by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
“Bastard! Wretch!”
Huo Lieyun clenched his teeth, furiously cursing Mo Nian and eighteen generations of his ancestors. But he didn’t dare to attack.
He might not be afraid of Mo Nian’s battle power, but he was afraid of his wicked moves.
He had already been defeated by Long Chen, so this was his only chance to wipe away that disgrace. He had to focus on that, or he would forever be a laughingstock.
“I can enter on my own. If you dare to say a word, do you believe me when I say I’ll toss you into a dung pit for a hundred years?”
Two of Heavenly Fate Island’s disciples came to receive Mo Nian, but once he spoke, they didn’t dare to move.
Sometimes, the Western Wretch was even more terrifying than the Eastern Madman. At most, Long Chen would just kill you, but Mo Nian would make you live a life worse than death. He was constantly challenging mankind’s limits when it came to wretched moves.
In front of everyone’s shocked gazes, Mo Nian walked right in. Those disciples of Heavenly Fate Island didn’t dare to stop him.
“Bastard, don’t even think about leaving Heavenly Fate Island alive!” Huo Lieyun silently cursed. He also walked in.
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“Scram!”
Just a short while later, a shout rang out like thunder. The disciples of Heavenly Fate Island were knocked back, coughing up blood.
Everyone turned to look. Just who was brazen enough to attack Heavenly Fate Island’s disciples?
They quickly saw a powerful elder standing at the gates, wielding a black wooden cane.
“It’s the sect master of the Heaven Splitting Battle Sect, Wu Guangyuan!”
It was the old man. The seven bosses had also come, as well as dozens of Life Star disciples. Those disciples were led by Bao Buping and Chang Hao.
“Fuck, when I dominated the continent, your fathers were still playing in the mud! Who dares to block me?” shouted the old man. His temper was well-known on the Martial Heaven Continent, and after advancing to Netherpassage, it had only grown worse. He wouldn’t give face to anyone.
Back in the Martial Heaven Alliance’s headquarters, he had even dared to fight Pill Valley’s master, Yu Xiaoyun. What didn’t he dare to do?
As for the disciples blocking his path, if he didn’t see that they were so weak that they weren’t worth anything, he would have long since beaten them to death.
Those disciples simply didn’t know enough about the continent. They were busy focusing on comprehending the mysteries of fate, and so they hadn’t recognized the old man immediately.
The old man suddenly turned back at the Righteous path’s experts that had been kept out of Heavenly Fate Island. “Can you bastards grow up a bit? Just because they don’t want you to enter, you won’t? You’re going to endure it as they insult you? What if they want to kill you instead? Are you going to stick your necks out for them to slice off? You cowards of the Righteous path embarrass me.”
After that scolding, the old man walked in with the experts of the Heaven Splitting Battle Sect.
“Fuck, this senior is right. I’m going in! Who dares to block me?!”
Someone in the crowd suddenly walked forward, pointing his spear at the disciples of Heavenly Fate Island. He had been inspired by Mo Nian and the old man.
“Let’s go!”
Others also shot into motion. They had long since been holding back their fury.
“Hey, you can’t-!”
That disciple was kicked away.
“Fuck off with your can’t. Why is it that others can but we can’t? If you make any more noise, I won’t go in. Instead, I’ll just kill you before leaving.”
Chaos reigned at the entrance. Heavenly Fate Island had tried to give a show of power to the Righteous path, but the old man wouldn’t accept such a thing.
“What a waste of all your years. No wonder you’ve raised a group of fools, you don’t know how to follow rules.”
Just at this moment, a cold snort rang out from deep within Heavenly Fate Island. It was the Unfettered Allseer. He was mocking the old man for his rudeness.
“Don’t play this meaningless game with me. Do you think people don’t know about your plot? If you want something, then fight for it openly. The Heaven Splitting Battle Sect’s motto is fight or fuck off. If you keep spouting nonsense, I’ll topple your Heavenly Fate Island.” The old man continued walking forward. Each time his cane touched the ground, the ground rumbled, indicating his determination.
The Unfettered Allseer didn’t reply. In the senior generation, the old man had another nickname, which was the old madman.
