Her tone indicated that she was rather unhappy, clearly feeling that the Cangxuan Sect was scorning her too much by sending a seventh layer disciple to speak with her.
Upon seeing that the lady was making things difficult for Zhou Yuan, Gu Hongyi’s eyebrows nearly turned vertical in anger, as Jin Zhang hurriedly spoke up from the side, “So it’s junior sister Zhao Ru. Hehe, I’m chief disciple Jin Zhang of the Spirit Rune Peak. This person is called Zhou Yuan and is no ordinary disciple either, he’s the chief disciple of our Cangxuan Sect’s Saint Genesis Peak.”
Zhao Ru was taken aback after hearing this, but instead of acknowledging her mistake, she said, “The weakest Saint Genesis Peak? It’s very odd of your Cangxuan Sect to allow a seventh layer practitioner to become a chief disciple. Is a chief disciple really so worthless in your eyes?”
These words caused even Jin Zhang to frown.
But before he could reply, a girl in blue suddenly pulled Zhao Ru to the side. It was another beauty with a goose egg shaped face, and gave off a gentle demeanor. She shot Zhou Yuan an apologetic smile and said, “I’m also a chief disciple of the Hundred Flowers Fairy Palace, Tang Xiaoyan. I hope that the senior brothers of the Cangxuan Sect will be a little more forgiving if junior sister Zhao Ru has offended you earlier.”
Zhou Yuan and Jin Zhang exchanged a look, before cupping their fists together, expressing that it was fine.
However, they no longer had any intentions of conversing any further due to Zhao Ru’s attitude earlier, causing the atmosphere to turn somewhat awkward for a time.
Just as Zhou Yuan was planning to hand the situation over to Jin Zhang, a fair and pretty little face suddenly popped out from the Hundred Flowers Fairy Palace side. Her long green hair made her appear full of liveliness, her large jet-black eyes staring straight in Zhou Yuan’s direction, as surprise and happiness burst out from within them.
“Zhou Yuan! Zhou Yuan! Is that you?!”
An ice-blue bird hopped onto her little head and chirped excitedly.
Zhou Yuan was momentarily stunned, before he quickly looked over. When he saw that familiar little face, a joyful expression also appeared in his eyes.
“Luluo?!”
Chapter 575 Gathering of Three Factions
“Luluo?!”
The surprise and happiness in Zhou Yuan’s eyes were unconcealable as he gazed at the pretty and charming young lady that had popped out from amongst the numerous Hundred Flowers Fairy Palace female disciples. That dainty little figure belonged to the very same Luluo that had arrived in the Shengzhou Continent with him back then.
After arriving at the Shengzhou Continent, their small group of friends had split up. So far, he had only encountered Zuoqiu Qingyu once, and had not expected to meet Luluo here.
“Zhou Yuan, it’s really you!” Luluo covered her small mouth in surprise. She had not dared to believe it after hearing his name earlier. After all, it had only been slightly over a year since they last met, so how could Zhou Yuan become a chief disciple of the Cangxuan Sect?
Her pretty face was filled with joy.
At the very front, the gentle looking goose egg shaped face lady cast a somewhat surprised glance at Zhou Yuan, before turning towards Luluo and asking, “Do you know him Luluo?”
Luluo excitedly said, “Yup yup, senior sister Xiaoyan, he’s one of my good friends that came with me to the Shengzhou Continent. I even told you about him before, he was the most amazing individual in our batch!”
The surrounding Hundred Flowers Fairy Palace disciples cast curious gazes at Zhou Yuan’s figure. Although Luluo was one of the less experienced members in the sect, her status was quite high, because she and Zuoqiu Qingyu had been taken by the palace master as personal direct disciples not long after they joined. Though she was currently still lacking in strength, she would surely become one of the Chosens in the future.
They clearly understand Luluo and Zuoqiu Qingyu’s cultivation talent, and were often amazed that the both of them came from a relatively unknown continent.
The most surprising thing, however, was that these two young ladies were not the top amongst the younger generation in that continent.
It was this young man called Zhou Yuan before them who stood at the peak.
Luluo stuck her tiny fists on her tiny waist and proudly declared, “See, it’s been less than two years since he joined the Cangxuan Sect and he’s already a chief disciple!”
The little ice-blue bird on her head chirped in agreement as its tiny head nodded.
