Inside the room was total chaos, with angry shouts thundering and punches echoing. Occasionally, there would be the sound of someone grunting and specks of blood could be seen flying out.
As the saying goes, fours hands are hard to defend against with only two. There was already a large difference between their levels and Yang Kai’s, not to mention it was one against five. How could he possibly hold against them on his own?
Attacking out once at someone, he would have to endure four or five hits himself.
Not to mention the power of these Disciplinary Disciple’s strikes. Each strike was strong and landed on flesh. Although they weren’t life-threatening to Yang Kai, after taking so many strikes, anybody would need to lay in bed for one or two months to recuperate.
“Stop!” After a good half an hour, the Qi Transformation Staged Disciplinary Disciple called out angrily and quickly leapt away from the battle scene, “Don’t hit him anymore. If you hit him further, he will die.”
The remaining four quickly leapt back and looked at Yang Kai who lay on the floor, with a bit of fear and worry.
“My Lord!” Amongst them, one of them held their cheeks and said, “Being hit by him once, nearly caused me to lose my tooth.”
Another clutched at his crotch, a face full of fear. “Do you think that is considered serious?! You goddam daddy here nearly lost his future generations. If I had not dodged in time, then the one lying on the floor would be me.”
Dodging at the crucial moment, the blow had landed on his thigh, causing him to feel scalding pain. A hit that was from Yang Kai struggling with all his might was extremely powerful. Even thinking about it now, left him with shivers.
They looked at each other, staring blankly, because in that situation with such a disparity in their strengths, each one of them had a visible injury from Yang Kai; this was after weakening him and knocked him to the ground!
This caused the five people to be stupefied! Their five faces then became embarrassed, isn’t this too embarrassing?
How could a trial Disciple, who was only at the Initial Element Third Stage, be this savage? Just then while they were beating him up, they didn’t think too much about it. But thinking it over now, it was all quite inconceivable.
“Pu……..” A sound was heard. Looking for the origin of the sound, five gazes fell on Yang Kai who should have been paralysed, who was struggling to stand up as he spat out the blood in his mouth.
His body looked dark and unclear, with great changes occurring, his skin started to shine with a red light. An extremely hot feeling could be felt emanating from him like a ten million-year-old volcano was erupting.
“This Yuan Qi aura…….” The Qi Transformation Staged Disciple’s face showed a trace of fear, “Something’s not quite right.”
How was it possible for Yuan Qi to be emitted from an Initial Element Third Stage? This was clearly the aura of someone at the peak of the Initial Element Stage, and with another step, they would be in the Qi Transformation Stage.
“You are still able to stand?” A person said with their eyes wide open, nearly biting their tongue in the process. Even if it was him who had been beaten like that, he wouldn’t even have enough strength to lift a finger. How could he stand up?
“He’s coming!” Someone else suddenly cried out in alarm. Just as the words were spoken, the previously tottering Yang Kai produced a large gale and sprinted to the five in front of him.
Halfway there, Yang Kai’s fist became blazing, like a piece of metal that had just been taken out of a furnace.
The person who had cried out immediately activated his Yuan Qi and clashed with Yang Kai’s fist.
‘Bang’ it rang out, then the Disciplinary Disciple flew backwards and smashed into the wall. His throat gurgling, he spat out a mouthful of blood, meanwhile, Yang Kai’s body only lightly shook as he went to the next person already.
“Impudent!” The Qi Transformation Stage Disciplinary Disciple was agitated and angered. His five fellow Disciples were not only unable to knock down a single opponent; instead, their enemy was given the chance to retaliate. If this was spread out, wouldn’t it be a scandal? Where in the world could he show his face?
In a fit of anger, the Qi Transformation Staged Disciple sent out his palm. Condensing his Qi from his dantian, he shouted out, “Strengthened Revolving Cyclone!”
Inside the room, a splitting wind howl sounded and from his hand, a small cyclone appeared. It directly went to confront Yang Kai’s fist.
Snap, snap, snap………echoed out, while the clothes on Yang Kai’s arm looked like they were being repeatedly cut by razor blades, turning into shreds in just moments. His entire arm was covered in bloody cuts.
Both of Yang Kai’s blood red eyes contained astonishment. Gathering up his Yang Yuan Qi, it exited his body via the cuts on his arm to block his opponent’s Martial Skill.
‘Ah’ rang out, as a blazing energy exploded within the room.
Yang Kai’s Yuan Qi stopped that Qi Transformation Staged Disciple’s Strengthened Revolving Cyclone and set it on fire.
Within the blazing cyclone, Yang Kai punched out towards that Qi Transformation Stage Disciple’s palm. Upon impact, both sides retreated a few steps.
“Why are you guys standing around distracted? Go attack!” The Qi Transformation Stage Disciple’s palm was very red. He never thought that his opponent’s Yuan Qi was this unusual. Although he hadn’t suffered any injuries, no matter what, he still had suffered some deficit. In a rage, he immediately howled out.
The other three Disciplinary Disciples who were in a stupor now awoke and rushed up to surround Yang Kai once again. Facing Yang Kai, they were in for more painful attacks.
The person who had been sent flying by Yang Kai first also charged back in a fit of anger.
In a short while, the four people stopped their attacks. Now being semi-breathless, they held treacherous expressions as they retreated ten feet.
Their strengths were currently being suppressed by his younger Disciple’s savage might.
The second time they gathered to beat him up, the results were drastically smaller!
The injuries that Yang Kai sustained this time were far greater, but……these four people had paid a certain price to achieve this.
“He wouldn’t stand up again, would he?” One of them covered their mouth coughing while asking this question. Finishing his coughing, there was a small pool of blood in his palm.
“He shouldn’t, after all, he has been injured to this state.” Another one was massaging his eye. There, a bruise had already formed, while a nasty blister was present like it had been constantly burned by boiling water.
Within their five hearts, they all felt extremely bitter. They thought the reason why they had suffered so much this time was because of his strange strength.
Within this small and narrow room, although it was five against one and it looked easy to beat him up, they couldn’t exert all their might, whereas Yang Kai was surrounded. This allowed him to use his full power, but if it was an open environment, they would be able to use their full power. Then it wouldn’t be such a bad result, right?
But…..this junior Disciple called Yang Kai, his strength was really something else. An ordinary Initial Element Stage cultivator could not possibly be his opponent. It was no wonder Wei Zhuan lost under his hand.
Just as the five of them thought they had beaten Yang Kai down, he unexpectedly started to move again. Weakened beyond compare, like a wolf without fangs, bit by bit, cun by cun he stood up. Not only had his Yuan Qi aura not diminished, it had strengthened.
“Curses!” That Qi Transformation Stage Disciple clicked his tongue, what sort of freak was this junior Disciple? No matter how they attacked him, why didn’t he fall unconscious?
“Don’t come over. If you come over, we will really beat you to death!” The Disciple with a bruised eye shouted out, making a lot of noise, but there was no real strength behind it.
This was an extremely funny sight to behold because the ones who were attacking were gathered in a bunch telling the one who was getting beaten to not come over. While the one who was getting beaten was quite confused, covered in blood he slowly made his way over. Step by step, he walked over to the group of five.
Each step was heavy, tottering and unsteady, as though he would collapse in the next moment. But he still paced forward, step by step.
If not for the wall behind them, the five people would keep on retreating.
The sound of several people gulping down mouthfuls of water rang out. “Senior Brother, what should we do?” Someone asked nervously from amongst the bunch because he feared that if they continued to beat Yang Kai, he would die.
“My lord, he is a freak!” The Qi Transformation Staged Disciple swore as his eyelids flickered and he clenched his teeth before replying, “We can’t care about that anymore. If he comes over, we shall attack! This time, we must knock him unconscious!”
“Okay!” The remaining four replied a bit begrudgingly.
Just as these five were being extremely alert, a great sense of foreboding arose in their hearts, the temperature within the room dropped by several degrees. Cracking sounds echoed throughout the room, loud enough for all of them to hear. When the five people turned their heads to look, they saw that on all four walls was a thin layer of ice.
“What is happening?” One person asked questioningly, before starting to shiver.
“Boom” rang out as the room’s door was kicked open by someone.
“Who is it!” The Qi Transformation Staged Disciplinary Disciple called. Turning around his mouth became as large as a duck’s egg, and no matter what, he couldn’t muster the strength to close it.
Although the temperature within the room was rapidly decreasing, a thin layer of cold sweat still appeared on that person’s forehead as he gazed at the female at the door. Stammering, he muttered, “Sen-Senior Sister Su Yan!”
“Senior Sister Su Yan?” The four other’s expressions changed greatly.
Looking over, there was a stunning beauty with a cold and indifferent expression, wearing white robes standing there.
She was like a never dying, never aging, eternally blooming snow lotus on the mountain-top, carrying with her a biting cold as she descended to the mortal realm; she was that noble, that cold. As her beautiful eyes swept across the room, the five Disciples felt greatly inferior to her and unconsciously lowered their heads.
Su Yan had hurriedly rushed all the way from Black Wind Market over to the Forest Prison. Thinking that Su Mu was entrapped here, she charged in but felt traces of a battle occurring here, so she had rushed here instead.
Opening the door, the sight she beheld her made her heart slightly shiver.
Inside the room were six people, five were Disciplinary Hall Disciples, with one at the Qi Transformation Second Stage and the rest at the Initial Element Stages. The other person covered in blood and dirty rags, shaking and stumbling yet within his eyes, was a strong gaze of refusal to yield.
This person…….she had met before!
Yang Kai! Su Mu had brought him over to Black Wind Trade once, he was the Trial Disciple that had defeated Cheng Shao Feng!
Sending out her Divine Sense to examine the scene, Su Yan was stunned. Examining Yang Kai, she discovered that he was full of injuries; although those injuries weren’t enough to take his life, with his strength, it should be impossible to remain standing and conscious.
How strong was his willpower in order to remain standing and not fall?
In this short while, Su Yan had understood what had more or less occurred in this room. Rarely did emotions ripple in her heart, but this time she was slightly angered.
