After Crossdressing and Provoking Long AoTian

Flames rose, and scorching heat transformed into fire dragons that coiled around them, shaking the entire artifact-refining office until it trembled slightly.

“Hey!” Ye Chenyan’s expression changed. “The artifact-refining office is going to collapse!”

With his sharp eyes, he saw the incomplete formation beneath Chi Yantian’s feet and frowned. This artifact-refining room had originally been reinforced by a powerful defensive formation, but with the passage of time, the formation was damaged and had long since lost its effect.

It was said that when artifact-refining grandmasters opened the furnace, they could stir natural phenomena. Chi Yantian had not reached the level of a natural phenomenon, but this momentum was still grand and not to be underestimated.

“Hey—” Yu Qingtang tried to wake him, but Chi Yantian turned a deaf ear to everything outside. Only the spear before his eyes existed.

The originally silver-white spear shaft had been burned until it was black with red glowing beneath. It trembled slightly and rose into the air. A terrifying pressure gradually spread from the spear shaft, as if it had stirred the killing aura that had lain silent within Sage-Hearing Academy, releasing a sorrowful hum.

Chi Yantian held a gigantic hammer patterned with flames. He paid no attention at all to the tilting building pressing down overhead, only raised his imposing aura and smashed the long spear with one mighty hammer blow, roaring, “Open for me!”

“Tsk.” Ye Chenyan stuffed Yu Qingtang into the spirit boat. “You get out first!”

He released the black flag. Eight streaks of killing intent swept past, clearing away the obstacles above Chi Yantian’s head and directly opening a large hole in the artifact-refining office.

At the same time, with a CLANG, the gigantic hammer struck solidly against the spear shaft. Crimson cracks surfaced across the black spear shaft, splintering inch by inch before revealing a brand-new, entirely silver-white spear body. Its sharp radiance was almost impossible to look at directly.

The various magical artifacts hovering around the artifact-refining office trembled slightly, each sending out a strand of spiritual energy to cross into the long spear.

“Good!” Chi Yantian clenched his fist excitedly. “Good spear! This is—”

Before he could finish speaking, his vision went black, and he toppled headfirst. The Blazing Rhinoceros shook its head, swung its limbs forward, and narrowly caught him in midair.

Yu Qingtang drove the spirit boat over and stuffed a handful of chili-flavored Spirit Recovery Pills into his mouth. Chi Yantian’s eyebrows twitched, and he struggled to climb up, asking, “Where did you buy these Spirit Recovery Pills? They’ve got some kick.”

Yu Qingtang: “...”

As expected of Tu Jiaojiao’s real brother.

If Du Heng wanted to make money, he could probably get rich by taking one trip to Heavenly Fire Cult.

Ye Chenyan raised his hand. The newly tempered silver battle spear fell into his grip. Light flickered in his eyes as he spun it in a flourish, revealing a faint smile.

“Many thanks!” Ye Chenyan cupped his fist toward Chi Yantian. “I owe you once. In the future, if you need anything—”

“Enough nonsense!” Chi Yantian had only just recovered a little, but he immediately rolled up and scrambled to his feet, his excitement impossible to hide. “Exchange two moves with me. Test the spear!”

“Everyone, wait, wait! Even if you are going to fight, not now.” Not far away, someone drifted closer, smiling as he waved the fan in his hand and greeted them. “We meet again. I suppose we really are fated.”

“Scholar Xiao?” Chi Yantian was extremely vigilant. “What are you doing! This spear already has an owner!”

“No, no.” Scholar Xiao politely waved his fan. “I’m not skilled in spear techniques, so naturally I won’t seize another man’s beloved.”

“I am simply curious. How did you all enter this Object Formation? Could you tell me?”

He opened a booklet in his hand and took out a brush, looking as if he thirsted for knowledge.

“Object Formation?” Chi Yantian froze. Only then did he notice the magical artifacts floating around them. Suddenly understanding, he slapped his thigh. “No wonder I thought this spear was so much better than what I usually forge. I thought I had gained enlightenment!”

He clicked his tongue. “Sage-Hearing Academy really was wealthy. They left all these magical artifacts around the artifact-refining office to nurture artifacts with artifacts.”

“Every artifact refined here would be nourished by the many artifacts in the Object Formation, just like this spear!”

When Chi Yantian brought up this spear, he was full of pride. “Harder, faster, stronger!”

“So that is it, so that is it.” Scholar Xiao bent his head and wrote furiously. Suddenly, his movement paused. He lifted his head with a strange expression. “What did you say it was?”

Yu Qingtang also revealed the same subtle expression.

