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Stellar Transformation
Legend of Immortal Tinh Thần
Biến 星辰变
Synopsis:
In a galaxy far away, there is a child without the innate ability to practice
internal techniques. So, in order to gain the respect of his father, he
resolutely chooses to follow the more difficult and painful path of
practicing external techniques. As the years go by, he grows up, but
what really changes his life is a mysterious meteoric crystal stone — the
Meteoric Tear. This stone fuses with the young man’s body, and he
seems to undergo drastic transformations as a result. After that,
everything is changed. Eventually his father knows that the son for
whom he hasn’t really shown a lot of consideration possesses
astonishing abilities. And there’s a lot more to come.

Author(s): I Eat Tomatoes

Artist(s): N/A

Year: 2013

Language: Chinese

Type: Web Novel

Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Martial Arts, Romance, Supernatural,

Xianxia,

Tags: Age Progression, Clan Politics, Dragons, Forced Romance, Godly

Powers, Immortality, Immortals And Demons, Martial Cultivation,

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Mythical Creatures, Over Powered Mc, Power-Boosting Item, Slow

Romance, Strong Male Lead, Training, Wars, Weak to Strong,

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Table of Contents
Introduction ......................................................................................... i
Vol. 3: Chapter 1 ................................................................................ 2
Vol. 3: Chapter 2 ................................................................................ 8
Vol. 3: Chapter 3 .............................................................................. 14
Vol. 3: Chapter 4 .............................................................................. 19
Vol. 3: Chapter 5 .............................................................................. 25
Vol. 3: Chapter 6 .............................................................................. 32
Vol. 3: Chapter 7 .............................................................................. 38
Vol. 3: Chapter 8 .............................................................................. 44
Vol. 3: Chapter 9 .............................................................................. 49
Vol. 3: Chapter 10 ............................................................................ 55
Vol. 3: Chapter 11 ............................................................................ 61
Vol. 3: Chapter 12 ............................................................................ 67
Vol. 3: Chapter 13 ............................................................................ 75
Vol. 3: Chapter 14 ............................................................................ 83
Vol. 3: Chapter 15 ............................................................................ 89
Vol. 3: Chapter 16 ............................................................................ 95
Vol. 3: Chapter 17 .......................................................................... 101
Vol. 3: Chapter 18 .......................................................................... 107
Vol. 3: Chapter 19 .......................................................................... 113
Vol. 3: Chapter 20 .......................................................................... 120
Vol. 3: Chapter 21 .......................................................................... 126
Vol. 3: Chapter 22 .......................................................................... 134
Vol. 3: Chapter 23 .......................................................................... 142
Vol. 3: Chapter 24 .......................................................................... 148
Disclaimer ........................................................................................ 167

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Vol. 3:

Chapter 1

Book 3: Four-in-Nine Heavenly Tribulation

B3C1: The 1st Trans-Heaven diagram (1)

“Trash! Trash! Trash!!!”

“Bang!” The ink stone is thrown on the ground fiercely and shatters
completely.

Xiang Guang stares at the hook-nosed man like a wild beast that wants
to swallow people and angrily rebukes: “You piece of trash. Even Zhen
Xu has already been killed. What happened actually? You must tell me
everything in detail. Otherwise … you won’t be the secret service’s head
anymore.”

Xiang Guang is so angry that he has become muddled.

The hook-nosed man’s heart skips a beat. As a secret service chief who
knows a lot of secrets about the Emperor, if he no longer held this
postion, there would be only one result — he would be erased! An idea
springs to his mind. He immediately bows and says: “Your Majesty,
according to my investigation, killing Zhen Xu was exactly one of the
Heavenly Net’s gold card missions. Even though we don’t know who
undertook the mission, judging by the scene of the incident, we can
confirm one thing, that is, the murderer of Zhen Xu is a silver card
assassin!”

“Trash, I know very well about Zhen Xu’s power, silver card assassin?
Bullshit, even his subordinates, the Nalan brother and sister, would’ve

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been able to deal with a silver card assassin easily. Both of them were
Xiantian experts and Zhen Xu was even much stronger than them in
overall power. You said such 3 people had been killed by a silver card
assassin. Do you think I can believe it? Or perhaps, you think I’m an
idiot,” says Xiang Guang while staring at the hook-nosed man.

The hook-nosed man smiles bitterly in his mind. He told the truth but the
Emperor does not believe it.

“Your Majesty, Zhen Xu was extremely powerful. His personal security

was totally taken care of by himself so I know nothing about it. This time
there was the mask of a silver card assassin left at the scene after he
was killed, but I think the murderer must be a gold card assassin who
confused Zhen Xu by wearing a silvery mask. Zhen Xu was only
murdered after being led to underestimate his enemy,” says the hook-
nosed man hurriedly.

Xiang Guang ponders for a long time. Seeing that Xiang Guang seems
not to believe him, the hook-nosed man comes up with an idea and
says: “Your Majesty, there is another possibility, that is, East
Vanquishing Prince Qin De disliked being hindered by Zhen Xu so he
sent top-class experts to kill him. Even those fragments of a silvery
mask were probably used by East Vanquishing Prince to confuse us.”

The hook-nosed man thinks to himself: “East Vanquishing Prince, sorry.

At this crucial moment I can only force everything on you.” The hook-
nosed man understands very clearly that, because Xiang Guang has
always been suspicious of Qin De, if he blames everything on Qin De he
will probably succeed.

Indeed!

“Correct. It must’ve been Qin De. He wants to rebel but he worried that
Zhen Xu would find out about this so he sent someone to kill him. He
was afraid that I would discover this is his deed so he tried to fool me
with a broken silvery mask. Humph, this idiot, why didn’t he use a
broken golden mask? Wouldn’t it have made the whole thing more

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believable?” Xiang Guang talks to himself, his eyes glittering with

coldness. “However, I’m not that easy to deceive. Qin De, you want to
rebel, I have no doubts about this. This time you killed Zhen Xu,
breaking one of my wings. Good! Good!!!”

Xiang Guang is extremely furious.

Zhen Xu was very important to him. During the last over 20 years,
whenever Xiang Guang experienced difficulty in finding out if someone
was disloyal or hostile to him or had a great treasure and so on he
always sent Zhen Xu to investigate and handle the matter. And Zhen Xu
never disappointed him. Having Zhen Xu, Xiang Guang could just sit
back and relax.

Despite Qin De’s artifices, Zhen Xu was still able to find out many
secrets of East Vanquishing Prince. Zhen Xu was obviously very
important to Xiang Guang.

However, Zhen Xu is already dead.

Even though there are still many spies under the command of the
intelligence chief, these spies are far less formidable than Zhen Xu. To
Xiang Guang, the death of Zhen Xu is equivalent to the loss of one wing
so how can he not be furious? How can he not gnash his teeth?
Moreover, he directs all of this intense hatred of the murderer towards
Qin De.

He has been suffering from a recurring nightmare for so many years.

Then recently he discovered that Qin De wants to rebel. Now the person
he values the most, Zhen Xu, has also been killed by Qin De.

“Qin De, if I don’t destroy your Qin clan, how can I be satisfied?” Xiang
Guang crushes the teacup in his hand with a firm grip. His eyes are
blazing with fury. At this moment, Xiang Guang makes another decision
in his mind. “Tell Yi Yan to come to my place. You can leave first.”

The hook-nosed man secretly lets out a sigh of relief because Xiang
Guang obviously will not take out his anger on him because of this

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matter. To him, being in a mornarch’s company is just like being in a

tiger’s company. Every time he does something near the Emperor, he
must be extremely careful.

“Yes, I take my leave.” The hook-nosed man bows and says.

Xiang Guang then stays motionless in the imperial study, staring at the
shattered ink stone. Even though his eyes are focusing on the shattered
ink stone, he is obviously thinking about something else. In a short
while, footsteps can be heard outside.

“Yi Yan, come on in.” Xiang Guang’s voice rises.

The door opens and an unusual-and-evil-looking young man comes in.

This is none other than Yi Yan, the head of the Dominant Dragon Corps.
While those spies only investigate and gather information, this Dominant
Dragon Corps is the secret force which destroys every single enemy of
the Xiang royal clan in the dark.

Yi Yan looks extremely evil and unusual. He has the face of a young man
but actually he has reached the Xiantian level for over 40 years. This is
mostly because a Xiantian expert can live 500 years and once they
reach the Xiantian level their aging will slow down.

“Your Majesty.” Yi Yan slightly bows and says.

Xiang Guang thinks for a while then gnashes his teeth and says: “Alright,
tell that Zhu San that I have agreed. But every material in the body of
that demonic beast saber-toothed tiger must go to me, especially those
16 sharp swords. Not even one of them can be missing.”

Yi Yan raises his eyebrows. With the corners of his mouth slightly curving
upward, he bows and says: “Your Majesty is brilliant. That Zhu San has
guaranteed that as long as he has a Trans-Heaven digram he will deliver
the whole corpse of the demonic beast saber-toothed tiger without
keeping anything back.”

“This is good.” Xiang Guang gives a cold smile. “I don’t think that Zhu
San will dare to pull any tricks on me.”

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Zhu San is known by reputation as the no. 1 magnate on the Qian Long
continent and is based in the Ming kingdom. His business has spread all
over the whole Qian Long continent. His influence is extremely great.
Using some unknow method, a group of his elite subordinates was able
to kill a demonic beast.

A demonic beast saber-toothed tiger looks like a huge tiger with 16

sword-like sharp spikes on the back. All of the spikes are extremely
sharp and can match high Xian-grade weapons in power. Furthermore,
the sharp claws of a saber-toothed tiger can be turned into weapons.
Therefore, killing a saber-toothed tiger is just like finding a living
treasure store.

Perhaps only Shangxian can be as formidable as saber-toothed tigers.

Heaven knows what method Zhu San used to kill one.

“Your Majesty, Magnate Zhu San has a whole lot of secret bases.
Because this time they killed the saber-toothed tiger in the Wilderness,
they are currently staying in a secret base in a city near the Wilderness.
They can’t openly transport the tiger to the Ming dynasty so they will
have no choice but to cut it up in that city first then bring the body parts
back in turn. However, that city is located in none other than the 3
Eastern region counties.” Yi Yan bows and says.

Hearing this, Xiang Guang also understands that this matter is rather
troublesome.

The Immense Wilderness is in the easternmost part of the continent and

the Chu kingdom is next to the Wilderness. The 3 Eastern region
counties of the Chu kingdom are the 3 counties adjacent to the
Wilderness. Generally, anyone who wants to enter the Immense
Wilderness will have to pass the 3 Eastern region counties. However,
these 3 Eastern region counties are under Qin De’s control.

In the past Qin De would not have dared to snatch the tiger’s body
openly but it is hard to tell what the current Qin De will do.

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the 3 Eastern region counties and trade with them.” Xiang Guang
solemnly gives an order. Yi Yan says respectfully at once: “Yes, as long
as my father goes into action, nothing can go wrong.”

Xiang Guang suddenly bursts out laughing: “Ha-ha, I only have the 2nd
Trans-Heaven diagram. Without gathering all 3 Trans-Heaven diagrams,
it’s simply impossible to find out that vague mysterious technique from
it. Moreover, throughout history, many talented people including even
Xiuzhenists have obtained the diagrams or collected all 3 of them but no
one has ever found out their secret. I only have 1 diagram so it’s
useless. Trading 1 useless Trans-Heaven diagram for a saber-toothed
tiger can also be considered something worth doing.”

Yi Yan bows and says: “That Zhu San is just fond of collecting treasures.
He only wants to collect 1 diagram to satisfy his curiosity.”

“Alright, Yi Yan, there must be no mistake this time. By getting that

saber-toothed tiger, I’ll have quite a lot of high Xian-grade weapons. Not
only Elder Yi, you must also dispatch several more Xiantian experts.
Remember, there must be no mistake,” says Xiang Guang again.

If the saber-toothed tiger’s body is snatched by Qin De, it will be no

different from Xiang Guang himself giving Qin De a wedding present.
Giving Qin De a batch of good weapons instead of getting them for
himself, Xiang Guang definitely cannot allow this possibility to happen.

“Don’t worry, Your Majesty. When my father goes into action, he shall
not disappoint you.” Yi Yan bows and says.

Thinking about Yi Yan’s father Elder Yi, Xiang Guang also feels assured.

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Vol. 3:

Chapter 2

B3C2: The 1st Trans-Heaven diagram (2)

In a town of the 3 Eastern region counties there is a small private house

bought by Qin Yu. When he became a silver card assassin he had earned
a lot of money so he bought more than 10 dwellings in the 3 Eastern
region counties in order that ordinarily they would provide housing for
him.

“Auntie Zhang, there’s no need to bring it into the hall. Just put it
directly on this stone table. Today I’ll have dinner in the courtyard,” says
Qin Yu with a smile. By now Qin Yu has already changed back to his real
appearance. The black eagle, however, has gone somewhere to find
food.

An auntie dressed in a large white cotton-padded jacket puts the meal

on the stone table beside Qin Yu while smiling broadly: “Xiao Yu, then
enjoy your meal here. I’m going back now.”

This Auntie Zhang is from a nearby hotel. When Qin Yu stays here for his
body to recover, he usually tells the people of the hotel to bring the
meals to his house directly. He is also very free. After all, his father Qin
De, his big brother and his 2nd brother are making preparations for the
army together whereas Qin Yu simply cannot take part in it.

“Luckily I have the Meteoric Tear’s mysterious clear streams. Otherwise

Heaven only knows when my left arm will be able to recover.” Qin Yu
cannot help groaning in his mind as he takes a look at his own left arm.

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his fingers before his death. These injuries were very serious, but thanks
to various clear streams from the Meteoric Tear permeating through the
arm, these shocking injuries unexpectedly recovered very fast. In only 3
days, there are only shallow scars left on Qin Yu’s left arm and not 2
shocking holes as in the past.

Not long after he finishes dinner, the black eagle returns.

“Xiao Hei, you still remember to return, brat? You went out yesterday
but only now do you get back. Really, you found a pretty female eagle,
didn’t you? Seeing a female eagle, you forgot me instantly. You’re really
a perverted eagle.” Qin Yu strikes the black eagle’s head with a
chopstick and says laughingly.

As soon as the black eagle hears that, it cannot help raising its head,
looking very disdainful.

It is obvious that the black eagle simply looks down upon ordinary
female eagles.

“Hah, you’re still so arrogant. Ah, I’ve been recovering for the last 3 days
so I haven’t examined that Trans-Heaven diagram.” Qin Yu’s eyes
brighten. He immediately goes inside the house. The black eagle blinks
curiously a couple of times and also follows him inside the house.

“Hah!” Qin Yu extends his hand and forms a claw. He makes a grab at a
huge brick-like stone on the floor of the house. With an easy wave of the
hand, the stone block is thrown on one side. Under the original place of
the stone block, there are 2 iron cases. Qin Yu takes out one of them.

“Trans-Heaven diagrams, I’ve heard of them but I’ve never seen any.”
Qin Yu gives a ha-ha laugh. His hand continuously pokes the iron case
several times. Following a clack, a keyhole appears on the iron case.

Qin Yu raises his eyebrows and smilingly takes out from his bosom a
key, which was taken from Nalan Feng’s body. When Nalan Feng was
hiding this key at that time, he saw very clearly. After inserting the key
in the keyhole, Qin Yu gently turns it.

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Clack!

Hearing the expected sound, Qin Yu gives a smile. After opening the iron
case, he sees 2 things inside. One is a confidential letter and the other is
a square jade block. That jade block radiates a gentle multicolored light
and is obviously different from ordinary jade blocks. It is very
extraordinary.

“A secret letter? To Xiang Guang?” Qin Yu rips the envelope open and
takes out the letter.

As he reads the letter, his face slightly changes color. The contents of
this confidential letter are mostly about 2 things. First is the Trans-
Heaven diagram. And second is Qin De’s rebellion. It describes in great
detail some rebellious acts by Qin De and even has information about
some special armies of the 3 Eastern region counties.

Qin Yu thinks with a sigh: “Phew, really dangerous. This Zhen Xu’s
investigation is very clear and detailed. There are many things that even
I don’t know about. If Xiang Guang knew about them, it’d be terrible.
Luckily I stopped this letter.”

Qin Yu, however, does not know that generally Zhen Xu could only
review his information and write a confidential letter about his
investigation’s most recent results after quite some time. The account of
some special armies of the 3 Eastern region counties in this letter
intercepted by Qin Yu is Zhen Xu’s greatest achievement during his stay
in the 3 Eastern region counties.

Some special armies will produce special effects in war. A surprise army
must catch the enemy unawares. However, if the enemy knows about
the existence of these armies and makes preparations first, then the
element of surprise will no longer exist.

Too bad, Xiang Guang will never know these pieces of information.

After all, Zhen Xu is already dead and this letter was also intercepted.
Even if he sends someone else to the 3 Eastern region counties to be the

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intelligence head here, it will be difficult for them to find out something.
The fellow who is Zhen Xu’s predecessor was the intelligence head of
the region for over 10 years but he could not gather any important
information. It is very hard to find an espionage genius like Zhen Xu.

Wham ~~

His right hand makes a grasp. A powerful blast of air encircles his palm
and turns the letter into powder.

“The letter has been destroyed. That dirty dog Xiang Guang will never
know jack about it,” thinks Qin Yu. His eyes cannot help radiating
coldness. He knows his mother was murdered by that dirty dog Xiang
Guang and he must avenge his mother’s death, how can he not detest
Xiang Guang?

Bang! Bang!

2 loud and clear noises rising arouse Qin Yu’s attention. As soon as he
takes a look, he becomes very worried: “Xiao Hei, don’t mess around.
Your beak is very sharp. Do you want to smash this Trans-Heaven
diagram?” As Qin Yu is saying he makes Xiao Hei move away with a
push.

“Good, it’s not broken.” Qin Yu looks at the Trans-Heaven diagram. Only
when he sees that the square jade block of this Trans-Heaven diagram
still remains intact does he secretly let out a sigh of relief. He turns
around and looks angrily at Xiao Hei. However, Xiao Hei flaps its wings a
couple of times and shakes its head, looking very self-satisfied.

The 3 Trans-Heaven square jade blocks have been around for Heaven
knows how many years. These treasures are not ordinary jade so they
will not be destroyed that easily.

“I won’t waste time on you. Now I’m going to research this Trans-Heaven
diagram once.” Holding the Trans-Heaven diagram, Qin Yu comes out of
the room and enters the courtyard. At night, he likes to be bathed in
starlight the most. Staying under the starry sky late at night gives him a

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distinct feeling.

It got dark not long ago but Qin Yu has no problem seeing the Trans-
Heaven diagram.

“This is the Trans-Heaven diagram. What’s the big deal? There’s nothing
else except for some pictures.” Qin Yu looks at the diagram carefully for
a long time and even performs a minute examination of it with his holy
sense but he finds nothing other than those pictures on its surface.

The surface of the square jade block has the words — First Trans-Heaven
Diagram –, which are even written in the common language of the Qian
Long continent.

There are various small pictures on the square jade block below those
words, 36 unusually small pictures altogether. Each picture is a man
performing a movement. All of the movements are very strange. At least
Qin Yu thinks so.

Except for these 36 pictures, there is nothing else.

“What is this Trans-Heaven diagram actually? The 1st Trans-Heaven

diagram has only 36 pictures. The man in these 36 pictures doesn’t even
have any paths for internal energy circulation. There are only 36 strange
movements. Could it be I only need to learn these movements?” says
Qin Yu doubtfully.

He knows that for so many years the 3 Trans-Heaven diagrams have

come into the possession of countless people but no one has ever found
out their secret. If the secret was merely to learn the movements in the
pictures, perhaps it would have been mastered in less than a year.

Qin Yu racks his brains and tries every means to research the diagram
but by the time the Moon rises above the trees he still has not come up
with any solution after wasting half an entire night.

“Forget it. Let’s try learning these movements first to see if they have
any benefits.” Qin Yu suddenly stands up.

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Thanks to his formidable holy sense he remembers every single

movement of the 36 pictures completely. He starts to learn those
movements in proper order at once. His body’s flexibility and toughness
are absolutely very good.

But even so, he still feels very strange as he learns these strange
movements.

However, he controls his temper and learns one movement after

another. Because his body’s flexibility and toughness are extremely
good, even though these movements are strange, he learns them very
fast. One after another, the movements are executed …

“What’s going on? What’s happened to the world’s holy energy?” Qin Yu
is shocked to discover that, as he performs the movements with his
body, various streams of holy energy enter his body from all directions
then permeate through his flesh and bone directly.

The absorbtion speed is extremely fast, much faster than the speed of
absorbing internal energy.

When his internal energy disperses from the dantian, his flesh can only
absorb some of it. By contrast, the world’s holy energy is permeating
through his body directly and basically does not disperse.

What is actually happening? Is the secret of the Trans-Heaven diagram

so simple?

Qin Yu does not know the answers to those questions. But he knows one
thing — at least, he likes these movements.

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Vol. 3:

Chapter 3

B3C3: A bolt from the blue (1)

The human body is a treasury. Many people have failed to completely

unravel its mysteries in their lifetimes.

In the depths of Qin Yu’s body, his most basic cells are already different
from those of ordinary people. He has been doing limit training for so
many years, added to that his body has been absorbing internal energy
and those fantastic clear streams from the Meteoric Tear, therefore his
body’s cells have undergone some miraculous transformations.

However, as Qin Yu continuously performs those movements, his cells

unexpectedly absorb the world’s holy energy nonstop and start to
transform again.

Every single cell is like a bottomless pit because the holy energy
streams which swarm into his body are swallowed up instantly. Even
though holy energy is engulfing Qin Yu and has even turned into mist
around him, so much holy energy is still very far from enough for his
body to absorb.

There are so many cells in Qin Yu’s body and each of them has been
absorbing so much. This goes to show that a human has limitless
potential.

“These 36 mysterious pictures of this Trans-Heaven diagram are really

miraculous.” Qin Yu restrains the excitement in his heart and
concentrates his entire mind and energy on learning the 36 movements.
He tries to perform every single movement to perfection, including the

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subtle movements of his fingers. He wants his movements and the

pictures to be exactly alike.

Qin Yu discovers that, the more precise his movements are, the greater
his holy energy absorption speed is.

He felt very awkward when he started to learn these 36 movements.

However, as he continuously performs these movements, they become
more and more perfect and eventually he finds doing these 36
movements so much comfortable, even to the point where all of the
muscles and bones in his body feel comfortable inside out.

The Moon slowly goes down from above the trees and it gradually gets
light but Qin Yu is still immersing himself in this set of movements. His
movements are also becoming increasingly natural. Even though the
movements are strange, Qin Yu no longer feels awkward or strange
performing them.

Flowing and natural,

Qin Yu finally has this wonderful feeling. He has reached the most basic
level in performing the 36 movements, where everything is flowing and
natural. At this moment, the thing which shocks Qin Yu the most is that
the holy energy engulfing him has transformed.

It is no longer a mist as in the past. Rather, it has formed 36 streams

which are as thick as a human arm and are permeating into his body at
a speed much faster than before. However, by the time he reaches the
level where the holy energy around him turns into 36 arm-sized streams,
it has been …

3 nights and 3 days!

3 whole nights and days, Qin Yu has not eaten for such a long time,
totally immersing himself in this set of movements. Moreover, only when
he stops now can he feel clearly his body’s changes.

“I’m fresh and cool and not hungry at all. This kind of feeling is pretty
good.” Qin Yu’s eyes glitter. At this moment his heart is extremely

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excited. “It doesn’t matter what the secret of this Trans-Heaven diagram
is, those pictures on its surface alone have already made me undergo
such a great transformation. I’m already very satisfied.”

Now, even without the 1st Trans-Heaven diagram, Qin Yu will not care
about it, because he has already learned by heart those 36 pictures.

Of course, Qin Yu does not believe that the secret of the Trans-Heaven
diagram is those 36 simple pictures. If simply learning the pictures could
lead to success, someone would definitely have found out the secret
early. Moreover, Qin Yu does not believe that training his body alone will
help him reach the level of that legendary man in the past.

“Xiao Hei!” Qin Yu looks at the black eagle, which is dozing in the
courtyard, and calls laughingly.

Xiao Hei suddenly opens its eyes. Seeing that Qin Yu has finally stopped
training, it flaps its wings in excitement. For the last 3 days it has been
bored to death because of Qin Yu’s nonstop training.

“It’s been such a long time. I should go finalize the mission. If I keep
delaying, perhaps the Heavenly Net will think that I’ve failed the
mission,” thinks Qin Yu to himself. He immediately gets the iron case
containing Zhen Xu’s head then sits on the black eagle’s back and
leaves this small town.

The black eagle is flying at an extremely fast speed, like lightning.

……

“Now I’m also a gold card assassin.” Qin Yu, disguised thanks to the
Appearance and Bone Changing art and wearing a golden mask, puts a
large bunch of bank notes into his bosom and leaves a Heavenly Net
branch. “Ha-ha, when that Heavenly Net executive knew that I was
assassin Liu Xing, he unexpectedly got so enthusiastic. This has never
happened before.”

Qin Yu thinks emotionally.

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Just now when he submitted the mission, that executive treated him
with real ardor. But after Qin Yu finalized the mission, the executive’s
face turned ice-cold and served monotonously as usual. No wonder Qin
Yu is so emotional.

Qin Yu, however, does not know that a gold card assassin has an
extremely high status. Moreover, even gold card assassins are divided
into high-class, middle-class and low-class.

An assassin who has killed an early phase Xiantian expert, an assassin

who has killed a middle phase Xiantian expert, and an assassin who has
killed a late phase Xiantian expert are all gold card assassins. However,
these 3 gold card assassin, of course, cannot be valued the same.

By killing Zhen Xu, a late phase Xiantian expert, Qin Yu has become a
first-class figure even among gold card assassins. And a lowly branch
executive naturally wanted to serve one of the best assassins like him
with extreme exuberance.

When Qin Yu has just left the Heavenly Net branch, the branch executive
says coldly at once: “Assassin Liu Xing has just left. Quickly investigate
his identity.”

Even though it is a rule of the Heavenly Net that it shall not investigate
the identities of any Outer Net members, a gold card assassin is a
Xiantian expert and, moreover, the Heavenly Net leader has personally
given an order to find out assassin Liu Xing’s identity, therefore the
Heavenly Net naturally has to investigate. However, when they just want
to follow him, they discover that …

“Sir, assassin Liu Xing isn’t in East Street.”

“Sir, assassin Liu Xing isn’t in West Street.”

……

That executive immediately becomes doubtful: “That’s strange. That Liu

Xing can’t fly into the sky or go underground. How can’t we find him?”

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Indeed, Qin Yu can fly into the sky. At the moment he is sitting on the
back of the black eagle, flying on the 9th level of the sky, and people on
the ground simply cannot even see his silhouette. The black eagle is
flying extremely high and extremely fast so investigating his identity is
as hard as climbing the sky.

Qin Yu is enjoying the strong winds on the 9th level of the sky.

“Father has always been refusing to let me take part in his plan. Now I’m
already a Xiantian expert …” Qin Yu’s heart is endlessly excited at the
moment. As soon as he thinks about his father knowing he is a Xiantian
expert, he becomes extremely excited. Moreover, Qin Yu is even the 1st,
the unprecedented Xiantian external expert in the history of the Qian
Long continent.

When Qin Yu was little, still lacking good judgment, he thought his father
did not love him and, as a result, he trained very hard. When he grew
up, he knew the truth, that is, his father had devoted his entire mind and
energy to the plan to destroy the Xiang clan. His big brother and 2nd
brother were also taking part in the plan. Qin Yu extremely wanted to
help his father but was turned down for the reason that he had not
reached the Xiantian level.

Finally … Qin Yu became a Xiantian expert.

“Xiao Hei, fly directly to Yan City.” Qin Yu pinches the golden mask to
pieces, drops all of the objects which can expose his assassin identity
and starts using the Appearance and Bone Changing art. This time he
switches back to his original appearance. His heart has already become
a bit too impatient to wait.

Xiao Hei seems to understand Qin Yu’s feelings. With a sharp cry and a
shake of the wings, it accelerates again and flies toward Yan City like a
black beam of light.

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Vol. 3:

Chapter 4

B3C4: A bolt from the blue (2)

It is deep in the autumn at the moment. Autumn winds are blowing and
dried leaves are falling. Today the tranquil town Baisha welcomes
several special guests.

In an ancient house, subordiates of the Qian Long continent’s no. 1

magnate Zhu San and the group of experts sent by the Chu Emperor
Xiang Guang are gathering. Both sides are very cautious. But they are
basically on different levels in power. For some unknown reason, Zhu
San sent a group including only one Xiantian expert and, moreover, this
is only an early phase Xiantian expert.

By contrast, all of the people Xiang Guang sent are experts, quite a few
of whom are Xiantian experts.

“I’m Yi Feng. We’ve brought our thing, how about you?” says directly a
handsome man with an evil, strange smiling expression. This Yi Feng is
none other than the younger brother of Yi Yan’s, the leader of the secret
force the Dominant Dragon Corps. He is also the vice leader of the
Dominant Dragon Corps.

Zhu San’s side is led by a fat old man, who says smilingly: “You don’t
have to be worried, gentlemen. We only have so few people but we
don’t dare to deceive you. The corpse of the demonic beast saber-
toothed tiger is intact. Bring it out!”

This fat old man shouts loudly. 4 large men immediately carry out from a
room the corpse of a dark red tiger which is 5 meters long. Those 16

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sharp spikes identify this tiger as — a demonic beast, a saber-toothed

tiger.

“A demonic beast is really a demonic beast. Who would’ve thought its

corpse wouldn’t stink after such a long time?” says Yi Feng with a smile.

