The Immortal Emperor Returns is a Webnovel created by Xiu Guo, 修果.
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Chapter 55 The Division of the Realms!
Bai Renxiong was unwilling to surrender to anyone, and he swore to be an anti-hero, not a hero.
Heroes were chivalrous and upheld justice. They did not care for their own lives but only wanted to die greatly.
However, anti-heroes valued their own lives and would compromise when it’s needed. Just like now, Bai Renxiong bowed his n.o.ble head just for survival. Besides, he thought he pretended well.
“Big brother, we can’t trust him. If he gets out of here safely, he will return back with his men for revenge,” said Su Fan.
Chu Xun waved his hand and looked at Bai Renxiong. His eyelids slightly lowered, hiding the mockery in his eyes. “Are you really willing to surrender to me?” he asked flatly.
“Yes, please trust me that I want to surrender to you wholeheartedly,” Bai Renxiong said sincerely.
Chu Xun continued with sarcasm in his eyes, “I’d love to believe you. Since it is so, is it okay for me to collect a drop of your blood?”
Bai Renxiong raised his head, looking confused.
As Chu Xun walked over and waved his hand in the air, Bai Renxiong trembled, and a line of blood appeared on his arm. When Chu Xun raised his hand to guide the blood line, a drop of blood was condensed in the air and floated slowly to Chu Xun.
Chu Xun waved his ten figures and made a handprint in the air. He then bent one of his fingers and pointed forward, causing the drop of blood to shine brightly. Everyone’s face looked weird in the bright red light.
“Soul-devoured Contract, done!”
With the light shout, Chu Xun held the drop of blood in his palm. After a flash of red light, the blood disappeared when he opened his palm.
As a sense of pain crossed Bai Renjie’s body, his face turned pale, and beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.
“What did you do to me?” Bai Renxiong questioned Chu Xun.
“I signed a Soul-devoured Contract with you. I can perish you with a sheer of will,” Chu Xun said with a smile.
Bai Renxiong was stunned, but soon there was disdain in his eyes. He had never heard of such a contract; how could he believe it?
Others present did not believe Chu Xun’s words either except for Chen Hanlong. After all, such a thing was so weird.
Chu Xun smiled slightly, and a sharp light flashed within his eyes.
“Ahh…”
Bai Renxiong let out a scream of pain and rolled on the ground with his arms around his head and his face twisted terrifically.
The onlookers were scared by the scene, and their expressions all changed.
“Be… beg your mercy. I’m so sorry. Please spare my humble life, sir…”
Bai Renxiong roared in pain, gritting his teeth loudly.
“You’re too humble to call His Honor ‘sir’. Even your second elder brother has to call him ‘lord’.” Chen Hanlong sneered.
Bai Renxiong suffered such a great pain that he trembled all over. Clothes soaked in sweat, he said in a trembling voice, “My lord… please forgive me, please spare my life!”
Chu Xun looked indifferent and changed his mind.
All of a sudden, Bai Renxiong felt that the burning pain disappeared. He panted heavily, his body trembled, and his eyes were full of horror.
The onlookers felt a chill subconsciously and felt as if cold air had filled their bones. They were caught by horror when seeing Bai Renxiong’s miserable look.
“Thank you, thank you, my lord!”
Feeling that his strength recovered a little, Bai Renxiong crawled to Chu Xun hurriedly and lay prostrate beside Chu Xun’s feet.
“How did it feel?” Chu Xun asked.
Upon hearing the words, Bai Renxiong trembled even more fiercely. He would rather die than suffer the burning pain, which felt as if his organs were under raging flames. He did not to want to taste the feeling the second time for the rest of his life.
“Get up!”
“Thank you, my lord.” Bai Renxiong struggled to get up.
“Your big brother is not the right person to be the householder of the Bai Family. Do you understand?” Chu Xun said indifferently.
“Yes, my lord. Please rest a.s.sured that I’ll help my second elder brother with all my strength…”
Before he could finish his words, Chu Xun interrupted him with a wave of his hand.
“You can join hands with your second elder brother to deal with your big brother, and the position of the householder of the Bai Family will belong to the stronger one between you and your second elder brother.”
