Ch222 - The Fall of Elder Ma

Edited by Zaki

At Night,

Wearing a black robe and a mask on his face to hide his appearance, Elder Ma appeared at the lake in a very low profile manner. After taking a look at the calm lake, his gaze dropped at the tent by the lake and then Elder Ma directly slapped his palm viciously toward that tent.

“Crash…” The tent was smashed to pieces. At the same time, more than a hundred pieces of fourth-level magic weapons that were buried under the tent also shattered, and puffs of white smoke erupted amidst the sound of the explosion.

Seeing that there was no one in the tent, but only the more than a hundred pieces of buried fourth-level magic weapons, Elder Ma looked contemptuous. “Liu Mufeng, you don’t intend to use such small tricks to deal with me, do you?”

“Elder Ma is here, welcome!” As the words fell Liu Mufeng and Jiang Xu appeared.

“You, you…” Seeing the four Liu Mufeng and the four Jiang Xu appearing in the East, West, South, and North at the same time, Elder Ma was slightly shocked. Focusing his mind, he carefully looked at the four Liu Mufeng around him, and finally set his gaze on Liu Mufeng in the East. “Liu Mufeng, did you kill my Grandson Ma Ming?”

“I already said no, but you never believed it, right?” Staring at Elder Ma, Liu Mufeng asked with a smile.

“Of course I don’t believe it.” After saying that, Elder Ma was about to make a move.

Suddenly, he felt an ominous wind behind him. He instinctively wanted to dodge the crisis coming from his back, but found that he couldn’t move anymore. “What’s going on?” With an exclamation Elder Ma’s body directly fell under a green light, unknowingly died under that attack. Even though he was already dead, his eyes were still wide open with an expression of disbelief.

After a while, all the illusory shadows disappeared. Only Liu Mufeng, who was standing in the East, and Jiang Xu, who was standing in the West were left. Elder Ma recognized the real Liu Mufeng from the four illusions, but he had ignored Jiang Xu. He took it for granted that the person standing next to Liu Mufeng was the real Jiang Xu, but in fact it was not. Jiang Xu was standing behind him. The purpose was to give him a fatal blow by surprise.

After putting away Elder Ma’s storage ring, Liu Mufeng immediately released his Beast Fire and completely burned the corpse, thoroughly cleaning up the battlefield.

Xuanyuan Chen, who was hiding in the dark, saw everything. He didn’t expect that just as simple as that, Elder Ma was killed by the two little guys. He thought that he would need to step in to save them. As a result, there was no chance for him to show up at all.

First, Liu Mufeng used the magic weapons’ explosion to spray out the hallucinogenic poison, then used the little fox to create an illusion, making six fake Jiang Xu and Liu Mufeng, and then directly killing Ma Feng with a single blow using Yuantu’s jade token, Xuanyuan Chen have to say, this kid Liu Mufeng planned perfectly, and every step was properly arranged. If not for his high cultivation realm, the hallucinogenic medicine plus the little fox’s illusion, maybe he would have been immersed in the illusion, unable to distinguish which was the real Liu Mufeng and Jiang Xu.

After killing Elder Ma, Liu Mufeng and Jiang Xu stayed by the lake for a few more days as if nothing had happened. Then he took Jiang Xu to hunt demon beasts in other places.

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The Third Elder was startled. “How is it possible, Mufeng andXiaoXu are only at the Spiritual Emperor Realm cultivation, how could they kill Elder Ma?”

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“It was me who asked Yunfei to say that. In fact, those two boys killed him.” An Elder died in the sect, so there must be an explanation, right? That’s why Xuanyuan Chen asked Bai Yunfei to say that to appease the other Elders.

“But, but how did they do it?” The Third Elder was still dubious about the situation.

“Alas…” Sighing, Xuanyuan Chen told his old friend exactly what he had seen.

After listening, the Third Elder was speechless for a while.

“Hei, tell me, when the two of us were the same age as them, and when we met cultivators in the Spiritual Sect Realm, we naturally avoided them. Those two, on the contrary, directly killed a Spiritual Sect Realm Elder in the sect. This is too, too lawlessah.” Speaking of this, Xuanyuan Chen snorted coldly.

The Third Elder smiled wryly at that and said, “Now you know how to complain? Why didn’t you take action then?”

“I, how could I have thought that they would kill Ma Feng? I thought it would be Ma Feng who would kill them? I kept an eye on Liu Mufeng andXiaoXu, thinking of going over to protect them. As a result, in the blink of an eye, Ma Feng fell. By the time I wanted to go to rescue him, that bastard Liu Mufeng had already burned his body to ashes.” Xuanyuan Chen was very aggrieved about the situation.

“Alas, dead is dead! Once Ma Ming died, the feud between Ma Feng, Mufeng andXiaoXu could be considered as settled. If Ma Feng didn’t die, he would kill Mufeng andXiaoXu sooner or later. Since Ma Feng is dead, this matter is now over.”

“However, these two boys are too lawless. Killing an Elder of my sect, not giving me any face!” Speaking of this, Xuanyuan Chen was very depressed.

“Then why didn’t you catch them on the spot and hand them over to the Law Enforcement Hall?” The Third Elder asked.

At that, Xuanyuan Chen looked at the Third Elder with a strange expression. “You’re crazy, that’s my apprentice.”

“Yeah, that’s the end of it. People’s hearts are inherently biased. Even If you don’t feel happy in your heart, didn’t you still help them cover up the matter?” The Third Elder knew that this old friend of his was just complaining outwardly, but in fact, he loved his apprentice as much as he loved his own. Who wouldn’t be biased towards their own apprentice?

“Tell me, if the two of us protect them so much, will we make them lawless and bloodthirsty?”

“No, they are not people without principles.” Regarding this, the Third Elder was very sure.

