Chapter 8: The Jester's Leap

  After thanking the auction house staff who escorted us back to the manor, we walked towards the hall with laughter and conversation. We usually gather in the outer hall, only entering the secret room in the backyard for important matters. The hall faces the artificial lake outside, and the gentle breeze brings up the clear water from the lake, blowing it onto our faces is indeed a pleasure.

  As they entered the hall, Yu Jie and the others were still immersed in the huge gains of today, 29 million taels of white silver. This is not a small sum! A relatively large wealthy family's assets are generally only around 1 million taels of white silver. In the auction house's VIP room, the guests are usually from the four major families or earl families or viscount families. Generally, assets reaching 100 million taels of white silver can be granted a viscount family, and reaching 1 billion taels of white silver can become an earl family. As for the aristocratic families, their assets are generally over tens of billions of taels of white silver, and they must also have great influence throughout the country.

  I gazed at everyone's extremely excited appearance, and I knew that it would be difficult to sleep tonight. This New Year's Eve was supposed to be a time for us to enjoy ourselves, but we were all busy preparing for the opening of our 'Dragon and Jade Store'. We didn't even let the servants prepare anything to celebrate the New Year, and the entire Star Peak Manor had just started operating, with everything still in its early stages. There were many things that needed our attention, and I was probably the most relaxed person among all of us.

  I sense that those greedy guys have already entered the gate of my mansion. Although there are two people among us who have reached the Xiantian realm, there are still many whose martial arts skills are really too poor. Let them face this group of greedy guys, I'm not at ease. My three disciples' Three-legged Cat Kung Fu still want to fight against masters, huh, don't they want to live?!

  "You all go with Ah Yu to the backyard first, and enter the secret room at the fake mountain. I've already told Ah Yu how to open the passage. Now, some unwanted guests have arrived at our estate, and I'll go take care of them. Don't you trust me? Hurry up and go in! This is also holding me back!" I said to Wang Ge and the others. I waved my hand and let the servant who was waiting on the side leave first.

  Yu Jie and the others all looked at me, although they all knew that it was also a concession of my heart here, but in their hearts they still hated themselves very much. However, on the surface they all smiled at me and followed Yu Ye to the backyard.

  Lang Feng was even more indignant in his heart, angry at his own poor martial arts skills. Now he had just barely passed the Xiantian boundary, and he knew that none of the second or third-rate masters would dare to come here today to rob him, because they also knew that whoever dared to auction off such a peerless treasure must have the confidence to protect it. Therefore, they must have had real masters holding down the fort. With his own strength, which had just barely passed the Xiantian boundary, he went... and the result could be imagined. From now on, he would definitely practice his martial arts well, and never again let his second brother take action personally. Lang Feng made a silent vow in his heart.

  Everyone followed Zhang Yu into the formation, and everyone secretly decided that they must practice their martial arts well and would not let today's events happen again. When foreign enemies came to attack, they could only let their leader respond, but they themselves hid aside and did not come out, which was a shame.

  I gazed at everyone leaving the hall, and when my spiritual sense detected that they had all entered the backyard, I finally let out a sigh of relief. At this time, I was no longer worried about anything, I could let go of my hands and feet, I sat quietly in the same armchair as the Zhang family's back hall, waiting for these guys to come, I even imagined their fate. Unconsciously revealing a cruel smile, I want people to know that Xingfeng Manor is not allowed to be invaded, oh, these guys are still okay, they didn't lay hands on the servants I invited, and directly rushed towards the hall where I was.

  I gazed at the group of mysterious figures before me, all of whom had swiftly appeared in the hall, displaying their impressive martial arts skills. They were all clad in black night attire, seemingly not daring to show their true faces. No matter, for once they encountered me, there was only one outcome - regardless of who they were, I didn't need to know their identities anyway.

  The three parties were mutually hostile, but did not want to lose their own strength before getting 29 million taels. They could only stare at each other with wide eyes.

  "Stop staring and attack quickly, or you'll have no chance!" I said with a smile.

  "Young man, don't be too arrogant. Do you know our strength? At such a young age, it seems that your elders didn't teach you how to show respect to seniors," said the guy who was leading the horse in the middle.

  "On the left, there's only one third-rate master and a few nobodies. The group on the right is about the same. As for the ones in the middle, the ones who just spoke up, they're not bad - there's one second-rate master and three third-rate masters, enough to get me excited. The one speaking, his martial arts aren't bad either, with the strength of a third-rate master. But shouldn't it be the second-rate master behind him who speaks? Whatever, no more chit-chat, let's get moving! I've had enough!" I stood up from my chair, this guy actually dared to put on airs in front of me, thinking he was someone special - just a bandit after all. I smiled and walked straight towards them."

  The three groups of people looked at each other in shock, their eyes revealing their astonishment. They exchanged glances, knowing that the other two groups had also been guessed correctly. However, the left and right groups were still shocked by the middle group's strength - a second-rate expert, as well as three third-rate experts. This powerful force was at least from a count's family, and it was very likely to be from a noble family.

