A Journey Against the World
Chapter 148

Shua Xie wiped the blood on the edge of his lips with the back of his hand, after the blood patch was gone, he smiled sumringah.

"Hah .. in this way the conflict should have subsided. And also my problem has been solved, they must not have expected the final result of the fight to be like this," Shua Xie said in a happy-sounding tone. His pleasure after successfully returning the circumstances and also successfully winning the challenge, was not as difficult as Shua Xie thought.

Deep down there Phoe snorted softly, she had witnessed how Shua Xie had put a good end to the dispute, and even better, the inner disciple would not lose face after Shua Xie chose to budge to mediate the matter. But because of this too the outer disciples would definitely gossip about him, because of Shua Xie's non-win.

'Even you have to hurt yourself, very cunning, ' said Phoe in a cynical tone.

"It's not a sneaky .. but a trick. If it wasn't like that would Qixuan be able to hurt me with that little attack? Don't you know my body is a little immune to ant attacks like that." Shua Xie did not accidentally injure his own body, in fact he bounced out of his own volition, deliberately exerting himself so that he could get out of the arena and make it look as if Qixuan was the one who made it out, not only was Shua Xie also hitting a bit of his stomach for him to spit out a bit of blood, that way his plan could look so real.

In the eyes of many people Qixuan must be very great, but for those who are intelligent must know that defeat is just a trick to avoid problems. After all Shua Xie also did not need to win his battle with Qixuan, his task was simply to defeat ten ranked inner disciples, not Qixuan. There was also a benefit if Shua Xie relented, so not all the inner disciples would not hate him but instead, respect his strength.

Phoe smiled faintly, she understood Shua Xie's intentions and understood him, not to mention that Shua Xie was famous in the Kunlun sect, either, because in the end Shua Xie will leave the Kunlun sect back to the Middle world.

'Yeah, it's up to you. But someone walked towards you.'

"Someone?" Shua Xie stopped then turned around and found a woman running towards him, "Xingxing," Shua Xie muttered as she knew the person Phoe meant was Xingxing.

Seeing Xingxing seem to be in a hurry, Shua Xie was sure that the girl would definitely throw so many questions, regarding the defeat and state of Shua Xie. It was easy for Shua Xie to guess the way Xingxing thought, just looking at the girl's expression everyone would definitely think like that.

"Sister Shua, how are you? I see you're hurt, where's it hurt? Brother Shua must get treatment from a medical student! And also why could one attack hurt you? Wasn't Brother Shua great before? What was? Is Kak Shua's power depleted, or-"

"Shhhhh!" Shua Xie paused Xingxing's questions with his finger touching the girl's lips, "Ask one by one, I can't answer them all at once. And also ... calm yourself." Shua Xie stared fixedly at Xingxing as he gave the girl a warm smile. Although Shua Xie actually felt a little uncomfortable, but yes Xingxing was a girl who was easily touched if she used a little harsh words the girl would definitely feel sad.

After seeing Xingxing calm down, Shua Xie began to explain that she did not need any medical treatment, the injuries she suffered were not severe, just eating a single healing pill would also return to health. And why Shua Xie could lose was indeed due to Qixuan's great ability, even though this statement was just a small trick it turned out that Xingxing believed her remark. Shua Xie had no intention of telling her true strength, even though the beginning of her coming here was also full of lies.

'Basic girl who is innocent.' Shua Xie smiled faintly seeing Xingxing's innocence responding to her explanation.

***

Qixuan leisurely walked back to the Xionglue pavilion with a face expression hard to explain. Even though he had won that fight, Qixuan's feelings were still uneasy, like something was stirring up his mind. A battle problem that he thought was less plausible. Yes, it was true that Qixuan had struck Shua Xie, but she felt that the punch was not that powerful enough to be able to get Shua Xie out of the arena, even more so being able to make the girl hurt. Strange, but real!

'I think he deliberately did all that because he didn't want to prolong the problem. Reason is reasonable enough, but .. because of his actions I also feel he is underestimating me.' Right now it was only that conclusion that Qixuan could come up with, most likely also the conclusion was true.

Just as Qixuan was thinking, three young men came up to him, looking an expression to the three young men looking delighted.

"I had expected that if Miss Qixuan who went down the girl would not be able to win again," said one of the men in a quite happy tone, of course it was nice if the person he was following had defeated that outer disciple.

