Chapter 68

Xu Yang was vigilant for a few days, but didn't find the situation he was worried about. The government office people didn't come to White Stone Square to check, and the Cao family seemed to have just issued a reward and didn't take any action.

Having not been to the Weiyuan Hall for a long time, he walked towards the Weiyuan Hall with Wu Yongfeng after coming out of the Liu family this day.

"You don't know, approaching the Martial Examination Dragon Ascent, several people have broken through to Qi Refining Great Completion recently," Wu Yongfeng said.

"What about Lu Ren? Has he reached Qi Refining Great Completion?" Xu Yang said.

According to the bold words Lu Ren had released, he should reach Qi Refining Great Completion in these few days.

Wu Yongfeng shook his head: "No, it is said that he has already found the location of the Ren and Du meridians, but just hasn't broken through yet."

Xu Yang nodded secretly. The Ren and Du meridians were not so easy to break through. Some people tried their whole lives and never succeeded.

He was able to be so fast, besides his own bone structure, the most important thing was because he possessed the pure and tyrannical Diamond True Qi.

If it weren't for the Diamond True Qi, he might also have been stuck for a long time before he could break through the Ren and Du meridians.

"Senior Brother Xu, you're finally here!"

Seeing Xu Yang appear, Qiu Wenjie walked over with a smile. He was followed by a young man named Tian Li, who was a newly promoted inner courtyard disciple. After entering the inner courtyard, no one paid attention to him, so Qiu Wenjie took the initiative to make friends, and now he could be considered a member of their small team, practicing and communicating together.

"There are many trivial matters at home, and now they are almost finished," Xu Yang casually made up an excuse.

Qiu Wenjie smiled: "If you didn't come again, I would have gone to find you."

Saying this, he handed five taels of silver to Xu Yang.

Now everyone knew that the Qiu family was sponsoring Xu Yang to practice martial arts, so they didn't hide it anymore.

Xu Yang took it: "Thank Uncle Qiu for me."

Tian Li and Wu Yongfeng were both full of envy. If they could have five more taels of silver every month, it would be great.

Especially Wu Yongfeng, he was the first among the few to refine qi, but he still hadn't reached Qi Refining Small Completion.

"Haha... I, Lu Ren, have reached Qi Refining Great Completion!" Suddenly, Lu Ren's voice rang out.

The lively inner courtyard suddenly quieted down. No matter what they were doing, everyone looked towards the direction the sound came from.

Only to see Lu Ren in high spirits, striding from the outer courtyard.

A strong aura emitted from his body, causing the wind around him to stir.

In an instant, many people showed expressions of surprise. One must know that Lu Ren had been practicing martial arts until now, and it hadn't even been a full year.

If it weren't for the month delayed by his previous injury, the time to reach Qi Refining Great Completion would have been even faster.

"Congratulations, Junior Brother Lu Ren!"

"Congratulations, Senior Brother Lu Ren!"

Many people walked out of the pavilion and personally walked to Lu Ren to cup their hands and congratulate him, their faces filled with envy.

Gu Fang, Jiang Ping, Sun Tao, Zhang Hong, Zhang Yong, and others all stepped forward one by one.

Even Zhao Zhifei, who had always been the most hostile to students from poor families, didn't put on airs at this moment and also stood up to congratulate him.

Qi Refining Great Completion, placed in the vast Qingyuan, could be considered a big figure. The strongest of some families were only at this cultivation level, and there were not many people who dared to neglect him.

"What are you showing off for? If Senior Brother Xu had his resources, he would have reached Qi Refining Great Completion long ago," Qiu Wenjie muttered in a low voice.

But between his words, a trace of envy still flashed in his eyes.

"Effort is indeed worthless in the face of talent and money," Wu Yongfeng felt a bit disheartened.

He had started refining qi earlier than Lu Ren, and he asked himself that he had never slacked off in his cultivation, but he hadn't even reached Qi Refining Small Completion, while Lu Ren had already reached Great Completion.

Xu Yang didn't speak. Lu Ren had reached Qi Refining Great Completion, and he was thinking about whether to say that he had reached Qi Refining Great Completion in two days.

