Righteous Indignation Zhuo Jiuyou

Xiong Yao rolled her eyes, "Master only hit you once. If I were to hit you with my hammer, you'd deserve it for having your cake and eating it too!"

She paused after speaking, "To continue with the haul, Tianyu Academy is too big to control. Great Yan is in such chaos, and the roots of it can all be traced back to Tianyu Academy. You could say it's the biggest tumor."

Lu Chen was shocked, "Then... the statues on the back mountain... I saw quite a few marks on them. Where did those statues go? Were they stolen?"

Xiong Yao nodded, "There were originally thirty-six, and eighteen were stolen!"

Damn it!

Lu Chen cursed.

"If you have the guts, go get them back!" Old Ancestor Tianyan pouted.

The three of them fell silent.

"Alright, alright, let's not talk about these bothersome things. Let's drink, drink!"

Fang Jiuding raised his cup, "No matter what, our Tianyan has grown stronger, hasn't it? Haha... Cheers!"

This time, they had truly caught him.

Plenty of wine, plenty of food.

They ate to their heart's content.

The scene was like that of demonic beasts that hadn't eaten for ten days to half a month. Lu Chen's scalp tingled.

It reminded him of the pig farms in his previous life. Damn it...

What kind of people had he followed!

It was over; he still had to obediently hand over five hundred spirit stones.

The first trial was passed just like that. Of course, it wasn't entirely passed; there was still the matter of daily life care.

And then there was the second trial, the specific content of which none of the three mentioned.

The second trial wasn't up to them.

This filled Lu Chen with curiosity.

Three days later, Lu Chen was slumped beneath the statue embodying sword intent.

He had meditated on more than half of the eighteen statues. The agitation of his bloodline grew more apparent, but each time he was about to touch that shackle, it felt like reaching for a flower in the mist, impossible to grasp.

"When your bloodline was stolen, your origin was injured. You need a special treasure to recover, or you need to get back the bloodline that was lost!"

Old Ancestor Tianyan's voice entered Lu Chen's sea of consciousness.

Lu Chen's heart sank.

Lu Ran had been taken in as the personal disciple of the Dean of Tianyu Academy. He knew what it meant to reclaim it.

It meant truly making an enemy of the entire Tianyu Academy.

Just then, a sword cry suddenly echoed from the sky.

A jade carriage pulled by nine Qing Luan broke through the clouds. The youth on the carriage wore robes as white as snow.

"They're here!" A flash of brilliance erupted in Old Ancestor Tianyan's eyes.

This was the second trial for Lu Chen: defeating a challenging disciple from Tianyu Academy.

"Junior Brother Lu." The youth smiled and tossed down a battle challenge, "Three days later, in front of your academy's mountain gate..."

"Scram!" Lu Chen roared.

His body suddenly vanished from beneath the statue and reappeared on the jade carriage.

Without hesitation, he threw a punch.

Dong!

The white-robed youth's hair stood on end. Before he could even make a move, he felt a pain in his back and was sent plummeting from the jade carriage like an exploding bomb.

Caw!

The nine Qing Luan shrieked, attempting to retaliate. Suddenly, four Qi and Blood Domains appeared, causing the nine Qing Luan to freeze. They plummeted straight down from the sky.

Puff puff puff puff...

Blade light erupted one after another. The nine Qing Luan became headless Qing Luan. Their massive bodies trembled for a few moments before falling still.

"Senior Brother, catch!" Lu Chen grabbed a leg of a Qing Luan and flung it over.

It was received by Fang Jiuding with his pot.

"You dare to kill a demonic beast raised by the academy? You're dead," Zhuo Jiuyou roared in fury.

Tianyan was almost wiped out, yet they dared to provoke Tianyu Academy. It was truly going against the natural order.

"No need for a fighting stage, right here!" Lu Chen unsheathed the Soul Severing Saber, "Fight!"

His voice shook the heavens, his fighting spirit surging.

Zhuo Jiuyou's mind trembled; he was actually intimidated by Lu Chen's aura.

Xiong Yao and Fang Jiuding, who were watching, were also extremely shocked.

Just a few days of tempering, and his aura is already this terrifying.

This junior brother is incredible.

"You think I'm afraid of you?"

Zhuo Jiuyou leaped up abruptly, his face looking extremely grim.

Careless, so careless.

Not only did he lose face, but he also let the opponent kill his cool demonic beast. Unacceptable.

A mere cultivator in the Qi Surge Realm, thinking he's actually someone important.

He stood in the air, his black robe fluttering like raven feathers, a Crimson Thunder Banner in his hand stirring the wind and clouds.

The pressure of a second-level Golden Core being poured down, making the ancient trees in the mountains rustle.