With a flash, Su Yan appeared at the side of Yang Kai to support him. Sending out her ice-cold True Yuan Qi, she controlled it heal his injuries inside and outside of his body.
If you thought about it, it was slightly strange. That was because as soon as the ice cold energy entered his body, the fiery energy in his body receded and his fuzzy mind became much clearer.
A pure and crisp aroma lingered at the edge of his nose, Yang Kai turned his head to look at Su Yan, his fierce expression gradually disappeared.
It was like he was sitting on a snowy mountain, all he felt was a cool and crisp breeze, eliminating all noises and shapes from the outside world. With her at his side, Yang Kai couldn’t help but think of taking her hand and living in seclusion with her.
“Who attacked him?” Su Yan calmly asked them in her cold voice.
The five Disciplinary Disciples trembled as they looked at each other. Heads lowered as they spoke, “We all had.”
In front of Su Yan, to lie to her was sullying and pouring dirt on her. That nobility and grandeur caused all of them to speak the truth in front of her.
Su Yan nodded her head “Very good!”
After she said her piece, she supported Yang Kai and step by step she walked out of the room.
It wasn’t until Su Yan’s figure could no longer be seen, that the five gasped for breath. By then, they felt as if they had escaped a great calamity.
But before the five of them could rejoice, they suddenly felt great fear. Looking at the doorway, they saw a small patch of ice that had expanded quickly to the size of a palm. This palm-sized piece of ice was in the shape of a snowflake.
“Pa” rang out as five snowflakes disintegrated. Following this, the five Disciples dropped to the ground in pain as they felt their Yuan Qi disappear along with the destruction of the snowflakes. Along with their Yuan Qi’s disappearance, they all suffered numerous wounds.
“So powerful! She’s truly worthy of the title as number one!” The Qi Transformation Staged Disciplinary Disciple’s face paled with fear as he trembled from the cold.
He was completely unable to see how Su Yan was able to attack. Without any notice, she had planted her attack.
If it wasn’t because the Senior Sister was so calm, it wouldn’t be as easy as receiving a few light wounds. With her strength, if she really wanted to take their lives, it would be as simple as pinching and breaking snail shells.
Outside the room, Yang Kai was still walking with staggering steps. Hearing the sounds behind him, he turned his head in amazement towards Su Yan, “You actually attacked them?”
Su Yan’s long eyelashes slowly close before asking, “En. You’re fine right?”
“I’m fine.” Yang Kai nodded his head, “Oh right, go and free Li Yun Tian and the others.”
“What about Su Mu?” Su Yan asked.
“I don’t know.” Yang Kai slowly nodded his head, “He hadn’t been locked up. He has probably been sent back, as those people didn’t dare to make a move on Su Mu.”
Hearing this, Su Yan finally let out a breath of relief.
The two people swiftly walked deep into the Forest Prison. Not long after, they arrived at the cell in which Li Yun Tian and the rest were imprisoned. Seeing Yang Kai and Su Yan arm in arm, and with such intimacy shocked them to no end. On the spot, their eyes dropped to the ground and they all forgot how to breathe.
[Oh heavens! If you could just allow me to be so close to Senior Sister Su, even in death, I would be satisfied!] Li Yun Tian and the others were jealous to death.“All of you come out.” Su Yan raised her hand and broke the door’s lock.
“Ah…” This group of people involuntarily let out gasps and stupidly walked out. Ten pairs of eyes all were fixed on Yang Kai and Su Yan’s figures.
No matter how collected Su Yan’s expression was, being watched by them like this, she couldn’t help but become a bit frigid.
“Come, I’ll take you guys out.” Su Yan continued with her cold but beautiful face. Supporting Yang Kai, she walked at the front while Li Yun Tian and the rest followed behind them.
Not long after, this group of people walked out of the Forest Prison. As they walked out, the sun’s bright rays assaulted their eyes, causing them to narrow their eyes. As they did, around one hundred Disciplinary Hall Disciples greeted and surrounded them.
“Such a big fuss!” Yang Kai coldly called out, “Senior Sister, this is probably catered to counter you right?”
Su Yan didn’t answer. She only swept her eyes across the group of people, she continued to support Yang Kai and advance forward.
No one dared to block their way. All of the Disciplinary Hall Disciples in their way scattered with fear in their eyes, in their eyes, automatically moving to the side and making way.
All eyes gradually converged to Su Yan and Yang Kai, whom she was supporting. Their gazes, which held traces of envy and jealous, were accompanied by a sour atmosphere.
Before now, they had never seen Su Yan be intimate with a male. Even those outstanding Core Disciples had never received such attention.
What Su Yan cultivated was the Ice Heart Secrets. With her heart frozen these many years, even usually when she talked to males who were close to her, she was still quite cold.
Every High Heaven Pavilion Disciple, no matter how powerful they were, no matter how high their status, every one of them had to be extremely careful around her so as to make sure as to not offend this beauty in any way. But now, she actually took the initiative to support a youth only at the Initial Element Third Stage. Her white as jade hands rested on his waist, while her icy face was tinted a light shade of red, accentuating her beauty.
The originally hard to reach person seemed far more approachable now!
All of these male High Heaven Pavilion Disciples’ hearts all shattered. This was because their untouchable goddess seemed as if she was being sullied by her contact with mere mortals.
The person who had sullied their goddess was standing right in front of them. He was being supported by their goddess, smelling their goddess’ scent, feeling the softness of the goddess’ hands and enjoying treatment that none of them would dream of enjoying!
“There is murderous intent!” The corners of Yang Kai’s mouth turned up forming an unusual smile. And as Su Yan strode forwards, he followed like a fox exploiting the tiger’s might, grinning.
Walking confidently in front of these people, a petite looking male was standing in Su Yan and Yang Kai’s way. Within that person’s gaze was sweetness and tenderness with subtle hints of jealousy and unhappiness.
Su Yan suddenly stopped, lifting up her head to look at him.
“Move aside!” Her cold voice rang out. It was dull and unfeeling, leaving one unable to sense any of the speaker’s emotions.
The male bitterly smiled, shaking his head. “Junior Sister, please don’t make things difficult for this Senior Brother. This Senior Brother is only doing his duty!”
This was High Heaven Pavilion’s second strongest Disciple, Xie Hong Chen.
“Move aside!” Su Yan repeated these words, unwilling to say another word to that person.
Xie Hong Chen helplessly repeated. “Junior Sister, these people cannot leave right now! They have offended Zong Gui, and the Grand Elder has said previously that no one can take them away from here. ”
“Zong Gui?” Yang Kai took a step forward with a sneer, “I dare ask who this is this Senior Brother? Which Zong Gui have I offended?”
Xie Hong Chen looked at him with a gaze full of disgust and snorted out, “Gathering for a gang fight, murder of a person and disrespecting Disciplinary Disciples. Any one of these would be enough to expel you from High Heaven Pavilion.”
“Gathering to fight?” Su Yan spoke out, “Fight with who? Since it was a gang fight, there should be an opponent right? So why did your Disciplinary Hall only restrain one side? Where are the other culprits?”
Xie Hong Chen’s expression was priceless as he was left speechless. The other side was naturally Wei Zhuan’s underlings, so how could they dare to restrain them.
“Murder? Then where is that person’s corpse?”
Xie Hong Chen forced out a smile and immediately went to explain “Attempted, attempted to kill someone, but luckily he was stopped in time by our Disciplinary Hall. We avoided a bad outcome.”
“The life and death of Disciples in the Main Gate, while they are comparing notes, is a matter for the Disciples themselves to manage! If it was to be managed according to your words, then every Disciple that compares notes would be attempting to commit murder? Then all of the Disciplinary Disciples would be running all across High Heaven Pavilion to imprison every Disciple right?” Su Yan’s expression was unsympathetic, her tone ice-cold, “What else was there, disrespecting Disciplinary Disciples, if you Disciplinary Disciples can really be just and fair, then who would disrespect you? This person who is supposed to represent Zong Gui has long since fallen and become a mere tool in a power struggle, extinguishing his own dignity. No wonder he is stepped on!”
“Junior Sister…” Xie Hong Chen’s smile was extremely dry and tart, he was looking helpless beyond compare, and “Do you really need to speak so frankly?”
“True or false, you know which is which in your heart.”
Xie Hong Chen’s expression dimmed and he said in a low voice: “Junior Sister, I have accepted your sincerity to me, so why are you still making things difficult for me?”
Su Yan indifferently responded. “If Senior Brother’s words were heard by Zhao Fei Xue, Junior Sister Zhao, how do you think she will feel?”
Zhao Fei Xue, like Xie Hong Chen and Su Yan, was a Core Disciple of High Heaven Pavilion. But this female’s relationship with Xie Hong Chen was unclear.
Xie Hong Chen’s entire body shook, looking at Su Yan his gaze was filled with grief as he lamented his current situation, but he was left with no way out. Moving his gaze, he glared at Yang Kai, directing all of his complaints to him.
Yang Kai was still calm, showing no fear towards him.
“You are called Yang Kai?” Xie Hong Chen forcibly suppressed his inner grievances and asked. Any male who saw the girl he liked supporting and being intimate with another male, who wouldn’t feel anguish.
“How will Senior Brother enlighten me?”
“I know that these events were caused by you. If not for you, then there wouldn’t be all these inconveniences. If you don’t want to pull Junior Sister Su into any trouble you have caused, then obediently return to your cell and save me the trouble of doing it myself.” Xie Hong Chen indifferently said. He couldn’t convince Su Yan and was unable to raise his hand against Su Yan, so he could only turn towards Yang Kai.
Yang Kai only smiled.
“What are you smiling about?” Xie Hong Chen asked with a frown on his face.
Yang Kai’s entire body was covered in blood, causing his appearance to be quite appalling. As he smiled, he slowly took Su Yan’s jade-like hand that was on his waist. Taking it into the palm of his hand, he slowly patted her hand and turned his head towards Su Yan and said in a very sweet tone. “I also don’t want to implicate Senior Sister, but with the sincerity I have received from her, I really can’t fail to live up to that. So, I can only allow her to do whatever she wants.”
