Chapter 44 (Part 2)

No matter which direction the jade pendant fled, a sword always blocked its path.

“Damn it! Once this venerable one recovers my cultivation, I will absolutely not let you Taizhen Immortal Sect off!”

As the black jade pendant fled, it shouted threats.

“Uh… it can’t even escape right now, so how exactly is it going to take revenge on us? With its mouth?”

Yu Yu said, sounding slightly surprised.

These days, there was actually still someone who thought they could take revenge on a top-tier sect in the cultivation world with just a mouth?

What was it thinking? Even the Sword Sect, ranked number one, would not dare speak to Taizhen Immortal Sect like that.

If Taizhen Immortal Sect had been able to survive until today without strength, could it have become one of the ten great sects?

What a joke. Did it think no one wanted to attack Taizhen Immortal Sect? Just Taizhen Immortal Sect’s wealth alone was enough to move their hearts.

But Taizhen Immortal Sect was too cowardly, too cunning. They could not find a chance to make a move.

At the same time, Taizhen Immortal Sect was also a major sect, and they had a sect in the Immortal Realm as well. Even if the others had water in their brains, they still would not attack Taizhen Immortal Sect. Otherwise, just the sect in the Immortal Realm would not let them off.

After all, cultivators who had ascended from the same realm banded together in the Immortal Realm in order to keep other forces from bullying them.

So the ten great sects in the Immortal Realm had quite good relationships with one another. If anyone dared wipe out Taizhen Immortal Sect in the lower realm, the Taizhen Immortal Sect in the upper realm would dare move against the other nine sects.

The territory the ten great sects had obtained with such difficulty by banding together would also be seized by other forces because of internal strife.

Therefore, if any sect in the lower realm dared make a move, the sect in the upper realm would not mind cleaning house.

One had to know that as long as the ancestors in the upper realm sealed away most of their cultivation, they could descend from the Immortal Realm. When that time came, who could withstand a single slap from those ancestral masters?

In order to appease Taizhen Immortal Sect’s anger, none of the ringleaders would be able to escape.

They cultivated immortality for longevity, for ascension, not to court death. They had no intention of sacrificing themselves to benefit everyone else.

“Bastard! Where did this stinking brat come from, daring to speak to this venerable one like that?”

The black jade pendant trembled with anger. It had actually been mocked by a child.

“You’re on my sect’s territory, yet you’re asking where I came from. How funny. Could it be that after living inside a jade pendant for so long, your intelligence vanished along with it?”

Yu Yu did not usually mock people, but once he opened fire, he was definitely the kind who could infuriate someone to death without paying for it.

“Ah! You little—eh? Innate Dao Body? Hahahaha, I found it without any effort at all. To think I would encounter an Innate Dao Body! The heavens are helping me!”

The black jade pendant laughed loudly with delight and, ignoring the trapping array, wanted to charge toward Yu Yu.

“Hey, do you have some kind of misunderstanding about this Daoist Lord? I was only playing with you earlier, yet you really thought you were impressive? Now you’ve actually set your sights on this Daoist Lord’s disciple. Who gave you the courage? The heavens?”

Qingyang was angered into laughter by the black jade pendant’s words. He no longer played with it. Just as it was thinking of charging toward Yu Yu, the Golden Sun Sword pierced it through with one strike.

“Ah!”

Its host jade pendant was destroyed, and a wisp of black smoke shot out from within.

“Evil cultivator.”

Qingsheng protected his disciple and martial nephew behind him. Qinghe also hid behind his eldest senior brother. He really was not good at fighting!

Qingquan rolled his eyes at this senior brother of his. Aside from arrays, he was good for nothing.

“Hmph. I call this having self-awareness.”

Seeing his junior brother’s eye roll, Qinghe defended himself.

“Heh.”

Qingquan revealed a mocking smile, making Qinghe very much want to hit someone. But when he thought of how, among all his fellow senior and junior brothers in Taizhen Immortal Sect, his combat strength was the lowest, he forgot about the fact that Qingquan had mocked him.

