Chapter 173 : Chapter 173
Chapter 173: The Heaven-Reckoning Disk Backed Down! Lord Cheng Was Truly a Celestial Being!
Ma Minnong saw Cheng Yu’s expression change once again, shifting from anger back to gentle calm.
He felt somewhat regretful.
Lord Cheng.
Could he still not do it?
The Heaven-Reckoning Disk was indeed worthy of being a Heavenly Armament ranked near the top of the Supreme Weapon Ranking Under Heaven, suppressing all those sharp weapons that had once slain Grandmasters.
Across Taiyi Sect’s thousand-year inheritance, no one had ever truly wielded the Heaven-Reckoning Disk.
The fact that Cheng Yu could enter that space meant that he had already gained the Heavenly Armament’s recognition.
It also meant that he could make use of some of the Heaven-Reckoning Disk’s miraculous functions.
That was already not bad!
Ma Minnong comforted himself. There was no need to expect too much.
Cheng Yu’s talent was already extraordinary, but it was impossible for him to cover every single aspect.
Back then, even Daoist Taiyi had been unable to fully control the Heaven-Reckoning Disk.
Expecting Cheng Yu’s compatibility with Taiyi Sect’s Sect-Guarding Treasure to surpass even the founding Patriarch’s was rather too demanding.
But even after thinking this, Ma Minnong still felt an indescribable sense of disappointment in his heart.
Even someone like Cheng Yu could not break free from that level?
Chang Ningxiao looked at Ma Minnong’s expression and recalled what that old Daoist of Taiyi Sect had once said.
No one could wield the Heaven-Reckoning Disk.
Could it be that even Mister Cheng could not do it?
Amid her doubts, something completely unexpected suddenly happened.
A powerful Sword Intent erupted fiercely from Cheng Yu’s entire body, and the Xiuchun Saber at his waist automatically left its sheath and flew into his hand.
The two powerful auras of saber and sword erupted together.
They surged toward the Heaven-Reckoning Disk in Ma Minnong’s hand and crushed down upon it.
“What is going on?”
Ma Minnong was dumbfounded. He had heard the ox-nosed Daoist say that the Heaven-Reckoning Disk would expose the malice in a person’s heart, then guide it with goodwill.
He had never heard him say that someone would attack the Heaven-Reckoning Disk before even regaining consciousness!
Amid his shock, the Heaven-Reckoning Disk was suppressed by the two auras until it fell completely still.
Cheng Yu’s eyes suddenly snapped open. He lowered his head and looked disdainfully at the chessboard whose aura had weakened considerably.
“You dared toy with me? You are courting death!”
He reached out and grabbed it.
Ma Minnong’s eyes immediately widened. “Lord Cheng, do not!”
The Heaven-Reckoning Disk had not yet changed its holder. If one forcibly touched it and seized it, one would suffer an immense backlash.
The danger was no weaker than that of other Heavenly Armaments!
Taiyi Sect had once had a defected Grandmaster who tried to steal the Sect-Guarding Treasure, only to be killed on the spot by its backlash!
Ma Minnong had just been about to withdraw the Heaven-Reckoning Disk into his palm when he suddenly realized something was wrong.
He could not control the Heaven-Reckoning Disk anymore!
What was going on?
Amid his shock, Cheng Yu had already grabbed the Heaven-Reckoning Disk.
“Be careful!”
Something was about to happen!
Before Ma Minnong’s warning had even finished, the scene before his eyes left him frozen on the spot.
Cheng Yu had grabbed the Heaven-Reckoning Disk, yet he did not suffer a terrifying backlash!
The Heaven-Reckoning Disk trembled slightly, but it could not form any effective resistance at all.
Ma Minnong was dumbfounded.
“How is this possible?!”
The Heaven-Reckoning Disk was such a supreme treasure. Why did it seem so weak in Cheng Yu’s hand?
“Heh.”
Cheng Yu sneered as he looked at the Heaven-Reckoning Disk in his hand. The Dragon-Dethroning Xiuchun Saber pressed against the chessboard.
“A broken wooden board thinks it is worthy of guiding and controlling the human heart? Split it apart and use it as firewood, and it will learn to behave!”
He stared coldly at the Heaven-Reckoning Disk.
Dragon Fire from the Dragon-Scorching Sword Qi suddenly rose from the Xiuchun Saber.
