CHAPTER 185: 185 - ZHAO YULEI

"Congratulations on your breakthrough to the ninth stage of the crystalline core realm, young master Zhao!"

An excited voice echoed from a private room in one of the most expensive taverns in the entire red light district of White Peak City.

The owner of the voice prostrated himself to a tall, handsome man with broad shoulders, short golden hair and a sharp face.

He was Zhao Yulei, son of the grand elder of one of the seven great families and one of the thousand most talented young people among the entire younger generation of the nine peaks basin.

He was sitting on a large couch with two prostitutes in his arms.

"No need to be so polite, Brother Gurye, we’ve known each other too long to treat each other like this!" Yulei laughed honestly as he waved Gurye over to sit next to him.

"Thank you, Brother Yulei." Gurye returned the smile before sitting down.

"Tell me, brother, what brings you here? How are the mines?" Yulei asked, taking a long sip from his glass of liquor.

"Well, this week’s shipment was good, hahaha." Gurye smiled, throwing a space ring in Yulei’s direction, but that smile soon faded.

"But... we had a little problem."

Yulei turned his face away, watching Gurye with an intense gaze. "What problem?"

"The blue crow gang, a son of a bitch killed them and the city guard confiscated the mine."

A loud crack echoed as the porcelain cup shattered in Yulei’s hands, drawing a scream from the prostitutes in his arms.

"I remember very well ordering you to bribe the guards, what the hell did you do with the money I gave you?" Yulei stood up and the prostitutes ran out of the room as his Qi exploded.

"I bribed them, young master Yulei! I promise! They’re not the ones who attacked the Blue Crow gang."

"THEN WHO DID IT?" Yulei roared as he stomped on the floor, the whole building shaking with his anger.

"It was that bitch from the third regiment, wasn’t it? Ugh... I told my father to be against the appointment of that damned peasant, why the hell doesn’t that old man listen to me?"

"N-not her, young master, but a bastard who was seen next to her, a pretty face called Qingyi! My spies have heard that he’ll be taking part in the sect selection!"

"Qingyi..." Yulei repeated in his mind. "You’ll pay for getting involved in my affairs."

"Notify the sect that I’ll be taking part in this year’s selection as flag bearer," Yulei turned around.

"Will young master Yulei forgive me?" Gurye raised his face, once full of fear and now filled with a glimmer of hope.

"I wasn’t talking to you." Zhao Yulei left.

The next moment, Gurye saw a shadow appear on the ground and a powerful hand clutching his neck.

***

Both the Ascending Dragon Sect and the Eternal River Sect were mountainside sects, with the Eternal River Sect taking one of the nine peaks that gave the Nine Peaks Basin its name for itself.

The biggest difference between them was their size.

Unlike the ascending dragon sect, which was inside the city of golden clouds and had just over ten thousand disciples, the white peak sect was kilometers away from the city of white peak, reaching over a hundred thousand disciples.

It was divided into three main zones.

The first was the outer zone, a forest that stretched for thousands of kilometers and, outside the few protected zones, was full of powerful spirit beasts.

The second was the inner zone, where inner disciples, outer disciples and the sect’s main infrastructures were located.

The third was the heart of the sect, protected by elders of the rebirth realm and core disciples of the nascent soul realm, plus, of course, the sect leader and the guardian.

The latter two were among the few existences in the entire Blue Moon Continent who would be able to live for more than ten thousand years and open mountains at will.

Beings of the transcendental realm.

At this very moment, the outer zone was being prepared for the sect’s annual selection.

As the White Peak Sect only recruited with recommendations and only in very rare cases opened the tests to anyone, there were few participants, only a little over a thousand.

They were all gathered in a large courtyard in front of the sect gates.

"Thank you for leading us here, Captain Rongyan," Qingyi spoke, his eyes focused on the gentle sway of the red-haired beauty’s hips as she walked, each step causing sensual tremors to spread through her voluptuous, succulent ass.

"It’s nothing." She smiled softly as she stopped her steps.

"See it as a thank you for finishing off those bastards. I was tired of ordering my men to deal with them and getting nothing but failure."

Her eyes suddenly twitched as they focused on one of the fifty inner disciples at the top of the gate.

This was a figure she knew very well, and whose eyes were focused on her and Qingyi.

She glanced to the side, realizing that Qingyi had also noticed that look.

"I should go now. That’s the one suspected of sponsoring the Blue Crow gang. Be careful with him, he’s from one of the seven great families and his father is one of the most powerful men in White Peak City." Rongyan warned, receiving a positive nod from Qingyi.

The seven great families...

Tang Biyue was from one of these seven great families and as far as he knew, one of the strongest of the seven.

’I just hope she doesn’t try to kill me,’ Qingyi thought.

It was still his goal to take her as his wife, he just didn’t know how he would do it yet without dying immediately.

Suddenly, a murmur went up from the cultivators waiting to be selected for the Eternal River Sect.

Looking up, Qingyi saw a colossal figure tearing through the sky, leaving a trail of flames.

It was a Giant Tiger, but it didn’t seemed to be a spiritual beast.

Its fur was a deep orange, its body towering over five meters tall while its feline face bore dignified features.

It landed above the sect gates, its deep, flaming eyes watching the young cultivators below.

It was hundreds of meters away, but Qingyi could still feel the waves of heat hitting his face.

He was sure that the beast was holding back a lot, but even a fraction of a fraction of its power was enough to make the world around him change completely.

"A mythical beast..." Qingxue whispered next to Qingyi.