Cause and Effect

Wei Gaoyuan knew the brother had misunderstood and explained, "My name is Wei Gaoyuan, 'Wei', not 'WEI' as your junior brother."

"Well, I see," Deng Baisheng figured it out, "you, and junior brother WEI, your names were pronounced the same, but not the same character; he was the top genius among the freshmen, you are a unknown freshman; so, you wanna challenge him for gaining fame? "

Wei Gaoyuan was amused by his words--beating up a disciple of ninth-level of the Mystery would become well known?

Even if he could be famous by this way, that was only the fame in the outer section of East Mountain Sword Clan. It was no use at all to him. What he pursued was to be famous all over Jianghu and even let his name spread to every corner of the world, for his sister, Wei Xiaoxue...

"Well, he won't came out~ As long as he's still in East Mountain Sword Clan, I'll meet him sooner or later," Wei Gaoyuan said and turned away.

Behind Wei Gayuan, Deng Baisheng was certainly very irritated at this boy, but as a rule in East Mountain Sword Clan, disciples were not allowed to fight with each other privately. Besides, as an old disciple, it was definitely not good to issue a personal challenge to a freshman, so he could only give a snort coldly and watch Wei Gaoyuan stepping down the Peak.

However, he didn't expect the gossip just spreading fast like wildfire among the disciples of the outer section the next day after Wei Gaoyuan's departure. It was said that the talented new disciple WEI Gaoyuan of Cyan-Feather Peak didn't dare to accept the challenge from someone of his peers, and hid himself as a tortoise.

The head of Cyan-Feather Peak, Elder Xu, was fuming with rage after hearing it, shouting a thousand times, in Palace of Cyan-Feather, abuse at Elder Wu of Dark-Feather Peak…

Considering the fake spiritual root of that arrogant boy, he guessed that before entering the outer section, the boy was most likely to break into ninth-level of the Mystery, and might reach the eighth-level half year later when the examination started at the end of this year. Hence, he had to figure out some means to make WEI Gaoyuan stronger rapidly...

…

While Elder Xu was burning with rage, Elder Wu called Wei Gaoyuan alone into the back room of Palace of Dark-Feather, and asked, "Is it you who went to Cyan-Feather Peak to issue a challenge?"

"Report to master, it's me!" Wei Gaoyuan didn't deny as he couldn't.

"Then is it also you who spread the news that WEI Gaoyuan daren't accept the challenge?" Elder Wu added.

"Report to master, it's not me," Wei Gaoyuan said.

"Hum!" Elder Wu snorted softly. "Even if you didn't do it, you shouldn't get away with it!"

Wei Gaoyuan nodded. And he nodded when Hu Xiaoshu proposed the news-spreading strategy, so long as his own name wasn't mentioned in the news.

Elder Wu frowned and said, "You might not realize that you'd make Elder Xu, you know him, very humiliated…that means you'd offend the whole peak of Cyan-Feather..."

"Ah? Is it so serious?" Wei Gaoyuan didn't think of such an effect. A conflict between a few new disciples would escalate to the level of Elder? He started a little worried about it.

Seeing Wei Gaoyuan frowning, Elder Wu realized that the new boy actually knew little about the subtle and complex relationship among Peaks.

So he started to explain with patience, "Elder Xu paid a high price to steal WEI Gaoyuan, who was found not the one he wanted; he must have been focusing much efforts on the boy, who leveled up so rapidly after entering his Peak, obviously, for getting back his lost face; and you, you just visit his Peak to slap his face again, at the right time and the right place…so how do you think he would think of you, boy?"

"I... I didn't succeed slapping his face yet…" lowering his head, Wei Gaoyuan was talking to himself in a particularly low voice.

"You didn't? You didn't?!! You just wish you could have slapped his face?!!!" Wei Gaoyuan underestimated Elder Wu's hearing… His master's face was like a black stone now. "Thank god you didn't! Or that old guy must keep missing you even in his dream! Just keep yourself always ready for the upcoming competition, from Cyan-Feather Peak… "

Competition? Trouble precisely!

