How should I put it? It's like happily going to fry fish, everything was fine at first, the harvest was not bad either, but the last time frying fish, a giant shark with a murder record was fried out.
If you were me, wouldn't you be scared?
That's how several formal disciples feel right now, with their kneeling bodies trembling, causing the money bags held up in their hands to rattle.
They can't compare to the emperor's seedlings of the Blue Sky Sword Sea, let alone Qiong Qi.
Chen Xia took off Qiong Qi's head and got 500 years of prison, but taking off their heads would probably only lead to a few rebukes.
The difference in status between them is too great.
Chen Xia is now one of the top emperor's seedlings in the Blue Sky Sword Sea, and has even heard that many major forces want Chen Xia to join them.
While they are just mediocre.
This is the division of status.
Thinking of this, the formal disciples offering money bags had gloomy expressions on their complex faces.
Chen Xia was still holding a teacup, looking at the few people kneeling on the ground. He really didn't expect to pick up money just by drinking tea, but he still politely said.
"How can I accept this?"
"Please be sure to accept it!" The formal disciple shouted respectfully, and sweat even secreted from his forehead anxiously.
He felt that if Chen Xia didn't want this money bag, what he would get was their heads.
"Yes, yes, this is our respect for you. If it's not enough, we'll make it up to you later." A disciple kneeling nearby quickly echoed.
Chen Xia frowned, sensing something wrong. Why did these disciples' actions and words make him look like a bully?
Should he say it or not? It actually feels quite awesome.
"When did you become probationary disciples?" Chen Xia turned the stool and asked casually with the teacup in his hand.
"We were probationary disciples last two terms." The kneeling disciple quickly replied.
Chen Xia smiled and said, "In that case, you are still my senior brothers?"
"No, you are my father!" The formal disciple hurriedly shook his head, looking terrified, trembling in his heart.
This was an act of complimentary killing!
First raise their status, then kill them all, and finally get a reputation for the small defeating the big. Not only would there be no punishment, there might even be rewards!
The reason why Chen Xia's punishment for killing Qiong Qi was so light was because of the factor of the small defeating the big.
This is a technique that all cultivators in the world admire and respect.
Chen Xia, at the peak of Building Mountain Realm, killing Qiong Qi at the sixth layer of Crossing Sea Realm, was probably the most outrageous case of small defeating big and cross-boundary kill in the history of Blue Sky Sword Sea.
So Chen Xia only got a 500-year Sword Prison sentence, without any additional responsibilities.
Chen Xia was slightly surprised. He didn't quite understand how it went straight to calling him father. At the moment, he was a little confused and frowned slightly.
"You won't get a red packet just by calling me that."
"No no no, I'll give you a red packet." The kneeling disciple respectfully placed the money bag at Chen Xia's feet, and took out some spirit stones from his arms to pile on.
If they were little ghosts for robbing probationary disciples, then Chen Xia was the real big god.
When little ghosts meet the big god, not dying is already a success.
This was also the first time Chen Xia had encountered such a scene. He put down his teacup, stroked his chin, and wondered.
"Do I look that evil?"
There's no need to look, he was already quite evil.
The formal disciples really wanted to answer this, but for the sake of their lives, they still shook their heads and said.
"You are the great kind person with a famous reputation both far and near in the Blue Sky Sword Sea."
Chen Xia wasn't stupid either. He knew his reputation might have gone wrong a bit.
But it's okay, he didn't care about his reputation anyway.
He casually waved his hand, "Alright, you guys can go back."
The formal disciples left the money bags behind, cupped their fists towards Chen Xia, then quickly fled.
The spirit stones at his feet were not many, only a few dozen or a hundred.
Better than nothing.
Chen Xia picked up the spirit stones and weighed them in his hand. This was their unjust wealth, and now it had fallen into his hands, becoming a windfall.
In the past month and a half, Chen Xia hadn't wandered around anywhere. He just went back to his own cave mansion, changed into a white robe, and then drank tea in the pavilion for a month and a half.
During this period, he had looked for the big yellow dog outside the Sword Forest once, but didn't find it. He also asked other little elders, who said the big yellow dog seemed to have gone into the Sword Forest, and had come out in the previous two years.
Since the big yellow dog was fine, Chen Xia was naturally relieved. Yu Fei was also in closed retreat in the formal disciple area, and it looked like he wouldn't be coming out for a while.
With nothing to do, Chen Xia drank tea alone.
The changes in the Blue Sky Sword Sea in the past 500 years were really not small.
First, the probationary disciples changed drastically, then the formal disciples changed terms, and the replacements of various elders.
These little things accumulated into big things.
It was as if Chen Xia was suddenly abandoned by the times and was struggling to squeeze back into this era.
In short, his version was outdated.
In addition, Chen Xia thought about Liu Qing and Li Yang's alliance, and still did not join.
The main reason was that he wouldn't get paid for lying down, and the salary was not much, not as fast as making money by sitting here picking up money.
However, Liu Qing was really nice. Even the Virgin Mary would have to enshrine her.
Chen Xia picked up the teacup and got up from the chair to wander back to the cave mansion.
"You finally came out!" An extremely excited voice rang out, and Zhang DaoMing looked straight at him, his body even shaking a little.
"Well...I'm broke." Chen Xia took the initiative and handed over the money bag at the same time, "I only have a little over 100 spirit stones. Make do with it first if you don't mind."
"Who the hell wants your 100 spirit stones!" Zhang DaoMing cursed in anxiety and kept waving his hands.
"Come on, come with me to refine pills!"
