Ao Xing Lai’s whole face was covered with blood which had blurred his eyes, and his determination was also wavering. If anyone had received multiple punches by an opponent within the same cultivation level, how could they not be dizzy and have blurred eyes?
Everyone understood his current condition. Even if Ao Xing Lai, too, took some alchemical pills, it would still take some time for the medicine to take effect. Furthermore, medicine was only medicine; it was not a divine pill.
This was confusing to everyone, because Ling Han was obviously more severely wounded, yet he was still very active now. Though he was completely bathed in blood, his condition was better than Ao Xing Lai’s by an unknown number of times.
Could it be that the pills that this brat had taken were really divine pills?
“I will not lose, I will not!” Ao Xing Lai’s feet stumbled, determination was keeping him upright. He definitely could not allow himself to pass out. He was Ao Xing Lai, and he definitely could not lose against an opponent of the same cultivation level.
That kind of fighting spirit unavoidably made everyone impressed. It was one matter whether or not Ao Xing Lai was a likable person, but this stubborn willpower was something worth praise, and even Ling Han nodded internally in approval.
However, they were on different sides. Furthermore, this involved the Thunder Battle Armor, so he could not possibly stop.
“For the sake of your fighting spirit!” Ling Han once again delivered a punch. Ao Xing Lai had trouble even standing, so how could he possibly dodge or even parry this attack? Instantly, Ling Han’s fist crashed into his chest. “I shall gift you with a dignified loss.”
Peng, Ao Xing Lai crashed heavily onto the ground, and was completely unable to get back up again.
No matter how strong his determination was, there was a limit to it.
The nine successive battles had ended, and Ling Han had a result of nine victories and zero losses, so he was undoubtedly the champion.
“Very good. Now, you may all return to rest, and tomorrow, we shall award the prizes,” that elite of Spiritual Pedestal Tier announced. He was also relieved. Though Ao Xing Lai was very severely thrashed, he ultimately did not suffer any heavy injuries that he could not recover from.
“Haha, Junior Brother Han, come, come, come. Come and play at my place!” Yue Kai Yu immediately approached and offered Ling Han an invitation.
Putting aside the fact that Ling Han had given him three bottles of Return Origin Pills, just the fact that Ling Han had defeated all Seven Sons of Ao Family was enough to make Yue Kai Yu treat him as a friend.
Ling Han said, “Let me clean myself up a bit before I head over to Senior Brother Yue’s place.”
“Of course! Of course!” Yue Kai Yu quickly nodded. Ling Han was completely covered in blood at the moment and cut a very sorry figure, so he naturally had to take a bath and put on clean clothes.
Ling Han returned to his accomodations at the Rising Sword Peak and directly entered the Black Tower. He cleaned himself up and ate a stalk of one-hundred-year ginseng to nourish his body before heading to look for Yue Kai Yu. He wanted to probe for some information about his mother from the latter.
Chapter 348
Chapter 348: Worming Facts
Translator: _Dark_Angel_ Editor: Kurisu
Yue Kai Yu was very enthusiastic, and had prepared drinks in his personal courtyard early on. The moment he saw Ling Han, he said, “Junior Brother Han, quick, please, please, please, you’re not going home till you’re drunk!”
Ling Han laughed. “If I’m drunk, what do I do if I don’t remember the way back?”
“Then just stay for the night!” Yue Kai Yu said without the slightest bit of hesitation.
“This place that Brother Yue is staying, tsk, tsk, tsk!” Ling Han seemed to be very envious. This was not the Rising Sword Peak, but rather Halting Peak—among the seven peaks, it could be ranked second in terms of having the most abundant Spiritual Qi.
Naturally, only extremely talented members of the younger generation like Yue Kai Yu and the Seven Sons of Ao Family were qualified to stay here, whereas the elites of the Spiritual Pedestal, the Flower Blossom, and the Spiritual Infant Tiers could stay on White Cloud Peak, which had the densest Spiritual Qi.
“With the talent that Junio Brother Han has, it would be a piece of cake for you to get your own courtyard on the Halting Peak.” Yue Kai Yu patted Ling Han’s shoulder. “Come, come, come. Drink! Drink!”
