Walking by the Abyss on Thin Ice

Chapter 218 – Royal Yuan Wuji

"The demonic energy in Dongdu is becoming more and more abundant."

One by one, the guests under the Eight Aristocratic Families are dying, and with each death, a scholar from the Eight Aristocratic Families rises to bid farewell and leave.

Soon, the other young masters who were invited to the banquet also rose to bid farewell, and only Su Yun, Bai Yuelou, Wu Tong, and others were left in the center of the Immortal Mansion.

Wu Tong's eyes flickered as she watched these people leave one after another, thinking to herself, "The growth of demonic energy has allowed my cultivation to improve significantly. But the place where demonic energy is strongest is not here, but in the imperial city."

She knew that the more chaotic Dongdu became, the more advantageous it would be for her.

She would seek revenge against the man who deceived her and imprisoned her in the Zanglong Tomb for 150 years!

Cang Jiuhua ordered someone to clean up the remnants of the feast and invited Su Yun to take a boat ride on the Feiyun Lake at night. He suggested, "The scenery on the lake is extremely beautiful at night. Why not take a boat ride?"

Su Yun looked out at the lake and saw the bright moon in the sky, with another bright moon appearing on the surface of the lake.

After a while, they rowed on the lake, surrounded by water and sky, a beautiful sight to behold.

"Su Shi, you may not know this, but my Great Qin was once barbaric and learned from Yuanshuo, including astronomy such as the Zhou Tianxing Dou. It was always considered a treasure and was never questioned."

Cang Jiuhua admired the bright moon in the water and said, "Later, Great Qin produced many talented people who took the sun as the center and calculated a new Zhou Tianxing Dou array. This new sage was criticized and insulted by others, accusing him of heresy and even hunting him down. Many Great Qin spiritualists were beheaded or hanged for practicing the new school of thought."

Su Yun knew nothing about the rise of Great Qin and listened quietly as he recounted this bloody history.

Cang Jiuhua sighed and said, "The new school of thought in Great Qin gradually grew stronger and its advantages over the old school became more and more apparent. One day, it completely uprooted the old school. But during this time, countless people died, and countless wars broke out! When our Great Qin new school finally stood firm and looked around, we realized that we were already at the top of the world!"

Bai Yuelou sneered, "Self-praise!"

Cang Jiuhua shook his head and said, "It's not self-praise. When we swept away the old forces, we came to Yuanshuo with a pilgrim's heart, and Yuanshuo was the supreme holy land in our hearts. However, we arrived here only to find that, unconsciously, Yuanshuo had become barbaric."

Bai Yuelou was furious but didn't know how to refute him.

"You worship the knowledge of the ancients but don't doubt their knowledge. You claim to investigate things and know them, but you don't understand physics. You only scratch the surface but don't delve deeper. You regard people from three or even five thousand years ago as sages, learn the teachings they passed down, but don't know how to improve upon them."Cang Jiuhua shook his head and said, "You have discovered something good, but the emperor and the aristocrats are afraid that it will endanger their rule, so they lock it up. You have sealed your own creativity, and your Dao techniques and divine abilities have not improved for thousands of years. It is no different from thousands of years ago."

Su Yun asked, "So, you attacked Yuanshuo?"

Cang Jiuhua said naturally, "In this world, weakness is the greatest sin. Everyone in Yuanshuo is guilty."

Bai Yuelou sneered, "Envoys, you also came from ignorance. Before, you were far behind us, but as long as you give us time, we will definitely surpass you! You just don't dare to give us time!"

"We have given you a lot of time. From your Emperor Ai to now, it has been 35 years, and you have not changed."

Cang Jiuhua shook his head and said solemnly, "To be honest, I came to Yuanshuo this time on behalf of the holy man and holy emperor of my Great Qin, to investigate the truth of Yuanshuo. I landed from the East China Sea and walked all the way east. All I saw were ignorance."

He looked at Su Yun and said, "After I arrived in the Eastern Capital, I saw your divine abilities and thought it was my misunderstanding, thinking that Yuanshuo was already prosperous. But after seeing it tonight, I realized that my guess was correct. Yuanshuo only changed on the surface, but it is still barbaric at heart! Su Jun, you are just a nonconformist!"

He bowed deeply on the boat and said, "After tonight, I will return to Great Qin and report my findings truthfully to the holy man and holy emperor of Great Qin. Farewell, both of you!"

Su Yun showed a murderous intent.

Bai Yuelou also had a strong killing intent and kept looking at Su Yun, waiting for Su Yun's command to join forces to kill Cang Jiuhua!

Cang Jiuhua straightened his body and said lightly, "Both of you don't need to be nervous. Even if you kill me, it will be of no use. If you kill me, the Great Qin's navy will attack immediately, and the holy sword of the Great Qin's holy man will wash away the blood along the way, causing cities to fall! Moreover, I am much stronger than you aristocrats in Yuanshuo."

"There is an extremely powerful existence hidden among the envoy group."

Wutong spoke up, "Cang Jiuhua is easy to kill, but that person is extremely difficult to deal with."

Cang Jiuhua heard her voice and was surprised. He quickly looked at her and said, "I only saw Bai Yuelou and Su Yun, when did another person appear? But he is right, there are indeed experts among the envoy group..."

His gaze fell on Wutong, feeling a bit confused and not remembering her.

Cang Jiuhua arched his hand towards Su Yun, leaped and jumped onto another small boat.

