As the night ended, the morning sun was beginning to rise over the horizon.
Xi Shen had long stopped playing his Zither, but Fei Yin was still laying on the ground.
After a moment, Fei Yin opened his eyes and sat up.
He had tears stains all over his cheeks, and his eyes looked extremely puffy.
Fei Yin then turned to Xi Shen, before he slightly rose and got on his knees. After which, he bowed sincerely to Xi Shen and said, “Thank you, second prince. I-I was extremely foolish and I have no way to ever repay this debt. Please, if there is anything that you wish me to do I won’t hesitate to do it because I owe you my life.”
Xi Shen looked at Fei Yin offering his service to him but he didn’t immediately accept it. Instead, he asked, “You have doubts about the illusions you saw, right? Y
Xi Shen ignored the nervousness of the disciple and said, “Since it’s an unwritten rule, then it’s not enforced by the Academy. I would still like to register.”Hearing that, the disciple only nodded like a chicken pecking the ground, and after shuffling around behind the front desk, he pull out a small slab of purple jade that was thirty meters in length and width, after which he place it in front of Xi Shen.He then said, “Second prince, all you have to do is place your Identity Medallion onto this register jade and you’ll be registered into the Inner Disciple Rankings.”Xi Shen did as the disciple said and took out his Identity jade medallion, before he placed it inside the small groove in the middle of it. After a soft glow came from the purple jade slab, several texts appeared on the bottom half of it that displayed details pertainin
“HEY!! What the hell?! Stop shoving!”“Move! Move! Move! Get out of my way!!”“Bastard! Where are you pushing?!!”“Hey! W-who the hell just grabbed my butt?!”Several disciples in the crowd looked at that disciple with strange expressions. That disciple had a mortified look on his face as he realize everyone around him were male disciples.Asides from strange cries like this, several more were coming from the crowd of disciples as they barged their way into the Battle Colosseum Arena.All of them were heading for the second stage where the excitement would unfold.On the second stage in the Colosseum Arena, Xi Shen was seated cross-legged on the far half of the stage.His face would twitch ever so often, as the yells and furious shots of the disciple around the stage ech
Several people in the crowd, including the four participants on stage, turned to him when he started explaining the origin of the pill.“To put it simply, the Nine Revolutions Sea Expansion Pill is the product of the Li Royal Family, and the original pill was created by the second Emperor, Emperor Li Fung. Or you all would know him by his grand title of the Pill Emperor. The first person to gain that title on the Maple Continent,”Shocked exclamations came from the crowd, and they stared at the pill Xi Shen had just brought once again. The Li Clans 2nd Emperor was a renowned Alchemist that had created and developed several extraordinary pills during his reign. The progress of the current pill concoction methods was revised ones that could be traced back to the ones he had introduced to the Maple Continent during his era.That Alchemy Disciple then went on to say, “The Nine Revolutions Sea Expansion Pill
Listening to this disciple’s reluctant tone of voice, Xi Shen simply said, “There’s no need. I should have mentioned this before, but my Faction will be completely different from everything else before its creation. Its name is the Divine Music Sword Faction. And it’s going to be a faction that focuses on combining the Mystical Sword Dao and the untainted Music Dao. Unfortunately, my requirements are high, and your willpower has not reached that requirement. You're not suitable to cultivate Soul Arts. Oh, and if anyone thinks this Faction will be back by my family, then don't. I will be the only financial pillar of the Faction, and my members would have to work hard to earn their place.”Xi Shen made sure to outline these things, so these disciples won't get any ideas. He had thought about it for a while, and he chose not to create his Faction as an extension of his family like the other Seven Major Clans have done, but for his own
All of a sudden Ye Fei shifted his attention to the left of him, as if had sensed something.Chuckling a bit, he turned back to look down at the stage while saying, “First Elder Lang, I didn’t expect to see you here. Haven’t you moved away from worldly affairs so you could sever your mortal shackles and reach a breakthrough in your Dao Law? That’s why I agreed to appoint you to watch over the Techniques Library in the Inner Academy Sword Pavilion.”As Ye Fei spoke, the figure of an old man Xi Shen would recognize as the person he saw at the front desk inside the Sword Pavilion Techniques Library, appeared in an illusory projection beside him.Hearing Ye Fei’s words, First Elder Lang snorted and said, “A bit of snooping on the younger generation once in a while isn’t so bad. I should be the one asking Vice Headmaster why he's here. H
“Your willpower is also weak. In fact, it might just be the weakest one so far.”Xi Shen said as he dismissively waved his hand at the female disciple who was barely thirty-five meters away from the line.That disciple was glad that she didn’t have to join Xi Shen's Faction, but from the way he had just spoken and dismissively waved her away, she couldn’t help but feel slighted.Glaring in Xi Shen’s direction, that female disciple who was quite well endowed in her assets, so much so it was bulging from her blue robes, turned and left the stage.Seeing this, several disciples in the crowd below let out agonizing moans as they lost their bets.A disciple who had on a grin and had obviously made an opposite bet spoke to the ones that have lost.“You people should have known that the second prince would win!” 
