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1.72% Ultimate Scheming System / Chapter 27: There are Going to be Many More Opportunities to Act Tough. I’m In!

Chapter 27: There are Going to be Many More Opportunities to Act Tough. I’m In!

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"Atrocious!"

A few of the bad-tempered elders finally could not take it anymore so they stood up and began angrily shouting.

Xu Que briefly looked at the few of them, nodded and said, "If you all show me such attitude, I will not discuss with you all further as well. You all can talk to my master."

The few elders stuttered and heavily panted for a bit. As if being choked, they could not continue to say anything!

The discussion hall’s atmosphere became still once again.

None of them wanted to offend Xu Que but none of them were willing to put down their ego and settle this peacefully.

In actuality, Xu Que did not want to stir up any trouble as well. He was very clear on exactly how to settle this type of issue.

With this extremely tough "Master" as a backing, he definitely cannot appear to be too easy going. On top of that, the rumours say that Duan Jiu De had an eccentric nature and therefore he had to be a little more arrogant.

If he apologized to them easily, it will have an opposite effect of making them suspicious. If, in the worst case scenario, his true identity was revealed, the various Factions will definitely come back with a greater vengeance.

He was not afraid of anything as he had the system at his hands. However, the Pan Shan villagers would be in great danger!

Therefore, he had to put on this act ‘till the end!

Xu Que clenched his fists as he thought to himself, "There are going to be many more opportunities to act tough. I’m in!"

...

"Since you won’t apologize, what do you think will solve this issue?" The Sect Leader Zhang asked amongst the quiet atmosphere.

The weird part was that, the Leader’s tone was not as cold as previously. Instead, he sounded a little more accommodating.

Xu Que let out a smile in his heart. He was successful with the act he was putting up and reckoned that even this Celestial Sect Leader was starting to believe his identity.

But, didn’t the Sect Leader himself meet Duan Jiu De a few times before?

That’s good. I can still play this card for a little while more!

Xu Que realized that and he pretentiously mumbled to himself, contemplated for a moment before replying, "How about this. Since the misunderstandings stemmed from my side and everyone here is considered my senior, why not let me use this place and treat everybody to a feast. This way, we can all become friends. What does Sect Leader Zhang think about this?"

After that, Xu Que sincerely looked at Zhang Dan Shan and gave him a brief smile.

It was as if he was hinting Zhang Dan Shan that he was here to become friends and he shouldn’t resist this goodwill!

Zhang Dan Shan slightly squinted his eyes and nodded, "I, the Celestial Sect Leader, do not have any objections. I shall lend you our training grounds outside and let you arrange for the feast tonight."

Upon this situation, the members of other Factions seconded, "Brother Xu, you are too kind. We, the Fierce Flame Faction do not have any objections. Let’s drink ‘till we drop."

"We, Pale Mountain Faction have no objections as well."

"We Sunset Faction… have no objections!"

At last, the Sunset Faction members agreed as well as they swallowed their anger.

They had no choice. Even the big Celestial Sect has let the matter go. What rights do a small faction have?

On top of that, the situation started with them being greedy, bearing a malicious intent to kill Xu Que for his treasures. In the end, the tables turned and many disciples and Elders from their side were killed. The only thing they could do now was to act like they were mutes.

As a result, a previous situation filled with possible vengeance and killing was solved with a simple round of feast.

However, the main reason was the name ‘Duan Jiu De’. It had a very big effect.

When the night descended, the Celestial Sect carried out the feast as planned.

Xu Que became popular with the Sect and the factions due to bringing all them together. Wherever he walked, he was being toasted in respect.

He was crowned with the name "Duan Jiu De’s disciple" out of the blue. He naturally would not let this perfect chance to act tough to slip by with the chance to drink wine. He could brag about himself all he want without reservations.

"Years ago, I remembered master bringing me down the mountains to train. He brought me to a Sect and everybody there were very tactful. They immediately presented us with a pile of treasures saying that this was just a door gift, leaving us with a very deep impression. After that, when that Sect were being attacked by enemies and I, being a righteous and loyal friend, without any qualms, dragged my master to help out. We destroyed those enemies of the Sect completely in the end."

Everyone were shocked upon hearing that and they realized something.

Is… Is he hinting us to send him gifts?

One of the Elders from Fierce Flame Faction reacted quickly while holding up his wine cup and replied, "With Brother’s and Senior Duan’s godly hero tactics, everywhere they go, everybody will know them. The old man shall toast you and we shall offer you a few magical weapons from our Faction. Just treat this as an old man’s door gift, hope Brother Xu don’t mind."

"Brother Xu, I, too, shall represent Pale Mountain Faction and toast you. We have a few roots of 800 year old Medicinal Qi Grass here for you to keep."

"Tch, just a mere few roots of Medicinal Qi Grass? Brother Xu, we Fire Cloud Faction offers you a bottle of Jiu Zhuan blood-soaked powder. These medicine pills temper with your blood circulation and is an important godly medicine for one to become a sage." One of the elders stood up and boldly said.

