<h4>Chapter 35: Amithaba</h4>


    Wu Long arrived in the evening to see a crowd of people around the gateway to Ye Ling''s living area where he stayed. Ye Ling was currently arguing with the soon-to-be family head of the Ye Family, her uncle Ye Fan.


    He stopped not far from the gateway as he did not want to be in close proximity, as he expected some spit flying from shouting people soon. He was immediately noticed.


    "This is him! This is the bastard!"


    A handsome man with one ear and a bandage over the ce the other one should be in, shouted loudly, pointing at Wu Long.


    "This fucker!"


    "How are you going to make amends for this?"


    "You went too far! We demand an exnation!"


    As he expected, around 10 men and women, presumably the family of the person with one ear shouted, causing spit to fly in all directions, not reaching Wu Long by a few steps though, as he was extra cautious. They shouted all at the same time, making it sound as a loud, iprehensible and incoherent mass of noise.


    The middle aged man who led them raised his hand to have some chance to at least talk, and gradually the noise died down.


    The middle aged man and Ye Fan looked at Wu Long, with the middle aged man starting.


    "You have hurt my son. But I am going to let the Ye family deal with you as we are their guests and you are also their guest.


    I respectfully ask future patriarch Ye to give us a fair treatment, and exnation" he said heavily, but giving the Ye family priority as they could not just do as they please here.


    "I thank patriarch Du for your patience and wisdom, and please forgive us, it seems we have not controlled the discipline very well. Please be assured that we will give you a fair treatment and get to the bottom of this." Ye Fan first soothed the Du family patriarch and turned to Wu Long "Ling''er told me that you are her guest but no matter how I ask she refuses to tell me your status or background. Do you mind telling me yourself?"


    Ye LIng had a worried look on her face as she looked at Wu Long with a warning in her eyes.


    "I do not have any background to speak of and I am not some important person" Wu Long simply replied, which instantly brought sneers on all Du family members.


    "Hmm, then, as punishment for inflicting an injury on young master Du, you will be…" Ye Fan furrowed his brows and started solemnly, but Wu Long interrupted him.


    "Punishment? You are not qualified to judge me. You can be thankful that I did not kill him when he approached me with a sword. I only did so in consideration that this ce is Ye Ling''s household, but don''t mistake my mercy for me being a kind person, as I never imed to be one in my life"


    He said with a cold voice.


    "Presumptuous!"


    "How rude!"


    "What arrogance!"


    This immediately caused a flurry of indignation from all of the Du family members as well as all Ye family elders, branch family members, guards and retainers who are gathered here.


    "Silence!"


    Ye Fan loudly shouted putting some Spiritual Qi behind his voice, and the ce instantly turned dead silent, with only the echo of his shout reverberating to the distance. He looked at Wu Long with vicious eyes but he kept his fury cold, not exploding.


    "You are quite arrogant"


    Hemented.


    "I indeed am, but not in my words to you, as that is not arrogance but the truth. I am here only because Ye Ling is here, once she leaves, I will leave. I am not one of your people and not your subordinate, you hold no sway over me with any reasoning, and if you want to talk with no reasoning you have not enough power to do that" Wu Long simply stated.


    "Hmm, if you do not recognize our authority I can understand that we have no way to make you willfully submit, but your second statement seems to either underestimate the power of the Ye Family, or overestimate yours" Ye Fan said with a cold sneer.


    Wu Long simply took out his sword from the spatial ring, holding it sheathed in his left hand.


    Ye Fan furrowed his brows at this action and all the people around instantly became tense, the guards all took fighting postures with their weapons and the people who had any strength prepared to react to the situation.


    "Are you…" Ye Fan started with irritation in his voice, but before he could finish, Wu Long''s right hand reached for the handle of the sword in his left hand which he also raised a bit to meet with his right hand in front of him.


    Though this action urred at normal speed, there seemed to be something ominous in the silence that this action took ce in, as if the moment Wu Long started moving, the space around him became somewhat isted, and his movements looked somewhat unnatural, as if not happening, despite clearly being seen.


    A sharp aura enveloped the ce, and anyone who was hostile to Wu Long felt as if a sharp de was pointing at the center of their head.


    This sensation was rted to the fact that this ce was where the Niwan Pce was located, it was the ce where the soul resided, and for cultivators, once they reached Qi Manifestation Realm this was also the ce where the Soul Sea was born which they would then also cultivate to greater heights.