Xie Hong Chen’s expression paled meanwhile Su Yan remained stationary as if she was rooted to the spot, her face perplexed.
The jaws of Li Yun Tian and the rest fell to the ground and from within their throats, emerged a strange creaking sound. But no matter what, they couldn’t say a single word.
While the surrounding hundred or so Disciplinary Disciples only felt that each of their hearts had been split open. Each and every one of them was left dumbstruck!
“Senior Sister, am I right?” Yang Kai didn’t seem to take in the critical state of things and still poured salt into the wound.
Xie Hong Chen looked towards Su Yan with extreme nervousness, unwilling to hear an answer that he didn’t like.
Su Yan suddenly turned her body around.
Despite growing this old, she had never been treated this way by a male before, her hand was actually held within his and being wantonly felt. That coarse hand with callouses rubbing against her skin continuously felt painful yet warm.
Su Yan was extremely angry! Turning around, she wanted to send Yang Kai flying, but looking at him, she understood what he wanted to do. Suppressing her urge to hit him, Su Yan faintly nodded her head and honestly replied. “Yes!
While she responded, she formed a stream of energy and sent it into Yang Kai’s meridians.
Yang Kai suddenly groaned and from his nostrils came two streams of blood.
“Why did you start to bleed?” While she said this, Su Yan also went to take out a silk cloth before tenderly wiping away the blood for Yang Kai.
“I can do it, I can do it!” A cold shiver came out from Yang Kai’s heart. Although this Senior Sister looked indifferent, he knew that if he touched her bottom line, then he would die ruthlessly under her hand.
“You guys…” Xie Hong Chen called out madly in jealousy. If previously he didn’t want to believe Su Yan’s words, now seeing that scene, he couldn’t help but question her feelings.
Had he ever seen Su Yan treat a male this tenderly and gently before? Had he ever seen Su Yan’s hand in another male’s hand without any resistance or reluctance?
It looked like she was really happy and willing. But with Su Yan’s strength, how could Yang Kai win her over?
“Junior Sister, you were born with privilege, how could you possibly take fancy to such trash?”
“Who are you calling trash?” Both Yang Kai and Su Yan simultaneously turned their heads; their expressions like raging tempests.
Like they had planned this beforehand like they shared the same mind, Yang Kai and Su Yan yelled out the same words. Even the tone and attitude with which they yelled at Xie Hong Chen was the same.
Xie Hong Chen became wholly stunned by their shout! Looking at Su Yan, his gaze full of pain, he miserably repeated his question. “How is he not trash? His status is merely that of a Trial Disciple and his cultivation is only at the Initial Element Third Stage. These type of people are clearly trash. Junior Sister, what could you possibly see in him?”
“You need not worry about our affairs!” Su Yan was such a great actress, taking full advantage of this opportunity to rid herself of Xie Hong Chen’s nagging, which she had suffered from all these years. She even used such intimate sounding words.
“Senior Brother, what’s wrong? You don’t seem too well.” Yang Kai said to Xie Hong Chen with a bit of ridicule.
“You shut up!” His expression darkened, Xie Hong Chen shouted at Yang Kai, “I am talking with my Junior Sister, so how are you qualified to interrupt?”
Yang Kai’s eyes narrowed and he laughed out loud.
“Trashes are Trash!” Xie Hong Chen had long since cast him away to god knows where. His handsome face contorted, unsightly as it could be, “When I was your age, I was already at the Qi Transformation Stage, while you are still only at the Initial Element Third Stage. Whereas now, I am at the peak of the Separation and Reunion Boundary. We have an entire two realm gap, with this how can you compare to me?”
“Senior Brother please wait and see!” Yang Kai didn’t waste words because some things couldn’t be explained, you could only do them to make others understand.
“Xie Hong Chen, I don’t want to tangle with you any further. Move aside, under the care of your Disciplinary Hall, he has suffered no small amount. I need to take him back to tend to his injuries!” Su Yan’s cold voice rang out.
“Today, no one shall be able to leave here!” Xie Hong Chen’s voice bellowed out. Looking at Su Yan with pain in his eyes, his entire body shook as he sent out the command. “Listen up Disciplinary Hall Disciples! no matter who tries to dash out, attack to kill! This is even more prevalent with regard to Senior Sister Su, you mustn’t be lenient with her.”
Love, hate, no matter which emotion, at that very hour, Xie Hong Chen expressed his intentions as clear as day.
*Hua hua hua…* after hesitating for a while, the hundred or so Disciplinary Disciples rushed forwards to engage. Once again, these Disciples surrounded Su Yan’s group.
“You are determined to do this?” From within Su Yan’s pair of crystal clear eyes, flashed a dangerous streak of light.
Xie Hong Chen forced out a bitter smile. “Junior Sister, I know that I am not your opponent. But if you really want to pass me forcibly today, then you will need to pass over my dead body!”
Since he was pushed to this point, he tried to use his courage and helplessness to move Su Yan.
Su Yan was so angered, her chest heaved up and down non-stop!
She didn’t fear the Disciplinary Hall Disciples, after all, her strength was at the True Element Third Stage. She was higher than Xie Hong Chen by three small stages and as soon as she used her Ice Heart Secrets, no one would be able to block her path.
But that could not be said the same for Yang Kai and Li Yun Tian’s group, which was destined to not have such an easy time.
After all, she was only one person and couldn’t possibly protect everyone under her wing.
Currently, they were in a deadlock because Su Yan didn’t dare to forcibly try to bring her group of people out, while the Disciplinary Disciples didn’t dare to initiate any attacks. Thus they remained stationary in their current positions.
Just as this group of the younger generation was causing such a large fuss, the High Heaven Pavilion Elders were having an earth-shaking argument in another part of the Sect.
In the Elders Hall, High Heaven Pavilion’s Grand Elder Wei Xi Tong, the Second Elder Su Xuan Wu, the Third Elder He Bei Shui, the Fourth Elder Zhou Fei and the Fifth Elder You Zi Zai had all gathered.
The five major elders sat in two opposing groups, one group was led by the Grand Elder Wei Xi along with the Fourth Elder Zhou Fei and the Fifth Elder You Zi Zai sitting behind him.
Similarly on the other side, sat the Second Elder Su Xuan Wu and the Third Elder He Bei Shui.
This represented the current Elder factions within High Heaven Pavilion.
The previously clashing Wei Zhuan and Su Mu were kneeling on the ground on their respective sides and narrated the things that had occurred earlier in the day.
Su Mu was the first one to speak and he spoke the truth, how he was first blocked and how he was first provoked. Also how he was humiliated when they were comparing notes, though regardless of the importance, he didn’t add any personal opinions.
After he finished the five Elders sat and didn’t say a word, only waiting for Wei Zhuan to narrate.
But when it came from his mouth, things didn’t quite match up with what Su Mu had said. Although it was about the same with regards to the beginning, Once he got to the moment Yang Kai appeared, he started to veer off. His tongue like silver, accompanied by mucus and tears, he tearfully cried out about how overboard Yang Kai acted and how he had a Treasure Weapon which he used to attack and destroy his Embroidered Cloud Locking Mail and how he had attempted to kill him.
With such a miserable tone, his heart-wrenching narration would be enough to bring his listeners to tears; just like a TV drama with its dramatic body language, he exaggerated the events by a hundredfold.
“You are lying!” Listening to this, Su Mu was indignant and couldn’t help by cry out.
“The truth is exactly so!” Wei Zhuan took the opportunity to embellish because Su Mu had been unconscious while the situation had played out, insisting on his truth.
“The truth my ass! You make a fuss out of nothing, you rumor starting and deceiving piece of trash! You don’t even need a script to lie.”
“Silence, all of you!” The Grand Elder repeatedly slapped his chair. Su Mu actually dared to curse his grandson like this in front of him, so how could he remain calm? But anger can only be anger, for it wasn’t appropriate for him to intervene in the disputes between the younger generation.
*Humph!* The Second Elder coldly snorted out.
The Grand Elder asked, “Both sides have said their parts, my fellow Elders, how do you view this?”
Although he had worded it like so, his eyes never left the Second Elder Su Xuan Wu as he wanted to know his opinion.
Su Xuan Wu responded. “What how do we view it? Isn’t it already extremely clear? The disputes between the younger generation and their duels should be settled amongst themselves. Why should we Elders be involved?”
The Grand Elder chuckled slightly, while the Fourth Elder Zhou Fei went to back up the Grand Elder. “Second Brother, what you said isn’t correct. Originally the situation should have been settled amongst the younger generation in their duels, but since that Yang Kai came, he caused a disturbance and complicated things.”
“How so? Under the eyes of everyone, he openly challenged Wei Zhuan to a duel and didn’t break any Main Gate rules. Wei Zhuan’s personal strength wasn’t sufficient, so if he was defeated, who is he to blame?” Su Xuan Wu was furious that his own grandson had been humiliated, so his tone naturally wouldn’t be courteous.
The Fourth Elder opened his mouth to speak. “If he really just challenged Wei Zhuan to compare notes then defeated him, then there wouldn’t be any problems! But during the battle, he had taken out a weapon and used that weapon to break Wei Zhuan’s Embroidered Cloud Locking Mail. The head has said, that in battles between fellow Disciples, one is unable to use weapons! That Yang Kai has clearly broken this rule, and should naturally receive the appropriate punishment!”
Su Xuan Wu laughed sarcastically “Old Four, the Head didn’t set any rules like that right? With the Head in seclusion these many years, someone has actually dared to change his rules?”
Thus clearly pointing fingers and hearing this, the Grand Elder was greatly moved. Wei Xi Tong said. “Oh? Then Second Brother, please tell us what the Head had said exactly?”
Su Xuan Wu sneered. “The Head said, that in the duels between Disciples, Disciples are not to use weapons, nor to use strength enhancing neither immortality pills nor Secret Artifacts! For duels, Disciples are only able to use their own Martial Skills and fists! Big brother, this, I haven’t said incorrectly right?”
