Chapter 91

Ha!

Watching several people leave, Huang Qingzhou exhaled a turbid breath as if relieved of a heavy burden.

Just as he stood up, intending to check on Fang Xu's condition, a figure leapt in from outside the courtyard again!

He immediately gripped his sword, ready to face the enemy.

The black-clad person who had just jumped in hurriedly said, 'Don't misunderstand!'

Our boss said, injuring you was purely a misunderstanding; this is the earnest money Su Cheng gave us—please accept it as our compensation.

While speaking, the person carefully placed the cloth bundle in front of him on the ground, then cupped his fists toward Huang Qingzhou and leapt out of the Hall of Far-reaching Aspirations, leaving immediately.

Huang Qingzhou glanced at the cloth bundle on the ground, lifted it with his sword, opened it, took a look, and couldn't help but sneer:

Your generosity is impressive—ten fourth-rank Blood Qi Pills, ten fourth-rank Obstacle-Breaking Pills, ten fourth-rank Rejuvenation Pills, plus a deed for five hundred taels of gold.

Carrying the cloth bundle, he walked over to Fang Xu and Lu Qingluo, checked their injuries, then took out a fourth-rank Rejuvenation Pill from the bundle and stuffed it into Fang Xu's mouth.

What a strange fellow—if it were an ordinary person, with a Martial Apprentice Realm body, taking a blow from a Martial Master Realm cultivator head-on would surely sever the spine.

You're doing okay.

After swallowing the Rejuvenation Pill, Fang Xu forced a smile and said, "Thank you tonight, Senior Brother Huang."

Huang Qingzhou waved his hand: "Although Su Cheng harbors ill intentions, having been a fourth-rank Pill Master for over ten years, his fourth-rank Rejuvenation Pills are still well refined."

Rest well for a few days, and you should recover.

Saying this, he reached out to help Fang Xu up, glanced at the few corpses left in the courtyard, and said, "Your strength is greater than I imagined."

To be honest, I thought I would die here today.

Fang Xu scratched his head and laughed: "Senior Brother Huang is also strong—facing six opponents alone, he still managed to repel them."

"Me? I was just putting on a strong front to scare them." Huang Qingzhou curled his lips.

He is a Pill Master, not skilled in combat; if it were another Ascension Immortal Society disciple adept at fighting, today he might truly have slain all six on the spot.

"You're deceiving them?" Lu Qingluo stared at him, astonished, and asked, "If we were killed today, would the Ascension Immortal Society really not send anyone to investigate?"

Huang Qingzhou sighed: "Yes, but if Su Cheng, Mu Xuan, and the third person all insist we died in the ruins, the Ascension Immortal Society will surely not investigate whether their words are true or false."

After all, who knows how many Ascension Immortal Society disciples die each year; the Law Enforcement Hall hardly has time to investigate each case individually.

However, if one of us were a core disciple, it would be different.

If a core disciple truly died in Maple Forest Town, the Law Enforcement Hall would definitely investigate the entire Yellow Prefecture.

Core disciple…

Fang Xu's expression froze slightly; from Huang Qingzhou's words he could see that the status of a core disciple in the Ascension Immortal Society is very high.

If I could become a core disciple of the Ascension Immortal Society, I could probably roam freely throughout the Yu State!

"Senior Brother Huang, what are their identities?" Lu Qingluo glanced at the corpses in the courtyard, frowned, and asked.

The six black-clad men were hired by Su Cheng to forcibly abduct Chu Mu—clear enough—but another group seems to have come for Fang Xu.

Upon hearing this, Huang Qingzhou walked over to the corpse of the Martial Master whose neck Fang Xu had twisted, lifted the man's mask with his longsword, held it in his hand, examined it for a long time, frowned, and said:

I think I've seen this kind of mask before with my master.

To figure out their identities, I still need to go back and ask my master.

Returning to Fang Xu's side, he added, "You need to be more careful lately; these people obviously don't fear the Ascension Immortal Society."

In this situation, the first possibility is that their power is not weaker than the Ascension Immortal Society; another is that this bunch are lunatics.

Fang Xu nodded slightly.

Actually, he had roughly guessed the identity of this group.

Because during the earlier fight, these people had mentioned a title.

Lord Father!

When in Qinghe County, Yun Qing had once told me the legend of the Divine Extension Sect.

According to Yun Qing, the leader of the Divine Extension Sect calls himself Lord of the Manor, with five Lord Fathers beneath him; tonight's attackers on me are very likely followers of the Divine Extension Sect!

But he wasn't sure whether they were after the Divine Extension Canon or after himself.

"Alright, I'll walk you back to your room." Huang Qingzhou reached out to support Fang Xu and said.

"No trouble, Senior Brother, I can walk on my own." Fang Xu quickly declined.

His room still contained the Divine Extension Canon and the Flame Spirit True Explanation; exposing these would be bad if Huang Qingzhou saw them.

"Fine, then go back on your own." Huang Qingzhou was taken aback, said lightly, and then returned to his own room.

Lu Qingluo looked at Fang Xu and said, "I'll walk you back."

Fang Xu shook his head: "Senior Sister, you should first go check on Mu; after that big fight, she must have been frightened badly."

Chu Mu is timid; although she didn't come out just now, hearing the commotion outside, she must have been frightened as well.

Lu Qingluo nodded: "Then you be careful yourself."

Fang Xu supported his lower back and limped toward his room.

Back in his room, he immediately used his consciousness to control the Divine Attendants within his body, letting them continue to repair his wounds.

The bloody substance again flowed along his meridians to the wound at his lower back, beginning to slowly repair it.

Enduring the faint numbness and itch, Fang Xu hid the Divine Extension Canon and Flame Spirit True Explanation under his pillow, then sat cross-legged on the bed to begin cultivating.

During the day facing Su Cheng, at night facing the Divine Extension Sect followers and those hired warriors, Fang Xu and Chu Mu have repeatedly brushed with death.

At the end of the day, it's simply that he is too weak.

Strength!

If he now possessed the strength of a Martial Venerable, Su Cheng wouldn't dare be so arrogant in broad daylight, even trying to refine Chu Mu into a pill right before his eyes!

If he had the strength of a Martial Venerable, tonight's assault could easily wipe out the attackers!

Huff!

He slowly exhaled the depressed qi in his heart, then began to consider how to quickly increase his strength next.

Normal cultivation is one aspect; if one wants to quickly increase strength, one must still rely on the system.

Since the Uplift Blue Mountain Relics opened, he has already used the system to prepare nearly a hundred inheritances for himself!

Eighty percent of these inheritances are attribute points, while only twenty percent are other things.

To obtain these attribute points, one must touch the corpses of those 'friends'.

And these friends are very likely to have died in the Uplift Blue Mountain Relics.

It seems I need to find time to make a trip to the Uplift Blue Mountain Relics.

The importance of attribute points has already been demonstrated in that earlier battle.

With the help of the strength attribute, I crippled that blood-robed Martial Master of the Fifth Realm with a single staff; otherwise, this battle would most likely have ended in defeat for our side.

And the toughness gained from increasing the life attribute also allowed him to barely survive a blow from a Martial Master expert.

From this it can be seen that as long as the added attribute points are high enough, I can completely break conventions and defeat enemies stronger than myself!

(End of chapter)