"Yes, you're right. Miss Qixuan was so great, even with a single blow she was able to make the girl bounce out." Another man replied with a smile on his face.

"Miss Qixuan is indeed the best."

"Don't be stupid." Qixuan immediately greeted the three men who had just praised her prowess, although it sounded like praise but in Qixuan's ears it sounded like humiliation, "Do you think a single strike is capable of making the girl come out? Just think about it again, he had fought ten ranked inner disciples yet not a single attack was able to injure or even touch him. Don't you feel like my victory is just an intentional one?" Qixuan stared fixedly at the three men, wanting them to understand that the victory was not at Qixuan's will but because Qixuan's own opponents had relented.

"Strick? What's that supposed?" the burly man with the face looked confused, not understanding what Qixuan was saying.

Qixuan let out a rough sigh as she threw her gaze down, she wanted to explain but realized she shouldn't even tell me about this matter either, if all three men knew his victory was a deliberate thing for Shua Xie, not only humiliating him but also thwarting the girl's plans.

"Oh, forget it. I want to go back to my residence, and if anyone wants to see me just tell me I don't want to be disturbed." Qixuan walked away to the three men after she finished speaking, her feelings were a little disturbed so she wanted to spend some time alone to calm her feelings.

Meanwhile, the three men were astonished by Qixuan's attitude, not usually they saw the girl behaving like this, even though the victory had just been achieved by the girl. Is something wrong?

"Something seems strange."

"There's nothing strange, Miss Qixuan just needs some alone time and we just need to keep her from bothering her."

***

Shua Xie landed his hongkong on his bed after he and Xingxing arrived at their dormitory. Shua Xie also took out one bottle from his s.p.a.ce ring, slightly surprising Xingxing who at that moment was watching him.

"Where did that thing come out of?" xingxing asked in a slightly surprised and amazed tone, an object that did not know where it came from suddenly appeared in Shua Xie's hands.

"This?" Shua Xie held up the white jade pill bottle, as he also looked at Xingxing with a slightly bewildered look on his face. Right at that very instant, Phoe directly explained to him the people of the Underworld were slightly different, especially the western continent. The western continent was indeed where Cultivators lived but not a single western continent Cultivator knew about the storage ring like the one Shua Xie had.

'They did learn all sorts of abilities, whether they were martial techniques and alchemists, but they were a little less confident in the name of magic. Your Space Ring is made of meteorite stone which is then trimmed into a storage ring, the way it is made also requires magic techniques not only great Qi ability, Phoe explained a little seriously.

'I know that only the Heavenly World has a s.p.a.ce ring, but it seems that the ancestor of the Sky clan is a great cultivator. Obviously your ring is a hereditary ring that is passed down from generation to generation.' Phoe explained and made Shua Xie understand why he had never seen the Cultivators of the western continent even the Underworld once had a ring like her, instead, although it should not be the ring at least the store of goods like his ring.

'So it was likely that the ancestor of the Sky clan had been to the Heavenly world and learned the weapon forging technique.' Shua Xie added another statement, and right then and there he instantly came to terms with Master Gu the weapon maker in the Middle world, 'And Master Gu was getting curious about his identity, making me even more curious about his identity, not only was it good at forging weapons but it was also capable of making those weapons possess Qi energy.'

'Is something wrong?' sahut Phoe when he heard Shua Xie mention someone by the name of 'Master Gu'.

'Yes .. when I was in Middle-earth. I met the Master of Weapons maker, he could make weapons for Cultivators, but from what I saw he was just an ordinary human without the slightest Qi, Shua Xie replied in a suspicious tone.

'You may have never heard of the technique of self-concealment. Techniques that are able to turn a person into anything he wants, can even disguise themselves in as much detail as possible so that many people will not be aware with his disguise. But this technique can only be done by high-level Cultivators because it drains too much, it is likely that someone you call is a great Cultivator in disguise, or ....'

'Or what?' Shua Xie was curious about what Phoe was going to say.

Shua Xie nodded in understanding, and it was possible that what Phoe said was indeed true, it was impossible that not a great Cultivator like Phoe explained existed in the land of mortal human Cultivators moreover in a world where the inhabitants were not Cultivators but just ordinary humans.

