Emperor of the Human Way Chapter 26

"This time it’s a big humiliation for the River Mud clan…"

More people crowded in and stuck their head toward the River Mud clan’s room, one and all rejoicing in other people’s misfortune: "You can say the River Mud clan kicked an iron sheet this time, even their toes have been kicked swollen. Those guys bullied old sir Pu’s disciples, but they didn’t expect they’d provoke a body cultivator as strong and unreasonable as a Jiao dragon."

"This Zhong Mountain clansman isn’t a pure body cultivator. His qi cultivation methods are absolutely even more brilliant than those River Mud clan disciples!" A disciple from the Dark Mountain clan shook his head and explained for Zhong Yue.

"The battle in the teaching room was short, but the Zhong Mountain clansman mixed the Secrets of the Surging Thunder Sword together with his body cultivation method, melting the thunderbolt sword qi inside Jiao dragon totem. The thunderbolt totem combined with the Jiao dragon totem and swept away the River Mud clan disciples. You can tell the depth of his attainments in qi cultivation!"

Quite a few people secretly nodded at those words.

After all, the core disciples of the Dark Mountain clan were characters that had been personally taught by the Dark Mountain Qi Refining warriors, and their vision and knowledge surpa.s.sed those of ordinary upper yard disciples. The great majority of upper yard disciples thought that Zhong Yue obtained victory thanks to his body cultivation, and not many could see that the body cultivation was mixed with a qi cultivation method.

Quite a few people found this a little inconceivable. Qi cultivation and body cultivation could be said to be conflicting opposites. If you spent too much time and focus on body cultivation, then your qi cultivation would regress, while your body couldn’t become too strong if you put all your energy in qi cultivation. If you tried to cultivate both at the same time, it would lead to both not making much progress, and make your strength lower overall instead.

But Zhong Yue broke this very common sense, combining body cultivation and qi cultivation, enhancing them both hand in hand!

"I can tell just from the fact that junior sister Shui Qingyan was summoned up the mountain and taken over by the Celestial Elephant Old Mother. The River Mud clan has so many disciples following Qi Refining warriors, but even if those River Mud core disciples didn’t rely on the demons, their parents and elder generations mostly relied on the help from demons!"

Zhong Yue didn’t half a shred of guilt at injuring those River Mud core disciples. Those core disciples were really too weak. Even if they obtained true legacies, even if they used soul weapons, even if they used totem poles, their strength was still somewhat unsightly. It made him greatly doubt the ability of the Qi Refining warriors instructing those disciples.

He was in fact wrongly accusing the River Mud clan’s Qi Refining warriors. The River Mud disciples could already count as elite characters among the upper yard disciples. If it weren’t the case, Ting Lanyue and He Chengchuan couldn’t possibly lose.

However, even if the River Mud Qi Refining warriors diligently taught their disciples, how could they compare to Xin Huo?

With Xin Huo’s guidance, through a dozen days of tempering through the edge of life and death, Zhong Yue had attained the apex level among upper yard disciples in controlling his physique, mind and soul, to say nothing of his cultivation greatly increasing.

This still wasn’t the most fearsome thing, the most fearsome was his incomparably terrifying explosiveness!

Maybe Zhong Yue’s cultivation couldn’t count as top level among the upper yard disciples. After all, the time he’d genuinely cultivated was short. But his explosiveness had most definitely reached a level that left other people in the dust until they couldn’t even spot the shadow of his back anymore!

Xin Huo said he hadn’t reached a level that could make him satisfied, but how high was his exigence?

Seen with this kind of standard, Zhong Yue’s explosiveness didn’t count as stunning, but if put among those River Mud disciples, he was a hungry tiger and the others were little sheep!

When a hungry tiger enters a flock of sheep, then naturally it would turn into a great slaughter. The sheep left could only bleat and look pitiful!

On the upper layer of the Teaching Pavilion, several Qi Refining warriors were leisurely sipping tea, observing the compet.i.tion between disciples below. When Zhong Yue walked out of the River Mud clan’s room, a middle aged Qi Refining warrior couldn’t resist quickly standing, anger written on his face. It was precisely a Qi Refining warrior of the River Mud clan, Shui Anshan.

