Chapter 157: The Matter of Prince Qing’s Remnants Finally Comes to an End!
Cheng Cangshan instantly felt a mouthful of blood surge into his chest, so furious that even his Internal Energy became unstable.
That unfilial descendant!
But Cheng Zhenjiang had already fled so far that even curses would not reach his ears. Cheng Cangshan could only leap onto the giant turtle’s back, raise a defense to withstand the Sword Intent, and buy time for Cheng Zhenjiang.
The two Grandmasters instantly clashed in battle.
Terrifying might erupted outward. Even the aftershocks alone were enough to make it hard for the others to endure.
Cheng Yu stepped in front of the Jinyiwei and blocked the battle’s aftershocks, his gaze cold as he watched Cheng Zhenjiang’s retreating figure.
It seemed that today, he would not be able to settle matters with that hypocritical villain.
Chang Ningxiao could certainly deal with Cheng Cangshan, but the River-Severing Sect’s Supreme Elder still had yet to make a move.
It would be anything but easy to keep Cheng Zhenjiang here for good.
So be it.
There was not much to gain from forcing Cheng Zhenjiang to stay here today anyway. When the Jinyiwei eventually went to the River-Severing Sect or the Cheng Family’s door, that would be the truly profitable moment.
As Cheng Zhenjiang’s figure vanished into the horizon and his aura became impossible to sense, the battle between the two Grandmasters also neared its end.
Chang Ningxiao was an unstoppable Grandmaster of the Sword Dao.
Her Sword Intent towered to the heavens, and she belonged to the very foremost class of experts when it came to pure offensive power.
Cheng Cangshan, meanwhile, had not even come in person. What stood here was only a phantom, utterly incapable of using his full strength.
In no more than a few breaths, Chang Ningxiao drove the countless Sword Qi down in overwhelming force. The giant turtle could not even properly defend itself, much less counterattack.
The enormous azure longsword came crashing down and cleaved the giant turtle in two.
A vast quantity of Internal Energy burst loose, shaking the surrounding lands.
Cheng Cangshan let out a muffled grunt, and the phantom formed from Internal Energy grew dimmer and dimmer.
In the instant before it disappeared, he looked at Cheng Yu and revealed a vicious, gloomy expression.
“Severing your bloodline does not change the fact that you are one of the Cheng Family! No member of the Cheng Family may defy the clan—not even Cheng Yuan back then, after he reached the Grandmaster realm! You will be no exception!”
“The only consequence of rejecting the bloodline is death!”
Back then, Cheng Yuan had obtained a fortuitous opportunity and stepped into the Grandmaster realm.
Arrogant beyond measure, he had flatly rejected the invitation of the Cheng Family’s main line and instead chosen to plot a great undertaking together with Prince Qing.
He entered the imperial palace to assassinate the Great Qian Emperor, only to be ambushed by the Jinyiwei and driven to the brink of death.
Cheng Yuan’s descendants had once gone to the Cheng Family’s main line to beg for mercy and aid, and the only answer they received was a cold refusal.
The main line had even handed Cheng Yuan’s descendants over to Great Qian to sever all ties.
That was the price Cheng Yuan had paid for rejecting the Cheng Family!
Even a true Grandmaster had met such an end.
Cheng Yu, a mere junior, would be no exception!
With those shrill words, Cheng Cangshan’s figure finally dissipated completely.
...
Ten thousand li away, the Cheng Family Secret Realm, wreathed in drifting clouds and crossed by flowing streams, looked like a beautiful landscape painting.
It was far broader than the Prince Qing Secret Realm, and it was filled with a soothing power.
Countless descendants of the Cheng Family cultivated quietly within it.
Suddenly, a furious roar erupted from the depths of the Secret Realm.
“To dare treat the Cheng Family this way—courting death!”
In an instant, the entire Secret Realm shook violently.
The sky, clear just moments ago, turned overcast with storm clouds, and even flashes of lightning and peals of thunder began to stir faintly overhead.
The Cheng Family’s descendants were jolted awake from cultivation and looked up into the sky.
They recognized it as the voice of the Old Ancestor. Only he, as the one who controlled the Secret Realm, could produce such overwhelming might in a fit of thunderous rage.
For even the Old Ancestor, a Grandmaster, to be this furious... had something major happened?
People immediately began discussing it among themselves.
