“Release me…” Bei Moi’s face was red as he tried to struggle, but he found that the Inner Strength inside him had been sealed.
“Stop!”
Lord Guanjun immediately flew over and a sharp silver glow appeared on his arms.
Shoooook!
The full power of a Holy martial artist flew at Quan Chen. Quan Chen smiled and he let go of Bei Moi as a cold moon symbol appeared on his hands, which clashed with Lord Guanjun’s move.
Zzzzzz~
The remaining energy swept up everything nearby and destroyed the building in an instant. A large hole appeared where the two exchanged moves.
Shua! Shua!
The two figures flew into the air and exchanged lightning-fast blows.
Peng! Boom! Bam…
The cultivators nearby only felt figures teleport through the air and everywhere they went an extremely loud sound would appear.
“Is this a fight between Holy martial artists…?”
Through Zhao Feng’s left eye, he could see the process of the two fighting and he moved back and forth to make sure he wasn’t hit by the residual energy.
Pah----
At a certain moment, an extremely loud thumping sound appeared as the two figures landed back on the ground.
“Uncle, your cultivation hasn’t seemed to improve in the couple of years we haven’t met.”
Quan Chen landed on the ground with his hands behind his back with a dazzling smile.
“You…” Lord Guanjun managed to say as a streak of blood leaked out of his mouth.
Chapter 101 - Betrayal!
The scene caused the others to stare in shock. Who would have thought that the legendary Lord Guanjun would be beaten so easily by a youth?
“Master!” Ye Linyun and the others exclaimed as they ran to Lord Guanjun’s side. The group of people stared angrily at Quan Chen, but it still couldn’t hide the fear in their hearts.
“None of you attack!” Lord Guanjun steadied himself and told his disciples.
He was only barely able to stand by himself. Looking at his figure, Zhao Feng found something in his heart move. If there wasn’t Lord Guanjun, all of them would only have the destiny of being killed mercilessly.
“Uncle Xu, I’m not a killing maniac,” Quan Chen smiled as his eyes landed upon Bei Moi.
Shua!
His figure disappeared as he instantly appeared in front of Bei Moi.
“What do you…?” Bei Moi’s expression changed as he realized that his Inner Strength had been sealed. Quan Chen stood in front of him, but he didn’t make any further moves.
“Brother Bei Moi, you’re Uncle Xu Ran’s core disciple, so you should know that the nine ranks of the Martial Path are just a foundation. Only at the Holy Martial Path does it truly begin…” Quan Chen’s voice was calm and soothing.
The others present such as Zhao Feng didn’t have a clue about what he meant.
“I know.”
Bei Moi tried to break through the seal in body without any sounds. “The nine ranks of the Martial Path are known as the Consolidation Realm, with the meaning of strengthening the foundation. After the Consolidation Realm is the Ascended Realm, and then the True Spirit Realm. The Ascended Realm is known as the Holy Martial Path in the mortal world, when one exceeds the limits of mortals…”
Consolidated Realm, Ascended Realm, True Spirit Realm…
His analysis drew Zhao Feng and the others go into deep thought. It was hard to imagine that the nine ranks of the Martial Path were only a realm of foundation.
“The world is bigger than you think. Your Master is only at the Second Sky of the Ascended Realm and he is just an ant in the Clan,” Quan Chen said mockingly.
An ant? The disciples all turned angry.
“Don’t humiliate my Master!” Ye Linyun and Yang Qingshan both screamed.
Quan Chen had the same casual smile on and he didn’t bother explaining. Even though he was alone, he still held the advantage against almost ten cultivators of the ninth rank and a Holy martial artist. Lord Guanjun’s side didn’t dare to make any rash moves.
“This is strength! If one has enough strength, they won’t even need to fear an entire Province City.” Zhao Feng was shocked and helpless at the same time. The youth right in front of him had the power to crush the entire Guanjun Palace City under his foot.
“Look, your Master didn’t even disagree with me. He’s just an underling of the Clan, a talented genius such as you would be limited by having someone such as him as your Master,” Quan Chen said slowly.
