Mu Bingjie was slightly startled by these words and looked at Su Qianyu.
"What will it take for you to agree?"
Su Qianyu looked at Mu Bingjie with a beaming smile.
"Since my wife is willing to take you as her master, I won't stand in the way of her future. But if Senior wants to take my wife away, shouldn't you at least give me a little something in return?"
Mu Bingjie frowned slightly upon hearing this.
Su Qianyu's mercenary and profiteering demeanor displeased her, but she nevertheless flicked her wrist, and a sharp sword radiating a piercing cold light instantly appeared.
"This sword is called Jinghong, a High-Grade Profound-tier spirit weapon. It belongs to you now," Mu Bingjie said calmly.
At these words, everyone present was struck dumb with astonishment, casting gazes of envy, jealousy, and hatred at Su Qianyu.
The grades of spirit weapons matched those of cultivation techniques.
They were likewise divided into four major tiers—Heaven, Earth, Profound, and Yellow—each further subdivided into four minor grades: Lower, Middle, Upper, and Top.
Taking the entire Tianwu Dynasty as an example, the highest-grade spirit weapon to be found was merely a Middle-Grade Profound-tier. A High-Grade Profound-tier spirit weapon, by contrast, was an absolute treasure of incalculable value!
Su Qianyu took it in his hand.
Immediately afterward, Mu Bingjie continued, "From this moment on, you and she belong to two different worlds. I advise you not to harbor any unrealistic fantasies anymore, and she is no longer your wife."
In truth, she did not know that Su Qianyu and Chu Yanran had only just gotten together.
By saying this, she intended to make Su Qianyu face reality while simultaneously reminding Chu Yanran to leave the mortal world behind and devote herself wholeheartedly to cultivation under her guidance.
Hearing this, Su Qianyu raised his head slightly.
"How dare Senior presume to judge my future?"
His voice was flat, devoid of any anger born of embarrassment, yet it was spoken with resolute strength.
"I owe you no explanation."
Mu Bingjie's expression was serene, her tone icy.
She had seen far too many people who fancied themselves extraordinary or harbored delusions of grandeur, and given her status, she simply disdained to argue with Su Qianyu.
"Then let me tell you this: one day, I will stand before you and tell you that your judgment of people is truly appalling," Su Qianyu said calmly.
Had it been his previous life, he might have resigned himself to fate, but now that he had been granted a second chance at life, he would never compromise with anyone or anything.
Hearing Su Qianyu's words, Mu Bingjie frowned slightly.
Yet she took no notice of it; to her, this was merely the ignorant boasting of an unlettered fool.
"Heh, what an utterly arrogant little punk."
Just then, a youth in green robes walked slowly over, looking at Su Qianyu with a sneer.
The youth had a slender figure and handsome features, and his face bore not only mockery toward Su Qianyu but also an unmistakable arrogance."Lin Han!" At the sight of him, Su Qianyu's fists clenched tightly, a piercing murderous intent flashing in his eyes.
This was none other than Lin Han, the man who had humiliated him time and again in his past life and ultimately joined forces with Chu Mengyao to kill him!
And Mu Bingjie was Lin Han's master.
"A mere ant, yet you dare say my master has poor judgment—you have committed a capital crime." Lin Han walked up to Su Qianyu, an undisguised wave of killing intent erupting from him.
Mu Bingjie disdained to argue with an ignorant and arrogant kid, but as her disciple, this was his moment to step forward.
"If you can take a single blow from me, you live; if you cannot, you will pay the price for what you just said."
Lin Han looked straight at Su Qianyu, speaking with a sense of high-and-mighty superiority, as if passing judgment.
With that, a torrential surge of Xuan Power burst forth.
"Earth Profound Realm!"
Su Longyuan's expression changed drastically at the sight.
The young man looked no older than Su Qianyu, yet his cultivation had already reached the Earth Profound Realm—he was even stronger than Su Longyuan himself!
And as far as he knew, Su Qianyu had only just broken through to the True Profound Realm; it was utterly impossible for him to withstand a single blow from this opponent!
