it was just a joke even more firmly.

Naturally, he did not spread the news, not because he did not wanted to humiliated Yang Chen, but because he did not want to create trouble for the Green Jade Immortal Islands. Therefore, apart from the two YuanYing experts of the Green Jade Immortal Islands and a few people of the Pure Yang Palace, not many people knew this and so there also wasn't any such rumor in the cultivation world.

But presently, after elder Min Huafeng of the Green Jade Immortal Islands had asked this question, the matter had immediately become a fact.

Who was Shi Shanshan? There was rarely anyone who had not heard about her. The genius disciple of the Green Jade Immortal Islands whom the sect had focused all of their resources upon, the heavenly talent who had already reached the JieDan stage at such a young age. If even a rumor of such a disciple looking for dao companions spread, the number of people lining up to become her dao companion would fill the entire Green Jade Immortal Islands.

Such an outstanding disciple surprisingly had a dao companion? Moreover, not only was he not from the Green Jade Immortal Islands, he was also only at the initial Foundation stage?

"Eh?"

From the beginning, Yang Chen had not intended to raise this matter and wait for a few years so that someone else would ask to be her dao companion, but he hadn't expected that elder Min Huafeng also knew about this matter.

Clearly, this meant that everyone inside the Green Jade Immortal Islands knew about this and had even given tacit approval. Otherwise, a person with the status of an elder would not ask this question publicly.

"This… Senior… There is some misunderstanding in this!"

Yang Chen could only give such an explanation. Gao Yue, standing behind him, was also very anxious and immediately stepped forward and greeted everyone and said:

"It is only a joke from that time… Senior, you must not take it seriously!"

"What misunderstanding?"

Elder Min Huafeng waved her hand:

"The matter is already settled and cannot be altered. Fellow daoist Gui, I say, it would be better if you asked your noble sect's Palace Master to personally handle the matter. Shanshan is our most beloved disciple and should not be wronged!"

These words were directed towards Gui Shanyou, after all, the person who had the most seniority in the Pure Yang Palace was Gui Shanyou.

Since a person of elder Min's status had said such a thing, it clearly implied that the Palace Master of the Pure Yang Palace personally had to go to the Green Jade Immortal Islands and find a solution. But after hearing the opinion of elder Min, it was clear that the Green Jade Immortal Islands had agreed to this matter, against Yang Chen's wishes.

Fairy Shi of the Green Jade Immortal Islands was a heavenly talent who had a metal attributed full spirit root. Becoming her dao companion was certainly something that most people in the world yearned for; how could Yang Chen be dissatisfied?

"Idiot, this kind of opportunity doesn't come again!"

Countless people despised Yang Chen in their hearts. Similarly, many people also envied Yang Chen's good fortune.

Very quickly, someone managed to understand that it was not that Yang Chen was not satisfied, it was just that Yang Chen was a clever person and who knew his worth and knew that he was not suitable for Fairy Shi, and had therefore declined.

This theory would explain many things. When everyone looked at Yang Chen again, their good opinion of Yang Chen increased even more. A disciple who had knew themselves and also had such heaven defying luck was indeed rare.

Right now, everyone was still thinking about Lin Chenghe's matter. They had just talked about the matter of dao companions because elder Min had put it forward, but the most urgent thing was to inform everyone that the devil, Lin Chenghe, had been annihilated and make everyone feel relieved.

But everyone was feeling awkward, thinking about how to announce the information. Although it was true that Yang Chen had killed him, he was only a Foundation stage cultivator. If the news that the devil who had killed two Da Cheng and several YuanYing stage experts and absorbed the cultivation of countless experts had died in the hands of a Foundation stage cultivator, then all of the experts who had participated would certainly not be pleased.

"Naturally it is everyone's credit!"

Yang Chen again calmly replied:

"Seniors forced him to enter this gap and with all of you coming behind him, he still would have been unable to escape. This credit of destroying the devil and protecting the dao naturally must belong to all seniors. This junior only requests that the seniors testify that this junior had touched Ling Chenghe's hair!"

These words of Yang Chen gave rise to laughter. Since Yang Chen had himself taken the initiative to give the credit, even the YuanYing experts of the Greatest Heaven Sect didn't want to make things difficult for him.

"Be at ease, as soon as this matter is over, this old man will send Cheng Wencai to the Pure Yang Palace to honor the commitment!"

Yang Chen knew good from bad, so all of the elders would also have a favorable attitude towards him and the Greatest Heaven Sect's YuanYing stage expert immediately made the decision.

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Chapter 172 – Second Wood Flying Sword Completed

04 Dec 2016

This trip to annihilate Lin Chenghe had brought great fame and fortune for Yang Chen. Regardless of what happened, in the end, Yang Chen's name was still written together with those Da Cheng and YuanYing stage experts, even though it was only written in the last place.

In the end, Gui Shanyou, the expert from the Pure Yang Palace, aside from looking weaker in front of others, still had his name spread far and wide.

Pure Yang Palace's Eccentric Hall's hall master had not only accurately discovered the position of Lin Chenghe, allowing everyone to surround him, but at the crucial time, he had also saved the lives of more than ten YuanYing stage experts. Such a contribution was indeed one of the largest.

Although Yang Chen didn't appear to be very important, the credit of making the final attack on Lin Chenghe was still regarded as Yang Chen's. After all, those YuanYing and Da Cheng stage cultivators were not so thick-skinned as to falsely claim Yang Chen's credit.

Naturally, obtaining the reputation was a trivial matter. The main benefit was that Yang Chen's Blood Phantom Vine flying sword had passed through the flesh of Lin Chenghe at the Da Cheng stage and had completely become a second wood flying sword, this sword was the flying sword with the most potential in Yang Chen's armory, even higher than the Immortal Executing Blade.

But the second wood flying sword was still one of the sword souls of the Immortal Executing Blade. Both of them would be fused together in the future, but this was not something which Yang Chen should get a headache over.

In addition to that, he had also received another great harvest: Lin Chenghe's qiankun pouch. With his actions, that devil must have obtained a lot of treasures in exchange for the Heavenly Meteor Heart Crystals.

This could be called as obtaining both fame and fortune. Nobody could claim having obtained a higher harvest than him. Apart from this, another advantage was that Gui Shanyou was now acknowledged by other experts.

The reason why Gui Shanyou had taken the initiative to resist the first attack of Lin Chenghe when he exploded these experts was because Yang Chen had told him so. This was firstly to get the reputation of saving their lives, but at the same time also to use this opportunity to collect pieces of flesh and blood, just that it had to be done secretly without letting anyone know.

Although their cultivation had been absorbed by Lin Chenghe, they were still two Da Cheng stage experts. Their flesh was the best kind of nourishment for the master root and the master vine of the Blood Phantom Vine, which were lying in the Medicine Garden at their last breath.

After the events when these were delivered to Yang Chen, he immediately went to where the Blood Phantom Vine was planted. After meticulously taking care of them, the Blood Phantom Vine finally showed some vitality and did not appear as if dying at any moment.

Perhaps after a few hundred years, the badly damaged Blood Phantom Vine would grow luxuriant again. But that was a long time away. Currently Yang Chen only wanted to ensure that the Blood Phantom Vine did not die, other things could be discussed later. In any case, Yang Chen already possessed the Blood Phantom Vine flying sword, which could also be upgraded similarly and was many times more powerful than the original Blood Phantom Vine.

The only thing left was the matter of Shi Shanshan, which was giving Yang Chen endless headaches. Even his master was continuously frowning and knitting her brows. This kind of matter would not be solved that easily. Even Green Jade Immortal Islands' elder Min Huafeng had spoken about this, so it was nearly impossible for the Palace Master not to go.

Initially, he had intended to delay the matter until everyone forgot about it, but unfortunately the Green Jade Immortal Islands seemed to be determined. He could not understand if they were doing this to prove that they wouldn't go back on their words or if there was another motive, but in any case, the matter of Yang Chen and Shi Shanshan being dao companions had already spread across the entire world because of elder Min Huafeng.

Yang Chen was convinced that, in the near future, he would start receiving challenges from countless admirers of Shi Shanshan, which would make this matter even more of an annoyance.

Apparently nobody knew if Yang Chen had some plan in advance, otherwise why would he act as if he knew the result of the battle when making the wager with Cheng Wencai. But no one could believe such a nonsensical notion. Could it be that Yang Chen knew where Lin Chenghe was going to pass and had put his flying sword there in advance and moreover made that bet earlier?

Rather than believing that he had planned this, everyone prefered to believe in Yang Chen's heaven defying luck. After all, everyone who knew about Yang Chen's past endeavors knew how frightening his good fortune was. Only, something like this was not under the control of anyone, even Da Cheng stage experts couldn't control it.

The unlucky Cheng Wencai didn't even know what kind of mess he was in. Since even the YuanYing stage elders of the sect knew, this matter wouldn't just stop with just Cheng Wencai. When the YuanYing stage elder had gotten to know about the affair, he wanted to severely scold Cheng Wencai at once.

The bet between both sides was made after Cheng Wencai had mocked Yang Chen, so even the elders of the Greatest Heaven Sect didn't know what to say. After all, nearly all of the sects had sent all their disciples at that time, so Cheng Wencai mocking Yang Chen was equivalent to mocking all of these sects. If the matter went public, then surely the Greatest Heaven Sect would lose a lot of face.

Thus Cheng Wencai was immediately turned into a scapegoat by the elders of the sect, in order to stop the matter from spreading. First of all, being a JieDan expert, making a bet with a Foundation stage junior was itself immature. Moreover, even at the Heavenly Stairs Assembly, he had questioned Yang Chen and accused him of cheating, losing three JieDan expert of the Greatest Heaven Sect thereafter.

He had such a bad record only his sect could clean up his mess. Naturally, the experts of the Greatest Heaven Sect would not allow for Cheng Wencai to kneel in front of Yang Chen and Gao Yue under the eyes of so many people, after all the Greatest Heaven Sect also had to save some face. This matter could only be dragged out, but it could also not be kept hanging. The only one to blame in this case was Cheng Wencai, who had spread the matter since a long time ago, sure of the outcome.

Leaving such small matters, all of the experts began to seriously summarize the lesson from this time's event. All of the sects had begun to learn Pure Yang Palace's way of handling matters. On one hand was wariness against devil cultivation, while on the other hand was their Eccentric Hall to rope in demon beasts. The merit of the Eccentric Hall could be seen from Gui Shanyou's contribution.

The genuine evaluation of merit was the work of the experts, so the Foundation and JieDan stage cultivators present had started to return to their sect. Yang Chen and Gao Yue were no exception and, after informing Gui Shanyou, they also returned to the MeiQing Mountain.

Regardless of however they distributed the contributions, Yang Chen had matters to deal with, for example using the flesh of these Da Cheng stage experts to completely forge the edge of the second wood flying sword.

On the journey, he had told Gao Yue that he had something to do first, so as soon as they returned, Yang Chen entered closed door training. Gao Yue on the other hand, anxiously went to find her master to consult him regarding the matter of Yang Chen and Shi Shanshan.

Speaking of which, when elder Min Huafeng had asked if Yang Chen and Shi Shanshan were dao companions or not, Gao Yue felt an insufferable pain in her chest for some reason.

She couldn't describe this sensation in words, but she became extremely uneasy, as if her treasure was being robbed by someone. Every time she felt this sensation, she would remind herself that she was Yang Chen's master and there could not be anything between them. On the contrary, she should be glad that her disciple would have such an exceptional dao companion.

But unfortunately, no matter how hard she tried, Gao Yue was unable to feel happy. Moreover, she also could not talk about her feelings to anyone, so she could only push them down in her mind and suffer the unbearable pain.

But Yang Chen didn't pay any attention to Gao Yue's mood. Currently, his entire mind was concentrated on the second wood flying sword. After absorbing the blood of the Da Cheng stage expert, the flying sword was showing all of the characteristics of a flying sword, just waiting for Yang Chen to complete the last step of the procedure.

In the room, Yang Chen cautiously took out the blood phantom vine sword embryo. Looking at the blood colored ripples on the sword, he couldn't the describe the joy of his heart in words.

This was the first weapon Yang Chen had refined by himself and also a component of his destined magic weapon. In his previous life, even if he wanted to, Yang Chen would not dare to think that he could refine a flying sword from a Blood Phantom Vine. Holding the flying sword's embryo in his hand, he even felt that he was in a dream.

Releasing his spiritual awareness to the limit, Yang Chen entered his spirit sea. The flying sword was magnified within his spirit sea, allowing him to have a panoramic view.

With the support of the Second Fierce Yang Courtyard's enormous spirit power, Yang Chen controlled the Geocentric Flame to remove the impurities inside and outside of the sword embryo bit by bit.

All of these impurities had appeared after absorbing Lin Chenghe's blood. Lin Chenghe's own cultivation was not pure, as all of it was formed by stealing other people's cultivation, thus impurities were to be expected.

But Yang Chen wanted a perfect flying sword, so these kinds of impurities could not be allowed to exist. Yang Chen could tolerate using ordinary materials, as they could be replaced later by high grade materials, but he could not allow these impurities, as they would not only lower the quality of the flying sword, but also become a potential problem whenever he would try to increase the grade of the flying sword.

These impurities were caused by Lin Chenghe's impure spirit power, who was at the Da Cheng stage, so Yang Chen had no option but to spend a great amount of time and slowly refine and remove them. This was not a matter which could be solved overnight, even with Yang Chen's current strength. It was still a matter which required him to spend a lot of effort.

Fortunately, because of the mutation in his spirit sea which allowed him to enlarge the magic weapons countless times, Yang Chen could find even the minutest of flaws.

The effect of the pair cultivation for spiritual awareness was astonishing. During the refining process, the impurities were refined bit by bit, but not even a fraction of the sword embryo was harmed.

Just as a small amount of impurities were removed, the Blood Phantom Vine flying sword revealed an intense blood-thirsty pressure and began to shake incessantly within the spirit sea.

Yang Chen didn't dare to be careless and at this stage successively used forbidden techniques and formed unique seals on each of the spirit power ripples of the flying sword. After the last seal was formed, the Blood Phantom Vine flying sword emitted a glaring red light and then the red light dispersed, the flying sword itself turned black and didn't have that red color which scared people anymore.

Finally the second wood flying sword was complete. It had a delicate handle, a long unilateral edge and, although it did not have that frightening color anymore, in exchange it had undergone many changes and turned black. It was simple but elegant, yet it had a crazy killing intent concealed beneath the surface, which made Yang Chen almost go mad with happiness.

Looking at it from a distance, the fierceness of the flying sword could be seen at one glance, but that person would very quickly think that it was a misconception. Yang Chen knew that this was the first accomplishment of the flying sword and it still hadn't shown its complete brilliance.

With a thought from him, the flying sword turned into a black dragon which seemed incomparably soft and began to soar in Yang Chen's spirit sea. The main ingredient of this flying sword was the Blood Phantom Vine, so apart from the blood sucking ability of the Blood Phantom Vine, it had also retained its toughness and flexibility.

Seeing the flying sword sometimes turn into a ring and then into a small coiled serpent, Yang Chen was unable to contain his joy.

He had finally obtained a suitably strong flying sword! Although its level still wasn't very high, just the potential of the sword made this flying sword many times more formidable than the flying sword which elder Wu had given him. Henceforth, as Yang Chen's cultivation increased, this flying sword could also be limitlessly upgraded.

Apart from using the Geocentric Flame to remove impurities, he had also used second wood spirit power at the time of refining the flying sword. As a result, after the flying sword had been finished and Yang Chen had relaxed, he discovered certain changes in his second wood spirit power.

Yang Chen was at the second layer of the Foundation stage, but currently , his spirit power was very clearly increasing, slowly attacking the boundaries of the next realm. With his ample experience, Yang Chen recognized that this was a clear sign that he was going to make a breakthrough. Calming his heart, he slowly circulated his spirit power a few times, when suddenly those formless shackles disappeared and the second wood spirit power dashed towards the next level in a flash.

The second wood spirit power reaching the third layer of foundation stage also stirred up the spirit power of the other attributes, but, in the end this was not some major breakthrough, so the spirit power of these attributes only rose by half a grade, but didn't attain the state of a breakthrough.

Such a bonus made Yang Chen equally happy. From reaching the Foundation stage's second layer and then the third while consolidating his realm had taken him around ten years. An increase of two layers in the Foundation stage within the short time of ten years had already made Yang Chen pleased beyond expectations.

But cultivation should be stabilized and properly consolidated. It was not as simple as one just comprehending a realm and reaching that level without stabilizing it. Otherwise Lin Chenghe wouldn't have died from spirit power backlash in his previous life.

With this speed, Yang Chen could determine that, within the next hundred years, he would certainly be able to congeal his dan and enter the JieDan realm. Yang Chen would not have even dared to think of such speed in his previous life. Such speed of cultivation was almost comparable to Gongsun Ling.

Thinking of Gongsun Ling, Yang Chen suddenly remembered that, from the time she had entered the Immortal Falling Well to now, a whole ten years had already passed. It should be about time for her to return.

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Chapter 173 – Trade Can Also Increase Cultivation

Since Yang Chen had returned, he had been engrossed in refining the second wood flying sword, but now that the flying sword had been completed, Yang Chen could finally mention his request to his master. At the time of the bet with Cheng Wencai, Gao Yue had promised one request to Yang Chen. When Yang Chen had killed Lin Chenghe, he hadn't raised that request, but had instead delayed the matter, afraid that she would not accept his request.

Now, a few months had already passed, so Yang Chen reckoned that his master should already have a rough idea of what he wanted to ask of her, so if he spoke at this time, there would not be too many negative consequences.

In this life, Yang Chen wanted to cherish Gao Yue in every possible way. He was unable to tolerate even a single wrongdoing to her. As for the matter of the water attributed cultivation method, he wanted to introduce her to this direction willingly rather than forcing her.

The next time Yang Chen went to see Gao Yue, she was engrossed in completing the final step for Yang Chen's flying sword. Gao Yue had already spent several years on this flying sword. From the time she was saved by Yang Chen at the Greater Mountain, she had been immersed in refining the flying sword. If that 'great calamity of the devil cultivation' had not happened, she wouldn't have left the work undone.

"Just wait for two or three months, then this flying sword will be complete."

Looking at Yang Chen, Gao Yue cheerfully said. Sweeping her gaze over Yang Chen, she asked with a laugh:

"What's the matter?"

"Last time, master agreed to do something."

Yang Chen replied, beaming with smiles. The flying sword was nearly finished, so Yang Chen also became cheerful. Remembering this matter for which he was waiting for a long time, how could it not make his mood surge?

"What do you want from me?"

Gao Yue seemed to have guessed Yang Chen's intention and asked:

"Is it the request from last time? You want me to cultivate the water attributed cultivation method?"

"Yes! Master!"

Gao Yue asking this question made it clear that she was thinking about this matter, so Yang Chen was very happy. Making her accept this slowly was also a pleasant experience for him.

Seeing Yang Chen's smile, Gao Yue stared at him with a complicated gaze for a long time and only then did she nod:

"Ok! Since I have lost, I have to pay. Although you have a very beautiful and gorgeous dao companion, I am a woman who keeps her word. Since I have promised you, I will fulfill it."

Hearing Gao Yue's words, Yang Chen could not help but force a bitter smile. Surprisingly, Gao Yue had also begun teasing him regarding Shi Shanshan. This was such a headache. He also didn't know how Palace Master Zhong Jiao and them were going to negotiate and resolve it.

Gao Yue seemed to enjoy teasing Yang Chen. Looking at Yang Chen's anxious expressions, she cheerfully smiled:

"Go, wait for me to refine this flying sword properly, then I will begin to cultivate your water attributed cultivation method. But, beforehand, you must arrange for a suitable cultivation method and other things, so when the time comes, only you can be blamed."

"Yes, master! Disciple will immediately go and prepare!"

Yang Chen was delighted. He had finally convinced Gao Yue to cultivate a water attributed cultivation method, which also removed a big nail in his heart. He would never allow the regrets of his previous life to be repeated in this life. As long as he would exist, he would certainly not allow that tragedy to happen again.

But now, everything had seemingly changed towards the direction Yang Chen wanted. Although the change was not very great, this life's events had already started to deviate from his previous life's events, which would become even greater with time.

"Master, has Cheng Wencai come to kowtow in front of you?"

After settling the major worry, Yang Chen began to ask about other things.

During the great calamity of the devil cultivation, if it were not for his mocking, Yang Chen hadn't intended for things to develop that way. But since he had already gained the name for killing Lin Chenghe, he could not allow Cheng Wencai to renege on his debt.

"Word was sent to the Greatest Heaven Sect, asking them to make Cheng Wencai come and honor his commitment."

Gao Yue slowly replied:

"But you were in closed door training at that time and I was at a critical juncture for refining this sword, so it was postponed for the time being."

"Then ask him to come over!"

Yang Chen replied without any hesitation:

"Since he agreed to bet, he has to pay. The Greatest Heaven Sect has already shown this time and again, with the demeanor of a big sect."

Although he was speaking praise for the Greatest Heaven Sect, anyone could hear the sarcasm laced within his words.

"Yang Chen!"

Gao Yue suddenly called his name:

"If you intend to keep hating the Greatest Heaven Sect because of Li QingChen's matter, then I advise you to expel these thoughts. Li QingChen is already dead and nobody in the Greatest Heaven Sect is targeting you!"

How could Gao Yue, his master, not see Yang Chen's hatred towards the Greatest Heaven Sect? She already had a feeling of what would make Yang Chen angry. Apparently, as long as it did not involve herself, then Yang Chen could handle nearly all matters easily, but once anyone took the fire of war to her, Yang Chen would suddenly turn cruel, showing no sentiments.

This gave Gao Yue an unspeakable sensation, feeling delight and a little fear at the same time. Naturally she liked having Yang Chen care about her, but she was also afraid that Yang Chen had some emotions which surpassed the relations between master and disciple.

Unfortunately, since the time of the pair cultivation with Yang Chen, Gao Yue was afraid that her relationship with Yang Chen would cross that of master and disciple, but even then she had some expectations within her heart. Even though she knew it was absolutely wrong, she couldn't help but feel stifled by Shi Shanshan, feeling conflicted about what to do.

The power and influence of the Greatest Heaven Sect was great, a fact which was accepted by all dao sects. Gao Yue did not want Yang Chen to be pitted against an enemy which he wouldn't be able to handle.

"No one is targeting me?"

Yang Chen laughed. Until now, Yang Xi maybe hadn't appeared because he had just recently started to stand out in the Greatest Heaven Sect and hadn't achieved any higher realm, but who knew… When they time came, what methods would he use to deal with Yang Chen? Moreover, even without Yang Xi, Yang Chen didn't intend to let the Greatest Heaven Sect slip by lightly. The hatred of ten thousand years, how could it be renounced just because of Li QingChen?

"Ai!"

Looking at Yang Chen's expressions, Gao Yue knew that she wasn't successful in convincing Yang Chen, but she also didn't intend to put this discussion off for later and warned him repeatedly:

"Be careful in everything you do."

"Be at ease, master!"

Yang Chen nodded:

"Disciple is well aware of the situation!"

Both of them did not speak of this matter anymore, but they were clear about one thing: Cheng Wencai had to come over and kowtow. At the time of making the bet, he wasn't very formal with Gao Yue and very rude, since he had thought that he would surely win, otherwise he wouldn't have made that bet.

The 'great calamity of the devil cultivation' was considered to have passed. Yang Chen thought carefully: there was no major event for some time which would affect the larger cultivation world, so it should be better used to cultivate. Most of all, his main priority should be to make Gao Yue slowly switch her attribute.

He still hadn't sorted out Lin Chenghe's qiankun pouch. What kind of things should be sent to Shangguan Feng, so that he could sell them for the improvement of the sect? After settling the matter with his master, Yang Chen directly went to Shangguan Feng.

