Chapter 1515: Yellow-Robed True Person

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Chapter 1513: Yellow-Robed True Person

Above the main hall of the Flower Queen, a Yellow-Robed True Person had appeared at some unknown time, standing suspended in mid-air.

He held a jade seal in his hand, his hair and beard half-white, his eyes and brows exuding authority.

The True Qi of the Great Heavenly Cycle flowed around him like crystalline glass of a glazed color. Traces of Laws flickered faintly around him like illusory feathers.

Soaring through the air, wielding the True Qi of the Great Heavenly Cycle, with Laws manifesting as feathers—this was a True Person of the complete Feathered Ascension Realm, one who transcended the restrictions of heaven and earth within the Great Prefecture Realm.

Merely standing in the air, the True Qi he emanated and the imposing aura generated by the circulation of his Laws were enough to suppress all the Golden Core cultivators present.

This was the preliminary distinction between immortal and mortal, a legendary sign of beginning the transformation toward an existence akin to an immortal.

Even cultivators at the Late Golden Core Stage, or even the Peak Golden Core Stage, would feel a strong sense of inferiority in the presence of a true Feathered Ascension True Person.

Moreover, this Yellow-Robed True Person before them was not only powerful in cultivation but also held an extraordinary status.

Embroidered on his robe was the earthen-colored emblem of the Earth Sect, clearly marking him as a True Person of the Earth Sect, possibly even a figure of Grand Elder rank.

The moment he appeared, everyone in the hall, including the direct descendants of the four great aristocratic clans and the Eldest Young Master of the Earth Sect, cupped their hands and bowed to him:

“We pay our respects to the True Person. May your blessings be as vast as the Eastern Sea, and your longevity rival the sun and moon.”

Only Bai XiaoSheng remained silent, his brow furrowed tightly, realizing that the situation had become troublesome.

The Yellow-Robed True Person in the air gave a slight nod, but his gaze was fixed on Mo Hua, a flicker of displeasure flashing deep in his eyes.

Since attaining Feathered Ascension, he had been revered by tens of thousands, and never had any junior dared to call him “shameless.”

This boy was the first.

The Yellow-Robed True Person’s voice was ethereal yet resonant as a bell, shaking the hearts and minds of all: “You… are Mo Hua?”

Though restrained by the four-sided jade seal and bound by Laws, unable to break free, Mo Hua showed not the slightest trace of fear and casually nodded.

“Yes.”

The Yellow-Robed True Person looked down from his lofty position and asked, “Do you admit your wrongdoing?”

Mo Hua was somewhat surprised. “What have I done wrong?”

The Yellow-Robed True Person’s gaze darkened, his voice deep and resonant. “As a proud disciple of Tàixū Sect (Great Void Sect), instead of maintaining purity and diligently cultivating, you indulge in depraved desires, come to the Jade Fragrance Pavilion for pleasure, and stir up trouble in a rivalry?”

Mo Hua chuckled lightly. “This Jade Fragrance Pavilion isn’t for me alone. If the young masters of your Kun Province aristocratic clans can come, why can’t I?”

“If coming to the Jade Fragrance Pavilion is wrong, then aren’t the young masters of your Kun Province aristocratic clans also lingering in places of ill repute, competing for favor and vying for the Flower Queen?”

“Even you, True Person, are no different right now… aren’t you also visiting a brothel?”

Mo Hua looked at the Yellow-Robed True Person and laughed dismissively. “What? Is this brothel only for you, a True Person, to visit, and no one else is allowed?”

The Yellow-Robed True Person’s eyes sharpened, but before he could speak, the young masters below angrily rebuked.

“How dare you!”

“Such insolence!”

“You dare to defile the True Person’s reputation like this? You deserve ten thousand deaths!”

The Eldest Young Master of the Earth Sect and the direct descendants of the four great aristocratic clans were inwardly shocked and somewhat surprised, unsure whether Mo Hua truly had backing or was simply out of his mind.

