Chapter 1171: Chapter 1170 What Kind of Door is This?!

Today was a rare day off, with no need to attend private school or practice fist techniques at the Martial Arts Hall. Gong Che and Shi Yi had arranged to go out and stroll through the streets.

"You just call me out to hang out, but what exactly are we going to do?"

Shi Yi rolled his eyes, feeling that Gong Che had been unusually excited lately. Not only was he active during lessons, but he couldn’t sit still during his days off either, waking him up early in the morning.

Ever since his mother returned from the Ice Flood Dragon Clan, his father and mother had been inseparable and saccharine, leaving him feeling somewhat superfluous.

Perhaps that was why, under the guise of "friends are hard to come by, you should go out and play," his parents had shooed him out of the house.

"Why not think about it on the way? After all, you have nothing else to do at home, right?"

"How about this, I’ll treat you to lunch today!" Gong Che said generously.

"What’s the good news that’s put you in such a good mood?" Shi Yi asked, looking at Gong Che with suspicion.

Gong Che had been waiting for Shi Yi to ask this question, and now it had finally come.

"I can finally live past sixteen."

"What do you mean by that?"

"I’m just telling you this—you better not tell anyone else."

"Go on."

Gong Che spoke seriously, "Actually, I’m an orphan who was picked up. I was born with a cold qi in my body, meaning I wouldn’t live past sixteen. I learned all of this by overhearing my parents talking when I went to the bathroom at night."

"They thought I didn’t know, but actually, I knew everything."

Shi Yi was stunned for a moment, not expecting Gong Che to have such a tragic past. "So what about you now..."

"To live past sixteen, I must get rid of the cold qi in my body. My parents tried all kinds of methods to no avail, except for Tiger Roar Fist, which had only a slight effect, but it couldn’t change my fate."

"Until recently, when Teacher Lu started teaching us Tiger Roar Fist, the cold qi in my body began to truly dissipate, and just five days ago, it completely vanished!"

"Does that mean you can keep on living now?" Shi Yi finally understood why Gong Che had been so happy lately. Knowing this, he too was happy for Gong Che.

Shi Yi felt that Gong Che confiding his secret was a sign of trust and that he too should share his own secret.

"Actually, my veins carry the bloodline of the Ice Flood Dragon Clan..."

Shi Yi revealed everything he knew.

He rolled up his sleeves to show the ice crystal-like Flood Dragon scales on his arm.

"No wonder I could never beat you no matter how much I practiced, so you’ve awakened your bloodline." Gong Che suddenly realized why he’d been surpassed. Initially, he was the number one in the fist technique class; then, after Teacher Lu arrived, Shi Yi surpassed him. After learning from Teacher Lu, he surpassed Shi Yi again, but then somehow, Shi Yi overtook him once more.

"But why did your mom tell you to thank Teacher Lu and even send a banner of appreciation?"

Shi Yi shook his head, "I don’t know, my mom didn’t explain."

"Hey boss, give us two baked sweet potatoes, he’s paying." As they passed by a baked sweet potato stall, Shi Yi spoke.

With baked sweet potatoes in hand, and unstoppable smiles on their faces, Shi Yi continued the previous conversation.

"Enough about me, what about you? Have you ever thought about finding your biological parents?"

Gong Che took a bite of his baked sweet potato and mumbled unclearly, "At first, when I found out I was adopted, I thought about looking for my biological parents. But then I realized it’s better to treasure what I have now than to chase parents without any leads."

"Perhaps when I meet my biological parents, I’ll ask them why they abandoned me in the snow and left me to fend for myself."

Suddenly, the two halted their steps as a youth who bore a seven-point resemblance to Gong Che appeared before them.

The youth’s gloomy eyes were filled with a thick murderous intent, and he flashed a sinister smile.

"Wu Ma, I didn’t expect you to still be alive."

Gong Che was taken aback. Wu Ma? Is that me?

The youth stepped closer, "The most failed experiment, abandoned by mom and dad for not being able to endure the Mystic Heavenly Cold Qi, not only survived until now but also dissipated the cold qi within?"

"I thought I had killed Zi Shu, Chou Niu, Mao Tu, and possessed the qualification to cultivate the Xuantian Scripture. But to think, you’re still alive!"

"The Xuantian Scripture is a supreme cultivation technique, with strict conditions for practice. Only those who endured the Mystic Heavenly Cold Qi in their youth are qualified to practice it, and it can only be cultivated when there is one eligible person."

"Now that both of us are qualified, I can’t cultivate it while you’re alive!"

"Remember my name before you die. I am Yin Hu!"

Yin Hu made a move as if to pounce, but Shi Yi quickly stepped forward and pinned the leaping Yin Hu to the ground.

Yin Hu made several attempts to rise, only to find that Shi Yi’s strength was astonishing, and he couldn’t get up at all!

Who was this person?!

"Your brother?" Shi Yi asked Gong Che, who looked utterly bewildered.

"I don’t know him, but listening to all his muttering just now, he doesn’t sound like a good person."

Yin Hu raised his head, staring fixedly at Gong Che. Rather than tiger eyes, they seemed more like viper slits. "Wu Ma, if you dare, let him go, and let’s see who the stronger successor really is!"

After some thought, Gong Che said, "Shi Yi, let him go."

"Okay."

Yin Hu shook free from his restraints and lunged ferociously at Gong Che with claws outstretched, like a tiger descending the mountain, fierce and bloodthirsty!

Roar—

A youthful tiger’s roar erupted, and with two punches, Gong Che left Yin Hu battered and unable to rise from the ground.