When Shui Anshan was about to go downstairs, a gray shadow suddenly moved, and an old man with a head full of white hair blocked his way. Shui Anshan stared at him, not repressing his sneer: "Old sir Pu is well versed in covering up! It doesn’t matter if your pupil beats my River Mud clan’s disciples, but he’s owed some disciplining after sprouting such conceited nonsense."

"Heh heh" Old sir Pu laughed and said: "Younger brother Shui isn’t aware that this Zhong Mountain clansman isn’t my disciple. He offended the Tian Feng clan, who dares to receive him? He listened to one of my lectures and obtained the true legacy of my Secrets of the Surging Thunder Sword, it has no relations.h.i.+p with me."

Shui Anshan laughed and said: "Since he isn’t old sir Pu’s disciple, then Pu elder shouldn’t stop me from teaching him a lesson right?"

Old sir Pu shook his head with a smile: "Junior brother Shui, young disciples fighting among themselves is a small matter after all is said and done. If an adults jumps out and beats up little kids, it will inevitably attract ridicule, what does junior brother Shui think?"

Shui Anshan looked around. Inside this tea room there were other Qi Refining warriors drinking tea and chatting, but they gazed his way with the corner of their eyes, and there was no lack of antic.i.p.ation of watching a good show and making fun of someone else’s misfortune. He immediately laughed dryly, "Old sir Pu is right."

Although he said this, Shui Anshan was feeling unhappy in his heart: "This old sir Pu still says he’s not protecting him, if he’s not covering for him, would he ditch his old face and come block me? …Very good! My River Mud clan’s thoroughbred finally came, we can finally collect back the face we lost!"

Zhong Yue walked toward He Chengchuan and Ting Lanyue when he suddenly heard a mild laugh: "This junior brother wait a moment. After beating up our River Mud clan’s disciples, do you want to leave so easily?"

Zhong Yue stopped his steps and turned around. Outside the Teaching Pavilion sprays of water suddenly gushed down the mountain, great billows hanging like a great inverted river. An upper yard disciple stood at the crest of the waves and come his way as if he were taking a leisurely stroll, carried by the river sprays.

With each of his steps, waves would be created under his feet, carrying his body. His feet didn’t touch the ground and he looked stylish and distinguished.

This person’s entrance was brilliant and dazzling, attracting the gaze of countless people. Even Zhong Yue had to admit that this man was unusually colorful and stylish, a rarely seen figure.

"Eldest brother Qinghe!"

The River Mud disciples struggled to stand up inside the River Mud clan’s room. They looked in the direction of the newcomer and couldn’t hide their delight: "Eldest brother Qinghe came! Eldest brother, this person charged into my River Mud clan’s room and injured people. Eldest brother please uphold justice for us!"

Shui Qinghe’s face was gentle and he gave the hint of a nod. He strode on to the Teaching Pavilion, lifted by the waves. The great river under his feet transformed into fishes, dragons, pythons and other strange images. This was the changes of totem patterns. There was even inside the river faint sights of ice swords floating up and down. Those were beams of dark ice sword qi condensed by the totem patterns!

Being able to cultivate to such a level was indeed a rarity in the upper yard!

Shui Qinghe looked at Zhong Yue, his gaze gentle as he smiled and said: "Zhong Mountain clan? Junior brother, you used such a heavy hand in an exchange between fellow disciples, it is really a little excessive."

Zhong Yue shook his head and said: "The River Mud clan disciples also acted with heavy hands, injuring sister apprentice Ting and brother apprentice He, is it not also somewhat excessive?"

Shui Qinghe looked toward Ting Lanyue and He Chengchuan. He faintly frowned upon seeing the two with heavy injuries also, then immediately smoothed his brows and said: "Some accidents are normal in an exchange between fellow disciples. The River Mud clan’s repute cannot be disgraced, this day I have no choice but to act and earn back my River Mud clan’s face. Junior brother Zhong, you cultivate qi and body both side by side? Since that is the case, I won’t bully you and will duel you with a body cultivation method."

Hu La!

The water flow around him condensed, and the various totem patterns merged together. Shui Qinghe’s feet disappeared and transformer into a fish tail. His whole person was shrouded inside mind power, gradually turning into a strange man with a tall and lofty physique, with human body and a fish tail, white hair and silver eyes, his atmosphere brutal and ruthless!

Shui Qinghe was originally around the same height as an ordinary person, but now he was shockingly thirteen to fourteen feet tall, his muscles bunching into knots and filled with explosive strength!

