Chapter 295

"Xu Yang is here!"

"I heard he almost made it into the Top Ten list. What a pity."

"His luck was just too bad. He was right on the verge of making the list, but then a dark horse came out of nowhere."

Seeing Xu Yang appear, many felt sorry for him. To miss out on the resources of the Top Ten list like this was simply the height of bad luck.

Not to mention the cultivation time in the Sky Wind Valley, just the contribution points and the Profound Origin Qi-Transforming Pill alone were worth nearly one hundred contribution points.

A Marrow Cleansing martial artist working for the sect might not even earn that much in a month.

"Congratulations!"

Xu Yang paid no mind to these voices; he walked toward Zhang Yong.

"Just a stroke of luck," Zhang Yong said with a smile.

Although everyone had managed to escape unscathed in the end, that mission to capture the Phantom Leopard cub had been a brush with death.

"Only you could face such a situation with a smile. If it were me, I'm afraid I couldn't take it," Zhang Yong said, also feeling it was a pity for Xu Yang.

Back then, because a share of one silver tael had been allocated to Xu Yang, he had hated Xu Yang for a long time. It was hard to imagine that Xu Yang could miss out on so many resources and not have any reaction at all.

"What is meant to be yours will be yours. If I had made the list, would there be others who felt they only missed out by a little and that I shouldn't have appeared?"

Xu Yang smiled. He had been intentionally hiding his strength, so naturally, he had nothing to be upset about.

"Look, that's the Young Master Jiang Fan, the number one of the Top Ten."

Jiang Fan and Jiang Yan arrived together, causing a stir. With the status of a Young Master, plus being the top of the Top Ten, Jiang Fan had instantly become the most prominent figure in the Purple Sun Sect, even if he had a slight blemish on his reputation.

"The Young Master is truly handsome and elegant. I wonder if that outer sect female disciple was blind."

As soon as these words were spoken, the corner of Jiang Fan's mouth twitched noticeably, and his smile became somewhat forced.

Jiang Yan, standing beside him, glared fiercely in that direction. The person who had spoken turned pale with fright and hurriedly covered their mouth.

Jiang Fan scanned the crowd, saw Xu Yang standing with Zhang Yong, and strode over.

Zhang Yong cupped his hands: "Greetings, Brother Jiang, Senior Brother Jiang."

Jiang Yan nodded slightly. He didn't have much of a friendship with Zhang Yong, but knowing that Zhang Yong was close with Jiang Fan, he didn't put on any airs.

"Congratulations to Brother Zhang on entering the inner sect."

Jiang Fan smiled at Xu Yang and said: "Brother Xu!"

Xu Yang cupped his hands: "Congratulations to Brother Jiang on reaching the minor success of Marrow Cleansing and winning the top spot of the Top Ten in one fell swoop!"

Jiang Fan laughed: "Brother Xu, hearing that from you, why does it sound like you're mocking me?"

"How could that be? I am sincerely congratulating you, Brother Jiang." Xu Yang let out a dry laugh.

He was basically certain that Jiang Fan must have seen through his true cultivation base.

Given that even Elder Huoyun and the others hadn't seen through his true cultivation, he didn't know how Jiang Fan had figured it out, but Jiang Fan definitely knew he had long since reached the minor success of Marrow Cleansing.

"It must be the methods of the Marquis's estate!" Xu Yang thought to himself.

Previously, he hadn't had much awareness of Jiang Fan's status as a Young Master, or rather, he didn't know the foundation that the status of a Young Master represented.

Ever since he learned that Yunzhou alone had a population of hundreds of millions, he understood the foundation that the status of a Young Master represented.

In this world, those with hereditary titles must have ancestors with earth-shattering backgrounds; their foundations were unfathomable.

"Li Chuyang is here!" someone suddenly said.

Everyone looked back to see Li Chuyang still maintaining that playboy posture, striding over with his two guards.

The clothing on both of them had also changed from that of outer sect disciples to inner sect disciples.

Xu Yang had always been curious about Li Chuyang's background.

