The corner of Liu Yang's lips curls into a smile.
The female disciple before him is indeed beautiful. Her raven hair is tied to a long ponytail. Her skin glisten under the light of the sun and the crimson red robe that she is wearing adds a valiant charms to her beauty.
"Is that so?" Liu Yang tilted his head.
The sect allocating resources for the disciples?
Underneath his blindfold, Liu Yang's eyes glows in gold. In an instant, everything that happens in his surroundings are perceived by him.
His vision pierced through the physical and spiritual.
The silver strings of fate and red strings of karma, the golden aura of destiny and the baleful aura of misfortune and even down to the molecules on every matters. Various informations are inserted into his brain like a gushing water.
It was quite a sight. Luckily, his soul is strong enough. If not, he would probably have already gone insane from all the things he is perceiving.
'Maybe I should buy a divination technique in the future.' Liu Yang can't help but thought.
Despite his understanding of karma in their 'past lives', they had not indulge in the arts of divination and only focused on improving their strength.
Looking back at the female disciples, Liu Yang smiles, "Senior sister, forgive me for my rudeness, but can you tell me where I can collect my monthly resources?"
The female disciples chuckle, her voice as soft as water.
"It must be because you've been in seclusion in the past few weeks junior brother Liu so it is natural that you don't know where the resource hall is." The female disciple smiles, "The resource hall is located in the middle of the Central Plaza."
Central plaza?
Isn't that where the outer court disciples opens their street vendors?
Liu Yang smiles, "Thank you senior sister. Oh and if I may asks, what is senior sister's name?"
As he said this, a small blush appears on his face.
Once you've becamean Imperial, it is normal to have a LOT of free time.
Once that happens, you would fill your time with something totally random.
In thencase of Long Aotian, he had invented a technique that allowed him to control the flow of blood.
All that he did was increasing his blood flow on his face.
The female disciple smile, "Junior brother can call me Yun Shi."
•••••
The central plaza of the outer court is located in the middle of the outer court. Here disciples will sometimes paid a small amount of gold in order to be allowed to opened a stall where they can sells various items they owns for more resources.
Some of these resources are gained from accomplishing missions outside. They ranges from cultivation techniques, spiritual items and even herbs.
"Hey, who is that guy over there?" A disciple finally took notice of Liu Yang's presence.
Liu Yang have been standing in the middle of the central plaza for hours at this point. Naturally, many has started to notice him.
"Him? Haven't you heard?" Another disciple whispers into the disciple's ears.
When the disciple heard him, he can't help but laughed, "Are you sure?"
"Of course, can't you see?" The other disciple points to the crowd of disciples that are approaching, "That guy offended someone he shouldn't have and now they are here to teach him a lesson."
Some snickers and some simply sneered.
Those disciples approaching are all at the peak of the Qi Refining realm. Liu Yang only in the lower stages of the Qi Refining realm. To them, it is impossible for him to win.
Liu Yang remains silent. He calmly look up to the huge statue of a man.
The man can only be described in one word. Handsome. Extremely so.
The statue was so life-like, it feels like it was real. Standing in the central plaza, the statue overlooked the entirety of the Outer court.
The Alchemy Sovereign, the greatest Alchemy prodigy tens thousand years ago.
"How pathetic." Liu Yang mutters as he look up to the statue with disdains.
Of course given his Immortal Pupils, he has naturally long sensed the schemes that those disciples are playing.
The sect is allocating resources for outer disciples?
How hilarious.
I am surprised you are willing to play along with their plan.
The blindfolded youth shook his head, "I can't just beat them without any good reason now can't I?"
The Flaming Blade Sect is a sect that only respects the strong. Naturally, if he doesn't shows his true strength, then those disciples will think that he is a coward.
However, if he were to bully them without getting provoked, the sect would see it as him assaulting a fellow disciple. Given this, those elders who are already dissatisfied with him joining their sect would naturally use this as an excuse to trample on him.
Luckily for him, those disciples had actually made a move on him.
"Oi! I am talking to you! Are you deaf or something?!" A disciple who had been trying to talk to him sent out a punch. His fist blazing in flame.
He had been trying to talk to Liu Yang for the past minutes. However, Liu Yang doesn't even turn to him, only staring absent minded at the statue of the Alchemy Sovereign.
In the eyes of the disciple, Liu Yang is not giving h face when in truth was that he was talking to one of their ancestor. Of course, he also does not care to give him face. He doesn't have the need to do so.
The flaming fist was connected to Liu Yang's cheek. His head was titled slightly as a result.
The rest who are present was shocked. They are not able to comprehend what is going on.
Liu Yang simply smile, turning to the male disciple, "This should be considered as a self defense right?"
Before the disciple could react, a powerful supresive aura descended before them, forcing all of them to kneel before him.
In an instant, all the disciples present are forced into a kneeling position. The disciple who had punched him before is suffering the most.
As he was the nearest, he is forced to met the supressive aura at full blunt. While others are only forced to kneel, he is forced to prostrate before him.
Liu Yang swept his gaze across the kneeling disciples. A few are unwilling to back down, using their entire might to stood up from his aura.
He smirks, but the next instant his smirks turns into a frown.
