Free Web NovelChapter 1542: Chapter 1542: Lingdao City
"Little Five, your gains this time shouldn’t be small either, right?"
After Yun Xiao familiarized himself for a while with the Meridian Qi inside his body, his Inner Vision Eye couldn’t help but lock onto a certain golden, glittering existence. Sensing the aura on it, he couldn’t help sighing out loud.
"Hehe, not bad at all!"
Little Five, for once, didn’t pull a face at Yun Xiao. It was clear his mood was quite good as well; the energy of this Yuan Condensing Pill, for him right now, was also an extremely great tonic.
The power of a Half-step Holy Rank Yuan Condensing Pill was so strong that at the beginning even Little Five was incomparably solemn. For a time, he didn’t know that this Yuan Condensing Pill had quite a lot to do with Yun Xiao’s reincarnated Soul.
But although Little Five usually looked down on Yun Xiao, when it came to this youth’s decisions, he still gave him a fair amount of respect. Since he had already taken the Yuan Condensing Pill, then he would just go all out and devour and Refining it.
Fortunately, the final result left everyone happy. Not only did Yun Xiao break through Two Realms in succession, the benefits Little Five obtained were not much less than Yun Xiao’s.
Little Five being able to raise his strength at the same time counted as a good thing for Yun Xiao as well. This undoubtedly made his apparent combat strength soar, while also giving him some even more hidden and powerful trump cards.
It was just that as for this trump card Little Five, unless it was absolutely necessary, Yun Xiao would not lightly use it. That was his final reliance; once he used it, it would probably already be a life-and-death juncture.
"After breaking through to Lingyun Realm Late Stage, it feels like some things are a bit different!"
After chatting with Little Five for a bit, Yun Xiao’s heart suddenly stirred and he muttered to himself, but for a moment he couldn’t sense exactly what was wrong, so he could only let it go for now.
"Kid, just what kind of monster are you, really?"
Seeing Yun Xiao finally turn his gaze toward the direction where they were, even someone as steady as the Mountain Master of Demon Mountain subconsciously raised his voice, revealing the extreme shock in the depths of his heart.
Hou Tianlie’s words made quite a few people secretly nod. The things before could still be brushed aside, but breaking through Two Realms in the Lingyun Realm tier in a single night—was that something a human could do?
On the Tenglong Continent, who knew how many people were stuck at the Peak of Earth Bending Realm their whole lives, never able to break into Heavenly Rank Floating Life Realm Early Stage. Even if they did break into the Heavenly Rank Realm, just wanting to raise their Realm by one level of small realm would require at least several years, even more than ten years.
Look at a Floating Life Realm expert like Xiao Bailin; wanting to break through one level of small realm was already incomparably difficult. Yet those breakthrough barriers, like a chasm between heaven and earth for others, in the eyes of that coarse-clothed youth were as simple as eating and drinking.
At this moment, many people were thinking back to when Yun Xiao had first arrived on the Tenglong Continent, how low his cultivation had been. In just four or five short years, he had grown into one of the very top experts of the Tenglong Continent.
With this horizontal comparison, Xiao Bailin or those Elders of Demons Mountain all wished they could find a hole to crawl into, especially Meng Liyang, who had already known Yun Xiao back at the Countries Hidden Dragon Conference.
One had to know that even now, Meng Liyang’s cultivation was only at the Peak of Earth Bending Realm. If you counted from the time of the Countries Hidden Dragon Conference till now, then even if he burrowed into the ground, he’d probably feel incomparably ashamed while doing it.
As the saying went, compare goods and you’ll want to throw yours away, compare people and you’ll feel like dying. At this moment, that was exactly how many Cultivators felt. They made up their minds that in the days to come, they absolutely must not compare themselves to that freak who didn’t play by common sense.
"Hehe, just luck, just luck!"
As for the Creation and cause-and-effect involved, Yun Xiao didn’t want to explain too much. That touched on many secrets from his previous life; before he reached the point where he could crush those great enemies from his past life, he wouldn’t lightly reveal them, not even to the people closest to him.
It wasn’t that Yun Xiao was being selfish; it was because he knew how great a disaster would be drawn down if such things were exposed.
When that time came, not to mention himself, even those companions who had good relations with him might all be wiped out overnight. He couldn’t afford that consequence.
"Luck?"
Hearing Yun Xiao’s explanation, everyone once again curled their lips. If breaking through Two Realms in the Lingyun Realm tier could all be called luck, they wouldn’t mind getting lucky like that anytime.
Even though Yun Xiao’s breakthrough was incomparably Heaven-defying, people like Lu Yanji and Hou Tianlie, who all had deep minds, knew full well this absolutely couldn’t be mere luck, but the result of certain obsessions Yun Xiao held.
Not to mention anything else, just that Yuan Condensing Pill that might be Half-step Holy Rank— even if it were placed right in front of them, probably not a single one of them would dare to casually take it.
Just that bit of courage was enough to earn countless people’s heartfelt admiration. All Creation had its own cause-and-effect. For example, Yun Xiao’s consecutive breakthrough of Two Realms at this moment, reaching Lingyun Realm Late Stage, was precisely the fruit of the cause he himself had sown.
It was just that Yun Xiao didn’t explain too much, and Hou Tianlie and the others didn’t ask more either. Seeing Yun Xiao wave his big hand, everyone understood tacitly, and one by one they soared into the air, continuing toward the Southwest of the Inner Domain of the Tenglong Continent, which was where the headquarters of Spirit Fighting Commerce lay.