Bai Renxiong’s face lit up. He had not expected that he still had a chance to be the householder of his family. He said hurriedly and respectfully, “Please rest a.s.sured, my lord. I won’t let you down.”
Chu Xun nodded slightly and waved his hand, signaling that Bai Renxiong could leave now.
Bai Renxiong bowed and stepped ten meters backward respectfully before straightening his back.
“Big brother, are you an immortal? That’s amazing! I was worried that you could not control this cunning guy just now.” Su Fan shouted with admiration in his eyes.
“Well, I’m not. I just played some small tricks,” Chu Xun replied with a smile.
“Were these small tricks? Then, are your big tricks scaring? Is that contract real? You can render a man tortured with a sheer of will?”
“Do you want to try it?” Chu Xun asked in a playful tone.
“Huh?” Su Fan was scared and jumped backward quickly. He waved his hands hurriedly and yelled, “No, forget about it. I believe you. I’m still shocked after seeing that guy’s miserable look.”
Chu Xun smiled, turned around, and walked to the injured old man.
When the old man saw Chu Xun walk to him, his body tensed subconsciously, but soon he relaxed his body and said with a bitter smile, “End me quickly, please!”
“Master Shifu!” Manager Lei’s legs went soft in fear but he did not step back at the moment. He walked staggering and stood before the old man. “Please don’t hurt my master. It’s me who offended you, so if you want to take revenge, kill me then.” he begged.
“Xiaolei, what are you doing? Get away, now!” the old man shouted hurriedly.
However, Manager Lei shook his head resolutely and said, “If it were not for you, master, I would have died in that cold winter. You saved my life and taught me how to gamble, so I can live with dignity. I’m very contented that I have lived so many years more.”
After saying this, he knelt down toward Chu Xun and continued, “Please don’t hurt my master. I was so blind to offend you, and I won’t complain even if you kill me and skin me. Please let my master off, I beg you.”
As Chu Xun raised the tip of his eyebrows and waved his hand, Manager Lei was sent flying by a gust of force. Chu Xun walked to the old man and crouched down in front of him and punched toward his chest.
The old man closed his eyes sadly. Just as he was waiting for death, a gust of gentle force entered his body and repaired his injured organs and meridians. He opened his eyes in surprise and saw Chu Xun withdraw his hands. Just in this moment, most of the old man’s internal injuries recovered, which made him feel both shocked and confused.
“Master!” Seeing the old man open his eyes, Manager Lei was both surprised and overjoyed.
The old man waved his hand, signaling that he was ok. He looked up at Chu Xun with a look of confusion.
“You’re strong.” Chu Xun was speaking his mind. So far, the old man was the only one who could exchange moves with him.
The old man was stunned and said bitterly, “I feel ashamed!”
Chu Xun was confused by something, so he asked the old man, “You’re powerful, and you could exert a stronger combating power if you combine your power with martial skills. But why did you just use your Internal Breath?”
If the old man had performed martial skills, he would not have been defeated so quickly.
The old man looked at Chu Xun strangely before saying embarra.s.sedly, “What I performed just now was exactly a kind of martial martial skills—Mountain-shaking Fist.” The old man was a little upset that he was knocked away before he could made more moves.
Chu Xun was a little surprised because in his eyes, the moves the old man performed just now were not martial skills at all but like the small tricks the children played.
“Tell me how your Martial Tao are divided?” Chu Xun asked. As a matter of fact, he had no way to know this during his previous life, and in this life, he did not have time to learn this.
“Are you a cultivator, sir?” the old man looked confused when he heard the words “your Martial Tao” and asked subconsciously. This also explained why Chu Xun’s skills were so strange.
“Cultivators?” Chu Xun asked in confusion, “can you tell me more about them?”
The old man put on a weird expression and wondered if Chu Xun was not a cultivator either.
“In fact, it’s common to practice martial arts, but it’s difficult to gain Internal Breath through practicing unless the practicer is hard-working, extraordinary talented, has great body conditions, and has someone guide him. One at most of a hundred martial artists could gain Internal Breath through practicing. Thus, ordinary martial artists only know some basic martial arts and is more powerful and faster than ordinary people.”
