Chapter 143 - 97: A Strike On Par with a Qi Cultivation Grandmaster! Let’s See Who Dares Trouble Our Ancestral Master Ji

Chapter 143: Chapter 97: A Strike On Par with a Qi Cultivation Grandmaster! Let’s See Who Dares Trouble Our Ancestral Master Ji

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Bai Shuo’s gaze flickered, her feelings indescribably complex as she recalled the legends of the ’Mortal Transformation: Soaring Dragon Gate’.

This Dharma Gate was the second of three Chapters in the Mortal Scroll—and the most important one—of the Water Race’s supreme Secret Treasure, the ’True Dragon Nine Transformations’.

Legend had it that those who successfully cultivated the ’Dragon Gate Jump’ could forge a Dragon Bone, earning them the right to be recorded as Dragon Descendants.

If they came from another branch of a bloodline, they might even be wed to a Dragon Maiden or Flood Dragon Maiden, becoming a son-in-law of the dragons.

But this stage was incredibly difficult to achieve. The Silver Carp Transformation, the Fish Dragon Transformation, the True Flood Dragon Transformation... not only did they require exceptional comprehension, but also a vast and massive amount of resources to build upon.

Although, cultivating with the body of a member of the Human Race consumed many times fewer resources.

But the human body was frail, and that Dharma Gate required a complete Transformation at every turn, forcing one to endure all sorts of inhuman torment...

Bai Shuo was utterly shocked by this.

At the same time, she remembered the records in the Water Monarch’s Secret Manual. In recent decades, it seemed the only member of the Human Race to break the shackles of the ’Dragon Gate Jump’ with a human body...

...was that Sword Dao Genius from years ago who had single-handedly fought his way into the Water Monarch’s Mansion, causing her little aunt to gaze toward Beichuan for eighteen years without ever seeing him again, right?

Qingtuan’s nonsense ramblings echoed in her ears.

It made Bai Shuo recall how, ever since the Water Monarch’s Mansion fell into the East Canghai, it had used Dragon Maidens, Flood Dragon Maidens, Clam Maidens, and others as bait every few decades.

They would invite the young prodigies of the terrestrial Great Xuan, as well as the Outer Dao Celestial Beings, Immortals, and Pure Land denizens who had fallen into this Celestial Universe, to a ’Dragon Monarch Banquet’, hoping to win over various powers by marrying off their daughters.

This was also how the Water Mansion had managed to stand tall in this Vast Sea, avoid the slaughter on the surface, and remain stable and independent for so long.

And it was precisely because she had come of age and didn’t want to be trapped for life in such a political marriage that she had slipped out of the Water Mansion to explore this magnificent and vast new Celestial Universe, which had existed for ’nine millennia’.

Her little aunt had managed to captivate a ’Sword Dao Genius’ back then, thus avoiding this whole process, which made Bai Shuo quite envious.

She had heard that her aunt had met this wonderful match because she had once followed her father to the surface. From that moment on, the seeds of curiosity had been planted in Bai Shuo’s heart.

’In the Water Mansion, those of the Dragon Blood Species and the Flood Dragon Descendants are all arrogant and domineering. They rely on their status as Celestial Royal Family to act with utter impunity, just like that detestable guy who just got off the ship.’

’But that guy has forged a Golden Bone, he has a Martial Artist Practitioner with Outer Gang Attainment by his side, and so many others helping him...’

’This young man might have a decent foundation, but he’s still so young. Maybe... ’

Bai Shuo bit her lip. This whole affair had started because of her, and now Ji Xiu was surrounded because of her. By all rights, she couldn’t just stand by and do nothing.

And so...

Her eyes, hidden beneath her cloak and veil, suddenly bloomed with a brilliant blue light. On her cheeks, ornate, cyan-gold patterns faintly emerged.

SWISH!

Just as she was about to make her move, no longer hiding her intentions.

She saw Ji Xiu’s spine bend like a great bow. His blade struck like a raging fire, Force erupting from him as he instantly slashed toward Seventh Young Master Huang Xiuwen, aiming to cut the head off the snake!

This fierce, fearless, and formidable display caused Qingtuan—the one who had started the trouble by smashing the sedan chair of the Medicine Shop’s Seventh Young Master Huang Xiuwen—to get a star-struck look in her pearl-like eyes:

"Miss, if you’re not interested in a young man like that, I’ll volunteer to marry him in your place!"

Faced with this crisis, Qingtuan’s brain was working at its limit. She had already forgotten who was the master and who was the servant, acting purely on instinct.

However, Feng Zhengming, circulating his Gang Qi until his clothes bulged, his hair standing on end, was already pouncing! His palms moved like swimming dragons, and with a shift of his frame, he stomped several deep pits into the old deck!

"Insolent!"

At the same time, an old personal servant in yellow robes from the Medicine Shop’s Huang Family, who followed Huang Xiuwen, shot forward like a pouncing ape. His face was ashen as Gang Qi wove across his skin, enveloping him like a Treasure Robe!

The second step of Skin Refining, Outer Gang!

The peak of Skin Refining, Immortal Robe!

The moment the two of them struck, they displayed the Great Success and peak attainments of the Power Barrier’s three major refinements.

They intended to capture Ji Xiu from the outset, each of their moves a killing blow. Qingtuan, who had just kicked over a servant and whose skirt had not yet settled, saw this and her eyes went wide:

"Hey, are you people unreasonable? Have you no martial ethics?"

"What kind of person gangs up on someone like this!"

"Pah!"

Qingtuan, whose only knowledge of Great Xuan Martialists came from the novels and storybooks in Young Lord Bai Shuo’s chambers in the Water Monarch’s Mansion, had her worldview shattered by the first thing she saw on the surface.

And so, she took a deep breath, clenched her fists with a look of someone ready to die for a cause, and declared with great loyalty:

"Don’t worry! Back at the mansion, I was always the one to step up and take the blame for the young miss! Young Hero, you’re so righteous, what’s that saying again..."

"Loyal through thick and thin!"

"Right!"

"Today, I, Qingtuan, wish to become your sworn sister, to share in your joys and sorrows—"

"Hey, hey, hey!??"

Qingtuan felt a rush of hot blood go straight to her head, but before she could finish, Feng Zhengming and the old Huang Family servant, who had already attacked, completely ignored her. That they looked at her like she was an idiot was one thing.

But...

...the young man she was about to entrust her back to, seeing his first slash fail and sensing the sharp, murderous intent closing in, retreated as if he’d had a premonition. He pulled back and fled, without a single breath of hesitation!

She was left alone, dumbfounded, her back to the crowd.

’Young Hero, couldn’t you have given me a heads-up before you ran!?’

’All that psyching myself up for nothing!’