Yue Kai Yu’s courtyard was very quiet. Aside from a single scholar boy, there was no one else, which was proof enough that Yue Kai Yu had his complete focus on martial arts, without any other unnecessary thoughts.
From this aspect, Ao Feng was indeed a genius. He was an absolute womanizer, yet his cultivation could soar all the way up to the Spiritual Pedestal Tier, and now, he already had one foot in the Flower Blossom Tier, which was indeed something to be impressed about.
Ling Han had the intention to worm information about his mother out of Yue Kai Yu, so he began to engage in a drinking competition with the latter. If he managed to get the latter drunk, then it would naturally be easy for him to ask his questions.
“Come, I’ll have a cup and you have one too, and whoever does not drain his cup is a bastard!” Ling Han declared, raising his cup in a toast.
“You have one, and I’ll have two!” Yue Kai Yu said very generously. However, without waiting too long, he was already having a headache, and his body was swaying. He was already half-drunk, and there was completely no need for Ling Han to encourage him to drink as he had already filled his own wine cup continuously.
‘Cousin, so sorry!’ Ling Han thought to himself. The wine that he had drank had directly entered the Black Tower, so naturally, no matter how much he drank, there was no way he could be drunk. When he saw Yue Kai Yu was already drunk and his eyes had turned hazy, he asked, “Senior Brother DiscipleYue, don’t you have any siblings?”
“N-none. My dad only had me!” Yue Kai Yu said stammeringly.
“Could it be that your grandfather also only had your father as a single child?” Ling Han asked deliberately.
“I still have an aunt.”
Light flashed through Ling Han’s eyes, and he continued to ask, “Then does your aunt not have any children?”
My aunt, my aunt committed a huge crime, and has been imprisoned by my grandfather at, at…” Yue Kai Yu shook his head, as if he was remembering and struggling at the same time.
“Imprisoned where?” Ling Han asked as he filled another cup of wine for Yue Kai Yu.
After he had drank a few cups, Yue Kai Yu was grinning dizzily, and said to Ling Han, “Junior Brother Ling, what cultivation technique have you practiced? Why is it that I suddenly see three, and then suddenly… there’s two of you? Hahaha, why have you gone back to becoming only one of you?”
Ling Han sighed. He couldn’t feel offended by a drunk man! He used a sliver of his divine sense of the Heaven Tier and asked sternly, “Where is your aunt now?”
Yue Kai Yu instantly stiffened, his body frozen; confusion appeared in his eyes as he said, “My aunt is currently imprisoned at—”
Peng!
It was right at this moment that a loud bang was heard, and the main doors were heavily kicked open. A slender young girl strode in. “Where is Han Ling, get out here!”
With such a commotion, Yue Kai Yu had mostly sobered from his drunken state in an instant. His eyes swept over the intruder and he could not help but frown. He asked, “Ao Zi Tai, what are you doing here?”
Another with the surname Ao? Most probably, this was one of Ao Feng’s daughters.
Ling Han, too, turned to look at the young girl. She looked to be in her early twenties and looked very beautiful, not the slightest bit inferior to Liu Yu Tong and Li Si Chan. However, the arrogance in her expression made her seem as if she could fly at any moment. Such a woman… no matter how beautiful she was, Ling Han could not be moved by her beauty, what more when she was the daughter of his f
oe.
However, Ao Zi Tai’s cultivation was actually already in the Spiritual Ocean Tier, and considering her age, this was very surprising. She had beauty and a high talent in martial arts, so no wonder she was overwhelmingly arrogant.
“Yue Kai Yu, so he’s Han Ling?” Ao Zi Tai did not look the slightest bit guilty for barging in by force. Instead, her tone was extremely overbearing as she pointed a finger at Ling Han.
“He is indeed Junior Brother Han. However, what do you mean by entering without an invitation?” Yue Kai Yu asked darkly, flames of anger burning in his expression.
No matter who it was that had his home forcibly trespassed by someone else, he would naturally be angry.
“What do I mean?” Ao Zi Tai humphed and said, “This guy injured a few of my brothers, I want him to kneel in front of them in apology!”
