nycdaug Chapter 415 Two-Person Competition 4
Chapter 415 Two-Person Competition 4
Kong Muqing just stood there, seemingly lost in her own world.
The shouts outside sounded as if they were coming through frosted glass, making them difficult to hear clearly.
He slowly sat down, facing death under the watchful eyes of everyone.
From the very beginning, this was a carefully designed trap to kill him, intended for him to witness his death in front of everyone.
Kong Yulan knew he couldn't escape, and wouldn't escape!
Upon seeing this, the Wuji Sect elder's anxious heart was instantly cooled down as if doused with a bucket of ice water.
The space inside the barrier, which had been in chaos due to the forceful intrusion of external forces, calmed down.
Immortal Lord Qingyang looked apologetically at the elder of the Wuji Sect; he had done his best!
Looking at his disciple who calmly accepted his death, Wuji Zong was filled with mixed emotions, and he slowly sighed.
The Peacock Form and Art did not show any mercy to the opponent just because they shared the same origin.
The most terrifying thing about the Dao Poison is that it can betray your hard-earned cultivation strength in an instant, and this betrayal is unsolvable.
The backlash from the cultivation technique means your internal strength is no longer your reliance, but rather a continuous stream of venom that corrodes your body, talent, strength, and everything else.
This kind of betrayal, stemming from the very essence of things, is utterly devastating for any cultivator.
Considering Kong Muqing's background, the elders of the Wuji Sect could understand Kong Muqing's choice at this moment.
In nature, monsters often pour the most resources into the strongest children, while ignoring the lives of the weaker ones.
Kong Muqing's family is like this.
Not all twins are fortunate enough to have the same equal strength and talent as Miyagi Miyagi, complementing each other perfectly.
More often, it is the gifted children who receive the majority of nutrition while still in the womb, like the Kong Muqing brothers.
Kong Muqing, the older brother, was born strong and fair-skinned, and his future brilliance was evident to the naked eye.
When placed next to his older brother, Kong Yulan, the younger brother is as inconspicuous as the Ugly Duckling.
Kong Muqing's parents poured all their expectations and energy into this gifted child.
Fortunately, both husband and wife were powerful beings at the Nascent Soul stage. Although they didn't care much about their younger brother, they were still generous in hiring someone to take care of him.
The two brothers grew up in the same house but in completely different environments.
The elder brother, Kong Muqing, is flamboyant and dazzling, as if he were favored by heaven, while the younger brother, Kong Yulan, is low-key and ordinary, unremarkable and commonplace.
Even on the eve of becoming a disciple of the Wuji Sect, Kong Muqing learned that she had a twin brother.
Kong Muqing possessed a purple-level talent, which garnered attention from the entire Wuji Sect upon her entry. In contrast, Kong Yulan's talent was only average, barely meeting the Wuji Sect's admission requirements.
Kong Muqing's parents wanted the elders who came to visit to accept Kong Yulan into the Wuji Sect out of respect for Kong Muqing.
After Kong Muqing entered the Wuji Sect, he was taken in by a powerful expert at the Dao Integration Realm. This expert later broke through to the Tribulation Transcending Realm and became one of the Supreme Elders of the Wuji Sect.
Kong Yulan also received a spot as an inner disciple because of her brother.
However, his situation was not much better because he had a gifted older brother in the sect. The inner disciples of Wuji Sect were geniuses among geniuses, even by outside standards. Someone like him, who had connections, simply couldn't keep up with the progress of these disciples.
These disciples broke through one by one, while he was still stuck in the Qi Refining stage while he was in the Foundation Establishment stage. Even if he cultivated desperately and successfully established his foundation, his fellow disciples from the same period had already broken through to the Golden Core stage, and he was still the one who was left behind.
The elders in charge of the inner disciples gradually stopped paying attention to this lagging disciple. Apart from the quota of inner disciples of the Wuji Sect, it was difficult for Kong Yulan to obtain additional resources.
Sixty years ago, an inner disciple at the Golden Core stage attacked a Nascent Soul stage disciple.
The Nascent Soul stage disciple was highly skilled and suffered no injuries, but his master was furious and demanded that the disciple be severely punished.
This incident led to another scandal, in which the elder of the Wuji Sect was one of the witnesses.
Kong Muqing's parents were never kind in asking Kong Yulan to join the Wuji Sect. In their eyes, Kong Yulan was just a blood donation bag for Kong Muqing, and he didn't deserve any resources.
Therefore, they controlled and forced Kong Yulan to hand over all the resources she could obtain. They never used these resources, but instead gave them all to Kong Muqing, even though Kong Muqing didn't really need them.