Wei Gaoyuan, however, feared little about it. The rule of outer section prohibited disciples from fighting for killing each other; even a normal competition in martial arts, it must be done without any slight hurts to both sides. He'd underwent countless hurts, slight or severe, since the beginning of his childhood, so the upcoming trouble was just slight hurts at most,a pudding~

...

With ten points of contribution points in hand, Wei Gaoyuan could go to the wind basin again to train himself for totally ten hours. And the next day he went there and paid three points.

Due to the different terrains in the wind basin, the force of wind was also different. Wei Gaoyuan's current stage could only choose a area with relatively small wind. When he arrived, there were a few disciples there. So, he walked over a vacant lot and sat down to practice.

After about half an hour, a voice came next to him, "This junior brother, you take my place."

Wei Gaoyuan, who was engrossed in resisting the wind anytime, was startled by the sudden voice, and turned his head: a tall young man, wearing the uniform of Cyan-Feather Peak, was staring at him with an unfriendly look.

The pudding was served so soon?

He didn't get annoyed, but said calmly, "I don't get your meaning, brother. When I came, there was no one here, and ..." He looked around — there was still plenty of space, plenty enough for at least two people to practice.

The tall young man didn't seem to care about the surrounding space and smirked, "This junior brother may not know, I'd always been practicing here, for so long~~ I suddenly wanna take a leak just now, and…just left for a while, then I saw you. So, I'm talking with you~ "

"No problem, brother, I'll leave it to you~" Wei Gaoyuan walked to another vacant lot not far from here. He used "leave" rather than "return."

Seeing Wei Gaoyuan's concession, a scornful smile flashed on the corner of the tall man's lips and vanished soon. He walked over and said to Wei Gaoyuan, "This place isn't suitable for you, either~"

"Oh?" Wei Gaoyuan frowned.

The man of Cyan-Feather Peak gave a meaningful smile while seeing Wei Gaoyuan's expression changing. He said, "Junior brother, you may not know we've got four mates altogether practicing here…the other three… are going for a leak… as a team…you know, and will return soon…."

"Well, I'll leave when your mates come back," Wei Gaoyuan's attitude turned hostile as well as his look.

The smile faded slowly from the face of the tall man of Cyan-Feather, "So, the junior brother wanna get yourself in trouble?"

"Brother knows who gets me," Wei Gaoyuan sneered. "Previously, the disciple of Cyan-Feather did not dare to accept the challenge, and now send his brother here to trouble a freshman. Is it the tradition of Cyan-Feather Peak?"

He was not exaggerating. The tall man was indeed a few years older than him and surely cultivated longer.

The tall man's face turned hot slightly, but he didn't back off, staring at Wei Gaoyuan, "So, it's just you, the new disciple of Dark-Feather, who went to our Peak to issue a challenge?"

"Just went to resolve some personal issue, with your junior brother WEI. Maybe the brother who guarded in Palace of Cyan-Feather misunderstood me, it's not a challenge," Wei Gaoyuan said calmly.

"Hum!" the tall man snorted coldly, and said. "You're also a new disciple, aren't you? Undoubtedly, No.1 new disciple is junior brother WEI, everyone knows it, so you, a shallow new boy, are not worthy to challenge him!!"

"Well…" Wei Gaoyuan smiled with taunts, "I finally got why WEI Gaoyuan locked himself in, I'm not worthy~ not worthy to challenge…"

Then he turned his tone sharply, "But, I'm not going to challenge him actually; I'm going to talk with him, with my fist~"

"Oh? Your fist? I just stood here, and take your three punches. If you can make me move even half a step, I'll leave," the tall man said, abundant arrogance on the face. "But if you can't, you have to take me one punch; if you can take mine, I'll leave too; otherwise, just get your ass back to your Peak!"