“Nonsense!” Yue Kai Yu slammed a hand heavily onto the table and rebuked, “Junior Brother Han had defeated those brothers of yours in a fair battle, and this is something that is publicly known. Yet you come and make trouble here, this will only discredit the reputation of the Ao Family.”
“I don’t care!” Ao Zi Tai shook her head, her expression furious. “I only know that this man has injured my six brothers and caused them to be humiliated. I want him to crawl all the way to the quarters of my seven brothers and kowtow sufficiently in front of their doors to beg for the forgiveness of my seven brothers.”
Yue Kai Yu was angry and also wanted to laugh at the same time. He said, “Are you a kid that has yet to grow up to actually say such childish words?! Go back quickly and don’t make others laugh at you or increase your own humiliation!”
“Yue Kai Yu, are you going to help me or not?” Ao Zi Tai asked coldly.
“Heng, I have no intention to accompany you in your wilfulness!” Yue Kai Yu refused decisively.
Ao Zi Tai once again turned to look at Ling Han and said, “Han, I’ll give you one last chance. Immediately crawl over and kowtow in front of my seven brothers in apology!”
“Does the Ao Clan keep producing these women that have problems with their brains?” Ling Han asked Yue Kai Yu.
“You, you dare to insult me?” Ao Zi Tai was stunned. This outrageously bold criminal was really too despicable.
“Brother Han, it’s best not to offend her.” Yue Kai Yu neared Ling Han, and said in a low voice, “She is Attendant Ao Feng’s most beloved daughter, and she herself is very beautiful with very high talent in martial arts. As a result, there is a large number of young people in our sect that admires her.
In other words, once you offend her, that would be equivalent to offending a majority of the younger members of the sect, and that would be a scenario where your enemies would be everywhere.”
No wonder she was so arrogant and behaved even more egotistically than the Seven Sons of Ao Family.
Ling Han smiled calmly and said, “Get out of here now. Otherwise, I won’t just insult you, I will smack your face as well! You should remember clearly the looks of those brothers of yours, so it couldn’t possibly be that you want to share the same appearance that they have, right?”
“Don’t the two of you regret this!” Ao Zi Tai said coldly. Then, she reached out and ripped her own clothing. With a few tears, there had already appeared a few holes in her sleevs and her pants, and her fair skin could clearly be seen.
She ruffled her hair, then screamed out suddenly, “Molest! Molest!”
An elite of Spiritual Ocean Tier was already very much stronger than an ordinary person, and though the voice of one could not be described as thunderous, it was not that far from that level either. Instantly, her voice had spread throughout the whole peak, and even people on some of the nearer peaks heard her.
Yue Kai Yu instantly understood what trick she was playing, and could not help but wear a darkened expression, looking extremely furious.
Chapter 349
Chapter 349: False Accusation
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Within mere moments, a considerable number of people raced over, and all surged forth into the courtyard.
“Junior Sister Zi Tai, are you all right?”
“Who molested you? Tell me, I will tear him apart!”
“To dare to have intentions even on Junior Sister Zi Tai, he’s really tired of living!”
They exclaimed one by one. Those that were qualified to live on this peak were at least in the Spiritual Ocean Tier, and there were even some disciples in their thirties and forties who had already broken through to the Spiritual Pedestal Tier. Among them, there were some that could possibly break through to the Flower Blossom Tier, or even the Spiritual Infant Tier.
Ao Zi Tai was indeed very popular. Just one shout from her, and so many people had immediately raced over. Some of them had even been in seclusion yet still ran over without a care.
Beautiful women were a limited resource in the first place, and there were even fewer beauties that had considerable cultivation levels, what more when Ao Zi Tai was unusually beautiful.
Ao Zi Tai was indeed an excellent actress. Her previous arrogant, cold, and merciless expression was completely withdrawn from her face. She had fallen and sat on the ground, with tears coating her face, and sobbed. “They wanted to molest me, and force me! Wu, wu, wu, I don’t want to live anymore!”
Hong , instantly, everyone’s rage was ignited, and they all glared furiously at Ling Han and Yue Kai Yu, looking like they wanted nothing more than to swallow the both of them whole and skin them alive.
However, there were still some that had not lost their senses, bewitched by Ao Zi Tai. Someone asked, “That’s not really possible, is it? In this kind of place?”
