The Gossips of New Empyrean City

The news that Celestial Qin Keqin had defeated Supremacy Wen Hongguang had spread like wildfire throughout New Empyrean City and it had suddenly become the hottest gossip in the city.

"Have you heard about it?"

"The newly arrived acting sect leader of the Heavens Ridge Villa had defeated the sect leader of the Solitary Manor..."

"Wah? What cultivation realm is this Qin Keqin?"

"She is only a 5th realm golden celestial and she is able to defeat a 6th realm golden supremacy? Isn't the disparity supposed to be great?"

"That is because she has a celestial-step divine sword..."

"A celestial-step divine sword is able to spark a war. There will soon be hordes of cultivators that will be coming to New Empyrean City. We won't have any peace very soon..."

"The Heavens Ridge Villa is doomed. They won't be able to protect their only celestial-step divine sword..."

"There will be plenty of old freaks that are struck in their cultivation bottleneck who will be making their way to obtain the celestial-step divine sword..."

"The Heavens Ridge Villa shouldn't show off their celestial-step divine sword in this manner. Now they are in trouble..."

"I've heard that Celestial Bai Laoxiong has been driven out of the Heavens Ridge Villa and he has defected to the Soliary Manor..."

"This Qin Keqin doesn't seem to be a good leader..."

"The Heavens Ridge Villa has a new Shengzi now and he is Lu Qingyun but he is only at the first realm cultivation..."

"This is not the most earth-shaking news. Great Saint Hu Yaobang had even made an appearance in the Heavens Ridge Villa. I had heard that he spared the entire Heavens Ridge Villa because of the great beauty of Qin Keqin..."

"I had heard the opposite. The Great Saint Hu Yaobang was offended by Qin Keqin but because she is a maiden and is a low level cultivator so he did not want to bully her..." 

"New Empyrean City won't be peaceful again..." 

 The Heavens Ridge Villa, the Flying Armament Sect, the Clear Sky Pavilion and the Solitary Manor are the four powerhouses and prominent celestial clans of New Empyrean City.

 The Solitary Manor and the Clear Sky Pavilion both had one 6th realm supremacy level cultivator. Therefore these two celestial clans are considered to be stronger than the other two.

 Now that Celestial Qin Keqin had defeated Supremacy Wen Hongguang in actual combat, the ranking of the Heavens Ridge Villa was naturally higher now in the eyes of the people of New Empyrean City.

 "That Supremacy Wen is so useless. He can't even handle a golden celestial level cultivator…"

 "You are wrong to say that. A superior cultivator usually has a superior celestial teacher and Celestial Qin's celestial teacher is Fairy Jade Light…"

 "I had heard that Fairy Jade Light is a seventh realm expert…"

 "I had heard that Celestial Qin had used a divine sword to defeat Supremacy Wen. Without a divine sword in her hands, Supremacy Wen may not lose. Moreover he has the Blue Lightning Dragon spirit animus..."

 "Darn. I should have enrolled as a protégé with the Heavens Ridge Villa. The enrollment exercise had just ended…"

 "I had heard that the battle between them was so earthshaking that the mountains shook and the wrath of the heavens was produced…"

"I had heard that Supremacy Wen was done by only one stroke…"

"You got to be kidding. That isn't possible. The mountains must have been shaking when they were battling…"

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Heavens Ridge Villa.

At the Red Sword Peak of the Red Heaven Sword Hall. 

Tang Bufan was still cursing Lu Qingyun when a shadow was suddenly seen at the windows of his abode.

As a core protege of the Red Heaven Sword Hall and Celestial Shi Guanyin, he had his own personal abode which was quite spacious and it had both an inner and an outer courtyard. 

Tang Bufan was startled as he panicky rose to look in the direction of the windows, "Who is that?!"

A familiar voice, that of the Golden Mask Devil Goddess began to inhale softly before saying, "I've already heard of what had happened today and that Lu Qingyun has actually sounded the Great Origin Golden Bell 9 times to become a Shengzi."

Tang Bufan was actually about to ask her why he was unable to ring the Great Origin Golden Bells 9 times and he had only sounded it 3 times before he had coughed out blood and the echoes of the Great Origin Golden Bell had also stopped. 

But the Devil Goddess was even quicker than him as she said, "The reason for your failure is not because you are less talented than Lu Qingyun but because your cultivation core is only recently restored and has yet to heal completely. That is why you can only sound the Great Origin Golden Bell only 3 times. This is a miscalculation on my part. However, your talent is above Lu Qingyun and in no time, you will be the most powerful cultivator in the Heavens Ridge Villa, able to fight even the cultivators with a higher realm cultivation than yourself."

"So, that's why." Tang Bufan realized the reason why now.

But he was also sighing bitterly at the same time as he related, "That vile Qin Keqin had driven out Celestial Bai Laoxiong from the Heavens Ridge Villa and this caused me to Iose an important ally."

The Devil Goddess said, "He isn't important anymore now. What you need to do now is to gather all the dissenters that hate Qin Keqin and Lu Qingyun into your secret banner. Surely you don't want to make their lives comfortable after what they had done to you and had seized your personal glory?"

Tang Bufan replied weakly, "I'll do as my master has just said..."

Although he had just said that, he was still feeling feeling sore that Celestial Bai Laoxiong had flirted with his main consort and he had nothing to gain from this now.

Then he said with great resolve, "Lu Qingyun. Lu Qingyun. You have stolen my position as the Shengzi of the Heavens Ridge Villa and you have stolen Qin Keqin from me. I shall make you pay the price at every corner of the way. As long as I am in the Heavens Ridge Villa, you won't have an easy life in the Heavens Ridge Villa!"