Limitless - Chapter 87: Zhao Mantian

What the?

Chu Yu was genuinely unable to keep up with Zhao Mantian’s train of thoughts.

He felt that his logic was pretty screwed, but compared to this guy in front of him, he was still lacking.

This change of topic was simply… just like that Great Demon Sage Sun Wukong, traversing 108,000 li in a single leap!

Xiao Yue also had difficulty keeping up with with Zhao Mantian’s thoughts. Although she was rather aware of Mantian’s leaps of logic since she was young, she was still astonished that he was still capable of such feats even after he had become a Supreme Realm expert.

Zhao Mantian looked towards the two of them and said, "Are you guys unwilling?" The two of them didn’t say anything, but judging from their facial expressions, they looked rather unwilling.

"F*ck, have I not shown enough sincerity?"

"I’m a dignified and young Supreme Realm expert, and an esteemed sect leader. I’m willing to become sworn brothers with a young chap like you, yet you’re still unhappy?"

While Zhao Mantian carefree, he was also proud to his core.

Of course, he wouldn’t say such things to other people.

Chu Yu immediately revealed a foolish expression, and explained with a bitter smile, "No, it is not that I am unwilling, it is just that I feel *coughs* that this was too sudden."

"As long you are willing, it is fine!" Zhao Mantian heaved a sigh of relief. He managed to save his pride.

"Alright, as the oldest, I’m number one. Chu Yu, you are number two. Hu Xiaoyue, you’re number three!" Zhao Mantian exclaimed in a single breath.

"Phoom!" He knees went straight to the ground. He then leered at the two of them, "What are you two still standing around for? Kneel!"

Chu Yu and Xiaoyue glanced at each other, the corners of their mouths started twitching as they went to kneel on the ground.

On the surface, they looked like they were forced. In fact, they were swearing continuously in their hearts.

However, it was definitely not a loss to have such a sworn brother!

Xiaoyue’s eyes sparkled.

Hu Xiaoyue!

She could finally bear the surname Hu!

Just like that, Chu Yu muddleheadedly swore the sibling’s oath with Xiaoyue and Zhao Mantian. The entire process was dramatic.

Even the illogical Zhao Mantian would not expect that this event would have a great impact in the future.

Since he found Chu Yu pleasing to the eye and a man worthy to befriend.

He was actually a very simple man, being a master martial artist and strategist, he tends to let his guard down to those people he found pleasant.

These are characteristics that Chu Yu shares.

This was what they called ‘fate’.

There are people who have known one another for decades and yet they are just merely acquaintances. And then, there are those who just met once and it was as though they had known each other for a lifetime.

Waiting for the ‘lost’ Chu Yu to stand up, the smiling Zhao Mantian came over and said, "Younger brother, later I will help you find your elixir but first you have to help me refine some immortal medicine!"

"…"

Chu Yu became speechless and awkward. However, he was very curious and asked Zhao Mantian, "Why don't you just snatch the sage’s inheritance from me?"

"Wouldn’t that be simpler?"

"I’m not that kind of person!"

With a prideful expression, Zhao ManTian said righteously, "I have my inheritance, although it is not that of a sage, but it does not differ much. Then again, someday, I’ll become a sage, and my inheritance… would be a sage’s inheritance! Why do I even bother to snatch from others to learn?"

In awe, ChuYu felt that this brother of his is not only hilarious and wild, he was a very proud person as well.

"Becoming a sage? That is a great aspiration!"

"Then again, it is meaningless, the world is full of fantastic things, how is it possible for me to attain all of it?"

Zhao Mantian looked at Chu Yu, "If you are short of character, a man with flaws in your values, I will not hesitate to kill you. I am a person with little misgivings, whatever wrong I see, I kill mindlessly! In this lifetime, If you cannot live life to the fullest, why bother living? If I were to meet someone I find admirable, sacrificing myself is never a question!"

Towards Zhao Mantian, Chu Yu cupped his fist, "I have been taught well!"

"Hahaha, Old Two [1] Chu Yu, this is merely my perspective on life, please don’t be affected by it, attaining the sage inheritance definitely leads to a bright future. You have your own path!" Zhao Mantian laughed heartily and patted Chu Yu’s shoulder.

"*Coughs*, call me brother is fine, Old Two sounds weird." Chu Yu says with a serious tone.

"Old Two… Little Brother [1]… *Coughs*, Second Brother you are right!" Zhao Mantian whispered, with a weird face. As he felt that the culture today is very difficult to comprehend, a small mistake could deface the actual meaning.

"The two of you... please watch your words." Xiaoyue blushed and reminded them.

*HeHe*

Both Chu Yu and Zhao Mantian began laughing.

Thereafter, Zhao Mantian said, "Since we have already sworn, me being the oldest it is only customary to give you guys gifts."

"Big Brother...Don’t be like this." Chu Yu immediately rejected.

"I am just borrowing from the Flower Buddha." Zhao Mantian laughed and gave Chu Yu the sword he was holding, "This sword is remarkable, it is at the very least at the supreme realm level, it’s yours! This will be the sword you will now use…"

Zhao Mantian have not finished his sentence, Chu Yu grabbed the sword steadily, "What’s wrong!"

"Alright...since you insist." Zhao Mantian scratched his head and continued, "right, there is a problem, everyone thinks that this sword has fallen into the abyss…...ok, when you use it, don’t leave anybody alive.

"Uh…Ok." Chu Yu gave a forced smile and nodded his head earnestly and threw the sword into his storage ring.

He did not feel any difficulty in holding the sword, after all it was just only a sword?

If Elder Yue and his group of people knew that Chu Yu was able to hold the sword at ease, they will be shocked.

Xiaoyue looked towards Zhao Mantian and asked, "Where is my gift?"

"You already have the sage’s inheritance... alright, I will transfer you the Nine Tail Lightning Fox cultivation technique!" Zhao Man tian exclaimed. He was not worried that Chu Yu heard their conversation, the thing is Chu Yu was unable to learn this technique.

This is a technique that only demons can master!

At the top, the two groups of people are still fighting.

Down below, Zhao Mantian swiftly transferred the technique to Xiaoyue.

Unable to maintain his curiosity, Chu Yu asked, "Big Brother, since you knew of Xiaoyue’s heritage, then why did you teach her the human cultivation technique in the past?"

"Don’t mention it..." Zhao Mantian said with a bitter smile, "I was tricked by someone else!"

He continued and his face darkened, he told Chu Yu that he only found the Nine Tail Lightning Fox technique recently. The technique allowed him to break into the king’s realm at an accelerated pace. Thereafter, with some miracles, he broke into the supreme realm.

"In the past, I wasn’t as knowledgeable as I am now. Back then, an Elder from outside the areas of Qing Qiu gave Xiaoyue part of the technique. Seeing how powerful it was, I didn’t think much of it. Knowing that Xiaoyue was trapped, it was too late already."

Zhao Mantian sighed and looked towards Xiaoyue and said bitterly, "Soon after, I found out that that old man had a feud with Xiaoyue’s parents."

"What?" Xiaoyue’s face turned pale and whispered, "But my parents are already…"

Zhao Mantian shook his head, "It’s difficult to say, back then they were only missing, similar to your master, Elder Du... We do not know if they are still alive"

"Is it true" Xiaoyue eyes glimmered with hope.

Zhao Mantian nodded, "Don’t keep your hopes up, but one day when we become stronger, we will search for them. That’s a promise…"

Xiaoyue interrupted, "As long as they are still alive, I will find them! Even if they are dead, I will bury their remains back at Qing Qiu."

Zhao Mantian nodded, with a sad look in his eyes.

There are many stories in our ancient heritage that are filled with vicissitudes of life.

Subsequently, all of a sudden he gave Chu Yu and Xiaoyue a wink that indicates for them to be quiet.

The two noticed that the noise from the fighting on the cliff above has suddenly disappeared.

Soon after, they heard the cries of Zuo Datong, "Ancestor, since you are here, please make a decision for Qing Qiu! We the people of Qing Qiu have never been so terribly ashamed. Letting a bunch of outsiders to break our great mountain formation and the mountain door…"

In the crowd, a martial artist from the Invigorated Meridian Stage weakly explained, "We didn’t destroy the mountain door…"

*Bang!*

For a moment, exclamations can be heard at the top.

That person died!

"Please continue." a calm old voice said.

Above, Zuo Datong lamented, "The sect leader went missing for a long time, no one is able to make any decisions for Qing Qiu. Elder Du quelled the traitors. Under the leadership of Liu Wucheng and him, the group managed to calm down.

However, he never expected that Song Hong would barge into Qing Qiu, abduct Xiaoyue, and even kill Defender Liu Wucheng…

"Shameless!" Xiaoyue uttered this word through her gritted teeth as her face turned pale with anger.

Zhao Mantian shook his head slightly towards her, indicating that she was slightly impatient.

Chu Yu also did likewise, he believed that according to Zhao Mantian’s character, he will not let Zuo Datong off.

Now they were just making use of him.

When the situation settles down and Zhao Mantian officially returns to the Qing Qiu, that would be the day that Zuo Datong dies. The best outcome would be that he is thrown into the abyss.

Xiaoyue understood but she really hated people like Zuo Datong.

Zuo Datong even lied towards his own faction. Eventually, he even reported on his own direct disciples.

When this elder from Qing Qiu heard this, he laughed coldly, then said indifferently, "Zuo Datong, the internal affairs of Qing Qiu can be discussed later. Now, let’s handle the matter in front of us.

On the cliff, a grey robed man of unfathomable age, stood with his hands behind his back. He emanated a heavy aura, causing everyone to be unable to move.

He looked at the group of martial artists and said, "Select a few representatives and contact your respective schools. Pick a time to discuss about the compensation, then think about leaving Qing Qiu! For this period of time, I will be here! I would like to see the old fogeys behind you still cared about their pride. Or are you saying that the people of Qing Qiu are easily bullied."

After saying this, the elder of Qing Qiu turned and walked away.

Zuo Datong head full cold sweat followed behind.

The disciples of Qing Qiu ‘cleared’ the people on the cliff.

This piece of land had finally return to silence.

Until this moment, Zhao Mantian heaved a sigh of relief, whispered with a slight frown, "The one who came was Elder Hu Sheng…"

He did not continue, instead he smiled deeply.

After which, he turned towards Chu Yu and smiled, "Ok, the crisis is over!"

"Big Brother is awesome!" Chu Yu was in awe of Zhao Mantian’s tactics.