The fat old man says with a shake of his head: “Mr. Yi, the body of a
demonic beast is of course exceptional. It’ll only stink after a very long
time. But only because we sprinkled this saber-toothed tiger’s corpse
with some Billow Drying Powder hasn’t it rotted in the slightest.”

“Tut-tut, Billow Drying Powder, the no. 1 magnate is really worthy of his
reputation.” Yi Feng clicks his tongue while praising highly. “Alright,
we’ve seen your product. You can also see ours.” Yi Feng makes a wave
of his hand and a person behind him immediately holds out a jade case
with both hands.

After the case is opened, there is a square jade block which radiates a
multicolored light inside.

The fat old man slightly narrows his eyes and takes a look at the square
jade block and its multicolored light. In a moment he raises his head and
says smilingly: “There’s no need to examine carefully. We believe in the
royal clan’s reputation. Good, if everyone is happy to cooperate, in the
future our boss will also work together with the Xiang royal clan in many
business activities.”

Yi Feng nods with satisfaction.

“Go get that saber-toothed tiger’s corpse.” Yi Feng gives an order. 4

people come out from behind him at once and lift the huge corpse up
with a grab. The fat old man has also received the Trans-Heaven
diagram. Both sides are cooperating sincerely and very happily.

However, at this moment, various wisps of a light-colored, near invisible

smoke drift by. Many of the people present fall down immediately. The 4
large men who are carrying the saber-toothed tiger’s coprse also fall
down in an instant then blood flows out from their ears, eyes, mouths

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and nostrils. They die on the spot.

“No good. The smoke is poisoned.” The fat old man’s voice rises loudly
at the same time.

In just a while, the people on the fat old man’s side have all died of
poison except for the fat old man himself. As for Yi Feng’s side, despite
most of its men have fallen down, 8 people are still standing. These 8
people are none other than the Xiantian experts of the group that came
here this time.

These Xiantian experts can hold their breaths and execute the Xiantian
Fetal Respiration technique therefore the poisonous mist naturally
cannot affect them. Moreover, even if they inhale some poison, they can
channel their Xiantian energy to quickly expel the poison from their
bodies.

“It’s Qin De’s men.” Yi Feng says in an ice-cold voice. “Qin De, you even
dare to meddle in His Majesty’s business. Could it be you want to
rebel?!” says Yi Feng very loudly, sending his voice to the outside of the
courtyard directly.

This place is on the 3 Eastern region counties’ soil, except for East
Vanquishing Prince Qin De, nobody should know about this matter. Even
if someone else knew, they would not have the nerve to meddle in this
business.

“Rebel? That lowlife Xiang Guang was helped by Zhen Xu, he must know
about His Highness’s affairs. Even though things have reached this level,
we still have to maintain a façade of unity so we won’t destroy the Xiang
clan for a while. However … as long as all of you are eliminated, Xiang
Guang won’t have enough evidence.” An aged voice rises.

With Lian Yan being the leader, 3 people then enter the courtyard. As
they seem unafraid of the poison mist, they are obviously Xiantian
experts. However, they only have 3 people whereas Yi Feng’s side has 8
people and that fat old man is also a Xiantian expert.

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But even Yi Feng’s expression is very ugly at the moment.

“East Vanquishing Prince, our boss is …” The fat old man wants to say
something, but …

Whizz!

A cold shaft of light flashes by and the fat old man dies instantly with
eyes wide opened. A black-clad old man behind Lian Yan gives a grim
laugh. He just killed a Xiantian expert directly with one strike, and that
fat old man simply could not resist in the slightest.

East Vanquishing Prince’s side has 3 people altogether.

2 of them are late phase Xiantian experts and Lian Yan is even a super
expert who has completed the Xiantian level. At the peak of its late
phase, the Xiantian level is completed. Once an expert achieves the
completion of the Xiantian level, he will undergo the 4-in-9 Heavenly
Tribulation soon.

“East Vanquishing Prince is really powerful. But by robbing us with only

3 people, he has looked down on us a bit too much,” says Yi Feng coldly.

There are 7 people at Yi Feng’s back, one of whom is a late phase

Xiantian expert while the others are middle phase Xiantian experts and
early phase Xiantian experts. Yi Feng himself is just a middle phase
Xiantian expert as well. Therefore, in terms of overall power, the 3
people sent by Qin De, especially peak Xiantian-level Lian Yan, are much
superior to them.

“Gentlemen, don’t waste time talking to them. Let’s get started,” says
Lian Yan indifferently.

“Yes, Senior Lian!” The 2 black-clad old men bow and say. Among Qin
De’s subordinates, Lian Yan has the highest status. Every expert will
address him as Senior Lian upon seeing him. This is not only because
Lian Yan is the most powerful among them, but also because he is a
person of great character and experience.

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Yi Feng’s eyes flash with coldness: “Let’s attack together. Kill the late
phase Xiantian experts first.”

Immediately —

The 8 Xiantian experts including Yi Feng charge at Lian Yan and his 2
comrades. Lian Yan, however, stands still with a faint smile. The 2 black-
clad old men behind him charge forward side by side like lightning.

Shua!

With a dash, Lian Yan’s body disappears into thin air.

The only late phase Xiantian expert among the 8 people on Yi Feng’s
side suddenly feels that there is something wrong. Prompted by the fear
in his heart, he fiercely executes a backward diagonal slash of his knife
without delay. “Bang!” With a loud noise, Lian Yan appears in front of
him and slightly smiles: “Your reaction was pretty quick.”

Suddenly, an effulgent shaft of light of a knife expands vigorously.

This late phase Xiantian expert hurriedly raises his knife to block it.
However, a sharp Xiantian energy stream goes through the knife,
penetrates into his body and attacks his insides. Then, with a bang, the
body of this Xiantian expert shatters violently.

Because the only late phase Xiantian expert has died, Lian Yan cannot
help giving a faint smile.

However, before Lian Yan can withdraw the knife, his face changes color.
His body instantly dashes away a long distance like a flash. But a sharp
whistle still rises. A linear bloodstain has appeared on Lian Yan’s face.
The brawl stops at once.

A pink-clad middle-aged man is looking at Lian Yan smilingly.

“Qing Yu, it’s you.” Lian Yan’s eyes radiate fierceness.

“Father.” Seeing this pink-clad middle-aged man, who is his adopted

father, Yi Feng hurriedly bows and says. This middle-aged man is none

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other than the real leader of his group Elder Yi, who is also the father of
the Dominant Dragon Corps’ current leader Yi Yan and is the previous
leader of the Dominant Dragon Corps.

Yi Qing Yu is the real name of this Elder Yi.

“Lian Yan, you’re really as impressive as in the past. I got into action just
a bit late but you had already killed a late phase Xiantian expert.
However … you won’t escape this time.” Yi Qing Yu gives a faint smile,
which is effulgent like glamorous peach blossoms.

A cold light is twinkling between those delicate fingers.

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Vol. 3:

Chapter 5

B3C5: A bolt from the blue (3)

Lian Yan takes a look at Yi Qing Yu. His eyes glitter like never before. If
Qin Yu were here, he would definitely find this strange because Lian Yan
is generally very calm and, when he was staying at Misty Villa, he spent
most of his time sitting quietly and rarely got excited, especially excited
as he is at the moment.

“Qing Yu, do you still remember what happened 160 years ago?” asks
Lian Yan with a smile.

Yi Qing Yu ponders for a while then bursts out laughing: “Lian Yan, you
still remember that battle 160 years ago? But at that time your power
was too weak to even protect your daughter and wife. Luckily for you,
East Vanquishing Prince’s men came and saved your life. This time you
won’t escape.”

Upon reaching the Xiantian level, a practitioner’s lifespan will increase to

500 years. This Yi Qing Yu and Lian Yan both have been living for several
hundred years and have achieved the completion of the Xiantian level.
However, they have yet to undergo the 4-in-9 Heavenly Tribulation.
There have been people who had to face the 4-in-9 Heavenly Tribulation
the very days they reached the peak of the Xiantian level, but there
have also been people who lived out their lives at the peak of the
Xiantian level waiting for the 4-in-9 Heavenly Tribulation. The visitation
of the 4-in-9 Heavenly Tribulation depends on a practitioner’s intuitive
enlightenment and has nothing to do with his desire at all.

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“Escape? Why should I escape? I’ve been wating for over 100 years for
this one day.” Lian Yan’s eyes suddenly flash with fierceness. “You two
kill all the other people. Let me handle Yi Qing Yu.”

“Yes!” The 2 black-clad old men bow and say at once.

Lian Yan then stares at Yi Qing Yu. A fierce aura expands swiftly and
ruthlessly toward Yi Qing Yu. The knife on Lian Yan’s waist also starts to
tremble. Yi Qing Yu slightly wrinkles his eyebrows then, adopting a hand
posture in which the thumb and the middle finger are squeezed
together, he confronts Lian Yan with a smile.

The 2 of them are facing each other but neither one rushes into
attacking.

The peak of the Xiantian level, if a practitioner cannot obtain some

natural treasure or top-class superb technique, it will take him at least
over 100 years to reach that point. Only if he practices a top-class
technique such as the Ancestral Dragon Art or comes into possession of
some treasure from the Wilderness can he reach that point within
several tens years.

“Ah!”

A miserable cry rises but the noises of the fighting do not stop. The 2
black-clad old men are carrying out an onslaught against the other 7
people including Yi Feng. Severed limbs fly up in the air and blood
splatters over the ground. The 2 black-clad old men have suffered some
injuries but, even under the joint attack of 7 people, they have killed one
opponent and wounded another.

Yi Qing Yu and Lian Yan, however, simply do not look at those people.

Clang!

The knife on Lian Yan’s waist suddenly comes out of its sheath. A
vertical shaft of light expands forth. In the blink of an eye it has already
arrived at Yi Qing Yu’s face and slashes at his torso. Lian Yan then
extends his hand and takes the knife in a grasp. Following the shaft of

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light, he also charges at Yi Qing Yu like a flash.

After the shaft of light flashes by, the body vanishes into thin air.

The shaft of light created by the knife went through Yi Qing Yu’s body
like that but his body just turned into nothingness.

“Ah!” A black-clad old man suddenly utters a miserable cry. A small hole
has already appeared at the midpoint between his eyebrows. He is
immediately cut into pieces by Yi Feng and his comrades. Yi Qing Yu’s
body then appears on the other side of the battlefield. He is gently
twiddling an embroidery needle between his middle finger and thumb.

“Lian Yan, you should know I have the fastest speed, right? Why used a
strike like that?” says Yi Qing Yu with a slight wave of his sleeve.
Suddenly his face changes color because he discovers Lian Yan has
disappeared. Yi Qing Yu immediately shuts his eyes.

In the blink of an eye, his body suddenly disappears as well. At the same
time, a series of metallic clangs rises. The 2 of them then appear before
other people but they disappear again in an instant …

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! …..

Only many series of clashes can be heard because they have reached
their highest speeds, which are basically beyond the visual capability of
the human eye.

“Ha-ha-ha … thrilling, this is thirlling!” Lian Yan suddenly laughs out

loud. His laughter is filled with lordliness and heroism.

“Lian Yan, I didn’t think you’d really have some skills.” Yi Qing Yu’s
slightly sinister soft voice rises. Droplets of blood are drifting in the air
but they are still moving extremely fast. The other people basically
cannot see them clearly. Suddenly —

The 2 bodies appear and stand facing each other.

A small hole has appeared on Lian Yan’s chest and blood is trickling out
from it. Yi Qing Yu no longer looks free and easy either. At the moment,

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his hair is messy and his stomach has a clear cut caused by the knife,
from which blood is also dribbling out.

“Ha-ha …” Lian Yan suddenly turns his face upward and gives a long
laugh. “Flowers bloom and wither. Seasons come and go. After waiting
for so many years, I’ve finally had this day. When Li died in my bosom, I
already lost interest in life. Without affections in life, what have I been
living for? Money, power, I don’t care about them in the slightest. Since
Li died, I’ve been living in this world only to cherish my memories and …
to kill you. But you’ve always been hiding in the den of the Dominant
Dragon Corps for so many years. This time …”

Lian Yan’s eyes totally focus on Yi Qing Yu: “Heaven has helped me. I’ve
finally found you. Ha-ha, Yi Qing Yu, come, let’s have a thrilling fight!”

A dazzling golden light bursts forth from inside Lian Yan’s body. Then his
entire body becomes dazzling like the Sun. The outside of his body is
now covered in a layer of body-protecting energy, which is much more
vigorous than Zhen Xu’s body-protecting energy.

Feeling Lian Yan’s lordliness and indomitable spirit, Yi Qing Yu slightly

frowns.

“You’re very troublesome, old geezer,” says Yi Qing Yu impatiently. His

body starts to radiate various black rays of light. His hair also starts to
flutter about in the air. An intense light is twinkling on every strand of
his hair. That embroidery needle in Yi Qing Yu’s hand, however, becomes
very indistinct.

Boom!

The air suddenly explodes with a boom. Everything within a 10 m radius

of Lian Yan and Yi Qing Yu has exploded.

The only black-clad old man left on Lian Yan’s side is being ganged up
on by 4 opponents with Yi Feng being the leader. Just now, when killing
one person on their side, he was seriously injured. These 4 people are all
middle phase Xiantian experts so, even though he is a late phase

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Xiantian expert, it is difficult for him to kill any of them. After all, he is
fighting against 4 after getting badly injured.

Suddenly —

There is a series of explosions. The entire surface of the courtyard has

been blown up and dust is surging in the air. The raging force of the
explosions causes Yi Feng, his 3 men and the black-clad old man to
retreat to one side uncontrollably. For the moment, the fight has
stopped. They all look at the center of the courtyard.

“Heart-Piercing Ten Thousand Arrows!”

Yi Qing Yu’s sharp voice rises. Every strand of his silver hair, which
covers his entire head, is thrusted directly at Lian Yan before him like an
arrow. There is a hint of superiority on Yi Qing Yu’s face. It is impossible
for him to give every single strand of hair enough power to break Lian
Yan’s body-protecting energy.

His real killing blow is … the embroidery needles hidden in the silver
hair.

Bang!

Lian Yan’s battle knife slashes down. Yi Qing Yu winds a long bundle of
his hair around it and Lian Yan’s downward slash is stopped. At the same
time his countless strands of silver hair are thrusted directly at Lian
Yan’s entire body in every place like sharp arrows. Moreover, the 10
silver embroidery needles hidden among them also come at Lian Yan
with a terrifying force while blending in with the strands of hair.

Lian Yan has detected those embroidery needles but he does not dodge
them. He does not want to dodge them because after getting his
revenge, even if he lives, he will be spiritually exhausted.

“Ha-ha-ha …”

Lian Yan suddenly turns his face skyward and gives a long laugh, which
shakes the air.

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“Ah!”

With a miserable cry, Yi Qing Yu’s head shoots up in the air. Those wide
opened eyes are filled with disbelief. His hair is also cut off. Yi Qing Yu’s
head then tumbles on the ground and becomes covered with dust. The
people who are watching the fight on one side such as Yi Feng are all
dumbfounded.

10 holes have also appeared on Lian Yan’s chest. Those 10 embroidery

needles have penetrated into his body but he is still laughing. At this
moment, his hand is holding a dark red battle knife.

This battle knife is none other than a middle-grade holy weapon forged
from In-rock Flaming iron that Lian Yan has always been keeping inside
his body. In the beginning of the fight, he used his former weapon, but
at the crucial moment, he suddenly took out the middle-grade holy
weapon and, with a slash, cut off the silver hair and beheaded Yi Qing
Yu.

Yi Qing Yu’s speed was extremely fast. Had he known early that Lian Yan
had such a holy-class battle knife, perhaps he would have fled
immediately.

……

Sitting on the back of the black eagle, Qin Yu is flying extremely fast on
the 9th level of the sky.

“What a strong aura. Xiao Hei, stop!” Qin Yu feels clearly a terrifyingly
strong aura on the ground below him. He is flying very high in the sky
but this aura is really so strong that any Xiantian expert can feel it even
at such a long distance, not to mention Qin Yu, whose senses are so
extraordinary.

“It’s Granpa Lian’s aura.” Qin Yu analyzes the aura and instantly
discovers whose it is.

“Xiao Hei, come down!” says Qin Yu immediately without thinking much.
The black eagle dives down at once. In just a while, Qin Yu has arrived in

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the small courtyard from the sky. At this moment, Lian Yan beheads Yi
Qing Yu with a slash of his battle knife.

“Ha-ha-ha …” Lian Yan turns his face skyward and laughs out loud.
However, tears are streaming down from his eyes.

With a look, Qin Yu sees every hole in Lian Yan’s chest. Those are the
holes pierced by the 10 embroidery needles. As someone proficient in
the art of medicine, Qin Yu immediately judges that these holes have
been pierced precisely in vital points of the human body. As Qin Yu looks
at one hole after another, he seems as if he has been struck by a bolt
from the blue. His entire body has been frozen with stupefaction.

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Vol. 3:

Chapter 6

B3C6: Buried with the dead (1)

Qin Yu’s mind has gone blank completely. A suffocated feeling surges
up, causing his head to start spinning. Only after a while, which in Qin
Yu’s mind seems to have been an extremely long time, does he fully
come to his senses.

“Grandpa Lian!” Qin Yu suddenly says in a hoarse voice. At the same

time, he jumps down directly from the back of the black eagle. In an
instant, he has arrived at Lian Yan’s side.

Lian Yan raises his head and sees Qin Yu jump down. There is a hint of a
kind smile on his face: “Xiao Yu, even you have come here. It’s great I
can see you before I die. Heaven really isn’t mean to me.” Even though
he has been mortally injured, judging by how he is talking alone, no one
would see any signs of his serious injuries.

“Granpa Lian …” Qin Yu does not know what he should say. Seeing those
terrifying injuries, tears stream down from his eyes.

“Xiao Yu, don’t cry. Birth, aging, sickness and death are very normal
things. I’ve been living long enough so it doesn’t matter if I die now.”
Lian Yan wipes the tears from Qin Yu’s face and advises him. Suddenly
Lian Yan slightly frowns and plunks himself down on the ground.

“Grandpa Lian, let’s go, I’ll take you to a doctor,” says Qin Yu while
trying to carry Lian Yan onto the black eagle’s back.

“Don’t worry yourself, Xiao Yu. I know you’re very good at the art of

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medicine. Seeing my injuries how can’t you know that I’m dying? Your
Grandpa Lian’s current internal injuries are extremely serious. I have to
rely completely on my vigorous Xiantian energy only to say some words
to you,” says Lian Yan with a smile.

Qin Yu nips his lips. Even though he does not want to accept it, he also
knows that his Grandpa Lian is right. The only thing which is keeping
Lian Yan alive is the Xiantian energy inside his body.

“Ah ah ~~~ Father … All of you come forward for me. Let’s kill this
black-clad geezer first then finish that damned geezer off later.” Yi
Feng’s voice rises loudly with hatred. Yi Feng has also noticed that Lian
Yan has been mortally wounded and basically has no power left to resist.

Qin Yu’s eyes flash with coldness.

“Xiao Yu, don’t act on impulse. Run immediately. The 4 of them are all
Xiantian experts. That black-clad old man is your father subordinate but
today he has already suffered so many injuries,” says Lian Yan hurriedly
to Qin Yu. Even though Qin Yu has reached the Xiantian level, Lian Yan
simply cannot notice that.

Every expert on the Qian Long continent judges their opponent’s overall
power based on the opponent’s internal energy. If the opponent has
reached the Xiantian level then there will be Xiantian energy inside their
body. It is this simple. However, Qin Yu is different from the other
Xiantian experts because there is no Xiantian energy inside his body.

His strong points are his body, his strength and his agility. Therefore,
even Lian Yan cannot tell how powerful Qin Yu really is. After all, it is
difficult to judge precisely how much muscle power a person has.

“Don’t’ worry, Grandpa Lian. I’m confident I can deal with them. I’ll tell
you a secret, Grandpa Lian. I’ve already reached the Xiantian level
through external practice. The Xiantian level of external practice is
totally different from the Xiantian level of internal practice. It’s much
more powerful.” At this moment Qin Yu only wants to make Lian Yan feel
a bit happier.

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Lian Yan’s eyes brighten: “Reaching the Xiantian level through external
practice?” There has never been anyone who could reach the Xiantian
level via external practice but, seeing Qin Yu’s eyes, Lian Yan knows Qin
Yu does not deceive him. As a dying person, this news is also a
consolation to him, and he calms down very fast.

“Ah!”

A miserable cry is heard. The black-clad old man, who was badly injured
earlier, has been killed by 4 Xiantian experts.

“Ha-ha, old geezer, who could’ve thought you’d kill my father? I’ll
definitely cut you into pieces alive. I won’t let you die a nice death,” says
Yi Feng to Lian Yan with extreme hatred. His entire handsome face
becomes ferocious.

At the moment, Lian Yan’s face starts to go pale. Qin Yu’s face changes
color. He knows Lian Yan can no longer hang on so he embraces Lian
Yan.

“Shut up!” All of a sudden, Qin Yu coldly shouts at Yi Feng and his men.
The coldness in his eyes is focused on Yi Feng like a sharp knife. He does
not want Lian Yan to be disturbed in his dying moments. Yi Feng is
startled by Qin Yu’s shout, and that look in Qin Yu’s eyes even makes
him freeze with stupefaction.

Qin Yu looks at his Grandpa Lian. At this moment, all he can do is let
Grandpa Lian leave this world in peace.

Lian Yan looks into the sky but his eyes see hallucinations. He
remembers the 1st time he and his beloved met each other at Lake
Jinfeng.

When Lian Yan dies, there is even a smiling expression on his face.

Qin Yu is still young and inexperienced so he does not understand Lian

Yan’s feelings. But he can feel that his Grandpa Lian was calm and
relaxed at the moment of his death and was not grieved at all.

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“Grandpa Lian,” says Qin Yu in a shaky low voice.

Since he was little, the person Qin Yu has actually spent the most time
with was Lian Yan. When he was still living in the princely mansion, Lian
Yan looked after him. After he moved to Misty Villa, Lian Yan looked after
him as well. It can be said that Lian Yan even spent much more time
with him than his father Qin De has.

“Brat, are you done with mourning?” says Yi Feng with a cold laugh.

Qin Yu simply cannot bear looking at this Yi Feng. However, Yi Feng is

extremely furious. Just now he was unexpectedly stupefied by Qin Yu’s
thunderous shout so naturally he has become furious out of
embarrassment. But he is not a useless profligate son and, moreover,
the person he currently hates the most is Lian Yan.

This is because Lian Yan killed his father!

“Father, I’m an undutiful son. Now I’m avenging your death!” says Yi
Feng while kneeling in front of Yi Qing Yu’s body. He then stands up and
coldly orders: “Kill that brat. That geezer killed my father so I must cut
him into pieces and torture his corpse to the utmost to avenge my
father’s death!!!”

“Yes!” The 3 middle-phase Xiantian experts immediately bow and say. In

their eyes, Qin Yu is no more than a brat who is unworthy of their
attention.

“What did you just say?” Qin Yu gently puts Lian Yan’s body down and
slowly stands up. He fixes Yi Feng with an ice-cold fierce look.

Yi Feng slightly narrows his eyes: “Cutting that geezer into pieces, so
what?” There is a hint of an evil, strange smile on his face. He then
stares at his 3 subordinates: “The 3 of you let that brat know the
consequences of messing with other people’s business!”

“My 2 brothers, there’s only one bloke, I alone can handle him,” says a
short man with a ha-ha laugh.

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Qin Yu slightly narrows his eyes, which then glitter with coldness.

“Die, brat!” With a shake of his body, the short man slashes the long
knife in his hands at Qin Yu. He is much faster than the Nalan brother
and sister. Too bad, Qin Yu has improved a lot since the day he killed
Zhen Xu.

A dark red pair of gloves suddenly appears on Qin Yu’s fists. They are
middle-grade holy weapons — the Flaming Gloves!

Qin Yu makes a movement with his body. 3 afterimages appear

instantly. At the same time, a metallic bang rises and that Xian-grade
battle knife is unexpectedly shattered. The fist which has just shattered
that battle knife is then thrusted directly at the short man’s throat like a
beam of light.

Piercing spear hand strike!

The short man, who is still shocked by the disintegration of his battle
knife, simply has no reaction. Qin Yu’s spear hand strike concentrates
the force equivalent to the weight of several thousand jin completely in
one point. “Bang!” With a bang, a hole appears instantly on the short
man’s throat.

“Thud!” With a loud sound and eyes protruding, the short man falls on
the ground for good. His wide opened eyes show that he still cannot
seem to believe what happened is real.

Yi Feng’s and the other 2 middle-phase Xiantian experts’ jaws drop for
the present. They look at Qin Yu in shock then look at the middle phase
Xiantian expert on the ground, who is already dead. In their minds, they
are replaying Qin Yu’s shocking speed and his great might when he
shattered the Xian grade battle knife just now.

“The 3 of you prepare to be buried with my Grandpa Lian!” Qin Yu

unleashes the entire power of his body. Even the power in the depths of
his cells starts to surge forth. As he is a Xiantian external expert, how
devastating his most powerful attack will actually be?

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Vol. 3:

Chapter 7

B3C7: Buried with the dead (2)

Qin Yu’s eyes are cold and radiating killing intent. He stares at the 3
people in front of him.

Lian Yan’s death has filled his heart with bitterness and unwillingness.
And now the 3 people people in front of him have obviously become the
targets for him to give vent to his feelings on. Moreover, these 3 people
are also on the same side as Yi Qing Yu, the murderer of his Grandpa
Lian.

“Phew, he’s merely a brat. Just now Shorty was too careless. Don’t be
scared by him.” Yi Feng suddenly tosses his head then stares firmly at
Qin Yu like a viper. “Thinny, Ugly, the 3 of us must charge together and
kill this brat directly.”

Hearing Yi Feng’s order, his 2 subordinates also coldly nod at once. Just
now they were shocked by the fact that Qin Yu had killed their comrade
with 1 blow. Now, only by joining forces can they have enough courage.
Yi Feng and his 2 comrades all stare firmly at Qin Yu. The Xiantian
energy in their entire bodies starts to be activated.

The auras of the 3 of them all expand and engulf Qin Yu, who at the
moment is like a turtle trapped in a jar.

Thud! Thud!

The black iron arm guards and leg guards have been taken off and
tossed casually to one side. As they fall on the courtyard they produce

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heavy sounds. The faces of Yi Feng and the other 2 changes color. Just
now Qin Yu’s speed was already so fast, yet he was even carrying
weights.

“Grandpa Lian, please wait for a while. After killing them all, Xiao Yu will
take you home,” says Qin Yu sadly.

Qin Yu’s mind cannot help remembering the occasions when he was with
Lian Yan from his childhood to his adulthood. When he was a little child,
he stayed by Lian Yan’s side all day long, asking Lian Yan to tell him
stories. Time after time Qin Yu entered his dreamland while listening to
Lian Yan’s stories.

“Once upon a time, there was a gifted scholar. He studied very hard for
10 years …”

Every time Lian Yan told a story, he always started with “once upon a
time, there was a …” Even with his eyes closed, Qin Yu can still
remember the scenes of Lian Yan telling stories beside his bed until he
fell asleep. Those scenes are so warm and sweet, but from today
onwards, he will never see that kind Grandpa Lian again.

Qin Yu’s eyes cannot help becoming somewhat moist.

“Phew!”

With a shake of his body, Qin Yu disappears without any sounds of wind.

“Ah!”

Qin Yu clenches his teeth and smashes a punch on Thinny’s stomach

with all his power. Currently Qin Yu can lift 2000 to 3000 jin with one
arm but this punch thrown by him carries a force equal to the weight of
over 10,000 jin, which is a terrifyingly strong offensive force. “Bang!”
Thinny’s stomach gets a violent shake but unexpectedly does not burst.
However, his eyes protrude and blood starts to flow out from his ears,
eyes, mouth and nostrils. In fact, his internal organs have been
completely pulverized by the impact force of this 10,000-jin punch from
Qin Yu.

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Under the attack of a near 10,000-jin impact force, not even Thinny’s
Xiantian energy could resist.

With a punch, a middle-phase Xiantian expert has been killed.

Qin Yu’s mind, however, cannot help remembering those warm, sweet
and familiar scenes one after another. From now on, he will never forget
them in his lifetime.

“‘Grandpa Lian, hurry up and open the door. I’m Xiao Yu. I have
something to talk to you about. Quickly open the door,’ shouts Qin Yu
hurriedly. After a short while, there is lamplight in the room. ‘Xiao Yu,
your grandpa fell into sleep just a moment ago, but you already woke
him up,’ says a benign voice. Then the door opens.

A kind old man in his sixties wrapped in a coat appears before Qin Yu.”

That night, his Grandpa Lian talked to him carefully about the difference
between internal practice and external practice, and between Houtian
experts, Xiantian experts and Shangxian. That night, Grandpa Lian’s
kind words revealed to Qin Yu the world of practice.

A hint of a smile appears on Qin Yu’s face. He looks as if he has travelled

back to that night in the cabin wherein there is kind Grandpa Lian.

“Be careful, Ugly!”

Yi Feng shouts loudly. A cold shaft of light shoots at Qin Yu directly from
his hand. Qin Yu simply does not avoid it. He throws a punch and, with a
metallic clash, that embroidery needle is shattered. Then his body
arrives at Ugly’s side like a gust of wind.

“Die.”

Ugly fiercely slashes his knife at Qin Yu.

“Ah!” Ugly suddenly utters a miserable cry. Just now Qin Yu executed a
straight kick, whose terrifying force snapped Ugly’s knee violently. He
then formed a claw with a hand and grabbed a vital point of Ugly’s
backbone directly. The force of his fingers went through the Flaming

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Glove and affected that vital point squarely.

Ugly, with a miserable shrill cry, falls on the ground powerlessly. His
entire body convulses nonstop and many streams of blood ooze out of
his mouth.