"Senior, my foolish son spoke without thinking. I apologize to Senior on his behalf, and I beg you to spare his life!"
Su Longyuan hastily turned to plead with Mu Bingjie.
Yet Mu Bingjie remained entirely unmoved. While she disdained to bicker with Su Qianyu, Su Qianyu's earlier words had displeased her, and she did not mind letting Lin Han teach him a lesson.
"Go to hell."
Lin Han smiled indifferently.
Xuan Power gathered in the palm of his hand, and a terrifying force erupted instantly, the formidable palm strength striking straight for Su Qianyu's face.
"Qianyu!"
Su Longyuan's face turned instantly pale.
The gap in their cultivation was simply too vast; if the green-robed youth's strike truly landed on Su Qianyu, the latter would have no chance of survival whatsoever!
Yet with Mu Bingjie present, he did not even have the opportunity to make a move, and could only glare with fury at the green-robed youth.
"Raging Steel Palm!"
At that very critical juncture, Su Qianyu neither dodged nor evaded, and not the slightest trace of panic appeared on his face.
He poured his utmost strength into rapidly operating the Yin-Yang Chaos Formula, pushing his True Profound Realm Fifth Layer cultivation to the absolute limit, and met the incoming palm head-on.
"Overestimating your own capabilities!"
Lin Han sneered inwardly at the sight.
A mere True Profound Realm cultivator dared to trade blows with him head-on?
"Boom!"
The next second, Su Qianyu's and Lin Han's palms collided violently, followed by a deafening explosion.
Under the gaze of everyone present, Su Qianyu's figure was sent retreating rapidly, his palm fractured and bright red blood seeping from his fingers.
"Drip, drip, drip..."
Drops of blood trickled down Su Qianyu's arm to the ground, but his posture remained upright and unyielding, his expression as calm as ever.
"What?"
"How is this possible!"
"He actually blocked it!"
All the onlookers widened their eyes in disbelief.
Su Qianyu had actually blocked that blow?
Even Su Longyuan and Mu Bingjie felt a sense of surprise in their hearts.
Lin Han frowned at the sight; it seemed he had not expected his palm strike to fail in wiping out his opponent.
"It seems you have a hard life. In that case, I'll spare your worthless life today," Lin Han said indifferently.
Hearing this, Su Qianyu smiled.
Wielding his sword, he pointed the tip straight at Lin Han: "I will definitely return this palm strike to you. I only hope your life is just as hard when that day comes."
Whether it was the fresh grievance just incurred or the old hatred from his past life, he was determined to kill this man, and these words were both a provocation and a formal challenge.
At that moment, the two stood locked in intense confrontation!
"You are courting death."
Killing intent flooded Lin Han's eyes.
"Let's go."
At this point, Mu Bingjie spoke up.
She had no desire to waste time on meaningless matters.
Only, a doubt lingered in her heart: the earlier heavenly phenomenon had clearly been the joint resonance of a dragon and a phoenix. Now that she had found the phoenix, where was the dragon?
She swept her gaze around the surroundings, completely overlooking Su Qianyu, and ultimately discovered nothing unusual.
Perhaps that dragon shadow had merely been an illusion after all!
After all, being able to find a genius who had awakened the Ice Phoenix Battle Body was already a supreme stroke of fortune.
Lin Han cast a cold glance at Su Qianyu and sneered, "I only used fifty percent of my power in that last strike. If I ever see you again, I guarantee your life will be worse than death."
On the other side, Chu Yanran hesitated slightly.
She slowly walked up to Su Qianyu and said with a complex look in her eyes, "If you truly manage to join the Heavenly Sword Sect, I can let you be on top next time."
With that, her pretty face flushed red, and she turned and walked away.
Watching the receding figures of Lin Han and the other two as they gradually disappeared, Su Qianyu's gaze was resolute.
"The Heavenly Sword Sect—I will definitely go there."
New grievances and old hatreds, sooner or later, he would return them all in full!