Chapter 290 - 146: The Legitimate Daughter of the Beicang Marquis’s Mansion, Reprimanding a Grandmaster with a Single Word, Once Opened 4 Great Limits, Extending an Olive Branch

Chapter 290: Chapter 146: The Legitimate Daughter of the Beicang Marquis’s Mansion, Reprimanding a Grandmaster with a Single Word, Once Opened 4 Great Limits, Extending an Olive Branch

Jiangyin Prefecture, Daoist School Street!

Ji Xiu struck, using Long Day to unleash the Great Five Decline Celestial Saber’s Tribulation Fire Burning Robe. With overwhelming force, he directly severed the foundation of the Purple Mist Daoist School’s heir, crippling him.

[The Tutor used Gang as a blade, his body wreathed in Tribulation Fire, defeating the enemy and overcoming the Immortal Robe with a single strike! The Study Level for the Great Five Decline Celestial Saber’s First Decline has increased. Advanced progress +77!]

[The Tutor leveraged the Visualization of ’Tribulation Fire Burning Robe’, treating combat as if being set ablaze to hone his Outer Gang and weave it into Cloud Luo. Advanced progress +58!]

[Great Five Decline Celestial Saber, First Decline—Tribulation Fire Burning Robe: (386/1000)!]

[Feathered Immortal Robe ’Cloud Luo Scroll’: (214/1000)!]

’It seems Du Yan of the Water and Fire Daoist School is one of the few genuine True Inheritance disciples on this Daoist School Street. Both are from ’Six Great Mountains’-level Schools that have opened branches in the prefecture to teach, but this prospect from the Purple Mist Daoist School is clearly inferior to him.’

’He could match my Profound Blood Flood Dragon Tendons and Dragon Descendant Treasure Bone in a clash of Qi Force. Even without the ability of Transporting the Dragon Elephant, his Qi Force was nearly on par. He even managed to withstand a Tribulation Fire Burning Robe without dying, only having his Immortal Robe shattered. Given time, it wouldn’t be hard for him to become a Grandmaster.’

’But as for the public face of the Purple Mist Daoist School...’

Ji Xiu shook his head as he looked at the Purple Mist Daoist School’s heir. The man’s purple qi was completely gone, and the Sword Intent had seeped into his very bones. His fundamental constitution of muscles and sinews was damaged—an injury no less severe than having both arms and legs crippled.

His Master, Duan Chenzhou, had once said.

The Qi Dao True Skill passed down by the School behind the Purple Mist Daoist School, the ’Purple Mist Secret Manual,’ was only a tier below the True Skills found in the Secret Treasures of True Sects. But for dispelling internal injuries and restoring physical functions, its efficacy was second to none.

But this disciple was still a long way from reaching the end of the Power Barrier, achieving Immortal Robe Perfection, and starting his Cultivation of a True Skill. Without a Qi Dao True Skill to aid him...

To cultivate his way back to his former strength would likely take eight to ten years.

Therefore, upon seeing this, the Daoist School Master Zhou Changming—whom Ji Xiu had met once at the Celestial Blade School—flew into a rage. He was so furious he cast aside all decorum and prepared to strike.

Ji Xiu had long expected this.

His left palm silently reached for the Sword Plaque that held a Martial Saint’s Ultimate Skill.

He intended to test the Grandmaster’s mettle the moment the man could no longer hold back...

But then a clear, cold shout, seemingly infused with Qi, thundered down to the end of Daoist School Street!

It caused Grandmaster Zhou—his body surging with purple Qi, his sleeves billowing, one foot already halfway across the threshold—to stop dead in his tracks!

He then forced his head around to look at the woman in the wheelchair, and the once-uncontainable rage on his face froze solid.

"Miss Xiao..."

"What are you doing here?!"

Where Zhou Changming’s gaze fell, a woman sat in a wheelchair. Her sharp eyebrows slanted up toward her temples like frosty peaks, her eyes beneath them as sharp as a blade, and her lips a cool, striking color.

When she lowered her eyes to survey the entire Daoist School Street, all sixty-three Daoist Schools fell deathly silent.

The gazes from the Grandmasters, once as deep and profound as the abyssal sea, instantly vanished without a trace.

With Granny Shi holding her wheelchair, Miss Xiao had not once risen from her seat.

But whenever her fingertips, revealed as her sleeves fluttered, tapped against the back of the chair with a soft TAP... TAP...

...each sound seemed to strike directly at the heart of the Purple Mist Daoist School Master, Zhou Changming, causing cold sweat to bead on his forehead and his heart to sink deeper and deeper.

’Ever since this Young Lady Heir arrived in Jiangyin Prefecture, wasn’t she rumored to be living in seclusion!?’

’I heard that countless talented young prodigies, many of them gifted Nobles from outside the prefecture, had sought an audience with her, yet none were granted a meeting.’

’So why, of all things, would she show up on Daoist School Street today of all days!?’

At the same time, Ji Xiu raised his eyes.

He too glimpsed the young woman he had heard so much about. She was in her twenties and embodied a unique combination of the refined grace of a noble lady from a Marquis’s Mansion and the cold, killing aura of a Martial Artist. A flicker of awe flashed in his eyes.

’This woman... her attainments in the Martial Dao and Divine Soul must be profound!’

Even though she wasn’t exuding the slightest hint of an aura.

But now that his Divine Soul could generate thoughts, his perception was incredibly sharp, and he could see the truth at a glance!

Within her slender and seemingly delicate frame, it felt as if every single drop of her blood could crush a person!

However...

As his gaze fell upon her legs, hidden beneath a long, black skirt, Ji Xiu’s pupils contracted.

He could sense that the woman’s legs were completely devoid of life, cold and desolate, as if all her major tendons and acupoints were sealed shut, rendering her unable to move them in the slightest.

In fact, all the vast, surging Qi Mechanism within her Qi and Blood, muscles, and bones was continuously being channeled into her legs the moment it was produced by her Blood Marrow.

This caused her to appear frail. Aside from her imposing disposition, she displayed none of the life-and-death power befitting a Martial Artist.

’Her legs...’

In that instant, Ji Xiu came to a realization.

He finally understood why the Garrison Commander, Luo Daocheng, had once said that the ’Mountain and Sea Search’ could be of great assistance to this Young Lady Heir.

’If I’m not mistaken,’ he thought, ’the Young Lady Heir of the Beicang Marquis’s Mansion must have a leg ailment. And considering Marquis Beicang’s high status and great power, it must be so troublesome that even he can’t find a permanent cure!’

’He has no choice but to rely on Spirit Fish from the sea, Spirit Treasures, and all sorts of rare wonders just to keep her condition stable!’

’And Luo Daocheng, by first sending a ’Jade Marrow Cold Lotus’ and then a ’Profound Blood Dragon Carp,’ had truly spared no expense. An ordinary Grandmaster could never have afforded treasures of that caliber.’

After all,

the former was a healing Treasure Material on the level of an ’Earth Treasure.’ It could even be planted to cultivate Spirit Soil, a blessing that could extend for generations. It was practically priceless.

The latter roamed the depths of the ocean. Luo Daocheng had snatched it from the nets of a branch of the Chaotic Heaven Thieves, and it had the potential to transform into an ’Auspicious Omen.’ It was a genuine species of Spirit Fish!