Son-in-law Heaven Emperor Xiao Yi

Tianqi Martial Arts Academy.

The back mountain, waterfall.

Whoosh!

Streams of water cascaded down from the summit, striking the surface of the lake with a thunderous roar.

Within that waterfall...

Xiao Yi's body was bathed in a faint milky white glow, which coalesced into a spherical shield, keeping the droplets of water at bay. Between his hands, there was a grain-of-rice-sized yellow light that turned into a yellow stream, merging into his body.

Boom!

Xiao Yi's body shuddered as his aura surged, reaching the Seventh Layer of the Divine Passage Realm.

But his cultivation did not end there, as the vast primordial energy within his body poured into the God Sealing Seed, activating one after another.

From one thousand, it rose to fourteen hundred and fifty.

The torrential power of the God Sealing Seeds fed back into his body, and Xiao Yi finally exhaled a murky breath, ceasing his cultivation with a brilliant smile on his face, "Just as I expected, sharing that Golden Core with Qingzhu expended too much energy, and fully refining it only allowed me to step into the Seventh Layer of the Divine Passage Realm. However, with my current strength, even a master of the Divine Power Realm Tenth Layer is no match for a single punch of mine. Even peak Divine Skills practitioners can be challenged in battle!"

In the midst of speaking.

Xiao Yi launched a punch forward.

The third-grade advanced martial skill, Vajra Fist, was as powerful and unyielding as a vajra.

Boom!

The waterfall in front was blasted open with a large hole, which did not close even after Xiao Yi walked through it and left the lake.

This Vajra Fist was a set of fist techniques Xiao Yi had found in the Scripture Pavilion of Tianqi Martial Arts Academy, along with a sword technique called Four Seasons Swordplay and a movement technique called Falling Leaves Mystical Step. Over the past twenty days, he had not only broken through to the Seventh Layer of the Divine Passage Realm but had also cultivated these fist, sword, and movement techniques to a state of perfection.

Xiao Yi made his way back to his courtyard.

The Tianqi Martial Arts Academy was sparsely populated, but there were many courtyards, and the one they resided in was previously owned by the Vice Dean of the academy.

Fang Qingzhu could now walk on the ground, but since Zhou Yuan's finger had injured her internal organs, it was not advisable for her to practice cultivation for the time being. When Xiao Yi returned, the table was already set with a lavish meal, and Fang Qingzhu rested her cheeks in her hands, fixated on the doorway.

As soon as she saw Xiao Yi return, she hurriedly stood up, carrying a basin and a towel to meet him, "Brother Xiao Yi, quick, wash your face so we can eat!"

"Alright!"

Xiao Yi grinned with a smile.

He thoroughly enjoyed this kind of life, plain but filled with the warmth of home.

"Qingzhu, I need to make a trip out tomorrow, and it will likely take about half a month. Do you want to come with me?" Xiao Yi asked.

Fang Qingzhu was taken aback, then shook her head, "Brother Xiao Yi, I really want to go with you. However, my injuries have not fully healed yet, so I should stay here and recuperate. But Brother Xiao Yi, you must take care when you're out on your own!"

Xiao Yi did not insist, nodding in agreement, "Yeah, I know!"

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Iron Mountain City.

Located at the foot of Iron Mountain, more than seven hundred kilometers from the capital.

Famous for its abundant iron mines.

The entire Iron Mountain City's iron ore reserves were controlled by the Tie Family and the Xu Family. The Tie Family specialized in forging saber weapons, and all the bladed weapons used by the army of the Tianqing Kingdom were supplied by them, which earned them the title of Iron Blade King. The Xu Family, on the other hand, had been granted the title of Comrade King because one of their ancestors, a Tenth Layer of the Golden Elixir Realm commander, had expanded the kingdom's territory.

These two great families held the iron mines of Iron Mountain, and even the royal family of the Tianqing Kingdom dared not offend them easily.

On the wide streets.

Xiao Yi, dressed in black, led a horse and stopped by a stall selling women's jewelry, picking up a red hairpin and asking, "Shopkeeper, how much for this?"