He had heard people say that Du Chuan was the young master of the Du family, one of the ten great families of Qingyang City. As for Li Chuyang's origins, no one had ever mentioned them.

For this person to be able to make both of his subordinates inner sect disciples, his background was likely not small, but it shouldn't be a force from Qingyang City, because there was no one surnamed Li among the ten great families of Qingyang City.

Moreover, this guy had always been at odds with Jiang Fan; without a certain family foundation, he would never dare to act like this.

"I didn't expect that I only delayed for a few days, and you managed to pick up the scraps. In a year, I will let you know who the real number one is." Li Chuyang strode up to Jiang Fan, his gaze pressing down on him.

"If you want the number one spot, I'll let you have it. It doesn't matter to me," Jiang Fan said with a smile.

He had no intention of being number one, and he also knew who the real number one was.

"I will win the number one spot with my own hands, not because you let me," Li Chuyang snorted coldly.

Jiang Fan couldn't be bothered to pay attention to Li Chuyang, but Li Chuyang's gaze turned to Xu Yang, who was beside Jiang Fan: "What technique are you cultivating? The Golden Gang Technique or the Indestructible Vajra Body?"

Xu Yang didn't expect this guy to target him, so he shook his head and said: "A family technique, I cannot disclose it."

He had always been worried about flaws appearing in the Golden Gang Technique, and since he hadn't investigated the origin of this technique, he naturally didn't dare to speak of it. If these people didn't know what technique he was cultivating, no one would come to trouble him.

"You come from a farming background, where would you get a family technique? You won't say? Then I'll just have to test it myself. It just so happens I can see how your Golden Gang Qi compares to the silver gang qi cultivated by my Three Yin Silver Palace Profound Gang True Art."

Silver gang qi flickered on Li Chuyang's body, his aura erupted, and he slapped his palm toward Xu Yang's chest. Since Xu Yang wouldn't say what technique he was cultivating, he had no choice but to force it out.

Everyone's eyelids jumped. They didn't expect Li Chuyang to be so arrogant and domineering even after entering the inner sect. Because someone wouldn't say what technique they were cultivating, he actually moved to force it out directly.

"Boom!"

The force of the wind stirred, and the large silver hand was like a bolt of lightning.

Xu Yang's eyes turned cold, his whole body tensed, his muscles and bones made crackling sounds, and his dormant gang qi was about to be set in motion.

"You want to fight? I'll accompany you!"

Jiang Fan was one step faster than him, stepping forward to block in front of him and blasting out a palm.

"Bang!"

The two palms collided, emitting a muffled sound like striking iron. Both Li Chuyang and Jiang Fan were shaken, their joints roared, and they couldn't help but retreat, the stirred-up force sweeping outward.

Xu Yang and Jiang Yan's expressions changed drastically. Zhang Yong didn't even have the cultivation of Marrow Cleansing, and being so close, if he were caught in the aftermath, he would be seriously injured if not shaken to death.

Zhang Yong's face was already pale, full of despair, and he could only watch helplessly as the stirred-up force swept toward him. The terrifying pressure left him without even the ability to move.

Fortunately, Xu Yang and Jiang Yan both reacted, stepping forward to block him behind them while simultaneously waving a palm to shatter the aftermath.

"Hmph, hmph......"

Muffled groans sounded one after another in the surroundings, and several disciples who were close by showed expressions of pain and retreated in a panic.

"You mad dog!"

This lunatic was actually playing for real!

Jiang Fan was furious, his body suddenly sprang out, and he began to fight with Li Chuyang.

"Well come! After being reborn, I haven't fought anyone yet." Li Chuyang let out a long whistle, his fighting spirit erupting.

His whole body flashed with silver light, and he exchanged blows with Jiang Fan, causing the earth and rocks outside the Sky Wind Valley to collapse and smoke and dust to rise everywhere.

"Stop!"

Suddenly, a loud shout rang out, and a powerful force surged over. Li Chuyang and Jiang Fan, who were fighting, trembled all over, and their gang qi disappeared into their bodies like a receding tide.

