Blue Phoenix

by Tinalynge

  Looking at these two it was obvious that Hui Yue would not choose Pei Feng. A person who already gave him a bad impression and made him feel uncomfortable. Pei Ze had done a lot for Hui Yue already, and he gave him a comfortable feeling, therefore, the decision was not hard. Making it sooner rather than later was for the best.

  Hearing Hui Yue's words, Pei Ze's expression went from cautious to excited. His eyebrows rose in surprise, and his eyes sparkled. Even a smile crept onto his lips, and he could almost not believe the words Hui Yue had said. Although he had to choose at some point, most experts would wait and see who would offer them the most benefits first. Hui Yue had completely ignored any kind of reward he might be able to get and instead he made his decision very suddenly.

  "This is great!" Pei Ze exclaimed with excitement and clasped Hui Yue's shoulder. "You made the best decision! If you are in need of cultivation resources, just come find me. I will do what I can to provide them for you," he said. "But first, let’s continue the tour of the premises so that you know where everything is."

  Although Pei Ze seemed to be treating Hui Yue slightly different than most of his other allies, Hui Yue was quite amazed at how good Pei Ze was at planning things. Within moments he had managed to find the most suitable direction around the mansion so that the most important places were visited first.

  They visited the medicinal garden where one could buy medicinal herbs. The sect had a variety of herbs for sale that had amazing healing properties, and even some that had soul strengthening properties that increased one’s Ancestral Worldpower.

  After visiting the medicinal garden, they entered the skills pavilion. It was a small pavilion where all the skills that the Youdu branch possessed were stored. This pavilion consisted of different levels. On the first level, any member of the Celestial Sword Sect could enter and learn the Ancestral Worldpower skills inside.

  The second level one could only enter if they had made a big contribution to the sect, and the final level was the hardest to enter; one could only enter if they had a head elder’s permission.

  The skills were all Ancestral Worldpower skills, and although they were all weaker than using the dao to fight, these Ancestral Worldpower skills were copies of daos and could be trained much easier than one could comprehend a dao. For this reason, many young Gods chose to learn Ancestral Worldpower skills before they started to comprehend the dao.

  Hui Yue had already comprehended two complete daos and was close to comprehending the dao of the sword as well. He was not in need of these Ancestral Worldpower skills.

  "A few Ancestral Worldpower skills are as powerful as a dao attack, but all these skills are at the main sect, and one needs to do something quite outstanding for the sect to be allowed to learn them. So far only a handful of experts, apart from the elders, have been allowed to learn them. The harder the skill, the more challenging it is to train in. Not many can succeed in learning these high-level skills. Even I have never been allowed to the third floor of any of the skill pavilions in either the main sect or the branch sects."

  Hui Yue was secretly astounded. Pei Ze was known as the most outstanding genius in the younger generation, only threatened by Pei Feng, and even he had not been given access to these abilities... Just what would one have to do to get access to those skills?

  These skills that were as strong as comprehending an entire dao path were simply too powerful for normal Gods to attempt to learn which was the reason the sect rarely let their disciples study them. Due to the power and dangers they involved, Hui Yue understood why the sect would safeguard them. Normally it would take quite a while for an expert to comprehend a full dao path and use it in combat, but there were some Ancestral Worldpower skills which were as powerful as a full dao path! They were easier to learn than a full dao path, and thus, were sought after by everyone. Even large sects like the Celestial Sword Sect were eager to get their hands on even more of these skills.

  "Oh well, considering how little I will be in the Celestial Sword Sect, I doubt I will ever make enough contributions to even visit the second level of the skills pavilion," Hui Yue laughed uncaringly. Although Ancestral Worldpower skills were interesting and tempting to Hui Yue, the speed he had used to comprehend daos was so outstanding that it might not be faster for him to train in these Ancestral Worldpower skills.

  Seeing Hui Yue not show any greed towards these Ancestral Worldpower skills, even after hearing how amazing they were, Pei Ze was rather shocked.

  "Tell me. As you're a new God, how can your first dao be the dao of space? As far as I know, it is one of the most challenging daos to master. I would have started with the dao of the sword or a dao of similar difficulty."

  Hui Yue could feel that Pei Ze was truly looking out for him, and he just smiled, "The dao of space is not the only dao I know," he answered honestly. "Although I will not to tell you exactly how many daos I have comprehended and what they are, I can say that I have faith in my own ability to fight Pei Feng. Even without the use of my Celestial Sword Sect’s wings."

  Pei Ze was at first shocked when he heard that Hui Yue had some degree of faith in himself, but after that, he started laughing.

  "You are considering the wings of the great roc to be the Celestial Sword Sect’s?" He asked with laughter in his voice as he shook his head, "Sorry, I keep forgetting that you did not grow up in our sect." Musing for a short while he looked at Hui Yue and started circling him, looking at him from every single angle.