At the Second Fierce Yang Hall, Shangguan Feng had opened a small shop, but this small shop was very well known within the Pure Yang Palace, as everything it had was of good quality and the disciples also received a discount of twenty percent compared to the market price. Thus, because of such a benefit, the number of people coming there every day were endless.

"How are you, younger apprentice brother Yang?"

"Good morning, younger disciple Yang!"

"Uncle master, long time no see!"

When Yang Chen appeared, everyone he ran into greeted him with a smile. Everyone knew that the things in the store were owned by Yang Chen, so everyone had a smiling face upon seeing him.

Yang Chen was also happy to have a good reputation within the sect, moreover he was also indirectly contributing to increasing the strength of the sect. Yang Chen smiled at everyone greeting him and then went to find Shangguan Feng.

Seeing each other, Yang Chen was stunned by Shangguan Feng's condition. In the years they hadn't seen each other, Shangguan Feng's cultivation had unexpectedly increased greatly. This Shangguan Feng was a completely different person compared to Yang Chen's previous life.

"Senior apprentice brother, what kind of elixir did you take?"

Upon seeing Shangguan Feng, Yang Chen asked with astonishment.

It was not that Yang Chen hadn't offered to make pills for him to increase his cultivation, but Shangguan Feng himself knew that cultivation gained by pills and such things would be shallow and it would still be difficult for him to break through, so he had declined Yang Chen's kind intentions. But Shangguan Feng's current condition made him unable to be unastonished.

"Elixir?"

Shannguan Feng widely smiled:

"If I had to say, I would say the kind intentions of young apprentice brother, which I had received last time."

"That's it?"

Yang Chen stared at Shangguan Feng:

"I still haven't congratulated senior apprentice brother for your increase in cultivation!"

Last time when he had seen Shangguan Feng, he was only at the third layer of the Foundation stage. The result from using the Heaven Measuring Ruler was also normal, but he had already clearly broken through to the middle Foundation stage and had stepped over at least two layers. This was certainly not the condition of someone who was thought to have zero future prospects.

Shangguan Feng was in a good mood and in order to increase in cultivation rapidly, it required a friend to whom everything could be disclosed, so without caring for anything, he immediately started to speak to Yang Chen non-stop.

From the start, Shangguan Feng knew about the inferiority of his natural aptitude, so he had to renounce and turned to running this store successfully. But what no one had thought was that Shangguan Feng was like a fish in the water here.

It already had good treasures and Shangguan Feng could operate it freely. In addition to that, all of the treasures were managed by him, so he could arrange anything as he liked and at the same time delight himself. So, unconsciously, it also began to help his cultivation and by the time he paid attention, his cultivation had already risen by one level, and even more when he concentrated on raising his cultivation quickly.

Seeing that, Shangguan Feng was also baffled, but he quickly placed this matter at the back of his mind and immersed himself in business and by the time Yang Chen had come, he had already risen by another layer.

Rising two layers within little over seven years, from the third layer of the Foundation stage to fifth layer of the Foundation stage, this could put even Yang Chen and Gongsun Ling to shame.

Yang Chen continued to listen to his narration with a smile on his face and immediately realized what had happened: Shangguan Feng had taken another direction in cultivation. Actually, cultivation could be done in various ways after the Foundation stage. As long as a person immersed themselves within work, like cultivating, then it was easy for them to increase their cultivation.

Someone could immerse themselves into the four arts, someone into defeating the devil to protect the dao, someone would take up refining tools or concocting pills, so this was by no means an isolated case. In short, everyone just needed to find something they loved and single mindedly concentrate on it. Shangguan Feng also loved doing the work of a merchant and had thrown himself into the work, leading to such a variation.

To be able to find a suitable direction was good luck, but to be able to find it at the Foundation stage was indeed heaven defying luck. Throwing himself into taking care of business was indeed a sensible decision at that time, otherwise he would never have received this opportunity.

"Congratulations, senior apprentice brother!"

Hearing everything, Yang Chen only smiled and congratulated him:

"So senior apprentice brother has already found his dao."

But Shangguan Feng hadn't thought that he would also be to attain such a heavenly fortune one day and his whole body shook. Then he happily patted the back of his head and mocked himself:

"So from the start, I was meant to be a merchant!"

After knowing this, Shangguan Feng was unable to contain his joy and since he had the opportunity, he also gained confidence in cultivation again. Yang Chen was also satisfied with seeing his friend make the breakthrough and simply supported him from behind.

"Senior apprentice brother, I also have some more things here, come take a look."

Saying this, Yang Chen started taking out things from Lin Chenghe's qiankun pouch one by one.

Only two people were present in the room, so they didn't have any formalities between them. The other people outside didn't know what was going on and Yang Chen was taking out things one by one without the fear of anyone.

Yang Chen also hadn't sorted through Lin Chenghe's things, the time now was perfect for such things. Lin Chenghe had received many things in exchange for the Heaven Meteor Heart Crystal, which was more than Yang Chen could use and was just right to be sold at Shangguan Feng's shop.

Some ordinary materials were delivered by Yang Chen, only taking some treasures, the other materials were all given to Shangguan Feng after one look.

It had to be said, although the time of Lin Chenghe was very short, he hadn't obtained any treasures. Most of the materials were just common materials, which didn't have much use apart from enriching Shangguan Feng's inventory.

"Junior apprentice brother, all of the things that you have brought back these past years, were exchanged for…….."

After the exchange, Shangguan Feng started to recount the result of the past few years to Yang Chen, regarding how many spirit stones he had harvested. All of these things belonged to Yang Chen, Shangguan didn't have any intention of taking them.

"Perhaps senior apprentice brother should go and become a shopkeeper at the Thousand Autumn Pavilion."

Yang Chen could not help but smile, seeing Shangguan Feng's serious appearance.

While the two people were chatting, in the outside world, a boundlessly majestic sensation which can make people delighted suddenly appeared within the sky. Suddenly a huge lotus flower which didn't disperse for long time appeared. Immediately afterwards, the sky was covered with many rays of light, which were shooting towards some region and then dispersed, after which they were no longer visible.

These bizarre circumstances forced the cultivators present to look up. Seeing the different shapes in the sky, everyone knew what was happening.

"Someone… Someone is ascending!"

Seeing this scene, Yang Chen immediately realized what happened and suddenly thought within his heart:

"This is Elder Wu's ascension!"

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Chapter 174 – Return of Gongsun Ling

Elder Wu's strength had already reached the realm required for ascension a long time ago, but because of some unfinished business, his ascension was delayed. Just recently, he had passed the Wind tribulation with his formidable cultivation. So his time of ascension had finally come.

When a YuanYing stage expert rises to the Da Cheng stage, he could trigger fluctuations in spirit power within several hundred mile and as long as one was a cultivator, one could sense it. And when a Da Cheng stage expert ascended, the anomaly could be sensed even more clearly.

Those who had lived long enough to experience someone ascending naturally knew what was happening and those who hadn't gone through the experience naturally didn't know what was happening.

However, what had astonished those who knew what was going on was that the Wind tribulation would usually last for quite a while and would be abnormally difficult, but for Elder Wu it was as easy as blowing off dust. The first thing which came to everyone's mind in that situation was precisely the Heaven Seizing Pill.

This was no secret that Elder Wu had refined the Heaven Seizing Pill. Because of that matter, Yang Chen's name had spread everywhere. But since Elder Wu hadn't ascended immediately, nobody knew whether to consider the information of Elder Wu creating the Heaven Seizing Pill successfully as real or fake. Even those who had originally participated in the refining process weren't saying anything, so nobody could verify.

Today, Elder Wu passing his ascension so speedily had sufficiently proven that, not only had the Heaven Seizing Pill been refined successfully, it also had played a significant role in his ascension.

Only Yang Chen, Gao Yue and Wang Yong knew that this wasn't the complete truth. When the Heaven Seizing Pill had been refined, during the pill tribulation, Elder Wu had supported the pill with his hands in the last few attacks of the Wind Tribulation, so he already had sufficient knowledge and experience regarding the pill tribulation, which was the reason he was able to pass it so easily.

Unfortunately, not many people knew that. Almost everyone had accepted that it was because of the Heaven Seizing Pill. Within a short time, all kind of theories began to spread with Elder Wu's ascension and the Heaven Seizing Pill was the focus.

Elder Wu's ascension also made those cultivation experiences he had given to Yang Chen even more precious. Especially the records of the path from the YuanYing to the Da Cheng stage and from the Da Cheng stage to ascension. Without any hesitation, Palace Master Zhang Jiao immediately placed that part in the Secret Pavilion of the Pure Yang Palace kept only for the eyes of elders who needed it.

Since Elder Wu was ascending, Yang Chen's name was also mentioned. Naturally, in addition to those pill concocting masters who had participated at that time, as well as the beast tamer Fan Shan. But the person whose name was spoken first was Yang Chen, who had the lowest cultivation among them all.

For Yang Chen, Elder Wu's ascension meant that he would lose a formidable backer in the Mortal World, but fortunately he had already formed good relations with elder Hua of the Clear Sky Sect, as well as the Da Cheng stage expert of Pure Yang Palace, Gui Shanyou, so this did not have a big effect on Yang Chen.

Following Elder Wu's ascension, Gongsun Ling appeared in front of Yang Chen, after having spent ten years in the Immortal Falling Well. She had just recently returned and had directly come to the Second Fierce Yang Courtyard to visit her master. Hearing that Yang Chen was also there, she immediately came over.

"Senior apprentice sister!"

Yang Chen was pleasantly surprised. The Gongsun Ling before his eyes was completely different from the Gongsun Ling within his memories from his past life. Her temperament had greatly changed. As for her cultivation, although she was similar to Yang Chen at the initial Foundation stage, she had an imposing air around her, refined from fighting countless battles.

"I have returned from the Immortal Falling Well!"

Gongsun Ling had a smile across her entire face. The smile was unable to obstruct her confident expression: clearly she had become determined and firm after gaining experience in countless close combat battles. She was completely different from the Gongsun Ling in Yang Chen's memories, who disregarded the outer world and was only engrossed in bitter cultivation.

"Good work, senior apprentice sister!"

Looking at the change in Gongsun Ling, Yang Chen was also delighted. Only after gaining experience could talent genuinely be used. Immersing oneself in bitter cultivation on a spirit vein without gaining the slightest amount of experience in battles would create problems at the time of their tribulation, and even if she succeeded in ascending, she would just remain a target of bullying in the Spiritual World.

"I have also heard about your situation."

Gongsun Ling was greatly interested in Yang Chen. After coming out of the Immortal Falling Well, she immediately asked around for Yang Chen's situation. After saying this, her expression suddenly changed and with a bitter smile she said:

"I heard about your relationship with the cool and elegant Fairy Shi of the Green Jade Immortal Islands. Younger apprentice brother, you are really fortunate with women!"

Yang Chen cursed within his heart. Why did everyone have to talk of this matter with him? First his master and now his senior apprentice sister. The reaction of other disciples was not so intense towards this matter. Moreover, Yang Chen was caught off guard by the tone of Gongsun Ling, who seemed to be in a bad mood while talking of this.

At this very moment, Yang Chen wanted to die. He had not even accepted the proposal, yet how could everyone talk like this with him?

"That is just a misunderstanding!"

Apart from explaining with a bitter expression, Yang Chen couldn't do anything else:

"Palace Master Zhang Jiao is currently negotiating. I just hope that the Green Jade Immortal Islands abandon their original aspiration!"

"You are not willing?"

Gongsun Ling raised her eyebrows, but her tone had clearly eased up and furthermore contained a hint of astonishment.

"I was saying that this was a misunderstanding from the start!"

Yang Chen could only force a smile. Everyone was thinking that he had obtained a great treasure, but only he knew the pain he had to suffer.

"Since you are not willing, just decline it!"

Gongsun Ling nodded her head in satisfaction and patted Yang Chen's shoulder. Feeling relieved, her face resumed a smile.

"You think I haven't tried?"

Yang Chen helplessly looked at Gongsun Ling, giving rise to a crystalline laughter from her.

Regardless of what was said, Gongsun Ling was extremely satisfied with his reply and did not nag him about this anymore. Instead she happily started to recount her experiences at the Immortal Falling Well to Yang Chen and Shangguan Feng. She talked about what kind of risks she experienced and what she learned from them, seemingly wanting to let Yang Chen gain something from her experience.

Yang Chen and Shangguan Feng were calmly listening, but Shangguan Feng quickly departed, using the excuse that someone had come to buy something, leaving the two people alone in the room.

It seemed as if Gongsun Ling hadn't talked to anyone for those ten years, she kept incessantly talking to Yang Chen, moreover she also described where the elixirs given to her by Yang Chen were used, radiating with joy.

Obviously Yang Chen would not disturb Gongsun Ling and kept on listening calmly, until she had said everything she had wanted to say. After she finished speaking, Gongsun Ling seemed to have been relieved of a major concern, patting her stomach with her lily-white hands, she laughed:

"Wow, telling you everything really made me comfortable!"

After a moment, without caring for Yang Chen's response, she directly asked:

"Younger apprentice brother Yang, didn't you say that, you would teach me a formidable illusion spell after I return?"

At some point of time during those ten years, Gongsun Ling seemed to have turned into an impetuous person. But Yang Chen was not very bothered about this. Gongsun Ling being in high spirits was fine: the more her cultivation increased, the more it would add to Pure Yang Palace's strength.

In any case, Yang Chen told her that this illusion spell was at the edge of the MeiQing Mountains, so taking Gongsun Ling there was no problem. But still, Yang Chen warned her again and again that it would be best if she visited her master and the other people she needed to visit before she started the cultivation, on the way. Cultivation was not something which you could stop when you wanted to, so it would be best to deal with all of the mortal affairs before starting cultivation.

Gongsun Ling nodded and committed Yang Chen's words to memory. Apparently her master had also seemed to say these kinds of words, but Gongsun Ling hadn't paid much attention at that time. Yang Chen's words however, Gongsun Ling remembered.

Yang Chen didn't pay any attention to this and led Gongsun Ling to the place where the senior who had made the Immortal Beheading Blade had undergone his closed door training.

"There doesn't seem to be anything special here!"

Gongsun Ling observed everything but didn't find any trace of the illusion spell and, wrinkling her brows she asked:

"Yang Chen, are you sure we are in the correct area?"

Unconsciously, Gongsun Ling had started calling him by his name, 'Yang Chen', instead of addressing him formally as junior apprentice brother. At this moment, Yang Chen didn't pay any attention to it. In any case, all of his friends used to address him by his name and Gongsun Ling was also one of them.

Regarding Gongsun Ling's question, Yang Chen didn't answer it, but rather gave her a smile and took a step forward. In flash, Yang Chen's body disappeared from Gongsun Ling's vision, but there wasn't any sound in the surroundings.

"What?! "

Seeing this magic, Gongsun Ling's eyes went wide. Although she was also a spell formation expert, seeing such an illusion spell, which didn't reveal the slightest presence, astonished her.

She also cautiously followed behind Yang Chen and took a step forward, when the scenery in front of her suddenly changed completely. She seemed to have reached a completely different region. On the side, Yang Chen was standing with a teasing smile on his face, as if just waiting to see her surprised expression.

"Awesome!"

Because she was also a spell formation expert, she could clearly see the difficulty of the illusion spell. Such a huge valley had been hidden completely by this spell and absolutely couldn't be discovered by anyone. Moreover, even if someone passed close to it, they wouldn't be even able to sense the existence of this illusion spell. The person who had laid such a spell was surely an expert.

"A senior of the sect used to cultivate here long ago."

Yang Chen didn't hide anything from Gongsun Ling and directly took her to that senior's grave.

Seeing Yang Chen erect the stele, Gongsun Ling didn't show any surprise. She only paid her respects and, after finishing, turned to Yang Chen and exclaimed:

"No wonder people say you have heavenly luck. At the Heavenly Stairs, you weren't affected by the illusionary land, and then after entering the Immortal Falling Well you found Elder Wu, then you formed a relation with the Da Cheng stage expert of the Clear Sky Sect and now found such a tightly concealed region. From today, you have my complete trust. If you don't have heavenly luck, how would it be possible?"

In Gongsun Ling's opinion, Yang Chen certainly had found this place by accident, otherwise there was no way to explain this. At this moment, Yang Chen also hadn't intended to provide an explanation and since everyone knew about Yang Chen's luck, he might as well just also blame this on his luck!

It would take Gongsun Ling a very long time to research this illusionary spell, so after noting down the location, both of them returned to the Pure Yang Palace. Gongsun Ling was not someone who didn't listen to the advice of others. Since she had returned to the Pure Yang Palace after ten years, she at least had to fulfill the proper etiquette expected of a disciple.

Apart from that little inconvenience, this life was going quite smoothly for Yang Chen. The great calamity of devil cultivation had also ended properly, the second wood flying sword was also refined and everything was going according to Yang Chen's plans. His master's and Gongsun Ling's lives had been altered. Suddenly Yang Chen thought that all of the plotting he had to go through was completely worth it.

With carefree mood, Yang Chen began to calmly wait for the signal to take the sword out of the furnace, and at the same time also waited for Cheng Wencai to come and pay his debt.

At that time, Cheng Wencai was going mad with rage and just wanted to humiliate Yang Chen, so he had wantonly made the matter of bet public, but he hadn't thought that, if he ended up losing, the entire world would know that he would have to bow his head in front of Yang Chen and Gao Yue.

Just because he had made the matter too famous, the Greatest Heaven Sect could not settle it in private, even if it wanted to. The influence of the Greatest Heaven Sect was great, but it had also gained the resentment and envy of other sects, so how could they allow such a matter?

Previously the Pure Yang Palace had delayed the day of the kowtow because Yang Chen and Gao Yue were both in closed door training, which allowed the Greatest Heaven Sect to see some hope and were delighted towards Pure Yang Palace to allow them to see this path. In any case, the elders had decided that Cheng Wencai had to kowtow, but he could do it secretly.

What they hadn't anticipated was Elder Wu's ascension. The performance of the Heaven Seizing Pill had once again turned Yang Chen into a topic of discussion. As a result, many people also remembered that Cheng Wencai had lost the wager and many more people also heard of this matter for the first time, so the whole matter spread, bubbling and gurgling. Even if the Greatest Heaven Sect and the Pure Yang Palace wanted to keep it low-key, it wasn't possible.

The matter which could initially be solved by Cheng Wencai kowtowing in front of Yang Chen and Gao Yue in some secret corner now had to be done in a public place because of these groups of people.

Hearing this, Cheng Wencai immediately spat a mouthful of blood. In his entire life, he had never hated someone as much as Yang Chen. He had been forced to fall from the JieDan stage to the Foundation stage and now, because of Yang Chen, he was going to lose all face in the cultivation world.

Cultivators respected heaven, earth and their master. They didn't even care about the ruler of heaven and earth, and would only kowtow before their master. Other than that, the only exception would sometimes be a dead person, to pay their respects. But a JieDan stage expert bowing their head to another sect's Foundation stage cultivator was something which had never been seen before.

If that Foundation stage cultivator's aptitude was inferior and he had grown older without any progress because of that, then it would not be so humiliating, but Yang Chen was a youngster, how could Cheng Wencai endure this?

However, he could only blame himself. If he had not been so arrogant at that time, then why would Yang Chen make such a bet with him?

But now that the matter had become so famous, it was beyond the control of Cheng Wencai and the Greatest Heaven Sect. Even if the Pure Yang Palace said that there was no need to honor the commitment, is was still impossible. Other people would definitely say that it was done under the pressure of the Greatest Heaven Sect, so the Greatest Heaven Sect could only make Cheng Wencai clear his own mess.

Cheng Wencai started his journey towards the Pure Yang Palace with the appearance of a warrior on his final battle, flames of anger burning through his heart.

This time's shame and humiliation could not be erased even if he cut Yang Chen and Gao Yue into ten thousand pieces. Under the eyes of the entire world, Cheng Wencai could not do anything, but he pledged within his heart, that, after this insult, he would definitely not let Yang Chen and Gao Yue remain alive.

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Chapter 175 – If You Want It, It's Not Impossible

Mad with rage, Cheng Wencai never thought that, if he had won the bet, he would not have let Yang Chen and Gao Yue off lightly. But he did not ponder over this much, just thinking that his humiliation could only be washed away by the death of the other party.

Yang Chen and Gao Yue hadn't expected that the matter would develop in such a way. Although Yang Chen detested Cheng Wencai, he only wanted him to apologise to his master. He wouldn't have made him kowtow to himself and put him in an embarrassing position in front of all those people, but Yang Chen also didn't dislike this situation. Cheng Wencai was the kind of person who, if not thought their lesson, wouldn't mend their arrogant ways.

In the domain of the Pure Yang Palace, the MeiQing Mountains, people were coming in from all directions, making the higher ups of the Pure Yang Palace very busy. Among the people rushing over, there were even YuanYing stage experts of many sects, making it necessary for Zhang Jiao to appear personally.

Everyone mixed together and began to wait for the disciple of the Greatest Heaven Sect to come and honor his commitment, but they kept the conversation centered around the Heaven Seizing Pill.

Previously, when Elder Wu hadn't ascended, he had been completely silent about the matter, and fearing his strength nobody dared to ask him about it. In addition, nobody knew if the Heaven Seizing Pill was effective or not. Everyone had only heard the news of it being refined, so who could say if it was useful? But now, when Elder Wu passed his tribulation so easily, everyone was surprised by the effectiveness of the Heaven Seizing Pill.

If not for Elder Wu's strength, their courage would have surely increased. Not only those sects which had a Da Cheng stage expert, but even those sects which didn't have any Da Cheng stage experts would have thought of obtaining it.

Need not speak of others, even the Greatest Heaven Sect was quite tempted by the Heaven Seizing Pill. Many elders had raised this issue, forcing Cheng Wencai to go and honor the commitment sincerely and gain the favorable opinion of Yang Chen and the Pure Yang Palace. The pressure from the higher ups of the Greatest Heaven Sect was also a part of the reason for Cheng Wencai coming to kowtow.

As Pure Yang Palace was a famous sect, had a Da Cheng stage expert and had also jointly fought with the other sects against the devil, even though they had very few losses, in the end it was also one of the dao sects, so they could not openly use any devious methods and could thus only use such a roundabout route.

When Cheng Wencai reached the Pure Yang Palace, he discovered, that the Pure Yang Palace had already allowed more than a thousand prestigious guests. After seeing this, Cheng Wencai immediately spat out a mouthful of blood. This was just the first hit, in the future he would have no face whatsoever among cultivators.

Originally he had thought it was just a small matter, but with so many people present, it wasn't going to end simply.

Although many people had assembled there, it was not because everyone wanted to see Cheng Wencai honoring his commitment. Most of them had just been using this as a pretense, but it still put Pure Yang Palace in a difficult position, as they didn't have enough seats for so many people. They immediately chose a sufficiently large area and afterwards built a high platform, so that all of them could have a good view. But the number of people could not be said to be small in any case.

"Why does it have to be like this?"

Seeing so many people, Gao Yue had become slightly timid. She had not yet become hostile with the Greatest Heaven Sect like in her last life and also hadn't become the hall master of the Fierce Yang Hall, so suddenly confronting so many people made her slightly nervous.

"What is not good here?"

Yang Chen, however, didn't care. It didn't matter to him if the ceremony was small scale or large. In any case, he was not in the wrong:

"In any case, we aren't the ones who have done anything wrong, so why should we be afraid?"

Although these words were true, people had many kinds of thoughts. Perhaps, after Cheng Wencai had kowtowed, someone could immediately make a fuss and turn the topic to the matter of the Heaven Seizing Pill.

"What if they bring up the Heaven Seizing Pill?"

Gao Yue was anxious about this, fearing that Yang Chen would get into trouble.