After landing on the stage, Fang Chen glanced at the box in front of Xi Shen and then at the line thirty meters away from him. Afterwards, he looked towards the sitting Xi Shen and cupped his fist before he said, “Second prince, my name is Fang Chen. I would like to participate in your competition, and although I am not on the Inner Disciple Rankings, I wish you would give me this chance.”Fang Chen said while bowing his head sincerely to Xi Shen. The crowd was slightly surprised to see the notorious Fang Chen like this. He seemed almost desperate as he requested Xi Shen to allow him to take on his challenge.Xi Shen looked at Fang Chen and he could tell he was desperate as well. He guessed his desire for the Nine Revolutions Sea Expansion Pill was high.Xi Shen then asked, “Fellow disciple Fang Chen, are you sure you wish to participate? You are aware of the outcome if you lose right?”&nb
Hearing Fang Chen admitting his defeat, the crowd below can’t believe he was going to join Xi Shen’s Faction.Xi Shen smiled at Fang Chen and his eyes twinkled as he said, “Hmm, you can go join the Sword Pavilion. I need to recruit two more persons to be able to officially create my Faction. You’d have to wait until then.”Fang Chen with his fist still cup bowed his head and said, “Yes Faction Leader.”He wasn’t the type of person who would go back on his word. He made a bet and he lost, so he would accept it as the outcome.After saying that Fang Chen turned to leave, but Xi Shen suddenly called for him.“Fang Chen, catch.”Fang Chen turned around just in time to catch an object in his hands. When he look down to see it was the box with the Nine Revolutions Sea Expansion pill inside, his eyes held s
So, that's the end of Book One."..."Are you mad?"..."Of course you are, I'm sorry."Fuck you, Author..."Wah! I'm really sorry!!*start groveling and begging for forgiveness.*For those of you who haven't seen it in the last chapter(it's not like I didn't put it in the title.) I made the decision to end Book One here, right on the edge of a massive cliff... don't kill me haha, I swear I'll write Book Two.Oh, did you see the title of Book Two? If not here it is again... BOOK TWO: War Of Continents... coming soon.I always intended to split this novel into separate books, but I never planned on stopping Book One here. At first, I made the decision to go on hiatus, but then as I read over the last few chapters I realized this was somewhat of a good place to end Book One... please don't kill me.For all the readers who have reached this point... thank you.I've been writing this book for over a year now. Arguably I haven't posted much in the last three months, but we don't talk about t
When Gu Min landed in front of him, Yang Su stood there staring at him with a blank expression while tears ran down his cheeks.“What, you won't even come running to hug me after not seeing me for so long? You always did when we were little. Or have you grown too big now? You’re almost as tall as I am.”Gu Min said this jokingly, but Yang Su could only lower his head and began wiping his tears.Gu Min walked up to him and hugged him.“It’s okay, why are you crying?”“I-I thought you died because of me. And Mom and Dad, they…”“Did they blame you?”A sad expression appeared on Gu Min’s face, but Yang Su shook his head.“No, after they thought you died they wouldn’t let me out of their sights. It's because of you that I couldn’t even set foot outside of the house.”Gu Min cracked a smile when he heard his little brother’s words.“I’m sorry I didn’t come home, I-”“It’s fine.”Yang Su suddenly said cutting off Gu Min.“As long as you’re fine I don’t care if I never see you again, I just
Ling Tian was in the sky scanning the crowd of disciples down below.His heart was filled with both anger and frustration.Soon, his gaze stopped on a figure that was trying to blend into the crowd as much as possible.But despite the hood hiding their appearance, Ling Tian knew exactly who this person was.In a fit of rage and worry, he bolted toward this person.On the ground, Li Shen looked at Yang Su and asked.“Yang Su, what do you mean, is that person your older brother?”Everyone in the group heard this and they all turned to look at Yang Su.Yang Su nodded and said.“He looks slightly different, but I’m sure that’s him.”While Xian was smiling off to the side, Mu Fan glanced at Yang Su’s brother in the air and scowled.“His hair is ever redder than yours, how revolting.”Jun frowned and elbowed Mu Fan to shut up.As Yang Su continued to look at his brother he started to become more agitated.He was skeptical of Xian’s words before but now that he saw his brother he was overcom
Mu Fan placed everyone down before they all glared at Xian.Xian shrugged his shoulders in response.Jun was about to comment on Xian being here, but Li Shen placed a hand on his shoulder.“Look after Lu Yue for me.”Hearing this, Jun turned to look at Lu Yue before hurrying over.Fei Yin hurried over as well, it looked like she had a few superficial wounds he was able to heal.Li Shen then looked at Xian and asked.“What’s the point of you joining? You seem to have a group of your own.”“Well, that doesn’t mean I can’t join yours right?”Li Shen went silent for a moment and then said.“I’ll think about it. For now, we should focus on why we were teleported here.”Xian turned to look at the front of the hall where a throne was before saying with narrowed eyes.“Isn’t it obvious my other half? Someone wants us here.”Hearing Xian’s words, everyone in the group had their expressions change.They suddenly had a bad feeling rise in their hearts. One that Mu Fan long had.“Master…?”Li She
