Chapter 295: Peace Villa
Gu Xiqiao was sitting in the lobby of Peace Manor, with Baili Bin and the others at her side.
“You’ve finally arrived in the ancient martial arts world after so long, forget about the manor that you set up here, you’ve even caused such a huge commotion.” Murong Feiye held a wine gla.s.s in his hand, looking at Gu Xiqiao like she was a monster. “You’re partic.i.p.ating in the qualifying matches tomorrow. The 80th floor… you’re just going to be bullying Nozawa and those bunch of people.” He already knew that the moment Gu Xiqiao entered the ancient martial arts world, it definitely wouldn’t be a quiet entry.
But for her to reach the 80th floor directly, that was beyond his expectations!
This was simply a monster!
Then there was this Peace Manor, where every single person in it was strong. They could even dominate one side of the ancient martial arts world, and they were all her people!
Murong Feiye could no longer look at Gu Xiqiao like a normal person anymore.
Hearing Murong Feiye’s words, Baili Bin smiled and nodded his head in agreement. “I heard that Nozawa’s strength is on the 70th floor.” With Gu Xiqiao’s power on the 80th floor, she would wipe the floor with them. It was indeed a bullying move.
“I don’t think I’m a match for him, since he’s on the 70th floor,” Yao Jiamu said with a regretful tone. “I can only reach the 60th floor at most, I can’t even beat Tang Qingqiu.”
Wu Hongwen and Xiao Yun also expressed the same opinion.
“Just work harder,” Gu Xiqiao replied, reaching out to fiddle with the pair of chopsticks. “I’m not strong enough either.”
Murong Feiye wanted to puke blood when he heard these people talking!
To be able to reach the 60th floor in a short period of time, yet complaining that they weren’t strong enough?! Especially Gu Xiqiao, the person who had reached the 80th floor, and here she was, saying that it wasn’t enough? Are you all intending to ascend to the skies?
“Please, stop poking me, okay?” Murong Feiye felt like he had received 10,000 points of damage to his heart.
Gu Xiqiao raised her head, looking straight into his eyes. “You’re also quite weak.”
Murong Feiye: “…” Naturally, we normal beings cannot be compared to your group of non-human beings.
“Cough.” Baili Bin decided that a change of subject was in order as he held his laughter in check. “Murong, I heard that your family has an idea to help the manor?”
“Yeah.” Murong Feiye replied casually, appearing to have little interest. “I’ve already imparted what should be imparted to them.”
“You’re s.a.d.i.s.tic,” Gu Xiqiao said, “Watching your family jump into a fire pit that they dug themselves.”
Murong Feiye: “…” At least you know you’re the fire pit?!
“Er Qiao, the fire pit was dug by you though.” Wu Hongwen silently raised his head, looking at Gu Xiqiao. She had specifically instructed for the Peace Squad to display so many treasures, and even brought Luo Wenlang, an ordinary person over to manage the place, wasn’t it just to cheat people?
If Murong Feiye was s.a.d.i.s.tic, then who could be more s.a.d.i.s.tic than her?
“If they weren’t so greedy, would I be able to bait them like this?” Gu Xiqiao raised an eyebrow, then turned to pick up a pork meatball to eat.
Everyone: “…” Really, they were just speechless.
Wu Hongwen’s mouth twitched, then he looked at Gi Xiqiao again. “You’re giving food to a robot? Aren’t you afraid that it will jam and break?”
Xixi, who had just flown in from outside, couldn’t help but chirp out at Wu Hongwen’s words. “It’s already broken.”
As a result, the entire table started discussing Jiji again.
Gu Xiqiao let them do as they wanted, studying Jiji and whatnot. She watched the excitement in front of her as she ate, then suddenly smiled, her hand pausing in the air suddenly. Her lips curled up slightly. “They’re here.”
“Who?”
“The Murong family.” Gu Xiqiao placed her chopsticks down, leaning back against the chair. There was a glint of something bright in her eyes. “Please… enjoy the show.”
***
On the fifth ring in the ancient martial arts world, a mountain manor had suddenly risen up from the ground. This incident had attracted the attention of the most unwitting people.
