The Peak Person in a City

Ancient trees soared into the sky, lush and verdant.

A winding, turbulent river flowed out from the Southern Wilderness, rushing towards the thousand-mile wilderness of the Red Crow City region.

Chen Xuan followed the crowd to this place, his gaze scanning the surroundings.

"Every major power has sent people."

Hundreds of people were gathered here, roughly divided into four forces.

One was the green-robed cultivators from Green Deer Mountain, and the other was the Ascetic Monks from the Hanging Temple.

The remaining two were the Qi Refining families from Red Crow City.

One was the Wang Family, where Chen Xuan belonged, and the other was the Xie Family, who cultivated Water Virtue Black Qi. The ill-tempered old Daoist he had encountered while catching treasure fish a few days ago was among them.

"Yan Yushu, she's actually with the Xie Family, a Qi Refining family."

Chen Xuan was startled. In the area where the Xie Family was located, he spotted Yan Yushu. Her demeanor was cool and detached, ethereal like a fairy. Standing among the crowd, she was like the moon surrounded by stars, so radiant that people couldn't take their eyes off her.

Several dignified, handsome, and extraordinary direct disciples of the Xie Family, along with other young Qi Refiners, gathered around the peerlessly beautiful Yan Yushu, chatting and laughing, like a painting of talented scholars and beautiful ladies on an outing.

"I heard that after Yan Yushu entered Red Crow City, she deliberately passed by the entrance of a Qi Refining family to attract attention. It turns out she was referring to the Xie Family."

Chen Xuan murmured to himself.

In the far distance, over a hundred Ascetic Monks from the Hanging Temple kept their eyes closed, their heads bowed, quietly chanting Buddhist scriptures, not looking towards Yan Yushu's location.

Chen Xuan didn't understand why these Ascetic Monks, unable to capture Yan Yushu, didn't leave but still came here to join the fun.

"Miss Yushu, please rest assured. With our Xie Family here, how could we allow the Hanging Temple to be presumptuous? We will definitely protect you completely."

Chen Xuan faintly heard a confident young talent repeatedly assuring Yan Yushu not to worry.

"Thank you for the care of the young masters of the Xie Family and all the heroes. Yushu is deeply grateful."

Yan Yushu's voice was clear. She gently bent her body and slightly curtsied. It was a nearly perfect lady's etiquette, as graceful as water under the sunlight, moving and captivating.

"Is she trying to seduce them?"

Chen Xuan thought to himself, clearly sensing that the young cultivators from those families paused their breathing for several beats. Afterward, their breathing became rapid, and their hearts pounded with excitement as if they were about to leap out of their chests.

Chen Xuan only glanced a few times, then no longer paid attention. There were too many people and eyes at the moment, not a good time to find Yan Yushu. He could only wait until the negotiations were over.

"The great monster of the Southern Wilderness is here!" Just then, someone exclaimed. In the vast forest sea in the distance, vegetation swayed, and a figure emerged, getting closer and closer, gradually becoming clear.

Whoosh!

A completely white turtle, with soft limbs, walked slowly out of the mountain forest with steps that swayed like ocean tides in deep water.

He sat cross-legged on the ground, his deep eyes looking across the river at the human Qi Refiners.

Behind him, strange and bizarre monsters of various shapes and sizes appeared one after another.

Bang!

In the Xie Family crowd, an old man in a black robe suddenly left the group and knelt down, immediately kowtowing to the elderly white turtle with thunderous bangs.

"The Xie Family Head in the Dao Repository Realm is kowtowing! That old white-shelled turtle cultivates Water Virtue Black Qi!" Someone shouted in fear, their expression extremely terrified.

A great cultivator in the Dao Repository Realm, a powerful figure who usually held high positions in the family, was instantly controlled by Immortal Qi and knelt down to the monster like a puppet.

"The Southern Wilderness is giving our Red Crow City a show of force."

Wang Zhenyang's face was grim. His six palms fiercely crushed the armrests of his chair. However, the elderly white turtle was on a level above him. He was now also an ant. If he dared to make a move, he would be instantly slapped to death.

"This is a true top-tier mighty figure."

