“Are you just going to watch him bully me?” Tan Miaotong’s eyes were glistening with tears as she looked at Ye Chu, her delicate and charming face capable of melting hearts.
Ye Chu shrugged. Although he knew Tan Miaotong was using her beauty to entice him, he was more than willing to fall for it.
“She doesn’t want to go. Sir, there’s no need to make things difficult. Please leave!” Ye Chu stood in front of Tan Miaotong, smiled faintly, and gestured with his hand for the owner of the Jade Workshop to depart.
“Get out of the way!” The owner naturally did not take Ye Chu seriously. Especially seeing Ye Chu standing together with Tan Miaotong and the others, he even intended to use Ye Chu to establish his authority. He did not dare touch Tan Miaotong or Ye Jingyun, since Shangguan Min Da fancied one of them. But the man beside them was fair game. Perhaps dealing with him would even please Shangguan Min Da.
Ye Chu ignored him and signalled for Tan Miaotong to follow him.
“Take him down!” The owner shouted at Ye Chu, glaring fiercely. “This is Black Jade City. If you dare defy Young Master Shangguan, I guarantee you won’t be able to take a single step here!”
A group of men blocked Ye Chu’s path. Ye Chu frowned slightly and stared at the owner. “Get out of the way!”
“Tie him up!” The owner ordered his followers. The group immediately rushed towards Ye Chu.
“Overestimating yourselves!”
Ye Chu casually dodged a wooden stick swung by one of the cultivators. He swept the stick horizontally.
How could these followers possibly be a match for Ye Chu? He moved through them like no one was there. One strike after another landed. Cultivators cried out in pain as their bodies flew backwards. In a short moment, all those who had charged at Ye Chu lay sprawled on the ground, groaning in heaps.
Ye Chu looked at the owner of the Jade Workshop and could not help laughing. “Just this bunch of useless good-for-nothings, and you dare come to tie me up?”
The owner’s face showed shock. He had never expected this seemingly unremarkable young man to be so strong. If he had known earlier, he would have called in the Jade Workshop’s enshrined experts.
“Black Jade City produces black jade. I’m quite curious. As a major force in Black Jade City, do you happen to have some suitable black jade for us to cultivate with?” Ye Chu smiled brightly at the owner and stepped closer towards him. Since the other side had come looking for trouble, he might as well offend them thoroughly.
Black jade was excellent stuff. If it was of good quality, the spiritual energy within could greatly aid his cultivation. Since he had come here, Ye Chu naturally would not let the opportunity slip.
By now he had already reached the seventh layer of the Innate Realm. Reaching the Primordial Spirit Realm as soon as possible would bring him a true transformation. His will realm would mature further, and his strength would surge dramatically.
Upon reaching the Primordial Spirit Realm, the differences in primordial spirits would begin to show. With the imprint of the black iron, his primordial spirit was unlike others. Ye Chu was very eager to know what it would feel like once he reached that realm.
Seeing Ye Chu approach, the owner snorted coldly. He swung a fierce fist. As the master of a workshop, though not the strongest in the Jade Workshop, he still possessed Primordial Spirit Realm strength. The punch carried howling winds. “Ignorant brat who doesn’t know the height of the heavens. Offend Young Master Shangguan, and you can wait to die in Black Jade City.”
“I don’t know whether I’ll die or not, but I do know you’re going to die!” Ye Chu laughed loudly. He unleashed a powerful strike. The power of the seventh layer Innate Realm far surpassed before. Surging forth, it carried the aura of murderous qi, terrifying and vast. It clashed head-on with the owner of the Jade Workshop.
Ye Chu’s primordial spirit was already different from ordinary people. Combined with his expanded qi sea, the power he could contain far exceeded that of an ordinary seventh-layer Innate Realm cultivator.
The power infused with murderous qi erupted. In an instant, it forced the owner back several steps. At this moment, Ye Chu’s strength was actually not inferior to that of a Primordial Spirit Realm cultivator.
Ye Jingyun’s eyes could not help twitching. She looked at Ye Chu standing there calmly. Her heart could not settle. Anyone could see that for an Innate Realm cultivator at only the seventh layer to match Primordial Spirit Realm power, the purity of his primordial spirit must be terrifying.
The first time she met Ye Chu, he had not even reached the Innate Realm. Later she had worried about his spirit-forging technique. Yet now, his primordial spirit had surely surpassed her own when she was at the seventh layer Innate Realm.
“Ye Chu’s spirit-forging technique is heaven-defying!” Ye Jingyun looked at Ye Chu in disbelief, unable to understand what kind of spirit-forging technique he had cultivated.
She could not help thinking of the page from the golden book that Ji Die had taken. If he had a technique like that, it would not be strange. Could it be that Ye Chu also possessed a spirit-forging method comparable to a Supreme Being’s secret art?
……
Ye Chu stared at the owner of the Jade Workshop and laughed. In the past, fighting Primordial Spirit Realm cultivators had been extremely difficult. He had only been able to resist by using the unique combination of his will realm and power. But now, he could withstand a Primordial Spirit Realm cultivator using only his own strength.
The owner stared straight at Ye Chu. He had never expected Ye Chu to be this strong. Originally he thought dealing with Ye Chu would be easy with his own strength. But now it seemed impossible for him alone.
Ye Chu pressed forward. The wooden stick in his hand swept out, striking straight towards the opponent.
The advantage of Ye Chu’s will realm showed immediately. Although the owner’s power was comparable to his, Ye Chu’s will realm was lively and nimble. His moves flowed with the will realm, carrying a sharp and piercing momentum.
The two might be equal in raw power, but in aura, Ye Chu firmly suppressed the opponent. Under the pressure of Ye Chu’s will realm, the opponent’s flaws were exposed everywhere. Naturally he was no match. The wooden stick swept horizontally and struck the opponent’s leg.
“Ah…”
The owner let out a miserable cry. His leg buckled instantly. With a thud, he knelt before Ye Chu. He struggled to stand, but Ye Chu swept another stick at him.
These two strikes landed on both legs. The opponent knelt on the ground. Ye Chu pressed the stick against the opponent’s body and smiled at him. “Being a lackey actually requires quite a bit of skill. With just this meagre strength, you still want to be someone’s dog? Do you know why Shangguan Min Da didn’t come himself? Because he’s afraid of getting beaten. So he sent you, this sacrificial pawn, to die in his place.”
The owner struggled desperately to break free from the pressure of Ye Chu’s stick, but he could not move at all. Finally, terror appeared on his face.
“Let me go! The Shangguan family is the hegemon in this region. No one can defy them. If you dare touch me, Young Master Shangguan will never let you off!” The owner roared.
Ye Chu laughed. “Even if I don’t touch you, once he knows I’m here, he still won’t let me off. Because before this, I already beat him up.”
These words made the owner stare at Ye Chu in horror. His eyes filled with disbelief. What kind of person was Shangguan Min Da? The heir of a hegemon family. Yet he had actually been beaten by the young man before him. Did this fellow have a background comparable to Shangguan Min Da’s?
Thinking of this, his entire body felt as though it had fallen into an ice cellar!
Ye Chu looked at the owner, whose face had turned deathly pale. “So? Now can you tell me? Does your Jade Workshop happen to have some suitable black jade for us?”