“Who offended the Old Ancestor? Ever since the Clan Head came to power and the Old Ancestor retired behind the scenes, I do not think he has ever been this furious.”
“Maybe some blind fool offended him. In any case, it definitely cannot be any great trouble.”
“That is true. Our Cheng Family is clearly rising higher and higher—what trouble could possibly happen? Just cultivate properly and wait to hear the gossip.”
Though some suspicion and worry remained in their hearts, they all ended with calm smiles on their faces.
The Cheng Family and the River-Severing Sect were bound together, with two Grandmasters and one top-tier expert of the Heaven Ranking.
What matter could truly shake the Cheng Family?
There was simply no reason for them to worry. The Cheng Family was flourishing, and their future was bright.
In the River-Severing Sect’s Secret Realm, Cheng Feng sat beneath a surging waterfall. The water, imbued with a special power, slashed across his body like blades.
Yet it failed to shake him in the slightest.
Ever since he had fallen into an Inner Demon over being inferior to Cheng Yu, he had trained in this frenzied manner and made great progress.
But every time he thought of Cheng Yu’s terrifying strength, he felt that his own progress was no more than a drop in the bucket.
It became harder and harder for him to calm himself and cultivate. He was growing ever more unhinged.
How could a ruthless Imperial Hound crush him so thoroughly?!
Fortunately, his father had told him that he would seek out an extremely powerful inheritance for him.
Once Cheng Zhenjiang returned, everything would change!
Cheng Feng clenched his teeth.
“Cheng Yu, just wait for me! One day, I will definitely grind you beneath my feet! Just you wait!”
...
Jiannan Circuit.
Iron Halberd Mountain, which had just weathered a great battle, had now become a complete ruin, strewn with broken rock and rubble.
The corpses of Prince Qing’s Remnants lay sprawled everywhere, and the streams of blood that had pooled together had already congealed.
The powerful martial artists among them had already been purged by Xiao Teng himself.
The Jinyiwei moved back and forth through the wreckage, busy searching for survivors, counting bodies, and carrying away treasures.
Though the work was exhausting, their eyes shone with excitement.
Their Jiannan Circuit Jinyiwei
had completely brought down Prince Qing’s Remnants!
This was a grave menace that Great Qian had spent hundreds of years unable to eradicate completely.
The honor and rewards behind such an achievement were beyond measure.
And Cheng Yu, the Thousand-Household Commander who had led from the front against powerful foes and guided them in achieving this great feat, was currently busy studying the inheritance he had just obtained.
“What use could the inheritance power behind the Prince Qing Secret Realm have?”
Cheng Yu turned the lifelike scaled Black Turtle Statue over in his hand, a puzzled look on his face.
This thing had been formed by the fusion of two Grandmaster inheritance treasures. It was definitely no ordinary object.
Cheng Yu tried pouring Internal Energy into it. The Black Turtle suddenly trembled and, to his surprise, fed back a massive quantity of Vital Blood that flooded into his body.
Without the slightest effort, the effect far surpassed the results of arduous Hard-Body Training.
Its efficiency was fully a thousand times that of an ordinary Hard-Body Training martial artist.
A mere few days with it would equal ten years of bitter cultivation for others.
More importantly, it shared the same source and the same Dao as his Origin-Replenishing methods, both nourishing the body in a gentle manner and faintly advancing the cultivation of the Longevity and Origin-Replenishing Chapter.
Cheng Yu nodded with satisfaction.
“Not bad.”
Because Cheng Yu’s Hard-Body Training and Origin-Replenishing merely borrowed the power of Vital Blood rather than storing it, the Vital Blood exhaled by the Black Turtle Statue was returned and stored instead. The statue then suddenly opened its mouth and spat out a tiny crimson pellet.
An exceptionally potent Vital Blood elixir!
At the same time, an injured Jinyiwei walked over, cupped his hands, and bowed.
“Reporting to my lord, the Prince Qing’s Remnants’ stronghold has been completely raided, searched, and inventoried!”
The system’s voice sounded out at that very moment.
【The host has cut off the stubborn rebel traitors and exterminated them root and branch, completed the undertaking the Jinyiwei has failed to achieve for a hundred years, repeatedly driven back powerful enemies, and established an unparalleled merit! Because of this, the Jinyiwei’s name now shakes the world!】