Chapter 124 - 91: Ji Xiu Receives ’Divine Favor’?, Ji Wei Seeks the Immortal Technique, The ’Lin Ruxue’ Reborn Through Body Possession...

Chapter 124: Chapter 91: Ji Xiu Receives ’Divine Favor’?, Ji Wei Seeks the Immortal Technique, The ’Lin Ruxue’ Reborn Through Body Possession...

Five hundred li outside Anning County, at the Central Yellow encampment.

Wei Changjiao, the Altar Master of the Anning Grand General Altar, served the Central Yellow Sect. He was the Spirit Summoning and Saint Manifesting General, one of the Twenty-Four Celestial Generals.

At this moment, he stood with his hands clasped behind his back on fine, golden sand. As he listened to the lapping of the tide and the reports from Anning County, a contemplative look filled his eyes.

"So, you’re telling me..."

"That ’Ghost Hand Judge’ Wang Hongzu... ran into a wall and killed himself right in front of that kid Ji Xiu’s door?"

He looked down at the men gathered before him: "Mad Lion" Zhang Liechen and "Cangying" Xu Xin. They were once the esteemed Dragon Heads of two of the Three Great Gangs, always traveling by carriage, surrounded by attendants, respected, and dressed in fine clothes.

Now, they looked like stray dogs, with disheveled hair and mud-caked clothes, pouring out their grievances before him.

Wei Changjiao pressed his lips together for a long moment before bending down to scoop up a handful of fine sand. Then, his brow frosted over, and he flung it away violently.

"You’re the ones who are stupid."

"Or do you take the Chaotic Heaven Righteous Army for fools? We once dominated the East Canghai and suppressed all the Grand Lineages, Schools, and Daoist Schools in Jiangyin Prefecture until they couldn’t even raise their heads!"

"A Qi Cultivation Grandmaster! A man who had opened his Sea of Qi, cleared his Nine Orifices, and could perform the Circulation Qi Collection!"

"A figure of such tyrannical power that with a single raised hand, he could unleash energy like a bursting dam or a flooding river..."

"And he fucking ran into a wall and died?"

"To hell with that! What a load of absolute bullshit!"

No matter how good Wei Changjiao’s self-control was, he couldn’t hold it in any longer.

"Brother, Altar Master, it’s the absolute truth!"

"We didn’t believe it either when the news first came out."

"But too many people saw it that day. Besides, his body was sent to the County Yamen afterward. That Grandmaster Wang... he’s well and truly, dead as a doornail."

"Do you think the one behind that kid Ji, the inheritor of the Celestial Blade School, did it in secret?"

"That kid is riding high now—a trusted confidant of the County Magistrate and the School’s Direct Lineage. They say that Duan Chenzhou made enemies everywhere back in the day, but Jiangyin Prefecture is a hundred thousand li from Anning County!"

"If this keeps up, his master’s enemies won’t even get the chance to find him... we’ll be the ones who are completely finished by his lineage first!"

"The three of us brothers, how much did we suffer back then on the outskirts of the Mountain Dao? How many hardships did we endure before we managed to join Central Yellow, win over the county gentry and officials, and get to where we are today?"

"And now, he’s taken everything from us, all for his own benefit!"

"Eighteen Road Chief... Heh, how impressive!"

Zhang Liechen and Xu Xin exchanged a look, both gritting their teeth in fury.

Then they glanced at Yang Daohan, who was squatting off to the side on the sand, hugging his knees, and staring silently at the distant Anning Pier, which was just a small black dot on the horizon.

For a moment, they thought about how the three of them, once so powerful, had been brought to this sorry state by a kid who started as a mere groom.

The raging fire in their chests could no longer be contained. The two of them shot to their feet.

"Yang the Seventh, we can’t take this anymore!"

"Rather than live like stray dogs, chased around while we watch that little brat take our place, lording over our turf and throwing his weight around..."

"...we should sneak into the city on a dark and windy night, kill him secretly, and eliminate this problem for good!"

Lion Hall, Tiger and Leopard Hall, Eagle Falcon Gang!

"Lion, Leopard, Eagle, and Falcon; Fist, Spear, Saber, and Sword."

For the past few years, even for over a decade, this phrase had represented the seven most powerful and prestigious among the dozens of hidden masters of Skin Refining Martial Artists in Anning County!

But in just over a month, this status, once as stable as Mount Tai...

...was shattered all because of one kid, one groom! The Divine Fist Sect fell, the Three Great Gangs were dismantled, and half their number was lost!

Which of their sects didn’t have hundreds of skilled Martial Artists and a massive following of gang members?

Now, after that kid stirred up chaos, their skilled members were either dead, had fled, or were captured. Of those who remained loyal and hidden within the county... not even one in ten was left!

The feud from having one’s son killed is greater than heaven.

But this hatred from having one’s foundation stolen is in no way inferior!

Yang Daohan’s chest heaved at their words...

But Wei Changjiao shook his head. The frustration that had flared up over the absurdity of ’a Qi Cultivation Grandmaster running himself to death’ had mostly subsided. He said in a low voice,

"What’s done is done. Acting on impulse now would be the work of a brute."

"The three of you together could run rampant through Anning as you pleased, but so what?"

"Wang Hongzu is dead. What does that tell you?"

"There’s only one possibility."

"That bastard Duan doesn’t match the rumors of him having a severed arm and greatly diminished strength at all!"

"Since Wang Hongzu died at Ji Xiu’s door, this talk of him killing himself... is obviously nonsense. There’s only one explanation: Duan Chenzhou made a move!"

At this, Wei Changjiao’s voice became laced with fury, as if he were gritting his teeth.

He recalled how that fiend’s master had once roamed the Canghai, utterly unrestrained. His methods had been even more bandit-like than their own Chaotic Heaven Righteous Army.

To this day, Wei Changjiao still remembered what his elder brother—the Red-Beard Celestial King, who held the top seat in the Chaotic Heaven Righteous Army—had once told him.

The reason the Celestial Blade School was so filthy rich back then, able to support Duan Chenzhou and his senior brother, Chen He, to the point where they could break through the Three Limits of the physical body...

...was, to put it bluntly, because they stole and borrowed it all!

’Like master, like disciple. If the old one was like that, how could the young one be any better?’

’Truly treacherous beyond compare!’

Fortunately, after experiencing the great rise and fall of the three thousand members of the Chaotic Heaven Righteous Army scattering overnight, Wei Changjiao had learned to endure humiliation and bear heavy burdens. He had become much calmer and more collected.

Otherwise, having joined the Central Yellow Sect and nearly become a Qi Cultivation Grandmaster himself...

...upon hearing the news at this critical juncture that the injured Duan Chenzhou was right here in Anning...