Chapter 164 : Chapter 164
Chapter 164: Cheng Zhenjiang Returns, and Cheng Feng’s Expectation
“Cheng Yu’s background is complicated. Instead of learning the righteous path of chivalry, he learned to be unscrupulous, to slaughter the innocent, and out of jealousy, he harbors an extreme hatred toward righteous heroes like us!”
“This man is utterly vicious. In the future, he will surely become a great calamity to the Jianghu. He is your enemy, and you must uphold chivalry and take killing this wretch as your goal!”
“Do you remember?!”
Hatred burned in Zuo Yang’s blood-red eyes as he made the disciples in the Martial Training Hall repeat it again and again.
When the disciples had first heard that Cheng Yu could fight a Grandmaster-level expert, they had subconsciously assumed it was like a sparring match in the Jianghu, one that stopped at the proper point.
Rather than fear, what they felt more was eagerness to try.
They were all young people. Perhaps they could do it as well!
Only now did they clearly understand that this was no game.
When Cheng Yu made a move, blood was bound to be spilled. Numerous powerful experts had died at his hands.
The Xiuchun Saber of an Imperial Hound never stopped at the proper point. It determined superiority, and it also decided life and death.
“We… we remember!”
Only then did Zuo Yang nod in satisfaction. As the disciple of Army-Breaking Sect’s Deputy Sect Master, he had taken the initiative to serve as an ordinary disciples’ instructor with his master’s permission.
This was the perfect chance to make the Army-Breaking Sect disciples who came from every corner of the world know Cheng Yu’s true face, and to make them fear and hate him from the bottom of their hearts.
Then they would spread those emotions to the people around them.
When the time came, Cheng Yu’s evil name would spread throughout the entire Jianghu!
“Cheng Yu… In half a year, at the Grand Assembly where the Jianghu and martial circles under Heaven gather, I will make everyone unite to execute you, you traitor…”
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In the northern lands of Great Qian.
The winding, broad Red River surged past, and the great city of Beixuan stood here.
This place had once been the hub through which the Great Qian Dynasty controlled the entire north.
It had been the core that governed the Barbarian Tribes in Great Qian’s northern regions.
Now, Great Qian’s national strength and authority were far from what they once were, and it no longer had its former control over the north.
The Barbarian Tribes, who had submitted for a hundred years, had also revealed the savagery in their bones. They no longer paid court to Great Qian and repeatedly violated the borders.
During this chaotic period, an unassuming sect had risen rapidly and swiftly become the ninth of the Nine Great Sects under Heaven.
The River-Severing Sect!
There had once been a Grandmaster expert who cut off the Red River with a single sword strike, creating the sword technique River-Severing Sword Strike.
Since joining forces with the Cheng Family, it had become a super sect on the rise.
At this moment, however, it had fallen into an utterly strange atmosphere.
In the Martial Practice Ground originally used for cultivation and sparring.
Disciples gathered in small groups of three or five, discussing among themselves.
“That Cheng Yu from the rumors in the Jianghu, the one who slaughtered his way through Jiannan Circuit until rivers of blood flowed… he can’t really be the Sect Master’s son, can he?”
“I can hardly believe it. It seems this rumor only spread because someone saw the Sect Master himself in Jiannan Circuit. The Young Sect Master also seems to have been cultivating madly in the Secret Realm without coming out because of this person.”
When they had previously heard the rumors in the Jianghu.
They had heard that in Jiangnan, Cheng Yu of the Jinyiwei was extremely arrogant and cruel.
They had once felt indignant, and their hearts stirred with a desire to uphold justice.
However, because one was in the south and the other in the north, separated by tens of thousands of li, they ultimately chose to treat it as none of their business.
But when they heard the name Cheng Yu again, their reactions were completely different.
As disciples of the River-Severing Sect, they could no longer remain detached, because according to the rumors, that man was none other than the eldest son of Cheng Zhenjiang, the Sect Master of the River-Severing Sect.
This rumor was truly too shocking.
Their towering and majestic Sect Master, the Great Hero Cheng whom everyone revered and took pride in.
He actually had such a son?
At first listen, anyone would think it was a rumor!
A well-informed disciple said mysteriously, “It is not a rumor. You must have seen Cheng Yu himself before. He was the person who used to go from the outer sect toward the Sect Master’s Residence every day.”
Everyone immediately had an impression.
A weak outer sect disciple going toward the back mountain every day had naturally attracted quite a bit of attention.