"If someone wants the Heaven Seizing Pill, then they should find the ingredients and take them to a pill concocting master who will refine it for them!"

Yang Chen replied while smiling:

"Wanting a Heaven Seizing Pill is not a crime? What do you say, master!"

This was quite reasonable, so Gao Yue immediately calmed down. Since Yang Chen had said so, apparently there was no need for her to get anxious. Seeing such chaos, she had just tensed up and needed to be calmed down a little, that's all.

When Yang Chen and Gao Yue appeared at the center of the platform, Cheng Wencai was already waiting on the side. Looking at Yang Chen and Gao Yue walking over, veins bulged in Cheng Wencai's eyes, appearing as if intending to come out. Yang Chen and Gao Yue had deliberately humiliated him in front of the entire world. This hatred had to be repaid!

"Fellow Daoist Cheng, you must pay when you lose!"

Without caring for Cheng Wencai's ashen expression or his bloodshot eyes, Yang Chen calmly said:

"Though, whether Fellow Daoist Cheng still recognizes this bet or not, that is another matter!"

"I admit my loss!"

Cheng Wencai didn't want to admit it, but he had no other choice. On this platform, he could only gnash his teeth and agree.

"Good. Fellow Daoist Cheng is indeed honest, he admitted at once!"

Yang Chen continued with a smile:

"Fellow Daoist Cheng has made a bet with this junior that, as long as this junior can touch one hair on the devil Lin Chenghe's head, senior will immediately lose. This junior has many witnesses that this junior had already touched a hair of Lin Chenghe, so this bet is senior Cheng's loss and, since you have lost, you must complete your part of the wager!"

Cheng Wencai opened his blood red eyes and firmly stared at Yang Chen for a good moment, then he snorted with hatred and was going to immediately bow his head to the ground. But before he could make the movement, he was promptly stopped by Yang Chen.

"Wait!"

Yang Chen quickly said. Cheng Wencai was stiffly fixed on the spot just about to kneel down, when his gaze full of hatred was raised again.

"At the time of making the bet with this junior, senior also included my master."

Yang Chen smiled without caring for Cheng Wencai's gaze, filled with bitter resentment:

"You must not forget about my master, so that senior doesn't have to kowtow repeatedly, furthermore, also remember to admit your mistake!"

At that time, both sides had betted a kowtow and admitting their mistake so Yang Chen reminded him of that.

Sounds of teeth gnashing could be heard from Cheng Wencai's mouth. His hands clenched tightly, blue veins bulging in his eyes, but he still didn't say anything and could only stare hatefully at Yang Chen, who was requesting Gao Yue to come over. Both of them took a seat, side by side. What was most intolerable for Cheng Wencai was that, after sitting down, Yang Chen still gestured for him to begin. This was simply insulting him to his face. If this could be tolerated then what couldn't?

But Cheng Wencai couldn't do anything other than bearing it, because he couldn't dare to provoke even a single visitor present on the scene. And this still didn't include the elders from his sect. Even if he was extremely angry, he didn't dare to offend so many people at the same time.

Dong!

Cheng Wencai put down his head on the ground and kowtowed in front of Yang Chen and Gao Yue, saying in a loud voice:

"Fellow Daoist Gao and Fellow Daoist Yang, I was in the wrong!"

"You really are a disciple of big sect whose words are of enormous weight!"

Just as Cheng Wencai kowtowed, Yang Chen immediately stood up and showered him in a series of praises.

The other party had already kowtowed, so giving such praise, which cost him nothing, he would naturally not hold back. But no matter how much praise he gave him, it would not wash away Cheng Wencai's humiliation, actually, the more he praised him, the more Cheng Wencai's resentment increased.

But what made Cheng Wencai almost spit blood was that he wished that only Yang Chen said those words, but the people in the surroundings actually also started saying such things. This was simply rubbing salt into his wound, making it ache even more.

Pu!

Finally, Cheng Wencai spat out all of the blood he had been choking on, which made him feel dizzy. A disciple of the Greatest Heaven Sect who was waiting on the side rushed to support and assist him.

"This old man has a pill, a high grade yuan cultivation pill. It would be suitable for Fellow Daoist Cheng."

Some great expert sitting on the platform immediately spoke and soon the pill floated towards Cheng Wencai, as if guided by an invisible wire and stopped at the edge of his mouth. The disciple supporting Cheng Wencai hastily turned it into powder, and fed it to him.

"Thinking of pills, this old man remembers something."

After delivering the pill, the old man changed the topic to pills:

"A few days ago, Elder Wu ascended. It is said that he used the Heaven Seizing Pill. Fellow Daoist Yang, you participated in the refining of the Heaven Seizing Pill, could you give some advice regarding it?"

The topic was changed very quickly, so quickly that, even before the palace master of the Pure Yang Palace, Zhong Jiao, and the group of elders couldn't interfere. The group of elders of the Pure Yang Palace was endlessly grieving in their heart.

"This junior was lucky!"

However Yang Chen had anticipated this:

"This junior was just fortunate enough to participate and had just refined some ingredients, so this junior absolutely doesn't dare to give any advice. But if you have some request for this junior, do not hesitate to ask. As long as this junior can accomplish it, this junior will not decline."

Yang Chen's reply was straightforward and frank, but it also made the group of people feel satisfied in their heart. Although the old man who had asked the question hadn't got a definite answer, hearing Yang Chen's straightforward reply, he also couldn't help but feel exalted and hastily asked:

"What kind of secret method was used to refine the Heaven Seizing Pill?"

Once these words came out, everyone in the surroundings started cursing him in their hearts. Why had he been so anxious and hasty that he had even forgotten his manners? However, his question was something everyone wanted to ask, so nobody interfered and everyone was looking at Yang Chen, waiting for his reply.

Everyone was fervently gazing at Yang Chen, mostly that peak JieDan stage old man who had asked the question. He was so fiercely gazing at Yang Chen that his gaze could melt iron. But Yang Chen didn't panic, and as if he didn't sense the noiseless pressure from the surroundings, he took a step forward and was just about to open his mouth when he suddenly heard a cough.

"Cough cough!"

Pure Yang Palace' palace master Zhang Jiao coughed loudly and said to everyone:

"Everyone, Fellow Daoist Cheng from the Greatest Heaven Sect has already honored his commitment, so I would like to invite everyone to the guest residence to have some tea!"

The palace master had deliberately changed the topic, thinking that even the people of his Pure Yang Palace had not asked Yang Chen about the secret method of refining, so why should you all these unrelated people know?

"Palace Master, there is no need to be polite!"

Immediately someone laughed loudly and said:

"You have no need to worry, everyone here is just reminiscing and just wanted to hear you noble sect's Fellow Daoist Yang's story, but we do not dare to trouble Palace Master!"

This person immediately agreed to the Palace Master's proposal.

Although everyone had said polite words, nobody had the intention of giving up. Despite everyone being from a dao sect, who wouldn't drool over the Heaven Seizing Pill? For an ordinary man, treasuring a jade ring becomes a crime. This recipe of the Heaven Seizing Pill was precisely the jade ring. Although everyone was irritated and anxious, they could not approach the matter directly, so they could only agree with a forced smile.

The Palace Master was very stressed. He knew the intention of these people, but if they forced Yang Chen to speak about the secret recipe of the Heaven Seizing Pill within the territory of the Pure Yang Palace, what face would the Pure Yang Palace have? It wasn't even able to protect its disciple, so what kind dao sect would it be?

While the palace master and the other elders were consulting about the situation noiselessly through eye contact, Yang Chen opened his mouth:

"As a matter of fact, this recipe of the Heaven Seizing Pill was found just by Elder Wu from some unknown location."

Once Yang Chen opened his mouth, everyone's attention once again turned to Yang Chen. The palace master was thinking of saying something, but seeing the smile on Yang Chen's face, he suddenly calmed down for some reason. If Yang Chen had a card up his sleeve, surely he could solve the matter.

"But this pill recipe was actually incomplete."

While Yang Chen was speaking, everyone had pricked their ears, fearing to miss even one word.

"On top of this, only the ingredients and the first half of the refining method were recorded, the later part of the refining method wasn't recorded."

Yang Chen continued:

"Then at that time, senior Deng Yi, senior He Lianyun, senior Zhu Peng and senior Fan Shan had discussed the specific refining method together with Elder Wu."

"Since this junior's cultivation, as well as experience, was limited, I had not participated in the later part of refining and have only refined some ingredients."

While talking, Yang Chen had a smile on his face all along and calmly continued to speak:

"Frankly, this junior also wants to know the later part of refining. If everyone can find the ingredients, this junior is willing to participate in the refining again. But seniors must find senior Deng, senior He and senior Zhu first. This youngster really doesn't know how to refine it."

"We have heard that you were the one who had completed the final step, is that true?"

Some people believed this fact, some people didn't, so someone immediately asked to confirm.

"This junior has only refined an elixir at the end to restore the pill spirit. With everyone's help, if those seniors had already failed earlier, then this junior would have nothing left to try."

Yang Chen explained with a smile.

Nobody present knew if it was true or not. In fact, after Elder Wu had ascended, the events from that time were spread outside in great detail. In fact, apart from the pill recipe, everyone had all the other details. Though it was not known that the people who had spread this were Elder Wu's servants, but in any case people, already knew.

Yang Chen's words were consistent with the information they had received, but everyone didn't want to let go so easily. They wanted to force Yang Chen to reveal the secret, so how could they cower that easily?

"Can Fellow Daoist Yang Chen tell us about this elixir which restored the pill spirit?"

Immediately someone calmly asked.

"Why not!"

Yang Chen said without the slightest hesitation, but it shocked everyone without end. Didn't this mean that they had succeeded without using any tricks? Even the palace master didn't know what kind of elixir Yang Chen was talking about.

"If seniors only want the elixir, then find me some ingredients and this junior can refine it."

Yang Chen kept on smiling:

"Also if you want the pill recipe that is also not out of question."

Everyone was looking at Yang Chen, waiting for him to continue.

"All the seniors here are reasonable people, so you all know if you want something, you must offer something in return!"

Yang Chen smiled and continued:

"This is a fair deal without any cheating!"

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Chapter 176 – You Can't Go Back On A Debt

Bang!

Yang Chen's words immediately gave rise to a lot of comments. Unexpectedly, such an important recipe could also be exchanged.

As for Yang Chen saying that he could refine it it was not anything strange. Yang Chen was a pill concocting master and a pill concocting master received a lot of requests to concoct pills for some payment. This was a common practice in the cultivation world. Only, nobody could guarantee success, and the ingredients were also invested by the requestor.

Speaking frankly, pill concocting masters used materials gathered by others to practice their skill and increase their experience while also earning some profit by selling the pill. This was not strange at all. All pill concocting masters followed this practice. Making the pill concocting master gather their own materials was simply wasting their precious time.

But regardless of what pill recipe it was, which sect it belonged to or which pill concocting master had it, they were all secrets which were never revealed to other people. The more important a pill recipe was, the more heavily it was guarded.

Yang Chen was surprisingly going to sell the pill recipe. This was simply beyond everyone's expectations. These were the ingredients of the Heaven Seizing Pill, so how could Yang Chen tell them to everyone so easily?

For those people who wanted the recipe of the Heaven Seizing Pill, this was great news. Since it didn't require them to become hostile with the Pure Yang Palace, just as long as they paid the price. The only question was, with such precious pill ingredients, what kind of price would they have to pay?

"If you want this junior to prepare the pill, then you only have to arrange for the main ingredients, this junior can himself arrange for the support ingredients."

Yang Chen waited for everyone to digest that news, only then did he calmly state his price

"The reward junior wants is not much, two first grade flames and perhaps a second grade flame."

Two first grade flames and a second grade flame were not too precious and obtaining them was certainly easy. Yang Chen currently had the Geocentric Flame, which was a third grade flame, which also couldn't be consider as very precious, but it was still very difficult to obtain. As for the Real Sun Fire and Nanming Fire, they were quite high grade flames which could not be searched for and could only be found by luck.

The reason why he needed so many low level flames was for the Profound Spirit Furnace. The increase in grade of the Profound Spirit Furnace didn't depend upon the grade of the flame, but rather on the number of flames it absorbed. Since low level flames were easy to obtain, Yang Chen didn't want to miss out on the opportunity to obtain some.

"What are the main ingredient?"

Someone immediately asked. This kind of price could be easily produced by anyone. Even if they did not have it on them right now, it would just take them one trip back to obtain it.

"Seniors can use any kind of inner dan of a demon beasts by converting it into fine powder."

Yang Chen quickly replied:

"There is no need to use many of them, just one or two would be sufficient."

Once Yang Chen said the words inner dan, immediately the complexions of many people changed, but after hearing that only one or two were needed, most of the people were relieved. Since not many inner dans were needed then it was obtainable.

However, most of the people were interested in the pill recipe, so immediately one of them asked:

"Then in case we want the pill recipe, what kind of price will we have to pay?"

"That is also simple."

Yang Chen extended a finger beaming with smiles:

"One third grade flame in exchange for a type of pill recipe. If you have even more higher grade flame then in proportions acceptable to everyone, you can obtain more parts."

A third grade flame was not a difficult matter for the people present, but the problem was that Yang Chen was so conveniently delivering the pill recipe, moreover he was exchanging a deadly third grade flame with a type of pill recipe, so could there still be more than one type of pill recipe?

"What do you mean? Is there more than one copy of the pill recipe?"

People who wanted the pill recipe had become even more anxious so without caring for their identity or status, they immediately blurted out. Once this question was asked, everyone's gazes turned towards Yang Chen.

"Seniors, the Heaven Seizing Pill uses a pill spirit and so far, although a particular pill recipe doesn't work in all cases, as long as the cultivation crosses the mark, it will do."

Yang Chen laughed and continued with his explanation:

"But, sometimes a different pill spirits contains different characteristics, so some adjustment is needed in the original recipe and refining. This junior doesn't know about refining skills, but just for restoring the pill spirit, it is a reasonable argument."

"Sometimes the pill spirit contains poison as their internal dan is highly toxic. To take care of this, we first need to neutralize the poison otherwise once it enters the Heaven Seizing Pill, it rather becomes a life seizing pill."

Under the avaricious gaze of countless people, Yang Chen didn't have the slightest amount of nervousness:

"Some have cold properties, some have heating properties, so by all means not all pill recipes can be the same."

"In addition, when we had refined the pill recipe the last time, the spirit energy of the pill spirit was completely drained, which made it weaker in health. The methods which made it weaker were many, some would wound it, some would damage it, some would poison it, some would create an inherent deficiency in it."

Speaking until there, without caring for the expressions of the people present:

"Different methods require different tricks and the ingredients are also completely different."

"Therefore, on top of restoring the pill spirit, there are still some types of combinations which this junior is not very clear about."

Yang Chen waved his hands:

"With regards to this, even this junior knows more than a thousand type of appearances. If any of you seniors is interested that, they can buy all types with just the price of a seventh grade flame."

Yang Chen words were really casual. A seventh grade flame, make no mistake, was, according to preciousness equal to a thousand third grade flames. But the question was: was a seventh grade flame that easily acquired? Even the Real Sun Fire and Real Moon Fire were only sixth grade flames. As for a seventh grade flame, only the Real Pure Yang Fire, which was treasured by successive generations of the Pure Yang Palace could be considered as one.

Nobody except idiots would agree to this. A third grade flame in exchange for a type, this was still not too extravagant, but it would supposably only focus on one type of pill spirit, moreover it would still fix one of the deficiencies of the pill spirit, thinking of this, everyone consented, seemingly believing Yang Chen.

The group of people looked at each other in dismay, but the Palace Master Zhong Jiao of the Pure Yang Palace revealed a smile. Yang Chen's this trick was indeed an effortless victory and the people who wanted the pill recipe were indeed at their wits end. Really brilliant. This disciple Yang Chen, although he was of a very young age, he was quite slick.

Under these circumstances, if someone used force, he would indeed be the Pure Yang Palace's enemy and, although Pure Yang Palace was a second rate sect, it was a second rate sect with a Da Cheng stage expert, so it was not afraid to pick a fight.

"Then can't it be bought on credit?"

Within the crowd, a questioning voice spread outside, filled with a hint of menace.

"Naturally you can."

Yang Chen turned towards the direction of the voice and said with a large smile spread across his face:

"If you want to buy on credit, you can, as long as you pay your debt on time. Otherwise this junior cannot guarantee if some apparently insignificant ingredients were not mixed up, making it a life seizing pill instead of a heaven seizing pill!"

Although Yang Chen had answered with a smile, it was a severe strike against the menacing voice and at the same time also a serious warning towards anyone having devious plans.

If they did not adhere to Yang Chen's way, then the pill recipe could certainly not be obtained completely. In this world, there wasn't anyone who could make Yang Chen confess against his wishes. He had endured the Ruining Immortal Absolute Devil Hand in the Heavenly Court for countless years, what else could these people do to him which would be more intolerable than that?

Yang Chen cared even less about the people who intended to use the method of Mo Qian. After the incident with Mo Qian, Yang Chen was eager to meet such people, maybe he could even obtain some YuanYing or Da Cheng stage expert puppets. They would be much more powerful than the spell formation of the Mo Qian's five disciples.

And this was just talking about Yang Chen himself and not counting the Pure Yang Palace which stood behind Yang Chen. There was almost no need to say that the Pure Yang Palace was ready to get exterminated defending a disciple who had produced so many benefits for the sect, the people wishing to use devious tricks also had to think about those troublesome and grave consequences.

"Naturally, if a senior really decides to renege on the debt, then this junior would indeed not mind using a complete pill recipe to exchange for an expert to retrieve senior's head."

After everyone heard this line, they all felt a fear of death within their hearts.

For just an incomplete pill recipe, not only would they have to worry about the Pure Yang Palace' revenge, but they would also have to remain on guard for some unpredictable expert who was coming to kill them, at all times. Paying such a price for an incomplete pill recipe of the Heaven Seizing Pill was indeed not worth the cost.

In any case, restoring the pill spirit's pill medicine, they could request Yang Chen to refine it for them, as long as they could find the principal ingredient and pay the price of a second grade flame, why would they have to go through such tricks? Moreover, even if they had the pill recipe, where would they find a pill master to refine it? Why not use Yang Chen, who was already available and also had the experience?

After weighing all pros and cons, everyone had immediately made the decision. Even if there was someone who still had some ideas, they didn't dare to reveal themselves.

The farce which had dragged everyone to the Pure Yang Palace had been resolved so lightly by Yang Chen, now all of the hosts and guests present were happy, making the environment warm and affable much unlike the invisible hostility earlier. Since everyone had come to a decision, there was no need to create any more trouble over this. In any case the time when they would require a Heaven Seizing Pill was quite far off, moreover obtaining those pill ingredients was also not easy, so there was no need to reveal their intentions this early.

The subject then again turned to Cheng Wencai. Some people who were getting bored and began to discuss the bet's odds in favour or against of Cheng Wencai when it was made.

Cheng Wencai who had just woken up after being supported by some disciple, once again spat out blood hearing this conversation. Those few disciples did not dare to remain there anymore and hurriedly left, carrying their master. Seeing him spit up blood, many people joked about the amount of blood his body held, if he had remained there any longer.

Some intelligent people quickly went to Yang Chen's side to hear about some recipe of the Heaven Seizing Pill without requesting for any kind of pill spirit, but actually, while refining, the process should be treated differently in accordance with a different pill spirit. This point was very important.

Using the same process for all pill spirits was just impossible. It had to be known that the pill spirit was formed of the yuan ling of a Da Cheng stage demon beast. Catching one was already difficult, furthermore there was one more problem: finding it was more than ten times more difficult than looking for a needle in a haystack. At least, when looking for a needle in a haystack, it could still be found, but finding a Da Cheng stage expert was even harder.

The reason why a Heaven Seizing Pill was hard to refine was because only Heaven Seizing Pill's creator and his family knew about the recipe until it fell into the hands of Elder Wu. Other people who had tried had failed.

At the moment it seemed that it was not the ingredients that were hard to find, nor was it the refining that was difficult. The highest probability of encountering a problem was when nobody considered the many different circumstances.

Although nobody knew the details at the time when Deng Yiya, Zhu Peng and He Lianyun had refined the pill, the first failure at the time of the refining was not because their level was low, but because they hadn't considered the different circumstances in such a situation.

Since that had happened, Yang Chen had used an elixir to restore the pill spirit after considering the different methods to deal with the pill spirit, which had allowed the pill spirit to have an unexpected recovery. According to the details, it had to be known that the Heaven Seizing Pill was only refined again from the ashes of the furnace.

Hearing about this, the intelligent people looked at Yang Chen with a different gaze. Moreover, many people also began to guess if the reason why the Pure Yang Palace had established the Eccentric Hall was to pile up pill spirits for demon spirits. A Da Cheng stage demon beast was very hard to come by, but would they really give up their sects' strength for this? Moreover, hadn't they already recruited a Da Cheng stage demon beast as the hall master of the Eccentric Hall?

Once they realized all this, someone was immediately unable to remain seated anymore and stood up. The hurriedly moving silhouette made everyone look at each other in dismay. Nobody had any idea what their fellow companions were thinking.

But very quickly, more and more people thought about various possibilities and began to say their goodbyes to the Pure Yang Palace, which led to all of the thousand visitors vanishing in a very short time.

Palace Master Zong Jiao had also thought about those possibilities and wrinkled his brows. But Yang Chen didn't say anything and directly went to the Eccentric Hall where demon beasts were staying together with Gao Yue and his grand master.

"Don't you think you owe us an explanation?"

Although She Kui and Xie Sha were a bit slow to realize, Gui Shanyou who had already thought about it was sitting in the room, waiting for Yang Chen.

"What kind of explanation?"

Yang Chen wasn't concerned in the least and directly went to sit in front of him:

"The Heaven Seizing Pill isn't the only way to ascend, it is really not worthwhile to use such a harmful method."

While speaking, Yang Chen lead Gui Shanyou to enter the Medicine Garden and then immediately followed after him. The old tree demon only had a little sensation, and immediately looked at the forest of Penglai Divine Wood, each tree was long and was thick enough for an arm to wrap around. The sensation of the divine wood was extremely pure and unadulterated which shocked the old tree demon who was then immediately moved by Yang Chen to come out.

"My great master already possesses a Qilin's horn and is refining a destined flying sword out of it, do you still think he requires the help of a Heaven Seizing Pill to ascend?"

In order to pacify the old tree demon, Yang Chen had to leak some of his secret:

"Besides, even Elder Wu didn't use the Heaven Seizing Pill, what are you making a fuss about?"

After looking at that forest of Penglai Divine Wood and then after seeing Wang Yong take out the Qilin's horn, what kind of doubt could the old tree demon have? He immediately burst out laughing.

"Let this old man think about it."

The old tree demon was a person who accepted when he was in the wrong and immediately admitted his error:

"This old man was wrong and admits his mistake."

Without waiting for anyone to say anything, the old tree demon already started talking:

"Be relieved, this old man will continue to remain in the Eccentric Hall, but at the time of this old man's ascension, I will have to trouble you Yang Chen!"

Once they heard these words, Wang Yong and Gao Yue both were greatly intimidated.

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Chapter 177 – That Comforting Moment

Before anyone could say anything, Yang Chen had already pacified the situation with the Da Cheng stage, old tree demon? Moreover, what did he just say? Requesting Yang Chen at the time of his ascension?

Although Yang Chen had given a Heaven Seizing Pill to Wang Yong, this kind of a thing could only be found accidentally, not sought at will. How could he possibly have so many things that could be given away as gifts? Moreover, Yang Chen was but a foundation-stage expert, and the old tree demon actually wanted to rely on him to ascend? Naturally, this could scare anyone.

Although Yang Chen had defied their limits again and again, when a genuine Da Cheng stage expert asked so earnestly for help, they were still a bit intimidated.