Since they had already locked onto their target, this group of people no longer deliberately searched for Wei Duzheng’s whereabouts, but flew straight toward the headquarters of the Spirit Fighting Commerce, and in just a few days, a great city appeared before their eyes.
"Up ahead is ’Lingdao City’!"
In the sky, Hou Tianlie stretched out his right hand and pointed toward the massive city sprawling ahead like a giant beast; as Wei Duzheng’s old rival, he was clearly quite familiar with the location of the Spirit Fighting Commerce headquarters.
The headquarters of the Spirit Fighting Commerce, just like Xuanyin Hall’s Wuyan Palace, was built within a city, and this so-called Lingdao City had also become famous throughout the land because the headquarters of the Spirit Fighting Commerce was constructed here.
Lingdao City could even be called the Holy City of the entire Southwest Inner Domain of the Tenglong Continent; countless Family Sects that depended on the Spirit Fighting Commerce all regarded it as an honor to be able to establish a branch in this Lingdao City.
Lingdao City’s flow of people surged like fire, bustling and noisy, still presenting an extremely lively scene; it seemed that what had happened at Demons Mountain had not yet been transmitted back to this headquarters city of the Spirit Fighting Commerce.
Thus, no one knew that among the high-level members of the Spirit Fighting Commerce, only Wei Duzheng alone remained.
They all believed that the Spirit Fighting Commerce was still that colossal behemoth of the Tenglong Continent, and that Lingdao City was likewise the Holy Land where countless Cultivators of the Southwest Region came to pay pilgrimage.
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Inside Lingdao City!
In an open-air tea stall, two Cultivators who no longer looked very young were in the middle of a conversation, and not far from this place stood a tall archway exuding a majestic aura, upon which the two characters "Spirit Fighting" were written.
It was obvious that within that archway was the famed headquarters of the Spirit Fighting Commerce; only, the atmosphere within the headquarters today seemed somewhat unusual, and even the guards who had always been stationed outside the archway were nowhere to be seen.
"Brother Qin, we’ve been waiting here a full ten days now. That Steward from the Commerce you contacted—will he ever come out or not?"
One of the middle-aged men drained the cheap, bitter wine in his cup in one gulp, then let out a complaint, which made the one he called Brother Qin look rather embarrassed.
Their Cultivation was not high, but they wanted to cling to the tall tree that was the Spirit Fighting Commerce. Brother Qin had paid a huge price to bribe a Steward in charge of personnel within the Commerce, hoping to secure an opportunity to work under the Spirit Fighting Commerce.
Yet who could have known that, although the three of them had agreed to meet at this tavern, a full ten days had already passed and there was still no sign of that Steward from the Commerce; this made both of them feel very much as though they had been swindled.
One must know that, in order to curry favor with that Steward, the two of them had poured out all their family assets, thinking that once they had the Spirit Fighting Commerce at their backs, they would have no shortage of opportunities to earn it all back in the future.
Now it seemed that the opportunity they had gained at the cost of losing everything was about to go up in smoke. At least in the hearts of these two, it had never crossed their minds that any great incident might befall the Spirit Fighting Commerce; they merely believed they had been tricked by that Steward.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh...
Just as that man was muttering complaints and Brother Qin was carefully explaining, a sudden sound of wind tearing through the air came from the sky above Lingdao City, drawing everyone’s gaze upward.
"Who are those people? They actually dare fly in Lingdao City? Are they tired of living?"
When some people saw that the figures in the sky were numerous human silhouettes, their expressions first changed slightly, and then those Cultivators who wished to curry favor with the Spirit Fighting Commerce all began cursing furiously with angry faces.
One must know that this was Lingdao City, the place where the headquarters of the Spirit Fighting Commerce—one of the four top powers—was located. According to the Spirit Fighting Commerce’s unwritten rule, anyone who entered the bounds of Lingdao City was required to descend and walk on the ground.
Although the Spirit Fighting Commerce had never explicitly decreed that flying was forbidden within Lingdao City, over time this had already become an iron rule: whoever dared fly in Lingdao City was showing disrespect to the Spirit Fighting Commerce.
In the past, the Spirit Fighting Commerce had greatly enjoyed this spontaneous veneration, for it further highlighted the authority of the Spirit Fighting Commerce and could be considered a manifestation of the accumulated awe that many outsiders held for it.
Yet today, such a large group of figures appeared in the sky; among them were both old and young, and they seemed not the slightest bit concerned about the might of the Spirit Fighting Commerce, just like that, flying in from the northeastern sky into Lingdao City.
Moreover, judging by their trajectory, their target seemed to be this headquarters of the Spirit Fighting Commerce itself. Thinking of a certain possibility, a small number of people became pensive, secretly muttering that something major was likely to happen in Lingdao City today.
Since they knew this was the headquarters of the Spirit Fighting Commerce, yet those people still dared so brazenly to fly over the Spirit Fighting Commerce, it was obvious they did not hold this continental overlord in much regard. Viewed in this light, the situation was somewhat different.
"The Meridian Refining Master Association and Demons Mountain are acting in concert. All irrelevant persons are to withdraw from Lingdao City at once; otherwise, bear the consequences yourselves!"
Just as the many Cultivators of Lingdao City were turning these thoughts over in their minds, a deep voice suddenly rang out from the mouth of an elderly man in the sky, causing everyone’s expression to change drastically.
