The palm attack of the 2nd elder was easily dissolved by sword slash of elder Gu of scripture hall. Mu Chen took a breath and was relieved that elder Gu came to help him otherwise he would have been killed by 2nd Elder.
Elder Gu stood in between Mu Chen and 2nd elder looking at 2nd elder and asked angrily," What are you doing by attacking a junior ? "
2nd elder replied sternly," He tried to steal spirit stones of my grandson and injured him. So I was going to punish him to set an example for others. "
Elder Gu mockingly said ," Do you think I don't know the nature of your grandson? We both know who tried to steal spirit stones, right ? So go back before I get angry ."
Saying this, he released his cultivation of 8th level of Spirit Sea realm.
2nd elder was frightened by his aura, looked at elder Gu and asked ," But what about my grandson? He was severely injured by this brat. If I don't take revenge, how could I sit back. You tell him to abolish his cultivation and we will be even, how about this ?"
Elder Gu replied," Your grandson was weak so he was defeated. Who told him to be weak and get beaten by Mu Chen. As for abolishing his cultivation, you better forget it, it's not possible."
2nd elder was angered hearing this. He gritted his teeth and looked towards Mu Chen and said ," Don't think today is over."
Saying this he left.
Mu Chen scoffed hearing the threat of 2nd elder. It was your grandson who came to trouble, now that he was beaten by me it was my fault?
Mu Chen then focused on life script of 2nd elder
Name - Mu Ling
Realm - 3rd level of Spirit Sea realm
Fate - Death ( Black) , Crooked mind ( yellow )
Script - Early villain of "Rise of Human Emperor "
Recent opportunities - 3 weeks later , together with Zhang clan attacked the Mu clan but was killed by Mu Tian.
Mu Chen was shocked seeing this. In the Blackrock city , there are 3 major forces -- Mu clan, Zhang clan and the city lord. Earlier only Mu clan and city lord were the only 2 forces in Blackrock city. 100 years ago, suddenly from nowhere Zhang clan came and settled here. After this, Mu and Zhang clan had started fighting with each other to control the city. Mu clan being here before Zhang clan controlled the market but Zhang clan used insidious method to annex half of the market. After 100 years , both clan control half of the market. But they never stopped fighting for the other half. Now the Zhang clan has started cooperating Mu Ling to obliterate the Mu clan.
Mu Chen thought in his heart," This old man is a shit. He easily betrayed his own clan and trying to take revenge on me by insidious means. He truly deserve to die but not in the hands of Mu Tian but in my hands.
Mu Chen saw that Zhang clan attacked few days before the deacon of Earth dao sect came. Mu Chen felt the pressure and had urgent need to increase his strength and the only way was to steal all the chances of the protagonist Mu Tian.
And the recent chance on Mu Tian was
Recent turning point -- 12 days later, killed an injured 2nd order black python and found a 3rd grade 1000 year red ginseng and broke through Qi Condensation realm.
Now only 9 days were remaining but Mu Chen knew that he had very little battle experience and needed to train in the outer part of the Blackrock mountains.
He then went to the market to buy some supplies. He took his sword that was left by his parents and put it in his bag . It was low grade yellow level.
" I have prepared everything that I needed. This will be my first time I will kill anyone in my 2 lives I have lived but to become stronger, I have to go through the baptism of blood."
Mu Chen muttered and went to training in the mountains.
Second elder after being threatened by elder Gu came to his house and was angry.
" How dare that old bastard try to threaten me for a mere trash? I have never been humiliated so much before. Even the clan head has to give me face but he threatened me in front of so many people. I will kill that bastard Mu Chen and that old shit."
The servants in the room were fearing if second elder attacked them in anger, what would they do.
Second elder then looked towards one follower and said ,"You go and watch every movement of that Mu Chen and report me his all activities."
The follower knelt on the ground and said ,"As you order, 2nd elder."
Saying this he left there. 2nd Elder dismissed everyone and only he was alone in the room.
"You dare to conspire against me and my grandson so don't blame me for cooperating with the Zhang clan. It was you all who brought me to this situation."
Earlier he was still hesitating whether to co-operate with Zhang clan to destroy the Mu clan but after this incident, he has decided to join the Zhang clan.
Even if this situation didn't occur, he still would've joined Zhang clan sooner or later.
