“What’s all this yelling about? Don’t you know where this is?” A young man walked out angrily. He looked displeased.
Tian Yinghao smiled embarrassedly. The young man did not have a high cultivation base, but he had a rather strong background in the sect.
Xu Guangji was the grandson of Xu Feiyu—one of the smithing masters—and was regarded as a rising smithing genius in the sect. Although his smithing art was somewhat on par with Tian Yinghao at the moment, given his young age and family background, not many in the Smithing Hall dared to offend him easily.
Tian Yinghao’s face changed, but he did not have the guts to provoke Xu Feiyu. As such, he could only hold back his temper and suffer in silence. “Ah, it’s you, Junior Brother Xu. Hehe, I’m looking for Elder Bai for something important, which was why I was a little impatient. Please forgive me.”
“Hmph, so what if you’re looking for Elder Bai? If everyone screams like you over trivial matters, can the masters in the Smithing Hall still smith anything?” Xu Guangji rolled his eyes and questioned coldly, “If a master happens to be reaching a crucial point during a smithing process but is disturbed by your noise, can you bear the responsibility?”
The smile on Tian Yinghao’s face froze instantly. Even the onlookers had weird looks on their faces.
“Uhm, Junior Brother Xu, I’ve never offended you before, have I?” Tian Yinghao asked in a deep voice.
He was not an idiot. If he still did not understand what was going on after being aimed at like that, he would be too dumb.
Smithing masters were extremely steady, so how could they be easily distracted by a short sentence? Besides, they would normally isolate themselves if they were smithing important pieces of equipment. Not to mention shouting just once or twice, even if Tian Yinghao lost his voice from screaming at the top of his lungs, the smithing masters might not even hear him.
Xu Guangji sneered. “Senior Brother Tian, I was only speaking impartially. Does it matter if you’ve offended me or not?”
Tian Yinghao was furious but because he could rebuke Xu Feiyu regardless of the young man’s reputation, a familiar voice was heard. “Tian Yinghao, what’s the matter?”
He tensed up a little, and he immediately curbed his thought before he greeted the person with respect, “Elder Bai, you’re here.”
Bai Zhiyi paced toward him and the young man. “Tell me—what is it?”
Seeing as Bai Zhiyi had come, Xu Guangji looked slightly fearful too. He lowered his head a bit.
He dared to pick on Tian Yinghao, but he was not bold enough to provoke Bai Zhiyi. This was one of the rules in the sect, where it would be a serious offense for one to contradict an elder face-to-face.
Tian Yinghao answered right away, “Elder Bai, I did as you asked and… Brought the things here.”
He responded ambiguously while slightly moving his hand that was on his chest.
Bai Zhiyi’s eyes lit up, and he laughed out loud. “Great—you did great!”
“Oh? What is it that you take so much notice of, Brother Bai?” A figure slowly walked out from a room. It was Xu Feiyu, who was smiling faintly but had a fierce look in his eyes.
Elder Bai frowned and answered, “These are some treasures that I asked him to purchase. I was about to have them sent to the Smithing Hall’s depot.”
Tian Yinghao’s eyes gleamed all of a sudden. He noted, “Elder Bai, Brother Ou instructed me to distribute them to the people in need by today.” He paused for a while before he emphasized, “Yes, by today.”
“By today?” Bai Zhiyi was dumbfounded for some time. He mumbled, “Why is he in such a rush? Is he lacking spirit ores?”
“He said that the number of spirit ores can be discussed, but the distribution must be done fast.” Tian Yinghao shook his head.
Xu Feiyu’s eyes flickered, and he asked, “Tian Yinghao, are you talking about Ou Yangming?”
When the other people heard Ou Yangming’s name, they fell silent for a second. As for Xu Guangji, he pursed his lips and subconsciously clenched his fists.
Before Bai Zhiyi brought Ou Yangming to the mountain, Xu Guangji was the most well-known God-favored one among the blacksmiths from the Beast King Sect. Moreover, everyone had high hopes in him as the leader of the younger generation. Nonetheless, the challenge on the mountain that day almost caused him to be completely humiliated.
He did not express it, but he hated Ou Yangming to the bones.
Even so, he did not have the guts to seek revenge from the young fellow at this time.
