I come to see Bai Yujing today

Chapter 30 Then I'll Give You a Chance

The bow of the pleasure boat had become quiet at some point, except for the red-dressed bookstore on the bow that did not dare to neglect.

She looks like the bright moon floating on the river of clouds, her body like the flowing waves moved by the breeze, she is like a beautiful dancer in front of the table.

But even such a beautiful dance did not attract the attention of the guests in the pavilion.

Many people lowered their heads and drank, but they still paid close attention to the young man sitting at Zhou Xiujing's table.

The young man had a stranger face, but he was very brave. He held the cup and poured himself some wine. He spoke calmly and looked very composed.

Even when Zhou Xiujing's thunderous voice fell into his ears, he remained calm and composed, as if he was used to big scenes, not like a teenager of seventeen or eighteen years old at all.

"Young Master Zhou comes from a family of medicinal herbs. He has been practicing for a long time and has already reached the realm of true essence. Killing me is as easy as killing a chicken, but you dare not challenge me to a fight?"

Chen Zhian's slightly questioning voice reached everyone's ears. Zhou Xiujing looked at Chen Zhian coldly and remained silent for several breaths.

After a long while, Zhou Xiujing snorted coldly and said, "In the world of Dayu, the most important thing is one's status. If one's status is low, he is here to die, and I won't even look at him.

"Chen Zhian, who are you? Can you challenge me to a duel?"

Chen Zhian frowned and said, "I wonder what Mr. Zhou's identity is?"

Zhou Xiujing raised his head slightly: "My Zhou family is the most prominent medicinal material family in Suwu Prefecture. My Zhou family's medicinal material business is all over the five states. My second master of the Zhou family has passed the imperial examination and ranked twelfth in the palace. He will be appointed as an official soon! My mother's family is even more prominent. Let me tell you, their status has been compromised for nothing.

"Chen Zhian, tell me, you are just a chicken. With my status, why should I roll up my sleeves and kill you? Your blood will spill out and stain my brocade clothes for nothing."

When the young master of the Zhou family said this, there was a burst of laughter from the pavilion.

Many people who knew Zhou Xiujing's identity couldn't help but look at Chen Zhian, shaking their heads and laughing.

Chen Zhian seemed not to have heard the ridicule. His eyes were still clear, but his tone became more doubtful.

"Young Master Zhou wanted to kill me but couldn't, so he found some good excuses. But I have General Iron Arm to guarantee me. As long as I am in Sunan Mansion, Young Master Zhou can't kill me.

People who practice cultivation pay the most attention to the clarity of one's thoughts, and young masters like Master Zhou cannot tolerate any sand in their eyes. But I have become an obstacle in Master Zhou's heart, the biggest sand in his eyes. What should I do?"

When Chen Zhian said this, he let out another long sigh.

"Oh, right... I won't hide it from Master Zhou. What Zhi'an said in the workshop that day was just nonsense. Miss Xu has never approached me, and she has never said that she would give me gold and silver to marry into my family.

The reason I said that is because I saw that Master Zhou was born stupid, and I thought that if I met a stupid person, I would cheat him out of some money."

"To be more specific, the reason why I can practice this decent martial arts and boxing skills is because of the two hundred taels of gold that Master Zhou gave me. Otherwise, how could I, a commoner, afford to practice martial arts and buy medicine?"

Zhou Xiujing's expression became even more gloomy. He stared at Chen Zhian intently and said, "You came here alone, aren't you afraid that I will get angry and beat you to death with one palm?"

Chen Zhian laughed even more happily: "Mr. Zhou, I am now alone in Sunan Mansion and I still have many concerns.

You are a son of a rich family, and you have to think a lot before you act. How could Master Zhou beat me to death in front of so many people when I was able to walk out of the prison safely? "

Zhou Xiujing was suspicious by nature. He looked around and saw that at this moment, not only the seven or eight tables of guests on the pavilion, but also many people in the hall of the pleasure boat had flocked in and were glancing over here.

"Where does Chen Zhian get the courage to challenge me to a duel? When he was taken to prison, the priests in the mansion had already seen him. He was just cultivating his Qi..."

"Or maybe, this Chen Zhian is just bluffing and wants to embarrass my Zhou family?"

Zhou Xiujing was thinking this in his heart, but then he heard Chen Zhian say, "I have one more thing to tell you, Master Zhou. The first-class medicinal materials in the military supply account that cut off the Zhou family's military medicine contract were also sent to the Xu family's mansion by me on behalf of others. Speaking of which... if your Zhou family's business goes downhill from now on, I, Chen Zhian, have contributed a lot!"

boom!
Zhou Xiujing suddenly slammed the table in front of him, and the table, which was filled with many wine cups, suddenly broke into pieces, and the wine spilled out, causing several bookshop owners and prostitutes at the same table to scream.

"Chen Zhian, since you are willing to provoke me to commit suicide, I will give you a chance. Bring me the paper."

A calm clerk beside him immediately got up and went to the cabin hall, and soon came back with paper and pen.

Zhou Xiujing took the paper and pen, lowered his head to write something, and suddenly threw it to Chen Zhian.

Chen Zhian looked down and saw a line of big words written on the paper.

"On March 4, the 23rd year of Dazhi, Zhou Xiujing and Chen Zhian agreed to a fight to the death. Seven days later, the fight to the death took place at Fengbotai, the North Gate."

Zhou Xiujing had already signed his name under this line of words.

Chen Zhian picked up the pen and signed without thinking.

But suddenly I heard a shout: "Mr. Chen, don't be impulsive."

Chen Zhian turned his head and saw that Xu Xiyue had boarded the boat at some point. She was standing at the side of the boat with a frown on her face, shouting at him.