The scenes of the times Qin Yu was with Lian Yan from his childhood to
his adulthood keep flashing through his mind one after another. He
cannot help giving a smile which looks like that of a child meeting an
elderly close relative. It is a smile from the bottom of his heart.

Qin Yu raises his head and looks at Yi Feng with that smile: “You’re the
only one left.”

Seeing Qin Yu’s heartfelt smile, Yi Feng, however, gets a chill down his
spine. In mere moments, 2 middle-phase Xiantian experts have been
killed with such ease, but Yi Feng himself is no more than a middle-
phase Xiantian expert as well. Therefore, Yi Feng’s reaction is —

To run!

Before long, the mental image in Qin Yu’s mind suddenly changes. He
now remembers that scene a short while ago in which, from the black of
the black eagle, he saw the 10 terrifying holes on Lian Yan’s chest. His
face immediately changes color. He then stares at Yi Feng before him.

With a movement of his body, Qin Yu creates several afterimages.

“Die! Don’t chase me! Die!” shrieks Yi Feng in terror. At the same time
he shoots one embroidery needle after another at Qin Yu.

Looking at the cold-light-radiating embroidery needles which are coming

at him, Qin Yu’s eyes suddenly glitter with coldness, as if he is seeing
how his grandpa Lian Yan was pierced so many holes in the body by
needles.

“Ah ~~~”

A hoarse yowl rises. Yi Feng, however, instantly quivers because he can

feel clearly that the yowl is approaching him extremely fast. Even if he

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activates more Xiantian energy in his body, his will still be far slower
than the person who is chasing to kill him.

Because Yi Feng cannot run, he ferociously utters a piercing cry then

suddenly turns around and thrusts the embroidery needles in his hands
at Qin Yu.

Bang! Bang! Bang! ……

The needles are shattered!

The arms are smashed!

There are also those two eyes which are wide opened with disbelief!

……

A continuous series of bams can be heard along with Yi Feng’s miserable

cry.

After destroying the embroidery needles, Qin Yu’s fists smashed Yi

Feng’s 2 arms. Qin Yu then slightly opens his right hand, forms a spear
hand, and hits Yi Feng directly in the midpoint between the eyebrows.
The powerful penetrating force goes inside the head immediately.

He then withdraws the hands, turns around and goes to Lian Yan without
looking at Yi Feng.

“Thud!” Yi Feng falls down with a loud sound. Various streams of blood
slowly come out from his mouth and nose. He is already dead.

In mere moments, 4 middle-phase Xiantian experts have been

annihilated by Qin Yu.

Since he started to practice the 1st Trans-Heaven diagram Qin Yu has

improved a lot in power, but even with his middle-grade holy weapons,
he is only equal to Zhen Xu at most. Because there were 4 middle-phase
Xiantian-level opponents, theoretically he should not have won so easily.

However, Qin Yu’s strongest point is … fighting multiple opponents. He

is simply unafraid of being outnumbered by the enemies. Even though

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there were 4 opponents, thanks to Qin Yu’s body maneuvering skill,

every time he really attacked, he faced only 1 of them.

“Grandpa Lian, I’m taking you home now.” Qin Yu goes to Lian Yan’s
side and says tenderly. The way he talks is just like how he usually
talked to Lian Yan. It looks as if he still thinks that Lian Yan is alive.

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Vol. 3:

Chapter 8

B3C8: One man, alone (1)

At this moment, hurried footsteps suddenly rise outside the courtyard.

Along with wind sounds, a blue-clad old man leads a group of people into
the courtyard. As this blue-clad old man looks at the scene in the
courtyard, his face changes color. Qin Yu slightly raises his head and
gives this blue-clad old man a cold look. Seeing Qin Yu’s face, the blue-
clad old man instantly kneels and says: “Third Prince, your subordinate
has come late.”

“Come late?” Qin Yu repeats in a low voice, but his heart is full of
indignation.

If they had come a bit earlier, perhaps his Grandpa Lian would not have
died. However, the fact that they are late cannot be changed. Moreover,
Qin Yu has seen this blue-clad old man beside his father before so he
knows this old man is one of his father’s trusted subordinates.

“All of you take everything here back to the princely mansion. As for
Grandpa Lian, I’m taking him back myself.” Qin Yu says coldly without
any emotion.

After putting on the black iron arm guards and leg guards, he embraces
Lian Yan to his bosom. Following a long whistle by him, the black eagle
dives down like a black beam of light. With a shake of his body, Qin Yu
gets on the eagle’s back.

“Xiao Hei, let’s return to the mansion,” says Qin Yu softly.

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The black eagle seems to feel that Qin Yu is sorrowful and not playful as
usual so, with a shake of the wings, it rushes to Yan City with its fastest
speed.

After watching Qin Yu disappear together with the black eagle on the
horizon, the blue-clad old man slightly frowns then orders his
subordinates: “Quickly lift the saber-toothed tiger up and hurry it to the
princely mansion immediately.” The blue-clad old man however gets the
2nd Trans-Heaven diagram himself.

“Lian Yan is already dead but Yi Qing Yu is also dead so it’s not too bad.
But His Highness has a deep affection for Lian Yan …” The blue-clad old
man frowns deeply. He obviously feels that things are not too
encouraging.

……

In the princely mansion in Yan City,

Qin De and Xu Yuan are sitting facing each other under an old tree,
quietly playing the game of Go.

“Your Highness, you’ve lost.” Xu Yuan lightly puts a chess piece down
and says smilingly.

Qin De looks for a long time then shakes his head and says with a smile:
“Xu Yuan, your chess skill has become more and more profound. Even I
am no match for you.” Xu Yuan looks at Qin De then says with a shake
of his head: “It’s not that my chess skill has improved but that today
Your Highness can’t calm your mind down.”

Qin De says with a sigh: “That’s right. Today my heart is beating very
fast and can’t calm down. I’ve been worried by the matter Uncle Lian
handles this time. In theory, with Uncle Lian’s current power in addition
to 2 late-phase Xiantian experts, he should have no problem resolving
this matter.”

“Don’t worry, Your Highness. Senior Lian is extremely powerful. There’s

no one on Xiang Guang’s side who can harm him,” says Xu Yuan with a

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smile.

Suddenly, Qin De stands up and looks up into the sky.

A black eagles dives down, heading for Qin De’s place extremely fast.
Qin Yu is sitting with legs crossed on the back of the black eagle. Qin De
immediately bursts out laughing. He has been waiting for Qin Yu’s
return. Qin Yu left him so much In-rock Flaming iron, which is really a
huge treasure to him, so he naturally wants to reward Qin Yu.

However … Qin De’s smiling expression freezes because he sees the

person Qin Yu is carrying in his bosom.

“Thud!” Qin Yu jumps down on the ground directly from the back of the
black eagle.

Carrying Lian Yan, Qin Yu stands still and looks Qin De in the eye. As Qin
De looks at Lian Yan in Qin Yu’s bosom, his face goes pale instantly. He
tries to control himself to come to Lian Yan step by step. Lian Yan’s pale
smiling face then comes into his sight.

“Father, Grandpa Lian is already dead.” Qin Yu’s calm voice has a note
of extreme sorrow.

“How is this possible? Uncle Lian got a holy weapon, didn’t he?” Qin De’s
eyes become moist in an instant. After a while, Qin De suddenly asks Qin
Yu: “Yu’er, I ask you, there was a man called Yi Qing Yu on Xiang
Guang’s side, right?”

Qin Yu says with a shake of his head: “I don’t know. I don’t know those
people’s identities.”

Qin De looks at the holes on Lian Yan’s chest successively and says with
a sigh: “These are embroidery needle wounds. The only person on Xiang
Guang’s side who can use embroidery needles and injure Uncle Lian with
them is Yi Qing Yu. Uncle Lian has finally been liberated.”

Qin De has experienced a lot of things in his life so naturally he can

understand Lian Yan’s feelings.

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“The murderer of Grandpa Lian was already killed by him with a knife
slash,” says Qin Yu directly. When flying on the back of the black eagle
he was attracted by the aura of the great fight between the 2 of them,
and he came down just in time to see Lian Yan kill his opponent then
turn his face skyward and give a long laugh.

Qin De takes a deep breath and slightly nods: “Uncle Lian has been
freed. Yu’er, you don’t have to be too grieved. Instead, you should feel
happy for your Grandpa Lian.”

Qin Yu, however, does not say anything and only looks at Lian Yan in his
bosom. After a while, servants of the princely mansion come and take
Lian Yan’s body. Qin Yu watches them carry Lian Yan’s body away but he
remains silent for a long time. Afterwards he says indifferently: “Father,
I’m not in a good mood. I’ll take a break first. Don’t let anyone disturb
me.”

As he finishes saying, he turns around and goes directly toward the

courtyard house which belongs exclusively to him.

In the courtyard house,

Qin Yu sits quietly on a stone bench and looks at the willow in front of
him. As the willow’s branches flutter, Qin Yu seems to see the scene of
him larking about with Lian Yan here in his childhood.

Whizz!

With a movement of his body, Qin Yu unexpectedly starts to dance

about in the courtyard. He is totally using the 36 movements of the
pictures on the 1st Trans-Heaven diagram. He simply does not think
about anything and just performs those movements extremely fast
nonstop.

The 36 arm-sized streams of holy energy twine around each other and
form a circle around him, which looks like a suit of armor covering Qin
Yu. Then these holy energy streams permeate into his body.

Qin Yu is weeping silently.

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His speed becomes faster and faster. He is basically giving vent to his
feelings rather than practicing so naturally his movements become
faster with time. Qin Yu performs the 36 movements increasingly faster.
Eventually his entire body seems to turn into a gust of wind flashing
about in the courtyard house.

The holy energy around Qin Yu becomes more and more vigorous. The
faster he moves, the more vigorous the holy energy becomes. Finally,
when Qin Yu starts to waft around like a clear wind, the 36 holy energy
streams unexpectedly start to radiate a dull silvery light. When the
energy streams which contain the silvery light fuses with Qin Yu’s body,
the muscles of his entire body suddenly quiver.

“Ah ~~~”

Feeling a stabbing pain inside his body, Qin Yu stops abruptly. His facial
muscles tremble and tears stream down from his eyes. Without any
restraint, he turns his face skyward and gives a long roar. Nobody can
know if he is roaring because of the tearing pain inside or because of his
heartache. Qin Yu keeps roaring like this. Only when he has no breath
left does he stop. Then he gasps for breath loudly.

“Yu’er …” Qin De’s voice rises outside.

Qin Yu takes a deep breath, tries to calm down and says: “Father, give
me some time to calm down. During this time don’t let anyone disturb
me. Just give me some time, all right?” The outside of the courtyard
house falls silent for a long time then the footsteps of someone slowly
leaving can be heard.

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Vol. 3:

Chapter 9

B3C9: One man, alone (2)

Qin Yu is sitting stock-still at the stone table in the courtyard house.

He has been sitting like this for a whole day and night. During this time
he has smiled and sorrowed alternately. However, at the moment, Qin
Yu suddenly gives a faint smile which, like a breeze, blows away all his
grief and sorrow. He slowly stands up and looks up at the sky.

“He’s already dead. It’s pointless to keep grieving. Grandpa Lian, you
must be watching from the sky, I definitely won’t disappoint you.” Qin Yu
thinks to himself calmly. Then he smiles as he hears a ‘gu-gu’ rumbling.
“I forgot I haven’t eaten for a day and night. My stomach is pretty
hungry.”

As he finishes saying, he immediately tells servants to bring him some

food.

……

Qin De is staring at the military map on the wall inside his room.

“Your Highness, Xiao Yu just told servants to bring him some food.
Judging by Third Prince’s tone and expression, he should have almost
recovered.” Xu Yuan comes to Qin De’s side and says smilingly.

“Oh?” Qin De relaxes his deeply furrowed brows. A smiling expression

appears on his face. “Yu’er is tough-minded. He won’t immerse himself
in grief like a worthless person.” Hearing this news, Qin De also feels like
a rock has been taken off his mind.

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“All right, now we don’t have to be worried about Yu’er. Xu Yuan, you
see, here, if we send 30,000 Fierce Tiger troops to here …” Qin De
immediately starts to discuss with Xu Yuan.

……

As Qin Yu eats his sumptuous precious meal, his mind thinks about other
matters.

“I’ll definitely take part in father’s great undertaking. In the past he

turned me down for the reason that I wasn’t a Xiantian expert. Now I’ve
become a Xiantian expert and, moreover, I’m even the unprecedented
Xiantian external expert. If father knows about this …” Qin Yu’s eyes
flash.

He has been trying hard for so many years only to wait for his father’s
approval.

Being a Xiantian external expert should be enough for Qin Yu to astonish

his father and be praised by him, should it not?

“Right, when I just returned to the courtyard house that day, it seemed
while executing the 1st Trans-Heaven diagram’s 36 movements, when I
reached an extremely high speed the holy energy streams unexpectedly
radiated a silvery light. That silvery light was even acutely painful.” Qin
Yu remembers that scene.

Even though Qin Yu noticed this occurrence at that time, he has been
too immersed in his sorrow over Lian Yan’s death to consider it carefully.

“Moreover, it seemed that during practice, the faster my speed was, the
more vigorous the holy energy I absorbed was. Well, let’s try again and
see!” Qin Yu immediately makes a decision. He quickly finishes his meal
and casts the chopsticks aside. Then his body starts to flash around in
the courtyard house like a gust of clear wind.

Speed!

As Qin Yu executes those movements faster and faster, the 36 holy

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energy streams intertwine with each other and become a suit of armor
engulfing Qin Yu. As his speed increases, those energy streams become
more and more concentrated and materialized.

Eventually, some points of a silvery light are produced. There are very
few of them and they are scattered in the energy streams.

“It’s this speed!”

Qin Yu’s eyes brighten. He stops increasing his speed at once. He feels
clearly that, when the holy energy which contains those silvery points of
light fuses with his body, it causes his flesh and even his cells to
transform hurriedly. His cells start to be torn apart, but they are then
restored once again.

A sharp pain coming from the depths of his cells makes Qin Yu’s face go
pale uncontrollably.

Luckily Qin Yu did not increase his speed again. The current level of the
silvery light is very good because it causes such a pain in only a few
places, which Qin Yu can still endure. If there were too much of the
silvery light, his entire body would suffer from such a pain. Perhaps not
even Qin Yu would be able to survive that kind of agony.

Qin Yu’s whole body continuously absorbs one silvery light point after
another. He discovers that those silvery light points seem to be a kind of
energy which is much more refined than holy energy. As the training and
transformation of his body progress at a noticeable rate, the energy
streams replenish themselves with holy energy and fuse with Qin Yu’s
body nonstop.

“Very good, this Trans-Heaven diagram really isn’t simple. How can it
possibly absorb just a little holy energy? But what secrets do the 2nd
and the 3rd Trans-Heaven diagrams have, I wonder?” Qin Yu thinks to
himself. However, the speed of his movements is slightly increased
again.

Instantly, the number of light points floating and twinkling in the energy

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streams goes up. The pain in Qin Yu’s body also intensifies. He slightly
frowns, but there is a hint of a smile on his face.

Time goes by. After 2 days, by now those silvery light points seem to
have flowed through Qin Yu’s entire body. When the silvery light goes
through the places it has gone through before, he only feels a slightly
tingling sensation rather than pain. However, his muscles are also no
longer improved as fast as in the beginning.

After practicing for only 2 days, the power of Qin Yu’s muscles has
definitely increased by over 100%.

“Speed, let’s increase it again!” Qin Yu continues to exercise. He has

been exercising nonstop for 2 whole days but he does not feel hungry at
all because absorbing so much holy energy like this has been sufficiently
making up for his bodily energy consumption. Following Qin Yu’s
acceleration, the energy streams’ silvery light increases once again.

Hu hu ~~

After an energy stream which contains the silvery light goes through his
skin, it will move quickly from one muscle to another until it is
completely absorbed.

However, is it true that the faster he moves, the more that special
silvery light is generated?

“What’s going on? My current speed is faster than before, why is there
less of the silvery light instead?” Qin Yu has finally discovered this
problem. His current speed is simply not his limit. One should know that
at this moment he is still carrying weights.

“All right, let’s keep this speed.” Qin Yu no longer accelerates. He

continuously performs the movements at the optimum speed.

Following Qin Yu’s movements, the 36 energy streams which contain the
silvery light continuously permeate into his body, causing many bursts
of a wonderfully numbing sensation. The muscle power of his entire
body is also improved little by little. When Qin Yu is immersing himself in

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this kind of wonderful feeling —

“Xiao Yu, it’s been 3 whole days. Why haven’t you eaten anything?” Xu
Yuan’s voice rises outside the courtyard house.

As soon as Qin Yu hears that, his attention cannot help getting

distracted and his movements’ speed naturally decreases. However, the
moment he slows down, the silvery light in the 36 energy streams
engulfing him suddenly intensifies greatly. Its density even increases by
100%.

“Uncle Xu …” When Qin Yu has just said this much, he discovers that the
numbing sensation inside his body has heightened greatly and also
discovers the shocking change just now.

“What’s going on? Just now wasn’t I using the optimum speed? How did
the silvery light increase so much the moment I slowed down?” Qin Yu’s
eyes suddenly brighten like a torch in the night. His heart suddenly has
a surge of excitement.

Apparently the movements of those 36 pictures are not so simple at all.

“Xiao Yu.” Xu Yuan’s voice rises again. Qin Yu hurriedly says: “Uncle Xu,
I’m focusing on practice. Please don’t worry. I still have some food and
water in here. Uncle Xu, I’m not leaving this courtyard house. Please
don’t let anyone disturb me. I must focus on practice … I’m doing
closed-door training now!”

Regarding closed-door training, to avoid being disturbed, generally

experts will prepare some food and water, but they will find a secluded
place before starting to focus on training.

“Closed-door training?” Xu Yuan is somewhat stupefied. However, he is

not an ordinary man so he says smilingly: “All right, Xiao Yu. I’ll order
the servants to prepare some food and water for you. Don’t worry about
training here. No one will disturb you.”

“Thank you, Uncle Xu.” After saying, Qin Yu waits for the servants to
bring him food and water. Then he starts to undergo closed-door training

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alone to research carefully into the secret of the 1st Trans-Heaven

diagram’s 36 pictures.

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Vol. 3:

Chapter 10

B3C10: Explode (1)

In Qin Yu’s courtyard house, there is absolutely no one around to disturb

him. Qin Yu’s entire body has turned into several illusions which are
moving nonstop in the courtyard house.

“Strange, I have slowed down, why hasn’t the density increased? But
just now …” Qin Yu frowns deeply. At the moment he is performing the
movements of the 36 pictures at a slower speed than before but the 36
energy streams engulfing him do not even have any silvery light.

However, it is very clear to him that just now when he heard Xu Yuan’s
voice and started to slow down, the density of those holy energy
streams suddenly increased and those silvery light points fused directly
with his body like flowing sand in that moment.

“Could it be?” Qin Yu suddenly thinks of one possibility.

He increases the speed of his movements at once. Various silvery light

points once again appear in the 36 intertwined energy streams and
continuously fuse with Qin Yu’s body. This is the speed Qin Yu originally
thought to be the optimum speed. Suddenly … he slows down.

The wind rises and the holy energy in his vicinity vibrates for a short
while. The density of the silvery light in the 36 energy streams
surrounding Qin Yu suddenly increases.

Qin Yu’s eyes pop out of his head. This concentrated silvery light is
fusing with his body like concentrated silvery sand. One after another,

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these silvery light points are fusing with the flesh, bones and channels of
his entire body. An extremely numbing sensation spreads throughout his
body.

“Amazing!” Qin Yu cannot help uttering a loud shout.

This kind of sentation is really giving Qin Yu an unprecedented intense

pleasure. It is 10,000 times more enjoyable than getting massaged.
However, in just a while, the density of the silvery light points suddenly
drops to the extent that it is even lower than when Qin Yu started to
exercise at that normal speed.

“What’s going on?” Qin Yu finally stops. His mind is completely puzzled.

“Judging from what has happened today, it seems being fast all the time
is useless, and being slow all the time is even worse. But when I moved
fast from the beginning then suddenly slowed down at the 16th
movement, the result was extremely good …” Qin Yu ponders.

“Could it be …” Qin Yu’s eyes brighten. “Could it be I must adjust my

speed properly while executing these movements so that I’m fast when
it should be fast and slow when it should be slow? Is combining swiftness
with slowness the most suitable way?”

As soon as Qin Yu comes up with this idea, he starts to try it at once.

First, he performs the movements at a constant fast speed. Then upon

reaching a certain movement he suddenly accelerates or decelerates.
Using this method, he can determine whether a certain movement
should be executed fast or slowly. However, as Qin Yu researches more
into these movements, he starts to find this troublesome because …

Take the 16th movement, for example. He should slow down at this
movement, but to what extent must he slow down? How much must he
slow down at this movement in the end? And it is the same with when he
must speed up. Moreover, successive movements must harmozine with
each other and the transition from one to another must be smooth.

For example, when he changes from the 3rd movement, in which his

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right hand is in a low position, to the 4th movement, in which the right
hand is in a high position, even the path travelled by his hand must be
researched carefully. Different paths will produce different results.

In short, to figure out the perfect technique based on only these 36

mysterious pictures is after all truly a screaming problem.

Every time Qin Yu researches into the movements, he experiences them

with a completely calm and collected mind. Time goes by. Only after a
whole month can Qin Yu finally almost figure out the right practice
method of this technique. A brand new Trans-Heaven-diagrams-based
technique appears.

A month later,

Qin Yu’s body is wafting about in the courtyard house like a breeze.

When he moves fast, he appears to be slow.

But when he moves slowly, his entire body creates various afterimages.

Strange, this is extremely strange.

The strangest thing is that there is a silvery suit of armor enfolding Qin
Yu. No, it is not a silvery suit of armor. Rather, it is an armor-like mass of
energy formed by the 36 pure silvery energy streams intertwining with
each other around Qin Yu’s body. These 36 silvery energy streams are
continuously permeating into Qin Yu’s body. At the same time, they are
absorbing the world’s holy energy to replenish themselves.

“Hah, amazing!” Qin Yu suddenly stops. His entire body shakes for a
short while. The 36 silvery energy streams also vanish away.

In the beginning, the silvery light points were sparse, but now any
energy stream is made up almost entirely of the silvery light points. For
the last month, Qin Yu’s body has been transforming quickly with each
passing day. Both his strength and speed have increased by several
times.

Qin Yu slightly closes his eyes.

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The 36 pictures have formed a perfect set of movements. And Qin Yu is

executing one movement after another in his mind, sometimes fast,
sometimes slowly. The 1st technique of the Trans-Heaven digrams has
finally been figured out by Qin Yu.

Qin Yu’s eyes suddenly open wide, glittering dazzlingly.

“I wonder what secrets the 2nd and 3rd Trans-Heaven diagrams have.”
He starts to look forward to the other diagrams. He fully enjoyed this
wonderful feeling of nonstop improvement in his body. Therefore, he
naturally has high expectations for the other 2 diagrams.

“I remember …” Qin Yu suddenly recalls that, in the courtyard where

Lian Yan was killed, when he was beside Lian Yan’s body, his holy sense
swept around and discovered the aura of another Trans-Heaven
diagram. However, Qin Yu was too immersed in mourning at that time to
take notice of this.

“After getting that Trans-Heaven diagram, father must’ve put it in the

Secret Treasury.” Qin Yu immediately beams because he is eligible to
enter the Secret Treasury. Even if he wants to take out a treasure, he
will only need to let Qin De know about it.

Qin Yu takes out from his bosom the 1st Trans-Heaven diagram and says
smilingly: “This first Trans-Heaven diagram is no longer very useful to
me. Let’s quietly put it in the Secret Treasury.”

Qin Yu does not want to let his father know that he is assassin Liu Xing
so, even though Qin De may not know that assassin Liu Xing took the 1st
Trans-Heaven diagram, he will have to quietly conceal it in an
unobtrusive place in the Secret Treasury just in case.

For an entire month, Qin Yu has been training without eating anything.

Now thinking about this, Qin Yu is extremely astonished because, to his

knowledge, to reach the level where food and drink are no longer
needed, at least a practitioner must be able to absorb holy energy at a
shocking speed. Thanks to the Meteoric Tear, Qin Yu can already absorb

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holy energy extremely fast. In addition to that, he has been practicing

the secret technique of the 1st Trans-Heaven diagram, so currently the
holy energy he absorbs even turns into silvery light points.

“It’s good to progress so fast in practice. It doesn’t matter if the cause of

this is the mysterious Meteoric Tear or the Trans-Heaven diagram’s
secret technique, its principle isn’t something I can guess,” says Qin Yu
with a smile.

Then Qin Yu leaves the courtyard house at once and hurriedly heads for
Qin De’s place. At least it will not be late for him to enter the Secret
Treasury after greeting Qin De first.

“Third Prince,” say the 2 guards of Qin De’s place after getting down on
one knee.

“Please tell father that I want to see him,” says Qin Yu immediately.

A guard says: “Third Prince, His Highness has been undergoing closed-
door training for a half month and still hasn’t come out. His Highness has
given the order not to let anyone disturb him during this closed-door
training session.” Hearing this, Qin Yu cannot help being stupefied by
the fact that even his father is undergoing closed-door training.

“Alright, then you two keep guarding.” Qin Yu gives a smile then turns
around and goes to the Secret Treasury. There will not be any serious
problems even if he does not tell Qin De about this.

There are obviously many guards in the corridor outside the Secret
Treasury. However, seeing Qin Yu, they do not obstruct him in the
slightest. Qin Yu thus goes into the most distant attic. After entering a
side room in the attic, he activates a device.

With a clack noise, a stone door appears on the wall of the side room –
this is the stone door leading to the Secret Treasury. Qin Yu goes into
the Treasury instantly. The stone door then moves and shuts again.

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Vol. 3:

Chapter 11

B3C11: Explode (2)

The Secret Treasury is secret room which is not very large. On each side
of the room there is a counter made of old agarwood. Various treasures
have been put carefully on the surfaces of the counters. In the center of
the secret room there are a bamboo chair and a natural tea table.

At the front of the room where the floor meets the wall, there is a lighted
antique incense burner. A dull-colored smoke is spreading out from the
incense burner, giving the whole secret room an atmosphere of Zen.

“Let’s conceal the 1st Trans-Heaven diagram in the crack between the
left counter and the wall.” Qin Yu goes to a corner of the room then
takes out the precious 1st Trans-Heaven diagram from his bosom and
tucks it directly into the crack at this corner.

Qin Yu stands up and nods in satisfaction: “Well, so many years will have
already passed until father discovers this Trans-Heaven diagram. He
won’t suspect me.” He definitely does not want to let his father know the
identity of assassin Liu Xing because in his view it is absolutely not
something worth showing off.

After concealing the 1st Trans-Heaven diagram, Qin Yu takes a glance at

the treasures on the old-wood counter. He immediately discovers a jade
case among them.

“I feel that it’s what I want to find!” Qin Yu opens the lid of the jade case
box with a smile. There is only a square jade block appearing before
him. The square jade block is engulfed in a soft multicolored light.

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Judging by appearance alone, there seems to be no difference between

it and the 1st block.

Qin Yu takes hold of this Trans-Heaven diagram. There are several words
on its surface — Second Trans-Heaven Diagram.

“It’s the 2nd diagram!” Qin Yu is elated. According to his understanding,

the 3 Trans-Heaven diagrams are definitely related to each other.
Because he has practiced the 1st diagram’s technique, it is best for him
to obtain the 2nd diagram next. If this was the 3rd diagram, perhaps Qin
Yu would not be able to practice its technique.

As he looks at the 2nd Trans-Heaven diagram, his eyes suddenly

brighten. He focuses his entire attention on the diagram.

There are 36 pictures.

“Indeed, almost as I expected, there are 36 pictures, only that these

pictures are different from those of the 1st diagram.” Thanks to
undergoing previous transformations, Qin Yu’s soul has been enhanced
a lot and he has even acquired the holy sense.

As soon as his holy sense sweeps across the diagram, he sees

everything and easily memorizes everything.

Qin Yu desires these 36 pictures the most. As for the other secrets, he
has never thought much about them. Moreover, even if he thought more
about them, he would not necessarily obtain them. So far, Qin Yu has
always thought that the mysterious technique of the legendary super
expert in the War of Immortals is definitely not the pictures on the
diagrams’ surfaces.

Anyone with some brains will think so too. If the secret was so simple, in
so many years, perhaps it would have already been figured out by
someone.

The most important thing is … can body training alone make him as
formidable as the legendary mysterious man?

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Using his holy sense, Qin Yu examines the 2nd Trans-Heaven diagram
carefully but finds no other secrets as before. He can only put it back
with a smile: “Qin Yu, you’re a big fool. In the past so many Xiuzhenists
were able to collect the 3 Trans-Heaven diagrams but they couldn’t find
out any secrets. What can your puny holy sense possibly discover?”

Having obtained the 36 pictures of the 2nd Trans-Heaven diagram Qin

Yu is already completely satisfied.

“Ha-ha, I haven’t checked out the other treasures in the Secret Treasury
yet.” Qin Yu gives a smile then activates his holy sense and covers the
entire Secret Treasury with it. The range of his holy sense is several
hundred meters so covering this small secret room is no problem to him.

“Such a big cat’s-eye gem is really attractive. That horsetail whisk

seems ordinary …” Qin Yu playfully evaluates. All of a sudden, Qin Yu’s
smiling expression freezes.

“Impossible, impossible …” Qin Yu’s holy sense has just discovered a

secret and he cannot help getting dumbstruck by it.

He stretches out his hands mechanically and gets the jade case of the
2nd Trans-Heaven diagram again. Then … he slightly presses a small
device on the side of the jade case. After a series of clack noises, Qin Yu
unexpectedly opens another layer of the jade case with ease.