Not to mention that Ou Yangming made a hit during the Auction Meet, so much so that Yuqi the Venerable One showed up and walked with him, even without the Venerable One, the others would not act rashly due to Sect Elder Peng Yanbing’s high praises for him alone.
Therefore, after knowing that Tian Yinghao and Ou Yangming had gotten quite close lately, Xu Guangji could not help but secretly aim at the former.
Bai Zhiyi chuckled and asked, “Brother Xu, I’m the one handling these things, so it doesn’t matter whether they belonged to him, right?”
Xu Feiyu scoffed. “Tian Yinghao, what treasures are you carrying? Show me!”
Tian Yinghao quivered a little and smiled apologetically as he replied to the elder, “Elder Xu, I really don’t have anything.”
“Hmph, if you don’t have anything, what are you carrying in front of your chest? A lump of sh*t?” Xu Feiyu reprimanded him mercilessly.
Tian Yinghao flushed but similar to how Xu Guangji dared not offend Bai Zhiyi, he was also not daring enough to denounce Xu Feiyu.
Bai Zhiyi looked deeply at Xu Feiyu and said, “Brother Xu, Yinghao has acquired some treasures for our sect, and they’ll be given to the disciples as benefits.” He paused for a while before he continued, “It’s better to keep them in the depot as soon as possible so that they can be given out.” He turned around and ordered, “Hurry up and go.”
Tian Yinghao responded to the elder loudly and thought, ‘Elder Bai is impressive indeed.’
Xu Feiyu’s face reddened. ‘Isn’t Bai Zhiyi simply regarding me as nothing? I must stop this unhealthy trend or I’ll lose my prestige.’
“You can’t leave!” He yelled madly while glaring at Tian Yinghao. Following that, he turned to look at Bai Zhiyi and uttered loudly, “I still don’t know what darn things he’s hiding. Hmph, treasures? If they’re really treasures, they’re too unworthy, aren’t they?”
Xu Feiyu’s eyes were like lightning. He could not see through Tian Yinghao’s clothes, but he could tell from the outline that there were a bunch of treasures inside.
‘How can a bunch of things be treasures? Who are you trying to fool…’
Xu Feiyu and Bai Zhiyi were used to going against each other. Since the former thought that he had something to use against the latter, how could he let go of this easily?
Bai Zhiyi’s face finally took on a grim look. He stared at Xu Feiyu and noted coldly, “Brother Xu, please don’t overdo this. Don’t be shameless!”
“I’d like to see who the shameless one is,” Xu Feiyu stated coldly. He fixed his gaze on Tian Yinghao and said, “Show me—I’d like to see what treasures they are.”
Bai Zhiyi smiled faintly and asked, “They’re going to be sent to the sect’s depot and distributed. Are you sure you want them to be revealed here?”
Xu Feiyu responded proudly, “Yes, I’m an elder in our sect too, so I don’t want to see rewards in our sect be replaced by fakes. These things must be inspected!”
Elder Bai sighed and suggested, “Brother Xu, I know you’re directed this at me but there won’t be an end to our enmity if we don’t settle it, so why don’t we bury the hatchet now?”
Tian Yinghao blinked and tried to hold back from turning to look.
‘It turns out that Elder Bai knows how to lure someone into a trap too. Judging from how Elder Xu’s behaving, he probably won’t be able to escape from the trap.’
Sure enough, Xu Feiyu sneered and replied to
Bai Zhiyi, “Brother Bai, I’m not directing this at you; I only want to carry out a routine check, so please cooperate.”
Bai Zhiyi suddenly widened his eyes and released a strong momentum. He straightened his body and said loudly, “Okay, Xu Feiyu, since you’re pressing us so much, you won’t be given a share of what I’ve collected this time.”
Xu Feiyu was stunned. He was somehow regretful when he noticed the sudden burst of Bai Zhiyi’s momentum, but he knew better that there was no way out for him anymore.
He looked up and burst out laughing. “Why would I want your stuff? Don’t worry, regardless of what treasures they are, me, my family, and my friends won’t lay a finger on them!”
“Great!” Bai Zhiyi was just waiting for Xu Feiyu to say that. He later waved his hand in high spirits and instructed, “Tian Yinghao, take them out!”
