Chapter 177: Xu Qinghuan

Seeing Zhao Jing stride out of the Affairs Hall, Elder Wang could no longer hold onto that face of composure he had been forcing for half a day.

He walked to Jiang Ye's side in two steps, stamping his feet in anxiety:

"Elder... Elder Jiang..."

"You... you..."

"You are too impulsive..."

He had originally thought that Jiang Ye walking over with such a calm face meant he must have already had a foolproof plan in his heart.

Either bring out Luo Song's remaining prestige to explain the stakes.

Or bring out the sect rules and regulations to argue based on reason.

At the very least, he could borrow the presence of Liu Qingyu and Sun Lin to keep seven or eight out of ten of the elixir shares.

But he never imagined that Jiang Ye's method would be to directly accept Zhao Jing's challenge.

Isn't this losing the wife and the army as well?!

The elixirs weren't recovered, and Tianyangfeng's face would still be lost.

And in a moment, he would have to take a beating on the martial arts arena...

He really couldn't understand how such a steady person like Elder Jiang could be so muddled at such a critical juncture.

Jiang Ye looked calmly at Elder Wang's face, which was so anxious it was almost smoking, and smiled faintly: "Rest assured, Elder Wang. The one who is impulsive is Liu Fengzhu Zhao."

"Ah?!"

Elder Wang was stunned again.

No.

What time is it now.

Elder Jiang can still be this calm...

If nothing else.

Just for this bearing, he, Wang Liang, is willing to call Elder Jiang the strongest.

Before he could recover, Jiang Ye had already put his hands behind his back and stepped out of the hall with a calm gait, walking down the mountain along the stone steps at an unhurried pace.

Elder Wang was stunned for a moment, then hurried to follow.

In the hall, the three Peak Masters had different expressions.

Liu Qingyu's star-like eyes stared straight at the direction Jiang Ye had left, a flicker of deep thought flashing in the depths of her eyes.

"Could his confidence be... dual-cultivation of True Qi..."

She was the only one among those present who knew that Jiang Ye, besides Fire True Qi, also practiced Water True Qi.

Dual-cultivation of True Qi indeed had a few more changes and foundations than martial artists of the same realm.

But just relying on this to want to cross the chasm between Embracing the Pill and Divine Qi to challenge a Liu Fengzhu...

Liu Qingyu shook her head lightly, her full chest heaving slightly with that silent sigh.

She tapped her feet lightly, and her slender, graceful figure swept out of the hall like a breeze and fine rain.

"Hahaha, I didn't expect that it would be rare for this old man to come out, and I would run into such an interesting event."

Sun Lin stroked his long beard and shook his head with a smile.

He took a step and followed at an unhurried pace.

Lu Xiao had not said a word from beginning to end.

He looked gloomily at the direction Jiang Ye had disappeared, his naturally browless, long, thin eyes narrowing slightly, cold, sharp light churning in the depths of his eyes.

"I want to see what you are pretending to be."

Immediately after, he suddenly stepped out, and his whole person followed like a sharp sword out of its sheath, bringing with it a sharp momentum.

In the corner of the great hall, it wasn't until everyone's figures had disappeared at the end of the stone steps outside the hall.

That Gongsun Hong finally came to his senses.

He looked at the empty hall door, his face full of disbelieving trance, his lips twitching several times before he squeezed a complete sentence out of his throat:

"Elder Jiang actually dared to challenge Liu Fengzhu Zhao..."

"This is going to turn the sky upside down!"

After a good while.

He hurriedly called a disciple to stand guard at the Affairs Hall for him.

Then he lifted his robe and ran down the mountain impatiently.

How could he miss such a big show.

Outer Sect, Martial Arts Arena.

Several teaching deacons were weaving through the ranks, correcting the disciples' fist stances from time to time.

Several disciples on the sidelines who had just been scolded stood to one side, but their gazes couldn't help but drift toward the slender figure in the arena.

That was a young girl dressed in cyan tight-fitting clothes, her face pretty, her brows and eyes naturally carrying a hint of enchanting charm; even when she was sweating profusely while practicing boxing, that charm emanating from her bones did not diminish in the slightest.

It was none other than Xu Qinghuan.

However, she was currently practicing boxing with single-minded devotion, no longer slacking off like before.

A layer of fine, fragrant sweat seeped out on the girl's forehead, sliding down her fair neck into her collar, but she was completely unaware, still gritting her teeth to hit every punch to the most standard position.

There was naturally a reason for her to be this motivated.

One was because of Liu Yiyi.

This old rival of hers had actually relied on dog luck to enter the inner sect's Profound Water Peak.

This made her hold a breath in her heart.

The second was because of that old thing...

"How long has it been since he came to find me!"

Xu Qinghuan gritted her teeth hatefully.

Once she thought of that old thing.

Those beautiful eyes were filled with a hint of aggrieved moisture.

Therefore, she now had a very clear goal.

She wanted to enter the inner sect's Tianyangfeng!

This drive of Xu Qinghuan's was even seen by the teaching deacon on the side.

He stroked his beard and whispered to his colleague beside him:

"Ever since 'that person' was killed by the Head-Chopping Demon, this troublemaker has changed quite a bit."

"With her bone talent, if she can keep it up, I'm afraid she'll be able to knock on the door of Transformation of Force in a while..."

Before his voice fell.

Suddenly—

Bang.

A muffled, huge sound exploded in the center of the martial arts arena without warning, and the ground shook violently because of it.

An aura as thick as a mountain suddenly shrouded more than half of the martial arts arena; several outer sect disciples with slightly weaker strength were covered head-on by this pressure, feeling as if even their breathing had become stagnant.