The Grand Elder’s face turned grim, nodding his head he replied. “That is correct!”
“That’s right then!” Su Xuan Wu laughed nonstop, “In the duel between Wei Zhuan and Su Mu, why was he wearing a Defensive Artefact? Is this not breaking the Main Gate rules? How should we handle this?”
He didn’t ask about Yang Kai first, but went to rope in Wei Zhuan first, causing the Grand Elder to stare blankly at him, unable to respond.
“If Wei Zhuan really used his own skill to win against Su Mu, then it’s no wonder for Su Mu’s loss. But since Wei Zhuan was under the protection of his Defensive Artefact and used that protection to humiliate my grandson, First Brother how can this be endured?” Su Xuan Wu bellowed out in fury as he slammed his palm down on the arm of his chair, turning it into smithereens.
Wei Xi Tong couldn’t help but lower himself. “Second Brother, please quell your anger. Wei Zhuan’s Defensive Artefact was given to him by me, but that was only because I wanted to make sure he would be safe. But he was like a child and actually used the Artefact’s power to duel with others. This was Wei Zhuan’s fault.”
Right after this, an angry voice immediately sounded out “Wei Zhuan, why haven’t you apologised and admitted your wrongdoings to your Senior Brother Su yet?”
Wei Zhuan was extremely clever and immediately cupped his hands towards Su Mu, apologising, “Senior Su, this time it was this Junior Brother’s fault and he says his apologies to you. Senior Brother, you are a great person with great forgiveness, so please don’t care about my wrongdoings!”
*Humph!* Su Mu over exaggerated his disregard.
But since things had reached this point, how could Su Xuan Wu say anything else?
The Grand Elder explained, “Wei Zhuan was wrong, but Yang Kai committed a bigger violation of the rules. With a Divine Weapon in hand, he threatened to kill Wei Zhuan. If not for the Disciplinary Hall Disciples timely intervention, then I’m afraid that Wei Zhuan would have lost his life already. This was done with extremely evil intentions, so Yang Kai must be punished accordingly and used as an example to others.”
The Fourth Elder Zhou Fei and the Fifth Elder You Zi Zai both nodded their heads in agreement.
However the Second Elder laughed out coldly “Wei Zhuan broke the rules and only needed to apologise to be forgiven, meanwhile, Yang Kai needs to suffer the punishment? Could it be because Wei Zhuan is your grandson First Brother, so he can have special privileges? If this is the case, then how would our great Elder Council have any reputation and prestige in High Heaven Pavilion?”
Wei Xi Tong’s face turned grim: “Second Brother, your words are piercing. Yang Kai’s wrongdoings and Wei Zhuan’s wrongdoings cannot be put on the same level. Wei Zhuan only wore a Defensive Artefact to protect himself, not to hurt others. While Yang Kai’s weapon was used for attempted murder and could be used at any time in the future, so Second Brother, you should be able to see the differences!”
Su Xuan Wu replied. “I dare to ask First Brother, who has seen Yang Kai with this so-called treasure? If this weapon really existed, then why couldn’t the Disciplinary Hall Disciples confiscate it or find it on Yang Kai’s body? Old Four, did your Disciplinary Hall report of anything similar to that being found?”
The Disciplinary Hall came under the jurisdiction of the Fourth Elder Zhou Fei. When he was addressed, he merely shook his head and said: “Although it wasn’t found, under the eyes of the many Disciples present, they all saw Yang Kai holding a blood red blade, this is the undeniable truth.”
Su Xuan Wu laughed coldly, and then using his Yuan Qi, he formed a long and slender blade comprised completely of Yuan Qi. Although its form flickered, you could still feel its power and majesty.
“If this was the case, then am I not also in possession of a weapon?” Su Xuan Wu laughed mockingly, looking at the three opposing people facing him.
“This is only the fine use of Yuan Qi, how could it be considered as a weapon?” The Fifth Elder You Zi Zai shook his head faintly.
“Second Brother means that Yang Kai who is only at the Initial Element Third Stage can already use his Yuan Qi to this extent?” The Fourth Elder Zhou Fei looked at Su Xuan Wu with a smile, which was not a smile.
These words were such a joke. Because only when a martial practitioner reached the True Element Stage and their Yuan Qi became True Qi, were they able to form their Qi into a solid substance. While Yang Kai was only at the Initial Element Third Stage and the distance between it and the True Element stage was like a Heavens and Earths, How could he possibly have this ability?
“I didn’t say that his control over his True Yuan Qi had reached such a state, but have my fellow brothers, have you forgotten that Martial Skills can also make this possible?” Su Xuan Wu snorted out.
“Impossible. Even if he used such a peculiar Martial Skills, a mere Initial Element Third Stage martial practitioner cannot possibly destroy the Embroidered Cloud Locking Mail.” Wei Xi Tong replied while repeatedly shaking his head.
“There is nothing impossible in this world. It can only be that my fellow brothers have been far too busy snatching power these past years that you simply cannot keep up with the times!”
These words were slightly unpleasant to hear, and Wei Xi Tong’s face immediately turned cold. “Second, are you really insisting on protecting that Yang Kai?”
“So what if I am!” Su Xuan Wu suddenly stood up. “These affairs this time, in simple terms, it is only a duel between the younger generations, but you insisted on causing such a fuss. Since you insist, then I shall humour your endless pestering. You either punish both Yang Kai and Wei Zhuan, because they have both broken the Main Gate rules, sparing neither. Or this matter will be considered settled and no one shall pursue this matter any further.”
“That cannot do!” Wei Xi Tong rebuked this proposal in one go, “If it is as you say, then Yang Kai really used a weapon to break the Embroidered Cloud Locking Mail. But at such a young age, he is already this ruthless, so in the future, he will definitely stray off onto the wrong path. My High Heaven Pavilion cannot have such people!”
“He is only at the Initial Element Stage, how are you to know whether or not he will fall into depravity in the future? Could it be that First Brother can foresee the future?”
“Second Brother…….” Just as the Fourth Elder Zhou Fei was about to say something, he was cut short by a rage-filled shout from Su Xuan Wu. Pointing his finger at Zhou Fei’s nose, he cursed him. “Old Four, before the Sect Master went into seclusion, he left you in charge of the Disciplinary Hall. And in these past years, let’s see and what the Disciplinary Hall has done? Fair and just, when have they been so? If the Disciplinary Hall can only suppress disciples and enter a power struggle, then what use is it to you? Tomorrow I shall go to the Sect Master and ask him to strip you of your Disciplinary Hall duties! What a show!”
The Fourth Elder cursed till his eyes started to twitch in fury, but he couldn’t refute anything he had said and could only feel oppressed inside.
“Second brother, what if I am adamant about expelling Yang Kai from High Heaven Pavilion?” Wei Xi Tong asked with a face devoid of warmth.
“You dare!” Su Xuan Wu didn’t back down.
“Fine, then we shall follow those rules that the Sect Master had set, and decide by vote. If the Grand Elder’s opinion wins, then Second Brother should have no objections right?”
“He he, raising your hand and voting?” Su Xuan Wu laughed loudly, “First brother, you don’t really think that I, Su Xuan Wu, am an idiot right? To vote by raising your hand, is there any need for it?”
“This isn’t good, that isn’t good. Then what will satisfy you? Are you not even putting the Sect Master’s rules in your eyes?” Through this quarrelling, Wei Xi Tong had also been angered.
From within the Elder Hall, smoke was rising, so much so that it was about burst out.
“Calm yourselves. All of you calm yourselves and come and drink a cup of tea. Everyone, cool your heads.” The Third Elder who had yet to say anything finally intervened and advised them all to not act rashly.
The Third Elder was gentle in nature, and though he stood on the side of the Second Elder, he didn’t intervene in any of the disputes. Not to mention that his name is the exact same as his catchphrase, He Bei Shui, drink a cup of tea!
As soon as there was any friction between the Elders, he always mediated between them like this. It was just that the results weren’t very big.
“I won’t drink!” Both the First Elder and Second Elder bellowed out at the same time, looking at each other with distaste, refusing to comply with each other.
The Third Elder was left helpless and could only continue to enjoy it himself.
Just as the Elders were arguing and causing a ruckus, a person’s voice sounded out from outside the door. “This Disciple has some important information he needs to inform the Elders about!”
The Fourth Elder’s eyebrows immediately crinkled together and he promptly said. “Come in!”
While the Elders were discussing things, Disciples didn’t dare disturb them. Since someone came to disturb them, it must be something important regarding High Heaven Pavilion.
When the Elders were informed of this, they momentarily stopped their quarrels.
When that disciple walked in, the Fourth Elder Zhou Fei asked, “What is the matter?”
“Reporting to the Elders, someone has forcibly charged into the High Heaven Pavilion’s Forest Prison and saved the ruckus-causing Yang Kai, Li Yun Tian and the
“What?” The Fourth Elder immediately stood up on the spot, while the other Elders were also equally startled.
“Who is the one who is so daring, that they dared to charge into the Forest Prison to save them?”
That High Heaven Pavilion Disciple didn’t dare to reply and could only lift up his head and stare timidly.
Su Xuan Wu’s heart thumped and he suddenly had a bad premonition.
From all of this, the Grand Elder could work out what had happened and he immediately calmed down before instructing the disciple, “You, speak.”
“It’s… It’s Su Yan, Senior Sister Su!”
Once those words were spoken, the Grand Elder’s smile expanded greatly. More importantly, even the Fourth Elder and Fifth Elder looked at Su Xuan Wu weirdly, while the Third Elder continued to drink his tea.
Su Xuan Wu’s expression changed non-stop, angered to point he couldn’t stop grinding his teeth together, he shouted. “Did you see clearly? That person who had charged into the Forest Prison really was Su Yan?”
That Disciplinary Disciple was so scared that he trembled, and replied at once. “This Disciple saw it as clear as day. I clearly know of Senior Sister Su Yan’s name and fame and if the Second Elder doesn’t believe me, then you may make a trip to see for yourself!”
