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.
At this point, Pan Shan Village was ablazed with flames, soaring high into the heavens. Many villagers had been killed in the massacre and even more were charred to death in the large fires.
The screams of terror and agony combined together as wailings and shrieks could be heard from miles away. Regardless of how the villagers begged for their lives, these ten cultivators didn’t show any mercy. With their swords raised up high, they casted spells as they laughed and slaughtered the helpless villagers.
At this point, several shadows flew overhead as their long robes flapped in the wind. One of them had a familiar face. It was the girl immortal who had been harassed by Xu Que, Tang Xue Ru.
She led several Celestial Sect disciples as they travelled. Coincidentally, they witnessed this scene down below and charged down.
"Stop it! Who are you? How dare you kill the innocent people?"
"Keke… We, Fallen Spirit Sect are handling our businesses. Those who are not involved, scram now."
"Atrocious. This is the area of Celestial Sect. You Fallen Spirits Clan members are overextending your reach. How audacious!"
"So what if you’re Fallen Spirit Sect? If you don’t leave now, don’t blame my blades for not having eyes to discern who to attack."
"Hm, then come and try me."
Tang Xue Rou and the people behind her gave a sinister look as they charged down upon the cultivators of Fallen Spirits Clan.
...
"Whoosh!"
At this point, the sky was dark and wind was blowing fiercely at Xu Que’s face causing a continuous whooshing sound.
The closer he got to Pan Shan Village, the more unsettled he felt!
What’s going on?
Xu Que creased his eyebrows. He was already travelling at the fastest speed possible.
At last, after crossing this huge mountain, he would reach Pan Shan Village in no time.
Indeed at the next moment, the intense scene of killing and desolation, blazing fires and a village drenched in blood was spotted by him. He couldn’t believe his eyes. Was that his amicable, kind and innocent Pan Shan Village in ruins?
His eyes almost bulged out its sockets as the fires in his heart was immense and insurmountable. He couldn’t help but let out a huge shout!
"No!!!"
He seemed to have gone insane as he charged down the mountains while screaming.
When he looked down at the entrance of the village, he could see a small petite girl being chased out by a cultivator. That shadow of the splendour body belonged to Xiao Rou.
The next instant, she fell over with a thud amidst all the panic. Her face was deathly pale as she bit down hard on her lower lip.
Even before she could pick herself up, a white bright light appeared behind her and plunged into her body from behind through her back.
Shiu!
A flying sword emerged from the front of her body as Xiao Rou’s body fell to the ground, blood splattering in all directions.
Right at this point, it was almost like time came to a complete standstill.
Xu Que was not far from this scene. His mind went blank as he opened his eyes in shock, his mouth was gaping wide. He found it extremely difficult to believe what he had seen.
"Stop it!" Tang Xue Ru and the rest of her immortal cultivators reached the village and started killing the perpetrators of this bloody bloodbath. Seeing the scene before them, they rushed to slaughter the disciples of Fallen Spirits Sect.
However, it was too late. The disciples of Fallen Spirits Sect had done significant damage to the village, killing and destroying everything in their wake. The minute they had achieved that, they fled off on their flying swords.
At this moment, Xu Que finally reached the village from the mountains. His crazed eyes were full of red blood vessels. He looked like he was deep in a trance as he repeatedly shouted, "No! No! No!"
"Oh? It’s this pervert? Tang Xu Ru froze as she saw Xu Que.
Xu Que ignored everything and everyone around as he dashed in a mad frenzy towards Xiao Rou.
"Xiao Rou! Xiao Rou, please wake up. I’m back. Please don’t be scared. I shall save you now."
He rushed to Xiao Rou’s side and embraced her in a hug. At the same time, he summoned the information interface as he desperately looked for some herbs to heal her wounds.
Xiao Rou opened her eyes with great difficulty. The minute she saw Xu Que, a smile seemed to radiated across her face.
"Xu… Brother Xu… You’re finally… Back!"
"I’m back. I’m so sorry, I’m so sorry! Damn it. I came back too late…" Xu Que’s eyes welled up with tears.
In both his lives, he hadn’t cried in a long long time. At this point, tears flowed freely.
"System, system. Hurry, I wish to buy medication with healing property. I would give up everything to save Xiao Rou." Xu Que shouted out in his head to the system.
"Ding! Due to the system’s level being too low, the items within this system can only be used by yourself."
The system replied coldly. This answer felt as though a bucket of cold water had been splashed across Xu Que’s face.
What? What do you mean level is too low? I wish to save someone. I need to save someone now!
