Want to See Me? Have Wu Yuekong Come Himself!

In the end, Li Yun could not outstubborn Zhang Ruohan and failed to stay in the valley for two more days.

At most, he found an excuse to dawdle a little longer.

By evening, after eating and drinking his fill,

the Cognition Points on the panel had recovered to around 600,000, and he left ahead of time with Zhang Ruohan.

By the time they returned to the Celestial Martial Sect, it was already dark.

Yet quite a few people were still out and about.

To avoid drawing attention, Li Yun and Zhang Ruohan went their separate ways. She returned to the Inner Sect, while he prepared to report to Zhang Cong.

He had left in a hurry that day. He had originally agreed to go with Zhang Cong to the Martial Armory the next morning to collect martial arts manuals, but he had broken the appointment. This was a good chance to ask Zhang Cong again when they would be going to the Martial Armory.

Now that he had reached the Body Tempering Thirteenth Layer, the very limit of the Body Tempering Realm, and could temper his body no further, it was time to choose a martial art and make a push for the Force Refining Realm.

Yet before he had even gotten halfway there, someone blocked his path.

The ones blocking him were two disciples from Rank 77 Courtyard: Zhao Leyue and Li Qin.

"Are you Li Yun from Rank 95 Academy?"

Li Yun did not know them, but one look at their expressions and tone told him they had not come with good intentions.

"No, you've got the wrong person."

Li Yun could not be bothered to argue with them. He denied it outright and walked around them.

What a joke.

Right now, nothing under heaven mattered more than finding Zhang Cong.

Playing around with two strangers?

No time!

Zhao Leyue and Li Qin were immediately stunned.

"Not Li Yun?"

"Did we get the wrong person?"

"Damn it, what wrong person? He's obviously Li Yun. This bastard is playing us! Get him—while no one's around, drag him away by force!"

The two were somewhat angered from embarrassment and charged at him from behind.

One from the left and one from the right, grabbing for Li Yun's arms.

A cold glint flashed through Li Yun's eyes. In this situation, he could have killed them in return entirely. With a flick of Entangling Silk Force, not only would they fail to grab him, their hands would be twisted clean off.

But he held back.

He deliberately let Zhao Leyue and Li Qin seize him.

"Hey, what are you two doing?"

"I don't know you. Why are you grabbing me? Let go of me now, or I'll call for someone... I just saw Discipline Hall Patrol nearby. When that happens, you'll be left unable to eat what you've packed."

Zhao Leyue and Li Qin's expressions changed slightly at once.

Discipline Hall Patrol nearby?

This was serious. If the Discipline Hall Patrol discovered them, they would be taken away in minutes. And they did not have the guts to sell out Wu Yuekong. When the time came, they would suffer dearly.

Once someone entered the Punishment Hall for wrongdoing, they could forget about coming out without shedding two layers of skin.

The two exchanged a glance and swiftly reached an understanding: they could not let Li Yun draw over the Discipline Hall Patrol.

"Uh... hehe, well, Junior Brother Li Yun, you've misunderstood. We mean you no harm."

"Hmph, no harm? Who would believe that?"

"If you mean no harm, why did you grab me?"

Zhao Leyue and Li Qin hurriedly released Li Yun.

"This... hehe, to be honest, we are both disciples of Rank 77 Courtyard. My name is Zhao Leyue, and his is Li Qin... We came to find you because we were sent by our chief, Young Master Wu Yuekong."

"Young Master Wu has something he would like to ask you to help with. But you just said you weren't Li Yun, and in our moment of panic, we... Please don't misunderstand, Junior Brother Li."

"Junior Brother Li, please take pity on us and help out. Come with us to see Young Master Wu so we can report back. We guarantee that we absolutely mean you no harm."

No harm?

Who were they trying to fool?

Those two were wearing such restrained expressions that they were practically one step away from having the words "malicious intent" written across their faces. Only a blind man would fail to see it.

What Li Yun could not understand was why another Wu Yuekong had suddenly appeared.

And he was supposedly the chief of Rank 77 Courtyard?

He and Wu Yuekong had absolutely nothing to do with each other. Why had Wu Yuekong sent people to find him?

Could it be a trap?

Was Wu Yuekong merely a smokescreen, while someone else was the one truly looking to cause him trouble?

Liu Ningkong?

Zhao Chuanfeng?

The moment he thought of those two, Li Yun immediately made a decisive choice: he would not go!

It was not because he was timid.

It was because he truly did not yet have the means to confront those two head-on. A gentleman did not stand beneath a crumbling wall, and besides, it was dark now. If those two really came after him and one of them was ruthless enough to take his life, would he not have nowhere to cry injustice?

"No!"

"I don't know any Wu Yuekong. Who the hell does he think he is? If he wants my help, let him come himself. Why should I go see him?"

With that—

Li Yun struck first without another word.

Both hands shot out like venomous snakes. One hand seized Zhao Leyue's wrist, the other Li Qin's. With a hard shake, he flung them several meters away.

Then he strode off without looking back.

"Bastard..."

"That guy actually dared to attack us?"

Watching Li Yun's retreating figure, Zhao Leyue and Li Qin were both furious and flustered. Just as they were about to shout for Li Yun to stop, two Discipline Hall Patrol officers suddenly passed by in the distance.

The two jolted in fright and hurriedly abandoned the thought of shouting. They did not even dare to chase after him.

By the time the Discipline Hall Patrol had gone far away, Li Yun had vanished as well.

"Damn it..."

"That cursed Li Yun simply doesn't know whether he's dead or alive. He actually dared to ambush us..."

Zhao Leyue kicked a pebble away in fury. It struck the mountain wall nearby with a crisp crack.

Li Qin had just been about to chime in.

When he suddenly came to a sharp realization and cried out, "That's not right, Zhao Leyue... Didn't Li Yun enter the sect only a little over a month ago? With so little time, shouldn't he still be building up his Basic Stance Cultivation? But he actually used a Martial Skill just now?"

"Huh..."

Zhao Leyue froze as well.

"What the hell..."

"He only entered the sect a little over a month ago. Where did he learn a Martial Skill? It even seemed rather sophisticated."

"We were careless for a moment, yet he actually threw both of us aside."

"Something's wrong. There's something strange about this Li Yun... No wonder he dared to be so arrogant just now. He actually did not put Young Master Wu in his eyes and even declared that Young Master Wu should come see him himself!"

"Come on, hurry back and report to Young Master Wu."

The two immediately hurried away.

Meanwhile, Li Yun had already arrived once again outside Azure Cloud Residence. He raised his head and glanced at the plaque.

Observing Martial Intent, Cognition Points +70

Observing Martial Intent, Cognition Points +70

Two notifications floated out in succession.

Li Yun inwardly exclaimed, Good heavens.

He clearly remembered that when Xu Qing first brought him here, observing the Azure Cloud Residence plaque had only earned him 30 Cognition Points per second. This time, it was actually 70 per second!

This was clearly the effect brought by raising his aptitude to Fourth Grade Lower.

At this rate, if he could stand here and observe continuously, he could gain at least 250,000 Cognition Points in an hour.

Unfortunately, he could not.

As an Outer Sect Disciple, if he stood outside Azure Cloud Residence saying nothing and merely stared at the plaque, never mind whether it would draw attention—at the very least, people would suspect he was a fool on the spot.

Left with no choice,

he could only abandon this impractical thought and step forward to knock on Azure Cloud Residence's door.