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Chapter Seventy: Refusal
writer:无罪      update:2022-07-21 15:26
  Pan Ruoye’s injuries were already very serious. If not for the strong mental stimulation, she may have closed her eyes and died.

  At this time, Baili Suxue was speaking of the most stimulating things in the cultivation world. Her wounds caused her to feel that the sunlight right now was exceptionally dazzling and dizzying, but her thoughts were still clear.

  “Many people have their choices, why think about Ye Xinhe?”


  But she still could not understand Baili Suxue’s thinking at this time. Compared to the Qin defeating the Chu that Zheng Xiu spoke of, something like Ye Xinhe staying on Zheng Xiu’s side was a trivial matter. Also, so many people from Ba Mountain Sword Field had betrayed it back then, why care about Ye Xinhe?

  “Many things do not happen in isolation, there are relationships between many people and things. Especially in this world, it is always moved by some of the top people. After you think through the matters of these people, you will find the connections. For example, she said that they will quickly defeat the Chu dynasty, this will be related to the most important people in the world.”


  Baili Suxue was very satisfied with her present state. Min Mountain Sword Sect was not just the strongest sword sect in the world, they also had the best healers in the world. If she did not die in Changling, he could make sure she lived.

  Also, up until now, Huang Zhenwei had not “detected” him, which meant his guess was correct.

  Huang Zhenwei was not firmly on Zheng Xiu’s side. Regardless of whether the other thought he was right in his actions or just out of sympathy, or rather he was discontent with Zheng Xiu because of Mo Shoucheng’s death, he did not want him to die in Changling.

  He slowly breathed, trying to suppress the raging energy in his body. He then said, “While Ba Mountain Sword Field had many traitors, the reason for the collapse of the Ba Mountain Sword Field was a split from within. Ye Xinhe is not like the other people. He is the master of the Divine Peach Sword. Wang Jingmeng had a rebellious personality, he was skilled at conquering the world, but he had no interest in ruling the world. The master of the Last Flower Sword, Yan Xinlan and the others only liked fighting, they were just cultivation fanatics. The Divine Peach Sword was one of the strongest swords of the Ba Mountain Sword Field, and from a certain point of view, Ye Xinhe, who received that inheritance, was one of the main competitors to be the sect master of Ba Mountain Sword Field. Also, based on the people of the Ba Mountain Sword Field at the time, if there were no accidents, he would have been the next master of the Ba Mountain Sword Field.”


  After a pause, he resumed. “People like Liang Lian and the others were just carriage drivers, and could not have risen on top. Gu Huai is strong, but not equal to Ye Xinhe, Lin Zhujiu and the others. He wanted to become the master of Spirit Void Sword Sect, this was a clear motive of self interest. But what is Ye Xinhe’s reason? If he was of one mind with Wang Jingmeng and the others, and in the end, Ba Mountain Sword Field helped the Qin Dynasty conquer the world, as the master of Ba Mountain Sword Field, he may even have a status higher than Yuanwu. After helping Yuanwu and Zheng Xiu destroy the Ba Mountain Sword Field, his position, even if he is equal to the two ministers, is still low. So this is what I do not understand.”


  “You were good to Shen Xuan, and gave him all he could get, so why, when he should have come, he did not?”


  In the ruins of the imperial palace, Ye Xinhe walked in front of Zheng Xiu who was still swelling with energy. He said, “I cannot understand, can you?”


  “There is nothing to understand.”


  Zheng Xiu had recovered her calm and said, “I can give him what he wants, but he did not dare to accept. This means that the thing he gave me has problems. He came back with the Heaven Replenishing Divine Art in exchange. If there is a problem, then there is a problem with the wine shop youth. So if I am right, then the Nine Death Silkworm heir trapped by Ye Xiao in the formation should be the wine shop youth. He will only feel that the Nine Death Silkworm heir can give him more.”


  Ye Xinhe laughed in scorn. “So after all this time, this person was always in Changling, right under our eyes.”


  “What are you doing!”


  At this time, Ye Xinhe’s expression turned cold and he turned, shouting.

  On the path behind him, a cultivator of the palace was running over. Usually, such a cultivator coming close could not arouse such a response, but now, it was different. Zheng Xiu’s condition was so terrible that some cultivators who were usually not important could cause her to die.

  This palace cultivator felt tangible killing intent and stopped in shock. He bowed and said, “Official Shen sent a secret message.”


  “Really?”