No one wanted to provoke him, because when he went crazy, he would do anything. If he was further angered, he might just start fighting before Long Chen even arrived.
Countless experts followed along with the old man. Inside Heavenly Fate Island, they saw beautiful scenery: towering mountain ranges, long brooks, ancient trees. The spiritual qi here was extremely dense.
This floating island was rich in precious minerals, but they weren’t mined. Instead, they were connected by a formation to absorb the world’s essence to nourish Heavenly Fate Island. This place was distant from the clamor of the mortal world.
“What a good place. But it’s actually been occupied by a bunch of idiots,” cursed Bao Buping. In comparison to Heavenly Fate Island, their Heaven Splitting Battle Sect was like the home of a pack of beggars.
“Fuck, let’s just kill them and take this island for ourselves!” Chang Hao clenched his fist.
Bao Buping and Chang Hao had just spoken when the old man kicked them both.
“Why’d you kick us?!”
“Are you two unfilial bastards thinking of establishing your own sect here? Furthermore, this place is like mist blocking your eyes. You see the leaf in front of your eyes, but not the forest behind you. Here, you’re isolated from the rest of the world. You’ll think that what you see here is the entire world, when in reality, you see nothing. That’s why Heavenly Fate Island has never produced any true gods and has no divine inheritance. As for our Heaven Splitting Battle Sect, we were once called the Heaven Splitting Divine Sect because we had god-like existences. The reason our home is barren is so that your hearts can be clear. So what if I kick you? If it weren’t to give you face because so many people were here, I’d beat the crap out of you. Your words are against the foundations of our ancestors, understood?” demanded the old man.
Bao Buping and Chang Hao were startled. They hadn’t expected there to be such a thing. They shut their mouths.
They continued onward and eventually reached a giant platform. There were countless runes carved onto the platform. It was a giant calculating machine.
There were already quite a few experts gathered here. They formed three factions.
One was the neutral faction that was in the middle. To the left were the people of the Martial Heaven Alliance, while to the right were the allied powers of Pill Valley, the Xuan Beasts, the ancient races, the Corrupt path, the ancient family alliance, and the others.
The old man saw Qu Jianying amongst the section for the Martial Heaven Alliance. His expression sank, but he still decided to sit on the edge of the Martial Heaven Alliance’s side.
Chapter 1967 Father-in-Law?
The old man’s arrival caused things to become quiet. Pill Valley’s side had been in the midst of mocking the Martial Heaven Alliance’s side, but they shut their mouths now.
Everyone knew that when the old man was enraged, there was nothing he feared. They couldn’t afford to provoke such a figure.
The old man was standing on the very edge. Although he was sitting on the side of the Martial Heaven Alliance, he clearly didn’t want to mix with them.
Seeing that, Qu Jianying was sad. Clearly, the matter of her expelling Long Chen was still fresh in the old man’s mind.
She didn’t mind if others didn’t understand her actions. But this coldness from the old man hurt her.
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�ll go over.” Li Tianxuan stood up.
“Leave it. That old bastard, he won’t listen to anyone. Don’t bother.” Qu Jianying shook her head.
“This is just a misunderstanding. We can resolve it,” said Li Tianxuan. This choice had been something he had forced Qu Jianying to make. Hence, he didn’t feel it was fair for the old man to blame her.
“Not all misunderstandings can be resolved. Resolving one misunderstanding will just create a second one. The two of us are fated to be like this for this lifetime.” Qu Jianying looked at the old man’s figure. She sighed with disappointment.
Li Tianxuan couldn’t reply to this. Clearly, the old man and Qu Jianying’s conflicting views went deeper than others saw.
The old man’s arrival also brought in thousands of Righteous experts. They all paid their respects to Qu Jianying. Only through a brief conversation with them did Qu Jianying learn why so few of her people had entered in a long time. So it was all caused by Heavenly Fate Island.
She frowned, about to stand, but was stopped by Li Tianxuan. Li Tianxuan smiled. “Today, we’re just spectators, and Long Chen is the main character. He already sent word to me that there’s nothing we have to do. We can just calmly watch.”
