Chapter 177

177. Chapter 177: Pay Respects to the Prince! Transmitting Power!

If it weren't for the name of Hero Guo pressing down on the top, Yan Nantian should have earned the title of the world's number one hero in order to express the respect of the people in the Jianghu.

And because the world's number one Sword God already had an owner, who was the master of Wanmei Villa, Ximen Chuixue, everyone could only settle for second best and call Yan Nantian the world's number one swordsman.

Yan Nantian didn't care about this; he never walked the path of justice for any such title, but because of the hot blood in his chest that compelled him to draw his sword.

Therefore, after realizing that Li Ge Xiao might have suffered an injustice, how could Yan Nantian suppress the anger in his heart?

Li Ge Xiao didn't intend to tell others about his encounter, but Yan Nantian was a special person in his heart.

"My enemy is the current Senior Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, Yan Song, known as the 'Treacherous Prime Minister'..."

Li Ge Xiao slowly narrated what happened back then.

But halfway through, Yan Nantian had already clenched his fists, his eyes red as if they were about to spray fire.

Jiang Feng was also furious.

After Li Ge Xiao finished speaking, Yan Nantian turned around and smashed the earthen wall in the courtyard with a palm, roaring: "Such a treacherous person, and the Emperor still wants to employ him; he really is a muddled monarch!"

Jiang Feng shook his head and smiled bitterly: "I can only say that Yan Song is indeed a person who knows how to be an official. Although he does evil, the root lies with the Emperor; the Emperor can't punish the officials who work for him, right?"

Yan Nantian sneered: "The Taizu once said that the Son of Heaven commits the same crime as the common people. So what if he is the Emperor? Can he not admit it if he makes a mistake?"

Li Ge Xiao lowered his head, his expression indifferent; no one knew what he was thinking when he heard these words.

Jiang Feng said: "Big brother, that is the Emperor after all. If he is wrong, what can you do?"

Yan Nantian was suddenly speechless, feeling as if ants were crawling all over his body, and he couldn't scratch them, feeling extremely uncomfortable.

"Lord Li, pack your luggage, let's go to the capital. We can't do anything to the Emperor, so let's take Yan Song as our target. We'll collect as much of this debt as we can, and I, Yan, will help!"

Yan Nantian's word was worth a thousand gold; if he said so, he would definitely take action. But Li Ge Xiao didn't want to implicate him, so he shook his head: "Great Hero Yan, this is my family matter, I don't want to trouble others. One day, I will settle the account with the old thief Yan Song myself."

Yan Nantian thought about it and nodded: "Since Lord Li can defeat the Twelve Zodiacs and the Palace Mistress of the Flower-Moving Palace, his martial arts cultivation must have reached a very high level, so he really doesn't need my help."

Li Ge Xiao was stunned for a moment, then slapped his thigh and laughed: "Great Hero Yan is mistaken. In my prime, I could indeed eliminate the Twelve Zodiacs, but I am absolutely no match for the Palace Mistress of the Flower-Moving Palace. Even if I practice for another twenty years, it won't work."

Jiang Feng also smiled awkwardly: "Big brother, I wasn't talking about Lord Li, but someone else."

Yan Nantian scratched his head, confused.

Li Ge Xiao explained: "It was my Young Master who solved the Twelve Zodiacs, and he also defeated the Palace Mistress of the Flower-Moving Palace. I am ashamed to say that as a guard, I did not fulfill my duty."

"Young Master?!" Yan Nantian frowned. He put aside the matter of who defeated the Palace Mistress of the Flower-Moving Palace, and then said in a dissatisfied tone: "A hero like Lord Li, why should he be a slave to others?"

"I, Yan, would like to see which hero has such great spirit?"

In his heart, a good official like Li Ge Xiao, who cares about the people, should be treated well when he lowers himself to a wealthy family. Isn't it an insult to be a guard? "It's already giving him face to let him be a guard. This rotten drunkard still owes me a debt of wine; if we really calculate it, he has to sell his butt to pay it back!"

Chu Yang yawned, walked out of the hut lazily, and looked at Yan Nantian with an unkind expression.

So what if he's the world's number one swordsman? Keep blabbering and I'll break your mouth.

"Yo, so my butt is still that valuable!" Li Ge Xiao leaned toward Chu Yang with a cheeky face, "If it really doesn't work, just sell it! We're not strangers."

"Get lost!" Chu Yang waved his hand impatiently to drive him away.

"You are the Young Master that Lord Li mentioned!" Yan Nantian stared at Chu Yang with dissatisfaction and said in a deep voice: "When Lord Li was an official, he benefited the people for many years. Is this something that a brat like you, who speaks without thinking, can easily insult?"

"The Jinyiwei and the two factories are known as the imperial court's eagles and dogs; the people avoid them, so don't talk about benefiting the people. It's good enough if they don't harm the people!" Chu Yang said with disdain.