"The more you get attacked by people, the more formidable you become." Zhao Mantian sighed, and shook his head with a bitter smile. He turned to both Chu Yu and Xiaoyue, "Third Sister stay here, I will personally instruct you for this period of time. Second Brother return to Dragon City, and concentrate on your training, hurry and raise your level!"

Chu Yu nodded his head as he knew it was time to return.

"For this short period of time stop using the name Song Hong." Zhao Mantian laughed, "Perhaps one day we could still use that name. By then, we will be afraid of nobody!"

Zhao Mantian told Chu Yu as the world resumed its recovery, those people from the outside will soon come.

"They are very strong but they are not the scariest things." Zhao Mantian said, "The truly scary ones are those outside of this world!"

"Those outside of this world?" Chu Yu frowned.

Zhao Mantian pointed to the sky, "The solar system… and the universe beyond."

[1] In Mandarin, these words refer to the penis.

Limitless - Chapter 86: Let's become sworn brothers!

Afterwhich, Zhao Mantian’s silhouette disappeared from atop the cliff next to the abyss.

In the next moment, he appeared in the cave which Chu Yu and Xiao Yue were in.

They were both completely stunned. Zhao Mantian put his index finger to his lips and then smiled at Chu Yu.

He then silently pointed upwards with his finger, his gaze mischievous.

"..." Chu Yu was stunned and he could feel his head getting numb.

He now had a better idea of the power and abilities of a cultivator in the Supreme Realm.

He looked deeply at Zhao Mantian, and his ears perked up to listen.

Xiao Yue was extremely emotional when she saw Zhao Mantian, tears falling from her eyes.

Zhao Mantian smiled warmly at Xiao Yue and used the Voice Transmission Technique to tell her, "I am back, everything will be better."

Xiao Yue nodded vigorously, and could not suppress her tears any longer.

On top of the cliff, Xue Ran woke up all of a sudden, tears running down her cheeks, "Don't..."

In her memory, she had just witnessed Song Hong bring to bear his full power to fight with more than 10 Xiantian cultivators!

His abilities were unparalleled!

However, he was soon overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of the Xiantian cultivators. He retrieved a legendary equipment which exploded with immense power, dragging Elder Yue, Elder Shi and the rest of them down to the abyss with him!

Everything around her was in chaos and they were all extremely scared.

They had all felt the same way as Xue Ran, no one thought that there was anything out of the ordinary.

They had "seen with their own eyes" that the Xiantian cultivators had attacked Song Hong; they had "seen with their own eyes" Song Hong killing everyone around him; they had "seen with their own eyes" Song Hong spitting out blood to activate the legendary weapon!

The terrifying glow of the weapon had engulfed them all!

And then... both sides involved in the battle disappeared into the abyss.

"Oh god... who would have thought that Song Hong would be this terrifying?"

"He... how could he be a Xiantian cultivator?"

"If he wasn't in the Xiantian Realm, how did he manage to escape from Elder Yue and he group?"

"I did not expect that Song Hong was this good..."

"Not only does he have the saint’s legacy, he actually also has a legendary weapon!"

The others discussed the incident fervently, clearly still taken aback. They thanked their lucky stars that Song Hong did not attack them.

Some of the people on the scene cried. Amongst the Xiantians who died, some of them were their relatives, their elders!

Zuo Datong sneakily shifted to a safe zone and sent for Qing Qiu disciples in the dark.

Song Hong was powerful!

He had actually killed all those Xiantians!

Hahahaha, heaven is indeed helping me!

Heaven hopes that I can finish what I set out to do!

Song Hong ah Song Hong, right now, I must say I am slightly grateful to you!

Zuo Datong had initially lost hope, but he had never thought that Song Hong was so powerful. Such power defied Heaven’s will!

At the same time, he thought that it was a pity that the Crane Saint’s legacy in Song Hong’s possession, as well as the replica Divine Punisher sword that Elder Yue had would never be able to see daylight ever again.

He knew better than anyone that even if a Supreme Realm cultivator went into the Qing Qiu abyss, he could not return.

Only those who have attained True Lord realm and above had a slim chance at survival.

A large number of Qing Qiu Invigorated Meridian martial artists began to gather here.

The ancient disciples of these ancient clans at the edge of the cliff finally regained their consciousness and panicked.

Their biggest backers had all been thrown into the abyss...

Even though they panicked, they were not chaotic!

They knew that their combined power was relatively strong.

Even if they were to fight to their death, they may not necessarily die.

Zuo Datong said coldly, "With things the way they are, what more do you have to say?"

One of the advanced Invigorated Meridian Realm martial artists stood out and looked at Zuo Datong coldly, "With things the way they are, what more do you want?"

"What more do I want? Are you brain damaged? Qing Qiu has not antagonized any of you, yet you have broken through my doors and come in here to steal people; causing huge casualties. Furthermore, you have robbed Qing Qiu..."

"Zuo Datong, stop accusing others, who robbed Qing Qiu of its treasures?" Someone raged.

Zuo Datong replied coldly, "Wasn’t the Qing Qiu medicinal field robbed by you all?"

"It was the Xiantians..." Before this person could finish, he got tongue tied.

The Xiantians had indeed fallen into the abyss, and the medicinal field was indeed cleaned out by them, but... they were the accomplices!

Many of them could clearly remember the awe of seeing the spiritual medicines in the medicinal feel, and the excitement of digging up the spiritual medicines... One could only say that Zhao Mantian’s sacred art was simply too powerful!

Unfathomable!

Even if an elite cultivator grilled the souls of these Invigorated Meridian Realm martial artists, they would get the same answer!

The memory had already been ingrained in their minds.

They have already taken this as the truth!

This was the terrifying power of Qing Qiu’s mind control hallucination technique!

There were already a large number of Qing Qiu disciples gathered here.

The enemies looked at each other, rage filling their eyes.

Seeing as the scary Xiantian experts were gone, their confidence increased.

One of them bellowed, "Return our spiritual medicine!"

Countless people echoed out, "Return our spiritual medicine!"

Inside the cave, Zhao Mantian glanced at Chu Yu, his bright eyes held a faint smile, almost as if he has seen through everything.

Chu Yu was expressionless, he had no intention to confess.

He felt that having someone to take the rap for him was something extremely blissful.

Atop the cliff.

The Qing Qiu disciples were bellowing, "Return our protective magical formation!"

"You ancient school disciples are so audacious!"

"Do you disregard us Qing Qiu?"

The entire scene was explosive, and it was going to blow up at any moment!

The oppression and humiliation felt previously exploded out at this moment.

At this point, an Invigorated Meridian Realm martial artist from the ancient schools looked at Zuo Datong, "Zuo Datong... how do you want to resolve this issue?"

Zuo Datong replied, "Return our medicines, compensate us for the loss of our huge magical formation and for all our losses, including emotional and mental damages!

The entire group was stunned, emotional and mental damages?

F*ck that, what emotional and mental damages?!

"Who can compensate us for all those Xiantians falling into your abyss?" One of the descendants of the Xiantians asked depressingly.

Zuo Datong mocked, not wanting to bother with such a question. He faked sympathy and said, "You should go find Song Hong! Else, you can go find the Northern Chu Clan..."

"Bullsh*t... what can the Northern Chu Clan do? Furthermore, they’re just taking the rap for him!

"Zuo Datong, if you let us out now, we will treat it like nothing ever happened!"

Zuo Datong snicked coldly, "Are you all really dumb or just acting naive? I have already woken the Qing Qiu elders. Do you think you can leave without compensating Qing Qiu for our losses?

Inside the cave, Chu Yu looked at Zhao Mantian admirably, he finally understood why Zhao Mantian did not throw Zuo Datong into the abyss.

He finally realized that Zuo Datong was just another chess piece in Zhao Mantian’s grand strategy.

He was pretty good to use!

Chu Yu also understood that Zhao Mantian would never appear right now!

When the dust settled and Zhao Mantian returned to Qing Qiu as a Supreme Realm Cultivator, everyone in the Qing Qiu ancestral land, as well as those in the pocket dimension would approve of his portfolio!

A young Supreme Realm cultivator was a legitimate Heaven’s Pride.

It could be said that from the start, Zhao Mantian had no way of losing.

By handling the situation like that, not only did he manage to save Qing Qiu, but he had also helped Chu Yu a whole lot.

However, he would first have to know that Chu Yu and Song Hong were the same person.

But... that shouldn’t be possible?

Chu Yu did not think that Xiao Yue would betray him.

At this point, Zhao Mantian waved his hand. Even though the noises from outside could travel in, Chu Yu could see with his vertical eye that there was a shield sealing the cave.

Only then did Zhao Mantian speak. He looked at Chu Yu and smiled, "What an ingenious move by young master Chu! Taking on two identities and fooling the entire outside world."

Chu Yu’s heart chilled, but he did not believe that Xiao Yue would betray him.

It would seem stubborn of him, but Chu Yu was like that, and he trusted the people around him immensely.

Zhao Mantian bared his teeth and smiled, "The appearance changing technique, also known as Facebook. In the ancient era, it was also considered an odd technique. It has its origins in the ancient elite scared art, and is the Human Transformation Technique in the 36 Heavenly Generals.

Chu Yu heaved a sigh of relief inside, As long as Xiao Yue didn't betray him, else, he would be extremely disappointed.

Xiao Yue knew that he could take on others’ appearance, but she did not know that the cultivation technique was known as Facebook.

Chu Yu looked at Zhao Mantian, shocked at his vast knowledge.

Zhao Mantian continued, "Even though it is no match for the Human Transformation Technique, it’s advantage is that it can be used by non cultivators. People who know this technique are few, even I chanced upon it by accident. Young master Chu need not worry, people who can guess that you are Song Hong are few and far between."

As he spoke, he looked deeply at Chu Yu, "Furthermore, from today onwards, Song Hong is dead!"

"How did Sect Leader Zhao guess this?" Chu Yu asked.

"Please don't call me Sect Leader, look, the Sect Leader of Qing Qiu has been taken over by Zuo Datong." Zhao Mantian laughed, "If it’s okay with you, just call me big brother Zhao."

Chu Yu was stunned, he did not know why Zhao Mantian was treating him so well.

"You must think it's weird?" Zhao Mantian looked at Chu Yu, "I can guess that you must be related to Xiao Yue somehow, the way that she looks at you is just not right."

