Chapter 175

"Good! Liu Fengzhu Lu is a reasonable person!"

Seeing Lu Xiao publicly express his support, a gleam of light flashed in Zhao Jing's eyes, and his confidence suddenly grew a bit more.

He turned around, faced Liu Qingyu and Sun Lin, and said loudly:

"Liu Fengzhu Liu, Liu Fengzhu Sun, you have seen it for yourselves."

"Tianyangfeng has no one present, and they can't even send someone qualified to speak. This shows that they simply don't have the ability to hold onto this quota."

"Since they can't hold onto it, why occupy it?"

Liu Qingyu and Sun Lin looked at each other, a look of deep contemplation flashing in both their eyes.

What Lu Xiao and Zhao Jing said sounded high-sounding, and every sentence was tied to the sect's rules.

For a moment, neither of them could find a way to refute.

Liu Qingyu frowned slightly, and Sun Lin's kind face also showed a bit of helplessness.

Zhao Jing took in their expressions, and his heart became even more certain.

He didn't say anything more, turned to look at Gongsun Hong, who was standing to the side, and said coldly: "Elder Gongsun, why are you still standing there in a daze? Why don't you go and divide the elixirs!"

Gongsun Hong's heart trembled violently, and a layer of fine cold sweat seeped from his forehead.

He looked at Zhao Jing, then at Liu Qingyu and Sun Lin, caught in a dilemma.

Zhao Jing was aggressive, and Lu Xiao was watching coldly; with these two joining forces to apply pressure, how could he, an elder of the Affairs Hall, withstand it?

He gritted his teeth and was about to answer when he bit the bullet.

Just then, an urgent voice sounded from the hall door.

"Wait... wait a moment..."

Elder Wang's face was panicked, and he stepped forward quickly, his voice changing pitch due to anxiety:

"Peak Masters, please listen!"

"Before our Liu Fengzhu Luo went into seclusion, he officially appointed Elder Jiang as the acting Liu Fengzhu of Tianyangfeng..."

"All major matters of Tianyangfeng are decided by him."

He took a deep breath, trying to steady his voice, and bowed deeply to the people in the hall:

"This matter is of great importance, and Wang has no authority to agree to it. Please, Peak Masters, wait a moment..."

"I will go and invite Elder Jiang over immediately!"

He said this while almost forcing himself to stand.

He knew he couldn't stop Zhao Jing and Lu Xiao, but he also couldn't just watch Tianyangfeng's elixir quota be divided up.

He couldn't bear this responsibility, and Tianyangfeng couldn't afford to lose this face.

As things stood, the only way he could think of was to invite Jiang Ye out of seclusion.

In terms of status, only Jiang Ye, as the acting Liu Fengzhu, was qualified to stand here and speak on equal footing with people like Zhao Jing and Lu Xiao.

Once these words were spoken, the expressions of everyone in the hall changed again.

Lu Xiao's naturally browless, long, narrow eyes narrowed slightly, and a cold light flashed in the depths of his eyes.

Of course, he remembered this Elder Jiang.

That old thing who dared to burn off one of Jin Mu's arms in front of him at the back mountain of Jin Chen Peak.

He sneered, his tone contemptuous: "It's truly laughable to let an Embracing the Pill Realm elder serve as an acting Liu Fengzhu. Even if he comes, what can he do!"

A look of imperceptible solemnity flashed in Liu Qingyu's eyes, and she thought to herself: "It seems Old Luo has really fallen into a deep sleep again."

She raised her starry eyes and glanced outside the hall, lost in thought.

Sun Lin stroked his long beard, a look of surprise appearing on his youthful, white-haired face.

He spent most of his time at Qingmu Peak and didn't move around much.

But even if he didn't leave his door, he had heard the elders and disciples under his command talking about it heatedly.

That new Elder Jiang from Tianyangfeng was no ordinary person.

And the most intriguing reaction came from Zhao Jing.

He was slightly stunned at first, and then a cold, ambiguous sneer slowly appeared on his cold, hard face.

As for this Elder Jiang from Tianyangfeng, his grudge was more than just deep-seated.

Since he took the position of Liu Fengzhu of Hou Tu Peak, this was the first elder bold enough to dare to make a move against him.