“A weakling who can’t even beat Junior Sister Qingyu.”

Qingquan did not intend to let this senior brother off. After all, Qinghe’s combat strength had broken Taizhen Immortal Sect’s lowest record.

Sometimes Qingquan even wondered exactly how this senior brother of his had cultivated to the Tribulation stage.

“You two, shut up. Dealing with the evil cultivator is the priority.”

Qingsheng rubbed his brow and shouted at his two junior brothers.

“Yes, Eldest Senior Brother.”

Qinghe and Qingquan instantly went silent, not daring to defy their eldest senior brother’s order.

“Let this venerable one go!”

The black smoke was trapped inside a cage made by Qingyang’s sword qi. A shadow with no discernible human shape kept crashing against the sword-qi cage.

“If you can get out of there, consider it my loss.”

Qingyang withdrew his Golden Sun Sword, picked at his ear, and said this.

“Qingyang.”

Qingsheng really could not stand his little junior brother’s ruffian behavior.

“Ah, Eldest Senior Brother. Long time no see.”

Qingyang first stiffened, then raised a smile as bright as the sun, ran toward Qingsheng, and hugged his eldest senior brother in one swoop.

“That’s enough. Stop acting spoiled. This evil cultivator absorbed quite a lot of Wushang’s spiritual energy. Now that the problem has been found, Qingquan, treat Wushang.”

Qingsheng pushed his little junior brother away and said this to Qingquan.

“Yes, Eldest Senior Brother.”

Qingquan dragged Wushang over and began treating him.

Very soon, Wushang’s withered meridians returned to normal, and his body also began automatically absorbing spiritual energy again.

“Fortunately, Little Martial Nephew is impressive. You found the problem and were clever enough to call us over.”

As Qingquan treated him, he spoke, full of praise for his little martial nephew.

“If it were Martial Uncle, you would have found it too.”

Yu Yu did not take credit or grow arrogant. His bit of skill was still not enough for Qingquan to take seriously.

The reason it had not been found before was because Wushang had only sought treatment from medical cultivators of the same generation. If it had been a medical cultivator with higher cultivation, there was a very high chance they would have found it.

Of course, it was also possible that it was because of his cultivation method, but now that the evil cultivator had already been found, whether or not it was because of his cultivation method was impossible to know.

It could only be said that it was also a matter of coincidence. Wushang was of the Wu generation, and he could not afford to invite anyone from either the Ling generation or the Qing generation. In the end, having no other choice, he had come to Holy Sun Peak to try his luck on the recommendation of a senior brother from Medicine Peak.

“Take these nine hundred and ninety-nine middle-grade spirit stones back. First recover your body.”

Yu Yu looked at this martial nephew with sympathy. Although his meridians had been healed, if he wanted to recover to his original state, he would still have to nourish himself for several years.

These one thousand middle-grade spirit stones were all his savings. If Yu Yu did not return them to him, this kid would also be unable to go out and earn money. Who knew when he would recover?

No matter how much Yu Yu wanted to earn money, he could not take money from a penniless junior.

“I’ll also give you a few supreme-grade spirit stones. Consider them a first-meeting gift from your martial uncle.”

A perfectly fine young man had been targeted by an evil cultivator. From what he said, the family heirloom had even been given to him by his birth mother. Since transmigrating, Yu Yu had never seen anyone this unlucky, and he could not bear to accept his spirit stones.

“Little Martial Uncle, this is the fee for treatment.”

Wushang had also not expected Yu Yu not only to refuse his treatment fee, but to give him a few supreme-grade spirit stones instead. With these few supreme-grade spirit stones, he could recover his body within a year and then go out to search for cultivation resources.

“I know. Didn’t I take one spirit stone? Don’t think too much. Just treat it as me lending them to you. When you’ve recovered, you’ll have to pay me back.”

Yu Yu was afraid this kid would refuse. After all, he truly needed spirit stones right now. Otherwise, the spiritual energy lacking inside his body would be very hard to restore. That evil cultivator had sucked too ruthlessly, nearly sucking him until he dropped in realm.