Xiao Yue stiffened, she did not know what was wrong with the way she looked at young master.

Zhao Mantian continued, "You could say that I watched Xiao Yue grow up since young..."

Xiao Yue replied indignantly, "I'm not that much younger than you okay?"

This tone seemed to be like that of a sister’s willfulness when talking to her brother.

Zhao Mantian looked at Xiao Yue exasperatingly and sighed, "We have a one cycle gap between us! Doesn't this count as me watching you grow up since young?"

Xiao Yue blinked and did not rebut. This was the truth.

In truth, all these years, Sect Leader Zhao Mantian had unofficially been treating Xiao Yue like his little sister.

Zhao Mantian looked at Chu Yu, "If you were Song Hong, Xiao Yue may thank you, even revere you, but she would not look at you with a gaze of familiarity and reliance. Haha, I have always been meticulous, and I have a keen eye for observation."

"..." Chu Yu was speechless.

Zhao Mantian’s expression became stern as he said solemnly to Chu Yu, "The reason why I’m helping you is simple, Xiao Yue is like a sister to me. There’s something that even Xiao Yue is unaware of."

Xiao Yue raised her head and looked at Zhao Mantian in confusion.

Zhao Mantian said, "Xiao Yue is from the Nine Tailed Lightning Fox bloodline, and I... coincidentally am too!"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Yue’s eyes widened in disbielief.

"As such, from a bloodline point of view, Xiao Yue and I are relatives! Furthermore, we are of the same generation, thus, it is perfectly correct for me to call her my sister." Zhao Mantian smiled and said. noveltranslationweb.blogspot.com

Ah, I see!

Chu Yu finally understood why Zhao Mantian was so good to him, the reason lay with Xiao Yue.

"Even though you knew Xiao Yue was one of the influential disciples in Qing Qiu, you did not ask for any compensation when you helped her get rid of her shackles. Initially... I had wanted to break through to the Supreme Realm before coming back to help her."

"Sect Leader..." Xiao Yue was visibly touched.

"Call me brother." Zhao Mantian smiled.

He looked at Chu Yu and said, "You unselfishly helped Xiao Yue breakthrough, and even gave her the saint’s legacy..."

"How do you know that?" Xiao Yue looked at Zhao Mantian in disbelief, before turning to Chu Yu, visibly wronged.

Almost like she was saying, It wasn’t me!

Zhao Mantian replied, "Only by cultivating with a saint’s legacy can you avoid being affected by my mind control technique. A saint’s technique can cut through all lies and is not easily duped.

"..."

Xiao Yue and Chu Yu were speechless, thinking to themselves, Is it that easy?

However, behind the easiness hid Zhao Mantian’s vast expanse of knowledge.

Zhao Mantian continued, "After knowing Xiao Yue was in danger, you did not hesitate to come to her rescue, even at the expense of your own safety. Most importantly, you are not in love with her, instead you purely treat her as a friend..."

Xiao Yue stiffened and blushed, murmuring, "What are you saying..."

"Haha, I am not just meticulous. Since I am of much higher cultivation than both of you, I have a powerful sense of the auras surrounding you." Zhao Mantian smiled widely at Chu Yu and Xiao Yue.

"As such, when I say that you’re warmhearted, righteous and loyal, I am not so much praising you as I am just stating a fact."

Zhao Mantian looked deeply into Chu Yu’s eyes and said, "Brother, shall we become sworn brothers?"

"Ah?" Chu Yu was floored.

"Ah?" Xiao Yue was stunned.

.........

Limitless - Chapter 85: Perfection

Zhao Mantian flew over the airspace above the abyss and shook the cloth bag lightly. The huge group of people came tumbling out.

The embarrassed group fell at the edge of the cliff, including the Xiantian cultivators, who all looked unsettled.

Inside the bag, they could not use any of their powers, they were completely inprisoned!

This was too scary!

It would be all too easy for Zhao Mantian to kill them in the bag!

One of the Xiantian Cultivators ate a mouthful of mud upon impact and could not resist but shout, "Why is Sect Leader Zhao doing this? We were all here to help Sect Leader Zhao!"

Zhao Mantian stood in the air, his body emanating a terrifying, suppressing aura.

He chuckled, "Help me? Then should I be thanking you... for breaking my protective magical formation with your sword, for wanting to kill many here? Should I thank you all for wanting to make Qing Qiu blood flow like a river?"

Elder Shi tried to explain, "Sect Leader Zhao, you are mistaken, it is not what you think..."

Bang!

A ray of light flashed by.

Elder Shi was knocked straight into the abyss!

In the mist, Elder Shi’s pitiful scream echoed out, "Sect Leader Zhao... you will have retribution for what you have done!"

Zhao Mantian laughed coldly as he landed from mid air.

At this point, he rid himself of the camouflage and revealed his true appearance.

Everyone who saw him could not help but be shocked.

This Qing Qiu Sect Leader was too young

He could not have been more than 30 years old, and his eyes showed no signs of age.

He wasn’t particularly handsome, but his eyes were extremely bright and he had an air of masculinity.

You could tell that he did not just look youthful, he was truly youthful.

The group of people at the edge of the cliff fell silent, a chill sent down their spines.

Zhao Mantian was too high handed!

He did not even give Elder Shi any chance, he did not even bother speaking to him before knocking him into the abyss.

Many Invigorated Meridian martial artists could not help but sit there, paralysed.

Xue Ran’s eyes also flashed with fear, she finally understood what is true power!

Elder Yue was almost like a deity in front of the Xiantian cultivators, but even she did not have the ability to resist in the face of Zhao Mantian.

They actually had the guts to run to Qing Qiu, break the protective magical formation, charge in and kill at will, take away Song Hong and rob Qing Qiu of all her treasures?

How insane!

They had water in their brains!

Everyone kept quiet, all of them in disbelief.

Their actions simply did not stand up to reason.

If it wasn’t for Zhao Mantian’s return, Qing Qiu would have been robbed.

Once this happened, even if the Qing Qiu elders entered the world, they could not repair the damage.

If one was strong enough, no matter how many people there were, you could still take your revenge.

However, if you were not strong enough, even if you were taken advantage of completely, you could not do anything about it.

The backgrounds of the people here today were too complicated, they came from various ancient schools and had influential and powerful backers.

As such, once this had become fact, no matter how angry the Qing Qiu elders were, they would not be able to take revenge.

If they had managed to pull it off, they would have completely snuffed out Qing Qiu!

Such things have happened, even in the ancient days.

However, never in their wildest imaginations did they expect that the uncontactable Sect Leader of Qing Qiu, Zhao Mantian... would return!

Being caught red handed meant that... no matter what, their backers would also be taken advantage of!

If they dared to gang up against Qing Qiu, there would be terrifying repercussions.

Everything came down to evidence!

If they weren’t caught, there were many ways that they could escape from this.

However, if they were caught... and the opponent was so powerful, such that they were not able to resist, they could only succumb to whatever their opponent wanted to do.

"You’re all such a daring group!" Zhao Mantian said coldly, "What do my internal Qing Qiu matters have to do with you? You actually dare to run wild in my territory? Did you really think that just because we had been hit hard thousands of years ago, and had our vitality damaged, you can just come here and reenact the same scene?"

"Sect Leader Zhao... this, really is a misunderstanding." Elder Yue’s mouth was dry and her head became numb.

She was just half a step away from being a King’s Realm cultivator, and was considered a true expert in today’s era.

However, in the face of a Supreme Realm individual, she did not have any right to be arrogant.

Never did Elder Yue expect that the Qing Qiu Sect Leader was not lost and did not die, instead he had entered the Supreme Realm...

Wasn’t he just a Xiantian cultivator just a few years ago?

He... how could he cultivate so quickly?

No matter how much she did not want to admit it, this was the fact!

A despairing fact!

"Misunderstanding?" Zhao Mantian laughed loudly and raised his hand.

A ray of light exploded and hit Elder Yue.

The Divine Punisher sword in Elder Yue’s hand exploded with a ray of light and blocked the attack from Zhao Mantian.

Elder Yue coughed up a mouthful of blood, almost like she had been struck by lightning.

Zhao Mantian snorted coldly and stretched out his hand. An invincible force immediately took the blade from Elder Yue. He held it in his hand and said, "This blade is not bad!"

"That is the treasure of the Rainfall ancient sect!" Elder Yue felt a chill and she couldn’t help but scream.

Xue Ran, who was in the group, closed her eyes in despair. She had finally felt that Elder Yue... was actually not that mature.

What use was there saying this now?

The maturity that was felt previously was simply an illusion from her confidence in her own abilities.

Now that she had met an invincible adversary, she was also equally flustered...

Zhao Mantian replied, "No longer!"

He waved his hand again. Elder Yue’s body was sent flying. It arced in the sky as she fell towards the abyss with a pitiful scream.

This had utterly iced all the Xiantian cultivator’s guts!

They had initially thought that Zhao Mantian did not want to kill them, choosing to keep them instead. Only now did they know that he simply did not want to dirty Qing Qiu lands.

"Spare our lives Sect Leader Zhao!"

"We were just careless for a moment... we know our mistakes now! I still have a centurion mother to take care of!" One of the elderly cultivators cried out.

"Sect Leader Zhao, please let us go... I still have infants back home..." One of the ladies crumbled and bawled.

Zhao Mantian stood there quietly, a mocking smile breaking out.

Then, without hesitation, he attacked continuously, knocking all of the Xiantian cultivators into the abyss.

He did not care about their background or their backers. From start to finish, he did not ask a single question.

It wasn’t that the Xiantian cultivators did not want to resist, they simply could not. Even before they could react, they were knocked into the air by the sacred art.

In the blink of an eye, all of the Xiantian cultivators who had come to Qing Qiu had been knocked into the abyss by Zhao Mantian.

The remaining Invigorated Meridian martial artists were all completely silent. No one dared to stand, all of them opting to kneel, shivering in fear.

Zhao Mantian glanced at the group of Invigorated Meridian martial artists and said flatly, "You all deserve to die too!"

Complete silence!

No one dared to rebut.

It wasn’t that they had been caught red handed and had no way to explain themselves.

However, the opponent was so strong that they had lost all hope.

Zhao Mantian suddenly bellowed loudly, a mysterious aura exploded from his body, covering the entire cliff in an instant.

The Invigorated Meridian martial artists below, including Zuo Datong, were all at a loss.

It wasn’t just the people on the cliff next to the abyss, the entire Qing Qiu... felt the same way.

