166: Chapter 18 The Strongest Opponent_1 166: Chapter 18 The Strongest Opponent_1 A silent dispute quietly dissolved.
The clash of familial influences was only apparent to those who were paying attention.
And Xu Xiangqian himself probably didn’t feel much about it.
He was actually quite happy to run into Jiang Wang before entering the Heavenly Abode Secret Land.
The two of them had shared a brief period of adversity.
Although given Xu Xiangqian’s background as it appeared now, perhaps at that ti, the real danger might have only been to Jiang Wang…
“Brother Xu,” Jiang Wang said with a smile that wasn’t quite a smile, “why aren’t you calling Uncle anymore?”
Xu Xiangqian waved his hand: “I was blind before, blind indeed.”
Finishing his statent, he enthusiastically pulled over a valiant young man with a jade belt around his forehead, introducing Jiang Wang first, “This is my friend from You Nation, he may look a bit old, but he’s actually young, very young!
And he has a great character!”
Then he introduced the valiant young man, “This is Li Longchuan.
He’s quite good at archery!”
Jiang Wang and Li Longchuan exchanged glances and shared a helpless laugh.
After exchanging greetings and barely chatting a few sentences, Jiang Wang felt Zhongxuan Sheng poking him.
Zhongxuan Sheng naturally knew Li Longchuan but did not take the initiative to speak with him.
Instead, he quietly poked Jiang Wang with his plump finger, whispering in his ear, “Be careful, this guy is our competitor!”
Li Longchuan probably noticed Zhongxuan Sheng’s little gesture and said with a smile, “Brother Zhongxuan, all well I hope?”
“Thanks to your blessing,” Zhongxuan Sheng snorted from his nostrils, “I’m doing quite well.”
Li Longchuan just smiled and stayed silent.
Zhongxuan Sheng gave him another sidelong glance: “How cos sobody like Li Longchuan also needs to ask for help?”
“Of course, I don’t need it,” Li Longchuan said with a faint smile, exuding imnse self-confidence, “Brother Xu is not my backup.
I don’t need him to grab opportunities for in the Heavenly Abode Secret Land.
Whoever gets them, gets them, technically he’s also my competitor.
And he certainly won’t show rcy.”
“That’s right!” Xu Xiangqian said with a face full of righteousness, “As a gentleman, I must give it my all!”
Zhongxuan Sheng felt like he had slapped himself in the face by getting too close, bored out of his mind, he pulled Jiang Wang and said, “We’ll see you inside the Heavenly Abode Secret Land, we need to discuss strategies over there.”
With that said, he forcibly led Jiang Wang to a corner.
Shi Si naturally followed him closely.
Jiang Wang could only smile apologetically at Li Longchuan and Xu Xiangqian, then followed them away.
Actually, there were no strategies to discuss.
What needed to be discussed had already been discussed earlier.
And for the rest, everyone was clueless about the Heavenly Abode Secret Land, so there was nothing much to discuss.
Zhongxuan Sheng simply wanted to put so distance between them and Li Longchuan.
This was sothing Jiang Wang knew, and Li Longchuan knew as well.
Perhaps only Xu Xiangqian was the exception…
He still waved very enthusiastically: “Brother Jiang!
See you in the Secret Land!
The competition of gentlen!”
After speaking, he clenched his fist powerfully.
Over here, Zhongxuan Sheng pulled Jiang Wang to a corner, muttering in his mouth, “Although Li Longchuan looks rather plain, he is very powerful, we absolutely can’t take him lightly.
Don’t spend too much ti with him, his arrows will find your weaknesses if you do.”
Jiang Wang was sowhat surprised, “Is he really that formidable?”
He overlooked Zhongxuan Sheng’s inexplicable confidence in his own looks.
Or rather, he had, unwittingly, gotten used to it…
“What else did you think?” Zhongxuan Sheng tried very hard to roll his eyes, suddenly feeling a bit embarrassed, he added, “As friends, I really shouldn’t have asked you to find opportunities for .
But the God’s Inner Mansion is very important to .
As soon as I get the chance, I’ll imdiately help you get one!”
“What’s the big deal?” Jiang Wang responded with a chuckle, “Clear accounts make good friends.
You didn’t trick into this, I agreed on my own.
Besides, even if I were willing to help others find opportunities, would they give a slot?”
Zhongxuan Sheng was clearly moved, patting Jiang Wang on the shoulder, “I’m so glad you can think this way.”
Sotis, it’s not easy for people to clearly see right from wrong, and managing a sense of proportion is the hardest.
They say ‘a cup of rice kindness can beco a cup of rice grudge,’ because neither party has got the proportion right.
If everything is kept inside and calculated in the heart, it only breeds resentnt, and the rift grows wider and wider.
But by laying things out clearly like Zhongxuan Sheng had done, it’s less likely to harm the friendship.
In their own anxiety, anticipation, and communication, ti slowly passed.
