Chapter 195: Chapter 100: Water Mirror Treasure Flame Scripture

Yu Gongshi wore an impatient expression. As a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, he was the absolute authority for the Shuijing Yu Family. If Yu Jingming hadn’t been abducted and then rescued by that notoriously deadly Demon Patrol Envoy not long ago, he wouldn’t have even remembered the boy’s name.

’That accursed spawn, Yu Wenjing! He discovered the main branch was abducting people and actually had the audacity to think of reporting it to the Demon Suppression Army. Doesn’t he realize the entire Shuijing Yu Family will be implicated? Such disregard for the clan… he truly deserved to die!’

The main branch had received a message from the Wei Family, demanding they find Yu Jingming. The tone was tinged with threats.

Terrified, the main branch felt they couldn’t contain the matter and had no choice but to report it to Yu Gongshi.

Although Yu Gongshi had struck the Chief Steward of the main branch—his own grandson—with a single palm, leaving him gravely injured and near death, he still had to step in and clean up his mess.

Moreover, seeing the Northern Army Governor’s Mansion and the Demon Suppression Army running themselves ragged these past few days, a peculiar thought began to form in his mind.

’Perhaps it really is possible to make a deal with the Four Demon Sects.’

’That old bastard Wei Zhongda… isn’t the only reason he was able to advance to Late Stage Foundation Establishment because he has a Demon Sect backing him?’

He had always known that local clans were abducting people in the Liao Kingdom to sell to the Four Demon Sects. It was only after his grandson’s confession that he learned the Wei Family was the one running the business.

’The Shuijing Yu Family has two Foundation Establishment Cultivators. If I can advance to the Late Stage of Foundation Establishment, I’ll be able to suppress Wei Zhongda and become the top clan under Longwu Marketplace’s jurisdiction.’

“Hurry up and hand over all the evidence your father, Yu Wenjing, hid!”

Yu Gongshi said, his voice laced with impatience.

He had already been waiting outside Longwu Marketplace for two days. Although he could use a Secret Technique to locate clan disciples through their Soul Tokens, the effective range was only about five li.

That was why he had been waiting outside Longwu Marketplace for the past three days, all to capture Yu Jingming.

Yu Jingming’s hands were clenched into tight fists, his nails digging deep into his palms. He could only let out a despairing wail.

’Not only had he failed to avenge his parents on this trip, but he had also dragged Grandmaster Tan down with him.’

His Cultivation was only at the First Layer of Qi Cultivation, and even Tan Mingyang was only at the Seventh Layer. Facing an ancestor at the Late Stage of Foundation Establishment like Yu Gongshi, they could do nothing but await their slaughter.

Yu Gongshi’s gaze fell upon Tan Mingyang.

“You’re an Independent Cultivator, aren’t you? Hand over the evidence, and I’ll grant you a position as an Honored Guest Elder of the Shuijing Yu Family.”

“Bah!”

Tan Mingyang spat toward Yu Gongshi in the sky.

He looked at the wailing Yu Jingming, a sense of desolation rising in his heart. As it happened, he was the one who had stumbled upon the clue about the Wei Family’s human trafficking business while helping Yu Wenjing and his wife search for the then-missing Yu Jingming.

Even back then, he had sensed the matter had far-reaching implications and that investigating it further would bring disaster.

But Yu Wenjing and his wife, full of righteous fervor, had been unwilling to let other parents suffer the pain of losing a child, and so they had followed the lead.

’How can I betray them with a clear conscience and hand over the evidence they worked so painstakingly to collect?’

Yu Gongshi was enraged. He never imagined that these two ants, whose cultivation was so low he could crush them with a single finger, would dare to defy him.

“Fine. In that case, I’ll just kill you both. The evidence can stay buried forever.”

As he spoke, he held nothing back, unleashing a blast of white flame to obliterate the two of them completely.

The Shuijing Yu Family originated from the Profound Pure Sect, but they had lost contact with the sect seven generations ago.