Everyone turned their heads in horror, only to see a middle-aged man dressed in dark yellow robes, with slightly dark skin and a cold, hard face, standing steadily in the very center of the martial arts arena.

Where his feet landed, the blue stone slabs shattered inch by inch, the cracks spreading toward the surroundings like a spider web, the dust not yet settled.

"It's Earth Peak's Liu Fengzhu Zhao..."

Immediately, someone recognized the identity of the person in front of them and let out an exclamation.

"Liu Fengzhu Zhao, you are..."

A teaching deacon felt a chill in his heart, carefully stepping forward a few steps, just about to ask.

Zhao Jing had already swept coldly across the entire arena, his thick voice exploding in everyone's ears at the same time:

"Everyone, step back first!"

"I want to have a sparring match here with Tianyangfeng's acting Liu Fengzhu, Elder Jiang!"

His voice clearly echoed in everyone's ears.

The martial arts arena instantly exploded like a cold pot splashed with boiling oil.

"What?!"

"Earth Peak's Liu Fengzhu Zhao wants to fight Tianyangfeng's acting Liu Fengzhu, Elder Jiang..."

"When did Tianyangfeng produce an acting Liu Fengzhu."

"Could it be that Elder Jiang who previously killed Earth Peak's 'Mountain-Suppressing Hand' Zhang Kui!"

"It should be him; Tianyangfeng doesn't have a second Elder Jiang!"

"Hiss..."

"Isn't he an Embracing the Pill Realm elder! How can he fight Liu Fengzhu Zhao!"

"No matter what, there's a good show to watch!"

The outer sect disciples discussed excitedly with full faces.

Amidst the noisy sound waves, only one person stood blankly in place, as if struck by lightning.

Xu Qinghuan's enchanting eyes widened, her rosy little mouth slightly open, unable to close for a long time.

That old thing became Tianyangfeng's acting Liu Fengzhu???

And he wants to fight Earth Peak's Liu Fengzhu???

Her brain buzzed for a moment, the focus she had just gathered from practicing boxing so desperately washed away by this news.

"What exactly is going on..."

Xu Qinghuan's beautiful eyes revealed a look of trance-like shock.

"Everyone, quickly retreat outside the martial arts arena!"

Although several teaching deacons were also full of shock, they still suppressed the horror in their hearts and hurriedly directed the outer sect disciples to retreat outside the arena.

Just as this brief chaos was subsiding, a steady sound of footsteps suddenly came from the direction of the stone steps.

Everyone's gazes were cast in that direction in unison.

An old man dressed in simple gray clothes, with a figure as straight as a pine, was walking up the martial arts arena along the stone steps at an unhurried pace.

It was none other than Jiang Ye.

"My god!!!"

"It really is that Elder Jiang from Tianyangfeng..."

"He actually wants to fight Earth Peak's Liu Fengzhu!!!"

"This is too crazy..."

The sound waves on the periphery of the martial arts arena instantly reached their highest point.

Some showed looks of shock, some showed looks of excitement.

There were also many who showed looks of worry.

Many of these outer sect disciples had personally seen this Elder Jiang vigorously protecting the outer sect disciples when they went to the ruins of the previous dynasty.

Seeing him really want to fight Zhao Jing at this moment, they couldn't help but feel a little worried.

"It really is him."

The moment she saw Jiang Ye's face clearly, Xu Qinghuan's beautiful eyes shrank sharply.

Her heartbeat almost missed a beat.

Compared to the grievance of not seeing Jiang Ye for a long time, she was now more worried about Jiang Ye's safety.

How is this old thing's courage so big...

Her fair, delicate little fists instantly clenched.

Jiang Ye walked slowly to the center of the martial arts arena.

He and Zhao Jing stood facing each other from a distance.

One stood as steady as a mountain, the other stood alone like an old pine.

The next instant.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Three sounds of breaking through the air exploded almost at the same instant.

Liu Qingyu's clothes fluttered as she landed on the high platform on the side.

Sun Lin stroked his beard and landed on the other side with a smile.

Lu Xiao fell straight down like a sharp sword, stepping out spider-web cracks on the blue stone slabs under his feet.

Once the three Peak Masters arrived, the large martial arts arena instantly seemed to be pressed down by an invisible large hand, and the clamor that had been rising and falling just now was extinguished cleanly in a single breath.

Including those several teaching deacons, everyone was pressed by this invisible aura until they couldn't breathe.

"Gulp..."

Someone even couldn't help but swallow hard.

They hadn't seen a scene of inner sect Peak Masters gathering at the outer sect martial arts arena for a long time.

No one noticed.

Above the canopy of an ancient tree not far away, two figures had appeared at some point.

One was an old man dressed in light cyan robes, with a refined face, three long whiskers under his chin, and a bearing that was awe-inspiring without anger between his brows.

The other was a middle-aged man with a proper face, standing respectfully by his side.

It was the Profound Heaven Sect Master and his personal disciple, Zhou Yufeng.

The old man stood with his hands behind his back at the top of the canopy, the branch under his feet, which was only as thick as a thumb, not moving at all, as if it were only supporting a fallen leaf.

Through the gaps in the branches and leaves, he took in the confrontation on the martial arts arena, a playful smile slowly rising on that refined face: "Yufeng, who do you think will win."

Zhou Yufeng looked down at the martial arts arena with a heavy gaze, staring at that thin and upright figure for a long while, and finally shook his head slowly: "Hard to say, I cannot see through this Elder Jiang."

The old man smiled faintly: "It is right that you cannot see through him; this is the talent that Elder Zhong spoke of." ===== CHAPTER 178 =====