Chapter 113: The Challenge of the Ice Extreme Sect

"You brat, why have you suddenly become interested in this Void Linggen?"

Yu Ning looked at He Pingsheng with suspicion.

He Pingsheng slipped away, saying, "Master, this disciple must hurry and cultivate... I feel my time is very pressing!"

Just kidding!

If someone else is that impressive, and I still dawdle, then I really am not far from death.

No way!

Cultivate!

Must cultivate quickly.

After returning to his own small courtyard, He Pingsheng hung out the sign that read 【In Seclusion】.

Zhao Linger, Tian Xiaoqing, and Xu Kunlun all wanted to gossip about the matter between him and Qiao Huizhu, but they all ended up being shut out.

He Pingsheng would see no one.

At this very moment, He Pingsheng sat cross-legged in his own training ground and began to cultivate.

Currently, all of his dantian were at the eighth layer.

Moreover, that Spirit Refining technique and Body Refining technique had also been cultivated by him to the eighth layer.

According to He Pingsheng's original plan, he would still not cultivate during this period, but instead go to study formation knowledge, slowly learn the Dao of setting up formations, and then leisurely improve his cultivation base, so as not to let his eye-catching Five Elements Linggen cultivation base rise too abruptly.

But now, he couldn't care about that anymore.

He must improve as quickly as possible.

A top-tier Spirit-Gathering Pill was swallowed into his belly, and He Pingsheng frantically circulated the 【Li Fire True Method】 to begin cultivating.

After several days passed like this, He Pingsheng had consumed one top-tier medicinal pill.

"Junior Brother, Junior Brother... open the door quickly, it's bad!"

"Junior Brother, open the door!"

"Old Nine!"

Several days later, the anxious voices of Zhao Linger, Xu Kunlun, and others came from outside.

He Pingsheng did not know what had happened, but he reckoned it certainly wasn't simple; otherwise, his Qiao Shijie wouldn't be so anxious, so he opened the room door and walked out of the courtyard.

"It's bad!" Upon seeing He Pingsheng, Zhao Linger grabbed He Pingsheng's Daoist robe: "Someone has come to your door to challenge you!"

"Challenge?"

He Pingsheng's heart skipped a beat, and he asked, "Is it someone from the Ice Extreme Immortal Sect?"

"How did you know?" Zhao Linger was surprised for a moment, then added, "That's right, it is someone from the Ice Extreme Immortal Sect. The person who came is named Xiao Xuan, and he is at the tenth layer of Qi Refining!"

"Right now, they are in Master's palace!"

"Junior Brother, when did you offend him?"

He Pingsheng's expression was bitter: "I haven't even seen him, damn it!"

"Let's go, come with me to take a look!"

Taking Zhao Linger and Xu Kunlun with him, the three of them arrived at the Master Yu Ning Palace.

"Just in time!" Yu Ning said: "Old Nine, you come over too!"

He Pingsheng walked into the palace.

His gaze swept over, and he saw two people.

A thin, frail old man, as withered as an ancient corpse.

Although he looked like he was tottering, the terrifying aura he inadvertently emitted proved that this old man was definitely not simple.

Standing beside the old man was a tall, handsome male cultivator.

When He Pingsheng looked at him, his gaze also looked over, sizing He Pingsheng up.

Then the man smiled and said, "This is He Pingsheng?"

"Yes!" He Pingsheng nodded.

The man said, "I am Xiao Xuan!"

He Pingsheng was not surprised.

Xiao Xuan continued, "I have long heard that this He Pingsheng person has mediocre cultivation and mediocre looks; seeing him today, I know the rumors are not false!"

"Qiao Shijie Qiao, oh Qiao Shijie Qiao, such a heaven-gifted talent, why would you take a fancy to you?"

As soon as Xiao Xuan opened his mouth, he belittled He Pingsheng in terms of cultivation and appearance.

He Pingsheng, however, smiled, his state of mind completely unaffected, and said indifferently, "This is a matter between the two of us as husband and wife; there is no need to trouble your lordship!"

