Chapter 119: Fame Spreads In Yun Cang
Murmurs of dissent had already arisen from the crowd, and many who knew Lu Ling wore shocked expressions on their faces.
A true disciple at the Spirit Nurturing Realm had actually died so suddenly.
Everyone felt a sense of lamentation.
A Spirit Nurturing Realm martial artist was already a big figure in Yun Cang Town.
Amid the whispering, some people’s faces turned serious.
“Big trouble is coming, he killed the rival school’s true disciple…”
Just the day before, he had injured the Golden Ape Martial Arts School senior brother, challenged the school and seized the shop.
Today he actually killed someone, did he really think the Golden Ape Martial Arts School was made of clay?
Among the crowd, some who feared getting into trouble had already quietly retreated.
But more onlookers squeezed in, truly wanting to see the Seven Blades Martial Arts School and Golden Ape Martial Arts School fight to the death.
“Hmph, a mere brat dares to slander with false accusations.”
Long Qidao steadied his mind, his heart sinking, yet he knew this matter could not be denied no matter what.
Challenging the school and assassinating a true disciple were two different things.
“Slander with false accusations?! Does the Golden Ape Martial Arts School use the life of a true disciple to tarnish your innocence? What a big face!”
Su Yan’s eyes were like blades, his face frosty as ice, staring tightly at Long Qidao.
“My senior brother still has knife marks left by Long Rui on his chest. You say it’s not you, then call Long Rui out, let him compare and see if the knife marks on my third senior brother’s body were made by his Green Cutting Saber!”
Long Qidao’s face changed abruptly; the thief had come prepared.
“Get Long Rui out here!”
“Come out!”
The Golden Ape Martial Arts School disciples shouted in fury, their voices like crashing waves, resounding inside and out, so even the commoners on the outermost edges heard what had happened.
“What nonsense.”
Long Qidao wanted to forcefully suppress the matter, but how could Su Yan let him have his way.
“If Long Rui doesn’t dare come out, then fine, I’ll challenge the school. Whoever comes, I’ll kill one. The Golden Ape Martial Arts School’s people can’t die in vain.”
The moment “challenge the school” was uttered, Long Qidao’s face had already turned as black as coal.
Veins bulged at his temples, and he itched to cleave the Su Yan before him with a single saber strike.
Just a few days ago, they had used the pretext of challenging the school to severely injure Li Jinshan.
Now this boomerang had hit them back.
If he refused the challenge, then the Seven Blades Martial Arts School would never be able to hold its head high in Yun Cang Town again.
Forget recruiting disciples; even the businesses under the Seven Blades Martial Arts School would likely lose all reputation because of today’s events and plummet.
There were no fewer than a hundred Yun Cang Town residents watching, one tells ten, ten tells a hundred, enough to completely ruin the Seven Blades Martial Arts School’s reputation.
“You think I’m afraid of you?!”
Before Long Qidao could respond, Long Hao had already jumped out, swinging his saber at Su Yan.
A Mountain Wolf phantom charged from behind him, merging with the saber shadow.
Su Yan’s eyes lit up, and the White Ape emerged behind him.
He strode forward, his majestic aura completely suppressing Long Hao’s.
“I’ll sacrifice you to the heavens.”
Su Yan grabbed the blade with one hand, the sharp friction sound piercing everyone’s eardrums.
The crowd stared wide-eyed at the man gripping the saber tip.
So impressive!
They never imagined that a disciple of the Golden Ape Martial Arts School could be this powerful.
Long Hao’s face changed, and he immediately drew back the saber with one hand while clawing at Su Yan’s throat with the other in an eagle claw form.
Su Yan sneered and grabbed upward, seizing Long Hao’s arm.
Terrifying great strength immediately surged, followed by a crack; Long Hao’s arm was snapped by Su Yan.
Bone splinters pierced through the arm, with most of it twisted into a twisted braid shape.
It made people’s scalps tingle just looking at it.
“We admit…”
Su Yan gave Long Qidao no chance to surrender; he bent the blade, and the great strength sent Long Hao staggering.
Then his large hand grabbed smoothly, the palm wearing Black Scale Gloves pressing onto Long Hao’s neck.
“You dare!”
Seeing this, Long Qidao swung his saber, a powerful Mountain Wolf rising behind him.
Crack
However, before his attack could reach Su Yan.
Long Hao’s neck had already been twisted off by Su Yan.
Long Qidao burned with rage, his saber light exploding in an instant, thrusting straight at Su Yan.
The Mountain Wolf pounced across ten meters, charging straight at Su Yan.
Danger!
Everyone’s hearts jumped fiercely.
These Seven Blades Martial Arts School people were so shameless, the elder attacking the younger!
This kid is done for!
With that thought, no one could bear to watch Su Yan’s fate.
But Su Yan’s eyes were stern, and the roaring insect-like White Ape unleashed the Fierce Ape Three Forms.
Su Yan’s true body stepped forward, true essence swirling around him as a protective guard.
