Immortal of the Nine Realms

Fang Shang was surprised. ”Identity? What identity can he have?”

Tong Baizhou said lightly, ”There was once an extraordinary genius named Fang Tingyuan among your family’s ancestors. I wonder if you heard about him?”

A solemn expression appeared in Fang Shang’s eyes. ”I have. He is the younger brother of Ancestor Fang Tingjian. He’s also Ancestor Fang Wanli’s great uncle,” he said. ”Stop beating around the bush. Just say it.”

Tong Baizhou nodded lightly. ”Fang Chen is a descendant of Fang Tingyuan. Back then, when your family expelled Fang Tingyuan, they said that if a descendant of Fang Tingyuan were to step into the path of immortality, he could return to the Fang Family and reclaim his ancestry. The condition was that Fang Tingyuan couldn’t pass down the Fang Family’s heritage to his descendants.”

Fang Shang was shocked. ”He is actually a descendant of Ancestor Tingyuan?”

Tong Baizhou chuckled lightly. ”Isn’t this shocking? This news has been kept under wraps by the higher-ups of your family. Fortunately, Fang Mosheng is on good terms with your cousin. Or rather, for the sake of Fang Lingxing, he has already spread the news to your cousin.”

Fang Shang frowned. ”So what if he is Fang Tingyuan’s descendant? That person had his cultivation crippled four hundred years ago.”

”He may have been crippled, but what about his connections?” Tong Baizhou said in a deep voice. ”Factions, senior brothers, friends. Tingyuan couldn’t possibly have had no friends in this world, right?”

”You mean...” Fang Shang’s expression turned serious. ”That demoness who massacred the Profound Void Temple?”

”Exactly.” Tong Baizhou nodded lightly. ”According to records, after Tingyuan’s incident, no cultivators from his sect appeared. Fang Tingyuan’s enemies dealt with the aftermath perfectly, yet that demoness still came. She massacred the Profound Void Temple, leaving it unable to recover, and even prohibited it from passing down Buddhist teachings. It’s like a shackle that trapped Chan Yuan, that bald donkey.”

Pausing for a moment, he continued, ”The fact that the demoness massacred the Profound Void Temple for Fang Tingyuan shows that they were close. If Fang Chen’s backing is her, what should we do about this? We have to be careful about this.”

”What’s there to be afraid of?” Fang Shang suddenly chuckled. ”Didn’t you say that the Kunlong Battle General will come to Grand Qian soon to personally supervise the battle? Assuming that the demoness is at the Nascent Soul Realm, even if she is still alive, she shouldn’t be a match for the Kunlong Battle General. With him around, everything can be easily resolved.”

Fang Chen was surprised, and seriousness arose in his eyes. This wasn’t the first time he heard about Battle Generals. Back when he was eavesdropping on Immortal Sea Dragon and the Heavenly Southern Sect Founder, he had overheard them talking about the Jade Dragon Battle General.

Now, there would be a powerful expert at the level of a Battle General coming to Grand Qian to oversee things?

That was not good news.

Fang Chen’s expression grew even more serious. If he could advance to the third rank of the sword body, he might barely have the confidence to compete with Tong Hu. By utilizing the Eight Desolation Supreme Sword Scripture and the inherent power of Little Sword, he could keep the situation under control. But if a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator intervened, even a slight mistake from him could lead to a disaster!

”That’s one way to put it, but my father said that the Kunlong Battle General won’t be here any time soon. It will have to wait until we kill the young master of the Dongfang Family of Great Wei, provoking a war between the two empires. Only then will the Kunlong Battle General come to oversee the operation and help condense the Blood Spirit Pill.”

Tong Baizhou frowned. ”I’m worried that before this is resolved, the matters between your cousin and Fang Chen might affect the main matters. I’ve advised him, but he refuses to listen to me. He insists on having the duel with Fang Chen.”

Fang Chen breathed a sigh of relief. Kunlong Battle General will only come to Grand Qian when things are settled down? That makes things easier.

However, Fang Chen knew he couldn’t relax completely still. He still had to prepare for the possibility of facing a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator. A minor character like Tong Baizhou couldn’t be fully aware of the movements of a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator.

