Volume 1: Wudao Xiantian Chapter 7: Face First on the Ground

  "If I didn't come, wouldn't you be beaten to death by a minor character?"

  Zhou Shiwen's appearance was like a majestic lion, his voice thunderous as he laughed loudly: "Besides, I also want to see with my own eyes whether Ye Shaobao has really become a useless person as the rumors say! Now it seems that you're indeed useless, and can actually be ridden on the head by an insignificant little guy!"

  The Zhou, Ye and Fang families are the three most famous witch doctor families in Liuzhou City, with a long history of producing talented witches. However, these three big families do not get along well with each other and often engage in open and secret struggles. If one family becomes too powerful, the other two will join forces to counter it.

  Ye Xue had previously failed a test in the Wu Bei Hall, and Fu Zhu Ye Si Dao had suspected that it was the doing of one of the other two great families.

  Zhou Shiwen and Ye Xu had been at odds with each other since childhood. Ye Xu was the genius of the Ye family, while Zhou Shiwen was the pride of the Zhou family. The two had openly clashed and secretly struggled countless times.

  At first, Zhou Shiwen lost less and won more, but as Ye Xuan grew older, the situation reversed, with him losing more and winning less.

  In the past year, the two men have fought once a month, and Zhou Shiwen has never won even once.

  This time his purpose was to see if Ye Xu was really useless.

  Ye Xuan revealed a smile, but his eyes flashed with a sharp light, saying: "Zhou Shi brother, whether I am a useless person or not is not for you to decide! Sooner or later, we will have another battle, and I hope Brother Zhou won't kneel down and beg for mercy!"

  "Spare me! Spare me! Will I beg for mercy on my knees?"

  Zhou Shiwen spat out two mouthfuls of thick phlegm, causing Su Qiaoqiao to frown and secretly curse the fact that this man had a refined name but was extremely crude.

  "Now that I see you still have the will to fight, I can rest assured!"

  Zhou Shiwen burst out laughing, turned around and walked away without looking back. His voice came from outside the door: "Ye Shaobao, I have already cultivated the Hou Tu Ba Ti Shen Gong to the ninth level, only half a step away from entering the Xian Tian realm! I'm really looking forward to the day when you get back up again, only to fall down at my hands once more! Without you as my opponent, your Ye family will be destroyed sooner or later! Although Ye Sichao is very strong, my talent is better than his. In another ten years, the title of top sorcerer in Liu Zhou City will change hands! And those brothers of yours, the so-called Ye Fu San Jie, are just a bunch of pigs to me, only fit for slaughter!"

  He had just left, Su Qiaoqiao let out a breath of relief, patted her chest and said with a smirk: "Young master, Zhou Shiwen is already in his 40s or 50s, why can't he get along with you? He always challenges you at every turn."

  Outside, Zhou Shiwen's ears moved, and he obviously heard her words. His feet stumbled, and he almost fell down.

  A robust man with a curly beard and mustache had an expression of grief and indignation: "Forty or fifty years old... Has this old man already matured to such an extent?"

  Ye Xuan suppressed his smile and explained, "This is the Zhou family's inherited ultimate skill, the effect of the Hou Tu Body Refining Technique. After cultivating the Hou Tu Body Refining Technique, it indeed makes one appear more mature than ordinary people. Brother Zhou seems old, but in fact he is only one year older than me."

  "So he's only fifteen? How can he look like he's fifty..." Su Jiao spat out her tongue, finding it hard to believe.

  Ye Xiu smiled and said: "This is because his Hou Tu Body's Divine Technique has already been cultivated to the ninth level. But speaking of which, Zhou brother's appearance is indeed a bit too mature."

  Not far away, Zhou Shiwen heard Ye Xu's words and almost vomited blood, muttering: "Behind being too mature, you still want to add some... Ancestors, why did you pass down this divine skill..."

  Ye Xuan suddenly remembered something and asked: "Qiao Qiao, what were the three heroes of Ye Fu that Brother Zhou mentioned earlier?"

  "Wasn't it those people who made up their own story while you were unconscious, Young Master?"

  Su Jiaojiao smiled and said: "The eldest young master Ye Qin is ranked first among the three heroes, Ye Bin is ranked second, and Ye Feng is ranked third. I heard that the Grand Master of the Imperial Palace personally evaluated them and said that all three of them have the potential to become innate in a few years and become witches. In my opinion, without the young master, they are just monkeys claiming to be kings in a mountain without tigers..."

  "It turned out to be the three of them..."

  Ye Xue smiled slightly and said: "However, Qiaoqiao, my big brother Ye Qin is not a monkey, maybe at this moment he has already become a wizard."

  Ye Qin is the eldest son of Ye Si Dao, the master of the mansion. Years ago, he had already cultivated the Cang Ming Refining Body Technique to the ninth level boundary, but after a long time without making any breakthroughs, he went out to travel and has not returned until now.

  Zhou Shiwen strode out of the horse grounds, suddenly stopping in his tracks, his pupils constricting.

  All he saw was a young man standing quietly in front of him, wearing a green robe, waiting for his arrival.

  "Ma Sanbao, the owner of Ma's stable?" Zhou Shiwen's face sank slightly.

  "Not bad, it's indeed Ma Mou."

  Ma Sanbao's cold face rarely squeezed out a smile, saying: "Young Master Zhou came to my horse farm and injured someone, thinking he could just slip away?"

  Zhou Shiwen burst out laughing and sneered, "Horse ranch owner, you are a fourth-grade wizard of the Prenatal Realm, while I have one foot in the Primordial Realm. Do you think your cultivation can suppress me? You want to attack me?"