They are of average talent and are eager to raise a powerful child to grow up, continue their bloodline, and help them break through their cultivation levels.
Kong Muqing was the perfect embodiment of their expectations, and they believed they could give everything for her.
When this matter came to light, the entire sect was shocked. All the disciples couldn't understand why a direct disciple would covet the allowance of an inner disciple. They also couldn't understand why there would be such biased parents.
Kong Muqing, this spoiled, selfish, and arrogant fellow, suddenly realized that everything he enjoyed was not without a price.
His parents' upbringing and doting on him, and his powerful master taking him as a disciple, were all based on his extraordinary talent. Without that talent, he would be nothing.
At this moment, these two brothers, who should have been the closest of friends, stood at completely different crossroads, reflecting each other like mirror images.
Like two sides of the same coin, they are so familiar to each other, yet so strange to each other.
No one knows about Kong Muqing's breakdown and the shattered and rebuilt values.
Kong Yulan's actions were truly heinous; she openly attacked a fellow disciple within the sect, and this disciple was a core member at that.
If Kong Muqing hadn't been so powerful and hadn't fallen into a trap, who knows what serious consequences would have occurred.
If everyone imitates Kong Yulan, wouldn't the Wuji Sect be in chaos?
The Wuji Sect has always been straightforward. If someone has been wronged, they can report it to the Enforcement Hall. Even if it is a direct disciple, wouldn't the Wuji Sect's Enforcement Hall stand up for him?
From the moment he launched his attack, it became clear that the Wuji Sect had no place for such a disciple with impure intentions.
The specific punishment was left to Kong Muqing's master by the Enforcement Hall. Regardless of the punishment, Kong Yulan would ultimately face only one outcome: expulsion from the sect.
Kong Muqing took out all the resources she had received from her parents over the years and returned them to Kong Yulan.
He knelt down and begged his master to spare Kong Yulan's life.
Kong Muqing's master initially refused, after all, at his level of cultivation, he already felt that he was approaching the age of fifty.
He had a very bad feeling about Kong Yulan, especially since they were twin brothers.
He's got guts; the life-or-death ordeal that his disciple faced should have fallen on this brother.
But Kong Muqing's master couldn't resist her persistent pleas and softened his heart.
Ultimately, the Wuji Sect's punishment for Kong Yulan was exile to the God-Demon Battlefield.
No matter how much Kong Muqing pleaded, he couldn't get his master to change his mind; this was already the biggest concession he could make to Kong Yulan.
His feeling was right; years later, Kong Yulan made a comeback.
Under the watchful eyes of everyone, they meticulously planned this deadly trap, delivering a fatal blow!
Even though the two brothers didn't have much contact before, Kong Yulan was the one who understood Kong Muqing the most!
In the blink of an eye, the barrier that had been able to firmly prevent the intervention of the Mahayana Immortal Lords outside disappeared.
The peacock-shaped ritual object vanished after its master's death, leaving only two corpses in the arena.
"Ah, it's raining!" Cheng Jiu reached out and caught the sudden downpour.
A figure appeared above the arena, having traversed millions of miles. He said nothing, but simply standing there evoked a deep sorrow in everyone.
The tall, shrewd figure couldn't help but bend slightly at this moment.
It was Master Kong Muqing who rushed over after hearing the news of his disciple's death.
Kong Muqing's condition at this moment was far from dignified; his body was riddled with bloody holes from the backlash of Xingyi, showing both ruthlessness and mercilessness.
He bent down and gently picked up the corpse from the ground, not caring at all that the filthy bloodstains on the body had stained his clothes.
A heart-wrenching wail rang out in the arena: "My son!"
A very elegantly dressed couple rushed into the arena, their figures moving without hesitation, directly bypassing another corpse in the arena.
They simply cannot accept that their son, whom they disliked, had plotted against their beloved son in full view of everyone.
Master Kong Muqing held his apprentice's body and glanced at the couple. What a look that was!
Kong Muqing's parents fell silent instantly under that gaze, not daring to utter a single sob, but simply huddled together, trying to draw courage from each other.
Kong Muqing's master left without looking back, and Kong Muqing's parents left without lingering after seeing their son's body being taken away.
As for his other son in the ring, he lay alone on the ring, ignored by everyone.
Qin Che covered his still-bleeding eye, but his gaze was involuntarily drawn to the gleam on Kong Muqing's drooping fingers.
"Senior Brother Qin Che, your injury!" Cheng Jiu stepped forward and handed over the medicine.