He look back to the statue behind him. Considering that the statue of the Alchemy Sovereign is right behind him, in a sense these disciples are actually kneeling before the Alchemy Sovereign, and not him.
This can't do.
Liu Yang suddenly jumps up. Explosion of Yang essence billowed underneath his feets, propelling him upward.
All eyes watches in shocked and confusion. Then, it turns into horror.
The moment Liu Yang had landed on the head of the statue, he pulls out a simple radan chair from his spatial dimension and sat down.
Right on top of the head of the statue of the greatest Alchemy prodigy in history.
The next moment, the entirety of the sect tremble.
"You unfilial brat!" The shout of the ancestor resounded through the continent.
The very peak of the Dao that can be attained in this world: the Divine Stage.
In the Divine Stage, their souls has gone through a qualitive transformation. In this realm, they condensed a Divine Soul, allowing them to forms an astral states where their soul can leave their body. Their souls has also strengthened greatly, allowing them to comprehend and manipulate the laws of the heavens and earth.
And manipulating the laws of heavens and earth he did.
The laws of fire converge, forming countless spears that blaze in crimson flame.
The flaming spears descent towards Liu Yang who merely yawns. Before the spears could reach him however, a flaming palm manifested mid air, blocking the descending spears.
The disciples below tremble in fear. Clearly those techniques just now was caused from a Divine Soul expert making a move. However, before the spears could reach the blindfolded twelve years old, another palm manifested, blocking the spears.
A second Divine Stage expert.
Dear god.
Their ancestor had actually make a move against him.
Is this true then?
Was the rumour of Liu Yang coming from a powerful clan true?
If so, where would this second Divine Stage expert came from?!
If Liu Yang were to hears their remarks, he would probably laughed. What they did not know is that the Flaming Blade Sect has two ancestors, both in the Divine Stage realm.
Liu Yang only smiles full of meaning, "Just take this a service for helping you finding disciples who actually worth nurturing."
A snort resounded, causing space itself to cracks.
The disciples below were already miserable.
The snort from their ancestor was simply too powerful.
Their ears and eyes started to bleed. Some are already coughing blood while kneeling. A few had even fainted, their bones shattered from the impacts of the sound.
Liu Yang merely closed his ears, feeling annoyed.
What a grumpy old man.
Leaning his back against the rattan chair, Liu Yang grin, "Yun Shi, ranked third in the outer court, daughter of the Soul Born City's city lord and currently stucked in the middle stage of the Qi Refining realm. For every five minutes you are not present, one life wil be taken from any of these disciples.
•••••
Inside of a lavish courtyard located in the middle of the inner court, a group of disciples gathers.
If Liu Yang were to see these disciples, he would definitely be able to recognise two of them. They are none other than the disciple who's abode had been forcefully taken by Liu Yang and the other is the very same female disciple who had told Liu Yang about the do called allocation of resources this morning.
The third disciple however is someone he has never meet before. However, from the dark red robe and the badge on his chest, he is clearly a an inner court disciple.
The inner court disciple laughs heartily, "Brother Jun, there is nothing to be worried about. Given the strength of the subordinates I've sent, it is inevitably that he will be humiliated before those outer court disciples."
Jun Zhaohao grinned, "Serves that bastard right. He dared to steal my abode, if it was me I would have had crippled his cultivation instead."
"Don't worry, brother Jun, I had ordered my disciples to only break a few of his limbs. I am sure seeing his face as he squeel in pain would be a great form of entertainment for us." The inner disciple laughed.
The two man laughed gleefully.
Liu Yang was someone who is hard to deal with. A few days ago, after he had 'stolen' his living quarter, he had sent an elder to breakthrough the formation guarding the courtyard. Unexpectedly, when that elder heard what had happened, the latter had chickened out, running away in fear.
Meanwhile, the female disciple, Yun Shi simply stare at them. A small smile blossoming on her face.
Inwardly, she simply disdains the two of them.
Jun Zhaohao have been relying on the status of his elder brother ever since he was accepted into the outer court while the inner disciple, Chu Chuanyun was simply someone who bullies the weak but yield to the strong.
The only reason she even mingles with the two of them is because of the benefits the two offers her. As for the reason why she had helped them to deal with Liu Yang, it was because much like many other disciples within the sect, she also does not believe that he is worthy to even be accepted into the sect.
In this current era, the path of body cultivation is looked down upon and seen as barbaric by many factions. After all, when you can easily gains a powerful body when cultivating the spiritual path, why bothers with the body.
The external path has always been hard and harsh to cultivate, making it a secondary options for many cultivators.
"Yun Shi, ranked third in the outer court, daughter of the Soul Born City's city lord and currently stucked in the middle stage of the Qi Refining realm. If you don't come out now, then I suppose these disciples below will have to kneel for an entire day."
Liu Yang's voice resounded through the entire inner court. At that moment, all three of them paled.
All of the outer disciples are still kneeling before the statue when the three arrived at the scene.
The moment they arrived, they can feel a powerful supression falling upon them. However, as they are standing the furthest away, the supression is lesser compared to what these disciples are feeling.
"Ah, you are finally here." Liu Yang grinned when he sees Yun Shi.