SWNOVELXO Chapter 170:
Chapter 170:
Xiao Yang never would have expected that Liu Qingyun and his disciple, Ling Xian’er, would dare to swagger around Nine Heavens City while scamming people.
What made him speechless was that the two of them had actually been impersonating him—the Holy Son of the Azure Sun Sword Sect—to carry out their schemes.
Xiao Yang truly couldn’t understand what this master and disciple were thinking.
They knew he was in Nine Heavens City, yet they still had the audacity to impersonate him.
And now, they had been caught.
Xiao Yang glanced at the city’s garrison commander who had apprehended Liu Qingyun and his disciple. The man looked somewhat familiar, as if he had seen him somewhere before.
Just as Liu Qingyun and Ling Xian’er were about to be taken away, Liu Qingyun suddenly spotted Xiao Yang watching from the crowd.
“You’ve got to be kidding me.”
Xiao Yang felt exasperated.
He had only come to watch the show, so how did Liu Qingyun manage to spot him in the crowd?
This old man’s eyesight was quite sharp.
“Son-in-law! Save me!”
Liu Qingyun was ecstatic the moment he saw Xiao Yang.
He absolutely did not want to be thrown into the notorious Black Prison.
“Xiao Yang?”
Ling Xian’er also noticed him.
“Hah! You two still want to put on an act in front of me?”
The city garrison commander was furious.
He was someone of considerable status in the city, yet these two had dared to impersonate the Holy Son of the Azure Sun Sword Sect to deceive him?
Unforgivable!
“No, no! This isn’t an act! My son-in-law really is Xiao Yang!”
Liu Qingyun hurriedly explained.
“Utter nonsense! If I said my son was an Earthly Immortal, would you believe me?”
The garrison commander scoffed.
“My son-in-law really is Xiao Yang! Son-in-law, don’t go! You can’t just stand by and watch me die! Even if you don’t save me, at least save your wife!”
Liu Qingyun shouted at Xiao Yang.
At that moment, the crowd followed Liu Qingyun’s gaze.
Everyone’s eyes landed on Xiao Yang.
“That man is Xiao Yang?”
“The Holy Son of the Azure Sun Sword Sect?”
“That’s impossible!”
The crowd was filled with doubt.
“You’re Xiao Yang?”
The garrison commander scrutinized him.
Xiao Yang was dressed in a simple robe, with a tall, slender build, fair skin, and a handsome face.
But he had concealed all traces of his aura.
To the garrison commander—who was at the early stage of the Heaven Martial Realm—Xiao Yang seemed like an ordinary person with no martial cultivation at all.
However, this was Nine Heavens City.
Here, every single person was a martial artist.
Even the children trained in martial arts, let alone the adults.
Yet the young man before him had no discernible aura of a martial artist whatsoever.
That was a rare sight in this city.
“Hmph! Open your damn eyes and look carefully. He is my son-in-law, the Holy Son of the Azure Sun Sword Sect, Xiao Yang!”
Liu Qingyun declared smugly.
“What?”
The crowd was stunned.
“Old man, have you lost your mind?”
“He’s just an ordinary person!”
“This guy is supposed to be the one who defeated Li Xingyao, the Holy Maiden of the Soaring Cloud Sword Sect?”
No one believed Liu Qingyun.
Xiao Yang’s reputation was legendary.
He was the one who had defeated Li Xingyao.
Li Xingyao—the Holy Maiden of the Soaring Cloud Sword Sect.
Before she had drawn her sword on Azure Sun Mountain to challenge the Azure Sun Sword Sect, she had been acknowledged as the number one prodigy of the Northern Territory’s younger generation.
Yet Xiao Yang had defeated her.
Meaning, the current number one prodigy in the Northern Territory was Xiao Yang.
How could this ordinary-looking young man be Xiao Yang?
By now, Xiao Yang’s name was renowned across the entire Northern Territory.
“Sigh.”
Xiao Yang let out a sigh.
Seeing that he had no way of avoiding this, he stepped forward.
“Old man, you even have an accomplice?”
