You Drove Me Out with Your Hypocrisy and now Crying When I Come to Take It All? Chapter 113 : Chapter 113

Chapter 113: The Enemy in the Open, I in the Shadows, and Dan Qingzi's Sorrow

True Martial Inheritance, the path of Govern Fate!

As far as Cheng Yu knew, the strong of Great Qian revered martial might and asured superiority through strength on the martial path. Yet there were still many who were obsessed with Seeking Heaven's Will and Govern Fate, seeking results so extraordinary they defied belief. Tianji Tower, which established the Heaven, Earth, and Human Rankings and gathered great and small secrets from across the world, did so in order to seek Heaven's decree and pursue the supre Great Dao. As one of the Nine Great Sects, the Taiyi Sect was even more devoted to seeking the Dao, to the point that martial practice was not even its foremost priority. Among the martial artists under heaven, none lacked an extre pursuit of longevity and Govern Fate. Even those supre powerhouses capable of moving mountains and filling seas were no exception, tirelessly chasing longevity.

The Demon-Slaying Dao Canon's "Longevity and Origin-Replenishing" Chapter that Cheng Yu had obtained pointed directly toward longevity, and the next step was Govern Fate. It was absolutely enough to make countless seekers of the Dao green with envy. If he could truly master and apply it, then he would surely possess an unimaginable future.

"I should learn more about Tianji Tower and the Taiyi Sect."

Watching Cheng Fang and the old hag Wu depart, Cheng Yu silently made up his mind. At the sa ti, he put away the device in his hand that launched the hidden weapon Bone-Piercing Needles.

Jian A drifted over like the wind, visibly excited. Unable to suppress the delight on his face, he asked, "Master, should we go after those two?"

That battle with a forr Earth Ranking expert had thoroughly tested Jian A's strength. Thanks to Cheng Yu's guidance, the gains he had reaped after breaking through in the Sword Dao were so great they were difficult to believe.

In the past, Jian A's strength had been comparable to late Eighth Rank, and when facing powerful enemies, he mainly relied on the fierce eruption of vast quantities of sword qi. That sword qi was enough to crush experts like the old hag Wu at mid Eighth Rank. But if his opponent were also at late Eighth Rank, or even stronger, then they could withstand the sword qi and force their way into close combat through sheer martial skill. Jian A's sword qi was no weaker than theirs, but because its bursts were too violent, he had always struggled to wield it perfectly. The mont his moves were less than flawless, openings would appear. In a true duel between experts, the tiniest opening was enough to decide victory and defeat, or even the boundary between life and death.

This problem of excessive sword qi had plagued Jian A for decades. How could he have imagined that now, with effortless ease, he could turn speed into slowness, perfectly control his sword qi, and use the moves within the powerful martial art "Taiyi Mysterious Gate Sword"? It had completely made up for his weakness, and his strength had truly reached the level of a Ninth-Rank martial artist!

And all of that was thanks to Cheng Yu before him.

The look in Jian A's eyes as he gazed at Cheng Yu grew more and more respectful, while the admiration and astonishnt in his heart only deepened. Though his master was young, both his bearing and his attainnts in the Sword Dao far surpassed Jian A's by a trendous margin.

Out of that reverence, even though he could easily have defeated the old hag Wu, Jian A chose to let her go for the mont and first ask his master's opinion. With his attainnts in the Gale Sword Dao, hunting her down again later would be effortless. Making one extra trip was a trivial matter, but delaying Cheng Yu's greater plans would not be.

Cheng Yu stroked his chin and shook his head.

"Not for now. Since Prince Qing's Remnants have erged, there must be Ninth-Rank experts among them. Those are our true targets, so there is no need to expose our strength yet."

"Didn't so of them split off just now to surround the officials? Go and take a look first."

"Yes!"

Jian A nodded quickly and left.

Cheng Yu's plan was simple: do not pursue them yet.

He would proceed slowly and think it through over the long term.

He looked at Xiao Qian, who was struggling more and more weakly and was nearly fainting. This woman's status was not low. She could serve nicely both as leverage for so maneuvering and as a way to make Prince Qing's Remnants wary of acting rashly. Moreover, this battle had left traces of their aura behind, so he could use Soul-Seeking Incense to track the whereabouts of Prince Qing's line. Just now, he had also taken advantage of Cheng Fang's lack of caution to ambush him with the Bone-Piercing Needles, and later he could activate the corresponding secret thod to trigger pain that pierced the bones and bored into the heart. It was an excellent contingency.