A middle-aged man with a majestic face appeared out of nowhere and stood beside the two: "This is the Sky Wind Valley, who allowed you to fight here?"

Elder Liu Qingyuan of the Heavenly Authority Peak!

Xu Yang heard someone whispering and learned the man's identity.

"Reporting to Elder Liu, he was the one who started it!" Jiang Fan said coldly.

Liu Qingyuan felt a headache; the status of these two was higher than the other, and he couldn't afford to offend either of them.

But if he didn't manage it, the sect's dignity would be swept away again.

Liu Qingyuan looked at Li Chuyang, wanting to hear how Li Chuyang would explain: "Why did you start a fight? Don't you know the sect's rules that inner sect disciples cannot easily use force?"

"I didn't start a fight with him; he was the one meddling in other people's business." Li Chuyang's gaze looked coldly at Xu Yang.

Liu Qingyuan's gaze also looked at Xu Yang: "Did you provoke this?"

He couldn't afford to offend Jiang Fan, and he couldn't afford to offend Li Chuyang, so he was going to use himself as a scapegoat?

He didn't believe Liu Qingyuan didn't know what kind of person Li Chuyang was; as an ordinary disciple, how could he possibly take the initiative to provoke Li Chuyang?

"Reporting to Elder, this matter was not provoked by this disciple; Li Chuyang attacked me for no reason." Xu Yang cupped his hands and said.

"I asked you a question, and you didn't answer; isn't that forcing me to take action?" Li Chuyang snorted coldly.

Given his status, he asked Xu Yang a question, and Xu Yang actually dared to refuse to answer; how could he possibly stand it? Moreover, he was indeed interested in the technique Xu Yang was cultivating. The only thing he hadn't expected was that Jiang Fan would take action for Xu Yang and fight him.

"He asked you a question, why didn't you answer?" Liu Qingyuan shouted.

Li Chuyang asked him a question, and he had to answer? This was clearly trying to absolve Li Chuyang without even pretending, trying to push the blame onto himself.

In an instant, Xu Yang understood that Li Chuyang's status was likely higher than he had imagined; otherwise, a dignified Elder of the Heavenly Authority Peak wouldn't be so biased toward Li Chuyang.

"Who does he think he is? When he asks a question, must others answer him?"

Jiang Fan pressed Liu Qingyuan: "May I ask Elder Liu, which sect rule of the Purple Sun Sect stipulates that one must answer when asked a question? If you are afraid of Li Chuyang's status and dare not punish him, just say so; why make things difficult for an ordinary disciple?"

These words tore off Liu Qingyuan's hypocritical mask all at once. One could see Liu Qingyuan's face turning iron-blue visibly. Everyone knew he was using Xu Yang to shift the conflict because of Li Chuyang's status.

But what was Jiang Fan's status? He didn't fear Liu Qingyuan at all and directly pointed out that he didn't dare to punish Li Chuyang.

"Li Chuyang attacked a fellow disciple in the sect without authorization. Considering that no serious consequences were caused, he is punished with three months of confinement as a warning to others."

Just as Liu Qingyuan's face was iron-blue, a faint voice sounded.

Everyone looked in the direction the voice came from and saw a figure walking out of the Sky Wind Valley, holding a cyan bead in his hand. The Sky Wind Valley, which had been normal, was now filled with a kind of cyan gang wind.

Liu Qingyuan's whole body trembled, and he cupped his hands: "Greetings, Sect Master."

Only then did Xu Yang know that this person was actually the Sect Master of the Purple Sun Sect, Zhang Jingyuan. In an instant, everyone also cupped their hands one after another.

Zhang Jingyuan nodded slightly, his gaze turned to Li Chuyang, and he said: "After the Sky Wind Valley closes, go to the Law Enforcement Hall to receive your punishment yourself."

"This disciple accepts the punishment!" Li Chuyang cupped his hands, his attitude not as arrogant as before.

Zhang Jingyuan nodded and said: "Elder Liu, preside over the disciples entering the Sky Wind Valley for cultivation."