”No need to advise him. This matter will be settled at the beginning of the trade conference. Although I wasn’t present during their battle, I asked others about it. Fang Chen never dared to confront my cousin directly. If it wasn’t for some kind of evasion technique he used to approach my cousin, he wouldn’t have won.

”You know us cultivators don’t have strong physical bodies like martial artists do. So as long as you’re able to close the gap, it will spell trouble for any cultivator.”

Fang Shang chuckled lightly. ”My cousin won’t make the same mistake twice. This time, the Jue Family will give him a treasure. With that, Fang Chen won’t be able to get close to him again. We can sit back and enjoy the show. Even if we are wary of the people behind Fang Chen affecting our plans, we can spare his life for now. After the plan is executed, who can change the outcome?”

Tong Baizhou nodded slightly. He knew that was all they could do.

After a few more words, Fang Shang left the room and picked a few Immortal Origin Stones from the Jade River Pavilion to cut them open.

A treasure that will absolutely prevent me from closing the gap? Fang Chen pondered as his divine soul quietly left.

This time, he went to the Jue Family. He easily found Jiang Zhong and, as he expected, it was clear that he had been tortured once more, but Jiang Zhong still refused to open his mouth.

Fang Chen turned and entered a quiet room, where Jue Wudi was standing with his head down in front of Jue Feichen.

Jue Feichen suddenly spoke up. ”What’s wrong? Are you feeling very dissatisfied?”

Jue Wudi remained silent for a few moments before nodding slowly. ”I was too careless.”

Jue Feichen said indifferently, ”If that’s what you think then you’re completely mistaken. If you fell under the effect of the illusion spell, then you were underestimating the enemy, because there were clues that you were under an illusion.

”Moreover, you were Illusion Talisman’s main target, not the others. If you had paid attention to how the people around you were reacting you would’ve noticed that something was wrong, and you wouldn’t have caused Jue Tiangang to lose both arms.”

Jue Wudi remained silent.

Jue Feichen continued, ”As for the second fight, it isn’t that you were careless.”

Jue Wudi was slightly surprised. ”I wasn’t careless?”

Jue Feichen nodded. ”The method he used to approach you should be a kind of evasion technique. Evasion techniques inheritance are rare. They aren’t as common as Cloud Riding, Sword Manipulation, Rainbow Transformation, or the Five Element Controlling Technique,” he said.

”If a cultivator can master an evasion technique such as the Five Element Evasion Technique, their strength will increase significantly. Even we don’t have such an inheritance. Your loss is justified.”

Jue Wudi’s expression changed into one of shock. ”Could his evasion technique be from... Fang Tingyuan?”

How could Fang Chen possess a skill that even he didn’t have?

Jue Feichen replied, ”Not necessarily. Besides, even if Fang Tingyuan’s sect has an evasion technique, he wouldn’t dare to pass it down to others. His sect would wipe out his lineage if they caught wind of this, not to mention that it would implicate the main line of the Fang Family. His lineage wouldn’t have had to wait 400 years just to produce one cultivator and return to their family if he had passed down his inheritance to them.”

Jue Feichen shook his head lightly. ”Perhaps Fang Chen had a fortuitous encounter; this is his destiny.”

At that point, Jue Feichen looked at Jue Wudi and said, ”We must get our hands on this evasion technique if there is a chance. But for now, I will give you a treasure to break this technique. After you defeat him, I will seize the opportunity.”

Jue Wudi’s eyes flickered slightly. He feared that Jue Feichen’s plan would affect his own affairs. ”He still has Fang Wanli and Fang Tingjian behind him….”

”It doesn’t matter,” said Jue Feichen with a light smile. ”Someone will handle those two old things when the time comes.”

Fang Chen was nearby.

An evasion technique? Perhaps the Shadow Buddha Technique is a kind of evasion technique as he said.

Fang Chen looked at Jue Wudi and Jue Feichen. Those two hadn’t mentioned the Spirit Blood Sect at all. Could it be that Jue Feichen had nothing to do with the Spirit Blood Sect?