This jade case unexpectedly has 2 layers. Originally Qin Yu only thought
that its bottom was rather thick, but it actually has 2 layers. Moreover,
incredibily … there is a square jade block in the 2nd layer. That soft
multicolored light and that clear writing tell Qin Yu that this square jade
block is …

The 3rd Trans-Heaven diagram!!!

“Goodness, how can I possibly be so lucky? This …” At this moment Qin

Yu becomes totally excited because he has unexpectedly obtained all
the 3 legendary Trans-Heaven diagrams. Of course, he still has no way
to solve their mystery. He gets excited only because of those 36

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mysterious pictures.

Qin Yu heaves a sigh then thinks emotionally: “What good luck! If I

hadn’t used my holy sense to check, I still wouldn’t know there is even a
Trans-Heaven diagram in the bottom of this jade case.” The 3rd Trans-
Heaven diagram is very similar to the 2 previous diagrams and also has
36 pictures.

Qin Yu immediately starts to learn these pictures by heart.

He does not know at all that, after Qin Shi Huang obtained the 3 Trans-
Heaven diagrams in the past, even though he could not figure out their
secret, he also learned the movements of the pictures like Qin Yu.
However, Qin Shi Huang then only found these movements totally
useless and naturally abandoned them.

After the destruction of the Qin dynasty, the 1st and 2nd diagrams got
lost in the turmoil of war. The only Trans-Heaven diagram left was the
3rd one, which has always been concealed by the Qin clan for the last
1000 years. When Qin De obtained the 2nd Trans-Heaven diagram, he
naturally put it in the same place as the 3rd diagram.

……

3 days later,

In his own courtyard house, Qin Yu is carefully experiencing the

movements of the 36 pictures on the 2nd Trans-Heaven diagram.
Sometimes his movements are fast and sometimes they are slow. When
he is fast, he is much faster than even the fastest movement of the 1st
diagram. And when he is slow, he is slower than the 1st diagram’s
slowest movement.

However, even when Qin Yu moves slowly, his entire body still creates
several illusions, which is very strange.

Other people do not know, but Qin Yu himself knows the cause of this.
When practicing this mysterious body-training technique, which for the
moment Qin Yu calls the Trans-Heaven Mysterious Art, everything within

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a 2 to 3 m radius of him will be affected, including the air. Only because

the air around his body is distorted can the illusions appear.

Qin Yu’s entire body is being encircled by 36 energy streams as before,

only that the color of these energy streams has changed from silver to a
mixture of silver and gold. Qin Yu has a feeling that when he completely
masters the 36 movements of the 2nd Trans-Heaven diagram, the color
of the 36 energy streams will probably become pure golden.

“Third Prince, His Highness has finished training and is waiting for you at
Mingshan Pavilion.” The voice of a servant comes from the outside of the
courtyard house.

As soon as Qin Yu hears that, he stops practicing: “Father has finished

training.” He cleans himself up a little with a washcloth then slightly
stretches his sluggish waist, causing his entire body to emit a series of
clack noises. His vigorous muscle power is moving through his body like
mercury.

Thanks to practicing this technique, Qin Yu’s body has been improving
rapidly. His strength and speed both have reached a whole new level. If
the current Qin Yu had to deal with Zhen Xu, perhaps he would be able
to kill the opponent with ease. He moves his facial muscles a bit, smiles,
and leaves the courtyard house at once, hurrying to Mingshan Pavilion.

******

Qin De, Xu Yuan, Qin Feng, Qin Zheng, Qin Yu, Manager Ge Min of the
princely mansion, the blue-clad old man, the gray-clad old man and
Xiuzhenist Fengyuzi, 9 people altogether, are the 9 most superior people
on Qin De’s side. Fengyuzi has completely covered Mingshan Pavilion in
a mysterious restrictive spell so their voices will not transfer to the
outside.

Qin De’s and Fengyuzi’s expressions are very solemn at the moment.
Seeing such an atmosphere, Qin Yu has a feeling that the matter in hand
seems very serious.

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End of b3c11.

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Vol. 3:

Chapter 12

B3C12: Explode (3)

Qin De takes a glance at everyone then says: “I have called everybody

up so urgently because of a very serious matter. Not even I can say for
sure if this matter is good or bad.” Qin De has a hint of a forced smile on
his face, as does Fengyuzi beside him.

“Father, what is this matter actually that makes you like this?” asks Qin
Zheng immediately. Qin Yu, Qin Feng and the other people also look at
Qin De.

Qin De shakes his head and says powerlessly: “I’ve reached the peak of
the Xiantian level for just over a year but during the most recent closed-
door training session I suddenly had a hunch that … my 4-in-9 Heavenly
Tribulation will come in a half year.”

The 4-in-9 Heavenly Tribulation!

This is the 1st heavenly tribulation that anyone who wants to become a
Xiuzhenist has to go through, which is commonly referred to as the
Minor Heavenly Tribulation!

The other people are dumbfounded. Among the super experts who have
reached the peak of the Xiantian level, some are afraid of the 4-in-9
Heavenly Tribulation, but some others want to undergo this heavenly
tribulation to become Xiuzhenists instead. However, it is definitely not so
easy to go through the 4-in-9 Heavenly Tribulation.

After achieving the completion of the Xiantian level some people waited

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for several decades to 100 years without seeing any signs of the 4-in-9
Heavenly Tribulation, but some others were able to sense when it would
arrive upon reaching the peak of the Xiantian level. This is only
contigent on a person’s intuitive enlightenment on the Natural Way of
Heaven. Who could have thought that Qin De, who has been practicing
for just several decades, was actually more formidable than Lian Yan in
martial arts and would even be able to sense the arrival of the 4-in-9
Heavenly Tribulation?

But is this a good thing?

The probability that a practitioner will overcome the 4-in-9 Heavenly

Tribulation, especially when using a practice technique of the Qian Long
continent and without the help of a Xiuzhen school, is basically less than
10%. The Qin clan is going to declare war soon, but if Qin De fails to
withstand the tribulation and dies, that plan will go to waste.

However, if he can overcome the tribulation, the Qin clan will have one
more Xiuzhenist and its power will increase greatly. Too bad, the chance
of success is too slim.

“How is this possible? Senior Lian didn’t encounter this 4-in-9 Heavenly
Tribulation for so many years. Your Highness …” Xu Yuan immediately
loses his composure. He has been following Qin De for so many years.
The 2 of them are a master and a subordinate but there is also the
sentiment of brotherhood between them.

This is the 4-in-9 Heavenly Tribulation, no less! The chance of

overcoming it is too small. Of a Xiuzhenist’s 3 heavenly tribulations,
each is more abnormal than the previous.

“Father!” The 3 brothers Qin Yu, Qin Feng and Qin Zheng all look at Qin
De anxiously. Because this is the 4-in-9 Heavenly Tribulation, there is a
possibility that their father will die in a half year. Even though they love
their father, they have to admit that this tribulation is too difficult to
overcome.

“Yu’er, Feng’er, Zheng’er, each of you is already an adult, and Feng’er

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and Zheng’er are even 2 older brothers, why are you behaving like this?
As a real man, if you can’t run away from the 4-in-9 Heavenly
Tribulation, you’ll have to try to face it. If you succeed it will be a good
thing. But even if you fail it will be no big deal.” Qin De’s mettlesome
face looks very thrilled and unconcerned.

“Father, but this 4-in-9 Heavenly Tribulation …” Qin Yu feels a pain in his
heart. Because his Grandpa Lian died not long ago, if his father dies
when going through the heavenly tribulation then … Thinking about this,
Qin Yu can even feel his heart trembling with fear.

“Yu’er, I know the 4-in-9 Heavenly Tribulation is dangerous. Your

grandpa also passed away while undergoing this tribulation. However,
no one can run away from it. As a man, I must face it with courage. Even
if I were to die, I would still have to try my best,” says Qin De resolutely.

Seeing the look in Qin De’s eyes, Qin Yu has no choice but to nod.

“Today I’ve called up everyone to make arrangements for the future.

From now on, Zheng’er will be in charge of every single matter of the
Qin clan, whether important or not. This also means that now I’m only
responsible for giving directions at the back while Zheng’er is the
decision-maker in any matter.” Qin De orders directly.

“Yes, father!” says Qin Zheng in an absolutely unemotional voice.

For the last several years, he has been supervising and deciding
ordinary matters. What Qin De just said today has officially given him
absolute authority.

Among Qin De’s 3 sons, his eldest Qin Feng is good at commanding
soldiers and conducting military activities, his 2nd son Qin Zheng is
adept at politics, but his 3rd son Qin Yu is very carefree. At least, Qin De
has never restricted Qin Yu’s freedom. Qin Yu has always been able to
do whatever he wants.

“Feng’er, you must try hard because, in our Qin clan’s army, your
position will totally depend on your military merit.” Qin De says while

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staring at Qin Feng.

Qin Feng nods and says his agreement. He himself is a Xiantian expert,
added to that he is good at commanding troops and conducting military
operations so he is already in charge of a 100,000 strong army despite
his young age. Even though this has something to do with his prince
status, his personal capabilities are also a very important factor.

“Yu’er …” Qin De looks at Qin Yu.

Actually, in his mind, Qin De feels that he owes his 3rd son the most, but
he does not want to say too many sentimental words in this situation.
Therefore, after staring at Qin Yu for a long time, he slowly says: “Yu’er,
if you want to do something then do it. I won’t restrict your freedom. But
I have one thing to tell you — Remember, just do whatever you think is
right. The Qin clan’s sons flinch from nothing, not even death!”

When Qin Yu hears this, he feels a boiling stream of blood surging in his
heart.

“Yes, father!” says Qin Yu resolutely.

Qin De gives a smile. Fengyuzi beside him starts to say: “His Highness
and I have already discussed this matter. When the tribulation arrives in
a half year, everybody is to carry on as usual. His Highness and I, along
with some Xiantian experts, are going to leave for a secret place to deal
with the heavenly tribulation. As for his 3 sons, all of them must not
follow us.”

“Right, I’ve already decided who are going to go with me. They are
Manager Ge, some Xiantian experts and some other experts. Zheng’er,
the 3 of you cannot follow me,” says Qin De emphatically. He accepts
absolutely no objection.

When Qin De leaves to undergo the heavenly tribulation, who can say
that Xiang Guang will know nothing about this? If Xiang Guang receives
information about this, he will definitely send experts to sabotage Qin
De’s plan. Even the Xiantian experts who are going to go with Qin De will

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be in danger so Qin De cannot take any chances on his sons.

Qin Zheng is the future East Vanquishing Prince and is in a position of

great authority so he must not be put at risk.

Qin Feng is a marshal in the army so he cannot be used like an ordinary

bodyguard expert either. If something bad happened to him, it would be
terrible.

As for Qin Yu,

“Father, I’ll go with you!” Qin Yu says in a loud and clear voice. “I know
there will be dangers. Big brother and 2nd brother have to carry out
important duties so nothing is allowed to happen to them, but I’m not
very useful in military matters. I can’t handle politics or military
affairs…”

“You can’t!” Qin De suddenly says, cutting off Qin Yu.

“Why?” Qin Yu immediately stands up and says. “Why can’t I? Father, do

you remember what you just said? Just do whatever you think is right.
The Qin clan’s sons flinch from nothing, not even death! Now I want to
follow you and I think this is the right thing to do. Death, I’m not afraid of
it in the least. I just want to go with you!”

Qin Yu stares at Qin De. He simply does not concede.

“Yu’er, do you know how dangerous this will be? I don’t know how many
Xiantian experts Xiang Guang has. I don’t care about that either. But …
they have 2 Shangxian, 2 of them, no less. Your Uncle Feng alone can
only stop one of them so if they both come it will be extremely
dangerous. Do you understand?” says Qin De continuously.

“Danger, how can I possibly fear danger?” Qin Yu gives an indifferent

laugh. He simply does not accept Qin De’s rejection.

Qin De says with a shake of his head: “Yu’er, the people who are going
to go this time are all experts, even Xiantian experts. You’re just an
external practictioner, what’s the use of your going? You’ll be of no use

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to us. Worse still, when we are in danger, your presence would likely
make it harder for us. So, you better forget that idea!”

“Xiantian?” Qin Yu laughs.

After becoming a Xiantian expert Qin Yu wanted to tell his father about
this, but because of Lian Yan’s death, he was so grieved that he forgot
to tell his father. Then he began to practice the technique of the Trans-
Heaven diagrams and Qin De had a closed-door training session so
naturally he has not had time to tell his father yet.

“Take this!” Qin Yu suddenly utters a loud shout. His body shoots at the
blue-clad old man like a flash.

The blue-clad old man and the gray-clad old man are 2 super experts
among Qin De’s subordinates and are on a par with Lian Yan. Ordinarily,
they manage the matters concerning the Heavenly Net. The blue-clad
old man is a peak Xiantian expert and has terrifyingly strong overall
power. He is watching Qin Yu’s strike coming at him.

“Third Prince!” The blue-clad old man stretches out a hand smilingly.

“Humph!” Qin Yu utters a cold humph. The entire air in his vicinity starts
to vibrate. He throws a punch with his right fist like rolling thunder. This
is the first time Qin Yu has used his true power after practicing the 1st
and 2nd Trans-Heaven diagrams. With his body undergoing
transformations for such a long time, what power level has he actually
reached?

The faces of all the people present change color.

The blue-clad old man knows that it is bad for him so he instantly
channels his body’s Xiantian energy. The color of his right palm becomes
golden.

The crash between a fist and a palm!

Bang!

A violent clash is heard. The blue-clad old man only feels that he is hit by

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a terrifyingly strong force. It is purely caused by physical power and has

no Xiantian energy at all. That terrifying force of Qin Yu’s pure and fierce
physical power goes through his palm into his arm.

The blue-clad old man cannot help retreating. Then, with a clack noise,
the railings are smashed. The blue-clad old man can only stop when he
finally bumps into Fengyuzi’s restrictive spell.

All the other people look at Qin Yu with only astonishment in their eyes.

Qin Yu stares at Qin De and says with an expressionless face: “Father,

what do you think? Am I qualified to follow you? I’m a Xiantian expert.
The 1st Xiantian external expert in the history of the Qian Long
continent is also a Xiantian expert, right?” Qin Yu’s words shock the
other people to the extent that they are dumbfounded.

Xiantian external expert!

Since antiquity, it has been a truism that external practice is difficult,

painful, not worthwhile and hopeless and is capped by the peak of the
Houtian level. However, from now on, the people present know that it is
also possible to reach the Xiantian level through external practice!

“What power! If Third Prince uses a middle grade holy weapon, I’m not
sure I’ll be a match for him!” At the moment, the bones of the blue-clad
old man’s right arm are still in great pain. Qin Yu’s current power is far
superior to his power level when he fought Zhen Xu that day.

Thanks to practicing the Trans-Heaven Mysterious Art and undergoing

the changes caused by the mysterious silvery and golden lights,
compared to the Qin Yu of the battle against Zhen Xu, the current Qin Yu
has experienced many more world-shattering transformations.

Qin De is looking at Qin Yu. No one can know how greatly shocked he is
in his mind at the moment. The 3rd son before him is one who he has
never had high expectations for and one who does external practice, the
most painful and hopeless path in martial arts. However, at the age of
18, this son has reached such a terrifying level in power without his

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knowledge. Moreover, this son has become the unprecedented Xiantian

external expert.

“Father.” Qin Yu says again. He is waiting for Qin De’s answer.

Qin De remains silent for a long time then says with a slow shake of his
head: “You can’t!”

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Vol. 3:

Chapter 13

B3C13: Feelings

Having told his father the fact that he is a Xiantian expert, Qin Yu is very
excited in his heart. He has been longing for his father’s approval and
praise. And today, he has finally been able to let his father know that he
is not a good-for-nothing!

“You can’t!”

As Qin Yu hears Qin De’s words, his body shakes once. His face
immediately goes pale. He stares at Qin De with his eyes full of disbelief
and indignation: “Why? Why can’t I …” Qin Yu says continuously, as if he
cannot accept Qin De’s answer.

He becomes misty-eyed. He has been trying hard to do limit training

nonstop day and night since he was 8. He has never experienced the
happiness of his contemporaries, has never been given parental loving
care, and has even never had a friend of the same age.

Thanks to some luck and the fact that he has been working hard every
day for 10 years, he has finally reached the current level in power.

Why has he been training hard without any complaint for the last 10
years?

Can the reason possibly be anything but to reach the Xiantian level so
that he can help his father, make his father happy and do his father
proud?

“Father, didn’t you just say reaching the Xiantian level is enough? Now

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I’ve surpassed ordinary Xiantian experts in power. I can even put up a

real fight against any peak Xiantian expert. Why, why do you still refuse
to let me go with you?” Qin Yu stares at his father. His eyes are filled
with indignation and unwillingness.

Qin Yu’s indignant and unwilling look makes Qin De slightly tremble in
his heart.

“Yu’er, calm down a bit.” Qin De coldly shouts.

Qin Yu takes a deep breath and says: “All right, I’ve calmed down. Tell
me the reason, father. If you can’t convince me, I won’t give up no
matter what.”

“All right.” Qin De says at once. “When I undergo the tribulation, I’ll have
to choose a secret place. Your Uncle Feng is going to go with me as well.
Of course the fact that I’m going to undergo the tribulation is top secret
information, so there are only 2 possibilities. First, if Xiang Guang’s men
can’t find out this information, no one will come to disturb me, which
naturally will be a good thing. In this case, it’ll be pointless for you to go.
Second, if Xiang Guang knows that I’m going to undergo the tribulation,
his 2 Shangxian will come at me together. Yu’er, even though your
power is not bad, you simply can’t imagine how powerful the Shangxian
who have overcome the 4-in-9 Heavenly Tribulation to become
Xiuzhenists are!”

Qin De says with a sigh: “Even though it’s only the 4-in-9 Heavenly
Tribulation, comparing ordinary peak Xiantian experts to Xiuzhenists is
like comparing the ground to the sky. With merely a strike of their flying
swords, Xiuzhenists can behead you easily. If you go, you’ll be of no use
and only die for no reason!”

“Therefore … in both cases, it’ll be useless for you to go. Even worse,
you’ll probably die if you go.” Qin De stares at Qin Yu. “Yu’er, this is the
reason why I don’t let you go with me!”

Having listened, Qin Yu remains silent.

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However, despite being silent, he is giving off a chaotic aura. The

stronger a person’s soul is, the more powerful his aura becomes. Qin Yu
is giving off his aura unintentionally but, at the moment, the other
people can still feel it. No one knows what he is thinking.

“Xiao Yu,” Qin Zheng and Qin Feng both look at their little brother.

“Father, do you still remember?” Qin Yu simply does not pay attention to
his big brother and 2nd brother. He talks to himself. “Before I turned 6,
you cared so much about me and often spent time with me. During that
time I was very happy and carefree. In my mind, you were the most
brilliant and capable person. However, when I turned 6, I was sent to
Misty Villa.” Qin Yu lowers his head and says in a low voice. It seems he
is talking to himself and Qin De at the same time.

Everyone quietens down.

“At Misty Villa, except for the servants and guards, there was only me, a
6 year old kid. There wasn’t anyone to play with me. I was lonely so
whenever I watched sunrise or sunset I contemplated expectantly when
you would visit me. After so many disappointments, you finally arrived,
but you left so fast. And I continued to expect you … but then I couldn’t
wait anymore because you only visited Misty Villa once in 2 whole
years.” Qin Yu continues to say slowly.

All of the people present picture the scene of a 6 or 7 year old kid
watching sunrise or sunset waiting for his father’s arrival only to get
disappointed time after time.

Qin De slightly moves his lips but says nothing. He cannot say anything!
Among his 3 sons, he feels he owes his 3rd son the most. He has spent
the least time with Qin Yu, has cared for Qin Yu the least and has even
met Qin Yu the least number of times.

“I wondered why you didn’t visit me. Could I have been disobedient and
annoyed you? Or was I too unpleasant? Even if I had done something
wrong, couldn’t you just tell me about it since I could change? … But I
wasn’t stupid. Big brother was practicing martial arts while 2nd brother

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was learning something about political affairs and you often instructed
them and visited them. I finally understood … you thought I couldn’t
become an able person so you didn’t care about me.” Qin Yu nips his
lips, his eyes glittering.

“After thinking it over, I decided to train to become an expert. But my

dantian couldn’t store internal energy so I could only do external
practice. In the 1st year, it was Master Zhao Yunxing who taught me.
Every day, I started to train when it was still dimly light. It was limit
training. To be exact, it was physical-limit-surpassing training. I was in
extreme pain and exhausted every day. I was so weary that I really
shouldn’t have been able to carry on, but I thought about my being able
to make you happy later so I clenched my teeth and persisted …” says
Qin Yu slowly.

Qin De’s eyes have become moist.

“When I was 16, you told me some secrets and I finally understood it
wasn’t that you didn’t love me, but that you had your own affairs so you
couldn’t have time to pay attention to me. I saw you, big brother and
2nd brother working so hard for that important undertaking in the
future, but I couldn’t help in anything despite being a son of the Qin clan
as well. I could only be a bystander. That night you said unless I could
reach the Xiantian level you wouldn’t let me lead troops to kill our
enemies. At that time I decided that I would become a Xiantian expert
no matter what!”

Qin Yu’s face suddenly has a faint smile: “10 years, after 10 whole years
I finally succeeded. I was lucky and also hardworking, but it doesn’t
matter what happened, the thing is, I’ve finally reached the current
level!” Qin Yu suddenly raises his head. A swift and fierce aura comes
forth from his body. “Since ancient times, they’ve been saying that
external practice is hopeless and unable to reach the Xiantian level. But
I never believed it. I always worked hard and I finally succeeded
indeed!”

There is a hint of pride on Qin Yu’s face. Having reached a level where

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he can match a peak Xiantian internal expert, how can he not be proud?
Moreover, Qin Yu even practices external techniques, which are
universally acknowledged to be much harder than internal techniques.

“I’m a Xiantian external expert. Moreover, since I reached the Xiantian

level, I’ve improved a lot and my power has been enhanced greatly. I
wanted to tell you about this because I thought that, when you knew I
had become a Xiantian expert, you would treat me as you treat big
brother and 2nd brother and find a good use for me so that I could help
you too.” Qin Yu stares at Qin De. All of a sudden, his expression looks
sad. “Ha-ha … I was wrong. I was wrong, utterly wrong!”

Qin Yu suddenly becomes indignant. He says loudly to Qin De: “Father,

when I was weak, you didn’t have a use for me and didn’t let me help
you. I didn’t blame you for that and clenched my teeth to work hard. But
now that my power has already reached a level where I’m far superior to
ordinary Xiantian experts, you still don’t let me help you, brushing me
aside. How can I possibly rest easy when I see you going through
dangers? Father, do you think this is the same as caring about me? No,
it’s definitely not. It hurts my feelings instead!”

“Ha-ha, I trained hard every day and night, giving up the amusements
that my contemporaries enjoyed, giving up everything. I immersed
myself in training for 10 years. Ha-ha, 10 years, no less! What did I train
for 10 years for? What’s the use of practicing to my current level?” Qin
Yu simply cannot keep his tears from rolling down his face.

His goal, his 10-year goal, is the thing he has had the most resolute
attachment to for the last 10 years. Today he has discovered that it has
come to naught, how can he possibly not grieve?

“Father, I know the 4-in-9 Heavenly Tribulation is extremely fearsome, if

you fail to overcome it …” Qin Yu’s body starts to quiver. He cannot
imagine how great a shock it would be to him if his father were to die. “If
you passed away, wouldn’t my perseverance in the last 10 years
become pointless? I’ve been training but I’m still of no use. Father, no
matter what, can you at least find a use for me? In this way, even if I

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were to die, I’d have no regret.”

“But … you give me no chance, absolutely no chance. You only said it’s
pointless for me to get involved in this. Father, you don’t even give me a
chance. How can you be sure that I’m useless? How? How?!” Qin Yu
stares at Qin De and growls loudly and hoarsely. His eyes have turned
crimson.

All of a sudden, Qin Yu burst out laughing sadly and shrilly: “I knew it
already. Father, in your mind, this 3rd son has always been useless,
right? It doesn’t matter what happens, I’m always utterly useless. Even
when I’ve reached the Xiantian level, I’m still useless. I was useless in
the past, and now I’m useless too. Father, I think, even when we go to
war later, perhaps you still won’t find any good use for a Xiantian expert
like me, right?!”

Qin De can say nothing.

Indeed, in the future war the troops of a fighting corps will be counted
even by the hundred thousand so a Xiantian expert will not be very
useful. Qin De basically has never cared about Qin Yu’s role in the future
war.

Seeing Qin De’s expression, Qin Yu laughs.

“Ha-ha … I’m just a useless, the most useless person. No matter how
hard I try, no matter how much progress I make in practice, I’ll always
be the most useless. This is laughable. What have I been training for?
What have I been training for? What’s the use of my training?”

Qin Yu laughs out loud then weeps silently. His tears slowly roll down.

Qin De looks at Qin Yu in front of him, the 3rd son who he has never
heartily cared about. Suddenly he feels extremely ashamed and
sorrowful. He opens his mouth but simply cannot say a word because he
does not know what he should say.

Indeed, in Qin De’s mind, Qin Yu is of no use. What Qin Yu just said is
totally right.

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“I’m a fool, a real fool.” Qin Yu shakes his head and gives a forced smile.

“Yu’er.” Qin Zheng and Qin Feng are about to say something, but Qin Yu
reaches out his hand and stops them. He takes a deep breath, looks at
Qin De and says calmly: “Father, I’m sorry. I was careless about what I
said.” The 1st time, this is the 1st time he has given full vent to his
repressed feelings of so many years.

“Yu’er, I …”

Seeing that Qin De is about to say something, Qin Yu says with a forced
smile: “Father, now I’m very confused, I need to calm down. Don’t worry.
I won’t bother you. At least in the half year before your tribulation
arrives, I won’t come back to bother you.” Qin Yu turns to Fengyuzi and
says: “Uncle Feng, could you please deactivate the encircling restrictive
spell?” Fengyuzi immediately sends out various streams of elemental
energy, deactivating the restrictive spell.

Qin Yu turns his face upward and gives a whistle. Something then dives
down from the sky like a black bolt of lightning.

Like a flash Qin Yu’s body gets on the back of the black eagle, which is
10 meters high in the air, leaving behind several afterimages. After
sitting down on the back of the black eagle, all of a sudden, he slightly
bends and hugs the black eagle’s neck. Xiao Hei has always been his
companion for so many years so when he snuggles against Xiao Hei’s
warm feathers his mind calms down.

He gently pats Xiao Hei and says: “Xiao Hei, let’s go, let’s return to Misty
Villa.” Xiao Hei also feels that Qin Yu is very sad at the moment. With a
shake of its wings, the wind suddenly rises and the black eagle soars
into the sky. In just a while, it disappears on the horizon.

Qin De’s face has turned very pale, looking like the face of a sickly
person. Turning his face skyward, he knows Qin Yu has left and will not
return for at least a half year. This half year will probably be Qin De’s
last half year in the world.

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Qin Yu’s words have pierced his heart continuously like sharp knives but
he knows that his son is even in more agony than he himself is. Even
though he is mournful, he feels ashamed and regretful more,
incomparably ashamed and regretful. However, in Qin De’s life, will he
ever be able to compensate for what Qin Yu has gone through?

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Vol. 3:

Chapter 14

B3C14: A glimpse of hope (1)

On the top of Mount Donglan, a golden silhouette is moving extremely

fast. The silhouette is indistinct and ethereal like mist. On one side, a
huge black male eagle is flapping its wings. Its sharp eyes are being
fixed on the golden silhouette. This golden silhouette and this eagle are
Qin Yu and Xiao Hei.

Qin Yu has been training like this for over 20 whole days. During this
period of time, he has not taken a break, eaten and drunk but his mind
has been getting better and better. Compared to when he just left the
princely mansion, Qin Yu’s entire body is currently much swifter and
fiercer.

Suddenly the golden silhouette stops. Those 36 golden energy streams

then vanish away completely, revealing Qin Yu’s lonely figure.

“The 2nd Trans-Heaven diagram’s 36 pictures have been totally

mastered.” Qin Yu looks at his entire body’s skin. As soon as he slightly
exerts his strength, very incredibly, a vague golden light starts to move
under his skin. Moreover, Qin Yu discovers that his body has reached a
whole new level.

Strength? He can no longer use strength to accurately assess his current

body.

“Xiao Hei, let’s go.” Qin Yu calls Xiao Hei, which instantly utters several
cries of excitement. Then, after he sits on Xiao Hei’s back, with a shake
of its wings, Xiao Hei leaves Mount Donglan at once and starts to go on

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another journey.

……

It is already deep in the winter at the moment and white snow is falling
from all over the sky. In a Heavenly Net branch, the courtyard of this
branch is covered with a thick blanket of snow. Qin Yu treads on the
snow blanket directly and only leaves a line of faint footprints. As snow
keeps falling down, those footprints also disappear in a short while.

“Please sit down, Mister Liu Xing.” A flirty woman puts a mission list
before Qin Yu.

He turns directly to the Gold Card Missions section and skims through
the resumes of these missions’ targets. When he chooses a mission, he
does not care about the opponent’s overall power and only pays
attention to what kind of person the opponent is. If it is an evildoer he
will undertake the mission, but if it is a good person he will pass on the
mission. Of course, he is not so bored that he would protect that good
person yet.

“Gold card mission no. 6,” says Qin Yu coldly.

That flirty woman immediately assigns him the mission then gives him a
subtle blink and says flirtatiously: “Mister Liu Xing, it’s snowing heavily
outside. Please stay the night here. It won’t be late to wait until it stops
snowing tomorrow before going.”

As she is saying, she reaches out her delicate right hand and holds Qin
Yu’s hand.

