Translated by BerryBunz
What are you worrying about
Hearing him speak up, everyone turned to look at the door only to see a man wearing a hat walking in, the hat was extremely low with decorative designs on the rims, everyone could barely see his face, but was unable to see it clearly as well. If not for his clothes and order badge, no one would know who he was.
"Nan Gong Qing, you asshole, you actually made miss Huai Rou wait for an hour!" Nan Gong Gu was the first to stand and shouted out discourteously.
If it was the old Nan Gong Qing, Nan Gong Gu would have restraining fear towards him, but currently, he did not. He was extremely jealous of Nan Gong Qing's engagement towards Huai Rou Mu Yu to become dual cultivation companions, he knew that the seed of jealousy in his heart had already sprouted, and this formed because of Nan Gong Qing.
He already had such feelings towards Nan Gong Qing from young, but as Nan Gong Qing was the heir to the Patriarch, along with the fact that he lost in terms of strength, he never said anything. Now, when Nan Gong Qing's cultivation was crippled and he'd become so weak, what was there to be afraid of? With the appearance of Huai Rou Mu Yu, it added fuel to the flames, increasing his jealousy towards Nan Gong Qing.
~If my father was the Patriarch, I would be the one marrying Huai Rou Mu Yu!
Nan Gong Gu thought fiercely in his mind.
"Did I ask you guys to wait? If you don't want to, you guys could had gone first." Su Yun said nonchalantly.
"You!!!"
Nan Gong Gu was furious.
"Hey, Nan Gong Qing, why are you dressed like this? Why cover your face? Are you afraid of letting others look at you?" Nan Gong Hong Yan who was dressed in purple snorted.
"You will have to ask Mu Yu about this." Su Yun glanced towards Huai Rou Mu Yu.
Everyone were startled and looked towards Huai Rou Mu Yu.
Her eyes were closed, but her long eyelashes trembled slightly. She spoke up: "In the afternoon, Young Master Qing was slightly inattentive while we were chatting, and I accidentally wounded his face"
"The wounds on my face aren't completely healed yet, so I am wearing a hat to conceal them." Su Yun laughed.
"Chatting? How will that lead to wounding the face?" A Nan Gong Family disciple asked, he did not understand.
"That involves privacy between Mu Yu and I, haha, as long as everyone knows it, it's fine, we don't have be too open about it!" Su Yun glanced at Nan Gong Gu and revealed a smile that only men understood.
Nan Gong Gu was startled for a second, but immediately understood what he meant, 'whoosh', a look of fury mixed with jealousy flashed past his eyes, he clenched his fists tightly, wanting so badly to rush over and punch Nan Gong Qing.
"Cousin brother, you and Miss Huai Rou are not married yet, please restrain yourself before you make other people start gossiping." Nan Gong Hong Yan spoke directly, her voice extremely sharp.
"What are you afraid of? Other than the Feng Family in Sky Central City, who else dares to make a move against my Nan Gong Family?"
Su Yun portrayed an air of arrogance.
"Heh, cousin brother, you have to understand the situation, you are now just a fifth stage Spirit Star Realm cultivator, your fighting strength isn't even at a thousand, are you not afraid of your tongue getting cut by speaking such words?"
Nan Gong Gu spoke in a low voice.
"I'm not worried about that, when Mu Yu and I get married, we can dual cultivate, my cultivation will definitely soar at that time." Su Yun laughed.
His words immediately caused everyone in the hall to be dumbstruck, no one expected Su Yun to be so open and direct.
"Cousin brother, y-you, how can you say such words in front of Miss Mu Yu?" Nan Gong Hong Yan's tongue seemed to be caught in a bind.
Huai Rou Mu Yu frowned, but did not say a word.
But every person on scene had different looks of expressions, some were even ashamed, while some revealed envious looks at Su YUn.
Su Yun secretly noted the expression in her eyes and laughed: "Cousin sister, what's that? It's the truth, furthermore, Mu Yu's family is so rich, it isn't difficult for them to groom me, so you guys don't have to worry"
"Enough!"
Before Su Yun could finish his words, Huai Rou Mu Yu suddenly stood up and interrupted him.
Nan Gong Gu became joyous, he looked over, to see that Huai Rou Mu Yu's face was somewhat unnatural.