“No need.” Su Xuan Wu waved his hand and went on a spiritual journey. A short while later he had arrived at the Forest Prison and felt an ice cold chill. This type of chill, apart from Su Yan, no one else in the entire High Heaven possessed it.
This girl really didn’t know the severity of the situation, too reckless!
“Second brother, how would you view this situation?” The Grand Elder asked with an extremely large smile, holding his cup of tea as he waited for him to come back to his body. He was calm and unruffled as he asked.
At that moment, the Grand Elder was quite calm.
If both sides were refusing to allow each other to win, then this event would be the key allowing a side to win.
What type of place is the Forest Prison! That was the place where Disciples who had committed wrongdoings were placed in High Heaven! No matter if Yang Kai hadn’t committed any wrongdoing, if he was locked in there until a proper resolution had been made, he could not leave.
But now it was great, Su Yan had stormed the place and forcibly tried to take him away. A spur of the moment decision, the result was that she had gone and broken a major rule in High Heaven Pavilion!
If this wasn’t properly taken care of, even Su Yan would have to be punished!
Wei Xi Tong knew that Su Xuan Wu definitely wouldn’t allow Su Yan to be roped in. Since this was the case, he must take a step back and give him face, but of course, that would be on the premise that he was allowed to deal with Yang Kai!
Now that you think about it, none of these five elders was related to Yang Kai in any other way. Up until today, the big fuss they had caused was only for their own personal gain, fighting over the leadership of High Heaven Pavilion.
Now the Grand Elder felt that he would win this battle.
If this affair were to be spread out, then all of the disciples would think that his faction would be the true decision-making faction in High Heaven Pavilion. And then their goal would be achieved.
Su Xuan Wu’s face became ashen, and his expression struggled for quite a while, before saying in a resentful tone. “However First Brother wants to deal with it, then you shall deal with it!”
Since Su Xuan Wu was forced to concede, how could he have the mind to quarrel with them further? In order for Su Yan not to be punished, then Yang Kai must be sacrificed.
Where the hills are green, there will be wood to burn. In the future, there will always be a chance to get revenge!
“Old Ghost!” As soon as Su Mu heard those words, his eyes opened wide and looked at Su Xuan Wu in disbelief.
“What did you call me?” Su Xuan Wu flared up in anger like he was talking with his siblings.
“Father! You can’t be like this!” Su Mu immediately corrected himself.
“You have no right to say anything regarding this matter!” Su Xuan Wu glared at him fiercely.
“Senior Brother Yang has saved my life; you cannot ignore him! If you do not care about him, then that is being highly ungrateful!”
“You shut up!” All this speaking had caused Su Xuan Wu’s face to turn bright red, and although he was unwilling in a hundred different ways, he was under the knife and was fed this, what could he do?
With Su Mu chattering like an insect besides him, Su Xuan Wu’s hand lashed out in the air, immediately afterwards Su Mu froze like a statue, unable to move or speak only able to hear.
“Wait until we get home for me to deal with you!” Su Xuan Wu’s nostrils flared with heat and anger.
“He he!” The Grand Elder laughed with satisfaction, “Since Second Brother has no objections; then this shall be settled like this.”
Finishing, he looked at the disciple still standing there. “Send down this command, the Trial Disciple Yang Kai has repeatedly broken Main Gate rules, his actions ruthless thus the Disciplinary Hall will capture and imprison him in the Forest Prison until the Sect Master returns to decide his punishment. As for Su Yan… Since she is young and ignorant, and this was also her first offence, we shall not take it too seriously. What do my fellow Brothers think about it?”
How could the other Elders have any objections?
“Go then!” With a wave of his hand, an order tablet flew into the Disciplinary Hall Disciple’s hands.
The Elder Command, seeing this tablet was equivalent to seeing the person himself! With this order tablet, Su Yan would no longer dare to act recklessly.
“Yes!” That Disciplinary Hall Disciple received the order and swiftly walked out.
A short while later, from the direction of the door front came a blood-curdling scream, and the sound of someone falling to the ground could be heard. The Elder’s faces changed significantly, and just as they were standing up to find out what happened, a person’s voice was heard.
“Fellow Elders have such power to abuse.” The voice rang out, while a fat, old man with wispy white hair walked inside. When he walked inside, he was also carrying the Disciple who had just left, but he had been knocked unconscious, even the elders had been suppressed by this old man.
That man walked to the kneeling Wei Zhuan and Su Mu and casually lifted up one of his legs and kicked Wei Zhuan to the side “move! Don’t block my way!”
Wei Zhuan’s body flew out, as he wailed miserably.
In the Elder Hall, all five Elder’s faces were changing non-stop and Wei Xi Tong narrowed his eyes and said to the person. “Treasurer Meng?”
The person, who had just arrived, really was the Contribution Hall’s Meng Wu Ya!
Speaking of this person, all five Elders were confused.
Ten or so years back, this person had suddenly appeared in High Heaven Pavilion. They didn’t know what relationship he had with the Sect Master, but with this, he had started to reside in High Heaven and was in charge of the Contribution Hall. Many times, they had tried to inquire about him from the Sect Master, but each time they were left confused and without an answer.
But all five Elders knew that this person was an expert! They also knew that he was below their Sect Master.
Fortunately, this person had no goal and only spent his days inside the Contribution Hall, knowing his place. Because of this, they didn’t pay much attention to him.
But today he had come uninvited to this place.
Wei Xi Tong had a faint feeling, that when he was facing this Treasurer Meng, the pressure he felt was stronger than what it was like when he was facing their Sect Master.
In the midst of his smile, Wei Xi Tong began to speak. “May I ask as to why Treasurer Meng has come to my Elder Hall?”
Meng Wu Ya didn’t respond, he only smiled and looked at Su Xuan Wu. Su Xuan Wu, on the other hand, remained confused, thinking was it because his face had started to grow flowers, and otherwise why would he be looking at him?
“You think that your decision is correct?” Meng Wu Ya suddenly questioned?
“What?” Su Xuan Wu stared blankly.
“Sacrificing Yang Kai in order to save Su Yan, do you think your choice is correct?” Treasurer Meng asked before lightly chuckling.
Su Xuan Wu became greatly embarrassed and thought he had come to criticise him.
Meng Wu Ya continued. “If so, and you do this, managing to save Su Yan from her predicament, what would she think when she realises the reason for her safety?”
Su Xuan Wu stared ahead blankly before beads of perspiration fell from his forehead as he realised the severity of the situation.
“If you go through with this, then you will only create inner demons/guilt in her heart! She trains in the Ice Heart Secrets, so if this demons/guilt really appeared; you, more than anyone else, should know of the consequences.” Meng Wu Ya whispered into Su Xuan Wu’s ears, while he felt like he had been struck by lightning, a feeling of great remorse arose within him.
He had only thought about the short term benefits, and failed to see the disastrous long term effects it would have brought about for Su Yan. True, that by sacrificing Yang Kai he would save Su Yan, but as long as she lived every day she would think about how she was saved and how it was all from Yang Kai’s hard work. After thinking about it for a long time, she would become tormented by guilt, so how would her cultivation rise?
“Many thanks to Treasurer Meng for his pointers!” Su Xuan Wu respectfully responded.
*Ha ha.* Meng Wu Ya chuckled lightly, “Even if I didn’t say it, you would still have realised it. It’s only by then, it would have already been too late!”
The Grand Elder stood to the side, with an unreadable expression; after all this time, with great difficulty he had finally managed to find an advantage over his Second Brother, but just as things were about to come his way, Treasurer Meng appeared. With just a few words from him, how could his Second Brother willingly continue to raise his white flag? For Su Yan’s future prospects, he definitely wouldn’t concede this time.
Realising this, Wei Xi Tong’s face fell. “Treasurer Meng, this the Elder Hall of High Heaven Pavilion, no one, even elders, without a permit cannot enter here. I suggest you return from whence you came. ”
Meng Wu Ya merely glanced at him, backing away quietly, and then his figure suddenly flashed and reappeared on the highest place in the Elder Hall.
“Audacious!” Wei Xi Tong shouted out vigorously while the other couple of elder’s faces were all sharp with anger, they were all looking at Meng Wu Ya with rage.
Their issue wasn’t with him personally, but was due to the fact that seat belonged to the Head of High Heaven Pavilion and apart from the Head, no one else held the qualifications to be there. Even though these fellow elders had been struggling with each other over the years, not even the Grand Elder dared to occupy that position.
But now, a mere treasurer of the Contribution Hall of unknown origins dared to go to that place. How could these fellow elders not be angry? This was a complete insult to the entire sect!
“He he, everyone, please don’t get angry.” Meng Wu Ya laughed indifferently, and while stroking his beard he spoke, “I am here representing your Head and am only here to pass on a message!”
“Representing the Head?” The five elders shouted at the same time.
In recent years, even if it were the five elders who wanted to meet him, it was equivalent to reaching for the skies; they wouldn’t have thought that Treasurer Meng would have been able to meet him. And by his tone, it seemed that because of today’s events, he had some things he wanted to say.
[What is this all about? On an ordinary day, even if things flipped upside down, the Head wouldn’t intervene. So why did he intervene when it was just a small dispute been the younger generations?]“What is this, you should all recognise this right?” Within Meng Wu Ya’s hand, was a purple coloured jade pendant.
“The pendant of the Head!”
This jade pendant was the symbol of High Heaven Pavilion and was absolutely impossible to be counterfeited.
“Since you know, that’s good.” Meng Wu Ya smiled softly.
Wei Xi Tong asked in a pondering tone. “I’d like to ask, just what instructions did the Head want you to pass on?”
Even though it had been ten years since the Head had managed any of the affairs relating to High Heaven Pavilion, the prestige and power of his position hadn’t weakened a bit.
Meng Wu Ya replied. “Your Head said, you have made big things become small and small things become big, all these things are because of the name of the people involved! As the older generation, are you not ashamed to intervene in the problems of the younger generations? Aren’t you being a bit too shameless?”