Everyone was shocked as they inhaled a breath of cold air.

This Fire Cloud Faction is way too aggressive. They were willing to offer so much just to impress Duan Jiu De. They were presenting a bottle of the Jiu Zhuan blood-soaked powder and it is said that they have only 3 of them in their whole Faction.

"What, how can I take it?" Xu Que let out a ‘shy’ smile,and rejected sarcastically.

"Brother Xu, don't be a stranger! If you treat this old man as a friend, you must keep it."

While the Fire Cloud Elder was talking, he immediately took and stuffed the medicine bottle into Xu Que’s hands, looking at him with the "You must take it, if not you are not stroking my ego" look.

Xu Que had ‘’no choice’ but to take the medicine.

Of course, he had to take the gifts from the rest of the Factions. His system deposit space was stuffed full after one meal and he collected many act tough points too.

At the same time within Celestial Sect’s inner area, in an attic.

A disciple was kneeling on the ground and was speaking with a white-haired old woman.

The old woman widened her eyes after hearing the disciple and screamed out with a unbelieving tone, "What did you say?! Not only the Sect Leader didn’t let that scoundrel apologize, he borrowed the training ground to him to arrange a feast?!"

That old woman was Tang Xue Rou’s master, Elder Sun. It seemed that she was too angry at the fact since her voice sounded shaky. She also threw the tea cup on her hand, landing with a loud "Pa" sound.

"M-Master Sun Elder, that was the case!" The disciple was scared stiff and started to tremble while kneeling down.

The old woman’s face became gloomy by the second and her eyes were filled with flames of anger.

"This guy is treacherous and vicious. He also sexually harassed my disciple in the past. I will never forgive him."

The old woman’s focus changed to the kneeling disciple. With a cold voice, she said, "Take my token. Go to the inner Sect’s treasure chamber and get me the Spell-breaking cartridge. Remember, this is between the two of us. I don't want a third person to know, including the Sect Leader. Understand?"

"Ye-Yes… I understand."

The disciple took the old woman’s token and quickly ran towards the direction of the treasure chamber.

The old woman looked at her disciple’s shadow as he ran and her eyes started to gradually focus into the distance, face letting out a sinister grin, "Since I can’t do anything to you little scoundrel, I shall let those ants in Pan Shan village atone for your sins."


Chapter 28: Feeling Ill at Ease

Editor: Translation Nation

A few hours later, as the night darkened, the feast that Xu Que planned had also come to an end.

Many members and Elders from the various Factions were merrily drinking. While leaving, some of them wanted to drink more with Xu Que.

Xu Que naturally rejected politely.

After spending the whole day at the Celestial Sect acting tough and adding on the time spent at the feast, he had gained a total of 200 over act tough points. That should be enough to exchange for a cheap Intermediate Spell.

Opening the system interface, his character stats appeared in front of him:

"Host: Xu Que

Status : Prince Consort of Fire Country

"Right. I almost forgot to upgrade my spells.

Cultivation Stage: Core Bearing Stage Level 5 (Clear Understanding)

Experience Points: 0/200000

Acting Tough Points: 280 Points

Skill Path: <Ancient Five Elements Art> Intermediate Level

Abilities: Soaring Dragons Nine Transformation (Maximum); Lightning Haste (Maximum); Troop-Secret Character (0% progress); Flame-Devouring Wave (0% progress); Six Corporeal Forms (0% progress).

Essence: Skill Path Essence (330 Points)

Occupation: None

Ever since Xu Que exchanged for the new skill books, he had never activated them before and therefore their progress stayed at 0%. He finally realized it after checking his skills.

However, his Skill Path Essence were left with 300 over. How should he assign the points?

Previously, for the Soaring Dragons Nine Transformation and the Lightning Haste skills, they belonged to the Earth-rank skill class and both of them required just 100 Skill Path Essence points to reach the maximum.

However, now that he had acquired the Troop-Secret Character, which belonged to the Sky-rank skill class, in order to raise it to maximum, it will definitely need more than just 100 Skill Path Essence.

"Forget it. I’ll try using 100 Skill Path Essence points on it first!"

Xu Que thought for a bit, activated the system and used 100 Skill Path Essence on the Troop-Secret Character.

"Ding! Consumed 100 Skill Path Essence points, ‘Troop-Secret Character’ rank up successful. Current progress 10%."

Damn it!

Xu Que almost jumped up.

I just used a whole 100 Skill Path Essence points, which could have already maxed out Earth-Rank skills but it’s only worth 10% of progress for Sky-Rank skills? This is absurd.

No way! I can’t just waste them like this.

"System, put the other 200 Skill Path Essence points on the Flame-Devouring Wave and the Six Corporeal Forms."

Xu Que felt that currently, what he needed most were these types of skills which allowed him to maneuver on weapons. If not, cultivators who are able to use flying swords would have an edge over him in combat. Also, he was far from reaching the stage of having invulnerable skin.

"Ding! Consumed 100 Skill Path Essence points. ‘Flame - Devouring Wave’ rank up successful. Current progress 100%, trained to the maximum!"