“…Thank you, Little Martial Uncle. This disciple is borrowing these from you. Once this disciple has recovered, I’ll go out and earn spirit stones. When that time comes, I’ll repay Little Martial Uncle tenfold.”

Wushang was so moved he could barely control himself. He knew Little Martial Uncle was only saying this on purpose because he was afraid Wushang would not accept them.

But he could not simply accept them while pretending he knew nothing. He would treat it as borrowing from Little Martial Uncle, and repay him many times over in the future.

“…”

Yu Yu looked at Wushang in shock. He had only rarely gone softhearted and wanted to help this martial nephew harmed by an evil cultivator. How had it gone back and forth until he had earned ten times as many spirit stones?

Those nine hundred and ninety-nine middle-grade spirit stones did not count for much. With Wushang’s Golden Core strength, he could earn them back very quickly. The main thing was those few supreme-grade spirit stones. He did not have all that many of those either. Only a few hundred remained.

But if Wushang repaid him tenfold, a few stones would become several dozen. Even loan sharks did not earn as much as he did!

Mm. There was potential here.

“Then it’s settled. Wushang, kid, just accept them! But remember our Little Yu’s kindness. His own hands are tight, yet he can still take out a few supreme-grade spirit stones for you. You’d better acknowledge this favor.”

Qingyang slapped Wushang on the back, making him bare his teeth.

It hurts, Martial Granduncle. Did you forget your grand-disciple is still a patient?

“Yes. This disciple will not forget Little Martial Uncle’s kindness. Little Martial Uncle’s grace of giving me a new life—Wushang will never forget it in this lifetime.”

Wushang was sincerely grateful to this martial uncle, Yu Yu. If not for him, he would have been finished. More importantly, Little Martial Uncle not only did not accept his spirit stones, but even gave him supreme-grade spirit stones instead. This was the first time he had ever seen such a good martial uncle!

“…”

Yu Yu was shocked once again. He had not expected his master to turn him into a life-saving benefactor in the blink of an eye.

Honestly, he was today’s biggest winner. Had he not won so hard?

Although he had paid out a few supreme-grade spirit stones, what would come back later would be several dozen supreme-grade spirit stones. He had made a huge profit.

Wushang left. As for the black jade pendant and the evil cultivator’s primordial spirit inside the jade pendant, he wanted neither.

What family heirloom? Whoever wanted this kind of life-taking family heirloom could take it.

As for his mother, once his body recovered, he would go back and investigate. He still did not believe a mother would harm her own son.

He hoped it was only a misunderstanding. Otherwise, Wushang would not mind severing ties with his maternal family.

“Tsk. How should this be handled?”

Yu Yu pulled Lingyin along and circled the sword-qi cage. The primordial spirit inside had also exhausted itself from ramming into the cage and was now lying inside to rest.

Hearing Yu Yu say they were going to handle it, it did not even have the strength to speak.

It was the primordial spirit of an evil cultivator, while Qingyang cultivated an orthodox Daoist cultivation method, which naturally restrained evil cultivators. On top of that, he was also a powerful sword cultivator. His sword qi weakened the evil cultivator’s primordial spirit at every moment, sending stabs of pain through it again and again. Soon, it went from a primordial spirit one meter tall to only forty or fifty centimeters in size.

“Destroy it. What, were you planning to keep it for the New Year?”

Qingyang yawned and said this indifferently.

“Master, New Year is a Blue Star expression. Holy Feather World doesn’t have New Year. It only has the New Year Festival.”

Yu Yu turned his head and said this to him.

“Ah, I think New Year sounds better. It’s pretty interesting. How about we celebrate New Year once too? Eldest Senior Brother, what do you think?”

Qingyang felt that the Spring Festival from his disciple’s mouth sounded especially fun, so once his interest arose, he wanted to play around with it.

“…Do you listen just because I speak? If I don’t allow it, will you not do it?”

Qingsheng rolled his eyes. On the surface, Qingyang was asking for his opinion, but in reality, he always did whatever he wanted.

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