Chapter 67
Chapter 67, Two Flower Petals
“Tenth layer Zhen Qi? Which tenth layer existence is that?”
“Who is this person?”
“When did Ling Wu sect have a person like this? Wasn’t there only the Ten Seeds?”
Within the valley, Mu Yi and the others exclaimed in surprise . Evidently, the person’s methods of concealing (his strength) had skirted their attention . Lin Xue and Su Mengyao had expressions of disbelief . Now that the opponent had revealed his strength after concealing it from day 1, the crowd of disciples were concerned .
Zi Chen had been struck in the pit of the stomach . He hurtled towards the lake . The python moved to receive Zi Chen and draped him over his back .
As a Xiantian python, it had a high intelligence . It knew that within the group of human cultivators, everyone but Zi Chen was out to get its blood . Hence, it decided to do him a small favour .
Zi Chen climbed to his feet and spat out a mouthful of fresh blood . No matter how powerful his physique, he had still drew blood .
“Hmph! You’re still too inexperienced to fight with me . ” The youthful figure lightly landed back on the ground . Sneering, he pocketed the Water Spirit Flower in front of Zi Chen .
“What, still unwilling? After receiving a punch from me, how much battle strength do you think you still have?” The youth snickered .
Zi Chen said nothing . If this strike had hit him anywhere else, he would have sustained heavy injuries . However, when it hit the pit of his stomach, his mysterious heart had worked its magic . Zi Chen had only suffered superficial injuries . The blood he had coughed out before was only from his blood surging . 1Honestly, I have no idea who came up with the brilliant idea of how spitting out blood means injury
“Youngster, you’re still too naïve . Being so foolhardy just because of having some strength, is practically begging for death . You have quite the guts to kill the Inner sect’s Ten Seeds . When you return to the sect, obediently accept your punishment . I trust Senior Brother Chen Feng will take a deep interest in cold-blooded murder of disciples of the same sect,” the youth grinned sardonically, like an elder chiding a mischevious junior .
After a few deep breaths, Zi Chen injuries had fully recovered . He faced the youth stonily . “Are you done farting?”
“I beg your pardon?” The youth’s sardonic grin was immediately replaced with a chilling stare . 2Translations put he turned gloomy but my inner writer won’t allow that
“I asked if you were done talking fart . If so, then obediently pass me the spirit medicine and I’ll leave you with a full corpse . ” Zi Chen repeated flatly .
“Talking big,” the youth fumed, “Come and get it if you can . ”
“As you wish!” Zi Chen shot forward like an arrow released from a bow, totally unlike a heavily injured person .
“You aren’t injured?” The youth’s expression changed .
Zi Chen’s ferocious battle power was something everyone knew . Zi Chen was not weaker than him in any way . He had previously ambushed Zi Chen and wounded him, which was why he dared to be so pompous in his words . But Zi Chen had came out of his attack unwounded . It seemed that Zi Chen’s physique had passed his expectations .
“Alright fucker, seems like I have underestimated you . I had not thought that your physique was this strong . ” The youth admitted, bursting with tenth layer Zhen Qi . This was the eleventh existence in the Ling Wu sect that possessed tenth layer Zhen Qi . However, he had concealed his strength . Because of Chen Feng, the elites at the tenth layer of Zhen Qi that could enter the Spirit Medicine Garden were not many . The people that entered the Spirit Medicine Garden were largely subordinates of Chen Feng .
“The things that you haven’t thought of yet are still many . ” Zi Chen had already reached the rock . Drawing back a clenched fist, he struck at the youth .
The air whistled . The two attacks collided together .
“Peng!”
With one exchange, the youth had already backed up several steps, his face drained of colour . Zi Chen stood motionless, unaffected by the exchange .
“You’re this trash, and you still dare to act so unbridled,” Zi Chen sneered . He had managed to grasp the level of his opponent’s strength in one exchange, and his opponent’s strength was evidently shallow . Pushing himself forward, Zi Chen struck out furiously several times .
“Peng!” “Peng!”
The sounds rang out unceasingly . The force of their battle began to split apart the rock beneath them . Finally, with a shuddering crack, the rock underneath their feet shattered .
The two figures stumbled as they landed into the water . The Xiantian python reappeared, grabbing hold of the two people .