The shopkeeper, a plump middle-aged man, responded cheerily, "My lord has a fine eye! Are you picking out a gift for your wife? This red hairpin is made of pure gold, and the pearls inlaid on it come from the top-quality pearls produced in Qinghe. It's only a hundred taels of silver."

"A hundred taels of silver? I'll take it!"

Xiao Yi took out a hundred taels of silver and tossed them to the stall owner, just as he was storing the rouge hairpin in his storage ring when a scream rang out from beside him, a figure rapidly flew backwards towards him.

Bang!

An old woman with a withered face smashed heavily into the stall, toppling over a display of jewelry onto the ground.

"Grandma..."

The heart-wrenching cry filled with desperate pain was distressing to hear.

Xiao Yi turned towards the sound.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

Across the street, on the railing of the second floor of a tavern, a delicately beautiful girl in tattered clothes was gripping the railing tightly, poised to jump down. Despair filled her eyes as she looked helplessly at the old woman lying in a pool of blood, crying out with no strength. Behind the girl were two young men in luxurious clothing, both with vicious smiles on their faces as they dragged her back inside, one on each side.

"Sigh, it's those two beasts again..."

"Isn't this the fifth time this month? We should remind our neighbors to keep a closer watch on their daughters!"

A few sighs of resignation echoed within the crowd.

The stall owner glanced at the old woman lying in the pool of blood and sighed, "What a sin!"

Xiao Yi frowned and asked, "Boss, what's going on here?"

The stall owner glanced at Xiao Yi, his expression changing, and said in a grave tone, "You must be from out of town, young master. I advise you not to meddle in other people's affairs. Better leave quickly!"

"Ugh..."

The old woman on the ground suddenly trembled.

Xiao Yi was taken aback and was about to step forward to help her when the stall owner grabbed him, saying gravely, "Young master, please don't meddle. It will only bring trouble to your doorstep. You saw who those two men upstairs are, didn't you? If they see you dare to help this old lady, you'll be in a world of trouble!" Enjoy new stories from empire

"The old lady is still alive, can we really just watch her die before our eyes?" Xiao Yi broke free from the stall owner's grasp and helped the old woman up.

However...

Just as he lifted her up, the sound of something cutting through the air came from behind him.

Xiao Yi's expression tightened, and as he turned around, he reached into the air and caught the incoming arrow. Had he not acted quickly, the arrow would have pierced through the old woman's head. Who could be so cruel as to deal such a deadly blow to a withered old person? Xiao Yi looked back and saw a young man with his upper body bare jump down from the second floor.

"Damn it, you dare to save someone I want to kill? You must be tired of living!"

The young man threw away the large ox-horn bow in his hand and drew a three-foot-long blade from his waist. With a couple of swings creating a flower of blade movements, he chopped towards Xiao Yi's head.

"Another life lost..."

"I told you not to meddle..." The stall owner's face was filled with pity.

However...

The blade did not fall; mid-air, it was caught firmly between two of Xiao Yi's fingers.

"Hmm?"

The young man was startled, then roared with a fierce face, "Let go!"

"Scram!"

Xiao Yi casually tossed the young man aside, sending him flying with his sword.

"You, you dare to fight back? You're seeking death!"

Enraged, the young man pulled out a black, heavy crossbow from behind him. With a thud, a crossbow arrow shot straight for Xiao Yi. The poison-coated arrow was deadly on contact, and as Xiao Yi's pupils shrank, he quickly dodged using a movement technique, allowing his shape to blur and barely evading the arrow. In an instant, his right hand reached out.

Grabbing the crossbow arrow, he shot back from the ground at full speed.

With a thump, the arrow pierced through the young man's throat.

Bang!

The young man clasped the arrow in his throat with both hands, knelt on the ground, shaking. All he could hear was Xiao Yi's cold voice, "Relying on your family's power to bully men and women, quick to take a life at the slightest disagreement, scum like you shouldn't be allowed to live in this world..."