Against The Heavens 91 Aftermath Of The Battle.

Five minutes after telling Yuan Yijun that the rules were against her, Li Yang finally finished with her. Her entire body was caked in blood and vomit, her consciousness lost half a minute ago. Li Yang held her by her throat, lifting her feet up from the ground and looking at her with a calm gaze, some of her blood having splashed onto his face.

The bones in his arms and chest were mostly completely shattered, but Li Yang didn't even pay them any attention, using his law of lightning to control himself like a puppet. Since Yuan Yijun had lost consciousness, Li Yang didn't bother with her anymore, dismissively tossing her body at the medical personnel which were still treating Yuan Ruogang.

One of the top five outer disciples and one of the most beautiful girls in the sect, and he had viciously beaten her and then tossed her away like a sack of potatoes. How could an act like this not draw quite a few gazes, some of anger and some of admiration?

Of course, those in the audience who had some actual strength looked at Li Yang with completely different gazes, ones filled with solemness. For speed and evading he had his law of lightning and for power and sheer destructive force he had his law of fire, he was almost perfectly well rounded. The only solace they could find was that he had yet to use his law of ice to come up with a strong defensive technique, so he was somewhat lacking in that regard. But what if he came up with a defensive technique, perfectly using all of his laws? Just what sort of monster would he become then?

Li Yang swept the audience with a quick glance, but he couldn't be bothered with their gazes. He didn't crave their respect or adoration, so he didn't care what they thought about his actions and methods. In this vast universe, there were only seven people whose respect and adoration he sought, and out of those seven, four might already be long gone.

These seven were, of course, Fang Ying, Zhao Feng, Dai Shu, Bai Yawen, Ye Ning, and the last two were the twin sister Fang Xiulan and Fang Yazhu, which Li Yang had found out were still alive the last time he returned to the Cloud Wilderness. There were others in the universe Li Yang respected, but none that he actually wanted to respect or like him.

After sweeping the audience with a glance, Li Yang turned towards the steps that led out of the arena and started heading towards them. He had to return to his abode so that he could focus on healing his wounds, only when he was fully healed could he return to focusing on cultivation. But as he was starting to make his way up the stairs, a deep green pill the size of a human's eye suddenly flew over, stopping in front of him as a light laugh sounded out from his side.

"You should take that one, it'll make healing those broken bones quite a bit easier. Otherwise, who knows if you'll be able to return to your peak state in time."

Li Yang stretched out his hand and let the pill drop into his palm, rolling it around slightly. He could feel that not only did the pill contain a very concentrated medicinal energy, but it was also filled with a vast and mighty Qi, it was clearly not a pill that just anyone could get their hands on.

He turned his head sideways, his gaze landing on the yellow-robe and cyan-haired Yuan Luoyang, the girl who brought him into the Yuan clan. There were a few other people walking behind Yuan Luoyang, with most of them having reached the Immortal Rebirth realm, meaning that they were also inner disciples.

Li Yang didn't reject the medicine, mainly because he didn't have the contribution points to buy any of his own, and certainly not enough to buy a pill as useful as this one. He cupped his hands, ignoring the creaking of his bones as he gave a polite greeting.

"Thank you, Senior Sister Luoyang. Since you are offering it, I won't do something rude like rejecting it."

Back when Li Yang first saw Yuan Luoyang during the contest to earn a spot for the grand compet.i.tion, which was only a little over a year away now, he had thought that her cultivation was around the Immortal Rebirth realm, likely the early stage. But now that she was no longer hiding her cultivation, he could see that she had already reached the early stage of the Primordial Rune realm, the cultivation realm which was only a single realm beneath the one Li Yang had reached in his previous life, the Celestial Immortal realm.

Of course, whether or not she would ever be able to reach that realm was uncertain. Just increasing one's cultivation by a single stage within the Primordial Immortal realm was difficult, to the point where people could spend thousands or even millions of years stuck in each of the stages. And that was just the Primordial Immortal realm, the Celestial Immortal realm was even more difficult.

