Chapter 116: Junior Brother, I Just Want To Advance Too Much
The suddenly appearing voice nearly scared the soul out of Lu Ling.
He focused his gaze and saw that the person in front of him was none other than his junior brother Su Yan.
Su Yan was blocking the middle of the street, dressed in a black strong suit, with a half-smile on his face, looking at him as if he were a clown.
“Su Yan!”
Lu Ling felt insulted. He suddenly raised his head, his gaze cold and furious: “You schemed against me.”
“Didn’t you also scheme against me and Senior Brother?”
Su Yan smiled: “Courtesy demands reciprocity. Today, I’ll borrow Senior Brother’s head for a use.”
“Brat, let’s see how much skill and strength you have!”
Lu Ling suddenly erupted, and behind him appeared a bony White Ape Phantom with a ferocious expression.
The phantom had a trace of solidity, showing that he had polished it for a long time at Spirit Nurturing Great Accomplishment and was about to step into Half-step True Intent.
He pounced like a Fierce Ape descending the mountain, condensing True Essence into fist momentum, directly smashing toward Su Yan’s head, without any trace of fellow disciple affection.
Fierce Ape Splits the Mountain!
This strike came ferociously, almost using all of Lu Ling’s strength.
He knew that from the moment Su Yan appeared here, there were only two possible outcomes.
Either he died, or Su Yan would forever shut up.
Since Su Yan knew about his dealings with Seven Blades Martial Arts School, he would surely tell others.
Even if he denied it to the death, once the seed of suspicion was planted, many past clues would be dug up, and he could not hide it at all.
So, Su Yan had to die.
The huge fist blasted in front of Su Yan, True Essence surging, the fist wind like a destructive flood.
Su Yan stood tall and unmoving, and behind him appeared a cold and majestic White Ape Phantom.
He neither dodged nor evaded, raising his hand for a Fierce Ape Suppresses the Sea.
The surging fist momentum suppressed downward.
Clearly only at Spirit Nurturing Realm Minor Accomplishment, but the vigorous True Essence was like waves, not inferior to Lu Ling at all.
The two fists collided, the bony white ape clashing auras with the armored insect-type white ape.
Under the impact, the fist momentum of Fierce Ape Splits the Mountain was shattered. Lu Ling staggered back three or two steps, nearly falling to the ground in embarrassment.
“Impossible!”
Lu Ling had a face full of disbelief, veins bulging, face flushed red: “How long have you been a beginner? How could you have such power!”
His mentality collapsed, although he knew this junior brother’s talent was formidable.
But from Su Yan’s entry and practicing martial arts until now, it had only been barely seven or eight months, not even a full year through the cold and heat. What right did he have!
“Die for me!”
Lu Ling charged up again, frantically launching attacks at Su Yan.
This time it wasn’t just fist techniques; sharp blades shot out from his pair of refined steel armguards and gloves, adding to Lu Ling’s attack methods.
Fist wind like a wall, falling fists like hammers.
Although Lu Ling ranked third among True Disciples, his ability was only slightly below Li Jinshan, not even by half a chip.
He wanted to progress too much.
Fierce Ape Three Forms, Golden Ape Jade Body Skill, Golden Ape True Skill, and Yi Feng’s refined steel bone phase skill were all cultivated to Great Accomplishment, but in front of Su Yan, they were all a bit lacking.
Su Yan swung fists in combat, each strike in the grand sweeps like a thousand-jun heavy hammer.
The fist moves were powerful and heavy, and the connections between moves flowed like water.
After just seven or eight exchanges, Lu Ling was completely suppressed.
‘Damn damn damn! What did that old thing teach him again? How could he be this strong!’
Jealousy grew stronger in his heart, but fear also took root and sprouted like a seed.
He couldn’t beat Su Yan.
If this continued, he would die.
The thought of fleeing arose in his mind, his fist moves losing the courage for combat. He wanted to run!
“Tread tread”
Footsteps came from less than ten steps behind him. He glanced with the corner of his eye, pupils contracting, already showing a panicked and flustered expression.
Bai Yun had unknowingly sealed off his retreat.
‘It’s over.’
This thought immediately rose in his mind, his fist moves becoming even more chaotic, defending even harder.
Seeing this, Su Yan showed a cold smile and slashed down with a raised hand.
“Crack”
Lu Ling couldn’t block in time; both arms were directly broken by Su Yan, and even the ribs in his chest were smashed inward a few inches, clearly broken.
He spat out a large mouthful of blood and fell to the ground. If not for Golden Ape Jade Body Skill already at Great Accomplishment, having cultivated Iron Bone Jade Body to enhance physical body strength.
This one strike alone would have been enough for Su Yan to take his life.
But now, the result was no different.