He felt as if heaven and earth had been reversed, like the sky had crashed down upon him.
He had never experienced such a feeling of helplessness. Even in his previous life, when he was killed in the car accident, the helplessness he felt now was much intense compared to back then.
"No… It’s alright, brother Xu. Maybe, maybe…. This is Xiao Rou’s fate. But to die in your arms, being able to see brother Xu’s face, Xiao Rou has no regrets."
Xiao Rou smiled as she slowly lifted her hands, seemingly using up all her energy in the process as she touched Xu Que’s cheeks, "Brother… Xu Que, please don’t cry. Your face is so pale. You look so good…"
"Brother Xu Que, Xiao Rou has been wanting to tell you. I like you. I mean really, really like you that way…"
"Brother Xu Que, Xiao Rou knows she cannot match up with you. But I know that if I don’t say it now, I will never have the chance to say it again."
"Brother Xu Que, I’m sorry. Xiao Rou did say she wanted to make you some new clothes… But now she can’t…"
"Brother Xu Que, after Xiao Rou has died, will you… Will you still remember Xiao Rou?"
"Xiao Rou’s best moments in this life… My happiest moments, were all with brother Xu Que..."
Pa-da!
The second her last word was uttered, Xiao Rou’s hands fell from Xu Que’s face onto the ground with a smack.
Her large glossy eyes lost its light as Xu Que slowly lifted his hands to close them. Tear stains were still visible at the corners of her eyes…
"No!"
Seeing Xiao Rou’s innocent and bubbly eyes lose their gleam, Xu Que clung onto her lifeless body as he reared his head back and screamed out in agony. He then started rocking back and forth like a demented person, with her body still in his embrace a he shouted out, "Xiao Rou, you musn’t sleep. Wake up! I told you I would take you flying on a sword and bring you to have fun and eat loads of good food. Xiao Rou, I still wish to wear the clothes you were supposed to make for me!"
Xu Que’s face was stained with tears, his voice was hoarse as he shouted out.
However, the Xiao Rou within his embrace had fallen asleep forever and couldn’t ever hear his screams.
In his mind, all these days of Xiao Rou’s sweet laughter, her feminine demeanor and that innocent and sweet voice replayed continuously.
All his fond memories of her seemed like it happened only yesterday!
Tang Xue Jia and the rest of them watched on, unable to do anything as well.
Although they were all immortal cultivators, they didn’t have the powers to bring the dead back to life.
"Wei, pervert. People cannot be revived from the dead. Besides, growing old and falling ill before dying are part of the parcel of life for these normal people. She’s just an ordinary village girl, why must you be so upset? But don’t you worry. These lands here including Pan Shan Village belongs to Celestial Sect. I shall report this matter to my master and we will hunt down those Fallen Spirits Sect members to seek justice." Tang Xue Rou walked behind Xu Que and spoke out.
Xu Que sat there quietly, holding Xiao Rou tightly within his embrace.
His pair of arms were wrapped around her as his body trembled. The veins on his neck were popping up.
In the next moment….
"Pu!"
Xu Que felt his chest tremble as he spat out a large mouthful of red blood.
Tang Xue Rou and the rest of her Celestial Sect disciples saw this and their faces were shocked,
This is… Blood from the heart!
This person’s love must’ve been extremely deep seated, for he even spat out blood from the heart. This dead lady must’ve been his lover.
Ai, no wonder. Seeing a person you love die in front of you. Who can bear such a heartache?
Everyone present shook their heads and sighed.
Tang Xue Ru was astounded as well as she stared blankly at Xu Que. She was wondering if that was the same pervert as before? Why did it seem like he’s changed so much?
…
Before long, Xu Que finally moved.
He extended a hand to wipe the traces of blood from the corners of his mouth as he raised his head coldly. Intense hatred raged within his eyes.
Tang Xue Ru and the rest of the disciples from Celestial Sect watched on and were taken aback. They subconsciously retreated several steps back and their faces turned pale with fright.
That killing intent was extremely overwhelming!
This… This person’s killing intent is so scary!
"You… You don’t do anything on impulse. This is none of our business. I… We came here to help!" A disciple was scared out of his wits and assumed that Xu Que wanted to attack them. He then hurriedly explained.
Xu Que didn’t seem to bother about him as he held on tightly to Xiao Rou’s body before standing up slowly.
Under the panicked looks from the cultivators, Xu Que whispered into Xiao Rou’s ears, "Xiao Rou, I’ll bring you to kill them."
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