All except Chu Yu and Xiao Yue in the cave at the base of the cliff!

The two of them had been listening in to what was happening above. In the instant when Zhao Mantian spread that mysterious aura, Chu Yu’s forehead radiated a faint energy that allowed Chu Yu to maintain control over his mental faculties and vision, unaffected by the aura.

On the other hand, the broken through acupoints in Xiao Yue’s body had also radiated small amounts of fluctuations. The Superclass was acting on its own and it birthed a wave of energy which also ensured that she remained sober!

The small metal ball was mysterious and powerful! The techniques of saints could not be underestimated!

Chu Yu and Xiao Yue looked at each other and saw the shock in each other’s eyes.

Both of them did not make a sound.

At this point, from the cliff above, Zhao Mantian’s solemn and mysterious voice echoed out.

"Song Hong is a mysterious and powerful Xiantian cultivator, he... has always been hiding his power!"

Chu Yu was slightly stunned as he thought to himself, What does he mean? Is he trying to make me take the rap for something?

From the cliff, Zhao Mantian continued, "His purpose for coming to Qing Qiu was to save one of our disciples, Xiao Yue... Xiao Yue had an emergency in her body, which was also solved by him. The reason is simple, he likes Xiao Yue."

In the cave, Xiao Yue looked at Chu Yu, blushing. She blinked innocently at him.

She did indeed revere Chu Yu, but... her feelings have never extended to that of infatuation!

Chu Yu shrugged his shoulders to express his helplessness.

He had an idea what the Qing Qiu Sect Leader Zhao Mantian wanted to do, but he was still rather confused.

Zhao Mantian continued, "Qing Qiu deputy Zuo Datong, Liu Wucheng had planned a rebellion in order to become Qing Qiu Sect Leader. In so doing, they have harmed loyal subordinates Elder Du others like him. They had also trapped Song Hong, who had come to rescue Xiao Yue, in the magical formation set up by me, Zhao Mantian."

The Invigorated Meridian Realm martial artists and the Qing Qiu disciples were all hypnotized and repeated after Zhao Mantian.

That periodic low crooning reached Chu Yu and Xiao Yue’s ears and they were shocked at the strangeness.

Xiao Yue used the Voice Transmission Technique to speak to Chu Yu, "Qing Qiu’s mind control technique, I did not think that... Sect Leader was so strong that he could affect so many people!"

Chu Yu nodded silently and thought to himself, Is this the power of the Supreme Realm? Luckily I have the protection of my vertical eye, but how is it that Xiao Yue is not affected? Could it be done on purpose by the Qing Qiu Sect Leader?

He did not know that it was because of the saint’s legacy. This was because before the power from the saint’s legacy could be brought to bear, his vertical eye had already taken action.

Zhao Mantian continued, "Many of the people in the ancient legacies did not adhere to the treaty between us. They have attacked my Qing Qiu and attempted to capture Song Hong in order to get a saint’s legacy!"

"They have destroyed my Qing Qiu’s medicinal field, stolen all the medicine in the field... such vicious methods are absolutely deplorable!"

Zhao Mantian’s voice became increasingly misty.

As he spoke, everyone repeated what he said.

Chu Yu and Xiao Yue, who were hiding in the cave, felt their mouths twitch vigorously. Xiao Yue’s expression was strange, it looked like she was forcefully suppressing her laughter.

The Sect Leader was clearly rewriting the story!

"Finally, this group of lawless Xiantian cultivators robbers engaged in a heated battle with Song Hong, who had rushed out of the magical formation. They surrounded and attacked Song Hong near the Qing Qiu abyss. Finally, hero Song Hong decided to die with them. He retrieved a legendary equipment which he had gotten from the Ruins of the Pile of Three Stars and dragged all of the Xiantian cultivators into the Qing Qiu abyss with him."

At this point, the story was completely clear.

Zhao Mantian’s tactic was too good. Even though he did place the blame on Song Hong, he had created a good reason for Song Hong to have participated in this, a reason that no one could argue with.

Afterall, Song Hong was at complete odds with this group of people.

All the events that he had narrated were completely logical.

What was a factual lie?

This was it!

90% of it was real, the other 10% completely made up!

The fake part was that "Song Hong" did not have that kind of power!

However, with Zhao Mantian’s mind control technique, this lie had also become the truth.

In fact, Zhao Mantian had effectively made Elder Yue, Elder Shi and the group take the rap.

From start to finish, Song Hong was painted as an innocent person, full of righteousness and loyalty and willing to die for his friends!

He was even willing to die with his opponents!

As for Zhao Mantian’s statement that Song Hong was a Xiantian cultivator, whilst it seemed like a lie, it would be easily accepted by the outside world even without the influence of his mind control technique!

Else, how could Song Hong have toyed with those Xiantian cultivators previously?

How could an Acupoint Charging Realm martial artist have such abilities?

The ancient schools would definitely be more than willing to accept the fact that Song Hong was actually a Xiantian cultivator, else, they would be completely humiliated!

Zhao Mantian had also made those Xiantian cultivators take the rap for the Qing Qiu medicinal field being emptied.

He didn't even deal with Zuo Datong immediately!

Just like that, he had suppressed everyone with his superior power.

He had mercilessly killed a group of Xiantian cultivators, causing immeasurable fear and shock in the remaining Invigorated Meridian Realm martial artists. Then he had used an intellectual technique, as well as a mind control technique to break their resolve and implant a hallucination.

Without even considering his battle prowess, Zhao Mantian’s character and technique was enough to inspire fear in people.

Even Chu Yu, who was hiding in the cave, could not help but admit that Zhao Mantian’s method was - absolute perfection.

......

Limitless - Chapter 84: Qing Qiu Sect Leader

Kaboom!

A heaven shaking sound echoed out!

The huge protective magical formation shattered!

The entire Qing Qiu shook. That was the terrifying tremor that resulted from the breaking of the protective magical formation.

Chu Yu, who was struggling to control the pill refining fire, as well as Xiao Yue, who was busy cultivating, were both shocked, eyes springing open immediately.

Xiao Yue exclaimed in shock, "This is not good, the protective magical formation has been broken from the outside!"

Chu Yu took a deep breath, his expression respectful.

The QIng Qiu ancestral lands blocked off all cell reception, and he had no idea what was happening outside.

However, he could guess that the group of people... was probably coming for him!

The Crane Saint’s legacy... could really drive people insane!

"Teacher, should we use this chaos to facilitate an escape?"

Xiao Yue looked at Chu Yu, her face pale.

Chu Yu shook his head, "We’ll hide out here."

Looking at Xiao Yue’s confused expression, Chu Yu laughed bitterly, "Think about it, those people have made such an effort to break Qing Qiu’s protective magical formation from the outside, won’t they set up a trap outside waiting for us?"

Xiao Yue’s exquisite face broke out in bitterness as she nodded, "They shouldn’t be able to find this place..."

"We can only hope so." Chu Yu nodded.

"Young master... if it comes down to it, just leave on your own first." Xiao Yue changed how she addressed Chu Yu from teacher to young master.

She did not want to see Chu Yu in any danger. If he was, even if she died, she could no die peacefully.

She looked at Chu Yu seriously, "To those people, as long as young master is not caught by them, they will not kill me even if they catch me. So when it comes down to it, just run, you can save me again after."

Chu Yu glanced at her, "We’ll talk about it after!"

...…

The impact of the Qing Qiu protective magical formation was too great.

Even though he wasn’t far from the magical formation, the originally confident Zuo Datong spat blood on the spot, seriously injured.

His eyes revealed his disbelief, he could not believe that something like that would happen.

Even though he had betrayed that man, he had near blind faith in his magical formation abilities.

"Didn’t he say that... even if a Supreme Realm cultivator came, he would not be able to break the protective magical formation? Why... did this happen?’

Zuo Datong could not figure this out, but at this point, he had lost most of his hope.

He looked at the people next to him, all of them equally stunned. He said in a solemn, raspy voice, "Have someone... go to the pocket dimension and wake the King’s Realm elders... this thing is completely out of our control now."

One of them left rapidly, trying to make it to the pocket dimension as soon as possible.

However, waking the Elders required time.

They were not able to rush over the moment they were activated.

In this time, Qing Qiu... would probably be robbed.

If there was a way to reverse his actions, Zuo Datong would not hesitate to do so.

If he had known about this, he would have never trapped Song Hong inside Qing Qiu.

Just let him go free... the greed was not worth it!

This fella was a catastrophe!

Bringing harm to everyone else!

Anyone who came into contact with him was going to have bad luck befall him!

If there was no Song Hong, Liu Wucheng and himself would still be the Sect Leaders of Qing Qiu.

Even though he did not really like Liu Wucheng, he had never wanted him to die!

Without Song Hong, the spiritual medicines in the medicinal field... will also not be stolen. He could easily imagine the kind of torturous punishment that were awaiting him when the true elders came back and found out that the spiritual medicines were stolen.

Furthermore, they would also not be attacked by these shameless ancient legacy b*stards, the ones who could smash the large magical formation... in a single blow.

This was extremely humiliating for Qing Qiu!

"I have let Qing Qiu down!"

Zuo Datong’s tears flowed freely. He may not have strong morals, but... he did have a deep sense of loyalty and belonging to Qing Qiu.

This is because he was also of fox blood!

Since when did Qing Qiu become this weak?

Even a few thousand years ago when Su Daji selfishly went into society during the prosperous cultivation era, Qing Qiu had been embarrassed, but even then, many still did not dare to be this bold when dealing with them.

Su Daji had wrecked the entire country, but in the end, wasn’t it also unresolved?

Even the saints of that time did not say much.

This was much worse, they have been completely and utterly embarrassed.

The spirits of the Qing Qiu ancestors would be driven to their graves again.

Zuo Datong thought that he was utterly unlucky!

Now that the huge magical formation was broken, Qing Qiu had no way of defending against the incoming group of Xiantians.

"Pass the order down, do not resist, what they want... is just Song Hong, let them search for him themselves!"

Zuo Datong grit his teeth and ordered, his eyes red, "Warn them at the same time, if they dare to take advantage of Qing Qiu, we will find payback one day!"

Outside.

After Elder Yue destroyed the protective magical formation with a single swipe, she spat out a mouthful of blood with a scream.

Even though she had the support of more than 10 Xiantian Realm cultivators, this single blow from the sword had stilled injured her. Even though it was not lethal, she was very much weakened in that instant.

