Chapter 139: The Head of the Family Requests an Audience

Su Yizhao had no choice!

It seemed negotiation was out of the question!

Since they could not talk, action it was!

With a single thought, the virtual treasure flying sword in his dantian materialized instantly!

"Beat me up?" Jin Buhai roared angrily. "Do you know who you are talking to?"

Su Yizhao flicked his fingers, and the flying sword vanished!

"Whoosh!"

The feathered fan in Jin Buhai's hand snapped shut instantly, its tip thrusting toward the void.

"Clang!"

Golden light burst forth!

The flying sword and the feathered fan touched and separated instantly!

The flying sword tumbled out of the void, visibly a notch inferior!

Still too unpolished!

Su Yizhao sighed softly!

Virtual treasures required a vast amount of time to nourish and refine, but time was something he did not have!

Suddenly, a streak of golden light shot forward!

In a fraction of a second, it pierced toward his forehead.

Su Yizhao flicked a thought, and the scale in his dantian vanished instantly.

"Bang!"..

With a crisp sound, the golden feathered fan was sent spinning backward!

The two stood suspended in mid-air, the atmosphere gradually freezing.

One attack and one defense, evenly matched!

The next strike would undoubtedly be earth-shattering!

In the vast city below, an increasing number of cultivators gathered!

"Is that the young master of the Jin family?"

"To think someone actually dares to provoke the Jin family's young master?"

"Utterly courting death!"

The murmurs of the cultivators below drifted into Su Yizhao's ears.

"The brothel swordsman!"

"What? It's actually him! Rumor has it that he is secretly backed by the Jin family!"

Su Yizhao frowned deeply!

How did he get himself linked with the Jin family?

"My Jin family happens to run brothels!" Jin Buhai said softly. "Your strength is not bad, follow me and I'll cover you!"

Su Yizhao suddenly understood!

It turned out to be because of that ridiculous moniker, the brothel swordsman!

He needed to shake it off immediately!

He rapidly formed hand seals and shouted, "Brothel keeper, take this!"

"What brothel keeper?"

Jin Buhai asked in astonishment, but by then, a rain of swords filling the sky had pierced into the void!

"Whoosh!"

With a soft rustle, the golden feathered fan snapped wide open!

In an instant, the void tore apart, and the rain of swords reached him!

The golden feathered fan rapidly expanded, violently swiping and fanning toward the sword rain!

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...!"

With each sweep, thousands of golden rays pierced into the sword rain.

"Clang, clang, clang...!"

Amidst a flurry of crisp impacts, the sword rain dissipated one after another!

Both offensive and defensive!

What tier of virtual treasure was this?

This guy was simply covered in treasures from head to toe!

Su Yizhao's eyes shone with covetous desire as his figure suddenly moved!

Instantly, numerous afterimages filled the sky, every single one of them forming hand seals!

Mastery-level Vine Technique!

Mastery-level Ice Thorn Technique!

Vines as thick as an arm suddenly burst forth from the void.

The vine-wrapped ice thorns struck fiercely.

Still not enough!

Su Yizhao chanted incantations rapidly.

In his dantian, the regular octagonal profound energy pool boiled instantly.

Above the profound energy pool, fifty-seven nodes erupted with profound energy simultaneously.

The Profound Heaven Sword Technique was activated instantly!

With a hum, the black flying sword vanished without a trace!

By now, Jin Buhai was entirely surrounded by vines and ice thorns!

Yet, a look of utter disdain hung on his face!

The golden feathered fan fanned rapidly, unleashing thousands of golden rays from its surface.

"Thud, thud, thud...!"

Debris scattered everywhere, and the vines and ice thorns were reduced to ashes amidst the thousands of golden rays!

A seventh-tier spell simply was not enough to pose a threat!

Even at mastery level, it was nowhere near enough!

Suddenly, his eyes narrowed sharply!

Danger!

At that very moment, right before his face, the void tore open, and a streak of black radiance thrust directly at his forehead!

With a thought, he swung the feathered fan to block right in front of the black radiance.

"Thud!"

The golden feathered fan caved in deeply, and the sword tip, separated only by the fan, pressed right against his forehead.

Golden light instantly flared across his face.

He felt as though his forehead had been struck by a massive hammer, sending a sharp pain coursing through him as he lost control and was sent flying backward!

At that moment, the illusions filling the sky lunged at him ferociously!

Jin Buhai reacted swiftly as well!

The golden robe on his body inflated as if pumped full of air!

"Thud, thud, thud...!"

Countless fists rained down upon him!

Every inch of his body suffered heavy blows, and he fluttered about like a frail bird caught in a violent storm!

