Chapter 85: Forcibly Making a Move?

Chapter 85: Chapter 85: Forcibly Making a Move?

Seeing Fang Xu’s face flush red and his body tremble under the pressure of Su Cheng’s aura, Lu Qingluo quickly stepped in front of him and pulled two ancient scrolls from her chest pocket.

"Stop! We have the Immortal Sect passes!"

Glancing at the Immortal Sect passes in Lu Qingluo’s hands, Su Cheng slowly withdrew his aura. He gave a faint smile and said, "Rules are rigid. If I want to take her away, I have plenty of ways to do so."

Fang Xu recovered his senses. He looked at Su Cheng, then at the young man behind him who dared to oppose Su Cheng, and immediately asked, "Senior brother, my sister possesses the Pill Fragrance Sacred Body. Does she have the qualifications to take Steward Xu as her master?"

The young man hadn’t expected Fang Xu to address him. After a momentary daze, he glanced at Chu Muyun in the wheelchair.

"Those with the Pill Fragrance Sacred Body are born prodigies for Alchemy. Naturally, my master would be happy to accept her.

"However, your sister was born disabled and cannot practice the Martial Dao, making it fundamentally impossible for her to become a ranked Pill Master." He shook his head as he spoke.

Clearly, Xu Changqing would definitely not accept an ordinary person who couldn’t practice the Martial Dao as a disciple, even if Chu Muyun possessed the Pill Fragrance Sacred Body.

"I’m not a cripple! I can recover!" Not far away, Chu Muyun struggled to stand up from her wheelchair. Enduring the pain, she let go of the wheelchair and stood there tremblingly, shouting at the young man, "Look, I can stand!

"My brother has been helping me recover. Just give me another month, and I will definitely be able to stand on my own!"

Chu Muyun had been watching everything unfold before her eyes. It was her constitution that had brought immense trouble to Fang Xu, and she knew she had to help him!

"Huh?" Seeing that Chu Muyun had actually stood up, the young man flashed to her side. He grabbed her wrist, sending a domineering surge of power through her meridians down to her legs.

"Forcefully opening blocked meridians using Qi Blood Power... This kind of pain..."

With just a brief examination, the young man understood Chu Muyun’s method of recovery.

In this world, apart from a lack of natural talent and resources, the reason many people couldn’t practice the Martial Dao was largely due to blocked meridians. Using Qi Blood Power to forcefully blast through these blockages was theoretically possible, but most people couldn’t endure the process. The pain it brought was simply beyond ordinary human tolerance. Every tiny bit of meridian opened was akin to slowly slicing one’s own flesh with a small knife.

He hadn’t expected a frail little girl like Chu Muyun to be capable of withstanding such agony.

From his brief inspection, the young man also noticed that the blocked meridians in Chu Muyun’s legs had been slightly cleared. Given enough time, completely clearing all her meridians and recovering to a normal state would be a certainty. Once she became a healthy person, his master would have plenty of ways to help her become a Martial Disciple, and even a Martial Master! A Pill Master at the Martial Master realm was fully capable of refining fourth-grade Elixirs. In the Ascension Association, a fourth-grade Pill Master was an existence that many Inner Sect Disciples had to treat with great respect.

"Eldest Senior Brother, I’m sorry, but I can’t let you ruin such a good seedling," the young man pondered for a moment before saying to Su Cheng with a faint smile.

"Huang Qingzhou! Do you absolutely have to make things difficult for me?!" Su Cheng rebuked furiously.

The young man named Huang Qingzhou dug his ear and curled his lip. "Why are you shouting so loudly? Your junior brother isn’t deaf."

Su Cheng’s expression turned gloomy and cold as he glanced at Chu Muyun, who was still stubbornly standing.

Ever since he took Xu Changqing as his master, he had been stuck at the fourth-grade Pill Master realm for over ten years. While a fourth-grade Pill Master did hold a highly respected status among the ordinary Inner Sect Disciples of the Ascension Association, it was viewed as dispensable to the middle and upper echelons above the rank of Steward. Watching the junior brothers who had entered the sect after him slowly catch up, Su Cheng felt a deep sense of crisis and dreamed of taking another step forward.

But to advance beyond the status of an Inner Sect Disciple, there were only two paths. The first was to pass through the Nine-Layered Ascension Platform before the age of fifty and become a Core Disciple of the Ascension Association. The second was to become a Steward of the Ascension Association, enjoying treatment comparable to that of a Core Disciple.

