Chapter 8: The Turbulent Pugilistic World

Leaving the River of Time and Space and returning to Taoyuan, Lingyun began to take stock of his losses. However, the result he obtained left him quite helpless; the most severely damaged thing was his Small World.

During the Third Tribulation, his Sea of Divine Consciousness, Heart Realm, and Dantian Universe were all shattered. Although he had pieced them back together now, he didn't know how much they had shrunk, and many things within them had been lost into the River of Time and Space. Lingyun couldn't help but rub his head hard; most of the things scattered in the River of Time and Space were not ordinary items, and he didn't know how much trouble he would attract because of them.

Next was his own injury. The power of the Third Tribulation was truly no joke; even though he had made sufficient preparations beforehand and successfully passed this tribulation, he was still injured at his foundation. And with this injury, he didn't know how long it would take to recover.

More importantly, the accumulation of these multiple injuries caused his strength to drop by who knows how many levels. Fortunately, his next world was a return to Earth, so if he was a bit careful then, there should be much less trouble.

In the Bamboo House, Luo Yexi looked at Lingyun with an anxious face; this was already the third time she had seen Lingyun vomit blood. This made her think it was caused by Lingyun's clash with that peerless expert from the Listening Heaven Tower, which made her feel very guilty, believing that she had implicated her master.

"Alright, alright, you don't need to worry so much. My injuries were not caused by clashing with that Laogui from the Listening Heaven Tower!" Looking at his disciple's anxious appearance, Lingyun comforted her. "Do you think that Laogui from the Listening Heaven Tower, a mere person who has just stepped into the Innate Realm, could pose any threat to me? These are just injuries left behind when I was undergoing the Heavenly Tribulation after breaking through a very important realm!"

Hearing Lingyun's explanation, Luo Yexi finally set her heart at ease, then blinked her eyes and looked at him: "That, Master, what realm are you in now?"

"What realm? You don't need to know that for now; learn your Nine Suns Heavenly Art well first!" Lingyun pinched Luo Yexi's delicate nose in annoyance. "By the way, during the time I was away, did any major events happen in the pugilistic world? I always feel that there is an Evil Energy permeating between heaven and earth."

"Yes, yes, the biggest thing in the pugilistic world right now is the encirclement and suppression of the Listening Heaven Tower! It is said that because the peerless expert of the Listening Heaven Tower has died, and because the Listening Heaven Tower offended too many factions while desperately expanding in the pugilistic world before, many factions in the pugilistic world have launched an encirclement and suppression against the Listening Heaven Tower. Now, there are bloody incidents happening in the pugilistic world every day!" Luo Yexi said with an excited face.

"Is that so?" Lingyun pondered for a moment and said: "With the pugilistic world so chaotic right now, you should not leave Taoyuan for the time being. After all, I destroyed the headquarters of the Listening Heaven Tower, and that old man also died at my hands. If you appear in the pugilistic world, it is inevitable that you will encounter their crazy revenge!"

"Yes, Master."

In a secret stronghold of the Listening Heaven Tower.

The Masked Man roared crazily at the person kneeling before him: "Trash, all of you are trash! So many people went to search, and not only did you suffer losses, but you didn't even find a trace of Hongyi. What use do I have for you?"

"Reporting to the Tower Master, the only thing that can be confirmed now is that Hongyi has indeed hidden in Fengming Mountain. But Fengming Mountain is truly too dangerous, with fierce beasts emerging one after another, and we suffered heavy losses, so we had no choice but to retreat!" a man in black replied.

"Is that so? Then release the news for me, saying that Hongyi is hiding in Fengming Mountain, and that there are countless martial arts manuals and shocking wealth there; whoever obtains them can be invincible in the world." The Masked Man said coldly. "Let those greedy people go and act as our vanguard!"

"Yes, this subordinate will go do it immediately!" The man in black left quickly.

"Hongyi, Yinzhe, you destroyed my Listening Heaven Tower, and I will absolutely not let you have an easy time!" The Masked Man's voice was as chilling as ice.

"Master, it's bad. People in the pugilistic world are spreading rumors that I am hiding in Fengming Mountain, and that there are large quantities of martial arts manuals and treasures there; whoever obtains them can be invincible in the world! Now more and more people are gathering in the direction of Fengming Mountain. Even if our Taoyuan is located deep in Fengming Mountain, I'm afraid it won't be able to stop those greedy people!" Luo Yexi frowned and told Ling Tian the news she had gathered.

"There is actually such a thing?" Ling Tian's brows couldn't help but furrow slightly. "I suppose this news must have been spread by the remaining people of the Listening Heaven Tower. Although I destroyed most of their vital strength at the time, who knows if they have hidden forces? Their goal should be to make the people of the pugilistic world shift their target to us, winning themselves a chance to catch their breath! As expected of the Listening Heaven Tower, this ability to stir up the pugilistic world is really not bad! Don't worry about them; I have my own ways when the time comes!"

"Yes, Master. But, Master, your injuries..." Luo Yexi asked.

"My injuries won't be healed in a short while. But you don't need to worry. Even with my injuries, if all those so-called experts in the pugilistic world were tied together, it wouldn't be enough for me to fight with one hand!" Lingyun naturally heard what Luo Yexi was worried about. "Besides, with the strength of those people, who knows how long it will take for them to find this place!"

The news released by the Listening Heaven Tower spread rapidly through the pugilistic world. It must be said that a centipede dies but never stiffens; even though most of its experts were wiped out by Lingyun and it had experienced the encirclement and suppression of the major sects in the pugilistic world, the Listening Heaven Tower still possessed no small amount of influence in the pugilistic world.

For a time, Fengming Mountain became the storm center of the pugilistic world. Even the major sects relaxed their encirclement and suppression of the Listening Heaven Tower and put most of their energy into Fengming Mountain. After all, few people would not be tempted by the prospect of being invincible in the world. Conversely, in their eyes, the Listening Heaven Tower was already a candle in the wind, and it would be no problem to deal with it later.

All kinds of monsters and demons gathered at Fengming Mountain, everyone harboring ulterior motives, heading toward the vast Fengming Mountain range. However, the Fengming Mountain range was a famous dangerous place in the Fengming Kingdom. The fierce beasts in the mountain range would show no mercy to these outsiders; in their eyes, these people were all delicious food! Of course, in their memories, the two people located deep in the mountain range were exceptions. Their not-so-clear memories warned them what price they would pay for making a move against those two. Back then, in order to gather medicinal herbs for Luo Yexi, Lingyun had robbed all the fierce beasts in the entire Fengming Mountain and had beaten them thousands of times over, one by one.

Rumors of deaths and injuries among those entering Fengming Mountain were heard from time to time, but this could not scare off the people heading to Fengming Mountain. After all, among those places in the past that possessed heaven-defying inheritances, which one was not a dangerous place?