If it weren't for the Cao family's matter, he naturally wouldn't hesitate, but now that the news of Qi Refining Great Completion had broken out, it might attract the attention of the Cao family.

But if it didn't break out, there were also disadvantages. The first was the money aspect.

The monthly allowance for a Qi Refining Great Completion expert in the Liu family was twenty taels a month. He had been hiding it, so he lost ten taels every month.

And there were less than three months until the Martial Examination Dragon Ascent. If he didn't say it now, he wouldn't be able to hide it then.

Once the Liu family discovered that he had reached Qi Refining Great Completion long ago but hid it, he might be suspected of having ulterior motives, which was also a trouble.

After thinking about it, he still decided to report to the Liu family in a few days, because the Liu family wouldn't necessarily publicize this matter to the outside world.

As long as the Liu family didn't publicize it to the outside world, there wouldn't be much of a problem. The martial arts hall didn't need to be considered. If someone asked, he would just ignore them, unless the master asked.

But the possibility of Lin Cheng asking was almost zero.

In the field, Lu Ren was in high spirits and cupped his hands: "Fellow senior and junior brothers, I have set up a banquet at Fulin Tower to celebrate. I invite everyone to attend the banquet tonight."

"Easy to say, easy to say!"

"I will definitely attend Senior Brother Lu's banquet."

Many people agreed one after another.

"Naive, Lu Ren is just being polite and saying it casually. He didn't invite you personally. If you really go to the banquet tonight, I'm afraid you'll be asking for humiliation."

Qiu Wenjie muttered in a low voice, thinking that Lu Ren didn't really want to invite everyone.

Wu Yongfeng also nodded in agreement. With Lu Ren's look of looking at people through his nostrils, how could he spend money to treat some irrelevant people to eat and drink? It was just polite words.

At this time, Lu Ren's gaze cast towards here. Qiu Wenjie was startled, thinking that Lu Ren had heard what he said and was going to hold him accountable.

"Junior Brother Xu Yang, given our relationship, you must arrive on time for tonight's banquet."

Lu Ren's gaze landed on Xu Yang, revealing a bit of pride, as if to say I have reached Qi Refining Great Completion, what about you?

In an instant, many people's gazes also looked at Xu Yang.

"You and I entered on the same day. The master has never said that you are a senior brother. It is better to call me by my name directly," Xu Yang said expressionlessly.

Lu Ren wanted to step on him to show off his talent.

Lu Ren smiled: "Although we entered on the same day, in martial dao, the one who achieves is the senior. Naturally, I am the senior brother."

"Being ahead for a while doesn't count for anything. The one who laughs last is the winner."

Xu Yang had no emotional fluctuations. Now he wouldn't say he could kill Lu Ren in one move, but he was confident he could kill him within three moves, so he didn't care about Lu Ren's provocation.

Lu Ren laughed upon hearing this: "Do you mean you can laugh last? Haha... you can really pretend. If I didn't know, I would think you had already reached Qi Refining Great Completion."

"Not as good at pretending as you. You set up a banquet to celebrate breaking through to Qi Refining Great Completion. If I didn't know, I would think you had reached Marrow Cleansing. Look at so many disciples in the Weiyuan Hall, who sets up a banquet to celebrate breaking through to Qi Refining Great Completion?"

"You jumped from the Huang family to the Gu family, and it took you nearly a year with so many resources to reach Qi Refining Great Completion. I really don't know what you have to be proud of."

"The most useless person in our batch is you. Everyone relies on their own ability, but you exchanged these for it by being disloyal and unrighteous."

Even a clay figurine has three points of anger. Lu Ren provoked him again and again, so Xu Yang directly started to expose his shortcomings.

The surroundings were silent, and everyone had a strange expression.

Everyone knew that Lu Ren had abandoned the Huang family, but no one had ever said it directly, worried about offending Lu Ren.

Unexpectedly, today Lu Ren showed off his Qi Refining Great Completion in front of Xu Yang and was exposed by Xu Yang without any politeness.

"You..."

Lu Ren was so angry that his face flushed red, and he felt that everyone's gaze at him was filled with contempt.