“J-Junior Brother, it was Seven Blades Martial Arts School that coerced me. I was the one who spread the news of Senior Brother’s injury, but I didn’t do anything else.”
Lu Ling coughed blood, unable to lift his arms, could only stretch his neck and shout, wanting Su Yan to spare him.
“I… I just… wanted to become School Master. I couldn’t stand it… I just took the wrong path for a moment. Junior Brother, spare me, and I’ll confess to Master.”
Lu Ling’s mind turned quickly, immediately thinking of a temporary chance for survival.
As long as he got to Bai Changlin, no matter what, personally killing a disciple would not sound good.
Then, he would have a chance to survive.
No, he would definitely survive.
As long as he could survive, everything was still possible.
“You’re really stupid.”
Su Yan said faintly. Under Lu Ling’s stunned expression: “Do you think I told you about the challenge for no reason?”
“You… wanted to kill me from the start?!”
His voice became shrill, but Su Yan just smiled.
“You’re not worth that much scheming. Just borrowing your head for a use, and settling the account for last time’s killing of Gu Hong.”
“It was you!”
Before Lu Ling’s voice finished, Su Yan had already grabbed his neck and gently twisted, killing him.
Su Yan directly stored his corpse into Insect Realm Space. Bai Yun saw this and her lips curved slightly: “No more pretending?”
Su Yan turned to look at her: “Didn’t Senior Sister guess it long ago?”
Bai Yun neither confirmed nor denied, just asked: “Lu Ling is dead. Presumably, the matter of attacking Qing He Mountain has already been told to Seven Blades Martial Arts School. What do you plan to do tomorrow night?”
“Kill people.”
Under the moonlight, Su Yan’s gaze gradually turned cold: “Since they’re seeking trouble with us like this, why keep them? Let’s see how big a fish we can hook.”
“Seven Blades Martial Arts School has two True Intent Martial Artists, School Master Long Qidao and his cousin Long Wu. Probably one of them will come. Just the two of us aren’t a match.”
If it was a challenge, then a True Intent Martial Artist like Long Qidao, as an elder, wouldn’t conveniently act, as it would lose face.
With just the two of them, breaking through the opponent’s True Disciples was no problem at all.
But this was a covert operation, a matter of life and death.
However, Su Yan laughed: “Not just the two of us.”
Bai Yun tilted her head slightly, showing a surprised expression, looking at her junior brother.
——
Early the next morning, Yun Cang Town returned to its usual prosperity.
No one knew that on some street late last night, Spirit Nurturing Realm Martial Artists had fought each other, killing one on the spot.
In Golden Ape Martial Arts School, the one teaching practicing martial arts had become Elder Yi Feng.
Some were surprised, but an elder instructing martial arts was naturally superior to Lu Ling, and no one said much.
Toward evening, a team quietly exited the city gate, heading straight for Qing He Mountain.
They moved nimbly but concealed their figures, exiting the city gate separately.
Near the weeds three li outside the city, the people gathered.
The grass here was taller than people, perfect for hiding figures. More than twenty scaled horses had already been prepared here, waiting for the people from the city.
“Vice School Master, a total of twenty-seven people, all assembled.”
A man in black clothes covering half his face, holding a saber, cupped his hands and reported.
“All set, then head straight to Qing He Mountain and prepare well. Tonight, don’t let that Su Yan brat escape. Also, don’t let the news leak, letting others know it was us who took him.”
“Yes.”
Everyone mounted, the burly man Long Wu holding a ring-pommel saber at the front, leading this operation.
At his side were Long Qidao’s direct son Long Rui, and two True Disciples Yao Baiyu and Nan Yuanrong.
All three were Spirit Nurturing Realm Martial Artists, with Long Rui even at Spirit Nurturing Great Accomplishment, a top-notch expert in Yun Cang Town.
Everyone rode scaled horses at extreme speed toward Qing He Mountain.
While hurrying, Long Rui grew more puzzled: “Second Uncle, it’s just Bai Yun and Su Yan, two True Disciples, at most Spirit Nurturing Realm. With me and the two junior brothers, plus the guards, we can definitely take them. Why bother you acting?”
“Even a lion uses full strength against a rabbit. How can we be careless?”
Long Wu’s face was serious, always stern and unsmiling.
“Moreover, Su Yan might have a big secret.”
Long Rui had long followed his father and knew his actions, also some news.
“About Pang Tianfeng?”
“Mm.”
Long Wu nodded: “Pang Tianfeng was originally a Nine Peaks Sect disciple, later entered a ruins, got some treasure, killed the disciple competing with him for it, and then fled. He escaped all the way, with cultivation still rising steadily, all because of that exotic treasure.”
Hearing this, Long Rui’s eyes brightened slightly: “I know this, but what does it have to do with Su Yan?”