  But the people in between were shocked, and there was only a twenty-year-old guy who could see the strength of a second-rate master. This shows that the young man in front of him had at least the strength of a second-rate master, but he had never heard of such a young second-rate master! Even Xiang Yu, the king of Western Chu, was around thirty years old when he reached the strength of a second-rate master. Could it be... could it be that there really is a way to reverse aging and return to youth?!

  The guy who spoke up immediately retreated to the side, and the second-rate master behind him stepped forward. Since he had already been seen through by others, there was no use in pretending anymore, so he simply walked to the front with a big smile on his face.

  That second-rate expert stared at the young man in front of him, who looked very young on the surface, and was shocked in his heart. Because he couldn't feel the other's strength at all, he thought the other didn't understand martial arts at first. But the other had seen through his own strength with just one glance. It seemed that he really met a hidden world expert. Moreover, it was an extraordinary expert who was said to have returned to youth in legend.

  This second-rate master immediately became respectful as soon as he confirmed that the person in front of him was a hidden world master. He cupped his hands and said: "Since senior is here, we won't disturb you, but please tell us your name, so that junior can know senior's great name." This guy was already an old man, yet he called a young man "senior", which was really quite strange. However, the people present didn't feel anything out of place, because at this moment Zhang Xingfeng's body was emitting a soaring sword aura, a shocking and earth-shaking sword aura.

  I'm fed up with this, knowing my strength and wanting to escape, am I too easy to bully?!

  "Now that you've come all the way here, if I don't give you some unforgettable memories, how can I bear to see you all off?" I said, and then charged towards the group.

  What is called the gap in essence, what is called bullying, look at my means and you will know. I threw these guys one by one into the Eight Trigrams Formation in the backyard with a flash of light, using my true yuan force as energy. The Eight Trigrams Formation can't even escape from the golden elixir period's master, let alone the masters on this Qinglong Continent, their highest is only after the valley period, how can they enter the golden elixir period without any law?

  This second-rate master watched as the 'Hidden World Master' effortlessly tossed the three groups of people to the north, he wondered what was over there, if that place had the legendary Eight Arrays Formation! However, he could only watch as they were thrown like chickens by the 'Hidden World Master', the gap was too big, without any ability to counterattack, even several third-rate masters couldn't withstand it for a moment. Watching him stroll through the crowd with an air of leisure, he actually felt intimidated.

  Finally everyone except himself had entered that terrifying formation, and when it came to himself, he steeled his heart and decided that with his own strength at the second rank, he was not necessarily inferior to them.

  I looked at the second-rate master in front of me, not bad, under my spiritual suggestion, he could still stir up his own fighting spirit. However... it's no use resisting anymore. My true yuan force shook, and my figure immediately transformed into three, mainly because my speed was too fast, that's why it became like this.

  I grasped him in his astonishment and threw him into the formation. I looked at the empty hall, a sense of loneliness arose, looking around the world, how many people are my opponents! I smiled, walking towards the artificial hill in the backyard.

  I saw Ah Yu standing at the rockery waiting for me from afar, and as soon as she saw me, she immediately walked towards me. She asked faintly: "How is it outside? What about those people?"

  Although I knew those people would never pose any threat to me, Ah Yu still had some misgivings.

  "It's far away in the sky, yet right before our eyes!" I said with a smile.

  A Yu looked at me, bewildered, suddenly his eyes lit up, and he said: "Master, is it in the Eight Trigrams Formation?"

  I looked at him, very surprised. I knew he was clever, but this was too amazing. Even Ah Yu could guess it. I nodded my head in approval, smiling at him, indicating that his guess was correct.

  "Ah Yu, today we have a very important meeting to attend, let's go into the secret room first." I suddenly thought of something I had wanted to do for a long time and said it to Zhang Yu.

  A Yu didn't say anything and directly walked with me into the secret passage, heading towards the secret room where important meetings were usually held.

  I stood at the entrance of the secret room, seeing everyone inside discussing how I would deal with those who didn't open their eyes. As soon as they saw me, they immediately ran to my front and asked me how I was going to deal with those people.

  "Master, did you kill them all and then throw them out on the streets?!" My big disciple is always afraid that the world is not chaotic enough.

  "Master, did you take off all their clothes and throw them into the artificial lake? As soon as I heard this sound, I knew it was Rain Sister. This Rain Sister is with Wang Brother, but she hasn't learned any of Wang Brother's calmness!"

  "Never mind, Master has already thrown them into the Eight Trigrams Formation." Ah Yu couldn't bear to listen anymore and immediately spoke out the answer.

  I looked at everyone and said: "Let's not talk about it anymore, now we have a meeting to discuss how we will develop in the future!"

  Everyone listened and immediately fell silent, sitting in their respective positions waiting for me to speak.