Chapter 1719 - 1718: Xinghua Gully, Something Strange!
Looking at the flat hillside below, adorned with beautiful apricot blossoms, Qin Feng felt as if he had arrived at the most wonderful place on earth.
The sky was blue, the clouds were white.
The air here was fresh.
The petals were everywhere, and the fragrance was overwhelming.
This had always been a place Qin Feng longed for.
From high above, the apricot blossoms here were clustered, some trees were close together, others were spaced out by more than ten meters, looking like a beautiful carpet adorned with flowers.
Qin Feng had once had a dream.
When he grew old someday, he would come to Xinghua Gully, raise a dog, and when bored, bask in the sun, sitting under the apricot blossom trees, watching the clouds roll by.
Of course.
If he had the gift of foresight, it would be wonderful, to see through the forest and glimpse the clear stream deep within Xinghua Gully.
The beauties of Xinghua Gully often bathed and frolicked in the stream.
Here.
One could throw all their worries to the wind.
Titles, wealth, all worldly concerns were but fleeting clouds.
"It’s so beautiful here..."
At this moment, Mei Niang, watching the apricot blossoms dance in the air, couldn’t help but exclaim in awe, "It’s simply an earthly paradise!"
"Something’s strange!"
Qin Feng furrowed his brows lightly and said, "Xinghua Gully shouldn’t be this quiet."
"Oh?"
Mei Niang asked puzzledly, "Is it usually lively here?"
"It used to be very lively, especially that winding stream you see?" Qin Feng pointed at a clear stream winding like a snake through Xinghua Gully, "I’ve been here a few times, and every time by the stream over there, the girls of Xinghua Gully would either be bathing or playing."
"...I say, dear son-in-law, speaking of such things to me is inappropriate, isn’t it? I know you’re lusty, but don’t you feel any guilt saying it outright?" Mei Niang said.
"..."
Qin Feng was embarrassed and said, "No, what I mean is... it truly doesn’t seem right here..."
As he spoke.
At that moment.
Suddenly, he saw a large group of people in the distance, each armed, quietly approaching Xinghua Gully!
"It’s the people from the Moonless Sword Sect and White Jade Manor."
Mei Niang said.
Their clothing insignias revealed that they belonged to these two sects.
"Why are they still here?"
Qin Feng frowned, muttering a sentence.
He knew that Tianshan had always been contested by four forces: the Moonless Sword Sect, White Jade Manor, Li Family Vineyard, and Xinghua Gully, vying for supremacy.
So much time had passed.
Seeing no sign of the girls of Xinghua Gully but seeing them instead gave him a bad feeling.
"Let’s go down and have a look!"
Qin Feng said.
Soon.
Qin Feng mounted the Fire Cloud Bird, with Mei Niang, landed directly in front of those people.
The sect leader of the Moonless Sword Sect, Nan Moyue, and the manor owner of White Jade Manor, Yu Qingluan, saw the two suddenly appear in front of them and couldn’t help but frown.
They didn’t recognize Qin Feng but immediately recognized Mei Niang, furrowing their brows tightly, and said: "Isn’t this Mei Niang from Wealth God Inn? What are you doing in our Tianshan territory?"
Mei Niang smiled indifferently and said, "You should ask my dear son-in-law, whatever he’s here for, I’m here for."
Qin Feng stepped forward and asked: "Where are the people of Xinghua Gully?"
"Hmph! Who do you think you are? How dare you speak to us with such an attitude?" White Jade Manor’s Yu Qingluan said coldly.
"..."
Qin Feng sighed lightly.
He was so renowned across the entire Cultivation World, yet still went unrecognized.
How isolated is the news here?
"Qin Feng."
He replied faintly with two words.
"Qin... Feng?!"
Upon hearing this, Yu Qingluan found the name somewhat familiar, thought for a moment, then exclaimed in surprise, "Are you the Qin Feng who killed my son?!!"
"Uh..."
Qin Feng scratched his head for quite a while before recalling the time when he searched Ghost Immortal Cave in the North Country Forest Mountain, and the Young Master of White Jade Manor, Yu Taijin, also led people there intending to kill him but was instead countered and slain.
But after so many battles over the past two years, such minor events weren’t too clear in his memory.
"Forget it, let’s not talk about this first, but say, where are the people of Xinghua Gully?"
Qin Feng asked again.
"Hmph! I haven’t even settled scores with you yet, and you’re getting arrogant, truly courting death!!"
Yu Qingluan waved a broad hand.
A team behind him immediately charged at Qin Feng with divine weapons!
"Oh..."
Qin Feng sighed helplessly.
He had hoped his reputation would intimidate them and first clarify the situation, but unexpectedly the place was so isolated, unaware of major world happenings.
No choice.
He can only act first and talk later.
Swoosh——!
Swoosh——!
At the moment when those people were about to surround him, Qin Feng directly displayed the sixth level of Shadow Concealing Step—Immortal Dance.
Several phantoms appeared, instantly slaughtering them all!
"What?!!"
Yu Qingluan, intrigued by White Jade Manor, was briefly stunned, somewhat incredulous.
He rubbed his eyes and scrutinized; indeed, his dozen subordinates had all been killed, lying on the ground with blood everywhere...
Everything happened too quickly, like a dream.
"How could this be??"
Yu Qingluan furrowed his brow, then waved his hand again, summoning a total of two hundred people this time!
"Kill him and avenge my son’s death!!"
He shouted loudly.
Swoosh!
Swoosh!
Swoosh!
In mere breaths, about two hundred men charging forth almost simultaneously became motionless!
Simultaneously.
Qin Feng passed through them, returning to his original position.
Qin Feng sheathed the Life and Death Blade, gently clapped his hands.
All two hundred men fell straight to the ground, blood flowed freely!
"What?!!"
Yu Qingluan was utterly shocked.
Together with him, over a thousand members of the Moonless Sword Sect also witnessed this scene, eyes wide in disbelief.
Despite White Jade Manor not being renowned for strength.
The dispatched men were quite powerful, including several Ninth Grade Grandmasters and one Quasi-Saint.
They were all wiped out in such a short time.
Most astonishing was that even a Quasi-Saint level expert couldn’t retaliate!
It was truly unimaginable!
"You, you... what level of cultivation are you?"
Yu Qingluan asked, astounded.
Qin Feng shrugged, disinclined to answer.
The sect leader of the Moonless Sword Sect, Nan Moyue, with a grim face, said: "If I’m not mistaken, it should be Saint Level prowess!"
As soon as the words fell.
The crowd stirred immediately.
Saint.
In the past few hundred years, Saints were almost the pinnacle of Hidden World Practitioners.
Only the senior Bing Chenzi was genuinely a Saint.
Therefore.
Upon hearing Qin Feng possesses the power of a Saint, each broke out in cold sweat.
At this moment, Qin Feng was utterly embarrassed.
Indeed, they had been "isolated" for too long.
Outside, prolonged warfare had forced many to drastically enhance their strength, also prompting many formidable figures to act.
Like God’s Society’s Doggo, Twelve Popes, etc., which of them lacked Saint-level prowess?