872 If a Fight is What You Want, a Fight is What You’ve Got I (1/2)

Chen Pipi used all his strength to keep his right hand from trembling and spilling the water out of the bowl. He stared at Tang Xiaotang who looked travel-worn and said, ”You came.”

It was more a statement than a question. He did not need to ask as he had heard her refreshing song and seen her in person. Although he did not wish for her to come, she was already here.

”Yup.”

Ignoring the crowd between them, Tang Xiaotang asked Chen Pipi, ”Are you coming with me?”

Chen Pipi thought it through and answered, ”If you can take me, I will definitely go with you.”

Tang Xiaotang consented and walked toward the white stone altar. Her blood was dripping as she proceeded. People cleared a way and no one dared stop her, not even those divine priests nor the black-robed deacons.

She came to the front of the altar.

Chen Pipi handed her the bowl of water and asked, ”You want some water?”

Tang Xiaogang drank the remaining water as if she was enjoying some strong liquor.

Little Yu from South Sea had been standing there watching them as Chen Pipi and Tang Xiaotang's exchange. She turned pale as she realized the relationship between this woman and her cousin.

This woman had come for her man. She felt outrageous and sad, yet, she did not know what to do.

She felt like she was unwanted right there in front of the altar. Neither Chen Pipi nor Tang Xiaotang had bothered to spare a glance at her, as if she wasn't there.

She had been a very proud person. Thinking of herself as a real genius at cultivation, she had firmly believed that no one but her cousin who had been engaged to her since childhood would be comparable with her, not even the three Addicts nor the other disciples of the Academy. Therefore, she had tried to proof herself by challenging the Calligraphy Fanatic, and then Ye Hongyu.

Only now did she just realize how naive she used to be. In terms of willpower and mentality she was not even comparable with the girl who had fought all her way up the Peach Mountain, not to mention Ye Hongyu.

Standing in front of the altar, she felt all her former pride being smashed. It was not only because she felt interior in front of the girl with the iron stick, but also because her cousin had taken the bowl of water that girl gave him, and his attitude and tone when talking to the girl made it seem like they had been together for decades.

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Little Yu's feeling was not wrong.

Right there in Chen Pipi and Tang Xiaotang's eyes, there was no room for anyone else. Even the whole world had disappeared. They could only see each other, and merely that half bowl of water.

That was until a thundering sound was heard at the front yard of Peach Mountain.

In the huge sedan with radiating lights, the Hierarch stood up and stared at Tang Xiaotang. His tall figure was leaning like a mountain about to collapse.

”Who are you? What's your relationship with Lin Wu?”

”I am Tang Xiaotang. It's always Tang Xiaotang even if you read it from the back.”

Tang Xiaotang gave the bowl back to Chen Pipi, looked at the Hierarch in the sedan and continued, ”Yu Lian is my master. I came to the Peach Mountain to get my man back. You cannot stop me.”

Upon hearing these words, the Hierarch laughed heartily and said, ”How ridiculous.”

Tang Xiaotang did not think it was funny. She held up her iron stick and stared at the huge sedan.

She was wounded quite seriously when breaking through the three arrays. Her clothes were stained with blood and dust. Yet she spoke with no less pride and assertiveness.

That persistent character of hers was what made her so pleasant and loveable.

Most of the audience were not laughing except for Mo Li, the divine priest and head of Revelation Institute. He was faking his laughter to support the Hierarch. It sounded rather awkward.

No one else was laughing because Tang Xiaotang had shown a very strong fighting spirit and unbelievable improvement through the rounds of fighting. It was more horrifying than funny.

They were shocked and wondered how she could have made several breakthroughs in such a short period of time, or rather in just a few rounds of fierce fighting.

Only Chen Pipi, Ye Hongyu and Ning Que were not surprised by Tang Xiaotang's power and improvement that she had just shown.

They all knew that Tang Xiaotang had always been working hard to become the most powerful woman in the world. With such an ambitious goal she would do literally anything, and nothing could have surprised them.

Ever since challenged by Ke Haoran, the Devil's Doctrine had very few descendants left. Tang Xiaotang and her brother were basically the only two remaining. That also meant Tang Xiaotang had become the Saintess of the Devil's Doctrine.

Whether it was because of her bloodline from the Wilderness or her heritage the from Tang family, Tang Xiaotang was very talented in cultivation. Back then, in the fight at the snow cliffs in Tianqi Mountain, Tang Xiaotang had almost defeated Ye Hongyu when she was only fourteen years old. She would have done better if not for Ye Hongyu's extremely practical style that only a few people like Ning Que could handle.

Many years had passed. Ye Hongyu was already a great cultivator of the Knowing Destiny State and had become the Great Divine Priest of Judgment sitting on the Seat of Heavenly Black Jade. But Tang Xiaotang still seemed like the Saintess of Devil's Doctrine years ago.