Ling Han’s eyes froze over. He asked, “With such a cheap mouth, are you not afraid you will attract trouble for your clan?”
This was a profligate young master who looked to be in his twenties. He was merely in the Spiritual Ocean Tier yet had the arrogance that said that “the heavens may be greatest, the earth may be number two, but I am number three”.
“You damn brat, do you know who I am?” the spoilt young mnster said arrogantly, “My surname is Sun.”
“Oh, Grandson 1 .” Ling Han nodded.
“F***!” The profligate young master was infuriated, and he immediately leapt up in anger. This young man was really demeaning him too much, wasn’t he?
“Young Master Sun, don’t get mad. He’s only a country bumpkin! Furthermore, this place is the Spirit Treasures Pavilion, and it would not be proper to make a move here.” Someone immediately came up to mediate. It was a friend of the spoilt young master.
The spoilt young master gave a humph, and with a flourish of his sleeve, he said, “Consider yourself lucky. Otherwise, I would have skinned you alive!”
Ling Han shook his head. It would be over and done with if he just used a finger to pierce to death such a piece of trash. Anyways, there were already uncountable people targeting a Heaven Grade alchemist like him, so he was not afraid if there was another one or two added to the bunch.
“The Five Dragons and Twin Phoenixes are here!”
“It really is them!”
“This aura is really too amazing!”
It was at this moment that a sudden commotion arose among the crowd. Everyone turned to look behind—a group of seven people was striding over. There were a total of five men and two women, and all of them looked to be only in their mid-twenties. Yet, every one of them seemed like giants among men; furthermore, they were all in the Flower Blossom Tier!
The middle state was really deserving of its reputation. There were actually so many Flower Blossom Tier cultivators below thirty years of age. And this was only Million Treasures City, and not ancient great sect like the Heaven’s Sword Sect and the Cloud Phoenix Sect. Who knew how many powerful prodigies and geniuses these sects had?
The Five Dragons and Twin Phoenixes were the seven most outstanding people of the younger generation in Million Treasures City. They were all members of the great clans of the city. If that was not the case, without sufficient cultivation resources, no matter how much of a genius you were, there was no way you would be able to break through to the Flower Blossom Tier before thirty years old.
These seven people walked forwards, unafraid and upright. Every single one of them exuded a bearing of unmatchable confidence.
“Yi?” One of the Dragons spotted Ling Han, and could not help but look surprised. “I didn’t think that there would actually be such a young person who is already in the Flower Blossom Tier? Haha, brat, become my follower.”
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“What? Jia Zhang actually wants to take in this young man as a follower?”
“This brat has really gotten a big break!”
“Jia Zhang’s father is Grandmaster Kang’s youngest disciple, and he’s rumored to be shockingly talented in alchemy. His future accomplishments would be immeasurable!”
“Which Grandmaster Kang?”
“Haha, in Million Treasures City, who else would dare refer to himself as Grandmaster Kang?”
“Could he be the Heaven Grade alchemist, Kang Zi Shi, Grandmaster Kang?”
“Naturally!”
The masses released exclamations of shock; a considerable number actually directed envious looks at Ling Han. If he could become Jia Zhang’s follower, then there would be no longer any need for him to worry about obtaining alchemical pills. One had to know that there were an unknown number of people here who wanted desperately to become Jia Zhang’s followers, but the latter would not even look at them.
Even the profligate from before could not help but feel extreme envy. Though his background was not too bad, but it was incomparable to Jia Zhang. If one was alike a dragon, then it was already very kind to compare the other to a dog.
All eyes looked at Ling Han, and no matter how they pondered, there was no chance that Ling Han would reject the offer.
Ling Han cast an eye on Jia Zhang, and said with a smile, “Are you sure you’re qualified enough for me to follow you?”
“Hahahaha!” Jia Zhang laughed loudly. “Young man, you are able to break through to the Flower Blossom Tier at such a young age, and this is indeed a commendable feat. However, from the Flower Blossom Tier onwards, there are pitifully few natural treasures that will have supplementary effects for you; you can only depend on the alchemical pills concocted by high grade alchemists.