A deputy commander beside the garrison commander sneered.
“Accomplice?”
Liu Qingyun was momentarily confused.
“I see now!”
The surrounding crowd suddenly understood.
These frauds were clever.
“Impersonating the Holy Son of the Azure Sun Sword Sect is a crime punishable by death!”
The deputy commander declared coldly, drawing his saber with a sharp clang.
“Impersonating me is punishable by death?”
Xiao Yang smirked, looking at the deputy commander with amusement.
“That’s right! Impersonating Xiao Yang is a capital offense! Kid, prepare to die!”
The deputy commander wasted no time, raising his blade and swinging it toward Xiao Yang.
Xiao Yang shook his head.
So many fools in this world.
With a casual wave of his hand, the deputy commander—along with his blade—was sent flying several meters away, crashing heavily into the ground.
For a moment, he couldn’t even stand up.
“…”
The entire place fell into a dead silence.
No one had expected this young man to be so powerful.
That deputy commander was a martial artist at the peak of the Divine Ability Realm!
The surrounding city guards immediately drew their weapons, forming a circle around Xiao Yang.
“What? You all want to fight me?”
Xiao Yang cast an indifferent glance at them.
These people were nothing more than ants to him.
Only this garrison commander—who looked somewhat familiar—seemed to have some ability.
The next moment, the stunned crowd erupted in chaos.
This man actually had the audacity to strike the city guards!
That was equivalent to declaring war on the City Lord of Nine Heavens City!
Nine Heavens City belonged to the Ten Directions Sect.
That meant this man had also made an enemy of the Ten Directions Sect!
The Ten Directions Sect was one of the ten most powerful forces in the Northern Territory.
Anyone who offended them was as good as dead.
“I already told you, he is my son-in-law, Xiao Yang, the Holy Son of the Azure Sun Sword Sect. I suggest you let us go, or you’ll regret it!”
Liu Qingyun looked even more pleased with himself.
“You’re really Xiao Yang?”
The garrison commander, Pang Gang, stared at Xiao Yang with doubt.
He, too, felt that Xiao Yang looked somewhat familiar.
“My disciple pretended to be her own husband. What’s wrong with that? It’s perfectly reasonable!”
Liu Qingyun smirked at the commander.
“This…”
Commander Pang Gang was momentarily speechless.
“Old man, what nonsense are you spouting?!”
Ling Xian’er was beyond embarrassed.
“What nonsense? You two are a perfect match. You’re destined to be married.”
Liu Qingyun said it as if it were the most natural thing in the world.
“Old man, so you can read fortunes now?”
Xiao Yang was utterly speechless.
With a wave of his hand, the ropes binding Liu Qingyun snapped instantly.
“Take us away from here, and I’ll give you a great fortune.”
Liu Qingyun leaned in and whispered to Xiao Yang.
“You think I’d believe you?”
Xiao Yang scoffed.
This old man was the biggest swindler in the Northern Territory.
How could anything he said be trusted?
“It’s true!”
Ling Xian’er suddenly spoke with a serious expression.
Xiao Yang flicked his hand again, and the ropes binding Ling Xian’er were also severed.
“Well, well, if it isn’t Xiao Yang. What are you still doing in Nine Heavens City?”
A voice rang out from the crowd.
Everyone turned toward the source of the voice and saw a young man in luxurious robes walking over.
Beside him was an exceptionally beautiful woman.
That woman was none other than Liu Ruxian.
Liu Ruxian stared at Xiao Yang with cold, venomous eyes.
Her parents and brother had all died at Xiao Yang’s hands.
She had sworn to take revenge.
But now was not the right time.
“Chu Guiyuan?”
Xiao Yang was slightly taken aback when he saw the newcomer.
“He really is Xiao Yang?”
Pang Gang no longer had any doubts.
His legs nearly gave out from fear.
“Everyone, stand down!”
Pang Gang immediately gave the order.
The surrounding guards quickly sheathed their weapons and stepped away.
“Holy Son Xiao, my deepest apologies. I truly didn’t mean to offend you.”
