Chapter 41 (Part 1)

Yu Yu sat on the steps of the small courtyard with Yuanyuan in his arms, feeling a little gloomy.

He wanted to go back to Blue Star, but he also wanted to spend a few more years with his master and the others. Even if his master and martial uncles were willing to stay longer, unfortunately, their cultivation levels could no longer allow them to remain for much longer.

At most, in another two to three hundred years, his master and the others would no longer be able to suppress their cultivation.

Especially since Yu Yu was still constantly brushing spiritual roots for his elders, that time would only grow shorter. Perhaps they would not even be able to last two hundred years.

Thinking about it that way, he was not sure whether purifying his elders’ spiritual roots was a good thing or a bad thing. Overall, it should still be a good thing, right?

He hoped that before his elders ascended, his senior brothers’ cultivation could reach the Tribulation stage.

But the problem was not too serious, because not only had his elders’ spiritual roots been purified, his senior brothers’ and senior sisters’ spiritual roots had been purified as well.

So the sect’s prospects were still quite good. As long as everyone worked harder and put in more effort, a few more Daoist Lords at the Tribulation stage would appear.

The sect relied precisely on generation after generation of these Daoist Lords to avoid the covetous eyes of the world.

If the Taizhen Immortal Sect’s martial strength were even a little weaker, things would not have ended as they had today.

Do not expect outsiders to have a conscience. To them, the wealthy Taizhen Immortal Sect was just like the Huaxia of the past.

As long as it revealed even the slightest weakness and helplessness, it would be divided cleanly among the sects drawn to it.

That was how Huaxia had once been. Tens of millions of people had exchanged their blood and tears for the later New Huaxia.

Yu Yu naturally did not want the Taizhen Immortal Sect to become the Huaxia of the past. Rather than appealing to outsiders’ moral limits, it was better to educate the disciples properly from the very beginning, so that the sect’s highest combat strength would never suffer a gap.

On Blue Star, people said that truth only existed within the range of cannons. It was the same in the immortal cultivation world.

Tribulation Transcendence cultivators were equivalent to Huaxia’s Dongfeng series. As long as they existed, the Taizhen Immortal Sect’s safety could be guaranteed.

After sitting quietly for too long, Yu Yu began to want to move. On the whole of Holy Sun Peak, aside from the menial disciples, he was the only one still active, so he decided to go to the Hall of Affairs and see whether there were any new spiritual plant seeds.

Disciples who went out for training often brought back spiritual plant seeds that no one recognized. Yu Yu decided to go pick through them and see if he could find anything overlooked.

Holding the little bear cub who slept as soon as he was full, Yu Yu rode his sword toward the peak where the Hall of Affairs was located.

Speaking of sword riding, when Yu Yu had just successfully reached Foundation Establishment, he had wanted to fly on his sword. In the end, when he stepped onto the sword and flew upward, he had never expected the sword to ignore his will and drop straight down.

If his master had not happened to be nearby and seen it, catching him in time, it would have been impossible for Yu Yu to die from falling out of the sky, but injury would have been unavoidable.

Let us just say that sword flight also required training. In the sect, disciples like Yu Yu who rashly stepped onto a sword and flew into the sky tried it every so often. The result was always that they fell from the sky and were finally carried off to Medicine Peak for treatment.

Yu Yu had also made that mistake. He had thought that as long as one had the chant and spiritual power, one could ride a sword. But he had forgotten that besides the chant and spiritual power, sword flight had another very important factor: speed.

People riding swords for the first time could not adapt to high-speed movement. Add to that the lack of mental preparation, and naturally, they would fall from the sky.

After his first unsuccessful example, Yu Yu obediently learned sword flight from his master. Starting with the slowest flight and gradually increasing speed bit by bit, he practiced for a whole day before getting used to rapid movement. Before stepping onto his spirit sword, he also had to put a protective barrier around himself to block the wind.

This was a trick his eldest senior brother had told him. Otherwise, with sword flight moving so quickly, his hair and clothes would definitely be a mess in the wind. Without casting a spell to make a protective barrier, he would have no image left after getting off the flying sword.