“That little brat, he’s the same as the old bastard. He actually doesn’t tell me anything. I’ll properly beat him once he’s safe,” said Qu Jianying irritably.
After Long Chen had been expelled, he had sent word to the old man and Li Tianxuan through the Huayun Sect. However, he hadn’t sent any news to her. It was like he was treating her like an outsider.
“Alliance head, I approve of this plan. If you don’t properly put him in his place, wouldn’t he get himself killed sooner or later? Making you, who are busy with thousands of things every day, worry about him so much, he definitely has to be taught a lesson.” Suddenly, Mo Nian, who was sitting beside Ye Lingshan, jumped in. He wouldn’t give up any chance to con Long Chen.
Ye Lingshan found it difficult to tolerate Mo Nian. There was no way to talk with him. When he spoke, he ended all conversations, as no one could reply to him. Perhaps the only one who could keep up with him was Long Chen.
“Bastard, don’t think that you’re any better than Long Chen. Stop trying to seduce my apprentice. She won’t be marrying out. So, unless you want to marry in, you should give up. My apprentice couldn’t be seduced by Long Chen, so don’t think that your little skills are enough. I’m not trying to give you a blow, but you’re a far cry from Long Chen in that regard,” said Qu Jianying.
Just who was Qu Jianying? Did Mo Nian’s thoughts have the slightest possibility of escaping her gaze? Furthermore, she didn’t really like Mo Nian, feeling him to be even more unreliable than Long Chen. When he smiled, it was truly unbearably wretched.
“Alliance head, this is where you’re wrong. My lack of skills in this regard is due to a lack of experience. A lack of experience shows that I am a pure man, completely different from a rogue like Long Chen. Even if a thousand flowers were to drown me, I wouldn’t touch them. Just ask yourself, who is as pure as I am on the Martial Heaven Continent? Mother-in-law, just agree for my sake!” Mo Nian actually knelt down before Qu Jianying, even changing the way he addressed her.
Ye Lingshan was embarrassed and enraged. She had an urge to kick him. She had countless pursuers, but it was her first time seeing someone like Mo Nian.
Ye Lingshan’s desire came true. Mo Nian was kicked away by Qu Jianying. Perhaps it was coincidence or on purpose, but he flew over to the old man.
The old man reached and caught him. Mo Nian hastily bowed. “Many thanks, father-in-law.”
The experts present almost coughed up blood. Mo Nian was… talented.
Everyone in the senior generation knew of the old man and Qu Jianying’s relationship. If it weren’t for their tempers being too fiery, the two of them would have long since ended up together. For him to call the old man father-in-law at this moment was quite perfect.
The old man’s expression was odd, but he didn’t refute this appellation. He glanced at the distant Qu Jianying. “Little fellow, for you to be brothers with Long Chen means you have some skill. Don’t spend all day messing around. Men should be men. As long as you are strong enough, can’t you find any woman you want? Rather than constantly pestering someone, wouldn’t it be better to conserve some face?”
Seeing that the old man didn’t refuse the title of father-in-law, Qu Jianying’s heart softened slightly. At least, she was still in the old man’s heart.
“Hmph, if he cared about face, would he be called the Western Wretch?” A cold voice rang out in the distance. It was Huo Lieyun.
Mo Nian angrily pointed at him. “Little brat, get out here. I’ll properly teach you how to behave. Was the piss bath not enough for you? This time I’ll fix that!”
Seeing Mo Nian directly challenge Huo Lieyun, the old man nodded, feeling that he had at least some mannerisms of an expert. But then his expression darkened. Just what expert would do something like urinate on an opponent?
Huo Lieyun suppressed his anger at that comment and sneered, “Who do you think you are? A little mouse who hides all day! If I were to fight you all-out, you would just run in your tortoise shell. Furthermore, today’s main character is Long Chen. Once I kill Long Chen, I’ll handle you, you wretch.”
“Exactly, a wretch like Mo Nian only knows how to run. It runs in the family,” cursed someone else. This person was wearing robes of the ancient family alliance and seemed to have immense enmity with Mo Nian.