Yin Hu’s pupils shook with disbelief; how was the other person more like a tiger than him?

"Is that all?"

Gong Che was stunned; after all the bluster, this guy didn’t put up a fight at all.

However, Gong Che did not let down his guard. He remembered that Teacher Lu had mentioned in class that some opponents, seemingly easy to handle and taken down in one move, might actually be hiding terrifying power within their bodies and rise up to continue fighting.

Gong Che and Shi Yi warily watched Yin Hu lying on the ground, motionless.

Just when the two thought the matter was about to end, a man and a woman with an extraordinary demeanor approached them; one could tell at a glance they were cultivators.

Seeing the man and woman, Yin Hu mustered his last bit of strength to get up from the ground, clutching at the woman’s leg and begging pitifully, "Dad, Mom, please give me another chance, I’ll definitely defeat him!"

The woman looked at Yin Hu with disgust, kicked him away, and then immediately put on a tearful face, looking at Gong Che with pity.

"Child, Mom has finally found you!"

"Stay away!" Gong Che shouted, linking Yin Hu’s nonsense and the woman’s reaction, he roughly guessed the identity of the couple.

They were his own biological parents, and they had given birth to him merely to choose the strongest child to cultivate the inscrutable "Xuantian Scripture"!

"Child, what’s wrong with you, we are your biological parents," the woman called out.

"Why did you abandon me in the first place!"

"Child, you’ve become so strong exactly because Dad and Mom abandoned you, which allowed you to seize the opportunity and achieve today’s success, defeating your worthless brother."

"Perhaps what Dad and Mom did back then was ill-considered, but after all, we are your biological parents, as the saying goes, blood is thicker than water. Is there anything we can’t sit down and talk about?" The woman had a bewitching ability to speak that made one involuntarily believe her.

"Come, child, come to Mom," the woman opened her arms.

Gong Che didn’t even think about it and, grabbing Shi Yi, turned and ran.

"Run!"

"Trying to run?" The man flicked his sleeve, transforming it into an invisible giant hand that reached for Gong Che and Shi Yi.

Unexpectedly, Shi Yi’s body emitted the sound of a Flood Dragon, blocking the invisible hand.

"Pursue!"

The man and woman said through clenched teeth. Although they were Nascent Soul Stage powerhouses, here they were in Muxue City, where too much fanfare could draw the attention of the law enforcers. They could only chase after Gong Che and Shi Yi by navigating through the crowd with their exquisite steps.

"Where do we go? Should we go to my house? We might have a way there," Shi Yi suggested.

"No way, your house is too far, we won’t make it. Let’s go to the Martial Arts Hall!"

After several narrow escapes and nearly being caught, they finally made it to the Martial Arts Hall, taking advantage of their familiarity with the terrain and racing against the clock.

"We’ve made it!"

The two ran into the Martial Arts Hall in a frenzy and slammed the door shut with a clang.

"How naive, do you think you’re safe just because you ran into the Martial Arts Hall?"

The man and woman, seeing Gong Che and Shi Yi enter the Martial Arts Hall, laughed instead. This place was under the Sect’s control, and they could brazenly attack under the pretext of challenging the hall, unafraid of law enforcers.

They had investigated the Tiger Roar Martial Arts Hall beforehand and found that its strongest member was only at the Early Golden Core Stage.

"Heavenly Demon Hand!"

"Fallen Heavenly Fire!"

𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

The man and woman unleashed their respective secret techniques, striking towards the Martial Arts Hall doors.

Their eyes widened in disbelief, as if they had seen a ghost—it felt not like hitting a door, but a towering mountain!

Pfft—

Their attacks were all reflected back, shaking them to their cores and causing them to vomit blood without cease.

What kind of door was this?!

Wasn’t it said that the Sect Leader of the Tiger Roar Sect was only at the Early Golden Core Stage? Even selling every Golden Core cultivator in the house wouldn’t be enough to afford this door!

The Martial Arts Hall doors slowly opened, and three people emerged.

Gong Che and Shi Yi hid behind Huo Huashen, pointing at the man and woman lying on the ground.

"Uncle Huo, it’s them who wanted to take us away!"

Huo Huashen’s brow furrowed: "How dare they, messing with our Martial Arts Hall’s people, are they tired of living!"

The man and the woman couldn’t stop trembling; that pressure, was it, was it the Divinity Transformation Stage?!

How was this possible, wasn’t he just a gatekeeper of the Martial Arts Hall?

Faced with the Divinity Transformation Stage, the man and the woman dared not hold back any longer. They bit their tongues and used a secret technique to transform into a mist of blood to escape.

Huo Huashen snorted coldly and commanded twenty Nascent Soul Stage cultivators with his Spiritual Sense.

"I’ve already left a mark on them; go and capture them."

"Yes!"

Huo Huashen then turned to a smiling face, comforting the terrified Gong Che and Shi Yi: "It’s okay now, I’ve scared the bad guys away."

Following that, Huo Huashen escorted the two of them back to their respective homes and returned to sit on a small stool in front of the Martial Arts Hall door.

Soon, the twenty Nascent Soul Stage cultivators brought back two remnant souls, with one reporting to Huo Huashen.

"Boss, we’ve already soul-searched the people we captured, and it seems they are from the Ruthless Sect."

"The Ruthless Sect?"

Huo Huashen growled; when he had wiped out the Nine Ghosts Alliance before, he told Young Master Lu that the Nine Ghosts Alliance was a subordinate force of the Ruthless Sect.

How could it be that there really were forces from the Ruthless Sect in the Extreme Northern Lands?