Chapter 142: Challenging the Entire Outer Sect Alone? The Inheritor, Departure
“Please, Sect Master, save my Xiao family!”
Outside the door, Xiao Yan knelt on the ground, kowtowing as he begged.
“Take first place in this Grand Tournament, then come beg me again!”
Your voice reached Xiao Yan’s ears. Overjoyed, he kowtowed once more, then rose and rushed to the sect’s Martial Grounds.
“Xiao Long!”
“Master, what do you need of me?” Xiao Long appeared before you in an instant, speaking in a low voice.
“What is the situation with that Xiao Yan?” you asked.
“The Xiao family is under siege by the other three great families of Wutan City. I fear their entire clan will be wiped out before long.”
You understood at once, and immediately dispatched a Spirit Transformation puppet to Wutan City to protect the Xiao family.
That night, Xiao Yan dragged his exhausted body to the Sect Master’s residence and collapsed on the ground, his face full of fatigue, a group of badly battered Outer Sect disciples behind him.
“Sect Master, your disciple has done it. I have taken first place in the Outer Sect disciples’ Grand Tournament!”
“Oh? So soon? I recall the Outer Sect disciples’ Grand Tournament requires three days to decide a victor.”
“Your disciple was desperate to save them. In order to rescue my clansmen sooner, I challenged the entire Outer Sect disciples’ body tonight!” said the utterly spent, gravely wounded Xiao Yan.
You glanced up at the not far away, badly bruised Outer Sect disciples. Seeing that they had no intention of refuting, you understood.
“Heh heh, you have spirit! I like it!” You chuckled. A disciple of such peerless strength and deep loyalty was simply the perfect candidate to inherit the Martial Way!
“Please, Sect Master, save my Xiao clansmen!”
“Your disciple has no way to repay you, only to serve the sect with all my heart until death!”
“Rise.” Your figure appeared before Xiao Yan. You extended a hand and gently lifted, and Xiao Yan stood up.
“I sent someone to protect your Xiao family this morning. By my count, they should have already arrived. Don't worry.”
“Truly?!” Xiao Yan’s face lit with joy. “Thank you for your aid, Sect Master. Your disciple is endlessly grateful!”
“Enough. If there is nothing else, go back and rest well. Overtaxing your own potential like this, beware of an unstable foundation!”
“There was a reason, your disciple understands.”
The next morning, you learned that Xiao Yan had left the sect.
“Loyalty and righteousness, how good!” you marveled. In the world of cultivation, you had seen far too much deceit and scheming, brothers killing brothers, fathers and sons slaughtering one another.
Seven days later, you gathered thirty disciples, the top ten from each of the inner and outer sect and Core Disciple Grand Tournaments.
“Here are one hundred and eight techniques. Each of you may freely choose one as the reward for this Grand Tournament.”
“Remember, every technique here was created through the painstaking effort of elders who walked the path of the Martial Way. Once you choose one, you must carry it forward for the rest of your life. You are absolutely forbidden from disgracing it!”
“Enough. Begin choosing!”
After you made the stakes clear, everyone chose freely.
“Yes!” The thirty disciples began to choose.
Once all the disciples had chosen, you kept Xiao Yan and Ye Fan behind alone.
“Xiao Yan, how fares the Xiao family?”
“Thanks to your intervention, Sect Master, my Xiao family avoided the calamity of extermination!” Xiao Yan bowed respectfully to you.
“That’s good. Do you know why I kept the two of you behind alone?”
Xiao Yan and Ye Fan exchanged a glance, then shook their heads. “Your disciples do not know. Please speak plainly, Sect Master.”
You took out the Yi Jin Jing and held it before them. “Open it and take a look.”
“This… this technique is so profound. Why do I feel it is far stronger than the ones from just now!” Xiao Yan spoke first.
“I feel the same. Moreover, according to this technique, at high enough mastery, it can even improve one’s bone structure and talent!” Ye Fan chimed in, growing more entranced the more he read.
“This is a technique created by one who could hunt the Heavenly Dao. If you cultivate it, you will inevitably incur a measure of karma in the future. Do the two of you dare?” you warned.
The two hesitated for a moment. Ye Fan was the first to speak. “Your disciple is willing! If that senior could hunt the Heavenly Dao, why can’t I?”
“Indeed, your disciple also wishes to try!” Xiao Yan said, his eyes firm.
“Very well. Today, I shall guide the two of you into the door.” You explained the cultivation of the first thousand heavens of the Yi Jin Jing to the both of them in full.
Then, you helped them switch to the Yi Jin Jing, formally setting foot on the heaven-reaching path of the Martial Way!
“Enough. From now on, the future of the Martial Sect rests in your hands.”
“Sect Master, you intend to…?” Ye Fan grasped the situation instantly and asked quickly.
You smiled. “I intend to travel the four corners, seeking insight into the power of heaven and earth. I no longer have the leisure to remain in the sect.”
“But rest assured, with those six Spirit Transformation puppets, the Martial Sect’s safety is guaranteed.”
“Oh, right. My mount is here as well. Relax.”
Before leaving, you appointed the twenty-eight disciples who had departed earlier as Peak Masters of the twenty-eight peaks!
Ye Fan and Xiao Yan were appointed as the Martial Sect’s two Holy Sons! In other words, the future successors to the Martial Sect Master.
You left. You departed the Martial Sect without a whisper.
“Fuck the Immortal Treasure Pavilion, and that woman named Shen Qiushuang, you all just wait!” Walking amongst the mortal world, you cursed loudly.
If not for your fear that Shen Qiushuang would personally snatch the chessboard, why would you have gone so far from the sect to wander the mortal world?
“Never mind. This time, I’ll treat it as a cultivation journey to comprehend heaven and earth.” You comforted yourself.
Though within the chessboard you could fuse with the power of the laws of heaven and earth, only by walking the mortal world did you realize that the law power you had comprehended deviated somewhat from the law power of the mortal world.
Which was better, which was worse, you could not tell, so you chose to have them all!
Ten years later, a Wanderer appeared in the Great Flame Dynasty. This person was unkempt, wandering the four directions, witnessing the blooming and falling of flowers, seeking insight into the mortal world.
Another ten years passed. Your aura withdrew inward, as if you had become an ordinary person. Not a trace of cultivation could be sensed from you.
You walked on foot through every corner of the Great Yan Dynasty, from the Empress’s bedchamber down to impoverished villages, leaving your figure everywhere.
Countless knew your name. They simply called you the Wanderer!
Deep in the night, you sat outside a ruined temple, gazing up at the starry sky, staring blankly.
Over these twenty years, you had wandered the four directions seeking insight into heaven and earth, and once again grasped the beginnings of four heavenly laws.
The heavenly laws you commanded now numbered seven!