Chapter 1268: Making Wind and Clouds By Killing A Half-Sage
“April fifth, cloudy. Ye Qing was surrounded and attacked by a massive Xi Huang brigand group named One Gust at Cloud Smoke Canyon. At the end of the battle, the Mad Lord wounded one hundred and sixty two and killed thirty eight. The dead included the Eight Vajras, the Three Heads, and the Gust Leader himself. As a result, One Gust is no more.”
“April sixth, drizzle. While staying a night at Incense Leaving Monastery[1], Ye Qing sparred with the temple head, a Great Trueman, and emerged victorious. Their spar caused all mountains within five kilometers of the temple to collapse into smithereens. The only mountain that was spared from destruction was the one Incense Leaving Monastery was located at.”
“April seventh, downpour. While continuing eastward and passing through Horse Rocky Slope, Weak Water True Lord and Mountain Sweeping King, the fifty-eighth and sixty-third champions on the Earth Champions Ranking respectively, triggered a mountain flood and a landslide using the downpour and attacked Ye Qing with them. Ye Qing suppressed the natural disasters in one punch, broke it with his second, and killed both Weak Water True Lord and Mountain Sweeping King with his third. He left the scene confidently.”
“April eighth, post-pluvial[2]. While continuing eastward and passing through Huai Shan County, Ye Qing slew eighteen Westwind wretches who were hiding in the area. They were eight Truemen and ten Spirit Masters.”
“April ninth, clear day and calm weather. Ye Qing encountered four Great Truemen—head of Luo Sen Sect, Sen Luo; head of the Myriad Manifestations Mountain, Mister Myriad; head of the Wild Flowers Valley, Lady Flower; and head of the Growing Desire Cavern, Generous Inferior—and fought a great battle against them. Two of the four Great Truemen died, and the other two escaped.”
“April ninth, nighttime, very windy. Ye Qing was in the middle of crossing the Black Water when he encountered a rampaging flood dragon. He casually slew it. The flood dragon’s body is said to be so long that it spanned five kilometers across the Black Water.”
“April tenth. Ye Qing had just reached Phoenix Mountain when he was attacked by Madless City, Life Extending Pavilion, Thunder Duke Temple, Black Buddha Temple, and Rainfall Monastery of the thirty-six unorthodox sects. There were eight Great Truemen, thirty-six Truemen, seventy-two Spirit Masters, and two hundred and forty four Astra Refiners at the scene. Three hundred and sixty in total, they attempted to subjugate Ye Qing using the Sky Cycle Celestial Subjugation Great Formation. A bitter fight ensued for a little over half a day, and Ye Qing successfully killed twelve and injured three hundred and broke out of the formation. He did not use the Earthly Sovereign Bell. No one dared to stop him, and no one dared to stand in his way after that.”
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The child was young, and judging from his underripe, at times drawn out reading, he had just begun to learn his words. Despite this, the child read the notice with great intensity and focus, and the blind old man next to him listened just as seriously.
At first, some of the crowd were still talking and discussing among themselves. Later, the child’s sweet, clear voice was the only sound resonating around the noticeboard. Though their expressions might vary from person to person—astonishment, yearning, excitement, anger—everyone was listening carefully to the reading. It was as if they had all been drawn into the exciting, grandiose world that was the jianghu painted into life by the young child’s voice. Such was the dream that no one could say a thing even after the young child had finished reading for a long time.
“To think that brigands or flood dragons make no difference to the Mad Lord. He truly is a god among men!”