"It's about time, everyone, let us go to the north plaza."
Huai Rou Mu Yu said gently, and headed out of the hall without turning back.
"Hey, Mu Yu!" Su Yun acted to call out a few times, but Huai Rou Mu Yu did not care about him.
Seeing that, Nan Gong Gu immediately followed along.
Seeing Su Yun's defeated look, everyone secretly thought that he deserved it.
Huai Rou Mu Yu's temper was truly good, but it depends on the situation. Su Yun's words were too blunt and she was already not able to accept it when he said privacy, but she never thought that he would speak further in front of so many youths, where could she hide her face?
But that was what Su Yun wanted.
The group left the main hall, Su Yun followed along at the back and headed out of the Nan Gong Residence.
Because they were participating in a huge general assembly, they could not create too much extravagance, so Nan Gong Gu only called for a few guards to follow them, the group left the residence and headed towards the North Plaza.
On the road, Nan Gong Gu kept on talking to Huai Rou Mu Yu, completely disregarding Nan Gong Qing, who currently, other than his identity, had nothing worth for others to fawn about. After the matter of Nan Gong Qing being injured and dropping to the fifth stage of the Spirit Star Realm was spread through the entire residence, it stirred up a huge uproar, Nan Gong Hu originally brought a few people to take a look at him, but were all rejected by Su Yun. Luckily, Huai Rou Mu Yu was the one to confirm the news.
Luckily for him, Nan Gong Qing had good relations with everyone in the Nan Gong Family and the majority of them felt pity for him, only Nan Gong Gu was celebrating in his calamity.
"Miss Mu Yu, this street is the most famous street in the Sky Central City, this street is designed for the best shops in the city, all of them were invested on by almighty beings and it is common to encounter an expert on this street. I remember that once, I met an almighty being at the Spirit Sky Master Realm, he truly scared me, that aura and might, it truly is unforgettable"
Nan Gong Gu spoke with exaggeration, as though he hoped to attract everybody's attention, but Huai Rou Mu Yu kept looking ahead calmly and did not seem to be the least bit interested in Nan Gong Gu's words.
Nan Gong Gu's deflation naturally made Su Yun feel good since he did not have any good feeling towards Nan Gong Gu. If Nan Gong Gu treated him better, maybe he would have initiated a matchmaking between Huai Rou Mu Yu and him, but he always seemed to have a grudge against Nan Gong Qing, thus Su Yun did not do it.
Su Yun walked over and squeezed between Nan Gong Gu and Huai Rou Mu Yu forcefully, then used his hands to hold onto Huai Rou Mu Yu's small and cold hands, and walked ahead without a change in expression.
"Nan Gong Qing, what are you doing?" Nan Gong Gu became vexed.
"I'm not doing anything, what?"
Su Yun said.
"Then why are you not letting go of Miss Mu Yu's hands right now?" Nan Gong Gu said furiously.
"There's too many people here, I was afraid that Miss Mu Yu might get lost." Su Yun laughed, he secretly glanced at Huai Rou Mu Yu's face, and realised that her expression had a faint and hard to catch look of disgust, instantly causing him to be happy.
As expected, Huai Rou Mu Yu suddenly pulled her hand back, and a cold look appeared on her face.
"Young Master Qing, Mu Yu was not joking with you, please do not behave so rudely anymore."
Huai Rou Mu Yu's tone was not gentle anymore, but had become slightly colder.
Su Yun knew that he had touched Huai Rou Mu Yu's bottomline, if he continued, she would definitely explode.
Although she looked to be bold and daring, but there was a hint of a conservative nature to her, she always respected the wishes of her seniors and had placed her own rules on herself, never stepping over the boundaries.
Listening to what she said, Su Yun feigned an awkward look, he laughed out loud and no longer spoke.
"Nan Gong Qing, I advise you to be more well-behaved, and stop touching Miss Mu Yu."
Nan Gong Gu grabbed Su Yun by his collar and said fiercely.
"That's my future wife you are talking about, what are you so worried about?" Su Yun said indifferently.
"You!!!" Nan Gong Gu was furious: "I am worried about you throwing our Nan Gong Family's face, understand?"
"Thanks for your concern, I'll remember it."
Su Yun's expression under the hat was extremely calm.