However, Zhao Ru suddenly spoke up in an indifferent voice at this moment, “Don’t make such a fuss over a mere seventh layer chief disciple.”
“Such strength isn’t even enough to let one become a chief disciple in some of the first class sects, let alone the likes of the Cangxuan Sect? As such, I feel that there must be something fishy about him.”
She was not trying to targeting Zhou Yuan this time, but Luluo. In the Hundred Flowers Fairy Palace, Zhao Ru held an extreme amount of dislike for Zuoqiu Qingu and Luluo.
Of course, she disliked Zuoqiu Qingyu the most. The latter was so young, and yet so beautiful that she would even be able to tempt other girls.
What’s more, Zuoqiu Qingyu once had a few small conflicts with Zhao Ru in the sect, making the latter loathe the former even more. Although Luluo had it a little better, due to her constantly being together with Zuoqiu Qingyu and having an extremely good relationship, Zhao Ru naturally began to hate Luluo as well.
At the sight of Luluo’s current appearance, Zhao Ru could not help but laugh in mockery.
Luluo’s smalls face turned somewhat red due to this, as she glared at Zhao Ru and said, “What nonsense are you spouting, what’s so fishy about Zhou Yuan becoming a chief disciple?”
Zhao Ru stared right back and retorted, “Have you ever seen a seventh layer chief disciple in any of the six overlord sects?”
Luluo was unable to speak for a moment, but quickly regained her wits and was just about to lash back. Although Zhao Ru was a chief disciple, as a personal disciple of the palace master, Luluo did not fear the latter at all.
By the side, senior sister Xiaoyao hurriedly stopped the two bickering girls.
Bzz!
While she was putting a stop to their quarrel, her expression suddenly changed as she lifted her head and looked in a certain direction. “Careful, a big group of Genesis Qi undulations is approaching, and they are extremely strong!”
The Hundred Flowers Fairy Palace disciples immediately began to prepare themselves.
Meanwhile, Zhou Yuan and Jin Zhang also sensed the new group and immediately warned the other disciples.
With parties now in a guarded stance, a certain spot in the distance rippled, as numerous figures appeared in the sky. In the end, they landed on another mountain top, creating a triangular face off with the other two groups.
The new arrivals were very menacing, with two very attention grabbing figures at the head of the group. When Zhou Yuan saw the two figures, his eyes began to narrow a little.
He slowly said, “It’s the Sacred Palace!”
He had identified one of the figures to be Wang Yuan from before!
While he stared at Wang Yuan, Zhou Yuan suddenly felt an extremely cold and gloomy gaze lock onto him like a viper. His gaze shifted slightly, to pause on the figure beside Wang Yuan.
It was a smiling young man, though the sight of his scarlet pupils made one shiver inside. Zhou Yuan could feel a dangerous sensation from the former’s body.
By the side, Jin Zhang’s expression changed slightly as he said in a low voice, “Be careful Zhou Yuan, that’s Fan Yao!”
Zhou Yuan gave a light nod in acknowledgement.
“Hehe, I never imagined it would be so busy here.” At this moment, the scarlet pupil Fan Yao swept his gaze across the area as he said with a wide grin, “It seems that everyone is here for the six color treasure location?”
“Oh, it’s senior brother Fan Yao from the Sacred Pala
ce.” On the Hundred Flowers Fairy Palace side, an expression of pleasant surprise flitted across Zhao Ru’s eyes when she saw Fan Yao. She was acquainted with the latter, and had even cooperated with him on a mission.
“Junior sister Zhao Ru.”
Fan Yao also smiled as he cupped his fists together, before looking towards the young lady called Xiaoyan. “Junior sister Tang Xiaoyan.”
A sliver of wariness flashed in the depths of Tang Xiaoyan’s bright eyes when she saw Fan Yao. She had evidently heard of this chief disciple who was ranked third in the Sacred Palace, but since the latter was being so courteous, she quickly responded with a slight smile.
“A six color treasure location is rather rare, I hope senior brother Fan Yao won’t be so stingy as to monopolize it?” Said Tang Xiaoyan in a gentle voice.
Fan Yao chuckled. “What is junior sister Tang saying, it is naturally your own luck that led you here. Whoever the treasure ends up with will depend on one’s abilities.”
“Moreover, I am quite acquainted with junior sister Zhao Ru, and won’t be unreasonable.”
