Transcending the Nine Heavens

g Wushang and Rui Butong have already reached fifth-grade Supreme Martial Artist! They took the lead while the other brothers have also reached the point of breakthrough! When you obtain the seventh fragment, the strength of us brothers will improve by leaps and bounds again!”

“When that time comes, with the seventh fragment of the Nine Tribulations Sword, you will completely surpass all the previous generations of the Nine Tribulations Sword Master!”

Mo Tianji said, “Therefore, I always have this feeling that… you’ve already surpassed the scope of the Nine Tribulations Sword long ago! Or perhaps, already surpassed the scope of the Nine Tribulations Sword in the Nine Heavens Continent long ago!”

He continued without waiting for Chu Yang’s response.
“According to such a progression rate, by the time you obtain the eighth fragment of the Nine Tribulations Sword, we’ll be able to reach… the Moon Breeze elders’ level.
And when you obtain the ninth fragment… Where will we go?”

“Where will we go??” Chu Yang truly didn’t expect Mo Tianji to think this far ahead.

“According to your progression rate, how short a time have you spent to get these few sword fragments? Each generation of the Nine Tribulations Sword Master, all the way till they united the Nine Heavens, had to spend dozens of years! The slowest one took close to a hundred years.
Meanwhile, how short a time did we take?”

“If we continue at this speed, before we turn twenty-five years-old, we’ll be able to unite the Nine Heavens!” Mo Tianji spoke quietly.

“What happens after that? …”

Mo Tianji tossed out a question of deep meaning.
He asked calmly, “Do you know why I brought up the issue of the Nine Super Clans when we were at the Lan Clan?”

Chu Yang knitted his brows, “Eh?”Chu Yang’s brows drew together.
“Hmm?”

“I have a vague feeling that… our future is not in here!” Mo Tianji smiled.

A jolt went through Chu Yang’s heart!

He hadn’t mentioned anything regarding this before.

But Mo Tianji could already feel it!

Chu Yang gave Mo Tianji a deep look and replied in a low voice, “Yes, our future is not in here!”

A brilliant light flared in Mo Tianji’s eyes as the corners of his lips curled up into a smile.

“Then, the matter regarding the traitor?” asked Chu Yang.

“It’s not too late to come back and deal with the traitor after we’ve dealt with the matter of the Yang Clan.” Mo Tianji said with a light smile, “Since she can be used by the enemy, if we handle it well, she can naturally also be used by us… A traitor is a treasure.”

“A traitor is a treasure?” Chu Yang grinned.

“Fishing out the traitor is merely the lousiest of solutions.
The best solution should be — Knowing she’s a traitor yet treating her like a trusted comrade.
This way, as long as the strategy is appropriate, we’ll be able to, again and again… get what we couldn’t get at all previously.”

“A traitor is just a tool of a large clan.
A large clan can use it, so can we.
The key is how we use it… I love using traitors the most… Especially an enemy’s traitor.
Using it fills me with an even bigger sense of accomplishment.”

Smiling lightly, Mo Tianji reached out his hand, his five fingers slowly drawing together as he said, “Such as… the enemy’s life!”

Chu Yang took a deep breath.
“These words make sense but… I can’t help feeling uncomfortable.
It’s filled with an obscene aura…”

“Get lost!” Mo Tianji flew into a rage as he pointed at the door.
“Get out!”

Chu Yang glared at him in displeasure.
Turning around, he left.

Behind him, a smile appeared on Mo Tianji’s face.

Outside, Mo Qingwu’s voice could be heard.
“Big Brother Chu Yang, come to my place.”

Mo Tianji’s countenance darkened immediately…

Watching Chu Yang disappear in a whoosh, Mo Tianji cursed viciously.
“Beast!”

Then, he raised his head to the heavens and heaved a sigh.
He murmured, “Looks like… Little Sister inevitably cannot escape the grasp of this beast…”

At once, he was filled with endless frustration.

…

“What’s the matter?” asked Chu Yang as he pulled the young girl by her slender waist smoothly into his arms.

Mo Qingwu didn’t mind at all.
Leaning into his embrace, she asked, “Big Brother Chu Yang, can you take a look at Xiaoxue and see what’s wrong?”

“What’s wrong?” It was only now that Chu Yang realized that it seemed like he hadn’t actually seen the Wind Fox ever since he was reunited with Mo Qingwu.

“Previously, didn’t you give me a lot of Spirit Beast inner cores? After I came back, when the Moon Breeze elders got to know that I have a use for it, they also gave me a lot.” Mo Qingwu said rather anxiously, “I didn’t think much about it and left them in the room.
Later on, when I remembered and went to look, I discovered that that huge amount of inner cores… have all disappeared.”

“How many were there?” Chu Yang had a bad feeling.

“About… 200?” Mo Qingwu’s black eyeballs swiveled uncertainly.
“The lousiest ones were fifth to sixth-grade.
There were also a few seventh to eighth-grade ones.
The Moon Breeze elders gave me a few tenth-grade ones and two eleventh-grade ones… and a twelfth-grade one… All of them are gone.”

Chu Yang’s eyebrows jumped uncontrollably for a while.
“They’ve all been… eaten by the little Wind Fox?”

With a troubled and crestfallen look, Mo Qingwu replied, “Most likely…”

As she spoke, she took out a white bundle from her pocket — It was the Wind Fox.

All four of the little fellow’s paws were wrapped around its head as it slept soundly, completely still.

Chu Yang suddenly discovered that there were already five tails on the Wind Fox! The sixth tail had also grown out a small stump, just like a rabbit’s tail.
It stuck upwards on the Wind Fox’s bottom.

Chu Yang’s eyebrows jumped wildly again.
Judging from how the little fellow looked, it was likely hibernating while digesting medicinal effects.
And… it had already digested quite a fair bit.
Looking at it… its improvement this time was honestly impressive!

Once it awakened, it would probably be a very terrifying presence!

After all, it had truly eaten a lot this time around.
Chu Yang was rather annoyed.
Wasn’t this fellow a little too greedy? Wasn’t it afraid that its stomach would be upset?

Each generation of Wind Foxes had never been able to go past eleventh-grade.
However, this one here had already surpassed twelfth-grade a long time ago and now, it was breaking through again… Could it be that… this fellow could actually reach a point of surpassing its ancestors? To establish a never-before precedent?