Chapter 23

"Is this... a breakthrough?"

"What a fortuitous encounter."

Just then, Baili Dongjun, Lei Mengsha, and the others also arrived at the small courtyard.

They happened to witness this scene.

There was no great battle like they had imagined, nor could they see the two terrifying Lawless and Unrestrained Venerables from earlier.

All that remained was Xiao Ruo Feng in the air, his true qi surging wildly.

And below him was Jiang Mu Ming, clearly using his true qi to support him.

"Mister Jiang?!"

Lei Mengsha froze for a moment.

He hurried over, unable to stop himself from asking, "Boss Jiang, why are you here?"

"Didn't you say you were going to Tian Qi City?"

Baili Dongjun also looked over curiously.

That's right.

Didn't Mister Jiang say he was going to Tian Qi City to spread the Way across the world?

How did he end up in his master's small courtyard?

The two of them were filled with questions.

But at that moment,

Xiao Ruo Feng in the air suddenly let out a wild roar, and a powerful aura burst forth.

It blew the fallen flowers across the ground away.

"Care... Carefree Heaven Realm?!"

Lei Mengsha was even more dumbfounded. What exactly had happened in this little courtyard?!

He had only been gone for a short while.

How had things developed into this?!

Lawless and Unrestrained were nowhere to be seen, Boss Jiang had inexplicably appeared here, and Xiao Ruo Feng had suddenly broken through.

It had completely overturned Lei Mengsha's entire worldview!

"Thank you, Mister, for helping Ruo Feng break through!"

After successfully breaking through, Xiao Ruo Feng landed and immediately bowed to thank Jiang Mu Ming.

Jiang Mu Ming did not refuse.

Instead, he looked toward White-Haired Immortal Mo Qixuan and Purple-Robed Marquis, who had been the last to arrive outside the small courtyard.

He calmly said, "The corpses of Lawless and Unrestrained are here."

"You two, take them back to Beyond Heaven."

In the next instant, a powerful wind swept through, blowing away the fallen flowers and revealing the corpses of the two Lawless and Unrestrained Venerables!

White-Haired Immortal and Purple-Robed Marquis both shrank their pupils.

Their hearts were filled with incomparable shock.

Yet neither said a word. They merely gave Jiang Mu Ming a deep look before taking the corpses of Lawless and Unrestrained and drifting away.

After all, the two Lawless and Unrestrained Venerables were dead.

The two of them could not stir up any trouble.

Meanwhile,

Lei Mengsha had already begun pestering Xiao Ruo Feng, asking him to explain what had happened in the small courtyard.

But Xiao Ruo Feng merely smiled.

He chose to bury what had happened in his heart and did not reveal Jiang Mu Ming's strength.

He revealed Jiang Mu Ming's identity even less.

Perhaps, in Xiao Ruo Feng's heart, he felt that guarding this secret for the rest of his life was the best choice.

Rather than making Emperor Tai An wary,

and causing Northern Li to gain another enemy, it would be better if Emperor Tai An knew nothing from beginning to end.

A fifteen-year-old in the Profound Spirit Realm... was simply far too terrifying!

"The matter here is settled."

"It is time for me to leave as well."

Jiang Mu Ming suddenly spoke, bidding farewell to Confucian Immortal Gu Chen.

The reason he had made a detour to Gan Dong City

was to save Confucian Immortal Gu Chen, his old friend from Western Chu and also the benefactor who had saved his life in his childhood.

Now that Lawless and Unrestrained were dead,

and Confucian Immortal Gu Chen had received the Confucian Way inheritance, restoring his cultivation was only a matter of time.

There was no longer any need for Jiang Mu Ming to worry about him.

With the Confucian Immortal's strength, he could go anywhere under heaven.

Xiao Ruo Feng's heart stirred, and he asked, "Mister Jiang, are you going to Tian Qi City?"

Jiang Mu Ming smiled.

He said, "Tian Qi City is a fine place. Everyone wants to go there."

"Most of us are going to Tian Qi City."

"But that does not necessarily mean we will travel together."

Jiang Mu Ming was going to Tian Qi City to spread the Way across the world, and also to meet Number One Under Heaven, Li Changsheng.

Xiao Ruo Feng was going to take Baili Dongjun back to participate in the Academy Grand Examination.

Yu Sheng Mo was going to Tian Qi City for her disciple, Ye Dingzhi, and to challenge her one-sided nemesis, Li Changsheng, once again.

They were traveling along the same road.

But that did not necessarily mean they would travel together.

It was merely that everyone's destination was Tian Qi City.

"What you said sounds rather profound and mysterious."

Lei Mengsha slapped his forehead.

He suddenly understood. "Doesn't that old man usually like talking like that too?"