Bai XiaoSheng sighed, thinking to himself that this kid was truly like a thistle, pricking everyone he met without discrimination.

The Yellow-Robed True Person indeed wore a gloomy expression, speaking slowly, “Young Master Mo, you truly have a silver tongue. But you forget, this is not your Qianxue Prefecture realm, nor is it your Tàixū Sect. This is Houtu City. No one is here to shield you, nor will anyone allow you to show such disrespect to your elders and act so recklessly…”

The Yellow-Robed True Person stirred his thoughts, intending to activate the jade seal to torment Mo Hua and make him suffer a bit. But Mo Hua interjected, “Wait!”

The Yellow-Robed True Person paused slightly, only to hear Mo Hua’s glib tongue continue, “Whether it’s visiting brothels or fighting over affections, these are ultimately matters among disciples, disputes at the Golden Core Realm. For a Feather Ascension True Person like you to intervene in a fight between Golden Core cultivators—isn’t that bullying the weak with your strength?”

The Yellow-Robed True Person shook his head, “Bullying the weak? Young Master Mo, you are no small fry. You may not know this, but your reputation in Houtu City is quite significant.”

Mo Hua’s expression remained unchanged, though his heart stirred. My reputation is big? The Yellow-Robed True Person’s implication seems to be that he’s targeting me specifically? They value me this much? Before entering the Jade Fragrance Pavilion, among the Feather Ascension cultivators spying on me, was this Yellow-Robed True Person one of them? Then who exactly is this Yellow-Robed True Person, and what role does he play? Did he follow me to the Jade Fragrance Pavilion, or has he been stationed here all along?

After a moment of contemplation, Mo Hua asked, “What do you plan to do by trapping me? Kill me?”

The Yellow-Robed True Person’s gaze shifted, and he replied indifferently, “Naturally, I cannot kill Young Master Mo. However, since you have broken the rules of this establishment, you must stay and atone for your sins, serving as a warning to others not to disregard the rules.”

Mo Hua said, “You want to use me to set an example?”

The Yellow-Robed True Person nodded, “If that’s how Young Master Mo sees it, then so be it.”

Mo Hua asked further, “True Person, are you from the Earth Sect?”

The Yellow-Robed True Person pondered briefly before nodding slowly, “That is also correct.”

“That’s strange,” Mo Hua said, puzzled. “I broke the rules of the Jade Fragrance Pavilion. What does that have to do with the Earth Sect?”

“An Earth Sect True Person coming out to enforce the rules of the Jade Fragrance Pavilion?”

“Unless…” A glint of insight flashed in Mo Hua’s eyes. “Is this Jade Fragrance Pavilion owned by your Earth Sect? Or has your Earth Sect invested in the Jade Fragrance Pavilion?”

For a moment, the hall was so quiet you could hear a pin drop. Everyone’s expressions shifted slightly, and no one spoke.

The Yellow-Robed True Person’s brow twitched, and his gaze gradually turned icy.

His voice was as cold as the nine netherworlds, “Young Master Mo, do not speak nonsense. Slandering my Earth Sect will bring you great trouble.”

After observing his expression, Mo Hua smiled faintly and said, “I was just speaking offhandedly. Why take it so seriously? For a dignified True Person, you really can’t take a joke.”

The Yellow-Robed True Person’s lips twitched slightly, and a sudden urge to strangle Mo Hua welled up in his heart.

He suddenly found it hard to understand how such an arrogant young man had managed to survive in the brutal Cultivation World until now…

Unwilling to waste more words on Mo Hua, lest he lose his composure from anger, the Yellow-Robed True Person said coldly, “Behave yourself. Seal your cultivation and surrender peacefully, and you may retain some dignity. Otherwise, do not blame me for making things difficult for you.”

Mo Hua could sense that the Yellow-Robed True Person’s patience had worn thin.