In the end, what had Yang Chen shown Gui Shanyou that made the Da Cheng expert feel so confident that Yang Chen could help him in ascending? Although both of them were curious, they didn't investigate closely. This disciple, Yang Chen, had so many secrets that sometimes it was just better not to know.

Palace Master Zhang Jiao had relatively too many matters at his hands. Only after he had sent off all the visitors did he hurry over here to the old tree demon's place and saw this peaceful scene.

"Palace Master need not be anxious."

Gui Shanyou was gently caressing his beard as he said with a smile:

"We trust that our Pure Yang Palace won't use such despicable methods."

Hearing this, the Palace Master heaved a long sigh of relief. They had coaxed a Da Cheng stage expert to join with such great difficulty. If because of this guess, their Eccentric Hall's experts felt doubt towards Pure Yang Palace, that would indeed not be good. So currently, hearing such words from the old tree demon had calmed down Palace Master Zhang Jiao's heart.

Looking at Yang Chen, Gao Yue and Wang Yong present on the scene, Palace Master didn't have to ask a word to know that this surely had some connection with Yang Chen. Although he didn't know what Yang Chen had said to old tree demon, the trust crisis had evidently been solved.

This opportunity had not only allowed Cheng Wencai to honor the commitment, but had also peacefully averted a hidden crises. Now all those visitors had clearly realized that either they could obtain the pill recipe in a fair exchange or they could hire Yang Chen to refine it. Otherwise, obtaining a complete pill recipe was almost impossible.

Excluding the other factors, even Pure Yang Palace wouldn't have consented in the first place. It was a secret recipe of the sect. Why should other people be able to obtain it? If those people really wanted to use some inappropriate means today, then becoming hostile with Pure Yang Palace couldn't have been avoided. Fortunately, Yang Chen had dealt with it appropriately which had saved any such thing from happening. If it had truly become the issue of their face, today, Pure Yang Palace would have been filled with corpses.

As for Yang Chen, he had only helped in restoring the pill spirit, which didn't amount to much. However, in exchange for that, he could obtain even more flames, which would be a great benefit for him. After all, apart from increasing the grade of a Profound Spirit Furnace, Yang Chen was also a fire-attributed cultivator. The more flames he could access, the more he would benefit.

Currently, Yang Chen had three kind of flames; the Nanming fire left behind by Scarface, the Real Sun Fire which had already been absorbed by Profound Spirit Furnace, as well as the Pure Yang Fire which was greatly treasured by the sect. However, regardless of whatever type of flame it was, Yang Chen could not absorb any of them presently.

However, this had also reminded Yang Chen that although he couldn't absorb the Nanming Flame, the Profound Spirit Furnace could be promoted by one grade by absorbing it. Moreover, it was also the perfect place to safeguard the Nan Ching fire.

The flying sword, which was to be refined by Gao Yue, was already at the last stage. After hearing this, Wang Yong personally went there and refined it together with Gao Yue. Both master and disciple thought for a long time about his sword- trying to refine it so that it could become Yang Chen's destined flying sword. More than half of the good ingredients in possession of Yang Chen ended up being used in the process.

This flying sword had already become the topic of discussion among majority of people in the Pure Yang Palace. Many people envied Yang Chen's good fortune to have such a great tool refining master and great master, and himself being good at refining as well.

Many people also objected to this. Although for a foundation stage disciple, a flying sword needs to made diligently, there was no need for so much fanfare, but since this was a reward from the Palace Master, what could others have said?

Besides, neither Gao Yue, nor Wang Yong, nor Yang Chen cared for such people. A master was refining a flying sword for her own disciple, who could argue against that.

Since Wang Yong had also joined in, Yang Chen's flying sword would at most take a few more months. How could Yang Chen not be willing for this. In his heart, he was more than happy to stay at Nine Earth Manor. After giving pointers to outer disciples again, he finally decided to use this free time to store the Nan Ching fire in the Profound Spirit Furnace.

Nanming fire was on the same level as Real Sun Fire and was extremely formidable. Regardless of whether it was the Nanming fire flying sword or the Nanming fire armor, both were certainly tyrannical magical weapons. However, now the Nanming fire would also become a flame absorbed by Profound Spirit Furnace.

The process of absorption was slightly more complicated than that of Real Sun Fire. After all in his previous life, Yang Chen possessed the Real Sun Fire. As such, he was extremely familiar with its nature. However, in this life, he had come in contact with the Nanming Flame for the first time, so some caution was necessary.

The process was nevertheless quite similar to the previous one- controlling the Profound Spirit Furnace to refine and absorb Nanming flame's source trace by trace. Since it had already absorbed the Real Sun Fire, the Profound Spirit Furnace was more than ready to support the Nanming fire, which made Yang Chen's worries vanish into air like smoke.

Naturally, Yang Chen did not forget to use the Profound Green Metal Crystal to absorb the formidable strength of Nanming flame to allow the Profound Spirit Furnace to safely absorb the Nanming flame. Moreover, during the process, Yang Chen also used some tool refining tricks and some of the Profound Green Metal Crystal to clear some deficiencies within the Profound Spirit Furnace.

So far, one tenth of the Profound Green Metal Crystal had already been added to the Profound Spirit Furnace. This time, Yang Chen again added roughly another one tenth- the whole furnace seemed to have been filled up by the Profound Green Metal Crystal, revealing a hint of green colour. With just one look, anyone could tell that it was a high grade object.

After continuing for three months, all the traces of Nanming fire had finally been absorbed by Yang Chen into the Profound Spirit Furnace. This also implied that the Profound Spirit Furnace again had another famous flame, and thus, its grade had also increased substantially. At the same time, this also meant that Yang Chen could refine even higher grade pills now.

Naturally, this 'even higher grade pills' didn't mean that a third grade pill could be turned into a fourth grade pill, but those pills which Yang Chen couldn't refine previously because of his low strength and lack of flames could also be refined like the yin and yang nature pill, which could increase the probability of congealing dan in a foundation stage cultivator like the foundation stage pill was used by qi layer cultivators..

Perhaps, after some time, he could refine the yin and yang nature pill and convince even more people of Pure Yang Palace to come over to his side.

However, compared to refining pills, currently, Yang Chen was looking forward to two more matters more- first was Gao Yue and Wang Yong to refine his flying sword, second was to become the master of Nan Ching fire.

The Nanming fire was of the third fire attribute, same as the Real Sun Fire. Different flames could fuse with each other. Although Yang Chen presently hadn't genuinely absorbed the Nanming flame and Real Sun Fire in his own body, but if the third fire spirit power could be passed through burning by Nanming fire, maybe it will gain some presence of Nanming fire.

Yang Chen had also used this method with the Real Sun Fire. At that time, his third fire spirit power had increased rapidly, reaching the foundation stage as the consequence.

Presently, Yang Chen was at the foundation stage. Although it might not have the same effect, but tempering the spirit power will certainly be beneficial for him. Yang Chen had always been waiting for such a time, and thus, had not done this immediately after the great calamity of devil cultivation, waiting until he had properly consolidated his realm and was at the bottleneck to use it for breakthrough.

The third fire spirit power, which had already been tempered once by Real Sun Fire, would again be needed to be tempered through Nanming fire which would be extremely painful. Afterwards, the grade wouldn't further increase by much either. After all, the fire was still of the same grade. But there was another benefit which Yang Chen was eagerly expecting.

Since Real Sun Fire was able to form a false picture within the Spirit Sea, then the Nanming Fire should also be similarly able to form a false picture within the spirit sea, creating a golden coloured bright flame. Raging and occupying some corner on the surface formed of fifth earth, creating a triangle with the Real Sun Fire above and the Geocentric Fire underground.

The spiritual awareness which had declined during the pair cultivation with Gao Yue had again began to condense crazily at this moment, as if indicating another breakthrough. Even the spiritual sea began to give birth to some minute transformations in itself.

The entire formation of spirit sea had began to congeal increasingly, as if it was being compacted by a huge ramming force. The spiritual awareness had again restored itself back to the level where it was before saving Gao Yue. However, what was outside Yang Chen's expectation was that the spiritual awareness itself hadn't broken through from peak JieDan stage to initial YuanYing stage, but was further consolidated in this realm

The spiritual awareness was greatly condensed but did not upgrade, causing slight disappointment to Yang Chen. However, the spirit power cultivation had also transformed, which gave him one more pleasant surprise.

After the third spirit power had been completely refined by Nanming flame, it broke through from second foundation and reached third foundation stage directly.

Because of the five phases engendering each other, the increase in cultivation of third spirit power had again spurred the other spirit powers to upgrade, like the last time when he had reached foundation stage. Apart from the second wood and third fire spirit powers, the other eight types of spirit power were just like dominoes, crazily upgrading because of the reaction from third fire spirit power.

While Yang Chen was laughing delightedly, the Yin and Yang five secrets had completely been upgraded from the second layer of foundation stage to the third layer of foundation stage, completely entering the third layer boundary.

Completing all this had already taken two months, which made Yang Chen anxious since the master and great master still hadn't completed the refining of the flying sword. This made Yang Chen both eager and nervous.

Eager that the pleasant scene from the previous life would appear again and nervous that because of his rebirth, there had been many changes, so the scene might not appear again. Thinking about this, he thought of the devil Lin Chenghe's death to comfort himself. He even had to choose only that particular tree where Yang Chen had inserted his sword to escape, so with such good fortune, the Bright Ray Sword will appear again, definitely!

Yang Chen anxious waiting for three more months before he finally couldn't deal with it anymore and flew directly to the Second Fierce Yang Courtyard.

After reaching the Second Fierce Yang Courtyard, Yang Chen grew even more nervous and walked slowly to Gao Yue's place and lightly knocked her door. Hearing the soft voice of master, allowing him to enter, he restlessly walked in.

Gao Yue was present alone, and great master Wang Yong had already left, possibly to refine the Qilin's horn into his destined flying sword. When Yang Chen came in, Gao Yue didn't stand up to welcome him, but remain seated by a stone table standing below a tree in her courtyard, drinking tea.

At this moment, Yang Chen did not know what to say, should he ask for the flying sword from his master? He wasn't able to hide the impatience in his face. Since he did not dare to say anything, his appearance became a little awkward, which happened very rarely.

"Did you hear that the flying sword had already been refined?"

Looking at Yang Chen's expression, Gao Yue was astonished, and at the same time, also found it quite funny. At this moment, Yang Chen seemed like a child who had never grown up.

"Master!"

Yang Chen didn't dare to deny or accept it, only kept on looking fervently at Gao Yue.

Gao Yue put down her tea cup and glanced at Yang Chen with a teasing smile and then grabbed her qiankun pouch and opened it.

Yang Chen's heart was gripped at this moment, feeling so nervous that he didn't dare say anything. Remembering all the memories, perhaps it would again happen before his eyes, perhaps it wouldn't.

A dark red flying sword appeared above Gao Yue's hand, Gao Yue only used two fingers to push the sword blade. It did a turnaround before rushing towards Yang Chen.

"Yang Chen, this is the Bright Ray Sword which I have specially created for you. You should use it carefully and practice your cultivation even more diligently!"

Master's beautiful voice seemed to coming down from heaven.

Yang Chen didn't care much about the appearance of the flying sword, at this moment, if Gao Yue had even given him a branch of tree, Yang Chen would still have accepted it like a treasure. After all, this flying sword had made his master go through a near death experience as well as costed her several years of refining process.

A thick fog appeared in his eyes and then turned into tears flowing down his face. Yang Chen's mouth of choked with emotions:

"Master!"

After saying this, he turned speechless.

Countless years of hope and expectation have again been fulfilled at this point. For this one moment, Yang Chen was ready to sacrifice any happiness in his life.

He wasn't even aware of which of the blade's sides had he caught. The edge of the flying sword had already created a huge cut in Yang Chen's hand through which the blood was flowing out. But Yang Chen seemed to have not sensed anything and kept holding the blade like a fool with tears streaking across his face.

He felt so delighted that tears appeared on his face.

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Chapter 178 – I Offered A Better One, But You Didn't Accept

Gao Yue was completely unable to figure out why Yang Chen had such an extreme reaction. Thinking back, this kind of scene had happened once before, when Yang Chen had formally become her disciple.

At first, Gao Yue had thought that Yang Chen was extremely happy receiving the flying sword and thus couldn't control his emotions, but as it happened, she noticed that he hadn't even looked at the sword, he just kept holding the sword's edge and shed tears.

Fortunately, this situation didn't last for long, only for a few moments, before the pain from the cut by the sword woke him up. Facing Gao Yue with a face full of tears had put him in an awkward position. Finally, with her help, Yang Chen's hand was healed.

Only now did Yang Chen pay attention to the Bright Ray sword, refined in cooperation by Gao Yue and Wang Yong.

The Bright Ray sword was approximately five foot long, with a fine silver colored hilt and an extremely long, double edged blade. The dark red body of the sword was completely covered with sealing formations. One could sense an extremely hot burning sensation just by holding it.

Yang Chen also wasn't polite and immediately used his spiritual awareness to mark it in front of Gao Yue. This was the genuine way to obtain a sword. After marking it, Yang Chen began to move his spirit power into the sword to test its formidable strength.

Bang!

A formless fire began to rise from the sword! Anyone looking at this dark golden fire would feel a painful burning sensation. Soon afterwards, Yang Chen threw a piece of hard metal into the sky and slashed at it once with the sword. The metal in the sky was immediately separated into two parts. The cut was extremely smooth, as if the piece of the metal was the surface of a mirror. Within a moment, the piece of metal turned into molten liquid and fell to the ground. This had clearly demonstrated the strength of the dark golden flame.

"Perfect!"

Yang Chen could magnify his magic weapons in his spirit sea at any time, but even after magnifying the sword many times, he couldn't find any clear flaw. There were only some defects which couldn't be blamed on the refining skill, because they were caused by the quality of the material. From designing to refining, this Bright Ray Sword could be said to be almost perfect.

"Anyone who uses it can see how much time was spent on it!"

Hearing Yang Chen's evaluation, Gao Yue's eyebrows were raised in delight, replying without modesty:

"The main ingredient used in this was the Red Sun Metal Soul and many other high level ingredients. It can be certainly be treated as destined flying sword, and it can also be upgraded without any limit."

The masterpiece created by Gao Yue and Wang Yong, these two great tool refining masters was certainly not an ordinary magic weapon, Gao Yue also had confidence in this fact. Even her request to Yang Chen to make it his own destined magic weapon was also sincere, as from the beginning she had intended to manufacture something which could be used as one. Naturally, upgrading it right now was not possible, but when he reaches YuanYing stage, he can again began to refine it.

Although she was feeling proud with herself, Gao Yue didn't get carried away and pointed at Yang Chen while saying:

"Strictly speaking, this bright Ray Sword can only be considered as a sword embryo right now, and not a full fledged flying sword. You can refine it anyway you like in the future. This master only leads you to the door, the rest is up to you."

How could Yang Chen refuse anything Gao Yue was saying at the moment? He kept nodding his head to everything, like a son listening to his mother.

Looking at Yang Chen's appearance, Gao Yue lost all intentions of bragging. Stretching her hand, she extended her lily white hands towards Yang Chen and said:

"Give it to me!"

"What?"

Yang Chen was startled and hastily asked.

"You promised to find a water attributed cultivation for me."

Gao Yue looked at Yang Chen's puzzled face and said with a smile:

"Since you agreed, you have to bring it. I am cultivating this water attributed cultivation for the first time only for you!"

Yang Chen was extremely surprised again and with lightning speed he took out a good water attributed cultivation method, which he had selected long ago. It contained everything from laying the foundation to advanced stages of cultivation, as well as also giving her a bottle full of water attributed spirit pills to help her in cultivation.

"These things are not needed for the time being!"

Looking at those spirit pills, Gao Yue wrinkled her brows and shook her head:

"Didn't you say that one cannot reach his destination by being hasty? And that, moreover, using such things was not good?"

"As master says!"

Yang Chen hastily withdrew those things. In any case, Gao Yue had a spiritual awareness at the peak of the JieDan stage, and she was furthermore endowed with a postnatal full water attributed spirit root. When she would cultivate to the qi layer of the water attributed cultivation method, the speed of her cultivation would definitely astonish anyone. These spirit pills were of no use to her.

"Good! You can return to your duties as the Merit Transferring Disciple now!"

Gao Yue waved towards Yang Chen, indicating him to leave:

"If I have any problems regarding cultivation, I will come to you, Merit Transferring Disciple, for guidance!"

Hearing these words, Yang Chen didn't know how to react and gloomily walked away. While Looking at Yang Chen's departing figure, she remembered Yang Chen's excitement when he had held the Bright Ray sword and Gao Yue felt a feeling of warmth rise in her.

But Gao Yue was also a little scared, fearing about getting more and more foolish ideas about getting together with her disciple, therefore she had made Yang Chen leave so quickly. But she hadn't thought that she had driven away Yang Chen this time. Last time also she had shooed away Yang Chen, but how would she be able to drive away the Yang Chen in her heart?

Yang Chen absolutely hadn't noticed the anomaly in Gao Yue, his mind was still fixated on the moment when he had received the Bright Ray Sword, replaying that moment again and again, without noticing anything in the surroundings.

The happiness in his heart continued to increase, like the Blood Phantom Vine which would grow like crazy after germinating from the root. He didn't even use his flying sword on the way home from the Second Fierce Yang Courtyard to the Nine Earth Manor, choosing to walk the entire way.

He kept holding the Bright Ray Sword tightly within his hands, not even willing to put it into his Qiankun Pouch, as if he was holding the Jade Emperor's ruler seal. At this time, even if someone used Lu Dongbin's Pure Yang Sword to exchange for the Bright Ray Sword, Yang Chen wouldn't be willing.

Yang Chen kept walking in such ecstasy for an unknown amount of time. Even when he found someone to ask the way, he kept on smiling and said:

"Who are you?"

"Under such circumstances, fellow disciple Yang has still surprisingly discovered me, you do indeed have some skill."

Along with Yang Chen's question, a person appeared in front of him: Luminous Moon Hall's disciple, Guang Zhu, who kept his attention focused on the flying sword in Yang Chen's hand and asked with a smile:

"The flying sword in your hand, isn't that the one refined by Wang Yong and Gao Yue for you? What a perfect timing, this fellow disciple of your's doesn't have a suitable flying sword, would you be willing to forsake it?"

"Senior apprentice brother Guang, you are water attributed, this Bright Ray Sword… Of what use could it be to you?"

Looking at Guang Zhu who had suddenly appeared in front of him, Yang Chen sneered within his heart.

However, today Yang Chen's mood was too good, looking at Guang Zhu standing in front of him, he couldn't help but say:

"Today, my mood is good, senior apprentice brother Guang, do you lack a flying sword? I will present you with a water attributed one."

"Younger apprentice brother Yang, let this senior apprentice brother take a look at the sword in your hand!"

Guang Zhu sneered and took two steps forward and said sinisterly:

"Younger apprentice brother Yang must still part with it and allow this senior apprentice brother to have it!"

Yang Chen didn't know what to say in front Guang Zhu's reckless actions. Perhaps, this Bright Ray Sword made by Gao Yue and Wang Yong would indeed tempt people greatly and thus even the water attributed disciple of the Luminous Moon Hall had come to steal it.

SInce that warm moment had happened again, his mood was really good, so much so that he was even willing to part with a flying sword to get rid of their differences. In any case, Yang Chen's sword box had no lack of flying swords.

But, this idiot Guang Zhu standing in front of him was wantonly spoiling his good mood, perhaps what he wanted was to confront an angry Yang Chen after his mood had been spoiled.

"You have just reached the Foundation stage not too long ago and your master has already gifted you such a high grade flying sword!"

Guang Zhu's entire face was filled with jealousy:

"You are just an initial Foundation stage disciple, such good sword is of no use to you also, so why not give it senior apprentice brother and help him!"

"Senior Apprentice Brother Guang has a water attributed cultivation, what use would a fire attributed flying sword be of to you?"

Yang Chen sneered, but rage had already accumulated within his heart.

"Although I cannot use it, I can exchange it for another water attributed flying sword of equal grade!"

With the expression of a shopkeeper, he shamelessly boasted:

"Younger apprentice brother Yang, you giving me this sword will also gain you the reputation of being selfless, I will spread this news in your place."

"Are you sure that you don't want the flying sword I am gifting to you and only want this Bright Ray Sword?"

Yang Chen's eyes had turned red in anger, but he still asked to confirm once.

"Indeed!"

Guang Zhu arrogantly nodded:

"You must not think that, since you have won the life and death duel against Li Qingchen, that you can be arrogant in front of me. I do not mind teaching you my ferociousness."

"You dare to say a lot, isn't it just because of the seven people hidden nearby?"

Yang Chen sneered and exposed Guang Zhu's plan in a loud voice.

"Ha ha ha! Youngster, you are surprisingly vigilant to be able to discover all of us."

With a impudent smile, seven people with covered faces appeared from the surroundings in front of Yang Chen. All of them were at the Foundation stage, with the worst at the mid Foundation stage and the most powerful at the peak Foundation stage. The others, including Guang Zhu, were all at the late Foundation stage.

"If you know what's good for you, obediently hand over the Bright Ray Sword to us!"

Guang Zhu took a step forward, laughing nastily:

"Otherwise, don't blame us for being rude!"

"Today, my mood is very good, I do not want to kill people!"

How could Yang Chen be threatened by Guang Zhu? He said with a sneer:

"If you and your masked friends leave right now, I will treat it as if this matter had never happened."

Yang Chen did not want to spill blood and destroy his good mood, so he went out of his way to give Guang Zhu a path for survival.

Hearing Yang Chen's words, everyone in front of him began to look at each other as if something funny had happened and suddenly the place was filled with roars of laughter.

"A Foundation stage youngster, who do you think you are? Since you killed that devil Lin by a fluke, do you think you are unparalleled?"

A masked person could not help himself and started mocking Yang Chen, making the others again burst into laughter again.

"Heaven gave you a way, but you decided not to walk it. Hell didn't have any door, yet you want to burst in!"

Yang Chen's eyes shone. Confronting such people, who were courting death, how long could Yang Chen endure? Since they could not come to an agreement, he prepared to attack:

"For every grievance someone is responsible, for every debt there is debtor! Since you have all intended to steal my Bright Ray Sword, don't let your deaths be a surprise!"

The Bright Ray Sword dazzled once and disappeared in Yang Chen's hand. He wanted to still enjoy the beautiful sensation of the Bright Ray Sword, so naturally he stored it properly within the Achievement Ring. He didn't want the Bright Ray Sword to be sullied by the blood of these people, they did not deserve it!

The Blood Phantom Vine flying sword secretly flew out from Yang Chen's body like a long black dragon and passed through the throat of the person who was laughing the loudest, but didn't leave any blood stain.

The loud laughter immediately came to an end, but just as those people took out their flying swords, two people were already pierced through by Yang Chen's flying sword. The black shadow flew towards the person whose cultivation base was at the peak Foundation stage.

Seeing that the situation was far from encouraging, an extremely small shield appeared in his hand. Although the danger had reduced, he had to keep it accurately towards the edge of the Blood Phantom Vine flying sword. Just as he had thought he succeeded and revealed a trace of smile on his face, he discovered in astonishment that the Blood Phantom Vine flying sword wasn't delayed in the slightest, and directly penetrated the shield with his palm and then directly entered in his throat.

Maintaining the posture with his hand extended, using the shield to obstruct the flying sword, under the surprised gazes of everyone else, the most powerful person among them slowly fell to the ground. His eyes open until the end.

All of the others were extremely astonished: in front of their eyes, one person had killed three of them, including the most powerful person on their side. How could they still dare to keep laughing wantonly, feeling proud of themselves? All of them began to run in different directions in the surroundings, wishing that their parents had given them one more leg at birth.

