Chapter 149: Lesson

When Xiao Wan’er died, her earth fire unbound and wanted to escape.

Unfortunately, Shen Xu was around.

Although his chaos fire and physique had yet to awaken, their potential was enough to suppress an earth fire.

Because of this, the earth fire was suppressed and couldn’t leave Xiao Wan’er’s body.

When Shen Xu went to collect the woman’s space ring and storage bags, he secretly sent the earth fire into the space.

At first, he wanted to personally refine the earth fire and later feed it to the wood element fire.

However, things didn’t go as planned.

As soon as the earth fire appeared in the space, the wood element fire instinctively ate it.

Since then, the wood element fire fell into a dormant state and would likely not awaken until it advanced to level four.

Recalling this turn of events, Zhen Yuan narrowed his eyes.

’It will be a lot harder for Xiaoxu to contract and refine a level four fire compared to a level three fire. However, it’s not without benefits.’ He thought, smiled, but soon regained his composure.

“If I must give a reason, I killed Xiao Wan’er because she didn’t know her place. She mistakenly believed that everyone in the world is obligated to spoil and give in to her. I don’t know why but she erroneously believed she could do anything without suffering the consequences of her actions.” Zhen Yuan said, his lips curled in a teasing smile.

“You….” Father Xiao, Xiao Zhang, roared in anger.

“Are you scolding my Xiao family for not properly teaching our descendants?” He questioned.

“You can understand it that way.” Zhen Yuan said and the surroundings fell into an eerie silence.

“What is going on?” Someone whispered.

“Has this Zhen Yuan gone crazy?”

How dare an early-stage golden core realm cultivator challenge the majesty of a nascent soul realm family?”

“Maybe senior Zhen Yuan has the capital to be wilful.”

“Capital? What capital can a golden core realm cultivator have?”

“You weren’t in the Demon Plants Forest….” Someone started and several people turned to look at the person.

“Jun’er, what do you know?” An old man asked.

“Clan patriarch, senior Zhen Yuan is not an ordinary golden core realm cultivator.”

“What do you mean?”

“Senior Zhen Yuan faced three nascent soul realm attacks but escaped without shedding a drop of blood.”

“How is that possible?” A female cultivator exclaimed; her voice filled with disbelief.

“Mother, I am not lying.” The so-called Jun’er said and quickly continued.

“One mid-stage and two late-stage nascent soul realm attacks.”

“Who attacked him?”

“The mid-stage attack belongs to the Dry Mist Xiao family while one of the late-stage belongs to the Divine Rainbow Xiao family. I don’t know about the third.”

“Did Zhen Yuan have a treasure that can block nascent soul realm attacks?” The clan patriarch asked and Jun’er shook his head in denial.

“Zhen Yuan used level three talismans and inscriptions.”

After that, Jun’er described everything that happened and the surrounding cultivators couldn’t help but be shocked.

Similarly, other people learned the news and a trace of anticipation diffused in the area.

At this time, a cold voice echoed in the surroundings.

“Little nephew Zhen is so brave. However, it’s not your turn to teach my Xiao family a lesson.” Ancestor Xiao sneered.

A moment later, the surrounding temperature rose and a red light filled the sky.

At a glance, it looked like the sky was burning.

However, Zhen Yuan was not afraid.

When he saw the red light, he narrowed his eyes and removed his brush.

At first, the brush looked ordinary and was only the size of a writing pen.

However, it began growing as soon as it touched his palm.

In the blink of an eye, it became two metres long and exuded an imposing aura.

Seeing this, ancestor Xiao laughed in anger.

’How dare he prepare to fight me? Is he looking down on me?’

The more he thought, the angrier ancestor Xiao became.

He had never been so insulted and an unprecedented hatred filled his heart.

’I won’t let him go.’ He thought and the red light began to condense into a large fiery palm.

“I will send you to accompany my granddaughter in the afterlife.” He angrily roared but Zhen Yuan sneered before he spoke.

“Impossible.” He said.

Why would he leave his beautiful wife and rush to the afterlife to accompany an irrelevant woman?