    Sword Intent, in truth, was an obscure power, more like a concept, and in actuality it did not have any physical damaging effect. It was aprehension of the sword''s intent and held the swordsman''sprehension toward the sword.


    The soul felt the Sword Intent most acutely, and definitely more so than the physical body felt it as it was an abstract concept residing in the intangible world, not a physical entity residing in the physical world, thus the feeling of the sword pointing at the center of the forehead.


    What actually cut someone when an attack using sword intent was used was either the sword wind, the sword de itself, or Sword Qi, in the order of increasing level of severity of damage dealt.


    What Wu Long was using before was usually sword wind, the least threatening of the damages, as it was using the movement of the sword as an inductor, and the environment between the sword and the target as a conductor of the attack. The sword de itself is self-exnatory, but Wu Long did not currently have a weapon that could withstand such a taxing role. And the Sword Qi was basically Spiritual Qi that was released in the form of an energy de, an extension of the sword''s real de of sorts that could cut the target in almost any distance and in some cases, where the level of skill in Sword Qi was high, was vastly more powerful than the attack of the actual sword de itself.


    All three types of these attacks could be released by people who did notprehend Sword Intent, even Sword Qi was something quitemon, as it just required some practice and control of Spiritual Qi. The three types of sword attacks were just worlds apart in terms of quality between people whoprehended Sword Intent and those who did not.


    Someone whoprehended Sword Intent could use any of the three attacks to break thews governing the world and cut something that someone in his or her realm and with his or her physique was not supposed to be able to cut. They could challenge people one or two major realms above them and cut them in half with one attack. It all depended onprehension levels, as people with betterprehension of the sword could challenge people across not just one or two major realms, but more or for some, across entire great realms.


    Wu Long did not have the ability to use Sword Qi until recently as one had to be in at least Qi Manifestation Realm to do that. But, he now was in a Qi Gathering Realm, meaning he could store and use Spiritual Qi in its pure form, not as part of his body''s energy like in Body Transformation Realm, and even had a Qi Maniption Ring.


    Normally, a Qi Maniption Ring was not useful inbat because it required an astonishing level of control, both over one''s own Spiritual Qi but also over the ring itself as it was releasing and manipting the Spiritual Qi outside the body for the user as a medium between the two. But with Wu Long''s control over Spiritual Qi maniption, and his experience with the Qi Maniption Ring, as well as his level of skill in Sword Qi, this tiny amount of Spiritual Qi he could release would be the deadliest Sword Qi this secluded world has ever seen since the ''great cmity''.


    Though it still required him to use a sword as a medium and guiding tool, as with his skill in sword qi andprehension of the sword he could release it with bare hands, if only he was in Qi Manifestation Realm.


    Normally, he could use sword wind as he had done before, but in this case, he decided to use sword qi since he wanted only to warn them. He was still in Ye Ling''s household, so unless she was willing him to, he did not want to turn this ce into a bloodbath. Sword wind was too straightforward, andcked the finesse and control sword qi had, which he required for what he was going to do.


    Wu Long unsheathed the sword half-way in a smooth and graceful motion and then resheathed it cing the hands back to their original position and resuming the posture he had before. The ce was deathly silent and slightly colorless for the moment the sword de could be seen, and then it turned back normal.


    Everyone, except Ye Ling, was looking with eyes wide as full circles at Wu Long, some dumbfounded and notprehending what happened at all, some terrified at his sword intent and yet still notprehending why did he stop and did nothing.


    Ye Ling merely looked at all this with a feeling of pity. She warned her uncle that he should not provoke Wu Long but he did not listen.


    "Tshhh"


    A soft sound of something soft falling to the ground took them out of their daze. And as they looked for the source of the sound, gasps started sounding in the surroundings as the sound repeated with increasing frequency.


    The sound was made by flocks of hair falling to the ground. Strands of hair were falling from the hair of all the Du household members, as their heads quickly started to be barrennds, as smooth as a marble. Some hair was scattered by the air pressure from falling and went in different directions but most were falling in full chunks. The Du family members tried to keep the hair with their hands but they only quickened the process as now the hair that had been touched instantly fell.


    Wu Long ced the sword back into the storage ring space and ced his right hand in front of his chest, slowly bowing.


    "Amithaba"


    After he greeted the new ''monks'', he calmly proceeded to move to the gateway and then disappeared inside among the silent and dumbfounded crowd.