“Let go.” Qin Yu says calmly.

The flirty woman covers her mouth and says with a smile: “Mister Liu
Xing is really …” When she is about to say something, she feels a shock
transferring to her from Qin Yu’s hand and cannot help loosening her
hold with a tingling sensation. Qin Yu immediately turns around and
steps into the boundless, heavy snow.

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The flirty woman follows the silhouette in the heavy snow with her eyes.
She suddenly sees that silhouette turn into several afterimages and
disappear.

……

“Anyone who dares come to kill me simply has a death wish. Demonic
Flaming Hand, kill him for me,” says a fat man loftily.

A faint cold smile appears on the corners of golden-masked Qin Yu’s

mouth.

“Yes.” A one-armed bald man looks at Qin Yu and says coldly: “Gold card
assassin, who would’ve thought that an assassin like you would openly
block our way instead of using a sneak attack? You’re simply utterly
stupid. Being able to die at my Demonic Flaming Hand, you can take
pride in that.”

Qin Yu slightly shakes his head and thinks to himself: “Middle-phase

Xiantian expert, too weak.”

Whizz!

Qin Yu flashes by the one-armed bald man like a beam of light,

rendering him completely dumbfounded. Then 2 miserable cries rise
successively. Qin Yu’s body has already disappeared. Having
accomplished the mission, naturally he has left.

“My right hand, ah, my right hand is gone!” Looking at where his only
hand used to be, Demonic Flaming Hand freezes with horror.

Just now, Qin Yu’s speed was so fast. Giving Demonic Flaming Hand
absolutely no time to resist, he cut off the opponent’s only hand with a
knife hand strike. Then, using the same shocking speed, he directly
beheaded that fat man with another knife hand strike. Afterwards, he
took the fat man’s head and left lightly.

From the beginning to the end, it took him only a moment.

“Indeed, after mastering the 2nd Trans-Heaven diagram, my overall

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power has reached a whole new level. That, coupled with my stopping to
use the black iron arm guards and leg guards and the black gold
undershirt, has made me very fast. Perhaps a peak Xiantian expert can
only be about as fast as me at best.” There is a confident smile on Qin
Yu face at the moment.

After practicing the 2nd Trans-Heaven diagram, Qin Yu’s power has
increased greatly. His body has been transformed even more. In terms
of bodily toughness alone, even black iron weapons can no longer hurt
him. His body’s defense has already caught up with that of the black
gold undershirt.

Therefore, Qin Yu has taken off the black gold undershirt and the black
iron arm guards and leg guards. After all, weight carrying is basically not
very useful at his current level anymore.

……

“Mister Liu Xing is really fast. In just a while you’ve already finished the
mission.” The woman who welcomes Qin Yu flatters him smilingly.

After receiving the reward, Qin Yu opens the mission list and says at
once: “Gold card mission no. 3!”

……

In 3 whole months Qin Yu undertakes 9 gold card missions, averaging 3

missions a month. All of the missions are gold card missions but he
accomplishes them with ease. All of the targets are killed by him openly
regardless of their power levels.

There are even 2 late phase Xiantian experts among them.

Even when facing a late phase Xiantian expert, Qin Yu does not use the
Flaming Sword and the Flaming Gloves. He kills the opponent with his
own hands. Even so, the opponent cannot put up any resistance at all.
With Qin Yu’s current power, even when using bare hands, he can
already put up a good fight against any peak Xiantian expert.

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The silvery and golden lights of the 2 Trans-Heaven diagrams have

really transformed his body a lot. This is also the cause of such an
improvement in Qin Yu’s power.

……

“Mister Liu Xing, why do you suddenly stop taking missions?” The
woman who welcomes Qin Yu asks doubtfully. Seeing in the record that
Qin Yu has been undertaking 9 successive missions recently, she
originally thought that he would continue to take one more.

“How can I continue to waste my time on these missions? Humph, their

targets aren’t challenging at all.” Qin Yu takes the reward, says
indifferently then leaves. Obviously his attitude has changed. It is no
longer as apathetic as it was 3 months ago.

A person comes out from the back of the hall where missions are taken.
Following Qin Yu’s leaving back with his eyes, he slightly frowns and
says: “Not challenging? Even late phase Xiantian experts aren’t
challenging at all?”

******

In a nameless mountain forest,

It has been 2 months. Qin Yu has been staying in this nameless

mountain forest for over 2 months and practicing the 3rd Trans-Heaven
diagram here. Having previous experience with the other 2 diagrams, he
has naturally been practicing this Trans-Heaven diagram with great
ease.

However, what has surprised Qin Yu is that … the 3rd Trans-Heaven

diagram is different from the 2 previous diagrams.

The reason is … the 3rd Trans-Heaven diagram has unexpectedly

created a purple Xiantian energy. This Xiantian energy has permeated
into his entire body in every place. It does not matter if it is the dantian,
a muscle, a bone or a channel … as long as it is a place in his body,
there will be Xiantian energy in it.

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“Hah!”

With his entire body enfolded in 36 purple energy streams, Qin Yu dives
down from the sky like a flash. He then ruthlessly smashes his right leg
on the ground. The strange thing is that, it unexpectedly causes no
damage to the ground. However, the entire area of the ground in his
vicinity starts to vibrate. In a short while —

Boom!

With a loud sound, the soil within a several-tens-meter radius of Qin Yu

explodes, creating a huge cloud of dust. When the dust has settled, a
crater which is several tens meters in circumference and 10 meters
deep appears.

“I only needed 1 month to master the 1st or 2nd Trans-Heaven diagram.

This 3rd Trans-Heaven diagram unexpectedly took me over 2 months.”
Qin Yu stops. The 36 purple energy streams around him also disappear.
The pure purple glow on his body gradually withdraws as well.

From the outside to the inside,

Compared to the 2 previous Trans-Heaven diagrams, the 3rd Trans-

Heaven diagram is much more formidable. Not only does it enhance his
body, it also creates the special purple Xiantian energy which solely
belongs to this Trans-Heaven Mysterious Art.

“It’s been a half year. Father is going to undergo his tribulation soon.”
Qin Yu secretly groans. He is not happy at the moment despite his great
improvement in power.

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Vol. 3:

Chapter 15

B3C15: A glimpse of hope (2)

For the last half year, Qin Yu has been wondering about the purposes of
his life. Can he possibly live out his life just like an ordinary man on the
Qin Long continent, who will get married, have children then age? No, in
his mind, going down this road is simply unacceptable. Since he was a
little kid, Qin Yu has been aiming to become an expert so that he can
help his father.

But now ……

“Perhaps I’ve been wrong since the beginning. A person can’t always
live for other people. If I live like that, not only will I be tired, father will
be put under great pressure as well.” Qin Yu slowly goes to the side of a
tarn in the mountain forest. Despite looking at the jade waves before
him, he continuously ponders in his mind. For the last half year, Qin Yu
has been training and carrying out missions, but he has always been
pondering.

“What should I live for?” This is what Qin Yu has been pondering over.

Qin Yu has a desire in the bottom of his heart, a secret desire. But he
has never dared to let his desire burst forth completely. In his heart, he
takes the greatest pleasure in fighting to the death and in breaking
through his limits.

“Xiuzhenists, the Overseas Immortal Islands, and the Xiuzhen world!” —

These are the desire Qin Yu has been concealing in his heart. At that
time, when he heard Fengyuzi’s description of the Xiuzhen world, he

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instantly became imbued with a desire for this Xiuzhen world. In the past
his power was insufficient but the Trans-Heaven diagrams have given
him an opportunity.

Qin Yu takes a deep breath.

He yearns for the life of a Xiuzhenist — going up to the 9th level of the
sky, going down to the depths of the ocean, battling demonic beasts,
contending against Xiuzhenists for treasures, fighting Heaven and Hell,
pursuing the limits of life! Qin Yu yearns for that blood-boiling, passion-
packed kind of life. However, to live that kind of life, he must have, first,
real power and, second, determination.

He must have the power of a Xiuzhenist and the determination of a

loner.

Since his father and brothers cannot venture into the unknown and
wander about with him, will Qin Yu be able to leave his father and
brothers?

“Remember, just do whatever you think is right. The Qin clan’s sons
flinch from nothing, not even death!”

Those words said by his father resound in Qin Yu’s ears again. He
suddenly laughs: “Alright, living in the world, why do I have to be afraid
of something? Moreover, I’ve been living the wrong way. I mustn’t live
for other people. That kind of life has tired both me and father out. I
must live for myself. Father, big brother, 2nd brother, I’ll pursue my own
life!”

Qin Yu’s eyes glitter.

“Xiao Hei, after father has overcome his tribulation, I’m going to pursue
my own life. Do you want to follow me?” says Qin Yu while stroking Xiao
Hei’s head. Xiao Hei immediately spreads its wings and gently pats Qin
Yu’s back with them while continuously nodding.

Qin Yu laughs as soon as he sees this.

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It does not matter what is going to happen, at least Xiao Hei will always
be his companion.

“Xiao Hei, let’s go. It’s a waste of time to live a boring life. Let’s go to
see if the Heavenly Net has any challenging missions.” Qin Yu gets on
Xiao Hei’s back at once with a jump. Xiao Hei immediately flaps its wings
then disappears like a beam of light.

******

Qin De sits down. He is in the chair. 3 other people consisting of the

blue-clad old man, Manager Ge Min and Fengyuzi also sit down one by
one.

“The place has been selected. Everything is almost ready. We only need
to wait 37 more days,” says Qin De indifferently. The closer it gets to the
tribulation, the more clearly he feels its time of arrival. And he is going
to undergo the tribulation in 37 days.

The blue-clad old man says with a nod: “There are a lot of demonic
beasts in the Wilderness. Quite a few of them have even reached the
Jindan stage. Even if Wu Xing and Wu De discover the appearance of the
heavenly tribulation in the Wilderness, they will surely think that it is a
demonic beast undergoing its tribulation. So, if Your Highness can
overcome the tribulation, the Xiang clan instead won’t expect that we’ll
even have such an expert as Your Highness on our side.”

“The location selected by Your Highness is really extremely ingenious,”

says Manager Ge Min in agreement.

Qin De shakes his head and says with a laugh: “Let’s wait to see if I can
go through the heavenly tribulation alive before saying something. All
right, brother Feng and Manager Ge Min, the 2 of you please leave first. I
and Blue-clad have to discuss some matters.”

“I take my leave, Your Highness.” Manager Ge Min bows and says.

Fengyuzi, however, only folds his hands in salute. The 2 of them then
leave.

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The blue-clad old man and the gray-clad old man are the 2 general
managers of the Heavenly Net. Generally, Qin De only calls these 2 old
men by their code names Blue-clad and Gray-clad. In fact, he has never
called them by their real names. This time, Qin De has decided that the
blue-clad old man is going to follow him when he leaves for a location in
the Wilderness to undergo the tribulation whereas the gray-clad old man
is going to continue to manage the Heavenly Net’s operation.

“Blue-clad, this time pick out 5 late phase Xiantian experts from the
Secret Arrow, which was originally managed by Uncle Lian, and let
Manager Ge lead them. At your Heavenly Net, find some late phase
Xiantian experts in the 2 Nets. At the same time … invite assassin Liu
Xing to come as well.” There is a faint smile on the corners of Qin De’s
mouth.

The blue-clad old man also gives a smile.

The Heavenly Net is divided into the Inner Net and the Outer Net.
However, it cannot directly control the members of the Outer Net and
can only invite them. As for this assassin Liu Xing, Qin De, being the
leader of the Heavenly Net, has been paying close attention to him for
some time.

“That assassin Liu Xing is extremely powerful. According to my

subordinates’ reports, he has been undertaking 9 successive missions
recently and accomplished them with ease. There were even late phase
Xiantian experts among the targets but, when facing this assassin Liu
Xing, they had no choice but to get killed. His power should have
reached the peak of the Xiantian level.” The blue-clad old man states his
opinion.

At the moment, Qin De is in need of experts, absolute experts.

That day he told Qin Yu that peak Xiantian experts cannot put up any
resistance against Xiuzhenists. What he said can be considered correct,
but not totally correct. In a one-on-one, it is certainly correct. However, if
5 or 6 peak Xiantian experts join forces and use middle-grade holy

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weapons at the same time, then whether it is true will be quite another
matter.

Peak Xiantian experts are all extremely fast, like lightning. If 5 or 6 peak
Xiantian experts attack together, a Jindan stage Xiuzhenist will find it
difficult to cope with them. If his body gets destroyed, the Xiuzhenist will
be done for. Even though a Jindan stage Xiuzhenist’s elemental energy is
profound, his body’s structure is almost no different from that of
ordinary people’s bodies. So, once his internal organs are shattered into
pieces, he will also die.

Qin De currently needs peak Xiantian experts, or late phase Xiantian

experts at the minimum.

However, peak Xiantian experts are too hard to come by. Currently,
according to Qin De’s judgment, this assassin Liu Xing is a peak Xiantian
expert. Moreover, judging from the missions that assassin Liu Xing has
undertaken, he is also trustworthy.

“Blue-clad, you are to invite him personally. If necessary, you can

threaten him a bit by force. Of course, he must not be told about the
location of the tribulation, and my identity as well. When the time
comes, letting him follow us will be enough!” says Qin De.

He is not worried about the identity of this mysterious assassin Liu Xing.
Even if Liu Xing is an enemy, will it make any difference? After all, Qin
De cannot let him know anything.

“Yes, I’m going to invite him personally.” Blue-clad bows and says.

……

Qin Yu has found it very strange that the last time he took a mission the
executive of that Heavenly Net branch told him the supreme elder of the
Heavenly Net requested a discussion with him. As a top-class assassin of
the Heavenly Net, he also knows it has 2 grand elders. He wonders why
this grand elder invites himself to meet him today.

Following their agreement, Qin Yu goes to a teahouse. At the moment,

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there are no guests in the teahouse. He slightly frowns.

“You’ve arrived, Mister Liu Xing. Why don’t you come up here?” A series
of laughs of a man comes to him from the 2nd floor.

Qin Yu’s feet make a movement. His entire body disappears into thin air
at once then appears on where the staircase and the 2nd floor meet. His
speed was extremely fast and simply reached a shocking level.

“So fast yet caused no wind sounds!” The blue-clad elder is startled in
his heart. He knows even he himself cannot reach that speed. He looks
toward the top landing of the staircase and sees a man standing there,
who is about 1.75 m tall and looks very cold from head to toe.

The blue-clad elder, however, has an indescribable feeling that the man
in front of him seems very familiar.

As soon as Qin Yu sees the man before him, his eyes pop out of his head
because he unexpectedly recognizes this so-called Heavenly Net grand
elder as the mysterious blue-clad elder who occasionally appears beside
his father. The usual movements of the blue-clad elder and the gray-clad
elder are extremely secret, only that these 2 elders appear in the
princely mansion sometimes. In the entire mansion, only a few people
such as Qin Yu know about the existence of this blue-clad elder and the
gray-clad elder.

“Heavenly Net grand elder?” says Qin Yu while looking at the blue-clad
elder. An unfathomable faint smile appears on the corners of his mouth.

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Vol. 3:

Chapter 16

B3C16: The source of danger (1)

“So the Heavenly Net’s leader is …” An idea springs to Qin Yu’s mind
and he gives a smile. He then comes up to the blue-clad elder’s face and
sits down directly without ceremony.

The blue-clad elder laughs then slowly says: “Mister Liu Xing is so
mysterious, just like a hidden dragon. In 3 consecutive months, you
accomplished perfectly all of the 9 gold card missions you took. When I
first knew about this, I was indescribably amazed. Only afterwards did I
know that it turned out the Outer Net of my Heavenly Net still had such
an expert as Mister Liu Xing.”

“Gold card missions? They weren’t challenging at all. I so wanted to find

a match but couldn’t. This really …” says Qin Yu very haughtily.

He does so because he wants to keep his real identity from being

discovered by other people and also to define assassin Liu Xing as a top-
class expert who devotes himself to martial arts and cares about nothing
but martial arts.

“Not challenging at all? Could it be Mister Liu Xing has already reached
the peak of the Xiantian level?” asks the blue-clad elder. Qin Yu
suddenly gives a ha-ha laugh and says: “Grand elder, you would know
after testing a bit, right? It’s really hard to meet an expert of your
caliber.”

As he finishes saying, he suddenly attacks with his right hand.

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Since he was little, Qin Yu has trained his fingers’ strength and, at the
same time, their flexibility repeatedly. After many breakthroughs, today
the strength of his fingers has already reached an astonishing level. He
extends his right hand’s forefinger, creating several tens illusions.

The blue-clad elder’s eyes brighten. He also extends his right hand’s
forefinger, on which a dazzling light appears.

Bang!

Finger versus finger! The fingers crash head-on. They are unexpectedly
equally matched.

Qin Yu slightly curves the corners of his mouth upward. A purple beam
of light suddenly shoots out from his fingertip. The blue-clad elder only
feels a sharp force penetrate into his body through his fingertip. He
cannot help getting shocked. He immediately withdraws his finger and,
at the same time, uses the liquified Xiantian energy in his dantian to
eliminate this foreign stream of energy.

“Ha-ha, Mister Liu Xing is really formidable. This senile old man admires
you. I really do!” The blue-clad elder laughs out loud and says at once.
His eyes brighten.

Following Qin De’s order to invite Qin Yu this time, the 1st thing he must
do is determine what level Qin Yu’s power has reached. Judging from the
force of this one finger strike alone, the blue-clad elder can already
confirm absolutely that assassin Liu Xing before him is not weaker than
him.

“You didn’t use all your power, grand elder, so my win is worthless,”
says Qin Yu indifferently.

He can see that this blue-clad elder did not use his entire power.
However, Qin Yu did not use all his power either. He is certain that, if he
had to deal with the blue-clad elder, using only the purple Xiantian
energy he has thanks to practicing the 3rd Trans-Heaven diagram he
would surely be able to destroy the blue-clad elder.

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“Mister Liu Xing is at such a high level in power. It looks like you’re
already qualified to undertake a special mission,” says the blue-clad
elder mysteriously.

Qin Yu slightly narrows his eyes. He knows he is posing as assassin Liu

Xing, a pursuer of martial arts and the human limits, so he says at once:
“Oh? You only say I’m qualified to take this mission after testing me just
now. It seems this mission is very awesome? Tell me about it.”

The blue-clad elder says mysteriously: “Awesome? Mister Liu Xing, quite
a few experts who take part in this mission are on a par with you.
However, joining this mission, you must forget about life and death.”

“Oh?”

Qin Yu’s heart skips a beat.

He knows that, with his current power, he has made the blue-clad elder
think that assassin Liu Xing is a peak Xiantian expert. However, the elder
just said quite a few experts who participate in this mission are on the
same level as him. Does this not clearly mean that they are also peak
Xiantian experts?

“What is this mission? Could it be …” Qin Yu secretly has a hunch.

“Ha-ha … using several experts like me, is there such a difficult mission?
Could it be to assassinate a Shangxian?” says Qin Yu laughingly.

The blue-clad elder says with a shake of his head: “It’s not to
assassinate a Shangxian, but to be a bodyguard for about a month. If
you’re willing to join, during this month, you’ll have to protect the client
well.” The blue-clad old man stares at Qin Yu and carefully observes his
reaction.

“Bodyguard? Humph, you’re asking me to become a bodyguard?” says

Qin Yu coldly.

The blue-clad elder says confidently: “Don’t worry, Mister Liu Xing. Don’t
you always dislike easy missions? This mission is absolutely difficult and,

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moreover, the power of the prospective enemies will satisfy you. The
important thing is … if this mission is successful, we will give you a high
Xian-grade weapon!”

High Xian-grade weapons are the top weapons in the eyes of mortals on
the Qian Long continent.

As for holy weapons, generally only Xiuzhenists can have them. Qin Yu
found that chunk of In-rock Flaming iron, but if it had not been for
Fengyuzi’s forging he would not have come into possession of his holy
weapons. Therefore, how can mortals possibly obtain holy weapons? The
mission’s reward of a high Xian-grade weapon as the blue-clad elder
said is already extremely valuable.

Superb weapons hold an enormous attraction for martial artists so Qin

Yu has to act as if his interest has been aroused.

“Oh…” A hint of excitement flashes in his eyes.

Seeing Qin Yu’s expression, the blue-clad elder knows he has a good
chance of success. He says instantly: “Mister Liu Xing, it is extremely
hard to come across a mission like this. If you want to join us, then wait
for me in this teahouse 3 days later. When the time comes, I’m going to
bring you along.”

“Who am I going to protect? And where are we going to go?” Qin Yu asks
closely.

The blue-clad elder says with a shake of his head: “I can only tell you
that the client is called Mister Ying. As for the other thing, there’s no
need for you to ask. When the time comes, you’re going to follow us.”
The blue-clad old man stares at Qin Yu, waiting for his answer.

“Mister Ying?” An idea springs to Qin Yu’s mind. His conjecture has been
confirmed even more.

“All right, I’ll take this mission. See you 3 days later in this teahouse.”
Qin Yu gives a ha-ha laugh. His body has already flown out of the 2nd
floor directly through a window. He then disappears, leaving behind

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several afterimages. The blue-clad elder looks at the window and nods
smilingly.

******

Late at night, in the imperial study,

“Your Majesty, this is Hidden Chessman’s secret letter.” A refined

handsome middle-aged man hands over a letter. Xiang Guang, who is
sitting, receives it and opens it to read the contents. He immediately
frowns deeply: “What? Qin De is going to undergo the 4-in-9 Heavenly
Tribulation and even in less than a month’s time?”

Xiang Guang’s expression changes nonstop.

Qin De has always been his worry. If he cannot eliminate Qin De, he wil
never have a peaceful day, as if there is something hard stuck in his
throat forever. Moreover, today he has learned that Qin De is going to
undergo the 4-in-9 Heavenly Tribulation so he has become somewhat
flustered. He hopes that Qin De will fail to overcome the tribulation but
he also fears that Qin De will succeed and become a Jindan stage expert.

If the latter happens, the Qin clan will have 2 Shangxian and once it
rebels it will be a much bigger threat.

Xiang Guang thinks for a long time then raises his head looking at the
elegant middle-aged man before him and asks: “Mister Lan, in the
beginning Wu Xing and Wu De made it clear that they only promised to
protect us. It’s very difficult to make them get into action. Right, has
Great Ancestor given any instructions yet, Mister Lan ……?”

With a smile, this Mister Lan takes out from his bosom a small jade
bottle, puts it on the table before Xiang Guang and says: “Your Majesty,
this is a Red Flourishing Pill. I believe Your Majesty also knows what
Great Ancestor means.”

Hearing the 3 words Red Flourishing Pill, Xiang Guang is shocked. Then a
hint of savageness appears on his face: “Red Flourishing Pill, the last
Red Flourishing Pill, how could Great Ancestor give it up? Right, don’t

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worry, Mister Lan. Please inform Great Ancestor that I definitely won’t let
Great Ancestor down. Humph, Wu Xing and Wu De are really too greedy.
However … Qin De must be destroyed; it can’t be helped.”

“I mustn’t let Qin De overcome the tribulation no matter what.

Otherwise they’ll have 2 Jindan stage Xiuzhenists on their side, plus the
troops of the 3 Eastern region counties, so, when war breaks out, even if
their rebellion fails, the Xiang clan’s vitality will suffer greatly.” Xiang
Guang clenches the jade bottle in his hand.

Mister Lan slightly nods then walks out through the main entrance in a
dignified manner.

By contrast, Xiang Guang spends an entire sleepless night in the

imperial study. In the morning of the next day, he leaves the Imperial
Palace directly with secret experts.

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Vol. 3:

Chapter 17

B3C17: The source of danger (2)

In a secluded manor,

“Shangxian, that Qin De wants to rebel and destroy my Xiang clan’s

everlasting bases and accomplishments. Moreover, he is going to
undergo the 4-in-9 Heavenly Tribulation soon. The Qin clan already has a
Shangxian, namely Fengyuzi. If Qin De can overcome the tribulation,
they will have 2 Shangxian as well, which will be harmful to my Xiang
clan, and also to the 2 of you,” says Xiang Guang to 2 green-clad men.

Wu De and Wu Xing are the 2 Xiuzhenists who have been protecting the
Xiang clan for several hundred years. Their position is extremely lofty.

Wu De has a head full of loose long hair, looking very natural and self-
willed. With his power having even reached the late phase of the Jindan
stage, he is absolutely an expert. Even though Wu Xing also has long
hair, he has tied it up with a hairband. Wu Xing’s eyes and white brows
give his entire body an obvious air of swiftness and fierceness. He has
reached the middle phase of the Jindan stage in practice, which is also
Fengyuzi’s level.

“Martial brother, it seems at that time we only promised to protect the

Xiang clan, didn’t we?” Wu Xing says to Wu De.

Among the emperors of the Chu dynasty, Xiang Yang was one who can
rival Xiang Yu the Conqueror in wisdom. Even though Xiang Yu was the
founding emperor, he was killed by revenge-seeking experts of the Qin
dynasty. Xiang Yu conquered all the lands but he did not rule them.

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Following Xiang Yu’s death, his only son Xiang Yang became the Chu
emperor. Xiang Yang was extremely outstanding in both literary and
military arts. His talent for martial arts was not inferior to that of his
father Xiang Yu and he was even better than Xiang Yu in government.

It was he who invited this Wu De and Wu Xing to help the Xiang clan at
that time when he was still reigning.

“Martial younger brother,” Wu De casts a glance at Wu Xing, who stops

saying instantly. Wu De looks toward Xiang Guang and says smilingly:
“Xiang Guang, what’s the matter? Say it clearly and don’t beat around
the bush. What do you want me and my martial younger brother to do?”

Xiang Guang rejoices. He says at once: “Shangxian, could you please …

kill Qin De for me?!”

“Oh? Kill him?” Wu De then gives a smile, but says no more, neither
refusing nor accepting. He only goes to one side, picks up a book and
starts to read it casually.

Xiang Guang is ridiculous! As Xiuzhenists go against Heaven, they are no

kind-hearted people or altruists. Most of them are very selfish. Except
for their own good friends, who are the only people they will help, they
do nobody a favour. Asking them to do something that does not benefit
them for free is, therefore, no different from fantasizing.

“2 greedy arseholes,” Xiang Guang secretly curses. However, he has

forgotten that, as 2 Xiuzhenists, there is no reason for them to help him
for nothing. Xiang Guang forces a smile and says: “Of course,
Shangxian, as long as you kill Qin De for me, my Xiang clan will
definitely handsomely return the favor.”

Wu De and Wu Xing still show no reaction.

Wu Xing gives Xiang Guang a disdainful look which is packed with satire.
It is simply impossible to ask Wu De and his martial younger brother to
do something by promising to reward them after the affair has been
dealt with.

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Xiang Guang slightly narrows his eyes then clenches his teeth and takes
out from his bosom a jade bottle. Wu Xing’s and Wu De’s eyes instantly
brighten. Xiang Guang says at once: “Shangxian, there is a holy pill in
this bottle, a precious Red Flourishing Pill. Now I give it to the 2 of you.
My Xiang clan only asks you to kill that Qin De. Is this all right?”

Wu Xing raises his white eyebrows and exchanges a look with his martial
brother Wu De. Then the 2 of them burst out laughing.

“Xiang Guang, just leave this matter to us. It’s only Qin De. Humph, both
of us will attack together. They only have Fengyuzi on their side so they
definitely won’t be able to resist us. You can rest easy.” Wu Xing
receives the jade bottle while laughing out loud.

Xiang Guang feels a pain in his heart but he still tries to force a smile:
“Then I’ll wait for your good news, Shangxian. Right, Shangxian, Qin De
is going to undergo the tribulation in the Green Lotus mountain range on
the border of the Wilderness, but I don’t know exactly where it is going
to be. His tribulation should come within a month.”

“Oh, the Green Lotus mountain range?” Qin De slightly frowns.

……

Using the Appearance and Bone Changing art Qin Yu changes into
assassin Liu Xing and goes directly to that agreed teahouse.

As for Xiao Hei, fearing that his real identity will be discovered, he has
told Xiao Hei to fly to a height of 10,000 m in the sky. At such a distance
above the ground, not even Qin Yu’s vision can see the eagle, not to
mention his holy sense. Qin Yu’s holy sense has a range of no more than
several hundred meters whereas Xiao Hei is 10,000 m away from him.

However, Xiao Hei has a very keen sight. Even when flying at a height of
10,000 m in the air, it can still see Qin Yu below clearly. Xiao Hei’s vision
is obviously very extraordinary and far superior to that of ordinary male
eagles.

As soon as Qin Yu enters the teahouse, he takes a glance around and

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notices an old man dressed in black in a corner. That black-dressed old

man is none other than Elder Blue-clad. Elder Blue-clad stands up and
passes by Qin Yu directly to walk out of the teahouse as if he does not
recognize him.

“Mister Liu Xing, please follow me.” Elder Blue-clad transfers his voice
confidentially to Qin Yu’s ears.

Qin Yu then goes after Elder Blue-clad. The 2 of them turn into an alley
successively. Afterwards they enter a courtyard house. It is obvious that
this courtyard house has been prepared carefully earlier by Elder Blue-
clad. Moreover, there is a huge silvery-feathered golden-eyed condor in
the courtyard house.

“Mister Liu Xing, this golden-eyed condor was raised by me. Come on,
get on its back together with me,” says Elder Blue-clad smilingly.

The silvery-feathered golden-eyed condor utters a low howl then spreads

its huge silvery wings. Condors naturally have much larger bodies than
eagles. However, even though Xiao Hei belongs to a certain kind of
eagle, it is about the same size as this silvery-feathered golden-eyed
condor.

Spreading its wings, the silvery-feathered golden-eyed condor soars into

the sky with Elder Blue-clad and Qin Yu sitting on its back then flies
eastward.