Chen Xuan's expression was solemn. Not long ago, he had witnessed Wang Zhenyang's power, and now he saw the Xie Family Head, also in the Dao Repository Realm, directly kowtowing to the elderly white turtle. This scene was too astonishing... The elderly white turtle should be a being at the third level on the path of Qi Refining. However, he did not make things difficult for the lowest-level Ascension cultivators, deliberately showing mercy.

"The top-tier mighty figure from Green Deer Mountain is here!" Everyone immediately looked delighted, gazing into the distance.

In the distant sky, green light covered the heavens and the earth, shrouding half the sky, devouring the sunlight and blue sky as it approached. At the edge of the horizon, a majestic green-robed figure slowly emerged.

"The Sect Master has arrived!" A large group of Qi Refiners from Green Deer Mountain knelt down in unison.

Qing Yazi was tall, looking about forty years old. His face was upright and refined, but his eyes were terrifying, like a thousand kinds of green light surging, supporting a three-legged, two-eared elixir furnace.

He appeared before the Green Deer Mountain crowd, his hands behind his back, coldly staring at the elderly white turtle.

Qing Ding Dao, Qing Yazi!

"Qing Yazi, you're living more and more regressively, showing off your power to little Ascension cultivators, and even trying to refine immortal elixirs? You'll never have the chance to be Hidden in the Mortal World and attain immortality in this life."

The elderly white turtle squinted at Qing Yazi, his tone very unfriendly.

Because a large group of monsters cultivating Green Qi behind him were kowtowing very forcefully, some of them had already broken their foreheads, and blood was flowing all over the ground.

"The debt from the Yellow Millet Dream last month hasn't been settled with you. Today, one match will decide everything!"

Qing Yazi snorted coldly, his large sleeves fluttering, calm and confident. He shouted, "Where is she? Tell her to come out and see me."

"Is this... going to be a fight?" Someone whispered. Qing Yazi was very strong. As one of the few top-tier mighty figures in the Red Crow City area, as soon as he appeared, he immediately confronted the Southern Wilderness monsters.

Moreover, they were shocked. Qing Yazi actually suffered a great loss in the Southern Wilderness Yellow Millet Dream incident last month?

Chen Xuan's gaze lightly swept over Qing Yazi, then immediately moved elsewhere, worried about being perceived by his keen senses.

At this moment, the few large hands that had been acting as they pleased in the Red Crow City area, manipulating thousands of cultivators, finally began to step onto the stage.

"Hmph!"

Suddenly, a heavy roar echoed between heaven and earth, and the sky darkened.

A pair of massive, pure golden eyes rose from the Southern Wilderness Mountains, like two giant lakes, unfathomably deep. Across the dome of the sky, a majestic 'King' character filled the entire expanse.

"Qing Yazi, what are you? Do you think you're worthy of seeing her true face with your own eyes? Go call your Chu Kingdom's Fire Emperor!"

This voice was like the roar of a tiger, shaking heaven and earth, making people feel suffocated. Some low-level Qi Refiners immediately bled from their ears and fell to the ground.

"It's him!"

Chen Xuan's heart trembled. He recognized this colossal ghost. When the first batch of Qi Refiners arrived in the Southern Wilderness, these golden eyes had risen from the Southern Wilderness Mountains, patrolling the land under the night sky.

Its oppressive aura spread for hundreds of miles, heavy and suffocating.

"There really are tigers in the mountains..." Someone felt a chill in their heart. The Southern Wilderness had deep foundations, and another top-tier ghost had appeared. With two against one, the human side immediately fell into a disadvantage.

A pair of golden tiger eyes lay behind the elderly white turtle, looking down at Qing Yazi with disdain, extremely oppressive, making everyone tremble with fear.

"This Tiger-Eyed Chi Mei has reached the peak of the physical path. Its body is so massive it's boundless." Someone sighed, while also thinking he was too arrogant, daring to challenge the Chu Kingdom's Fire Emperor to come here to see her?

And who was she? Was there a third top-tier ghost about to appear in the Southern Wilderness?

"What's the use of being verbally aggressive? If she doesn't dare to show up today, let alone the Peach Blossom Garden, we will force our way into the Southern Wilderness!"

Qing Yazi, with his ethereal Immortal Qi, spoke with an unusually cold tone, continuing, "The cycle is once every twenty years. This time, it's a four-on-three situation. You Southern Wilderness have been acting recklessly, bringing this upon yourselves. It's time you learned a lesson."