However, she was still extremely excited.

A saint’s legacy would be in her hands shortly!

Furthermore, within this ancient school of Qing Qiu, there were countless priceless treasures for the taking!

Even if they were just the advance party, they would still bring along a sizeable amount of scriptures, techniques, magical equipment and weapons.

The Qing Qiu Elders would take revenge after?

No problem!

Which sect did not have a few powerful individuals to hold the fort?

Now that the arrow was already on the bow, there was no time to think too much. They would just take the items first!

She took a medicinal pill and led the group, together with the Xiantian cultivators, on a killing charge into Qing Qiu.

"Catch that little b*stard Song Hong! This time... we cannot let him run away again!" Elder Yue bellowed.

Seeing Zuo Datong injured, Elder Shi laughed coldly, "Zuo Datong, do you still want to resist?"

Zuo Datong looked at Elder Shi coldly, "Mr Shi, are you sure that by doing this, you would not feel the wrath of the ancient sects?"

Elder Shi smiled icily, "Ok then, Zuo Datong, you’re only Qing Qiu’s deputy sect leader. You have perverted and caused chaos within Qing Qiu. I believe that even if Zhao Mantian was alive, he would stand on our side. Furthermore, you dare to hide a public enemy of the cultivation world!"

Zuo Datong already felt that he was already rather shameless, and he was rather self aware about it.

Anyone who did evil knew exactly what they were doing, and were clear that they weren’t particularly good guys.

However, looking at Elder Shi, Zuo Datong suddenly realized that he was not that bad, the guy in front of him was the epitome of shameless!

"Public enemy of the cultivation world? Just because you all can’t get what is in his possession?"

Zuo Datong laughed, then replied, "Whatever you say. I do not have the ability to stop you doing what you want to. Whether I will be Sect Leader, or executed for my actions will be up to the sect. I have already sent people to notify our King’s Realm and Supreme Realm elders."

As he spoke, he looked at everyone, almost as if reading their minds, "As for Song Hong, I am not afraid of being laughed at, but Qing Qiu did not manage to catch him. Whoever has the ability to catch him can go ahead! Anyways, Qing Qiu will remember the the humiliation today! Even if I am executed based on Qing Qiu law, everyone here..."

Zuo Datong’s gaze swept over all the Invigorated Meridian Realm martial artists and laughed, "Can forget about getting away!"

Many people’s expressions changed instantly, their eyes beginning to glimmer.

Qing Qu was not easy. Since the ancient days, the Qing Qiu fox species were one of the most outstanding amongst the demon races!

Even though it was not the most superior, but this was the precise reason why when catastrophe struck and many high level cultivators left, there were still many people from QIng Qiu who stayed and preserved the fire.

After many years of hard work, the foundation of Qing Qiu was not much worse than those of the elite legacies!

This was because the people left behind from the elite legacies were those unfit to follow them into separate dimensions. As such, most of the scriptures, magical equipment, divine soldiers... were all taken away.

The things left behind were treasures for commoners, but were insignificant for the powerful.

As such, Zuo Datong’s words were not an exaggeration.

Elder Yue said coldly, now that the world has been restored, there are many huge sects, clans and races... who will make their return! Then, you can tell us again how strong and powerful you are!"

As she spoke, she waved her hand, "Search! Don’t let that dog Song Hong run away!"

At this point, a clear, sharp male voice was heard from afar.

"Oh? Qing Qiu is not strong? You all are strong? Is that it?"

Zoom!

A figure appeared in front of them, travelling through the air.

He was almost like a deity, his feet travelled in the air, and energy emanated from his every step. He was not in a hurry, but his speed was unimaginably quick!

This was flying through the stratosphere over long periods of time, not the short period skiing through air.

Elder Yue, Elder Shi and the group of Xiantians were in awe!

Even a King’s Realm cultivator could not fly through the stratosphere, that would make the inbound person...

Elder Shi gasped, "Supreme Realm!"

No one expected that a Supreme Realm cultivator would arrive so quickly.

All the Invigorated Meridian martial artists were utterly stunned!

No one was an idiot, they could tell which side he was on from his statement.

This was a Qing Qiu person!

A Supreme Realm cultivator from Qing Qiu!

The powers backing Qing Qiu were indeed capable of such prowess, but they were all isolated.

With the world finally restored, these people surviving now have been born into one of the best eras.

No one wanted to waste any time in their pursuit of attaining a higher cultivation level!

Previously, people and larger demons have been able to attain the True Lord Realm or even gone against the will of heaven to become saints. Now that the world is restored, if they don’t grasp the chance to cultivate, when would a better chance come by?

Without even thinking about the Supreme Realm cultivators, Xiantian cultivators would also not easily come into the world if not for their greed for the saint’s legacy.

Zuo Datong, who was trying to hang on, stiffened immediately when he heard this voice!

His face, red from anger, turned pale in the blink of an eye. Then, with a plonk, he knelt on the ground and lamented, "Sect Leader... you’re finally back, our Qing Qiu... has been infiltrated by robbers, how humiliating... such a huge humiliation! I am incapable, Sect Leader, please punish me!" As he spoke, Zuo Datong lay flat on the ground, unmoving.

Elder Shi’s face was stiff as he clasped his fist and bowed at that figure, "Nice to meet you, Qing Qiu Sect Leader, I am..."

Before he could finish, he saw a cloth bag floating over and stopped.

The cloth bag was not big, no bigger than a gunny sack. However, in the instant it flew over their heads, it opened its mouth and a huge, overwhelming sucking power sucked everyone into the bag.

The INvigorated Meridian martial artists could not even resist and they were sucked away instantly.

Some of the Xiantians tried to resist, but it was meaningless. No matter how hard they struggled, they could not escape their fate.

This included Zuo Datong, who was laying flat on on the floor.

It was difficult to make out the newcomer’s features through the thick fog.

He calmly held on to that cloth bag and began to sky walk in the direction of the QIng Qiu abyss.

COuntless people from QIng Qiu, upon hearing the voice, dropped to their knees, not daring to move.

Many of them were even shivering in shock!

The Qing Qiu Sect Leader... Zhao Mantian, had returned!

Limitless - Chapter 83: Divine Blade

As Xiao Yue spoke, she sprinted down from above and rushed Chu Yu, "Teacher, quick, nod quickly, take it in..."

Chu Yu blinked his eyes and looked at this fire formed human life form bowing at his fear. He felt a sense of pride as he twitched his mouth. He then acted reluctant as he said, "Seeing as you are so sincere, I will reluctantly accept..."

Even before he could say "you", he saw this fire formed human life form shrink to the size of a palm and tunnel into the Immortal Crane Furnace in Chu Yu’s hand, nestling itself into where the flame should be.

It totally disregarded him!

"..." Chu Yu was annoyed, damn it, couldn’t you just let me finish acting?

Visibly, this fire formed life form did not want to be its subordinate, it just wanted to go to the Immortal Crane Furnace.

Even though he had the teachings of the Crane Saint, Chu Yu had little experience in refining pills.

Since he could only see about 500 words of the Crane Saint’s scripture, he had no idea that the flame for refining pills benefitted from the continuous process of refining pills!!

With every day that the owner is refining superior medicine, the fire is also improving and levelling up. It was slowly training itself to become stronger!

A superior pill furnace had a near lethal attraction for a fire.

In the legends, ir was said that the virtually all the fires which had accompanied saints kept increasing in spiritual energy.

Some of them even turned into the Fire of Saints!

However, these were not clear to Chu Yu right now.

The reason why the fire had attacked Chu Yu was because it had felt that Chu Yu had a superior pill furnace on him.

Even though it was slightly scared of Chu Yu, but it wasn’t as much willing to be subordinate to Chu Yu as much as it wanted to be subordinate to the Immortal Crane Furnace.

No matter what, Chu Yu had gained this spiritual fire and he was extremely happy.

Xiao Yue was also extremely happy, pointing towards the floating ball of flame upstream, "Look teacher, that was the flame I was talking about!"

Chu Yu looked over, slightly dazed, then he glanced at the ball of fire sitting snugly inside the flame point of the pill furnace and asked, "What the hell is that?"

Xiao Yue laughed bitterly, "I don’t know, and I don’t think the Sect Leader knows either, either way, I’ve never heard of it."

Chu Yu was slightly speechless before he said with happiness, "It seems that your teacher’s is strong!"

Xiao Yue couldn’t help but roll her eyes. Even though Chu Yu had imparted many skills to her and was her teacher in many respects, she always wanted to punch Chu Yu for his impulsiveness.

Afterwhich, Chu Yu and Xiao Yue sneakily returned to the cave at the cliff of the abyss.

Chu Yu retrieved the Crane Saint’s Pill Scripture and began to connect with it.

Previously, he could only see about 500 words, but now with his cultivation level much higher than it was before, he wanted to see if he could read more.

In a single try, he realized that he could indeed see more words. Chu Yu was ecstatic as he initiated a connection with the scripture.

Xiao Yue was off to the side, silently cultivating.

The string of things that had happened recently had a huge impact on her.

Her motivation and thirst to get stronger was not any less than Chu Yu’s.

Chu Yu continued to connect with the content in the Immortal Crane Pill Scripture. This time, he had managed to read 1500 words, a significant increase from his previous 500!

He had learnt a lot more about the art of pill refining.

Only now did he know that flames had a huge thirst for superior pill furnaces.

Superior pill furnaces, if used to refine superior pills in the long term will also have spiritual properties.

The Immortal Crane Furnace that he held in his hand definitely had spiritual properties. It was likely that the spirit was still hibernating after aeons of inactiveness.

Even when it met with the rare spiritual being made of magma, it did not wake.

Only the spirits of a superior fire and the medicinal pills can wake the furnace spirit.

Else, the process of capturing this ball of fire would have been much easier.

If Chu Yu had connected with the Immortal Crane Pill Scripture earlier, then he would have known about this, and perhaps learnt the art of controlling the fire.

In conclusion, if he had read the Immortal Crane Pill Scripture earlier, capturing this ball of fire would not have been this complicated.

This realization made Chu Yu feel like slapping himself.

If he had known this earlier, he would have read the Immortal Crane Pill Scripture earlier.

Why did he have to fight with it so viciously and cause himself to look so pathetic?

It was so...

Chu Yu could not help but roll his eyes.

He sighed, scolded himself for his stupidity a couple more times, then returned to reading the scripture.