Wei Xi Tong was shocked and finally spoke after a long period of time “The Head… The Head really said that?”
“Oh, that last part was my words. Your Head only said the first half!” Meng Wu Ya replied indifferently.
The five elders were angered to the point that they wanted to spit blood! This scolding was simply too over bearing!
“Also, Yang Kai has already entered the Initial Element Stage, so he should be promoted to being an Ordinary Disciple. After all, continuing to have his Trial Disciple status isn’t a good thing.”
“This, these are your words, or the head’s?” Wei Xi Tong asked with quite a lot of doubt.
“This was said by your Head.” Meng Wu Ya laughed a good amount, “Since I have transmitted these words already, then I shall leave you all now.”
With these words, he began walking down from the position.
The five elders all looked at each other and signalled each other with their eyes. Since the Head had already given his words, what else is left to discuss because it wasn’t really a big issue? They all caused such a fuss because of their own motives, so not pursuing, wouldn’t it be a simple task?
Su Xuan Wu laughed coldly and waved his hands before walking out. With the Head’s commands, he no longer needed to quarrel any further and when he reached the bottom of the hall; he carried Su Mu and quickly walked away.
Soon after the Second Elder had left, the Third Elder He Bei Shui also excused himself leaving only the Grand Elder’s faction in the Elder Hall.
The Fifth Elder You Zi Zai spoke. “First Brother, something’s not right. Today’s events were not that big, yet they moved the Head. Could there be some sort of conspiracy in it?”
The Fourth Elder also nodded his head in agreement. “Could it be that the Head wanted to send us a warning that he was still watching over High Heaven Pavilion?”
This was also the hidden guess that the Grand Elder had made, but he just wasn’t willing to admit it. Now that someone else had voiced it his heart gave a loud thump.
“Not matter what, we must retreat a step and in the future, no matter what, we must be careful, more careful.” The Grand Elder said, muttering to himself, “But you could try and probe around for the Head’s intention and see what the Head is really thinking about. See if he has any ideas about leaving seclusion and taking over High Heaven Pavilion, then I would have to become an assistant, but if he only acted on the spur of the moment… then this shouldn’t continue further in High Heaven Pavilion. There should be someone who can really take charge.”
“That’s right! But, how should we probe about?” The Fourth Elder asked softly.
“Didn’t the Head say to promote that Yang Kai to an Ordinary Disciple? Maybe we could gain something from that.”
“So it seems!” Both the Fourth Elder and Fifth Elder suddenly realised.
The Forest Prison, Su Yan, Xie Hong Chen and the rest were still facing off, no one daring to move.
This situation had already persisted for an entire thirty minutes; the cold air around Su Yan had gotten much stronger. If not for the fact that the Martial Skills that Yang Kai cultivated happened to suppress her Ice Heart Secrets, he might have long since been frozen to become an ice sculpture.
Just as they continued to be in a deadlock, a Disciplinary Hall Disciple came rushing over and loudly yelled out. “The Grand Elder has sent out a command, release them!”
“What?” Xie Hong Chen was dumbfounded.
That Disciplinary Hall Disciple continued with a bitter look on his face. “Senior Brother Xie, the Elders have said already that today’s matters end here and no one is to investigate any further or you’ll be punished according to the Sect Rules!”
Xie Hong Chen looked at Yang Kai with a venomous gaze. That was because if Su Yan had started to attack, then he could have found an excuse to take out Yang Kai! But Su Yan never gave him that opportunity, and hearing the order from the Elders, he knew that there was no longer any chance for him to take Yang Kai out.
Clenching his teeth in grief, Xie Hong Chen bellowed out in rage. “Release them!”
Su Yan continued to support Yang Kai while slowly leading Li Yun Tian and the others outside. Under the complex gaze of Xie Hong Chen, they slowly walked away.
The curtains just weirdly closed on this large-scale battle between the younger Disciples. A lot of people thought it was unusual especially since it happened without an explanation.
The battle this time involved many people, with the Disciplinary Hall sending over a hundred Disciples to surround and stop Su Yan, which only confirmed her power.
Whilst the other person involved, Yang Kai became known to many Disciples, those of whom were involved and those who were envious of his relationship with Su Yan. In all, there were numerous different rumours regarding him.
However, right now, the subject of these rumours, Yang Kai, was fast asleep.
Right after leaving the Forest Prison, Yang Kai immediately went to sleep. When he was ganged up on and beaten by those five Disciplinary Hall Disciples, although they weren’t serious, they were still quite harsh. If not for the dire situation at hand, Yang Kai would have long since fallen.
With the situation resolved and no worries in his heart, one would naturally be unable to continue to support themselves.
When he woke up, Yang Kai found himself in an unknown bed. With his body aching all over, he looked around the room and found himself in an extremely elegant yet simple room without much furniture and in quite a secluded place.
It was just like Su Yan’s house in Black Wind Trade.
Struggling to get up, the noise that he made alerted the people outside. So not long after, Su Mu pushed open the door with a face full of emotion.
Li Yun Tian and the others were also present and as Su Mu walked in, they all looked at Yang Kai in relief.
“Senior Brother Yang, how do you feel?” Su Mu asked as he walked over to support him.
“I’m fine now.” Yang Kai started to work his Yuan Qi and found that there were no real problems, he just needed to rest for a few days.
“This time Senior Brother saved me, I, Su Mu, thank you.” Su Mu replied somewhat awkwardly.
“No need to apologise.” Yang Kai replied, lifting up his hand to stop him.
“Oh right, my family’s old ghost gave me this pill to give to you to help you heal and cultivate.” Su Mu took out ten bottles and placed them side by side on the bedside table.
“The Second Elder?” Yang Kai was amazed, “Isn’t this a bit too much?”
“It’s not much, not much. This time you received heavy injuries, so you should properly rest and heal.”
“Then Junior Brother, please help me thank the Second Elder.”
“No need for thanks.” Su Mu waved his hand before a wave of fury appeared on his face.
This time, Su Xuan Wu thought he had really treated Yang Kai badly, so that was the reason why he had bestowed him with so many Immortal Pills. If not for Treasurer Meng’s timely arrival announcement of the Head’s command, then he would have had to sacrifice Yang Kai. Su Mu was angry at the way things were handled and particularly wanted to give Yang Kai that many pills.
“What about Senior Sister Su Yan?” Yang Kai turned his head around as he queried.
Su Mu’s expression became strange, he had already heard from Li Yun Tian and the others about Yang Kai’s feats. He felt both afraid and respectful, because from when he was young till now, Su Yan had never felt like an older sister, but more like his own mother. In front of Su Yan, he never dared to take even a single deep breath.
But looking at this Senior Brother Yang, his courage was beyond large! He actually dared to hold his older sister’s hand in front of so many people and say such daring words.
And afterwards, this sister of his did nothing! Not only did she do nothing, she actually arranged for him to rest in her house. This course of action was simply unbelievable!
These past two days during which Yang Kai had been unconscious, Su Mu had racked his brains. But he still couldn’t come up with any viable theories.
[Why? Why would she do this?]“Ah! Senior Brother Yang!” Su Mu took in a deep breath and clapped Yang Kai on the back. After a while, carefully considering his wording he finally spoke. “Good Grief! Since ancient times, beautiful flowers would often leak water and do ruthless things. Senior Brother Yang, you must open your eyes and be careful.”
Yang Kai was startled and it wasn’t until a short while later that he managed to let out a dry laugh. He knew that Su Mu had misunderstood him, but he didn’t know how to explain it and could only ask in a more direct form. “Where is she?”
This time, it was all thanks to her arriving at the crucial time and rescuing him that he was okay, otherwise, he would have needed to use his Yang Liquid to kill those Disciplinary Hall Disciples in the wooden hut. But facing those Disciples, he wasn’t confident that he would truly be able to execute the killing blows required. But no matter what, if he walked down that path, then there was no room for leeway.
“After she settled you down here, she left Black Wind Trade.” Su Mu answered.
“When Senior Sister left, did she say anything?” Yang Kai was a bit suspicious. Originally, he thought that Su Yan would want to speak with him because the actions that he took were a bit over the top.
“Nothing. Nothing at all….” Su Mu slowly shook his head in reply.
Yang Kai secretly admired her inside.
[This Senior Sister really wasn’t affected by all of that! When it concerned her reputation and integrity, she actually didn’t even bother to explain anything, about the complications, about the truth!]After saying his piece, Su Mu left.
Lying on the bed, Yang Kai didn’t ponder it further, because things had already reached this point, thinking about it anymore wouldn’t make a difference. Just as well Su Mu brought those Immortal Pills, now he could really go and test whether or not his theory was correct.
Within these pills, half of them were for healing while the other half were for cultivation. Adding them together, their value wasn’t small at all.
Yang Kai first took some healing pills, and then he started to work his True Yang Secret Art. This helped to dissolve the pills and allowed him to feel changes occurring within his body.
It didn’t need to be said, but these healing pills’ effects were quite good. He felt the pills working within his meridians and a short while later, he could feel a comfortable feeling flow to the position of his injuries, and meanwhile, the aching feeling became dull.
But Yang Kai could feel that apart from healing his wounds and entering his meridians, a portion of the energy had also entered his bones.
Feeling this, Yang Kai’s eyebrows lifted as he confirmed his suspicions.
Once confirming his guess, Yang Kai spent the entire day eating all kinds of pills.
The end result was clear, his Golden Skeleton truly could absorb other types of energy, and wouldn’t just absorb Yang type energy!
Long before he had broken into the Initial Element Stage, he had already made this hypothesis; it was just that he didn’t have any way to prove it.
The True Yang Secret Art was no doubt a special and powerful skill, allowing him to absorb Yang energy endlessly and when used in battle, its killing power was great. But this skill had a great flaw, which was its cultivating conditions were far too strict.
One must be in a Yang type environment to cultivate.
Originally he was worried that he would be affected by the environment, but now with his Golden Skeleton’s domineering power he no longer needed to worry about this.