  Ye Xinhe expressionlessly reached out with his hand, and took the message from this palace cultivator’s hand. After he quickly scanned the paper, the scorn at the corner of his lips quickly froze.

  Zheng Xiu frowned deeply. She had a bad feeling.

  Shen Xuan had been a new power in Changling, but all of his came from her, and could be taken from him at any time. But this could not change the fact that he was a powerful cultivator to start with. Shen Xuan, as one person, did not count as much, but if he truly worked with Min Mountain Sword Sect, then it was worrisome. Also, she knew that Shen Xuan had stayed in the Great Floating Water Prison for many years. To reach his goal, he would do many things that Baili Suxue disdained to do.

  “He took away Hu Hai,” Ye Xinhe said directly. His voice was not low, and many of the cultivators who were guarding this palace heard. Immediately, heavy gasps sounded.

  Hu Hai was the second imperial son. His personality was not as gentle as Fu Su, and his performance in cultivation was far lacking compared to Fu Su. His reputation among the people was not as good as Fu Su. So to this imperial dynasty, he did not seem essential. Even though he was brought along to the Deer Mountain Conference, he was ignored.

  But now, it was different.

  Fu Su was being held hostage by the Nine Death Silkworm heir, and trapped in the formation as well. If something happened to Hu Hai as well, then Yuanwu and Zheng Xiu would temporarily have no children, and this dynasty would lose all heirs who could inherit.

  What was more worrying was naturally Yuanwu and Zheng Xiu’s feelings. They could endure losing one son, but could they endure losing two?

  “A dog that barks is nothing to be feared, the silent dog is the best at biting,” Zheng Xiu said this after a long silence. Then she looked at Ye Xinhe and asked, “What does he want?”


  Ye Xinhe glanced at her and said, “He just wants one person to live.”


  “He only wants one person to live but did not say who it was…… then it means I cannot kill any of those who are fleeing right now. I must keep them alive and wait for him to trade?” Zheng Xiu rarely laughed, but at this time, she laughed in anger.

  Ye Xinhe was waiting quietly. There was no need to care about how devious Shen Xuan’s request was, the key was how would Zheng Xiu choose.

  “The start of compromise means constant compromise,” Zheng Xiu said coldly and slowly, “I refuse.”


  Volume 4 65 - Unknown Encounter

  “What happens when the rain stops?” Shen Xuan slowed down, and looked up at the milky white rain pouring from the sky.

  “It will start before the rain stops,” Ding Ning said seriously, “so you have to be faster.”


  “Is there any use in being faster? The problem is whether we can get on the mountain now.”


  “If you do not appear too weak, temporarily, there will not be any problems.”


  Both the question and the answer appeared profound, but the two were not ordinary people. Shen Xuan understood Ding Ning’s meaning as he gazed at the beast herd that was starting to grow anxious and knew what he had worried about would not happen.

  A ruler-straight, glass-like wall appeared in front of him and Ding Ning. This was a natural refraction created when the air and chaotic energies were split apart by his presence.

  In the next breath, both their shadows became a moving shadow in this wall.

  An anxious and violent presence spread within the beast herd. A giant dark green lizard, hide flashing with jewel-like light, reached the perimeter of the ancestral lands and started to descend.

  This was a rare Green Meteorite Lizard. Its hide was extremely soft and could naturally dissipate primal energies of the universe. The famed general Li Nian of the You Dynasty possessed a famed suit of armor made from the Green Meteorite Lizard. Yet this kind of lizard had disappeared long ago. No one had expected such a reptile to appear here.

  This lizard was so heavy that its belly was almost dragging on the ground. It really was not suitable for long-distance running. Even though it was driven mad by the spirit rain, it was far behind the beast herd.

  Sensing the spirit rain about to dissipate, the Green Meteorite Lian grew violent. It roared, its long tail immediately whipped numerous beasts to its rear. At the same time, it spat a noxious yellow-green fluid that flew down the slope dozens of feet.

  All the beasts within the range of the fluid gave miserable howls. Their bodies immediately rotted, full of holes like they had been sprayed with magma.

  At the same time, a golden vulture in the sky sank into frenzied rage. Its golden feather had an unique energy and spread apart like golden swords. As it flew quickly, these blade-like feathers easily cut all the birds long its way into pieces.

  This was just the beginning. The bloody scent caused the tide of beasts to start rioting. Those powerful beasts vented their anxiousness and anger on the relatively weaker beasts around them, as though it was because of their weaker fellows that they were unable to absorb more spirit energy and that the spirit rain would dissipate.

