Force Them All to Train!

"Big brother! You were destined to die by my hand today!" Leng Qianye punched Leng Qingqiu again and again, pounding his face.

A person's heart was protected by the ribs, but there was nothing to protect the throat or head. The head even held such fragile organs as the eyes.

Every one of Leng Qianye's punches landed on Leng Qingqiu's face. He was going for the kill!

"Die! Die! Die!" Leng Qianye shouted, each word punctuated by the "thump, thump, thump" of his fists hitting flesh.

Was he going to lose? Was he going to die?

Die? How could you die? You useless fool, don't give up!

I can't beat him!

Let me take over!

You?

No! Us!

With a thud, Leng Qingqiu caught Leng Qianye's fist.

"Hm?" Leng Qianye tried to pull his fist free, only to find that Leng Qingqiu's large hand had clamped down on it. He couldn't budge.

"Had enough of this yet, little brother?" Leng Qingqiu's face was covered in blood, making his expression impossible to see. But Leng Qianye could feel that something about him had changed.

"Over one woman, you're going to whine and carry on as though the world's ending?" Leng Qingqiu grabbed Leng Qianye's arm with one hand. With the other, he wielded a great sun that had changed from pale green to emerald, and slapped it against Leng Qianye's face.

"You're really getting on my nerves!"

"If you love her so much, why don't you go down and keep her company?" A blood-red moon hung in midair, bathing the area in a dark crimson glow.

"Take this move I just comprehended! Mad Moon Palm!" Leng Qingqiu struck at Leng Qianye, a Blood Moon in his palm.

Even Shi Feizhe, who was far away, felt his breathing grow labored.

"Is he about to reach the True Person Realm?" Shi Feizhe gasped.

"No, he's still a little short! To reach the True Person Realm, the dragon and tiger must converge. His mind is in chaos, so he can't get there! But his current realm is infinitely close to it!" Fan Jianqiang had lost his usual grin. He stared at Leng Qingqiu with a grave expression.

What the hell was going on? How could someone get stronger when they were going crazy?

He couldn't make head or tail of it!

Faced with Leng Qingqiu's newly comprehended move, Leng Qianye hastily summoned his Black Sun and Blue Moon. But beneath the Blood Moon, one palm sent him flying. He spat blood and lost consciousness!

"That's enough for today." Leng Qingqiu's voice was cold and merciless, no longer gentle as it once had been. He continued, "This farce has given the people of the city plenty to laugh at. Once I've put things in order, I'll pay them a personal visit!"

"Clean up this place!" He looked at the wrecked garden, then addressed the onlooking elders and disciples of the Sun Moon Radiance Sect.

The sect leader had spoken. Dozens of disciples and two elders replied in unison, "Yes, Sect Leader!"

"Quick, quick! Let's get out of here!" As Leng Qingqiu swept his gaze around, preparing to vent his anger on anyone watching, Fan Jianqiang grabbed Shi Feizhe, and the two ducked behind the wall.

"How did that old bastard suddenly get so strong?" Back in the courtyard, Fan Jianqiang asked in bewilderment.

"Huh? He wasn't that strong before?" Shi Feizhe asked thoughtfully.

"He used to be the disgrace of the Circulatory Heaven Realm—the weakest one around. He could only bully people in the Qi Sea Realm, and he couldn't even beat anyone at his own level!" Fan Jianqiang shook his head. "The situation in Qiu Yang City is really hard to read!"

Shi Feizhe couldn't care less about the situation in Qiu Yang City. He just kept practicing martial arts, one step at a time!

He had to get stronger!

With a stage as vast as the jianghu, how could it go without him?

But he desperately needed time!

In a private room at Spring Fragrance Courtyard, Leng Qianye woke in a daze. Looking at the pearwood carvings on the bed, he said, "Am I not dead yet?"

"The Sect Leader said this matter ends here," his eldest disciple, Zhang Siyi, replied.

"Senior Brother Leng, we need to think this through," Law Enforcement Elder Liu Cheng advised.

"Think it through... Heh..." Leng Qianye sneered. "That old bastard is putting on his false show again!"

"Go and call your fellow disciples over," he ordered Zhang Siyi.

"Yes, Master!"

Before long, two or three dozen disciples arrived, filling the private room to the brim. They all bowed to him.

Leng Qianye sat upright and addressed the disciples before him. "I have a divine art to pass on to you. Once you've mastered it, I hope you'll join your master in beating that old bastard to death!"

The divine art he taught them was the No Thought Divine Separation Art!

After passing on the art, a sudden realization struck him.

There were only two of us, and we were already this powerful!

What if there were three?

Then we could definitely beat that old bastard to death!

"Train hard. Once you've mastered it, your master will reward you!"

"Yes!" the disciples answered in unison. They knew just how generous Leng Qianye's rewards could be.

The two sect leaders had completely different ways of doing things. That was why they had chosen to join Leng Qianye's faction.

Naturally, Leng Qingqiu soon learned what Leng Qianye was up to.

It couldn't be helped. The two of them had more disciples than anyone else in the sect. Their people were tangled up together; it was only natural.

He already knew Leng Qianye's plan: arm his disciples with the divine art, then use them to deal with the other disciples. Before long, he would be the only one left in the sect—a leader without a single follower!

"If they're training, then we'll have our disciples train too! Not just the disciples—you're going to train as well!" Leng Qingqiu said coldly to Hua Wushuang.

"Me?" Hua Wushuang froze. "Sect Leader, this art..."

Leng Qingqiu fixed him with a pair of icy eyes, and the rest of Hua Wushuang's words died in his throat.

"This divine art can strengthen the mind and awaken wisdom! It is your blessing! If you refuse to practice it, the sect rules will deal with you!" Leng Qingqiu said coldly. "If this weren't a special time, you wouldn't even have the chance to practice it!"

As the days passed, Shi Feizhe gradually realized that the people in their courtyard were being forgotten by the Sun Moon Radiance Sect.

Yin Tieyan used to be around the courtyard all the time, but now he had been gone for days.

If someone hadn't still brought them meals on schedule, they might have thought the Sun Moon Radiance Sect had up and left.

A month passed for some of them, but no one came to pay them or tell them to leave.

Shi Feizhe couldn't make sense of it either. When he went to the Sun Moon Radiance Sect to find Yin Tieyan, he found him wearing a sinister expression. "The sect is in the midst of turmoil. Who has time to care about you? Leave if you want!"

Wait, hadn't they said we'd become sect disciples?

What about the sect benefits they promised?

I can't believe it! What kind of sham sect is this?

He was about to say more when Yin Tieyan rolled up his sleeves and called out to the visitor, "Zhang Siyi! Today, I'll defeat you and show you what it means to be part of the Sect Leader's inner circle!"

"Ha! You're not even close to being good enough to defeat me, Zhang Siyi!" a voice even more arrogant than Yin Tieyan's replied.

Shi Feizhe watched the two men, both in the True Seeing Realm, go at each other with a series of thumps. The whole world felt surreal.

What the hell was going on?!

Shi Feizhe: I don't understand what I'm seeing, but I'm deeply shaken!