CHAPTER 415: 226, HEAVEN, EARTH, AND HUMAN: THREE TYPES OF FIRE - PART 2

Kong Xing shouted at the watching cultivators, his face threatening.

"You dare to form a secret society and plot rebellion? You’re really bold, aren’t you?" Kong Xing sneered. "In past years, eight out of ten cultivators who sneaked in formed societies. If matters didn’t escalate, I’d be too lazy to bother. However... after today, since we’re making an example of someone to warn others, we naturally have to make a significant impact..."

"You few, get out of Dinghefeng and no longer be part of it!" he said loudly. The events of today were a plan he and Xu Xing had conspired to orchestrate, framing Zheng Yang to give Xu Xing a suitable excuse to leave Dinghefeng.

"Ding Yi, Yao Dang, Han Hai..." Kong Xing forcefully swung his steel whip, lashing the ground. "You lot, leave Dinghefeng immediately and don’t step foot in Dinghefeng again!" Although his scolding voice was cold, there was an undeniable hint of irrepressible joy within it.

Finally, he could get rid of this huge nuisance.Knowing that ’Yao Dang’ was a True Monarch, he hadn’t slept well for the past several days.If ’Yao Dang,’ as the True Monarch, decided to cause trouble, he would be in for a rough time.

An arm cut off...With no chance for the flesh to regenerate...This is equivalent to the ruin of his cultivation path.

Xu Xing glanced coldly at Zheng Yang, who knelt on the ground with a severed arm, then turned and left Dinghefeng. Before long, he vanished into the alleyways.

Ninety-nine percent of cultivators lead a lifetime of mediocrity, devoid of any extraordinary encounters. Zheng Yang, with his Immortal Foundation Realm cultivation and a severed arm, had his future utterly destroyed. He wasn’t worth Xu Xing’s further attention, let alone being hunted down and utterly exterminated.

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「Five days later.」

Xuan Turtle City, West City.

A shantytown.

Upon learning that Zhao Xian had also been driven out by Kong Xing under some pretext and had moved here, Xu Xing brought a few gifts and paid her a visit.

The spider thread-made magic clothes were vital for him to blend into the Chu Kingdom under the identity of a Bottom-level Cultivator named "Yao Dang."He certainly couldn’t let Zhao Xian remain in Dinghefeng, isolated from the outside world.Kong Xing driving Zhao Xian out of Dinghefeng was at his instruction. Dinghefeng wasn’t a good place anyway; cultivators who had sneaked in and stayed there were forbidden contact with the outside world...

After catching up with Zhao Xian, Xu Xing brought up the main matter. "Miss Zhao, has my spider thread been woven into the magic clothes yet?" he asked.

It had been almost one month. Logically, the magic clothes should be nearly finished.

"The magic clothes..." Zhao Xian’s eyes flashed with panic, but she quickly regained her composure. "Brother Yao, in about two more days, the magic clothes should be finished. Please wait a little longer..."

However, Xu Xing noticed Zhao Xian’s unusual behavior. The suppression from a higher cultivation realm wasn’t just about strength. His powerful Divine Sense allowed him to clearly observe the most subtle facial expressions of Bottom-level Cultivators, let alone someone like Zhao Xian—the naive young lady of a cultivator family, not worldly enough to hide her feelings.

Xu Xing raised an eyebrow. "Could it be that you’ve ruined my Azure Fire Spider Silk, Miss Zhao?" he probed. "Don’t worry if you have. It’s common for Spirit Materials to get damaged..."

Having weaver girls weave the most basic spider thread Spirit Materials into magic clothes and then resell them was one way to launder ’black money.’He hadn’t come to the Chu Kingdom just for this one trip, so he needed an identity that could withstand scrutiny.The money under his "Chang Kun" identity was currently illicit. Only money earned under the "Yao Dang" identity could be used openly in Xuan Turtle City.If this avenue through Zhao Xian failed, he would have to find another way.

"No, it’s..." Zhao Xian’s face flushed red. Under Xu Xing’s pressing questions, she confessed the truth. "Concubine... Concubine saw that Brother Yao had been driven out of Dinghefeng and thought you were destitute and homeless... So, when Concubine left Dinghefeng, to find a place to live, Concubine... sold the magic clothes..." she stammered.

When Kong Xing had extorted wealth from Xu Xing, she had seen Xu Xing act weakly, inevitably looking down on him in her heart. Afterward, Xu Xing had joined the Dragon Tiger Society under duress and had seemed to "flatter" Zheng Yang...

Hearing this, Xu Xing was momentarily stunned. He hadn’t expected that his actions during these several days, as observed by Zhao Xian, would cause such a drastic shift in her perception of him, to the point of jeopardizing this important matter.

Xu Xing frowned. "This magic clothes... after a fifty-fifty split of the profits, how much was left?" he asked. Listening to Zhao Xian’s tone, it seemed there was some issue with the money from selling his magic clothes.

"Yes... Concubine was thinking of going to the Embroidered Clothes Pavilion to sell this item. If the weaver girls there took a liking to it, Concubine could join the Embroidered Clothes Pavilion..." Zhao Xian lowered her qiufu and whispered, "After the weaver girls of the Embroidered Clothes Pavilion took the magic clothes..."

Hearing this, Xu Xing cut her off, his face hardening and his tone turning cold. "Miss Zhao, Mo Fei, do you think I am easy to bully? Do you expect me to believe such words?"

Wealth truly moves people’s hearts.Although Zhao Xian was the young lady of a cultivator family, naive and not deeply scheming, that didn’t mean she wouldn’t lie to him over this.

"180,000 Spirit Shells!" Xu Xing immediately stood up, a Spiritual Sword appearing in his palm, and made a motion as if to draw it. "Not one Spirit Shell less... Otherwise, since I, Yao, am now desperate and have nowhere to go, don’t blame me if blood splatters here today, Miss Zhao."

"180,000 Spirit Shells?" Zhao Xian exclaimed. "Brother Yao, how could those magic clothes fetch such a high price? You only provided the Spirit Materials; they wouldn’t sell for that much..."