“How long ago did Pang Tianfeng flee here? And Su Yan conveniently rose? No such coincidence.”
Long Wu lowered his voice slightly, the horses’ hooves covering their voices, only those nearby hearing clearly.
“Big Brother’s investigated clues: Pang Tianfeng hid some things in the inner mountain near Yun Qian Village, which someone took. That’s why he went mad attacking those martial world wanderers. That place isn’t far from Yun Qian Village where Su Yan rose.”
The clues connected, though somewhat forced, but for the exotic treasure, no one would overlook it.
Long Rui narrowed his eyes: “So he took Pang Tianfeng’s things?”
“Not necessarily, but Bai Yun and Su Yan have decent talent. If we don’t eliminate them and let them join Beast King Sect, it will be hard for Golden Ape Martial Arts School later.”
With his own daughter and True Disciples in Beast King Sect, as long as they didn’t die, who would dare openly kill Bai Changlin and them?
If they cultivated successfully and returned for revenge, what then?
Whether Bai Yun and Su Yan could join Beast King Sect affected how to handle Golden Ape Martial Arts School.
Like the Lin Family now, you could use means to let them slowly decline, and no one could stop you.
But if you did something like exterminating the clan, it wouldn’t be long before someone from Beast King Sect came for revenge.
Zero for one versus one for one, everyone knew how to choose.
By the time they arrived at Qing He Mountain, it was already evening.
Long Wu was increasingly serious, knowing the next action concerned whether they could catch Su Yan and force out the secret treasure’s information.
“Loose on the outside, tight on the inside. The original Qing He Mountain guard disciples patrol outside as usual. You Blood Moving Realm disciples and guards, disperse around the camp and wait for them to appear.”
“Yes, Vice School Master.”
“Long Rui, stay with me. Yao Baiyu, guard East Gate. Nan Yuanrong, guard West Gate. Tonight those two might cause other commotions. Don’t act rashly; wait until they reach the camp and listen for my order.”
“Yes, Martial Uncle.”
After the arrangements, personnel quickly moved away from the camp, forming a loose outside, tight inside formation.
Although there were still people patrolling outside, those disciples had no idea what was happening tonight.
After such arrangement, Qing He Mountain fell into quietness. As night fell, dim shadows covered the entire mountain.
No moon tonight; the moon that should have been high was covered by dark clouds, making the night even dimmer, only vaguely seeing shadowy monstrous shapes.
Insect chirps and strange bird calls came intermittently; in the darkness, the stillness was even more evident.
Everyone from Seven Blades Martial Arts School stared at the mountain paths, constantly patrolling, but no one thought that at this moment, outside Qing He Mountain camp, on top of a tall tree, four people were already hiding there.
Two old, two young.
“Stinky brat, calling me here to feed mosquitoes with you. When do we act?”
The low voice belonged to Li Chuan, the little old man wearing a colorful mask, inner armor outside with a brown short robe martial suit, both hands already equipped with gloves, fully armed.
To his right was Yi Feng, holding black mandarin duck short knives, also wearing inner armor and a mask, aura cold like a sharpened blade.
“A total of thirty experts in the camp, twenty-seven outsiders, one True Intent Realm is that guy Long Wu, three Spirit Nurturing Realm, all hidden in various places.”
He counted the numbers but showed no joy, instead a bit annoyed.
Between Li Jinshan and Lu Ling, he had always supported Lu Ling, because Lu Ling was more flexible and had better methods in managing industry.
But he didn’t expect this fool to betray from within, and of all people, to connect with Seven Blades Martial Arts School.
Martial arts schools were inherently competing, resource contention inevitable, no possibility of cooperation.
Such behavior was utterly stupid.
Precisely because of Lu Ling’s foolish actions, for what Su Yan proposed today, he had no choice but to agree and come along.
Otherwise, he might be implicated and labeled a traitor.
‘Damn, what a fool.’
Extremely hateful in his heart, Yi Feng with a cold face: “Brat, when do we act?”
“Let’s move. Leave Long Wu to the two elders; the rest to me and Senior Sister.”
Su Yan showed no emotional fluctuation from Yi Feng’s tone, just saying: “When the two elders face Long Wu, be careful. If he wants to fight desperately, prioritize preserving yourselves.”
“Merely Long Wu.”
Yi Feng snorted coldly, then moved, descending from the tree and sneaking toward the camp.
“You be careful, just hold them off. We’ll finish Long Wu and come aid you.”
Li Chuan instructed, then immediately followed.
“Senior Sister, let’s go.”
Su Yan just smiled, then led Bai Yun to sneak into the camp as well.
Yi Feng had only clarified the numbers, but Su Yan had long dispatched blood bees to track everyone secretly.
He knew all the hiding spots of Seven Blades Martial Arts School.