Suddenly, soone noticed, at so point, a full moon’s reflection appeared in the center of the Full Moon Lake.
Yet the moon in the sky had clearly not risen yet.
Just then, night fell.
The circumference of Full Moon Lake was encircled by a circular corridor.
The flying eaves of the corridor did not cross the boundary, and the entire Full Moon Lake lay exposed under the night sky,
Based on past experiences, during specific tis, when the moon in the sky overlapped with the moon reflected in the water, the Heavenly Abode Secret Land would open.
Jiang Wang looked at the sky, guessing there was still a while before the moon reached its zenith.
And at that mont.
Thud!
Thud!
Thud!
Steady and clear footsteps echoed in everyone’s ears.
Zhongxuan Sheng’s expression changed as he said to Jiang Wang, “The strongest opponent has arrived.”
Walking out of the corridor, stepping beside the Full Moon Pond, was a man in martial attire with an exceptionally long face.
His face was very long, but it didn’t make him look unattractive; on the contrary, with his sharp eyes and straight, tall nose, he carried a unique charm.
Even with the imminent opening of the Heavenly Abode Secret Land, the crowd couldn’t help but whisper among themselves.
“Why has he co?”
“Wang Yiwu…
Why would he co here?”
“Does he even need to?”
This was a stir not even caused by Li Longchuan’s entrance.
The pressure brought by this person was evident.
“Who is he?” To avoid trouble, Jiang Wang communicated through voice transmission.
In his ears ca Zhongxuan Sheng’s voice, tinged with anger, “He is the last disciple of Daqi’s god of war, Jiang ngxiong, the youngest and with the lowest cultivation level, but Jiang ngxiong has expectations for him to beco the next god of war of Qi Country!
He doesn’t need to co to the Heavenly Abode Secret Land at all.
Although he is still in the Tongtian Environnt, he sensed his Divine Power Seed as soon as his energy channel opened.
His God’s Inner Mansion has long been purified, and the Heaven and Earth Gate is as fragile as thin paper to him.
As soon as he breaks the Heaven and Earth Gate, he can imdiately knock on the Inner Mansion and obtain Divine Skills.
There is no need for him to polish his skills in the Ascending Dragon Realm.
He remains before the Heaven and Earth Gate purely because he is too strong.
The gate cannot consu much of his strength, and in the instant when his energy channel reaches the Ascending Dragon Realm, he can’t contain his power, which could potentially damage his God’s Inner Mansion and harm the very foundation of his cultivation.
Jiang ngxiong has always been trying to increase the intensity of his Heaven and Earth Gate.”
The Heaven and Earth Gate is a formidable barrier on the path of cultivation, halting nurous cultivators.
So spend their entire lives unable to open the Heaven and Earth Gate, while others exhaust their body and mind after opening it and lack the strength to maintain their energy channels in the Ascending Dragon Realm, leading to an inherently deficient Ascending Dragon Realm.
Yet for a genius like Wang Yiwu, it’s the gate’s fragility that forces him to slow his pace!
From Zhongxuan Sheng’s words, Jiang Wang caught another key point.
Wang Yiwu didn’t need to co to the Heavenly Abode Secret Land, but he ca nonetheless.
“So…” Jiang Wang asked, “Is he here for you?”
With Zhongxuan Sheng’s strength, if he were to unleash his full combat power, he could easily rank within the top hundred before reaching the Tongtian Environnt in the Taixu Illusion Realm.
He finally understood why Zhongxuan Sheng, as powerful as he was, needed to seek help to explore a secret land that restricted all competitors to below the Tenglong Realm Cultivation Level.
Zhongxuan Sheng’s complexion was extrely unpleasant, “I didn’t think he would go that far.”
Thud!
Thud!
Thud!
The sound of boots hitting the ground, as if striking at the heart of every competitor.
Wang Yiwu walked through the crowd and directly approached Zhongxuan Sheng in the corner.
“It’s not too late to go back now,” he said.
By this point, Zhongxuan Sheng’s expression had turned eerily calm.
He squinted his already small eyes, “You and Zhongxuan Zun really do have a deep relationship.”
He didn’t threaten, for threats were useless.
He didn’t provoke since provocation would only bring humiliation upon himself.
But he would not go back.
He would strike back.
People who were not well-acquainted with Zhongxuan Sheng might think he was a complicated person, at tis childish, at other tis profound.
But his ruthlessness and resilience were rarely known to others.
In response to Zhongxuan Sheng’s reaction,
Wang Yiwu was neither angry nor laughing.
He stopped talking.
Simply turned sideways and stood beside Zhongxuan Sheng, Jiang Wang, and Shi Si (Fourteen).
He didn’t utter another word.
But everything that needed to be said had already been said.
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Ps:
Wishing everyone a happy New Year’s Day!
May we all find our direction, and let’s continue to work hard next year!
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