“Brother Feng Yang, I have been in Qingzhou all these years thanks to your care, and with the relationship between the two of us, it would be too polite to say this.”
“It’s just that, as the Qilin royal family, the head of the Qi clan, is it really okay for you to be away from the royal family for so long?” The cloth-clothed old man smiled as he played a chess piece.
“As long as I can step into the Heavenly Martial Realm, I will be able to compete with the House Master, that old thing from the Lin Clan, even if he takes advantage of my absence and suppresses my Qi Clan as much as he can, when I return, he will only be able to succumb to me.” Speaking of this matter, Qi Fengyang was full of smugness.
“Nowadays, in the Kyushu Continent, the Heavenly Martial Realm is no longer a legend, but you in Qingzhou only have the Master of the Qilin Royal House, and the Patriarch of the Ling Yun Clan stepping into this realm, so it is no wonder that Qingzhou has become the weakest state in Kyushu.” The old man in cloth shook his head.
“Hehe.” At the cloth-clothed old man’s rather sarcastic words, Qi Fengyang could only laugh bitterly instead of being able to refute.
Thinking back then, Qingzhou was full of strong people and had always been the strongest state in Kyushu, but back then was back then after all, nowadays, Qingzhou’s despondency was a fact, and of course, the reason why Qingzhou was despondent was blamed on their generation, which was too mediocre.
When he thought of this, Qi Fengyang could not help but sigh: “Looking at the juniors of Qingzhou nowadays, there is no one who stands out too much, Dokku Aoyun is not bad in Qingzhou, but among the juniors of Kyushu, he is slightly mediocre.
“No, there is already a powerful junior in Qingzhou, as long as he is given some time, he will be able to surpass Doku Aoyun.” The old man in cloth laughed indifferently.
“Brother Hengyuan, I wonder what this means?” Hearing this, Qi Fengyang’s calm expression could not help but change and hurriedly asked after him.
“There is not just you and I within the Hundred Quicks Ditch, apart from you and I, there is another person who has been stranded within this Hundred Quicks Ditch for most of the year.”
“And, during this half year, he has gained a lot, stealing the treasure trove of demonic beasts’ captive Xuan medicine, sweeping the entire Hundred Qu Ditch, and most of all, he is also a grey-robed Realm Spirit Master, and is only a teenager, at this age, with such actions, he really has a limitless future.” The old man in cloth laughed again.
“A teenager with the ability of a grey-robed boundary spirit master?” At this moment, Qi Fengyang was also unable to calm down, excitedly standing up violently, because a grey-robed Realm Spirit Master could definitely be considered a figurehead for Qingzhou.
A teenager? A teenager being able to become a grey-robed boundary spirit master was indeed a remarkable thing, something that he had to take seriously.
However, when he thought about it carefully, Qi Fengyang felt that it was not right, so he said, “Brother Hengyuan, this is the Hundred Curve Ditch, you said that unless one is a blue-robed Boundary Spirit Master, or an extremely strong Heavenly Martial Realm, no one would be able to resist the oppression in the Hundred Curve Ditch after the formation is opened, a grey-robed Boundary Spirit Master, how would he be able to survive here for most of the year?”
“Haha, isn’t that exactly what makes that youngster so powerful? Speaking of which, he was able to survive thanks to your help, Brother Feng Yang, if it wasn’t for that day, when you gave him the protective token I gave you, he wouldn’t have been able to memorize the formation to condense the token.”
“But even so, I have to admit that this son is formidable, after all, that formation of mine is something that cannot be coalesced by a non-blue robed Realm Spirit Master, but he managed to do it, do you think that he is a formidable junior or not?” The old man in cloth laughed lightly.
“Brother Hengyuan, are you saying that the youngster who has survived in this Hundred Qu Quills Gorge for most of the year is that Chu Feng from that day?” It was at this moment that Qi Fengyang came to a sudden realization, his gaze filled with surprise.
“Naturally, it is him.” The cloth-clothed old man nodded his head.
“I told you that that youngster was a rare genius, I never imagined that he would be this genius, and it’s no wonder that he received the inheritance from the Old Man of the Imperial Sky.” And at this moment, it finally dawned on Qi Fengyang, feeling shocked and at the same time, he smiled expansively, feeling more and more that what he had done that day, was correct.
“What’s an Old Man of the Sky? He’s just a Xuanwu pinnacle who has never been able to touch the Heavenly Martial Realm in his life. For him to have created a martial art to walk through the air must be a combination of chance and luck.”
“That young man is much more powerful than him, because half a year ago, a mysterious figure appeared in Qingzhou, the grey-robed gentleman. This grey-robed gentleman not only alerted the Ling Yun Clan, but also your Qilin King’s House, and despite disappearing for most of a half year, he is still a figure that people in Qingzhou talk about after tea and dinner today.”
“And if I’m correct, that grey-robed gentleman should be that youngster called Chu Feng.” The old man in cloth continued.
“To think that there is still such a thing, it seems that that Chu Feng is really a restless brat.”
While listening to the cloth-clothed old man’s account, the smile on Qi Fengyang’s face grew thicker and thicker, and his heart was even more excited, for the more restless a person was, the more he tended to become a great figure.
After all, which one of the top powerhouses of the past generations hadn’t been a young man who stood out from the crowd and was proud of his peers? Now that such a young man had emerged in Qingzhou, Qi Fengyang was as ecstatic as if he had seen hope.
“Only, this boy may have a great calamity.” The old man in cloth suddenly said.
“A great calamity? Brother Hengyuan, what do you mean by that?” Seeing this, Qi Fengyang’s expression changed greatly.
“This son has a life-and-death battle with someone and is nearing the end of time, his opponent is the son of the Xuanwu City Lord and is deeply loved by that old Lin b*****d, Lin Ran, of your Qilin Royal House, who has been wreaking havoc on your Qilin Royal House’s resources for the majority of the year in order to cultivate him.”
“And that youngster, even though he has extraordinary talent, has little background in Qingzhou, so I think that he is in a bad luck in this battle.” The old man in cloth explained.
Hearing this, Qi Fengyang’s eyebrows tightened, and then said to the cloth-clothed old man, “Brother Zhiyuan, I …..”
“Go ahead, I know that you, an old thing, would love to have a decent descendant from Qingzhou, this kid, however, is worthy of your help.” Before Qi Fengyang could finish his speech, the cloth-clad old man waved his hand at him.
“It is true that the one who knows me is also Brother Zhiyuan, Brother Zhiyuan, then I will take my leave first.” Qi Fengyang was about to leave, but then stopped his pace at the door and turned back to arch his hand, “Thank you, brother Fengyang, for keeping this son alive, I thank you on his behalf.”
“He earned this life for himself, his talent is worthy of me letting him go and for you to help him out.” The cloth-clothed old man smiled and Qi Fengyang looked at each other and said nothing more, but walked towards the mountain peak below.
Just after Qi Fengyang left, the cloth-clothed old man’s face, on the other hand, became grave, his gaze full of worry as he stood at the top of the mountain, looking at the distant sky, and said indifferently:
“It’s been six years, why have you still not appeared? A heavenly-gifted divine body, it shouldn’t be so obscure, does it mean that? Has there really been some kind of accident?”
At this moment, the cloth-clothed old man could not help but sigh, slowly closing his eyes as his thoughts drifted back to that night six years ago.
That night, above the Milky Way in the nine heavens, the Nine Coloured Divine Thunder appeared, shaking the entire continent, but eventually thundering towards Qingzhou.
That night, tens of thousands of imperial experts from the Jiang Dynasty went to Qingzhou, vowing to find the divine body, yet they returned empty-handed.