When there was Yang energy, he would cultivate with the True Yang Secret Art, and if there wasn’t any it didn’t matter because his Golden Skeleton wasn’t picky and would accept all types of energy.
With both options available, he would no longer need to worry about his cultivation being hindered when Yang energy wasn’t present.
This energy was being absorbed by the Golden Skeleton, and later when he battles, the skeleton would just give the energy back to him allowing him to power up.
Yang Kai faintly felt that there was some indescribable relationship between his Golden Skeleton and the True Yang Secret Art. But as for what that relationship was, he wasn’t too clear.
By the time Yang Kai recovered and became conscious again, he was given quite a scare.
Without his notice, he had actually used up five bottles of the pills, each bottle contained ten pills; in other words, he had consumed fifty pills. They weren’t that high quality, but if a normal person were to consume that many pills, their body would be unable to support it.
However, he was still perfectly fine and his injuries had healed by quite a fair amount.
Within the darkness, a sluggish light could be seen within his eyes. Looking at the remaining seven to eight different kinds of pills left, he thought of a crazy idea.
Once this idea formed, he was unable to suppress it.
After thinking it over, Yang Kai finally decided to take the gamble!
Picking up a bottle, he opened it up; no matter if it was healing pills or cultivation ones, he poured the entire contents of the bottle into his mouth. Then he took another bottle and poured it into his mouth.
Once all of the bottles had been emptied, Yang Kai nonchalantly licked the inside of his mouth.
If a normal person were to see this scene, they would pee their pants! Although these pills weren’t poisonous, you still couldn’t eat them like you were eating beans. One must know that all medicine contains poison and no matter what kind of pill, there was always a bottom line. If you surpass this limit, then it would prove detrimental to your health, cultivation and even your foundation.
But in that short time, Yang Kai actually swallowed seven or eight different kinds of Immortal Pills.
Smacking his lips, Yang Kai felt that his stomach was bulging and bursting with the various types of weak medicinal energy clashing. After a short while, the various energies converged together into a terrifying energy.
Yang Kai had been prepared for this and immediately started to activate the True Yang Secret Art.
The energy was akin to a flood dragon that had broken free from a trap, turning around in his stomach. This caused Yang Kai to groan softly, as he felt that his abdominal area was being ripped apart.
The revolving speed of the True Yang Secret Art hadn’t accelerated by that much, it was more like an attraction force was present. The converted energy from the seven-eight different pills contained a type of attraction force allowing them to be slowly assimilated into his meridians.
Yang Kai didn’t dare to relax in the slightest and diligently monitored his condition.
This flood dragon-like energy raged about in his meridians and was incompatible with his Yuan Qi. Although the two energies mixed with each other, no matter what, they wouldn’t fuse together.
Not only this, the flowing paths of the two energies within his meridians were completely different.
While the True Yuan Secret Art flowed in a clockwise direction, the immense Immortal Pill energy flowed counter-clockwise.
Yang Kai’s body suddenly became bright, suddenly became dark, and in an instant, it became bright red. After his skin changed colour, in every meridian, it felt like thousands of insects were crawling around. And a drumming noise rang out non-stop, if anyone were to see this, they would be horrified.
As time passed, the impurities within that vast amount of energy slowly disappeared and drop by drop, little by little the energy was absorbed into his bones. The Golden Skeleton turned into some kind of ravenous beast, hungrily swallowing the overflowing energy by the mouthful.
Under this extreme pain, Yang Kai’s senses were at their peak. It was like he had grown a pair of eyes within his body. This allowed him to see the mixing of the True Yuan Secret Art and see how each and every strand of the tumultuous pill energy melded.
Faintly, he realised something!
Yang Kai thought about the battles he had previously, how blood flew everywhere, how painful he felt and about his bloodthirsty mood. Each and every time, after his pain, along with his unshakable willpower, his own power would rapidly increase to a level that allows him to defeat his opponent.
This was especially so in that battle two days ago in the wooden hut outside the Forest Prison against the five Disciplinary Hall Disciples, their cultivation had clearly been much higher than his, and that battle was clearly imprinted in his mind.
With his blood boiling once again, a warm and familiar feeling came out from his bones, the energy that was absorbed by the Golden Skeleton was given back to him and momentarily allowed him to increase his strength.
This wasn’t enough! Yang Kai felt that he was still missing something and without that part, he would never be able to fully understand the mysteries of the Golden Skeleton.
He still needed one more true battle!
Realising this point, Yang Kai jumped off the bed. Breathing rapidly with coarse breaths, he pushed open the door and looked around, and walked directly to the house opposite him and kicked it open.
Yang Kai guessed that Su Mu was residing in that room because not long ago he heard movement. He wanted to find someone to have a good fight with, and Su Mu was that person.
As he opened the door, Yang Kai’s eyes fell upon a clean and clear back. Just as he was about to issue his challenge, he was forced to swallow his words.
Under the moonlight, beside the windowsill, was an extremely beautiful and heartstring-pulling scene.
A woman with creamy white skin, icy firm muscles perfectly proportioned around the various curves on her back. Her movements entrapped Yang Kai’s eyes as it could not budge a single inch away from this beautiful sight.
This scene really shook one to the core; Yang Kai’s three carnal desires nearly flew out.
This room really had someone in it, it just wasn’t Su Mu as Yang Kai had imagined, but Su Yan!
Currently, Su Yan was only wearing her underwear; revealing her curvaceous back with snow white skin along. Her perfectly rounded bottom and long slender legs were completely free for Yang Kai to admire.
Even though it was at night, Yang Kai still saw everything quite clearly.
That back was so perfectly curved, while her glossy shoulders emitted a scent of seduction. That exquisitely balanced waistline rested on a pair of perfectly round buttocks, not too big and not too small, the overall picture caused ones blood vessels to expand and one’s heart rate to skyrocket. The underwear that clung to her bottom a bit obscenely, only served to make his heart pound even more fiercely.
Because her skin was so fair and white, and because her undergarments were both white in colour, it seemed as if her entire body was on display.
Maybe it was because she heard the movements behind her; she immediately used her hand to cover her chest and turned her body halfway towards the door. In her other hand was a white nightgown; it seemed that she was just in the middle of changing.
The two people’s gazes met in mid-air, Yang Kai looked startled but couldn’t help that his gaze travelled downwards to her white and full chest. Su Yan, on the other hand, was quivering with anger and a flash of killing intent could be seen in her eyes
That was because she saw a pair of blood red eyes! These blood red eyes were like those of a hungry wolf, with hints of gluttony, unbridled as it swept its gaze across her irreproachably. Not only this, the male was breathing coarsely, as something in his pants was rising.
*Ka cha cha…* With Su Yan as the centre, a sheet of ice quickly spread across the room in all four directions. Her dark red lips pursed with coldness within her eyes.
Yang Kai finally realised something wasn’t right so he quickly turned his body around and sprinted away from the room with his top speed.
His speed was so fast that within three breaths time, he had already run out of the room. But before he could choose a clear direction to head in, from behind him he heard a loud cracking sound. A large hole had appeared in the middle of the house and a white figure flew out from within the hole, quickly making her way towards Yang Kai.
He could see traces of fury on that cold face.
Yang Kai immediately retreated a few steps and took up a defensive stance as he thought of a way to explain everything. But thinking it over, no matter what he said, it would make no difference.
Any girl who had her back seen like that, wouldn’t let the culprit off easily!
Su Yan had already dressed herself, while she stood there looking at Yang Kai frostily. Although she knew that Yang Kai probably didn’t do it on purpose, because he wouldn’t have known he would wake in Black Wind Trade and stayed in the house opposite to her, she still could not forgive him.
You could only say it was a big misunderstanding! But even though it was just a misunderstanding, Su Yan could not just let the matter slide like this!
She was waiting for an explanation, an explanation that would calm her fury.
Unfortunately, that male who was standing directly opposite to her didn’t say a single word. His eyes were still that blood red colour and he let out a heavy aura of bloodthirstiness, without the slightest bit of cowardice or shame.
[Good, then I don’t want your explanation; rather I only want to beat you up to relieve this lump in my throat!]An ice crystal slowly formed on Su Yan’s fingertips. Then she flung her fingertips forward and that ice crystal flew out towards Yang Kai.
As it flew out, It rapidly grew in size whilst also rotating at high speeds. By the time it reached Yang Kai, it was the size of a washbasin.
Yang Kai didn’t dare to be negligent in the slightest. Activating his True Yuan Secret Art, his fist collided with the ice crystal.
His fist aching, the Yin attributed ice crystal and Yang attributed True Yuan Secret Art collided, cancelling each other out. When the punch connected with the wash basin sized ice crystal, it quickly shattered into pieces.
*Sou, sou, sou…* the shattered ice crystal became sharp ice shards that bombard Yang Kai.
Unfortunately, Yang Kai couldn’t react in time, so more than ten wounds appeared on his body, causing blood to flow freely. His already battered body became even more battered and seemed on the verge of collapse.
Yang Kai yelled in a low voice and the Golden Skeleton once again showed its might. As the warm feeling spread, he felt his body’s strength slowly increase bit by bit.
The shock could be seen in Su Yan’s eyes. She thought that her move would be more than enough to knock Yang Kai unconscious; she would never have thought that her move would be countered.
Her body swaying, like an immortal fairy that descended amongst mortals, she flew towards Yang Kai. In an instant, she was at Yang Kai’s shoulder.
An ice-cold feeling immediately spread from his shoulder and he hurriedly retreated a few more steps. Turning to see it, Yang Kai narrowed his eyes as he saw a layer of ice on his shoulder, which was quickly forming ice crystals.
Without any hesitation, Yang Kai tore off the clothing around his shoulder and called out a drop of Yang Liquid to smear on his shoulder.
*Hiss hiss…* the ice hissed, Yang Kai’s shoulder burned like a burning piece of iron, momentarily becoming bright red. The coldness that had been spreading, was burned away by that Yang Liquid drop, disappearing in the blink of an eye.
