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Chapter 151 - 98: Unprecedented [Thanks for the Subscription Support]

Chapter 151: Chapter 98: Unprecedented [Thanks for the Subscription Support]

Meng Xinghai recognized Li Qingxiao’s elder, so he couldn’t scold him directly. He merely waved his hand to dismiss him, but the youth kept a cheeky grin and did not get up.

He used a secret technique to communicate with Qin Ming, asking how the Golden Silkworm Technique was coming along.

"Done," Qin Ming informed.

If it weren’t for Li Qingxiao being there, Old Meng would have jumped up again, truly shocked. It’s only been five days; how could he have mastered it?

This time was very pressing, and Meng Xinghai was planning to assist him with a secret technique to get started. He didn’t expect that this youth would achieve it on his own within just a few days.

Meng Xinghai’s gaze shifted, as this youth kept surprising him, exceeding his expectations every time, by far more than he had anticipated.

"Brother Qin Ming..." Li Qingxiao spoke.

"Go stand off to the side!" Meng Xinghai’s disdain for him grew. Couldn’t he see the peacefulness between uncle and nephew? They were about to discuss serious matters, and yet there was an extra person here causing confusion.

Li Qingxiao was stunned and then his face flushed red with anger. He had been praised since childhood, proud and arrogant, feeling humiliated in an instant.

In fact, Meng Xinghai was just annoyed with him.

"Uncle Meng, if you talk like that, I won’t be pleased. I want to challenge Qin Ming, the foremost talent of this city, right here!" Li Qingxiao stood up, his body flowing with Heavenly Light Force.

"What nonsense?" Meng Xinghai was not at all indulgent.

Li Qingxiao didn’t dare to lash out, saying, "Uncle Meng, I am following the rules. Anyone has the right to challenge the City Lord’s appointed top one of the city during the major examination period."

After he finished speaking, he regretted it. He was just passing by, wanting to inquire about some news, he didn’t intend to seriously offend Meng Xinghai.

"Uncle Meng, forgive me, I’m young and ignorant, please don’t stoop to my level." Having realized his mistake, Li Qingxiao immediately apologized, reverting back to a smiling, sunny youth.

Meng Xinghai spoke indifferently, "You’ve already questioned it; if I don’t accept your challenge, word will spread that I’m being partial and dishonest. Chixia City’s ’number one’ will become a joke in many people’s eyes; I must arrange this for you."

Li Qingxiao froze. If he upset Meng Xinghai, his family wouldn’t let him off the hook.

"Xiao Qin, come and accept his challenge and doubts," Meng Xinghai ordered, immediately having the arena prepared and inviting spectators.

Naturally, Qin Ming nodded in agreement. With Old Meng upset, how could he just sit idly by? He didn’t want to bother with this youth, but since the other side was provocatively jumping about, he didn’t mind warming up.

Moreover, he was still a youth. What was the point of being so mature? He needed to have a youthful spirit to avoid Meng Xinghai’s peculiar looks.

Li Qingxiao’s chance to speak was gone, the City Lord had spoken, and immediately the action was taken below. Not only the guards of the City Lord’s Mansion but also people from outside came to the Martial Arts Arena to watch the preparations being completed.

"Please!" Now Li Qingxiao had no desire to call him ’brother’ anymore, already seething with rage.

The City Lord’s Mansion’s Martial Arts Arena was vast, ample for those in the phase of rebirth to duel.

Li Qingxiao, in his brocade attire adorned with fine jades, assumed the image of a graceful youth, yet he drew a bright broad blade, bigger and longer than ordinary ones.

"Where’s your weapon?" he asked.

"I’m older than you, it’s not necessary for me to use a weapon," Qin Ming responded calmly, his face clear and handsome, his gaze pure, his robe fluttering and his step untainted by dust, exuding an exceptional demeanor, as if he were a banished immortal.

"You’re really arrogant. When did you step on the path of rebirth? To show such contempt to someone who has been reborn seven times like me," Li Qingxiao spoke coolly.

The surrounding crowd was alarmed. A fourteen-year-old youth had already been reborn seven times?!

Qin Ming was not surprised; his so-called "little brother," Cui Chongxuan, hadn’t even reached thirteen years old and had already begun to consume the Three Colored Flower, merging four types of Heavenly Light Force.

