Gun Gun and Huan Huan were playing very happily.
But!
Han Xiaoyu's expression didn't look so pleasant!
A mere Foundation Establishment Stage spirit beast, one that had once been despised and abandoned by him, was now acting like this on the arena!
What did that mean?
Did he ever put him or the Misty Sky Butterfly in his eyes at all?
Humiliation!
This was an utter disgrace!
Han Xiaoyu's face darkened. He drew his sword and fiercely charged toward Gun Gun.
Bang!
Amid the crowd's exclamation, the sword struck Gun Gun's armor, producing only a few sparks.
Gun Gun looked at Han Xiaoyu with disgust, even though he couldn't speak, his expression clearly said, "Did you eat? Put some strength into it!"
Unable to bear the provocation, Han Xiaoyu and the Misty Sky Butterfly attacked Gun Gun together.
Gun Gun ignored them completely, only continuing to twist his butt, looking as if nothing in heaven or earth mattered more than dancing.
On one side sword-light flashed, on the other, the Misty Sky Butterfly scattered powder.
Yet none of this could harm Gun Gun. Instead, it only added several layers of special effects to his dance.
"Good!" Someone below the stage began to clap.
What an amazing show, too amazing.
There's the flamboyant Iron-Eating Beast, sword-fighting performance, and the Misty Sky Butterfly's powder that draped a dreamy gauze over the entire scene.
Beautiful. Too beautiful.
Applause thundered from below.
Han Xiaoyu's hand holding the sword trembled.
Before today, he had never imagined that he would lose.
Even if he had thought about it.
He never thought it would be in such a humiliating way!
Gun Gun's butt kept twisting right in front of him, as if teasing him to keep attacking.
Han Xiaoyu clutched his chest, crack, he seemed to hear something shatter. In the next moment, he spat three mouthfuls of blood and collapsed heavily on the stage.
Huh?
Gun Gun, still happily dancing, blinked in confusion at Han Xiaoyu.
He hadn't even made a move yet and the man just fell down like that?
"His Dao Heart shattered," Yue Zhao said calmly.
"Dao Heart?" Yun Jin repeated reflexively.
Si Wanning smiled, "Simply put, he got so angry he went stupid. If he can't rebuild his Dao Heart later, this Han Xiaoyu is finished."
Yun Jin sighed, "Still too young! It's such a small thing, how could he let himself get so angry like that."
The others all looked at her with strange expressions.
This is…a small thing?
If they switched places, if the one standing on the arena was them, they'd have coughed up blood too!
If Ruan Jun was still alive to see Han Xiaoyu in this match, he would thank Yun Jin for not humiliating him like this!
Otherwise, she wouldn't even need to behead him, he would've cut his own head off!
"Xiaoyu!" Zhao Wuji, who had been watching from the shadows, shouted anxiously at this moment and furiously rushed onto the arena.
"Beast, how dare you!" He lifted Han Xiaoyu up and struck angrily toward Gun Gun.
At that moment.
Lin Ya blocked steadily in front of Gun Gun. He easily caught Zhao Wuji's furious strike, his face expressionless, "My disciple's spirit beast already gave your disciple enough face. From start to finish, he didn't even counterattack. Now that it was Han Xiaoyu who fainted from anger himself, and you could still blame my disciple's spirit beast."
"Exactly, exactly!" Gun Gun whimpered and hid behind Lin Ya.
As expected.
He, Lord Gun Gun, always attracted attention. Aside from Zhao Wuji and Lin Ya, the other Peak Masters were probably also secretly watching.
He, Gun Gun, truly was the center of attention!
"Sect Leader!" Yun Jin said calmly, "My spirit beast is only at Foundation Establishment Stage and can't withstand your palm. What, did he do something wrong so that Sect Leader, you, must personally punish him? If so, then please say what mistake he made."
Embarrassing as it was!
Painful to watch as it was!
Her spirit beast must not be bullied.
Zhao Wuji's face was stiff. He looked at Lin Ya, then at Yun Jin, and finally glared coldly at Gun Gun, "Good. You're all very good."
His chest rose and fell violently, he could no longer control his own rage.
Since childhood, Xiaoyu's body had been weak. He had spent enormous amounts of effort raising him bit by bit to his current cultivation.
It was no exaggeration to say that the resources poured into Han Xiaoyu could have raised ten Golden Core disciples.
But.
Han Xiaoyu was his only blood descendant.
He already couldn't acknowledge him publicly, that had wronged Han Xiaoyu enough.
Now his son was also harmed by a spirit beast like this!
Heavenly Sword Peak!
Zhao Wuji's face darkened, holding Han Xiaoyu, he vanished instantly.
He would make them all pay, one debt at a time!
Lin Ya was now this arrogant, did he think the position of Sect Leader was already his?
Did they think he only relied on his father's power to hold his current position? He had sat in the position of Sect Leader for so many years, did they really think he had no arrangements? Heh, too naïve.
Lin Ya, Yun Jin, and that beast.
He would have them all die!
This time, Zhao Wuji actually left just like that.
Lin Ya frowned slightly as he watched his departing back.
This didn't fit Zhao Wuji's personality.
That man was deeply calculating. To restrain himself like this meant he's brewing something nasty.
Forget it. It's not important.
Whatever foul plan he had, one sword could destroy it!
"Master!" Gun Gun had already thrown himself into Yun Jin's arms.
He had grown larger and with that leap, Yun Jin was completely hidden beneath him.
Yun Jin laughed and patted his shoulder, "Alright, you did very well."
Gun Gun grinned.
See? The Master said he did very well.
As expected, the Master liked this kind of attention-seeking style.
Just wait, he, Gun Gun swore he would become the number-one attention-seeker under heaven!
After resolving his inner knot, Gun Gun's cultivation advanced another small step upon returning to Heavenly Sword Peak, directly reaching late Foundation Establishment Stage, further solidifying his position as Big Brother.
Yun Jin then began a period of seclusion.
This time, her main task was refining pills that included her own, her two spirit beasts', and batches to sell through her eldest senior brother.
Soon she would be going on a long journey, so everything had to be prepared in advance.
While the pill furnace ran on its own, Yun Jin practiced formations to raise her proficiency.
She discovered that she truly seemed to be a formation genius. These low-rank formations from level 1 to 3, she could complete them successfully within a few tries even without using the system.
However, she could raise every formation to perfect grade using the system.
Originally, Yun Jin had planned to only grasp the basics herself and let Gu Jinghong study hard so she could just reap the feedback later.
But during her two-month seclusion.
She not only refined a mountain of pills, she also mastered all the formations in that jade slip and let the system evolve each to perfect grade.
Though she didn't know enough formations to raise her rank and could only be counted as a first-rank formation master, her skill was already at the level of a third-rank formation master.
It seemed she really did need to leave Tianxing Sect for a while to settle some matters, to see the vastness of the world, and to gather resources unavailable within the sect.
Cultivation manuals, formation diagrams, talismans…the more the better.
Even if she couldn't use them herself, they would certainly be useful once she founded her Holy Land in the future.