Chapter 540 -540: Let’s Get Acquainted, My Name is Huyue (2nd Update)
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Mount Fanjing, Lingying Pce.
Once a ce of bustling incense burning, it had now be particrly deste.
Even the roof of the main hall had arge hole in it, roughly covered with a stic sheet, which made it look very deste.
Creak.
The temple door emitted a grating screech as Shi Xueqing gracefully entered and began to light incense as was her custom.
One stick of incense daily, a practice unshakable by thunder so long as Shi Xueqing resided in Lingying Pce.
Only today, Shi Xueqing’s face betrayed a hint of worry.
She whispered to herself as she offered the incense.
“Great ancestor, please show your spirit! If you don’t show yourself, I’m going to starve to death! You should know that now there’s only me left in Lingying Pce!”
“The people from Jinfeng Courtyard at the foot of the mountain came again, iming time and again that our Lingying Pce belongs to them, which isplete nonsense! But what can we do when now they have a cultivator of the Heavenly Human Realm?”
“Over the past year, countless cultivators have made breakthroughs. Before, Xiaoyao was scarce and Heavenly Beings were the pinnacle. But now, Xiaoyao is no longer rare, and Heavenly Beings are increasinglymon.”
“Only I neither saved my cultivation level nor progressed, but actually regressed! If you don’t show your spirit, I’m afraid even this great hall won’t be saved! If by then, people throw your statue into thetrine, don’t me me!”
Shi Xueqing muttered to herself as she inserted a stick of incense into the burner and looked up at the slightly dim statue.
This was a statue of a Fox Immortal, carved by an unknown but skilled artisan, lifelike in every detail.
Shi Xueqing gazed quietly at the silent statue and sighed softly.
“I must be out of my mind, wasting my breath on a y dummy like you.”
Having said that, she shook her head and turned to leave.
But just as she turned around, a glimmer of light shed through the eyes of the Fox Immortal statue.
Just as Shi Xueqing said, there was now only her left in the vast Lingying Pce.
Even a turtle that Shi Xueqing had kept out of boredom starved itself to deathst month.
Shi Xueqing made a simple meal, and after eating, she moved a stool over and sat in the courtyard in a daze.
What was once a thriving and bustling courtyard had now be dpidated and decayed.
In such an environment, Shi Xueqing’s presence seemed particrly out of ce.
With her looks and temperament, getting any job off the mountain would be better than wasting away here.
For instance, the Yu Family had once earnestly asked Shi Xueqing to stay in Lingnan.
But Shi Xueqing still came back.
Because she felt that this ce was her root.
As she rested her cheek in her hand and pondered, the gate to Lingying Pce was kicked open by someone.
About a dozen burly men filed in, followed by a middle-aged man with a sinister face who slowly walked inside.
Upon seeing Shi Xueqing seated in the courtyard, a hardly perceptible glint of greed shed in the man’s eyes, then he smiled faintly.
“Has Sister Xueqing thought it over?”
Shi Xueqing’s expression darkened, “Fang Jinfeng! Do you truly believe Lingying Pce is without protectors? Your Jinfeng Courtyard has only moved here a few years ago, and here I have been for over a thousand years. How dare you im this is your property?”
Fang Jinfeng chuckled, “Sister Xueqing, in this age, might makes right. If your cultivation level and your forces are inferior to mine, then I say this property is mine, what can you do about it?”
“And it’s not just Lingying Pce I want to im, but you as well… After all, what you worship is the Fox Immortal, which, when ites down to it, is just a fox spirit, isn’t it?” Fang Jinfeng said with a smirk, his face oozing licentiousness.
His words prompted raucousughter from his followers.
Shi Xueqing’s expression grew even darker, and through gritted teeth she said, “Fang Jinfeng… you are courting death!”
With that, she summoned all her cultivation power and charged at him.
But she didn’t even touch the hem of Fang Jinfeng’s clothes before she was repelled by his aura.
“Hehe, in front of a cultivator of the Heavenly Human Realm like me, you’re like a little child!” said Fang Jinfeng arrogantly.
“What’s wrong? Are you angry? Hehe, who’s to me when the Fox Immortal you worship is useless? Now everyone’s cultivation level has progressed, but you, you’ve actually regressed! You can’t me anyone else for that. It’s just that the Fox Immortal of your Lingying Pce is worthless! Hahaha…”
Fang Jinfeng burst intoughter, but before hisughter died down, a streak of ck light flew past, pping him directly across the face.
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Fang Jinfeng was flung a dozen meters into the air by a fan and, once hended, one side of his face swelled up tremendously.
The ck light that hit the ground turned out to be nothing more than a broken brick.
This scene stunned everyone present.
Fang Jinfeng roared furiously, “Who? Who dares to hit me?”
Just then, a slight sigh came from the hall, “I never expected that in just a thousand years, this sacred ce would have fallen into such disrepair!”
As the voice faded, a man slowly walked out from the depths of the hall.
Upon seeing this man, everyone was taken aback.
Because he was a man who could only be described with the words “bewitchingly beautiful.”
Whether it was his facial features or his bearing and movements, they were all impably wless.
Especially those eyes that always seemed to be smiling, which could make many women feel inferior.
Fang Jinfeng was taken aback at first, but then he sneered, “No wonder you refused to leave at any cost, so it turns out you were hiding a man!”
Shi Xueqing, however, did not speak; she was staring nkly at the man.
The aura emanating from him made her feel exceptionally close.
But what was more important was the clothes the man was wearing… Weren’t they the same clothes that the Fox Immortal Statue was draped in?
Shi Xueqing’s eyes gradually widened in shock.
However, the man remained smiling even after hearing Fang Jinfeng’s usation.
“So it is you who wish to take over my sacred ground?”
Fang Jinfeng’s face twisted with malice, “Boy, were you the one who hit me just now?”
The man nodded.
“Very well, since you’re poking your nose into our business, prepare to pay with your life!” Fang Jinfeng charged toward him.
But as soon as he moved, the man raised his hand and another ck light struck Fang Jinfeng’s other cheek.
Bang.
Fang Jinfeng was smashed back a long distance, his other cheek swelling up as well.
“Now it looks symmetrical, doesn’t it! You don’t understand, I have a very serious case of OCD!” the man said with a smiling eye.
Fang Jinfeng dared not act arrogantly anymore.
After being struck twice, even a fool would understand that this man was not to be trifled with.
“Hmph, boy, just you wait!”
With that, he turned to leave.
But the man chuckled lightly, “You think you can just walk away like this?”
“What do you propose?”
“Leave behind one thing, and I’ll let you go!”
“What is it?”
“Your heads!”
Fang Jinfeng and his men were furious and ready to strike.
With a wave of the man’s hand, their heads simply flew off, and their dead bodies copsed to the ground.
The man let out a slight sigh, internally criticizing himself.
Damn it, why am I starting to act more and more like that guy Xue An!
No, this has to change!
Then he turned to Shi Xueqing, who was gaping in shock, and smiled lightly, “Are you the disciple of my sacred ground?”
Shi Xueqing trembled slightly and nodded quickly, “You… Who are you…?”
“Let’s get acquainted. My name is Huyue!” The man smiled, pointing to the hall, “That statue you’ve been worshiping inside, that’s me!”