Fang Qi saw few guards in the city, but it was very safe to walk around as its security level was high; he didn't see anyone who dared to fight inside the city.

Taiw.a.n.g Inn in the city was especially established to receive the people who were here for the Heavenly Academy and their groups and let them rest. Of course, there were different sections in Taiw.a.n.g Inn. The inner section received geniuses from super forces, and the outer section was where Mr. Fang was staying right now.

However, even the ground of the outer inn was paved with jade-like white stones, and the pillars were made of mystical bronze. Beautifully engraved pavilions and corridors were everywhere. With crowds of young cultivators of excellent talents walking around, it definitely was not an ordinary inn.

Li Wuya, the elder who had lost one warm, simply bandaged his wound. Although it wasn't difficult for cultivators in Spirit State to attach a broken arm back to the shoulder, he still needed a long while to heal the injury.

This was why they chose to stay in this inn.

"The Heavenly Academy is indeed rich…" Mr. Fang said in surprise, "You just did the registration, and we can now all stay here?"

After all, these visitors were not the academy's official disciples until they pa.s.sed the exam.

Li Lanruo said, "The Heavenly Academy's grandeur is indeed beyond the imagination of my small family."

"It's said that someone saw that cultivator of the Xun Family." In the long corridor, some pa.s.sing cultivators talked among themselves as if no one were around. "He is said to have been born with a spiritual core, and his innate purple qi repels all evil. I'm surprised that he is also staying here in the Taiw.a.n.g Inn."

"Besides the Xun Family, I even heard that Nangong Zhuo of the Heaven-Seeking Sword Palace is staying in the Taiw.a.n.g Inn."

"Heaven-Seeking Sword Palace? The Nangong Family of Heaven-Seeking Sword Palace is always proud of their unique ancient Sword Dao. It's said that when Nangong Zhuo was born, colorful auspicious clouds filled the sky, and sword spirit came down from Heaven and turned into a sword ball to guard him. With his unprecedented talent in the Sword Dao, he had mastered all the sword techniques of the Heaven-Seeking Sword Palace when he was ten. He's the Sword Son of the younger generation of the Heaven-Seeking Sword Palace; I wonder why he wants to come to the Heavenly Academy."

"You don't understand," another said, "The Heavenly Academy can teach all kinds of talented people. Even the fifth palace master of Heaven-Seeking Sword Palace once studied in Heavenly Academy. He is just following the example set by his ancestor."

"Look over there! How come there's such a big crowd over there?" they exclaimed when they saw people packing the corridor at the entrance of the inn; they couldn't see who was entering the inn at all.

"It's w.a.n.g Xie?! Another big figure!" someone yelled in astonishment. 

Curious, Mr. Fang walked over and asked someone nearby, "Is this w.a.n.g Xie very famous?"

"You don't know him?" The man looked at Fang Qi as if he were a weirdo.

"… Ugh. Is it strange that I don't know him?" Fang Qi asked.

The cultivator said in disdain, "Brother, have you stayed inside ever since you were born? You don't even know about w.a.n.g Xie?"

"If there's a list of the ultimate geniuses in the younger generation of the world, w.a.n.g Xie must rank among the top ten!

"It only shows his strength ten years ago. Now that he has obtained that item from the Fortune Golden Palace, he can rank among the top three."

Fang Qi was about to ask more questions when someone pulled at his robe.

He looked back and saw it was Li Lanruo; she had embarra.s.sment written on her face.

"Guild President… I'll tell you that after we get back…"

It felt as embarra.s.sing as asking football fans about Beckham or asking basketball fans who Jordan was.

However, Mr. Fang really knew nothing about them.

When those cultivators walked away, Fang Qi asked, "What is the Fortune Golden Palace? Is it very famous?"

"…" Li Lanruo couldn't understand him, wondering where this senior came from and why he didn't even know Fortune Golden Palace. She gave him a short explanation, "w.a.n.g Xie used to rank around the tenth place in the younger generation between the big families; the people ranked above him were geniuses from families such as Nangong and Xun since the latter were born with great fortune and are surrounded with many grandmasters and rare treasures."

"However, after acquiring a great treasure from the Fortune Golden Palace, w.a.n.g Xie had surpa.s.sed the geniuses born with great fortune and ranks among the first three. Do you understand now?"

She added, "The Mystic Fate Jade in my body also came from the Fortune Golden Palace. I got it by chance, but it even drew the attention of huge forces such as Nangong Family, and they are trying to hunt me down…"

"Your trash treasure came from that place..." Mr. Fang waved his hand. "Forget it."

Li Lanruo's pretty face turned dark and she felt like spitting blood. If the others heard of her treasure, they would come after her with greedy eyes, but this man kept saying that her treasure was tras.h.!.+

If he was someone else, she would think that he was pretending to be disinterested. But after witnessing Fang Qi breaking the Immortal-Hacking Sword Array of the Heaven-Seeking Sword Palace, she knew that he was telling the truth and put her speculations away.

At this moment, Mr. Fang turned and murmured to himself, "From the looks of it, the people entering the Heavenly Academy are all powerful; will Xiaoyue be bullied?"

Forget it. I'll think of it when the time comes… Mr. Fang said, "You guys stay here; I'll go and buy a shop."

…

Meanwhile, at the edge of the Heavenly Abyss Sea, there were some remains of a spiritual boat on the ground.

Several cultivators wearing white robes with patterns of golden sword clouds landed from the sky.

The leader was a gloomy-eyed old man with white hair and a white beard.

"Second Elder, this is the Li Family's spiritual boat," a cultivator reported, "It seems that someone hacked it open with a sword. I think it was a sword ball that broke it."

"Where are the people of the Li Family?!" the old man asked in a cold voice, "Where's Nangong Jiuwen?! His life token was broken… where is his body?!"

"We can't find any bodies around this place," another cultivator reported, "There's some disordered spiritual essence in the air, and we think it is caused by a battle."

"Do you think that I can't find you just because you destroyed the corpses?!" the silver-haired old man snorted, "Wherever you go, my Nangong Family will get the Mystic Fate Jade sooner or later!"

Sharp glints flashed in his eyes, and he soon created several extremely mysterious spiritual seals with both hands one after another.

The spiritual essence moved in the sky, and the disordered spiritual essence in the air was straightened up.

A mysterious scene appeared in the sky; Nangong Jiuwen surrounded a young man who was wearing a blue and white robe with 100 cultivators of the Heaven-Seeking Sword Palace.

"Immortal-Hacking Sword Array?! Who was this man that forced them to use the Immortal-Hacking Sword Array?!"

Then, everyone saw the figure make a mocking gesture with a hooked finger just before the Immortal-Hacking Sword Array enveloped him. However, that figure who was engulfed with the terrifying power of the dragon-shaped sword light reappeared intact in the next instant, but the Immortal-Hacking Sword Array immediately collapsed!

"Puchi!" With a vicious face, the silver-haired old man spat out a mouthful of blood, and the images in the sky disappeared.

"Good! Good! Good!" Disheveled, his face was as vicious and distorted as a ghost's while he said 'good' three times. "He dared to slaughter the Nangong Family Execution Hall Master and 100 elites! Whoever you are, you will be hunt down and killed by the sword slave of my Heaven-Seeking Sword Palace from now on!"