Four on three?

"Are there three more human top-tier cultivators coming?" Everyone was puzzled.

Because the top-tier cultivators in Red Crow City could be counted on one hand.

The City Lord of Red Crow City would definitely come, as both the Wang and Xie families were present, but who were the remaining two top-tier cultivators?

"Hanging Temple..." Someone whispered a guess, looking towards the silent Ascetic Monks of the Hanging Temple in the distance.

The Ascetic Monks never joined in the excitement; they must be involved, otherwise they wouldn't be here.

"Qing Yazi once invited a top-tier cultivator from the Hanging Temple who was secretly crossing the border to Green Deer Mountain to discuss scriptures. What if it wasn't extortion, but cooperation?"

Someone muttered in a low voice, feeling they had grasped the key point: "What if the City Lord of Red Crow City, Lu Zhuan, also turned a blind eye and allowed other top-tier cultivators from the Hanging Temple to pass through? Just enough to make it four against three and suppress the Southern Wilderness..."

"Something isn't right..."

Chen Xuan's expression was solemn as he looked at Yan Yushu, who was surrounded by the Xie family members, feeling her situation was very delicate.

However, he saw no anxiety in her expression; she seemed indifferent to the outside world's speculations. A young man took the opportunity to offer comfort, and she responded with great politeness.

"The City Lord of Red Crow City, Lu Zhuan, is here!" Just then, someone pointed to the end of the great river between the two forces, looking into the distance.

"Whoosh!"

The river surged, and a figure bobbed up and down, flowing upstream against the current, riding the wind and waves. The figure became clearer and clearer.

"Hiss, it's a little Daoist priest!"

Chen Xuan was dumbfounded. The figure in the surging waves was clearly a little Daoist boy of five or six years old!

City Lord Lu Zhuan, less than a meter tall, had bright eyes, red lips and white teeth, and skin as clear as jade. He stood tall with his chest out, hands on his hips, and a proud and arrogant expression on his face, which was carved from pink jade.

He wore an oversized black Daoist robe, as if a child stubbornly put on adult clothes. His tender little feet were bare, and hidden within his wide sleeves were several purplish-blue talismans, scattering brilliant light.

Rain Master Dao, Lu Zhuan!

With his appearance, the entire land fell into an eerie silence. Everyone held their breath nervously.

Because Lu Zhuan was nominally the number one Qi Refiner in the Red Crow City area.

In the distance, the elderly white turtle and the tiger-eyed figure fell silent.

"City Lord Lu Zhuan has also reached the end of the Human Dao Repository and the physical path..." Wang Zhenyang murmured. When he was young, Lu Zhuan's body was that of a child. Now that he was old and frail, Lu Zhuan was still the same, even shrinking a little.

Chen Xuan also noticed that this person and the sky-obscuring tiger-eyed figure walked completely different paths. It seemed that every inch of his flesh and blood had undergone a transformation, emitting a fragrance a hundred times stronger than that of a great flesh and blood medicine.

"Daoist Friend Lu Zhuan, for this joint attack, the Six Desires Heaven will belong to me and the Hanging Temple, and the Southern Wilderness and Peach Blossom Garden will belong to your Red Crow City. How about it?"

Qing Yazi spoke calmly, softly stating the plan they both knew well. With cooperation, everyone would clearly benefit.

The little Daoist boy glanced at Qing Yazi upon hearing this, then flicked his sleeve.

"Rumble..."

Immediately, the surging river water poured onto the shore. A black-scaled five-clawed flood dragon, as thick as a house, lifted the little Daoist boy hundreds of meters into the air. White mist swirled, and a torrential rain poured down like a waterfall. The ferocious dragon head overlooked the land.

The little Daoist boy, Lu Zhuan, stared at Qing Yazi, a exaggerated curve slowly spreading across his lips. A clear, childlike voice came from his throat, sighing:

"Qing Yazi, you are a clown, not smart... Some people, even if they live for a thousand years, ten thousand years, they only get older, not smarter."

He paused, then asked in return, "You desire the Six Desires Heaven, does this poor Daoist not?"

Qing Yazi's expression froze, and he said in a daze, "You are from the Rain Master Dao, a legitimate Daoist sect, what do you want the Six Desires Heaven for? Moreover, the Hanging Temple..."