The primary Cultivation Technique of the Yu Family’s Direct Lineage was the Water Mirror Treasure Flame Scripture, passed down from the Profound Pure Sect. The clan had inherited a strain of Kunli Earth Fire, a flame so intensely fierce it was on the same level as the celestial Sun True Fire.

Ordinary Cultivators were completely unable to refine it; if even a speck were to touch them, they would be incinerated to ash.

The Water Mirror Treasure Flame Scripture was a technique created specifically to wield this immensely powerful True Fire. The method required refining various Spiritual Materials into a Water Mirror. This mirror would absorb the light radiating from the True Fire as it burned. Cultivators would then absorb and circulate the much gentler light reflected by the mirror to accumulate their Magical Power.

By doing so, the cultivator’s body would gradually acclimate to the True Fire’s might, until one day they could finally refine it completely.

However, though the Shuijing Yu Family had nurtured this strain of Kunli Earth Fire for nearly six hundred years, not a single member had managed to refine even a sliver of it.

Even so, the white light unleashed by Yu Gongshi contained a trace of the Kunli Earth Fire’s power, which was enough for him to dominate among the Middle Stage Foundation Establishment Cultivators of Longwu Marketplace.

Just then, a sigh echoed from the sky. Iron Head appeared, grabbing Yu Jingming and Tan Mingyang—who had both closed their eyes, resigned to death—and pulling them away from the Kunli Flame Light.

BOOM!

The Flame Light struck the ground, instantly erupting into a raging inferno that scorched the earth black.

Iron Head pulled a Token from his robes and held it up toward Yu Gongshi.

“I am Yang Tietou, a Judge serving under the Demon Patrol Envoy! Yu Gongshi, surrender at once!”

His master, Yang Jing, had deduced that with the Wei Family barricaded in their clan territory, not daring to take a single step outside, they would surely send their partners, the Yu Family, to find Yu Jingming.

Therefore, he had the four of them stake out the Shuijing Yu Family’s territory. If a large group of Yu disciples departed, following them would lead to Yu Jingming’s location.

Yang Jing wanted the four of them to protect Yu Jingming and find evidence of the Wei and Yu Families’ human trafficking.

Most of these Foundation Establishment Clans had intricate ties to the Six Sects. Without conclusive evidence, even someone like Yang Jing couldn’t make a move against them directly.

Yu Gongshi was startled at first, but upon seeing that Iron Head looked like a mere child of eight or nine, he sneered.

“If the Demon Patrol Envoy, Yang Jing, were here himself, I would certainly give him a wide berth. But a little child like you? Your cultivation might not even have reached the Middle Stage of Qi Cultivation. You think you can make me surrender just by flashing a token? You must be dreaming.”

The next moment, he threw his hands apart and unleashed ten crisscrossing beams of white flame light at the three of them, determined to burn them to cinders.

Iron Head’s brow twitched. He pulled the Big Spear from his Storage Bag and held it ready. Celestial True Gang pulsed from its tip. With a few casual flicks, he deflected every single incoming beam of Kunli Flame Light.

Before Yu Gongshi could even react, Iron Head shot into the air, his Long Spear letting out a terrifying whistle as he thrust it straight toward him.

As the patriarch of the Shuijing Yu Family, Yu Gongshi lived a pampered life and hadn’t engaged in Magical Combat for a very long time. He was completely dumbfounded by the sight of Iron Head casually deflecting his Kunli Flame Light. Before he could process what was happening, the sharp tip of the spear was already before his face.

He cried out in alarm and hastily activated the Defensive Spirit Light of his Water Mirror Spiritual Artifact, raising it as a shield before him.

CLANG!

With a tremendous clang, the Spiritual Artifact’s Defensive Spirit Light twisted and warped. The immense force traveled directly into Yu Gongshi, rattling him so hard his teeth felt loose and his organs threatened to rupture.

The force of the single thrust sent him plummeting straight toward the ground.

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