...…

At this point, there were over a hundred people standing just outside the protective magical formation.

The people who had appeared at the Dragon City, bar those already killed by Chu Yu, were all here.

Elder Yue, Elder Shi and the robed youth stood in front with all the Xiantian experts.

At their sides were some other Xiantian Realm cultivators. They did not appear previously at the Dragon City but hey had appeared here.

Because Song Hong was here!

The Crane Saint’s legacy is in his hands!

However, right now, they claimed to be taking revenge for the ex Qing Qiu Sect Leader and getting rid of the scum Song Hong...

They had issued a battle order to request Zuo Datong to stop continuing down this path of mistakes, to close down the huge protective magical formation and surrender.

"As a member of the ancient alliance, Qing Qiu cannot be in the hands of treacherous people, it must return to the right path, else it would harm the entire cultivation world! Song Hong has attacked disciples of this ancient alliance. He is a true scum for killing so freely..."

Zuo Datong did not reply. The entire Qing Qiu was silent and no one came to talk to them.

Elder Yue looked at the other Xiantian cultivators, all of them nodded.

Xue Ran was also here, but her expression lacked the confidence and aura she commanded before, her eyes were extremely solemn.

People kept maturing, after going through such tumultuous times, Xue Ran matured significantly.

Elder Yue began to say, "Zuo Datong plotted a rebellion and killed many innocents... such an incident would have been an internal Qing Qiu matter and none of our business. However, as Qing Qiu is a member of the ancient alliance, we have a duty to avenge the ex Sect Leader and quell the rebellion..."

After finishing her grand battle speech, Elder Yue looked at the crowd and commanded, "Ready your equipments!"

A this point, two Xiantian cultivators from the Rainfall Ancient Sect walked to Elder Yue.

The three of them retrieved an item each.

Elder Yue took out a sword hilt!

The sword hilt was relatively ancient and it emanated an aura of time and mysteriousness.

The other two Xiantian cultivators each retrieved half of a broken blade.

Everyone’s gazes fell on the 3 parts of this blade.

"Is this... the legendary Divine Punisher sword?" One of the advanced Invigorated Meridian Realm martial artist asked someone beside him softly, even as he looked on in disbelief.

"I heard that the Rainfall Ancient Sect... had control of the Divine Punisher blade, however, this one... should be a replica." Someone whispered softly in the crowd.

"Even if it is a replica, it is a genuine divine troop weapon!" Someone replied.

"I heard that in the ancient times, there were four blades, the Divine Punisher, the Divine Slayer, the Divine Trapper and the Supreme Divine... they were the genuine Divine Troop equipment. If you added the Divine Punisher formation guide, you could form the most superior killing formation! Sadly, these four blades have been lost, or maybe.. They’ve been taken away by the ancient powers."

"Wasn’t there a legend that a few thousand years ago, someone came down to earth and used the four Divine Blades and the Divine Punisher formation guide? Didn’t they put down a killing formation?"

"That was also a replica, but its power was terrifying. When they formed the killing formation, they could kill a True Lord Realm cultivator..." One of the elderly XIantian martial artists said solemnly.

Elder Yue and the others had stern expressions. They started to exercise their sacred art and rays of light fell on the three parts of the blade.

Very quickly, the three blade parts began to explode with a blinding light. It was so bright no one dared to look straight at it!

"Ai!"

Elder Yue bit her tongue and spat out some blood on the light.

This was the true sacred art!

Kaboom!

A lustrous long sword exploded with the light of the suns and stayed suspended in the air.

Everybody in the crowd gasped.

This mellowed the light of the sword and it was no longer as hurtful to the eyes. However the blade glowed with light and it looked particularly holy.

One of the Xiantian cultivators gasped, "A replica is capable of such divinity, it is truly awe inspiring. I wonder... how majestic the real Divine Punisher Blade is?"

At this point, another Xiantian cultivator said flatly, "If the real Divine Punisher Blade was on earth, based on our cultivation level, we can’t withstand its light, our souls will be snuffed out immediately!"

All the Invigorated Meridian Realm martial artists felt shivers down their spine.

The genuine divine sword’s light... will snuff out even a Xiantian cultivator’s soul? That was extremely terrifying, this was a professional killing weapon!

Elder Yue stepped forward and held the ancient longsword suspended in the air.

Her hands trembled a little, not because of excitement, but because the power of the sword was too great and she had trouble holding on to it!

"My friends, please support me!" Elder Yue’s voice was shaky and her face was flushed as she tried to withstand the immense pressure.

She was so close to entering the King’s Realm, and she had a solid foundation in the magical techniques, but even she could not hold this replica divine sword still. This shocked a lot of people and their respect began to rise.

Upon Elder Yue’s request, over 10 Xiantian cultivators encircled Elder Yue and formed a magical array.

After which, a huge wave of magical energy exploded along all of these Xiantian Cultivators’ bodies and went straight towards Elder Yue.

Boom!

Elder Yue’s body exploded with a wave of unimaginable power!

The Invigorated Meridian martial artists who were closer to her instinctively wanted to kneel down. Their bodies were shaky and they couldn’t find their footing. The people further away also found it difficult to raise their heads.

Many people began to retreat, after retreating a great distance did the feeling dissipate.

They then looked at Elder Yue, and her intellectual, beautiful face calmed down significantly.

Her body also radiated with an additional aura of divinity!

At this point, the aura emanating from Elder Yue’s body was one of an Intermediate King’s Realm martial artist.

She held the longsword in her hand and bellowed at the huge protective magical formation, "Zuo Datong, do you want to carry on making mistakes? When the huge magical formation is broken, and the blood of Qing Qiu flows like a river, are you willing to see your subordinates pay for your sins?

From within the protective magical formation, Zuo Datong’s furious voice echoed out, "What do you all want to do? Do you all want to attack Qing Qiu? Do you think that Qing Qiu’s Xiantian and Supreme Realm Elders in the pocket dimension are not your match?"

Elder Yue laughed coldly, "Zuo Datong, you’re despicable actions have caused chaos in the cultivation world. You still dare to hide a scum like Song Hong, you shall be punished with death!"

"I’m hiding Song Hong? F*ck your mother! Why don’t you go and die?" Zuo Datong was hopping furious, and could not help but spew vulgarities, "I want to catch him too! I wish to rip his body into shreds!"

Elder Yue seemed like she didn’t hear anything and bellowed, "We are members of the ancient alliance, and we cannot stand idly by as Qing Qiu falls into the hands of a loser like you, that would be blasphemous! Also, hand over Song Hong! I’ll give you till the count of three to consider, after which, I will smash the magical formation!"

Behind Elder Yue, someone shouted, "Elder Yue is too kind, what is there to negotiate with such scum?"

Within the QIng Qiu magical formation, Zuo Datong said coldly, "Stop dreaming, if you have the ability, break my protective magical formation!"

From Zuo Datong’s point of view, the Qing Qiu protective magical formation was impossible to break!

Even if a Supreme Realm martial artist came, he would be unable to do anything about it!

Elder Yue’s face broke out in a cold smile, "One! Two! Three!"

She did not hesitate at all, simply going through the motions.

After bellowing out her count, she leapt into the air. Her body radiated light and the energy emanating from her body was majestic and suppressing, almost like that of a god.

She grabbed the ancient longsword with both hands and chopped viciously at the protective magical formation!

Limitless - Chapter 82: Volcanic Fire

In the depths of the earth, a magma river flowed, its high temperature causing the entire area to feel like a huge furnace!

Even at the higher point, it felt like one was being made into human jerky.

This was a relatively large cave, and waves of heat rose from here.

Chu Yu and Xiao Yue stood at the highest point, some 200 meters from the bottom.

Just looking down gave one a dizzying feeling.

The magma river gushed below.

The temperature was too high!

There was no sign of life in the cave.

"You're saying that the ball of extraordinary fire is here?" Chu Yu looked at Xiao Yue.

"Mm it's here." Xiao Yue nodded confidently and said, "The Sect Leader had also come here some years back to cull the fire, but was unsuccessful. That fire is spiritual and temperamental."

Chu Yu nodded, opened his vertical eye and looked down.

The vertical eye penetrated all the masks and went straight into the depths of the magma river!

It was extremely dense and murky, it was almost like staring at the sun.

Woosh!

A ray of light was like a blade aura, and it was directed straight at Chu Yu’s mental energy!

Chu Yu immediately withdrew his gaze with a woosh, even as his forehead began to ache.

He was slightly shocked.

He turned to look at Xiao Yue, "That thing will attack people by itself?"

"Hmm?" Xiao Yue was slightly stunned and she looked at Chu Yu, "Teacher, what did you find?"

"No... nothing." Chu Yu shook his head and said, "Wait here, I’ll go down and take a look."

Xiao Yue was slightly concerned, "Be safe."

Chu Yu nodded and then walked down along a snaking narrow passageway.

The further down he went, the higher the temperature.

However, for Chu Yu, such a temperature was still bearable.

He walked right next to the magma river in one breath.

At the moment he reached, a human silhouette burning bright red suddenly leapt from the river and directed a vicious punch straight at Chu Yu.

F*ck!

Chu Yu was shocked, and he was unable to defend himself in time.

Before this, he could not feel any energy fluctuations.

He immediately channeled all his power into his fist and punched at this figure.

"Ah!" Xiao Yue screamed in shock above.

She had never heard of this before.

The only thing that she had heard about this fire, was that it was just a spiritual fire.

When did it become a fire which could morph into a human?

And it could proactively attack Chu Yu...

Xiao Yue’s heart tensed as she stared widely.

Bang!

The fist from this fire human collided with Chu Yu’s fist viciously, causing a loud bang to echo out.

This wave of force cause a huge wave to form, throwing out the magma from the magma river.

At this point, a huge wave of fire blocked Xiao Yue’s view.

Chu Yu felt as if his fist had hit a solid wall.

It was too hard!

Chu Yu felt as if his bones were going to shatter!

It was hard to imagine that a human lifeform created from the fire could have such a tough fist.

What was more frightening was that this fire human’s fist had an unbelievably high temperature, even steel would melt!

Hua la!

Chu Yu’s fist was smoking.

After which, there was a smell of burnt meat.

This was accompanied by an explosive sensation of pain!

Hiss!

Chu Yu hissed due to the pain!

But he drew an ancient bronze blade with his hand and viciously chopped at the fire human.

Chu Yu’s swipe was unbelievably fast!

Clang!