Still, all of them were experienced and knew that, if they ran in the same direction, they would certainly die. Unfortunately, the person they were facing was Yang Chen. After his cultivation had increased to the third layer of the Foundation stage, he could use a technique which he couldn't use earlier: the hundred and ten thousand sword secrets.

More than ten blue flying swords were flew out of Yang Chen's upper body, which afterwards turned into countless rays of light and flew towards those people fleeing in different directions.

Those people were solely preoccupied with fleeing, who would look to check which technique Yang Chen was using? They only thought of dodging Yang Chen's attack and then escape without any trace. All of them were cursing Guang Zhu wildly within their hearts. He had surprisingly dared to provoke such a monster and also dragged them down with him.

Unfortunately, there wasn't any medicine for regret. Facing Yang Chen's absolute strength, those four people were so intimidated that they didn't even have the strength to resist against his attacks, when the countless flying swords passed through their bodies. All of them released a blood curdling scream and fell to the ground.

Only one Guang Zhu was left standing. Yang Chen had deliberately left him alive, he was trapped between more than ten flying swords, sealing him within a very small space. He couldn't even dare to make a single movement randomly.

"Younger apprentice brother Yang, please just spare my life!"

Seeing that Yang Chen hadn't attacked him, he had a little bit hope to survive, so he hastily begged Yang Chen.

"Senior apprentice disciple Guang, what do you think of these flying swords?"

Standing in front of Guang Zhu, Yang Chen suddenly asked.

"You, you already have so many flying swords of higher grade compared to that Bright Ray Sword, why do you still care about that lousy sword?"

Looking at the blue swords in his surroundings, Guang Zhu was envious to death. Each flying sword was a high grade water attributed flying sword.

"Earlier I wanted to gift you one of these, but you insisted on getting the Bright Ray Sword!"

Yang Chen rained down curses on him:

"Remember, this Bright Ray Sword was gifted to me by my master, it is not some lousy sword!"

Saying this, more than ten flying swords flew out and entered Guang Zhu's body.

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Chapter 179 – Justifiable Reason

No one knew how regretful Guang Zhu was at the time of his death. If he had just known earlier that Yang Chen was gifting him an even higher grade flying sword, why would he bet his life to insist on the Bright Ray Sword?

Yang Chen's mood worsened even more. His good mood was completely destroyed and he still had to deal with a series of matters, feeling extremely vexed.

Within the sect rules of the Pure Yang Palace, there was a rule that disciples of the same sect should not injure or kill each other, but there wasn't anything written about self defense. Since Guang Zhu had come with seven people to take Yang Chen's life, Yang Chen would certainly not let them remain alive.

Moreover with Yang Chen's worth in the eyes of the Palace Master, if he said that Guang Zhu had conspired to murder him, the Palace Master would certainly believe him.

Very soon, the Palace Master and the Law Enforcement Hall's Master led people to the site. They had rushed over there after receiving Yang Chen's notification.

After the matter had happened, Yang Chen quickly informed the higher ups and the identities of those masked men was confirmed. They were some loose cultivators who moved into the range of the MeiQing Mountain and had a good relation with Guang Zhu.

Not to mention that this matter had happened on the way between the Second Fierce Yang Courtyard and the Nine Earth Manor, which was considered as the inner territory of the Pure Yang Palace. Under ordinary circumstances, those loose cultivators didn't dare to come here casually, but since they had appeared there, this in itself was quite suspicious.

The people of the Law Enforcement Hall immediately set out and quickly obtained the purpose of these seven people from other loose cultivators in the MeiQing mountain. These seven people were not everyone. There were other cultivators who hadn't come, as they had too low a cultivation and thus didn't want to become a hindrance.

The hall master of the Law Enforcement Hall had personally come out this time and the pressure of a YuanYing stage expert made all of them forget any ideas they were having and made them obediently say everything they knew about the matter.

According to what they had said, Guang Zhu had asked these people to help in forcefully robbing a newly refined flying sword. The sword was supposed to be extremely high grade, but its master was only at the initial Foundation stage and thus very easy to deal with. Moreover, that person didn't get along with Guang Zhu, so he wanted to seize this opportunity to teach him a lesson so that he didn't raise his head again within the sect.

Hall Master Meng Xian understood everything and then informed the palace master about this matter. Apparently Yang Chen was completely innocent in this matter. But when had he done anything to this Guang Zhu? Neither in this life nor in his past life… When did he have any contact with Guang Zhu?

"Guang Zhu was Song Hang's disciple!"

Seeing that Yang Chen still hadn't realized it, Meng Xian informed him about Guang Zhu's identity.

Hearing that he was Song Hang's disciple, Yang Chen immediately understood everything. While Liang Shao Meng was sent to think over his mistakes to improve his temperament, Song Hang was made the substitute hall master of the Luminous Moon Hall and he had already tried once to level the accusation of absconding from his duties against Yang Chen and had failed to get any punishment for him. Moreover, he had also become a joke among the other hall masters. The hatred was sown among them at that time.

"To get revenge for his master? Or to get a good flying sword for himself?"

Yang Chen had always held such people in contempt, but in any case, he had just intended to suppress his opponents without the slightest regard for the general situation or the status of these people in the sect.

"Regardless of the motive he had, he was just a big idiot."

Meng Xian waved his big hand and the the matter had already been settled and the conclusion determined.

Luminous Moon Hall's disciple Guang Zhu had colluded with outsiders to scheme against a disciple of the sect. Colluding with outsiders and attacking a disciple of the sect… Even if Yang Chen hadn't killed him, he would still be killed because of the sect rules.

Although Guang Zhu had been killed by Yang Chen, his master Song Hang didn't have any means to escape and the accusation of not keeping his disciple properly was levied against him and he was also given the punishment to think about his mistakes for ten years.

Fortunately, by this time, Liang Shao Meng's punishment was over, otherwise, it would have been a great loss of face for the Luminous Moon Hall, if both the hall master and the substitute hall master were in punishment.

"Liang Shao Meng, if you don't have any way to control the disciples of your hall, you should allow someone else to become the hall master!"

After several incidents focusing on Yang Chen with the culprits being from the Luminous Moon Hall, the Palace Master Zhong Jiao had become very angry and the target of his rage became Liang Shao Meng.

"In addition, it also seems that the disciples of your Luminous Moon Hall don't have any self knowledge and you as a hall master are quite incompetent!"

Yang Chen had killed Li Qingchen, who was at the peak Foundation stage in a life and death duel. This would have already made the situation clear, so how could Guang Zhu pit himself against him like a fool? Did he think that adding a few people would mean that he would win?

Not only was what he did wrong, but even his strength was insufficient. He didn't even know what he was capable of. How could the Palace Master miss this? So naturally, he had to take his anger out on Liang Shao Meng.

The matter of the ambush on the way was quickly resolved. Although it was quite a scandal and the Palace Master was quite angry, he didn't spread this matter outside.

Yang Chen also finally returned to the Nine Earth Manor and carefully inspected the flying sword which had taken her master and great master so many years to complete.

Gao Yue had indeed given much thought to the Bright Ray Sword. From the beginning she had wanted to refine it so that it could be used as a destined flying sword. But this was still a sword embryo, like the Blood Phantom Vine flying sword, it still required for Yang Chen to complete the final step of the refining.

After all, even though Gao Yue and Wang Yong had refined it, the real master was still Yang Chen, so if he really wanted to use it as his own flying sword, he had to refine it properly, so that it could be properly controlled.

But they were indeed worthy of being called great tool refining masters, the Bright Ray Sword was of third the fire attribute, therefore all of the materials used were also of the third fire attribute, without even a speck of any other attribute material. The refining technique was also extremely efficient. Apart from the materials being of slight lower quality, there were very few defects. Just after few simple refinings, Yang Chen could thoroughly turn this Bright Ray Sword into his own flying sword.

At the beginning of refining, Gao Yue had thought properly about the future upgrades and so of the total time and skill spent in refining the sword, she had spent more than half there. As long as Yang Chen could find some more advanced materials in the future than the Red Sun Metal Soul, they could be immediately integrated with the flying sword, increasing the quality even further.

Earlier, Yang Chen only possessed a second wood flying sword, but now he also had a third fire flying sword. For Yang Chen, the Bright Ray Sword held a special meaning: even if it wasn't completely refined according to the expectations from his last life, Yang Chen still considered it a precious treasure. Moreover, the current Bright Ray Sword already possessed boundless prospects for upgrades.

Without much thinking, Yang Chen immediately decided to make the Bright Ray Sword the second sword soul of his Immortal Executioner Blade. The only problem that Yang Chen could think of was if, in the future, if he found some high grade materials, if he would be able or not able to start and completely destroy the body of this sword refined by Gao Yue.

Regardless of anything else, his old memories were once again being repeated, furthermore, like before, the flying sword named the Bright Ray Sword had also reached his hands. One more of Yang Chen's desires was fulfilled. Now he had to carefully plan and deliver the throne of the Fierce Yang Hall to his master.

While Yang Chen was planning his next move, in the outside world, some changes were silently taking place.

Since the Heaven Seizing Pill had shown great efficiency when used by Elder Wu, it had been on the mind of a large number of Da Cheng stage experts. Every sect, intentionally or otherwise, had also begun to collect the ingredients for the Heaven Seizing Pill. Naturally, the main ingredient was still the Blue Green Zoysia. As long as the main ingredient could be found, finding the rest would not be very difficult.

Some YuanYing stage experts were pill refining masters and almost none among them had refined the Heaven Seizing Pill. Now, a lot of people had begun to hope. The Heaven Seizing Pill was no longer unattainable, it had seemingly already reached the stage of being obtainable.

Those pill concocting masters who had participated in the refining, Deng Yi, Zhu Peng and He Lianyun became the most sought after people. Regardless of whether the information came through different means or if it was the confirmation from Yang Chen, it had become widely known that these three people were the main force behind the refining of the Heaven Seizing Pill. Within a short time, the queue of people wanting to hire them became larger and larger.

Very quickly, many people also discovered that of these three people originally who were YuanYing stage pill concocting masters, one of them, He Lianyun, had surprisingly fallen to the JieDan stage for some reason.

During the refining of the Heaven Seizing Pill, what use would be there for a JieDan stage pill concocting expert? It required at least three YuanYing stage experts to cooperate with each other, so a trifling JieDan stage expert was just out of question. At most, he could do what Yang Chen had done at that time and that was to refine the ingredients for the main act.

His use may be even less than that of Yang Chen. For example, Yang Chen had refined the elixir which restored the pill spirit and moreover it still couldn't be in conflict with the Heaven Seizing Pill itself. Especially this last point, if his understanding towards all kinds of effects of the ingredients was not thorough, then having a proper understanding of the Heaven Seizing Pill was simply impossible to achieve.

Until this day, there hadn't been any Da Cheng stage pill concocting masters, which also implied that, for a very long time, if someone wanted to refine a Heaven Seizing Pill, there was was only one path: following after Elder Wu and using a few YuanYing stage pill concocting masters to cooperate with each other to complete the task.

This also meant that those pill concocting masters could not subdue a DaCheng stage pill spirit. So the only way was to use the method which had been used once: that was to consume the strength of the pill spirit and after the pill had been successfully made, restore it.

Although this method of refining the Heaven Seizing Pill would lead to some inherent deficiencies in the pill, it also had a great benefit: At the time of the pill tribulation, the ferociousness of the wind tribulation could be sensed, which would provide some help regarding their own tribulation.

So according to these facts, Deng Yi was important, Zhu Peng was important, Yang Chen was important, but He Lianyun, who had participated in the refining, was not very significant. After all, refining required three people and Yang Chen couldn't be substituted.

After discovering this fact, how could He Lianyun, who had the Real Moon Fire but still hadn't absorbed it, endure it? Originally he was considered high and mighty, a YuanYing stage expert whom people would flatter and fawn over, but now he was considered as a minor figure and even a Foundation stage youngster had more worth than him. Regardless of what other people would do in his place, for him, this was unbearable.

What made He Lianyun the most furious was that the Real Sun Fire which was supposed to be his had been lost because of Yang Chen. This also made him filled with hatred towards Yang Chen. But in these last few years, since Elder Wu hadn't ascended, he didn't dare to openly show his extreme hatred. But now that Elder Wu had already ascended, He Lianyun could finally vent all the anger he had within him.

But very soon, He Lianyun miserably discovered that Elder Wu ascending didn't mean that Yang Chen had lost all backing. Instead it was just opposite: Clear Sky Sect's Elder Hua Wanting thought quite highly of Yang Chen and also owed him a favor. Moreover, even the Pure Yang Palace, whom he hadn't paid much attention had gained a Da Cheng stage expert.

Even without these, Yang Chen had promised everyone that he would refine the elixir to restore the pill spirit for them and this already ensured his safety. This was something only Yang Chen knew how to do, and how could those who wanted the Heaven Seizing Pill allow He Lianyun to touch even a hair of Yang Chen?

Therefore, although his hatred against Yang Chen was at the deepest levels, He Lianyun didn't dare to reveal even the slightest trace of it. On the contrary, he even praised Yang Chen highly to everyone coming to him.

Although He Lianyun was now a minor figure, he was still extremely intelligent. Soon the words Yang Chen had said at the Pure Yang Palace reached his ears. Comparing it with the problems he encountered during the refining, he quickly understood that Yang Chen's words were certainly reasonable.

Although Yang Chen had said something about restoring the pill when they were refining, those words could be applied to the Heaven Seizing Pill itself. It was not that he didn't want to obtain the complete pill recipe, but that he didn't have any way to obtain it.

At that time, they had only used one pill spirit and he had also thought of this problem at that time, but he didn't know what kind of variations there would be when the type of pill spirit was changed and what adjustments would be required, so how could he make the perfect pill recipe?

Although Yang Chen's last step had seemed to be quite easy, after all it was only restoring the pill spirit, none of the ingredients he used could be in conflict with the Heaven Seizing Pill, moreover it should also be able to completely fuse with the pill itself. This implied that Yang Chen could solve the problem with different pill spirits at least at the initial stage.

This fact made He Lianyun both frightened and happy at the same time. Frightened that Yang Chen had understood so much at such a young age, even more than his YuanYing stage seniors. Happy because, looking at Deng Yi and Zhu Peng's opinions, they didn't seem to have realized this point. Even Yang Chen himself was probably not aware of it, otherwise he wouldn't have opened his mouth publicly. This secret belonged to He Lianyun alone.

If he could grab this secret within his hand, what would happen? Once this thought entered his mind, He Lianyun was unable to remove it from his mind, he even started imagining the scene when the time came.

But first he had to obtain the secret from Yang Chen's mouth, otherwise He Lianyun wouldn't have anything to work with. Moreover, he only had a seventh grade flame at the most. Even if he was willing to take it out, he couldn't, as he was a fire attributed cultivator, so how could he exchange such an important treasure?

Make some power become hostile with Pure Yang Palace? But if not in exchange of this secret, there wasn't anyone would do such a thankless task. Moreover, it also required a genuine reason to become hostile with the Pure Yang Palace. Which powerful person would be such an idiot? Who would allow He Lianyun to manipulate himself.

After thinking for a long time, He LianYun was still unable to find a proper way to acquire Yang Chen's secret. Right now, he lacked a proper reason, a justifiable excuse.

Suddenly He LianYun thought of a particular clan. Those people who had been part of the creation of the Heaven Seizing Pill a long time ago… If those people appeared personally, then wouldn't it be a rational reason?

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Chapter 180 – Even Hoodlums Dare Try Taking Advantage

When people were just sitting at home, matters were sent from heaven. This sentence certainly justified Yang Chen's current condition. He was simply performing the duties of the Merit Transferring Disciple at the Nine Earth Manor, but there was always something weighing on his mind.

If it was just a matter of simple pill refining, Yang Chen wouldn't care much about it. In fact, Shangguan Feng was currently substituting for Yang Chen to accept such requests, so naturally, for the time being, if disciples within the sect required some pills, they just had to follow the older rules and provide for their own materials and the price they had to pay was still just eighty percent of market rate.

However, when refining JieDan stage or higher level pills, Yang Chen had almost a hundred percent success rate. Only if someone asked for a second grade or a third grade pill, could there be some wear and tear. Many sect disciple were happy to gain Yang Chen's help and, apart from receiving benefits, Yang Chen was also happy to let his Profound Spirit Furnace gain medicinal power.

Giving directions to a disciple regarding concocting pill recipes could not be considered as anything, but what amazed Yang Chen was the lowly person who was sitting in front of him. What kind of spell had been cast on him? He was surprisingly boasting that he was ashamed to look for the Pure Yang Palace and wanted Yang Chen to directly hand over the complete pill recipe of the Heaven Seizing Pill to him.

This kind of nonsensical matter was just ridiculous. It didn't even require Yang Chen to appear personally, the hall master of Foreign Affair Hall Xi Cheng Xin himself had driven him out.

From the beginning he started with a joke, who had said that Yang Chen had understood the complete pill recipe of the Heaven Seizing Pill and even if he had understood it, why should he hand it over to him? In the cultivation world, the law of karma was considered the highest. Since Yang Chen had found something, it belonged to him, why would he hand it over?

The other person was directly driven out by Xu Chengxin. This was completely normal. Even the other sects would deal with it in the same way. If he had gone to the gate of the Greatest Heaven Sect to demand their secret recipes, it would be a miracle if they didn't beat him. He would be very fortunate if they just politely turned him away.

In the beginning, Yang Chen hadn't even heard about the matter. Hall master Xu Chengxin didn't think it was necessary to make Yang Chen worry. The job of the Foreign Affairs Hall was precisely to settle troublesome matters of the sect and its disciples.

But this person didn't go away and began to assertively claim that Yang Chen had stolen the recipe of the Heaven Seizing Pill from his ancestors and that's why he knew the method to restore the pill spirit at the most crucial time and refine the Heaven Seizing Pill.

The Heaven Seizing Pill's recipe was first created by the ancestor of that family, nobody denied this fact. But everyone knew that the pill recipe of the Heaven Seizing Pill wasn't complete, and even the clan of that ancestor itself didn't have the complete pill recipe not to mention other people.

The part of the Heaven Seizing Pill which Elder Wu had was probably obtained from someone belonging to the same clan as this person. At that time, he just had the intention to try and moreover at the beginning, Elder Wu had only thought about obtaining a piece of the blue green zoysia and only then think about refining the Heaven Seizing Pill.

That person kept insisting that Yang Chen had the complete recipe. This was simply absurd. Moreover, after the information spread, everyone wondered why this person didn't appear before Elder Wu had ascended and asked him for the recipe. He just wanted to look for a youngster like Yang Chen.

Since he wanted the recipe so much, then why didn't he go to the YuanYing stage experts Deng Yi, Zhu Peng or He LianYun, who had participated in the refining? Frankly speaking, it was clear that he just wanted to take advantage of Yang Chen, seeing that his cultivation and seniority was lower, so the sect might not attach much importance to him.

Although everyone understood this matter completely, nobody opened their mouths. Apparently everyone wanted to see if, since this person was making so much noise, things would take a turn for the better. If Yang Chen was not careful and broke under the pressure and revealed the secret recipe, wouldn't everyone profit from it?

Although everyone had refused to comment on this pointless matter, they also didn't say anything about Pure Yang Palace driving this person out. Nobody wanted to open their mouths casually for the fear of offending the Pure Yang Palace.

However, that person understood this situation quite differently. The Pure Yang Palace handling this matter like this was clearly bullying other people using force. But such a tyrannical style of handling made others not dare to say anything, so clearly this matter had some more problems.

Immediately after that, this person began to spread the so called proof among the cultivators, meaning the proof of Yang Chen possessing the complete recipe of the Heaven Seizing Pill. The proof was precisely what He Lianyun had thought: including that Yang Chen was just a youngster, so it was impossible for him to have so much knowledge, so he certainly had to have used some kind of secret record or something like that. Moreover, this secret record was precisely the one which his ancestor had written, but hadn't been able to pass down to the family.

This was still not enough. To increase the persuasiveness, that person also brought forward a witness: a YuanYing stage expert who had already participated in the refining of the Heaven Seizing Pill once: He LianYun.

The time it took from the news to get out to the introduction of He LianYun was quite brief, only one month. When he heard this news, He LianYun immediately spat a mouthful of blood.

He LianYun had only looked for that person because he thought that he could use the ancestor of that person to borrow his identity to verify that Yang Chen had the Heaven Seizing Pill recipe, but he had never intended to publicly reveal himself.

Frankly, even He LianYun hadn't genuinely thought this through. He just wanted to get the recipe from Pure Yang Palace and Yang Chen. If he had reacted after the event, it would become apparent that he held an entrenched hatred towards Yang Chen and was also responsible for this matter. He hadn't planned anything else for Yang Chen. He just wanted to humiliate him once and after this fact came out, it would certainly create some invisible enemies for Yang Chen.

He had just wanted to exploit that person, but that person was also not foolish. After realizing that even spreading the proof wasn't sufficient, he knew that he couldn't do anything more and immediately raised He LianYun's name.

It had to be known that He LianYun's name was currently much more useful than that person who had never been famous, even though he had fallen to the JieDan stage from the YuanYing stage. But everyone knew that Elder Wu had found the Real Moon Fire, which was on the same grade as the Real Sun Fire, for He LianYun. As long as he would absorb it, restoring his cultivation to previous level wasn't impossible.

It had to be said that He LianYun's analysis also had some merit. At least it could be presented in front of everyone without him embarrassing himself. If he hadn't understood the Heaven Seizing Pill deeply, how was it possible for him to get the ingredients for restoring the pill spirit so casually? If thought of this way, then there was certainly a possibility that Yang Chen had the complete recipe for the Heaven Seizing Pill on him, and that possibility was moreover not small.

This was simply a huge discovery. Everyone's attention was immediately concentrated on Yang Chen once again, after the ascension of Elder Wu and the hurricane produced by Heaven Seizing Pill.

"Even if they look for a hundred more excuses, it will still be useless."

Yang Chen replied to Xu Chengxin. The person from that family just believed this point firmly and directly came to the sect. He didn't even use any familial piety or family relations to request it, he just demanded that the Pure Yang Palace hand over the pill recipe so that they could use it.

The stance taken by them was certainly very low, since Yang Chen had refined the Heaven Seizing Pill, then even his sect, the Pure Yang Palace could be in the possession of the pill recipe, so they were even willing to let Yang Chen take the place of being the successor disciple of that ancestor, so that he didn't need to betray the Pure Yang Palace. Yang Chen could even use the natural resources of that ancestor like he wanted, as long as he was willing to hand over the pill recipe.

"From the start, I didn't have any kind of pill recipe for the Heaven Seizing Pill with me, so looking for it is useless."

Naturally Yang Chen denied it flatly. He wasn't lying, he really didn't have it.

In Yang Chen's memories of his previous life, even the the creator of the Heaven Seizing Pill didn't have the have all ingredients for the pill recipe, so it was unworthy for Yang Chen to remember it. The reason why he was successful was because he had had a thorough understanding of the medicinal nature of all kinds of medicines. It basically didn't have any relation with the pill recipe.

"This is only a crafty plot of He LianYun."

After He LianYun's name was raised, Yang Chen immediately understood what was going on. That nasty person had surprisingly used such a despicable method.

The people from that family were currently hanging around outside of the Pure Yang Palace, like a pain in the neck, shamelessly insisting on the pill recipe. Although the Pure Yang Palace could eliminate such lowly characters, they had a reputation as an honest and upright sect, which stopped them from doing anything. They could only endure the disturbance created by these people while feeling vexed.

"This matter has to be resolved!"

The Hall Master of the Foreign Affair Hall was distressed and even the Palace Master Zhong Jiao had begun to worry.

These minor characters were certainly not the cause of his worry, but now some sects had also begun to push the wave and add billows, wanting the Pure Yang Palace to negotiate with them and hand over the things of their ancestor to them for the sake of their face.