“Mo Nian, if you swear to fight to the death and not run, brother Huo will definitely fight with you. But do you dare?!” This time it was someone from the ancient races.
Before the Yin Yang World, Mo Nian’s tomb digging had been limited to the ancient family alliance. But after it, Mo Nian had expanded his work to the ancient races, the Corrupt path, the Xuan Beasts, and the other powers. Apparently, during these past few months, Mo Nian had been crazily digging up tombs.
Most days, he would manage to dig up seven ancient tombs in a day, infuriating the various large sects and families. They would then hunt him down as best as they could, but with the Earth Splitting Divine Shuttle, no one could stop him.
When he was still in the Soul Transformation realm, he had been able to easily escape his pursuers. Now that he was at the Life Star realm, he was even more difficult to catch. No one could do anything to him.
The most hateful thing of all was that Mo Nian wasn’t just flipping through their tombs and taking their treasures. He also brought their ancestors’ corpses up to the sun, defiling them. It was a great taboo, but Mo Nian did it. He had sworn to do this in the battle in the Yin Yang World. They wanted to kill him? Then fine, Long Chen would be in charge of killing the living people, while he would be in charge of digging up the dead people.
The various large powers spent all day trembling in fear that their ancient tombs would be targeted next. They spent a huge amount of money and manpower on guarding their tombs.
Before this, most enmities would be resolved by charging at the actual sect, not their ancient tombs. Mo Nian was the first to use this method of revenge, which only made people hate him more.
That was why thousands of experts immediately began to speak up to curse Mo Nian now.
On his own, there was no way that Mo Nian could curse back at all these people.
“Don’t be a coward. Go ahead. If any of their old fellows want to interfere, I’ll help you handle them,” said the old man.
Mo Nian looked back at him. Inside, he thought to himself, “Old man, I’m not as crazy as that. A single Huo Lieyun would be tough enough. There’s still True Immortal Jiaoqi, Xie Luo, and the tens of thousands of heavenly geniuses from the other powers. Are you trying to get me killed?”
“Cough, father-in-law, I want to go kill them, but the main character is Long Chen. I can’t fight over the limelight with him. I’ll wait for him before doing anything,” said Mo Nian. In the end, he obedi
ently returned to his original position.
However, seeing Ye Lingshan glare at him, Mo Nian helplessly hid behind Li Tianxuan. Li Tianxuan was very amicable and polite. Mo Nian held him in high esteem.
Mo Nian had just sat down when a ruckus occurred. A young man had walked in. He was handsome and even scholarly, but it wasn’t because of his looks that people were startled. It was because of the giant die behind him that was constantly spinning.
“The Gambling Heavenly Dao’s heir, Hu Feng!”
People’s hearts shook. Hu Feng was an extremely mysterious existence. His fight against True Immortal Jiaoqi had caused his fame to skyrocket.
Although the two of them had just been probing each other, Hu Feng’s strange fighting style had left a deep impression on them. Some people even suspected him of being the continent’s strongest expert, but he was too low-key for them to see just how strong he was.
Hu Feng’s arrival drew everyone’s attention. Hu Feng looked around, and then, upon seeing Mo Nian, he cupped his fists.
“Brother Mo Nian, it’s been a while. I’m glad to see you as healthy and graceful as ever.”
Chapter 1968 Tu Qianshang Arrives
“Haha, it’s been a while. Why don’t you come and sit over here? Things are very lively here.” Mo Nian laughed, seeming very familiar with Hu Feng.
“No, I’ll be over there. Next time, I hope I’ll be able to treat you to some wine as thanks for your Pure Water Mercury.” Hu Feng gracefully declined Mo Nian’s proposal.
That kind of thing couldn’t be decided randomly. If he went over there, that would be equivalent to joining the Martial Heaven Alliance’s side. Hence, he chose to sit in the neutral camp.
“Hehe, that’s fine. Let me tell you, there’s plenty of that stuff within old tombs. I can get you as much as you want. I can even sell it to you wholesale. The more you buy, the greater the discount,” said Mo Nian.
Pure Water Mercury was a very peculiar thing. It was normally used to seal stone statues or coffins. But it was unknown what Hu Feng was using such a thing for.
