Supreme Master - Chapter 25: Beaten

Translator – Misty

Chapter 25: Beaten

As the sun set behind the western mountains…

After a busy afternoon, having planted the entire acre of spirit fields, he finally left.

As for the worries Ouyang Ye had, he didn’t take them to heart at all. Instead, it was the little girl’s display of concern that gave Gu Qingfeng a sense of deja vu. To be precise, the words of Little Sister Ouyang Ye that afternoon had left a deep impression on him.

Back in the day, when he was a menial worker at the Cloudy Rosy Heaven Sect, he had fallen for a senior sister. He had spent a great deal of effort to win her over, but sadly, at that time, he was just a menial worker, while that senior sister, like Ouyang Ye, was an Inner Sect Disciple of the Cloudy Rosy Heaven Sect.

When their relationship was discovered, the backlash was predictable. The entire sect, from the disciples to the elders, opposed it, ridiculing and mocking him, memories that were still vivid in his mind.

Although the young Gu Qingfeng was defiant and persisted in the face of opposition, he unfortunately had nothing then – no status, no position, and no cultivation. Eventually, to avoid further complicating his senior sister’s life, he left with resentment in his heart.

He still remembered her name – Hong Xiu.

It was his first love.

Later, he returned to search for her, only to learn that Senior Sister Hong Xiu had married someone else. Since then, Gu Qingfeng never inquired about her again.

Now, five hundred years later, returning to the Cloudy Rosy Heaven Sect, he once again encountered a situation reminiscent of those days. Although this was initially just to help Little Sister Ouyang Ye and wasn’t genuine, her words in the afternoon had truly moved him.

Shaking his head and sighing, he chose not to dwell on it further.

When he returned to the Hidden Spirit Garden in the back mountain by evening, he found that Elder Huo De was nowhere to be seen all day. With nothing else to do, Gu Qingfeng started to meditate in peace.

After being judged by the Heavenly Dao, his Dao foundation was destroyed, his cultivation completely dispersed, and his throne taken. This meant his supreme body of immortal-demon had reverted back to a mere mortal body.

If he wanted to cultivate again, there was only one path – to establish his foundation anew.

For Gu Qingfeng, Foundation Establishment was not difficult. Although he had been reverted to his original state and lost everything, his body had been tempered by the Ancestral Fire of the Nine Serenities. The Heavenly Dao might have reverted his supreme immortal-demon body back to a mortal one, but it could not destroy the Nine Serenities bloodline within him.

Relying on the Nine Serenities bloodline and his five hundred years of cultivation experience, re-establishing his foundation was as easy as flipping his hand.

Over the past few days, Gu Qingfeng’s weakened soul and body gradually recovered. He didn’t need to deliberately breathe and expel air because every pore in his body acted as a dantian, autonomously absorbing the spiritual energy between heaven and earth every moment.

With the continuous influx of spiritual energy entering his body through the pores, nourishing his internal organs and meridians, his spiritual power in the meridians flowed like rivers within a few days of arriving at the Cloudy Rosy Heaven Sect.

He meditated like this for the whole night.

The next morning, as the sun rose, Gu Qingfeng realized that Elder Huo De still hadn’t returned.

“Elder Huo De really doesn’t care, it seems. After hundreds of years, I finally return to catch up with him, and he’s playing hide and seek with me.”

Gu Qingfeng didn’t know where Elder Huo De had gone, and was too lazy to look for him. Luckily, the elder had a private stash of fine wines.

After getting up in the morning and freshening up, he took two jars of wine from Elder Huo De’s secret chamber and sat in the courtyard to enjoy the sun.

“Elder Huo De is also a connoisseur of wine, but he should have stashed some better wines.”

Gu Qingfeng loved drinking and had never stopped since his youth. He had tasted almost every drinkable wine from this world to the Heavenly Realm. The one that lingered in his memory the most was the ‘Reincarnation Drink’ he won from the Old Demon of Black Sun in the Nine Serenities. A single drink of it was like experiencing a whole cycle of reincarnation, utterly exhilarating.

