Supreme Hidden Dragon in the City
Chapter 289: Activating the Sword Nurturing Gourd

Chapter 289: Chapter 289: Activating the Sword Nurturing Gourd

Yang Tian, seething with fury, pointed at Chen Fan and shouted, "He’s the guest I was supposed to entertain today!"

"You insulted Mr. Chen, even his mother and friends. If I don’t hit you, who should I hit!"

Yuan Lin was shocked, finding it hard to believe as she looked at Chen Fan, "He... he’s the guest for tonight? How... How did this happen?"

With a helpless expression, Yang Tian scolded, "Yuan Lin, you’ve really disappointed me!"

He turned around and bowed deeply to Chen Fan and Wang Suyun and the others, "Mr. Chen, I am truly sorry. The responsibility for this matter is mine. I apologize to you and your mother as well as your friends sincerely, and I hope Mr. Chen won’t take this to heart."

Chen Fan sneered, "You’re quite adept at using people, aren’t you? She treated me like a fool to be slaughtered at the restaurant this afternoon, and now she’s here insulting my mother. Her arrogance, I’m afraid, comes from leveraging your status as Mr. Yang of the Yang family, right?"

Yang Tian, sweating profusely, pleaded timidly, "Mr. Chen, calm your anger, please calm your anger. It indeed was my mistake for misjudging people. I will certainly give you an explanation."

After speaking, he turned and slapped Yuan Lin twice more, bellowing, "From today onwards, you’re out of the company. I will issue a public announcement and ban you from all industries under the Yang family name. Don’t let me see you again!"

Yuan Lin panicked on the spot. Everything she had was thanks to Yang Tian. If Yang Tian drove her away, she would become nothing, and with the Yang family’s ban, no other companies would hire her. She wouldn’t be able to mix in Tianhe City anymore.

She looked at Yang Tian with a pleading expression, "President Yang, I was wrong. I promise I will never make such a mistake again. Please give me another chance!"

Yang Tian coldly said just one word: "Leave!"

Seeing Yang Tian’s resolute attitude, Yuan Lin turned to Chen Fan and knelt down with a thud, "Chen Fan, I’m sorry. I was being unreasonable, I was full of myself, I had no shame. I am the old witch, please forgive me!"

Chen Fan snorted, "Do you think you’re worthy?"

Yang Tian called two security guards, "Take this wretch away from here!"

The two security guards immediately dragged the wailing Yuan Lin away.

Yang Tian bowed to Chen Fan, "Mr. Chen, shall we..."

Chen Fan said indifferently, "Let’s go inside."

Relieved, Yang Tian let out a breath and, with a forced smile, led Chen Fan and his companions into the restaurant.

Due to the previous incident, at the dinner, Yang Tian was exceptionally enthusiastic toward Chen Fan and his group, especially toward Wang Suyun, to the point of almost groveling in the dust.

Seeing his attitude like this, Chen Fan let go of his anger and told him to relax and reminded him to keep his eyes open when hiring people in the future.

Yang Tian took it seriously, indicating he would engrave Mr. Chen’s words into his heart.

After the dinner, Yang Tian took Chen Fan and his group to their accommodations, ensuring everything was arranged properly before withdrawing.

That night, just as Chen Fan was about to enter his cultivation state, his phone rang.

He picked it up and saw it was another call from Shen Lingdie.

He took the call with a resigned tone, "Miss, what’s the matter this time?"

On the other end of the phone, Shen Lingdie was silent for a few seconds before asking, "Chen Fan, if I were in danger, would you protect me?"

Chen Fan had no idea what the girl was up to this time, but he still answered seriously, "Yes."

Shen Lingdie laughed happily, saying, "That’s good to know."

Chen Fan asked puzzledly, "You called me just to ask that?"

Shen Lingdie: "Mhm!"

Chen Fan was about to speak, but Shen Lingdie had already hung up the phone.

"She really is an enigmatic girl," sighed Chen Fan helplessly, without giving it much thought, he began to cultivate.

The next day, Chen Fan said goodbye to Yang Tian and returned to Jiang City with Wang Suyun and Qi Heng.

Mingyue Villa.

Chen Fan stood in the courtyard, looking at several footprints not far from the fence, as well as the black fabric scattered on the ground, and his expression became slightly pensive.

Then, he pulled a piece of the black fabric from the ground and executed his Divine Skills. The fabric was enveloped in bright light, and after a short while, two apparitions appeared—it was the scene of Chen Junhao and Zhao Chunlan wearing hoods and climbing over the wall.

Although their faces were covered by hoods, Chen Fan recognized their identities at a glance.

The apparitions continued until the moment when Chen Junhao and his partner were struck by lightning and fled in disarray before fading away.

Chen Fan couldn’t help but smile wryly, thinking that the mother and son’s desire for revenge was indeed strong, to the point of secretly climbing the wall into the villa to smash the windows.

Fortunately, their malice wasn’t severe; the Minor Five Elements Divine Thunder Formation had only shattered their hoods. If they had harbored true murderous intent and were struck dead by the lightning, it would have been difficult for Chen Fan to explain, especially since, after all, they were his relatives.

"Mother is absolutely safe at home, but there are still some risks outdoors. I’ll go talk to Sir Feng later, asking him to arrange for a few people to secretly protect her," Chen Fan muttered to himself, then no longer dwelt on the matter, returning to his own room.

He took the Sword Nurturing Gourd out of the Heavenly Creation Pearl.

"Only a true Sword Immortal can nourish a Sword Nurturing Gourd, and to become a Sword Immortal, one must at least possess the strength of the Golden Core Realm. This item’s existence confirms that there have indeed been Cultivators on Earth before, but for some reason, these Cultivators have all disappeared without a trace, and the Spiritual Energy on Earth has almost dried up."

"No matter, let’s open this Sword Nurturing Gourd first and see how many Flying Swords have been nurtured inside." Thinking this, Chen Fan started to channel Spiritual Power into the Sword Nurturing Gourd.

The Sword Nurturing Gourd had not been opened for several hundred years, partly because there were no more Cultivators on Earth to recognise it, and partly due to the scarcity of Spiritual Energy, which wasn’t enough to meet the opening conditions.

Therefore, the only way for Chen Fan to open the Sword Nurturing Gourd was to inject a sufficient amount of Spiritual Power into it.

However, after Chen Fan had channeled more than half of the Spiritual Power in his body into the Sword Nurturing Gourd, it only emitted a faint glow and showed no other changes.

Chen Fan frowned, "Could it be that the Spiritual Power in my body is too little?"

With that thought, he took out a jade bottle containing Innate Spiritual Liquid.

He poured the Innate Spiritual Liquid into the Sword Nurturing Gourd, and the glow on it became much stronger, but it still didn’t open.

Chen Fan, feeling helpless, gave it some thought and then took out the last Thousand-Year Elixir he had.

He led the essence of Spiritual Energy contained in the Thousand-Year Elixir into the Sword Nurturing Gourd.

Once the Sword Nurturing Gourd had absorbed all the Spiritual Energy from the Thousand-Year Elixir, an intense light burst forth, followed by streams of Sword Qi radiating out, their might terrifying.

Chen Fan quickly set up a barrier around himself, otherwise, those Sword Qi could have directly destroyed the villa.

After a long time, the Sword Qi gradually dissipated, and the glow of the Sword Nurturing Gourd also receded.

However, at this point, the Sword Nurturing Gourd had a few more strands of pale golden light compared to before.

Chen Fan’s face was full of excitement.

"It’s been successfully opened!"