"Sister Shua what are you daydreaming about? And why are you nodding your head?" Xingxing immediately drew Shua Xie's consciousness into the real world. It was a little shocking for Shua Xie who was thinking.

"Ah, that, I'm just thinking about tomorrow. Oh yeah, you're wondering where this bottle didn't come from?" Shua Xie immediately changed the topic, "This bottle came out of this ring." Shua Xie showed a black ring on his ring finger, a simple but beautiful ring with small carvings there.

Xingxing stared very fixedly at the ring that Shua Xie said the goik bottle had come out of, making him frown in astonishment, "From this little ring?" xingxing asked in a dubious tone. Yes, he doubted whether Shua Xie was being serious or joking. It is absurd that a bottle larger than the ring can come out of it.

Shua Xie understood Xingxing's hesitation, quickly his hand landed on the girl's head making Xingxing slightly meet red, "Yes, inside this ring there are so many items. Don't you believe it?"

"Ah, this. I-"

"Ah .. well I understand." Shua Xie immediately interrupted Xingxing's remark as he knew the girl had trouble replying to him. Shua Xie poured a bit of Qi into the ring then shook his arm right in front of him, and along with that came dozens of types of items that shocked Xingxing.

"It! It's so amazing!" Xingxing swallowed his coarse saliva, still very surprised to see Shua Xie's ring being able to take out so many items, worse all of them were extremely valuable items.

"There are many types of rings like this. However the s.p.a.ce ring did not exist in the Underworld, it only existed in the Heavenly world. Even if there were in this world, only a few great people would be able to have it" Shua Xie explained with a faint smile. Shua Xie did not hesitate to explain about his ring, after all Xingxing had also seen and made anything else Shua Xie had hidden.

"Under World? Heavenly World? I just first heard those two names," Xingxing said in confusion.

It was not strange that Xingxing felt that he did not know the two names, because in general there were not many Cultivators of the Underworld and Central worlds who knew about the origin realm of their world.

The Cultivator Land was the name of those three worlds, of which the Cultivator Land was divided into three parts, the Upper world, the Middle world and the Underworld. Because these three parts are quite far apart, so not many inhabitants of the three worlds know that they are one world in common but are distinguished by region. The story was quite long as why the world of Land Cultivators was divided into three parts, but in short three brothers Great Cultivators had once led to these three worlds, and each of the three brothers has different leadership principles. Such an Upper world and an Underworld were more concerned with strength and power, so they gave birth to so many Cultivators of different types of streams. Whereas the Underworld was led by Cultivators who preferred to live far from chaos and battle so that it did not decrease its prowess or more properly said with the name Qi. But even though he did not pass down the understanding of Qi to the humans in the Middle world, but he lowered his fighting skills without using Qi, and that was the origin of why the Middle world called themselves Swordsmen instead of Cultivators.

That explanation Shua Xie knew from Phoe, when they were training in the ice cave made from the aura of the power of the eldest Brother, Phoe. It just so happened that Shua Xie was quite curious as to why the Cultivator Land was divided into three different parts. And you need to know Shua Xie heard Phoe's explanation for almost a day.

"Hem .. if I explain it it will take a lot of time, but in short the place we are all in is called the Cultivator's Land, and the Cultivator's Land is divided into three parts, the Upper world, the, the Middle and Underworld. The place you live in now is called the Underworld. The world is so vast, you're the only one who doesn't know it yet" Shua Xie explained.

Xingxing slightly understood Shua Xie's explanation, yet what she did not understand was why she had never heard of such a name. Even his father who was an Emperor had never explained.

"But my father never told us that the Cultivator Land was divided into three parts" Xingxing said softly, seeming to doubt his own question.

Shua Xie smiled faintly, "Actually your father might know, but he chose to cover it up. The existence of another world if it is known by many people can cause problems, so it would be nice for them to keep it a secret about this," explained Shua Xie answering Xingxing's curiosity.

Shua Xie picked up the one book he had written while in the ice cave, the one that read about the world of Land Cultivators. The reason Shua Xie wrote all that if one day he forgot this knowledge, he could read and understand it again. Shua Xie giving the book to Xingxing made the girl a little astonished, but after seeing the title of the book Xingxing instantly accepted it.

"As a noble Princess you need to know about this, it might be beneficial in the future," Shua Xie said after Xingxing received the book.

