Chapter 1707 — Another Earth-Rank Expert

"Patriarch Yu, you said it yourself — life and death are in the hands of Heaven. I hope you will conduct yourself with some dignity and not break the rules of the Great Assembly of the Great Houses." Qiu Lingshan harbored a deep hatred for Yu Feng as well, so there was no chance she would let Yu Shuixing interfere.

"Little girl Song, do you truly believe that just because you stand at the peak of the late Mystic Rank like this old man, you are entitled to sit as my equal?" Yu Shuixing sneered coldly, fixing Qiu Lingshan with a grim stare. "One look at your technique tells me all I need to know — you only just broke through to the peak of the late Mystic Rank, and your foundation is not yet settled. It would be all too easy for this old man to best you!"

But even as Yu Shuixing spoke those words, Chen Yutian stamped down and snapped Yu Feng's left arm.

Yu Shuixing's heart clenched at the sight, and he threatened once more: "Do not force this old man to destroy the flower with a ruthless hand!"

"Wu Chengtian!" Wei Zhao had also seen that Qiu Lingshan alone was likely no match for Yu Shuixing. Yu Shuixing, after all, was a long-renowned expert at the peak of the late Mystic Rank whose strength had settled years ago, whereas Qiu Lingshan lacked real combat experience and might well suffer a loss at this moment. So Wei Zhao decided to have Wu Chengtian join her in dealing with Yu Shuixing: "Go and help her!"

"Yes, sir!" Wu Chengtian shot up from his wheelchair with a whoosh, and the power of both his internal and external cultivation at the peak of the late Mystic Rank was laid bare for all to see. "One peak late Mystic Rank expert is not enough? Then how about adding one more — a master at the peak of the late Mystic Rank who has cultivated both inner and outer arts?"

Wu Chengtian's strength made everyone present wear expressions of shock once more!

The first two experts at the peak of the late Mystic Rank had already been more than some could bear, and now Wu Chengtian turned out to be a master of both inner and outer arts at the peak of the late Mystic Rank — the whole hall was struck dumb on the spot!

"Ha!" Wu Gonggao rose abruptly to his feet. "Haha, this old man knew it — Chentian would never disappoint me! Hahahahaha, to think he has already become a master of both inner and outer arts at the peak of the late Mystic Rank! The Wu family has nothing to fear hereafter!"

To be fair, Yu Shuixing still felt confident facing a novice like Qiu Lingshan, but against two experts at the peak of the late Mystic Rank, his heart was no longer in it — and one of them, no less, was a master of both inner and outer arts at that very peak?

Qiu Lingshan and Wu Chengtian took their places at Yu Shuixing's left and right, watching him closely. Should he dare make a single false move, they would surely strike at once!

"Crack..." Yu Feng's right arm was snapped by Chen Yutian as well, and Yu Shuixing's mouth twitched at the corner, yet he was utterly helpless. Counting Chen Yutian, there were three experts at the peak of the late Mystic Rank — how could he possibly be their match... unless...

Having broken all four of Yu Feng's limbs, Chen Yutian was still not finished. At last he lashed out with a sudden kick that sent Yu Feng flying — whoosh — straight out the window of the conference room!

This was the very top floor of the Yu family auction house. If Yu Feng flew out the window and fell to the ground, he would surely be smashed to a pulp! Had he been conscious and able to shield himself with true qi, it would have been no matter — but... he was unconscious now, and once he fell, he was as good as dead.

"Xiaofeng...!" Yu Shuixing had never expected Chen Yutian to be so vicious as to kick Yu Feng straight out the window. He wanted to stop it, but it was already too late!

Earlier, when Yu Shuixing had seen Chen Yutian ** Yu Feng, he had assumed the man merely wanted to vent his fury and had no intention of taking his life. After all, to kill Yu Feng first, one need only stamp on his head and the matter would be settled. So though Yu Shuixing was enraged, he was not overly worried — at least Yu Feng's life was not in danger, and while the green hills remain, there is no fear of running out of firewood; a day for revenge would always come.

But who could have imagined Chen Yutian would suddenly do such a thing! What he did not know was that Chen Yutian was simply repaying a man in his own coin — back then, Chen Yutian himself had been kicked out a window in just this way, only not from such a height.

"Wah yah yah yah yah yah! You little wretches seek death!" Yu Shuixing flew into a total rage. He had never thought Chen Yutian would hunt them down to the last. But had he ever stopped to think that back then, he too had wanted Yu Feng to wipe them out root and branch?

Yu Shuixing's eyes went bloodshot. He cast a grief-stricken, furious glance at the shattered window. He knew his son Yu Feng could not possibly survive this time — falling from such a height without true qi to shield him meant certain death!

Yu Shuixing drew a deep breath and swiftly pulled a pill from his breast, tossing it into his mouth. In an instant, the true qi around his whole body surged violently, and from the peak of the late Mystic Rank he shot straight up to the early Earth Rank!

"What! Early Earth Rank?" Chen Kuanglan, Song Xiangwen, and Wu Gonggao were all struck dumb. Never had they seen such a bizarre thing — with a single pill, Yu Shuixing had gone from the peak of the late Mystic Rank straight to the early Earth Rank!

"Hahahaha, you didn't expect that, did you? Since you have killed my son, then everyone present today — every family involved in this — not one of you shall leave alive!" Yu Shuixing seemed to have gone mad, laughing wildly at the sky. "The Chen family, the Song family, the Wu family, the Liu family — all of you, accompany my son in death!"

This was Yu Shuixing's final card, his ultimate weapon! It was a pill that could instantly boost one's strength and potential, but at the cost of burning away one's lifespan — a ** pill refined by the Tomorrow Upon Tomorrow sect. Yu Shuixing had obtained it from the Hidden Yu family, and in the Hidden Yu family no one would ever take such a pill that damaged one's own cultivation, so giving one to Yu Shuixing cost them nothing.

One had to understand that this pill had side effects. An ordinary person who took it could instantly become a Yellow Rank expert; a Yellow Rank expert who took it could become a Mystic Rank expert, and so on. But the price paid was enormous: for an ordinary person to become a Yellow Rank expert cost five years of lifespan, and for a Yellow Rank expert to become a Mystic Rank expert cost ten years! And for a Mystic Rank expert to become an Earth Rank expert, the cost was no less than thirty years of lifespan!

So long as one had not stepped into the Heaven Rank, a ** cultivator's lifespan was still much the same as an ordinary person's — perhaps a little longer, but not by much. Thus, thirty years of lifespan was nothing short of fatal!

How many years are there in a whole human life? A single pill took away thirty of them — and how many thirty-year spans does a person get in all?

And because it was an overdraft of the body's vitality, ordinary people could at least bear it, but a ** cultivator who took it would, once the pill's effect faded, actually drop in rank — depending on how much had been overdrawn, by as much as from the Mystic Rank down to the early Yellow Rank!

With side effects so severe, how could anyone in the Hidden Yu family possibly take it themselves?

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