The old man pondered for a while and continued, “People like me are called Warriors with Internal Breath, and one will be regarded as a Martial Master after he becomes a Grandmaster. In our world, there is another kind of people who are known as cultivator. It’s said that cultivators pursuit the great Dao during their whole life. They know Taoist magic arts and could bring propitious omen to the world and save people. They also could slaughter the people of a city on their own for they possess the power of the G.o.d and ghost. They are very powerful. Rumors had it that someone once saw a cultivator lift and remove away a huge mountain and save a dying person with a pill. However, like immortals, the cultivators are rarely seen by mortals.”
Chu Xun was a little surprised. He had thought that there were only warriors and Martial Masters in this world. He did not expect there to be cultivators. He was curious about how powerful those cultivators were and how they cultivated.
To practice martial arts, one just need to cope with G.o.d’s will and follow the rule.
However, to cultivate, one had to go against G.o.d’s will and fight to change his fate.
Just like the carps in rivers, those who followed the tide would always be ordinary fishes, but those who swam against the tide could jump over the dragon gate and make great achievements.
Chu Xun was a little excited and he knew he would not be alone in the future.
“You haven’t told me the division of the Martial Tao,” Chu Xun said.
“Big brother, I really suspected that you came here through time-travel.”
Su Fan spoke before the old man could reply.
Chu Xun thought of something and looked at Su Fan before asking, “What did you mean?”
“You’re so powerful, yet you know nothing about the division of Martial Tao? Even I know about this.” Su Fan looked at Chu Xun with a strange expression and continued, “The Martial Tao is divided into the Innate Realm, Acquired Realm, Grandmaster Realm, and Human King Realm.”
“Are these all?” Chu Xun was stunned.
“Yes,” Su Fan replied with certainty, “my father told me so.”
“Well, the fact is somewhat inconsistent with what this young man said.”
While Chu Xun was in confusion, the old man spoke up.
“What’s inconsistent?” Su Fan questioned with displeasure after hearing the old man refute his words.
“Actually, above the Human King Realm, there are realms of immortals, namely the Human-Immortal Realm, Earth Immortal Realm, and Gold Immortal Realm.” The old man lowered his voice when he mentioned “immortal” as if he were afraid of being heard by those immortals.
Chu Xun was astonished and wondered if the immortals the old man referred to cultivate the immortal Tao just like him. He guessed the old man did not the answer either.
“Can you tell me which realm am I in?” Chu Xun asked curiously.
Su Fan and the old man shook their heads at the same time.
“I have never seen or heard about the skills you displayed, and your cultivation is unfathomable. Please forgive me for lacking knowledge and experience. I can’t tell you the answer,” the old man pondered for a while before replying.
“Which realm are you in?” Chu Xun asked.
“Well, I’m ashamed to say it. I have reached the Great Completion of the ninth level of the Acquired Realm, a step away from the Grandmaster Realm, since ten years ago. It seems easy but is actually difficult to reach the Grandmaster Realm. Some people are stuck the Acquired Realm for their whole lives, and it takes hard work and opportunity to reach the Grandmaster Realm.”
“The Great Completion of the ninth level of the Acquired Realm!”
Su Fan and the female gambler yelled in surprised at the same time.
Chu Xun looked at them curiously and felt confused, wondering why they were so surprised.
“Oh my G.o.d! The Great Completion of the ninth level of the Acquired Realm! I have only heard it before, and today, I finally got to see a man in this realm with my own eyes.” Su Fan smacked his lips and explained to Chu Xun, “Big brother, you may not know it. If only one out of a hundred people can become a Warrior with Internal Breath, one out of a million people can become a Grandmaster. This senior has actually reached the Great Completion of the ninth level of the Acquired Realm and is only a step away from the Grandmaster Realm. With his power, he would be respected and welcomed anywhere he goes. Even if he is in a martial sect, he could get a position as an elder. And it’s possible for him to establish a sect himself.”
Su Fan subconsciously changed to address the old man as a senior.
“This young man spoke too highly of me. I’m afraid that His Honor did not take my cultivation seriously at all.”
All the people were surprised to hear the words. The old man, who had reached the Great Completion of the ninth level of the Acquired Realm, was already so powerful, yet he lost to Chu Xun. How powerful would Chu Xun be? The people present had not thought about the question just now. After hearing the old man’s words, they started to think about the question.
Grandmaster!
Thinking of this word, all the people could not help but gasp.