“I remember the recipe for the Re

incarnation Drunk from the Old Demon of Black Sun, but the ingredients listed in the recipe are not easy to find…”

Gu Qingfeng pondered the possibility of brewing some wine himself. Even if he couldn’t replicate the exact Reincarnation Drink of the Old Demon of Black Sun, he thought of brewing a similar variant.

As he was lost in these thoughts, Wang Dashan suddenly rushed in, looking hurried with red eyes and holding his cheek. Upon seeing Gu Qingfeng, he called out “Young Master” and then hurried inside.

“Dashan, what happened to you?”

“Not– nothing…”

Wang Dashan, with his back to Gu Qingfeng, seemed somewhat evasive.

Gu Qingfeng approached and asked, “You seem to have cried… What’s the matter?”

“Young Master, I… I’m fine…”

“What happened to your face?”

Gu Qingfeng pried open Wang Dashan’s hand and saw his face. His eyebrows furrowed deeply. Dashan’s right cheek was swollen and red, marked with a bloody handprint, and there was a trace of blood at the corner of his mouth.

“You went to the spirit fields, didn’t you? Who beat you so cruelly?”

“Young Master, I’m really fine, please don’t ask anymore…”

Wang Dashan, covering his face and looking down, didn’t dare to meet Gu Qingfeng’s gaze.

“What exactly happened?” Gu Qingfeng, sensing something amiss from Wang Dashan’s evasive eyes, asked, “Is it related to me?” Seeing Wang Dashan’s silence, Gu Qingfeng continued, “You might as well tell me. If you don’t, I’ll find out anyway when I go to the spirit fields.”

Hearing that Gu Qingfeng intended to visit the spirit fields, Wang Dashan hurriedly said, “Young Master, you can’t go!”

“Oh? So, it is because of me…” Gu Qingfeng could guess the gist, “I’ll go have a look at the spirit fields.”

“Young Master, please don’t go. Senior Sister Ouyang Ye asked you not to!”

Hearing Ouyang Ye’s name, Gu Qingfeng almost understood the situation. He fetched some ointment from the garden’s pharmacy and began treating Wang Dashan’s cheek wound, asking as he did so, “What exactly happened?”

“It’s like this… this morning, I… I was harvesting in the spirit fields, and several Outer Sect brothers, without a word, dug up the seeds you planted yesterday. I… I couldn’t stand by, so I said something… and they… they beat me up. Later… Senior Sister Ouyang Ye somehow found out about this… She told me to come back first and insisted that I shouldn’t tell you. She said she would handle it.”

“A bunch of little brats, still wet behind the ears, yet daring to be so ruthless.”

After bandaging Wang Dashan’s wound, Gu Qingfeng stood up and said, “Let’s go to the spirit fields and see.”

Wang Dashan, with a worried face, said, “Young Master, please… don’t go!”

Gu Qingfeng finished his wine in one gulp, speaking indifferently, “Destroying my spirit fields is a minor matter; I don’t care about that. But that slap you took was on my behalf, and I absolutely cannot let that go.”

He then stuffed the wine jar into his storage bag, his expression unreadable. Fastening the buttons of his robe one by one, he spoke coldly.

“There’s one thing in life I can’t tolerate, and that’s someone getting hurt because of me. I couldn’t tolerate it as a child, nor as an adult; not in the past, not in the future. This is a principle I live by, my fundamental bottom line.”

“Young Master, let it be… They are all Outer Sect disciples of the Cloudy Rosy Heaven Sect, we… we can’t afford to provoke them! Let it go…”

“A few little brats, nothing more. It doesn’t matter if they are disciples of the Cloudy Rosy Heaven Sect, or if they are immortals or demons. Even if the Heavenly Lord himself slapped you because of me, I would still seek justice for you!”

“Let’s go!”

(End of Chapter)