Chapter 287 - 145: Daoist School Street, Defeating the Heirs, Settling a Vendetta, Grandmasters Enraged, the Young Lady Heir Appears to Lend Support

Chapter 287: Chapter 145: Daoist School Street, Defeating the Heirs, Settling a Vendetta, Grandmasters Enraged, the Young Lady Heir Appears to Lend Support

[The Tutor has absorbed sixty-three strands of Grandmaster thoughts. By holding his breath, focusing his mind, and visualizing the ’Dao Seal,’ he broke through his shackles like a butterfly from a cocoon. The Divine Soul has given birth to ’Divine Thought’!]

[The Tutor has advanced to the Third Realm of Dao Skill: ’Divine Thought’!]

[The Tutor can now project his thoughts to cast Daoist Skills!]

Ripples spread across the Primordial Daoist Talisman, delivering the feedback from his Divine Soul Cultivation advancement to Ji Xiu’s mind.

He leaned against a golden plaque that read ’Celestial Blade Daoist School,’ his gaze sweeping over the various Great Daoist Schools. Just moments ago, the abyss-deep, ocean-vast gazes and thoughts directed at him had been so overwhelming he could barely breathe.

But now that his Divine Soul had given birth to a Divine Thought, it was as if he had suddenly boarded an exceptionally sturdy warship in a turbulent, rushing river. He could stand firm and unmoving, no matter how the storms raged around him.

’The physical body is a raft, and the Divine Soul is a guiding light.’

’Only by holding the light to guide the raft can one reach the Other Shore... Now, I’m finally beginning to understand what that means.’

If both his body and soul hadn’t advanced in tandem before today, he would never have made it to the end of this Daoist School Street, let alone be standing here beneath the plaque of the Celestial Blade Daoist School.

He would have been broken at the very first challenge!

As Ji Xiu stood his ground, within the legacy Daoist Schools established by the six great mountains and dozens of Schools, a stir went through their ranks. Of all those that had been challenged by Duan Chenzhou’s blade during his two resurgences, nearly every Grandmaster, without exception, rose to their feet.

The heirs who carried the mantle of these Daoist Schools stirred as well. Those who had formed an Outer Gang swelled with Qi, while those at the pinnacle of their cultivation donned their Immortal Robes, their gazes like torches as they watched him like hungry tigers!

Among them.

At the Water and Fire Daoist School.

Daoist School Master Chang Panshi took the Copper Gold Earth Fire Hammer from his back. He looked at his youngest disciple, Lim Jing, who stood behind him, completely dispirited—not even daring to glance at the heroic youth under the setting sun. Chang Panshi’s face was a mask of bitter disappointment.

Then, with a SWISH, his gaze snapped to the school’s Chief disciple at his side, the pillar he had personally cultivated, Du Yan. His eyes were cold and grim.

"Yan, this hammer is the Copper Gold Earth Fire Hammer, a Sixth Grade Qi Dao Spiritual Weapon. It was personally forged by the Ancestor of the Water and Fire Lodge, the School that is one of the six great mountains backing our Daoist School!"

"Today, as your Master, I am passing this hammer on to you."

"You are to use our Daoist School’s Sect Secret Martial Art to shatter the shadow that has fallen over your junior brother’s Martial Dao! And for my sake... your Master... you will win back the honor we lost to that dead brute, Duan Chenzhou!"

BANG!

Du Yan took the massive hammer from Chang Panshi’s hands and swung it up. It had been quenched with Spiritual Dao Profound Fire and forged from Dragon Pattern Iron, a Spirit Grade Treasure Material.

Panting heavily, HUFF, HUFF, Du Yan took a single step that left a small crater in the ground as he strode out from the gate.

His boundlessly powerful and solidified Outer Gang condensed into an Immortal Robe around him. He slammed the face of the hammer onto the stone bricks, dragging it behind him as he advanced.

"Du Yan of the Water and Fire Daoist School!"

"I’ll be the first to present my challenge!"

Hearing his Master’s words and seeing his junior brother’s condition, Du Yan looked up at the youth on the high steps—the one with a bow and plaque on his back and a scabbard at his waist. Suddenly, his innards began to pound like war drums, and he let out a thunderous roar!

At a glance, his Qi and Blood were as dense as lead and mercury, his tendons and bones like a great dragon!

He, too, was of the caliber to have attained Golden Muscle and Jade Veins, and Mercury Blood Silver Marrow!

Although he had never managed to cultivate the Purest Gang and don a Purple Ribbon Immortal Robe—meaning he would be stuck at the Second Refinement for life—he had fully mastered the Tendon and Bone Barrier. And now, wielding this Spirit Hammer...

In an instant, an overwhelming and ferocious power washed over the onlookers, giving the impression that he was almost unstoppable!

’So this is a true prodigy from one of the Prefecture’s major Daoist Schools!’

Feeling a tingling sting on his skin, in his very pores, from that sharp, burning gaze, Ji Xiu’s eyes lit up brightly.

’This kind of material... makes for a fine whetstone!’

STOMP!

From the high steps, Ji Xiu let out a long laugh. Then his eyes narrowed, and a brilliant light erupted from them. All over his body, his flawless Jade Skin began to flush crimson, as if he’d been plunged into boiling water.

His entire body twitched and trembled as his Qi Force and Essence Blood condensed into a column of wolf smoke that shot thirty feet into the air!

Clad in his Outer Gang like a suit of armor, he charged. He crashed toward Du Yan, who was dragging the heavy hammer, moving like a warship carving its way through the sea!

An Outer Gang against an Immortal Robe!

To meet an enemy is to be set aflame!

"’Essence Qi floods his blood, and the blood courses through his tendons and bones like a raging fire...’"

"’This boy... to think he’s cultivated his External Treasure Refining Skill to such a degree...’"

"’Still, that Du Yan has received the Grandmaster Level True Inheritance of the Water and Fire Daoist School. At thirty years old, he has already reached the Immortal Robe stage. In terms of both realm and Martial Arts, he should be superior to this boy.’"

"’Even if that boy has a deeper foundation, Du Yan has the Spiritual Weapon, the Copper Gold Earth Fire Hammer. Add to that the Water and Fire Lodge’s Seven-Path Chaotic Cloak Demon Hammer technique, and it shouldn’t be hard to put him in his place!’"

The many Grandmasters from the Daoist Schools backed by great Schools and mountains watched with cold detachment, thinking to themselves.

’To establish a firm foothold in the world of Martial Arts, one has to suppress all of us Daoist Schools.’

’As Qi Cultivation Grandmasters, none of them would stoop so low as to attack a junior themselves. It would be a shameful breach of etiquette.’

’But...’

’How many years has this kid even been practicing Martial Arts?’

’How could he possibly be a match for the heirs they had painstakingly nurtured for over a decade?’

’They might be a step below the True Inheritance disciples of the major Schools, or the chief Prefecture Students from the great Mansion Courtyards, but handling a kid from some outer county? That should be child’s play!’

But as Ji Xiu leaped down from the high steps, his single word—’whetstone’—left all of these silently calculating Grandmasters stunned and speechless.

The Hall Master of the Water and Fire Daoist School, in particular, was so furious he felt a fire ignite in his chest!

’Treating the heir their Daoist School had so painstakingly cultivated, one destined for a brilliant future, as a mere whetstone?’

’What arrogant words, you brat!’

SCREEECH! SIZZLE!

Du Yan, who was dragging the hammer forward, felt his expression darken.

"You really think too highly of yourself!"