The Human Emperor c1-2382

by Huangfu Qi (皇甫奇)

  The surrounding crowd discussed the matter amongst themselves. They had all come for the Origin Immortal Mountain, but now, it was the conflict between Wang Chong and Young Master Qingyang that had drawn their attention. Just as everyone knew, although Young Master Qingyang was lacking in martial arts, he was renowned throughout the martial arts world for his familiarity with all the martial arts of the realm. Not even grandmasters and leading martial artists could compare.

  “Just which one do you think is the real one?”

  “Someone who would try to deceive both the Righteous Alliance Lord and the Black Yin Ancestor is quite bold!”

  “If they’re found out, they would only have death to look forward to!”

  “Haha, there’s no need to go through so much trouble. The one of these two that doesn’t agree is the fake Young Master Qingyang!”

  Eyes looked back and forth between Wang Chong and the other young man. Suddenly, two people claiming to be the leader of the Four Young Masters of the martial arts world had appeared. This was extremely rare, even for the martial arts world.

  “Heh, why wouldn’t I agree?!”

  Wang Chong’s reply loudly rang out in everyone’s ears. Softly chuckling, Wang Chong suddenly strode forward, his expression brimming with confidence. Wang Chong had never expected his excursion into the world of sects to turn out like this, but as someone who had been Grand Marshal of the world, Wang Chong had been through countless trials and tribulations. How could he possibly be afraid of such a challenge?

  Moreover, Wang Chong sensed that the Myriad Ghost Ancestor, the Black Yin Ancestor, Xie Guangting, Sikong Yuanjia, and all the others were focused on him. If he made the slightest strange movement, they would probably all immediately attack him.

  In this current situation, Wang Chong had to agree even if he didn’t want to.

  But Wang Chong was not at all panicked. His understanding of martial arts was not lacking compared to anyone, and not even this Young Master Qingyang was guaranteed to surpass him.

  “Haha, okay!”

  At this moment, the Myriad Ghost Ancestor heartily laughed. Proudly standing upon the banner, he lightly waved his hand.

  “Alliance Lord Song, Vice Alliance Lord Xie, you’ve all heard it. This matter is truly getting more and more interesting. Let’s do this. We’ll put off the grudges between the Five Ancestor Alliance and Righteous Alliance for now and watch with full attention to see which one is the true Young Master Qingyang.”

  “Myriad Ghost Ancestor, just what are you planning?!” Song Yuanyi sternly replied.

  The Myriad Ghost Ancestor only turned and smiled at Young Master Qingyang on the ground, who immediately took two steps forward and smiled.

  “Alliance Lord Song, everyone in the world knows that Young Master Qingyang is well-learned in the myriad martial arts, knowing all of them like the back of his hand and able to instruct martial artists with just a few words, allowing the weak to overcome the strong. Why don’t I and that Young Master Qingyang of your Righteous Alliance choose a martial artist as their representative to compete in strength? What do you think?”

  The young man slightly raised his head, his face radiating confidence.

  “‘Young Master Qingyang’, what do you think?”

  The young man turned to Wang Chong, his eyes brimming with derision.

  “Not bad! It’s very fair.”

  Wang Chong smiled at these words.

  “Very good! Since that’s the case, we’ll do as you propose.”

  Song Yuanyi gave a slight nod. Since the two of them had agreed, he had no reason to stop it.

  “There’s nothing challenging about picking martial artists who are too strong. Let’s choose experts of the Profound Martial realm.”

  The young man turned to the Myriad Ghost Ancestor and Black Yin Ancestor.

  “You may choose anyone from the disciples of the Five Ancestor Alliance!”

  The Myriad Ghost Ancestor on the banner nodded.

  “Haha, Young Master Qingyang, there’s no need to be so polite. Today, all the disciples of the Five Ancestor Alliance are available to you. I only have one request. Expose that brat and humiliate Song Yuanyi and his Righteous Alliance for all the world to see!” Black Yin Ancestor Luo Qiyin added.

  “Luo Qiyin, such impudence!”

  Sikong Yuanjia couldn’t help but roar in anger.

