Dual Cultivation In Martial Peak - Chapter 25: A Fun Life

Chapter 25- A Fun Life

Among the hundreds of disciples that belonged to the High Heaven Pavilion, Yang Kai was standing at the back with an astonished and bewildered expression on his face while looking at Su Mu.

“What kind of Martial Skill was that, Old Demon?” Yang Kai muttered, trying to get some information about the Martial Skill Su Mu just used from Old Demon. Just by looking, he could tell that the skill Su Mu used was leagues above his Burning Sun’s Layer, the so-called Mysterious Grade Martial Skill he obtained after entering the Heaven’s Inheritance Cave. Even if he were to go all out with the Burning Sun’s Layer, he could, at best, gravely injure the Monster Beast. But Su Mu was able to kill it in a single strike.

“Young Master, the blue Qi that surrounded that young man’s sword was Sword Qi. Normally, it should be impossible for someone to transform Yuan Qi into Sword Qi, but it seems like he inherited some powerful Swordsman’s legacy.” Old Demon replied in a serious voice.

“What is Sword Qi?” Yang Kai asked again.

“It’s a Qi one can refine after having enough understanding of a Sword. Generally, Sword Qi refined by different cultivators will have different effects depending on their understanding of Swords, but generally, Sword Qi is more refined and dense than normal Qi. But from what this old servant understands, that young man’s Sword Qi is chaotic, a trait not seen in Sword practitioners.” Old Demon explained clearly, making Yang Kai nod in understanding. Looking at Su Mu, a new flame to surpass him started burning in Yang Kai’s heart.

“How ignorant.” Su Mu muttered, shaking his head. Many people thought that Su Mu was referring to Xie Hongchen’s corpse, which was lying near his feet. But those words were directed towards Yang Kai’s old demon. His Sword Qi represented who he was from the very day he started cultivating, it wasn’t something anyone except him could understand. He could only find Old Demon’s claims laughable at best.

After killing Xie Hongchen, Su Mu looked around the crowd of the remaining several hundred disciples that have already gathered here.

After so many days of hardships and constant challenges, only seven to eight hundred disciples remained from the High Heaven Pavilion, Storm Hall, and the Blood Battle Gang. Some of them were killed by the Peak 6th Order Monster Beast, but eighty percent of the ones remaining still had the strength to fight.

As for the remaining twenty percent, some were either injured and would not be able to contribute anything or their strength was simply too low to be of any use, so even if they came forward to help it wouldn’t matter.

‘Maybe Xia Ning Chang left after seeing what happened before.’ Su Mu concluded after he couldn’t find Xia Ning Chang anywhere within the group.

Then, Su Mu turned towards Su Yan, and unlike the cold gaze his eyes had shown everyone until now, he looked at Su Yan with warm and comforting eyes, which surprised a lot of people while sparking jealousy and envy in the hearts of every female present there except Hu Mei’er and Hu Jiao’er.

‘That’s the same way he looks at us.’ Hu Jiao’er and Hu Mei’er thought simultaneously while looking at Su Mu. After listening to how Su Yan also belonged to Su Mu, they subconsciously thought that their status in his heart would be lower than that of Su Yan after considering how close she was to Su Mu, but this scene completely blew away the little doubt they had in their hearts.

A back to rely on was something every woman seeks. Watching Su Mu exhibit such strength made all the women’s hearts set aflutter. It could even be said that such a reliable back melted into their hearts as a brandmark.

“You should recover first.” Su Mu said with a smile, making Su Yan somewhat worried. How was she supposed to heal in the centre of such a large crowd? Right now, even if someone in the Qi Transformation realm were to attack her, she wouldn’t be able to defend herself, much less retaliate.

Understanding her worries, Su Mu laughed out loud before continuing with the same smile. “What are you worried about? If someone dares to attack you, I will personally have a chat with them.”

Hearing his words, even those who held no malicious intent towards Su Yan shivered. It was quite clear what Su Mu was trying to say at this moment.

Make any stupid moves and you’re dead, no matter who you are.

