Volume 8, Chapter 562 – One Against Seven (Part 2)

Clang!…

Zheng Wei only heard a piercing sound of metal clashing by his ear. His eardrums ached painfully, and he scrambled to dodge away. Fortunately, his divine sense barely managed to perceive what had just happened. In that very instant, Cao Yang had appeared by his side and, with a swing of his sword, had sent a finely crafted jade hairpin, which had been perilously close, flying away.

‘If it weren’t for him, I’d be dead or defeated right now!’

Zheng Wei snapped to realization, breaking out in a cold sweat all over.

“A domain is nice, but a woman’s body holds more weapons than just her precious sword. If it weren’t for him, I would have already stuffed this hairpin into your mouth by now,” Qi Huang retrieved her hairpin and taunted.

“Cao Yang! You’ve intervened again and again in my disciple’s battle! Don’t be so shameless!” Shi Yuqi gritted her teeth so hard they nearly shattered. Twice! Twice! Each time her disciple was about to win, this little bastard jumped out to meddle. How could she not be furious?

“Win what? Even if I didn’t intervene, Brother Zheng, in a state of extreme fury, could have dodged it!” Cao Yang continued his usual tactic of muddying the waters.

Zheng Wei suddenly caught on and, breaking from precedent, thanked Cao Yang: “Brother Cao speaks most truly! I was merely planning to dodge at the very last moment to show off my movement technique to her. Still, I must thank you for bailing me out!”

“Bailing you out? Brother Zheng, you’re too modest. Where would you need bailing out? I merely wanted to teach her a lesson. She doesn’t even understand that you were deliberately going easy on her, striking without regard for severity or gentleness. Truly ignorant of the immensity of heaven and earth,” Cao Yang continued his act.

“It’s nothing! It’s nothing! When facing juniors, we must certainly have a heart of tolerance,” Zheng Wei seized the chance to step down using the offered opportunity to save face.

“Oh my! Still going easy on me, are you? Then why do I see cold sweat beading on your forehead?” Qi Huang mocked.

Acting on guilty conscience without thinking, Zheng Wei hurriedly reached up to wipe his forehead, looking utterly discomfited.

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“What? Do you feel like you’re sweating too?” Shi Yuqi immediately jeered.

“What sweat? Where is there sweat? It’s clearly just raining,” Zheng Wei, realizing his mistake, hastily withdrew his hand and changed the subject: “The divine sense you utilized just now reached the sixth layer of the Divine Realm, correct? To actually break free from my Supreme Domain!”

“What? Sixth layer Divine Realm? How old is she?!”

“Right? It seems after this battle, the cultivation world will have another monster!”

“Naturally! If she doesn’t count as a monster, then those few guys are even less qualified.”

The spectating cultivators erupted in another wave of astonished exclamations.

“Just so-so. About the same as that guy next to you. If you ask him for help, you might have a sliver of a chance to defeat me. A sliver, mind you! Although it’s still minuscule, you should seize the opportunity,” Qi Huang deliberately provoked.

“To think you were still holding back. Just how powerful is your divine sense?” Cao Yang’s eyes narrowed slightly, his expression extremely grave.

“Want to know? Then find a few more helpers to besiege me. Perhaps you might force me to use ten percent… no… one percent of my strength,” Qi Huang teased, then added: “This is the second time you’ve ruined my plans. Thinking you can remain aloof won’t be so easy anymore.”

“And it’s the second time I’ve stopped you. I don’t believe you’re that strong. Now let me test your actual depth. As for helpers? Unnecessary!” Cao Yang, slightly arrogant, possessed the confidence of a young prodigy. If he could defeat Qi Huang alone, why bother incurring the stigma of bullying the few with many?

“Cao Yang! You keep preaching about being a senior, yet you use wheel battle ¹ fighting in turns to tire an opponent against my disciple! Have you no shame?!” Shi Yuqi trembled with rage.

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“Correct! Doing it this way, even if you win, you’ll have no glory. Don’t think everyone is a fool,” Protector Yuan also voiced support loudly.

“Right, right! You are, after all, the young master of the cultivation world’s number one influential family. Even if you yourself have no face, you should consider your family, shouldn’t you?”

“Consider what? As the saying goes, ‘If the upper beam is not straight, the lower beams are crooked; a bad example corrupts others.’ If even one person in the Cao family understood shame, they wouldn’t do those shameless things.”

“Our Huarong Sect’s strength might not match the Cao family’s, but that doesn’t mean we are fools to be kneaded and squeezed by others.”