  But Song Yuanyi said nothing. He extended an arm and shook his head, holding back Sikong Yuanjia.

  “Young Master Qingyang, just this alone might not be enough to prove that you are Young Master Qingyang,” Song Yuanyi suddenly declared.

  “Haha, you’re right!”

  The young man on the other side suddenly grinned.

  “Alliance Lord Song is right on the mark, so I hope that you will now choose three Righteous Alliance experts of an even higher level of strength. Only if I can instruct this disciple of the Five Ancestor Alliance in defeating all three of these stronger opponents am I qualified to progress further. If I can’t, then I am naturally the fake Young Master Qingyang, and there’s no need to proceed further. In that case, Black Yin Ancestor, I must trouble you to take my life to set the record straight for the Five Ancestor Alliance!”

  The young man turned to Black Yin Ancestor Luo Qiyin and bowed.

  “Relax! This old man will not show mercy. If that truly is the case, this old man will crush you into a pulp!”

  The Black Yin Ancestor sinisterly chuckled.

  His strange laughter made everyone’s hair stand on end, but the young man was unperturbed.

  “As it should be!”

  Wang Chong nodded. He had been coldly watching from the sides, and he couldn’t help but inwardly chuckle.

  He could already tell that this young man was probably the real Young Master Qingyang.

  He embraced both good and evil in his behavior, making him actually rather similar to himself.

  All was quiet, the vast crowd of martial artists utterly entranced by this sight. Today’s event was simply too bizarre. The Righteous Alliance and Five Ancestor Alliance had both produced a Young Master Qingyang. For there to be a test to determine which was the real leader of the Four Young Masters, and for it to take place in the lands of the northwest, was truly too incredible.

  Young Master Qingyang quickly selected a disciple from the Five Ancestor Alliance.

  “Alliance Lord Song, please select three opponents for me.”

  Song Yuanyi nodded. With a light wave of his finger, he immediately chose three Righteous Alliance disciples. One was at the middle of the Profound Martial realm, another at the top, and the last at the peak. All of them were stronger than that Five Ancestor Alliance disciple!

  As these three Righteous Alliance disciples stepped forward, everyone waited with bated breath. Even Wang Chong couldn’t help but watch.

  Young Master Qingyang gently smiled as he walked up to the three Righteous Alliance disciples.

  “Alliance Lord Song, there’s no need to choose this disciple. If I’m not wrong, his lesser Sanyang meridian from the Quchi point all the way up to his neck has been injured, and it was by some extremely tyrannical fire energy. He can’t raise his arm above his shoulder. And, if my eyes don’t deceive me, he’s been secretly cultivating the Hundred Meridian Divine Art, but because he was too impatient, his Fengfu point and his Du meridian starting at his third vertebra and extending downward half an inch have been injured, the energy and blood clotting. This is a hidden injury.

  “Although it normally won’t reveal itself, during battle, when energy is maximally circulated, it will immediately cause disarray in one’s Stellar Energy. In addition, every night, at the Zi Period, he will feel an intense pain from the Tianshu point on his stomach that will awaken him from his sleep. This kind of martial artist is already not at his full strength. How can he serve as an appropriate challenger?” Young Master Qingyang said.

  Bang!

  While the others were still trying to understand what
was going on, the Righteous Alliance expert Young Master Qingyang was referring to paled in shock, his eyes widening, and it looked like he had seen a ghost.

  Putting aside the other matters, very few people knew that he had been secretly cultivating the Hundred Meridian Divine Art to strengthen himself, perhaps not even the alliance lord, but this young man had seen through everything. Moreover, the symptoms of incorrectly cultivating the Hundred Meridian Divine Art would manifest differently in each person. But this youth had even managed to detect that he would feel an intense pain from his Tianshu point on his left abdomen every day at the Zi Period. It was simply inconceivable!

  Could a person so thoroughly understand martial arts that they could even predict what would happen to a martial artist a few hours later?

  This had far exceeded his understanding of martial arts!

  On the other side, Song Yuanyi and Xie Guangting said nothing, but their eyes flashed.