Su Yizhao had the upper hand with his opening strike, but inwardly he was deeply shocked!

A single sword strike!

Just a single sword strike!

And yet it had consumed more than half of the profound energy in his profound energy pool!

Damn it!

This Profound Heaven Sword Technique was indeed formidable!

Drawing the sword meant claiming a life!

Not just the opponent's life, but seemingly draining his own life force as well!

"Kid, that flying sword hasn't been properly nourished yet. Unleashing the highest-tier sword technique in this realm consumes a tremendous amount of profound energy!" The Divine Deer's voice echoed in his mind!

Su Yizhao could not help cursing silently!

Why hadn't it said so earlier?

A hindsight-driven idiot!

Right now, however, he dared not reply. His figure flickered continuously as he pursued the golden, fluttering figure in the air.

The mastery-level Leaping Technique was pushed to its absolute limit!

Countless afterimages filled the sky, throwing punches with all their might!

In the span of a breath, a thousand fists struck the golden-robed body!

"Thud, thud...!"

The inflated golden robe was battered flat bit by bit, and after four or five breaths, it finally deflated completely!

"Bang, bang, bang...!"

The fists finally landed directly on Jin Buhai!

"Puke! Puke!"

Jin Buhai spat mouthfuls of blood, his body plunging downward toward Vast City below!

A moment of carelessness!

And the entire game was lost!

Down in Vast City, countless cultivators stared with wide-open eyes!

High above, it looked as though forty or fifty people were collectively beating up Jin Buhai, pounding him down from the sky fist by fist.

"Bang!"

With a resounding crash, Jin Buhai's body slammed into the ground, creating a deep crater!

A figure in green robes stood at the edge of the pit, squatting down.

The thousands of surrounding cultivators were utterly dumbfounded!

Was that really the Jin family's young master, Jin Buhai?

Were they seeing things?

The Jin family's young master had lorded over Vast City for more than a decade; it had always been him beating others up—when had anyone ever dared to beat him?

Su Yizhao asked softly, "Do you have profound stones to buy back your life?"

The onlookers erupted into an uproar!

Damn it!

This was outright extortion!

After beating him up, the Jin family would never let him off, and yet he still dared to extort a ransom?

Jin Buhai propped his body up with all his might, raising his head with great difficulty to stare at Su Yizhao. "You—are you serious?"

Su Yizhao spread his hands!

He was broke!

Normally, this wasn't his style!

However, the Divine Deer's demands were terribly strict!

He nodded. "Twenty thousand top-grade profound stones and I'll let you walk away!"

"Puke!"

Jin Buhai spat another mouthful of blood!

It wasn't from his injuries; he was simply enraged to the point of vomiting blood!

The golden robe was a top-grade virtual treasure capable of absorbing heavy impacts!

However, all of that required profound energy to sustain!

In those mere four or five breaths, thousands upon thousands of heavy punches had exhausted every ounce of his profound energy.

At this moment, he truly lacked the strength to fight back!

What infuriated him even more was that he, the young master of the Jin family, was apparently only worth twenty thousand top-grade profound stones!

Seeing him vomit blood, Su Yizhao assumed he was heartbroken over the profound stones, and hesitated before saying, "Well, ten thousand is fine too!"

Even a mosquito's leg was meat!

Better than nothing at all!

The profound energy consumed by that sword strike had to be replenished promptly, after all!

"Puke!"

Jin Buhai spat yet another mouthful of blood and passed out cold in the bottom of the pit!

The surrounding cultivators resumed their buzzing discussions.

"So the brothel swordsman has nothing to do with the Jin family?"

"It seems the rumors were wrong!"

Seeing him knocked out, Su Yizhao instinctively thought of snatching his storage ring.

Then he caught himself.

In broad daylight, under the gaze of thousands of cultivators, doing something like that wasn't entirely appropriate!

This fellow was merely arrogant and overbearing; his crimes didn't warrant death!

He stood up, cupped his fists toward the surroundings with a helpless expression, and announced, "Everyone! I have nothing to do with any brothel, nor am I connected to the Jin family in any way. From this day onward, the moniker of the brothel swordsman is strictly forbidden!"

The crowd looked on in blank amazement!

Such an awe-inspiring moniker, one renowned across the entire continent—forbidden to be spoken?

Seeing that the crowd remained skeptical, Su Yizhao pointed fiercely at the unconscious Jin Buhai in the pit and threatened, "Whoever mentions it again, that will be their fate!"

The crowd was instantly cowed!

So their duel earlier was simply because Jin Buhai had uttered that forbidden title?

Su Yizhao was quite satisfied and prepared to fly away.

Suddenly, a voice rang out: "Brothel swordsman, the head of the Jin family requests your presence!"