The other members of the Huarong Sect also loudly condemned them.

A wave of warmth rose in Qi Huang’s heart. At this moment, she truly felt she was a part of the Huarong Sect.

“Uncle Wang, note down exactly who insulted the Cao family just now. After the Evergreen Conference, we’ll deal with them one by one,” Cao Yang instructed Uncle Wang not far away.

“As you command, Young Master!” Uncle Wang respectfully acknowledged the order, then took out a small notebook and started marking down the protesting Huarong Sect disciples.

“Ridiculous! You keep calling us in-laws, yet you still plan to retaliate? Aren’t you afraid of being laughed at by the entire cultivation world?!” Shi Yuqi angrily rebuked.

“Who dares to laugh? Uncle Wang, note down anyone who dares to laugh too. We’ll deal with them slowly,” Cao Yang said shamelessly.

“Alliance Leader Cao! As the deputy leader of the Immortal Alliance and Cao Yang’s second granduncle, don’t you intend to do something about this?” Protector Yuan appealed to Cao Hong nearby for help.

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“Protector Yuan, don’t take it seriously. My eldest grandson is joking. Even if something really happens to those young ladies later, it definitely won’t be his doing,” Cao Hong said dismissively. Although the different branches of the Cao family would stop at nothing in their struggle for the clan leader position, that was an internal conflict. It didn’t mean he would favor an outsider over his own.

“Yes, I was just joking. Please don’t take it to heart. We are in-laws, after all,” Cao Yang also laughed with ill intent.

“Finished talking? Can we start?” Qi Huang sounded somewhat impatient. She was already itching to teach this shameless scoundrel a lesson.

“Of course!” Cao Yang smiled playfully, then instructed Zheng Wei beside him: “Brother Zheng, you’ve worked hard. Rest first. Let me… guide her for a bit.”

“Be extremely careful!” Zheng Wei urged uneasily before preparing to leave.

“Trying to leave? Did I permit you to leave?” Qi Huang let out a cold laugh.

“What do you mean?” Cao Yang asked, puzzled.

“The meaning is simple. I just said: whoever doesn’t admit defeat will be beaten until they dare not quibble anymore. Thinking you can run away? I’m afraid it’s not that easy.” As soon as Qi Huang finished speaking, she vanished from her spot. An overwhelming divine sense erupted from within her, like a terrifying earthquake striking a calm water surface, instantly stirring up monstrous waves that swept out in all directions, scouring away all the golden True Qi that had been blocking the sunlight. The Supreme Domain was shattered.

And Qi Huang had already appeared in front of Zheng Wei a step ahead. The hairpin in her hand ruthlessly stabbed towards his ear.

Zheng Wei completely failed to react. He only felt a fragrant breeze brush past his face. Before he could even become intoxicated by it, a tingling numbness spread from his right ear. He reached up stupidly to touch it, only then discovering a large chunk of his ear was missing.

“Ah!!!” Zheng Wei finally let out a miserable scream and clutched his ear.

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Only then did Cao Yang beside him react. He turned around with a dumbstruck look, his face filled with utter horror.

Qi Huang halted her movement, then played with the still immaculate hairpin, mocking: “Weren’t you going to display your movement techniques for me? What happened? Where’s the technique? Are you demonstrating how to wail for everyone instead?”

“And you, Cao Yang! Why didn’t you take action to teach a step in to teach a lesson to this junior who doesn’t know the immensity of heaven and earth? Didn’t feel like it?” Qi Huang then provoked Cao Yang.

“Mother of heavens! Why does her speed seem even faster than before?”

“Oh my heavens! How does her speed seem even faster than before?”

“Not ‘seem’, it is much faster. My divine sense is at the third layer of the Divine Realm, and I couldn’t capture her figure at all!”

“Mine is at the fourth layer of the Divine Realm. I could barely catch her trajectory, but couldn’t make out any details at all.”

“By the heavens! Doesn’t that mean her speed just now at least reached the late stage Divine Realm? Just where is her upper limit?”

The spectating cultivators were utterly convinced now, each face filled with awe and respect.

“You… you little bitch! How dare you injure me!” Zheng Wei, maddened by pain, lost his rationality and cursed outright, completely failing to realize how terrifying her speed had been just moments ago.

“Daring to injure the number one Immortal Seed of our Zhizun Peak! Does the Huarong Sect wish to sever its lineage?!” The sharp-mouthed and monkey-cheeked Elder Liu from Zhizun Peak also charged forward, hopping mad like a dog whose tail had been stepped on.