Nan Gong Gu was truly infuriated to the point that he was clenching his teeth, he could only push Su Yun away, and he turned and headed towards Huai Rou Mu Yu.
"Retard."
Su Yun shook his head, he patted on the crease on his robes and continued walking ahead.
"Cousin Brother, are you alright."
Just as Su Yun was following the group behind by himself, a voice came out from behind.
He turned to look, to see a young lady dressed in blue that had unknowingly appeared beside him, she was beautiful, without much makeup on her face, revealing her delicate features.
Su Yun remembered that when Nan Gong Qing was secretly introducing him to people, he introduced her as Zhang Ying Li, and was Nan Gong Qing's uncle's daughter. Since young, she stayed in the Nan Gong Family. She received the nurturing of the Nan Gong Family, but she did not go near Nan Gong Qing, usually sticking to Nan Gong Gu instead, making Nan Gong Qing think that Zhang Ying Li had some feelings towards Nan Gong Gu.
"I'm fine." Su Yun replied.
Zhang Ying Li 'oh', then turned to look at Huai Rou Mu Yu and asked: "Cousin brother, do you have feelings for Miss Huai Rou Mu Yu?"
"Are you kidding me?" Su Yun spoke with a bit of ridicule: "She is such a beauty, which man won't fall for her?"
"R-really?" Zhang Ying Li revealed an obvious look of disappointment, she bit her lips and said: "You men, do you truly only care about looks? How is Huai Rou Mu Yu good?"
"That is hard to explain."
Su Yun glanced at her.
He saw Zhang Ying Li's face suddenly turning red, then asked: "Then, Cousin Brother, in your heart, who do you think is better, me or Miss Huai Rou Mu Yu?"
"Around the same." Su Yun said, he did not want to incite trouble.
"So vague."
Zhang Ying Li was obviously not satisfied with his answer.
The people on the street gradually grew more and more, with all the Profound Spirit Qi mixing together, it formed a strange but nice scent.
Su Yun pressed down the rim of his hat, and looked around. Nearby, there was a huge door where two rows of spirit cultivators stood, they were continuously greeting customers with their smiling faces. After sizing them up, he realised that all of them were roughly sixth stage Spirit Star Realm cultivators with fighting strength of around a thousand.
~Such an irony, such beings are actually so low and petty in this world.~
~It truly is different in every world.~
"Ah! It's our esteemed guests from the Nan Gong Family! Oh my my, isn't this young miss from the Huai Rou Family? Come come come, come this way please, my master has already booked a banquet for all of you! Esteemed guests, please come this way!!"
The manager at the door saw the group, his eyes immediately lit up as he ran over and passionately greeted.
The group of people were brought by the manager to the center of the plaza with VIP seats. With many cultivators walking in and out, many of them had fighting strengths of over 2 thousand. Su Yun did not know what grade of cultivation a person must have to have fighting strength of over 2000, but without question, their aura was so frightening that people near them would tremble.
Translated by BerryBunz
The Rich Lady
There were over hundreds and thousands of people gathered at the north plaza, it was extremely vibrant and crowded, but the side for the VIPS were much quieter because only people with positions in the Sky Central City could afford to sit there. There was a barrier enchantment all around it that isolated the two sides and there were all sorts of delicious desserts, all of which could help improve cultivation, but to existences at and above the Spirit Master Cultivator realm, all these improvements were negligible.
But Su Yun did not care, he had a low cultivation and all of these would be extremely effective for him, one of each delicacy would cost him more than 10 cultivation coins, he could not stop, and started to eat ferociously, not caring about his own image.
Watching how Su Yun gulp down on his food, the Nan Gong Family people beside frowned.
"Cousin brother, eat slower."
Zhang Ying Li secretly glanced at Nan Gong Gu and said with a tinge of helplessness.
"Hey hey, are those people over there people from the Nan Gong Family?"
"Yes it is."
"Then who is that lady seated beside Nan Gong Qing? She is a superb beauty!"
"My friend, please do not speak recklessly, that lady is the precious daughter of the Huai Rou Family, she is extremely pampered."
"The precious daughter of the Huai Rou Family? Why are people from the Huai Rou Family in Sky Central City? For the Nan Gong Family?"
