Nine Yang Alchemy Emperor
Chapter 154: Guarding

Chapter 154: Chapter 154: Guarding

When Chu Feng entered, he was subjected to cold stares and contempt. Qiao Dusi, however, received the highest form of honor.

The Xie Family’s top brass personally greeted him with smiles, ushering him into the mansion and offering him a seat. This filled Qiao Dusi’s face with pride, and he was quite pleased with himself.

"Chu Feng, you dare to compare your status with mine; you are simply asking for humiliation," Qiao Dusi sneered mockingly as he passed by Chu Feng.

"Well, who is honored and who is humiliated isn’t certain yet! Let me give you a piece of advice, ’a poor man turned rich clinks his ten coins in his clothes ostentatiously as he walks’," Chu Feng retorted with a cold laugh, looking at Qiao Dusi with the same expression one would use to look at a clown.

It was like mocking Qiao Dusi as a beggar on the street, who had just received ten silver coins as a reward, putting it in his pocket and showing off everywhere.

Indeed, Qiao Dusi flaunted his prestigious status everywhere, just like a beggar flaunting wealth, no difference at all.

True people of status never need to flaunt anything.

"You, you poor wretch, waste... how dare you insult me... believe it or not, I can have someone throw you out immediately?"

"Chu Feng, you better behave yourself in front of me. If I tell you to kneel, you kneel. Even your girlfriend has now become mine," Qiao Dusi, his handsome face turning pale with anger, threatened Chu Feng viciously.

Lin Yuxin cooperated very well by holding onto Qiao Dusi’s arm and leaning her head on his shoulder.

"Brother Qiao, why bother arguing with someone as poor and useless as him! You and he aren’t even on the same level!"

"When you entered the Vice Minister Mansion, you had the Xie Family’s top brass personally welcome you. And him? He was almost kicked out."

Lin Yuxin looked at Chu Feng with a disdainful gaze.

"Well said! Chu Feng, let me give you some advice, one should know their limits!" Elder Cousin also jumped in to scold Chu Feng at this point.

Xie Bing, worried that things would escalate, quickly pulled Chu Feng away, "Let’s go over there! We need not pay attention to these petty people!" With her, a great beauty’s soft plea, Chu Feng immediately held his tongue.

She led him by the hand to a table in the corner and sat him down.

...

Xie Baogui, in the Vice Minister Mansion, indeed received extraordinary favor and stood out splendidly, feeling quite proud.

Old Master Xie kept him close, giving him constant advice, and engaging in close conversation with him. It was clear that he intended to pass the baton of the Xie Family to Xie Baogui, truly treating him as his successor.

While Xie Baogui felt honored, he always felt something was missing.

His gaze searching, he could not spot Xie Bing, that great beauty. After all, she was his main target today.

The absence of his prey made Xie Baogui anxious.

Could that beauty Xie Bing have run away out of spite?

The more Xie Baogui thought, the more he couldn’t sit still, and he found an excuse to slip out, intending to find Xie Bing.

"As long as Xie Bing is held steady within the Vice Minister Mansion! At the Longevity Banquet, Old Master Xie will definitely force her into marriage with me, and by then, her resistance will be futile."

Just as Xie Baogui came out to the main courtyard of the outer mansion, his gaze swept across and spotted the heavenly beautiful Xie Bing.

She was simply too gorgeous, and even seated in a corner, she was strikingly brilliant.

Like a sparkling diamond, even if it fell into a dark corner, it would still shine brightly.

Just as Xie Baogui was preparing to walk over, he suddenly noticed a handsome young man sitting next to Xie Bing, and they appeared very intimate.

"Who is that bastard?"

Xie Baogui felt a blaze of fury ignite in his chest immediately.

Having received Old Master Xie’s nod of approval in the morning, he had indeed regarded Xie Bing as his fiancée.

At this moment, to see some blind fool sitting intimately with his fiancée, how could he not be furious?

Xie Baogui is a very scheming person.

He worries that the youth competing with him for Xie Bing is from a powerful and influential background, a privileged young master. If it turns out to be someone he can’t afford to offend, he would not dare to act rashly.

Because Xie Bing is extremely proud, ordinary young masters don’t catch her eye at all.

Xie Baogui fixed his gaze on Chu Feng, and soon noticed that Chu Feng was dressed very simply. It could even be described as shabby.

At least for today’s grand occasion, Chu Feng’s attire was far worse than that of the other guests.

Comparable to the servant of the Vice Minister Mansion.

With a stern face, he promptly strode over.

"Xie Bing, what is the meaning of this? Old Master Xie has already promised you to me, why are you still with this scoundrel?" Xie Baogui approached the table, not allowing for explanations, and reached out to grab Xie Bing’s wrist.

His strength is not weak, evidently possessing the cultivation of a Beginner Level Sword Master of four to five layers.

While Xie Bing is merely at the First Level of a Beginner Level Sword Master.

Although both are at the Beginner Level Sword Master Realm and use the same kind of Sword Qi, Xie Bing’s Sword Qi is much weaker, and in terms of strength and speed, she is far inferior to Xie Baogui.

A Swordsman reaches the Beginner Level Sword Master Realm after breaking through the first sword meridian.

Each sword meridian contains ten sword energy acupoints, like the notches in a water level—filling the first sword energy acupoint means reaching the First Level, and filling the second means reaching the Second Level.

Xie Baogui not only has a much stronger cultivation than Xie Bing, but his understanding of sword techniques is also extraordinarily adept.

Though it was merely a simple grab, it contained a move of deep and complicated Swordsmanship.

If you must describe it, in eight words: fiercely brilliant, splendidly dazzling.

If not mistaken, the Sword Technique Xie Baogui comprehends should be the Fiery Flame Sword Technique.

Since he has only mastered its form and not its essence, it can be determined that he has merely grasped the First Level. It’s purely the appearance of blazing flames, intensely fierce and visually striking.

Compared with Chu Feng, it certainly falls short.

Chu Feng has already understood the Third Level mental method of the Glazed Sword Technique. Compared to Xie Baogui, he is clearly two levels higher.

Furthermore, there’s a concept of mutual generation and suppression between different sword techniques.

For example, the Fiery Flame Sword Technique is wild and dazzling, while Chu Feng’s Glazed Sword Technique, being impenetrable and flexible, can restrain it to some extent.

Today, he is here as Xie Bing’s boyfriend and naturally couldn’t stand idly by while another man bullied his girlfriend.

"Scram!"

Chu Feng also made his move, directly grabbing a chopstick from the table to wield as a sword.

Swish, swish, swish!

The shadow of the chopsticks was heavy, revealing a terrifying sharpness only true swords possess.

Xie Baogui’s complexion changed slightly; he had never imagined that a chopstick could possess such fearsome power.

A highly skilled individual could cause harm with a falling leaf, defeat enemies with a wooden sword.

Compared to Xie Baogui, Chu Feng is a high-level Sword Dao master. He’s clearly two Swordsmanship levels higher, and Chu Feng’s comprehension of the Glazed Sword Technique can even suppress the opponent’s Swordsmanship.

Thus, Xie Baogui, very embarrassingly, drew back his hand and jumped away; a single exchange of moves clearly determined the superior.

He actually lost to Chu Feng, this Swordsman.