Lu Qingyun vs. Lin Pingzhi

As Leng Qiuyue had suspected that this may be a ruse from the Solitary Manor, she quickly intercepted Lu Qingyun and said to him. "Let me fight instead…"

"It is alright," Qin Keqin said to her. "Let Protégé Lu Qingyun have a try. Even if he were to lose, it isn't going to be too disgraceful since he is only a first realm expert."

Supremacy Wen Hongguang laughed jovially as he clapped his hands and his core protégé had stepped forward.

"Protégé Lin Pingzhi, you know what to do, right?"

When Lin Pingzhi had stepped forward, many of the protégés that were at the second realm who could use their divine sense were shocked that this Lin Pingzhi was actually an upper 3rd realm expert!

Lin Pingzhi smiled to Supremacy Wen Hongguang, "Master. I won't disappoint you."

Today, he would kill the Shengzi of the Heavens Ridge Villa!

Then he smirked coldly at Lu Qingyun, "Why don't we fight with a sword?"

Lu Qingyun said politely as he raised his hands to bow, "It is up to you. But I will use my fists instead."

Lin Pingzhi laughed, "Are you looking down on your opponent? Do you really think that I will show you any mercy even if you are weaponless in front of me?"

Many protégés were whispering, "Without a weapon in his hand, this Lu Qingyun is going to be at a great disadvantage. Cultivators always fight with a weapon unless they are golden celestials."

Xiao Che who was listening began to smile bitterly: I have a weapon but I had lost to this Lu Qingyun the other day…

He had tried to ambush Lu Qingyun to teach him a lesson on that fateful day but he was beaten up instead. Until now, his broken ribs had not fully healed yet and he was only pretending to be well so as not to arouse any attention to himself.

Lu Qingyun replied, "It isn't that. It is just that I am not good with a weapon and unskilled in swordplay. However, I do know a fist art. That's why."

His old master had taught him a Divine Fist Art called the Formless Shadow Fist.

But unknown to Lu Qingyun, his old master had actually lied to him and this so called 'Divine Fist Art' was merely a common fist martial art. It was just that Lu Qingyun was able to react too fast that he literally plummeted all his opponents.

And so, his old master had lied to him that his Formless Shadow Fist was a Divine Fist Art.

The truth was, even the name of this common fist art was fake as well and was an exaggeration.

As Lu Qingyun had displayed a defensive stance, Ouyang Xue and Lie Xingyuan panicky said behind him. "Be careful!"

Qin Keqin immediately rolled her eyes when she had heard them: In this life, I am not going to lose him to another maiden. The two of you can disappear soon.

In Lu Qingyun's past life, she had a bitter rivalry with the Great Heroine Ye Jing over him.

Not only was Ye Jing able to fight her on even ground, she was now also one of the two great beauties of the Nine Celestial Fraternity as well.

At the same time, she was also the leader of the Holy Citadel City, 1 of the 7 most powerful orthodox cultivation holy lands of the Nine Celestial Fraternity.

And she was also a 7th realm peak great saintess.

Actually, Qin Keqin used to be one of the top great beauties of the Nine Celestial Fraternity under a different name until she got too notorious.

Her current name was just her temporary alias and was not her real name.

Her real name Fan Yuqin the Devil Goddess was just too infamous and she had since changed her name to Fan Yuqing.

It was because she was the greatest villainess in the Nine Celestial Fraternity in the past and she had attempted to dominate the entire Nine Celestial Fraternity until she got chased by all the cultivators from both the orthodox, unorthodox and even heretic until finally she had her cultivation core crippled and was thought to be dead.

But she had managed to restore her cultivation core to take her revenge on the Nine Celestial Fraternity after several hundred years but she was stopped by Ye Jing.

For stopping the Devil Goddess, Ye Jing was given the title of Great Heroine by the cultivators of the Nine Celestial Fraternity.

At that time, there were four great beauties in the Nine Celestial Fraternity and they were Fan Yuqing, Ye Jing, Xuan Danfeng and Feng Minyue.

Today, there are just two great beauties of the Nine Celestial Fraternities; the Great Heroine Ye Jing and the Lovely Empress Lu Jiangsu.

Although Fan Yuqing was now with Feng Minyue and Xuan Danfeng but they had started off opposing her and they were now her collaborators.

This naturally had got to do with Fan Yuqing being an extremely charismatic maiden as well that she was able to pull them to her side.

