Chapter 100: The Number One Inner Sect Disciple, Yu Mountain Tianyi!

Chapter 100: Chapter 100: The Number One Inner Sect Disciple, Yu Mountain Tianyi!

On the way back to Zhiyuan Hall from the courtyard, Fang Xu seemed to be deep in thought. He kept his head down and remained silent. Huang Qingzhou glanced at him several times, hesitating to speak.

"Fang Xu, I’m afraid something major has happened in the Yu Kingdom," Huang Qingzhou finally couldn’t help but say. As a disciple of the Ascension Association, he knew much more than Fang Xu. The deployment of the Yu Kingdom Royal Inspectorate this time, along with the mention of the nation’s destiny, meant there was likely a huge underlying problem.

Fang Xu remained silent, pondering a question. From what had just happened, it was evident that the Yu Kingdom’s destiny had been threatened. This had alarmed Emperor Yu, far away in the Central State, prompting him to dispatch the Inspectorate to Fenglin Town. This indicated that whatever factor was affecting the Yu Kingdom’s destiny must be located not far from Fenglin Town.

What in Fenglin Town could possibly affect the Yu Kingdom’s destiny? Fang Xu thought it over and over, but could only come up with two possibilities. First, the Tilan Mountain ruins. Second, the Divination God Sect, which had strangely reared its head recently.

The Divination God Sect had a feud with the Great Yu Royal Family. Their resurgence could indeed affect the rule of the Yu Kingdom Royal Family. But the Tilan Mountain ruins... Fang Xu couldn’t quite figure it out. The appearance of the ruins was undoubtedly a good thing for the Yu Kingdom and its Martial Artists. The estate where a mighty expert of the Ancient Martial Dao had passed away in meditation, if properly excavated and utilized, could absolutely elevate the Yu Kingdom’s Martial Dao to new heights. It should only benefit the Yu Kingdom’s destiny, with no downsides at all.

Seeing Fang Xu still keeping his head down in silence, Huang Qingzhou assumed he was still upset about being threatened by that Martial Venerable from the Royal Inspectorate just now. He didn’t say anything further and walked side by side with Fang Xu.

"Second Senior Brother!"

As the two were walking, a figure suddenly appeared on the road ahead and ran toward Huang Qingzhou.

Seeing the newcomer, Huang Qingzhou frowned slightly. "Mu Xuan? Why are you here?"

The person approaching them was exactly Mu Xuan, who had left with Su Cheng the other day. During their time together recently, Fang Xu had also gained a general understanding that Mu Xuan and the others were all disciples newly accepted by Xu Changqing a few years ago. Since Su Cheng was Xu Changqing’s eldest disciple, he typically instructed Mu Xuan and the other new disciples on his behalf. Therefore, none of them dared to disobey Su Cheng.

"Second Senior Brother, Senior Sister Tianyi and some of our fellow disciples from the sect have arrived. Eldest Senior Brother asked me to notify you to head over."

"Senior Sister Tianyi? Yu Mountain Tianyi!?" Huang Qingzhou looked at Mu Xuan in astonishment. "Why did Elder Jiang send this lunatic to Fenglin Town!?"

Mu Xuan shook his head with a bitter smile, glanced at Fang Xu, and whispered to Huang Qingzhou, "Senior Sister specifically instructed that you bring this kid along."

Hearing this, Fang Xu furrowed his brows tightly. Although he didn’t know who this "Yu Mountain Tianyi" was, he could tell from Huang Qingzhou’s reaction that she was definitely not someone to be trifled with. As an obscure nobody, the fact that Yu Mountain Tianyi specifically instructed Huang Qingzhou to bring him over right after she arrived definitely meant there was something fishy going on.

"Senior Brother Huang..."

"Mu Xuan, you head back first. I’ll be there shortly."

Before Fang Xu could speak, Huang Qingzhou dismissed Mu Xuan.

Mu Xuan hesitated for a moment, then cupped his hands. "I’ll head back first, then. Try not to be too late, Senior Brother. If Senior Sister Tianyi gets angry..." At this point, he involuntarily shrank his neck. Clearly, Yu Mountain Tianyi getting angry was a terrifying prospect.

Watching Mu Xuan’s retreating back, Huang Qingzhou’s expression became somewhat complex. He muttered, "Yu Mountain Tianyi was once the princess of the Yushan Island Kingdom, and she is now the number one person among all the Inner Sect Disciples of the Great Yu Ascension Association. Her cultivation has reached the Third Realm of the Martial Venerable stage.

"If nothing unexpected happens, she will be promoted to a Core Disciple by the end of the year."