Looking around, Su Mu saw a giant rock not too far away before taking a seat above it. Su Yan sat next to him as she started meditating while sitting cross-legged. Sitting next to him just made her feel more secure than it would anywhere else.

‘Another one is gone.’ Su Mu thought, internally sighing. Not long after that, the sword in his hand started to crumble into dust. At this rate, his only option would be to refine a Sword-type artifact or obtain one somehow. But he doubted that he could find anything eye-catching in this small world, it’ll most likely break when his cultivation increases. From the looks of it, his only option is to look for materials and refine a Sword type artifact that grows stronger along with the user.

“Su Mu, are you alright?” Hu Mei’er asked, walking forward along with Hu Jiao’er.

“I’m fine, Mei’er. Don’t make that kind of expression.” Su Mu said with a slight smile. Hu Mei’er had tears building up in her eyes. Even though she knew that Su Mu was fine, she couldn’t help but worry about him.

“Have some faith in him, little sis.” Hu Jiao’er said, placing her hand on Hu Mei’er’s shoulder.

“Jiao’er, could it be you weren’t worried about me?” Su Mu asked, his smile growing bigger as he looked at Hu Jiao’er.

“Of course, I am worried about you, isn’t that obvious?” Hu Jiao’er calmly replied, trying her best to not fall for Su Mu’s obvious traps. She won’t do anything idiotic in front of so many people.

Looking at her trying to act tough, Su Mu didn’t say anything else to tease her. While making Hu Jiao’er embarrassed was fun in its own way, that wasn’t something he would do in public.

Turning towards Lan Chu Die and Du Yi Shuang, Su Mu continued. “You two, go and get that Monster Beast’s core. It’s somewhere around that thing’s forehead.”

Lan Chu Die and Du Yi Shuang were unable to respond to his command for a few seconds. The display just now was too much for them to process all at once.

Both of their hearts were filled with emotions as they looked at Su Mu. Love, admiration, worship, respect and all sorts of emotions were raging through them.

After hearing his command, both of them calmed down as Du Yi Shuang cupped her fists and replied. “As you wish, Young Master Su.”

Lan Chu Die also repeated her actions before they both dashed towards the Monster Beast’s dead body, not daring to make Su Mu wait.

Looking at how Du Yi Shuang was obeying Su Mu’s commands like his personal maid, many male disciples from the Storm Hall frowned while the females were giving Du Yi Shuang some very envious looks. Which one of them didn’t want to have the chance of gaining Su Mu’s favour? Right now, as long as Su Mu ordered, most female disciples would be willing to follow under his leadership regardless of which Sect they belonged to.

But since Su Mu tasked Lan Chu Die and Du Yi Shuang to take out the Monster Core, no one dared to step towards the Monster Beast. Inside the Heaven’s Inheritance Cave, whatever Su Mu says will be obeyed. Without the support from their respective Sect Elders, no one here could be his opponent.

Looking at how the females were reacting, the male disciples of Storm Hall turned towards Fang Zi Ji, the first-seat disciple of Storm Hall. But what could Fang Zi Ji do? He was not an idiot. Su Mu sliced the Peak 6th Order Monster Beast like it was nothing. Not to mention that Su Mu didn’t show any obvious signs of exhaustion, adding to Fang Zi Ji’s horror. He knew that even if he were to go all out, he wouldn’t be a match for Su Yan, much less Su Mu, who was more of a monster than her.

Knowing that, Fang Zi Ji started ordering the disciples from Storm Hall to give the High Heaven Pavilion and the Blood Battle Group some space as they stepped back.

“Right, Jiao’er, do you guys have any Monster Cores that you obtained inside the Heaven’s Inheritance Cave?” Su Mu suddenly asked, turning towards Hu Jiao’er.

“Yeah, we do.” Hu Mei’er replied before Hu Jiao’er could even open her mouth, pulling out two Monster Cores from her pockets before handing them over to Su Mu.

Turning around, Hu Jiao’er said in an authoritative and loud voice. “Long Jun, bring the Monster Cores you have to me.”