The people of that family also weren't stupid. In order to gain support of as many people as they could get, they had even put out words that, when they obtained the pill recipe of the Heaven Seizing Pill, they would certainly not keep it to themselves and would immediately make it public to these cultivators, to fulfill the dream of their ancestor to help everybody.

Once these words came out, many sects immediately offered their support to them. Earlier, regardless of whether Yang Chen had seized the Heaven Seizing Pill's recipe or not, at least he had made it public that the recipe for the pill to restore the pill spirit was not up for discussion. Most people knew just one point, that if Yang Chen still thought he could get a seventh grade flame in exchange for it, he could dream on!

The other party had used such a despicable plan, staining his reputation, yet he could only use his sect's status as an upright sect and he didn't dare to move against them. Perhaps, finally feeling vexed, he would do something that would benefit these shameless people which would just increase his worries.

It had to be said that He LianYun's plan of provoking these people was pretty good. Although they had also implicated his name by putting it forward, since he had been involved in the refining of the Heaven Seizing Pill, other people also wanted his help to think over it. Looking at Yang Chen and Pure Yang Palace's faces covered in mud, He LianYun was extremely happy in his heart.

Although the big sects hadn't issued any statement about it, some smaller sects had begun to offer their support to that family. In the beginning, the Pure Yang Palace didn't pay any attention to it, but when more and more people began to talk about it, they had to acknowledge it.

The Palace Master and a few elders had already gathered with the Hall Master of each hall to discuss about it, since Yang Chen was involved.

"The people of that family are extremely noisy and disturbing, which is very unpleasant!"

Xu Chengxin was the most distressed and the first one to complain about it:

"We must find a way to shut them up!"

"Have you thought of any method?'

Wang Yong's gaze immediately fell on him:

"Hand over the pill recipe which my grand disciple created? Pah!"

"Uncle Master, I don't have any such opinion!"

How could Xu Chenxin dare to create a misunderstanding with Wang Yong? He hastily said:

"But the disturbance they are creating is very bad for the sect's reputation. The number of new disciples entering the sect has reduced by a lot this year."

"Let the clowns jump. It's not worth your attention!"

An elder on good terms with Wang Yong snorted:

"I figure they just care about ruining our reputation. Such minor family, they can be handled in just one night, why worry so much about it? We are cultivators, we only seek a clear conscience, so let the others shout as much as they want."

Once hearing these words, the Palace Master forced a bitter laugh. If they wanted to kill them, why not do it earlier. Though he had said one thing right: they just wanted to ruin the reputation of the Pure Yang Palace.

"Perhaps we can ask Yang Chen to hand over the pill recipe to a fair and just sect to judge it, then we will know if it is the pill recipe of the Heaven Seizing Pill or not."

On the other side, Luminous Moon Hall's master Liang Shao Meng wrinkled his brows:

"As long as we can remove this misunderstanding, we won't have to worry about that family."

"Giving them the pill recipe, how would the just big sect know if it is the correct one?"

Xu Chengxin shook his head:

"It is not appropriate. The pill recipe which has been created by the disciple of our Pure Yang Palace, why must we give it to another sect to judge? Moreover, which big sect could undertake the heavy responsibility of judging?"

"The Greatest Heaven Sect is already considered as the top sect unofficially, moreover, since we are asking them to judge, why not ask a few elders of the Greatest Heaven Sect to come over."

Lian Shao Meng who had already wanted to merge the Pure Yang Palace with the Greatest Heaven Sect according to Yang Chen's memories in his past life, so him saying this was nothing unusual.

"Fair handling? Not necessary?"

Wang Yong wrinkled his brows. Just as he was about to refute, the Law Enforcement Hall's master interrupted:

"Shielding our sect traitor disciple, in addition to their behaviour at the Desolate Valley, how justly do you think can they handle their affairs? Hall Master Liang, do you think my Pure Yang Palace is just for the benefit of outsiders?"

"You! Humph, this is not a matter that I created, whoever created the misunderstanding should go to settle it!"

Liang Shao Meng anxiously replied, but then he was unable to say anything more. He snorted and after saying the last sentence, he did not open his mouth again. But the meaning of his words was clear: Yang Chen had created the misunderstanding.

Wang Yong was extremely angry. A lowly hall master had dared to focus on his grand disciple publicly! He was just about to speak up, when Palace Master Zhong Jiao coughed lightly and calmly said:

"This matter is related to you, Yang Chen, what do you think?"

Once the Palace Master opened his mouth, all eyes turned to Yang Chen, the person with the lowest cultivation in the room, sitting in the back, waiting to hear if he had any method.

"Even hoodlums dare to shout in front of an immortal sect's gate, yet we can't deal with them?"

Yang Chen smiled, without showing any nervousness in front of the sect elders:

"Tell them to shut up immediately. If they dare to speak again, we will behead them! Don't tell me the prestige of our Pure Yang Palace could be ruined by a few hoodlums?"

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Chapter 181 – What Seems Reasonable Doesn't Have To Be True

Once Yang Chen's words were heard, it immediately shook the minds of the elders, first and foremost Wang Yong. Yang Chen's words were right. Was Pure Yang Palace's reputation lower than that of a few hoodlums?

Not only the people who supported Yang Chen, but even all of the other hall masters showed a smile. Indeed, Pure Yang Palace's method of handling these people was quite mild. Noblemen deceived by the pretense of reason would cause other people to take advantage of them.

The few elders looked at each other and the Palace Master was looking at them. When everyone's gazes met, all of them could see the approval in the eyes of each other.

"Good, we will handle them as Yang Chen has proposed."

The Palace Master immediately made his decision:

"Hall Master Xu, tomorrow morning you must warn the people of that clan that, if they dare to babble nonsense and slander my Pure Yang Palace's reputation again, they must not blame Pure Yang Palace for being merciless. Also, give a prior notice to the people of the other sects that the reputation of my Pure Yang Palace cannot be tarnished by such people."

No one opposed this decision, not even Liang Shao Ming said anything. Yang Chen's words were quite rational. Was the reputation of Pure Yang Palace even lower than that of some hoodlums? Would fighting against them prove this?

Xu Chengxin was delighted. He could just barely deal with those people every day. Although he was not happy within his heart, he also could not use malicious words while talking face to face. After today, he could finally blow off his steam. The gloominess which had accumulated in the past few days had also been completely dispersed. If that clan still dared to babble nonsense, Xu Chengxin could greatly embarrass them.

"However, there is still He LianYun. He won't be as easy to handled as that clan!"

Liang Shao Ming turned the subject towards He LianYun:

"He himself is a famous pill concocting master. Moreover, he also participated in the refining of the Heaven Seizing Pill. Many people trust his words."

"Forgive this disciple for being impudent."

Before anyone could say anything, Yang Chen rushed to open his mouth and replied to Liang Shao Ming:

"Right now, disciple is also a famous and reputed pill master and has also participated in the refining of the Heaven Seizing PIll."

The meaning of these words was clear: there was no need to attach any importance to He LianYun.

Without hesitation, Liang Shao Ming immediately wanted to berate Yang Chen :

"You are just a trifling Foundation stage youngster, even if you can concoct pills, you have just started doing so. How dare you compare yourself with a YuanYing stage pill concocting master?"

But he wasn't able to say anything. Not to mention that He LianYun was no longer at the YuanYing stage, just talking of the Heaven Seizing Pill, Yang Chen was considered far more important than him. Moreover, in front of so many elders, how could he dare to speak about another person's ambition and ruin his own reputation?

"If his words are reasonable, other people will definitely believe him."

Although he was extremely furious in his heart, Liang Shao Ming replied very gently:

"Other people wanted to speak with you and we cannot always be barbarous and unreasonable?"

While Yang Chen and Liang Shao Ming were wrangling, the other people present did not interrupt in the slightest. Everyone was simply listening and looking at the show presented by Yang Chen and Liang Shao Ming.

"What reason?"

Yang Chen retorted with a smile:

"That the pill which I refined for restoring the pill spirit coincidently worked on a failed Heaven Seizing Pill and that that's how I got the pill recipe for the Heaven Seizing Pill?"

"Since so many people are also speaking against it."

Liang Shao Ming conceded:

"We have no choice but to deal with it."

"Which other people?"

Yang Chen suddenly asked with a smile:

"Have there been people from the Greatest Heaven Sect, whom you wanted to give the responsibility of presiding over justice? The Clear Sky Sect, Five Phases Sect, the Green Jade Immortal Islands or some other big dao sect? Which of these have spoken?"

"This!"

Liang Shao Ming was unable to speak, so he could only admit:

"No, they haven't said anything."

But he immediately thought of something:

"They are all famous and prestigious sects. When they open their mouth, it will determine the outcome. Since they didn't understand it clearly before, making a judgement would be inconvenient."

"Then according to the words of hall master Liang, they haven't reached any conclusion, right?"

Yang Chen keenly took hold of the idea within Laing Shao Ming's words and immediately asked back:

"Since they don't have any problems, why are we still worried about anything?"

"Then unanimously we also don't have to mind it!"

Liang Shao Ming seemed to not reason against Yang Chen's argument and could only take the stance of someone thinking about his sect while wrinkling his brows.

"When has my Pure Yang Palace's conduct become so servile that we have to care about what people are thinking of us?"

Yang Chen strangely asked:

"What's honest is honest and what's muddy is muddy. A few insignificant people only had to spout some nonsense and we immediately started caring about how they think of us."

After all was said and done, the Pure Yang Palace was still a second rate sect. From elders to disciples, nobody had developed the confidence like the people from the Greatest Heaven Sect or the Five Phases Sect or any such big sect. Even if there had already been a great amount of change, gaining a Da Cheng stage expert and also possessing many YuanYing stage experts, it still had a weak background.

Would these trifling people have dared to talk about the Greatest Heaven Sect like this? Even after the incident at the Desolate Valley, apart from talking in private, how many people would have dared to criticize it in public? Also, wasn't it only a few of the big sects that had such confidence?

What Yang Chen wanted to do was to slowly uplift the Pure Yang Palace to gain that kind of confidence. Even he himself was not sure what he had to say to make those people shut up.

"If we handle it like this, wouldn't people say that our sect has started to behave tyrannically?"

Liang Shao Ming naturally didn't agree with Yang Chen and asked a rhetorical question.

"Will those criticising people have any proof?"

Yang Chen directly looked in the eyes of Liang Shao Ming and raised his voice a little, but continued for everyone to hear:

"Like the Greatest Heaven Sect has arranged a spell formation at the Desolate Valley to collect the fifth earth true qi, will they have such conclusive proof?"

"No they won't!"

Liang Shao Ming suddenly discovered that he himself surprisingly didn't have confidence equal to this youngster, Yang Chen. With an empty voice he said:

"Only that He LianYun's words are irrefutable. Moreover, his analysis is also quite reasonable, that would be difficult to deal with."

After all was said and done, he just used He LianYun' opinion.

"Then the Pure Yang Palace should forcefully request people from the big sects and ask for He LianYun to agree to a confrontation with this disciple in their presence and demand that he produce irrefutable proof. I wonder if senior He LianYun will dare or not?"

Yang Chen was completely aware of He LianYun's cowardice. He had no problem with He LianYun saying anything, but he wanted him to agree to a confrontation in the presence of people and give irrefutable evidence, or he would be offending the entire Pure Yang Palace. But how would he dare? Otherwise, at that time, he wouldn't have obediently handed over the Real Sun Fire under Elder Wu's threat.

"This is a good option!"

Before Liang Shao Ming could open his mouth, the Palace Master interrupted and turned to Xu Chengxin:

"Hall Master Xu, after warning those people tomorrow, inform them that, if they are not convinced, then they can find their only witness He LianYun, and in the presence of the experts from these sects he can provide conclusive proof, which will confirm the truth! My Pure Yang Palace cannot bear the endless slandering of the sect's reputation.

The Palace Master who had been in a good mood all along revealed a trace of killing intent while saying this. Everyone immediately realized that, if he wasn't able to provide conclusive proof, he better imagine the consequences of slandering the Pure Yang Palace.

Although Pure Yang Palace was a second rate sect, it had already gained a Da Cheng stage expert and its strength had increased greatly and it had started walking on the path of a first rate sect. Even if it was a second rate sect, it could still not be slandered by any random person.

When Pure Yang Palace made the threat on the next day, those people who had originally been quite threatening immediately began to give in. The people of that clan, how could they still dare to say anything? They obediently retreated, thinking about how to handle this matter, or better yet, find He LianYun.

He LianYun was a loose cultivator. Although his school had some disciples, it didn't have any great strength. If he was still at the YuanYing stage, then perhaps some people would have tried to help him, currying favor with a YuanYing stage pill concocting master, but at the moment he didn't have many people who looked favorably on him.

And those numerous cultivators who were adding fuel to the fire to increase the pressure on Pure Yang Palace were hoping that it would give in, allowing everyone to get some benefits. But when the Pure Yang Palace took a tough stance, asking for He LianYun to produce evidence in front of everyone, who would still dare to take the side of He LianYun?

If they had any such proof, why would they act like rascals? They would have directly gone to a big sect and asked for them to speak justice. Using such underhanded methods clearly showed that they didn't have any certainty and only wanted to take advantage of the crisis.

As for the confrontation, that was even more impossible. How could He LianYun possibly have the guts to do it? Precisely, right now, he also had to think about settling the rage of Pure Yang Palace. He had to find a sufficiently strong supporter to lean on. To stick in support in that clan's fate, he would certainly not want calamity to befall him.

Among the sects, apart from mortal enemies, who would incur the hatred of a sect over an imaginary rumor? Even in his previous life, when the Greatest Heaven Sect was dealing with Pure Yang Palace, they knew that they had to eliminate the Pure Yang Palace completely, that's why they took to such reckless behaviour. Without such determination, who would stick out their neck for few hoodlums?

Pure Yang Palace's tough stance made both He LianYun and that clan's people turn into ostriches. However, after two months, Pure Yang Palace went ahead to welcome more than ten special guests.

These guests included people of a few big sects, headed by the Greatest Heaven Sect and people from an alliance of loose cultivators coming together. The Clear Sky Sect, the Five Phases sect, the Green Jade Immortals Island, all of them had a share. When they arrived at Pure Yang Palace, they were quite polite towards Pure Yang Palace, saying that they wanted to help save their reputation, but they still required to talk to Yang Chen properly to get to the bottom of the matter.

These delegates had taken the stance of being helpful to Pure Yang Palace, making Pure Yang Palace unable to refuse. However, among them, the people from the alliance of loose cultivators seemed to be quite aggressive, which made Palace Master Zhong Jiao unhappy. The outcome became clear very quickly.

Seeing that the events were far from encouraging, He LianYun had turned to the loose cultivators alliance. The loose cultivators alliance also had a Da Cheng stage expert. Combined with the other experts of the loose cultivators alliance, they had to investigate the matter clearly. However, speaking frankly, all of these people just wanted to use this for their gain.

Yang Chen was led to the these people by the Palace Master. After making his greetings, he sat down in front of them, waiting for their questions.

"Yang Chen, we all have good intentions."

The representative from the Greatest Heaven Sect opened his mouth:

"He LianYun participated with you in the refining of the Heaven Seizing Pill. It seems as if some misunderstanding was created at that time and we will try to clarify it, so as to avoid hurting your and Pure Yang Palace's reputation. So if we offend you, we ask you to bear with it!"

Seeing the other party, a YuanYing stage expert talk so amiably, Yang Chen also couldn't deny them and could only respond with:

"You flatter me senior, whatever doubts you have, just ask."

"This time, what do you think about what He LianYun said? Although it is just his analysis, there is some reason in it."

Greatest Heaven Sect's expert was still as polite as before and asked with a smile:

"Do you agree?"

Apparently they had already reached an agreement, only this expert from the Greatest Heaven Sect would speak and the other people would not open their mouths and just listen quietly.

"Yes, it is somewhat reasonable."

Yang Chen nodded his head, but also didn't deny it.

"Somewhat reasonable is good, haha!"

The smile of the face of the representative asking questions widened even more:

"He LianYun doesn't hold any conclusive proof, after all, who knows if you have the pill recipe or not. This is not good, but it is also not good to denounce someone, we all were thinking of hearing your explanation on this."

"Many more matters also seem reasonable."

Yang Chen didn't seem to nervous and replied with a smile:

"Senior, but an argument having reason doesn't mean that the matter is true."

"What does that mean?"

The smile of the other person didn't lessen and his voice was also free of tension:

"Things that seem reasonable, why aren't they true?"

"I will ask seniors to forgive this junior for being impudent!"

Yang Chen smiled at the Palace Master sitting on one side and then calmly said:

"The Greatest Heaven Sect has a ying transformation pill, the Five Phases Sect also has a nirvana pill. These two types of elixirs have nearly the same use, both are used by peak JieDan experts after ying transformation."

This was something known to nearly everyone, so nobody had any problem. Yang Chen also didn't speak nonsense and picked at the theory behind these two pills, their refining method, the ingredients used and so on, and analyzed it once. Naturally, it was just a shallow analysis, after all he didn't have the perfect pill recipe, but the analysis was not far from the truth.

"These two elixirs are quite similar, even ninety percent of their ingredients are the same, but the nirvana pill came out first and the ying transformation pill appeared some time after it, such a coincidence."

Yang Chen concluded beaming with smiles:

"Seniors, do you believe that the ying transformation pill recipe is a copy of the nirvana pill's recipe? Seniors, do you think that this junior's analysis is quite reasonable?"

"This!"

The complexion of the representative of the Greatest Heaven Sect changed. He was not smiling anymore. Moreover, the complexion of the representative of the Five Phases Sect also changed. When he looked at the Greatest Heaven Sect's representative, there seemed some other motive. All of the representatives started looking at each other in dismay.

"Complete nonsense!"

The representative of the Clear Sky Sect clapped his hand and berated Yang Chen:

"These are all rumors, you don't even have the pill recipe, how can you dare to spread such a misconception?"

"Many thanks, senior for providing justice!"

Yang Chen immediately stood up and cupped his hand towards the representative:

"Finally this junior has been proven innocent! He LianYun also hasn't seen the pill recipe, how can he dare to spread such a misconception?"

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Chapter 182 – There Is No Method To Determine If It Is Genuine

22 Feb 2017

The Palace Master, Zhong Jiao, also heard this and when he heard this, his face showed a smile. Looking at those representatives, his heart was completely relaxed.

The group of people had come over wanting to use the argument that, what He LianYun said was reasonable, to make Yang Chen admit that he had the Heaven Seizing Pill's recipe. However they hadn't expected Yang Chen's analysis would create such a complex problem between the Greatest Heaven Sect and the Five Phases Sect. This was simply reaping what they had sown, so how could the Palace Master watching from the sidelines not be happy about it?

"These kind of matters cannot be confused with each other."

From the other side, a representative of the loose cultivators association immediately spoke up.

"That is correct."

Yang Chen didn't refute him and admitted with a smile:

"However, if you don't wish to consider this matter, this junior has heard of another rumor which involves your precious alliance."

Yang Chen raised another rumor about a magic weapon secretly manufactured by the elder of the loose cultivators alliance, which surprisingly resembled a powerful treasure of the Greatest Heaven Sect. There were a lot of similarities, everyone had heard this rumor many times. Yang Chen once again analysed and reached a very reasonable conclusion, that the alliance's elder had stolen the secret method of refining from the Greatest Heaven Sect.

"Venomous slander!"

The elder of the alliance was enraged and slapped the table, starting to berate Yang Chen in a loud voice.

"Many thanks, senior for providing justice!"

Yang Chen replied with the same sentence:

"He LianYun is indeed a lowly person and has used venomous slander!"

Using the other person's words to refute themselves, Yang Chen simply provided an explanation. After the two examples he gave, not only could the group of delegates not determine if he had the pill recipe of the Heaven Seizing Pill, they actually became extremely careful of each other.

"Saying anything more is pointless. Just take out whatever pill recipe of the Heaven Seizing Pill you have and it will be clear by testing it once!"

Finally the representative of the loose cultivators alliance, He LianYun's support, no spoke diplomatically and bluntly expressed his greed.

"Easy!"

But Yang Chen agreed, placing much emphasis on this, as if he had blurted it out accidently.

Once these words came out, the ones who were amazed and turned pale in fright were not only those delegates, even the Palace Master Zhong Jiao was affected. Just as he was about to warn Yang Chen, the representative started speaking:

"You are willing to take out the pill recipe?"

"I can take out the pill recipe."

Yang Chen again expressed his intentions clearly:

"Only, senior, how do you intend to authenticate it? Do you even know the genuine recipe for the Heaven Seizing Pill?"

"Isn't this simple?"

With Yang Chen willing to hand over the pill recipe and repeated provocation, the representative of the alliance was unable to think calmly, so without much thought, he immediately spoke:

"Wouldn't refining it once in accordance with the pill recipe make it clear?"

"Senior is indeed an expert. You have this junior's admiration!"

Yang Chen immediately showed his approval to that person and with a smile across his whole face he said:

"When junior had refined the simple foundation stage pill, out of ten attempts five had failed. But senior surprisingly requires only one try to refine the Heaven Seizing Pill! Can senior be the number one pill concocting master in the world?"

The representative of the alliance had originally thought that as long as Yang Chen handed over the pill recipe, everything else would be easy to deal with, but he hadn't anticipated that he would be put in such awkward position. When Elder Wu had refined the Heaven Seizing Pill, it could already be considered as extremely fortunate that he was successful in only one try. Elder Wu himself had thought that he had to have used up his entire luck in refining the Heaven Seizing Pill in this one try, but other people trying to refine it in one attempt was simply a dream.

For a Da Cheng stage expert, the Heaven Seizing Pill was the same as the yin and yang nature pill for a Foundation stage cultivator. Even if Deng Yi and Zhu Peng refined it again, their success rate wouldn't be more than fifty percent. When they would refine the Heaven Seizing Pill again, even one percent success rate would be a great fortune for them.

"After refining many times, wouldn't there be success at least once?"

The alliance representative's complexion turned red and he hastily explained.

"Wow, the noble alliance is truly rich and imposing, this junior is in awe!"

Yang Chen again raised his thumbs towards him:

"It can even easily obtain high quality blue green zoysia! The Da Cheng stage demon beast's constituent spirits are also easily available to you, is it possible for this lowly junior to get some benefits and buy one or two? Senior can rest assured, I will pay the market price!"

This time, the representative of the alliance didn't know how to deal with this. His expression seemed to convey he was completely embarrassed, unable to even move his limbs. But the rage on his face flourished more and more.

"It is embarrassing, but this junior still has a few questions which this junior wants to ask the seniors."

As if he hadn't seen his expression, Yang Chen immediately turned to the representatives sitting in front of him and cupped his hands:

"If the refining fails, how can seniors determine if the success rate was low or the pill recipe was wrong?"

Nobody had a clear answer to this question. Originally the success rate of the pill was very low, so if the refining failed, nobody could clearly determine if it was because of the ingredients, the method or actually the pill recipe being wrong.

"Even if the refining is successful, do seniors intend to find a Da Cheng stage expert who is about to ascend to determine if the Heaven Seizing Pill is fake or genuine?"

Without caring for what these people were thinking, Yang Chen immediately threw out another question:

"If there is a Da Cheng stage senior who ate the pill but failed in his tribulation, would it be considered as a problem of the Heaven Seizing Pill or the Da Cheng stage expert?"

The Heaven Seizing Pill would only increase the chances for success of passing the tribulation, but it did not guarantee it. This was common knowledge which almost everyone knew. So if it couldn't be distinguished properly, what proof could anyone have?

Leaving aside the fact that the success rate of refining a Heaven Seizing Pill was extremely low, where could so many Da Cheng stage experts, who were just about to ascend, be found to authenticate it even if the refining was successful?