When Zhou Xiujing saw the person coming and heard the concern in Xu Xiyue's words, a deep gloom appeared between his brows.

"Chen Zhian, you provoked me to write this death-defying agreement, but now that it's time to sign, you're afraid?"

Chen Zhian turned around and wrote his name on the paper without saying a word.

Zhou Xiujing stood up, picked up the paper, looked around, and suddenly threw it lightly.

The paper floated away as if carried by the wind, and landed directly in front of Xu Xiyue. Xu Xiyue reached out her hand and took the paper.

Zhou Xiujing raised his head and said, "I'll have to trouble Miss Xu to be a witness."

Xu Xiyue pursed her lips and said, "Prime Minister Song intends to abolish the rules of the fight to the death in Dayu. There are already many news reports from various places. You..."

Zhou Xiujing became even more angry when he saw Xu Xiyue cared so much about Chen Zhian. He snorted coldly and said, "My Sunan Prefecture has not yet abolished the death fight agreement. Chen Zhian has already signed his name, so he must fight to the death. There is no way out."

When he said this, he stood up, brushed his sleeves, and said to Chen Zhian: "Nourishing Qi is nourishing Qi, and True Yuan is True Yuan... Even if you break through by chance, there are still True Yuan Wonderful Trees and True Yuan Wonderful Fruits inside the True Yuan Pass... Let me take a closer look at what you rely on."

Having said this, he no longer wanted to say anything more, so he left the pavilion.

The pavilion became noisy again, with countless people whispering.

Chen Zhian also stood up, a smile appearing on his face.

"Seven days later? That's just what I want."

Under Chen Zhian's long moonlit robe, his left hand was tightly grasping a fruit.

It was the blood-burning ginger fruit.

The reason why Chen Zhian dared to challenge Zhou Xiujing today was because of this red orange spiritual fruit.

When he held the Burning Blood Ginger Fruit in his hand, and when his blood rushed to his palm, Chen Zhian could clearly feel the extremely heavy and surging power contained in the Burning Blood Ginger Fruit.

After swallowing the ginger fruit, the blood and energy in Chen Zhian's body would probably increase tenfold.

There is a saying that a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. Chen Zhian originally decided that if he had to fight to the death with Zhou Xiujing today, he would swallow this fruit.

And now, Zhou Xiujing has set the date for the fight to the death seven days later, which is exactly what Chen Zhian wants.

“When blood and qi are cultivated into true essence, the true essence will fluctuate. Perhaps there are strong people in the Zhou family who can sense this fluctuation.

If I fight Zhou Xiujing again at that time, I am afraid that there won’t be such a life-and-death fight considering Zhou Xiujing’s cautious character.”

"But now, the fight to the death has been agreed upon. I don't know if seven days will be enough for me to break through to the True Essence realm."

Chen Zhian's thoughts flowed away slowly like water.

Xu Xiyue looked at Chen Zhian's indifferent expression, and she became more and more confused about the young man in front of her.

"Mr. Chen, do you know the difference between the Yangqi Pass and the Zhenyuan Pass?"

“To nourish Qi is to nourish the blood. When the blood hits the shore and breaks through the Yuan Gate, it can be transformed into the true Yuan.

It usually takes two or even three months for an ordinary cultivator's blood and qi to transform into true essence. Only when all the blood and qi have been transformed into true essence can they be considered to have truly entered the true essence level.

And only when you enter the realm of true essence and carefully refine your true essence can you make your true essence emerge into a wonderful tree. This is the upper realm of true essence. When the wonderful tree bears great fruits, this is the perfection of true essence!

Zhou Xiujing's cultivation had already produced a wonderful True Essence Tree. The branches and leaves on the tree were filled with True Essence, and the True Essence was extremely dense!
How can you win by using the Qi-nourishing Stage to fight against the True Essence Stage?"

Xu Xiyue looked at the death fight in her hand and was really confused.

“Even those true sons of noble families rarely dare to fight against cultivators who have formed the True Essence Tree at the Qi Cultivation Stage, unless they hold a mysterious treasure or an extremely extraordinary weapon.

Master Chen, do you have any rare treasures?"

Chen Zhian shook his head.

"Then do you have a precious sword that has been forged thousands of times?"

Chen Zhian continued to shake his head.

Xu Xiyue thought for a moment and asked again: "Do you know any mysterious skills or magic techniques?"

Chen Zhian suddenly remembered the White Jade Cicada Shell Chapter and the Eight Du Beiqu Twelve-Layer Sword Technique, but he didn't know whether these two techniques could be considered as mysterious and wonderful techniques.

He was silent and thoughtful.

Xu Xiyue thought Chen Zhian had nothing to say, and couldn't help getting angry.

"Master Chen, you are so angry, it must be because the disaster in the Huangmen is related to Zhou Xiujing, but... this kind of impulsiveness is not worth anything, but it puts yourself in danger. What should I do now?

Everyone on the ship has already known about this fight to the death. If you don't accept the appointment, Zhou Xiujing will send a guest official to chop off your head, and no one will say a word against it."

Xu Xiyue blamed Chen Zhian a little, then shook her head and said, "It's useless to say these things now. I will send a few guards, and Master Chen should leave Suwuzhou as soon as possible.

As I just said, Prime Minister Song has long planned to abolish the death fight in Dayu. Within a year at most, there will be no more death fights in Dayu. By then, Master Chen will come back and it will be…"

"Thank you for your concern, Miss Xu." Chen Zhian suddenly interrupted Xu Xiyue and asked softly with a smile on his face, "I wonder how long it will take the Xu family to gather the nineteen medicinal herbs?"

(End of this chapter)