“Peng!”
Zi Chen lashed out once more, repeatedly battering the youth against the serpent’s body .
The youth already had a swollen face and a bloody nose . He had finally realised the gulf between their strength . He had considered himself strong . If compared with Zi Chen, he believed there would be little difference . However, in this actual fight, he had realised the huge disparity in their strength .
“Without self-awareness, you still want to lecture others . You sure like to talk big . ” Zi Chen pummelled him .
“You’re also Chen Feng’s lackey . How reckless, hiding your strength so deeply . ” Walking upon the serpent’s body, Zi Chen stepped towards the youth .
The youth’s arm was stamped on . With a snap, the youth’s arm broke . The youth cried out in anguish .
“Wonder why I’m not using the Thunderbolt Finger? It’s because I’m afraid that it’ll damage the spirit medicine, although it’ll kill you in one hit . Garbage like you with strength so little only needs my bare fists . ” Zi Chen stomped on him again . Evidently, the youth’s ambush had left him less than pleased .
Snap! Another arm was forcefully stomped on by Zi Chen .
The youth screamed in anguish, crying out over and over again . Cold sweat trickled off his face . He stared at Zi Chen in terror, begging for forgiveness . “Zi Chen, I was wrong… Please spare me, this spirit medicine is yours . I can also vouch not to not report to Chen Feng anything that happened here . ”
“The spirit medicine was always mine . ” Zi Chen dug inside the youth’s clothes and drew out the Water Spirit Flower .
The Water Spirit Flower was lustrous, like a piece of jade . Under the glaring beams of the sun, the flower was dazzling . The fragrance of the flower tickled his nostrils, relaxing his mind . A thousand-year spirit medicine only bore fruit once in a millennium . It was a spirit medicine that was hard to come by . Examining it up close, Zi Chen discovered that the flower already had a trace of it withering . That meant that the blossoming was soon to reach a thousand years . When it wilted, it would grow a new Water Spirit fruit — a new thousand-year ripe fruit .
“The spirit medicine is nearing its two-thousandth age . ” Zi Chen’s eyes glowed . This was a treasure not seen much .
“The spirit medicine is yours . Can you let me off now? I promise not to saying anything pertaining to the Ten Seeds,” the youth gasped .
Zi Chen kept the spirit medicine . “The spirit medicine was always mine . As for your life, I won’t kill you . However, I have no idea if you will be able to find your way out of here alive . ”
“As long as you don’t kill me, I can-!” The youth spluttered with elation . Of course, in his heart, he was more than prepared to double across Zi Chen . Before he had even finished, he felt strong gales of wind sweep against his body . The waters rumbled . A bloody mouth opened up in front of him . With a cracking sound, the razor teeth of the serpent had already snapped against the undefended youth’s body . The youth was swallowed .
At this moment, within the vast lake, there was only one man and one snake . Many broken logs and pieces of wooden rafts floated upon the surface of the lake . As for the others, a good lot of them had already retreated after spotting the python . The remaining disciples retreated upon seeing the battle that ensued between Zi Chen and the youth .
“Let’s go!”
Zi Chen stood on the python’s head .
The python was surprisingly obediently . Zi Chen was satisfied . The python had actually saved the lives of everyone present . It had killed Xu Yan, and Zi Chen had ate its energy fountainhead . The python was still not dead, so Zi Chen was also unwilling to kill the python .
The python brought Zi Chen back to the lake’s side again . It stared at Zi Chen’s stomach, a reluctant look in its eyes .
“Does this have any use to you?” Zi Chen produced the Water Spirit Flower from his clothes .
The python nodded its head wistfully . Then it seemed to realise what it had just done, and hurriedly shook its head, backing away from Zi Chen in fear .
“You helped me to defeat a big enemy . I have much gratitude towards you and will not kill you . As for this Water Spirit Flower, it also has its great use to me . I’ll give you two petals of its flower . I hope you can recover your strength someday,” Zi Chen gently said . Reaching out a hand, he plucked out two petals from the Water Spirit Flower . 3I had to . I had to, okay . It put that Zi Chen said this entire thing indifferently but rly . Does this dude have a perpetual face of stone . Changed ‘indifferently’ to ‘gently’ because it fits sooo much better .