  So little time had passed that the Five Ancestor Alliance probably did not know that the Righteous Alliance had been attacked by those men in black, nor could this young man.

  But he had clearly managed to identify the trait of the martial arts used by those men in black as if he had seen it with his own eyes. There was nothing simple about such a feat.

  Everyone instantly changed the way they looked at this young man. If they hadn’t believed in his words before, they now believed that eighty percent of what he said was true. These were not conclusions that any ordinary person could draw.

  Chapter 1373 - The Conceited Young Master Qingyang!

  Chapter 1373: The Conceited Young Master Qingyang!

  Translated by: Hypersheep325

  Edited by: Michyrr

  On the other side, the Black Yin Ancestor sinisterly smiled. When he had first encountered this pair of master and guard, he had had his doubts, but now that this youth had shown his hand, all the Black Yin Ancestor’s worries had been laid to rest.

  Brat! You’re quite bold to actually try and deceive this old ancestor. I’d like to see just who you really are!

  The Black Yin Ancestor stared at Wang Chong and wickedly laughed in his mind.

  Wang Chong remained silent, but his eyebrows slightly rose. This Young Master Qingyang truly was rather capable, able to obtain so much information with just a single glance. Not even Wang Chong was capable of such a thing. But he quickly calmed back down, maintaining his relaxed and confident appearance. He had a completely different style of instruction from Young Master Qingyang, but in the end, they achieved the same result. Young Master Qingyang had his advantages, but Wang Chong had his own things that his counterpart could not do.

  Song Yuanyi said nothing. He waved his hand behind him, having that Righteous Alliance expert with the hidden injuries withdraw and switching him out with another.

  “Yon Young Master, do you have any other objections?”

  Song Yuanyi looked at the young man, for the first time taking the initiative to speak with Young Master Qingyang.

  “None!”

  “Then begin!” Song Yuanyi lightly said.

  Without further remark, Young Master Qingyang turned around and began to size up the Five Ancestor Alliance disciple behind him.

  “Display all the martial arts you know for me.”

  “Yes, Young Master!”

  The disciple agreed and swiftly began to fulfill Young Master Qingyang’s requests. He performed the techniques slowly and did not use any Stellar Energy. But after using only twenty percent of the martial arts he knew, he heard a voice at his ear.

  “It’s enough!” Young Master Qingyang slightly raised his head and indifferently said, “In a little while, listen to my orders. Do whatever I tell you to and perform any technique I say. Take note: I demand that you use only one move to defeat your first opponent!”

  Swoosh!

  The crowd fell into an uproar at these words. The Five Ancestor Alliance disciple first looked at the Black Yin Ancestor and the Myriad Ghost Ancestor, and then he looked at the crowd, his face fraught with unease.

  “But I, I… I’m afraid that…”

  The Five Ancestor Alliance consisted of evil path disciples, all of them unreasonable in conduct and incredibly arrogant with their words. But no matter how brash he was, he also understood the gap between him and his opponent.

  He also recognized this Righteous Alliance disciple on the other side. His nickname was ‘Five Willow Step’, and he was extremely fast, his martial arts of a much higher level. Owing to the relationship between the Five Ancestor Alliance and the Righteous Alliance, the two had exchanged blows many times. Of the ten times he had been wounded in those conflicts, it had been this Five Willow Step that had inflicted seven or eight of them, and it had already cast a psychological shadow on his heart. When their two factions fought, he would intentionally try to avoid him.

  This was fine in the past, but now, two ancestors were watching. If he failed, he would probably be killed.

  Young Master Qingyang finally opened his eyes and confidently proclaimed, “Relax! Just do as I say!”

  Although the Five Ancestor Alliance disciple was still incredibly reluctant, with so many people watching him, he could only gather his courage and step forward.

  “Begin!”

  The wind howled, and in a flash, countless people had focused their eyes on this pair. Until the Origin Immortal Mountain appeared, this was undoubtedly the most interesting thing going on.

  “Zhao Dayong, your leg recovered rather quickly! I let you escape at the Jing Prefecture’s Mount Wutong, but I’d like to see where you run off this time!”

  On the other side, ‘Five Willow Step’ coldly sneered.