From the start of the construction of the manor, it only took half a month with a lot of manpower and material resources to complete. It attracted the outer families who resided in the fourth ring to watch the process, and every single person who had come to watch was stunned.
The people in the ancient martial arts world have always based everything on their own strength, and didn’t have many wants in their life. So when they saw the construction of the Peace Manor, they were shocked.
The decoration of the manor was extravagant, and everyone in the ancient martial arts world now knew what it meant to be rich and imposing!
Not only do they sell elixirs that could improve the level of their ancient martial arts, but even the decorations they used were expensive.
“Do you see that? That’s the rare ancient jade in the treasure pavilion of the ancient martial arts, it’s being used as a decoration for the gate?!”
“And that lantern, why do I feel like it’s an offensive magic weapon?”
“Using all these treasures as decorations, it’s such a waste!”
“It’s even more extravagant than the Big Three, is this a new terrifying force?”
“Probably not, I’ve never heard of this Peace Manor. Even new forces wouldn’t build on this area.”
“You’re right. Even the outer families like us wouldn’t want to stay in the fifth ring.”
An old man shook his head. “These people from the Peace Manor are so stupid.”
“What do you mean?” The man beside him asked.
“Being so high profile with no strength to show for, it’s just asking for trouble.” The old man said in a low tone. “Do you see the team over there, they’re from the Murong family.”
Everyone turned in the direction that he had indicated, seeing a group of people heading towards the Peace Manor. The one leading them was an elder from the Murong family.
He had received news that the Peace Manor was selling pills that upgraded the level of a person’s ancient martial arts, and after some investigation, he found out that the owner of the place was a young, ordinary person. The people inside the manor were also some random people, and they didn’t think they were any sort of threat to them.
Just yesterday, when the elder of the Murong family had heard that Gu Xiqiao had no relations to the Peace Manor, the stone in his heart was finally put down. So today, he had brought a group of people with him to the Peace Manor.
The Murong family were not the only ones who had eyes on the Peace Manor, but they were the first ones to make a move. The other families couldn’t help but look at them with hate in their eyes, and blame themselves for acting late. And now, they could only observe the Murong family’s actions and wait for them to leave before they would strike up their own bargains.
The Murong family was one of the Big Three in the ancient martial arts world, and they also had a deterring force. So when the people saw the Murong family approach the Peace Manor, they couldn’t do anything but sigh.
That Peace Manor seemed like it wouldn’t live past today.
It wasn’t only the people from the ancient martial arts world that thought so, even the Murong family thought the same. There was no threat from a regular person who owned the manor, and that was the reason only a single elder had accompanied the group to conquer the Peace Manor.
Looking at the extravagant decorations on the gates of the manor, Elder Murong couldn’t help but tremble slightly. Whatever he was feeling inside got more obvious the closer they got to the manor.
There was a crowd gathered outside the gates, waiting in excitement to see what would unfold, as they too had seen the treasure that was used randomly to decorate the yard. The randomly scattered long swords and spears exuded auras of formations and arrays, if they could make use of any random ones, it would definitely increase their power by two hundred times!
Some of those standing in the crowd couldn’t help but sigh regretfully at the thought. Would they have known that there were so many treasures in this Peace Manor, then they wouldn’t have hesitated to make their own move. But now, the Murong family had made it first!
No one was in a better mood than the elder of the Murong family. He looked at all the treasure scattered around, thinking that he had indeed come to the right place with the right decision. With all these equipment in his hands, as well as the elixirs from the Peace Manor, the Murong family’s power and influence would be able to be raised another level.
“Mr. Luo.” The Murong family elder’s feelings soared even higher when he saw the other. “Treasures should be used on suitable talents. Without any strength, your Peace Manor will be axed sooner or later. I’m giving you a chance now, join the Murong family.”
Seeing the ten young men standing behind Luo Wenlang, the Murong elder merely glanced at them contemptuously, obviously thinking they weren’t worth his attention.
Luo Wenlang smiled warmly, though the smile didn’t reach his eyes. He pointed to the training field beside him. “Elder Murong, let’s go in and talk.”
