“Let’s go, someone is waiting for you at the base of the mountain.” Old Xuan waved his hand.
Zhou Yuan nodded in acknowledgement, before cupping his fists together in respect. Genesis Qi rose under his feet, carrying him down the mountain, and he soon saw Zhou Tai, Zhang Yan and Lu Yan waiting at the foot of the mountain.
Zhou Yuan landed and asked as he looked at the trio, “What is it?”
The trio exchanged a look, before Lu Yan’s lips parted slightly as she said, “Baili Che sent someone earlier to tell us this is Saint Genesis Peak’s final chance. If you are feeling regretful about your decision, you have to personally go down to Sword Cometh Peak to settle the matter.”
“If you don’t, Sword Cometh Peak will no longer show any courtesy.”
Zhou Tai said in a low voice, “That Baili Che is too much.”
If Zhou Yuan made a trip to Sword Cometh Peak, there would surely be much humiliation awaiting him.
Zhou Yuan chuckled as he said with a calm expression, “Send a disciple to Sword Cometh Peak to tell Baili Che…”
“Tell him what?”
Zhou Yuan was already walking away as he voice echoed behind him.
“Tell him that this is the final chance I’m giving Sword Cometh Peak. If Baili Che doesn’t come to Saint Genesis Peak to apologize, I will not show any courtesy in the Genesis reservoir ceremony.”
As Zhou Yuan left, Lu Yan, Zhou Tai and Zhang Yan looked at each other, clearly stunned by Zhou Yuan’s domineering attitude.
Lu Yan could not help but ask, “Is he serious?”
“If this spreads, won’t Sword Cometh Peak blow their tops?”
Zhou Tai shrugged and said, “Junior brother Zhou Yuan is currently the chief disciple, and we only need to follow his instructions. Moreover, I personally feel that it will be very relieving, haha!”
Lu Yan let out a bitter and helpless laugh, before she sighed.
She wondered whether Saint Genesis Peak would be able to withstand Sword Cometh Peak’s rage when the Genesis reservoir ceremony began...
Because in her opinion, the current Zhou Yuan seemed as if he was smashing an already broken jar...
Chapter 510 Scheme
Sword Cometh Peak.
Kong Sheng, Zhao Zhu and Baili Che were seated in a stone pavilion. The first two were concentrating on their chess game, while Baili Che was looking at a disciple who had come to relay news in amusement.
Baili Che smirked as he looked at the disciple and said, “Did Zhou Yuan really dare to say that? He wants me to go to Saint Genesis Peak and apologize, or he’ll no longer show any courtesy to us in the Genesis reservoir ceremony?”
The disciple nodded. “That’s what the disciple from Saint Genesis Peak said earlier, it should not be false.”
Baili Che laughed as he waved for the disciple to withdraw, before turning towards the two individuals playing chess. “This junior brother of ours is really…”
He pondered for a long time, before he smiled helplessly and said, “An ignorant fool.”
He was truly unable to imagine where Zhou Yuan found the courage to say a thing. Did he feel coming to Sword Cometh Peak to admit his mistake was not punishment enough?
Once the Genesis reservoir ceremony began, Saint Genesis Peak would instantly be burned to ashes by Sword Cometh Peak’s rage.
In the stone pavilion, Kong Sheng and Zhao Zhu were clearly unconcerned, evidently taking it as nonsense. Their complete disregard was akin to the disdain of the strong towards a trash talking weakling.
Baili Che sat down as he smiled faintly and said, “I plan on telling all the Sword Cometh Peak disciples about Zhou Yuan’s words.”
Kong Sheng and Zhao Zhu’s game ended at this moment. Only then did they unhurriedly lift their heads and nod. “Go ahead.”
They naturally understood Baili Che’s intentions. Sword Cometh Peak was already filled with resentment towards Saint Genesis Peak and Zhou Yuan’s words would undoubtedly be akin to pouring oil into the fire.
In such a situation, no matter how badly Saint Genesis Peak was beaten up later on, bystanders would only say that they were asking for it.
Weaklings should obediently lower their heads and apologize, struggling and jumping around so much was only asking for death.