He sent a message to Zhang clan telling them about his decision.
On the other side, Mu clan patriarch also heard news about Mu Bai getting beaten by Mu Chen.
In the hall
"So Mu Chen is at 7th level of body training realm and severely injured Mu Bai in just 2 attacks. Didn't Mu Chen's parents die in the past to secure 3rd grade herb for their son?"
"Yes, Patriarch. We also heard that few days ago, he was just a 3rd level of body training realm practitioner."
The man reporting replied then greedily said ,"I think that he might've got some adventure and I believe it would be beneficial for the clan head."
The patriarch understood what he meant. He then coughed and replied,"No need, everyone has their secrets and opportunities. It's not good to snatch them.
If I snatch other's things how could I be called the clan's leader."
But in reality, even the clan head wanted to know what type of opportunities Mu Chen had that could suddenly make his cultivation increase in such a short time but he knew that Mu Chen had Elder Gu as his backer whose strength was no less than his own and great elder that's why he didn't took any action against Mu Chen.
Hearing clan head's answer, the person who reported understood his mistake and also nodded," Yes, Yes patriarch, you are right. It's subordinate's mistake."
Mu patriarch nodded and asked," Where is Mu Chen now? I want to talk to him now."
" I think he went to the Blackrock mountain range to train. I saw him buying some supplies today." Another person answered.
"Hmm, when he comes to the clan after the training, tell him to meet me."
"Ok, patriarch."
"If there is nothing else to report you can go."
"There is another thing to report. It's about young master Tian."
Mu patriarch became excited but controlled it perfectly and asked," What about him?"
" Young master Tian has also started cultivating and has also reached 7th level of body training realm. Yesterday, he had a little dispute with Mu Feng in the market. It was also reported that he offended Elder Gu at the scripture hall by not greeting him and tried to enter the scripture hall."
Mu patriarch when heard that Mu Tian could cultivate was happy in his heart but when he heard that he offended Elder Gu, he became little sad. For Mu Tian to fight Mu Feng, it was not a big deal for him but to offend Elder Gu was another matter. But he didn't show any emotions on his face and replied," I understand. Take some pills and medicines from the treasury and gift them to elder Gu and ask them for apology. Even if I don't care about Mu Tian but he is still my son and he offended Elder Gu so I have to give some compensation to him."
"Understood patriarch."
"Ok, you can dismiss."
The 2 person bowed and took their leave.
After there was no one, Mu patriarch sighed and muttered to himself," I am sorry Tian'er for not helping you but believe me that all of this that I am doing is for your safety only otherwise if your mother in law knows that I am trying to support you then she will definitely try to kill you. I hope you become a powerful person in the future and be able to protect yourself."
Blackrock mountain range
Outer range
Blackrock mountain range was divided into 3 parts - outer, inner and core part.
Outer part consists of 1st, 2nd and 3rd order magical beasts.
Inner part consists of 4th, 5th and 6th order magical beasts.
Core part consists of 7th and 8th order magical beasts.
The Blackrock mountain range spread throughout the eastern continent and had countless magical beasts and opportunities inside. So many cultivators came here to go through life and death battles to cultivate themselves and to accumulate battle experience.
In the woods, a lone figure was moving forward. His clothes were torn and blood marks were present on him but the aura coming out from him was not low. It was Mu Chen. During these 7 days, Mu Chen went through many battles to erase his fear of blood and fight and to practise.
In the starting, Mu Chen didn't know how to fight and started fighting with beasts who had lesser cultivation than him to adjust his mind and to get adapted to the situation. Slowly he became proficient in fighting and started fighting with beasts of same realm as his and also practised burning sword technique and tiger fist. His mastery of tiger fist has reached great accomplishment from minor accomplishment and burning sword mastery has reached entry level. Mu Chen qualifications has improved greatly from his previous one so in just 7 days he entered the beginning mastery despite the technique being mid-earth level. You should that others take about 2-3 months to just reach beginning level mastery.
After fighting for 7 days in addition to accumulating enough experience, Mu Chen's cultivation base also loosened and reached peak of 7th level of body training realm and just one step away from 8th level of body training realm.
"Now that 7 days have passed, I have become much stronger than my past self and now it's time to go where the chance of Mu Tian is. It will be my key to enter Qi Condensation realm."
Saying this, he left in the direction where the chance was.