  At this time, no matter if it was the ground or the air, blood bloomed. This was a scene multiple times worse than thousands of soldiers and horses fighting together. This was a hellish field of slaughter that only existed in stories.

  Shen Xuan, who entered the Mountain of Ancestors, did not pay attention. In a certain sense, the Great Floating Water Prison was bloodier than this place. The presence he gave off now caused all the beasts along the way to distance themselves. Even the occasional giant beast that could pose a threat just glanced at him from afar.

  This was a naked battle of the strong eating the weak. The powerful beasts started to kill the weaker beasts before the spirit rain disappeared. The spirit rain could replenish their energy and heal their wounds when they killed weaker beasts. The blood, falling pieces of meat and rain grew thicker, and fell like a waterfall on the giant beast skeleton on the mountain path.

  When Shen Xuan saw the giant skeleton, his eyes narrowed slightly. He instinctively said in a cold voice, “What is this?”


  “Taotie.” Ding Ning answered simply. “A beast that can devour everything in the legends.”


  Shen Xuan glanced at him. “In reality?”


  Ding Ning glanced at him and said, “In reality, they can devour almost everything unless you are a cultivator stronger than Gu Huai.”


  “Has such a sect ever existed here like that?” Shen Xuan turned his head and seemed to speak to himself as he passed by the giant skeleton covered in blood.

  Ding Ning said without thinking, “Not ever such a sect, but there once was a Tianliang.”


  Shen Xuan’s brows rose slightly and he said, “Never heard of it.”


  Ding Ning said, “You just have to know that this was an empire about the same as the You dynasty.”


  Shen Xuan grew silent.

  A path covered in countless corpses appeared before the duo. The blood and pieces of meat flowed down these corpses. The grey-white skeletons were dyed red and appeared very bright.

  Li Xixing and Hu Jingjing had already stood up. The latter held her sword like an umbrella and was standing by the former’s side. Her sword gave off a light yellow light like that of a candle and blocked the blood coming down from above.

  Shen Xuan moved quickly and took Ding Ning along with him. Almost at the same time the pair of duos saw each other.

  “The friend of a madman is a madman.” Shen Xuan saw the candlelight color of the yellow light and guessed Hu Jingjing’s identity. Thinking of what this female disciple of Treasure Light Pavilion had done the night that Mo Shoucheng carried out his slaughter, he could not help but sneer and say softly.

  “You really came.” Li Xixing’s gaze was just as cold as Shen Xuan yet when he saw Ding Ning appear in front of him, even Hu Jingjing sensed his gaze had softened greatly. He glanced at the other man and frowned slightly before talking to his friend.

  “As expected, it is you,” Ding Ning looked at him and said.

  Hu Jingjing was inexplicably moved. She knew that this simple conversation contained true friendship.

  Li Xixing had expected the enemy would use him to force Ding Ning to come, and the latter had expected the former to be in danger. Because on the plains, Li Xixing was Ding Ning’s friend, and Ding Ning was Li Xixing’s only good friend in the world.

  Now, there was her as well. Hu Jingjing’s eyes contained some joy and pride.

  Ding Ning nodded at her in respect.

  She was slightly frightened and her sword light scattered slightly. Fortunately, Shen Xuan’s powerful presence covered all of them, and the falling bloody rain was forced aside and could not touch their surroundings.

  “This is the ancestral lands of Tianliang. Have you heard of Tianliang?” Li Xixing faced Ding Ning’s gaze and asked quietly, not wasting any words.

  It was a fortunate thing to find one person to share life and death with in one’s lifetime. What did he have to be discontent with after finding two? So while the blood rain poured down the surroundings, he felt calm within.

  Ding Ning said, “I know a bit but not a lot.”


  Li Xixing looked at him and told Ding Ning in detail what he had told Hu Jingjing before about the Tianliang ancestral lands. He even described the strange insects Ding Ning did not come in time to see.

  “Taotie and Chaos Insects are things the earliest cultivators slaughtered to extinction in prehistoric times because they were too strong. The former Tianliang dared to possess such things. They were as strong as the past You Dynasty.”


  Ding Ning looked up the mountain. “The key is, if the experts of Tianliang really committed suicide like the legend says, then why did they set up to seal the mountain? What did they want to seal?”


  “It cannot be the plague.” Before Li Xixing spoke, Ding Ning shook his head and continue., “Being unable to save and destroy in the end out of helplessness are not the same thing, especially when the Tianliang experts do not have to worry for their own safety. If they worry the plague would possibly spread, they would choose a way to destroy it, and destroy all the places and corpses that may have the plague. To be able to set up the things to seal this mountain and have the time to do so means that the last plague had disappeared over time as the infected died.”


