Chapter 1506 1499: First Move

Chapter 1506 Chapter 1499: First Move

The stage was set. Young Master Shang's posture was relaxed and unrestrained, holding his sword before him with Wei Wuyin's image overplayed with its edge, and while he exuded a downright tyrannically torrential presence of Mystic Aura, the man himself seemed as free as a drunken immortal drifting across the clouds with light steps.

The Soul Saint King's pupils constricted with a honed intensity laced with a disbelieving light shining through desperately. Others might not notice, but he keenly felt that Young Master Shang's entire body had been overlaid with several formidable spiritual arts. In the eyes of an Earthly Saint's Spiritual Sense, he seemed like a bellowing geyser of Sword Intent.

He couldn't help but glance at Wei Wuyin. The man was still a mortal, bound by the constraints of being a mortal, including their inability to properly sense the entirety of the Mystic Dao. At best, those at the Star Core Phase, the Ninth Stage of the Astral Core Realm, the absolute peak of the Mortal Realms, could sense cursory glimpses of the profound Mystic Dao. Just barely enough to gather and refine into themselves, setting the stage for their own Mystic Ascension!

Cao Cuifen's hands tightened into fists. She felt her heart tense and race. She was worried as her gaze shifted to and from Young Master Shang and the elderly man who accompanied him. At times, she would place her gaze on Wei Wuyin, but there wasn't an emotional weightlifting feeling there. Instead, she felt increasingly concerned despite her best attempts to conceal it.

Wei Wuyin glanced at Cao Cuifen surreptitiously from the corner of his eyes. He frowned.

Young Master Shang gently moved his exquisitely fashioned blade. It was clearly the product of a Forger not the slightest bit inferior to a Worldly Saint Alchemist in terms of attainment of their Creationist Dao, the Dao of Forging. It was a true Mystic-World grade Armament formed by genuine materials of the Mystic Dao, not the freely malleable material like the Essence of War.

The elderly man's gaze was calm, resting on Wei Wuyin without any overly emotional display. The young mortal had used some profound powers of the Law to seize this region for himself. Those Sages truly have taken a hands-off approach to this Ancient Sealed Region by allowing an inhabitant of the world to lay claim to it using a Supreme Heavenly Treasure imbued with the power of the Law.

In his eyes, Wei Wuyin was merely a mortal junior who relied on his ancestors and items of power. Of course, if he had his original cultivation base, even if he had decided to suppress his cultivation base to only the Worldly Saint Phase, not the Earthly Saint Phase, he might have noticed slight inconsistencies with his current judgment! For example, Wei Wuyin had not used an item like the War Talisman with the Imperial Law!

It was all him!

Young Master Shang had finished his preparations, both mentally and internally, and he was on the verge of erupting with great power. He took a step forward.

"Let's see if you're worthy!" He took another step forward as the momentum of his mystic force roared to life in a visual display of distorted space, time, gravity, and light, inducing a kaleidoscopic phenomenon of colorfully dazzling light. As someone at the Mystic Star Phase, Young Master Shang had yet to manifest true Mystic Power, but his Mystic Force was enough to cause the Soul Saint King's robes to flutter wildly as if caught in a storm.

"..." The elderly man's brow lifted slightly. He looked at the tense Cao Cuifen and noticed a peculiar occurrence. Not a trace of Young Master Shang's Mystic Force was imposing any effect on her at all. In fact, it seemed as if it was being hindered by some unseen force. She didn't even seem to be noticing. It couldn't even touch the edges of her robes.

Suddenly, the elderly man had a curious feeling and turned to Wei Wuyin. His eyes widened slightly. You'll discover the inception of this content at n0v@lbin★

Wei Wuyin's gaze was flat and emotionless. If before, he had a faint air of a cavalier attitude, then now it was as if he was an entirely different person. The elderly man's heart raced.

"Ha!" Young Master Shang didn't notice this change as he unleashed his attack! A vertical slash! His movements were swift as he arrived directly in front of Wei Wuyin within a blink of an eye, following through with the slash, as if seeking to split Wei Wuyin directly in half. His sword erupted with stormy sword force that could pierce through planets and all three dimensions of space.

The next sequence of events were things that only Cao Cuifen and the elderly man could perceive. The former was due to her eyes brightening with a foreign spiritual power, greatly elevating her perception. The latter was due to his extraordinary Spiritual Sense.

If he moved the tiniest bit, he felt as if it could be the last act of his life! He immediately weighed breaking his seal in this world!

Wei Wuyin walked forward a few steps, despite moving slowly in this vast hall, he was before Cao Cuifen within those few steps. The Alchemic Saint of the Ninestar Starfield renowned as the Ennea-Hall Alchemic Saint throughout the eighteen regions was taken aback immediately. When she saw Wei Wuyin walk toward her with a smile filled with dissatisfaction and warmth, two interesting emotions, she was unable to properly organize her thoughts in her mind.

"Cao Cuifen, do you consider yourself my woman?" Wei Wuyin's question was abrupt and it caused Cao Cao to be shaken intensely.

What? When was his aunt Wei Wuyin's woman?!

Cao Cuifen's eyes shone with a startled light, but there was the same decisiveness she had showcased on that day immediately after. "I do."

She had given Wei Wuyin her body and held nothing back in telling him about herself and her history. Even before that day, when they laid together on that day as her body was reverted to a mortal, she had decided to become his woman. While her original intentions were for her own selfish goals, this slowly changed as he revealed himself more and more, changed with each time she thought of him, that she recalled their time together, and everything else he'd done.

As if to emphasize her own thoughts, she repeated: "I do."

Wei Wuyin looked a little saddened, and this caused Cao Cuifen's worried heart to tremble uncontrollably.

"Then do you think I can't protect you? In my world? In our world?" Wei Wuyin gently asked.

"..." Cao Cuifen was an intelligent woman, on the spectrum of emotions and logic, and she easily understood why Wei Wuyin was asking these things, and why he was being so gentle with his questioning. Her gaze swept across the elderly man and the crumbled half-corpse of Young Master Shang. All her deep-seated worries and concerns melted like ice in the summer heat, replaced by a blazing heat that provided tremendous warmth.

Wei Wuyin reached out his hand.

She didn't hesitate to grab it.

"Good. When you threaten others in the future, either to stand down or lower their head, don't use some nonsense Ninestar Sainthall from far, far away. I'm enough."

Cao Cuifen felt her heart shake. She had lived a life of being alone save for her nephew, and had only relied on herself in her thousands of years of life. The sensation of having someone protect her and act as a stable pillar of support so directly was something she hadn't felt in a long, long time.

It felt... ...really good!

Nodding with satisfaction, Wei Wuyin looked at the elderly man. "While I have a good idea as to who you are, and why you're here, none of that matters when you challenge me in my own home or look down on those I care about. While you're here, understand what you are: An illegal immigrant of my empire."

As for that challenge of three strikes, what nonsense was that? He never treated such a child-like challenge seriously!

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