Baili Che chuckled. He was naturally going to add some spice to Zhou Yuan’s original words. That way, even if Sword Cometh Peak’s two Chosens and chief disciple tried to step in to ask everyone to show a little more mercy, the other disciples would not agree.
When that happened, Saint Genesis Peak would truly have no way out.
He raised his head, and looked in the direction of Saint Genesis Peak, as a mocking smile emerged from the corners of his mouth.
The true goal of Baili Che’s earlier message was to anger Zhou Yuan. He never imagined that the latter would be so cooperative, and even retort with such a perfect message. All he had to do now was to use Zhou Yuan’s words to unify Sword Cometh Peak, and turn their targets towards Zhou Yuan and Saint Genesis Peak.
Once the momentum began to build, let alone the two Chosens and chief disciple, even the many elders would be powerless to stop Sword Cometh Peak’s rampaging rage.
There was already no longer any chance of changing the trajectory of the hammer that was swinging down towards Saint Genesis Peak.
Baili Che softly chuckled. As the recently promoted chief disciple, he naturally needed to solidify his position and grow his reputation. So how would he accomplish this? As long as he managed to viciously stomp on Zhou Yuan and Saint Genesis Peak, his standing would naturally rise drastically. In fact, he may even obtain peak master Ling Jun’s favor, giving him a better chance of becoming a Chosen in the future.
As such, the upcoming Genesis reservoir ceremony was going to be the best opportunity to show his worth. If Saint Genesis Peak had conceded at such a time, he would instead be quite disappointed.
“Zhou Yuan ah Zhou Yuan, you’re still too inexperienced…”
…
“I’ve already sent someone to deliver the message to Baili Che. I’m certain he will add some flavor to it, before spreading it to the entire Sword Cometh Peak to make them even more angry at us.”
In the peaceful and cooling cave dwelling, light shined down from the roof of the cave as Zhou Yuan looked at Yaoyao and excitedly said, “With emotions running high, Sword Cometh Peak will most absolutely make it their chief mission to trample over Saint Genesis Peak in the ceremony. Otherwise, even their two Chosens, Kong Sheng and Zhao Zhu, will be incapable of appeasing the rage of the disciples.”
“Only with them so impatiently itching to crush us, will we be able to smoothly draw them in, and then…”
He extended a hand and abruptly clenched it.
“Catch them all!”
A smule hung from the corners of Zhou Yuan’s mouth. How could he not have guessed Baili Che’s intentions. However, what the latter did not know was that Zhou Yuan was completely unafraid of Sword Cometh Peak’s retaliation.
Instead, he was already scheming how he would trap this giant creature known as Sword Cometh Peak in the Genesis reservoir ceremony.
Yaoyao had made numerous preparations for the Heaven Disorientating Boundary, and their goal was to catch the entire Sword Cometh Peak in their net. Hence, they needed to ensure every single disciple would take the bait.
Otherwise, if the boundary only managed to net a portion of the disciples, the rest would remain a giant problem.
Thus, they needed to infuriate the Sword Cometh Peak disciples even more to make sure all of them would be present for the main dish. Only then would they be able to trap them all.
Yaoyao nodded faintly as she said in praise, “You’re really adept at drawing their hatred.”
Since it was so rare for her to be serious about something, she naturally planned to make everything as perfect as possible. If even a few of the Sword Cometh Peak disciples were not present, it would feel a little disappointing even i
f they succeeded in the end.
Yaoyao playfully stared at Zhou Yuan and said, “However… with you acting so arrogant, aren’t you afraid the Sword Cometh Peak disciples will attempt something underhanded in the future?”
Zhou Yuan lightly flicked one of the overhanging flowers as he replied, “When our plan succeeds, I believe they will become somewhat fearful of us, and not dare to try underhanded tactics.”
Sword Cometh Peak currently looked down on Saint Genesis Peak, because they felt the latter was weak. When the Genesis reservoir ceremony was over, they would likely no longer dare to have such thoughts.
“Of course… everything still hinges upon big sis Yaoyao’s Heaven Disorientating Boundary. If it fails, we’ll really become a laughing stock.”
“And I’ll have no choice but to hide away in Saint Genesis Peak, not daring to take even a single step out.”