“I hope so.”

“You have to believe in your own vision.” The Third Elder said with a smile, looking at his old friend.

“I had chosenXiaoXu to be my apprentice. What I value is his superior talent in swordsmanship. I am not satisfied with his other characteristics, intelligence, etc. I think this kid is short-hearted, blindly follows whatever Liu Mufeng says. And he never allows anyone to speak badly about Liu Mufeng in front of him. He is too dependent. If Liu Mufeng dumps him one day, he will go crazy.” Xuanyuan Chen was very depressed as he spoke about this matter. He was very worried about his stupid apprentice.

“No, Mufeng is not that kind of person. He lovesXiaoXu very much. When the two of them were penniless, I took pity on Liu Mufeng and gave him 50,000 spirit stones to buy spiritual plants to refine pills, and as a result, he gave them toXiaoXu without hesitation and let him go to the Sword Intent Pagoda for a year. At that time, for Mufeng, fifty thousand spirit stones were all he had.” Speaking of this matter, The Third Elder frowned, he felt that Mufeng loved his partner far more than himself.

“There was such a thing?” Xuanyuan Chen was dubious when he heard it.

“When have I ever told you a lie?” Looking at his old friend, the Third Elder smiled wryly.

After knowing this, Xuanyuan Chen’s complexion improved a bit. “Oh, he still has a bit of conscience.”

“You, you have a knife mouth and a tofu heart. You can offend people to death with your mouth.” The Third Elder said helplessly.

Seven years later…

After Elder Ma from Spiritual Plant Garden died, Liu Mufeng and Jiang Xu didn’t have to hide in Pill Peak anymore. Liu Mufeng began to go to the Book Collection Pavilion frequently, to read the free books on the first floor, and to read the alchemy inheritances on the third floor. During the seven years, on the one hand, he was consolidating his own strength, and on the other hand, he was learning alchemy. With the teaching of his Master, coupled with the various alchemy inheritances he had read in the Book CollectionPavilion, Liu Mufeng’s alchemy has been improving rapidly by leaps and bounds. Even the Third Elder, who was his Master, was shocked by the growth rate of his apprentice.

However, there were reasons why Liu Mufeng had improved his alchemy quickly. First, Liu Mufeng secretly went to the Spiritual Cultivation Pagoda for five years previously, and his soul power had been raised to level six and naturally had improved, the success rate of refining pills had also increased greatly. And the second, and most important point, Liu Mufeng’s bracelet dimension had a vast field of spiritual plants, and he had ten times more time than others. He would enter the bracelet dimension every night and practice the alchemy techniques taught by his Master over and over again. With such a cheating device like the bracelet dimension, Liu Mufeng’s alchemy had to naturally advance by leaps and bounds. How could he not improve faster?

In seven years, Jiang Xu’s strength had also precipitated a lot. Jiang Xu spent most of the day learning swordsmanship with his Master, and he often went to the mission hall to pick up missions, and also to the sect’s hunting ground to hunt demon beasts for practice. Sometimes, Liu Mufeng would go with him if he was worried, and sometimes, Xuanyuan Chen would go with him.

After another seven years of getting along, the relationship between Jiang Xu and his Master had become much better. However, when the Master and apprentice were together, they still often quarrelled. This seemed to have become the way the Master and apprentice got along.

Sitting on a chair, Jiang Xu was flipping through his lover’s challenge letters. Seeing Zhang Hao’s name, Jiang Xu couldn’t help curling his lips in a sneer. “Hmph, this Zhang Hao is really shameless, he still has the face to challenge you.”

Liu Mufeng smiled indifferently. “I seem to have a lot fewer challenge letters this year.”

“En, there are only five letters. If you don’t get more than 10 challenge letters, you cannot discard Zhang Hao’s challenge.” Jiang Xu was very irritated about this matter.

“Don’t worry, Zhang Hao actually lost to me ninety years ago, didn’t he?” Liu Mufeng smiled as he reminded his lover.

Jiang Xu nodded. “En, back then, on the surface, it was you and Song Mo who were competing, but in fact, it was you and Zhang Hao who were competing, because Song Mo’s alchemy method was told to him by Zhang Hao. During the extra match back then, Song Mo didn’t even start refining a pill. This proves that Zhang Hao had already lost to you.”

“That’s right, so what are you worried about? Besides, what if Zhang Hao wins against me this time? Do you think my Master will accept a person who tried to harm his fellow disciples and has questionable character as a disciple, again?” Liu Mufeng didn’t think that his Master would be accepting such a disciple.

“En, that makes sense, Senior Uncle will definitely not do this.” Nodding, Jiang Xu agreed.

“So, if he wants to challenge me, he can challenge me, I don’t care.” Smiling, Liu Mufeng looked unconcerned.

“Right, there is no need to be afraid of this defeated man.” Nodding, Jiang Xu agreed again.

“You become the Sect Master’s disciple, so you don’t have to participate in the once-in-decade challenge.” Liu Mufeng thought this was good. Saved a lot of trouble.

“I heard from my Master that every Elder has ten core disciple slots in his hands. If you become a core disciple, you don’t have to participate in the once-in-a-decade challenge tournament.” Looking at Liu Mufeng, Jiang Xu said so.

“I also know about this, but Pill Peak has no core disciples so far. Perhaps, my Master thinks that our alchemy is not good enough, so he didn’t select core disciples among us disciples.” Not only do core disciples not have to participate in the ten-year challenge, but they also have many privileges. There were corresponding discounts for going to the Book Collection Pavilion, Medicinal Pool Area, Sword Intent Pagoda, Spiritual Cultivation Tower and other places. So it could be said that it was a very honored status in the sect.

“Oh.” Hearing what his lover said, Jiang Xu nodded.