And he used such insidious means to injure his head.

The two people he wanted to deal with most now were both from Tianyangfeng: Luo Song was first, and Jiang Ye was second!

"Acting Liu Fengzhu... tsk tsk..."

Zhao Jing curled his lips with a fake smile, his gaze falling on Elder Wang like a knife, his voice unhurried:

"Good! This seat will give you this opportunity!"

"Go and bring that acting Liu Fengzhu here right now!"

He leaned forward slightly to look at Elder Wang eye-to-eye, his cold, sharp eyes filled with undisguised chill:

"I want to see what kind of waves your acting Liu Fengzhu can stir up today without Old Ghost Luo's protection!"

Elder Wang felt an invisible pressure rushing toward him, as if a giant mountain were pressing down on his head.

He forced a stiff smile on his face, bowed to each of the Peak Masters in the hall, his voice trembling slightly:

"Then I will trouble the Peak Masters to wait a moment."

After saying this, he didn't dare to delay any longer, turned around, and walked quickly toward the outside of the hall.

He could also hear the coldness in Zhao Jing's voice.

However, he really had no other choice.

The hall returned to silence. The Peak Masters were each lost in their own thoughts, and no one spoke again.

Liu Qingyu lowered her eyes and looked at the light green trim on her sleeves, not knowing what she was thinking.

Sun Lin was still smiling, but there was a bit more ambiguous depth in that smile.

Lu Xiao stood with his hands behind his back like a pine, his face as calm as water.

But in the depths of his eyes, a playful look of watching a show flickered.

And Zhao Jing stood in the center of the hall with his arms crossed, his gaze coldly watching the direction where Elder Wang had disappeared, the arc on his lips never fading.

He couldn't deal with Luo Song, but he couldn't deal with Jiang Ye?!

"Elder Jiang is now the acting Liu Fengzhu..."

Gongsun Hong, standing in the corner, secretly wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, but his heart was surging with waves like a stormy sea.

He could be considered to have witnessed Jiang Ye's rise all the way.

From the beginning when Wen Yueyao personally vouched for him to join the sect as an attendant, to later killing Zhang Kui and becoming famous in the Tianqing Sect, to now becoming an acting Liu Fengzhu.

How long had it been?

He had been in his position at the Affairs Hall for more than ten years and had seen many figures, but Jiang Ye was the first to climb so fast.

However, thinking of the scene in the hall now, he couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

He had also heard that this Liu Fengzhu of Hou Tu Peak had a significant grudge against Elder Jiang...

Looking at the other party's posture, it was clear they didn't intend to let it end well.

In the Tiankui Herb Garden.

A figure had been standing on the open ground like a withered pine for who knows how long.

Jiang Ye's eyes were tightly closed, his face as calm as water. An invisible airflow swirled around his body; this airflow was not a normal mountain breeze, but Heaven and Earth Vital Energy gathered from all directions, so thick it was almost substantial.

They slowly seeped into his body through every pore on Jiang Ye's body; every wisp that merged pushed his aura to be more intense.

The air was twisted slightly by this constantly rising heat.

The moment the last wisp of Heaven and Earth Vital Energy was inhaled into his body.

Boom—!!!

A vast and irresistible wave of scorching heat erupted from Jiang Ye as the center.

The nearby grass didn't even go through the process of burning; it turned into ash instantly, leaving only a charred black ring branded on the ground, with wisps of green smoke rising from the edges.

Even those Tiankui herbs that were a bit further away suffered collateral damage; the blood-red leaves closest to the edge of the ring curled up quickly, turned yellow, and made a hissing sound of burning.

After a long while.

Jiang Ye slowly opened his eyes, and two substantial red-gold rays shot out from his pupils, leaving two light trails in the air.

Pfft.

A leaf on an old locust tree in the distance actually ignited out of thin air the moment it was swept by that gaze.

"Finally broke through to the Divine Qi Realm."

He exhaled a scorching, clear breath, which turned into an almost invisible white smoke in the blowing breeze and dissipated.

His lips slowly curled into an arc; the arc was small, but it revealed an irrepressible joy.

At this moment, the red-gold pill in his dantian had completely changed its appearance.

Under the repeated tempering of the Heaven and Earth Vital Energy, the originally loose True Qi structure was compressed and refined layer by layer, completing a thorough transformation.