Zhou Yuan looked to his side at the girl so beautiful that even the nearby peach blossoms seemed to lose their color, as earnestly said, “That’s why we’ll all be depending on you this time.”
Yaoyao lazily said, “There’s no need to worry about my side. You, on the other hand… since you’ve made progress in the Saint Spirit Seed, you’d better spend the following two weeks working on your Spirit cultivation. If you fail to breakthrough, you’ll have to go beg for Ye Ge’s help.”
The corners of Zhou Yuan’s mouth twitched. How could he ever beg for Ye Ge’s aid! That would be utterly humiliating!
Zhou Yuan gritted his teeth and firmly said, “Don’t worry, I’ll definitely reach the advanced Corporeal stage before the ceremony!”
Yaoyao's lips raised a little as she tossed him a jade bottle.
Zhou Yuan hastily caught it, and found that it was filled with fluttering golden crystal dust. Every grain gave off an extremely mysterious undulation that made the Spirit between his brows stir violently with desire.
“This is?”
The modulated Spirit Refining Saliva… so you’d better not say I didn’t help you.” Yaoyao swept a glance at Zhou Yuan, before gracefully turning around as her clear spring-water like voice sounded.
“You’d better start on your Spirit cultivation and study the boundary diagram.”
“It’s rare for me to take something seriously for once, so if you end up causing problems for my boundary, just wait and see how I’ll deal with you!”
Chapter 511 Response
The message Zhou Yuan sent to Baili Che quickly spread to the entire Sword Cometh Peak. To no one’s surprise, the numerous disciples were instantly enraged. Sword Cometh Peak had been akin to a rising sun for the past few years, plus the Genesis Qi they cultivated was mostly direct and aggressive in nature, causing their characters to lean towards being a little more forceful and unyielding.
The Sword Cometh Peak disciples had always felt superior to Saint Genesis Peak, and they were honestly not the only ones. The other peaks also had similar attitudes, because Saint Genesis Peak was after all just too pathetic, with only two meagre factions.
Even when Zhou Yuan achieved several impressive battle accomplishments previously, most of the Sword Cometh Peak disciples had not taken him seriously, until he defeated Yuan Hong in the chief disciple selection, and took the chief disciple seat.
No one had expected a year old new disciple to reach such heights… a reality that the proud Sword Cometh Peak disciples found rather difficult to swallow.
After all, Lu Hong’s faction originated from their Sword Cometh Peak.
In addition, peak master Ling Jun had lost his bet, causing Sword Cometh Peak to lose a tremendous amount of cultivation resources. The disciples naturally did not dare to blame their peak master, and thus directed all of their resentment towards Saint Genesis Peak and Zhou Yuan.
In fact, many disciples had declared that they would teach Saint Genesis Peak a lesson during the Genesis reservoir ceremony to release their resentment.
In their view, teaching Saint Genesis Peak a lesson was the most logical and basic common sense, and if the latter were tactful, they would obediently receive their punishment to let the matter pass.
To Sword Cometh Peak’s surprise, however, Saint Genesis Peak showed no indication of bowing their heads. What’s more, the latter had refused to compromise even after chief disciple Baili Che personally made a trip down to talk things out.
This made the Sword Cometh Peak disciples grow increasingly annoyed. Although Saint Genesis Peak had recently reopened, their foundations were still far too frail, and yet they dared to challenge Sword Cometh Peak? Shouldn’t this come at least a hundred years later after some time to grow and rebuild?
As such, some of the more radical disciples had already decided that they would humiliate Saint Genesis Peak during the ceremony, letting the latter know that even after reopening their main peak, they were still nothing in Sword Cometh Peak’s eyes!
However, even before the ceremony could begin, Zhou Yuan had sent such a provocative message to Baili Che...
As a result, every disciple in the entire Sword Cometh Peak erupted in anger.
They were truly unable to believe that Zhou Yuan would actually dare to provoke their Sword Cometh Peak. Did he really think that defeating a mere Yuan Hong would allow him to look down on them?
Rage boiled in Sword Cometh Peak, every disciple angrily cursing, as the gazes that looked towards Saint Genesis Peak turned exceptionally fierce.
