Chapter 39: I Once Met Someone Who Could Do It
Hearing this, Feng Shi immediately smiled, his eyes curving into crescents, his voice crisp: “Many thanks, Senior Brother Zhou Ying!” Then he looked at the people behind him: “And these Senior Brothers and Senior Sisters!”
No one disliked a person with a sweet mouth, especially when this person was also born very good-looking.
This world always granted many privileges to those with good looks. Hearing Feng Shi say this, the few people who were secretly roasting him behind his back just now softened in their hearts, even feeling a bit annoyed at their own dark thoughts.
Feng Shi conversed with the disciples with ease. Not long after, he was more or less familiar with them.
One passed to ten, ten to a hundred; Feng Shi’s reputation among this group of disciples participating in the Demon Slaying Tower trial quickly changed from very bad to half good, half bad.
After another period of time, just as the Demon Slaying Tower was about to open, another group of disciples suddenly arrived from the distance.
Judging from their entrance, this group was very different from their group.
Some flew over, some rode flying chariots; in short, incomparably high-profile.
Feng Shi watched from below, thinking they were glorious and showy.
He roasted them internally for a moment, then turned to ask Zhou Ying: “Senior Brother, who are they?”
Zhou Ying looked confused: “Have you not seen them before?”
Feng Shi’s heart tightened: Crap, don’t tell me they’re acquaintances. If that’s true, asking this question is unjustifiable.
But fortunately.
“They are the proudest disciples under various elders. The most powerful one is already at the middle stage of Golden Core. Since the Demon Slaying Tower has no limit on open layers this time, presumably they are all here to sprint.”
Zhou Ying didn’t speak further, but a talkative Senior Sister beside him beat him to answering Feng Shi. As she spoke, she gazed at one of them over there with starry eyes.
“Senior Brother Xie is only in his twenties, yet he has such a realm. It really makes one admire him. Although he might not be as dazzling as Immortal Lord Yubai and Immortal Lord Yiliu (Recalling Willow) were back then as heaven’s chosen, he can be considered the most talented disciple of the Chongshan Sect in the last hundred years.”
Feng Shi followed her gaze but couldn’t tell which one was the Senior Brother Xie she mentioned.
But…
Feng Shi knew Immortal Lord Yubai was his good Master, but who was this Immortal Lord Yiliu?
Feng Shi fingered the sword at his waist, his mind wandering: Looks like I need to find time to go to the Library Pavilion to check the history of this cultivation world.
After listening, Zhou Ying snorted coldly, turning his head to look at that Senior Sister, his tone unpleasant: “That guy Xie Anhui, how can he be mentioned in the same breath as the dignified Lord Yiliu?”
The female cultivator who spoke just now was startled. Realizing her mistake, a flush of shame immediately spread across her face, her voice small: “Zhou… Senior Brother Zhou Ying is right, I spoke too fast.”
Among the young generation of the cultivation world, there was indeed no one who could be brought out to compare with that person.
Zhou Ying snorted again, turned his head, and didn’t answer.
After this, the few people who heard these words all fell silent, and the atmosphere seemed to become solemn.
Listening to their conversation, Feng Shi became increasingly curious about this Lord Yiliu.
He wondered what kind of existence could make Zhou Ying and the others show such an attitude.
Those proud disciples all stood at the very front. Feng Shi could only see their backs. Observing from a distance, their bearing indeed seemed much more composed than the group behind.
However, after looking twice, Feng Shi withdrew his gaze.
Once inside the Demon Slaying Tower, that group of top students completed tasks the fastest, waiting early at the place where the array was about to open.
Feng Shi followed behind Zhou Ying, acting as a little sidekick slacking off, occasionally blocking a hit for some Senior Brother or Sister at a critical moment to farm favorability.
His main purpose for this trip was to see Xu Yan, so he wouldn’t be flashy. After all, going from just entering Foundation Establishment to Foundation Establishment Peak in just one short year—how could he guarantee that those disciples who practiced hard for years to achieve such success wouldn’t be jealous?