“And my father is the disciple of a Heaven Grade alchemist. So, don’t you think that I’m qualified enough for you to follow me?”
This was indeed a fact. Before the Flower Blossom Tier, alchemical pills were more commonly used for recovery and healing, but from the Flower Blossom Tier onwards, alchemical pills would really become supplementary items that no cultivator could go without.
How tremendously difficult a feat it was to comprehend the natural Dao of this world. However, high grade alchemists were capable of extracting the natural essence from medicinal ingredients and transform them into patterns—a kind of consciousness—that would allow a cultivator to have better comprehension and increase the advancement rate of one’s cultivation.
Ling Han laughed, and said, “I see you have already broken through to the Flower Blossom Tier before thirty, so you can barely be considered a genius. In the future, you may follow by my side and be a manservant.”
Pu!
Everyone choked. This brat was really too mad, wasn’t he? He actually wanted one of the Five Dragons, Jia Zhang, to follow him? Where had he gotten such confidence to say something like that?
Jia Zhang had not foreseen this, either. He had already revealed his background, but Ling Han was not the slightest bit moved. He could not help but feel slightly stunned.
“Hahahaha, Jia Zhang, you’ve been beaten, haven’t you?” One of the other Five Dragons laughed.
“That’s right. Usually, just because you have a lot of alchemical pills, you always throw them in everyone’s faces, and now, you’ve finally thrown them at a wall of iron, haven’t you?”
Jia Zhang could not help but look angry, and said, “Wall of iron? At most it’s only a wall of wood.”
“He’s only about twenty, and is already in the second layer of the Flower Blossom Tier. And you still think he’s a wall of wood?” One of the others continued to fan the flames, enjoying chaotic situations.
Jia Zhang felt humiliated, and countered, “He’s only in the second layer of the Flower Blossom Tier. I would be able to suppress him single-handedly.”
“Jia Zhang, you, too, are only in the second layer of the Flower Blossom Tier,” someone pointed out.
“Ha, the cultivation level may be the same, but there could be a massive gulf in battle prowess. And my battle prowess is… seven Stars!” Jia Zhang declared arrogantly.
To be able to have battle prowess surpassing five Stars, this was indeed a very terrifying thing. Usually, one with battle prowess surpassing two Stars could already be considered a genius, and five Stars was definitely a super-genius.
“Forget it!” one of the Twin Phoenixes, a girl in green robes, advised. She was extremely beautiful, not the slightest bit inferior to Liu Yu Tong or Li Si Chan. She looked like a deity with her extremely beautiful looks and touching temperament. “The auction is about to begin. It’s best to enter earlier.”
“For Miss Li’s sake, I’ll spare you this once.” Jia Zhang humphed.
Meanwhile, the other girl in red robes was a quirky one. She waved a hand at Ling Han and said, “I see that you’re waiting here, so you must not have an invitation, right? Why don’t you come with us? Our private room is big, anyway, so having one
more person would be fine.”
Ling Han laughed, and said, “Thank you for the invitation, but I, as a human, would prefer not to sit with cats or dogs to avoid downgrading my own status.” When he said ‘cats or dogs’, his eyes were focused on Jia Zhang, and the meaning between the lines could be no more obvious.
He was comparing Jia Zhang to an animal.
This time, not only Jia Zhang was driven furious, even the other six people were slightly displeased. They were part of Jia Zhang’s group, so didn’t that mean that they, too, were cats and dogs?
“Brat, watch your mouth!” one of them rebuked.
“Oh?” Ling Han was completely indifferent. “You all came here, and the first thing that pops out of your mouth is to make me your follower. Is that reasonable? Then call your fathers here. I’m in a good mood today, so I will take them in as my followers.”
“How, how dare you!” the Five Dragons shouted simultaneously. Had this young man lost his mind? Which one of their fathers wasn’t an important, influential figure? This young man was practically seeking his own demise.