He shook his head and said, “No, it’s getting late. I really must go back. Someone is waiting for me at home. I can’t stay overnight in a brothel, it would ruin my reputation…”

The Yellow-Robed True Person’s brow twitched again as he said coldly, “That is not for you to decide.”

After speaking, he pointed with two fingers, and the True Qi of the Great Heavenly Cycle descended around Mo Hua, driving the four-sided earthen jade seals to close inward like walls of Laws.

Mo Hua felt as if trapped in a cage of Laws at the center, and his heart couldn’t help but tighten.

He immediately activated the Fireball Technique, blasting it toward the phantom of the jade seal. However, his Early Golden Core Stage Fireball Technique was far too insignificant in the face of the Great Heavenly Cycle True Qi of the Feathered Ascension Realm.

The moment the fireball touched the phantom of the jade seal, it was effortlessly dissolved by the True Qi.

Mo Hua wanted to try to decipher these Laws, but in such a short time, he couldn’t even begin to grasp their intricacies.

Activating the Flowing Water Step likely wouldn’t help him escape either. If he touched the Law walls formed by the jade seals, even his flesh and blood body would likely be torn apart.

Divine Sense Sword Transforming couldn’t be used recklessly, and even if he did use it, it might not be enough to break through the jade seal prison of the Yellow-Robed True Person.

After all, Divine Sense Sword Transforming relied on Divine-Sense power, while the Yellow-Robed True Person was employing Dao Arts formed from the Spiritual Power of the Great Heavenly Cycle.

In a short span, Mo Hua had already considered all these thoughts, but in the end, he could only sigh, feeling utterly helpless.

When he was very young, he had seen his Martial Uncle kill Feathered Ascension cultivators as easily as slaughtering chickens.

Later, during the Great Wilderness journey, his Martial Uncle was invincible in the Strange Dao, and even Profound-Hollow-Void cultivators couldn’t escape his grasp.

But now, truly facing a Feathered Ascension cultivator and treating a True Person as an ‘enemy,’ he deeply realized that the strength of the Feathered Ascension Realm was far beyond what he could contend with.

He had thought Feathered Ascension cultivators weren’t strong because he had never truly fought one. But once he did, his Early Golden Core Stage cultivation couldn’t withstand the grasp of a Feathered Ascension cultivator.

In this world, knowing is easy, but doing is hard. Without truly experiencing the pressure firsthand, one could never understand the gap or realize how weak they truly were.

Mo Hua sighed, seeing no other way out. As the power of the Laws gradually closed in around him, the True Treasure jade seals of the Feathered Ascension Realm were about to bind him completely.

Mo Hua could only look up to the sky and call out: “True Person Rong, save me.”

The moment the name “True Person Rong” left his lips, the Yellow-Robed True Person’s expression changed.

Before Mo Hua’s words had even fully faded, a pure white Sword Qi, infused with the crystalline True Power of the Feathered Ascension Realm, pierced through the air amidst fluttering white feather phantoms, directly breaking the Law cage of the jade seals and cleaving open a crack.

Naturally, Mo Hua escaped through the crack True Person Rong had opened, thinking to himself: It feels great to have someone watching over you.

But this also meant he owed True Person Rong another favor.

On the other side, seeing his restraining Dao Arts sliced open by True Person Rong’s sword, the Yellow-Robed True Person’s face turned extremely grim.

His voice low, he said, “True Person Rong, this isn’t the Little Luan Mountain blessed land.”

The implication was that he felt True Person Rong was overstepping her bounds, but he couldn’t outright say such an offensive thing.

True Person Rong did not appear in person; she valued cleanliness and naturally wouldn’t set foot in a place of worldly pleasures like the Jade Fragrance Pavilion.

Only her ethereal voice drifted over: “People of Little Luan Mountain are not to be detained by others.”

With this statement, she firmly categorized Mo Hua as one of “Little Luan Mountain’s” own.

The Yellow-Robed True Person’s expression darkened even further.

Seeing this, Mo Hua nodded repeatedly. Knowing when to quit while ahead, he said, “Then I, this ‘person of Little Luan Mountain,’ will take my leave first.”