"It is said that the precious daughter of the Huai Rou Family is engaged to Young Master Nan Gong Qing. Huai Rou Mu Yu has a strong temperament, she was the one to initiate interacting with her future dual cultivation partner and if she is not satisfied, maybe she will rescind the engagement. Currently, the Huai Rou family are so powerful, the Nan Gong Family would definitely not dare to say no if they were to do it."
"Sigh, but come to think of it, there was news recently about the Nan Gong Family saying that Nan Gong Qing was beaten up severely outside and narrowly escaped with his life, even his cultivation had dropped to the fifth stage of the Spirit Star Realm! With such a cultivation, how is he compatible with the girl from Huai Rou Family?"
"What? Fifth stage of the Spirit Star Realm? Isn't that the same as being a crippled?"
"Right!"
"Young master Qing is a nice man, he isn't arrogant to us vagabond cultivators, how can such a person meet with such bad luck?"
"That's right, I even drank wine with him the last time!"
Everyone who were participating in the Pill Furnace General Assembly all started to discuss in small voices.
Just then, an uproar suddenly occurred again at the entrance of the Pill Furnace General Assembly, the clamors were so loud that it caused others to be surprised before noticing another group of young men and ladies walking over.
"It's the Feng Family!"
"The Feng Family are here too? Hehe, the Feng Family and the Nan Gong Family are at odds with each other, maybe we will have a good show to watch today."
At the front of the Feng Family was the Feng Mo Qiang that went against Su Yun and prevented him from entering the Feng Residence that day.
He had a smile on his face with his hand raised and greeting the people around, portraying a pleased and easy going look, but his gaze was still fixated on the Nan Gong Family.
Su Yun had just swallowed a crystal jade fruit that he was munching on, when his eyes swept towards Feng Mo Qiang, and a cold intent flashed past his eyes.
~Him!~
Su Yun was a man that remembered grievances, and never forgotten about that day before the Feng Residence gates, where Feng Mo Qiang had humiliated him, but he was not an impulsive person either, and knew he did not have the strength to provoke Feng Mo Qiang.
"Is this beautiful lady Miss Huai Rou Mu Yu from the Huai Rou Family?" Feng Mo Qiang had already noticed Huai Rou Mu Yu sitting there quietly, he immediately went forward and bowed towards Huai Rou Mu Yu: "I am Feng Mo Qiang, Greetings, Miss Huai Rou."
Huai Rou Mu Yu stood up and greeted him, then said lightly: "I have never met Young Noble Feng before, how does Young Noble Feng know that I am Huai Rou Mu Yu?"
"Hahahaha, how is it difficult? For a gem to drop into a pile of crappy stones, how can I not recognize the gem?" Feng Mo Qiang laughed out loud.
Upon saying that, everybody in the Nan Gong Family all stood up in fury.
"Bastard, you dare call us crappy stones!"
"Feng Mo Qiang, are you challenging us?"
Nan Gong Gu said coldly.
"Challenge? Is what I said considered a challenge? That is… Unless you are admitting that you're all crappy stones?" Feng Mo Qiang sneered.
"You asshole!"
Nan Gong Gu's anger surged out, and was about the brandish out his weapon.
"Hey, I say, old lad Feng, you dare to insinuate that my Mu Yu is a stone? You should only say what you can bear!"
Just then, a bellow came out from the side.
Feng Mo Qiang looked over, to see a man with a hat that covered his face throwing away a green colored fruit and suddenly standing up, pointing straight at him and started scolding: "Your Feng Family, other than Feng Ling Sheng, what are all of you little shits doing here, daring to come here to behave atrociously? You even dare the humiliate my future wife! Are you trying to get expelled from Sky Central City?"
Feng Mo Qiang was startled for a moment, he noticed the order badge by the man's waist and then reacted: "You are Nan Gong Qing?"
"I am your father!"
"Heh, Nan Gong lad, I heard that you're just at the fifth stage of the Spirit Star Realm, you've already become a crippled man and you still dare to speak like that? You wish to expel my Feng Family off Sky Central City? You can't do it!" Feng Mo Qiang chuckled.
"Can the Huai Rou Family do it?" Su Yun said coldly.
Feng Mo Qiang frowned slightly.