He made himself appear very generous and open-minded, creating a good impression in the minds of several of the Hundred Flowers Fairy Palace disciples.
A smile also appeared on Zhao Ru’s pretty face when she heard this, clearly feeling that Fan Yao’s words were giving her face.
After smilingly greeting Tang Xiaoyan and Zhao Ru, Fan Yao’s gaze suddenly turned towards the Cangxuan Sect disciples as his expression gradually turned chillingly icy.
“I have no objections to the presence of the junior sisters from the Hundred Flowers Fairy Palace. However… these irksome Cangxuan Sect trash…” His eyelids lowered, as blood-red Genesis Qi slowly rose from his body, while a chilling killing intent pulsed from his indifferent voice.
“I’ll give you guys half an incense stick of time. Scram as far as you can…”
“If not…”
“All of you shall be buried here.”
Chapter 576 Treacherous
Fan Yao’s murder filled voice echoed across the area, the sinister chillingness within seemingly causing the surrounding temperature to fall...
Tang Xiaoyan and the rest were rather taken aback. Fan Yao had been extremely friendly and polite when he was conversing with them earlier, but now appeared somewhat terrifying in the face of the Cangxuan Sect disciples.
Although they knew that there was a lot of friction between the Sacred Palace and the Cangxuan Sect, they had not expected Fan Yao to immediately tear apart all pretense of civility without the slightest hesitation.
Under the numerous gazes of the Hundred Flowers Fairy Palace disciples, Zhou Yuan’s gaze clashed with Fan Yao’s somewhat scarlet pupils. The former’s expression remained calm, not the least bit affected by Fan Yao’s concealed killing intent.
Zhou Yuan slowly said, “What bold words, but I’m afraid you’re not that capable.”
Zhou Yuan did not back down, but instead pressed forward in an even more unyielding manner.
His response caused the many Hundred Flowers Fairy Palace disciples to gasp in surprise. Fan Yao was obviously not someone you wanted to offend, but with such a defiant response, was the Cangxuan Sect really planning on going to war with the Sacred Palace group here?
“Zhou Yuan…” A trace of worry flitted across Luluo’s large eyes.
“Humph, this guy really overestimates his abilities.” Zhao Ru icily snorted and said, “The one leading the Sacred Palace side is Fan Yao, someone whose strength is highly ranked even amongst the ten chief disciples of the Sacred Palace. Choosing to face such a person head-on is foolhardy at best.”
In her eyes, Zhou Yuan was merely putting on a tough act, and was willing to go as far as offending Fan Yao in order to save face. However, Zhou Yuan’s sharp tongue would only end up bringing an extremely unfavorable outcome.
Tang Xiaoyan fell silent. Although Zhao Ru’s words were tough to swallow, they were indeed quite logical. It was not wrong for one to give in when the other party was stronger.
Stubbornly insisting on saving face would instead implicate all the other Cangxuan Sect disciples as well.
From the current situation, the Sacred Palace side was clearly stronger than the Cangxuan Sect.
“Senior sister Xiaoyan.” Luluo pulled at the corner of Tang Xiaoyan’s clothes with an anxious look on her face, hoping that the latter would be able to help neutralize this situation.
She had heard of Fan Yao's reputation, and knew that he would be part of the top ten even when placed amongst all the chief disciples in the Shengzhou Continent. In one on one combat, even their senior sister Tang Xiaoyan would not be able to gain much of an advantage over the former.
Tang Xiaoyan hesitated somewhat in response to Luluo’s pleading gaze. After all, if she were to interfere, it would undoubtedly offend the Sacred Palace side, an unwise decision to make as the leader of this group.
“Xiaoyao, the grudge between them has nothing to do with our Hundred Flowers Fairy Palace!” Zhao Ru’s expression darkened a little when she saw this. “We have no reason to interfere.”
She was on considerably good terms with Fan Yao, and naturally did not want to take the risk of offending him to help a Cangxuan Sect disciple she did not even have a favorable opinion of.
“Moreover, this matter was caused by Zhou Yuan’s recklessness. It will do him good to be taught a lesson.”
Some of the disciples who were closer to Zhao Ru also nodded in agreement, indicating that they had no wish to be involved in the grudge between the two sides for no reason.