“This golden-eyed condor is about the same size as Xiao Hei but it is
much slower than Xiao Hei.” Qin Yu thinks to himself. The back of this
golden-eyed condor is very broad and there is ample space for the 2 of
them to sit down side by side.

As the condor flies in the sky, they sit very stably despite strong blasts
of wind.

“Mister Liu Xing, please remember that when meeting the client you
shouldn’t ask any unnecessary questions. You only need to know you’re
going to have to protect Mister Ying.” Elder Blue-clad warns.

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“Even if you let me ask, I wouldn’t ask,” says Qin Yu indifferently.

After flying for a half day, the golden-eyed condor dives down into a
courtyard house directly. Elder Blue-clad jumps down first. He simply
does not notice that at this moment Qin Yu’s eyes brighten. Qin Yu has
this reaction because his holy sense has felt clearly the people in the
courtyard house.

“Mister Ying, Mister Liu Xing has arrived,” says Elder Blue-clad
respectfully. Afterwards, more than 10 people walk out from a room of
the courtyard house. The leaders are none other than Qin De and
Fengyuzi. The people such as Ge Min are behind Qin De.

This time, Manager Ge Min leads 5 late phase Xiantian experts from the
Secret Arrow and Elder Blue-clad leads 5 late phase Xiantian experts
from the Heavenly Net besides assassin Liu Xing.

“Mister Liu Xing,” Qin De comes forward smilingly.

Qin Yu looks at his father. He was already able to guess who the client is
when Elder Blue-clad first told him about this mission. However, he has
never known that the Qin clan is actually behind the Heavenly Net.
When facing Qin De, Qin Yu slightly nods and says: “Mister Ying, so
you’re the client. I’m going to ensure your safety.”

Qin De nods smilingly then says loudly and clearly: “Gentlemen, all
preparations have been made. Let’s get going.” Qin De walks directly
toward a silvery white tiger. That white tiger has 2 wings on its body. It
is none other than a king among tigers — a sky-flying white tiger.

“Mister Liu Xing, I have a good impression of you.” Qin De suddenly

turns his head to Qin Yu and says smilingly. Qin Yu politely gives a smile.
Qin De then sits on the sky-flying white tiger.

“Good impression?” smiles Qin Yu. His father still does not know that this
assassin Liu Xing is just his 3rd son Qin Yu. As before, Qin Yu follows
Elder Blue-clad to get on the silvery-feathered golden-eyed condor. The
other Xiantian experts either share flying animals or use flying animals

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of their own. The 15 people including Qin De then soar into the sky and
fly eastward quickly.

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Vol. 3:

Chapter 18

B3C18: The Green Lotus mountain range (1)

Riding their flying animals, the group of 15 people including Qin De flies
extremely fast eastward.

“In the end I’m still following father. This turn of events is really
wonderful. When I couldn’t succeed despite trying hard, who could’ve
thought that I would get my wish as assassin Liu Xing? This is just like
how watched flowers never bloom but an unattended willow grows.”
Looking at his father on the sky-flying white tiger ahead of him, Qin Yu
cannot help giving a faint smile.

Qin Yu basically does not know the location selected for the tribulation
this time. His current role is merely a bodyguard.

After flying for nearly 3 days and nights, during which time they took a
break once for a meal, they finally arrives in the first destination — a
small city on the border of the Wilderness called Qingshi City.

“Come down!”

After shouting his order, Qin De takes the lead in diving down. The small
airborne group at his back also dives down closely after him. They land
directly on a place on the eastern side of Qingshi City. Qin Yu, however,
feels that at this moment Xiao Hei is flying at a height of several
thousand meters above them.

At age 7, Qin Yu took Xiao Hei in when it was still a chick. He will turn 19
in the new year so it has been almost 12 years ever since. One person

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and an eagle seem not to have been separated from each other for the
last 12 years. A basically indescribable mysterious telepathy has even
developed between them.

“Mister Ying, we’re going to stay the night here, aren’t we?” Elder Blue-
clad asks Qin De.

The 5 Heavenly Net experts that Elder Blue-clad brings along are only
loyal to the Heavenly Net’s leader, but even they do not know that the
leader is a person of the Qin clan. To prevent accidents this time, Qin De
has told Elder Blue-clad and Ge Min to call him Mister Ying.

“We’re staying the night here. Tomorrow morning everybody is going

into the Wilderness so let’s have a good rest tonight.” Qin De gives a
smile then turns to Ge Min and says: “Old man Ge, quickly prepare
board and lodging for everyone.”

Ge Min says respectfully at once: “Yes, Mister Ying.”

In the evening, everyone has a meal in this considerably large house

then most of them start to rest or go to sleep because, after all, they are
going into the Wilderness tomorrow. No one, whether from the Heavenly
Net or the Secret Arrow, has any complaints about their entry into the
Wilderness.

Even if they are asked to die they will not be afraid of that, because they
were already brainwashed when they started to be trained. However,
there is a stranger going with them this time, namely peak Xiantian
assassin Liu Xing.

Tonight has a bright moon but only a few stars. The bright Moon is
hanging in a corner of the sky. Qin Yu has not gone to bed yet and is
watching the Moon above from the courtyard.

“The Wilderness, I never thought that father would choose a location in

the Wilderness to undergo his tribulation.” Qin Yu secretly groans. “One
will encounter stronger demonic beasts as he goes deeper into the
Wilderness. But I believe father won’t choose a place deep in the

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Wilderness to go through his tribulation.”

Suddenly, Qin Yu frowns and stops thinking because someone is

approaching.

“Mister Liu Xing, you’re staying up so late. Could you be worrying about
something?” Qin De says with a warm smile as he walks up to Qin Yu.

Immediately afterwards, another voice rises: “Mister Ying, there are

demonic beasts in the Wilderness after all. Even though we aren’t going
deep into the Wilderness this time, if we encounter any demonic beasts,
it will still be very dangerous. Perhaps Mister Liu Xing can also feel that
this journey is risky.” Fengyuzi also walks up to him.

Qin De says in an unconcerned manner: “Mister Liu Xing, if you find this
mission risky, you can also give it up. We definitely won’t blame or laugh
at you. After all, the Wilderness is a dangerous place.”

Qin De does not tell Qin Yu anything about the location he has selected
this time. The Green Lotus mountain range is merely on the border of
the Wilderness. The deeper a place is in the Wilderness, the more
dangerous it becomes. The Green Lotus mountain range is no more than
a huge mountain range on the border of the Wilderness so, even if it has
wild beasts, Qin De and his entourage will still be able to handle them
easily.

“Give up? Of course I won’t. I’m just wondering if we’ll encounter

demonic beasts after coming into the Wilderness this time. Some
demonic beasts are on the same level as Xiantian experts while some
others are on a par with Shangxian. Some are even more formidable
than Shangxian. If we encounter a demonic beast which is near a
Shangxian’s caliber, I’m wondering whether I or it will eventually survive
the fight to the death between us!” says Qin Yu indifferently.

“Gentlemen, I’m going back to rest first.” Qin Yu folds his hands and
says.

“You’re going back to rest? Then we won’t trouble you anymore, Mister

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Liu Xing.” Qin De and Fengyuzi motion to him to proceed. Qin Yu then
returns to his room directly, leaving only 2 people, Qin De and Fengyuzi,
in the courtyard.

Fengyuzi makes a wave of his hand. A simple restrictive spell is

immediately set up, isolating their voices completely from the outside of
the spell.

“Brother Feng, what do you think about this assassin Liu Xing? I can feel
Yu’er’s aura on his body.” Qin De slightly frowns and says.

At Qin De’s current level in power, he has developed a sense which is

rather similar to the holy sense. No one will be able to fool people like
him using only the Appearance and Bone Changing art. After all, any
Xiantian expert can use the Appearance and Bone Changing art to the
fullest and, moreover, Fengyuzi beside Qin De is a Xiuzhenist with an
even more powerful holy sense.

Fengyuzi says with a slight frown: “When I used my holy sense to

examine this Mister Liu Xing, I noticed that his aura is very similar to
Xiao Yu’s and even thought that he was Xiao Yu. But later I discovered
an extraordinary Xiantian energy inside Mister Liu Xing’s body. That kind
of Xiantian energy is extremely terrifyingly destructive. Xiao Yu is a
Xiantian external expert so he doesn’t have any internal energy. Mister
Liu Xing, however, has Xiantian energy so he can’t be Xiao Yu.”

Qin De also says with a nod: “I felt it carefully too. This Mister Liu Xing’s
aura is very profound and there are some differences between it and
Xiao Yu’s.”

A person’s aura is dependent on his soul. After the Meteoric Tear fused
with Qin Yu’s body, without his knowledge, some faint amounts of a
mysterious energy from the Meteoric Tear have fused with his soul,
slowly enhancing it unnoticed. Therefore, Qin Yu has undergone huge
transformations during such a short time as the last half year.

This is the reason why, since Qin Yu and Qin De met each other again
after a half year of separation, Qin De and Fengyuzi has not dared to

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confirm that this Mister Liu Xing is Qin Yu. Moreover, in the past Qin Yu
told them that a Xiantian external expert only used physical power
whereas this Mister Liu Xing has Xiantian energy.

Qin De does not know that Qin Yu acquired this purple Xiantian energy
thanks to practicing the 3rd Trans-Heaven diagram.

“However … I have a feeling that this Mister Liu Xing is worth trusting.”
Qin De gives a smile then looks up at the bright moon in the night sky.
At this moment he is thinking of his 3rd son, who has not returned home
for a long time. “Yu’er, I owe you too much, but will I still have a chance
to meet you again?”

Even though Qin De is fully prepared, he is not certain that he will

overcome the 4-in-9 Heavenly Tribulation.

In the early morning of the next day, the 15 people start off with light
luggage. They only enter the Wilderness on foot. Even the weakest
among them is a late phase Xiantian expert so they have no problem
using their lightness skills to go along mountain tracks, which are rough
and steep.

On the way, Qin De often chats to Qin Yu. It seems he has a very good
opinion of this mysterious Mister Liu Xing. The journey is long and
winding. After going for 3 days, they finally set foot in the Wilderness.
However, the Wilderness is immense. Its surface area is even much
larger than the total area of all the countries on the Qian Long continent.

After entering the Wilderness, Qin De and his entourage go extremely

fast along some safe tracks according to a prearranged road map. Every
demonic beast in the Wilderness has its own territory. Qin De’s road
map shows the gaps between the territories of some demonic beasts.

Of course, with Qin De’s and his entourage’s power, they are unafraid of
the demonic beasts on the edge of the Wilderness. However, they do not
want to waste their power for no reason.

After going along winding tracks for 5 days, they finally reach their

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destination — the Green Lotus mountain range. It is a huge mountain

range which runs continuously for several hundred li. Of course, a
several-hundred-li long mountain range is totally insignificant in the
Wilderness.

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Vol. 3:

Chapter 19

B3C19: The Green Lotus mountain range (2)

“The Green Lotus mountain range runs continuously for several hundred
li and occupies an extremely large area. I’m going to choose a suitable
place here to undergo my tribulation.” Qin De looks at the Green Lotus
mountain range and says with a loud laugh. After going for such a long
time, everyone has finally arrived in the Green Lotus mountain range
safely despite some alerts along the way.

Fengyuzi says smilingly: “Mister Ying, allow me to find that location for
you.” Fengyuzi’s holy sense has a slightly longer range than Qin Yu’s,
reaching 1000 m in radius. In an unfamiliar area like this Green Lotus
mountain range, using the holy sense to explore is indeed the best way.

“Then I’ll have to trouble you, brother Feng,” says Qin De with a nod.

Fengyuzi then go first. The other people follow him toward the inside of
the Green Lotus mountain range. This is after all a mountain range in the
Wilderness so there are a lot of wild beasts here. The density of holy
energy in the Wilderness is much higher than in the other areas of the
Qian Long continent and therefore the demonic beasts in the Wilderness
are very formidable.

Following Fengyuzi, Qin Yu continuously goes forward. At the same time,

he looks around.

In the process of finding the place for the tribulation, Qin Yu sees a herd
of monkeys, a Xiantian-level single-horned leopard and even a Xiantian
level sky-flying white tiger. However, no one in his group fears these

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demonic beasts. Those demonic beasts also feel that Qin De, Fengyuzi
and the other people are formidable so they do not attack them.

After going for nearly a half day, it starts to get dark slowly …

“Found it. I never thought there’d be such a place.” Fengyuzi’s face has
a hint of a pleasant surprise. “Everybody follow me.” As he finishes
saying, he rushes directly toward a very ordinary cave in the distance in
the mountain range. Qin De, Ge Min, Elder Blue-clad and the other
people also go after him.

Everyone then enters the dark cave. There is absolutely no light in the
cave but, luckily, all the people present can see in the dark. As they
continuously go deeper, the cave’s diameter continuously decreases. At
its smallest area, the cave even has only enough space for 1 person to
enter at a time while stooping down. After they zigzag forward while
bending about several tens meters, the cave widens again. Eventually, it
can even accommodate several people going abreast. At the same time,
there is light ahead of them.

That cave is a tunnel. As everyone comes out of the cave, they see a
huge meadow surrounded by stone precipices before them. The meadow
is several li in circumference. At first sight, it seems the cave everyone
just went through is the only passage to this meadow. Of course,
Xiuzhenists can fly into this place from the sky as well.

“There are only clusters of weeds and wild flowers. This place is no
good.” Manager Ge Min says with a smile.

Qin Yu takes a look around but he cannot see anything good about this
place either. The scenery is ordinary. There is nothing here other than
some clusters of weeds and wild flowers on the ground and some wild
horses in the distance. But after examining for a while, he suddenly feels
giddy.

“There’s something strange about this place.” Qin Yu immediately

guesses. The 1st thing that springs to his mind is the art of formation in
Qi Men Dun Jia. However, it is too broad and deep while he has spent too

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little time researching it, so he only has a simple, superficial

understanding of it at best.

“A natural illusive formation which secretly contains the 8 Diagrams is

really hard to come by. Wait for me to modify it a bit!”

Fengyuzi laughs out loud and says. Then a flaming-red flying sword flies
out from his palm. At the same time, the flaming-red flying sword
suddenly becomes larger until it is 10 m long. The huge sword then
chops fiercely at the stone precipices. As if they are tofu being cut with a
knife, the shapes of the stone precipices are immediately altered by the
chops.

In a short while, Fengyuzi withdraws the flying sword with satisfaction.

By now, the shape of the entire valley has been slightly modified.

“Mister Ying, with the help of this natural 8 Diagrams formation, added
to that I’ll set up a Reverse 8 Diagrams formation around you so that the
Orthodox and Reverse 8 Diagrams formations will be integrated with
each other and absorb the forces of nature in your surroundings to
protect you, this time you’ll have a much better chance of overcoming
the tribulation,” says Fengyuzi with a ha-ha laugh.

As soon as Qin De hears that, his face has a happy expression at once.
He instantly says: “I’ll have to trouble you, brother Feng.” Fengyuzi then
starts to set up restrictive spells and the formation with great
concentration. To increase Qin De’s chance of success as much as
possible, everyone is also confined in the natural formation.

******

The 2 martial brothers Wu De and Wu Xing have already arrived in the

Green Lotus mountain range. Using their art of flying sword, they have
brought along 2 old men apiece. These 4 old men who have come here
with them are no ordinary people. They are all peak Xiantian experts
and are the hidden super experts of the Xiang clan.

For the moment, Wu De, Wu Xing and the other 4 people are staying on

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a mountain peak of the Green Lotus mountain range.

“Seniors, according to our intelligence, Qin De should have already

arrived in the Green Lotus mountain range for several days. Shouldn’t
we also investigate at once where they have chosen to undergo the
tribulation?” The leader of the 4 old men, a white-haired old man, says
to Wu De and Wu Xing.

Wu De, his long hair fluttering, gives a smile. White-browed Wu Xing

then says indifferently: “There’s no hurry. The Green Lotus mountain
range is only several hundred li long. With the speed of our flying
swords, in addition to checking using our holy sense, a night will be
enough to find out where they are.”

Wu De says: “Martial younger brother, tonight let’s investigate carefully

once to see where Qin De is actually hiding.”

“Okay. You’re far more powerful than Fengyuzi so when you use your
holy sense to investigate he won’t feel anything.” There is a hint of
arrogance on Wu Xing’s face. He simply does not worry about this
mission at all.

Wu De and his martial younger brother consider Fengyuzi the only

opponent because a middle phase Jindan stage expert like him will be a
bit of a trouble. As for the other people, they simply pay no attention to
them. A Xiuzhenist’s body is always protected by elemental energy and
therefore those so-called high Xian-grade weapons will not be able to
harm them.

******

Late at night, the bright Moon is hanging in the sky. Qin De and Qin Yu
are sitting side by side talking to each other.

“Mister Liu Xing, I’ve always been curious about why you practice so
hard,” says Qin De with a smile. Even though they have arrived in the
Green Lotus mountain range for several days, this is the 1st time Qin De
and the mysterious Mister Liu Xing have talked about this matter.

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Qin Yu says with a smile: “Practice hard?” The 1st thing he thinks about
is his father, but in the blink of an eye he remembers his current
identity, so he says at once: “I practice hard firstly for my relatives and
secondly because I want to pursue the limits in practice.”

Qin De does not know his identity anyway so Qin Yu says what he thinks
directly.

“Oh? Pursuing the limits in practice?” Qin De becomes curious.

Qin Yu nods: “Yes, I actually long for the Xiuzhen world, in which I’ll be
able to fly 10,000 li to the horizon when I make a movement, and kill my
enemy from 1000 li away by drawing my sword when I’m angry! Fighting
Heaven and Hell; battling demonic beasts.” Qin Yu has become a bit
excited. He then shakes his head and says with a sigh. “Too bad, my
power is still far from enough.”

“I believe you’ll definitely achieve your goal,” says Qin De smilingly.

“Maybe,” Qin Yu looks at his father before him. His heart slightly warms
up.

He moved into Misty Villa when he was 6. For so many years, the
journey to this place with his father has unexpectedly been the longest
period of time he and his father have spent together. They have been
chatting with each other everyday for the last several days like good
friends.

……

A huge 8 Diagrams symbol is naturally formed by the entire valley.

Fengyuzi has set up the base of the formation and linked it up with the
valley using his elemental energy. Only in this way can he totally
activate the power of such a natural 8 Diagrams formation. The natural
8 Diagrams formation absorbs holy energy then channels the energy
toward the center of the valley via 8 paths.

In the center of the valley, there is a small Reverse 8 Diagrams

formation. Qin De is sitting with legs crossed in the center of this

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Reverse 8 Diagrams formation.

The huge natural 8 Diagrams continuously absorb holy energy and

channel it into the Reverse 8 Diagrams through 8 paths. After absorbing
for 3 days, the Reverse 8 Diagrams formation has been filled with
energy. At the moment, a terrifying force is moving nonstop in the
Reverse 8 Diagrams formation. Qin De now can start this force off to
form a protective cover.

“The 13 of you listen.” Fengyuzi says while staring at Qin Yu and the
others.

Ge Min and the 5 people from the Secret Arrow, Elder Blue-clad and the
5 people from the Heavenly Net, and Qin Yu, there are 13 people
altogether. These 13 people are listening to Fengyuzi’s orders.

“The huge natural 8 Diagrams formation hasn’t been activated yet. Once
it’s started off, natural illusions will be created and you all will also be
affected. Therefore, first, I’ll set up a small 8 Diagrams formation on the
body of each of you. In this way, you won’t be affected by the illusions.”
Fengyuzi says to everybody.

Fengyuzi has linked both the huge natural 8 Diagrams and the Reverse 8
Diagrams surrounding Qin De up using his elemental energy so they are
totally under his control. As long as Fengyuzi uses his elemental energy
to set up an 8 Diagrams formation on everyone, the huge formation will
not affect any of them.

“If the enemies come, I’ll activate the huge natural 8 Diagrams
formation at once to obstruct them. Once they are affected by the
illusions while you aren’t, you must grasp the opportunity to kill them.”
Fengyuzi tells everybody clearly what to do while looking at them.

They all understand that, when the enemies are affected by the illusions
while they are not, it will exactly be the best chance to kill the enemies.

“Of course, there won’t necessarily be any enemies. I’m just cautioning
you. However … you must remember one thing, that is, you mustn’t let

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anyone approach Mister Ying no matter what,” says Fengyuzi solemnly.

Everybody also nods.

Starting from this time, Qin De always practices in the Reverse 8

Diagrams, trying to reach the best condition before the arrival of the 4-
in-9 Heavenly Tribulation. Naturally, he no longer chats with Qin Yu.

“Father.” Qin Yu looks at Qin De, who is practicing in the Reverse 8

Diagrams. He is silently hoping in his heart, hoping that his father will
succeed. This period of time, during which he has often chatted with Qin
De, has been his happiest period of time for the last 10 years.

The days pass. After 3 days of practicing, Qin De finally stops.

“The heavenly tribulation will come tonight.” Qin De says to everyone.

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Vol. 3:

Chapter 20

B3C20: The battle of the tribulation (1)

It gradually gets dark. Qin De is sitting with legs crossed in the center of
the Reverse 8 Diagrams formation. Fengyuzi, Qin Yu and the other
people are sitting randomly around Qin De. As every minute or second
goes by, the 15 people in the valley know the heavenly tribulation is
coming closer and they all become increasingly tense.

“Father.” Qin Yu slightly turns his head and looks at Qin De, who is
sitting quietly. At this moment Qin De has a calm expression on his face.
Qin Yu’s heart suddenly trembles because he knows it is extremely
difficult for mortals to resist the power of a heavenly tribulation, even
when it is the weakest — the 4-in-9 Heavenly Tribulation.

“I won’t let anyone disturb you no matter what.” The look in Qin Yu’s
eyes becomes even swifter and fiercer.

“Everybody, the 4-in-9 Heavenly Tribulation is a minor heavenly

tribulation. There’ll be 4 bolts of lightning striking down in total. During
this period of time, all of us must stop anyone from disturbing Mister
Ying. Moreover … don’t even dream about helping Mister Ying resist the
thunderbolts. A heavenly tribulation is meant only for the person who
has to go through it. If any of you tries to help Mister Ying resist the
tribulation, he won’t get any help and, even worse, the thunderbolts will
punish him.” Fengyuzi orders everyone.

As Fengyuzi has previous experience with the 4-in-9 Heavenly

Tribulation, the people present immediately memorize what he said.

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“Brother Feng, all of you please don’t get too uptight. Only a few people
know that I chose the Green Lotus mountain range for my tribulation. No
one will necessarily disturb me.” Qin De opens his eyes and says
smilingly. Even though the heavenly tribulation is coming, he is still
talking cheerfully and humorously.

Suddenly —

Fierce winds blow, sweeping across the ground and the sky, scattering
the clouds. Within several hundred li of the valley, all of the clouds in the
air have been blown elsewhere in a short while. At the same time, the
color of the sky above the valley gradually changes and turns into dark
red.

“The heavenly tribulation is arriving!” shouts Fengyuzi immediately.

Everyone becomes nervous at once. Qin Yu even feels as if his heart is
about to jump out of his chest.

The dark red sky seems to be gathering over everyone’s head, which
puts them under great pressure. It then starts to rotate, rotating nonstop
like a maelstrom in the ocean. Various purple thunderbolts appear in the
dark red sky, as if created out of thin air. They then get absorbed by that
huge maelstrom.

The maelstrom spins faster and faster. The holy energy within several
hundred li of it has become totally chaotic. Various huge serpentine
electrical sparks are zigzagging in the maelstrom. After some time, the
maelstrom gradually slows down. It eventually stops rotating and turns
into a purple tribulation cloud.

The dark red sky, the purple tribulation cloud, and the serpentine
electrical sparks in the cloud,

Everyone in the valley looks into the sky, including Qin Yu. Seeing the
heavenly might making its appearance in such a terrifying manner, Qin
Yu feels as if a rock has been put on his heart and finds it difficult to
breathe. He clenches his teeth and glances at his father with fierce,
glittering eyes.

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“Father, you must succeed!”

Qin Yu is hoping in his heart.

Boom!

Suddenly there is a great crash of thunder. A purple thunderbolt which

looks like a sinuous dragon strikes down at Qin De in the center of the
valley. Everyone present knows that the 4-in-9 Heavenly Tribulation has
4 thunderbolts in total and each is more formidable than the previous.
When even the 1st thunderbolt is already so imposing, it can be
imagined how terrifying the heavenly tribulation is.

“Up!”

Qin De stands up in the center of the Reverse 8 Diagrams formation and

starts it off. Various beams of light begins to move around the edge of
the Reverse 8 Diagrams formation nonstop then turn into a cover of
energy on its edge, protecting Qin De’s entire body thoroughly.

Even though the energy cover uses the holy energy of the natural huge
8 Diagrams formation, only after the Reverse 8 Diagrams formation
absorbed holy energy for 3 whole days and became filled could it be
formed. The power of the energy cover, therefore, is indeed strong.

Boom!

The purple thunderbolt strikes upon that green energy cover. The green
holy energy of the Reverse 8 Diagrams formation hurriedly circulates.
The energy cover also trembles for a short time but it has just really
withstood the 1st thunderbolt. Seeing this scene, Qin Yu secretly feels
relieved.

“This natural 8 Diagrams formation is really strong enough. The 8

Diagrams restrictive energy cover it created was even able to withstand
the 1st thunderbolt without breaking apart.” Fengyuzi has a faint happy
expression on his face.

……

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Not far from the valley at the moment, Wu De and Wu Xing are standing
on their flying swords respectively, bringing along 2 old men each.

“Martial brother, that Qin De unexpectedly overcame the 1st

thunderbolt. Also, we even let him find a natural 8 Diagrams formation.
What rotten luck!” Wu Xing says with a cold laugh.

Wu De says in an unconcerned manner: “There’s no need to worry. Each

of the 4 thunderbolts of the 4-in-9 Heavenly Tribulation is more
dangerous than the previous. The 1st thunderbolt was merely an
appetizer. It’ll be hard for Qin De to overcome all of them. Moreover,
even if he overcame the 4-in-9 Heavenly Tribulation, he would be
seriously injured. At that time, with our power, it’d be easy to kill him.”

Generally, after overcoming a tribulation, the practitioner’s body will be

badly damaged. How can a badly injured early-phase Jindan-stage
novice possibly be a match for middle-phase Jindan-stage Wu Xing and
late-phase Jindan-stage Wu De?

“Shangxian, could we spring into action right now?” The leader of the 4
old men asks respectfully at once. In the Xiang clan, these 4 old men are
called Four Directions Death Gods. Their respective code names are
East, South, West and North. And they have been granted the royal last
name Xiang.

Hearing that, Wu De slightly nods: “Martial younger brother, the 2nd

thunderbolt is charging now. Once it strikes down, their attention will
surely be distracted by that scene. At that time, we’ll attack like
lightning and destroy them at one stroke!”

“Yes, martial brother.” Wu Xing becomes excited as well.

……

The purple tribulation cloud continuously rolls. It sends out one strong
force after another, frightening everyone in the valley. The 2nd
thunderbolt will obviously be much more powerful.

“Hah!”

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Qin De utters a series of low shouts. At the same time, a dragon-like

body-protecting energy appears on the surface of his body. To be exact,
this body-protecting energy, which seems almost materialized, is none
other than the body-protecting technique of the Shi Huang Ancestral
Dragon Art at the peak of the Xiantian level.

Concurrently with that, a dark red long sword appears in Qin De’s hand.
It is exactly a middle-grade holy weapon and also Qin De’s trump card to
overcome the tribulation.

Qin Yu is focusing most of his attention on his father. Fengyuzi, Elder

Blue-clad and the others are also watching Qin De take on the tribulation
attentively. No one even dares to breathe heavily so the atmosphere is
very tense. Suddenly the air shudders.

Boom!

Another purple thunderbolt strikes down extremely fast from the sky.
This thunderbolt is even thicker and radiates a more dazzling purple
light than the the 1st one. It almost reaches Qin De in an instant. Qin Yu
and the others become nervous. However, at this moment —

“Enemy’s raiding!”

Fengyuzi’s voice suddenly rises in the ears of the other 13 people. Qin
Yu and the others are startled. Fengyuzi did not shout because he feared
he would alarm Qin De, so he could only use controlled sound
transference. At the same time, he makes signs with both hands. The
entire natural 8 Diagrams formation in the valley is activated. Various
streams of elemental energy start to run throughout the whole
formation.

“Ha-ha, Fengyuzi, you think this kind of formation can block me and my
martial brother? Are you dreaming?” White-browed Wu Xing says with a
loud laugh as he comes down from the sky on his huge flying sword,
bringing along 2 old men at his back. On his side, fluttering-long-haired
Wu De also dives down standing on his flying sword with 2 old men
behind him.

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“2 Xiuzhenists.” Qin Yu is shocked. Then he clenches his teeth and

stares at those 2 Shangxian with blazing eyes. “I’ll put my neck on the
line. I won’t let them disturb father during his tribulation no matter
what.”

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Vol. 3:

Chapter 21

B3C21: The battle of the tribulation (2)

At the same time —

Boom!

The 2nd thunderbolt strikes upon the 8 Diagrams protective cover with a
terrifying force. Immediately, the protective cover starts to shake as if it
is a water surface. The force of the thunderbolt and the energy of the
protective cover continuously cancel out each other. Concurrently with
that, various written talismans rise to the surface of the protective cover
from within.

“No good.” At the moment, Qin Yu activates his holy sense, and he is
also partly paying attention to his father, so he can feel clearly that the
energy of the protective cover is weakening extremely fast.

The 8 Diagrams protective cover suddenly breaks apart. At the same

time, those written talismans on its surface also disappear. However,
even though the protective cover created by the 8 Diagrams formations
have been shattered, luckily, the 2nd thunderbolt’s energy has also
been drained away.