Su Yun snorted: "You humiliated Mu Yu saying she is a stone, are you saying that her body looks like one? Or her brain is one? Are you not humiliating the Huai Rou Aristocratic Family? Mu Yu, can you tolerate this? Later when we go back, we should report this to your father and your grandfather, if the Huai Rou aristocratic family wants to eradicate the Feng Family, that would only be a matter of time."
"…" Hearing that, Feng Mo Qiang immediately perspired in cold sweat, he never expected Su Yun to dare exaggerate things! He immediately turned to Huai Rou Mu Yu and said: "Miss Huai Rou, I never had the intention to humiliate the Huai Rou Family"
Before he could even finish speaking, Su Yun interrupted him again: "Is a Gem not a stone? Can a stone be a crappy stone? So calling her a gem is calling her a crappy stone! If that's not humiliating, then what is?"
"You are clearly trying to distort the idea!" Feng Mo Qiang became annoyed, seeing that Su Yun was difficult to argue with, he immediately stopped trying to argue and turned everyone's focus away from the subject and roared: "Nan Gong Qing! Today, I will have to teach your Nan Gong Family a lesson!"
With that said, he was prepared to make a move.
Seeing that, the Nan Gong Family all stood up, all prepared to retaliate.
The scene immediately became tense.
The organisers did not dare butt in, if they were to provoke either sides, they would truly be unlucky, and thus could only stand by one side and watch anxiously.
"Everyone, please stop."
Just then, Huai Rou Mu Yu spoke up.
Seeing that, no matter what, everyone had to give her some face, furthermore they were in a public place with many people around, they too did not wish to stir anything and thus backed down.
"It is only because of Miss Huai Rou that I will not be squabbling with you!" Feng Mo Qiang said coldly, he then cupped his fists towards Huai Rou Mu Yu and turned to return to his own seat.
"Consider yourselves lucky today!" Nan Gong Hong Yan shouted.
Both parties separated.
Even before the Assembly had begun, both sides were already on edge, causing everyone to be excited. The atmosphere on site was buzzing with noise and activities, but the majority of them were not talking about the event but the hatred between both families.
Time had come, the supervisors of the few hundred pill shops of the Sky Central City had gathered, with 100 pill furnaces prepared at the center area of the North Plaza with professional pill masters standing at the side of each pill furnace, a few of them who required more than 10 days of refining were tempering and refining pills at their furnaces. Calculating the time of the event and the time of completion for their pills, they managed to coordinate their pill refinements at the final moments for the compounding. The air was filled with sets of fragrance, causing everyone on site to be intoxicated by it.
The most authoritative grand pillmaster of the entire Sky Central City, Lan Song Nian had been elected to take charge of the event, he would appraise every single pill that was created, which would be auctioned out, the price was dictated by the crowd, and thus many people had long prepared their cultivation coins, planning to purchase a pill suitable for themselves.
Lan Song Nian, who had long white hair and was dressed in pale yellow robes walked into the center of the pill furnaces with a cane, he glanced around and then shouted out with his coarse voice: "A very warm welcome, esteemed guests. Thank you all for coming today, I am Lan Song Nian, and I am pleased to announce that the Sky Central City's 9358th Pill Furnace General Assembly will officially begin!!"
Upon saying that, splendor of lights blossomed from the center, the dazzling light aura shot out in all directions, attracting the eyes of every person present.
A pill furnace had opened! The intoxicating scent pervaded through the entire place.
"Now, the first pill of the General Assembly has been released, Zhang Xin, the mid grade pillmaster that hails from 'Nine Moons Pill Furnace Mill', is the pillmaster of the pill called 'Armor Breaking Pill', it is not a pill for self consumption, but to be used to kill your opponent. It is very easily used, just shatter it into powder and throw it onto your opponent's body, it will disallow their body from being protected by Profound Spirit Qi and also disrupt the Spirit Qi in their body, causing the target's strength to drop greatly. Regardless of whether human or beast, it is extremely effective and is an essential pill proven by experienced cultivators! With my evaluation, this pill costs around 300 cultivation coins, we will thus begin the auction for it with the opening price of 300 cultivation coins, fellow cultivators, name your price!" Lan Song Nian said slowly.
