noveltune Chapter 17
Chapter 17
Chapter 17
JANUARY 10, 2022 TRRAVENLEAVE A COMMENT
It turned out that there were five or six Xu Clan members who flew in on their magic tools. When they descended and landed on the ground, they were endlessly discussing with one another. Xu Zifeng also stood to the side, listening to the people talking.
There was a woman in a green dress with a look of indignation on her face, “Senior Xu, it’s clear that our Xu Family found that Immortal Cave too! It’s just because his Tian Family had a greater number of people he dared to forcibly take it and drive us all away!”
Another young man in a scholarly garment also said, “It is his Tian Family who is too domineering. If it weren’t for me and the others exploring the path there, how dare he be that way?!”
The remaining people also echoed their agreements.
“We were unwilling to take it lying down and argued a few words, but unexpectedly that fellow surnamed Tian went as far as to hurt people. He truly stomped our face into the ground!” The woman in the green dress was truly furious. She pulled the arm of the tall and sturdy man beside her, her voice becoming higher, “Senior Xu, please look, Big Brother1 Chengwu’s arm was cut this way. It’s really going too far in bullying others!”
Xu Zifeng took a glance at Xu Chengwu, and sure enough, his arm was severely slashed deep enough to see bone. If three points more force was used, one would fear that it would’ve been cut off altogether.
The young man in the scholarly garment saluted respectfully, “We please request that Senior Xu come forward for us and fight against the arrogance of the Tian Family!”
Xu Zifeng pondered for a moment, then raised his hand and shot a milky white straight into Xu Chengwu’s mouth, “Take this pill first and heal your arm.”
Xu Chengwu was also a junior of Feijiu Mountain. He naturally recognized the pill as the Muscle Growth Pill which can renew the meridians, muscles, and bones, and immediately sat to meditate. Soon, the wound on his arm healed rapidly, the deep red flesh and blood also developed immediately, and in a split second, even the broken muscles and skin were continuously connected. In just two breaths of time, the surface of his skin was already smooth, without even the least bit of a scar!
His face immediately lit up, and expressing his gratitude he said, “Many thanks to Senior Xu for giving this medicine!”
Xu Zifeng gave a nod, “Talk again about the Immortal Cave.”
The woman in the green dress had a good friendship with Xu Chengwu, so seeing that he was alright, she also felt very grateful. The anger that had just aroused also subsided as she calmed down a little bit and said, “Reporting back to Senior Xu. This morning me, Big Brother Chengwu, Big Brother Chenghan, Chengru, and others went out to explore. There are many treasures in the secret realm, so naturally, there was a bit of gain. At that time, when we were chasing a One-Horned Golden Rhinoceros, we realized that there was a surge of spiritual power ahead. We guessed that it might be extraordinary, so we left the Golden Rhinoceros and went to investigate. As expected, we found an Immortal Cave on top of a mountain wall, it was astonishing.”
She took a breath and continued, “We naturally wanted to go in to hunt for treasure, but didn’t expect dozens of people from the Tian Family to act together and arrive there. Although we were half a step earlier because they had far more people, we were beaten, and it was taken from us... Senior Xu knows the rest.”
Xu Zifeng’s face was cold and frosty, “Was Tian Tao there?”
The green-dressed woman stifled her anger, “That Tian... Senior,” She was extremely unwilling to use that address so gnashing her teeth she continued, “He was there too. Otherwise, with our cultivation bases, we wouldn’t have feared his Tian Family much.”
Xu Chengwu and his group were certainly some of the Xu Family’s most outstanding talents. There were six people altogether, each with cultivation bases between the seventh and eighth layers of Qi Refinement which was extremely remarkable. If they hadn’t met an expert of the Foundation Establishment period, they definitely wouldn’t have been met with force.
Xu Zifeng asked again, “Who was the person who injured Xu Chengwu?”
The green-dressed woman replied, “It was Tian Liang.”
When Xu Zifeng heard the name of this person, there was an immediate burst of murderous aura, “It was him?”
The sword qi overturned several Tian Clan people, rushing through to reach the middle-aged man. The middle-aged man waved his robe sleeve to block, and although the sword qi blew his beard, he did not recoil.
This person was Tian Tao, who was just over fifty years old. He succeeded in reaching Foundation Establishment at the age of forty, and although he was still in the early period of Foundation Establishment, the years he had been in this realm were much longer than Xu Zifeng.
Tian Tao waved his sleeve again and helped up his several overturned Clansmen with a look of slight displeasure on his face.
Beside him there was a dandified youth who had just stood up, and having hardly recovered from the shock, he was quite flustered, “Senior, this Xu Zifeng is so fierce! I heard that he is a sword cultivator! This, how could this be good?!”
Tian Tao’s displeasure grew even worse and scolded, “What are you panicking about? He is just a child who only recently reached Foundation Establishment! Even if he is a sword cultivator, what can he do?!”
The dressy youth bowed and nodded again and again, “Yes, yes, the Senior is naturally more powerful than him. This young one is only incompetent, and asks the Senior to look after him just a little...”
Tian Tao snorted, “Before the array is broken I will take him down. Don’t worry about it.”
The people of the Tian Clan next to them also said one after another: “Yes, yes, many thanks to the Senior! We also please ask the Senior to take action...”
Xu Zifeng’s gaze deepened, and he sheathed his long sword. After giving everyone in the Tian Clan a little head-to-head, he turned his line of vision to the several arrays at the mouth of the cave.
There were array experts, people who could break arrays.
As cultivators, there are many different cultivation methods of various families, and among them are even those with unique techniques. Those that excel at alchemy are alchemists, those who study the way of arrays are array experts, those that excel at drawing talismans are talisman experts, those that excel at refining magical tools are refiners, and there are those who excel at hundreds of other techniques. Among them, alchemists and refiners are the rarest, while array experts are more common, but there are a few outstanding ones.
Xu Ziqing’s cultivation base was weak, so he was earnestly following closely to Old Man He’s side, watching the confrontation between the Xu and Tian Families.
When he saw several people holding iron flags and an iron plate outside the Immortal Cave doing something furtively, he couldn’t help but be full of curiosity, “What are they doing?”
Old Man He looked at him and resolved his doubts, “The iron flag is an array flag and the iron plate is an array disk. These three to five seemingly stealthy idlers are array experts carefully raised by the Tian Family. The several of them are breaking the array protecting the entrance to the Immortal Cave right now, but I don’t know how they do it.”
Xu Ziqing became all the more interested, but was also somewhat confused, “Does our Xu Family have array experts?”
Old Man He said, “Of course we do, but the Tian Family has taken the lead. Now that our Xu Family has returned, it’s hard for us to open our mouths directly. Young Master Zifeng should be waiting for the remaining three families to come. When they speak together, the Tian family won’t be able to refuse.”
As soon as his voice fell, many people really did float down from the horizon.
It was the other three families that had come to lend a helping hand!
Footnotes
1, The ‘big brother’ used in this instance is 大哥 (Dage)
T/N, The author has been switching between using ‘Family’ and ‘Clan’, so it’s a bit inconsistent this chapter. I may just start using one over the other for consistencies sake, let me know which you prefer.
I would also like to clarify that the author is using ‘Senior’ (前辈) and ‘Junior(s)’ (子弟) not specifically ‘Elder’ (老) and ‘Disciple(s)’ (弟子). I can only assume that this is because these are Families/Clans and not Sects.