Hearing this, Fang Xu’s pupils shrank slightly. He had heard a bit about the Yushan Island Kingdom. It was an island nation in the sea adjacent to Great Yu. It was said that twenty years ago, the entire Yushan Island Kingdom was destroyed by an unknown force, and the common people on the island were almost completely wiped out! A small number of survivors crossed the ocean and fled to Great Yu, gradually becoming citizens of Great Yu.

Rumor had it that the men of the Yushan Island Kingdom were short, ugly, and extremely brutal, while the women were naturally seductive and wildly promiscuous. For this Yu Mountain Tianyi, the princess of a fallen nation, to now become the top individual among the Inner Sect Disciples of the Ascension Association’s Yu Kingdom branch was truly remarkable.

"Fang Xu, do you know why Yu Mountain Tianyi is called a lunatic among the disciples?" Huang Qingzhou asked, looking at Fang Xu with a strange expression.

Fang Xu shook his head, waiting for him to continue.

Huang Qingzhou smiled bitterly and explained, "Yu Mountain Tianyi possesses the royal bloodline of the Yushan Kingdom, so she naturally inherited everything typical of its people. She was born beautiful and charming.

"Within the Ascension Association, there are many brilliant Core Disciples who are captivated by her looks.

"However, she acts as a maverick. Not only did she reject the pursuits of all the Core Disciples, but she also relies on her status and cultivation to unabashedly keep a large number of concubines. Her private life is... utterly degenerate."

Fang Xu was astonished once again! Keeping concubines!? What kind of weird fetish was this?

"I suspect the reason Yu Mountain Tianyi specifically instructed me to bring you along is definitely because that guy Su Cheng is pulling strings behind the scenes. You have to be careful," Huang Qingzhou said with a grave expression.

Was it Su Cheng again?

"Senior Brother Huang, does this Yu Mountain Tianyi have a relationship with Su Cheng?" Fang Xu asked with a frown. After Huang Qingzhou requested reinforcements from the Ascension Association, his biggest worry was that the arrivals would have too deep a relationship with Su Cheng. If that were the case, he would invisibly gain more powerful enemies.

"I wouldn’t exactly call it a relationship..."

As Huang Qingzhou spoke, he fell into deep thought. Based on his understanding, Su Cheng was just one of Yu Mountain Tianyi’s many secret admirers, but she rarely even gave him a second glance. Wasn’t it just Su Cheng playing tricks behind the scenes to get Yu Mountain Tianyi to call out Fang Xu by name?

"Senior Brother Huang, how about... I just don’t go," Fang Xu hesitated for a moment before speaking. His intuition told him that Yu Mountain Tianyi asking to see him by name was definitely not a good thing.

"Don’t!" Huang Qingzhou’s expression changed, and he quickly said, "If you go, you might still have a way to survive. If you don’t and provoke that lunatic into a frenzy, she won’t care about any Ascension Association rules."

At her age, with a cultivation reaching the Third Realm of the Martial Venerable stage, Yu Mountain Tianyi was already a Quasi-Core Disciple. As a Quasi-Core Disciple, if she killed an ordinary disciple who hadn’t even entered the sect, the Law Enforcement Hall wouldn’t even pursue the matter. Rules were meant to restrain ordinary people; Core Disciples were entities who could rise above the rules.

"Don’t worry too much. Perhaps Yu Mountain Tianyi heard about your deeds, became interested in you, and wants to take you in as a concubine," Huang Qingzhou joked. "You might not know this, but within the Ascension Association, there are countless brilliant Inner Sect Disciples and Core Disciples who are willing to work like horses and serve as beasts of burden just to win her favor, and..."

"Senior Brother Huang..." Interrupting Huang Qingzhou’s teasing, Fang Xu smiled wryly. "I cannot bear this kind of romantic fortune."

Huang Qingzhou gave a sheepish smile and stopped his teasing, accompanying him toward the inn in town.

...

At the Fenglin Town inn, the entire establishment had been immediately cleared out following the arrival of the group from the Ascension Association.

Inside Heaven-grade Room Number One, a handsome man with short hair, dressed in a plain white gauze gown, was kneeling respectfully in front of a gauze curtain. Holding a small, fair, jade-like foot in both hands, he rubbed it against his cheek with an expression of immense enjoyment.

"Do you harbor resentment in your heart?" a lazy woman’s voice slowly drifted from behind the curtain.

The man’s movements paused slightly before he hurriedly prostrated himself on the floor. "Mingyue wouldn’t dare!"

"Your Highness’s plans are important... The Yun Family is powerful..."

"The Yun Family?" the woman said with a hint of disdain. Reaching a pair of fair hands out from behind the curtain, her slender, jade-like fingers gently lifted the man’s face as she spoke indifferently. "As the one I favor the most, I naturally won’t watch you suffer grievances. Coming here this time, I will collect some interest for you first.

"The Yun Family—once I become a Core Disciple, I can destroy them with a flip of my hand!"

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