Shocking the Nine Heavens With My Sword
Chapter 301 - 289: Xu Tianyou (2/3)

Chapter 301: Chapter 289: Xu Tianyou (2/3)

The man who called himself Wu Tianyou gestured, and the Jade Boat in the sky was sucked into his sleeve and disappeared in an instant, a sight that once again left the common folk agape and filled with even greater reverence.

Wu Tianyou smiled smugly, his face brimming with arrogance.

Damn, what’s there to be proud of fooling a few mortals?

Zhou Heng’s first impression of this man was already marred by a cross; clearly of the Mountains and Rivers cultivation level, he didn’t need to exert much effort to rush over, yet he insisted on using a flying artifact. Wasn’t this just blatantly showing off?

Show off to whom? It was obvious!

There are many kinds of magic artifacts in the world; most are meant for combat, but a few have other uses—such as space artifacts, where there’s no distinction in power, only in the size of the storage space they offer.

Of course, something like the Nine Mystic Trial Tower, an immortal object, is extremely powerful, able to contain living beings and can be used defensively, with wonderful and inexhaustible utility.

Besides that, there are flying artifacts!

These artifacts lacked combat power and could only be used for travel. But their greatest advantage was the ability to fly in the sky, rendering flying artifacts incredibly precious and worth fighting over by countless people!

To fly with their bodies, martial artists had to first become deities, which is closely related to their Domain. Generally, this ability is exclusive to Half-Step Immortals, and also only possessed by superb Spirit Sea cultivators who were half a step into the Nascent Soul Realm, like Zhao Duotian and Ying Cheng’en.

Even so, Zhao Duotian and Ying Cheng’en couldn’t step in the void for long, as they had not truly become deities.

Moreover, flying artifacts require extremely high material standards, and the array patterns inscribed within them are top-notch, far beyond the capabilities of ordinary Array Pattern Masters.

The most critical aspect is that powering a flying artifact consumes heaps of Middle Grade Spirit Stones; Lower Grade ones are too impure and insufficient to support it!

Therefore, both purchasing and using flying artifacts is an immense luxury!

Zhou Heng didn’t know where Wu Tianyou came from, but saw no signs of travel weariness on him, so he must have come from nearby. The man himself was of the Mountains and Rivers cultivation level, couldn’t he just walk a few steps?

Why the hell waste Spirit Stones for fun?

And that Ye Yuzhou he had seen before!

Indeed, it was the same one Gu Lingfei used to take Lin Fuxiang and her companions away, shocking the simpletons from Cold Blue Country!

Show-off! Intimidation!

How had he offended this person?

Filled with displeasure, Zhou Heng let out a cold laugh and said, "I’ve never heard of any Wu or whatnot, what garlic do you think you are?"

Wu Tianyou’s handsome face visibly twitched, his eyelids jumped, and he nearly leapt up in reaction!

Are you blind?!

Didn’t you see that was a flying artifact? Do you even know how precious a flying artifact is? How few people can afford to use one?

Bumpkin!

Wu Tianyou thought about how he had cozied and begged his way, sweet-talking his aunt Gu Lingfei to let him borrow that "Green Wave Overturn" flying artifact. He intended to use it to come down hard on Zhou Heng from the get-go, to leave him shell-shocked. He had not anticipated encountering a fool who failed to notice!

Clenching his teeth, he managed to maintain his graceful exterior. Little did others know that Wu Tianyou was considered a prodigy among external sect members—affable as a spring breeze, brilliant as the sunlight, his face alone had many inner sect senior sisters and junior sisters throwing themselves at him!

He couldn’t lose his composure, otherwise, it would tarnish his reputation if word got out!

"Brother Zhou, I’m Uncle Master Gu’s nephew; that makes me the senior brother of Gu Zi and the others, a disciple of the external sect!" He clasped his hands together, and his arrogance returned.

Since its foundation, East Spirit Immortal Pond’s principle was to only accept female disciples; men were to stand aside. But as the sect developed over tens of thousands of years, some changes were inevitable. While not accepting male disciples was a sacred decree from the founding Ancestor Master and absolutely not to be abolished, those below always found ways to get around it.

If they couldn’t be directly accepted into East Spirit Immortal Pond, why not establish an external sect as a subsidiary school? As a result, East Spirit Immortal Pond itself came to be known as the inner sect.

The disciples of the external sect were all friends and relatives of the inner sect disciples, all of them men. Regardless of their aptitude, they were all accepted, viewed as dependents of East Spirit Immortal Pond. After all, the sect was one of the top thirteen forces of the Heavenly Dragon Empire, with resources and wealth beyond what the three greatest families of Bright Moon could match—surely they could afford to support a bunch of idlers?

As one man becomes immortal, his entire household ascends to heaven.

East Spirit Mountain’s Mid Peak, the area richest in Spiritual Energy, was taken by East Spirit Immortal Pond, while the remaining four peaks were assigned to the external sect, as their members were too numerous!

Over time, the external sect would inevitably produce a few exceptionally talented individuals. Thus, the external sect’s power grew stronger and showed signs of becoming uncontrollable. These external sect disciples never felt like they were living off others; each of them was incredibly arrogant.

They all considered themselves a part of East Spirit Immortal Pond, members of one of the world’s strongest thirteen forces!

Wu Tianyou, who had some awareness of Zhou Heng’s background, felt that he just needed to give a slight intimidating display of his kingly aura to have Zhou Heng shaking in his boots, and still Zhou Heng dared to vie with him for a woman!

Once Wu Tianyou mentioned Gu Zi, Zhou Heng instantly understood—it was a woman who had caused this trouble!

Of course, women are just the bait. The men are the ones who should die!

