The Quasi-Emperor's Legacy Appears, Dugu Yunyan's Probe

The newcomer was his second brother, who had always oppressed him.

Fang Lingtian threw another punch.

"I'm not just hitting him. I'm going to beat you up too!"

With the system's help, Fang Lingtian had already reached the Foundation Establishment Realm.

His second brother, meanwhile, had only just broken through to the Spirit Accumulation Realm.

He was no match for him.

For a time,

the dull thuds of fists pounding flesh and screams of agony echoed through the courtyard.

After giving the two people who bullied him most a thorough beating,

Fang Lingtian left the Fang Clan.

News that a Quasi-Emperor's legacy was about to appear had recently caused a great uproar.

Fang Lingtian planned to fish in troubled waters as well.

After all, he was a man with a system.

That meant his luck was extraordinary.

Even if his strength fell short, he could still come away with something from a legacy like that.

Three days later,

at the southeastern border between the Azure Cloud Ancient Kingdom and a neighboring kingdom,

quite a few people had gathered.

Their cultivation fluctuations varied in strength, and they came from all walks of life.

Suddenly,

the winds and clouds changed color.

The ground shook violently, sand flew and stones whirled, and the mountains and earth trembled.

Heaven and earth grew oppressive.

Everything within ten thousand li was affected.

An ancient, mysterious palace rose from the depths of the earth.

It was grand and magnificent, towering over the land and covering a vast area.

Its design was imposing and majestic, solemn and stately.

A formation veiled it in a hazy divine light, making it difficult to see clearly.

But the pressure it gave off was so heavy that it made hearts tremble.

Everyone around wanted to take advantage of the moment

and enter to fight for resources before the major powers arrived.

But the formation left them helpless.

Anyone who approached

was instantly reduced to dust by those seemingly weightless wisps of energy,

without even a chance to resist.

Seeing this,

the crowd could only wait for the formation's power to weaken

while praying that the people from the major powers would quickly bring their men to break it.

Dugu Yunyan mingled with the crowd.

He quietly studied the noisy people around him,

hoping to see whether the one called Fang Lingtian was among them.

Although he did not know Fang Lingtian,

he would not be careless about the task his original body had given him.

To Dugu Yunyan's surprise, however, a blind cat really had stumbled upon a dead mouse.

He had actually found his target.

Behind and to one side of Dugu Yunyan,

at the back of the crowd of onlookers,

a handsome youth with swordlike brows and starry eyes was surrounded and jostled by a group of people.

Their leader was a young man of eighteen or nineteen.

He bore a slight resemblance to the youth surrounded in the middle.

A beautiful, radiant young woman of seventeen or eighteen

was leaning against his chest, her face full of grievance, shame, and anger.

The cultivation of these people was ordinary, however.

The strongest was the young man of eighteen or nineteen leading them.

His cultivation was around the Mystic Pill Realm.

"Brother Lingcang,

Young Master Lingtian was secretly staring at me from behind just now.

He even tried to reach out and touch me!

If I hadn't reacted quickly and knocked his hand away,

he would have touched me!

Brother Lingcang, you have to stand up for me..."

The young woman looked pitiful, her face a mix of shame and anger.

Fang Lingcang's gaze turned dangerous as he looked at Fang Lingtian.

Fang Lingtian's expression was exceedingly dark.

His eyes were almost spitting fire.

He had never expected

to run into his eldest brother, Fang Lingcang, and his party here.

Still less had he expected

to be falsely accused of harboring improper intentions for no apparent reason.

"Stop spouting such vicious lies!"

"You think I'd have improper thoughts about you?"

"Why don't you piss and take a look at your reflection!

With that miserable face of yours and those sickeningly affected mannerisms,

people who know you would realize you're acting cute and coquettish.

Those who don't might think you're some courtesan who spent years learning her trade in a brothel

and escaped because the madam wasn't watching!"

Insulted like this by Fang Lingtian,

the young woman threw herself into Fang Lingcang's arms and began to sob softly.

"Enough!

Fang Lingtian!

Are you saying Qing'er would use her own chastity to falsely accuse you?"

"I wasn't going to pursue the matter of you beating your second brother and the others.

But now, not only did you try to do something improper to my Qing'er,

you even speak so viciously.

You've gone too far!

It seems that unless I teach you a lesson today,

you won't know how to conduct yourself!"

He then ordered the servants at his side to go and break Fang Lingtian's third leg.

Fang Lingtian's strength was no longer what it had once been.

Although these dozen or so servants were all in the Foundation Establishment Realm like him,

not one of them could withstand a single exchange with him.

He dealt with them all in short order, leaving them sprawled on the ground, wailing in pain.

"I've given you all too many smiles. Now every stray cat and dog dares jump out and court death."

Fang Lingtian shook out his hands

and sneered at the shocked Fang Lingcang and the young woman.

"Fang Lingcang, let's see whose third leg gets broken today!"

He then lunged at Fang Lingcang like a fierce tiger charging down a mountain.

His fist tore through the air with tremendous force!

"Fang Lingtian, you're too naive.

You think beating those servants means you can challenge me?"

Fang Lingcang shouted angrily and threw a punch of his own.

Boom-

Two enormous fist imprints collided.

A heavy crash erupted.

Mystic Pill Realm cultivators condensed a mystic pill within their bodies.

Their magical power was incomparably rich, more than ten times that of a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator.

But to the surprise of the onlookers,

Fang Lingtian did not retreat half a step.

Fang Lingcang, on the other hand, staggered back more than a dozen steps before he regained his footing!

A hint of surprise appeared in Dugu Yunyan's eyes.

Fang Lingtian was clearly an ordinary person with no talent,

yet he could fight someone a major realm above him.

It seemed his original body was right. There really was something wrong with Fang Lingtian!

After pondering for a moment,

Dugu Yunyan took out a strangely shaped ancient lock.

This little object, only half the size of his palm,

was a magical treasure capable of temporarily sealing the surrounding space within a hundred zhang.

A supreme-grade mystic weapon, the Heaven-Sealing Lock!

Dugu Yunyan poured his magical power into it.

It vanished into the void in an instant.

On the surface, the space showed no change, but it had already been sealed off.

Fang Lingtian was just about to cripple Fang Lingcang's third leg

when he suddenly sensed a chill killing intent lock onto him.

He looked up

to see a handsome youth with a dark, icy presence

who had appeared in front of him at some unknown point.

Fang Lingtian's heart sank.

A powerful, suffocating sense of danger wrapped around him like a tide.

"Are you Fang Lingtian?"

Dugu Yunyan studied the handsome youth before him.

He could not tell what was so special about him.

He was an entirely unremarkable ordinary person.

"Who are you?"

Fang Lingtian watched him warily.

"The one who's going to kill you."

Since he could not tell what was special about him,

Dugu Yunyan could not be bothered to waste any more time.

He struck decisively with his palm, the palm imprint roaring with violent, overwhelming force!

That palm strike

could kill not only someone in the Foundation Establishment Realm,

but even an ordinary Divine Ability Realm cultivator outright.

Dugu Yunyan wanted to see how Fang Lingtian would block it.

Feeling the terrifying power contained in the palm strike,

Fang Lingtian felt his scalp go numb and did not dare take it head-on.

In an instant, he took out a mysterious pale-purple talisman.

Purple divine light flared up around him.

Then, ignoring the spatial seal, he broke through the void and vanished,

leaving Dugu Yunyan's palm imprint to strike empty air.

A flicker of surprise crossed Dugu Yunyan's eyes.

He retrieved the Heaven-Sealing Lock and vanished from the scene in a flash.