With an unwilling and resentful expression, Long Jun hurriedly brought the two Monster Cores that he had with him before handing them over to Hu Jiao’er. While doing that, he made sure to not even look in Su Mu’s direction for fear of the latter remembering how he tried to attack him not too long ago.

Seeing that Su Mu wasn’t paying attention to him, Long Jun sighed. But little did he know, Su Mu already considered him a dead man.

“I have one Monster Core as well.” Su Yan suddenly said, opening her eyes. Her complexion was now better than before thanks to the slight recovery of her True Qi.

Taking a Monster Core out, Su Yan handed it over to Su Mu before adding. “Xie Hongchen also had one with him.”

Hearing Su Yan’s words, Hu Mei’er asked. “Su Mu, should I get that core from his corpse?”

“There is no need for that.” Su Mu replied, dropping the five Monster Cores on the ground in front of him before turning towards the High Heaven Pavilion disciples. “Give us some space.”

Hearing his command, all the High Heaven Pavilion Disciples started to move away from them. At this moment, their leader wasn’t Su Yan, but Su Mu.

Jiao’er also turned towards Long Jun and ordered him to take the Blood Battle Group disciples away.

Su Yan looked at Hu Jiao’er and Hu Mei’er for a few seconds, the Hu sisters looked back at her before all three of them nodded. Everyone around them understood that some important discussion went down during these three nods that they weren’t able to understand. Not long after, Su Yan smiled, closing her eyes again. She could tell that the two sisters were genuinely concerned about Su Mu, so that gave her a good impression of them. Although the feeling that was telling her to freeze them both into popsicles was hard to suppress.

Not long after that, Lan Chu Die and Du Yi Shuang returned with the Monster Beast’s core. While bringing it, they made sure to wipe off all the blood it had and properly clean it before bringing it to Su Mu.

‘Hmm. It’s indeed a simple array.’ Taking the Monster core from Lan Chu Die, Su Mu looked at it for a few seconds before tossing it on the ground.

“Um. Young Master Su, do you not need that Monster core?” Du Yi Shuang asked out of curiosity after looking at the greedy looks most people were giving them.

“There’s no need to worry about that, Little Sister Du. No one can take these cores with them no matter how hard they try.” Su Mu said with a smile, confusing everyone present here.

“What do you mean by that, Su Mu?” Hu Mei’er asked, leaning on Su Mu’s back as she hugged him from behind while internally laughing at the envious glances they were getting from both males and females alike. Since Su Mu already established his superiority in strength, Hu Mei’er helped him do it with women as well.

‘She enjoys everything other than fighting.’ Su Mu thought before he noticed the temperature around them was drastically decreasing.

Noticing this, Hu Mei’er hugged him even harder.

“Su Yan would rather freeze us to death before admitting that she’s jealous. Give up, Mei’er. And she is also your Elder Sister, be nice to her.” Su Mu muttered, making Hu Mei’er back off imminently. She will get a lot more chances to mess with Su Yan, so she needs to increase her strength for self-defence first.

“Yes~” Hu Mei’er chirped, turning towards Su Yan. “Elder Sister Su, I apologize for making you jealous.”

“I’m not jealous.” Su Yan calmly said, but the blush on her cheeks was betraying her words.

While Hu Mei’er giggled at the scene while Hu Jiao’er was trying to not roll her eyes.

“Oh, it’s starting.” Su Mu muttered, looking at the Monster cores.

Just as everyone around him turned their eyes towards the Monster cores, the Peak 6th Order Monster Beast’s core started flying before spinning in mid-air.

With the spin, a strange suction was activated and it started attracting things from all directions. The rest of the cores that were lying on the ground also started spinning mid-air.

The Monster Core that was hidden in Xie Hongchen’s chest pocket also flew out. In a distance, from Fang Zi Ji’s inner upper pockets, two more Cores flew out.

These Cores were collected when the three sects killed the other eight Monster Beasts. They had obtained them with great difficulty and with the help of many people, including many sacrifices. They were not even able to look at them properly since their efforts were now being taken away.