A loud sound echoed out, this chop was almost as if he chopped at a bronze wall!

A huge sound echoed out.

The ancient bronze blade broke instantly!

Bong!

Only then did the terrifying, heaven shattering sound explode from the ancient bronze blade.

The fire human life form was knocked back into the magma river by Chu Yu’s blade.

It splashed into the magma river, knocking a large amount of magma up into the air.

Damn!

Chu Yu quickly retreated, staying away from the magma rain.

Crash!

A large amount of magma crashed back into the river.

This scene was way too scary, and Xiao Yue’s heart palpitated as she watched from above. She shouted, "Teacher, be careful!"

Huff!

Chu Yu let out a long sigh as some drops of magma fell on him and burnt holes in his clothes. Some of them stuck to his skin and they felt like needles on his skin.

It was a good thing he had a strong body as he was a martial artist. Any normal human would have suffered serious injuries from these drops of magma.

Chu Yu looked sternly at the magma river which was slowly returning to its calm state. He remembered that there was an introduction to such extraordinary fires inside the Crane Saint’s Scripture.

The gist of it was, "There are millions of of types of fires. Amongst those known to us, the Samadhi True Fire is the most superior, followed by the Nine Heavens Xuan Fire and the Elemental Fires [1]... there are also magma fires in the belly of the earth. They become conscious once in a billion years. Their value is undetermined, but they are extremely powerful.

Their potential is limitless, if one can subdue it, one can cultivate it and let it transform into the elemental fires. Afterwhich, it can progress into the Nine Heavens Xuan Fire and finally to the Samadhi True Fire!

The fire in front of him was likely to be such a magma based fire.

The life form that is only born once in a billion years has immeasurable potential

The Crane Saint’s Scripture clearly states that such a fire is extremely rare.

There is magma in the nucleus of every star. In order for the magma to gain a consciousness, a strict set of conditions must be fulfilled.

Of the 500 words that Chu Yu read, the introduction to the extraordinary fire was only 100+ words. However, it was succinct and contained a large amount of information.

He then recalled that he had just sparred with this fire that morphed into a human. Chu Yu was awed to find out that he seemed to have found an extraordinary fire!

A fire that could be refined to the Samadhi True Fire...

Is this real?

The Samadhi Real Fire only existed in legends, and it was termed as the divine fire.

Many legends feature its existence, but Chu Yu felt that the Samadhi True Fire that was controlled by those "Deities" was not the legitimate Samadhi True Fire.

It should be the simplified one!

Because according the the Crane Saint’s Scripture, a rice sized Samadhi True Fire... could burn the entire star to ashes!

That is the legitimate divine fire!

Boom!

Right in front of his eyes, that fire morphed into a human and charged once again, this time... in his hand, was a fire sword!

That sword was similar to the ancient bronze blade that Chu Yu had in his hand previously!

Kaboom!

The human made of fire chopped straight at Chu Yu.

"He doesn’t want to let me live!"

Chu Yu was exasperated, this human made of fire was too terrifying, and it was so quick to learn!

Clang!

The human made of fire began to fight ferociously with Chu Yu.

Not only did he have a fire blade that matched Chu Yu’s ancient bronze blade, its fighting techniques... were also similar to Chu Yu’s!

A fireball which is so quick to learn...

How damned, what f*cking bad luck!

Chu Yu’s mouth twitch and he used his broken blade to fight with the fire human.

Xiao Yue stood on top, awed and speechless.

She had heard many things about that ball of fire, but no one had told her that it was like this.

At this point, Xiao Yue began to look upstream of the magma river, and a few hundred meters from where Chu Yu was fighting with the fire human, she found a ball of fire burning weakly.

The ball of fire rose from the magma river, and it was flickering.

Even though it was some distance away, Xiao Yue could feel a sense of fear in that ball of fire.

It was as if it... was afraid of that human life form made of fire!

Oh god...

Xiao Yue was stunned, and was rather pensive.

She had finally understood that the fire she was bringing Chu Yu to find, was not that fire human, but the ball of fire above!

Didn’t they say that the fire was extremely temperamental?

However, it looked like a scared bunny... about to disappear at any second!

On the other hand, the fire human life form that Chu Yu fighting was completely unknown.

"Teacher, that is not what we’re looking for... come back quickly!"

Xiao Yue couldn’t help but shout the reminder.

However, Chu Yu was unable to disengage, the opponent was too strong.

With Chu Yu’s current battle power, even someone who had attained the small circle of the Invigorated Meridian Realm would not have been as much trouble.

However, this damned thing would spew out tiny threads of fire while it fought.

This fire, when it dried up and cooled, would become volcanic ash.

However, before it cooled, every bead was relatively scary!

Chu Yu’s clothes had already been burnt to shreds and several lines of blood filled his face.

Yet he did not retreat, and he waved his broken blade and engaged in battle with the fire human.

After 10 minutes, the ancient bronze blade in Chu Yu’s hand was now less than a foot long.

This fire human on the other hand, grew stronger and more courageous as the battle raged on, seemingly invincible.

Pui!

Chu Yu threw away the ancient bronze blade.

Mass produced weapons are simply mass produced weapons, horrendous!

Haha...

The fire human suddenly let out what seemed like a mocking laugh.

Even though Chu Yu could not see its expression, the mocking tone was obvious, and that irritated Chu Yu immensely.

F*ck that!

That ball of fire, morphed into a human, actually dares to mock me?

In that moment, CHu Yu had an idea. He retrieved the Immortal Crane Furnace from the storage ring, grabbed it by a leg, and smashed it towards the fire.

The fire life form immediately raised its sword to block it.

The Immortal Crane Furnace smashed viciously into the fire blade.

But it was too fast!

It was faster than the speed of sound!

As such, only after the fire blade was broken into half and subsequently shattered did a hum echo through the air.

It was immediately followed by a thunderous echo.

Clang!

It was completely unbecoming to use a superior item like the pill refining furnace to... smash someone.

I’m sure not many people would do this in the ancient days?

The fire human life form was a little dazed from the smash. But before it could recover, Chu Yu attacked again!

Dang Dang Dang Dang Dang!

Chu Yu held the Immortal Crane Furnace and slammed it manically against the fire life form.

He looked like a crazy blacksmith.

Holding the hammer in one hand and smashing the metal at high speed.

"I let you scald me..."

Half of the fire life form’s head had been caved in.

"I let you learn from me!"

The other half of its head disappeared.

"I let you slash me!"

Half of its body disappeared.

"I just wanted to get a small ball of fire, is that so frustrating for you?"

"Hmm? Say something!"

Dang Dang Dang!

"Speak!"

Dang Dang Dang!

By the end, the entire fire life form was completely shattered by Chu Yu and the Immortal Crane Furnace!

It was completely squished!

By this time, Chu Yu also looked like a beggar, unbelievably pathetic.

He glanced at the Immortal Crane Furnace in his hand and was shocked to find out that the Immortal Crane Furnace did not have so much as a single scratch on it!

"This is a real treasure! It is so much stronger than those mass produced weapons, and it is so good to use as a smashing weapon!" Chu Yu wondered if the Crane Saint would be angered to death if he heard this. noveltranslationweb.blogspot.com

Chu Yu’s chest continued to heave, the energy required for such a battle was astonishing.

This was by far the toughest battle that Chu Yu has ever been in.

If not for the strength and sturdiness of the Immortal Crane Furnace, he feared that he could only run away with his tail tucked between his legs.

At this point, the sparks that littered the floor rapidly began to gather and formed a human silhouette in the blink of an eye.

"Are you not done yet?" Chu Yu took the Immortal Crane Furnace and prepared to smash.

What he did not expect was that this fire formed human actually kneeled down and bowed at his feet.

Chu Yu was confused as he thought to himself, What is happening? Is he finally admitting defeat?

Xiao Yue, who was standing above, began to yell, "Teacher, quick, quickly keep it, it's willing to be your subordinate!"

.........

[1] There are 5 elements, Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth.

Limitless - Chapter 81: Crippling Zuo Datong

Zuo Datong was extremely frustrated, even slightly confused, everything was going well and all the advantages were with him!

How did it all go south all of a sudden?

They had eyed the Crane Saint’s legacy in Song Hong’s possession, and they tried ways and means to get the relevant news from Xiao Yue.

They didn’t expect that Song Hong would deliver himself to their doorstep!

Logically, they should be thanking their lucky stars for such a break.

In the end...

The entire Qing Qiu had been decimated!

Even thousands of years ago, when Qing Qiu went to the underworld to rescue Su Daji and caused a lot of trouble, they had only suffered a slight hit to their core energies, nothing of this magnitude!

The Qing Qius, the legendary fox ancestral land, had been thrown into chaos by a single person.

How damned!

The wind howled outside.

Chu Yu and Xiao Yue hid in the hills behind Qing Qiu calmly.

They had hid in a cave above the abyss. This place was a dead end, and there was no way of seeing it from the cliff.

Even if you stood at the other end of the abyss, the line of sight would be blocked by the rising, thick mist.

The cave was extremely wide, and in the heart of it was a spiritual spring. Spring water dripped into a two meter squared natural pond.

"Even master does not know about this place, it probably belonged to one of the Qing Qiu ancestors."

"Once, when I was playing around, I found this place by accident. I thought that it was pretty nice so I took it as my little secret space."

As Xiao Yue spoke, her voice drifted and she looked at some of the furnishings in the room, visibly shy.

There were all sorts of dolls and soft toys of many shades of pink...

Xiao Yue’s injuries were rather severe, but after Chu Yu gave her some medicinal pills to take, she perked up visibly.

When dealing with Chu Yu, she was no longer as aloof.

She began boiling a pot of water and took out her tea making set, and poured Chu Yu a cup.

At the same time, she began to tell Chu Yu about the backstory of Qing Qiu’s infighting.

"The Sect Leader is relatively young, he is a true Heaven’s Pride talent!"

"In my generation, he is one of the most outstanding. Even though the Invigorated Meridian martial artists in Qing Qiu look young, they are already many decades old."

"Not only does the Sect Leader have a high cultivation level, his battle prowess is awe inspiring, and he has done much research into magical formations. The large protective formation that protects the Qing Qiu ancestral land was activated by him. Even though it is only less than 0.01% of its initial effectiveness, it is sufficient for the current era."

"He frequently goes out to cultivate, and look for monuments left behind from the ancient era. Many of these monuments have just begun to reveal themselves in the recent years, together with the rise in spiritual energy. That’s why he has been going out more often."