Tian Yinghao was startled. “Here…?”
“Yes, here. Quickly.” Bai Zhiyi urged him.
Tian Yinghao smiled bitterly and shook his head helplessly. Subsequently, he began to retrieve the interspatial bags one by one.
Bai Zhiyi and Xu Feiyu’s argument had long spread far and wide in the Smithing Hall. Most people walked around them without wanting to help either of them, but the number of onlookers in the distance slowly increased. Even if they dared not stare at the scene, they glanced over from time to time.
Tian Yinghao lay a piece of white cloth on the ground before he laid out the interspatial bags one after another.
The crowd was shocked. They were surprised yet doubtful when they saw the interspatial bags.
If Tian Yinghao had only revealed only a few of them, someone might have exclaimed.
However, there were at least 30 interspatial bags on the white cloth. Even though they could sense the auras released by the bags and had guessed the truth, they dared not believe it.
Interspatial bags—they were interspatial bags!
The Beast King Sect was an influential force, but they could only provide 100 interspatial bags to outsiders every year. More bags were provided to the disciples from the sect, but there were only about 200 of them.
Given how rare the interspatial bags were, they were not enough to be distributed, thus everyone knew how precious they were.
At this point, even Bai Zhiyi was stupefied. He knew what they were, but he thought that Tian Yinghao only had roughly 8 of them.
One would be surprised if there were less than 10 interspatial bags, shocked if there were more than 10 of them, but the fact that there were over 30 of them… One would be in disbelief.
Chapter 704 - A War Is Coming
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
“Wh-what are these?” Xu Guangli widened his eyes and spoke incoherently as he looked at the tens of bags on the ground.
He was familiar with their patterns and auras, and he looked at them covetously. This was the advantage of an influential sect, where disciples that never possessed interspatial bags had still seen them in different places and could identify them.
Nonetheless, when there were 30 over interspatial bags, which were piled up together, even one with the strongest belief became hesitant.
Tian Yinghao chuckled and uttered proudly, “Junior Brother Xu, take a guess!”
Xu Guangji turned slightly pale. He opened his mouth but could not say a word.
Eventually, someone could not hold it back anymore and asked out loud, “Senior Brother Tian, are these… Interspatial bags?”
The person that raised the question was a conscientious person from the Smithing Hall. He was aware of the conflict between Xu Feiyu and Bai Zhiyi, but he never got involved and still did not want to be entangled in it. Nevertheless, he was moved when he saw so many interspatial bags.
Tian Yinghao looked up arrogantly like a proud big rooster that had just crowed in the morning. “Yes, these are all interspatial bags!”
There was instantly a clamor in the crowd. After all, there were over 30 interspatial bags. Even for the gifted fellows that only refined interspatial bags without doing anything else every day, they had never seen so many interspatial bags being piled up together.
Bai Zhiyi looked deeply at Tian Yinghao, then he turned around and laughed out loud. “Brother Xu, do you think that these interspatial bags are reliable? Why don’t you check them?”
Xu Feiyu was red with anger, and he also regretted his actions very much.
At the end of the day, those were interspatial bags. Although he had one, who would not want more? Besides, even Xu Guangji—his precious grandson—did not have one.
“Elder Bai, how will these interspatial bags be handled?” Someone blurted, “I’d like to purchase one—may I?”
His voice seemed to have triggered everyone else, causing the others to shout as well. Consequently, the scene became rather chaotic.
Even so, nobody dared to rush forward to snatch the interspatial bags. This was because they knew while they could make noise about them, they would be violating the sect’s rules if they tried to steal the bags. In the end, they would end up tragically.
Bai Zhiyi laughed and was about to reply to the person when a heavy voice was heard.
“What are you doing? Do you not have anything to do?”
The crowd was appalled when they turned to look.
Peng Yanbing was pacing into the Smithing Hall. After scanning the interspatial bags on the ground, he asked coldly, “Were these interspatial bags refined by Lil’ Friend Ou?”
Everyone present could not help but gasp. As for Xu Feiyu and his grandson, they even turned pale.
Peng Yanbing was the sect elder that was in charge of the Smithing Hall, but he addressed Ou Yangming as Lil’ Friend Ou… The other people could not figure out what that meant.
