Chapter 74 (1/2)

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Chapter 74

Golden Invitations Are Now Useless

Su Yuehan and Li Chengfeng brought their horses to a guesthouse to be parked at their stables. Due to Li Chengfeng's performance, no one dared offer him exorbitant prices.

The streets at the entrance of the sect were as busy as a small town. BUsinesses were well-established here, selling all sorts of daily necessities, food and drinks as well as magical items and ingredients. Chengfeng and Yuehan were almost overwhelmed by the variety offered here.

After strolling the shops, they followed the steps up the mountain. Su Yuehan's brows remained tightly furrowed as if she was thinking hard. She couldn't help but ask, “Young Master…”

Antic.i.p.ating her question, he replied, “Are you still trying to figure out how I spat out so much blood?”

“You're not actually injured, are you? That would be bad. While you have the golden invitation, you still need to take an examination at the ceremony.”

He smiled. “Why would I injure myself over two swindlers? I used this…” He tossed something at her.

Su Yuehan caught the object flying at her only to realise she was carrying a pouch of blood. It was sealed with st.i.tches and still had blood slos.h.i.+ng inside.

She gasped, “You carry this around with you?”

“I started to roam the streets at ten years old, how would I earn a living if I did not have a few tricks up my sleeve?”

She pursed her lips. “You speak as if you're one of those swindlers and scammers.”

He grinned. “Am I not?”

“But I think you're quite well-read, you're very different from those filthy-mouthed, vulgar gangsters.”

“If you want to roam the streets, you must study at least a little or other people will look down on you if they think you're uncultured. But if you don't have a few dirty tricks on you, you'd get bullied very often.”

She huffed. “More like if you don't have a few tricks on you, you won't be able to cheat their money, right?”

Chengfeng did not get upset and instead laughed.

Both of them chatted happily up the mountain. After about five hundred metres, they suddenly saw a large empty s.p.a.ce amongst the dense forest. There was a vast platform with four pillars at each corner. Each pillar had a stone-carved object at the top, which was the four items on the flags he had seen at the foot of the mountain: a sword, a cauldron, a hairpin and a scroll.

Li Chengfeng and Su Yuehan looked at each other with antic.i.p.ation.

When he reached the platform, he realised the four stone pillars were huge, about forty to fifty metres tall. His neck hurt just to look up at the top.

The platform was filled with people. He estimated about two to three thousand of them, given how close they stood from each other.

There was a stone stage at the centre with two levels, each level about three metres tall. The tallest level stood an old man in long robes. He had three blue stripes on his sleeve and a beard that reached his chest. He stood with his eyes slightly closed, his cheekbones tall on his sunken face, laugh lines as deep as ravines extending to the corner of his mouth, the corner of his lips turned down into a solemn, regal expression.

The next level of the stage stood two young male cultivators and one young female cultivator. The leftmost man was handsome but looked impatient. He could not help but roll his eyes as he surveyed the crowd, his sleeve had three green stripes; the man on the right looked nonchalant. He looked around lazily as he yawned, his sleeve had two green stripes.

In the middle stood the only female cultivator. She looked down with a sharp glare filled with arrogance and contempt. There were also two green stripes on her sleeve, this was the cultivator Ah Xiu from before who was with her Grand Senior Sister.