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Chapter 982: Kindly Provide Me Guidance
Chapter 982: Kindly Provide Me Guidance
The Chief Libationist asked for clarification, “So, you’re rejecting those terms?”
“I apologize,” Ye Qing clasped his hands in salute, “but I cannot and will not accept such an outcome.”
Chu Wangsun, Su Bancheng, and everyone else listening in on the conversation were stunned. A Sage was offering Ye Qing, a Grandmaster, a generous compromise, and instead of accepting it with gratitude, he actually dared to rebuff him? Who did he think he is?
“You understand the consequences of rejecting me, don’t you?” The Chief Libationist asked slowly.
“I believe so.”
Ye Qing met the Chief Libationist’s gaze head on and declared with a determined expression, “Kindly provide me guidance.”
“Are you really going to fight me? Do you truly understand what fighting me entails?”
The Chief Libationist examined the young man before him curiously. “Let me think. I’m a scholar, so the number of fights I’ve gotten into is few and far between. Yes, I think I’ve only fought twice or thrice my whole life.”
“Fifty years ago, when I had just become a Sage, I happened upon the man called Blood Cicada using infants to practice his ‘Blood God Art of Nine Lifetimes’. Enraged, I fought him for three days and nights, shattered his Three Heavenly Souls and Seven Earthly Souls, and ended his path permanently.”
“Thirty years ago, I happened to stumble upon the Yellow Sky Way Lord making misery out of the people, so I fought him, slew his Thirty Three Yellow Sky Avatars, and buried him in the Nether, never to be reborn.”
“A little over a decade ago, White Lotus Holy Mother recruited the aid of the Heavenless Emperor of Buddha, Sky Devouring Ghost King, Corpse Hiding Old Man, Fortune Capital Heavenly Sovereign and ambushed me. However, I killed two of them and wounded three, breaking their Way in half and throwing them back to the mortal coil. To this day, they haven’t recovered.”
“Having said all that, do you still desire to fight me?”
The Chief Libationist was telling the truth. It was true he rarely fought anyone in his life, but the few times he did, they were all the stuff of legends.
Blood Cicada, Yellow Sky Way Lord, White Lotus Holy Mother and more were all famous Sages on the Heaven Champions Ranking.
Of the group, Blood Cicada was the deputy head of the Blood God Sect and practiced a martial art called the “Blood God Art of Nine Lifetimes”. When the practitioner had reincarnated and recultivated their strength nine times as the Blood God True Spirit, they would reach the adept level and gain nine lives. It was why he was also nicknamed the Nine-lived Blood Demon. Back in the day, he was an infamous monster everyone in the jianghu feared.
“Hahaha! Your courage certainly reminds me of my youth.”
The Chief Libationist did not get angry with him. In fact, he was guffawing and saying, “It is my unworthy disciple who is in the wrong in the first place, not to mention that I am far more powerful and experienced than you. If I fight you, well, let’s just say that it would be embarrassing beyond words, so let’s do it this way.”
“I will defend, and you will attack. If you can overcome me and kill my unworthy disciple, then it is his fate to die in your hands. What do you say?”
“You are very generous, mister. This junior is most impressed.” Ye Qing saluted him gratefully. He was ready to fight to the death, but he did not think that the Chief Libationist would promise to defend only. This way, whether he succeeded or not, his life would probably not be in danger.
He must admit that the Chief Libationist of the Jixia Academy, despite his truly unworthy disciple, was a square and proper gentleman. He could have overwhelmed him via brute force, but he did not do so because it was beneath him. He deserved his title as a Confucian Sage at the very least.
“Generous my ass, I may look like this, but I’m still a scholar, you know?” The Chief Libationist urged. “Now get started already. The sooner we can get this over with, the better.”
“Very well. This junior shall begin his offense.”
Hands still clasped in a salute, Ye Qing took one step forward and channeled his qi, essence and spirit to pinnacle perfection. Then, he threw out a punch.
The wind stopped, the clouds stilled, the mountains froze, and even yin and yang came to a stop. It was Suppression Hammer.
At his current strength, Ye Qing’s Suppression Hammer was still far behind the Dark Overlord’s as a matter of course. However, it sported some of the essence of the Dark Overlord’s Suppression Hammer while boasting some unique characteristics of his own. Specifically, Ye Qing’s Suppression Hammer was thicker and denser because he practiced the “Earthly Sovereign Scripture”, a marked difference compared to the Dark Overlord’s brutal and vicious fists.
Those with great virtue are heavy.
“The Dark Overlord’s ‘Suppression Hammer’! Not bad, not bad.”
Ye Qing’s fist was one meter away from the Chief Libationist when the old man suddenly let out a chuckle. Then, he reached out to grab Ye Qing’s fist, flipped it around, and pushed it away. From stillness to action; from yin to yang. What was the way of yin and yang? Infinity.
Ye Qing staggered backward backward uncontrollably, but every time he took a step, his aura would grow a little stronger, and his fist intent greater. When his aura was as vast as the mountains, and his fist intent peaking over the nine heavens, Ye Qing arrested himself and swung his arm a celestial striking the earth like it was a drum. The sky threatened to break, and the earth tethered on the brink of collapse.
As it turned out, it wasn’t a celestial drumming the earth after all. It was “Break Hammer”. However, Break Hammer cared nothing for form and everything about fist intent. As long as the practitioner desired to break the origin, then anything could be Break Hammer.
1. If you figured out who the Yellow Sky Way Lord is before this sentence, good for you. ☜