“White-haired people shouldn’t see off black-haired people. I will help ancestor Xiao correct the order. Ancestor Xiao can still catch up with his granddaughter if he leaves now.” Zhen Yuan said, causing several spectators to gasp in shock.

Shen Xu was also shocked.

Although he was fighting old man Han, half his attention was on Zhen Yuan.

Because of this, he heard everything that Zhen Yuan said.

’This guy knows how to shock and infuriate people.’ The double thought with a proud look.

However, he didn’t have time to dwell on Zhen Yuan because he was under attack from two sides.

“Bastard.” Xiao Zhang roared.

At the same time, he and several other Xiao family members removed their weapons.

The Xiao family was a powerful clan with a deep background and many high realm cultivators.

Because of this, the clan members were arrogant and didn’t take others seriously.

From their perspective, casual cultivators like Zhen Yuan weren’t qualified to talk to them, let alone retaliate against them.

Unexpectedly, Zhen Yuan was ignorant.

He not only killed a beloved child of the Xiao family but also mocked them without giving the face.

Thinking of this, the Xiao family was infuriated and couldn’t wait to smash Zhen Yuan into ten billion pieces.

However, Zhen Yuan didn’t give them a chance.

While raising his brush to defend against the nascent soul realm palm attack, he activated a killing formation disk and directly collected several members of the Xiao family.

Seeing this, ancestor Xiao was more infuriated.

As a result, he strengthened his palm attack, trying to suppress Zhen Yuan.

’It’s powerful but it’s not a full-strength attack.’ Zhen Yuan thought and subconsciously narrowed his eyes.

A moment later, a nine-talismans rebound talisman formation appeared below the palm.

Simultaneously, Zhen Yuan rushed towards the old man.

“Absurd.” Ancestor Xiao roared.

However, he was secretly shocked.

Ancestor Xiao initially didn’t realise that something was wrong but when he thought about, he felt everything was strange.

First, Zhen Yuan was a golden core realm cultivator but seemed unaffected by nascent soul realm coercion.

In all his years, ancestor Xiao had never seen or heard of such a thing.

Even cultivators who could challenge above their realms couldn’t avoid higher realm suppression.

’Is he also a nascent soul realm cultivator?’ Ancestor Xiao wondered but soon shook his head.

’Zhen Yuan is only twenty. It’s difficult to see a twenty years old nascent soul realm cultivator in the Tianxuan continent, let alone the Canglan continent.’

’Also, the cultivation restriction of the Demon Plants Forest is very powerful. It’s impossible for a golden core realm or nascent realm cultivator to enter the secret realm even if they suppress their cultivation.’

Ancestor Xiao narrowed his eyes when he thought of that.

’Zhen Yuan is neither a swordsman nor a martial artist. How can he challenge a nascent soul realm cultivator?’

Thinking of this, ancestor Xiao couldn’t help but be wary and a trace of murderous intent flashed in his eyes.

’This child can’t be kept.’ He thought.

At the same time, he recalled his qi and removed a bow from his space ring.

The bow was one metre long and its string was made of a flaming material.

Soon after, ancestor Xiao forged his qi into a fire arrow and aimed at Zhen Yuan.

“I don’t know why you can’t resist my coercion but this is the end of the road.” The old said and directly released the arrow.

Compared to the previous attack, the arrow attack was focused, faster, and several times more powerful.

When Zhen Yuan saw the fire arrow, he didn’t dare to underestimate it and immediately focused his qi on the brush hairs.

Soon after, the hairs hardened and became a spear point.

A breath later, he thrust the spear and hit the side of the fire arrow.

Unfortunately, Zhen Yuan was fundamentally a golden core realm cultivator.

Although he hit the arrow, his attack was not strong enough to nullify the opponent’s attack.

However, his attack was not completely useless.

After his spear hit the arrow, the fire arrow lost half its power and slightly deviated from its original course.

Seeing this, Zhen Yuan smiled and activated two level three earth wall talismans to deal with the remaining attack.

“Good. Good. But how long can you hold on? How many talismans can you activate before your qi runs out?” Ancestor Xiao asked, his lips curled in a sinister smile.

’He is right. I cannot win a war of attrition.’ Zhen Yuan thought but didn’t lose his cool.

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