Chapter 27: My Young Master Is Fading Away

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Chu Tianchen accepted the outer-court token of Cloudsea Academy, then turned and walked back toward Ye Nishang. He was about to speak when she turned and left without a word.

“Keep that power hidden once you enter Cloudsea Academy.”

“The people here are far more complicated than you imagine.”

Ye Nishang’s voice reached him through a transmission of vital energy.

Once he had calmed down, Chu Tianchen realized that he had indeed acted recklessly this time.

He understood what Ye Nishang meant. When he had experienced the power of the Earthly Immortal realm earlier, he had also sensed that Cloudsea Academy concealed quite a few powerful figures. Those experts were certainly not all from the Great Qian Imperial City. Some had come from the Greater World.

And he was currently only at the second level of the Meridian Opening realm, without the backing of the Duke Protector-General’s Estate.

Then there was that remark Liu Qingfeng had made earlier:

“You really don’t know why he has managed to survive until now?”

Those words clearly concealed another meaning.

So why had he been allowed to live? Was it truly because his grandfather had sealed his cultivation for five years, making the Human Emperor believe that he was merely an idiot whose life or death did not matter?

Or did they have some other use for him?

In any case, from now on, he had to exercise caution in everything he did.

He stored away the outer-court token and was about to return to the Auspicious Inn.

“Chu Tianchen, stop!”

“You want to leave without apologizing to me?”

Liu Qingxin shouted angrily.

“Liu Qingxin, my Chu family has no grudge against your Liu family. If something like this happens again, I will drag you down with me even if it costs me my life.”

“If you don’t believe me, you can try.”

With that, Chu Tianchen left without looking back.

The aura of Liu Qingxin’s Divine Connection realm erupted in an instant, but this time Liu Qingfeng forcibly held her back.

“Qingxin, if you keep making trouble, I’ll tell Father.”

“Did you truly feel no danger just now?”

“That old bastard Chu Qingcang must have left him something to save his life,” Liu Qingfeng said in a low voice.

Only then did Liu Qingxin stop pursuing him.

“Besides, haven’t you always wanted to go to the Greater World? Then focus on your cultivation instead of wasting your time on such things.”

Liu Qingfeng looked at the ruins of statues scattered across the ground and continued scolding her.

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“And as for Chu Tianchen, although his mind has recovered, he is still nothing more than a useless second-level Meridian Opening cultivator. The Human Emperor and Father must have their reasons for keeping him alive. Listen carefully: you may attack him so long as you can guarantee your own safety. You may even cripple him, but you absolutely must not kill him.”

“Cloudsea Academy is no longer the academy it once was. The competition for the next headmaster is also intense. We must have the imperial family’s support if Father is to remain in the position.”

“You’re not young anymore. Look at Lin Yurou of Youhuang Ancient City. She found herself a genius at the Heavenly Dipper realm. Would anyone still worry about reaching the Greater World after that? Now, throughout the Great Qian Empire, how many forces would dare provoke Youhuang Ancient City? You are no worse than Lin Yurou in either appearance or talent. Can’t you grow up a little?”

“Do you know how many years of struggle you could save by finding yourself a genius husband like that?”

Liu Qingfeng continued grumbling and berating her.

Afterward, he hurried after Ye Nishang.

“Miss Nishang, wait! If you are willing to join the Liu Sect, name your price.”

“If the position of vice sect master is beneath you, I can give you my position as sect master.”

Liu Qingfeng shouted as he ran.

The people nearby stared at him in stunned disbelief.

However, once Ye Nishang sensed someone pursuing her, her figure blurred. In the span of a few breaths, she had entered Cloudsea Academy and quickly vanished from sight.

Liu Qingfeng was left standing there alone, awkward and embarrassed.

“Ye Nishang, Ye Nishang… You may indeed come from the Greater World, but you should understand that this is Cloudsea Academy.”

“Even if you’re a dragon, you have to coil up here.”

“No woman I, Liu Qingfeng, have set my sights on has ever managed to escape me,” he said coldly to himself.

After being reprimanded by her brother, Liu Qingxin was even more depressed.

She herself wanted to know why Lin Yurou could find an unparalleled man like Yin Taixu, while she was inferior to Lin Yurou in no respect at all.

And today, she had actually been humiliated in front of Chu Tianchen.

“What was that power that surged from the idiot just now? Could it have been a hidden weapon left to him by Chu Qingcang?”

“The Chu family really is full of schemers.”

“But my brother is right. The Human Emperor forbade me from killing you, but he never said I couldn’t teach you a lesson. Once you enter Cloudsea Academy, I’ll have a hundred ways to make you kneel.”

“Wait… Although the Chu family was dispossessed, they must still possess quite a few treasures and resources. Especially that old woman—she actually has cultivation at the Heavenly Dipper realm. It seems I need to investigate where she and those two little girls are hiding.”

Liu Qingxin spoke these words inwardly.

Clearly, she had not taken Chu Tianchen’s warning seriously at all.

She was even thinking of targeting his grandmother.

Had Chu Tianchen known what she was planning, not even her father would have been able to protect her.

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Elsewhere.

Chu Tianchen soon returned to the Auspicious Inn. The moment he entered his room, he spat out a mouthful of blood.

Liu Qingxin’s attack had inflicted severe injuries on him after all.

He hurriedly took out some medicinal ingredients, prepared a healing elixir, and swallowed it.

Then he sat cross-legged and activated the Nine Dragons Devouring Heaven Art, rapidly absorbing the elixir.

Before long, his injuries began to recover at a speed visible to the naked eye.

During the healing process, Chu Tianchen also discovered that—whether because of his bloodline or because some of that newly born power still remained within his body—his ability to heal himself was extraordinarily strong.

Even without the healing elixir, his injuries would have completely recovered within three days at most.

Now that he had obtained Cloudsea Academy’s outer-court token, he would enter the academy and begin cultivating in a week.

But this did not surprise him much. The outer court of Cloudsea Academy was merely a stepping stone.

The inner court of Cloudsea, however, greatly interested him.

An ancient academy with a thousand years of heritage naturally possessed an impressive foundation.

Moreover, Chu Tianchen had never expected to encounter Ye Nishang here.

“So her surname is Ye.”

“That day in the Four Directions Forest, I heard someone call her Princess Nishang. It seems her identity and background are far from ordinary.”

“And she seems to know what kind of power is contained within my ancient ring.”

Chu Tianchen thought to himself.

She was the first woman in his life. Though he had been forced into that relationship, she had nevertheless been his first, and her image often surfaced in his mind.

Especially every morning, when he awoke at the peak of his vitality.

“Master Tianchen, please come quickly and see what has happened to my young master!”

“He seems to be dying.”

Chu Tianchen had been thinking about the events in the Four Directions Forest when Ling Ying’s voice suddenly interrupted him.

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