Chapter 157

Chapter 157: Lu Shi Qing and Wen Xuan Fight It Out

Feng He Yun rushed to Wen Xuan’s cave dwelling and ran right into Luo Chu, who was outside brewing medicine for Wen Xuan. Luo Chu asked with some confusion: “Senior Brother, why are you back so soon?”

Feng He Yun wailed, still clutching the Access Jade Token in his hand because he had not even put it away, saying: “Something big happened!”

Before Luo Chu could speak, he shoved him toward the room and said: “Go in first. It really is something big!”

Wen Xuan, whose injuries had mostly healed, looked up and showed the same puzzlement as Luo Chu, saying: “What happened? Senior Brother, do not panic.”

“How can I not panic!” Feng He Yun paced back and forth, then said: “We ran into Shen Sang Ruo while we were shopping.”

“What?” Wen Xuan and Luo Chu both lit up with joy.

Wen Xuan grabbed Feng He Yun’s sleeve and asked: “You saw Little Ruo?”

But Feng He Yun’s next words hit them like a club.

He took a deep breath and said through his teeth: “She had two male cultivators with her, and she called them Senior Brother and Third Senior Brother.”

“She said she has already joined a new sect and taken a new Master.”

Luo Chu’s face went dark at once.

Wen Xuan shot to his feet, seized the front of Feng He Yun’s robe, and asked in disbelief: “What did you say?”

Luo Chu forced a thin smile and said: “How could she join a new sect and take someone else as Master? Senior Brother, you did not drink too much, did you?”

Feng He Yun knocked Wen Xuan’s hand away and snapped: “I am not confused. Two living people. How could I mistake them? She said it herself.”

Wen Xuan went pale. His eyes trembled. His gaze drifted to the Access Jade Token in Feng He Yun’s hand. The way he clenched that jade made Wen Xuan feel like someone was clenching his throat. He had to open his mouth wide just to breathe.

[Why did she not wait for me? I have not yet gotten back the Access Jade Token that belongs to her. Why is she so heartless? I should have acted sooner. If I had returned the jade earlier, would she have not joined a new sect? From fellow Senior Brother and sister to strangers was already my limit. Now she has a new sect, a new Master, new Senior Brothers… Just thinking about it feels like needles stabbing my heart. When I used a silver needle to take the blood near her heart, did she feel this same pain?]

Feng He Yun pressed on, and at the mention of Lu Shi Qing he grew even angrier, saying: “Lu Shi Qing, that heartless dog, was there too.”

“When Shen Sang Ruo said she joined a new sect, he did not react at all. He even said she should have left long ago, that she is the enemy who hurt our Junior Sister.”

“Heartless dog! All these years we really misjudged him.”

“He always liked to bully Shen Sang Ruo the most. He is the one who forced her to leave.”

With a bang, the door of Wen Xuan’s cave was kicked open the moment Feng He Yun finished speaking.

Lu Shi Qing strode in, full of killing intent. The veins stood out on his forehead, and his bloodshot eyes searched the room.

Luo Chu roared with hatred after hearing Feng He Yun’s words, saying: “You still dare come, Lu Shi Qing!”

Lu Shi Qing ignored him. His gaze locked on Wen Xuan, eyes so red it seemed he wanted to tear Wen Xuan apart.

Wen Xuan was already hurting inside. Feeling Lu Shi Qing’s aggressive stare, he did not back down. He met it with his own angry eyes. One hand clasped behind his back, chest straight, chin slightly lifted, he stood with calm grace, still carrying that jade-like air.

Seeing him pose like that made Lu Shi Qing’s eyes go redder. He thought: [Disgusting. Just like the man at Shen Sang Ruo’s side.]

Without another word, Lu Shi Qing attacked Wen Xuan.

None of them expected him to strike Wen Xuan. By the time Feng He Yun and Luo Chu reacted, the two had already fought their way outside the cave.

Feng He Yun shouted: “Lu Shi Qing! Are you crazy!”

Luo Chu called out a warning, saying: “This is Thunder-Scale Peak. You two are fellow Disciples. How can you brawl like this!”

But the two were already fighting fiercely.

Lu Shi Qing had gone back to his cave just to bring all kinds of Gu Poison he had refined. He hurled them without restraint at Wen Xuan, every move aimed to kill.

Wen Xuan was a medical cultivator and not great at attack, but now he threw all the toxic concoctions he had made straight at Lu Shi Qing. His eyes held down deep pain, and he seemed to use this chance to vent his grief.

He would use today to pay back the suffering Little Ruo took because of Lu Shi Qing.

The once harmonious Senior Brothers were now using killing moves on each other. Lu Shi Qing still had residual Gu Poison in his body. Wen Xuan had only just healed from a serious illness. Yet even as two half-sick men, they fought so hard that Feng He Yun and Luo Chu could not even step in.

Their attacks were reckless. They used their full strength. Gu insects and poisonous smoke filled the air. The two onlookers could not get close.

Luo Chu stared at the deadly duel and asked in a panic: “Senior Brother, what do we do? What if they kill each other?” He thought with despair that after this, Thunder-Scale Peak might only have him, Feng He Yun, and Bai Mu Mu left.

He pulled a long face and cried: “What a mess!”

Feng He Yun gritted his teeth and said: “At this point we can only ask Master.” He had not wanted to alarm Master Ling Xiao, but to keep the two from making it worse, there was no other way.

As a Cultivator at the peak of Late Divine Transformation, Master Ling Xiao could hardly miss the disturbance on Thunder-Scale Peak. Inside his cave, he lifted his eyes. A thin layer of anger had already settled there.

He said, voice heavy with pressure: “Bold, wicked Disciples.”

His voice sliced through obstacles and reached Wen Xuan’s cave. All four were pulled straight to Master Ling Xiao’s cave.

Wen Xuan and Lu Shi Qing, who had been trading blows, were pressed to the floor by Master Ling Xiao’s Spiritual Power. Both were injured. Lu Shi Qing was worse and coughed up a mouthful of blood.

Feng He Yun and Luo Chu dropped to their knees, saying: “Greetings, Master.”

Master Ling Xiao’s face was cold. He gave a slow, cutting laugh and said: “You are truly my Disciples, fighting each other on Thunder-Scale Peak.”

“I did not know my Personal Disciples were no different from street brawlers.”

“Have you forgotten my teaching?”

He flicked his sleeve. Waves of Spiritual Power rolled out, full of anger, and flung them all to the ground again. He was truly furious.

Feng He Yun and Luo Chu pressed their foreheads to the floor and said together: “Master, please calm your anger. Your Disciples know our fault.”

Master Ling Xiao’s gaze was icy as he looked down at Wen Xuan and Lu Shi Qing and asked: “Wen Xuan, Lu Shi Qing, tell me your reason for this fight.”