Su Yan became even more stunned, she had never imagined that Yang Kai would be about to use such freakish methods to melt her Ice Qi. Frost appearing in her eyes, Su Yan called upon the Thousand Layered Snow Waves which swarmed around her, hiding her body within the layers of snow, as they rotated towards Yang Kai.
The Thousand Layered Snow Waves were not only majestic like a snowstorm but also extremely powerful, in an instant, Yang Kai was swallowed up by the waves of snow.
The bone-piercing cold froze his heart. Even though he cultivated the True Yang Secret Art, Yang Kai felt that he would soon freeze and become an ice sculpture.
He knew that this Senior Sister Su Yan was outraged. Although there was no killing intent in her attacks, it was clear that she wanted to severely teach him a lesson.
However, this situation gave Yang Kai an idea. Although his opponent was much higher levelled than him, and he couldn’t resist in the slightest, he could still use it to test his findings.
This opponent was a thousand times better than Su Mu.
Within the snowstorm, Su Yan continuously attacked and Yang Kai was completely unable to defend himself, groaning with each blow. A trail of blood leaked out from the corner of his mouth, while his body was shivering from the cold, bitterly fighting the invasion of the cold air.
In the midst of this predicament, Yang Kai’s thoughts became clearer and clearer and he actually gave up all forms of resistance and began to openly receive the entirety of Su Yan’s attacks.
“What’s the matter, what’s the matter?” The ruckus had woken several others, with the Second Elder Su Xuan Wu being the first to arrive at the scene, followed by Su Mu leading Li Yun Tian and the rest over.
Seeing the scene before them, the arriving people couldn’t help but unconsciously take a deep breath.
Snow was flying wildly all over the place, Yang Kai’s whole upper body was visible as he stood still with his eyes closed, and he was currently enduring all of Su Yan’s attacks. His body looked like a very shredded rag sack, repeatedly being hit by Su Yan. As he was being hit, his body flew all over the place from the impacts but never seemed to touch the ground.
*Hhuu…* Su Mu exhaled a breath of air, “How did Senior Brother Yang provoke Elder Sister?”
“It could be that Senior Sister is extracting revenge for the things that happened a few days ago.” Li Yun Tian suggested with great fear.
“It must be so, otherwise with Senior Sister’s temper, why would she beat Senior Brother Yang for no reason?”
“Our pitiful Senior Brother Yang. His injuries have yet to fully heal, yet he has already invited such a great calamity. Senior Sister’s attack is simply too ruthless.”
All of the whisperings from the group of people were heard by Su Yan, they only served to anger her more. Today, it was Yang Kai who had seen her body, causing her to act out. But from their mouths, it seemed like she was the villain with a narrow mind, extracting her revenge. Therefore, Su Yan’s became even more ruthless.
Su Xuan Wu was squinting his eyes as he looked at Yang Kai, who was currently being beaten up, and remarked. “He looks like he is trying to understand something.”
“What do you mean?” Su Mu didn’t understand.
Su Xuan Wu only shook his head slowly and didn’t bother to explain further.
In his eyes, although Yang Kai was very pitiful, he could tell that he was currently trying to understand something; that something could be a mental understanding or it could be a Martial Skills. Wrapped within that cold hurricane of air, shivering due to the cold piercing him to the core of his body, he could see a flaming hot energy within his core spreading its warmth. When this fiery energy burst outwards, perhaps he would be able to step into a new level.
[If he were to succeed, then his future accomplishments definitely would not be ordinary!] Su Xuan Wu had truly never seen a martial practitioner who while in such a sorry state, would actually be able to enter such a deep state of enlightenment. This was nothing short of a miracle.“Grandpa, I’m afraid that if Elder Sister continues like this, then Senior Brother Yang Kai will die.” Su Mu cried out urgently.
Su Xuan Wu replied with a shake of his head. “Yan-er knows how to control the strength of her attacks properly, and within her attacks, there are no killing attacks; after all, she doesn’t want Yang Kai’s life.”
Finishing this statement, he then whispered to himself. “But, it’s still strange… why would Yan-er punish him like this?”
If not because Su Xuan Wu was mature and sophisticated, then he definitely wouldn’t be able to guess as to what had just happened between Su Yan and Yang Kai.
When the ice storm died down, Su Yan continued to float in the air, while Yang Kai fell towards the ground. His entire body was battered all over; his clothes torn and where you could see his skin there were signs of frostbite.
Just as he was about to hit the ground, Yang Kai suddenly did a flip and landed firmly on the ground and opened his eyes to look around.
Under the starlight, Su Yan’s white clothes fluttered about with the night breeze, she was like a fairy descending with the full moon hanging behind her.
Her grand and clean aura made people become more modest for no apparent reason.
*Ka cha cha…* could be heard from all directions as ice started to form all over Yang Kai’s body. Soon, he had become an immense ice block.
The smoothness of the ice block was obvious, it was also as clear as glass. It was so clear that every single strand of Yang Kai’s hair could be seen; even his attitude and feelings could be clearly seen on his face.
Su Yan didn’t say a word, only turning to look at Yang Kai mysteriously before turning around and returning to her room.
The scene of her leaving was clearly seen by Yang Kai.
“Look after him, once he breaks free from the ice it will be the start of his success!” Su Xuan Wu solemnly told Su Mu.
Su Mu was nervous to the point that he started perspiring. “Grandpa, Senior Brother Yang won’t be frozen to death, will he?”
Su Xuan Wu gently laughed. “He won’t, this is his good fortune!”
After reassuring Su Mu he turned and left.
Only then did Su Mu’s group walk up quietly and softly to the ice block containing Yang Kai. Each and every one of them surrounded that enormous ice block, tapping away at it. But with Su Yan’s comprehension of the ice arts, would they be able to break it?
“This is bad, this is bad! Senior Brother is already injured, and now that he is frozen, I’m afraid that his little brother may also become frozen and fall off. How is this good?” A fellow member didn’t have any sort of filter, so as soon as he thought of it he said it and was glared down at by Su Mu. “Didn’t you hear my grandfather say, this is Senior Brother Yang’s good fortune, huh? Everybody don’t move, if this ice breaks and hurts Senior Brother Yang, it won’t be good. We’ll just stand guard here.”
“Yes.” The group of people chorused.
Guarding until the fifth bell toll of the night (3-5 am in current time), there had still been no movement from the ice block and Yang Kai continued to stay in it like the living dead. His breath shallow, he could only continue to look at the place where Su Yan disappeared to.
Su Mu’s group considered the situation for a while before deciding to leave two people behind to guard Yang Kai while the rest returned to do whatever they needed to do.
This continued for an entire three days. Within a small attic was a large ice block, and inside that was a living person. Looking at it, it was as strange as strange could get.
During these past three days, they had rotated their shifts countless times and yet the ice still showed no signs of breaking. This caused the group to become so anxious that their lips were blistered.
During these three days, Yang Kai was unable to feel the flow of time. Even with his eyes were open, he couldn’t see anything.
All of his focus was on comprehending the changes occurring within his body.
Sensing the energy within his bones, sensing that unyielding warmth the energy brought along with it and sensing how that warmth would boost his strength each and every time.
The ice that Su Yan left behind for him provided him with the perfect place to comprehend what was happening accurately. The energy contained within the ice block left behind constantly released cold air that permeated him to his core.
This cold was something that the current Yang Kai could not resist, but he managed to resists every time. Each time, he relied on the mystical properties of the Golden Skeleton.
Resisting hundreds of times, thousands of times, allowed Yang Kai to understand the mysteries of the Golden Skeleton and why it could amplify his abilities.
Within his body, a small flame had started to burn hotter and hotter, and it would do so until the day he finally comprehended what was occurring. This flame continued to burn peacefully until it finally started to send heat waves out of Yang Kai’s body.
*BANG!*
Su Mu and Li Yun Tian who were currently on the guarding shift were startled but they quickly turned their heads around.
They only saw small numerous cracks appearing all over the ice block, with the cracks resembling the strands of a spider web.
“Senior Brother Yang is about to come out!” Su Mu cried with enthusiasm and certainty.
Sure enough, as soon as he said those words, the ice block exploded and the shards melted in the light before disappearing.
Yang Kai remained standing in his previous position, his bloodstained upper body did look a bit weak, but his eyebrows were creased showing he was still deep in thought.
Su Mu and Li Yun Tian didn’t dare to disturb him, so they quietly waited off to the side.
After a good half an hour, Yang Kai’s worried looked disappeared and he stated in a cheerful tone. “Since it’s so, I will call you Immovable Will.”
Immovable Will was the thing that Yang Kai had gained an understanding of during these three days. This skill was not one you could use to attack, but rather one that helped to strengthen one’s body.
This was the skill that he had learned from the Golden Skeleton, so this skill was closely related to the skeleton.
Only when one has an unyielding spirit, is unwilling to surrender to any adversary, will they be able to unlock this type of skill. As soon as he activates it, the Golden Skeleton will give him energy to temporarily increase his strength and fighting ability.
Although previously he was unknowingly activating this Immovable Will skill he didn’t have any understanding of it, with this type of skill, there is a big difference in the power it displayed once it was understood.
In other words, he could now say that he had completely grasped this secret skill with his own hands. It could be also said it was a skill exclusive to him.
It was no longer the same as before, when he was in a battle and/or receives injuries, he no longer needs to rely on his stubbornness to activate the skill.
Although his harvest this time was great, Yang Kai was still a bit unsatisfied, because he could sense that there were still secrets hidden within the Golden Skeleton. Yet since he couldn’t see through them he couldn’t claim them, thus he couldn’t help but feel regret.
The days are long, and one shouldn’t care over one lost hour, Yang Kai consoled himself.
Only when Yang Kai started to move, did Su Mu and Li Yun Tian walk up to him, asking worriedly. “Senior Brother Yang, are you alright?”
“Me? I feel excellent!” Yang Kai moved his limbs around and found that all these past injuries had all healed.
“I shall help you put your clothes on; otherwise if Elder Sister were to see you again, I’m afraid she might beat you again.” Su Mu said with a voice filled with worry.