"Oh, refine pills. Simple, let me get my pill furnace." Chen Xia's expression became plain, and he said casually.
"Go quickly and come back quickly!" Zhang DaoMing looked really anxious.
Chen Xia finished the tea with sword intent in the teacup in one gulp, then slowly wandered back to his cave mansion.
Zhang DaoMing was worried that Chen Xia would shake him down, so he still followed along.
He had just finished a batch of pills for the sect after coming out of retreat, and figured Chen Xia should be out of prison now, so he immediately came looking for him.
It had been 500 years! How had he spent those 500 years!
No money, reputation ruined as well.
Pi Hu's trio felt that Zhang DaoMing was deceiving them, colluding with Chen Xia to swallow their spirit stones. Waiting for the association to disband, the spirit stones would belong to Zhang DaoMing and Chen Xia.
So they had been coldly looking on Zhang DaoMing all this time.
Little did they know Zhang DaoMing was the one who had been pitted by Chen Xia the most miserably.
If you say he got the spirit stones and endured some white-eyed looks, Zhang DaoMing would definitely not say much.
The problem was, the spirit stones were all eaten up by Chen Xia, and he was also 10,000 coins in the hole!
This was not just losing his wife and breaking down his army, this was directly losing himself!
Thinking of this, Zhang DaoMing couldn't help but wipe the corners of his eyes. This moment had been awaited for too long.
He had looked forward to the stars and the moon, and finally waited for Chen Xia to return.
Zhang DaoMing waited expectantly outside the cave mansion, thinking he could turn over a new leaf soon, and was in an even better mood.
In no time,
Chen Xia came out of the cave mansion holding the ladle he first used when refining pills.
Zhang DaoMing's expression froze, "That's it?"
"What else?" Chen Xia asked back.
"This is all rusted!" Zhang DaoMing shouted.
Chen Xia slid the ladle in the iron pot, bringing up some fragmented rust, and raised his eyebrows. "Do you understand what enchantment means?"
[Dao Companion Rental System]. By renting himself out as a temporary dao companion to daughters of destiny, Qin Hao could obtain generous rewards. His service philosophy was simple: play the role of the devoted lover, resolve their troubles, depart without a trace once the matter was settled, and absolutely avoid entangling karma. However, those daughters of destiny didn't see it that way. That night, all the major powers across the Three Realms and Nine Heavens jointly besieged the Qin Clan, plunging it into an unprecedented crisis. "It's Su Qingyue! The peerless sword immortal who attained the Dao and became an Immortal Emperor in a thousand years, the one who severed the River of Time with a single sword strike! When... when did our Qin Clan make an enemy of her?" Qin Hao stepped forward, clearing his throat lightly: "Ahem, Ancestors, don't panic. She's here for me. To be honest... she's my ex-girlfriend." From another direction, the newly ascended Empress of the Demon Realm arrived with ten thousand demons pressing on the border: "Qin Hao! Today, the entire Qin Clan shall be buried with you!" Hearing this, the Qin Clan ancestors all turned their eyes sharply towards Qin Hao. Qin Hao scratched his head somewhat sheepishly: "The Demon Empress... she's also my ex-girlfriend." Before the Qin ancestors could process this, an aloof figure traversed the River of Time: "The Qin Clan deserves annihilation!" Recognizing the newcomer, the Qin ancestors paled in terror: "It's her! Liu Ruyan, the Extinction Empress who ventured alone into the alien realm and suppressed it for an entire epoch! Didn't she vanish into the River of Time long ago? Why would she cross it just to target our clan?" Qin Hao scratched his head again, looking even more embarrassed: "My fault, my fault. She's an ex-girlfriend too." Watching countless celestial maidens descend, the Qin Clan ancestors were utterly astounded: "You scoundrel! Just... just how many women have you gotten involved with over the years?"
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
Cheng's father told him he was getting remarried—to a wealthy woman. Cao Cheng realized his time had finally come: he was about to become a second-generation rich kid. Sure, it might be a watered-down version, but hey, at least he'd have status now, right? The wealthy woman also had four daughters!! Which meant, starting today, Cao Cheng gained four stunning older sisters?? But that wasn't even the whole story... "My name is Cao Cheng—'Cheng' as in 'honest, smooth-talking gentleman'!"
invincible power, Gu Changge transmigrates into a fantasy world, bound to a sign-in system that grants him cultivation rewards and various peerless treasures daily. While others struggle desperately to break through their cultivation realms, he has long since reached the pinnacle of the Great Dao, becoming a reclusive Emperor whose true strength even he himself cannot fathom. Originally planning to lie low and retire peacefully on Purple Bamboo Peak, the system suddenly issues a new task — take on disciples. With no other choice, Gu Changge casually picks up a few disciples: The eldest disciple, born with a War God Constitution, is thrown a copy of "War God Stratagems" by him, and ends up conquering the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, becoming a peerless War God who sweeps across the cosmos. The second disciple, possessing a Chaos Sword Body, can break all techniques with a single sword, his swordsmanship unmatched throughout history. He points his sword at the heavens: "My master said, the sword and the man stand together. If the sword perishes... my master will give me another one." The third disciple, a reborn Empress who returns to her throne, her elegance and grace overshadowing all beings. And without anyone noticing, his own sect, the Qingxuan Sect, has become the number one sect on the continent. Looking at these unbelievably formidable disciples, Gu Changge, holding the "Primordial Purple Qi" he just signed in for, falls into deep thought: — Wasn't this supposed to be a peaceful retirement? How did I become the ultimate master?!