Tian Yinghao shivered a little, but he immediately answered, “Sect Elder, yes.”
At this point, he could not bring himself to pronounce the words “Brother Ou”.
Peng Yanbing nodded and instructed, “Keep the interspatial bags and send them to the inner hall.”
Tian Yinghao responded to him but was hesitant.
“Why? Does anyone have any opinion on this?” Peng Yanbing was displeased. He looked at Xu Feiyu half-intentionally.
Xu Feiyu smiled bitterly and answered, “Sect Elder, that’s fine with me.”
Tian Yinghao fell silent for a brief moment before he expressed carefully, “Sect Elder, he hopes that these interspatial bags will be distributed by today. As for their prices… They can be discussed.”
“By today?” Peng Yanbing raised his eyebrow and pondered for some time before he continued, “I understand. If that’s the case, send them to the hall first; I’ll sort them out after this. As for their prices, I won’t let him suffer any loss.”
Tian Yinghao finally sighed a breath of relief. He gathered the interspatial bags and left in a hurry.
Peng Yanbing looked coldly at everyone else and noted, “I have arrangements for this batch of interspatial bags, so you’re not allowed to intervene. After 3 months, I’ll arrange for another batch of interspatial bags to be sent to the Smithing Hall, so you can distribute those instead.”
Many people howled in grief at first, but Peng Yanbing was one of the sect elders, by which even Bai Zhiyi and Xu Feiyu dared not oppose him at all. However, when they heard what the elder said at the end, they cheered.
Peng Yanbing shook his head. He turned around and took a step out when he suddenly stopped to look at Xu Feiyu. “You’ve been in the sect for decades, so you should be rewarded for hard work even if you haven’t done meritorious deeds.” He sighed and stated, “Bring your grandson to the ground level in the Rock Cave and stay there for a few years.”
Xu Feiyu lowered his head very much and replied to him, “Yes. Thank you, Sect Elder.”
Following that, Peng Yanbing walked away calmly with his hands behind his back. He headed to the depot.
The other people cast pitying looks at X
u Feiyu and his grandson and quickly stayed away as if they were afraid of staying too close to them.
Bai Zhiyi clicked his tongue. The fight that lasted for decades between him and Xu Feiyu had finally come to an end, but he somehow had a complicated feeling about it as though he was not delighted at all.
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Ou Yangming knew nothing about the disorder that happened outside the Smithing Wall.
He was still an outsider in the Beast King Sect, after all. Moreover, Xu Feiyu was not a direct threat to him, hence nobody used the scandal of internal strife in the sect to fawn over him.
Having said that, he soon realized that he had lesser neighbors.
It seemed like someone had secretly arranged to evacuate the people around his courtyard. It was done very discreetly but there used to be many people around, thus the secret could not be kept from him.
Needless to say, Ou Yangming would not ask anyone about it. In fact, he was quite satisfied with the arrangement.
He would somewhat benefit from not having those strange neighbors, whom he never greeted. At the very least, it would be relatively easy for him to find a quiet and peaceful environment.
After studying the dragon shield, Ou Yangming began to cultivate his martial arts and secret spiritual techniques.
He had discovered them from the memories of the Phoenixes, so they were considered top-notch; even the techniques from the Beast King Sect’s hidden place could not be mentioned on equal terms with them.
When Ou Yangming stopped after a day, he heard from Big Yellow that Tian Yinghao had returned.
He arrived at the main hall and had just let Tian Yinghao in when the man retrieved an interspatial and said, “Brother Ou, I’ve sold all of them. These are your spirit ores, so please count them.”
Ou Yangming grinned and briefly scanned with his mental conception but was shocked. “Why are there so many of them?”
According to his estimation, if he wanted the interspatial bags to be sold in such a short period, he would be paid much lesser than this.
It was not that the Beast King Sect’s disciples were willing to spend on interspatial bags, but normal cultivators could not meet the prices of those bags. While most people wanted interspatial bags, not many of them had sufficient spirit ores to purchase them. As such, they would negotiate during this opportunity, and Tian Yinghao would definitely consider offers if he wanted to sell all of the interspatial bags in a day.
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