Bei Moi’s face was flushed red as he tried to break the seals inside his body, but failed time and time again.
“What do you want?” Bei Moi finally gave up.
He had to admit that this youth in front of him had power surpassing his Master’s, and the young man had said Master had exceeded the Ascended Realm, reaching the True Spirit Realm.
“My Master is someone who has reached the True Spirit Realm and an elder of the Broken Moon Clan. He holds the power to look down on the heavens, that is a true powerful person!” Quan Chen’s voice had excitement and admiration in it.
True Spirit Realm. This was a realm that even Lord Guanjun would bow down to.
Quan Chen’s words made Lord Guanjun speechless. Maybe what Quan Chen spoke was the truth.
At this moment, both sides were quiet.
Lord Guanjun’s eyes twinkled sadly as he sighed, “Bei Moi, you can make the decision.”
“Hahaha…Uncle Xu! You’re so cooperative, do you think that you’re worthy to be Bei Moi’s Master as well?” Quan Chen’s laughter was arrogant.
Soon he turned once again to Bei Moi. “My teacher is known as Hai Yun Master and he is giving you the chance to let him be your Master, are you willing?”
Master? This…
Hesitation showed on Bei Moi’s face.
“If you agree and become a disciple of an elder, you can become an inner disciple straight away. This way, you will have a higher starting point and you will have the chance to meet true geniuses across the continent…” Quan Chen’s voice was extremely persuasive.
The hearts of Zhao Feng and the others not far away started to sway as well. What would be the true stage of the world be like? Back at Sun Feather City, Zhao Feng already had great expectations of the outside world.
“If you become a disciple of an elder, you will have a greater future,” Quan Chen’s voice softened.
He didn’t attack Bei Moi, instead, he talked about the outside world. At this moment, Bei Moi’s decision was to either become a lowly outer disciple or to become the disciple of an elder.
“Hehehe, you should also know one more thing. Xu Ran isn’t on friendly terms with my teacher, Hai Yun Master. If you enter the Clan as his disciple, I can promise that you won’t have a good future,” Quan Chen’s smile was cold enough to make the youths hiccup.
It wasn’t hard to imagine that Lord Guanjun and Quan Chen’s teacher had a bad relationship. If one was a disciple of Lord Guanjun and entered the Clan, they would be suppressed and their future blocked. No matter how high Bei Moi’s talent was, he was still an ant in the eyes of an elder. If the elder wanted to suppress him and stop him from growing, it would be simple.
Hearing this, cold sweat appeared on Bei Moi’s forehead.
“What’s your decision?” Quan Chen gently swiped his hands and opened the seal suppressing Bei Moi’s Inner Strength.
Hesitation and struggle appeared on Bei Moi’s face as he looked at Lord Guanjun and Quan Chen. The other disciples were about to shout at him, but Lord Guanjun stopped them.
Finally, Bei Moi said expressionlessly, “I am willing to follow Hai Yun Master.”
After making this decision, he expressionlessly took the sweating and cursing from the others.
“Good good! A thousand years later you will not regret this decision!” A satisfied look appeared on Quan Chen’s face, then he imm
ediately appeared in front of Lord Guanjun.
“Uncle Xu Ran, I’m here to take this disciple who is willing to come with me away. There shouldn’t be any problems right?” Quan Chen had a smug expression on as he looked at Lord Guanjun.
In his eyes was playfulness as he admired Lord Guanjun’s helpless expression.
“Go.” Lord Guanjun was pale faced as he waved his hands, it seemed like he had aged 20 years in an instant.
At this moment, Zhao Feng and the others had unwillingness in their eyes, they all knew how much care and anticipation Lord Guanjun had put on Bei Moi.
At this moment, a super genius had been taken away right in front of his eyes by the enemy, how could he not be sad?
Zhao Feng seemed to hear the blood dripping in Lord Guanjun’s heart.
“Xu Ran! Teacher told me to tell you something. You shall be stepped on by him for your entire life. Your woman and disciple will be taken by him as well!” Quan Chen said coldly before he left.
Wah!
Lord Guanjun almost fainted from anger.