“D-Damn it, what is happening now?!”Mu Fan cried out as he saw his fingers fading away.Li Shen looked over at him and then down at his own hand to see his fingers were fading away as well, and at a rapid pace at that.Li Shen then looked towards the sky to see that after shattering, what was revealed was a clear blue sky.The shattered fragments of the previous crimson sky were still hovering in the air, reflecting the blue sky above and the Fiery Dimension below at the same time.Looking away from this scene, Li Shen bent down to pick up Lu Yue and carry her bridal style. He then turned to Mu Fan and said.“It’s okay, we’re being teleported to the Hidden Fragmented Realm. Hold onto me.”Mu Fan hurriedly got up and place his overly large palms on Li Shen’s shoulders.Mu Fan then watched in curiosity as a strange black light with starry light in it spread from Li Shen’s body to cover both him and Lu Yue.“What kind of ability is this?”Mu Fan said looking around. It almost seemed as
“Stop being so dramatic, I barely touched you.”Li Shen said as he gave Mu Fan who was on the ground a cursory glance.Mu Fan wined.“It is you. Bastard, do you want to get hit in the head and see how it feels?”Mu Fan then glared at Li Shen, but in response, Li Shen merely rolled his eyes and then turn back to check on an unconscious Lu Yue.Mu Fan also turned to her and asked.Is she going to be alright?”“If we can get to Jun in time, then everything will be fine.”“Is that why you let those bastards get away?”Mu Fan said as he watch Gu Jin and Shiming fly away with the rest of the Fire Empire’’s disciples and Ming Clan members.Li Shen shifted his head to look in their direction before turning back to Lu Yue.“There will come a time when they can longer run away from me, but that time hasn’t come yet. Rather, you should be healing your injuries before thinking about fighting in your condition.”“It merely scratches, I’m fine!”Mu Fan said confidentially, but Li Shen suddenly saw
“You fucker, I’ll definitely kill you for this!!”Shiming’s face was deathly pale, but intense hatred was evident in his eyes.“Huh? How are you going to do that when you’re going to see King Yama?”Mu Fan kicked Shiming’s severed arm that held his saber to the side as he walked towards him.Shiming manage to stop his bleeding and he held his stump as he slowly got up.A crazed look was in his eyes that matched Mu Fan’s own.Mu Fan didn’t care and he rushed to lop off his head like he promised he would.He appeared in front of Shiming and did a horizontal slash.However, a crazed Shiming suddenly grasp the void and a red illusory blade appeared in his remaining hand.Swoosh!Shiming swung it towards Mu Fan’s incoming saber and a Blade Energy no weaker than Mu Fan’s own swept out.BANG!A loud explosion occurred that caused the ground beneath the two to form a massive crater.Shiming was seen flying out of the dust that had risen in the area.Even when he called on his own Blade Will h
Shiming wasn’t in a hurry as he flew over to where Mu Fan was.Previously when Mu Fan had reached this location and realized he had found Lu Yue, he didn’t hesitate to start hacking.Now laying around him were numerous bloody corpses of the Fire Empire Disciples. But of course, there were also disciples who came from various small Sects that were transported here with Lu Yue. A few disciples in the group Mu Fan came with had died too.Mu Fan frowned at this sight.Something didn’t feel right to him. He loved hacking these fuckers for what they were doing, but this type of massacre irked him.It’s as if it was all planned.Mu Fan didn’t know, but he could vaguely sense something was wrong.As Mu Fan was feeling repulsed by this massacre, Shiming’s voice echoed behind him.“Why do I always have to deal with you?”Mu Fan slowly turned to see Shiming land not too far away from him. His eyes narrowed.“You don’t have to worry about that for too long. Once I lop off your head then you never
Gu Jin would send out a fist or a palm strike towards Lu Yue and she would counter it with her Sword Technique.However, she would be blown back and injured every time.After a few more of this, Lu Yue realized that she was getting further away from the battle.Gu Jin had purposely brought them here.“Are you just now realizing the situation you’re in?”Gu Jin said with a laugh.Lu Yue had fallen to the ground and as she slowly got up, Gu Jin’s gaze roamed over her slightly disheveled body.It didn’t take a genius to understand what was going on.However, Lu Yue seemed unphased despite the blood at the corner of her lips and was even weak to the point where she had to lean on her sword for support.Looking at Gu Jin, she said.“And it seems you haven’t realized the situation you're in yet.”Upon hearing that, Gu Jin frowned.However, a moment later his expression changed.Inside his body, he sensed several strands of frigid energy slowly circulating in his meridians.If it weren’t for