Qin Che's main injury was to his eyes, but fortunately, he had not cultivated any techniques related to the eyes, so this kind of injury was very easy to heal in the cultivation world.
"Okay!" Qin Che tilted his head back and swallowed the pill. His empty eyes were filled with a mixture of pain and warmth. Qin Che took the white cloth that Cheng Jiu had given him and simply wrapped it around his injured eyes twice.
Gongcheng looked at Qin Che's injured eyes and sighed, "What an undeserved disaster!"
"The ring he's wearing is the one we argued about!" Qin Che blurted out abruptly.
"What?" Cheng Jiu and the others asked instinctively.
"That ring! The one that Kong Muqing and I fought over!" Qin Che felt a surge of anger when he thought of it.
He lost a huge amount of spirit stones by buying a bunch of useless things. Kong Muqing is really both despicable and arrogant.
If it were just a fair bidding process, Qin Che wouldn't be so bothered, but that guy is different; he set up a trap!
That ring, if considered as a high-level spiritual artifact, was undoubtedly a failure. Apart from its high grade, it only had the effect of gathering spiritual energy, making it a prime example of being flashy but impractical.
But what it possesses is that gem, the mermaid's tear, a treasure spirit that is almost extinct in the cultivation world, the deepest tear of the sea, a treasure that only appears during the once-in-a-millennium lunar tide!
Legend has it that a powerful cultivator once had a wonderful encounter with a fish-woman by the sea. This gemstone was a token of their love given to them by the fish-woman. On a full moon night, the lover saw the treasures of the sea through the gemstone.
The lover went without hesitation, following the call of the sea. Years passed, and no trace of him returned. So long that the fish woman went to another man, so long that she married and had children.
He had just returned from the depths of the sea, where he had obtained countless rare and precious treasures. His former lover had long since left him, and he now had a son and a daughter to enjoy his company.
Seeing his lover nestled happily in another's arms, Da Neng shed tears.
Although the mermaid's tears had already dissipated when he arrived at the treasure's location, he named the gem "Mermaid's Tears" in memory of this dead love.
Well, because he was the first discoverer, and the name "Tears of the Mermaid" was dreamy and beautiful, so it was decided.
Later, when searching for the Mermaid's Tears, they found that they were extremely rare. They searched the entire coastline where the Mermaid lived, but they could not find a second one.
The powerful woman inquired with the original owner of the gemstone. The fish woman recalled that it appeared on the beach on a rare tidal night. She thought it was beautiful and took it home to keep.
Such a beautiful gemstone has no other use, and apart from girls like the Pisces who love beautiful gemstones, no one would specifically seek it out.
The powerful figure invited his friends from the Heavenly Mystery Sect to calculate the value of the gem. Only then did they realize that his acquisition of this gem was truly a stroke of luck, a combination of perfect timing, location, and people. This kind of gem only appears during the lunar tide, a rare occurrence that happens only once every ten thousand years, and the next lunar tide will not occur for another ten thousand years.
Without any evidence, and with no other parties involved besides the powerful being, the story has been passed down as a legend, and no one can verify its authenticity.
Until another ten thousand years later, a genius disciple from the Dragon Abyss Sect heard this story and never forgot it.
He and several friends from the same clan arrived at the village where the fish-woman in the story lived before the arrival of the lunar tide. The group spent several days successfully finding the fish-woman's tears described in the story among tens of thousands of various stones during the lunar tide.
With the help of the full moon, they glimpsed a path to the treasure. They set sail and, guided by the Tears of the Mermaid, successfully found the treasure.
The Tears of the Fish Woman became an instant sensation in the cultivation world. Every night of the moon's tide, countless cultivators would rush to the seaside, dreaming of becoming rich overnight.
All descriptions of the Mermaid's Tears portray it as as moving as a pool of living seawater, with the emphasis on "living seawater." It's hard to imagine the descriptions given by those who once possessed it.
Therefore, when Qin Che first saw the ring, he was not sure how anyone could use the precious Tear of the Mermaid as an ordinary gemstone to make a ring. It was simply a waste of a precious gem.
But after he and Huo Yan observed and compared the two from various angles, they discovered that it might really be the tears of the fish woman, and the two of them immediately became excited.
The owner of the building couldn't believe that someone would actually make a ring out of the precious Mermaid's Tears and display it as a sample. The price wasn't high; it was just based on the ring's quality.
When it came time to pay, Kong Muqing intervened, paid first, and pocketed the ring right in front of Qin Che and Huo Yan.
What they coveted was snatched away right under their noses!
The other party showed no remorse whatsoever, and Qin Che immediately exploded!