Zhou Heng gave a faint smile and said, "Not five, not six, your name is a total mess, and so is your speech. Spit it out if you have something to say. Are you acting like a man or not?"

Wu Tianyou opened his mouth to speak but, pointing at Zhou Heng, ended up unable to utter a single word. His face turned beet red as he struggled to get his words out.

Caught between a rock and a hard place!

The guy just said to let it out, but if he opened his mouth, wouldn’t he be taken for a fart? Yet, if he didn’t speak, "would he still be acting like a man?"

How could this young man’s mouth be so venomous?

Veins popped on Wu Tianyou’s face as he said, "You—"

"Don’t half-ass your fart, let it out already. Are you trying to save the other half for later?" Zhou Heng said with dead seriousness.

Wu Tianyou’s face contorted with rage, and he clenched his fists so tight that his knuckles cracked loudly.

"Go on, let it out. Holding it in is bad for your health!" Zhou Heng softly urged, with a face full of concern.

How could this man be so shameless?

Wu Tianyou’s face was filled with sorrow and indignation. He clearly possessed the cultivation of the Mountains and Rivers Realm and should have transcended the seven emotions and six sensory pleasures. Yet Zhou Heng managed to provoke him into seething anger with just a few words. This young man’s tongue was sharper than the magic artifacts of the Mountains and Rivers Realm!

"Scoundrel, I’m going to chop you to pieces!" Unable to hold back any longer, he lashed out, reaching for Zhou Heng’s throat with his claw.

Zhou Heng’s figure floated away, already outside the inn. He did not want to destroy his temporary lodging. Gliding effortlessly, he made his swift escape from the town.

"Trying to run?" Wu Tianyou coldly snorted. He finally regained some composure. In a world where martial artists honor strength above all, why bother with all this idle chatter with the young man? Just beat him into submission and have him roll away obediently!

He quickly pursued, sticking close behind Zhou Heng.

If Zhou Heng had wanted to shake him off, he could’ve done so without even using the Swift Cloud Radiant Step. Yet he maintained a distance, allowing Wu Tianyou to keep up. The farther they went, the more Zhou Heng taunted, "Not five, not six, no one’s stopping you from farting. Do you have to be this way?"

"Bastard!" Young Master Wu’s suppressed flames of rage shot up once again.

Whoosh, whoosh. Both men were of the Mountains and Rivers Realm, and even with Zhou Heng restraining his speed, they were as fast as startled swans, quickly leaving the town thousands of miles behind and arriving atop a nondescript desolate mountain.

Zhou Heng stopped, turned around, and said, "Not five, not six, there’s nobody here. You can let it out now; you won’t offend anyone else!"

Wu Tianyou’s face twitched with veins, but he ultimately held back. He made a cutting gesture with his hands and said, "I want you to say goodbye to Gu Zi and the rest, then get the hell out of East Spirit Mountain by yourself and never come back!"

Zhou Heng’s face bloomed with a smile as if he were looking at an idiot before saying, "Why should I?"

"Because I’m an outer sect disciple of East Spirit Immortal Pond, and you... you’re not even worth a garlic clove!" Every time Wu Tianyou saw Zhou Heng’s face, it fueled his rage, and he couldn’t help but curse.

Zhou Heng muttered softly, "Imitating others without any creativity!"

Only then did Wu Tianyou remember Zhou Heng’s previous remark, "What garlic clove are you?" turning his face green with rage. Struggling to contain his anger, he said, "Junior Sister Gu Zi has already been promised to me by my aunt, and Junior Sisters Lin and An have been promised to my younger brother Tian Ying. If you don’t want to die, just scram!"

If it weren’t for Gu Lingfei’s insistence, he would have blasted Zhou Heng on the spot—no need for all this incessant babble. But this aunt of his was his backing in East Spirit Immortal Pond, and he dared not ignore Gu Lingfei’s words.

Only then did anger rise in Zhou Heng’s heart.

He had sent Lin Fuxiang and the other two girls to East Spirit Immortal Pond to learn, not to sell themselves. Since when did Gu Lingfei or anyone else have a say in the girls’ marriage arrangements?

"You’re hundreds of years old and still want to marry girls in their twenties? Have you no shame?" Zhou Heng revealed a dangerous smile.

Wu Tianyou was taken aback, then immediately jumped up, saying, "I’m only three hundred seventy-four years old, very young!"

With a lifespan of around one thousand six hundred years in the Mountains and Rivers Realm, in relative terms, four hundred years was indeed like a twenty-five-year-old ordinary person—very young indeed. This was also something he took pride in; not yet four hundred years old, yet he had already advanced into the Mountains and Rivers Realm, a real prodigy!

Zhou Heng made a contemptuous face and said softly, "I originally thought you were just one or two hundred years old. Didn’t expect you to be almost a four-hundred-year-old near-dead!"

Wu Tianyou’s face flushed bright red. Although he was self-righteous, his qi cultivation skills were actually quite good. For some reason, a few words from Zhou Heng always provoked him immensely, igniting an urge to kill.

Indeed, this was Black Donkey’s unique skill—it wasn’t just about verbal finesse. Every look, every subtle gesture had to convey disdain, invoking within people an uncontrollable rise of loathing and revulsion.

Compared to Black Donkey’s profound knowledge in this area, Zhou Heng had a long way to go.

Thinking of Gu Lingfei’s orders, Wu Tianyou chose to endure.

"Shameless old fool, you really know how to lose face!" Zhou Heng sighed, despising the fact that someone of such an age was still pretending to be young.

"Bastard, I’ll kill you!" Wu Tianyou finally lost all control of his anger. He reached for Zhou Heng’s forehead to slap him, unable to tolerate any more!(To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for recommendation tickets and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please read on m.qidian.com.)