The pill hung in the center of the dantian, and what flowed on its surface was no longer the diffusive light of True Qi, but a layer of restrained and sharp red-gold Divine Radiance.

From this moment on, his Great Sun Heavenly Flame True Qi had completely transformed into Great Sun Heavenly Flame True Divine Qi.

With a thought, a wisp of red-gold True Divine Qi emerged from his fingertips.

"This is Divine Qi..."

Jiang Ye watched this wisp of Divine Qi quietly and murmured softly.

If the previous Great Sun Heavenly Flame True Qi was like fire, then the current Great Sun Heavenly Flame True Divine Qi was like condensed magma.

He looked at a mountain rock in the forest and flicked his finger.

Whoosh!

That wisp of red-gold Divine Qi broke through the air like an arrow leaving the string, leaving a scorching tail trail in the air.

It hit the center of the mountain rock precisely.

The next instant.

Bang.

The mountain rock did not shatter into pieces, nor did it explode into powder.

It was directly melted from the inside out by the scorching high temperature.

The heart of the stone turned red and soft under the erosion of the red-gold Divine Qi, then turned into a pool of viscous magma, flowing slowly along the stone wall and dripping onto the ground, making a hissing sound of burning and splashing wisps of white smoke.

Jiang Ye withdrew his finger and looked at the hole where the magma was still flowing slowly, a look of undisguised satisfaction flashing in his eyes.

That martial artist from the Chiyan Sect had also cultivated Fire Element Divine Qi.

However, the power was clearly not as good as the Great Sun Heavenly Flame True Divine Qi he had just tempered.

Host: Jiang Ye

Lifespan: 70/218

Strength: Divine Qi Realm (Early Stage)

Fate: Ladder to Divinity 【Effect 1: Superb Comprehension!】

Physique: Five Elements Chaos Body (Entry, 1/5)

Qi Cultivation Methods Mastered: Great Sun Heavenly Flame Qi Cultivation Method (Great Success, 388/10000), Canglan True Water Qi Cultivation Method (Great Success, 169/6000), Qingmu Longevity Qi Cultivation Method (Minor Success, 1200/3000), Hou Tu Mountain-Suppressing Qi Cultivation Method (Minor Success, 569/3000), Tai Bai True Essence Qi Cultivation Method (Minor Success, 269/3000), Seven Killings Scripture (Entry, 10/100)

Martial Arts Mastered: Five Animals Fist (Perfection), Blood Moon Blade (Perfection), Diamond Body Refining Technique (Great Success, 568/10000), True Fire Eye Refining Technique (Entry, 768/1000), Five Elements World-Suppressing Seal (Entry, 218/1000), Shadow-Splitting Tracking Steps (Minor Success, 600/3000)

Intents Mastered: Tiger Walk Like Illness, Spirit Ape Thousand Changes, Startled Deer No Trace, Riding the Wind Soaring Sky, Blood Moon Illusory Kill, Old Bear Embracing Simplicity

After glancing at the system panel, Jiang Ye nodded with satisfaction.

Generally speaking, when a martial artist breaks through from the Embracing the Pill Realm to the Divine Qi Realm, their lifespan does not increase.

However, his lifespan had still increased by ten years.

He vaguely guessed that it might be related to his cultivation of the "Five Animals Fist" and the "Qingmu Longevity Qi Cultivation Method."

"Next step, let's temper the Water Element True Divine Qi..."

He withdrew his thoughts and secretly calculated his next cultivation plan.

While he was pondering, a burst of urgent footsteps suddenly came from outside the herb garden, the pace messy and heavy, clearly indicating that the person arriving was uneasy.

Jiang Ye raised his brows slightly and turned to look.

A moment later, Lu Ming's chubby, round face appeared at the entrance of the herb garden.

Behind him followed another person.

It was Elder Wang of Tianyangfeng, whose expression was even more urgent than Lu Ming's, a layer of fine cold sweat oozing from his forehead, and his robes were somewhat disheveled by the wind.

As soon as he saw Jiang Ye's figure, Elder Wang rushed forward in almost three steps, not even bothering to salute, his voice urgent and trembling:

"Elder Jiang, something terrible has happened!"