To become a Steward, one either had to reach the Third Realm of Martial Venerable and challenge the other Stewards, or possess the ability to refine fifth-grade or higher Elixirs or artifacts. Su Cheng’s idea was very simple: he would use the blood of Chu Muyun’s Pill Fragrance Sacred Body to refine a fifth-grade Elixir, pass the Steward assessment of the Ascension Association, and then use a Steward’s resources to strengthen himself. That way, by the time Chu Muyun’s Pill Fragrance Sacred Body was ruined, he would have stabilized his own strength and secured his position as a Steward.

This was his chance to turn things around, and he absolutely couldn’t miss it!

With this in mind, Su Cheng’s face darkened. "Junior Brother Huang, do you truly believe that with your strength at the Ninth Realm of Martial Master, you can stop me?"

The little girl’s body hadn’t fully recovered yet. As long as he took her away right now and thoroughly destroyed her meridians, their master wouldn’t bicker with him over a cripple. Besides... once he became a Steward, he would be on equal footing with their master!

"I can’t, I can’t," Huang Qingzhou quickly waved his hands. "As a Ninth Realm Martial Master, I naturally can’t defeat a First Realm Martial Venerable. However..."

He suddenly pulled an ancient Scroll from his pocket, unrolled it on the wheelchair beside Chu Muyun, and bit his finger. Pressing a bloody thumbprint onto the Scroll, he shoved it into Chu Muyun’s hands. "Hold onto this tightly. This is your Life-saving Talisman."

Chu Muyun hugged the Scroll in bewilderment.

Huang Qingzhou smiled cheerfully at Su Cheng. "Senior Brother, every Inner Sect Disciple has one recommendation quota. Coincidentally, I plan to give my quota to this little girl.

"She now possesses an Immortal Sect pass as well. You couldn’t possibly be unaware of the Ascension Sect’s rules, right?"

Listening to Huang Qingzhou’s sarcastic words and staring at the Immortal Sect pass in Chu Muyun’s arms, Su Cheng’s face flushed bright red with fury, and the aura around him surged violently.

"Eldest Senior Brother, Eldest Senior Brother!" Off to the side, Mu Xuan and the other two hurriedly grabbed the about-to-explode Su Cheng, terrified that he would throw caution to the wind and attack.

The rules of the Ascension Sect were extremely strict. With the Immortal Sect pass in hand, Chu Muyun was considered half a disciple of the Ascension Sect. If Su Cheng attacked her, it would be deemed as harming a fellow disciple. Once he returned to the Ascension Association, the Law Enforcement Elder would cripple his cultivation and expel him from the Ascension Association!

Regaining a sliver of rationality, Su Cheng seemed to realize the consequences. Forced to suppress the rage in his heart, he cast a cold glare at Fang Xu’s group of three and Huang Qingzhou.

"Let’s go!"

Watching Su Cheng turn and leave, Mu Xuan and the other two helplessly cupped their fists toward Huang Qingzhou. "Second Senior Brother, we..."

Huang Qingzhou waved them off nonchalantly. "Go on, go on. I’ll just be staying here for today."

After Mu Xuan and the others left, Fang Xu cupped his fists toward Huang Qingzhou. "Thank you for your help, Senior Brother Huang."

If it hadn’t been for Huang Qingzhou today, Chu Muyun would have undoubtedly been taken away by Su Cheng to be used as a Blood Slave for Alchemy. At this moment, Fang Xu once again felt the immense importance of strength!

"Don’t mention it. I just can’t stand that guy ruining our master’s reputation by using crooked methods." Huang Qingzhou waved his hand dismissively. Then, putting on a bitter face, he spread his hands. "Well, you saw it. He doesn’t want to play with me anymore."

Fang Xu immediately offered, "There are still some empty rooms in Zhiyuan Hall. If you don’t mind, Senior Brother, you can stay here for now."

Lu Qingluo chimed in from the side, "Wait a moment, Senior Brother! I’ll go tidy up a room for you right away!"

There were loopholes in the Ascension Association’s rules. It was true that Su Cheng didn’t dare lay a hand on Chu Muyun due to those rules, but in Fenglin Town, Martial Masters were a dime a dozen. With his titles as a fourth-grade Pill Master and an Inner Sect Disciple of the Ascension Association, all he had to do was give the word, and countless Martial Masters would likely risk their lives to forcefully break into Zhiyuan Hall and take Chu Muyun away.

Having Huang Qingzhou willing to stay at Zhiyuan Hall was the best possible outcome.