Before Xingxing read the book, she looked at Shua Xie again, showing such a happy reaction, "Ah. But can one day Brother Shua show me the three worlds that Brother Shua explains someday?"

"That." Shua Xie smiled awkwardly at Xingxing's request, wanting to refuse but not feeling good at seeing the look on the girl's face too hopeful, "Huft

... okay. One day I will take you to see how vast the world of the Cultivator's Land is." Because it could not bear Shua Xie could only say it while sighing.

***

"Is he really going?" asked a young man with a slightly high tone, not expecting the girl who just yesterday made trouble to now come with them to the Eternal Realm Mainland.

Yes, the day had changed where the day that Shua Xie was waiting for finally arrived. Go to the Eternal Realm Mainland and look for something valuable there. However, many disciples discussed Shua Xie who was with the inner disciples ranked in the Eternal Realm Mainland, even though Shua Xie's status was still an outer disciple in the eyes of many disciples. Which confused them why the Elders proposed that Shua Xie join the ranked inner disciples.

Biming as the leader in charge of bringing the disciples to the Eternal Realm nodded slowly, asserting the young man's question and surprising the other disciples.

"How come? Elder Biming, he is just an outer disciple, shouldn't be able to come with us!" sahut Kiseki loudly, strongly refused if Shua Xie came with them. Enough Kiseki met the girl yesterday, and not to this day deal with Shua Xie again.

Biming understood the feelings of the disciples, of course they really did not want someone who had just made a mess to the disciples in coming with them.

"Who said he was an outer disciple? Didn't you see the plaque on his waist bearing the inscription of the inner disciple?" Biming pointed at the student identity plaque on Shua Xie's waist belt, and it was true that the plaque read 'inner disciple'. The Great Elder replaced the new Shua Xie status plaque this morning. But still the other inner disciples were hard to accept.

Shua Xie had just entered two days ago, how could he so quickly become an inner disciple, whereas the other disciples even had to spend months and even years being inner disciples. This is unfair in their eyes.

"Why is it like that? He must be using a cheating method, even I need half a year to become an inner disciple" Huanran said a little loudly, even he threw a hateful look at Shua Xie because Shua Xie had made his face hurt, it was fortunate that Elder Tiaowang had a pill that could heal the wounds on his face.

"Huanran, Kiseki keep your words, if Elder Biming has said so then no one can refuse. He can become an inner disciple because he is indeed very talented, don't you realize what his prowess was like yesterday? And now you doubt it? What if you guys fight him again and show me if he does cheat." Dongxue instantly greeted Huanran and the other inner disciples, leaving them all speechless for a moment not daring to discuss any further.

If Dongxue had already said such a thing who dared to reject the girl's remark, they knew Dongxue did not like the person who did not accept her opinion. After all Dongxue was the leader of their entourage, if it denied it was likely that Dongxue would remove them from his team and would not be able to join the Eternal Realm Mainland. Even the Elders of the sect did not dispute what Dongxue did if he had already acted, the Elders' trust in Dongxue was huge.

But since her dressing had also left them the inner disciples shocked, it would not have been expected that the girl's figure was more in favor of Shua Xie than they were. Dongxue should have also disputed Shua Xie being an inner disciple so quickly, that even beating Dongxue's fastest score to become an inner disciple took a week.

"Senior Qixuan is so kind, I didn't think I would be defended by someone like you, thank you," Shua Xie said, looking so moved by Qixuan's attitude. Although Dongxue's defense was a little rude and offended him yet somehow Dongxue had helped him out of this small matter.

"I'm just telling you the truth, you don't have to thank me. You're coming with us anyway just because you replaced the injured Senlin, so don't think more" Qixuan replied flatly, then it just passed by heading towards the vehicle that would take him and the other disciples to the portal of the Eternal Realm Mainland. After Qixuan left, the other inner disciples also accompanied the girl on the flying boat belonging to the Kunlun sect. They no longer bothered that Shua Xie was coming with them because Dongxue had defended the girl.

'Eh? What's with the girl's attitude, why does she sound so unhappy when I thank her? Is it possible that my words were wrong?' shua Xie asked in his heart, confused by the cold attitude that Dongxue had just put out when according to Shua Xie his words were new and nothing was wrong.