“Qin De, you’re very lucky to have found this natural 8 Diagrams
formation and neutralized 2 thunderbolts with it. Too bad, each of the 4
thunderbolts of the 4-in-9 Heavenly Tribulation is more dangerous than
the previous. The last 2 thunderbolts will be very different from the first
ones!” Wu Xing’s white brows are so long they touch his temples, but he
looks swift and fierce.

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“Martial younger brother, don’t waste time. Let’s roll!” Wu De gives an

order.

“Yes, martial brother. The 4 of you kill all of those Xiantian experts. I
myself can handle Fengyuzi.” Wu Xing’s eyes flash with savagery. The 4
old men look at each other then nod. They instantly jump down from the
flying swords and charge toward the inside of the 8 Diagrams formation.

The 4 old men, who are all dressed in gray, are very powerful as well.

“Be careful, this formation contains illusions. Let’s kill them with eyes
closed.” As soon as East Xiang enters the formation he knows there is
something wrong, so he immediately shouts loudly.

“Yes, big brother!” The other 3 old men accept his order at once. At their
current level, it will not matter even if they have to fight their enemies
with eyes closed. Their holy senses have not been developed yet, but
they are capable of vague extra-sensory perception. Moreover, they can
also locate anyone in their vicinity through hearing.

The 4 people all close their eyes and stay motionless in the formation.

“4 peak Xiantian experts, this is pretty troublesome.” Fengyuzi thinks

like a flash. In an instant, he orders: “Ge Min, you’ll lead the 5 Elements
Commanders to deal with Wu Xing. I’ll handle Wu De. As for the other 4
old men, the rest will handle them!”

At this moment, the tribulation cloud starts to roll again. A rumble of

thunder rises in the sky. The cloud is gathering electricity. As the
thunderbolts become more powerful in order of appearance, it takes
longer to charge them in order of appearance as well. Qin De’s entire
energy and mind have been focused on dealing with the heavenly
tribulation so he simply does not notice that a great battle is starting.

“Ha-ha …” Wu De laughs out loud then stares at Fengyuzi and says:

“Humph, Fengyuzi, a middle-phase Jindan-stage weakling like you will
attempt to fight me?” Having heard what Fengyuzi said just now, he has
naturally become furious. He is a late Jindan-stage expert while Fengyuzi

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is only at the middle phase of the Jindan stage so there is a huge

difference in power between them.

“Fengyuzi, you even sent some Xiantian experts to deal with me? Ha-ha
…” Wu Xing is so infuriated that he bursts out laughing. In his eyes,
Xiantian experts simply cannot even break his defense, so naturally he
feels humiliated by Fengyuzi making such an arrangement.

Fengyuzi gives a cold laugh but says nothing. The fact that he possesses
a middle-grade holy weapon is a secret. A middle-grade holy weapon is
several times more powerful than a low-grade one. A spear-wielding kid
can kill a knife-wielding adult — this is the benefit of having a better
weapon.

“Kill!” Wu De and Wu Xing suddenly shout.

Like a flash, Wu De charges directly at Fengyuzi on his flying sword. Wu

Xing also comes into the large formation standing on his flying sword.
Even though there are illusions in this formation, Wu De and Wu Xing
directly use their holy senses to observe so they simply ignore the
effects of an elementary formation like this one.

This natural 8-Diagrams formation merely makes use of the natural

geography of the valley to create some simple illusions therefore
nothing in it can escape the observation of the holy sense. Real top-class
illusive formations can even affect the holy sense, but it is regrettable
that Fengyuzi has not reached a level in power where he can use them
yet.

“Ah!”

After a series of explosions, a miserable cry rises and blood splatters

everywhere. A man falls on the ground with a loud sound and dies on
the spot. All the other people are stupefied. Even Wu De and the other
Xiuzhenists also pay some attention to that at once.

West Xiang, the 3rd old man of the Four Directions Death Gods sent by
the Xiang clan, has unexpectedly been killed by someone right after he

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came forward.

“3rd younger brother!”

“3rd younger brother!”

……

East Xiang and the other 2 old men instantly become furious. The 4 of
them have been with each other for over 100 years and had a deep
affection for each other. Their brotherhood is even closer than that of
blood brothers. A special telepathy has even developed between them.
When the 3rd old men died just now, the other 3 could immediately
sense that he was dead. Today the 3rd among them has died but, due to
being affected by the illusions, they simply do not know who killed him.

“That was awesome, Mister Liu Xing!” Elder Blue-clad transfers his voice
confidentially into Qin Yu’s ears.

Qin Yu smiles coldly.

Locating through hearing? What if they cannot hear any sounds?

Just now Qin Yu used his body-maneuvering skill and did not create any
wind sounds. Even though the Xiang clan’s Four Directions Death Gods
are peak Xiantian experts and somewhat capable of extra-sensory
perception, but because Qin Yu has always been holding back his aura,
West Xiang and his brothers have been unable to sense his aura.

If a person is to hold back his aura completely, he must not channel his
internal energy. In this way, it will be impossible for other people to
sense his aura.

However, during a battle, everyone uses Xiantian energy or elemental

energy, so how can anyone possibly hold back their aura? But Qin Yu
can, because just now he did not use his purple Xiantian energy at all
and only relied on his physical power.

East Xiang and his 2 brothers are extremely shocked. At the moment
they simply cannot see anyone because of the illusions whereas all of

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the people on Qin De’s side are not affected by the formation. The death
of West Xiang just now has frightened them.

“Disturb father during his tribulation, die!” Qin Yu transfers his voice
confidentially into South Xiang’s ears directly.

South Xiang is shocked at once: “Father?” Before this South Xiang can
understand what it means, a punch suddenly smashes on the left side of
his chest. His heart is immediately pulverized as if he has been hit by a
huge sledgehammer in the chest. He falls on the ground and dies
instantly with eyes popping.

“2nd younger brother!” cries East Xiang mournfully.

“2nd brother!” cries North Xiang hurriedly as well. “Who’s that? Come
out and fight me openly!” He has become extremely furious because 2
of his brothers have been killed in only a short while.

“That brat is really troublesome. His movements don’t cause any wind
sounds and he doesn’t give off any aura.” Wu Xing’s holy sense locks
onto Qin Yu. He immediately shouts: “Brat, prepare to die.”

Qin Yu takes a look at Wu Xing. He is slightly startled in his heart.

“Should I use the Flaming Sword and Flaming Gloves?” He starts to

consider.

A Xiuzhenist’s offense is too powerful so he must rely on his middle-

grade holy weapons, the Flaming Sword and Flaming Gloves, at crucial
moments. Without using the middle-grade holy weapons, he will simply
have no chance of winning. But once he uses them, his identity will
probably be revealed.

“5 Elements Commanders, get in formation!” Ge Min’s voice rises at the

same time.

The 5 late-phase Xiantian experts of the Secret Arrow immediately stand

in front of Qin Yu. If Wu Xing wants to kill Qin Yu, he will have to kill all
the 5 of them first. Wu Xing sneers hideously: “Only some insects who

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want to die. Don’t blame me for having no mercy.” As he finishes saying,

he points at his flying sword. The sword immediately shoots at one of
them.

Concurrently with that, late-phase Jindan-stage Wu De and middle-phase

Jindan-stage Fengyuzi also clash forcefully at last —

Boom!

A terrifying noise is heard. 2 swords, one being flaming red and the
other being golden, clash head-on with full force. There is a smile on Wu
De’s face. His power is far superior to Fengyuzi’s so he likes clashing
head-on the most.

After the violent collision, Wu De’s face instantly goes pale. A little blood
trickles out of the corners of his mouth. At the same time he looks at
Fengyuzi in disbelief: “Your, your flying sword …”

Fengyuzi’s face is also pale, but his eyes are shining brightly. He says
with a cold laugh: “Wu De, today I’ll let you know how great the
difference between a low-grade holy weapon and a middle-grade one
is!” At the moment, Fengyuzi is high-spirited and vigorous.

Xiuzhenists’ offense is dependent on their holy weapons. He and Wu De

use flying swords so their offensive forces are determined by the flying
swords.

Bang!

A dark red short knife appears in a hand of each of the Secret Arrow’s 5
Elements Commanders. They block the flying sword directly with the
knives. At the same time, their bodies make a shake to neutralize the
impact force. While Wu Xing is startled by this, the 5 Elements
Commanders instantly surround him and attack him together using the
short knives.

Seeing the 5 middle-grade holy weapons coming at him together, Wu

Xing is shocked: “Middle-grade holy weapons! My goodness! There’re so
many middle-grade holy weapons!” He simply does not dare to block

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them with his body-protecting elemental energy because the offensive

force of middle-grade holy weapons is simply not something that body-
protecting elemental energy can withstand. Moreover, he only has one
flying sword so he can only kill 1 opponent in an instant at most whereas
there are 5 of them.

Whizz!

Wu Xing steps on his flying sword then flies into the sky immediately. He
can only exploit the 5 Elements Commanders’ incapability of flight.

Wu Xing’s and Wu De’s eyes are blazing. These are middle-grade holy
weapons, no less! Even in the Overseas Immortal Islands, with their
current power levels, they will not be able to obtain such priceless
treasures. Now, seeing so many middle-grade holy weapons, they have
become excited.

“Martial younger brother!”

“Martial brother!”

Wu Xing and Wu De seem to use controlled sound transference to talk to

each other at the same time. They both understand what the other is
thinking.

They must risk their lives!

Even if they are seriously injured, they must obtain these middle-grade
holy weapons!

Wu Xing and Wu De have been fooling around since the beginning but
now they have become ruthless. They even think it is worth getting
badly injured to obtain the middle-grade holy weapons. Once these 2
Xiuzhenists are determined to risk their lives, their offense will not be
the same as it was just now.

“Bang!” Wu De makes a pointing movement with a finger. His flying

sword becomes a huge sword and cuts the base of the formation into
pieces in an instant. At the same time, the flying sword sends out

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several huge streams of sword air, wrecking the walls of the valley with
a loud noise. Now the entire natural 8 Diagrams formation has been
destroyed so the illusions have disappeared completely as well.

“The illusions have been destroyed. Let’s avenge your brothers’ deaths.
That black-clad brat is the killer.” Wu De shouts loudly.

East Xiang and North Xiang open their eyes wide at once and cast a look
at Qin Yu.

Boom!

A dragon-like purple thunderbolt shoots down from the 9th level of the
sky, sending a repressing force through the air to everyone. It strikes
down directly at Qin De in the center of the valley. This is the 3rd
thunderbolt and, even worse, now Qin De is not protected by the
protective cover anymore and has to rely on himself.

“Father!” Qin Yu focuses part of his attention on Qin De.

“Die!” With completely red eyes, East Xiang and North Xiang unleash
their entire internal energy and explosively attack Qin Yu with their most
powerful strikes.

End of b3c21.

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Vol. 3:

Chapter 22

B3C22: The battle of the tribulation (3)

Seeing 2 enemies coming at him, Qin Yu slightly narrows his eyes, which
then glitter with coldness. Suddenly, he slightly raises the corners of his
mouth and, simultaneously, like the wind … he runs directly to another
place extremely fast. Who would have thought that at this moment Qin
Yu would flee from the battle and, moreover, he would run extremely
fast toward the end of the valley? East Xiang and North Xiang become
infuriated at once.

“Don’t run!”

2 brothers of theirs have been killed so East Xiang and North Xiang hate
Qin Yu’s guts. Uttering 2 furious shouts, the 2 of them chase after Qin
Yu.

“Father, you must succeed!” The reason Qin Yu is fleeing from the battle
is that at the moment he simply cannot fight with his entire
concentration. Because the 3rd thunderbolt has struck down, he is
moving extremely fast while paying close attention to Qin De using his
holy sense.

A dragon-shaped mass of energy is revolving around the outside of Qin

De’s body. His hand is holding a middle-grade holy-class dark red long
sword. A middle-grade holy weapon is extremely powerful. In the past
Fengyuzi was able to overcome his 4-in-9 Heavenly Tribulation using just
a low-grade holy weapon. Of course, at that time he achieved this with
the help of his school of Xiuzhen.

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Qin De raises his head and looks at the purple thunderbolt. The dark red
long sword in his hand radiates various dazzling rays of light.

“Boom!” The thunderbolt strikes down at his head!

“Hah!” Qin De lifts the dark red long sword to resist it. At the same time,
he channels one Xiantian energy stream after another into the dark red
long sword.

The purple thunderbolt strikes upon the long sword. The dark red long
sword trembles continuously but, because a middle-grade holy weapon
is extremely hard, not even the 4-in-9 Heavenly Tribulation’s 3rd
thunderbolt can break it. In just a short while, the purple thunderbolt
disappears, leaving only several serpentine electrical sparks running
along the dark red long sword.

Qin De’s face has turned slightly pale.

“Ha-ha … with this middle-grade holy weapon, it’s really much easier to
go through the 4-in-9 Heavenly Tribulation.” At this moment, Qin De
starts to feel very confident. He is totally certain that he will also
withstand the last thunderbolt. The energy inside Qin De’s body then
surges forth and the energy on his sword unexpectedly becomes even
more dazzlingly incandescent.

Qin Yu’s tense heart feels relieved.

His father has finally overcome the 3rd thunderbolt safely.

“Bastard, don’t run if you’ve got skills!” East Xiang and North Xiang feel
as if their eyes’ corners are about to crack. They have been chasing
after Qin Yu nonstop, but in terms of body-maneuvering skills, Qin Yu,
who has taken off the weights on his body, has already outstripped peak
Xiantian experts.

“Ha-ha … Taste my fists, 2 clowns!” Qin Yu, who has been running
extremely fast, unexpectedly turns around all of a sudden and throws 2
punches at the 2 of them with both fists, which seem as if they are 2
swimming dragons coming out of water.

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East Xiang’s and North Xiang’s internal energy has already surged to
their utmost early on. Seeing Qin Yu unexpectedly stop running, they
rejoice at once. Each of them concentrates his internal energy and
throws a punch at Qin Yu. As they both have been practicing for over
100 years, how powerful will their offense be when they join forces?

Qin Yu’s 2 fists collide with East Xiang’s and North Xiang’s fists
respectively.

Bang!

The violent collisions even create a faint, visible shock wave in the air.

Qin Yu’s body immediately flies up. At the same time, his whole body’s
muscles vibrate for a short while. Thanks to his great control of the body
alone, Qin Yu can already neutralize more than half of East Xiang and
North Xiang’s fierce offensive force. Given Qin Yu’s body, the remainder
of the force simply can do nothing to him.

East Xiang and North Xiang exchange a look. Their eyes are filled with a
bloodthirsty excitement.

They can feel that the enemy before them is powerful. However, judging
from the exchange of blows just now, they know the enemy can only
deal with one of them at a time, and once they join forces, he will not be
a match for them.

“Kill!”

East Xiang and North Xiang charge at Qin Yu like lightning with immense
savagery.

Qin Yu, however, gives a cold laugh. Having practiced the 3rd Trans-
Heaven diagram, not only does he possess the purple Xiantian energy
now, the purple Xiantian energy has also transformed his body once
again. His body’s defense has already reached a level where he is
unafraid of black iron weapons in general. During the exchange of blows
just now, he only used his physical power.

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Qin Yu’s body makes a swaying movement and bypasses the 2 of them
easily like a clear wind.

“Grand elder, all of you handle that Xiuzhenist. I can deal with these 2
geezers myself.” His voice resounds through the entire valley.

Hearing that, Elder Blue-clad immediately says with a ha-ha laugh:

“Mister Liu Xing, those Four Directions Death Gods are very famous but
you’ve killed 2 of them. If you’re interested in the remaining 2 then we’ll
leave them to you. Boys, form the Double Illusive 5 Elements formation.”

After Elder Blue-clad shouts loudly, the 5 assassins of the Heavenly Net
and the 5 experts of the Secret Arrow unexpectedly pair up with 2
people of a pair staying close to each other.

The 5 Secret Arrow experts have middle-grade holy weapons but the 5
Heavenly Net assassins do not. However, this so-called Double Illusive 5
Elements formation was created by improving the bases of the 5
Elements formation, and therefore, even though 10 people are
surrounding Wu Xing, only 5 of them will exchange blows with him at a
time.

The 5 Heavenly Net assassins and the 5 Secret Arrow experts attack in
turn, alternating 3 Secret Arrow experts and 2 Heavenly Net assassins
attacking at the same time with 2 Secret Arrow experts and 3 Heavenly
Net assassins attacking at the same time.

In short, there are always 5 people attacking at any time.

“Ah ~~~ so many middle-grade holy weapons!” Wu Xing is extremely

furious. He can only rely on his holy sense and his extremely fast body-
maneuvering skill to flash around nonstop. What infuriates him the most
is that these 10 people simply do not fear death. Even if they get killed,
they will still try to stab him in vital points with their middle-grade holy
weapons.

Now,

The battle in the valley has been divided into 3 fights. One is Qin Yu

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versus East Xiang and North Xiang.

Another is Xiuzhenist Wu Xing versus 5 Secret Arrow experts in addition

to 5 Heavenly Net experts.

The last one is between middle-grade-holy-weapon-wielding Fengyuzi

and low-grade-holy-weapon-wielding Wu De. This 3rd fight, however, is
the most devastating one. As Fengyuzi and Wu De battles each other,
they cause loud explosions continuously, smash rocks and break down
the rocky cliffs.

At the moment, Elder Blue-clad and Ge Min are not far from Xiuzhenist
Wu Xing and are ready for a sneak attack.

“2 old geezers, prepare … to die!” says Qin Yu with a cold laugh.

“Shameless blowhard!” East Xiang gives a cold laugh. He and North

Xiang charge at Qin Yu side by side like 2 beams of light.

Suddenly someone shouts loudly —

“Mister Liu Xing, I’m helping you now!” Ge Min rushes directly towards
North Xiang like lightning. To avoid getting attacked from behind, East
Xiang and North Xiang instantly split up. Holding his weapon in his hand
North Xiang faces Ge Min off directly while East Xiang continues to come
at Qin Yu.

Qin Yu slightly frowns. Is Ge Min not being too meddlesome? However,

he has come to help so Qin Yu cannot say anything.

Qin Yu reaches out his hand, forms a claw and channels his purple
Xiantian energy. All of a sudden, Qin Yu’s right hand, which has become
lustrous and transparent like jade, tears through the air, grabbing at
East Xiang. Seeing Qin Yu’s jade-like right hand, East Xiang immediately
knows that he is in trouble.

“This brat was hiding his power just now!” East Xiang’s eyes pop out of
his head.

But it is already too late.

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Like a flash, Qin Yu’s right hand comes close to East Xiang’s front in an
instant. It follows a changing indeterminate path of movement but
causes no wind sounds.

“Clack!” A series of noises of bones shattering is heard. Qin Yu’s right

hand, whose path of movement is changing and indeterminate, has
unexpectedly gone around East Xiang’s right hand and directly grabbed
his right wrist to pieces. East Xiang only sees a purple illusion before he
feels an acute pain in his wrist. At the same time —

His consciousness gradually vanishes away.

Just now, in only a moment, not only did Qin Yu continuously break East
Xiang’s right wrist to pieces, he also pierced a hole in East Xiang’s throat
directly using a finger strike. His speed was extremely fast so even East
Xiang could only see a purple illusion.

“Indeed, this purple Xiantian energy is very profound. Not only can it
leave my body to attack like the ordinary Xiantian energy, it can also
fuse with my muscles and body parts, increasing my speed once again.”
At this moment, there is a hint of excitement on Qin Yu’s face.

“Ah!”

There are a miserable cry and a strangled groan.

North Xiang has fallen on the ground with a miserable cry whereas Ge
Min has been seriously injured and sent flying powerlessly. Ge Min’s
body shoots up in the air uncontrollably then falls down. Very
coincidentally, he falls precisely towards Qin De’s location. However, at
this moment Qin De is preparing to take on the last thunderbolt.

The tribulation cloud is rolling violently, looking shockingly powerful and

causing an area of astonishingly high pressure under it. Obviously the
4th thunderbolt will strike down soon.

“Manager Ge!” Seeing that Ge Min has been seriously injured, Qin De
cannot help getting concerned. He reaches out his hands to pull Ge
Min’s fallen body up.

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“Your Highness, I’m … alright.” Ge Min says to Qin De with a shake of

the head. At the moment, his face is very pale and his breathing is weak.

Suddenly —

Bang!

Qin De’s face suddenly turns very pale. He spits out a mouthful of blood
as if it is worthless water. The other people are all shocked by this
scene.

It turns out Ge Min has hit Qin De in the stomach with a heavy palm
strike.

“Ha-ha … Qin De, how are you going to escape death this time?!” Ge
Min’s body gets away like a flash. His face is full of excitement. At the
same moment, North Xiang, who fell on the ground with a miserable cry
earlier, also stands up. Now he is extremely excited as well.

“Ha-ha, after 100 years of infiltration, today you’ve really done a great
work.” North Xiang says with a loud ha-ha laugh.

Seeing this scene, Qin Yu becomes utterly nervous: “Father!” He wants

to shout out but cannot so he has no choice but to worry about his father
in his heart. At the same time he looks at Ge Min and North Xiang. His
eyes are filled with killing intent.

“Ge Min, you dirty dog!” Elder Blue-clad also yells furiously.

Qin De looks at Ge Min but he only gives a disappointed smile: “Ge Min,
only a few people know that I chose the Green Lotus mountain range to
undergo my tribulation this time but Xiang Guang still got wind of this
and even sent 2 Shangxian to this place. At that time I already
suspected treachery.”

“However, the people who know about this — you, Blue-clad, Xu Yuan
and the other — were the people I trust the most. I couldn’t believe any
of you was a traitor. But …” Qin De heaves a sigh.

Suddenly, there are various series of explosions in the tribulation cloud

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in the dark red sky. The atmospheric pressure in the valley instantly
increases to a whole new level as if the air is being pressed on by
something. Everyone present knows that the 4th thunderbolt is about to
strike down.

However, now … Qin De has already been badly injured.

End of b3c22.

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Vol. 3:

Chapter 23

B3C23: Death (1)

Even though the 4th thunderbolt is about to strike down, Qin Yu can see
that Qin De has not even wiped the blood off his mouth yet. Seeing his
father’s pale face, the blood in his entire body starts to boil and his eyes
gradually redden.

A violent killing intent continuously whirls about in the bottom of his

heart.

After accepting this mission, when he discovered that the object of the
mission was to protect his father just as he had guessed, he was so
delighted and made a resolution to protect his father from any troubles
no matter what from the bottom of his heart.

However, at the moment …

“Father is seriously injured but the most formidable, the 4th thunderbolt
is about to strike down. What should I do? What should I do?!!!” Qin Yu is
extremely anxious in his heart. He is racked with guilt. A person’s
chance of overcoming the 4th thunderbolt right after getting badly
injured is too low, but he cannot receive any help. “It’s my fault. If I had
killed North Xiang a bit earlier, Ge Min would’ve had no chance to
approach father with a fake serious injury!”

Even though it is not Qin Yu’s fault, he blames himself a lot in his heart.
He made a resolution to defend his father from troubles but now his
father has been badly wounded by an enemy.

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“They must die, all of them!!!” Qin Yu’s eyes glance at North Xiang and
Ge Min, flashing with killing intent.

He clenches his fists. The purple Xiantian energy in his body starts to
surge and continuously fuse with his entire body. After absorbing this
Xiantian energy, his vigorous body looks as if it is entirely made of
purple jade. He then violently bursts forth the purple Xiantian energy to
the utmost. His body is completely covered in a purple light at once.

Whizz!

An insanely sharp whistle rises. A purple silhouette charges directly at

North Xiang. Even though North Xiang only sees a purple silhouette,
upon feeling its aura, he finds out that this purple silhouette is none
other than Qin Yu, the killer of his 3 brothers.

There is, however, madness in North Xiang’s eyes. He thinks the mission
has been accomplished and does not believe a badly injured Qin De will
be able to survive the 4th thunderbolt. His 3 brothers have died so even
if he escapes alive he will have to live in agony.

“Let’s die together!”

Seeing Qin Yu coming at him, North Xiang utters a wild roar and utilizes
the Xiantian energy in his body according to the last, suicide special skill
of the Conqueror’s Heaven Opposing Art. In an instant, his raging
Xiantian energy completely explodes. The entire energy inside peak
Xiantian expert North Xiang explodes instantly like a bomb but Qin Yu
still collides with North Xiang’s body fiercely like a meteor.

As easy as smashing dry weeds and smashing rotten wood!

“Die!”

Qin Yu clenches his teeth. He simply does not use a punch or kick.
Rather, he unleashes his power to the utmost. The purple Xiantian
energy fuses with his body then forms a body-protecting layer of energy
around him. Right afterwards, he smashes himself into North Xiang at
his fastest speed like a meteor.

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He wants to smash into North Xiang to the death.

Boom!

The moment North Xiang collides with Qin Yu, his entire body explodes.
His flesh and bone fragments scatter all over the place. His blood even
splatters all over the sky. However, Qin Yu’s entire body instantly passes
through North Xiang’s body like a purple meteor.

The other people freeze with stupefaction.

Killing can also be done via collision like this?

Everyone looks at the purple silhouette of Qin Yu. In their eyes, this
mysterious assassin Liu Xing’s offense is a bit too terrifying. Moreover,
he was able to kill a peak Xiantian expert with only a collision of their
bodies.

“Self-explode, self-explode … too bad, my body’s strength is no longer

something any of you can imagine.” A faint cold smile appears on the
corners of his mouth. To be fair, North Xiang’s self-explosion in the end
was really powerful. Any other Xiantian expert would definitely have
been killed by it.

Unluckily for him, Qin Yu is the unprecedented Xiantian external expert,

whose bodily toughness is far beyond other people’s imagination.
Moreover, having continuously undergone the transformations caused
by the technique of the 3 Trans-Heaven diagrams, his body alone has
come close to ordinary Xian-grade weapons in hardness. And when the
miraculous purple Xiantian energy fuses with his body and forms a
protective layer of energy around him, not even Xian-grade weapons will
be able to break his defense.

“Ge Min, you are … unforgivable!” Qin Yu stares at Ge Min.

Being given a stare by Qin Yu, Ge Min gets goose bumps a little. He then
says smilingly: “Mister Liu Xing, you’re just an assassin. Why are you
risking your life for Qin De? Your mission’s reward is only a high Xian-
grade weapon, isn’t it? If you help me deal with them, His Majesty will

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reward you with even more.”

Boom!

A terrifyingly thunderous noise is heard. The last, the 4th thunderbolt

shoots out fiercely from the tribulation cloud like a huge purple dragon
and strikes straight down. The other people including Qin Yu instantly
stop fighting and look at Qin De.

Qin De utters a low shout. His face suddenly becomes very red.

All of a sudden, a resounding dragon cry rises from inside his body. A
huge golden dragon which is made of energy and is almost materialized
suddenly leaves Qin De’s body and fiercely soars into the sky on a
collision course with the 4th thunderbolt.

Boom!

The huge dragon-like purple thunderbolt and the huge golden energy
dragon crash together violently. A raging shock wave expands and
wrecks havoc in the vicinity of the collision. In only a short while, the
huge goden energy dragon disappears. However, the huge dragon-like
purple thunderbolt has also been weakened by more than 50%. But the
remainder of the purple thunderbolt keeps striking down.

Bang!

Qin De points the dark red long sword up into the sky and meets the
purple thunderbolt with it. The thunderbolt strikes directly upon the dark
red long sword, which then radiates a dazzling light. Qin De’s face
suddenly goes pale. His body gets a violent shock. In just a short while,
the energy of the thunderbolt unexpectedly dissipates.

Qin De then lies motionless on the ground because of weariness.

“Succeeded?” Qin Yu freezes with stupefaction. Seeing this scene,

anyone can understand what it means.

Qin De has succeeded. Relying on the natural 8 Diagrams formation and

his middle-grade holy long sword, Qin De has still overcome the

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tribulation despite his serious injury. However, because he is lying

wearily on the ground at the moment, it is obvious that his injury is
extremely serious.

In the sky, the tribulation cloud gradually dissipates. The dark red sky
also changes back to the starry sky as before. A myriad of stars appear
all over the sky before everyone’s eyes.

Qin Yu’s heart is filled with an extreme happiness. Even though his
father is seriously injured, all that matters is that he has overcome the
4-in-9 Heavenly Tribulation. With the help of the Qin clan’s treasures,
this injury will recover very fast. And Qin De will form his Jindan very fast
to become a Xiuzhenist as well.

“Ge Min!” Qin Yu looks at Ge Min. His eyes are full of killing intent.

Ge Min, however, slightly frowns and looks at Qin De: “I never thought,
never thought that he’d practice the Ancestral Dragon Art to the highest
level like Shi Huang before. Even if he didn’t have the middle-grade holy
weapon, I think he would still have been able to overcome the heavenly
tribulation.”

Suddenly, Ge Min trembles because he feels someone’s killing intent not

far from him. He immediately takes a look. It is none other than Qin Yu.

Thinking about how Qin Yu killed the Four Directions Death Gods just
now, Ge Min of course knows that he himself is not a match for him. He
resents secretly: “If I had a middle-grade holy weapon, how could I
possibly fear this assassin Liu Xing? When Qin De used In-rock Flaming
iron to forge middle-grade holy weapons at that time, because the
material was limited, he forged a battle knife for Lian Yan and a long
sword for himself. The remainder was used to forge 5 short knives,
which were given to 5 Secret Arrow subordinates to organize a battle
formation. Not even I, Blue-clad and the others have middle-grade holy
weapons.”

There was only that much In-rock Flaming iron originally. At first,
Fengyuzi used one fifth to forge a short sword and a pair of gloves for

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Qin Yu and a flying sword for himself. Qin De’s own long sword and Lian
Yan’s battle knife each used another fifth. The 5 short knives used the
last 2 fifths.