With that said, the surroundings immediately flew into uproars, it was like opening the lid of a deep fryer, it instantly flared up with all sort of prices shouting out, but the prices increase were very small.
"301!"
"302!"
"305!"
"400!"
Su Yun looked at the pill, he then turned his head towards Huai Rou Mu Yu beside him and said: "Mu Yu, we are going to become husband and wife soon, are you able to do a few things for your future husband?"
"Huh?" Huai Rou Mu Yu turned and look at Su Yun, and she could vaguely see the disgusting smile beneath the hat.
"This armor breaking pill looks good, but I do not have much cultivation coins, your Huai Rou Family is so rich, buy it for me." Su Yun said without any sense of shame.
Upon hearing that, the people around were instantly stupefied, and looked at Su Yun in surprise.
At an auction, normal people would use their own money to spend on beautiful ladies to impress them, but this Nan Gong Qing was extremely weird, not only did he not use his own money, he even requested his future wife to purchase it for him.
"What's in this guys head?"
Nan Gong Hong Yan could not resist but secretly scold under her breath.
"Humph, truly throwing the face of our Nan Gong Family!"
Nan Gong Gu said coldly.
"Young Master Qing, it isn't worthwhile to do this right?"
"This isn't a question about wanting face, it's a matter of Miss Huai Rou's face now!"
"What's wrong with Young Master Qing? He is extremely weird."
The disciples of Nan Gong Family who stood by the side could not help but ask.
Zhang Ying Li's face looked unhappily, she grabbed onto Su Yun's arm and shook him: "Cousin brother, if you want this pill, I will buy it for you ok? Why trouble outsiders?"
"When she marries over, she will no longer be an outsider."
"Humph!" Zhang Ying Li pouted with an unhappy look on her face.
Huai Rou Mu Yu turned and glanced at Su Yun, her face had a thread of seriousness. She spoke gently: "Young Master Qing, are you being serious?"
"Of course." Su Yun nodded his head.
Huai Rou Mu Yu remained quiet for a moment, then nodded her head at the servant beside her.
Seeing that, the servant was extremely furious, she stared straight at Su Yun angrily, then stood up and shouted: "My Family's young miss will pay ten thousand cultivation coins!!"
Upon saying that, the entire plaza was shook.
"10 thousand cultivation coins!! Who is so extravagant?
"It's Miss Huai Rou Mu Yu!!"
"Miss Huai Rou Mu Yu is calling for 10 thousand cultivation coins!"
"Too surprising."
The clamors continued nonstop, every pair of eyes looked towards Huai Rou Mu Yu in shock.
The pillmaster who refined the Armor Breaking Pill was so excited that he was smiling from ear to ear, 10 thousand cultivation coins! He would earn at least 4 thousand from it, the Armor Breaking Pill's materials, manufacturing costs etc was less than 400 cultivation coins, which meant he had struck gold.
But what shocked everyone was Huai Rou Mu Yu's wealth! 10 thousand cultivation coins was not a small amount, many people's entire family did not even have that amount of wealth, but Huai Rou Mu Yu did not even frown at that number, showing the dense and immense wealth of the Huai Rou Family.
In this world, money was power, with money, one would have everything.
Without question, the first pill landed in Huai Rou Mu Yu's possession, but she did not even look at it, and got Xiao Hong to hand it over to Su Yun.
"Thank you future wife!"
Su Yun laughed without any sense of shame, and then kept the pills inside his storage ring.
"What kind of person would do this!" Xiao Hong groaned as she stood by the side angrily.
"Is Nan Gong Qing so pleased with his current situation that he lost his own sense of measure? To do such a thing, it truly is an eyesore." Feng Mo Qiang sneered and spoke to the people around him.
"He truly has no shame at all!"
After the first pill was sold, the second pill was released not long later. The first pill was sold at such a prosperous price, causing Lan Song Nian to be happy and he started to introduce the second pill out loud.
"Clear Cave Pill, Using the Original Cave Liquid, Congealed Essence Paste, Jade Shell Spirit Beast's heart, Three Ancient Tai Flowers etc and over 10 types of famous materials and formed with three different types of flames, this pill will improve a person's cultivation growth rate for 10 years after consumption, starting price 5000 cultivation coins."
Hearing that, Su Yun's eyes lit up, he turned and said two words: "Mu Yu."