"You'd better not participate in the Martial Examination Dragon Ascent, and don't meet me on the stage."

He finally didn't dare to make a move in the Weiyuan Hall and had to leave harsh words.

As for setting up a banquet to celebrate, after being exposed by Xu Yang, he was too embarrassed to hold it again, and the happy event of breaking through to Qi Refining Great Completion instead became a joke.

"Really cowardly, they didn't even fight."

Separated by a wall, Lin Cheng was full of disappointment.

"Father, are you talking about Xu Yang or Lu Ren?"

Lin Wei was curious. This master actually hoped his disciples would fight.

"Both are cowardly. Lu Ren reached Qi Refining Great Completion, was exposed by Xu Yang in public, and was so angry that he didn't dare to make a move. He is simply a piece of trash," Lin Cheng scolded.

Lin Wei nodded. Lu Ren was indeed very cowardly.

He had reached Qi Refining Great Completion, yet when exposed, he didn't dare to make a move, fearing this and that.

"Xu Yang disappointed me even more. He possesses the Wind-Thunder Force and can defeat the strong with the weak. Lu Ren provoked him like this. If he jumped out and defeated Lu Ren with the Wind-Thunder Force, he would definitely become famous."

"Even if he couldn't defeat him, this was a time to make a name for himself, but he didn't have the courage to make a move. He is also a piece of trash," Lin Cheng was even more dissatisfied with Xu Yang.

Lin Wei shook her head: "But he doesn't need to fight. He just said a few words and Lu Ren couldn't speak. Why bother to break the rules by making a move?"

Lin Cheng glared at her: "Martial artists look at whose fist is bigger, not whose mouth is sharp."

The inner courtyard returned to calm, and everyone did what they should do. Lu Ren's character didn't matter to them, and most people didn't have the opportunity to make friends with Lu Ren.

Xu Yang and Qiu Wenjie went to the place where they often practiced martial arts, set up their stances, and began to practice the Turtle-Snake Great Stance.

"Why don't you practice boxing recently?" Wu Yongfeng frowned.

He spent the most time with Xu Yang and discovered the strange things about Xu Yang recently.

"My stance technique is a bit poor, so I have been focusing on practicing the Turtle-Snake Great Stance recently," Xu Yang said.

His Mountain-Shaking Bear Fist had reached Great Completion, and he used the Diamond Art to temper his physique and practice true qi, so he didn't need to practice much anymore.

The Turtle-Snake Great Stance was a method to store and nourish blood qi, and even if it reached Great Completion, it couldn't be put down.

Wu Yongfeng walked away depressed. Xu Yang was practicing stance technique, so no one would spar with him on the Mountain-Shaking Bear Fist.

Time passed slowly, the sky grew dark, and there were not many people in the inner courtyard. Many people had already left.

Xu Yang finished his stance technique and also planned to leave, but saw Zhang Yong and Zhang Hong walking towards him, and the three of them walked out together.

"You shouldn't have said that to Lu Ren today," Zhang Yong said.

Xu Yang raised an eyebrow: "Are you here to speak for him?"

Had this person changed so quickly? The human heart is truly hard to fathom.

They had only been hanging out with Lu Ren, Jiang Ping, and the others for more than a month, and they actually helped Lu Ren to blame him. It was completely unexpected.

Zhang Hong's expression was a bit unnatural, and he shook his head: "No, as friends, we are here to remind you. The Gu family and the Jiang family have joined forces to form a group to achieve good results in the Martial Examination Dragon Ascent."

"They have strong power. Most of the senior brothers in the martial arts hall have joined forces with them, and there are also people from other martial arts halls who have joined."

"As a member, if Lu Ren targets you, others won't stand idly by. You might not meet Lu Ren in the Martial Examination Dragon Ascent, but you will definitely meet people from this group. They will inevitably make a move against you."

Xu Yang looked at the two. Zhang Hong and Zhang Yong might truly be reminding him out of good intentions, but subconsciously, they had actually leaned towards Lu Ren, leaned towards the group gradually formed by the Gu family and the Jiang family, but they hadn't realized this point yet.

They still thought that coming to remind him was out of the relationship between friends.