They were now most definitely going to teach Saint Genesis Peak a very painful lesson during the Genesis reservoir ceremony.
With regards to this situation, even sect master Qing Yang could only helplessly shake his head. It looks like the only option was to let Sword Cometh Peak let out all of their anger during the ceremony.
But when that happened, Saint Genesis Peak would in for a very rough time indeed.
…
The news naturally spread to the entire Cangxuan Sect, stupefying the disciples from the other peaks. They had likewise not expected the new chief disciple of Saint Genesis Peak to be so… arrogant.
“This is… a little too arrogant of Zhou Yuan. I can’t believe he actually dared to provoke Sword Cometh Peak at this juncture.”
“Agreed. Sword Cometh Peak’s strength is something that the current Saint Genesis Peak cannot possibly match. Sending out such a provocation at this time will only make them suffer more during the ceremony.”
“With Sword Cometh Peak so angry, I don’t think anyone will be able to stop them anymore.”
“Chief disciples Zhou Yuan is really unlucky to encounter Sword Cometh Peak’s rage so soon after taking his position… in this situation, it’ll be a miracle if they achieve good results in the Genesis reservoir ceremony.”
“How pitiful. I wonder how bruised and battered Saint Genesis Peak will be after the ceremony.”
“……”
Similar conversations continued to be held amongst the other peaks, everyone clearly pitying Saint Genesis Peak. At the same time, they were unable to understand why Zhou Yuan had sent such an arrogant and provocative message.
Such actions were truly irrational.
They were incapable of comprehending Zhou Yuan’s thoughts. In the end, everyone merely took it as him being too young and immature, causing him to crack under Saint Genesis Peak’s tremendous pressure.
…
Li Qingchan had likewise heard the news and was also quite puzzled by it. Given her understanding of Zhou Yuan, the latter was not a hot-headed individual who spoke irresponsibly.
However, she was also unable to understable why Zhou Yuan had provoked Sword Cometh Peak in this manner. Had Yaoyao’s participation really made him so confident?
But no matter how strong Yaoyao was, what could she possibly accomplish against ten thousand Sword Cometh Peak disciples?
“What exactly is he thinking?”
“Isn’t he afraid of being thoroughly humiliated during the ceremony after provoking Sword Cometh Peak?”
…
“Junior sister Hongyi, your friend is quite the character.” Numerous disciples in the Cangxuan Peak were aware that Gu Hongyi and Zhou Yuan were from the same batch of disciples that had joined the inner mountains together, and were on pretty good terms. Hence, several people came to joke about the matter when they heard about it.
Gu Hongyi was after all someone who had an extremely strong background in the Cangxuan Sect, while also a great beauty. Although she was a little too fiery tempered, it did not stop her from becoming a popular figure in the Cangxuan Peak.
Gu Hongyi constantly praised Zhou Yuan, causing several of the male disciples, who fancied her, to grow jealous. However, none of them had been able to say anything due to his remarkable performance so far.
As such, it was nearly impossible to avoid them poking fun at Zhou Yuan the moment they heard the news, in an attempt to weaken his position in Gu Hongyi’s heart.
Gu Hongyi blocked all of these jokes in a calm and indifferent manner, but when no one was looking, she would gaze towards Saint Genesis Peak with worry in her beautiful eyes.
She too did not understand why Zhou Yuan would stir up Sword Cometh Peak. Did he not realize how difficult things would become for him?
…
While the many disciples in the Cangxuan Sect were gossiping over this topic, deep in his cave dwelling, Zhou Yuan began his final stretch of training for the Genesis reservoir ceremony.
Zhou Yuan was seated on a stone bed deep in the peaceful cave.
His Spirit slowly rose from between his brows, its corporeal figure hovering above his head in a cross-legged position.
With a gentle shake of a bottle, golden crystal dust drifted out, grain after grain shining dazzlingly under the sunlight as they landed on the Spirit above Zhou Yuan.
Zhou Yuan Spirit faintly rippled when each golden crystal dust entered it, as it began to grow even more condensed and corporeal.
Specks of light danced in the depths of the cave.
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