The profound heritage of a thousand-year-old family was unfathomable; no need to wait for the golden age to be reborn. As long as the talent was not lacking, the only restraint for them during the rebirth phase was the special "Buffer Period," which doesn’t allow the body to mutate frequently within a year.

"Come on then!" Qin Ming motioned for him to make a move.

Li Qingxiao’s face turned icy, leaving many afterimages in the arena, like ghosts flitting about, causing many onlookers to change their expressions.

With one swing of his blade, a technique from the acclaimed Blade Manual, lightning and thunder erupted from the broadsword.

It was his Heavenly Light Force vibrating the long blade, an unstoppable force.

Qin Ming dodged the edge of the blade, and with a punch hitting the side, he used Hammering Force to shatter the momentum of the attack. In his eyes, Li Qingxiao’s blade technique was merely passable.

Li Qingxiao was thrown off by the tremor, nearly losing grip on his long blade, his movements frozen, his ghostly movement technique interrupted.

Qin Ming moved as fast as lightning, his green robe rustling, appearing behind Li Qingxiao, a kick landed on the young man’s rear, sending him flying.

"I..." Li Qingxiao was so angry he could explode on the spot.

This was the very person he had ridiculed and belittled, had even secretly mocked with his older cousin Li Qingxu’s words, and now down here in person, it was embarrassingly difficult.

Once he landed, he moved his shadow like a specter and swung his blade again, generating a sound like a tidal wave. This was a killing move from another Blade Manual.

Qin Ming struck the blade with explosive power, and even a broadsword forged from a thousand hammers and a hundred refinings shattered to pieces in an instant, with the sound of the falling fragments piercingly sharp.

Li Qingxiao turned to stone on the spot; his weapon had been destroyed by bare hands?!

Then he was once again kicked in the rear, landing far away.

Meng Xinghai knew the elders of the Li Family, so Qin Ming couldn’t shed Li Qingxiao’s blood. These two kicks were enough.

One could guess that Li Qingxiao would rather be cut by a blade than be kicked in the butt. If this were to spread back home, how would the acquaintances from noble families view him?

He was ashen-faced, having suffered a significant blow. Raised amidst praise, he was surprisingly fragile today.

Qin Ming objectively assessed him as quite capable, but since the opponent was so "proactive" in provoking a confrontation, he wasn’t about to be courteous, aiming to suppress this scheming youth with swift and brutal force like a thunderbolt.

Otherwise, Li Qingxiao wouldn’t have fallen so quickly.

"Child, are you alright? No one is immune to defeat. Just work hard on improving yourself; don’t be heartbroken," Meng Xinghai consoled him in a timely manner.

Li Qingxiao returned to the living room in a daze, without uttering a single word.

Meng Xinghai said, "I am a man of principles and will definitely not because Xiao Qin and I have a close relationship, arbitrarily proclaim him as the top of Chixia City."

Li Qingxiao nodded woodenly.

It took him a long time to recover, then he said, "Qin Ming, you are indeed very strong on the path of rebirth. I’m only fourteen years old, just meeting the requirements of Fangwai. From now on, I’ll set foot on the Immortal Road."

"Congratulations," Qin Ming said blandly.

Li Qingxiao continued, "I was thinking of walking both paths, but now you have made me concentrate on one."

"You’re not going to tell me next that after climbing to the peak, we’ll meet again in Fangwai, are you?" Qin Ming looked at him and said, "If I were to set foot in Fangwai, it might be different from what you think, and certainly not what you wish for."

Li Qingxiao and an old man rode away on an Exotic Bird, never again wanting to return to Chixia City!

Meng Xinghai sipped tea and looked at Qin Ming with a smile, "I’ve prepared for you a segment of Five colored Spiritual Branch, much more potent than the Three Colored Flower, it can help you merge the Heavenly Light Force, increasing its total volume."

"This... must be quite rare and precious, right?" Qin Ming asked.

Meng Xinghai nodded, "Yes, it comes from the Outer World, from a precious tree rooted in Tian Guang Pond. The old branches should not be touched lightly, but the new branches that grow each year can be harvested, a branch has leaves of five different colors, looking fresh outside, but inside with a strong concentration of Heavenly Light Essence."

"An ancient tree, Tian Guang Pond..." Qin Ming listened with yearning. What marvelous place is that?

Just the early spring segment of the Five colored Spiritual Branch has such amazing medicinal effects, it’s safe to say that the depths of Fangwai are immeasurable.