During the time he and Li Ge Xiao were wastes in the capital, the two of them would get drunk and bicker every day, cursing each other, basically poking at each other's hearts. What was there to mind? Li Ge Xiao didn't care at all and nodded as a matter of course: "There is indeed such a saying. The Jinyiwei are eagles, and the two factories are dogs. However, Young Master, after my master took charge of the Jinyiwei, the saying of eagles and dogs gradually faded. Of course, the two factories are still dogs; that is an indisputable fact."

Seeing Li Ge Xiao being so fawning toward Chu Yang, Yan Nantian felt disappointed from the bottom of his heart. Is this still the Li Ge Xiao who pleaded for the people and was upright back then?

He didn't hide his disappointment, and Li Ge Xiao saw this and knew what he was thinking, so he smiled: "Great Hero Yan, the greatest luck in my life is to guard the Young Master's side. If you think my fawning appearance is ugly, then just don't look!"

"Li Ge Xiao is still that Li Ge Xiao. Even if I didn't take off that flying fish suit, I would still have to fawn over the Young Master when I see him; there won't be any changes, including you guys."

Yan Nantian sneered: "We've known each other for many years, but Lord Li still underestimates my bones."

Li Ge Xiao laughed loudly, "Hahaha, Great Hero Yan, this has nothing to do with whether your bones are hard or not; it has a lot to do with your nine generations."

Yan Nantian looked at Li Ge Xiao, not knowing why.

Jiang Feng seemed to have thought of something, and his body suddenly trembled.

Li Ge Xiao turned his head to look at Chu Yang. Chu Yang's mouth curled into a playful smile and he nodded.

Li Ge Xiao brushed his sleeves and said solemnly: "Standing in front of you is the younger brother of the current Emperor, the virtuous Prince personally conferred by the late Emperor."

"Great Hero Yan, not kneeling when seeing a Prince is a capital crime in our dynasty!"

As soon as the words fell, Jiang Feng had already knelt on the ground, his forehead pressed hard against the ground, shouting: "Commoner Jiang Feng pays respects to the Prince, may the Prince live for ten thousand years, may the Prince live for ten thousand years. Commoner did not know the Prince's identity, and has offended you along the way. I hope the Prince will forgive me!"

Yan Nantian looked at Chu Yang in disbelief. Although he was called the world's number one swordsman, he was essentially a commoner, and offending a Prince was also a capital crime.

So what if you are a Jianghu expert? A million wolf cavalry riding on the Jianghu, no matter how powerful you are, you will die! Li Ge Xiao shook his head and laughed, "Great Hero Yan, do you know now whether my bones are hard or not?"

Yan Nantian sighed with a bitter face, and knelt on the ground in resignation.

"Commoner Yan Nantian pays respects to the Prince!"

This painless show of force was a small price Yan Nantian paid for his insolence.

At the moment his head was lowered, Yan Nantian finally understood the teasing in Li Ge Xiao's words.

"Since ancient times, there have been many people who used martial arts to violate the law. If you really violate the imperial court's laws in the future, the title of the world's number one swordsman will not be of any use. Take care of yourself!"

Chu Yang looked down at Yan Nantian kneeling on the ground, his tone as lazy as if he hadn't woken up. But Yan Nantian heard the killing intent in this sentence, and his heart suddenly tightened, instinctively reaching for the heavy black iron sword on his back.

If this Prince was relentless, even if he fell out with Li Ge Xiao, he would have to fight to the death.

Yan Nantian would not surrender just because the other party was a high-ranking Prince.

"I told you not to have messy thoughts."

Chu Yang flashed and suddenly appeared beside Yan Nantian, pressing down heavily on his heavy black iron sword.

Yan Nantian felt an extra ten thousand pounds of force on his back.

Just as he was about to resist, the terrifying force pressed him down so he couldn't lift his head.

Rumble! The ground beneath the two collapsed, becoming a ten-foot-deep pit.

Yan Nantian knelt in the pit, his face flushed, his eyes bloodshot, and the veins on his neck and temples bulging.

He was like Sun Wukong under the Five Elements Mountain, unable to breathe under the pressure of the Buddha.

"This person can defeat Palace Mistress Yaoyue of the Flower-Moving Palace; it's really not a fluke. Such terrifying giant strength is rare in the world; even the battlefield generals with innate divine strength cannot compare."

Yan Nantian exerted his Wedding Dress Divine Art with all his might, and the true essence surged into his limbs and bones. If not for this, he would have been pressed into minced meat long ago.

But he had not yet understood the true meaning of the Wedding Dress Divine Art, and his cultivation had not been destroyed and rebuilt. The more intensely the divine art operated, the more the domineering true essence rampaged in his body, bringing him inhuman pain.

In just a few breaths, Yan Nantian was soaked in cold sweat, his expression extremely painful.

But Chu Yang had already withdrawn his strength and stood aside to observe Yan Nantian's current state.

"Big brother! What's wrong with you?"

Jiang Feng hugged Yan Nantian anxiously, feeling the domineering power in his body, and couldn't help but click his tongue.

