Chapter 201 - 147: Dare to Challenge a Grotto Heaven Successor

Chapter 201: Chapter 147: Dare to Challenge a Grotto Heaven Successor

Chu Shanhe smiled.

"I did."

Chen Xuan nodded.

"Good enough."

Chu Shanhe smiled and said, "I’d like to ask a favor of you. I want you to fight the strongest successors from a few Grotto Heavens. As long as you can win, you’ll bring great honor to the Martial Alliance."

"To be honest, there are a few Grotto Heavens that I’ve been tolerating for far too long. I originally wanted to teach their masters a lesson myself, but unfortunately, every single one of them hides in their shell like a turtle and refuses to fight me."

"But they still insist on sending their successors over to our Martial Alliance every so often just to get under our skin. I’ve endured this for over a decade, hoping day and night that our Martial Alliance could produce a decent prodigy..."

"But now, things are different. My hopes were finally answered with your arrival. What do you think?"

Chu Shanhe’s eyes glinted, brimming with eagerness.

’There’s actually a deal this good?’

A flash of light passed through Chen Xuan’s eyes.

Chu Shanhe was incredibly satisfied with Chen Xuan.

Incredible talent, immense strength, and a ruthless hand.

He could even fight above his cultivation level!

Most importantly, he wasn’t afraid of trouble.

He rushed headfirst into danger and took on any mission he could find.

In the past, whenever he even mentioned taking the geniuses cultivated by the Martial Alliance to fight a Grotto Heaven successor, they would get terrified and do everything in their power to refuse.

But who else was like Chen Xuan?

His eyes were literally gleaming!

Yes.

Chu Shanhe could tell at a glance that the excitement in Chen Xuan’s eyes was even more intense than his own.

’This kid is a natural-born battle maniac!’

’Excellent!’

’He’s exactly to my liking.’

Honestly, he had taken way too much crap from those Grotto Heavens.

If not for the fact that attacking them was like poking a hornet’s nest—provoke one and a whole swarm comes out—he would have fought back long ago and reclaimed the territory the Martial Alliance had lost.

Likewise, the experts within those Grotto Heavens had annoyed him plenty over the years.

They knew they were no match for him, so they adamantly refused to show their faces, sending out their juniors instead.

But unfortunately, the younger generation of the Martial Alliance was a disappointment.

It wasn’t just the younger generation of the Martial Alliance; the entire younger generation of the Great Xia Dynasty was a letdown.

Take the first-ranked expert on the Human List, for example.

The previous number one on the Human List was Zhang Jiu, the "Mount Fuyue Heavy Sword," but he was still useless when facing the Grotto Heaven successors.

He was soundly defeated by both Xie Xinghe and Ye Guiyuan, getting knocked down to third place on the Human List.

This showed that the Grotto Heaven successors possessed the power to completely crush the top experts of the outside world’s Human List.

Unsurprisingly, even if the Martial Alliance truly managed to cultivate a new number one on the Human List, they would still be useless against those Grotto Heaven successors.

Therefore, Chu Shanhe had been feeling extremely stifled for the past decade or so.

But now, things were different.

A prodigy like this had suddenly appeared in the Martial Alliance.

This newcomer could beat Xie Xinghe and Ye Guiyuan like dogs.

And with a cultivation at only the True Essence Third Layer!

So how could he, Chu Shanhe, possibly endure it any longer?

At this very moment, he wanted to curse out loud.

’Fuck it all!’

"Xiaochen, think it over. Are you really not afraid? How about waiting another half a month? If you break through to the Fourth Layer of True Essence, wouldn’t you be more confident?"

Chu Shanhe said with a smile, suppressing the excitement in his heart.

"Afraid my ass! Just tell me who I’m fighting and when,"

Chen Xuan chuckled.

’I’m already at the Fourth Layer of True Essence!’

’And I have so many buffs on me.’

’No, wait, I’m about to reach the True Essence Fifth Layer.’

’I’m absolutely confident I can one-shot someone at the True Essence Ninth Layer!’

’You want me to be afraid?’

’If I even uttered the word ’afraid,’ it would be an insult to Brother Tongzi!’

"The time isn’t set yet, but I’ll go arrange it for you right away. If you’re not afraid, it’ll be in the next few days."

Chu Shanhe couldn’t wait. "I’ve selected two main factions. The first one is a group you’ve already had dealings with: the Sword Cleansing Pool, where the former second-ranked on the Human List, Xie Xinghe, hails from."

"The old master of the Sword Cleansing Pool has gotten on my nerves more than once. I’ve long wanted to stomp him under my foot, but I’ve never had the chance."

"The Sword Cleansing Pool recently produced a prodigy named Ling Shuangzi. At only thirty-five years old, he’s at the True Essence Third Layer, which is considered quite remarkable even among the Grotto Heaven factions."

"The Xie Xinghe you defeated before is this Ling Shuangzi’s junior brother."

"The second faction is called the Pure Yang Sect. The old Daoist coot from that sect is even more annoying. He has told me time and again that our younger generations should have a friendly spar. They also have an outstanding figure in their current generation named Li Chunyang. The kid was named after the two words ’Pure Yang’ from his sect’s name, so his ambition is clearly not small. He also has a cultivation at the True Essence Third Layer."

Chu Shanhe quickly ran through the introductions.

"Easy enough. You go contact them. I’m going to make a trip to the black market to sell that Fire Python Inner Core. We can go fight them when I get back."

Chen Xuan slapped his chest readily.

’Grotto Heaven successors?’

He really couldn’t wait.

He was already number one on the Human List.

He couldn’t reach the Earth List just yet.

So, he could only settle for the next best thing: finding those Grotto Heaven successors to test his skills against.

After all, they were usually holed up in their Grotto Heavens and didn’t participate in the Human List rankings, so he didn’t have to worry about a shortage of experts among them.

"Great, great! I’ll go contact them right now,"

Chu Shanhe said excitedly.

The two of them hit it off instantly and left the treasury together.

Chu Shanhe immediately went to get busy.

Chen Xuan, on the other hand, looked at the seven heavenly treasures in his bag. Without hesitation, he grabbed two stalks and stuffed them directly into his mouth. After eating them, he felt it might not be enough, so he grabbed two more and wolfed them down.

After all, when it came time to allocate his points later, it would be a problem if the medicinal effects weren’t sufficient.

So, four stalks down should ensure the effect was more than enough.

To the side, the old guardian of the treasury stared at Chen Xuan, completely dumbfounded.

’In all my long years, is this the first time I’ve seen someone eat heavenly treasures like that?’