Chapter 221: Chapter 122: Elder Huo’s Shock, Heaven-Reaching Saber Manual

“Greetings, Elder Huo!”

Wei Fan found himself in the familiar hall, meeting with Elder Huo.

Having been here many times, he didn’t wait for Elder Huo to greet him; he sat down by himself and started boiling water for tea.

Once the Spirit Tea was ready, he poured a cup for Elder Huo first, then one for himself.

Observing Wei Fan’s casual manner, Elder Huo couldn’t help but shake his head, “You little rascal, you really don’t see yourself as an outsider. This Spirit Tea is something money can’t buy, and yet you unceremoniously made it for me…”

Wei Fan took a sip, savoring the aroma, “You’re too polite, Elder. Every time I come, you make it for me. I’d feel bad freeloading all the time!”

Elder Huo was speechless for a while, and the two slowly finished the Spirit Tea.

Placing his teacup down, Elder Huo spoke, “Are you aware that recently, all the notable geniuses in Tongzhou have been swept aside by someone?”

Wei Fan shook his head; he was genuinely unaware of this matter. Being not part of the Jianghu, he didn’t pay much attention to the happenings there. Moreover, he hardly knew anyone from the Jianghu, leaving him without avenues to understand its affairs.

Nonetheless, hearing that all the renowned geniuses in Tongzhou had been swept aside piqued his interest, “Have Lv Chunyang and Duan Xingyun been defeated too?”

Among the top geniuses in Tongzhou, besides these two he hadn’t encountered, Yan Yun and Long Xueyi were the ones he had some acquaintance with; they were indeed top geniuses too.

Elder Huo shook his head, “Lv Chunyang was defeated; Duan Xingyun isn’t in Tongzhou and hasn’t fought against the opponent.”

Wei Fan was somewhat moved.

It was no surprise that the top geniuses in Tongzhou were formidable. Lv Chunyang’s Pure Yang True Qi was said to be no weaker than the Supreme True Qi, yet he was also defeated.

On the day at the Nanshan Grand Assembly, Yan Yun mentioned Lv Chunyang with a solemn demeanor.

“Who did this? Did you call me here to fight them and maintain Tongzhou’s honor?”

Elder Huo glanced at Wei Fan and shook his head, “It’s not that I want you to fight them, but rather the opponent has come to the Demon Suppression Bureau seeking a match with you. You don’t think you’re not among Tongzhou’s most renowned talents, do you?”

Now in the Jianghu of Tongzhou, the most outstanding genius isn’t the Pure Yang Body of Lv Chunyang, nor Duan Xingyun’s innate acupoint opening, but this horizontal cultivation young master, Wei Fan.

Since someone wanted to sweep aside the geniuses of Tongzhou, Wei Fan was naturally a threshold that couldn’t be ignored.

Wei Fan was taken aback, someone came to challenge him?

He hadn’t interacted much with the martial artists of the Jianghu, so he didn’t expect someone would indeed come to challenge him: “Who is this person?”

He wasn’t just any martial artist from the Jianghu, courting challenge casually.

Even among Jianghu martial artists, challenges aren’t made lightly; challenging someone is essentially stepping on them to elevate oneself. Those with good temper and martial ethics might speak with you nicely, while those without such ethics might outright slay the challenger.

Without a certain background, let alone coming to the Demon Suppression Bureau to challenge, even Martial Arts Sects wouldn’t dare to venture.

Elder Huo smiled, “You’ve got a sharp eye, realizing that ordinary people wouldn’t have the guts to come to the Demon Suppression Bureau; it’s a nobleman from the Capital City, aiming to forge an undefeatable will to break through to the Divine Realm, eyeing Tongzhou’s Martial Arts Realm.

This is not an easy fight; losing it will tarnish your reputation, and winning it will damage the opponent’s martial faith, offending people you can’t afford to.”

Wei Fan showed signs of surprise, not having thought as deep as Elder Huo; he merely considered anyone daring to challenge at the Demon Suppression Bureau would have a notable background.

He hadn’t considered such intricacies, where neither winning nor losing would be favorable: “Those who lost, could it be they deliberately went easy on him?”

Elder Huo nodded, “Who knows!”

“So did you call me here to thrash him or deliberately lose to him?”

A glint of sharpness appeared in Elder Huo’s eyes, sensing the confidence in Wei Fan’s words, “The opponent isn’t a nobody, hmm… he is also a Demon Hunter. I’m merely tasked with informing you of this matter. If you agree to fight him, I’ll notify him.

Whether to accept or not is entirely up to you; I won’t interfere. Beating him up or deliberately losing is also your own decision.”

Wei Fan shook his head, “I’m not interested!”

He had even slain a Demon Monarch, naturally having no need to defeat some genius to forge his will.

This he could understand, for belief is really too important for those in the Divine Realm Martial Sect.

He took out his waist token and handed it to Elder Huo, “This is the merit I’ve earned recently, allow Elder Huo to see, besides the Purple Profound Martial Arts Manual and what I need for the Gathering God Space, how many more Divine Realm Martial Arts I can exchange for.”

Breaking through to the Divine Realm, naturally, one couldn’t solely rely on cultivation arts without having martial techniques.

“How many Demon Fiends did you slay this time?”

Elder Huo carelessly received the waist token Wei Fan handed over.

How many Demon Fiends could he have slain to claim his merit was enough to enter the Gathering God Space, where the required merit at least needs slaying more than a dozen Ninth Grade Nascent Soul Demon Fiends.

It’s not that he doubted Wei Fan’s strength; Nascent Soul Demon Fiends aren’t stones by the roadside, encountered everywhere. For many Demon Hunters, slaying Demon Fiends is not difficult, the difficulty lies in tracking them.

The next moment, Elder Huo’s pupils shrank abruptly.

On the silver waist token glittered with numerous stars, each raised dot representing the life taken of a Nascent Soul Demon Fiend, among which a particularly prominent black dot caught the eye.

As a seasoned Demon Hunter, and working in the Merit Hall, Elder Huo naturally knew this black dot represented the life of a Spirit Concentration Demon Monarch.

“You… you actually slew a Spirit Concentration Demon Monarch?”

All along, the composed Elder Huo, while facing Wei Fan, couldn’t suppress the shock in his eyes.

Spirit Concentration Demon Monarch!

Whether by poisoning, or using some other despicable means, or wielding a powerful Divine Soldier, a Celestial Martial Artist reversing and slaying a Spirit Concentration Demon Monarch is indeed a world-shaking affair.

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