CH 342

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In the City Lord Manor in the Changfeng City…

By the time Third Sister Hai returned, Fourth Brother Zeng, Uncle Cen, Sixth Sister Gu, and a few others were there to wait for her.

“Third Sister, you’re back!” 

“Are you alright?” 

“Third Sister, where’s Boss Sha?” 

Third Sister Hai swept her gaze across those present and paused slightly before muttering, “Boss Sha and Second Brother Liu are dead.” 

Even though they already expected as much, hearing it from her gave off a different feeling. Even Sixth Sister Gu, who had seen Second Brother Liu’s death with her own eyes, revealed a complicated gaze.

The few of them could only rely on each other as they danced with death and all of them had a pretty good relationship with each other. Now that their fellow comrades were dead, they couldn’t help but feel a sense of regret filling their hearts. At the same time, they had to admit that their Third Sister Hai was a formidable expert. Her identity wasn’t as simple as it seemed either.

“Mother, you came out!” Hai Min was also part of those who came.

Even though her daughter was the one who called out to her, Third Sister Hai barely acknowledged it with a slight nod before turning to address the others. “Where’s the kid?”

Naturally, she was referring to Shang Xia.

She ran into Youshang outside the city earlier and learned that he instructed the remaining members of the Eighteen Horsemen to head over to the City Lord Manor.

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Because of Youshang’s reminder, they went ahead and called Shang Xia the Sixth Young Master of the Shang Clan, allowing them some guesses as to who Third Sister Hai was looking for. However, Shang Xia went into the underground spirit cave right after they entered, allowing him to hide his face for the time being.

Even though they felt that she was a little disrespectful to their savior, they replied to her nonetheless. However, they hadn’t corrected their mistake and thought that Shang Xia was the mysterious Martial Extermination Realm expert who came to their aid previously and they answered Third Sister Hai’s question. “Senior told us to defend the manor. He went over to protect an important region and left this place in our care.” 

Third Sister Hai’s expression changed slightly when she heard how they addressed him, and she muttered, “Why are you addressing him as ‘senior’? Have you met him?” 

After killing Second Brother Liu and Boss Sha, Third Sister Hai no longer hid her cultivation level. Her cultivation base at the grand completion stage of the Martial Intent Realm was revealed, and Uncle Cen and the others didn’t dare to look directly at her. Her slight change in emotions wasn’t noticed by any one of them.

Nodding quickly, Uncle Cen replied, “When Boss Sha and the rest chose to betray us and join the Changfeng City, Senior Shang saved us, along with another mysterious senior. We haven’t seen his true appearance, but he scared away many people with the bow earlier. His weapon of choice was similar to the senior who saved our lives, and since Senior Youshang sent us here to assist him, he’s definitely our senior.”

Third Sister Hai snorted slightly in response. “I’m not doubting his identity. But since you know that he’s from the Shang Clan, did you meet him or something?”

“Third Sister, is there… Is there something wrong?” Uncle Cen hesitated for a moment as he heard the strange tone coming from Third Sister Hai. 

She snapped at him the next moment. “What do you mean there’s something wrong? Nevermind! Just guard this place! I’ll go meet that ‘Senior Shang’ you’re talking about!” 

“Third Sister, the Sixth Young Master told us not to disturb him…” Fourth Brother Zeng added.

“Sixth Young Master?” Third Sister Hai nearly burst out laughing after hearing his title again.

Uncle Cen quickly turned to look at Hai Min before signaling her with his eyes. Hai Min quickly spoke up. “Mother, Yuanyuan… She’s missing…” 

Turning her head to stare at Hai Min, Third Sister Hai snapped, “What?!”

Jumping in fright, Hai Min quickly continued, “I handed her over and got someone to take care of her. The situation was too chaotic earlier and when everything settled down and I returned to my courtyard, I discovered that it had already collapsed. Yuanyuan also went missing. I think she might have been brought to a safe place by the person I requested to take care of her…” 

Third Sister Hai’s dark expression cleared up slightly after hearing that Hai Min might be fine and she asked, “Who did you ask to take care of her? Describe their appearance to me.” 

Hai Min quickly described Shang Xia’s appearance to her mother. Everything seemed fine earlier, but once she made the description, Third Sister Hai gnashed her teeth with rage before bursting into laughter to conceal her anger. “Great! What an amazing Senior Shang you found here. Sixth Young Master of the Shang Clan my ass!” 

Her sudden outburst caused everyone to stare at each other in shock.

Uncle Cen looked at Ninth Brother Huang as a bad premonition filled their hearts.

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In the spirit cave underground, Shang Xia had no idea his identity had already been seen through by Third Sister Hai.

He was still looking at the advancement medicine he obtained from Yang Zhenbiao. Since the advancement formula was given to him by Youshang after he picked out Gao Yun’s belongings, it seemed as though the entire set was what the White Deer Paradise was giving Yang Hu in exchange for his alliance.

A set of advancement medicine and the Yin Water Mysterious Extrermination Origin. Indeed… It seemed as though those were Yang Zhenbiao’s key to entering the Martial Extermination Realm! Moreover, with the advancement formula in Yang Hu’s hands, he would be able to establish himself as a powerful faction in the future!