Ling Han humphed, and said, “You feel displeased? Then, before you open your mouths, think carefully if your words would offend someone. There are some people in this world that you cannot afford to offend.”
Mad! He was really mad!
In front of the Five Dragons and Twin Phoenixes, he actually said that he was someone that they could not afford to offend, but who the f*** was he?! It could be claimed that these seven people were practically representatives of the seven strongest parties in this Million Treasures City. Added together, even the city would have to give them face.
Ling Han was only twenty years old, and such a young man himself was definitely no one too important. In terms of background, there was no way he could compare to the Five Dragons and Twin Phoenixes, so where had he gotten such self-confidence from?
One could only say that he was too mad.
“Could it be that the seven of us have not been out for too long a time that people have already forgotten our power?” one of them asked coldly. His name was Lai Qin Yun, one of the Five Dragons. The forefather of his clan was in the Deity Transformation Tier, and his background was also the worst off amongst their group. However, his personal talent in martial arts was extremely high, and he was also the one who took his place as one of the Five Dragons most seriously.
In comparison, the green-clad girl was kinder. She merely frowned slightly, and said, “Forget it, he’s merely a mad man.” Her name was Li Fei Yun. The Li Clan was an old great clan in Million Treasures City. They had a powerful Heaven Tier cultivator in their ranks, but in the last few years, there were rumors that this old monster had already fossilized, though no one knew the truth of the matter.
Meanwhile, the red-clad girl was obviously one who liked to stir up trouble. She immediately pulled Li Fei Yun back and said, “Big Sister Yun, this brat’s pride is sky-high, so let us just see if he can back it up.”
Her name was Ding Ban Xiang, and she, too, was a member of a great clan that possessed a Heaven Tier cultivator.
The Five Dragons glared at Ling Han simultaneously. All of them were giants among men and rulers of martial arts. The combined appearance of all five of them formed a terrifying pressure. Any normal cultivator in the Flower Blossom Tier would probably have shaky legs in the face of such pressure, not even being able to remain standing.
Ling Han looked like he felt nothing. These five people were indeed very strong, but they were far from the level of Yao Hui Yue and Xuanyuan Zi Guang. Even compared to Lang Wu Xin and Fei Hong, they were still far inferior, and they wanted to suppress him? What kind of joke was that?
“Are you playing a game of crossing your eyes?” he asked, smiling.
This brat was really mad; at this point, he actually still dared to tease them.
“Brat, speak your name!” Jia Zhang shouted.
“What, do you guys want to beat me up?” Ling Han asked in surprise.
“People with cheap mouths naturally should be properly disciplined!” Lai Qin Yun said coldly.
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Tension thickened. All Five Dragons came from prestigious backgrounds. If it was a direct confrontation with the Spirit Treasures Pavilion, they would definitely not dare to do so, but if it was simply thrashing someone at the main entrance to the Pavilion, they believed that the Spirit Treasures Pavilion would not cling onto this fact and make things difficult.
They were confident that the Pavilion would at least give them this amount of allowance.
The Five Dragons had their attention closely focused on Ling Han, their eyes icy cold. This young man spoke to them with such insolence, and made them extremely displeased.
Ling Han placed his hands behind his back and said with a smile, “You want to make a move? Then you’d best consider carefully. Later, even if you kneel in front of me begging for mercy, it would have to depend on my mood.”
“Hahahaha!” The Five Dragons all sneered. Did this young man have absolutely no concept of how the word ‘death’ was written?
The observers all laughed loudly as well. They had seen many madly arrogant people, but it was the first time they had seen someone like Ling Han who was so arrogant when he had absolutely no basis to back up his confidence.
“How reckless!” Fei Zhang moved. They were the mighty Five Dragons, so naturally, they would not join forces and gang up on a single person.
However, to be able to qualify as one of the Five Dragons as an exception of the norm, his prowess was naturally extraordinary. One of his hands shot out. Tightly woven patterns appeared, then transformed into a divine light of gold, as if it was not a human arm, but the golden claw of a divine dragon.
