Supreme Master - Chapter 32: The Value of Dignity

Translator – Misty

Chapter 32: The Value of Dignity

In the end, Tan Siru still couldn’t resist the temptation. Gritting her teeth, she summoned a flying sword and stabbed it forward.

Being a Foundation Establishment expert, the spiritual power within her body was extremely strong, naturally making the might of her sword formidable.

Knowing that Gu Qingfeng’s physical body was robust, she didn’t dare to be careless, frantically circulating her spiritual power and swinging her sword.

In her mind, at this moment, Gu Qingfeng was pinned down by Li Sen’s Golden Seven-Star Pagoda and couldn’t move. Her thrusting sword, she believed, would severely cripple, if not kill, Gu Qingfeng.

Just as her sword was about to hit Gu Qingfeng’s back, suddenly, Gu Qingfeng turned around and caught the tip of her sword between two fingers!
Impossible!

Tan Siru was immediately shocked, her expression turned to one of utter horror, and she tried to withdraw her sword and flee!

Crack!

Her flying sword inexplicably broke.

It was snapped.

Without any visible action from Gu Qingfeng, the flying sword was just broken.

This scene was too bizarre and astonishing.

Tan Siru’s expression drastically changed, and without further thought, she leapt up, attempting to escape.

But it was already too late.

Gu Qingfeng, having snapped the flying sword, kicked out swiftly, his foot striking like lightning. Tan Siru couldn’t see it clearly, only feeling a numbness in her chest, her internal energy chaotically surging. The next moment, she was sent flying, landing on the ground, and involuntarily spat out a mouthful of fresh blood.

After Gu Qingfeng kicked Tan Siru away, Li Sen, standing atop the pagoda, couldn’t help but turn pale with fear. He couldn’t understand how Gu Qingfeng, supposedly immobilized by his Golden Seven-Star Pagoda, could still move.

Indeed.

He couldn’t understand.

Unbeknownst to him, the reason Gu Qingfeng hadn’t moved was not because the Golden Seven-Star Pagoda was particularly powerful, but because he found the treasure somewhat familiar, stirring up some memories from his youth, and that was all.

At this moment, he stood tall, holding the Golden Seven-Star Pagoda and exerting force suddenly. With a series of crisp sounds, the brilliance of the pagoda dissipated, and simultaneously, the Golden Seven-Star Pagoda shrank instantly, returning to its original fist-sized form.

“You! How is this possible!”

Lying on the ground, Li Sen stared with wide eyes, unable to stand, trembling all over with fear, his face ashen.

“Who is Guang Yuan to you?”

Gu Qingfeng looked at the Golden Seven-Star Pagoda in his hand. He recognized this magic treasure, and his memories of it were still very clear because he had almost died at the hands of this treasure in his youth.

Back then, when he was a menial worker at the Cloudy Rosy Heaven Sect, he had a conflict with an inner sect disciple named Guang Yuan. They fought fiercely, and the magic treasure Guang Yuan used was this very Golden Seven-Star Pagoda. However, at that time, Guang Yuan couldn’t fully unleash the power of this treasure and was severely beaten by Gu Qingfeng.

But after this incident, Guang Yuan’s master, Elder Jin De, upon learning of it, nearly killed Gu Qingfeng with this same treasure.

To Gu Qingfeng’s surprise, after five hundred years, he never expected that disciples of the Cloudy Rosy Heaven Sect were still using the Golden Seven-Star Pagoda.

“Daoist Master Guang Yuan is my master.”

Hearing Gu Qingfeng mention his master, Li Sen suddenly regained some confidence, stood up, and viciously yelled: “If you know what’s good for you, kneel down now, or my master will surely kill you!”

“Oh? What a coincidence indeed.”

Gu Qingfeng smiled, finding it somewhat ironic.

Back in his days as a menial worker at the Cloudy Rosy Heaven Sect, he had fought with Guang Yuan. Five hundred years later, returning to the Cloudy Rosy Heaven Sect, he unexpectedly encountered a disciple of Guang Yuan. Back then, Guang Yuan used this Golden Seven-Star Pagoda, and five hundred years later, his disciple was still using it.

Indeed, this seemed like a twist of fate!