“Ascending to an even higher level!” Chi Yantian seemed to have scraped clean all the ink in his belly before forcing out this half-line of poetry. He lifted his eyebrows at them smugly, full of pride.

Seeing the strange expressions on their faces, he asked, “What? Did I recite it wrong?”

Scholar Xiao laughed dryly twice. “No, no. Brother Chi has a pure and sincere heart...”

Yu Qingtang lowered his head in repentance. “We were the ones with filthy minds.”

Ye Chenyan: “Cough.”

“Haha.” Scholar Xiao hurriedly skipped over this topic and continued asking, “In other words, it is possible that back then, Sage-Hearing Academy placed ordinary magical artifacts they had no use for into the Object Formation in order to nourish newly refined artifacts from the artifact-refining office...”

“Not necessarily all useless ones.” When Chi Yantian spoke of artifact refining, he was clear and fluent. “If there is a first-rank spiritual artifact and it is placed into the Object Formation, borrowing a strand of spiritual energy from it can also greatly improve... Wait, why are you asking so much!”

Only after answering so much did Chi Yantian feel something was wrong. He glared warily at him. “What are your intentions!”

“Don’t misunderstand, don’t misunderstand.” Scholar Xiao was busy recording and did not even lift his head. “I am merely interested in everything about Sage-Hearing Academy and want to deduce what exactly happened here back then.”

“This artifact-refining office has appeared for the first time, and only the three of you entered it. Of course I must ask carefully.”

Ye Chenyan put away his spear. “Four Books Academy has quite a deep connection with Sage-Hearing Academy. It isn’t strange for him to be interested.”

He looked Chi Yantian up and down. “You should rest. I’ll find someone else to test the spear on.”

Scholar Xiao was different from ordinary prodigies. He looked extremely tactful and had an excellent temper. “Brother Ye understands reason. That is precisely it.”

“If you do not mind, I would also like to test the sharpness of this long spear, so long as you all slightly reveal what was inside the artifact-refining office...”

Yu Qingtang looked left and right, then tried speaking. “Um, does no one care that the artifact-refining office exploded?”

He pointed at the ruins behind them. “It’s an antique, after all. Does no one care?”

“If it exploded, it exploded.” Chi Yantian folded his arms. “Anyway, I basically took out everything that could be taken.”

“But if my sect elders learn of this, they will probably say I ruined a treasure site...”

Halfway through laughing, he saw the other three staring at him. Suddenly, he froze and lowered his raised leg. “Hiss— The outside can see this, can’t they?”

The few of them looked at one another, then raised their heads toward the Flying Immortals Ranking overhead, meeting the gazes of everyone outside the Ancient Academy Realm from afar.

From among the Heavenly Fire Cult people came a furious “wastrel,” which was soon suppressed.

In front of the artifact-refining office, now collapsed into ruins, Chi Yantian swallowed. “What do we do?”

Yu Qingtang showed the Flying Immortals Ranking a polite yet awkward smile. “...What else can we do? Apologize to everyone.”

With one hand pressing Ye Chenyan down and the other pressing Chi Yantian down, he bowed to everyone. “Sorry about that, sorry.”

Scholar Xiao was still watching the show when Chi Yantian caught him off guard and pressed him down too. He was stunned. “This has nothing to do with me!”

Chi Yantian was perfectly justified. “I can’t stand seeing someone standing in front of me while I’m bending down!”

He lifted his chin. “Flamelet!”

The Blazing Rhinoceros slowly knelt on the ground and also lay down with them.

Yu Qingtang pressed his palms together. “Honored seniors, you are all magnanimous people. You definitely won’t make things difficult for us, right? Right?”

Outside the Ancient Academy Realm, the venerable old seniors all fell silent in unison.

“Heh.” The Fox King of Qingqiu laughed, a pair of fox eyes full of interest. “Whose little fox raised this one? He looks like he belongs to your Pleasure Sect.”

“I also think he looks like a good seedling from our side.” Elder Green Snake of Pleasure Sect leaned against a giant python with a gorgeous smile. “Unfortunately, he seems to be from some little sect in Jinzhou.”

“I remember it was called... Biehe Sect?”

A drop of cold sweat slid down Fifth Senior Brother’s forehead.

“Yes, yes.” Tianji Zi smiled with a kindly face. “Soon to be my in-laws.”

“Heh.” Elder Mingguang of Golden Light Sect sneered. “Guiyi Sect still has the leisure to watch the excitement over there?”

On the other side of the Ancient Academy Realm in the air, the situation of the Guiyi Sect disciples was clearly not good. Golden Light Sect had brought people to surround them in a valley, and for the moment, they had fallen into a disadvantage.