The Sword Dao Weapon-Breaking Art used the sword to understand the Hundred Weapons by analogy, which meant other weapons could also unleash Sword Intent!
As soon as the might of a Divine-Level technique emerged, the Heaven-Reckoning Disk began trembling.
Ma Minnong stared blankly at this scene, turbulent waves surging through his heart.
Across a thousand years, generation after generation of Taiyi Sect experts had passed down the inheritance. Had anyone ever treated the Heaven-Reckoning Disk like this?
Had anyone dared to do this?
The answer was obvious.
No one would treat their own Sect-Guarding Treasure this way, nor did anyone have the ability to do so.
But from another perspective, none of them had ever fully wielded the Heaven-Reckoning Disk either!
“The connection between the Heaven-Reckoning Disk and me has been severed!”
Ma Minnong’s eyes widened. The Heaven-Reckoning Disk that the ox-nosed Daoist had left to him had lost its connection with him at this moment.
But he was not worried in the slightest. Wild joy ignited in his heart.
Could it be...
Could Lord Cheng truly surpass Taiyi Sect’s thousand-year history all by himself?
The next moment, the trembling Heaven-Reckoning Disk turned into a streak of light, flew into Cheng Yu’s right palm, and transformed into a pattern.
“Change places!”
Cheng Yu shouted. He was a member of the Jinyiwei, an honorable worker of Great Qian. How could he have something like a tattoo?
Even if it could be hidden, it still could not be on an exposed area!
This was a matter of attitude!
After being scolded by him, the Heaven-Reckoning Disk hurriedly turned into light again and moved to his arm, where it could be covered by his sleeve.
Only then did Cheng Yu nod in satisfaction.
He summoned a small and exquisite chessboard into his hand.
He kept tossing it up and weighing it in his palm, playing with it.
Ma Minnong’s mouth fell open, his eyes staring fixedly at the incomparably obedient little chessboard.
This... this was the Heaven-Reckoning Disk?
That Heavenly Armament which had refused to submit to any generation of Taiyi Sect Headmaster, and had even been unwilling to submit to Daoist Taiyi, the former strongest expert under heaven?
In Cheng Yu’s hand, it had shockingly become like a tiny toy!
If the people of Taiyi Sect saw this scene, would they not be so angry that smoke would come out of each of their ox noses?
“Lord Cheng, this, this...”
Cheng Yu revealed a calm smile. “Weapons and magic treasures are things that cannot be placed too highly once they develop spirituality. The more respect you give them, the less they take you seriously.”
This was the principle he had learned from the Heavenly Venerable’s demon-subduing maneuver.
The Heaven-Reckoning Disk liked to set up boring rules to guide people’s emotions. In essence, it was playing with people for amusement.
If he followed its wishes, how could he make the Heaven-Reckoning Disk submit and willingly allow itself to be fully controlled?
The people of Taiyi Sect, even Daoist Taiyi back then, had not dared treat the Heaven-Reckoning Disk casually. After all, this object was far too mysterious and powerful.
Perhaps some among them had once realized something was wrong.
But no one could bear the price of offending their Sect-Guarding Treasure.
Cheng Yu was different.
He had seen more top-tier treasures than anyone else in the Jianghu, so he did not have much reverence for the Heaven-Reckoning Disk.
Since it dared to scheme and stir up his emotions, he naturally would not indulge it.
Once the might of both saber and sword emerged together, a small little chessboard naturally admitted defeat.
“However, although this thing has backed down, it has not completely submitted yet. It seems I still have to defeat it on the chessboard.”
With the Heaven-Playing Chess Manual, Cheng Yu was not worried about victory or defeat on the chessboard.
Divine Physician Ma, who had been staring in a daze, finally came back to his senses at this moment and revealed an incomparably excited expression.
“Lord Cheng is truly a celestial being!”
Cheng Yu smiled. “Rather than flattering me, Divine Physician Ma, you should first make preparations to follow me to the Great Qian Capital and take up your post.”
The Great Qian Capital?
Ma Minnong’s heart trembled as countless past events came to mind.
In the end, he nodded seriously. Since he had agreed to join the Jinyiwei and follow Cheng Yu, he naturally would not go back on his word.
Back then, the career into which he had poured all his heart’s blood had failed just before success.
That had been no small blow to him.
Now that there was a figure like Cheng Yu, even the impossibility of the Heaven-Reckoning Disk had been turned into a possibility.
Then, could the old vision from back then achieve a different result?