Blue-clad, Ge Min and the other people were not allocated any middle-
grade holy weapons. Even though Lian Yan later died, the middle-grade
holy weapon he left behind was eventually given to Qin Feng by Qin De.

“Ha-ha … I’m such a fool, I’m such a fool … Qin De, prepare to die. But I
have to thank you for giving me middle-grade holy weapons!” Wu Xing,
who is being jointly attacked by 5 Secret Arrow experts and 5 Heavenly
Net experts, suddenly turns his face skyward and laughs out loud like
crazy. He seems to have come up with a way to deal with these 10
audacious experts.

End of b3c23.

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Vol. 3:

Chapter 24

B3C24: Death (2)

Wu Xing, who is under joint attack from 5 Heavenly Net experts and 5
Secret Arrow experts, suddenly becomes extremely arrogant and wild.

“10 insects, die!”

His eyes suddenly flash with coldness. Various streams of elemental

energy as thick as an arm shoot out directly from his body and drift
away in all directions like 10 wandering green dragons. Moreover, they
simply do not attack the 10 people who are surrounding him, astounding
them greatly.

The 10 streams of elemental energy spread out within 10 plus m of Wu

Xing. The 10 experts are all in this area.

Suddenly Wu Xing’s expression becomes ferocious. He shouts madly:

“Explode! Explode! Explode!!!”

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! ……

Along with Wu Xing’s loud shouts, a series of explosions resounds

continuously. Those streams of elemental energy have completely
exploded. Even though the 10 late phase Xiantian experts are powerful,
they cannot withstand such intense explosions of those elemental
energy streams.

Miserable cries rise, severed limbs scatter, and blood splatters into the
air …

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In an instant, the 10 experts who were troubling Wu Xing just now have
been killed just like that. Detonation of elemental energy — Wu Xing has
never used this method of attack because even though the explosion of
elemental energy is rather powerful, its level of damage is basically
insufficient to break the elemental-energy-based defense of a
Xiuzhenist.

Xiuzhenists do not use this weak kind of attack. They all use flying
swords and will concentrate their elemental energy in the swords to
send forth their most powerful attacks through the formations on the
swords.

Just now, when Wu Xing saw North Xiang’s self-explosion he had a

sudden flash of inspiration, and then he also caused explosions using the
elemental energy in his body. Elemental energy is superior to Xiantian
energy by a whole level so the explosions caused by Wu Xing are
absolutely much more destructive than North Xiang’s self-explosion.
Even though these explosions would not be a threat to Xiuzhenists, they
were enough for him to handle Xiantian experts.

Indeed, the 10 experts have been blown up to pieces, leaving not even
one unimpaired body. The 5 middle-grade holy weapons, however,
appear on the ground. 3 beams of light suddenly shoot toward them.

One is Qin Yu, another is Elder Blue-clad and the other is Fengyuzi. They
all want to snatch these 5 middle-grade holy short knives.

“Martial younger brother, quick!” Wu De transfers his voice

confidentially into Wu Xing’s ears. A flying sword then shoots at
Fengyuzi extremely fast. Fengyuzi blocks it with his flying sword. The 2
top experts tangle with each other again, causing series after series of
violent collisions.

“Scram!”

Wu Xing shouts loudly and waves his sleeves nonstop. The 5 middle-
grade holy weapons are sucked into his hands directly by his telekinesis
then they are taken in by his storage bracelet. The 2 beams of light that

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are charging at the knives, however, are repulsed by his surging

elemental energy.

Qin Yu’s body shakes continuously to neutralize that powerful force.

By contrast, Elder Blue-clad’s body flies backward. Blood trickles out of

the corners of his mouth.

“Mortals like you also want to snatch middle-grade holy weapons? Only
in your dreams!” Wu Xing looks at Qin Yu and Elder Blue-clad
disdainfully. Xiuzhenists have surpassed ordinary mortals in many
aspects so they generally view mortals with a sense of superiority and
naturally look down on mortals.

“Good, martial younger brother, you did well. Ha-ha, middle-grade holy
weapons!”

Wu De laughs out loud. At the same time, he fights Fengyuzi with even
more excitement. “Fengyuzi, now only by relying on your middle-grade
holy weapon to harass my low-grade one can you fight me evenly. Wait
until I’ve familiarized myself with a middle-grade holy weapon, how are
you going to fight me?!”

Boom! Boom! Boom! …… Rocks are shattered. Rocky cliffs collapse.

Explosions are heard nonstop.

Wu De says to and fights Fengyuzi at the same time. By contrast,

Fengyuzi has a cold expression and remains silent. The seizure of 5
middle-grade holy weapons by the enemies is really a huge loss for his
side. The 2 are fighting so fiercely that even the sky and the ground are
obscured.

“Senior, I’m a man of the Xiang clan. I hope you’ll kill 3 people Qin De,
Liu Xing and Elder Blue-clad.” Ge Min bows and says.

Wu Xing says with a loud ha-ha laugh: “Alright, today I’m in a good
mood. Initially, I only promised Xiang Guang that I’d kill Qin De, but now
I’ll slaughter the other 2 insects as well!” At the moment Wu Xing is
extremely relaxed and joyful because he has obtained middle-grade holy

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weapons and, moreover, the only tough adversary on Qin De’s side,
Xiuzhenist Fengyuzi, has already been pinned down.

Wu Xing is not worried at all. Now he can kill whoever he wants.

“Let’s take out a short knife first. I’ll concentrate on familiarizing myself
with it when I return.” Now Wu Xing is extremely relaxed. In his eyes,
the lives of Qin De and the others are in the palm of his hand so killing
them immediately is not the most urgent thing. Instead, the most
important thing to him is the middle-grade holy weapons he just
obtained.

Wu Xing takes out a middle-grade holy short knife and instantly

personalizes it by blood. From now on the knife is his. Generally, if a
Xiuzhenist is to have real control of a holy weapon, not only will he have
to personalize it by blood, he will also have to use his internal flame to
familiarize himself with it. Only when both of these steps are done can
he totally control the holy weapon.

However, at the moment Wu Xing has no time to waste.

It is night-time now in the valley and cold gusts of wind are blowing.

“Die!” Ge Min suddenly hears a voice in his ears. He instantly becomes

terrified. However, at that moment, his entire head feels a shock —
“Bang!” Ge Min’s head explodes like a watermelon. A silhouette then
appears.

Qin Yu coldly looks at Ge Min’s body.

“You …” Just now, Wu Xing was personalizing a knife. Now, seeing this
scene he cannot help getting furious. “Bastard brat, you even took
advantage of the time when I was personalizing the weapon by blood to
kill this geezer.” At the moment, Wu Xing is both ashamed and
infuriated because, in any case, this Ge Min was a man on his side.

Qin Yu, however, talks to himself in his mind: “Be cool, be cool, Qin Yu,
you must be cool!!!”

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On the battlefield at the moment, Fengyuzi is being pinned down

completely by Wu De. Therefore, it is really too hard for him and Elder
Blue-clad to kill Wu Xing. Having obtained 5 middle-grade holy weapons,
now Wu Xing has become even more powerful than he was just now.

As for Qin De, he just withstood 4 thunderbolts and is very seriously

injured. He is sitting with legs crossed and eyes closed.

“There’s only 1 chance!” Qin Yu’s eyes flash with coldness.

His only choice is to use his middle-grade holy weapons — the Flaming
Sword and Flaming Gloves. The offensive forces of the middle-grade holy
weapons will be enough to penetrate this Xiuzhenist’s defense, but he
will have only one chance because once Wu Xing discovers that Qin Yu
has middle-grade holy weapons, he will never let Qin Yu approach him.

This is also the reason why Qin Yu has not used the Flaming Sword and
Flaming Gloves yet. Just now, without using any middle-grade holy
weapons, his power was still sufficient to kill those several enemies.

His only trump card!

“Ha-ha ~~~ all of you die for me!” Wu Xing suddenly laughs out loud.

Qin Yu only sees a dark red beam of light shoot out. The radiance on
Elder Blue-clad’s body then begins to dim. In an instant, Elder Blue-clad
falls on the ground with a loud thud. He is already dead. When coming
under attack from a Xiuzhenist, he, who did not have a holy weapon,
was simply powerless to put up any resistance.

“I haven’t familiarized myself with this weapon but its speed alone is
already a bit faster than my old flying sword. Once I’ve done
familiarization, its power will …” Wu Xing wishes in his mind and the
flying knife which was just shot out flies back into his hand again
immediately.

Looking at the short knife in his hand, Wu Xing is extremely excited.

“This guy is too strong. One hit, I’ll have only one chance. I can only use

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the Flaming Sword and Flaming Gloves when I’m close to him.” Qin Yu
clenches his teeth. Despite Elder Blue-clad’s death, he does not act on
impulse. He must grab his only opportunity.

Once he fails, he will be done for and his father will die as well.

No failure is allowed!

“East Vanquishing Prince Qin De, your influence in the world is

extremely great. Too bad, you’ll still die at my hands.” Wu Xing is very
complacent at the moment. He gently waves his hand, wanting to shoot
the short knife out to kill Qin De. However, at this moment —

There are no wind sounds.

But Wu Xing’s holy sense has noticed that Qin Yu’s body is moving
extremely fast and is only several tens meters away from him. In just an
instant, Qin Yu comes up to his face.

Bang!

Wu Xing makes a wave of a hand. A beam of elemental energy shoots

out then explodes. However, the outside of Qin Yu’s body suddenly
blazes with a purple light. His entire body’s skin now looks as if it is
made of a lustrous purple kind of jade. And the explosion of elemental
energy unexpectedly cannot harm him.

Qin Yu chokes back the excitement in his heart and throws a punch at
Wu Xing.

As Wu Xing sees Qin Yu’s fist coming at him, an idea spring to his mind:
“This guy is on Qin De’s side. Maybe he is a secret trump card and also
has a middle-grade holy weapon. I mustn’t take a risk no matter what.”
He thinks like lightning.

“Die!”

Qin Yu’s eyes flash with fierceness. The Flaming Sword suddenly
appears in his hand —

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However, before his Flaming Sword appears, Wu Xing has already

started to move. And by the time the Flaming Sword appears in his
hand, Wu Xing has already got away 10-odd meters. As Wu Xing looks at
the Flaming Sword in Qin Yu’s hand, his eyes blaze with outrage.

“Brat, you even plotted against me!” He is extremely furious. Luckily for
him, at the last moment he dodged away like a flash, otherwise …
Thinking of that possibility, a retrospective fear rises in his heart. At the
same time, he becomes even more furious. The elemental energy in his
body suddenly streams into the middle-grade holy short knife.

A dark red beam of light then shoots at Qin Yu from Wu Xing.

Bang!

Qin Yu has no choice but to promptly block it with the Flaming Sword.
The color of his face suddenly changes. He feels an extremely terrifying
stream of energy transfer to him from the short knife. That energy
stream, which is sharp and also forcefully destructive, attacks his body
directly.

Bang!

Qin Yu is sent flying like a sandbag. Concurrently with that, blood spouts
from his mouth. He then falls powerlessly on the ground with a bang.

Fengyuzi is fighting Wu De but his holy sense notices this scene. He is

secretly shocked: “The Flaming Sword, it’s the Flaming Sword. This
assassin Liu Xing … Could he be Xiao Yu? No, impossible. Doesn’t Xiao
Yu practice external techniques? How can he possibly have internal
energy? But this assassin Liu Xing’s aura is very similar to Xiao Yu’s.
Could he really be …?”

At this moment, even though Fengyuzi is doubtful, he simply cannot get

away because Wu De keeps tangling with him nonstop.

“I failed!” Qin Yu feels a pain in his heart.

He does not understand at all why at the last moment Wu Xing

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unexpectedly backed off just as he executed his killing blow. Could it be

Wu Xing knew he was about to attack? Qin Yu simply does not
understand why things turned out this way.

He feels something sweet in his throat. His blood seems to be about to

gush out again. Just now, Wu Xing, who was extremely furious, obviously
struck Qin Yu a fatal blow. He channeled his extremely powerful
elemental energy into the short knife. Both the short knife and Qin Yu’s
Flaming Sword are middle-grade holy weapons, but the short knife
contained Wu Xing’s extremely powerful elemental energy. With so
much elemental energy attacking via the middle-grade holy short knife,
the power of the strike was, no doubt, exceedingly great. Even though
they both used weapons of the same caliber, the difference in power
between them was too big.

One clear stream after another comes out from the Meteoric Tear and
starts to spread out through Qin Yu’s body. His injury is recovering at a
terrifyingly fast speed. It is regrettable that Wu Xing already knew that
he has a middle-grade holy weapon.

“Could it be Heaven wants to end my life and father’s?” Qin Yu, who is
lying prone on the ground, takes a look at Qin De in the distance.

Qin De is still sitting calmly with legs crossed and eyes closed. He simply
did not see what happened just now. In fact the current Qin De has no
spare energy to pay attention to anything outside because a world-
shaking transformation is taking place inside his body.

Having overcome the heavenly tribulation, even though he is extremely

seriously injured, his entire body’s Xiantian energy has been undergoing
a special transformation.

A grain of sand is a world and therefore when Qin De looks inside he

finds his dantian similar to a boundless space. At the moment, various
‘water streams’ are flowing in the boundless space of the dantian. These
water streams flow continuously for some time then start to merge into
a sphere.

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In the past, after Shi Huang overcame his heavenly tribulation, he

succeeded in forming a jindan. And Qin De also knows his method of
forming a jindan. Qin De immediately starts to execute that secret
technique. The relatively large ‘water sphere’ formed by those ‘water
streams’ suddenly decreases in volume by 50% then it becomes a bit
larger again.

It shrinks then slightly enlarges.

Alternating between shrinking and enlarging like this, the water sphere
continuously becomes smaller, and its color also continuously changes,
slowly turning golden. After this transformation process has happened
81 times, a light golden sphere about the size of a pigeon egg appears.
It is none other than a jindan.

There are also various streams of energy moving around the jindan.

“I’ve finally succeeded.” Qin De’s heart relaxes with relief. Various
streams of elemental energy flow out from the energy surrounding the
jindan at once and start to spread out through his entire body. Even
though he has successfully formed the jindan, his internal organs were
injured extremely badly just now. And it is very hard even for elemental
energy to heal bodily injuries. Only now does Qin De slowly open his
eyes.

As soon as his eyes are opened, he sees a shocking scene — a dark red
beam of light.

Bang!

In a merely conditional reaction, Qin De channels his elemental energy

and directly controls his long sword to fiercely block this dark red beam
of light. At the same time, he makes a movement with his body and gets
away a long distance.

“You’ve even formed the jindan. That was very quick. Too bad, you just
formed the jindan so your power is still very weak. Plus your body is
seriously injured. Alas … perhaps you’ll be the most short-lived

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Xiuzhenist, who is killed right after becoming a Xiuzhenist.”

Wu Xing flies into the air. He is standing on his flying sword with a face
full of arrogance.

“Phew.” Qin Yu heaves a sigh. Just now, seeing Wu Xing trying to kill his
father, Qin Yu was very worried but unfortunately, firstly, he was
seriously injured, and secondly, his speed was much slower than the
flying speed of that short knife. Luckily for him, at the last moment Qin
De succeeded in forming the jindan.

Qin De is now at the early phase of the Jindan stage but his body is
seriously injured. He uses a middle-grade holy long sword.

Wu Xing is currently at the middle phase of the Jindan stage with a body
undamaged in any way. He uses a middle-grade holy short knife in
addition to a low-grade holy flying sword.

Wu Xing also has much better control of elemental energy than Qin De
does. In this fight, the 2 of them are basically not on the same level. As
soon as Qin Yu thinks about this, he becomes anxious. However, his
power is even weaker than his father’s.

“Want to kill me?” Qin De gives a cold laugh. By now he has already
seen the situation on the battlefield.

Fengyuzi is being pinned down by Wu De, that assassin Liu Xing is badly
injured and his other subordinates have all died so he can only rely on
himself.

“Humph, brat, you sure are smug for a newbie Xiuzhenist. I’ll do you a
favor by seeing you off!” Wu Xing gives a cold laugh then, without
blabbering anymore, attacks extremely fast nonstop with his middle-
grade holy short knife, making it look like a beam of light.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! ……

In a moment, Qin Yu has only breathed twice but the 2 of them have
already exchanged several tens blows. The intensity of their fight is

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even close to that of the fight between Fengyuzi and Wu De. However,
Qin Yu’s face gradually changes color, since he sees clearly that blood is
flowing out from the corners of his father’s mouth.

Every time they exchange a blow, Qin De’s internal injury becomes even
more serious.

“Ha-ha ~~~”

Wu Xing laughs out loud savagely and attacks with even fiercerness. He
can totally notice that the injury in Qin De’s body is very serious. It is
very hard to recover from a serious bodily injury. As they keep fighting
fiercely this way, blood flows out of Qin De’s mouth nonstop.

“Scram!” Fengyuzi has become very worried. He suddenly intensifies the

strikes of his flying sword, wanting to get away to save Qin De.

“In your dreams!” Wu De laughs out loud. He channels the elemental

energy in his body into his flying sword like crazy. He keeps pinning
Fengyuzi down thanks to his profound elemental energy.

“Father!” Seeing that Qin De’s face has turned even paler and his injury
has become even more serious, Qin Yu feels as if his heart is being
bitten by 10,000 ants. He is so worried and distressed that he is short of
breath. He is worried, so worried that his heart hurts and his head is
even spinning.

Qin De suddenly utters a loud shout. His face becomes very red. His long
sword and Wu Xing’s short knife crash into one another in the most
violent collision since the beginning of the fight.

“Pu ~~”

Qin De’s blood spouts a long distance from his mouth. His body’s injury
has worsened again and he falls on the ground directly. Wu Xing’s face,
however, is only slightly pale. He withdraws the short knife. With his
eyes full of disdain, he sneers: “Poor brat, it’s a pity you’ve just entered
the Xiuzhen world!”

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As he finishes saying, the short knife in his hand brightens again.

Various streams of elemental energy are being channeled into it.

“Stop!” Fengyuzi also knows that the situation is not good. He shouts
madly but Wu De has gone mad too and keeps holding him down.

Seeing his father fall on the ground due to his serious injury and seeing
the light on the short knife becoming even more incandescent, Qin Yu’s
heart gets a violent shock. It seems in that moment all the memories of
the last 10 years flash through his mind like lightning. Why has he been
training hard for 10 years?

To show his own value, to do his father pround and to let his father know
that he is as useful as his big and 2nd brothers,

“Die!” Wu Xing says softly. His hand slightly makes a movement. The
short knife in his hand, which has been charged with the maximum
amount of energy he is capable of, shoots directly at badly injured Qin
De like a dark red beam of light. Wu Xing’s eyelids slightly droop and a
faint smile appears on the corners of his mouth. He is ready to watch Qin
De die.

When Wu Xing reached out his hand, Qin Yu started to rush toward Qin
De extremely fast. And when Wu Xing shot the short knife out, Qin Yu
was already moving at his fastest speed.

The distance between Wu Xing and Wu De is over 100 m. By contrast,

Qin Yu is on a side of Qin De and was only several tens meters away
from him. Even though it was only several tens meters, because the
short knife’s speed is too fast, Qin Yu simply cannot catch up with it.

Seeing the short knife that is moving extremely fast, Qin Yu has only one
conviction — he must grab the short knife.

“Grab it!” Qin Yu suddenly screams hoarsely in his heart. He has

reached his fastest speed but it is still not fast enough. His heart hurts
as if it is being bitten by countless ants. He is so worried that his head
feels as if it is about to explode. By now, Qin Yu’s eyes have turned

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totally crimson.

Suddenly, an ice-cold clear stream flows into his brain. His mind
becomes clear in an instant. At this moment, to him, the entire world
seems to fall silent and time seems to stop completely. The 36 pictures
of each of the 3 Trans-Heaven diagrams suddenly appear in his mind.

There are 108 pictures altogether from the 1st one to the last one. Qin
Yu instantly has a feeling of enlightenment.

Boom ~~~

36 silvery energy streams, 36 golden energy streams and 36 purple

energy streams continuously appear around Qin Yu’s body. 108 energy
streams in total intertwine with each other and form a perfectly and
naturally shaped tricolor suit of armor.

At the same time, that feeling of time stopping just now disappears and
he sees the short knife flying extremely fast as before.

“I just lack a little speed!” Based on his own speed, Qin Yu instantly
figures out how much speed he lacks in his mind. However —

Whizz!

Qin Yu, encircled by 108 energy streams, suddenly moves twice as fast
like an arrow leaving a bow and appears before Qin De in an instant. He
fiercely reaches out his hands. The Flaming Gloves naturally appear on
his hands. Like eagle claws, Qin Yu’s hands make a grab at the short
knife, which is moving like a beam of light.

This time Wu Xing used a killing blow so the short knife is carrying a
terrifying amount of energy.

“Bang!” Even though Qin Yu intercepts the short knife using the Flaming
Gloves on his hands, various energy streams still shoot out from the
knife and hit Qin Yu’s body. That tricolor suit of armor looks very mighty
but in fact it is merely gaseous and basically has no defense.

Several tens energy streams from the knife continuously hit Qin Yu’s

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body. Even though his body is very strong, his stomach is still
penetrated. A horrifying hole appears in his stomach, from which blood
streams out with gurgling noises. The heavy bleeding causes him to
sway once.

“Flaming Gloves!” At this moment, Qin De, who is trying hard to stand
up, sees the gloves on Qin Yu’s hands. He is immediately stupefied.
“How does this assassin Liu Xing have the Flaming Gloves? Isn’t it Yu’er
who has them?” Qin De thinks about how he and Fengyuzi guessed at
the identity of assassin Liu Xing that day.

“Could it be …?” Qin De’s heart gets a shock. “But Yu’er doesn’t have
internal energy.”

“Ah ah ~~~” Wu Xing is furious. With a swaying movement of his body,

he charges forward. At the same time, he points with a hand. His original
flying sword immediately shoots at Qin Yu. Due to his stomach being
penetrated by the energy of the knife, Qin Yu has been badly injured and
he basically has no time to dodge the sword.

Pu ~~

In almost a while after Qin Yu grabbed the short knife, the flying sword
pierces his chest and punctures his heart. At the same time the Meteoric
Tear sends out various clear streams nonstop to mend the wounds.
Unfortunately, the heart is a vital part of the human body.

“Father!” Qin Yu looks at Qin De and tries to force a faint smile. At this
moment, his voice has changed back to his real voice.

“What?!” Qin De’s face finally changes color, because assassin Liu Xing
is really his own son!

“Goodbye … Now it seems I’m still a bit useful …” With a lot of effort,
Qin Yu forces a smile. However, the fatal injury in his chest causes his
facial muscles to slightly twitch. Suddenly, a hint of ruthlessness and
fierceness flashes through his eyes!

“You two will die together.” Wu Xing has already come close.

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“Ah ~~~”

Qin Yu abruptly turns his face skyward and gives a long roar. His
expression has become ferocious. His hands, which have been grabbing
the short knife, reach their maximum speed, creating continuous
indistinct silhouettes of dragon talons. The 108 energy streams around
Qin Yu’s body all flow hurriedly with a sudden burst of speed.

Chi ~~

At a very fast speed, even faster than the extremely fast flying speed of
the short knife just now, Qin Yu’s claws directly penetrate Wu Xing’s
chest. He violently makes a grab with his right hand and immediately
smashes Wu Xing’s heart with it.

“How is this possible …?” Wu Xing’s eyes pop out of his head. Looking at
the hands that have just pierced his chest, his face is full of disbelief.
Just now his flying sword already penetrated Qin Yu’s chest and directly
punctured his heart. Even a low-level Xiuzhenist would have died in that
situation, but how has Qin Yu been able to carry on for so long?

Wu Xing simply does not know that as soon as Qin Yu was injured, the
Meteoric Tear began to hurriedly send out various clear streams, which
have continuously fused with his heart. Only thanks to this has Qin Yu
been able to persevere for a longer period than he would have without
the Meteoric Tear and strike his final blow.

“Martial younger brother!” Wu De utters a wild yowl.

Suddenly —

A sad and shrill eagle cry resounds. A beam of light is shooting down
from 10,000 m on the 9th level of the sky. It is none other than Xiao Hei.
It was flying too high and therefore when it noticed that Qin Yu’s life was
in danger, it could not dive down in time. Xiao Hei is diving down
extremely fast while wailing like crazy.

Qin Yu’s heart has been punctured. Not even the Meteoric Tear can heal
him back to normal in a short time. He can only feel his vision starts to

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blacken and cannot breathe. He knows that … he is dying. Qin Yu’s eyes
gradually become dimmer and dimmer.

He is already near his end.

At the same time, Qin Yu’s body starts to change. It is switching back to
his original appearance. At the moment, he can no longer maintain the
appearance created by the Appearance and Bone Changing Art.

Seeing the change in Qin Yu’s appearance, Qin De only feels that his
heart hurts so much as if he is having a cardiac seizure. His tears simply
stream down uncontrollably. Qin Yu is looking at Qin De. There is
unexpectedly a faint smile on his face at the moment. The look in his
eyes then becomes totally lifeless.

“Yu’er is dead!”

Qin De’s entire body shakes once as if he has been struck by a bolt of
lightning.

……

“But … you give me no chance, absolutely no chance. You only said it’s
pointless for me to get involved in this. Father, you don’t even give me a
chance. How can you be sure that I’m useless? How? How?!”

……

“Ha-ha … I’m just a useless, the most useless person. No matter how
hard I try, no matter how much progress I make in practice, I’ll always
be the most useless. This is laughable. What have I been training for?
What have I been training for? What’s the use of my training?”

……

What Qin Yu said in the past seems to rise in Qin De’s ears again. His
entire body starts to quiver. He remembers clearly the last words his son
said to him: “Goodbye … Now it seems I’m still a bit useful …”

“Ah ~~~”

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Qin De turns his face upwards and gives a long roar, sounding extremely
sorrowful.

At this moment, a dark red sky suddenly appears, as if a heavenly

tribulation is starting. However, this time the dark red sky covers an
even greater area. At first sight, it seems the entire sky has become
dark red. There are various flaming red clouds in the center of the dark
red sky, which look like tribulation clouds.

“Pa!” Xiao Hei spreads its wings and, with a wave of the wings, pushes
Qin De to one side. It is wailing nonstop and pearl-like tears are
streaming down from its eyes, but Qin Yu has already become
motionless.

After being pushed away by Xiao Hei, Qin De, however, sits stock-still on
the ground.

Boom!

There is a sudden crash of thunder in the flaming red tribulation clouds

in the sky. An extremely thick beam of light that, perhaps, can only be
encircled by 3 or 4 adults comes down from the sky. That huge flaming
red beam of light strikes down as if it is a thunderbolt.

Its target is — Qin Yu.

At this moment Qin Yu’s hands are still stuck in the chest of a dead Wu
Xing. And Xiao Hei is hugging Qin Yu tightly with its wings. Even though
that terrifying beam of light is striking down from the sky, it still remains
motionless.

Boom!

The beam of light hits Qin Yu’s body. Because that beam of light is so
thick, naturally, apart from Qin Yu, it enfolds both Wu Xing and Xiao Hei
as well.

“Yu’er!” Only now does Qin De wake up with a start. Even though his son
is dead, his body must not be damaged no matter what! However, when

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the beam of light disappears, there is nothing left on the area hit by it,
not even the weapons used by Qin Yu and Wu Xing in their fight.

There is absolutely nothing.

“Yu’er!” Qin De clenches his teeth. His whole body starts to tremble. All
of the scenes of the past appear in his mind one by one. The scene in
which his son called him to account is continuously replayed: “Ha-ha …
I’m just a useless, the most useless person. No matter how hard I try, no
matter how much progress I make in practice, I’ll always be the most
useless. This is laughable. What have I been training for? What have I
been training for? What’s the use of my training?”

Qin De’s heart is in endless pain. He simply cannot stop his tears from
streaming down.

A man does not shed tears easily, only that the heartache Qin De is
suffering is too great.

“Xiang Guang! Wu De!” Qin De suddenly looks at Wu De. At this moment

his heart is full of hatred. If it had not been for Xiang Guang and those 2
Xiuzhenists, with his son’s power, how could he possibly have died?

Disregarding his body’s injuries, Qin De channels his elemental energy

very quickly and charges at Wu De while grasping his long sword.

Seeing Qin De coming at him in such a crazy manner, Wu De, who has
been fighting evenly with Fengyuzi, is greatly frightened at once
because, at any rate, Qin De is an early phase Jindan stage Xiuzhenist
and, moreover, he even has a middle-grade holy weapon. Also, by now
Fengyuzi has gone mad too.

Wu De immediately disregards everything and soars into the sky directly

on his flying sword at his fastest speed like a wisp of smoke. His offense
is extremely powerful and his flying speed is also not something Qin De
and Fengyuzi can keep up with.

Seeing Wu De fleeing, Qin De is so furious that he suddenly spits out a

mouthful of blood. His internal organs have suffered excessively severe

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injuries.

“Calm down, Your Highness, please calm down a bit!” Fengyuzi hurriedly
restrains Qin De. He knows how seriously Qin De is injured at the
moment. However, Qin De’s eyes are filled with an extreme hatred: “Wu
De, Xiang Guang, my wife died, and today my son died too! Ah ~~~
Xiang Guang, Wu De! I swear here if I don’t kill you I’ll die unburied!!!”

“Brother Feng, please take me back. Every plan must be shifted to an

earlier date and accelerated. Everything must be ready in a half year. I
want to lead 1,000,000 troops to trample the Xiang clan to pieces. I’ll
exterminate the Xiang clan then destroy Wu De’s soul!”

Qin De clenches his teeth. His crimson crazed eyes look very frightening.

End of b3c24.

End of book 3.

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