Big brother's Wedding Dress Divine Art is so domineering, I don't know how to calm it down? "Prince, is Great Hero Yan suffering from Qi deviation?"

Li Ge Xiao didn't know that Yan Nantian was practicing the Wedding Dress Divine Art, thinking that he had made a mistake by forcibly operating his cultivation to resist Chu Yang.

"No, the martial arts he practices are inherently extremely domineering. He needs to pass all his cultivation to others and start over to blunt its edge, eliminate the sharpness in the true essence, and then he can control it freely."

Yan Nantian, who was suffering, opened his eyes abruptly, as if stimulated, his tiger eyes staring straight at Chu Yang.

"Why are you looking at me? I don't want your true Qi." Chu Yang said irritably: "The Wedding Dress Divine Art is known as the Zen sect of martial arts. You need to have your own sudden enlightenment and see your true nature to let go of everything. It is human nature to be reluctant to part with the cultivation you have worked hard to practice for decades. Whether you can figure it out depends entirely on yourself."

"The Wedding Dress Divine Art means making wedding clothes for others."

Yan Nantian was already in so much pain that his face was like gold paper, as if he would faint at any moment, and he was still repeating Chu Yang's words, "Making wedding clothes for others..."

Li Ge Xiao and Jiang Feng were very shocked after hearing this. There is such a martial art in the world; how could normal people think of it?

For a martial artist, martial arts are things that are connected to their lives. To destroy years of cultivation in one go is even more painful than killing themselves!

Yan Nantian was also a person with great perseverance. He made a choice in an instant about whether to give up his cultivation.

The situation was critical, and he was willing to trust Chu Yang, whom he had only met once. With Li Ge Xiao's character, he shouldn't be colluding with evil people, and besides, the other party saved Jiang Feng.

All thoughts were in an instant. Yan Nantian grabbed Jiang Feng's clothes, his eyes gradually becoming firm.

Jiang Feng understood Yan Nantian's thoughts and nodded: "If big brother is willing, you can transfer your cultivation to me. We brothers are of one heart, not distinguishing between you and me."

Yan Nantian smiled with relief, sat up straight with effort, and prepared to transfer the cultivation of the Wedding Dress Divine Art to Jiang Feng.

Chu Yang's voice sounded again, still in a lazy tone: "The Jinglong Secret Manual that Jiang Feng practices gets weaker the more he practices it. He needs to have no martial arts at all to reach the Jinglong realm of returning to truth and origin. If you inject your cultivation into him, you are reversing his martial arts."

"Even if he survives the disaster, he will become a waste, lying on a sickbed for the rest of his life."

Yan Nantian hurriedly pushed Jiang Feng away. With his true essence in chaos, his blood surged, and scarlet blood spilled from the corner of his mouth.

"Big brother, hold on. If I can't do it, there are others!" Jiang Feng looked at Li Ge Xiao in a panic, "Lord Li, only you here can withstand my big brother's cultivation. Please help my big brother!"

Li Ge Xiao looked hesitant. He rejected this behavior of transferring cultivation from others from the bottom of his heart; martial arts practice should be down-to-earth.

Chu Yang kicked Li Ge Xiao's butt and said coldly: "Hurry up! If he doesn't pass on his cultivation, he will be burned to death by his true essence!"

The situation was urgent, and Li Ge Xiao couldn't care about his own ideological cleanliness, so he hurriedly sat in front of Yan Nantian.

Yan Nantian pointed his fingers to form a sword, his fingertips pressed against Li Ge Xiao's Qi Sea Dantian, and the Wedding Dress Divine Art, like a blazing fire, slowly injected into Li Ge Xiao's body.

As soon as the cultivation entered his body, Li Ge Xiao felt Yan Nantian's pain. The feeling of his meridians and flesh being burned was so painful that he couldn't speak.

Fortunately, Li Ge Xiao had a bumpy life and had suffered all kinds of pain. Compared to the torture he suffered in the Zhaoyu prison, the whole process of power transmission was not so unbearable.

A moment later.

The hot aura around Yan Nantian dissipated, and his face returned to normal, without any pain. Only when he felt his empty Qi Sea Dantian did he feel a bit dazed.

The cultivation he had worked hard for decades really made wedding clothes for others today...

"No breaking, no establishing. What's there to regret? Can't a man let go of even this little thing?"

"Weren't you fearless just now?"

Yan Nantian let out a long sigh, nodded and smiled: "The Prince is right. I shouldn't have been so pretentious. Today, with the Prince's guidance, I finally understand the true meaning of the Wedding Dress Divine Art. I have nothing to repay you with. If the Prince has any orders in the future, I will die without hesitation!"

"Alright, let's talk about dying without hesitation after you cultivate your power back." Chu Yang waved his hand. He felt that he was always collecting some hero fragments; Li Ge Xiao was like this, and Yan Nantian was also like this. Can't there be an SSR without any problems? (End of chapter)