The eight Monster Cores formed a strange pattern and were all spinning around the newest one, which belonged to the Turtle Monster Beast. With its revolution, Su Mu felt the World Energy was being sucked in from the entirety of Heaven’s Cave Inheritance. This suction force caused everything to shake violently. Within all the chaos, a giant dark vortex appeared in the sky. Its sudden arrival made everyone present tremble with fear.

“Su Mu, what’s happening?” Hu Jiao’er asked without even realising it.

“The original inheritance is revealing itself. Originally, this place must have been sealed with nine Monster Beasts. They were all only a test. If all of them were not killed, then this phenomenon would most likely never happen. Now that all the Monster Beasts have died, the requirement has been met for the phenomenon to occur. It’s probably the main inheritance of the Heaven’s Inheritance Cave. Well, that’s all the reason I can think of after looking at this situation.” Su Mu replied, shrugging his shoulders.

Su Yan turned her head to see that the vortex that appeared in the sky was getting bigger and bigger. That place looked like it was in chaos, and whoever dared to enter it would be swallowed whole.

“Alright, let’s retreat.” Su Mu said, getting up. “Tell those guys to retreat as well. The last thing we want is to get killed by some array.”

Su Yan glanced at him, then turned around to order without hesitation, “Disciples of High Heaven Pavilion, withdraw to a five-kilometre distance from here!”

“Disciples of the Blood Battle Group, retreat as well.” Hu Jiao’er shouted.

By the time they were done ordering the disciples, Su Mu and Hu Mei’er had already run off with Lan Chu Die and Du Yi Shuang following behind them.

“That guy…” Hu Jiao’er grumbled.

“He needs to learn a lesson.” Su Yan was also grumbling standing next to Hu Jiao’er. Both of them suddenly felt a feeling of companionship as they looked at each other. Alas, only if they knew that they were the ones who’ll end up learning a lesson.

The disciples of the three sects, along with Su Yan and Hu Jiao’er, ran at their fastest speed and stopped at a distance of five kilometres.

They turned around to see that the nine Monster Beast cores were exuding a dazzling light. It looked like there was a mysterious relationship between all of them. With the continuous revolution of the Monster Cores, the vortex in the sky did not stop expanding.

A huge suction force was still spreading from the vortex, such that the corpse of the Turtle Monster Beast had started floating in the air, and the vortex was rapidly pulling it. When the corpse flew into the vortex, no trace was left behind.

This caused everyone to be struck with fear.

If they had not withdrawn to the suggested distance, they would have suffered a similar fate to the Tortoise Monster Beast’s corpse. Rejoicing, many people turned to look at Su Mu, their expressions filled with admiration and gratitude.

A strong wind blew, flapping everyone’s clothing violently, frightening many disciples to their very souls. A lot of the group who had entered for the inheritance were from the younger generations and did not have much experience. Many people hadn’t even left their sects for a long time, so how could they see such a scene without being frightened?

“Do we need to draw back more?” Su Yan came beside Su Mu and queried. Hu Jiao’er was also listening very carefully.

“This is more than enough.” Su Mu replied. Hearing his answer, both Su Yan and Hu Jiao’er sighed in relief.

“About Xie Hongchen, you don’t need to worry. I will report it personally to the Elders.” Su Yan said, placing her hand on Su Mu’s shoulder.

Before he could reply, Hu Jiao’er placed her hand on his other shoulder and announced in a rather loud voice. “Don’t worry, if the High Heaven Pavilion doesn’t treat you right, you can always come with me.”

Although she said ‘High Heaven Pavilion’, all Su Yan heard was her name.

“What’s this? ‘Little’ Sister Hu, are you picking a fight?” Su Yan muttered, her grip on Su Mu’s shoulder tightening.

“How can I fight with ‘Elder’ Sister Su.” Hu Jiao’er replied.

Suddenly, Su Mu disappeared from between them, causing both of their foreheads to crash into each other as they both grumbled while rubbing their slightly red foreheads.

Looking at it, Su Mu laughed a bit. It’ll indeed be a fun life.