Elder Murong thought that Luo Wenlang was afraid now, and walked into the training grounds with a spring in his steps, a triumph look on his face. The group of people behind him followed, also wearing proud looks on their faces. They were the guards of the Murong family. Three of them entered first, while five brought up the rear. The eight of them were naturally outnumbered by the ten that followed behind Luo Wenlang, but the Murong elder was also on the Bone Refinement level, and so the guards were not afraid and were confident in their numbers.
“Mr. Luo, where do you keep those miracle pills of yours?” Once they entered the training fields, the Murong elder couldn’t wait and asked.
Luo Wenlang stood by the door, the smile still on his face. “Beat them.”
Before the Murong elder could react, the ten men behind Luo Wenlang moved. None of them held any weapons in their hands, only using their fists to beat the eight people that had come with Elder Murong.
In the beginning, the Murong elder felt that it wasn’t worth his time to do anything. These ten men wouldn’t be as powerful as him, even if they worked together. Not to mention, he had eight guards behind him, so he wasn’t bothered at all.
However, he felt his legs shaking in the next second.
Mother! Why were the ten people so scary?! As a person in the Bone Refinement level, he didn’t even have any power to resist them?
In the next moment, he was beaten up to the point that he couldn’t think straight. There was only one thought in his mind: Why were this group of people so violent, and why would they just keep hitting his face instead of anywhere else?
Also, you have so many treasures in the Peace Manor, why couldn’t you just let go of one broken sword?
In his dazed state, he suddenly saw an additional figure appearing in front of him. His eyes were a little blurred, but when he saw who it was, the surprise shocked him fully to awareness.
The person standing in front of him was dressed in a light green dress, a white fox fur coat wrapped around her shoulders. Her beautiful, sparkling eyes were on him, a leisurely look in them. “Elder Murong, I heard that you invited us to join the Murong family?”
Elder Murong was shaking so hard. The desire to die had completely filled his heart!
He had ‘invited’ this popular girl in front of him to join the ancient martial arts world? How big was his head?!
“No, no, of course not, Miss Gu!” He stood on trembling legs, looking at the smiles on the faces of the people in front of him, and he felt a chill run up his spine.
He thought that he had picked up a great bargain, but it turned out to be a rip-off instead. This Peace Manor was too sinister and s.a.d.i.s.tic, they were clearly powerful, but they used an ordinary person to man the front, displaying a ‘I am weak, come and bully me’ image.
They were just too dark!
The group of people from the Murong family had arrived at the place with such grand plans in their mind, and now they were leaving with their tails tucked in between their legs, without any treasures in their hands. Luo Wenlang had sent them off respectfully, saying, “Elder Murong, please drop by to play again when you have time.”
Hearing this, Elder Murong nearly fell on his b.u.t.t, his legs feeling like jelly.
Again?! He’s not that desperate to give up his life!
The onlookers on the outside glanced at each other at the scene, wondering what in the world had happened after the group had gone inside. Elder Murong, what’s going on?
***
Several other elders looked at the embarra.s.sed elder who had just returned. They had been expecting good news when he came back, but they didn’t expect to see him in such a state. “What’s the matter with you?”
“Forget it.” The elder covered his face with his hands. If Gu Xiqiao had been the one to abuse him like that, it was still reasonable to expect that, but he had been beaten by ten young men, who was obviously below his power level! He didn’t know where to put his face anymore.
In the beginning, he thought that he could return with an armload of treasures, the people in the Peace Manor were all ordinary people after all, or only at Chi Induction level. Unexpectedly, every single one of these people at Chi Induction level could keep up and beat those in the higher levels. He had trained for decades, and not only was he just at the Bone Refinement level, he couldn’t even be as good as some younger men who were lower level than him!
This Murong elder sat his b.u.t.t on the chair, signifying that he refused to head over to the Peace Manor ever again. It was just too demoralizing!
Of course, he didn’t dare mention anything about Gu Xiqiao, because she had told him not to.
The other elders around him couldn’t help but look at each other, thinking in their minds. What on earth had happened? What was the origin of this Peace Manor, which rendered a dignified elder into this state?