Seeing Li Yang accept the pill so easily, Yuan Luoyang gave a satisfied nod of her head, patting him on the shoulder as she walked past him, giving him a quick reminder.

"Good, you should use that pill to quickly heal your wounds. The test to become an inner disciple will take place in about four months, and as was the agreement when you entered the clan, you are allowed to take part in it. I was the one who brought you into the clan and vouched for your abilities, so don't disappoint me."

It was only upon receiving her reminder that Li Yang remembered that he had indeed been promised that he would get to take on the test to become an inner disciple one year after joining the clan. There had been so many things he had to do that the fact had completely slipped his mind.

Luckily, he had increased his strength quite a bit, so he felt confident that he could become an inner disciple, which would not only give him access to better training grounds, but it would also make it so that the clan allocated more resources to him.

He wanted to thank Yuan Luoyang for reminding him, but she and the other inner disciples had already vanished. She had only come to observe his fight, and the others had only come to get closer to Yuan Luoyang, so now that the fight was over, none of them had any reason to stay any longer.

Li Yang continued to leave the arena, ignoring those that tried to approach him, he had to focus on healing, he had no time to deal with all these people who were trying to lick his feet now that he had showed his strength. Luckily, Xiang Wuying aided him in keeping some of the more persistent people as well as the other top outer disciples away. As one of the top five outer disciples, Xiang Wuying's words carried quite some weight here, so most people quickly caught the hint and left Li Yang alone.

Of course, now that Li Yang had brutally trashed Yuan Yijun, a hushed discussion broke out over whether or not the top five outer disciples should become the top six outer disciples or if they should take away Yuan Yijun's t.i.tle. Some were in favor of having Li Yang become the sixth top outer disciple, but that created some dispute between the remaining top disciples about how they should split up their territories so that Li Yang got some.

Li Yang completely ignored these discussions and returned to his house, he had no interest in acquiring territory or servants, so he truly didn't care what they decided to do. As long as the other top outer disciples left him alone, he would be more than pleased. And if they chose to not leave them alone, he would not mind dragging them down from their thrones, just like he had done with Yuan Yijun.

Blackstone and the two other servants that Li Yang had been a.s.signed quickly rushed forth to greet him when they saw that he had returned. They wanted to congratulate him on his victory, but he simply waved them aside and gave them a quick order.

"Don't disturb me while I focus on healing. Only notify me if an inner disciple arrives, you can just send away anyone else."

After tossing out the order, he locked himself up in his room and sat down on his bed, quickly taking out and putting the pill Yuan Luoyang had given him into his mouth. He didn't pay much attention to his wounds, but that did not mean that they weren't severe, quite a few of his bones were horribly shattered after all.

He didn't immediately swallow the pill, letting it slowly melt in his mouth, allowing the medicinal energy and the Qi within it to slowly seep into his body. He used his own Qi to guide the medicinal energy towards his shattered bones, surrounding them and speeding up the healing process. The blood of Jinwu and Shenlong that had fused with Li Yang already gave him a greatly strengthened recovery rate, but he saw no harm in speeding up the process even further using pills, it would give him more time to cultivate after all.

He wanted to focus on fully healing himself, but just like he had guessed, that was impossible. Three days after his battle with Yuan Yijun, shortly after he had managed to fully heal both of his hands, Blackstone interrupted his healing.

"Senior Brother Yang, an inner disciple says he is here on behalf of Elder Gengxin!"

Li Yang opened his eyes and let out a light sigh. He had already expected something like this to happen when he first made the agreement with Yuan Ruogang. His strength was far above his cultivation, and his cultivation speed was far faster than it should be, a mere youth from some village should not have this cultivation speed.

He stood up from the bed and switched into a fresh robe, using his law of lightning to control his arms. His hands were healed, but his arms and chest were still wounded, so he was still quite far away from being back to full power. After putting on a fresh yellow robe, he stretched his waist, muttering quietly before leaving the room.

"Alright, let's go lie to some old fogies."