Leaving the other young disciples aside for now, if Lingji and the others appeared in that kind of state, they would have no face left to meet people in the sect.

So behind every handsome sword flight, there was a protective barrier preserving their image.

Because he was not in a hurry, Yu Yu’s sword flight was not fast. It took him ten minutes to reach the Hall of Affairs.

One had to know that the Taizhen Immortal Sect was built on a mountain range. The entire sect covered an area about the size of a city back on Blue Star.

So from Holy Sun Peak to the Hall of Affairs, if one relied on walking, even walking three days and three nights might not be enough to arrive.

Actually, once cultivators reached Foundation Establishment, they could also fly on their own. It was just not as handsome or as fast as sword flight.

The flying sword stopped in front of the Hall of Affairs’ main entrance. Yu Yu flew down from the sword and landed lightly on the floor paved with white jade stone.

This was Yu Yu’s first time going out alone. Although he had not seen him before, he knew his master had always been protecting him from the shadows. Otherwise, when he had encountered his martial aunt last time, his master’s timing in appearing had been far too perfect.

This time was different from last time. His master was not secretly protecting him, and his senior brothers and senior sisters were all in seclusion, so when he came out, he brought along all the sword talismans his master, senior brothers, and senior sisters had given him.

Why bring such a full set? Naturally, Yu Yu would decide which sword talisman to use after looking at the other party’s strength.

In any case, no matter whose sword talisman it was, the other party would not have an easy time. Even Lingfeng, the weakest sword cultivator in combat strength among the Holy Sun lineage, still had combat strength higher than an ordinary cultivator’s.

Lingfeng’s strength was low only in comparison to her master and senior brothers on Holy Sun Peak. It did not mean her strength was truly unbearable to look at.

Lingfeng was, after all, a sword cultivator. A sword cultivator’s combat strength was inherently stronger than that of cultivators at the same level.

As soon as Yu Yu got off the flying sword, he heard someone speak.

“Where did this little child come from? He actually dares to fly on a sword. Isn’t he afraid of falling to his death? And the flying sword under his feet is actually a spirit sword.”

The tone was full of doubt. It was just that his brain was clearly not working well, because he had forgotten that anyone capable of sword flight was at worst at Foundation Establishment.

By the same logic, anyone who could use a spirit sword, even if their own strength was lacking, proved even more that they had a powerful backer behind them.

“Senior Brother, you just came back, so you don’t know. He is…”

Before the people from the Hall of Affairs could explain, the other party waved his hand and came before Yu Yu. He did not want to listen to anyone else’s explanation and decided to handle it himself.

“Kid, you’re too young. This spirit sword isn’t very suitable for you. I’ll trade you another flying sword for it and help you keep it safe.”

The other party completely looked down on Yu Yu, who was not even four feet tall. He said he would help him keep it safe, but anyone with even a little brain would know this was outright robbery.

“You’re acting this arrogant. Does your master know?”

Yu Yu stroked the little bear cub’s back and asked without even lifting his eyelids. At the same time, right in front of the other party, he put away the water-wood spirit sword.

Help me keep it safe? Robbery is robbery, yet you sure make it sound nice. Too bad I don’t want to hear it.

“How dare you! You’re an outer disciple without even a master, yet you dare speak to me like this. I’ll send you to the Law Enforcement Hall. Is this the attitude you should have toward a senior? I haven’t come back in too long. Now even an orphan dares speak to me like this. Looks like if I don’t teach you a lesson, you won’t know how powerful I am.”

The other party was angered by Yu Yu’s attitude. On top of that, Yu Yu was not wearing sect clothing that represented identity and seniority, so he assumed Yu Yu was one of the orphans from the child-rearing courtyard who had merely gotten lucky and obtained a spirit sword.

Believing he had guessed Yu Yu’s identity, he arrogantly spouted wild words at Yu Yu.

“Call the Law Enforcement Hall, then. Let’s see whether they answer you.”