Ling Han seemed to be stunned as he displayed absolutely no reaction at all.
Everyone else shook their heads. When they saw him act so high and mighty, they had initially thought that he might have some great prowess to back it up. But now, it actually seemed that he would not be able to withstand even a single blow.
The dragon claw approached, and a terrifying pressure rolled out. The skin of a lower level Flower Blossom Tier cultivator could even simply rip apart from the mere pressure.
Ling Han did not move a hand… no, he moved his foot. He shot a direct kick right into Fei Zhang’s face.
The timing of this kick was very meticulous as it actually just happened to avoid Fei Zhang’s attack. Furthermore, if Fei Zhang had taken Ling Han a bit more seriously, he would definitely not have delivered such a close-up attack, or at least, he would not have been so rash right from the very first strike. However, very unluckily, he was too careless, and thought it would be a very easy thing for him to strike Ling Han down. As a result, this kick was directly planted on his face.
How could an arm be longer than a leg? Thus, before Fei Zhang even got close to Ling Han, he was solidly kicked by Ling Han’s stretched out foot.
Fei Zhang gave a soft humph and quickly tilted his head, narrowly dodging this kick. He was, after all, one of the Five Dragons and one of the most skilled of the younger generation, so he could not possibly be that weak. He took multiple steps back, a burning ache on his face. He could not help but extend a hand to touch his face, and to his shock, he realized that there were actually traces of blood on his hand.
Though he had dodged Ling Han’s kick, it was as if the strong wind generated by the kick was as sharp as a blade. He did not cultivate Body of Iron Sheet, so how could he possibly get off lightly when the aftermath of an attack on the level of the Flower Blossom Tier rubbed against him?
Hiss!
Everyone could not help but inhale sharply. One of the Five Dragons, Fei Zhang, actually experienced a loss at a single strike. Though it was merely a scrape, and had absolutely no effect on his battle prowess, but amongst their age range, how many people were capable of injuring Fei Zhang?
Even if Fei Zhang had been c
areless, Ling Han’s individual skill would have to be strong enough to be able to successfully perform such a feat.
“I’ve really underestimated you!” Fei Zhang rubbed clean the remaining traces of blood on his face, his eyes slightly red. He felt true anger now.
Yet Ling Han said, “On the other hand, I did not underestimate you. You really do only have this little ability.”
F***, that was really too cocky!
Not only Fei Zhang was enraged, the other Four Dragons could not tolerate this, either. The Five Dragons were a whole group, and Fei Zhang being demeaned was equivalent to their own level being pulled down along with him. This naturally made them even more displeased and unhappy.
“Again!” Fei Zhang said coldly. He had learnt his lesson this time; he would not engage in a close-quarters combat with Ling Han again. Cultivators cultivated their own Qi, and that was truly their strongest weapon. How could he display the power of his Qi to its maximum capacity at close range?
“Grandmaster Ling!” It was at this moment that an exclamation was heard from the top of the staircase. Teng, teng, teng . A short, round fatty raced down the steps. This man was really too fat, so fat that one could barely even see his legs. Thus, everyone felt as if they were watching a meatball rolling down the stairs.
This undoubtedly would be a very hilarious sight, but not one person actually laughed, because this was a big shot of the Spirit Treasures Pavilion—his figure had a high grade and his status too was high grade.
The Seventh Pavilion Master, Ying Xue Yang.
The Spirit Treasures Pavilion of the middle state had a total of nine Pavilion Masters. These were really important characters, qualified to be on equal footing with the sect leaders and grand elders of the ancient great clans. Furthermore, all the nine pavilion masters were in the Heaven Tier!
Did the Spirit Treasures Pavilion not have a powerful Shattering Void Tier cultivator on hand? According to rumors, yes, but none have ever seen him before.
A high and mighty cultivator of the Heaven Tier would actually come forwards personally to receive a “Grandmaster Ling”; then what kind of existence would this Grandmaster Ling have to be?
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