“You shall be stepped on by him for your entire life. Your woman and disciple will be taken by him too!”
The sentences echoed throughout the hall twice.
The hearts of Zhao Feng and the others turned cold, it was hard to imagine what Lord Guanjun had gone through back at the Clan. Lord Guanjun would be defeated time and time again by 'that person' and even lost the woman he loved to him.
He had spent so much time and effort to raise a genius who could beat “that person”, but this disciple of his had been taken by the opposition as well.
“This is an unfair fight, that Hai Yun Master’s just playing around with Master.” Righteous anger surged in Zhao Feng’s heart.
He was just an outer disciple of Lord Guanjun, so there weren’t many feelings between them, but at this moment, he had the urge to deal justice to the opponent.
Sending away Bei Moi and Quan Chen with their eyes, the morale of the remaining people was low.
Ye Linyun, Yang Qinshan, Nan Gongfan were all angry as swore and cursed Bei Moi for betraying Master.
“Don’t blame Bei Moi,” Lord Guanjun said bitterly.
“Master, why are you still defending that bastard?” Nan Gongfan said angrily.
Lord Guanjun took in a deep breath as said: “Bei Moi is very smart. With his potential, he cultivation might’ve been crippled if he didn’t agree. Because a genius like him would be taken in by the upper class of the Clan, which is something that Hai Yun Master doesn’t want to see.”
Hearing Lord Guanjun’s analysis, Zhao Feng and the others understood immediately. Betrayal or crippled forever was not a choice at all. Bei Mo had not had any choice at all.
Lord Guanjun seemed much older as he looked at the remaining disciples. “Bei Moi’s gone, but there will still be three recommendations.”
Now that Bei Moi had left, the competition was lower, which was a good thing for the other disciples.
“The potential of yours is far lower than Bei Moi’s. Once you enter the Clan, Hai Yun Master won’t trouble you much personally as long as you don’t perform too well, but the other disciples in the Clan will…” Lord Guanjun’s voice was helpless.
He didn’t have much hope for the remaining disciples, he was just doing his duty as their teacher.
Chapter 102 - Decision and Departure
The disciples fell silent on the broken Martial Arts Field.
Zhao Feng saw the last ray of hope disappear in Lord Guanjun’s eyes. This legendary figure seemed to have aged 30 years in an instant.
Zhao Feng knew that Bei Moi was Lord Guanjun’s only hope and that he didn’t have many expectations for the other disciples.
At this moment, the disciples fell into deep thought. The next decision they made would affect their destiny.
Any genius would love to enter the Clan, but the problem was they might face problems if they did enter.
It wasn’t hard to imagine that this path would be much harder and challenging, but Zhao Feng felt a burning flame ignite inside him. A faint azure light appeared in his left eye, which seemed to jump around like fire.
“I’m willing to give this path a try no matter how hard it is! I’ll make that bastard Bei Moi regret it!” Yang Qingshan clenched his teeth and said righteously.
His decision moved Zhao Feng, it looked like the others didn’t give up. In the midst of these disciples, Yang Qingshan was the one most honest and loyal.
“I also won’t give up! There’s only one entrance examination every five years,” Nan Gongfan soon answered as well after some thought.
In front of them was a new gate, most cultivators wouldn’t even have the chance to enter it. Usually the entrance test for the Clan was every five years, sometimes even ten. Once they missed this chance, they might regret it for their entire lives.
“I won’t miss this chance either,” Feng Hanyue nodded his head in agreement.
Finally, it was Zhao Feng’s turn. “I’ve agreed to Bei Moi’s promise, so I won’t break it.”
Nan Gongfan and the others soon remembered that the two would settle it out in the Clan, but they just smiled and they didn’t put it to heart.
Lord Guanjun sighed as he looked at his disciples. He understood how they felt, but Lord Guanjun didn’t think that their future prospects would be good.
“Next, the few of you will fight for the three recommendations,” Lord Guanjun said expressionlessly.
When Bei Moi was here, there was three spots for the six of them. Now there were five.
Hm? Wait!