Attracting others’ jealousy did no good for the current Feng Shi, so it was better to keep a low profile.
Although Feng Shi appeared somewhat impulsive, risking his life to conquer cowardice for this or that Senior Brother/Sister at the drop of a hat, he actually measured his actions very well.
After all, he didn’t have a death-exemption medal this time. To go up, he still had to cherish his life.
Because of Feng Shi’s performance, the accompanying disciples liked him even more and felt guilty, causing favorability to shoot up.
Some even unilaterally listed him as a brother with whom they shared a life-and-death friendship.
Feng Shi laughed “haha” at this, a blush spreading on his face, looking shy and cute: “As long as Senior Brothers/Senior Sisters don’t dislike me~”
All of Feng Shi’s Senior Brothers and Sisters: Hearts are melting!
On the first layer, Feng Shi deliberately handed in blood crystals just passing the passing line, becoming the bottom-ranked among the disciples entering the second layer.
In the eyes of others, Feng Shi reaching the second layer was just luck; he had no strength and relied entirely on the care of Zhou Ying and others.
However, upon reaching the second layer, these people didn’t think so anymore.
Good luck on the first layer was one thing, but to be this lucky on the second layer too!
Half the people around him were brushed off, yet he was still there!
Feng Shi, who made himself look dirty and wretched but was actually not panting at all: “Many thanks to Senior Brother Zhou Ying. I actually passed by luck again, simply too lucky!”
Thus, because of this sentence, Zhou Ying’s popularity suddenly skyrocketed after leaving the Demon Slaying Tower.
Finally arriving at the third layer, Feng Shi came to the floating island alone.
Seeing no one around, Feng Shi immediately dropped his disguise, cleaned himself up, sat down comfortably on the spot, and quietly waited for Xu Yan to appear while practicing the mental cultivation method he knew by heart.
After months of divine soul tempering, Feng Shi was almost immune to the third layer. When the golden pillar fell, he didn’t feel much.
He didn’t know the conditions to enter the fourth layer, but he wasn’t in a hurry.
After a while, Feng Shi, eyes closed, felt a sudden itch on his ear. Opening his eyes, there was nothing again.
The corners of Feng Shi’s lips hooked into a smile. Pretending not to know, he closed his eyes again to wait patiently.
Sure enough, not long after, something brushed against the back of his neck again.
Feng Shi finally couldn’t hold back his smile. He opened his eyes, stood up, and smiled at the empty space in front of him: “Alright Teacher, I know it’s you. Can there be anyone else in this place?”
After speaking, Feng Shi waited for a moment.
Soon, a familiar figure walked out of a spatial rift that appeared out of thin air, carrying that inseparable pot of wine in hand, clothes loose, biting a withered foxtail grass in his mouth.
Xu Yan spat out the withered grass in his mouth, pointed a finger at Feng Shi, and laughed heartily: “Hmph, knew you kid are no fun.”
Feng Shi smiled, noncommittal.
When Xu Yan walked up to him, they sat down cross-legged together.
Xu Yan tilted his head back to take a drink, then glanced sideways at Feng Shi beside him. Seeing that face, he was dazed for a moment before suppressing the emotions in his heart to speak: “What, encountered a bottleneck in cultivation?”
Feng Shi was looking down, pouring things out of his Qiankun bag. Hearing this, he sighed without looking up: “Yeah, how can the Golden Core stage be so easy to break through.”
Thinking for a moment, he looked up, raised an eyebrow, and smiled: “If I really broke through to Golden Core in one year, people would call me a freak. Who could do that?”
Xu Yan swallowed the wine, letting the liquid burn spicily in his throat, twisting and turning, finally burning all the way down to his heart. His gaze toward Feng Shi was full of deep meaning.
“I once met someone who could do it.”
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