Chapter Three: He Was... Really Good with His Mouth

Was this... Chinese cabbage?

One bag per person?

"Ahem!"

Yun Tian Zhenren coughed lightly, stowed the Enlightenment Tea Leaves into his Purple Mansion Grotto-Heaven, and flew over to stand beside Hua Yunfei. With his hands behind his back and a stern expression, he said, "Look at the state of you! Is this something a peak chief seat would do? Fighting the Sect Leader over a mere treasure—what kind of conduct is that? Do you still have any regard for me, your Sect Leader? Do you still have any regard for the Backer Sect's rules?"

Tianji Zhenren rolled his eyes, flicked his whisk, and muttered, "Who knows who started acting like a rascal first..."

Yun Tian Zhenren glared at him. Tianji Zhenren immediately fell silent, not daring to say another word.

"Pfft..."

After glancing at the huge swollen bump around Yun Tian Zhenren's eye, Xiaxuan Zhenren could not hold back and laughed.

"Pfft..."

That laugh set off a chain reaction. The several chief seats could no longer contain themselves and broke one after another.

Yun Tian Zhenren was so furious that his face turned green.

Hua Yunfei was also having a hard time holding it in. Every time he saw the Sect Leader beaten black and blue, he wanted to laugh!

"Hahahaha!"

Tianji Zhenren was the most unrestrained, laughing out loud until he doubled over, nearly unable to hold his whisk steady.

Boom!

Yun Tian Zhenren conjured a thousand-meter palm and slapped it over. Tianji Zhenren cried out miserably and shot into the distance like a meteor.

"Hmph!"

Yun Tian Zhenren circulated his spiritual energy, and the injuries on his face healed at once. He swept his gaze over the remaining four chief seats. "Go back. Stop embarrassing yourselves here. I have something to discuss with Daoyuan Zhenren alone."

Daoyuan Zhenren was Hua Yunfei's Daoist title.

Every generation's chief seat of Daoyuan Peak bore that title. It was a form of inheritance.

Aside from the Sect Leader's Peak, the other five peaks were the same.

Gou Yuan Zhenren put away his smile and glanced at Hua Yunfei. "Nephew, for such a great gift, your uncle will come thank you another day!"

Xiaxuan Zhenren, Wuji Zhenren, and Di Shen Zhenren also clasped their hands slightly and thanked Hua Yunfei.

The Enlightenment Tea Leaves were far too important to them!

During that fight just now, they had accidentally revealed a little of the cultivation they had hidden for years. They needed to hurry back and cultivate more to hide it again.

Without hiding something, they never felt at ease!

Chapter Three: He Was... Really Good with His Mouth

After Gou Yuan Zhenren and the other three offered their thanks, they turned and departed.

Once they had gone some distance away, Xiaxuan Zhenren furrowed her willow brows, a trace of puzzlement appearing on her lovely face. In a low voice, she asked, "You sensed it too, didn't you? Daoyuan Zhenren's strength just now!"

Di Shen Zhenren nodded, his expression serious. "This mysterious nephew of ours has likely been hiding his strength! And not just a little!"

To become the chief seat of a peak in the Backer Sect, one needed at least early Celestial Realm cultivation!

Ever since Hua Yunfei became the chief seat of Daoyuan Peak thirty years ago, his realm had also "smoothly" "broken through" to the early Celestial Realm.

Gou Yuan Zhenren wore a smile as he rubbed his stomach. Seemingly sensing the Dao aura of the Enlightenment Tea Leaves emanating from within his Purple Mansion Grotto-Heaven, he chuckled and said,

"For this nephew's realm, just use his father as the benchmark. In any case, don't fight him. First, you won't win. Second, if you offend him, you might not get any benefits in the future."

Di Shen Zhenren did not like talking. Hearing this, he nodded in deep agreement.

Hua Yunfei's father, the previous chief seat of Daoyuan Peak, was a downright crafty schemer.

His realm had remained at the early Celestial Realm for years. Who would have thought that during one fight with the Sect Leader, he would pin the Sect Leader down and beat him senseless!

The realm he unleashed had left the Sect Leader dumbfounded.

A smile appeared on Xiaxuan Zhenren's beautiful, graceful face. "This nephew is only a hundred years old, you know. Tsk, tsk... how are people supposed to live?"

