Chapter 6: Ten Feet in One Step

Qiu Zhong knelt at the county government office for a whole day, finally fainted and fell to the ground, and was sent home by a kind-hearted person.

There was still discussion on Archway Street, saying that today's Young Master Ji didn't even dare to go to the Qiu family again.

But what no one saw was that when the stars and moon rotated that night, air waves circled the empty street, the clouds in the night sky shattered, and it didn't stop all night, making the scar that pierced the night sky even more terrifying.

The steward of the Kuang family got up in the middle of the night at the hour of the pig, walked into the courtyard, and suddenly felt that tonight's night sky was brighter than usual.

And under the same sky, Heavenly Tian Shuyuan Wang Jiaoxi Cao Jingsong looked at the distant sky with a heavy heart, recalling the aura in the Ji residence.

Private cultivator...

A private cultivator in the Upper Realm of Condensation and Transformation who was not yet twenty, only one step away from the perfection of the Lower Three Realms.

This kind of thing is truly shocking.

But what is even more outrageous is... that person clearly entered the Upper Realm of Condensation and Transformation at dusk, and then actually started rushing toward the perfection of the Lower Three Realms again, and it has been a full two hours until now!

Could it be that he really thinks someone can break through two realms in one day?

You must know that for thousands of years, from Condensation to the perfection of cultivation, the shortest time was half a year, and even the peerless geniuses who ascended and left were like this, without exception!

This is no longer a question of whether it can succeed, but that he really isn't afraid of death!

Yuyang County belongs to Fengzhou, and Cao Jingsong's secular ancestral home is also in Fengzhou, but for a hundred years, Fengzhou has not had a person who reached the perfection of the Lower Three Realms before the age of twenty.

He cherishes talent, so he didn't show his feelings on Archway Street. His original intention was to wait for him for a year, pretend not to know, and then accept him into the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan next year.

But he didn't expect that talent doesn't cherish life.

But Cao Jingsong can also understand that he is so reckless with his life, it should be for the secular girl who is about to be caught to make medicine. A private cultivator in the Upper Realm of Condensation and Transformation is still a private cultivator and cannot see the light. He only needs to reach perfection before the girl goes up the mountain to shed his secular register, enter the immortal register, join the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan, and ask the sect to protect her.

But it is a pity that he will soon know that perfection overnight is wishful thinking.

But after the breakthrough fails, if this child sees the girl being taken up the mountain again, his Dao heart might shatter, and even if it doesn't shatter, he will definitely have a deep heart demon...

Because he cherishes talent, Cao Jingsong is worried.

Just at this moment, Pei Ruyi just finished her cultivation, suddenly saw the sighing Wang Jiaoxi Cao in the courtyard, observed for a long time and showed doubt, so she pushed the door and walked out.

She always felt that since the private cultivator appeared in Yuyang County, the instructor had been a bit heavy-hearted.

"Wang Jiaoxi? It's so late, why are you still in the courtyard?"

"Fengxian Shanzhuang is coming to visit tomorrow. You ask County Magistrate Fang to invite the Qiu family father and daughter. The two of us will find a way to protect the Qiu family girl."

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The next day at dawn, the day for tax collection and offering payment had arrived. Carriages and horses were endless in Yuyang County, and voices were noisy. Except for the soap class hall servants, the fast class division and the strong class division went to the streets one after another to clear and count the offerings with the supply vehicles.

But what received the most attention was still the matter of the Qiu family girl.

Because this morning, the immortals from Fengxian Shanzhuang came to Yuyang County and visited the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan immortals staying at the county government office.

Then, bailiffs went outside the city and brought Qiu Ru to the county government office. Old Qiu was unwilling to let go, so he was also escorted over. Only Li Shuping was left in the family of three, fainting in the courtyard on the spot.

Everyone who heard about this sighed. The Qiu family, from now on, I'm afraid it will be a broken family.

Fang Ruoyao stood in the corridor at this time, surrounded by people seeing her off, such as Jia Sicong, Dong Wei, etc., and even Xiang Kuangcheng was urged by his elders to come.

Among them, a young man named Guo Zixing arrived late, unable to help but look full of apologies.

"Just passed by Archway Street, a strange buzzing sound that made my heart tremble came, so I took a few more looks and was late. What are the immortals saying now?"

"They... they are talking about the Qiu family matter. The immortal from Fengxian Shanzhuang is not very kind."

Fang Ruoyao said while watching, a trace of doubt flashing in her eyes.

Back then, the Seven Great Immortal Sects had an agreement not to interfere with each other's religious affairs.

She didn't understand why the instructor had never asked about the Qiu family girl since coming to Yuyang, why he suddenly changed his attitude today...

In the blink of an eye, the time reached noon. The grain carts sent out by the county government office had already pulled back the Great Xia tax offerings and were registering and entering the warehouse in front of the door, but the atmosphere in the hall became even more solemn.

This was originally the time for them to set off for Shengjing. Fang Ruoyao was a bit anxious, not knowing if they could set off today.

And unlike her, others were more concerned about whether the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan could protect the Qiu family girl. After all, going to the capital was only Miss Fang's own matter, and whether the Qiu family girl could be protected was more curious.