Fan Yuqing was actually serving a penance time as her actions pissed off even the immortals so nowadays, she was trying to be as low profile as possible.

But unlike the celestial cultivators, she did not fear the celestial immortals as much because both her parents were the creators of the Three Known Realms which was the powerful Great God Pangu and the Great Goddess Fan Tian.

Therefore, she had an extreme background and she had become a villainess because she got too bored.

One must know that the Nine Heavens Immortal Realm isn't a suitable place for low level cultivators. Therefore, Fan Yuqing was sent to the lower Celestial Realm when she was but a child to cultivate to the seventh realm cultivation.

At age 13, she was already a 5th realm golden celestial and at age 18, she was already a 7th realm great saintess.

In other words, her talents were too monstrous and she got bored easily.

And hence, she had decided to cook up a domination plan to unite the entire Nine Celestial Fraternity into her banner, irking everyone.

For a short time, she had actually succeeded until she had gone too far with her endless banquets where she would demand that all the leaders and elders of the cultivation sects must attend her banquets, causing them to run all over the Nine Celestial Fraternity like clowns because she would switch her location randomly.

No matter how powerful she was and how many profound treasures that she got, she was not a match against all the high level cultivators that had all united against her.

Her second attempt at domination over the Nine Celestial Fraternity was foiled by the Great Heroine Ye Jing.

However, she got domination over the three most powerful unorthodox cultivation holy lands as their Devil Goddess and she had become an enemy of the orthodox cultivators.

Therefore, it is not wrong to say that Fan Yuqing/ Qin Keqin is also the leader of the dark celestials.

New Empyrean City is in the orthodox side of the Nine Celestial Fraternity and that is why she is concealing her identity.

The Heavens Ridge Villa was just a cultivation sect that she had founded on a whim by buying over the five of the mountain peaks that were in New Empyrean City and she had called this new cultivation sect, the Heavens Ridge Villa.

Qin Keqin was fabulous wealthy as the number 1 villainess in the entire Nine Celestial Fraternity and she commanded thousands of unorthodox cultivation sects through the three most powerful unorthodox cultivation sects that had the Devil Goddess as their Supreme Leader.

In fact, she had dominion over nearly a third of the Nine Celestial Fraternity as the dark celestials occupied a third of the territories in the Nine Celestial Fraternity.

And of course, she did not intend to let Lu Qingyun know about this side of her as she pretended to be an orthodox cultivator.

It is because she did not want to shock Lu Qingyun into distancing with her once he has learnt that she is the Devil Goddess, the enemy of all the orthodox cultivators.

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At this moment, Lin Pingzhi had just displayed his profound sword when Lu Qingyun had simply struck past his sword stance and Lin Pingzhi was sent flying backward.

This stunned almost all the speculators who could not believe with their eyes.

Ouyang Xue, Leng Qiuyue and Lie Xingyuan were all gasping with secret relief when they saw that Lu Qingyun had actually won.

This included Grand Elder Yun Xing as well. 

While Lu Qingyun's profound strength was only at the first realm cultivation but the Annihilating Fire that was within his Annihilating God Seed exploded furiously on Lin Pingzhi's chest.

Lin Pingzhi coughed out blood as though he had been struck by the profound might of a 5th realm expert!

As he landed on the ground, he had passed out immediately.

This shocked Supremacy Wen Hongguang who stared angrily at Lu Qingyun, "You must have used a trick! It is impossible for you to jump realms and hurt my core protégé!"

Lu Qingyun answered with a soft frown, "I didn't use any trick. It just that he is a little too weak."

Supremacy Wen Hongguang pointed at Lu Qingyun as he questioned him, "Where is your martial honor? You've attacked him while he is still mustering his profound art!"

Lu Qingyun smiled bitterly, "Our duel had already started. Am I supposed to wait for him to muster his profound sword to attack me?"

Qin Keqin chuckled softly as she looked intently at Supremacy Wen Hongguang, "Oh? Why don't you admit that your core protégé just isn't that good?"

Supremacy Wen Hongguang cast a secret glance at Celestial Bai Laoxiong before he said haughtily to Qin Keqin, "I have heard that the Fairy Jade Light is a seventh realm expert. I have always in awe of her but have never got the chance to witness her profound arts. Since Sect Leader Qin is her direct descendant, I will like to spar with you instead. Or are you afraid?"