In the Heavens Ridge Villa.
As Lu Qingyun did not have an estate in New Empyrean City like Tang Bufan or like some others, he had opted to stay in the Heavens Ridge Villa for his one week break.
Today was already the second day of his break.
He was now on his way alone to the Lofty Yellow Peak, which was where the Yellow Hills Martial Hall was situated.
It was because he was going there to look for Grand Elder Yun Xing.
As he trekked along the many sky bridges and ridges, he was astonished at how far the Lofty Yellow Peak was even though it appeared to be quite near to the Heavens Cloud Peak which was the middle peak and it was where his abode was also.
New Empyrean City was not a real city in a real sense. It actually consisted of a vast mountain range and there were hundreds of huge mountains inside New Empyrean City.
At the same time, there were also numerous cultivation sects that could be found inside New Empyrean City.
The city area was actually in a smaller part of the mountain ranges.
Along the way, he saw many ordinary protégés and they were dressed in grey robe while the senior protégés were dressed in blue robe. As for the inner core protégés, they were supposed to be dressed in a white robe like the elders.
And that was what Lu Qingyun was wearing now, a white robe.
There were many ordinary protégés that were staring at this first realm protégé that was wearing the white robe as he walked past them.
When a cultivator reached the second realm cultivation, they would be able to nurture a divine sense which would allow them to tell the cultivation realm of their opponents.
There were many second realm cultivators from among the ordinary protégés and they were dumbfounded to see that Lu Qingyun was only at the first realm cultivation.
"He must be that Lu Qingyun…"
"He is said to be the core protégé of the acting sect leader…"
"With his puny cultivation realm, he dares to walk around like this…"
"We ought to teach him a lesson…"
"A first realm senior brother?! What a joke!"
"Is he fit to be our senior brother and wears the white robe of the Heavens Ridge Villa?!"
"I look down upon him!"
"He has a handsome face though…"
"That is because you are a maiden that you find him handsome. We are a cultivation sect and also one of the four powerhouses in New Empyrean City…"
Lu Qingyun ignored all the nasty gossips about himself as he walked past them and even smiled at his gossipers when he was near.
Although they were addressing him as 'Senior Brother', it sounded fake and full of mockery.
Even Lu Qingyun was not expecting for himself to be in the limelight and he did not want to become their Senior Brother.
But he had to accept it because he was the core protégé of Qin Keqin and he was enthralled by her ever since their first encounter.
However he did not dare to tell her that he likes her because she was a lofty golden celestial cultivator and he was just a lowly cultivator.
Therefore, he had decided to resolve to improve his own cultivation first.
He remembered that in many of the cultivation stories, the MC always started lowly but he would have all the noble maidens falling in love with him, left and right including his cultivation mistress.
All the MC needed to do was not to do anything and the readers would praise the MC as smart, hardworking or alpha male as the heroine would be in awe of the MC's cultivation in the first place. It was as though no one could cultivate better than the MC in the cultivation stories since the MC would obtain all the luck of cultivation.
But if the MC would not tell the heroine that he liked her, he would be regarded as simpleton, dense, braindead, masochistic or stupid.
Nowadays almost all the male readers were thinking that they are the blessed sons of heavens and they could tell any maiden that they liked them with 0% chance of being rejected.
Lu Qingyun was actually fearful of being rejected by Qin Keqin because he had overstepped his boundary and he did not think that he was a genius or hardworking cultivator when compared to Qin Keqin.
As he pondered this along the quiet mountain path, all of a sudden a man in black with a black veil had suddenly jumped in to attack him from above!
This masked man in black had been waiting for Lu Qingyun to teach him a lesson and his name was Xiao Che.
He had no real feud with Lu Qingyun but when he saw Lu Qingyun earlier, he was angry; it was because he was a third realm ordinary protégé and he was extremely hardworking in his cultivation. And yet, none of the Six Martial Halls were willing to take him as a core protégé.
Why should a mere first realm cultivator has all the luck to become even a core protégé of the acting sect leader?
As the masked man in black raised his sword and displayed the Whirling Profound Sword on the back of Lu Qingyun, Lu Qingyun had suddenly turned around as he raised his fingers upward to catch the tip of his sword.
This stunned the masked man in black as he had never seen such a quick reflex in his life before.
He was further astonished when his sword was shattered by Lu Qingyun's fingers!
And before he knows it, Lu Qingyun had struck him with his palm on his chest, breaking some of his ribs and he was flung far away while coughing out blood!
Xiao Che was stunned as the profound power that was inflicted upon his chest had exceeded even what a 4th realm expert cultivator was able to do!
Lu Qingyun was surprised that he got attacked and instinctively retaliated.
Xiao Che did not stay in the scene after being wounded by Lu Qingyun and he had quickly fled as fast as possible as though he had just seen a ghost.
The speed attack of his Whirling Profound Sword was extremely fast and it was impossible for anyone to be able to catch it with their mere fingers.
This Lu Qingyun was actually a powerful cultivator that was disguising his cultivation realm!
This was Xiao Che's only conclusion.
Xiao Che did not know that while his speed attacks were fast but to Lu Qingyun, it looked like a clumsy attack and was slow.
Lu Qingyun did not even use any profound strength too as the annihilating god seed that was within him could shatter most swords and could inflict a great deal of harm to his opponents.
But of course, Lu Qingyun did not know this as he was only a first realm cultivator.
He only thought that this masked man was just too weak and untrained.
Although he had acknowledged himself as a weak cultivator but he had never lost a fight before. When he had won, he had thought that the others were even weaker than him.
It was also mainly because he had been living in isolation with his old master in an isolated mountain for a long time.
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Author Note:
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