Mo Hua politely cupped his hands and gave Bai XiaoSheng a meaningful glance in the crowd before turning to step into the nearby stairwell.

The Yellow-Robed True Person was still hesitating.

He hadn’t anticipated that True Person Rong would personally intervene to protect someone within the Jade Fragrance Pavilion’s territory.

He had assumed Mo Hua was merely a ‘leftover’ from Little Luan Mountain, an outsider whom True Person Rong wouldn’t care much about.

But now, it seemed he had clearly underestimated Mo Hua’s importance.

Should he defy True Person Rong’s will and forcibly stop Mo Hua? Doing so would undoubtedly offend True Person Rong. In the current situation, offending True Person Rong just to detain Mo Hua didn’t seem like a wise choice.

While the Yellow-Robed True Person was still wavering, his thoughts had barely turned over twice, yet Mo Hua was already about to slip away. Seeing this, the Yellow-Robed True Person could only sigh.

Just then, a gloomy shout suddenly rang out: “Mo Hua!”

Mo Hua turned around and saw the Eldest Young Master, dressed in a russet-yellow dragon robe, glaring at him with venomous eyes.

The Eldest Young Master of the Earth Sect, his face full of disdain, said coldly, “If it weren’t for True Person Rong, you would have fallen into my hands today and suffered endless humiliation.”

Hearing this, Mo Hua glanced at the Yellow-Robed True Person, then at the Eldest Young Master, and shook his head. “You’re the same. If it weren’t for the Feathered Ascension True Person, you wouldn’t even be able to touch the hem of my robe.”

The Eldest Young Master sneered and said slowly, “Fine… I’ll remember you. Houtu City is the territory of my Earth Sect. We—”

His gaze turned icy, “—will meet again.”

Not only the Eldest Young Master, but also the most prominent young masters from the noble families of Kun Province all turned their eyes toward Mo Hua. Their gazes were like demons, faintly glowing green with malice, regarding Mo Hua as an enemy.

Mo Hua raised an eyebrow, committing each of their faces to memory, and said with a half-smile, “We’ll meet again.”

Then he turned around, stepped into the stairwell, and disappeared from everyone’s sight, leaving the Eldest Young Master and the others standing there with resentful eyes.

The Yellow-Robed True Person’s brow furrowed tighter and tighter.

…

Leaving the Flower Queen’s grand hall and exiting the Spring Tower, Mo Hua made his way out of the Jade Fragrance Pavilion. Along the way, he couldn’t see True Person Rong, but he could sense her Divine-Sense faintly protecting him.

This time, True Person Rong’s Divine-Sense wasn’t concealed but openly displayed, radiating a powerful Feather Ascension aura.

This served both to protect Mo Hua’s cause and effect from being spied upon and to warn any troublemakers not to harbor any improper thoughts.

Only after leaving the Jade Fragrance Pavilion did True Person Rong’s Divine-Sense finally vanish.

It seemed the greatest danger was confined to the Jade Fragrance Pavilion. Once outside, Mo Hua was like a fish returning to water, free to roam without her further attention.

Mo Hua wanted to find True Person Rong to thank her in person, but scanning with his Divine-Sense, he couldn’t find any trace of her.

It seemed True Person Rong was the type to do good deeds without leaving her name.

Of course, it was also possible that she found the entire pleasure district too filthy and didn’t want to linger there.

Bai XiaoSheng also didn’t wish to stay long and said, “Let’s leave this place first to avoid further trouble.”

Mo Hua nodded. “Mm.”

So the two retraced their steps, passing through the long streets and splendid buildings, leaving behind the extravagant, gold-and-jade-filled pleasure district.

They boarded the carriage and headed back toward the direction of Little Luan Mountain’s blessed land.

The night was deep, and aside from the Flower Street, the other streets were quiet and serene.