Shui Qinghe’s appearance greatly changed, and when his battle stature came out, the air became abnormally damp, as if you could squeeze water out from a fistful of air.

"River G.o.d Hebo!"

Zhong Yue’s expression became grave. He had already seen the means displayed by Shui Qinghe earlier in the River Mud clan’s room. One of the River Mud disciples had displayed the Hebo Totem Visualization Secrets. It consisted precisely of visualizing Hebo, forming Hebo’s totem with mind power and using it to help oneself to fight.

However, the Hebo totem manifested by that River Mud disciple was merely empty air and had no flesh or bones. It was far from being as real as Shui Qinghe’s.

Moreover, Shui Qinghe wasn’t only purely visualizing Hebo but was becoming Hebo, letting his own terrifying mind power transforming himself into Hebo’s body!

Hebo was a river G.o.d, and the Wei River tribe River Mud clan’s totem was precisely river G.o.d Hebo. It was a totem spirit left behind by the River Mud clan’s ancestors ten thousand years ago back when humanity pioneered the Great Wilderness. Many people of the River Mud clan visualized Hebo, but not many could cultivate it to such a degree!

He could already visualize Hebo’s flesh and bones, as if it were a true river G.o.d!

Cultivating the Hebo Totem Visualization Secrets to this degree was already extremely fearsome. Not only it could compensate for your body’s deficiencies, it could even establish an unparalleled advantage when fighting in close combat with body cultivators.

Going to battle like a G.o.d, the might was easy to imagine!

"Zhong kid, this man is a strong character."

Little kid Xin Huo’s voice suddenly became a little solemn inside Zhong Yue’s sea of consciousness: "His acc.u.mulation is extremely deep, if he goes into the Spirit s.p.a.ce Hall, he’ll immediately become a Qi Refining warrior. His mind power is too strong, it’s even stronger than yours and it’s close to a Qi Refining warrior. It can already achieve the transformation of the virtual into the real. I’m afraid he’s one of the strongest characters among the upper yard disciples!"

"Transform the virtual into the real?"

Zhong Yue was awed. This was a power that belonged to Qi Refining warriors!

Qi Refining warriors could achieve the transformation of the virtual into reality with their mind power. For example during the fight inside the Blue Sky Hall between Zuo Xiangsheng and the old man from the Tian Feng clan, the old man had transformed wood into sword qi, combined his mind power with the wooden sword qi, and manifested huge wooden beams weighing ten thousand pounds arranged into the Ten Thousand Wooden Sword Array. This was precisely transforming the virtual into the real, materializing with the mind power, as if it were genuine wood.

Of course, it wasn’t truly transforming the mind power into wood. It was the behavior of mind manifestation, and it wasn’t much different from genuine wood, but if the mind power were to disperse, then the wood would also disappear.

Shui Qinghe also achieved the transformation of the virtual into the real, and condensed the river G.o.d Hebo with his mind power. The degree of tenaciousness of his mind had already reached the level of a Qi Refining warrior!

"Turning the virtual into the real, manifesting Hebo, transforming it into reality, it’s enough to enhance his physique ten times over or even dozens of times over. It’s like he became a body cultivation expert. It’s even stronger than my own physique!"

Zhong Yue’s expression was grave. This Shui Qinghe was very strong, he was even much stronger than Yu Feiyan, strong to a fearsome degree. Those River Mud clan core disciples from earlier were far from his level in comparison!

Yu Feiyan already cultivated her dragon fish into possessing flesh and bones, and the image was as vivid as reality, but it was still missing a little before it could accomplish the transformation of the virtual into the real. The main cause was that her mind power wasn’t strong enough, so the dragon fish she visualized was distinct but still not real enough.

Zhong Yue took a long breath in, not the slightest fear in his heart. Instead he was even a little excited, excited he could duel with kind of expert!

"Zhong kid, are you eager?"

Little Xin Huo saw the turmoil of great billows inside his sea of consciousness and was astonished: "This Shui Qinghe’s strength his higher than yours, you should be fearing him."

"No!"

Zhong Yue’s desire for battle was steaming in his chest: "The stronger the opponent, the more excited I am! To duel with this kind of powerful opponent, to knock him down, to defeat him, to crush his body, to destroy his confidence, to trample his dignity, this kind of feeling, Xin Huo, can you understand it?"