Nine Dragons Saint Ancestor

Chapter 143: 143 Unexplainable Jealousy

”Junior Sister, what’s wrong?”

A hint of hidden admiration and passion flitted through Xue Gong’s eyes, his curiosity prompting him to speak up. His voice finally snapped Mo Qing back to reality.

”Nothing... Nothing!”

Mo Qing appeared somewhat flustered, which Xue Gong found even more peculiar. Ever since he had known this Junior Sister, she had always been as calm and poised as an age-old glacier. What was happening today?

”What... What was I thinking about?”

As curiosity filled Xue Gong’s mind, Mo Qing inwardly cursed, her cheeks slowly losing their flush, replaced by a subtle, murderous intent.

”If I see that shameless boy again, I must... I must...” Mo Qing wanted to make a convincing decision for herself, but in the end, she simply couldn’t.

Was she truly ready to strike him down immediately upon seeing him to protect her own innocence? Perhaps, at that time on Yurong Mountain, that was what Mo Qing thought. To someone as shameless as Yun Xiao, she would never show mercy.

But after some time to cool down, Mo Qing suddenly found her emotions puzzling. If Yun Xiao were to stand before her again, could she really kill him without a second thought? She really wasn’t sure.

Xue Gong, oblivious to Mo Qing’s inner turmoil, decided not to dwell on it any longer without further insights, choosing instead to bring up something he knew Mo Qing liked to hear.

”Junior Sister, back when you joined the Outer Sect of the Jade Pot Sect, you were the only one to participate in the Outer Sect Tournament and advance to the Inner Sect. I believe this is an unprecedented feat with no one else following in your footsteps, right?”

Admiration shone on Xue Gong’s face, whether heartfelt or feigned. This event had always been a hot topic frequently discussed throughout the entire Jade Pot Sect, even becoming legendary.

Even Xue Gong himself only managed to secure first place in that year’s Outer Sect Tournament after two years, and was taken in as a Direct Disciple by the Great Elder, Lu Zhan. Comparatively speaking, he was somewhat inferior.

However, since Mo Qing’s strength had already surpassed his own, Xue Gong couldn’t find it in himself to feel gloomy any longer. Besides, his growing affections for this Junior Sister meant that all jealousy was now gone.

”Don’t underestimate everyone else; maybe this time someone will surpass me!”

As Mo Qing thought this, an oddly dressed figure mysteriously appeared in her mind, and as she turned her gaze towards the entrance of the Arena Hall, she saw a group of five people walking in. The young man leading the group perfectly matched the figure in her mind.

”It’s him!”

Mo Qing’s beautiful eyes narrowed as she saw him. Even with her usual composure, she couldn’t help but feel unsettled, her slight tremor catching Xue Gong’s attention.

”Who is that boy?”

Following Mo Qing’s gaze, Xue Gong immediately saw the roughly dressed young man who had entered the hall. For some reason, seeing this young man stirred a sense of jealousy in him.

That young man’s cultivation couldn’t possibly compare to an Inner Sect genius like Xue Gong, but because Mo Qing, whom he cherished, couldn’t take her eyes off the young man as soon as he entered, jealousy was the prime reason.

Even Xue Gong himself never managed to hold Mo Qing’s gaze for more than a few moments; What right did this Meridian Gathering Realm Late Stage Outer Disciple have to catch Mo Qing’s attention like that?

Not every genius of the Medical Pulse is broad-minded, take Xue Gong for example. Perhaps his outward demeanor really embodies a healer’s kindness, but when it comes to his own interests, he might very well turn hostile instantly.

The ones who entered from the door of the Arena Hall were indeed Yun Xiao and Tan Yun’s group. Originally, the team was led by Tan Yun, but after these days’ experiences, Yun Xiao had truly become the spiritual leader of this small team, both in strength and wisdom.

”Hmm?”

Just as he entered the Arena Hall, Yun Xiao already noticed several peculiar gazes coming from various directions, filled with malice, curiosity, and an unexplainable complexity.

Yun Xiao’s eyes swept across the crowd, spotting Zhao Ningshu and Cao Luo, and saw Xuan Zhi and the Guan brothers with grim expressions. However, he didn’t really care about these individuals.

With his current Late Stage Meridian Gathering Realm cultivation, Zhao Ningshu, Cao Luo, or even Xuan Zhi could no longer pose a real challenge to him; perhaps he wouldn’t even need to use the Power of the Ancestor Vein to deal with these guys.

The real cause of Yun Xiao’s alarm was the attention from several individuals in the southeast and northeast corners, because his powerful Power of Soul had already perceived that these few people might well surpass even Feng Hang and Shen Xiao, who are the top two in the Mortal List.

The first sense of danger Yun Xiao felt came from the southeast corner of the Arena Hall; when he turned his head, he saw two familiar faces.

”Bi Luo, Yin Huan?”

Yun Xiao naturally had a very deep impression of these two, and he also knew that both harbored some sinister intentions towards him, truly making them difficult rivals to deal with.