After walking for about half an hour, the carriage gradually moved farther away, and the Flower Street faded into the distance, along with the sense of cause-and-effect disputes.

Only then did Bai XiaoSheng secretly let out a sigh of relief.

He then turned to look at Mo Hua, thinking helplessly in his heart: This kid really knows how to stir up trouble.

In his entire life, he had never seen such a troublemaker, and the methods of causing trouble were bizarre and varied.

The people he provoked were also increasingly powerful—now he had even provoked a Feather Ascension True Person.

One day, even a Profound-Hollow-Void True Person probably wouldn’t let him off.

Bai XiaoSheng sighed.

After pondering for a moment, however, he grew curious and asked, “Do you know the Flower Queen?”

His tone was certain, convinced that Mo Hua and the top courtesan were definitely involved in something shady.

Mo Hua still only replied, “Not really.”

Bai XiaoSheng frowned. Though he felt a bit embarrassed, his curiosity got the better of him, and he whispered, “Then you and the courtesan… did you two do anything upstairs?”

Mo Hua was slightly taken aback. “What could we do?”

There are plenty of things one could do…

Seeing Mo Hua’s innocent and clueless expression, Bai XiaoSheng couldn’t bring himself to say it out loud.

Under Bai XiaoSheng’s strange gaze, Mo Hua could only clarify once again, “I already said, we were just chatting.”

Bai XiaoSheng wasn’t convinced. “Chatting about what?”

Mo Hua said, “We talked about… the situation in Kun Province.”

Bai XiaoSheng’s expression turned indifferent, and he felt speechless. “Are you trying to fool me like I’m an idiot?”

A handsome young man and a beautiful courtesan alone in a room, with nothing else to talk about but the situation in Kun Province?

“Believe it or not.”

Mo Hua couldn’t be bothered to explain further to Bai XiaoSheng and fell into deep thought.

Bai XiaoSheng stroked his chin, his thoughts swirling. Turning to see Mo Hua lost in thought, he couldn’t help but ask curiously again, “What are you thinking about?”

“Thinking about serious matters…” Mo Hua replied.

“Serious matters?” Bai XiaoSheng was puzzled. “What serious matters?”

Mo Hua frowned slightly, considered for a moment, and didn’t hide it: “I’m thinking about what to do if I get caught by a Feather Ascension True Person again next time…”

Bai XiaoSheng was stunned. “What to do if you get caught by a Feather Ascension True Person…?”

“Mm.” Mo Hua nodded, looking somewhat troubled.

Back in the Great Wilderness, when True Person Huá caught him, True Person Zhuge had stepped in to help.

Now, at the Jade Fragrance Pavilion, when the Yellow-Robed True Person caught him, True Person Rong had intervened.

If that’s the case, what should he do if he encounters a Feather Ascension True Person again next time? If no one steps in to help, wouldn’t he… just be waiting to die?

From the brief encounter earlier, the Spiritual Power of the Feather Ascension True Person had undergone a qualitative transformation through the Great Heavenly Cycle.

The strength of their True Qi and methods far exceeded his imagination. However, he had never truly faced a Feather Ascension True Person head-on before, so he had no real sense of their power.

Now that he had actually encountered one and been suppressed by them, he truly felt the oppressive force of the Great Heavenly Cycle.

Mo Hua furrowed his brows, pondered for a long time, and finally sighed. “I don’t even have a way to counter a Feather Ascension True Person right now. This can’t go on.”

Bai XiaoSheng understood Mo Hua’s words but didn’t fully grasp them.

It took him a while to process what Mo Hua meant, and he felt utterly speechless, almost rolling his eyes to the heavens.

How can such a person exist in this world?

Does he have even the slightest awareness of his own cultivation level?

What level are you at?!

You’re only at the Early Golden Core Stage, how dare you think of countering Feathered Ascension?

Why don’t you just fly up to the heavens?

…

Translator’s Note:

Tried Taixu Sect instead of Great Void Sect. Which one do you prefer?

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Figure 1: Thistle