  “Everyone in the world knows you are the best at comprehension,” Li Xixing said after a short silence, “So they used me to force you here. They must know that there is something extremely valuable here that they can use to win the war.”


  “The key is, how does that person know what is in here?” Ding Ning looked at him and said.

  The eyes of Shen Xuan, who had remained silent all this time like a bystander, suddenly lit up.

  “This person is from Tianliang.” Li Xixing said without hesitation, “Only someone who was left behind from Tianliang will know what is in the Mountain of Ancestors.”


  Hu Jingjing looked at Ding Ning and her body trembled uncontrollably. With a few words, he had sorted everything else. She looked at the man with great admiration. The contents of the conversation stunned her.

  “Since they know what is inside but are still unable to obtain it …… then we can try.” Ding Ning looked at her and Li Xixing. He said softly without evasiveness, “Not just this Tianliang person, I also want to kill Gu Huai.

  Translator Ramblings:

  are one of the four evil creatures in Chinese mythology. It usually represents greediness/gluttony and is famed for having a bottomless stomach.

  Volume 5 65 - Tide

  Li Xixing leaned against a stone in the spring, half lying down, as he looked at the hovering black eagles in the sky. The heated spring water had washed away all feelings of exhaustion. He felt happy. At the same time, he could not help but think about the end- if he were to die like this, it could be a good thing. At least …… at least this would not be as tiring. And yet, this thought stayed in his mind but for a fleeting moment.

  Life was like this, tired but unwilling.

  The surroundings were still extremely calm. The black eagles hovered but did not land on the Mountain of Ancestors. There seemed to be something in the mountain they innately feared.

  A sneer on the corners of his mouth, Li Xixing slowly stood up. The spring water flowed down the fur of his robes, washing out most of the dried blood.

  “All right?” He looked at Hu Jingjing whose face had turned red in the springs.

  Hu Jingjing nodded. “All right.”


  While she still found it hard to believe, this was the truth. The wounds inside her body, which would have taken a long time to heal even with the best medicines of Changling, had been healed by this spring in a short while.

  “What are you doing?” Li Xixing’s next movements shocked her move.

  Li Xixing pulled out his sword and waded through the spring towards the source of the water. He had two swords. At this time, he was using the large pale white sword. The seal scripts on the blade were like long fangs filled with rebellious and destructive presence.

  The spring water was forced away by the sharp sword energy to reveal the milky white stone underneath. The pale white sword light cut on the rocks around the water outlet, and the stones were cut into pieces.

  “You want to destroy this spirit spring?” Hu Jingjing realized what Li Xixing was going to do.

  Li Xixing did not look back and continued to use his sword to cut away the stones around the water outlet so his sword light could penetrate more deeply. He said without emotion, “This is not our ancestral mountain.”


  “While I think this is a waste, it feels you are right.” Hu Jingjing nodded seriously after a momentary daze. She walked next to Li Xixing and started to exude sword essence.

  “Why are those eagles flying so low?”


  “The eagles are not flying low, but the sky is too high.”


  “Do not pretend to be mysterious in front of me.”


  “There must be an enormous valley below.”


  “How are you sure?”


  “Because the spread of spirit energy here is interesting.”


  “Why do I not feel it is interesting? Is your perception above mine?”


  “Because of the Heaven Replenishing Divine Art.”


  Multiple military horses passed through the grass. Only two people sat on the horses, Ding Ning and Shen Xuan.

  From Guyu Pass to here, Shen Xuan had asked many questions concerning Ding Ning’s cultivation and perception. But the result of those discussions were frequently attributed to the Heaven Replenishing Divine Art by Ding Ning.

  Shen Xuan did not look at Ding Ning but at where the black eagles were flying low. He could not confirm Ding Ning’s explanation, because Ding Ning was the only person in the world who knew the true secrets of the Heaven Replenishing Divine Art.

  During their travel, he had continued to talk with Ding Ning, not because he wanted to find out the other’s secrets but out of fear. To him, facing the unknown Wuzhi expert and desiring to kill the sect master of Spirit Void Sword Sect were both terrifying matters to him. He wanted to gamble, but he also feared becoming a rotten corpse consumed by dholes on the plains.

  Now, he started to sense the oddly moving primal energies of the universe in the surroundings start to vibrate violently like someone was unveiling a great drama.