Fierce Ape Suppresses the Sea!
A Fierce Ape Suppresses the Sea blasted out fiercely, true essence, qi and blood, and power erupting throughout his body.
The collision was like thunder exploding.
The Mountain Wolf and saber light were wrapped in true essence, held at bay.
Soon the true essence dispersed, the saber light striking Su Yan directly, while the Mountain Wolf was blocked by his palms, causing its form to shake.
He retreated three steps, his armor shattered, a saber cut piercing the inner armor, leaving a pale gash on his jade-like skin.
“How is that possible!”
Everyone was stunned; Su Yan was disheveled but uninjured.
A Spirit Nurturing Realm martial artist had withstood a strike from a True Intent Realm martial artist.
This jade-like hardening physical body could actually resist a saber chop.
No one knew that beneath the saber light, two layers of defense had just barely been broken.
The insect armor and insect bones hidden under the skin, not fully deployed, and the Gold-Eating Demon Insect’s jade armor body.
Seeing this, Long Qidao’s killing intent could no longer be suppressed.
‘This kid must not be left alive!’
Ordinary people only saw Su Yan withstand a True Intent Realm martial artist’s strike without dying, even unscathed.
But only Long Qidao knew how the Fierce Ape Suppresses the Sea subtly shifted to deflect force upon contact.
When the saber light struck, that strange rebound, deflecting much of the force—only he knew.
With such strength, how could he be allowed to live?
Long Qidao charged with his saber, his sudden assault like a fierce wolf in the forest.
Two White Apes landed, blocking the path like iron pagodas.
Li Chuan and Yi Feng stepped forward, their auras pressing down on Long Qidao.
“Bullying the young with the old, do you really think the Golden Ape Martial Arts School has no one?”
Long Qidao halted his sneak attack, swinging his saber in fury, powerful blade qi splitting a large section of bluestone street, carving out a thirty-meter crack.
“Golden Ape Martial Arts School!”
He roared in a low voice like a wild beast.
With two True Intent martial artists blocking him, he could do nothing.
Su Yan turned his head, his expression calm as he said faintly: “Today’s saber strike, I’ll return it another day.”
With those words, Su Yan turned and left, Bai Yun following behind, while the Golden Ape Martial Arts School disciples lifted Lu Ling’s coffin and followed step by step out of the crowd.
After a long while, low voices of admiration rose from the crowd: “What a heroic young man, the Golden Ape Martial Arts School is formidable now.”
Ordinary people didn’t know the inside story; common folk only knew that the Golden Ape Martial Arts School disciples had avenged their senior brother and dared to fight a True Intent Realm big shot.
With such skill and courage, who wouldn’t admire him?
In contrast, the Seven Blades Martial Arts School had lost all face and honor, utterly defeated.
Clop clop clop
Scaled Horses charged quickly into the crowd, everyone making way to avoid the officials on horseback.
“Urgent report, Hall Master Long, Qing He Mountain was raided by thieves, a huge fire burned half the mountain, Commander Zhao Pan asks you to come quickly!”
The official didn’t have time to dismount and hurriedly informed, unaware of what had just happened here.
As soon as the words fell, it became deathly silent, all the dissent as if choked off.
Long Qidao’s body swayed, nearly falling, gritting his teeth: “What did you say!”
——
The Seven Blades Martial Arts School was in trouble, while Su Yan’s name spread through Yun Cang Town.
All the major powers knew that at the Spirit Nurturing Realm, he had withstood a True Intent martial artist’s strike unscathed.
Such skill was unique among all these Spirit Nurturing Realm martial artists.
Fewer noticed that Su Yan was only seventeen, too young.
In the Golden Ape Martial Arts School, Bai Changlin was looking at Su Yan, Bai Yun, and the others.
“Long Qidao is colluding with the Little Mountain Association. You killed all his true disciples and even his younger brother; after this, he’ll likely go all out to kill you.”
Bai Changlin seemed to blame them, but he had known about all the actions since Lu Ling was killed.
“Does Master think it shouldn’t have been done?”
“It shouldn’t have left only Long Qidao alive.”
As expected, cut the grass at the root—Bai Changlin knew this principle.
Yi Feng said: “The pretext for wiping out the school wasn’t enough, or you should have gone today too.”
Three True Intent martial artists at the door, even Long Qidao couldn’t survive.
But if the Golden Ape Martial Arts School did that, others wouldn’t be happy.
“Yun’er, A Yan, you two cultivate in the city. Polish the Spirit Nurturing to perfection, and tame those two young wolves for now.”
The two showed astonished expressions. Su Yan asked: “Wasn’t the Beast King Sect’s final test examining contracted beasts? Has the rule changed?”
“Mm.”
Bai Changlin said: “The Beast King Sect envoys have arrived in Qing Shan Town and already know who it is. Xiang Ge of Hundred Tiger Peak leads, assisted by Liu Bo of White Python Peak and Fuyue Peak, and Ye Chenyao.”