He was a disciple of Tianyu Academy's dark division, sent to probe Tianyan's strength, but he hadn't expected to stumble first.

He'd be laughed to death when he returned.

"I will return all the humiliation just now!" Zhuo Jiuyou sneered, shaking the Crimson Thunder Banner. Nine bolts of lightning and fire intertwined like dragons and snakes, smashing down at Lu Chen.

Lu Chen tapped his toes lightly, activating the Wind and Thunder Steps. His figure vanished like an afterimage.

The lightning and fire grazed past, blasting a three-zhang-deep scorched pit in the ground.

He drew the Soul Severing Saber with his backhand, its blade energy carrying a killing aura, slashing directly at Zhuo Jiuyou's side neck.

"Tricks of a petty performer!"

A bronze shield flew out from Zhuo Jiuyou's sleeve, forcefully blocking the blade energy.

The shield's surface flashed with lightning patterns, repelling the blade energy.

Lu Chen used the momentum to spin, his blade carving an arc of light, aiming for the opponent's lower body.

Zhuo Jiuyou leaped into the air to evade, swinging the Crimson Thunder Banner again. Lightning and fire condensed into a giant net, sealing off all directions.

Lu Chen's eyes narrowed slightly, his Qi and Blood Domain quietly spreading out.

The lightning and fire, upon touching the edge of the domain, felt like sinking into a quagmire.

He seized the opportunity to teleport behind Zhuo Jiuyou, his blade's might like a venomous snake flicking its tongue: "I'll take your treasure."

The phantom image of the Myriad Manifestations Furnace suddenly appeared. The furnace's opening swept out with a dark light, and the lightning and fire within disappeared into it.

Zhuo Jiuyou's expression changed drastically. Just as he was about to pull back, the Soul Severing Saber pierced through his protective spiritual light.

The moment the blade tip touched the Crimson Thunder Banner, the furnace roared, and the lightning and fire origin within the banner was forcibly extracted!

"Scoundrel!" Zhuo Jiuyou's eyes were about to split. He slapped towards Lu Chen's chest with his palm.

Lu Chen took the palm strike head-on, and with a flick of his blade, the Crimson Thunder Banner flew out of Zhuo Jiuyou's grasp.

The furnace fire surged, refining the magical artifact into a ball of lightning and fire essence in an instant.

Zhuo Jiuyou stumbled backward, his storage bag already torn open by the blade's energy.

Spirit stones and pills rained down, all swept into Lu Chen's furnace.

"That's another month's worth of food money, thank you!"

Lu Chen grinned, his saber's back striking Zhuo Jiuyou's back.

The Golden Core expert was sent flying like a kite with a broken string into the mountain stream, splashing water.

Zhuo Jiuyou's vision went black with rage, utterly humiliated and furious.

He had lost completely.

"You guys wait, ahhhh..." Zhuo Jiuyou's angry roar faded into the distance.

However, three mocking laughter echoed from the mountain.

"I'm going into seclusion!" Lu Chen announced and disappeared.

Before coming here, he had already reached the peak of the sixth level of the Qi Surge Realm, and he had been suppressing it, not wanting to break through.

After this battle, the bottleneck broke open on its own. He couldn't help but break through even if he didn't want to.

In the stone chamber at the back of the mountain, he sat cross-legged.

This time, he didn't use the lightning and fire essence. Instead, he transferred it separately into his storage ring.

This was one of the treasures needed for the breakthrough to the seventh level, so he had to keep it.

Besides, the Myriad Manifestations Furnace already had sufficient energy.

The Myriad Manifestations Furnace and the Qi and Blood Furnace rumbled, and boundless qi and blood churned like lava.

Furious energy coursed through his body, making his meridians ache from the backlash.

Lu Chen gritted his teeth and endured. His Qi and Blood Domain compressed layer by layer, and after continuous refining, it merged into the sphere within the Qi and Blood Furnace.

The Qi and Blood Furnace trembled violently. The qi and blood detached from his body, extending ten zhang, transforming into a giant flame python that smashed through the rocks.

Qi Surge Realm seventh level, complete!

Blood Essence condenses into form.

Can condense into various forms for attack.

He prepared to go to the statue cluster to temper and stabilize his realm when Fang Jiuding's voice echoed from the hall:

"Junior brother, we're out of rice. Go down the mountain and find a way to procure some!"

Lu Chen stumbled, nearly falling over.

He had paid three months' worth of food expenses, and now he was told there was no problem, but the procurement for three months was also his responsibility.

He reluctantly agreed, tidied up a bit, and went down the mountain.

Along the way, he discovered at least three scouts.

"This is more like it. Just cultivating on the mountain isn't everything!"

A slight curve formed on Lu Chen's lips as he casually arrived on the main street.