Chapter 11

"A mere Useless Body of Ten Thousand Years—spending fifty Contribution Points to buy your life means you'll die a worthy death. That's already giving you plenty of face."

Niu Fang sauntered out of the Animal Husbandry Garden.

The world of cultivators believed in one saying: if a person was not ruthless, they could not stand firm.

Even though Lin Xuan was merely a Useless Body of Ten Thousand Years, Niu Fang still had no intention of letting him go.

The two had already formed a grudge. It was better to strangle danger in the cradle.

Lin Xuan knew nothing of this. After turning in a thousand jin of pig grass, he went to the Animal Husbandry Garden's dining hall to eat.

After eating and resting for a while, he returned to Husbandry Room Number Three.

At that moment, there was already a Wild Boar inside Husbandry Room Number Three.

Just as in the morning, once one Wild Boar had been dealt with, a disciple would drive another one into this separate husbandry room.

Carrying a specially made steel blade, Lin Xuan entered the room.

The Wild Boar was lying on the ground. Hearing the movement, it slowly opened its eyes.

"Hmm?"

Lin Xuan froze slightly, and his heart suddenly tightened.

At that instant, he clearly sensed that this Wild Boar seemed different from the ones that morning.

Its gaze was more humanlike, filled with flickering, frenzied killing intent.

"Snort, snort..."

As Lin Xuan was wondering, the Wild Boar actually rose with a series of snorts. The next moment, it charged at him fiercely.

Despite its several-hundred-jin body, it was still astonishingly fast—at least twice as fast as an ordinary Wild Boar.

"Mid-stage Body Forging Realm, a Wild Boar leader!"

Lin Xuan's gaze sharpened, and intense killing intent surfaced in his eyes.

Clearly, someone had tampered with this Wild Boar.

Husbandry Rooms One through Three were only meant to handle early-stage Body Forging Realm Wild Boars.

Yet a mid-stage one had suddenly appeared. Clearly, someone was targeting him.

And without even thinking, Lin Xuan knew that aside from the servant overseer Niu Fang, no one else could be behind this.

He had not made many enemies since coming to the Divine Firmament Holy Land. One was already dead, while Ma San and Liu Qi were incapable of doing something like this.

"Niu Fang, you deserve to die!"

As thoughts raced through Lin Xuan's mind, his killing intent toward Niu Fang deepened further.

By then, the Wild Boar leader had already charged close, and Lin Xuan felt immense pressure.

The qi and blood within his body instinctively surged and circulated, erupting with terrifying strength.

"Screech!"

At a tricky angle, the steel blade in Lin Xuan's hand evaded the Wild Boar's pounce and stabbed straight toward its chest.

"Clang!"

Yet with a crisp ring, the steel blade snapped.

Lin Xuan's pupils contracted sharply. He hurriedly rolled to the side, narrowly avoiding the pounce.

"Snort, snort..."

Its first attack having failed, the Wild Boar wheeled around the instant it landed and launched another assault.

"It actually wasn't killed in one strike? Not bad. No wonder Niu Fang was willing to spend so many Contribution Points."

Outside the husbandry room, Chen Ze, the person in charge of the Animal Husbandry Garden, narrowed his eyes slightly.

"But you won't escape this strike."

Chen Ze muttered softly and turned to leave.

In his eyes, Lin Xuan's evasion of the first pounce had been pure luck.

As for the second time, there was absolutely no way he could avoid it.

Then Chen Ze could simply slaughter the Wild Boar, clean everything up, and claim that Lin Xuan had been killed by it. No one would be able to say anything.

After all, such things happened often in their Animal Husbandry Garden.

But something happened that Chen Ze had never imagined.

The instant he had just turned around, an earthshaking tiger's roar suddenly erupted from inside the husbandry room.

"Roar..."

The tiger's roar shook the mountains and forests, its dominance soaring to the heavens.

"Boom!"