However, Yun Xiao also believed that even if Bi Luo and Yin Huan despised him, they wouldn’t dare to strike at him in front of hundreds of Outer Disciples, so there was no need to worry for the time being.

So after Yun Xiao’s gaze swept over Bi Luo and Yin Huan in the southeast corner, it shifted to the far northeast corner, where two distinctly different gazes were sizing him up.

”Mo Qing!”

When Yun Xiao saw that Inner Sect genius, with whom he had a somewhat ambiguous relationship, he couldn’t help but touch his nose awkwardly, a gesture that undoubtedly made Mo Qing grit her silver teeth.

As for the young man beside Mo Qing, Yun Xiao did not recognize him, but he did sense a hint of malice in that gaze, wondering if he had somehow offended this person?

Though Yun Xiao didn’t recognize Xue Gong, he understood that anyone standing with Mo Qing couldn’t possibly be a genius from the Poison Vein, nor an Outer Disciple. This meant that even after entering the Medical Pulse of the Jade Pot Sect’s Inner Sect, things wouldn’t be too easy for him.

Yun Xiao of course didn’t know that he had attracted the jealousy of the second genius of the Medical Pulse due to Mo Qing’s attention. At this moment, his mind was not on these Inner Sect geniuses, because up next was the main event of this Outer Sect competition.

”Ding!”

A melodious bell sound echoed within the Arena Hall, silencing all the murmurs in the hall instantly. Subsequently, everyone’s gaze turned towards a certain place in the north of the hall.

There, several figures filed out, including an elderly figure in dark green, who seemed vaguely familiar to Yun Xiao.

When Yun Xiao’s gaze landed on this elderly figure, the latter seemed to sense it instantly, turned his head, and met Yun Xiao’s eyes, revealing a smile full of inexplicable meaning.

”Fu Du!”

When this elderly figure turned his head, Yun Xiao had no doubts anymore because the person was none other than the Second Elder of the Jade Pot Sect from the Poison Vein, who had once abducted him from the Shang Family and used him to test various poisons, almost leading to his death at the hands of the Three-legged Ice Crystal Toad.

Back then in Moon Bow City at the Shang Family, Yun Xiao had given Fu Du a Pill Recipe for the Intermediate Spiritual Rank Yin Transformation Pill to suppress the Three Yin Meridians of Fu Du and his disciple.

Unexpectedly, this master and disciple duo repaid kindness with enmity. Not only were they ungrateful, but they also maliciously poisoned him, so from the moment he was rescued by Ling Wan and others at Yulin Mountain, he regarded them as mortal enemies.

However, given Yun Xiao’s current cultivation at the late stage of Meridian Gathering Realm, not to mention Fu Du, a Spirit Vein Realm powerhouse, even Yin Huan was far out of his league, so this vengeance had to be buried deep in his heart for now.

”What’s going on?”

However, just as these thoughts crossed Yun Xiao’s mind, he suddenly noticed a burst of Ice Cold Qi emanating from Fu Du standing far away, and this Ice Cold Qi subtly affected the Ancestral Vein on his left arm.

”Could it be that this old man has already successfully refined the Three-legged Ice Crystal Toad?”

A guess formed in Yun Xiao’s mind, and it was very close to the truth since the Ice Cold Attribute Ancestral Vein he had activated was inherently linked to the Three-legged Ice Crystal Toad.

Yun Xiao’s parental lineage was not ordinary, and inadvertently turning the Blood Moon Jade into a blood-red mark in the palm of his right hand had made activating the Ancestral Vein no difficult task.

However, the second Ancestral Vein originally activated by Yun Xiao was meant to be of Water Attribute, but he was bitten by the Three-legged Ice Crystal Toad, afflicted with its powerful chilling poison, and barely survived.

As the saying goes, a narrow escape from death often brings great fortune; after waking up from the severe poisoning, his body naturally acquired a hint of Ice Cold Power.

When he activated his second Ancestral Vein, this hint of Ice Cold Power abruptly invaded, causing the originally Water Attribute Ancestral Vein to transform into an Ice Cold Ancestral Vein.

All of this was a series of fortunate mistakes, and Yun Xiao was quite puzzled by it, but the reason he could activate the Ice Cold Ancestral Vein was all thanks to the Three-legged Ice Crystal Toad.

And now, the Three-legged Ice Crystal Toad, having been refined into a Meridian Spirit by Fu Du, naturally would have a connection, and even over such a long distance, this connection was incredibly clear.

”It really is that youngster Yun Xiao!”

While Yun Xiao felt something, Fu Du, as an Intermediate Spiritual Rank Meridian Refining Master and the current master of the Three-legged Ice Crystal Toad, sensed it even more clearly.

To hear of him from Yin Huan was one thing, but to actually see Yun Xiao in person was another, and with Fu Du himself having refined the Three-legged Ice Crystal Toad, he knew the Ice Cold Poison all too well, thus his interest in Yun Xiao was renewed and deepened.