For the White Deer Paradise to hand over a set of advancement medicine and a complete advancement formula, one could see how seriously they were taking this.

All the great powers in the Azure Origin World had a pact to strictly prevent the outflow of advancement formulas, especially high leveled ones!

Even with Shang Bo and Kou Chongxue’s relationship, the Shang Clan had to toil away for twenty years and Shang Bo had to pledge his allegiance to the Tongyou Institution before he could obtain a set of rank four advancement formula for his family! That was how much emphasis the Tongyou Institution placed on a rank four advancement formula!

Of course, the Shang Clan didn’t just possess that one set of advancement formula now. With more options, they could prevent wasting any talented individuals!

Shang Xia might have obtained the rank four advancement formula from Youshang earlier, but to be honest, he was more interested in the bottle of advancement medicine. 

The advancement formula would describe the way to create the advancement medicine, but one would still have to look for all the ingredients and find a qualified alchemist! The number of precious herbs required to create a set of rank four advancement medicine was astronomical! There were even some that couldn’t be obtained easily!

Now that a set of advancement medicine had fallen into Shang Xia’s lap from nowhere, or more accurately to say, after killing Yang Zhenbiao, it would save him a lot of trouble!

That was also another reason why the great powers didn’t wish to spread their advancement formulas around. They wanted to keep the ingredients of the medicine a secret so others have no idea how important some of the herbs were!

After keeping the medicine and the advancement formula carefully, Shang Xia started to look at the remains. He picked at those that caught his eye.

Even though it took a long time to describe what happened, only a short moment had passed in reality. Nothing came from the underground river that led to the Ji Continent, but Shang XIa chose to place his Spirit Extermination Gourd above the deep pool after thinking about it for some time.

All of a sudden, one of the holes above him turned dark. When Shang Xia raised his head to take a look, he saw a spear light smashing into the protection barrier above him.

Jumping to his feet in fright, he grabbed his Scarlet Star Spear and got ready to fight.

A tiny hole was torn in the barrier and a figure descended gracefully through it. She arrived in front of Shang Xia with a cold look on her face.

“Oh, it’s senior…” Shang Xia heaved a sigh of relief after seeing who came. However, he still noticed the lingering spear light that struck the barrier earlier and he couldn’t be bothered with why she forcefully tore through the barrier to enter the spirit cave. His expression sank and a trace of killing intent formed in his heart. “Who exactly are you? What spear art did you just use?”

Without saying a word, Third Sister Hai’s aura at the grand completion stage of the Martial Intent Realm descended. Her spear returned to her hand and she raised it towards Shang Xia. 

As someone who had exchanged blows with Martial Extermination Realm experts more than once and even killed one of them, Shang Xia wasn’t intimidated by the aura of a mere grand completion stage Martial Intent Realm cultivator.

Watching how she raised her spear at him, Shang Xia chuckled with rage and his Scarlet Star Spear that he had been lowering slowly stood upright again.

One had to say that ever since he comprehended Piercing Sun and killed Gao Yun, he seemed to have reached a completely new realm of comprehension. Be it his mental state or his cultivation, they seemed to have experienced a massive level up.

It allowed him to maintain a casual attitude whenever he was up against cultivators of the same realm.

It was a state that allowed him to achieve complete suppression over those at the same cultivation level! 

Even if his opponent was in the grand completion stage of the Martial Intent Realm, it didn’t matter!

His opponent might have caught him off guard and taken the initiative to strike, but it wouldn’t be enough!

The moment Shang Xia brought out his spear, he would achieve complete domination!

Raising his spear, it didn’t matter which of the nine moves he wanted to unleash. That wasn’t all. He seemed to have mixed many different styles with each other and he was ready to utilize any technique he wanted.

Stabbing out slowly, Shang Xia completely shattered the pressure that was on him. Facing Third Sister Hai’s seven foot long spear, he wasn’t flustered in the slightest as he quickly suppressed her.

Nevertheless, she was a Martial Intent Realm expert at the grand completion stage. Defeating her wouldn’t be easy. Her figure started to flicker and she quickly escaped his suppression.

Shang Xia didn’t react immediately. Instead, he stood where he was and growled, “Who exactly are you? Why do you know my Shang Clan Spear Art?” 

Compared to his initial anger, he was slightly taken aback by her skills. However, his shock couldn’t even begin to compare to the fright Third Sister Hai was feeling.

The Providence Spear Art might differ from person to person as they came up with moves that suited themselves based on their understanding of the Providence Spear Art, but the basic principles were there. Anyone would recognize their technique as long as they knew what to look for.

Shang Xia’s attacks earlier were all-encompassing and managed to force her back without much difficulty. Even though he used many different techniques, Third Sister Hai was able to confirm a single fact. He was definitely using the Providence Spear Art! 

Her eyes widened in shock as she thought about the final sentence in the Providence Spear Art. “Nine spears into one, Providence in one’s fingertips!” 

Did he… Did he come up with nine moves based on his comprehension of the Providence Spear Art?!

Raising her head to stare at Shang Xia, she failed to contain her shock. “You…” 

Before she could continue, a low rumbling came from the underground river.