"You..." Hearing this, Xiao Xuan was directly broken; his face turned pale in a flash, gloomy and terrifying.

Yu Ning, sitting in the main seat, breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.

If nothing else, just looking at this mental cultivation, her own disciple had won by a notch.

"I do not rely on glib talk!" Xiao Xuan said: "He Pingsheng, I represent the Ice Extreme Immortal Sect in challenging you; do you dare to accept?"

"Xiao Xuan... step back!"

The withered old man beside Xiao Xuan finally spoke: "Let me say it instead!"

"Yes!" Xiao Xuan took a deep breath, then glared fiercely at He Pingsheng and took a step back.

The withered old man did not look at He Pingsheng either, but turned his head to look at Yu Ning, saying: "Fellow Daoist Yu Ning, the Qiao family girl originally had a marriage contract with my Xiao family; she is my Xiao family's daughter-in-law!"

"Now that she has suddenly entered into a marriage alliance with your Tai Xu Men, it is only natural that the children are upset!"

"My meaning is, the rule in our Cultivation World is that the strong are respected!"

"Let the two children have a fight; whoever wins gets to conclude the marriage contract with the Qiao family girl. What do you think?"

Yu Ning gave a cold laugh and said: "Fellow Daoist Chi Bing, what you are saying is not right!"

"My Tai Xu Men disciple has already concluded a marriage contract with the Qiao family; can it just be revoked?"

"If such a challenge were accepted, wouldn't our Tai Xu Men become a laughingstock to the world?"

"Besides, my disciple is currently only at the eighth layer of Qi Refining, while your Xiao Xuan is already at the tenth layer of Qi Refining!"

"Using the tenth layer against the eighth layer, isn't that a bit bullying?"

Although Yu Ning's voice was not loud, her attitude was very firm.

"Hehehe..." Daoist Chi Bing gave a cold laugh and said: "We cultivators value reputation most; if one doesn't even dare to accept a challenge and acts like a shrinking turtle, I'm afraid the Qiao family wouldn't take a fancy to such a son-in-law, would they?"

"How about this!" Chi Bing thought for a moment and said: "Our Xiao Xuan can wait for you at the tenth layer of Qi Refining for three years!"

"Presumably, in three years, you should be able to break through to the tenth layer of Qi Refining, right?"

"At that time, the two of you can have a fair competition. How about that?"

Yu Ning's face turned pitch black.

Three years!

Should she agree?

If the disciple doesn't reach the tenth layer by then, won't he just get beaten up?

If she doesn't agree, they will mock you for having trash aptitude, unable to break through two layers in three years.

This was indeed a difficult choice.

"Old Nine!" Yu Ning looked at He Pingsheng: "What do you think?"

He Pingsheng smiled and said: "Then I'm sorry, I'm afraid I cannot fulfill your wishes!"

"In three years, I cannot reach the tenth layer of Qi Refining!"

Once these words were spoken, Xiao Xuan and the old man immediately laughed.

Xiao Xuan said: "He Pingsheng, is your aptitude so trash that you can't reach the tenth layer in three years?"

"To tell you the truth, I started cultivating at twenty, and it only took me two years and nine months to go from the first layer to the tenth!"

"Compared to me, you really are too trash!"

He had intended to use his beautiful cultivation speed to fiercely slap He Pingsheng's face.

But He Pingsheng had no change in expression and said: "No, no, no... Senior Brother Xiao, you may have misunderstood!"

"I am not like you, having only one thing to do every day, which is cultivation!" He Pingsheng said: "I have other things to be busy with!"

Xiao Xuan said: "What things?"

He Pingsheng said: "A date... Every ten or fifteen days, I still have to go to Tianfu Mountain to find my Qiao Shijie Qiao, to talk and chat. How could I possibly find time to cultivate?"

Pfft...

Hearing these words from He Pingsheng, Xiao Xuan almost spat out a mouthful of old blood. ===== CHAPTER 114 =====