"If we have fate in the future, please go to the Great Qin Sword Pavilion. Maybe by then, I will have become a teacher at the Sword Pavilion."Cang Jiuhua waved his hand and said, "My mission is complete. I will return to Da Qin tomorrow. Please stay."

Su Yun stood at the bow of the boat and asked, "So, how did the envoy tell you about the emperor and saint of Da Qin? Did they ask Da Qin to send troops immediately?"

Cang Jiuhua shook his head, "I will ask the emperor and saint to wait. Wait for Mr. Shuijing's reform to fail, wait for your Yuan Shuo to self-destruct, and then Da Qin will attack Yuan Shuo and take it down in one fell swoop! You will do this, you must."

Bai Yuelou was indignant and said, "Absolutely not!"

Cang Jiuhua laughed and left in his small boat. "Su Shi, I will give you a gift before I leave. Someone will bring it soon."

His small boat drifted away, leaving only Su Yun's boat floating in the center of the lake.

Su Yun looked up and saw a bright moon in the sky.

He lowered his head and saw another bright moon in the lake, like a mirror.

"Mr. Shuijing, can you change the situation? What should I do to protect you and your reform?"

In the distance, a small boat quietly floated towards them, with a person wearing a hat and a fisherman rowing behind him.

The boat sailed to the front and stopped about ten meters away from Su Yun's boat, and the lake returned to calm.

The person on the boat took off his hat and bowed slightly, saying, "I am the imperial disciple Yuan Wujì, and I have seen Su Shi."

In the moonlight, the man's eyebrows were like willow leaves, his eyes were like stars, and he was dressed in a green shirt, which looked like green jade in the moonlight. He was young, just like Su Yun and Bai Yuelou.

"Imperial disciple Yuan Wujì?"

Su Yun's gaze fell on the man, and his heart suddenly shook. "Mr. Shuijing is not the most dangerous one, it's Di Ping! The royal family is preparing to change the emperor and wants to use me to examine whether there is anyone in the royal family who can be the next emperor! After I fail, the royal family will try to depose Di Ping, and then Mr. Shuijing will be in danger! So!"

His breath soared, "I cannot fail! What can the royal family do?"

Wu Tong's gaze fell on the old fisherman behind Yuan Wujì, her face serious as she whispered, "That old man is not easy. The royal family has sent a master this time!"

"Yuan Wujì, are you practicing the Five Elements Mixed Yuan Art?" Su Yun asked casually, "If so, then you don't need to take action. Di Ping has used this technique in front of me, but it was nothing special."

Yuan Wujì's pupils shrank slightly and shook his head, "I am practicing the Five Elements Mixed Yuan Art, but it is not entirely the Five Elements Mixed Yuan Art. When I was twelve years old, I was sent to Da Qin to study at Jian Ge. I used the new knowledge from Jian Ge to improve the Five Elements Mixed Yuan Art."

"Then let's try it!" Su Yun took a step forward.

Cang Jiuhua held a wine glass and came to the immortal residence of Feiyan Building, overlooking Feiyun Lake from above.A bright moon shone between two small boats, and two small figures flew out from the boats, colliding towards the same direction and forming a straight line.

They collided in the center of the moonlit lake.

"Su Shizi, I forgot to tell you, this time I also brought a scholar from the Yuan Shao imperial family who studied in Da Qin."

Cang Jiuhua raised his glass from afar, drank it all, smiled, and said leisurely, "This Prince Wuji has mastered the unique skills of the Da Qin Jian Ge, taught by the saint himself, and taught him new skills to help him refine the great unification method of Da Qin. This is another plan of our Da Qin. If we cannot swallow Yuan Shao, then we will support an emperor who is close to Da Qin and gradually plan for it."

The calm surface of Feiyun Lake shook and shattered the moon in the lake!

Ripples broke the calm surface and spread in all directions.

From Cang Jiuhua's perspective, there were ripples on the water surface, but in the center of the lake, there were waves over two meters high, one wave after another, rushing towards the shore!

Su Yun and Yuan Wuji's spiritual powers manipulated the surging water, filling every corner of their spiritual powers, turning them into entities!

After the battle with the saint, Su Yun comprehended all the tricks of the spiritual power duel. His fists and spiritual powers were one, and his Huang Zhong spiritual power was powerful and fierce!

However, what surprised him was that Yuan Wuji's cultivation was extremely powerful, almost not weaker than his!

Both of them opened the seventy-two caves at the same time on the lake surface. Su Yun's seventy-two caves were connected together, and his cultivation soared to the extreme. Yuan Wuji was the same!

"There are also talented people in Da Qin who have found the center of the universe and the coordinates of the immortal world!" Su Yun thought to himself.

He no longer hesitated and suddenly changed his spiritual power, gathering water into a sword. A sword light lifted up the surging waves and slashed towards Yuan Wuji!

Yuan Wuji's spiritual power was broken, and the sword light came to his throat. At this moment, the old fisherman suddenly covered the lake surface with his hand, and the lake surface under Su Yun's feet suddenly rose dozens of meters high, allowing Yuan Wuji to avoid this sword!

"Prince Wuji has lost." The old man's voice was hoarse.

Yuan Wuji fell onto the boat and looked up at Su Yun standing on the wave, bowing and saying, "I lost, thank you for your guidance."

Su Yun's eyes flashed with a fierce light, and for the first time, he wanted to kill someone so blatantly, "I must kill this stinky brat, otherwise, Water Mirror will be in danger! This stinky brat's strength at the same level is definitely not inferior to my younger brother!"