  Ma Sanbao's aura rose steadily, his body's yuanqi surging violently. His yuanqi left his body and transformed into a three-zhang-long cyan dragon with a head but no tail!

  A dragon emerged from his dantian, its tail seemingly still in his belly, coiling around Ma Sanbao's body several times, raising its head and staring fiercely at Zhou Shiwen, emitting a fierce and violent aura!

  Although Ma Sanbao's aura was strong to the point of being terrifying, his tone remained calm and flat, saying: "This is something that someone like me has to do, Young Master Zhou shouldn't blame him."

  "Master Ma, aren't you surprised that I dare to enter the Ye family horse farm even though I already know you are a fourth-grade wizard of Peiyuan?" In the face of Ma Sanbao's powerful aura, Zhou Shiwen remained extremely calm and collected. Behind him, an old man in a green robe slowly emerged.

  That old man was wrapped in several thick cotton-padded jackets, with his hands tucked into his sleeves, looking very rustic.

  Now it's already summer, the scorching sun is shining brightly, but he feels extremely cold, even the air flowing out of his mouth has a faint white mist, as if it's not the hottest summer day, but the coldest winter month!

  Ma Sanbao furrowed his brow, this old man was named Zhou Ding Sheng, the inner housekeeper of the Zhou family, and his cultivation had reached the seventh rank of Guyuan. Compared to Pei Yuan's fourth rank, there was a world of difference!

  He felt the cold not because he had cultivated some kind of icy heart technique, but rather because his technique was extremely fierce and overbearing, burning the yuanqi around him with intense heat like fire. The air he breathed out turned into white mist due to the low temperature outside!

  Zhou Ding Sheng's voice was hoarse, as if he had been lacking water for years. He cupped his hands and said: "Please give an old man some face, Master Ma."

  Ma Sanbao shook his head and said: "General Manager Zhou, please forgive me. I am unable to make a decision on this matter and can only ask the master of the house for instructions."

  Zhou Shiwen and Zhou Ding Sheng were both startled in their hearts: "Ye Si Dao has also come?"

  Ye Si Dao's reputation was too great, and before he even appeared, the two of them had already lost their will to fight.

  Actually, Ye Si Dao's qualifications are not good. In Liuzhou City, his cultivation is not the highest. The one with the highest cultivation among the three major witch families is Fang Wan Hong, the master of the Fang family.

  But even Fang Wan-hung is no match for him!

  The two had once clashed before, and after that clash, Fang Wan-hong lay in bed for three whole months!

  If it weren't for the Zhou family's intervention, the Fang family would have been completely eradicated from the land of Liu Zhou by the Ye family!

  "Your Excellency!" Ma Sanbao bowed down and said respectfully.

  Ye Si Dao walked slowly with his hands behind his back, giving off a hazy and ethereal feeling, making it impossible to discern where he would take his next step. "In another ten years, the title of top warlock in Liu Zhou City will be yours?" Ye Si Dao seemed to smile but not quite.

  Zhou Shiwen was shocked, and suddenly knew that his conversation with Ye Xu had been overheard by Ye Si. He twisted his neck and shouted loudly: "Master Ye, ten years later, you will definitely not be my opponent! If you are afraid, you can kill me now!"

  Ye Si Dao smiled and said: "You look rough on the outside, but you're actually cunning like a fox. You know how to use the '激将法' to save your life, which is quite rare. If someone else had said this to me, I would have immediately taken action to eliminate the threat. But with you...I don't even feel like having that thought. Your death sentence can be commuted, but not your punishment for being alive. Earlier, you took it upon yourself to teach Ye Xin a lesson; now you'll be just like him, with your face planted in the ground. Then you two can leave."

  Zhou Shiwen's eyes rolled around, he was determined to try his best, but he knew it was impossible to survive in Ye Sida's hands. He gritted his teeth and thought: "When I was born, my face hit the ground first, now hitting the ground again is no big deal!" So he jumped into the air, head down and feet up, and his whiskered face heavily smashed onto the ground!

  Even if he had only half a foot in the arena, or was knocked so that his nose was crooked to one side, Zhou Ding Sheng hastily helped him up and the two of them quickly left the horse grounds.

  Ma Sanbao hesitated for a moment and said: "Master, are you just going to let them leave like this?"

  Ye Si Dao smiled and said: "A junior, not worth my effort to take action. I'll spare him, also to use his hands to temper the younger generation of Ye family. Zhou Ding Sheng is also not worth my effort to take action. His cultivation method is too overbearing and tyrannical, revealing anomalies, even his body can't withstand it. Without me taking action, he won't live till next month! San Bao, your talent is good, you should soon enter the solid yuan period. A solid yuan period wizard's primordial energy is like a wheel, shining all over the body, but the primordial energy won't overflow outside the body, balanced and harmonious. Like Zhou Ding Sheng, it's just seeking death!"

  Ma Sanbao knew that he was borrowing Zhou Ding's prestige to point at himself, and his heart was deeply moved. He said: "Is the master of the mansion coming this time to see Seventh Master? Why not go see him?"

  "A jade stone that is not carved cannot be made into a useful vessel. If he can get through this ordeal, it's possible that he may be able to restore his innate abilities and become a wizard in the future. But if he can't get through it, then what use is he?"

  Ye Si Dao let out a sigh, shook his head and walked away, his back figure looking rather desolate: "That little brat Zhou Shiwen may be arrogant, but he's right, my Ye family except for Qin Er and Shao Bao, the other children are all useless, not worth cultivating! Now that Shao Bao has been abolished, Qin Er is outside and hasn't returned, who knows if she's dead or alive, could it be that my Ye family really is going to decline..."