Chapter 675 — The Tempered Physique Stirs Up Storms
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
True God Pang Yu was stewing over this when he saw many young divine ability users hurrying over—many of them, having heard that a demon had come to issue a challenge, had rushed forward to answer it.
Among the crowd was a man of elegant bearing, holding the hand of the girl beside him, a small bundle slung across his back.
Pang Yu's eyes lit up. "Young Master Xu."
Xu Shenghua smiled, but the smile carried a coldness that kept others a thousand li at bay. "True God."
Pang Yu's gaze flickered. "Young Master Xu is the leading figure of Jingping. Are you confident of defeating the enemy?"
Xu Shenghua's gaze came to rest on Lou Qianzhong opposite; it shifted, then moved to Zhe Huali and Qi Jiuyi. "Not very confident. Their cultivation arts are of too high a level—the arts themselves carry the power to grant one enlightenment into the Dao. The art I cultivate has only just begun, and cannot compare with the arts handed down to them by their ancestors and their masters. My chances of victory are not great."
True God Pang Yu knitted his brows. This youth was of a wholly different temperament from Shen Mu: he weighed enemy and ally alike from a wholly detached height, scrutinizing both sides as though he were no party to the matter at all.
He was too detached, and it gave one a rather uncomfortable feeling.
Wang Muran's eyes lit up. "You yourself admit you are no match for him? If I defeat him, will you then concede that you are inferior to me?"
Xu Shenghua said, "In Little Yujing I defeated you in twenty-three moves, and I defeated Dao Master Lin Xuan in five. Therefore Dao Master Lin Xuan is stronger than you. If you can hold out five moves against this Lou Qianzhong, I will fight him."
Wang Muran was enraged, and Dao Master Lin Xuan, not far off, likewise furrowed his brows deeply.
Though Xu Shenghua spoke highly of him, this manner of praising a man was truly hard to stomach.
"Xu Shenghua has spent too long in Cult Master Shen's company and been influenced by him. Even when Cult Master Shen is being modest, he wounds people like this," Dao Master Lin Xuan thought to himself.
Wang Muran sneered, "I hear that when Cult Master Shen defeated you, he did not use a single move—he merely walked, and it dragged you to the point of vomiting blood."
Xu Shenghua sighed, "The stronger my opponent, the fewer moves I use. In my battle with Cult Master Shen, not one move was spent before victory and defeat were decided. He is indeed powerful—the most terrifying opponent I have ever met. I have gained much of late, and I dearly wish to seek him out and contend with him once more to see who is the stronger; it is only that I seldom run into him."
Wang Muran choked with fury, rushed out, and cried in a loud voice, "Lou Qianzhong, do you dare fight me?"
Lou Qianzhong looked at him. "State your name."
"We will speak after we have fought!"
Wang Muran's cultivation had advanced with astonishing speed of late. The collision of Jingping's cultivation arts and divine abilities with Taihuangtian's cultivation system allowed those of surpassing talent to make even greater progress—and Wang Muran was the very foremost of these geniuses!
Add to that the fact that Jingping was extremely open-minded where cultivation arts and divine abilities were concerned: in the various academies and halls of learning one could learn basically all of Jingping's arts and all of its divine abilities. Even Taihuangtian's divine abilities and cultivation arts had been compiled and organized, with Taihuangtian's own experts specially appointed to teach and explain them.
For the past two years Wang Muran had devoted nearly all his time and attention to fusing and mastering Little Yujing's complex system of cultivation arts, and the gains had been immense. In this exchange his figure was swift as lightning, his divine abilities quick as rolling thunder, and the might of every single move and stance was unbelievably great!