This was a place under the close supervision of the Winter Moon Sect, and any bit of disturbance sensed would immediately attract the attention of the elites of the sect.
“What’s so impossible about it? Or are you doubtful of Junior Sister Zi Tai’s words and her charm?” However, these doubts were immediately drowned out. “Perhaps these two had the same thoughts, and that’s why they were so outrageously bold to dare use brute force here!”
“Kill them!” Quite a number had eyes red with anger.
“Cough!” Yue Kai Yu stood up and said, “Senior and Junior Brothers, you all are being too arbitrary. Just because of one word from her, you do not care about what the truth is?”
“Hehe, others may not dare, but if it was Senior Brother Yue…” someone said.
When the others heard this, they nodded respectively. Yue Kai Yu was the great-grandson of Grand Elder Yue, and if he had indeed molested Ao Zi Tai, then as long as the Elder Patriarch of the Yue Clan was willing to make a bit of compromise, it was not an impossible thing for Yue Kai Yu to marry Ao Zi Tai in recompense.
When they thought this, a considerable number felt a layer of cold sweat accumulate on their bodies. Thank goodness they managed to get here in time.
Now, the majority had already lost their senses due to their overwhelming anger, and even if there were some who were still rational, they were in the minority.
“Apprehend the two of them and deal with them according to the rules of our sect!” they exclaimed, and one after another, they leaped out to take action.
“We can spare Yue Kai Yu, but Han Lin must be executed! What kind of wretched thing he is to dare to actually molest Junior Sister Ao Zi Tai!”
“That’s right, kill him!”
They were all extremely furious. Yue Kai Yu was a member of the Yue Clan and no one dared to kill him, but Ling Han was a different story. He was just a newbie that had just recently been taken into the sect, and even if he was killed, it was not advisable to offend the masses. How would the sect actually afford to punish all of them just for the sake of one single person?
Ao Zi Tai had naturally foreseen that would be the case, and that was why she had used such an underhanded scheme.
Ling Han shook his head. Against young men like them, beauty was indeed a po
werful weapon. A tiny trick like that was enough to turn these so-called geniuses into rash, hot-blooded fools; really, even if they were sold off, they’d be counting money for the person who had sold them off.
In truth, it was hard to blame them for it. These people had always admired Ao Zi Tai, and all of a sudden, they heard that their goddess had almost been defiled and raped—they were naturally ouraged. In the midst of rage, it was of course natural for them to lose the common sense that they should have.
He humphed lightly and exclaimed, “A bunch of idiots!”
He had instilled a sliver of intent of a Heaven Tier elite in this exclamation; there was not much force behind it, but it was enough to enter directly into the minds of every single one of them. Instantly, they all looked dazed, and calmed down from their fury.
Yi, there seemed to be something off with this; even if Yue Kai Yu intended to rape Ao Zi Tai, he should not have dragged Ling Han in as well.
Ling Han beckoned Yue Kai Yu over and signalled the latter to cooperate with him. Then, he said, “Take a look at the clothing on this woman…” With a chila , he began to tear at Yue Kai Yu’s clothes, which gave the latter a scare.
“If they had been torn by another, they should look like this!” Ling Han raised Yue Kai Yu’s arm. “But that woman’s clothing, hehe.” He paused a while, and continued, “Senior Brother Yue, tear your own sleeve.”
Yue Kai Yu finally understood what Ling Han wanted to do, and quickly nodded. With another chila , he tore open his other sleeve, and indeed, because the angle at which he exerted force was different, the resulting tear looked completely different.
Shua , everyone’s eyes instantly turned to stare at Ao Zi Tai.
They were all at least in the Spiritual Ocean Tier, so how could they be idiots? Just now, they had only been fooled because of Ao Zi Tai’s beauty, and had their reason overridden by anger, but with Ling Han’s reminder, they had all calmed down and begun to consider the matter seriously.
Attempted rape was, in the first place, an illogical thing, because this was Yue Kai Yu’s personal courtyard, so why had Ao Zi Tai appeared here? On the other hand, if it was Ao Zi Tai who was trying to frame them, everything would become logical.
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