Tang Xiaoyan could only cast an apologetic gaze to the anxious Luluo. Zhao Ru was not wrong after all, they had no reason to help the Cangxuan Sect.
While they were discussing things on this side, Fan Yao’s eyes narrowed slightly as he stared at Zhou Yuan, before a chiling arc soon rose from the corners of his lips. “Zhou Yuan, you killed our junior brother Ning Mo and yet you still dare to act so arrogantly. Do you really think that we Sacred Palace people are pushovers?”
The hostile gazes of the surrounding Sacred Palace disciples locked onto Zhou Yuan, their eyes filled with hatred.
These words immediately caused a small commotion on the Hundred Flowers Fairy Palace side. This time, even the two chief disciples, Tang Xiaoyan and Zhao Ru, looked towards Zhou Yuan in astonishment.
Zhou Yuan had actually slayed a chief disciple of the Sacred Palace?!
Zhao Ru could not help but mutter, “How is this possible? He’s only at the seventh layer, how did he manage to kill a chief disciple of the Sacred Palace?!”
Tang Xiaoyan’s amazed gaze swept across the composed Zhou Yuan, as her red lips parted slightly. “It seems that this chief disciple of the Cangxuan Sect is not as simple as we had imagined.”
“I told you, Zhou Yuan is really amazing!” Exclaimed Luluo in a rather pleased manner.
Zhao Ru swept a glance at the former and sneered, “He’s amazing at infuriating Fan Yao. Let’s see how he’ll be able to settle this after killing a chief disciple of the Sacred Palace!”
Upon hearing this, Luluo’s willow leaf like eyebrows involuntarily knitted together.
“Ning Mo is dead?”
Zhou Yuan was also rather surprised by this information. Although Ning Mo had been gravely injured by him previously, it should not have been enough to kill the latter...
However, it was meaningless to dwell on such matters, Ning Mo deserved to die after all.
Zhou Yuan uncaringly said, “He killed several dozen disciples of my Cangxuan Sect. It’s only fitting that he dies.”
His ten fingers clenched into fists, golden Genesis Qi slowly rising from his body as he stared at Fan Yao and smiled, “Let’s cut the crap, if you want to fight, the Cangxuan Sect will gladly accompany you.”
“However…”
He paused for a moment, as he suddenly cast a glance at the Hundred Flowers Fairy Palace side. “If you intend to eat us, you’d better pace yoursel
f carefully, or you might instead end up being devoured by a third party.”
In the distance, Tang Xiaoyan and Zhao Ru were taken aback by these words.
Zhao Ru’s eyebrows immediately turned vertical. “What a crafty guy, to think that he actually dares to use us!”
Tang Xiaoyan’s eyes flickered in thought as she shot a meaningful glance at Zhou Yuan, but did not say anything.
Fan Yao laughed loudly, before he mockingly said, “Haha, kid, I’m acquainted with the two junior sisters of the Hundred Flowers Fairy Palace. Such tricks are useless.”
Zhou Yuan chuckled. “In that case, take it as me overthinking things. Come on then, let’s do this.”
The smile on Fan Yao’s face receded little by little as he stared at Zhou Yuan, while the expression in his eyes darkened somewhat. He was a very skeptical person, and it was impossible for him to trust the Hundred Flowers Fairy Palace.
Under the temptation of the six color treasure location, he may not even trust his fellow disciples, let alone outsiders?
Given the strength of this Cangxuan Sect group, the Sacred Palace would certainly suffer substantial losses if they fought. With them weakened, the situation would become extremely unfavorable towards them if the Hundred Flowers Fairy Palace group were to suddenly have other plans.
By the side, Wang Yuan also hesitated for a moment, before he said to Fan Yao in a low voice, “The Hundred Flowers Fairy Palace is no flower vase.”
He was also trying to warn Fan Yao. Although the Hundred Flowers Fairy Palace were just a bunch of girls, as a faction that could become one of the six overlord sects, anyone who views them as useless flower vases would likely end up paying a painful price.
Fan Yao remained expressionless, while a dark and stormy look churned in his eyes. Zhou Yuan was quite an insidious individual. A single sentence from him had now placed Fan Yao in a rather difficult position.
Fan Yao’s gaze flickered in thought. Moments later, he suddenly took in a deep breath as all the storminess on his face faded away. After two soft snorts, he pointed at Zhou Yuan, and nodded as he smiled.
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