They had thought he was going to serve tea and water to some important person.
They had never expected him to be Cheng Zhenjiang’s son, a vicious Imperial Hound who had been hiding his strength all along!
“Then he now…”
After Cheng Yu’s identity was confirmed, some of the disciples immediately developed strange thoughts.
At twenty years old, he could erupt with Grandmaster-level strength.
This rumor sounded far too horrifying and might not necessarily be true.
However, the fact that his Xiuchun Saber had taken the lives of numerous Upper Three Ranks martial artists was absolutely real.
The Jianghu martial artists of Jiannan Circuit had been made obedient by Cheng Yu, one slash at a time.
Those who refused to submit were all dead!
With such a combat record, he would surely rank high on the Human Ranking, and he was certain to rise even further. He was an absolute genius.
Such talent even overshadowed the image of a ruthless, vicious demon.
A person like this was actually the son of the River-Severing Sect’s Sect Master.
As the son of the dignified Great Hero Cheng, with the best background in all of Great Qian’s northern lands, how had he gone off to become an Imperial Hound despised by all?
His strength was extremely extraordinary, yet he had repeatedly committed slaughter against people of the Jianghu.
He did not resemble his father Cheng Zhenjiang’s conduct and style in the slightest. It was truly far too strange.
One disciple sighed with regret.
“I heard Cheng Yu and the Sect Master had a huge conflict, and their relationship has already reached the point of being utterly incompatible… Otherwise, with his help, it might not be impossible for our River-Severing Sect to stand at the peak of the Jianghu.”
The River-Severing Sect had risen within two hundred years.
Although it was honored as one of the Nine Great Sects under Heaven, its foundation was far inferior to the other sects that had inherited their legacies for a thousand years.
It faintly stood a step below them.
Moreover, its deeply bound cooperation with the thousand-year aristocratic Cheng Family had nothing to do with disciples like them, who were not members of the Cheng Family.
If they could have a martial artist like Cheng Yu, who could be called the strongest genius of the current generation, everything would be different.
Under ordinary circumstances, they would not have indulged in such thoughts.
But Cheng Yu was actually Cheng Zhenjiang’s son, and he had even lived in the River-Severing Sect for a period of time.
This inevitably filled them with fantasy and regret.
“What exactly happened between the Sect Master and him? It cannot really be like the rumors say…”
For a biological father and son to become utterly incompatible, completely like mortal enemies.
Such a rumor.
Without solid evidence, they did not believe Cheng Zhenjiang would do something like that!
“If Cheng Yu can turn away from evil and return to the right path, it might even become a fine tale…”
“Stop dreaming!” One disciple poured cold water over the idea. “How can people of the Jianghu become involved with a vicious Imperial Hound? He refuses to acknowledge the Sect Master, so how can we lower ourselves like this?”
“This man is utterly vicious. If he continues persisting in his errors, what awaits him will be the sect and the Cheng Family cleaning house!”
The River-Severing Sect was an open and honorable great Jianghu sect. How could it abandon all principles and care only about benefits?
While they were speaking.
A figure with an extremely powerful aura swept through the air, carrying a phantom of rivers and streams.
Sect Master Cheng Zhenjiang had returned!
Deep in the back mountain.
Cheng Zhenjiang staggered into the Secret Realm and headed toward the place where the mystical energy was densest.
He had been wounded quite badly by the frenzied Xiao Teng, and he had also needed to go to the Cheng Family Ancestral Land to explain the situation to Cheng Cangshan.
Now that he had rushed back to the River-Severing Sect.
His entire body was extremely weak, without the slightest bearing of a peerless expert of the Jianghu.
When he arrived at the core of the Secret Realm.
A young figure was sitting beneath a surging waterfall, enduring the pain as he persisted in cultivating.
A faint but majestic aura appeared behind Cheng Feng, and the vague sound of a dragon’s roar could be heard.
Joy appeared on Cheng Zhenjiang’s face. Feng’er had broken through again!
But the moment he thought of that unfilial son’s terrifying strength, his joy instantly vanished without a trace.
Zhao Xichun was anxiously standing guard beside her son.
When she saw her husband return, she hurriedly called for Cheng Feng to stop, her expression filled with concern.
“Feng’er, rest for a while. Your father is back!”
Cheng Feng opened his eyes in wild joy and leapt out from beneath the waterfall.
“Father!”
Since Father had returned, the inheritance treasure he was bringing back for him had surely been brought back as well!