  Ding Ning’s gaze also moved to where the black eagles were hovering. He too sensed the dramatic change in the primal energies of the universe. This did not feel like a powerful cultivator absorbing primal energies, but like strong primal energies were exploding out of that place.

  Li Xixing and Hu Jingjing were standing in the hot spring. The heated water had only been at their waist when they stood up, but now the water was above their chest and at their necks. They had cut out a large area around the water outlet. The bursting spring water was slow, but the water was boiling with fist-sized bubbles.

  When each bubble floated to the surface, they would explode with a pop. Pure milky white spirit energy would burst out. The condensed milky white spirit energy was slightly heavier than the air. So after they exploded above the water, they would fall into the water like blooming lotuses.

  Li Xixing pressed his lips together tightly, firm and cold. His perception went as deeply as it could into this spirit vein. “Use the strongest attack of your sect. We will do it together.” When Shen Xuan and Ding Ning were sensing something in the distance, he turned and spoken to Hu Jingjing.

  At some unknown time, the two of them had gained a close understanding of each other. Hu Jingjing nodded at him and then unhesitatingly started a sword attack she had to use her full power to perform.

  Multiple yellow rays of light suddenly formed in the milky white spring water. Then all of the water turned faint yellow like the water had become a yellow mirror.

  Li Xixing frowned deeply and gave a low howl like a wolf king howling from the deepest part of the grassland. He stepped forward with one foot. The spring water ahead of him exploded under his step into fine white mist that spread outsides. The spring water disappeared ahead of him but the yellow lights still remained. His pale white long sword borrowed the power of the yellow light and penetrated deep into the spirit vein to a depth his perception could not reach.

  At this moment, his and Hu Jingjing’s bodies were blown away by an enormous and ancient power, flying backwards like two fallen leaves. The thick spirit energy originally gathered in the hot spring suddenly exploded and filled the entire valley before soaring up into the sky like a pillar.

  Li Xixing and Hu Jingjing did not land on the ground. They were still being blown up by the powerful presence. The blood in their bodies boiled yet they felt no wounds. Wild spirit energy pierced through their bodies, like river water constantly washing the stones on the riverbed, and smoothed out the edges on the surface.

  The pair felt a great dizziness and could not think or sense the passing of time. When their bodies felt heavy and started to fall, they saw they were dozens of feet in the air, and the water below, as well the original hot spring, had disappeared. There were enormous clouds above the Mountain of Ancestors. A wild wind blew through the surroundings, creating the sound of dried grass being snapped.

  Li Xixing managed to gain control of his vital energy despite his strong dizziness. He forced his vital energy through his feet to avoid himself and Hu Jingjing becoming minced meat when they hit the ground. But at this moment, he felt a great shock, and instinctively made a low exclamation.

  Hu Jingjing steadied her body and looked inquiringly at him, shocked speechless.

  “You too?” She struggled out in the next breath.

  Li Xixing nodded.

  Under the violent spirit energy cleanse, he had made a breakthrough in his long halted cultivation realm, and his vital energy had made an astounding leap. It was the same with Hu Jingjing.

  He suppressed his shock, and sensed his body that did not seem like his previous one. He looked up.

  Rain descended from the clear sky.

  The rain fell on the plains. Shen Xuan had no sword in hand but subconsciously tightened his grip until he seemed to hold one.

  Milky white rain dripped from the sky. They did not make a splash on the ground when they fell like water did. They popped and became threads of milky white smoke.

  The grasslands seemed to be in a frenzy. The yellowed grass swayed furiously. The dried roots absorbed the milky white energy and suddenly gave birth to some green.

  All the animals and insects hiding in the ground woke up and surged out wildly. The wild beasts in the distance, not covered by this rain cloud, came in wildly from all directions.

  Shen Xuan looked with a pale face at the dense mat of insects burrowing out of the soil under his feet. He sensed the vibrations from the wild beasts racing in the distance and his breathing grew heavier.

  This was something he had never seen before. He had not expected so many insects in a patch of soil next to him. To his shock, even his amputated arm felt a sore itchiness like his arm would regrow if an arm were connected there.

  The rain made from spirit energy was astounding pure and had an unimaginable power to heal. The rains fell most densely on the Mountain of Ancestors. The milky white raindrops fell on top of the mountain and flowed down the gullies.

  There were tens of thousands of insects on the plains, forming an ocean, and tens of thousands of animals, forming a tide, flooding towards the Mountain of Ancestors.