“Trash! Kneel down!”

Seeing Gu Qingfeng silent, Li Sen thought he was scared. His previous terror instantly vanished, replaced by an overbearing aura.

“Birds of a feather flock together. You and your master are truly of the same stripe!”

With a casual kick, Gu Qingfeng said indifferently: “Go back and tell your master, I’m keeping this thing!”

With that kick, Li Sen didn’t even have the chance to grunt before he fainted.

Over a hundred people at the scene had already been scared out of their wits, all keeping their distance, looking on with eyes filled with fear as if they were witnessing a monster.

Everyone knew that an Anomalous Body resulting from a failed Foundation Establishment would have a robust physical form, but no one had expected it to be this formidable.

So formidable that he defeated outstanding inner sect disciples like Li Sen, Yun Hong, and Ye Hui in a single move.

So formidable that even the Peak-Grade magic treasure, the Golden Seven-Star Pagoda, could do nothing against him.

That was the Golden Seven-Star Pagoda, a treasure of Guang Yuan, the Grand Enforcer, yet Gu Qingfeng effortlessly erased its brilliance with a wave of his hand.

Even more shocking was that a Foundation Establishment expert like Tan Siru couldn’t do anything against him, her flying sword even snapped by him.

If they hadn’t seen it with their own eyes, no one would dare believe it was true.

On the field.

He stood there, hands behind his back, his white robe like snow, his long hair fluttering slightly in the red leaf forest. His handsome face seemed devoid of any emotion, neither sad nor happy, only calm. A calmness like the deep sea, eerily quiet, instilling fear.

At this moment, Tan Siru, holding her broken flying sword, stood there looking disheveled, or more accurately, very afraid.

She didn’t know who this Gu Qingfeng was, nor why he was so formidable.

But one thing she was clear about: she was no match for someone who could easily snap her flying sword and obliterate the Golden Seven-Star Pagoda.

She was scared, very scared.

Afraid because her sneak attack had failed, fearful that this man surnamed Gu would seek revenge.

She wanted to run, but for some reason, her legs wouldn’t respond, as if they had lost all sensation, and she dared not move.

Especially when Gu Qingfeng’s dusky, tranquil eyes stared at her, her soul felt as if it was drying up, her mind plunged into darkness, her body trembling uncontrollably.

Fear!

It was a kind of fear that stemmed from the depths of the soul.

A fear so overwhelming that she couldn’t breathe, so intense that she couldn’t stand, and with a thud, she collapsed to the ground.

“Your dignity, how much is it worth?”

Gu Qingfeng looked at her, his voice especially calm, as if asking a mundane question like whether she had eaten or not. However, when his words reached Tan Siru’s ears, they resonated like profound truths in her mind, shaking her soul.

Not far away, Ouyang Ye stood there, stupefied. She was immobilized, unable to move or speak, but her eyes were wide open. She had seen everything from beginning to end.

She looked at Gu Qingfeng, just looked at him.

Until now, she finally understood why Gu Qingfeng, after beating up the outer sect disciples, still dared to leisurely pick fruits here, and why he didn’t care at all when Li Sen came up the mountain with over a hundred people.

At that time, she thought this guy might be crazy, and later her Senior Sister said he was pretending to be calm.

This moment, she finally realized how wrong she was.

Gu Qingfeng was neither crazy nor pretending to be calm as her Senior Sister had said.

He truly didn’t care, and it truly didn’t matter to him.

From the beginning, he didn’t take this matter to heart, not even a bit. He just did his own thing, kept picking fruits.

When Li Sen came with people, he continued picking.

When Senior Sister said they could handle the situation, Gu Qingfeng said since it could be resolved, he would continue picking fruits.

At that time, Ouyang Ye didn’t understand, but now she knew the real meaning behind Gu Qingfeng’s words. To him, picking fruits was the big deal, while Li Sen… seemed just like a trivial matter. If someone else solved it, good, he could continue picking fruits. If not, he would solve it himself.

Later, when the Senior Sister conveyed Li Sen’s demand, asking him to kneel down.

He said he had no habit of kneeling before others.

Senior Sister sarcastically remarked that his dignity was worthless.

(End of Chapter)