"Is its yield big?" Qin Ming really didn’t know much about these things.

Meng Xinghai said, "Every early spring, after the portioning in Fangwai is done, thousand-year-old families get a small quota. This year, my lineage has no outstanding descendants, so the segment sent to me will benefit you."

Qin Ming sighed, what is the meaning of heritage? This is it!

The Outer World, being powerful enough, naturally occupies the best resources. Even a casual trickle-down of their bounty, a small segment of a new branch, becomes a rare Spiritual Object on the outside.

Meng Xinghai seemed to discern his thoughts and said, "Feeling the pressure, right? The gap is huge. If I hadn’t been tested in my youth and found capable of taking other paths, with a chance to change my fate, if I had only followed the path of rebirth, and trained for a lifetime, reaching the highest achievement, in Esoteric Buddhism I would only be a mountain-external Protector at most."

Clearly, Meng Xinghai’s path was related to Esoteric Buddhism and touched upon the divine.

Qin Ming nodded. He had thought he had a fair understanding of the various paths, but now it seems his knowledge was still limited.

Immediately, his eyes seemed to flicker with fire, his resolve was firm. Now he just needed to work hard on improving himself.

He was not going through all these arduous practices to become a mere follower to the Outer Disciples!

Qin Ming opened the long jade box on the desk. Inside was a tender branch as thick as a thumb, a little more than two feet long, with Five Colored Smoke and Mist wafting around it, Heavenly Light Essence restrained within. There were only five leaves, each of different colors, all crystal clear and teeming with vibrant life force.

Meng Xinghai said, "The competition of the Outer Disciples is about to start, you’ll stay in the City Lord’s Mansion these days, consume the Five colored Spiritual Branch to elevate your Heavenly Light Force; after that, you should head there."

Qin Ming felt it wouldn’t take that long; the last time he consumed the Three Colored Flower, he achieved Unity of the various Heavenly Light Forces on the same day.

Meng Xinghai asked, "What weapon do you use? I’ll have someone forge one for you, infused with rare metals, which will be very useful."

"Uncle Meng, I have a blade here; can you help me have someone reforge it?" Qin Ming drew the Mutton Fat Jade Iron Blade.

Initially, he and Old Man Liu had forged the Jade Iron Blade with a very rough technique, and it had not been sharpened to this day.

"This..." Meng Xinghai’s eyes sparkled. This was far better than the material he had prepared, the pure Jade Iron Blade without a hint of impurity.

He sighed, "You’re something, young man. This is extraordinary jade iron, but the forging technique... I don’t want to comment, it’s really a waste."

"I have a small piece left; I want to forge it into an arrowhead," Qin Ming took out a piece of blue Jade Iron, about the size of a walnut shell.

Meng Xinghai remarked with amazement, "That’s too luxurious. Even the arrows I use don’t have such material. You must be careful when you shoot this arrow, don’t be reckless."

That day, Qin Ming consumed the Five colored Spiritual Branch in a quiet courtyard within the City Lord’s Mansion, and immediately felt his entire body searing with Heavenly Light, as if it was about to be torn apart.

The Five colored Spiritual Branch contained even more violent Heavenly Light Essence than the Three Colored Flower, but Qin Ming’s constitution was also much stronger than before.

That night, he elevated the Lihuo Power towards its peak and also brought the Golden Silkworm Power to the limit allowed by the five rebirths.

On his body, at times there would appear the Lihuo Divine Light, and at other times threads of Golden Silk. Both kinds of Miracle Techniques with Heavenly Light Force had extraordinary protective effects.

Moreover, the Vajra Power, Wind Power, Golden Light Power, etc., practiced by Qin Ming not long ago, were also quickly elevated.

That night, he converged all the Heavenly Light Forces, achieving Unity, and ultimately, they were all merged into the silk scripture of the Xinsheng Skill.

Qin Ming tried it out and immediately knew that the power of the Heavenly Light Force had greatly increased compared to before. Mainly because the merged Golden Light Power, Lihuo Power, Golden Silkworm Power and others were all of significant origin, especially the latter two, which fall into the category of Miracle Techniques.

Outside, the competition between the Outer Disciples was well-known by now, from Blessed Lands to thousand-year-old families, and then to the various major cities shrouded in night fog. Many people were talking about it.

Qin Ming’s strength had greatly increased, more formidable than ever before, and his mindset even more tranquil. He was now ready to head to the Outer World.

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