They were all in good spirits. No matter how strong Hua Yunfei was, he was still the chief seat of a Backer Sect peak.

He was an ally!

That gave them a sense of security!

Daoyuan Peak.

Hua Yunfei invited Yun Tian Zhenren inside. The two sat facing each other at a jade table, carefully savoring their tea.

The tea was nothing special.

It seemed to be merely ordinary spiritual tree tea leaves that could equal ten years of cultivation after drinking.

Yun Tian Zhenren savored the tea with great care, enjoying the feeling of his Dao cultivation growing within him. Looking at Hua Yunfei, he asked, "What was that Emperor's Might earlier?"

"I just became an emperor and failed to control it."

Hua Yunfei smiled faintly, took a light sip of tea, and answered calmly.

Yun Tian Zhenren shook his head with a smile.

For tens of thousands of years, there had been no emperor in the great Dao of the entire universe.

Only thirty thousand years had passed since the Profound Yellow Great Emperor's death.

The Emperor Dao Laws suppressed the heavens, bearing down upon the laws of heaven and earth. No one could become an emperor!

For someone to become an emperor again, at least another seventy thousand years would have to pass!

And even then, the possibility was minuscule.

Since the Profound Yellow Great Emperor's death, the suppression of the great Dao of heaven and earth had instead grown increasingly severe.

In today's Big Dipper Star, even producing a single Saint was difficult!

The laws of heaven and earth suppressed everything too fiercely!

How could Hua Yunfei, who had cultivated for a mere hundred years, possibly become an emperor?

For him to have broken through to the early Celestial Realm now was already proof of extraordinary talent!

Since Hua Yunfei was unwilling to say more, Yun Tian Zhenren did not press him further. He said, "Some days ago, your father contacted me and asked me to tell you a few things."

"Oh? That old man is still having enough fun to remember me?"

Hua Yunfei smiled in surprise.

Thirty years ago, his father, Daoyuan Zhenren, had left the sect on the grounds that his lifespan was running short and he needed to seek an opportunity for a breakthrough.

But Hua Yunfei knew exactly what kind of person his father was.

His lifespan was running short?

Even when Hua Yunfei held him down and forced him to eat a Ginseng Fruit, he would not eat it.

Even if it was stuffed into his mouth by force, he would spit the flesh back out.

So Hua Yunfei did not believe a single word of the excuse his father had given.

That fellow simply wanted to cast off the sect's burden and go out to enjoy himself!

Yun Tian Zhenren and the previous Daoyuan Zhenren were close friends, so he naturally knew what sort of person the other man was. Shaking his head with a smile, he said, "He asked me to tell you two things, and said you must carry them out."

Hua Yunfei asked, "What things?"

"The first: find him a daughter-in-law. He wants to hold a grandson!"

Hua Yunfei's face darkened. "And the second?"

Yun Tian Zhenren said, "Take in a disciple for Daoyuan Peak, then hand the position of chief seat to him in the future."

Hua Yunfei looked at Yun Tian Zhenren. "Not pass it on to a son? As I recall, every chief seat of Daoyuan Peak since the sect was founded has been an ancestor of the Hua Family. With me, it has already reached the hundredth generation."

Yun Tian Zhenren smiled awkwardly. "Your father said we have been exploiting your Hua clan's labor and that he refuses to keep doing it. He plans to end this inheritance with your generation."

"Uh..."

Hua Yunfei was somewhat speechless. What was this old man up to now? When he had still been around, he had never mentioned it to Hua Yunfei.

Still, it was true that Hua Yunfei had no interest in carrying on the family line either. Women, honestly, were a bit troublesome!

Suddenly, Hua Yunfei raised a brow, sensing something.

A stone was retrieved from his Purple Mansion Grotto-Heaven.

It was a Sound Transmission Stone, obtained through the system's sign-in. Anyone could use it to send him a voice transmission, regardless of distance!

At this moment, it was the ninety-ninth Daoyuan Zhenren calling him.

After glancing at Yun Tian Zhenren, Hua Yunfei removed the restriction on the Sound Transmission Stone.

"Hello, Yunfei, are you there? Are you there? Can you hear me?"

"Mm, I can hear you. What is it, Dad?"