Chapter 073

Chapter 73: She Is My Disciple, My Only Disciple

He was a genius who shone in the Cultivation World at a very young age. For some reason, his clan locked him in an underground prison for more than ten years. When he got out, the first thing he did was kill his clansmen.

He destroyed his whole clan.

He left with a smile.

This was Pei Xuan’s rise to fame. He came from a famous righteous family, yet he seemed more like a devil cultivator than a devil cultivator. Because the slaughter was so shocking, the Cultivation World once put out a wanted notice for him. They felt they could not let him keep growing stronger, because among those he killed was even an expert at the Divine Transformation Stage. At that time, Pei Xuan was only at Core Formation.

He crossed two realms to cut down a Divine Transformation expert. It shook the whole Cultivation World.

Many guessed he carried a secret treasure. So he was attacked from all sides and hunted everywhere. Then he disappeared, as if he had vanished from the world.

A year later, people found him at Heavenly One Sect. The previous Sect Master of Heavenly One Sect had taken him as a disciple. Faced with everyone’s questions, the Heavenly One Sect Sect Master gave a blunt answer and said: “This child has great talent. I have not taken a student for many years, so I brought him back. If any of you have a problem with that, come to Heavenly One Sect and talk to me.”

That Sect Master’s cultivation was Tribulation Stage.

People weighed their own strength and remembered Heavenly One Sect’s way of doing things, and they all gave up. Even those who wanted the secret treasure did not dare to offend Heavenly One Sect at that time.

That sect is famous for being crazy. They do not care about rules. They do what they want.

Long ago, their ancestor at Heart Questioning flew into a rage and slaughtered a whole city of cultivators, trading an Ascension Stage cultivation for a “Only Heart.” His soul scattered and he was gone. This has been a taboo no one dares to discuss in the great sects to this day.

So people in the Cultivation World have long said: better to provoke the sect masters of the three great sects than to offend even a dog of Heavenly One Sect. Because you cannot afford it. They really dare to kill.

Yu Chun remembered all this. Hearing that name again, his face grew ashen and he said: “Why would he come down the mountain?”

Long ago, rumors said Pei Xuan promised his master he would meditate on Snow Mountain for a hundred years and would not leave. Then Yu Chun thought, it was not just a hundred years. It had already been three hundred years since Pei Xuan entered Heavenly One Sect.

The new generation of disciples hardly knew his stories. But Yu Chun never forgot. No one knew why the Pei clan locked up such a genius boy. Yet Pei Xuan’s heartlessness was famous. His cruelty was also famous.

Hearing his name, Pei Xuan glanced at Yu Chun and said: “I did not expect someone still remembers me.”

Yu Chun hurried to bow and said with a trembling voice: “Junior Yu Chun greets Senior Pei. I did not know senior was visiting and failed to welcome you. May I ask, senior, why you have come to Supreme Sect?”

By the end, Yu Chun was very nervous. The visitor was not friendly.

Dou Ming was stunned. There were not many people who could make Yu Chun call them senior. But this man looked very young.

Pei Xuan’s calm gaze fell on Miao Lake and he said: “I heard the former master of this place had the surname Ye.”

Yu Chun did not understand, but he looked toward the main peak and saw three streaks of light flying over. He felt a little easier and answered in a low voice: “The current master also has the surname Ye.”

Pei Xuan looked at him and suddenly smiled, saying: “Is that the same? A mediocre person does not deserve such a fine house.”

Before Yu Chun could answer, ice and snow spread from under Pei Xuan’s feet. In an instant, spiritual power surged out and sealed the whole Miao Lake. Everyone felt the cold of deep winter. They were cultivators who could run their spiritual power to resist normal cold, but under Pei Xuan’s pressure, even Yu Chun felt a terrifying chill.

The whole Miao Lake froze. A crystal snowflake drifted to Pei Xuan. He caught it and murmured: “Things that do not deserve it should be destroyed.”

With a roar, a huge flower of flame burst from the depths of Miao Lake. It melted the ice lake and turned the rising steam into a fairyland mist. But below lay a broken, scarred lake bed. Before anyone could see clearly, blazing fire elements surged up from the depths.

Disciples cried out: “It is lava!”

The lava rose bit by bit from below. It covered the lake bed and swallowed the houses in front of them. The change came in an instant. Yu Chun did not react. Dou Ming did not either. When the buildings began to shake and painful screams came from inside, Dou Ming woke up and shouted: “Junior sister!”

Ye Qian had a Water Spiritual Root. With her heavy injuries, fire was the greatest taboo. A single mistake could ruin her foundation.

Dou Ming rushed in, carried Ye Qian on his back, and ran out. Yu Chun grew anxious and said: “Senior, we can talk this out. This is the land of Supreme Sect. Acting like this hurts both sects.”

Pei Xuan said mildly: “I said I am Pei Xuan, not Heavenly One Sect’s Pei Xuan.”

Yu Chun fell silent: “…”

So if he did not report his sect, he was not from Heavenly One Sect?

Pei Xuan flicked the snowflake from his hand. It fell onto the lava and still did not melt. From that small detail, Yu Chun could feel how fearsome this man’s control over spiritual power was.

Yu Chun felt true fear. He knew one thing very clearly. If Pei Xuan wanted to kill every disciple on Azure Cloud Peak, he could do it with a snap of his fingers. Azure Cloud Peak would not survive.

“This is Supreme Sect’s land. Fellow daoist, stop your arrogance!” Three elders came Sword Riding. With one strike they split the lava lake and rushed at Pei Xuan.

But before anyone saw Pei Xuan move, a ground fire dragon burst from the lava and slammed into their swords. Before all eyes, the hundred foot fire dragon tangled with the three elders in a fierce fight.

Pei Xuan said calmly: “In these hundreds of years, it has been a long time since anyone praised me like that.”

He raised his eyes, cold, and said: “So I am arrogant. What of it.”

Seeing the three elders trapped by the fire dragon, the disciples turned as pale as paper. Someone cried loudly: “The three elders cannot beat him. They cannot beat him!”

Those three were all at Nascent Soul Stage Great Perfection, and yet they could not defeat a youth who looked barely over twenty.

“Run!”

“Fellow Daoist Pei, why do this,” a white light fell and pressed the fire dragon. Cheng Wen appeared in midair, his expression complex.

The three elders’ faces went white and they said: “Sect Master.”

Yu Chun was excited and said: “Sect Master!”

Pei Xuan stood tall and looked at Cheng Wen, his face unchanged, and said: “I promised my senior brother that on this trip down the mountain I would not kill anyone.”

Cheng Wen’s expression eased a little and he asked: “Then you…”

“I am looking for someone.”

“Who?”

“Yan Ding.”

Everyone fell silent.

Cheng Wen paused. What grudge did Pei Xuan have with Junior Brother Yan? The elders looked at each other and none of them understood.

“Junior Brother Yan has been in closed door cultivation for half a year and has not come out,” Cheng Wen said with doubt. “I do not know what happened between you two.”

Pei Xuan let out a low laugh. But hearing him laugh only made everyone more tense.

He said lightly: “There is no grudge. But his disciple bullied my only disciple. As her master, should I not seek some justice for my disciple?”

The elders looked at each other. None of them had guessed he came for this. And when had Pei Xuan taken a disciple? When did the disciples of both sides even clash?

Cheng Wen had a guess and asked: “Your disciple is…”

“The genius Ye Wan Wan,” Pei Xuan said, looking at Cheng Wen with a slight smile. “The number one genius in today’s Cultivation World, Ye Wan Wan.”

“She is my disciple.”

Azure Cloud Peak fell completely silent.