  Anyone else would have been a suitable choice in Five Willow Step’s eyes, but this Zhao Dayong truly wasn’t anything worth talking about. In choosing such a weakling, Young Master Qingyang had only earned his disregard.

  The evil path disciple called Zhao Dayong went pale, but despite his rage, he did not dare retort. The martial arts world emphasized strength above all, and without the strength to back it up, words were meaningless. If his opponent was stronger, then no matter how dissatisfied he was, he could only swallow his pride.

  The Black Yin Ancestor, having already lost his patience, firmly ordered, “Cut the chatter! Begin already!”

  Thwish!

  The Black Yin Ancestor had barely spoken when that expert nicknamed ‘Five Willow Step’ shot forward, leaving a blur behind him. He was incredibly fast and incredibly strong, and his first move was to use his strongest skill.

  “Five Steps to Snatch Life!”

  He had heard loud and clear the conversation between Young Master Qingyang and Zhao Dayong just now, and he was enraged that Young Master Qingyang had said that he would have Zhao Dayong defeat him in a single blow, so he showed no mercy. This ‘Five Steps to Snatch Life’ was a technique he had comprehend through his own understandings. There were five steps in total, and with each step, his Stellar Energy would get stronger and stronger. When he made the fifth step, his speed and strength both reached their maximum, far exceeding his original level of power.

  One step, two steps, three steps… When he reached the third step, a young and proud voice suddenly called out.

  “Now is the moment! Kan position, Little Ghost Offering Blade!”

  Zhao Dayong’s entire body was tense, and he almost instantly responded to these words, thrusting his saber at the Kan position. Plush! Saber plunged into flesh, and hot blood splashed onto his face.

  Bang!

  Cries of alarm came from the crowd as if the inconceivable had taken place. Zhao Dayong raised his head and saw Five Willow Step right in front of him. The saber in Zhao Dayong’s hands had already sunk half its length into Five Willow Step’s left abdomen, and blood was pouring out of the wound. Five Willow Step’s eyes were wide open, his face stricken with shock and disbelief at the fact that he had lost to Zhao Dayong, lost in a single blow, and even lost to the most ordina
ry technique, that Little Ghost Offering Blade.

  Whether in the righteous path or the evil path, this was a rudimentary technique that usually wasn’t even worth using.

  “How could this be?!”

  Zhao Dayong was even more astounded than Five Willow Step. No one knew more than he did that he had truthfully done nothing at all. He had only done as Young Master Qingyang had said, thrusting his saber to the side, but this had been the result. This was simply unbelievable!

  Zhao Dayong almost instinctively turned to Young Master Qingyang behind him, his eyes brimming with awe and respect.

  “Withdraw,” Song Yuanyi suddenly said, his eyes on the Black Yin Ancestor.

  “Luo Qiyin, your man won.”

  Pa! Pa!

  Song Yuanyi flicked his finger, sending two bolts of energy through the air. The first one snapped Zhao Dayong’s saber with a clang while the other flew into Five Willow Step’s body and rapidly stemmed his blood loss and stabilized his energy.

  “Take him away!”

  Song Yuanyi waved a hand. Immediately, two Righteous Alliance experts flew forward and helped Five Willow Step off the field.

  At this moment, all the Righteous Alliance disciples were dumbfounded, staring in shock at the young man across from them.

  When they first heard the Black Yin Ancestor claim that this youth was Young Master Qingyang, they thought that he was joking, that the Five Ancestor Alliance was using this matter to attack the Righteous Alliance. But now, the situation was entirely different.

  This was someone who could instruct an early-stage Profound Martial expert in defeating a middle-stage Profound Martial expert. This alone made the young man similar to Wang Chong.

  The second Righteous Alliance expert quickly stepped forward.

  This was a high-tier Profound Martial expert, even stronger than Five Willow Step.

  “Little Ghost Picks Peaches!

  “Little Ghost Offering Blade!”

  The same Little Ghost Offering Blade, though preceded this time by a Little Ghost Picks Peaches, felled the second Righteous Alliance expert as well. As he fell to the ground, his eyes were still wide open in disbelief.