  "To be honest, you have never actually learned anything about our sect right?" He asked shocked as it dawned upon him that Hui Yue was actually a new God from a small world; a world that never heard about the Celestial Sword Sect before.

  The more he looked at Hui Yue, the greater his smile became and finally he stopped circling him and shook his head.

  "I’ll tell you. You need to learn more than what the Fu brothers taught you on the way here," he said.

  "Come with me, let’s go to our rooms. I will show you which room belongs to you and then we will start the lessons. The more you understand, the more you will be able to use the power of our sect to your own advantage."

  Having said that a childish smile was evident on the face of Pei Ze as he led the way for Hui Yue to their room. Hui Yue was quite surprised when he noticed the childish smile on Pei Ze's face, and he could not help but chuckle himself. With a glance at Huli, who was seemingly oblivious to everything that had happened, Hui Yue decided to follow Pei Ze and hear what he had to say.

  Chapter 550 - Dining Hall

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  Chapter 550: Dining Hall

  Pei Ze was usually incredibly stoic in his behavior. He was proud and never spoke much with anyone, even the people who followed him saw him as the silent type of person who only spoke when necessary.

  Hui Yue, who was seated in Pei Ze's room, realized that this young man in front of him was actually not as silent as he might seem to others. It was just that he dared not open himself up to most people, nor did he dare to fully be himself as he was always being watched. But now when he was alone with Hui Yue in his room, Pei Ze had a great smile on his face and was constantly speaking.

  Pei Ze spoke about what it was like to grow up in a massive sect, and how one's talent was what determined how many resources one would get.

  Although they were all born as Gods, they had differing levels of power. This was not only because of their talent, but also because of the medicinal pills that they had consumed. There were pills which would strengthen their souls, allowing for them to consume more Ancestral Worldpower. There were pills which made it easier to comprehend the dao, much like the Pill of Clarity which Huli and Hui Yue had sold back in Skydragon Fortress, and there were pills which could boost one’s strength for a short amount of time. There were even pills which could replenish one’s Ancestral Worldpower during fights.

  The profound pearls that Pei Ze and Hui Yue had been gifted were pills which strengthened one's soul. They were some of the strongest medicin
al pills that a new God could consume, and they build a strong base for the soul to mature later on. Being gifted just five hundred was already enough to make quite a strong foundation, but to be gifted a thousand was enough to have an extraordinary foundation. There was no doubt that Pei Ze was incredibly excited, and after hearing about these pills, Hui Yue was also quite astonished. After hearing everything Pei Ze told him, he was grateful. It seemed that being the nephew of the patriarch held quite a few benefits.

  Speaking with Pei Ze, Hui Yue felt that this was the beginning of a great friendship. Pei Ze told him all about life in the Celestial Sword Sect, and it seemed that he had fully accepted him as an ally and friend. He told him about how one was expected to act, and how others looked at the direct descendants of the great roc.

  Huli, who had been by Hui Yue's side the entire time had long ago taken the shape of the small fox and was sleeping in Hui Yue's arms while he was speaking with Pei Ze.

  Seeing her sleeping comfortably, Pei Ze was amazed that Hui Yue had managed to get his hands on such an outstanding companion, but every time he asked about Hui Yue's past, the young man avoided the question. After a few probing questions, Pei Ze understood that Hui Yue was not willing to answer, so he stopped asking. Pei Ze was already incredibly happy that his contribution had given him a thousand profound pearls on top of the fact that he found the patriarch's long-lost nephew, a new powerful ally. Now the elders had a better impression of him, and he was so much closer to his goal all because of having stumbled upon Hui Yue at the City Lord’s banquet.

  Hui Yue was different from all of Pei Ze’s other supporters. Although he had decided to support Pei Ze, the young man Hui Yue had a place in the sect that even he was incapable of contending against. Hui Yue was a third generation disciple! He was not a normal disciple of the younger generation, and the older he became, the stronger he would be. The stronger he became, the more famous he would be.

  Pei Ze was not dumb; he already knew that Hui Yue would sooner or later rank as one of the top experts of the Celestial Sword Sect as long as he was alive. He had so many secrets like his dual bloodline, his understanding of the dao of space, soulforce, and from what Pei Ze had understood, he also had some other daos that none of them knew about yet. In short Hui Yue was a genius the likes the Celestial Sword Sect had not seen in a very long time.

  Pei Ze really felt like celebrating because such an expert had chosen to support him, but he also spent a lot of time warning Hui Yue about Pei Feng.

  Pei Feng truly was quite the ruthless individual. Originally there had been five candidates for the sect leader position but one after another the others had died.

  One had gotten sick, which was very rare for a God, while the others had died while doing missions for the Celestial Sword Sect.

  Every time they had died, Pei Feng had been out on his own missions, and no one could blame anything on him. If a descendant were to die outside the sect, the sect would do anything to get revenge especially when it was such outstanding youths like the two who had died, but no matter how much they searched, no culprit was found. It seemed as if they had just dropped dead and no cause of death could be found.