Commander Pang Gang hurriedly apologized.
“He’s really the Holy Son of the Azure Sun Sword Sect, the one who defeated Li Xingyao?”
A man behind Chu Guiyuan stepped forward.
He was tall and muscular, clad in beast hide, with a fierce expression and an aura of killing intent.
“From Beastmaster Villa?”
Xiao Yang was surprised.
At that moment, he finally understood why Chu Guiyuan and his father had left so hastily that day.
The Chu family had originally wanted to ally with Li Gaitian.
But Li Gaitian had suddenly gone into seclusion.
That had completely ruined the Chu family’s plans to join forces with the Ten Directions Sect.
However, it seemed the Chu family had found a new ally.
Without a doubt, that ally was Beastmaster Villa.
Beastmaster Villa was even stronger than the Ten Directions Sect.
With these two factions joining hands, there was no need to guess their intentions.
“Without a doubt.”
Chu Guiyuan smirked.
“Let’s go!”
Xiao Yang glanced at the two and then spoke to Liu Qingyun and Ling Xian’er.
He turned and left without hesitation.
The heir of Beastmaster Villa was about to step forward, but Chu Guiyuan raised a hand to stop him.
“Hm?”
The heir of Beastmaster Villa looked at Chu Guiyuan in confusion.
“What’s the rush? The Grand Centennial Competition is just around the corner. Wouldn’t it be far more satisfying to defeat Xiao Yang in front of everyone and humiliate him thoroughly?”
Chu Guiyuan chuckled.
“Haha, Brother Chu, you truly think ahead.”
The heir of Beastmaster Villa laughed.
As Xiao Yang led Liu Qingyun and his disciple away, the crowd lost interest and dispersed.
Commander Pang Gang wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.
He had nearly offended someone he absolutely could not afford to offend.
Chu Guiyuan and his group also departed.
…
“Alright, tell me—what kind of great fortune are you offering me?”
Back at the Xiaoyao Inn, Xiao Yang looked coldly at the old man and the young girl before him.
“In the mountains outside Nine Heavens City, there is a hidden cave dwelling of a Land Immortal.”
Liu Qingyun said without the slightest hesitation.
“What?”
Xiao Yang was stunned.
A Land Immortal’s cave dwelling?
Was this some kind of joke?
A Land Immortal was a being who had reached the Land Immortal Realm—a realm akin to an earthly deity.
Throughout the endless years of the Northern Territory, had anyone ever reached the Land Immortal Realm?
Not a single one.
The Saint Martial Realm was the highest level of cultivation.
In the Northern Territory, with no Land Immortals, the Saint Martial Realm stood at the pinnacle.
“You expect me to believe that? You think I’m that easy to fool? Can you even stop lying for a single day?”
Xiao Yang was truly irritated.
“This time, the old man is telling the truth.”
Ling Xian’er suddenly looked at Xiao Yang and spoke with a serious expression.
“Oh?”
Xiao Yang was still unconvinced.
Ling Xian’er was Liu Qingyun’s disciple.
She was just as untrustworthy as him.
“Why don’t we go take a look and see for ourselves?”
Liu Qingyun said with a grin.
“Fine. Let’s go check it out.”
Xiao Yang nodded.
The three of them immediately left the inn and exited the city.
Following Liu Qingyun’s guidance, Xiao Yang carried them both through the skies, flying toward the location of the so-called Land Immortal’s cave dwelling.
Before long, they reached the mountain range.
“Hahaha… Xiao Yang, Xiao Yang, you still fell into the trap in the end.”
Not long after Xiao Yang left Nine Heavens City, Chu Guiyuan and the heir of Beastmaster Villa stepped out from the city gates.
So it was all a setup by Chu Guiyuan.
“Aren’t you targeting someone else? Why drag Xiao Yang into this as well?”
The heir of Beastmaster Villa looked at Chu Guiyuan with a puzzled expression.
“They’re all nuisances. Isn’t it better to get rid of them all at once?”
Chu Guiyuan’s lips curled into a cold smile.