“Three of the seven peaks came?”
Li Chuan had some understanding of the Beast King Sect and showed surprise.
“Only Elder Xiang Ge; Liu Bo and Ye Chenyao are assisting inner disciples.”
Bai Changlin shook his head slightly, then said: “But all three have recommendation rights, Xiang Ge’s the most important, Liu Bo and Ye Chenyao recommend on behalf of others.”
He had his own channels and had roughly learned the Beast King Sect’s disciple recruitment method this time.
“In the past, they tested three items in town, including contracted beasts, so everyone rushed to find young beasts as backup. But this year the sect master ordered only bone structure and comprehension tested, the rest at the mountain gate.”
“Tamed young beasts are useless?”
“Likely so. Pre-tamed beasts, not to mention reduced difficulty, once in the Beast King Sect and choosing cultivation manuals, they’d still have to abandon and switch to beast taming, wasting time and effort, hard to select satisfying disciples.”
Bai Changlin didn’t know why the Beast King Sect changed the assessment, but it seemed to have little impact on Bai Yun and Su Yan.
Su Yan pondered: “Only testing bone structure and comprehension, how many will they select? With recommendation spots, what if we go but can’t enter the Beast King Sect?”
“Qing Shan Town selected 54, 7 with recommendations, eligible for inner sect assessment: success makes inner disciple, failure outer disciple.”
“What about the remaining 47?”
“No recommendation, but decent bone structure and comprehension, take outer sect assessment: success outer disciple, others equivalent to servant disciples, serve three years, no faults and cultivation progress allows entry to outer sect.”
It was the first time Su Yan heard Bai Changlin explain the Beast King Sect in such detail.
Servant disciple, outer disciple, inner disciple…
Likely each status was a world apart, with vastly different treatment.
Martial arts cultivation had limited energy; if dragged by resources and chores, one might waste a lifetime in regret.
“Cultivate well, especially A Yan. Your fame spread today, so you’ll likely get a recommendation spot, but beware someone using you as a target.”
No matter how Xiang Ge assessed bone structure and comprehension, with fame, wouldn’t the envoys look extra?
Naturally.
“I understand.”
Bai Changlin instructed a few more things, then everyone left one after another.
Su Yan returned to his room, not yet seated when the door was knocked.
“Senior Sister?”
Su Yan opened the door to find Bai Yun standing outside.
“From my father to you.”
Bai Yun handed over the item in her hand. Su Yan glanced and said in surprise: “Inner armor?”
“Second-order low-grade Silver Scale Armor. My father killed a Silver Scale Carp King years ago and had Tian Feng Weapon Shop refine it. Only a few know.”
Su Yan understood at once: secret armor gift, fearing leaks leading to precautions, keeping a backup.
But he suddenly thought of Bai Yun: “What about you?”
The Seven Blades Martial Arts School people were killed by Su Yan, but Bai Yun was involved too, and as Bai Changlin’s daughter, likely a target.
“Two pieces of inner armor total; my father gave me his.”
Bai Yun glanced at her junior brother, fearing he’d refuse, and said: “I know you have many tricks, but an extra self-defense item saves much trouble. This inner armor condenses true essence into a protective layer on the scales, stronger than first-order inner armor.”
Su Yan smiled: “Thank Master for me.”
Bai Yun handed the inner armor to Su Yan and turned to leave, though her expression wasn’t as calm as before.
“Minor Spirit Nurturing withstands True Intent, Golden Ape Jade Body Skill at transformation realm?”
A determined glint flashed in her eyes. Back in her room, she took out Blood Sun Pills and swallowed three in a row, her body instantly burning like flames, flushed red.
Blood Sun Pills had extremely fierce medicinal properties; ordinary Spirit Nurturing Realm needed days to digest one.
Yet she took three at once.
Then she circulated Golden Ape Jade Body Skill and Tiger Body Bone Forging Technique, tempering her body to constantly enhance its strength.
She had always been competitive; she proposed challenging the school, but all the effort came from her junior brother—how could she accept that.
‘Can’t surpass, but at least don’t fall behind.’
“Even the Seven Blades Martial Arts School investigated Pang Tianfeng’s things; the backing seems significant. The only one Long Qidao trusts that much is probably the Little Mountain Association.”
Su Yan changed into the inner armor, pondering the last two days’ events, gradually piecing it together.
No wind rises without cause.
If they traced it to him, it must be from connections to Pang Tianfeng.
Killing Pang Tianfeng under Tiger God Temple City, absolutely no one knew, as he used a fake identity.
So only the most obvious fire back then.
By chance finding the cave where Pang Tianfeng hid, taking the items, handling it but leaving traces.
“Yun Qian Village is too close to that cave, and my rise too fast—inevitable someone connects it.”
He smiled: “But good too. With Long Qidao this powder keg ready to explode, it should soon gather them. Little Mountain Association… If White Bone Poison Centipede and Red Armored Mad Scorpion metamorphose, my second-order combat power won’t be weaker than theirs…”