"In order to make Qing Qiu stronger, he has gone on many expeditions, however, the two deputies have always had ill intentions. This time, the Sect Leader was gone for too long..."

As Xiao Yue explained the situation to him, Chu Yu begun to understand the root cause of this internal struggle in Qing Qiu.

As an ancient legacy, Qing Qiu had a solid foundation.

Since the ancient times, the Qing Qius had a superior medicinal field in a pocket dimension despite a lack of spiritual energy!

It could produce a large amount of superior spiritual medicine, except at a much slower rate as compared to if there was sufficient spiritual energy.

Qing Qiu also had many experienced Pill Refining Masters even though the pills they refined were no where near those of the ancient eras.

However, in the current day and age, they were considered superior medicinal pills!

As such, since the ancient era, there has always been a strong cultivator keeping watch over the pocket dimension.

Chu Yu was filled with respect, these were no rumors, they were facts!

In actuality, all these years, Chu Yu had been thinking if the rumors from recent history were started by the powerful individuals from the pocket dimensions.

Xiao Yue looked at Chu Yu, "In fact, in those pocket dimensions of the ancient schools, there exists many powerful cultivators. There are talents in every age. As these talents are matched with powerful pills and large amounts of resources, there was even a batch of True Lords in the cultivation world’s recent history! There were even reports of a saint!"

Chu Yu could not help but take in a breath of cold air, attaining the True Lord Realm would make someone near divine.

For example, the famous True Lord Er Lang in Chinese history!

As for Saints, Chu Yu thought of Confucius and the Superclass.

When Chu Yu mentioned True Lord Er Lang, Xiao Yue laughed, "True Lord Yang Jian was not just the only one, there were some during the Shang Dynasty, as well as the Early Tang Dynasty. The only issue was we lost track of them after that. Maybe they had broken to higher realms, or maybe, they had left our world in search for a higher level of cultivation..." Xiao Yue’s knowledge of these things was limited. However, she did say that even though the world had been sealed, there were still many superior talents in history.

Some of these talents could still find a way to cultivate despite the lack of spiritual energy!

According to what Xiao Yue told him, the Qing Qiu sect leader was definitely a talent worthy of Heaven’s Pride.

However, he was too liberal and too trusting of his subordinates!

This allowed Zuo Datong and Liu Wucheng to start a rebellion after he disappeared for half a year.

"For ancient schools and underworld clans alike, including yours, the strongest warriors have never entered society."

Xiao Yue looked at Chu Yu and whispered, " Since the world has recovered its spiritual energy, the pocket dimensions, with their spiritual energy concentrating magical formations, would have even thicker and saturated spiritual energy!"

Chu Yu nodded and smiled bitterly. In the pocket dimension outside the Chu Clan, there were no powerful individuals.

After millions of years, that place was like a secluded oasis.

There were a few hundred thousand occupants, and it ran like a reclusive country.

However, in the past 30 years, there was a good chance they had managed to get a few Heaven’s Pride talent.

However, he did not think that there would be any especially strong individuals, at most... they could be in the Xiantian realm.

This should be the case for majority of the underworld clans.

Possibly, the stronger ancient clans may have more resources to pump into them and let them progress further.

"For us, we are actually just explorers. To put it nicely, we are returning to our ancestral lands to rebuild and restore it to its former glory. To put it bluntly, we were just sent out to take point. "

Xiao Yue stood up and walked to the cave entrance and said softly, "With the increase in the spiritual energy, as well as the reappearance of the ancient monuments, I believe that it would not take long before a large number of highly skilled individuals walk the Earth once again."

Chu Yu’s spirits darkened when he heard the news.

As the ancient clans began to enter society bit by bit, Chu Yu had already begun to feel it.

After hearing what Xiao Yue said, Chu Yu was slightly pressured but still calm.

"This is why Zuo Datong and Liu Wucheng want to be in power. The real Elders of Qing Qiu do not really care about who is the leader. They care more about who can give them more benefits..."

Xiao Yue sighed and looked back, smiling at Chu Yu, "Teacher’s methods and abilities today are reminiscent of the Heaven’s Pride in the ancient days. However, this time, Xiao Yue implicated teacher, and I feel guilty about it."

Over here, she finally dared to call Chu Yu her teacher.

"If I were in danger, wouldn’t you do the same?" Chu Yu looked at Xiao Yue and smiled lightly.

"Mm, definitely!"

Xiao Yue’s expression was filled with determination. She quickly became anxious, "I wonder how my master is now, speaking of which, I really want to go into the abyss to search for my master."

Chu Yu shook his head, "Don’t be rash. Even though I don’t really understand the abyss here, but according to you, this isn’t a place to be trifled with."

Xiao Yue had just told Chu Yu that in the ancient era, some of the Supreme Realm cultivators who entered did not make it out.

Back then, there was an extremely strong cultivator who entered the abyss. When he returned, he was covered in injuries. All he said was, "The abyss is linked to another pocket dimension." Afterwards, there was an order that banned anyone from exploring the abyss.

"I know that, I just hate myself for being so weak."

Xiao Yue was slightly depressed, but she quickly picked her spirits up and smiled, "That’s right, how about we steal some medicine from the medicinal field?"

"Steal medicine?" Chu Yu looked at Xiao Yue.

Xiao Yue nodded seriously, "Now that the Sect Leader’s location is unknown, and the Qing Qiu ancestral land is in the hands of scums, if they get to the medicine, it would just be like fitting wings on a tiger."

She looked at Chu Yu, "Doesn’t teacher have the Crane Saint’s legacy? Even though these medicines have not been aged much, but at least... they can be used as practice!"

"Are you sure?" Chu Yu was slightly astonished.

If he wasn’t sure of Xiao Yue’s character, he may have even thought that she was still trying to harm him.

"Definitely!" Xiao Yue was determined.

"If we steal the spiritual medicine from the medicinal field, Zuo Datong will puke blood. He knows that when the powerful figures from Qing Qiu return, they will definitely interrogate him!" Xiao Yue hated Zuo Datong and his gang to the core. As long as she could create trouble for them, she would stop at nothing.

"What if... your Sect Leader returns?" Chu Yu asked.

"It’s ok, they’ll just replant them! The Sect Leader has a way of dealing with those powerful people." Xiao Yue said confidently, "But Zuo Datong and those scums, definitely don’t have that ability!"

"If that is the case..." Chu Yu frowned, "But, do we have a method of accessing it?"

"The defences at the medicinal field are bound to be at their weakest now, I have a special route that will lead us there. That was a route that the Sect Leader told my master, and one that my master subsequently passed to me!"

Xiao Yue grinned and said contentedly.

"But... I don’t have the fire for refining pills." Chu Yu’s lips pressed together and his spirits dampened.

"Ay? Can’t spiritual wood work?" Xiao Yue looked at Chu Yu, shocked. Then as if she thought of something, she took a deep breath and said, "I forgot, teacher has a Saint’s legacy, a normal fire... wouldn’t work."

Chu Yu smiled bitterly, "That’s right."

"Let me think..." Xiao Yue scrunched her eyebrows and thought for a moment. Then she said rather hesitantly, "I remember that the Sect Leader once said that deep inside Qing Qiu, there is a place... with an extraordinary fire. That fire has spiritual properties, one needs to be affirmed by the fire in order to retrieve it, else... there’ll be immense danger!"

"Hmm?" Chu Yu looked at Xiao Yue.

Xiao Yue continued, "That ball of fire was likely to have been left behind by one of Qing Qiu’s ancient pill refining masters. It has always been in the ancestral land. Over the years, many Qing Qiu disciples have attempted to retrieve it, but they have all failed. Even the Sect Leader... was not successful."

"What kind of consequences come with failure?" Chu Yu looked at Xiao Yue, visibly tempted.

"If you are a Qing Qiu disciple, there’s unlikely to be any big issue. Although you will be burnt, it will not kill you. But for an outsider... I can’t say for sure."

Chu Yu thought deeply for a moment and said, "Do you have a way to get close to it without alerting anyone?"

Xiao Yue nodded, "This one I do have!"

As she spoke, a look of pride began to fill her face, "No matter what, I grew up here, Zuo Datong and the others don’t know this place as well as me!"

Chu Yu laughed, "Were you a little fox running around here when you were little?"

"Hmph! Teacher, watch your behavior!" Xiao Yue rolled her eyes.

...…

Early the second morning, Qing Qiu’s acting Sect Leader Zuo Datong was driven crazy by a piece of news.

He spit out a mouthful of blood.

He was hopping mad!

The most superior medicinal field in Qing Qiu’s ancestral land had been robbed. All the spiritual medicine was gone... in one night!

Yes, exactly, all of them!

More than ten thousand sprouts!

It was said that the scene would bring anyone to tears.

The entire medicinal field had been wiped clean, not a single hair was left!

Amongst them were a few spiritual medicines that only existed in legends!

Even though they weren’t aged very long, they were aged at least 30 years, and the value of these medicines were astronomically high.

They carried with them the responsibilities of thousands of years of Qing Qiu pill refning.

Now they were all gone.

The thief was too vicious!

Wasn’t this just trampling the treasures? This was clearly a way to bring harm upon someone else!

Even though such young spiritual medicines did have medicinal property, there was no way of harnessing its full potential. It could not even harness 10% of its potential!

This guy had effectively shattered 30+ years of Qing Qiu’s effort.

30 years did not account for much in the grand scheme of things, it was maybe a small wave in the ocean.

But for the people of QIng Qiu, the sadness and anger that came from having 30 years of effort go down the drain was inexplicable.

The crux of the issue was that the seeds of some of these superior medicines were extremely rare. After they had been dug out, Qing Qiu had no more of them.

Initially, when something like this happens, the pressure would be on the missing Qing Qiu Sect Leader.

Now however, the pressure had been shifted to the acting Sect Leader, Zuo Datong.

He could imagine, in the near future, when those Qing Qiu elders from the pocket dimension come over and realize that the spiritual medicines are still in their infancy, as well as the disappearance of several top grade, rare spiritual medicine, the faces of the elders.

"Ahahahahah, Song Hong... I will never let you off!"

"Xiao Yue... you traitor, I announce that you have been kicked out of Qing Qiu, and shall be hunted down by the entire Qing Qiu."

"If you have descendants, they will also be the victims of the QIng Qiu chase, ahahahahah, I won’t stop till I die... I won’t stop till I die!"