The little Daoist boy's face instantly became ferocious, and he shouted, "Idiot, do you think Yan Yushu grew wings and flew out of the Hanging Temple to Red Crow City out of thin air!"

"Boom!"

In the next instant, the black-scaled flood dragon roared towards the sky, then its hundreds of meters long body plunged down violently, like a thick chain spanning the sky, slamming Qing Yazi and more than half of the Green Deer Mountain base deep into the ground.

The earth trembled, as if an earthquake had struck.

"The immortal pill I chose eight hundred years ago, you dare to inexplicably butt in!"

Lu Zhuan's furious roar caused everyone's hearts to tremble and they were greatly surprised.

"Yan Yushu was targeted by Lu Zhuan early on, no wonder she fled towards Red Crow City!"

Chen Xuan's mind raced. He hadn't expected such an unexpected turn of events, but he reacted quickly, swiftly leaving the crowd to avoid being affected by the aftermath of the battle.

"Rumble!"

The entire earth shook, mountains collapsed, the ground split, the sky turned dark, and a shocking battle erupted swiftly and unexpectedly.

"City Lord Lu has betrayed us!"

Everyone looked terrified and quickly fled the battlefield. They had originally hoped for peaceful negotiations, but before the talks even began, internal conflict broke out. Lu Zhuan directly turned against them and struck ruthlessly at Qing Yazi.

"Lu Zhuan, the people from the Hanging Temple will arrive in an instant, don't be crazy!" Qing Yazi's voice echoed from deep underground.

"Qing Yazi, are you fit to sit at the table and eat? By the time you've finished plotting, the pot will have long been scrubbed clean!" Lu Zhuan's childish voice was extremely sharp.

"You're counting on the Hanging Temple? You people want good things when you see them, but can you hold onto them! I'll make sure you crave them but can't have them, the Hanging Temple is finished!"

The old white turtle and the tiger-eyed figure shouted and joined the battlefield at this moment. They weren't just attacking Qing Yazi; at the same time, they were also looking for opportunities to ambush Lu Zhuan, attempting to catch them all in one go.

The old white turtle swung his divine fists, stepping on the Bagua diagram, his fists dancing in a Taiji circle, like a brilliant sun directly charging into the underground battlefield. Behind him, the tiger-eyed figure rose from the Southern Wilderness, lifting a majestic mountain thousands of feet high and smashing it towards this side...

"Too terrifying, so this is the power of a top-tier great cultivator. I'm leaving first."

Chen Xuan was terrified, finally witnessing how high these people's cultivation truly was. He was being plotted against by people of this level... He didn't feel discouraged by this; having enemies of this caliber constantly watching him from behind only made him more determined.

Moreover, he found that great cultivators weren't that scary. Although they possessed various great powers, they were essentially still human... High realms only represented good talent. As long as he was cautious enough, he could completely avoid the prying eyes of most great cultivators.

However, he also knew his limits. This was not a battle he could participate in at the moment. He quickly moved away from the battlefield, and soon, the Southern Wilderness forest appeared before him.

"Hey!"

Suddenly, someone lightly patted his shoulder.

"Who!"

Chen Xuan turned his head sharply. Yan Yushu smiled sweetly, her fair face flushed with an unnatural crimson. She tightly grabbed Chen Xuan's hand and pulled him into the dense, uninhabited woods.

"Come with me."

Chen Xuan was stunned. Not only did he see Yan Yushu, but Yan Yushu also spotted him in the crowd and took advantage of the chaos to follow him.

In the distance, several handsome direct disciples of the Xie Family, as well as many extraordinary disciples from aristocratic families, were sweating profusely, anxiously searching for Yan Yushu's figure, like ants on a hot pan.

"Where is Miss Yushu? Find her quickly."

They were distraught, as if a peerless treasure they held dear had been suddenly stolen. The sky had fallen, and they were heartbroken.

Chen Xuan pointed at them and asked, "Them?"

Yan Yushu said with a look of disdain, "Some irrelevant people, it's none of our business."

Chen Xuan blinked his eyes: "Our?"

"Asking the obvious!"

Yan Yushu rolled her eyes at him, the charm in her eyes almost forming threads. She was impatient and urged him in a sweet voice.

"Lu Zhuan is my master. He will definitely come looking for me after the fight... I don't have much time, hurry up and do it!"