Zhao Feng’s expression changed dramatically as he scanned his surroundings. Apart from Lord Guanjun, there was only Yang Qingshan, Nan Gongfan, Feng Hanyue and himself.
There was someone missing!
“Sister Yufei has disappeared!” Zhao Feng’s exclaimed in shock.
The others present finally realized that she had disappeared. Because of the fight between the Holy martial artists before no one seemed to realize that someone had vanished.
“Send everyone to find her! Look inside the destroyed rooms!” Lord Guanjun immediately ordered.
Ye Linyun and Third Guard instantly started to search around. The battle between Lord Guanjun and Quan Chen had destroyed many buildings and Zhao Yufei may have been hit by the residual energy.
Everyone combined their efforts and cleared the nearby area.
“Nope! No sign of anyone at all!”
“There’s no lead within the battle area!”
After searching for a while, still no one had seen Zhao Yufei's figure.
Lord Guanjun said deeply, “When I fought Quan Chen, we did our best to not to kill innocent bystanders, so she shouldn’t have been injured.”
Even if Zhao Yufei died, there should be at least a corpse, but right now there was no figure of Zhao Yufei.
“Did she evaporate? Impossible!” Zhao Feng was extremely anxious.
“Increase the searching range!” Lord Guanjun ordered. Quickly, Ye Linyun led a few hundred elite troops in a search.
The result was that not a single trace of her was found. To find Zhao Yufei, the Guanjun Palace sent out thousands of men.
“A live person can’t disappear like this!” Zhao Feng took in a deep breath.
Teng!
With a jump he landed on an extremely tall tree and then jumped onto the highest building of the Guanjun Palace.
“Brother Zhao, what are you doing?”
The others below were slightly puzzled, but Ye Linyun and Feng Hanyue knew a bit of the situation.
“Zhao Feng and Zhao Yufei both come from the same family and they have a good relationship,” Ye Linyun said to Lord Guanjun.
At this moment, Zhao Feng’s eyes became sharp as he surveyed the entire Guanjun Palace. His enhanced vision soon scanned the entire Guanjun Palace.
Ten breaths later, Zhao Feng’s sight extended from in the
Guanjun Palace to the outside.
At a certain point in time, his sight locked in on a street fifteen kilometers away. A familiar figure came into view.
In the corner of the street, a beautiful young girl and a one-armed old man stood together.
“Grandfather, why did you take me away?” Zhao Yufei looked unwillingly back at the Guanjun Palace.
The one armed old man sighed: “First, Lord Guanjun didn’t find out your true potential. Second, Grandfather didn’t know that he had enmities with someone of the True Spirit Realm, therefore the Broken Moon Clan doesn’t suit you.”
“But Brother Zhao Feng…” Zhao Yufei seemed to worry for someone.
“Relax, with his potential, the cultivator of the True Spirit Realm won’t even put him in his eyes. Sometimes, having a low potential isn’t a bad thing,” the one-armed old man said mockingly.
Zhao Yufei knew what her grandfather meant, but she felt that Zhao Feng’s potential wasn’t as simple as a half-spiritual body.
After exchanging a few words, the two then headed outside of the Guanjun Province City.
They didn’t know that they had been seen by Zhao Feng. Although the latter could see them, he couldn’t hear what they were saying, but knowing Zhao Yufei was fine, he let out a breath.
“Everyone has their own path.” Zhao Feng was about to follow them but decided not to at the last moment.
After all, Zhao Yufei wasn’t forced to go. The person that took her away was her grandfather, and Zhao Feng already felt that he wasn’t as simple as he seemed back at the Zhao family, as he was able to take Zhao Yufei away in the chaos without being discovered.
After confirming that Zhao Yufei was safe, Zhao Feng returned back to the Spiritual Martial Hall.
On that day, the forces of the Guanjun Palace soon expanded across the entire Guanjun Province City and they finally did find traces of her. It was said that a one-armed old man was travelling with her.
“The old man was already very mysterious back at the Zhao family," Zhao Feng explained, which stopped the forces searching for her.
Lord Guanjun didn’t think too much about this. His core disciple had been taken away, so what use was an outer disciple to him?
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