Chapter 243: The Strong Lei Clan (2/2)

Mo Wuji walked into a hotel, and casually ordered a jug of wine in its first floor’s hall. He originally planned to ask the helpers around here for some information, but heard two men at one side discussing about Lei Hongji. But unfortunately, those two men changed their topic of conversation after a few sentences.

With that, Mo Wuji gave up asking the helpers for information, instead bringing his wine jug to the table of the two men, bowing respectfully, ”My two friends, if you don’t mind, I’ll be paying for this round of wine.”

The two of them were complete strangers to Mo Wuji, and upon hearing what he had said, they stared at him in surprise. Treating other people to wine was naturally okay, but there had to be a reason behind it right?

”Both of you need not think so much, because Lei Clan’s Senior Lei Hongji is my favourite genius. To think that Senior Lei Hongji had become a top notch lightning attribute cultivator as such a young age. There aren’t many that can match up to him in the Lost Continent. I believe that Senior Lei Hongji enrollment in the Great Evolution Sect allowed him to add on to the glory of the sect, instead of the other way around. That’s right, I heard both of you say that Senior Lei Hongji had passed the selection and is really going to the Zhen Mo Continent?” Mo Wuji made it as though as he was on the same frequency as them, speaking incessantly after sitting down. These two cultivators that were discussing about Lei Hongji were immediately stunned after hearing Mo Wuji’s words. In a place like Yu Lin, Lei Clan’s Lei Hongji had an unimaginably large number of fans.

The slightly fat cultivator clapped his hands together, ”My friend, you’re spot on. Lei Hongji passed the three rounds and is one of the geniuses that can go to Zhen Mo Continent. I also heard from others that once the Worldly Immortal King from Zhen Mo Continent found out that Senior Lei had supreme lightning attribute spiritual roots, he was even praised for it. The Worldly Immortal King said that for this level of spiritual roots, even without the selection, he would qualify to go to Zhen Mo Continent.”

”That’s great!” Mo Wuji clapped his hands together, just like the slightly fat cultivator, and exclaimed. But after that, he spoke in a low voice, ”It’s a pity that I didn’t manage to go to Yan City Plaza, otherwise, I could see Senior Lei’s glory and gracefulness. I imagine it would have been very sexy [2].”

The two men did not know what sexy meant, but they could infer that it was a term of praise. The other fairer cultivator nodded his head in agreement, ”My friend, you’re right, but there are many people going to Heaven Seeking Palace now, and Senior Lei went there as well. If you head to Heaven Seeking Palace, you might have the chance to see Senior Lei from a distance.”

”Why are they going to Heaven Seeking Palace?” Mo Wuji was shocked, and quickly asked. He wanted to find out about the Lei Clan, but in the end he discovered that everyone was going to Heaven Seeking Palace. Could his sabotage have failed?

The fair cultivator chuckled, ”It seems like you really don’t know yet. The Zhen Mo Continent’s Star King Mountain’s special envoy has always revered Heaven Seeking Palace’s Heaven Seeking Staircase, so he went to climb it to see if he could get ranked first. At the same time, all the geniuses heading to Zhen Mo Continent also have to climb the Heaven Seeking Staircase once. From this they will determine everyone’s potential for growth. Since Senior Lei was in the top 100 for the competition, he naturally has to go to Heaven Seeking Palace too.”

Hearing that it was about the Heaven Seeking Staircase allowed Mo Wuji to heave a sigh of relief, and he asked while slightly confused, ”Then are all the Lei Clan experts going to Heaven Seeking Palace?”

The slightly fat cultivator shook his head, ”It’s the complete opposite, all Lei Clan experts are not going.”

”Why? Lei Hongji is the number one genius of Lei Clan after all, so why isn’t there anyone going. They seem to be making light of the situation.” An angry expression appeared on Mo Wuji’s face as he spoke passionately.

The slightly fat cultivator simply laughed, ”My friend, you’re a very emotional person, so let me tell you the truth. The third day of next month is Lei Clan’s ancestors’ memorial day. All Lei Clan disciples have to come back to burn incense and pray.”

Hearing this, Mo Wuji was extremely elated. Even the heavens wanted to destroy the Lei Clan, as such a good opportunity had been delivered to his doorstep.

”Then is Lei Hongji coming back too?” Mo Wuji asked naively.

To that, the slightly fat cultivator responded, ”He originally was coming back, but after the Zhen Mo Continent’s special envoy said that the 100 chosen disciples cannot leave their group, and once they do, it would be considered as backing out. Hence the Lei Clan’s Clan Head could only allow Lei Hongji to not return for the time being, and follow the Zhen Mo Continent group to climb the Heaven Seeking Staircase.”

”I heard that the Lei Clan’s Clan Head is at Great Circle of Nihility God Stage. Not sure if that’s true or not.” Mo Wuji randomly spouted.

”Haha, you’re wrong about this. I heard that the Lei Clan’s Clan Head is at Nihility God Stage Level 3. The real Great Circle of Nihility God Stage cultivator is the Lei Clan’s First Elder, Lei Guang.” The slightly fat cultivator giggled, as he was satisfied that he could educate Mo Wuji.

”Haha...It seems like I’ve been focusing too much on Lei Hongji, so I didn’t take note of other things. Come, let’s drink.” After speaking, Mo Wuji took the cup before him and downed all of its contents.

The other to men also resonated with Mo Wuji’s forthright attitude, and emptied their cups too.

…

Heaven Seeking Palace regained its past glory and liveliness, and the Heaven Seeking Staircase was more congested than ever. Many people had rushed over from Yan City Plaza just to watch the Lost Continent experts climb the Heaven Seeking Staircase. Moreover, everyone also heard that the Zhen Mo Continent’s special envoy was taking part in the climb too.

Hence for these few days, Heaven Seeking Palace was open to the public. Anyone could enter as they pleased, and go to the plaza in front of Heaven Seeking Staircase. Of course, they could only go to the Heaven Seeking Staircase’s plaza, and nowhere else.

The rankings in front of Heaven Seeking Staircase was covered with a piece of red cloth, waiting for the Zhen Mo Continent’s special envoy to officially declare the commencement of the climb.

Standing on the Heaven Seeking Staircase’s plaza, Xia Mu looked up at the Heaven Seeking Staircase whose top could not be seen. A sense of excitement and pride welled up inside him. He had to climb to the top of Heaven Seeking Staircase, and carve his name as the eternal Rank 1 on the Heaven Seeking Staircase rankings, which would make all the Lost Continent’s future geniuses think of him, Xia Mu, whenever they come here in the future.

”Take off the red cloth, unveil the Heaven Seeking Board.” Xia Mu waved his hand. The setback from a few days ago had already been forgotten by him.

A strong gust of wind blew the red cloth away, and after the rankings was revealed, the crowd was shocked.

[1] We translated Lei as lightning.

[2] The raw for sexy is 拉风, which is sort of slang so the two men don’t know about it.