Then Chen Ze heard a tremendous crash and turned back in shock.

He saw Lin Xuan maintaining a punching stance inside the husbandry room, while the enormous Wild Boar flew backward through the air like a torn sack.

"Rumble!"

An instant later, the Wild Boar's body smashed viciously into the wall before falling to the ground. Its four hooves twitched, and in the blink of an eye, it was dead.

"Buzz!"

The Soul Suppressing Pagoda trembled in Lin Xuan's mind, stealing a full six years of time, along with a dense ball of qi and blood.

"A Tiger's Roar Fist at major mastery is actually this terrifying!"

Before he had time to inspect the Soul Suppressing Pagoda, Lin Xuan could not help marveling at the Tiger's Roar Fist's power.

And this was only a low-grade Yellow-rank martial skill. What about mid-grade, high-grade, or even Profound-rank, Earth-rank, and Heaven-rank ones?

If martial skills of that level were cultivated to major mastery, how terrifying would they be?

No wonder people spoke of the difference between immortals and mortals. Once one stepped onto the immortal path, they truly became someone ordinary people could never compare to.

Without exaggeration, an early-stage Body Forging Realm cultivator could wipe out Clearwater Town without breaking a sweat.

Of course, that was assuming their stamina could keep up and they were not besieged to death.

"How is this possible? That was... a martial skill at major mastery... Didn't Niu Fang say he had only just begun?"

Chen Ze was still immersed in shock, his eyes filled with irrepressible disbelief.

"Bang!"

At that moment, the husbandry room door opened, and Lin Xuan walked out, his sharp gaze fixed on Chen Ze.

"Manager Chen, you deliberately plotted to murder a sect disciple. How many lives do you think you have?"

"What nonsense are you spouting?"

Chen Ze instantly suppressed his shock and spoke in a deep voice.

"Still trying to quibble?"

Lin Xuan sneered. "A mid-stage Body Forging Realm Wild Boar leader appeared in Husbandry Room Number Three. If I report this to the Holy Land, what do you think will happen to you?"

"Hehe..."

Chen Ze was not flustered in the slightest. He gave a cold laugh. "It was indeed my oversight, but I already stepped in and killed the Wild Boar."

Chen Ze looked at Lin Xuan mockingly.

Lin Xuan frowned. He truly had not expected Chen Ze to be so shameless.

But he was not worried. He merely said calmly, "Didn't you know that my wife is the Personal Disciple of Liu Ruyan, the Peak Lord of Ice God Peak?"

"If I report this to Peak Lord Liu, do you think they'll believe me or you?"

Chen Ze froze, then looked at Lin Xuan as if he were an idiot. "Your wife is Peak Lord Liu's Personal Disciple? And you're slaughtering pigs in the Servant District? Are you kidding me?"

"Hahaha..."

This time, Lin Xuan said nothing. He merely stared calmly at Chen Ze.

As Chen Ze laughed, he suddenly stopped. Then his gaze turned horrified.

"You're... that Useless Body of Ten Thousand Years?"

Chen Ze suddenly realized, and a chill surged from the soles of his feet straight to his scalp.

At the same time, boundless shock welled up in his heart.

This was the fucking Useless Body of Ten Thousand Years? He had entered the sect by living off a woman, then in three days brought a low-grade Yellow-rank martial skill to major mastery and killed a mid-stage Body Forging Realm Wild Boar leader with one punch.

Was this fucking really not a fantasy tale?

Lin Xuan nodded, his eyes full of amusement.

At that moment, Lin Xuan put the benefits of having backing to full use.

Though Liu Ruyan probably had never cared about him at all, that did not stop him from borrowing her name.

After all, Xiao Yu'er's deep devotion to him had been witnessed by everyone on the Floating Training Grounds.

"Bang!"

Chen Ze suddenly dropped to his knees, his face full of panic. "M-My lord, I-I'm sorry. I-I was blinded by greed, please show mercy..."