But if he intercepted and killed two Eighth-Rank martial artists now, then the two sides would completely tear away all pretense and enter a direct fight to the death with Prince Qing's Remnants. That would not only make it easy to expose too many of his hidden cards, it would also be difficult to explain matters to the court without Ai Peng, whom Zhao Yi had sent, covering for him.

As for Cheng Yu himself, he was quite happy to turn the situation into one where the enemy was in the open while he remained in the shadows. That would better display the Jinyiwei's professional quality and earn him rewards.

More importantly, he wanted to see exactly what the Cheng Family was plotting by getting involved in the descendants of Prince Qing's rebellion. Cheng Zhenjiang, as clan head, had spoken very nicely while whitewashing the ancestor who had followed Prince Qing into rebellion, but there was no way he would casually allow clan mbers to involve themselves in sothing like this. Over the past century, when the descendants of Prince Qing rebelled and killed, they had never distinguished between the Great Qian court and the Jianghu forces.

Their reputation was utterly foul.

If a hypocrite like Cheng Zhenjiang was willing to shoulder that kind of risk, then he had to be after so benefit.

What exactly that ostensibly upright Great Hero Cheng was secretly scheming, Cheng Yu was definitely going to find out.

Just then, Xiao Qian's body finally stopped moving after struggling for so long.

She had already been gravely wounded by Cheng Yu's sword qi, then had her Dragon Qi stripped away. In the end, her body could bear no more, and she lost consciousness. If the descendants of Prince Qing had not cultivated the Blood-Burning Frenzied Force and tempered their bodies with such tyrannical thods, she might already have died.

Seeing that no subordinates were nearby to take her away, Cheng Yu casually tossed Xiao Qian onto the ground and walked toward Ma Minnong and the others.

By then, with Cheng Fang and the old hag Wu gone, and the three martial artists from Prince Qing's line who had besieged the martial artists of Jiannan Circuit also having collapsed in that bizarre fashion, the scene had entered a strange balance.

By rights, this should have been the perfect chance for Zuo Hong and the others to flee, yet every one of them obediently remained where they were, listening intently to the endless chatter of the phantom ford from talisman ashes.

"Ten years of lifespan! Do you know how many years of purity and abstinence it takes to save up ten years of lifespan? All my junior brothers have already married and had children. I finally kept myself chaste for so many years, only to lose such a huge chunk of the lifespan I saved up just like that!"

"Senior Brother! Senior Brother, how could you do your junior brother so dirty?!"

The more Dan Qingzi spoke, the more tragic he sounded. His misery made it impossible to imagine that this was the supre Ninth-Rank expert ranked first on Tianji Tower's Earth Ranking!

It was admittedly strange to hear a Daoist lant over marrying and having children, but Zuo Hong and the others rely blinked and sweated profusely, not daring to move at all.

The miserable state of those three Seventh-Rank martial artists, bleeding from all seven orifices, was still right there beside them!

Ma Minnong was embarrassed as well.

"Brother Dan Qingzi, I was desperate in the mont. How about this? Co to Jiannan Circuit, and I'll rummage through my dicine stores and find you so heavenly spiritual dicine to replenish your lifespan."

The instant they heard Divine Physician Ma tell Dan Qingzi himself to co to Jiannan Circuit, Zuo Hong and the others nearly went weak in the legs and collapsed to the ground.

That would be disastrous!

They had just offended Ma Minnong!

Fortunately, Dan Qingzi shook his head sorrowfully. "It's useless. Back when I was seventeen, I snuck into the sect treasury and already ate every spiritual dicine under heaven that could increase lifespan. Eating more won't help..."

As he spoke, he suddenly turned to look at the approaching Cheng Yu, and his eyes imdiately shone like blazing torches.

There was a solution to the lifespan problem after all!

If he could bring a suprely gifted person into the sect, the Patriarchs would surely give him a huge subsidy. It might even be lifespan!

The talisman ashes hurriedly shifted, and the chatterbox Daoist instantly transford into a figure of immortal bearing.

In a steady, ethereal voice, he asked, "Divine Physician Ma, who is this outstanding young talent?"

When Ma Minnong saw how quickly Dan Qingzi had changed, he imdiately understood what he was thinking.

"Give it up. Your Taiyi Sect might not even be worthy of him."