Yu Yu had long since seen the Law Enforcement Hall’s people. They were hiding in the crowd, covering their faces, clearly not very willing to come out and embarrass themselves.

Unfortunately, they could not withstand the fool across from him seeking death on his own. He forced several Law Enforcement Hall disciples out.

“Senior Brothers, you saw it too. Now even the orphans from the child-rearing courtyard are this arrogant. You’d better go search the place and see whether someone is doing things that violate the rules behind the scenes.”

Well. Clearly, he had taken a fancy to Yu Yu’s spirit sword and wanted to rob him, yet in the end, he turned around and accused the child-rearing courtyard of being in the wrong. If several inner disciples from the Law Enforcement Hall had not been on the scene, looking only at the other party’s sincere appearance, one might really have thought Little Martial Uncle was in the wrong.

At the same time, they looked at this fool with sympathetic eyes. After staying outside for a few years, he had even lost his brain.

Had he not noticed that everyone’s attitude toward this little child was extremely respectful?

“Someone has indeed violated sect rules, but it isn’t Little Martial Uncle. It’s you.”

“Greetings, Little Martial Uncle.”

The Law Enforcement Hall disciples kept their faces stern and sneered coldly at the other party. Then they bent respectfully and saluted Yu Yu.

“Little, little…”

The other party was caught entirely off guard by the Law Enforcement Hall disciples’ attitude and looked at Yu Yu in panic.

Only one word remained in his mind: finished.

Never mind why this Little Martial Uncle had come here. Just based on the Law Enforcement Hall’s attitude, he could forget about leaving intact today.

“Little Martial Uncle, please forgive me. This disciple was wrong.”

Putting everything else aside, admitting his mistake was the most important thing.

Yu Yu did not look at him. Instead, he spoke to the Law Enforcement Hall disciples.

“Rise. You must enforce the law impartially. I think Reflection Cliff suits him quite well. Let his brain clear up properly. Robbery is robbery, yet he said it so elegantly and free from vulgarity. What a talent.”

Yu Yu’s final words were directed at the inner disciple whose legs had gone weak and who had knelt down before him.

Without several decades or a century’s worth of cerebral thrombosis, no one could do something like this.

“Who’s bullying my Brother Wushuang?”

A spoiled voice rang out. Immediately afterward, a streak of sword qi flew toward him at the same time.

“Tch. What a pain.”

When the sword qi came over, Yu Yu’s body drifted lightly backward, and he dodged the sword qi that was not even as good as his senior sister’s.

He lived with a group of sword cultivators every day. Under their training, dodging sword qi that was not all that special was already no problem.

“Wushuang? He’s worthy of using that Daoist name too? Good grief. Will I even be able to look directly at that word in the future?”

Yu Yu mocked. He felt that when he left the house today, he must not have checked the almanac. It definitely would have written that going out was inauspicious.

Otherwise, why did he keep running into oddballs?

Sure enough, his days had been too comfortable, and even the heavens could not stand watching anymore, deciding to find something for him to do.

“You’re not allowed to say that about my Brother Wushuang.”

Clearly, Yu Yu’s ridicule angered the other party. She teleported in front of him and struck with a palm directly.

“Stop! Wuyin, you dare attack Little Martial Uncle? This is outrageous treason!”

The Law Enforcement Hall disciple roared.

Yu Yu did not move at all. He only lifted his eyelids slightly, then gave a scoff to show his disdain.

“Little Martial Uncle, hurry and dodge! Wuyin’s Absolute Sound Palm can injure a person’s spiritual root.”

The Law Enforcement Hall disciple arrived beside Yu Yu at the fastest speed, wanting to block this palm for him.

Unfortunately, since they were both at Golden Core, the other party’s attack was too fast. He had no time to withstand this palm at all.

“Attacking an elder adds another offense to your crime. You don’t need to go to Reflection Cliff anymore. The two of you can go as a pair to the Heart-Tempering Cave!”

A barrier appeared around Yu Yu. This was a protective talisman Wuchen had given him, capable of blocking three Nascent Soul attacks.

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