It was just that looking at the situation in the hall, Fengxian Shanzhuang didn't seem to buy it, and the atmosphere began to become more and more tense.

It seems that even the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan, which is the number one sect in the world, cannot really order all immortals. This Qiu family girl is afraid she will still be unable to escape death.

And just at this moment, a bailiff guarding the county government office ran over in a hurry, panting for a while, and almost hit the corridor pillar in a panic.

"Reporting to Young Lady, that... that Young Master Ji is here."

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Fang Ruoyao and the people seeing her off couldn't help but come back to their senses, looked at each other, and felt strange: "What is he doing here?"

The bailiff shook his head: "The little one doesn't know."

"Could it be to plead for the Qiu family girl?"

Jia Sicong, who was on the side, laughed after hearing this: "No, no. If he really wanted to plead, why didn't he come the day before yesterday, and why didn't he come yesterday, but chose today? I think... he is here to see Miss Fang off to the capital. This person is deeply afraid of being implicated by the Qiu family, and has been hiding at home for two days, but specially came to boost Miss Fang's courage. It can be called deep affection."

Hearing this, the crowd in the corridor couldn't help but laugh.

A few days ago, Fang Ruoyao held a banquet for guests but didn't invite him. Unexpectedly, he was like a clown with a painted face, actually rushing to stick his hot face to someone else's cold butt.

Fang Ruoyao also frowned after hearing this and looked at the bailiff: "Brother Zhong, trouble you to help me stop him, just say I accept his heart, and tell him to go back."

"Stopped... stopped, but couldn't stop."

"Why couldn't you stop him?"

The bailiff surnamed Zhong swallowed his saliva and said tremblingly: "Reporting to Young Lady, that Young Master Ji, for some reason, is glowing all over..."

"???"

After hearing the bailiff's report, everyone couldn't help but pause, thinking to themselves what "glowing all over" meant. But before anyone could open their mouth to ask, a violent air wave suddenly rose at the door.

From the door to the front hall was a courtyard surrounded by corridors, planted with many autumn chrysanthemums that County Magistrate Fang loved.

It was this violent wave that passed through the door, and all the autumn chrysanthemums fell to the ground at this moment. Then a figure stepped like the wind, ten feet in one step, with spiritual light splashing all over his body, shaking people so much that it was difficult to open their eyes.

Then, Ji You appeared out of thin air in the courtyard, air waves surging around his body, the momentum like a beating drum.

If the usual Young Master Ji was a monkey without a proper shape in everyone's eyes, a timid rat.

But at this moment, he was like a white-forehead tiger, with surging momentum, and it was a posture of going down the mountain. Just a sidelong glance made people feel extremely sharp.

And besides the spiritual light and momentum, the Young Master Ji in front of them seemed to have changed into a set of clothes.

He usually wore an old indigo shirt, but now he had changed into a cloud-patterned brocade robe with gold threads, as if the playboy who ran rampant on the street had come back to life, but with a bit more transcendent immortal intent than before.

Among the younger generation in Yuyang County, Xiang Kuangcheng was publicly recognized as the most upright and elegant. But the decline of the Ji family seemed to make many people forget that, in fact, the original Ji You was not inferior.

It was in this instant that the entire corridor was silent, and countless gazes kept gathering on the figure in the spiritual light.

Jia Sicong, Dong Wei, Fang Ruoyao... everyone was horrified, and even someone like Xiang Kuangcheng, who didn't smile, opened his eyes wide at this moment.

Since the Ji family suffered a disaster, no one in the county could look down on that Young Master Ji.

Especially this time, he hid at home for two days without even stepping out of the door, which made everyone laugh at him for a long time.

In their view, this Young Master Ji would not hide for a lifetime, and after the girl was sent to the mountain, even if he was afraid, he should come out.

By then, seeing this Young Master Ji again, there would be a few more taunts in everyone's mouths.

Just like when the Ji family suffered a disaster and the Fang mansion broke off the engagement, laughing at him for being timid, laughing at him for being as timid as a mouse, laughing at him for being a person to this extent, it would be better to go die.

Or, take Miss Fang having reached Shengjing to enter the Dao to stimulate him, jokingly saying a few words of ridicule about whether Young Master Ji intended to rely on his wife to be expensive.

But what they never expected was that Ji You would arrive today with a posture of stepping like the wind, ten feet in one step...

Immortal...

Momentum surging to the sky, like a tiger going down the mountain.

That Ji You who hid at home for two days without coming out, is an immortal...

And the one who couldn't come back to her senses the most was that Miss Fang who once had an engagement with him.

As early as five days ago, she received the news of being selected for the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan, and since then, she had always regarded herself as a cultivator, speaking every day about how the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan is, how we cultivators are, and so on.

But until today, when she saw Ji You's immortal light surging and air waves like the sea, she knew.

It turned out that in front of the fiancé she had forcibly broken off the engagement with, she, who had always regarded herself as a cultivator, was just an ordinary mortal.

"How is it possible..."

"He clearly, had been hiding at home..."

Fang Ruoyao opened her eyes wide, as if she had seen a fantasy.

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