Even if so many Da Cheng stage expert could be found, who would be willing to turn into a guinea pig? In case Yang Chen missed or added another ingredient, just as he himself had said before, the Heaven Seizing Pill would turn into a life seizing pill, so who would be willing to bet on Yang Chen's character?

"I'm willing to help as long as seniors can answer this junior's question."

A gentle smile made its way onto Yang Chen's face and he respectfully said:

"This junior will offer you the pill recipe which this junior knows!"

How could they reply? Among these people, the highest cultivator was at the peak YuanYing stage and the possibility of reaching Da Cheng stage was still uncertain for them, so how could they speak for a group of Da Cheng stage experts? Just as Yang Chen had said, even if he handed over the pill recipe, nobody would know if it was genuine or fake, so why go to other people to determine if their pill recipe was the pill recipe of the Heaven Seizing Pill or not?

"In addition!"

As if he wanted to crush these people to death with his words, he continued to speak:

"If, after using the lives of tens of hundreds of Da Cheng stage experts, the pill recipe was found to be fake, this junior requests seniors to take his place and receive justice. He LianYun has slandered this junior and my Pure Yang Palace, so he can not be let off lightly!"

The faces of those more than ten representatives sitting in front of Yang Chen turned bright red. Initially they had thought that maybe this time they would be able to obtain the pill recipe for the Heaven Seizing Pill, but it turned out to be just a dream.

Elder Wu's ascension had indeed provoked a group of people, everyone was thinking that the Heaven Seizing Pill was great. While, in reality, the Heaven Seizing Pill was still great, but people forget about the troubles it brought with it. If a Heaven Seizing Pill could just be obtained by getting the pill recipe, then it wouldn't be called Heaven Seizing Pill.

A sect which had more than a hundred Da Cheng stage experts who could come and verify if the pill recipe was genuine or fake and moreover could also easily obtain blue green zoysia hundreds of times, as well as constituent spirits of Da Cheng stage demon beasts, regardless of which sect it would be, it would already be unrivalled in this entire world, why would it still need to use some crisis to gain something from Pure Yang Palace?

Leaving aside the fact that the Heaven Seizing Pill would increase the chances of success in ascension, for the people participating in this matter, it was something a long time in the future, so even if they could get the pill recipe, they may not find the ingredients and even if they could find the ingredients, they may not be able to refine it successfully, so if the word spread that they acted like this with a Foundation stage junior, they would certainly lose face.

Finally at this moment, the representatives who had come today were all extremely embarrassed. They couldn't stand, they couldn't sit, they couldn't walk or leave, unable to even speak in their embarrassment. Each one of them was feeling extreme regret and boundless resentment at the same time.

Yang Chen's final words just a moment ago targeted these people's resentment at He LianYun. If it were not for that culprit inciting the quarrel, why would they have been embarrassed? At the same time, they didn't have any favourable opinion of Yang Chen and the Pure Yang Palace, but at this moment they were sitting in the territory of the Pure Yang Palace, so regardless of their hatred, they could only endure it.

Yang Chen had already returned to Palace Master Zhong Jiao's side and both of them were beaming with smiles, while appreciating the wonderful expressions on the faces of these representatives. After a good moment, the Palace Master coughed, attracting the attention of everyone.

"Fellow daoists, many thanks for your concern regarding my Pure Yang Palace's reputation. This time the misunderstanding regarding my Pure Yang Palace has been completely cleared up, all thanks to the contributions of these fellow daoists!"

Palace Master's words were quite sly. With the premise of clearing up a misunderstanding, he had regained his good name again. But whatever he said, these people couldn't refute him. Since they were unable prove if it was a genuine pill recipe for the Heaven Seizing Pill or not, why should they become the vile characters here?

"It sure is a misunderstanding, I say! Pure Yang Palace has been famous for its righteousness and honesty, how could they steal the property of someone's ancestor?"

Immediately, someone picked up Palace Master Zhong Jiao's words to disentangle themselves.

After that there weren't any problems for Yang Chen or the Palace Master. With the assistance of a group of elders, they arranged a great feast for the representatives of the big sects and the alliance for helping them in clearing up the misunderstanding. Afterwards the representatives jointly issued a high profile statement in which the matter of the pill recipe for the Heaven Seizing Pill was completely based on a misunderstanding. People were just spreading falsehoods and should not be trusted.

Afterwards the Palace Master, with assistance of the group of elders, 'reluctantly' sent the representatives off and followed them with his eyes until they disappeared, flying on their flying swords. The Palace Master Zhong Jiao could not help but feel relaxed in his heart and immediately burst out laughing when everything was over.

The group of elders didn't know the details, but seeing the Palace Master laughing so heartily, they could not help themselves and started inquiring about it. The Palace Master would naturally not conceal such a joyous matter, it had to be shared with all of his fellow disciples.

When the Palace Master told them about the events from beginning to end, repeating Yang Chen's words, including their expressions at the end, the other elders also could not help themselves and burst out laughing. This kind of satisfactory affair should be recorded in golden letters.

The matter of the Heaven Seizing Pill's recipe had evaporated with the declaration of the big sects and the alliance. All rumors disappeared completely into thin air. Even if someone recalled it, it was only considered as a topic of idle chatter and not some great opportunity. As for the people involved, they had either turned into a joke or complete villains who had to be purged.

As for that clan, they hadn't gained anything after making so much noise, other than the reputation of being hoodlums. As for He LianYun, he was called from the alliance from whom he had asked for help and was humiliated greatly by an elder who had great authority. Not killing him was already lenient.

Battered and exhausted, He LianYun had turned into a target of scorn and had no choice other than colluding with the people of that family. Although that clan had been turned into a joke, they still had a lot of manpower which could be used. Also, even if He LianYun was of no use, he was still a successful pill concocting master. Both sides once again started to collude for their nefarious aims.

Their common enemy was Yang Chen, this was the understanding between them. Nobody remembered that it was not Yang Chen who went after them and turned them into enemies, apparently they had mutually decided to forget this point selectively. But one thing that they did not forget was that the humiliation had to be paid back.

He LianYun had already thought about this deeply. Even when Yang Chen was at the Foundation stage, he had such great knowledge and experience, moreover he was also capable of refining an elixir to restore the pill spirit. Even if he didn't have the pill recipe for the Heaven Seizing Pill, there was still another thing: Pure Yang Palace also didn't have any great or famous pill concocting master, then the only explanation was that Yang Chen had at least some kind of rare record of pill concocting.

He had to get hold of this rare record, whatever means he had to use. Moreover, Yang Chen had to die, but before he would die, He LianYun still wanted to snatch the Real Sun Fire back from Yang Chen to wipe away his previous shame. As long as he could get his hands on the flame and the rare record, He LianYun was convinced that he would surpass Deng Yi and Zhu Peng, becoming the number one pill concocting expert in this world. Only at that time, when everything would go his way could he be proud of himself.

But this was all possible only if Yang Chen had not absorbed the Real Sun Fire. He LianYun didn't think he could, but after seeing Yang Chen's cultivation and his control of fire, he wasn't sure. If he had absorbed it, then He LianYun had only one option: he could only ask Yang Chen to willingly hand over the flame.

This was a great inconvenience because, knowing Yang Chen's craftiness, he knew there wouldn't be any opportunities. Moreover, it was said that Yang Chen had two YuanYing experts following him, so attacking him also wouldn't be easy. He had to find some other method to do it.

That clan still firmly believed that Yang Chen had forcefully stolen their ancestor's pill recipe and viewed Yang Chen as a thorn in their side, their mortal enemy. The group of people immersed themselves in bitter cultivation and began to wait for the day when they could take their revenge.

After suffering in humiliation for many days, He LianYun's disciple obtained an important piece of information from some mysterious person and hastily reported back to He LianYun.

Yang Chen completely obeyed his master Gao Yue, moreover, he also greatly cared about her. As long as Gao Yue said anything, Yang Chen would absolutely not disobey. Although dealing with Yang Chen was not easy, his master had recently sealed her own cultivation for some mysterious reason, which nobody knew and had begun to cultivate a water attributed cultivation method from the qi layer, thus becoming extremely weak.

Hearing this, He LianYun's eyes immediately shone. An opportunity had come!

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Chapter 183 – They Are In Big Trouble

24 Feb 2017

"How should we take care of the debt of that clan and He LianYun?"

After calling in Yang Chen, these were the first words of the Palace Master.

"If anyone dares to accuse the disciples of my Pure Yang Palace unjustly and is let off so lightly, wouldn't my Pure Yang Palace be considered a pushover in the future?"

Yang Chen was at the Nine Earth Manor, performing the duties of the Merit Transferring Disciple, when he was suddenly called in by the Palace Master. On the way, he kept thinking about what kind of thing could have happened. Hearing the Palace Master's words, Yang Chen smiled and said:

"I think the sect shouldn't pay any attention to this matter."

"There shouldn't be anyone who thinks that, after accusing my Pure Yang Palace's disciple and trying to steal our properly, they can still remain safe and sound!"

The Palace Master smiled towards Yang Chen and said:

"They must pay their debts!"

"I know about your grievance!"

The Palace Master paused for a moment and then calmly said:

"But everyone in this place knew that the clan was the owner of the Heaven Seizing Pill, therefore they had previously no option but to shift the blame onto you, but since everything has become clear now, it is time for those people to pay their debts!"

As for Yang Chen not making any complaints previously, that was just drivel, but Yang Chen knew that strong public opinion was enough to melt steel beams. Even in his previous life, Yang Chen and Pure Yang Palace were definitely the victims, but when those people published their views, they just gave Pure Yang Palace another appearance: the appearance of someone overestimating their abilities and deserving to be punished.

Therefore, he previously observed public opinion in great detail, even when those people were criticizing them, the first thought of Yang Chen was to protect Pure Yang Palace's reputation. Since the Palace Master had finally decided to counterattack, Yang Chen was naturally extremely happy.

"I am only informing you once so that you don't keep thinking about it and focus on cultivation!"

Palace Master Zhong Jiao cared greatly about Yang Chen. Currently the Eccentric's Hall of Pure Yang Palace wouldn't have been established without Yang Chen's support. Furthermore, considering Yang Chen's previous performance, it made him a very influential figure within Pure Yang Palace, even though he was only at the Foundation stage.

"When do you wish to attack?"

Yang Chen was very satisfied regarding this matter and inquired further about it.

"When do you think we should attack?"

The Palace Master wanted to test Yang Chen with this question, to see if he could handle the responsibility. After all, this time, the greatest victim was Yang Chen himself.

"Right now!"

Yang Chen was a little impatient. Since they had tried to forcibly rob him, they could not blame him for being fierce:

"I will go together with hall master Gui, we should be enough!"

A Da Cheng stage expert together with Yang Chen going to eliminate a clan which had already declined a long time ago, together with the stray dog He LianYun, there shouldn't be any accident. Zhong Jiao had already anticipated that Yang Chen would wish to go himself, so he didn't obstruct him and nodded in agreement, without saying another word.

Yang Chen almost jumped up standing and turned around to go to the Eccentrics' Hall. Gui Shanyou was resting in the big room with his eyes closed, when he sensed Yang Chen coming from far away. He immediately stood up and without hesitation welcomed him.

"Senior, let's go to kill some people!"

Yang Chen didn't talk much rubbish and stated his purpose for coming in one sentence:

"To make people realize that they won't be let off lightly after provoking my Pure Yang Palace."

"Lead the way!"

Gui Shanyou was similarly rejuvenated, apparently guessing long ago whom Yang Chen wanted to kill and immediately walked after him without any preparation. In fact, there was no need for preparation, he already had his qiankun pouch on him and Gui Shanyou didn't need to be careful about these people.

Just when he was about to set off, he suddenly thought of something. Apparently master Gao Yue's current experience did not make Yang Chen feel relaxed. After all, one was a problem regarding strength, the other was regarding one's attitude. Sometimes, his master's heart was somewhat flexible, she didn't seem to completely understand the dangers on the path of cultivation. Perhaps, this would be a good opportunity to let her have a taste of it.

And same as Gao Yue, there was someone else who had this problem, that was his talented senior apprentice sister, Gongsun Ling. Gongsun Ling's cultivation perception was astonishing, but she didn't have many life and death experiences. In his previous life, this had led to her failing in her tribulation and everything being ruined at the last step, so it didn't need to be said that she should also come along to gain some experience.

"Eliminating that clan and He LianYun?"

After hearing Yang Chen's invitation, Gao Yue immediately stood up without saying anything and followed him.

She had observed everything that He LianYun and that clan did to slander Yang Chen and was furious, but since the Palace Master hadn't said anything, she also didn't dare to act without thinking. But with the sect leader's command, there was no need to worry about other things, first she had to avenge Yang Chen's grievance. Everything else would come after that.

"Experience?"

Since Gongsun Ling didn't understand everything, she hesitated a little:

"Younger apprentice brother, is this the time for gaining experience? Haven't I just recently returned from the Immortal Falling Well?"

Gongsun Ling had been immersed in that illusion spell of the senior and her research had already been nearing completion and was at the most crucial point, so she was not very excited about going.

"Senior apprentice sister, did you meet those people at the Li Lou village who made things deliberately difficult for you?"

Yang Chen asked with some curiosity.

"No, I didn't!"

Gongsun Ling shook her head with a smile:

"They were all extremely considerate."

Are people so different from each other? Yang Chen only had to think for a moment to get to the solution. On one hand, Elder Wu hadn't ascended at that time, so with Yang Chen and Elder Wu's relationship, who would dare to offend Yang Chen's senior apprentice sister? Moreover, many people wished to establish a relation with Yang Chen, this future high grade pill concocting master, so showing consideration for Yang Chen's senior apprentice sister was a given.

There was one more reason: Gongsun Ling was a beautiful woman, frankly speaking, she could be regarded as an exceptionally beautiful woman. Wherever beautiful women were, they would always be popular. The cultivation world was no exception, so some consideration was inevitable.

"Senior apprentice sister, what do you think is the aim of learning through experience?"

Yang Chen asked a question.

"To increase experience and fighting experience."

Gongsun Ling was no fool, she naturally understood what Yang Chen wanted to say:

"I have fought with those underground spirit beasts in the Immortal Falling Well with great effort, I didn't waste these ten years."

Yang Chen believed her. After she returned, her killing intent was completely genuine, she had clearly worked hard in the Immortal Falling Well.

"Senior apprentice sister, did you receive any injuries in the Immortal Falling Well?"

Yang Chen asked with a smile.

"No, I didn't!"

Gongsun Ling shook her head:

"You said that, when fighting with someone, one must properly familiarize oneself with the opponent and find his weaknesses. When I dealt with those underground spirit beasts, I scored complete victories!"

While saying this, Gongsun Ling felt quite proud.

"Alas!"

Yang Chen heaved a long sigh:

"It is quite troublesome that you didn't sustain any injuries. Senior apprentice sister, in the future you will not always confront enemies whom you can defeat and neither will you never suffer injuries. Have you thought about what your response would be if you suffered injuries? Whether you should fight on with all of your might? Or whether you should flee immediately? Or perhaps you wouldn't know what to do?

Gongsun Ling had apparently never thought about such a problem before. Yang Chen's question was like a deafening blast in Gongsun Ling's ears.

From the beginning, Gongsun Ling's understanding of learning through experience was completely different from Yang Chen's thoughts. This was not only Gongsun Ling's problem, but rather the problem of the entire Pure Yang Palace.

For Yang Chen, it was one of the reasons why Pure Yang Palace was exterminated in his previous life. Pure Yang Palace had always been extremely moderate, everyone there only thought of immersing themselves in cultivation, without paying any attention to the outside world. Aside from matters that had some relation with them, they would only use force as a last resort.

This gained the Pure Yang Palace a reputation of being an upright and honest sect, but it didn't have the slightest bit of use regarding the expansion of Pure Yang Palace. Pure Yang Palace didn't had the slightest desire for a power struggle, but others didn't think so. On the contrary, they thought that it was just an angle to gain fame. Pure Yang Palace had also defended its disciples several times, making people think that Pure Yang Palace had an ulterior motive and was hiding its strength, further adding to the evil designs that the Greatest Heaven Sect had for Pure Yang Palace. They were just waiting to find a reason to exterminate the sect.

Gongsun Ling's thinking clearly represented Pure Yang Palace's ideal manner, maintaining an attitude of not caring for outside matters. Regarding cultivation, this kind of attitude would not easily give rise to a heart's devil, but regarding survival and battles, this kind of attitude was deadly.

In this life, Yang Chen would not allow the past tragedies to repeat themselves. He had already begun to secretly influence the entire Pure Yang Palace, convinced that after several decades or maybe a century, Pure Yang Palace would become a completely different Pure Yang Palace.

"What would be difference in experience this time?"

A genius was a genius. Gongsun Ling quickly understood the underlying reason. Even if Yang Chen could not change the regular thinking of Gongsun Ling within a short time, Yang Chen had said something about life and death battles in the future and Gongsun Ling was no fool, she clearly knew right from wrong.

"This time, we are going to kill people!"

Yang Chen didn't conceal it any longer and clearly stated his intentions:

"The opponents are comprised of both strong and weak, perhaps they don't even have Foundation stage or qi layer youngsters, perhaps their experts are JieDan stage cultivators. We are going to kill these people, but there won't be certainty like the underground spirit beasts!"

"Good!"

After a small moment of hesitation, Gongsun Ling nodded her head. 'Killing people', these words created a slight resistance in her mind, but she was clear that Yang Chen would not harm her.

Although the old tree demon was accompanying them, Yang Chen wanted Gao Yue and Gongsun Ling to experience life and death fights this time and thus hadn't told them about the old tree demon, he had asked him to only assist them at the most crucial time. This crucial time was the time when he was certain that Gao Yue and Gongsun Ling were facing a matter of life and death, otherwise even if they sustained injuries, these two women should deal with it themselves.

During the entire journey, the old tree demon's divided body was concealed within Yang Chen's Medicine Garden, enjoying the huge amount of spirit power, and cultivating. As for outside matters, they were completely handled by Yang Chen.

Apart from Palace Master Zhong Jiao, Yang Chen and the old tree demon, nobody knew that the old tree demon was accompanying them, on the contrary, many people had seen Yang Chen, Gao Yue and Gongsun Ling leaving together, giving rise to many guesses within the Pure Yang Palace.

"Good news!"

At a secret hideout of the clan, an elder hastily rushed towards the clan chief's room and shouted with great excitement:

"Yang Chen, Gao Yue and another Foundation stage female disciple of the Pure Yang Palace have left together to gain some experience, this is an exceptionally good opportunity for us!"

"Is this information reliable?"

The clan chief's eyes began to shine.

"It certainly is!"

The elder was also excited:

"We have received fellow daoist He LianYun's letter, and have also received this news from a clansman hidden in the MeiQing Mountains, who had seen those three come to the market there to make some purchases and then leave."

"Do we know where they went to gain experience?"

Clan Chief excitedly asked.

"Fellow daoist He LianYun said that they intend to go to Liang Yang Mountain's spirit beast market with the intention to purchase something."

Elder quickly replied.

"En!"

Clan Chief stroked his beard and issued the command:

"Call all other elders over here, we should discuss the strategy to attack."

"Yes!"

The elder agreed and quickly left to inform all the other elders.

Feeling complacent, the people of the clan hadn't even anticipated that, while they were discussing about dealing with Yang Chen, the Pure Yang Palace had already classified them as targets for attacking.

Dealing with these three, Gao Yue who had sealed her cultivation and hadn't even reached the Foundation stage, as well as two Foundation stage youngsters, Yang Chen and Gongsun Ling, the people of the clan didn't think that they would have any trouble and only dispatched three JieDan stage experts with three Foundation stage clansmen. Furthermore, they also sent seven qi layer youngsters to act as their helpers.

All of them were waiting on the only path between the MeiQing Mountains and Yang Liang Mountain to ambush them. The qi layer disciples were scattered in all directions to observe an area with a radius of ten miles. As long as they saw even a hint of Yang Chen and his group, they were to immediately report back.

Within this area, the clansmen had set up the most formidable flags they could purchase. As long as someone entered a ten miles radius, they would be immediately trapped. In order to capture Yang Chen alive, the clansmen had made special efforts. They had even prepared to move everything, in case Yang Chen and his group did not come from this road.

Naturally, they needed to keep track of Yang Chen's whereabouts at all times and for that it was necessary to have a secret expert carefully tracking them. Moreover, he also had to be able to notify the clansmen lying in ambush at all times.

But those pitiful clansmen absolutely hadn't anticipated that their JieDan stage expert, when he spied on Yang Chen and the other two, concealing his spiritual awareness as much as he could, he was immediately spotted by Yang Chen and Gao Yue, like spotting a torch in a pitch black night.

After the duo cultivation of spirit awareness with Yang Chen, Gao Yue's spiritual awareness had already reached mid the JieDan stage, moreover her spiritual awareness had also gone through an extreme transformation. When the unfamiliar spiritual awareness spied on her for the first time, Gao Yue immediately discovered it. As for Yang Chen, nothing needed to be said. The formidable spiritual awareness threads from the cultivation of the Three Purities Secrets had even discovered the Da Cheng stage expert Gui Shanyou, so discovering this trifling clan's JieDan expert was simplicity itself.

"It seems that someone can't wait."

When Yang Chen and Gao Yue glanced at each other, Yang Chen said with a smile.

Among the three people, Gongsun Ling's spiritual awareness was the worst and she wasn't able to discover the enemy, but she could see from Yang Chen's and Gao Yue's reaction that a formidable enemy had appeared.

"What should we do?"

After talking with Yang Chen last time, Gongsun Ling's entire body seemed to be craving for a fight. Since Yang Chen and Gao Yue had discovered this anomaly, she also wanted to try.

"No need to worry right now!"

Yang Chen casually waved his hand, stopping Gongsun Ling from getting impulsive:

"We must first find where this is person and if we are on the right track or not. However, regardless of whoever he is, he will be in big trouble!"

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Chapter 184 – Mere Worldly Possessions Are Nothing To Worry About

26 Feb 2017

For Gao Yue and Gongsun Ling, this was the first time someone was targeting them. Gao Yue was still fine compared to Gongsun Ling. She had experienced someone attacking her at the Great NanHuang Mountains, but Gongsun Ling never had such experience.

The experienced Gao Yue hated such actions even more, especially right now, when these people were targeting Yang Chen. Unconsciously, both Gao Yue's and Yang Chen's minds were set on each other more seriously, thinking that they could allow themselves to be hurt, but not the other person.

Moreover it was Gongsun Ling's first time facing a life and death battle within the cultivation world. Although she had already experienced the sect's martial art competition and had also tempered herself at the Immortal Falling Well, this was her first time fighting a true life and death battle. What astonished Yang Chen was that, even under these circumstances, Gongsun Ling didn't seem to be the slightest bit nervous, instead she seemed to be looking forward to it.

The thirst for battle was perhaps fostered in the Immortal Falling Well, but at that time Gongsun Ling had only faced underground spirit beasts and hadn't thought of targeting cultivators. Right now, that thirst for killing evolved from the bottom of her heart had been rekindled after her discussion with Yang Chen. Perhaps Yang Chen had confidence that Gongsun Ling would walk even further in this life.

After discovering the enemy's presence, under probe of Gui Shanyou's spiritual awareness, everyone knew what kind of tricks the enemy had planned. Spell flags were placed properly, but they couldn't hide them from this formidable Da Cheng stage expert.

Naturally, Yang Chen was the one who told the others everything, as Gui Shanyou's existence had to be kept hidden from them. Yang Chen absolutely didn't want Gao Yue and Gongsun Ling to think that they had a support, otherwise if they walked into battle knowing that they would never be defeated, the opportunity to temper themselves would be meaningless.

"That is the coiling spell."