The bright petals melted into translucent liquids upon leaving the flower . However, they held together like gelatinous solids, and did not scatter apart . Within each semi-fluid contained an exceedingly dense amount of spirit power . They sparkled like smooth pearls under the sunlight, every inch resplendent . With a point from Zi Chen’s finger, the small pearls glided towards the serpent . 4’Gelatinous’ is slightly original[\footnote]
With eternal gratefulness, the serpent swallowed down the two petals and dived back into the depths of the lake .
Zi Chen left the lake . Numerous eyes of envy and fear followed him .
The fight in the valley was reaching its end . Ferocious beasts began to scatter and flee leaving a sea of corpses in their retreat, both beast and human alike .
But Miao Kong and Zhang Haotian were at home here, scavenging many corpses . Not for collecting spirit medicine, but for collecting contribution points .
Miao Kong operated a qing’gong skill, nimbly darting from body to body . Nobody could outdo him . Zhang Haotian took an even more direct approach; whoever tried to compete with him for hunting contributions points would get knocked away with a fist . Simple and cruel .
Zi Chen opened his mouth to say something upon seeing his best friends pilfering from dead bodies, but his weak protest was bulldozed by Zhang Haotian . “Death is not enough to pardon their crimes . Don’t bother with these things . ”[footnote]He referred to them as inanimate objects, effectively degrading their value . He tells Zi Chen not to treat them as human basically .
Zi Chen didn’t exactly have a good impression towards the deceased here . They had bailed out when he needed help, alright . However, the fact they had even spoke rudely and tried to discourage others from helping while maintaining a tone of righteousness was outright repulsive and vile .
“Senior Brother Zi Chen, what’s the plan now?”
Disciples approached Zi Chen after cleaning out the battlefield of ferocious beasts . “Ling Chen is outside . We need an idea to get out of here . ”
“Whoever’s with you, get out of my sight . ” Before Zi Chen could even reply, Zhang Haotian scowled darkly, his voice laced with poison .
“Senior Zhang Haotian, this is wrong . Now that we’re on the same boat, we should be cooperating together . ”
“That’s right . People should not be too selfish . ”5Lmaoo fuck off snakes
“Ling Chen is outside . We should work together instead of fighting with one another . ”
The group of disciples discussed amongst themselves .
“Now you know how to work together . Where the fuck were you guys before? You inhumane pieces of shit, completely disappear from my sight!” Zhang Haotian snarled .
“Senior Zhang Haotian, this is wrong . We admit that our actions before were less than satisfactory, but we had no means of interfering . After all, it was still an issue within the Ling Wu sect . ”
“Yeah, Ling Wu sect has its customs . Fights within the disciples of its sect cannot be interfered with . ”
“That’s right, the 6 month time limit in the Spirit Medicine Garden is coming to an end soon . We still need to return to the sect . ”6Unsure of what this is referring to, so I’ll leave this here for potential translators . “不错,再说半年的事情很快就到,我们还要回到宗派,毕竟那里才是我们的天地。”
Some disciple had more meaning to their words .
“As long as Senior Brother takes us out, we will definitely be grateful to Senior Brother . When we return, we will not say much . ”
“Today, Senior Brother Zi Chen has displayed powerful might . When he returns to the sect, he will probably cultivate much . We can support Senior Brother in his interests, and help to spread word of his mighty power, so that Ling Wu sect disciples will adore Senior Brother Zi Chen . ”7They plan to spread news of his power so that others will find trouble with him when he becomes popular .
Some people even dropped naked threats .
“I had always thought human nature was beautiful . Who would’ve thought my impression of human nature would have changed this dramatically in a day after seeing so many shameless people . Zi Chen, let’s go . ” Su Mengyao who had been silent all the while blurted out . She could no longer stand it . She pulled Zi Chen by his cuff to the exit of the valley .
“Senior Sister Su Mengyao, you ought to be careful . Ling Chen waits outside . His nature is not any less than Xu Yan’s . We can leave together, the more people the more power…!” Another Ling Wu sect disciple called out . However, his words caught in his mouth as a figure burst towards him with tremendous speed . Like a demon, it appeared in front of him . At the same time, black light loped towards the disciple’s neck .
Chapter 67, END
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