"Ding! Consumed 100 Skill Path Essence points. ‘Six Corporeal Forms’ rank up successful. Current progress 100%, trained to the maximum!"

Following were two system beeps. Xu Que felt a sensation of warmth flowing around internally followed by the warmth converging into the pubic region where the Qi resides. He immediately felt his whole body filled with strength.

"Such a nice sensation. It’s time to return to the village."

Xu Que felt elated. Just as he was about to leave, he sighted a silhouette not too far in front of him.

The figure stood silently in the pitch black darkness and stared towards his direction.

"Sect Leader Zhang, why haven’t you gone to sleep?"

Xu Que let out a laughter but felt some uncertainty in his heart. He was thinking that Sect Leader Zhang was here to talk about Duan Jiu De.

Zhang Dan Shan stood in the distance and nodded towards Xu Que’s direction.

Before one could blink, seemingly without any pre-action, he appeared right in front of Xu Que and almost scared him.

"Several hundred years ago, your master and I have met each other a few times. Is he still doing alright?" Zhang Dan Shan’s tone was filled with warmth as if treating Xu Que as Zhang Jiu De’s disciple already.

Xu Que laughed, "He is doing very well, he has been drinking and eating happily in the East Continent these past few years."

"Oh, the old man is currently still in the Fire Nation?" Zhang Dan Shan’s eye brightened up.

"Not sure. That old man’s whereabouts are random. Even I’m not sure where he is. However, he gave me a secret Emblem and every time I am met with danger, he will appear immediately. You want to try it, Sect Leader Zhang?" Xu Que told him while smiling from cheek to cheek.

The secret Emblem and whatnot, were of course things he had read in Internet novels in his previous life and he has no idea what he was talking about.

Apparently, Zhang Dan Shan believed him. He blanked out and became a little gloomy for a little and then nodded briefly, "Forget it. We will meet if we have fate."

He then looked at Xu Que and warmly said, "From today onwards, if you want to stay at Celestial Sect, just tell me. Regarding Pan Shan village, I will definitely not do anything to them."

"Alright, I’ll give you my thanks, Sect Leader Zhang! But for now, I have to go back to tidy up some things." Xu Que waved his hands in laughter.

Zhang Dan Shan nodded, "Hm. Go on."

Xu Que did not say anything and activated the Lightning Haste. With lightning interweaving beneath his feet, he flew downwards from the mountains and left.

Zhang Dan Shan’s tone and attitude being like this was a good thing but the danger still persisted.

If his true identity is made known, what would come after will be very bad.

However, being the bold and able man he was, he still accepted Zhang Dan Shan’s offer for him to stay at the Celestial Sect.

The treasure chamber he had previously stolen from the Celestial Sect was located at the outer Sect. If there is an outer Sect, there is definitely an inner Sect and the inner Sect will definitely contain many skill books for acting tough. When that time comes, he will be able to steal them and recycle the skills to get a big amount of Essences.

Yet, before doing that, Xu Que knew that he had to go back to Pan Shan village.

Although Zhang Dan Shan just promised that he would not touch Pan Shan village, he still had to quickly exchange for an Intermediate spell to protect the village in fear of things becoming sour if his plot falls apart, implicating the villagers.

On his way back to Pan Shan village, his stomach suddenly felt a little stuffy and had a bad feeling out of the blue.

This seems like a bad omen and a feeling that something bad was going to unfold.

He puckered his eyebrows and his first deduction was that he was poisoned. It must be Zhang Dan Shan, that old fox must have poisoned his wine and food during the feast.

"System, quickly check within my body if I have been poisoned."

"Ding! Host ‘Xu Que’ body condition is well. Qi and blood flow is good. No signs of poisoning."

Huh, not poisoned?

Xu Que was stumped. How was he feeling this way if he wasn’t poisoned?

"Whatever. I’ll quickly return to Pan Shan village. Yesterday, Xiao Rou told me to buy fabric cloth back and wanted to make me new clothes. Haha! I think the young girl is worried out of her wits."

Xu Que nodded, shook away any uncertainties he had and hurried back quickly to Pan Shan village.

At this moment, a shadow sweeped past the skies of Celestial Sect and sped into an attic. When she landed, she looked unsteady and immediately fell onto the floor, spitting out fresh blood.

"Elder Sun." A few Celestial Sect disciples on guard saw the situation and went to help.

The Elders face became gloomy and looked scary. She bit her teeth and said, "Damn it! Who knew that little scoundrel's spell was so strong. The spell damaged the Spell-breaking cartridge, causing even me, the Elder, to suffer such heavy losses."

Speaking up to this point, she faced those few Celestial Sect disciples, coldly laughed and asked, "Which part of the Sect is that little scoundrel at now?"

"Elder Sun, he just left the mountains."

"He’s going back already? Hehe… That’s good. Let him go back and see what big gift I’ve left him and see if he likes it." The Elder let out another cold laughter and under the help of the few Celestial Sect disciples, stood up, and left for the inner part of the attic.


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