In the field of spell formations, if Yang Chen didn't have the knowledge of a Great Principal Golden Immortal from his previous life, then the most formidable among them was Gongsun Ling, who identified the spell formation of the spell flag with one glance:

"It is used to capture people, not kill them. I can't arrange such a formation, at the moment."

Having enough insights but not enough strength was a normal thing. Neither Yang Chen nor Gao Yue found it strange, but Yang Chen intended to temper Gao Yue and Gongsun Ling, so he didn't say anything, moreover this entire battle was just for the benefit of his master and his senior apprentice sister.

From another point of view, it would seem that Yang Chen was instructing his master and senior apprentice sister. Just from the aspect of seniority, this was in reverse order. It was an extremely strange affair. Even more than instructing, he seemed to be testing them.

In their personal opinion however, it was not strange. Yang Chen had long ago proven that his battle experience and ability to battle was much higher than theirs, not to mention others, just the number of qiankun pouches which Yang Chen had obtained after killing enemies was sufficient proof of everything. Let alone the life and death challenges which he had won against people stronger than him.

"What should we do?"

Gao Yue and Gongsun Ling was frantically thinking about their approach. Yang Chen had already told them about the enemy's strength, three JieDan stage experts, three Foundation stage experts and a few qi layer cultivators which shouldn't be much of a problem, but the first six people were formidable, so regardless of anything, they had to be defeated first.

Taking another way was also an option, but that would certainly make them look cowardly. Moreover, both women understood Yang Chen's intentions, and didn't want to step aside. They also realized that if they conceded there, if a similar situation happened in the future, it would be very troublesome and having such matter gnawing at their mind would certainly be detrimental to their cultivation.

"I can tell you my appearance hiding spell formation, but we still won't be able to break away from the entanglement of the coiling spell formation."

Gongsun Ling spoke about the things she could handle:

"I have another spell formation which can restrain the coiling spell, but my cultivation is not sufficient. Even if I stake all of my spirit power in it, I would still be unable to resist it. But if aunt master Gao helps me, then maybe we can do something, but she will be unable to protect herself from enemies."

After thinking of everything, they understood that breaking a high grade spell flag could only be done by relying on another spell formation to break it. Just relying on Gao Yue who only had the strength of the initial JieDan stage, they simply would not be able to handle three JieDan stage experts, but if they used spell formations, they may be able to trap the enemy and then kill them or cut off their limbs, and everything would be easy.

There was only one problem: their spirit power was insufficient. Even if the spirit power of Yang Chen, Gao Yue and Gongsun Ling was combined, it still wouldn't be enough to match up with the three JieDan experts. Clearly, they were in a disadvantageous position.

"If you just require spirit power for the spell formation, I may have a way."

Yang Chen was not worried much about Gongsun Ling failing. As long as they had a method, he would do everything he could to help with it. Since Gao Yue and Gongsun Ling had both agreed that this was the best method, Yang Chen would naturally support it:

"If the spirit power for the spell formation is not enough, use spirit stones."

"They are spell flags refined by three JieDan stage experts, they also have spirit stones. We will not be able to compete with them."

Gongsun Ling shook her head. She wasn't very optimistic regarding Yang Chen's suggestion to use spirit stones to solve the problem of their spirit power being insufficient:

"The spirit stones used by the two spell formations will be finite, we would have to use at least two whole pieces, possibly it would also be completely exhausted. This is no good!"

"There are no certain things in this world. Maybe it will work!"

Yang Chen smiled and took out two whole spirit stones and placed them in front of Gao Yue and Gongsun Ling.

"Just spirit stones won't work, we require………."

Gongsun Ling could only speak half the sentence and then couldn't say another word. On the other side, Gao Yue was also looking at Yang Chen in astonishment, not daring to believe what she was seeing.

Two pieces of top quality spirit stones, each seemed to be around one jin, twinkling brightly within Yang Chen's hands like two bright pearls, attracting the attention of both women.

"These spirit stones should be enough, shouldn't they?"

Yang Chen asked with a smile.

"Enough!"

Gongsun Ling replied a little sluggishly, taking the two jin of top grade spirit stones, that were actually equivalent to two hundred jin of high grade spirit stones, twenty thousand jin of middle grade spirit stones and two million jin of low grade spirit stones. With this much, forget about dealing with some JieDan stage expert's trifling coiling spell, even if a peak YuanYung stage cultivator had been there, in terms of spirit power, they still wouldn't be at a disadvantage.

"So, what's next?"

Yang Chen pulled Gongsun Ling's little hand and pushed the spirit stones in her hand.

"Do you really intend to use these two top grade spirit stones?"

Even with spirit stones in her hand, Gongsun Ling still couldn't dare to believe it. While holding them, she clenched her hands as tightly as she could to feel that sensation of the spirit stones, ready to overflow, and sense the extremely smooth and soft surface, only then could she believe it. But when she was allowed to use both of the spirit stones immediately, she still hesitated a little.

"These are mere worldly possessions, as long as we can obtain victory, this is not too high of a price to pay."

Yang Chen nodded his head, as if instructing both of them and continued to speak:

"At the crucial time, even if it is your destined flying sword, you should be ready to abandon it. Always remember, your life is far more precious than these mere worldly possessions."

The argument was quite easy to understand but when the time came, it may not be so easy to follow it. Even Gao Yue, who was a JieDan stage expert, had never seen a top grade spirit stone before.

Just these two spirit stones easily surpassed both Gao Yue and Gongsun Ling's entire wealth combined, at least by a hundred times. So when they were suddenly asked to use such a large amount of wealth, they could not help but feel astonished.

Gao Yue quickly understood something and subtly raised her head, glancing at Yang Chen, just when Yang Chen was looking straight at her with a smile dancing in his eyes. A trace of a smile also blossomed on Gao Yue's face. Looking into Yang Chen's eyes, she felt very grateful.

After another moment, Gongsun Ling also finally looked up from her internal struggle and took a deep breath, but her expression clearly conveyed that she had been relieved of some burden.

"I understand, younger apprentice brother Yang!"

Gongsun Ling faintly nodded her head towards Yang Chen:

"I used to believe that I was already unaffected by worldly possessions, but after seeing right now, it seems that was not the case before."

Tossing the spirit stones around in her hand, Gongsun Ling smiled without any worries:

"Then let's see how formidable the spell formation will be after being propelled by top quality spirit stones."

Gao Yue was also thinking of the same thing. Cultivators should never have to worry about worldly possessions, only then could they completely free their minds. But, in the end, cultivators were also people and knew the importance of wealth and companionship. While everyone was vying for these, they could also subconsciously get caught up in the worries for mortal treasures.

Yang Chen's lesson allowed both of them to undergo a small baptism for the first time. Their mental state blossomed even more, which naturally would be very beneficial towards their cultivation.

Although Gongsun Ling's research of that senior's illusion spell was not complete, she could already make a lesser imitation. As for another spell formation which would resist the coiling spell, it was simply the five phases sword attack spell formation. As long as the attacks were sufficiently incisive, regardless of what kind of entanglement it was, everything could be cut.

The JieDan expert monitoring the three people didn't dare to get too close and kept looking at the three of them talking from afar for a good moment, then he sat down on the ground to rest. Afterwards he disappeared from where he had appeared in a flash.

The JieDan expert suddenly felt something amiss and could not help but rub his eyes. When he looked again, he became certain that the three people had certainly disappeared from their original place. Greatly alarmed, the JieDan expert didn't even care about covering his tracks and directly rushed to the place where those three had disappeared just a moment ago.

Yang Chen and both women had entered the illusion spell arranged by Gongsun Ling. Although this illusion spell didn't have any killing power, it had a strong invisibility effect. The people using it couldn't even be discovered by using spiritual awareness. They could only be discovered if someone walked into the region.

The three inside the spell could clearly see the figure of that JieDan stage expert rushing over. Seeing the silhouette, Gongsun Ling faintly laughed and with a tremble, the spirit stone embedded in the spell flag fell to the ground.

She was very fortunate. Under a large amount of stress, that JieDan expert directly entered the killing spell and basically didn't have any time to respond.

But still, the reaction of that JieDan expert was quite fast. He immediately summoned a magic weapon. The magic weapon was called out hurriedly however. In front of the attack power of the spell formation, driven by top quality spirit stones, the defensive magic weapon was simply like paper.

Bang!

Just as the armor took shape on his body, it was directly crushed into pieces by the powerful attack of the spell formation. As for the expert himself, his body trembled violently and he began to puff out blood madly. With great injuries, he wasn't able to maintain the armor anymore and many formless flying swords pierced his body as if it was a sieve.

"So simple? How is it possible?"

Gongsun Ling simply didn't dare to believe what she was seeing. A JieDan stage expert hadn't even been able to stand up in front of her. The difference between their strengths and the actual result was very shocking, which put Gongsun Ling at a loss for a good moment.

"The five phases sword spell formation which only has offensive strength is the most simple spell formation and perhaps because it is the simplest spell formation, it can use all of its strength on attacking and can also make the most efficient use of spirit power in the spirit stone."

Yang Chen lauded:

"The choice of spell formation is quite good!"

Gongsun Ling was both frightened and delighted. Admittedly, killing this JieDan expert had a hint of a sneak attack, the enemy basically didn't have the time to respond, but it also clearly showed that it was not necessary that only a highly complex spell formation would shine in battles. Sometimes the simplest spell formation used correctly could reveal astonishing strength.

This kind of real combat was a completely different experience for Gongsun Ling. Compared to killing those underground spirit beasts who didn't have any intelligence, by attracting them to the simplest traps, it was more complex and completely novel.

Their enemies were a few JieDan stage experts, moreover they still didn't know anything, so this was the perfect time. The illusion spell made by Gongsun Ling allowed the three people to noiselessly approach those people who were waiting to ambush them. At this point of time, the ending those people desired had become a dream.

"Isn't such a method despicable?"

Gongsun Ling still hadn't completely accepted this method and could not help but ask Yang Chen, who was hidden within the illusionary spell some distance away from her.

"So is it righteous, that those people have sent so many JieDan stage and Foundation stage cultivators to attack us three people?"

Yang Chen didn't reply directly, but rather asked a rhetorical question.

"So, even if we won by using such a method and this method worked again in the future, would it also be usable at the time of a tribulation?"

Before reaching the Foundation stage, Gongsun Ling had been deeply influenced by the academics of the sect and hence still resisted launching a sneak attack.

"I am not asking senior apprentice sister to use this kind of method every time."

Yang Chen gazed into Gongsun Ling's eyes and sternly said:

"I only wanted to let senior apprentice sister become aware that such methods can also be used. Moreover, this method was thought of by you yourself, senior apprentice sister, isn't that so? What kind is to be used at what time is entirely up to you."

After saying this, Yang Chen seemed to be wanting to continue and added:

"Senior apprentice sister, actually the heavenly tribulations are not passed by using the same method. All of those seniors who passed the heavenly tribulation didn't use only one method."

"I understand!"

Gongsun Ling was worthy of being considered a genius and quickly understood Yang Chen's intention and was no longer confused.

Gao Yue standing near them didn't say anything, quietly listening to their dialog. Although the conversation between Yang Chen and Gongsun Ling was quite simple, the content was not profound, it still created much for her to reflect upon.

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Chapter 185 – Your Flying Swords Are My Responsibility

01 Mar 2017

The reality didn't allow Gongsun Ling to insist on using just and honorable methods. She was a Foundation stage disciple and the enemy was a JieDan stage expert. If she confronted him openly, then that was not persisting on principle, instead it was plain foolishness.

When Gongsun Ling's five phases sword spell formation suddenly started attacking the JieDan stage expert responsible for the coiling spell, Gao Yue quickly revealed herself to obstruct another JieDan expert wanting to help to his friend.

As for those Foundation stage clansmen, they were all delivered to Yang Chen. Although nobody knew how Yang Chen would deal with them, Gao Yue and Gongsun Ling had never doubted once that Yang Chen would not be able to easily take care of them.

Yang Chen indeed took care of the three Foundation stage clansmen with the second wood flying sword. At the moment when Gongsun Ling started attacking, he immediately got rid of the closest person and soon after that, the other two were also covered in a huge blood-red net.

Although the master root and the master vine had been removed from the Blood Phantom Vine, under Yang Chen's meticulous care and the nourishment from two Da Cheng stage experts, it had already recovered a portion of its strength. Even though it still couldn't be compared to the Blood Phantom Vine flying sword, but for two Foundation stage youngsters it was still enough.

The qi layer disciples scattered within the ten mile radius were already marked by Gui Shanyou with his spiritual awareness. Regardless of where they would escape to, they could be easily traced. Yang Chen wasn't worried about them escaping in all directions. Even if they were given a day's headstart, the old tree demon could easily catch them. Moreover, what Yang Chen wanted to know at the moment was this group's whereabouts, where their base was located.

The JieDan stage expert fighting with Gao Yue absolutely hadn't anticipated that she could still use her JieDan stage cultivation in the fight with him. Suddenly, after one move he asked her in complete astonishment:

"Didn't you seal your cultivation? How are you still at the JieDan stage?"

"I only seal my cultivation when cultivating, no one ever said that I had to seal it while fighting!"

Gao Yue sneered and continued showering the enemy with attacks.

While on one side, Gao Yue was engaging the JieDan expert, on the other side, Gongsun Ling had completely released all of her techniques, one after another, spirit formation after spirit formation. Although the difference in realms of both sides was large, the top quality spirit stone completely made up for the deficiency.

The coiling spell was perfectly prepared to ambush Yang Chen and his group. Although Gongsun Ling had mounted a sneak attack, the coiling spell was also roused, and under the control of their spell flag, both spirit formations fiercely collided.

Countless formless threads of the coiling spell were densely coiled around the five phases sword and were sliced cleanly, which were then replaced by newly formed threads again. The main principle behind the coiling spell was the same, it would exhaust the spirit power of the people trapped inside and then capture them without injuring the trapped people.

If the person trapped inside the spell formation had a lower cultivation than the person who arranged it, then it was extremely hard to cut those formless threads. Only if the person had a powerful magic weapon or some spell formation which could destroy other spell formations, like Gongsun Ling was using, would work, otherwise there was no way to come out of the spell formation.

Their original surefire plan to capture the three people by using the spell formation controlled by three JieDan experts had completely failed. Moreover, they also had to face the surprise attack of Yang Chen and his group, while the whereabouts of the expert who had been following their trail previously were unknown and out of the three Foundation stage disciples who were sent to assist, Yang Chen had already gotten rid of two of them and the left over JieDan stage experts had also become fearful.

As for the expert fighting with Gao Yue, he was barely able to evenly match with Gao Yue, but still hadn't gotten an opportunity to push Gao Yue into the spell. What made him even more nervous was that Yang Chen had surprisingly already become free and could help Gao Yue at any time she needed.

Although he didn't know what that weird blood-colored net was, which Yang Chen had used to deal with the three Foundation stage disciples, but something that could deal a fatal blow to two mid Foundation stage disciples was definitely not something a simple.

Yang Chen's gaze was always aptly sweeping over Gao Yue's enemy like a sharp blade. This led the expert to believe that Yang Chen would certainly attack him. In his wariness and distraction, that expert who had a cultivation of the mid JieDan stage, a little higher than Gao Yue, lost the slight advantage he held and the fight became equally matched without any chances of success in sight.

The JieDan expert controlling the spell flag also discovered, with some astonishment, that his opponent, an initial Foundation stage woman, known as Yang Chen's senior apprentice sister, was surprisingly able to control his coiling spell using a simple attacking spell formation and even after such a long stalemate wasn't showing any signs of spirit power exhaustion.

What he find harder to believe was that Gongsun Ling had the perfect opportunity to break the coiling formation controlled personally by him, but she wasn't trying to destroy it. The reason why it was locked in a stalemate for so long was because she had discovered that this battle was helpful in increasing her control over the spell formation and spell flags, and she was not willing to lose this chance to temper herself.

Gongsun Ling had already gained the understanding that, regardless of what method was used, the goal of the battle was to win, no one wanted to lose. But under the current circumstances, she herself hadn't expected that, apart from catching them off guard in the beginning, she would be able to fight the way she wanted, a just and honorable, decisive battle.

As for the sneak attack in the beginning, Gongsun Ling didn't consider that as a sneak attack. It was just dealing with them as they were trying to deal with her group. Could it be that, since the enemy had laid ambushes for them properly, she had to walk into the trap to be called honourable by the enemy?

The spell formation controlled by the JieDan expert was greatly pressuring Gongsun Ling, but with the backing of the top quality spirit stone, Gongsun Ling could easily control the spell formation to a great extent, making the battle reach a stalemate with Gongsun Ling at a slight disadvantage, but fortunately this created a misconception in the enemy's mind that, as long as he added a little more strength, he could easily subdue Gongsun Ling.

The enemy, sorrowful for the loss of one of his companions, was waiting for the instant when Gongsun Ling would crumble. His companion was fighting against two enemies alone, but he could still resist them for the time being. As long as he could subdue this Foundation stage woman, he would get his hands free and teach a lesson to Yang Chen and Gao Yue.

As for those few Foundation stage disciples who had already died, he didn't care about them. As long as they could obtain the pill recipe from Yang Chen, sacrificing the life of a few Foundation stage disciples was not much. Gongsun Ling was getting more and more proficient with the spell formation. She controlled the spell formation to release just the ideal amount of strength.

Under the pressure of the JieDan stage expert, within the intense battle, Gongsun Ling had displayed incomparable concentration. This five phase sword spell had already released more power than it had ever released under her control.

"It is about time, we still have many questions to ask!"

Yang Chen sitting on one side apparently discovered Gongsun Ling's situation and reminded her.

Shua!

Hearing Yang Chen's words stunned the JieDan stage expert controlling the spell formation. At the same time, he discovered with astonishment that at this instant, all of the threads of the coiling spell had been cleanly cut off.

"How is this possible?"

The JieDan expert controlling spell formation cried out in fear, but was only able to get these words out.

The sword qi as sharp as the point of a spear directly broke through all of the restraints of the coiling spell and beheaded him, effortlessly passing through his body, bringing out a bright light, which dazzled everyone's eyes.

The JieDan expert's body fell to the ground with a loud sound. The used spell flag broke down without anyone to control it, leaving all of the matters to Gongsun Ling. His gaze turned to Gao Yue, who was deadlocked in battle with that JieDan expert.

Three against one. With both his companions dead, the remaining JieDan expert, without hesitation, ducked out of the way, wanting to run away.

Yang Chen was looking at the fight from the sidelines, how could he allow him to escape at such a time? The enemy had been able to go just two meters when he suddenly collided with an ocean of flying swords, and closely packed flying swords started falling down on him.

Yang Chen had once again used the ten thousand sword secrets. When those few thousand flying swords started attacking under Yang Chen's control, even if that fleeing clansman was a JieDan stage expert, he still had to fear the consequences.

Other than controlling his flying sword to fly faster and stop those hundreds of swords one by one, he had no other choice. But the effort he spent to obstruct those swords had already decided his life and death.

A dark red sword mixed among those thousands of sword had passed through his flying sword at some time and was directly pointed at his body.

The JieDan expert was endlessly surprised, but he didn't pay much attention to it. As long as his cultivation was intact, he could easily block this unremarkable sword.

The sharp end grazed his skin a little, but the JieDan stage expert didn't have the chance to do anything. The small pointed end seemed to have some kind of power of attraction and the blood of his entire body was concentrated at that one point where it was grazed.

He didn't have the ability to maintain his cultivation and vitality after his blood had dried up. Like elder Hua Wanting, the JieDan expert could only keep gazing at Yang Chen with endless astonishment and despair and then, as if still trying to escape, he fell to the ground.

"Finished?

Apparently Gao Yue didn't dare to believe it. Just the three of them had so easily taken down three JieDan stage experts and three foundation stage disciples!

"How do you have so many flying swords?"

What amazed Gongsun Ling was the flying swords produced by the ten thousand sword secrets just a moment ago. Surprisingly, not even one flying sword was formed from sword light, all of them were real.

For a Foundation stage disciple, a suitable flying sword was not something which could be obtained easily, otherwise the Pure Yang Palace would not have used a flying sword as a reward for Yang Chen. Even until now, Gongsun Ling had only one flying sword, but when she suddenly saw Yang Chen using literally tens of thousands of swords, she was so intimidated that she couldn't even move from the spot.

"Flying swords?"

Yang Chen was startled, but he immediately caught himself and said with a carefree laugh:

"By killing people!"

These words were no lie. The majority of the flying swords he had were obtained from the Hao Yi Manor, but only Gao Yue knew about that matter, so she hadn't paid any attention, but Gongsun Ling wasn't aware of that matter.

"Several thousand flying swords? Younger apprentice brother, how many people have you killed?"

Gongsun Ling turned pale with fright on the spot:

"Wouldn't it influence your mental state?"

Although in the beginning, she was asking out of curiosity, it immediately turned to concern.

"It is not like, I killed all of them by myself, don't worry!"

Yang Chen didn't want the people at his side to get anxious because of him and replied, playing it down:

"Also, it will have no influence on my cultivation!"

Gongsun Ling wanted to say something more, but seeing that Gao Yue hadn't said anything, she cleverly shut her mouth. This was probably a long story, but right now they didn't have the time for that. Even his master, Gao Yue, hadn't said anything, so she, his senior apprentice sister, had no need to be talkative. But she was still very amazed that Yang Chen had such a great helper.

But this would also explain how Yang Chen could easily take out two top grade spirit stones. The wealth he had collected from killing several thousands of people, all together could even it out.

However, Gongsun Ling still didn't dare to believe that her younger apprentice brother had taken the lives of so many people within such a short amount of time, merely a few decades. Even if Yang Chen was an executioner, didn't it seem like he was just fond of killing?

While the two women still hadn't recovered from their shock, Yang Chen had already begun to sweep the battlefield leisurely. Starting from the JieDan expert who had pursued them at the beginning, three JieDan stage experts and three Foundation stage cultivators, six qiankun pouch were placed in front of the three people.

"Choose!"

Yang Chen waved his hand, assuming the role of the one dividing the gains.

Both women didn't have experience in killing people and taking their things, both were looking at each other in dismay and nobody moved.

"It is a simple matter, there is no use of thinking so much."

Looking at their expressions, Yang Chen knew what they were thinking and once again substituted for them:

"Three qiankun pouches of three JieDan experts, one person one pouch, the same goes for the Foundation stage cultivators and dividing the loot is already completed!"

With this, both women had received two qiankun pouches respectively and were looking at Yang Chen as an assistant should, thinking about what kind of treasures were inside the qiankun pouches. Gao Yue was the first one to force a smile. Soon after that, Gongsun Ling began to giggle and then burst out laughing.

"This world is like this. The strong prey on the weak. It isn't merciful."

Without lifting his head, Yang Chen started talking while looking at the spoils of war:

"In the future, many such things will happen, you should form a habit. Don't think too much about it. If they want to kill us and we don't kill them, the ones who are dead will be us. I don't know about you, but I don't have the intention of helping them and dying."

Both women had already taken their loot, regardless of whatever being said. Cultivators should always be optimistic. Since the matter had already reached this stage, then it was not ill gotten gains. Naturally they would have a clear conscience taking it. But experiencing so much after the first time, apparently there would be changes in their ideals, otherwise they would just be their previous selves.

"These flying swords aren't useful for you, so I will repair and use them!"

Yang Chen didn't divide the flying swords with varying grades, and instead tossed them all into his own qiankun pouch.

"Yang Chen, both me and your senior apprentice sister don't have any good flying swords, what do you say?"

Gao Yue said to Yang Chen with a teasing smile, as if making fun of him:

"The Red Sun Metal Soul which I had purchased at a high price was entirely used on your Bright Ray Sword, can't you show even a little bit of gratitude?"

"Be relieved, master!"

Yang Chen patted his chest, taking charge:

"Leave your destined flying swords to me. They will certainly not be inferior to what great master is using!"

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