  Hui Yue listened to everything that Pei Ze told him and his heart turned cold. If Pei Feng was going to try and kill him, he was not going to succeed. Hui Yue had been in many battles previously; he had been in situations where just the smallest mistake would have been fatal, and he had gained much from these situations. If he were to fight Pei Feng, he would use his full power.

  Having spoken all the way until evening, Pei Ze said that it was time for them to enter the dining hall and have their dinner. It was possible to have food delivered to one's room just as it was possible to skip meals entirely if one was training, but the majority of the inner disciples went to the hall to converse with one another in the evenings.

  Being a new member of the Celestial Sword Sect, and the subject everyone was talking about, Pei Ze suggested that Hui Yue go to the dining hall as well.

  Hui Yue neither agreed nor disagreed. He could see the benefits of having everyone knowing who he was so that people like Pei Chen who might suddenly attack him would decrease. But he also thought it was quite a bother to go and actually mingle with these experts who he did not know.

  "My advice from experience for you is that it is best to not speak too much. The less you say, the less people will expect from you," Pei Ze said as the two left the room. True to his own words the moment they left the room, his mouth was shut, and not even pleasantries could be heard any longer. Had Hui Yue not previously seen this man so quiet before, then he would fail to believe that it was the same person he had spoken to so much earlier that day.

  Side by side Pei Ze and Hui Yue walked through a few gardens before they reached a building which was rather large. Two large gates connected to this building. One was where all the inner sect members entered through, and the outer sect disciples used the other.

  Although Pei Ze said nothing, it was easy for Hui Yue to understand that this building was split into two dining halls. He felt rather uncomfortable knowing that this sect cared so much about who had a very strong bloodline and who did not.

  The moment they entered the dining hall, Hui Yue saw that the seating arrangement also depended on one’s rank. Furthest up he saw a few of the head elders seated. All of the head elders from the conversation previously had shown up. Then there was a location for a sect master followed by the other elders.

  Further down he found the locations of the normal disciples of the Celestial Sword Sect. The seating was mostly arranged by the generation with the youngest all the way at the end.

  Pei Ze and Hui Yue both found some food at a big banquet that was placed in the dining hall which was constantly being filled with food and delicacies. After getting their food, they found a place to sit at the location belonging to the younger generation.

  The moment they entered the dining hall the room lapsed into silence. No one had spoken, and no one had eaten, not even the head elders spoke as all of them looked at Hui Yue and Pei Ze.

  As they sat down, murmurs started erupting from different parts of the room. Everyone it seemed had heard about this long lost brother of theirs, Hui Yue, but the majority had not seen him before.

  As soon as they noticed him, they started to consider how to get closer to him. He was most likely talented, but above all, he was a nephew of the patriarch and the ancestors! He was a third generation descendant and an outstanding genius. Becoming friends with him would be beneficial to anyone, but seeing him together with Pei Ze, no one wanted to be the first to come close.

  The head elders were not that keen on speaking with Hui Yue as they had already met him, but the regular elders and the normal disciples of the Celestial Sword Sect were all eager to get to know Hui Yue.

  The head elder nodded approvingly when they saw that Hui Yue had chosen to sit with the younger generation. He was allowed to sit in the seat just below the sect leader considering he was of the third generation, but instead of relying on this right, he had chosen to sit together with Pei Ze and be humble. This clearly pleased the head elders, and they smiled to one another.

  While many were filled with curiosity towards Hui Yue, there was a group of experts who were anything but thrilled to see him.

  At one end of the dining hall was a group around Pei Feng. Pei Feng's face was calm, and if one gave it a glance, it would be impossible to tell that beneath his calm exterior murderous thoughts were brewing.

  The fact that Hui Yue was seated with Pei Ze said it all. It was clear that this young man, who happened to be from the third generation, had chosen to support Pei Ze, and by doing so, it was likely that this Pei Ze would be looked at more favorably by the head elders.

  The more favorably they looked at Pei Ze, the more likely it was for him to become the next sect leader and this was something that Pei Feng refused to accept.

  He could not help but think that it was necessary for him to ge
t rid of both Hui Yue and Pei Ze. However, he was not certain of how to get rid of either of them yet.

  Ideally, he would have Hui Yue killed and blame it all on Pei Ze. But it was one thing to wish for something to happen, and quite another to actually accomplish it. He knew that to attempt killing a descendant of the third generation, was a very grave undertaking. If he succeeded, the hunt for the killer would be many times more intense than anything he had seen before.

  Chapter 551 - Second Life

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  Chapter 551: Second Life

  After sitting down to eat, Hui Yue and Pei Ze were allowed to eat in peace while everyone else carried on their conversations. Even though many disciples and even some of the elders present wished to visit Hui Yue and curry favor with him, they were just too scared to do so.

  Since apparently, nobody wanted to talk to them, Hui Yue and Pei Ze both left the dining hall after eating and went to their rooms.