“Nine Peaks Sect even brought in the Mountain-Moving Seal.” Tianji Zi smiled and shook his head, but the smile did not reach his eyes. “It seems Golden Light Sect came prepared.”

Inside the Ancient Academy Realm, Guiyi Sect was trapped in the center by mountains. On the mountain walls on all sides, Golden Light Sect and Fire Cauldron Sect had joined hands, and they had also brought along many small sects from Mingzhou and Yunzhou. From their high vantage point, they surrounded Guiyi Sect completely with grand momentum.

They were not in a hurry to attack. Instead, they seemed to be waiting for them to break the formation.

Jin Yangzi stood at the very top of the crowd, his expression disdainful, like a cold-faced divine Buddha without sorrow or joy.

“Wen Rubing,” the yellow-robed Daoist said with a smile, “this Mountain-Moving Seal can trap a group of Golden Core cultivators for ten days or half a month, to say nothing of five or ten years.”

“However, this Ancient Academy Realm is somewhat strange. Many magical artifacts have restrictions, and most are suppressed to the Golden Core realm.”

A sharp light flashed in his eyes. “If you break through to Nascent Soul, I imagine you will be able to escape.”

He did not conceal his purpose in the slightest. His smile was arrogant and unrestrained.

“Bullshit!” Li Ling’er was so angry that she drew her sword. “You did this on purpose! You just want to force my senior brother to form a Nascent Soul now!”

“Ling’er.” Wen Rubing’s expression did not move, and he shook his head slightly at her. “There is no need to be angry.”

“But!” Li Ling’er’s eyes reddened. “They, they’re going too far!”

“Forming a Nascent Soul is a hurdle to begin with. It’s of the utmost importance. If there’s any damage, then his Great Dao will stop there in the future...”

She grabbed Wen Rubing’s sleeve. “Eldest Senior Brother! At worst, we won’t compete this time! You can’t form a Nascent Soul!”

Guiyi Sect’s first disciple, Wen Rubing, had entered the sect long ago. If not for the fact that Guiyi Sect had lacked successors for nearly a hundred years, he would not have restrained his own cultivation and forcibly remained at Golden Core for so many years.

She had once heard her father say that if Ye Chenyan had come a few years earlier, Wen Rubing could have broken through with peace of mind. But now...

Jin Yangzi looked down from above. “There are gains and losses in all things.”

“Since you chose to imprison yourself at Golden Core and chase a moment’s glory in this Golden Core Competition, I will grant you that moment’s glory.”

“After you form a Nascent Soul, in this Ancient Academy Realm, you may certainly lead Guiyi Sect wherever you please. As for what happens afterward...”

He lifted his chin arrogantly. “A shortsighted person naturally must pay the price.”

Wen Rubing closed his eyes and drew his sword horizontally before him, as if he had already made his decision. “Everyone, form the array. Fight with all your strength.”

...

In front of the artifact-refining office, a gust of fragrant wind swept over. Pretty Butterfly had arrived from who knew where and was shouting as she waved at them. “Hey— Guiyi Sect people over there! Golden Light Sect is about to wipe you out to the last, and you still aren’t going to help?”

“Mm?” Scholar Xiao froze, then asked curiously, “Golden Light Sect and Guiyi Sect have never gotten along, but I would imagine the difference in strength between the two sides is not large. How does this become ‘wipe them out to the last’?”

“Besides...” He looked odd. “Miss, you are from Nanzhou’s Pleasure Sect. What does this matter have to do with you...”

“What?” Pretty Butterfly planted her hands on her hips. “Can’t this lady be kindhearted and unable to stand watching them gang up to bully a smaller group?”

Scholar Xiao laughed dryly twice. “Yes, yes.”

“All right, I won’t lie to you.” Pretty Butterfly smiled cleverly. “I don’t care who fights whom, but it has to be lively.”

“Golden Light Sect is flourishing like the sun at noon, so I have to add some fuel to this side. That’s what makes it interesting.”

Laughing lightly, she floated up like a fluttering butterfly and headed elsewhere. “If you really do save them, don’t forget my kindness.”

Ye Chenyan’s brows furrowed. He boarded the spirit boat. “Go!”

“Wait!” Chi Yantian rode the Blazing Rhinoceros after them. “Isn’t this your chance to test the spear!”

“Hey—” Scholar Xiao looked left and right in difficulty. “I haven’t finished asking. This...”

He sighed, took a deep look at the ruined artifact-refining office, slapped his fan against his forehead, and his gaze turned determined. “There is no end to learning, even unto death!”

“Brother Ye, Brother Chi, Miss Yu, wait for me!”

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