Martial Cultivator

The man's heart grew colder as he witnessed the girl becoming increasingly arrogant.

It only occurred to him now that since she already knew he was from Old Pine Mountain, but still did not care, she must come from an extraordinary background.

After a long silence, he suddenly thought of a possibility and asked tremblingly, "Are you Zhu Xia, the saintess of the Myriad Heaven Palace?"

When he opened his mouth to ask this question, he had only one thought in his mind: praying that the girl in front of him must not be the saintess of the Myriad Heaven Palace.

But things often turned out contrary to one's wishes.

The girl's voice quickly sounded out, "How did you know?"

Hearing these words, the woman who had been silent all along felt her head explode with a bang and fainted on the spot. The man also felt as if he had fallen into an icy abyss, his expression incredibly grim and filled with fear at the same time.

The disparity between Old Pine Mountain, a second-rate foreign land sect, and the Myriad Heaven Palace, a leader of one of the two lineages of Daoism, was truly immense.

To snatch the saintess' honey dates on the street could be a trivial matter or a major one. When trivializing it, it could be seen as young people messing around, no one would take it seriously. If it was escalated, it would be Old Pine Mountain looking down on the Myriad Heaven Palace. After all, he had made arrogant remarks that insulted the saintess.

The saintess represented the dignity of the Myriad Heaven Palace. Insulting the saintess naturally meant insulting the Myriad Heaven Palace itself.

The man's heart was ashen at this moment, unable to utter a word.

Provoking Chen Chao was still considered a minor matter. After all, this person's reputation among foreign cultivators was not good, so it would be considered just a provocation.

But how could Zhu Xia be someone that he could afford to provoke?

Seeing how these two people looked, Chen Chao felt contented in his heart and could not be bothered to think about whether they coughed up blood or not.

He reached out and handed a bag of honey dates to Zhu Xia who had been eagerly looking forward to it. She impatiently took one out and stuffed it into her mouth. Her eyes soon narrowed with pleasure, resembling two crescent moons.

This was the taste she had been waiting for several days.

She casually wiped the sugar syrup on her fingers onto her clothes and shouted to the shop assistant over there with some dissatisfaction, "Your honey dates jubes are so delicious! Can you make more of them every day in the future? Seriously, they're not enough!"

The shop assistant smiled slightly and nodded his head.

Satisfied, Zhu Xia ate several more honey dates before looking at the two who were still sitting on the street and asked, "Chen Chao, what should we do about these two?"

Chen Chao glanced at several Left Guard constables who had appeared in the distance at some unknown time. They were currently observing from afar.

Chen Chao sent them a look.

Soon, the constables squeezed their way through the crowd and asked loudly, "What's going on? Who's causing trouble?!"

Hearing this, the street instantly became noisy, with the onlooking civilians chiming in. The constables found it headache-inducing. The constable in charge quickly made a decision and ordered, "Quickly take these two immortal masters for medical treatment. We'll discuss the rest later. If these two immortal masters die, it will be great... a great problem."

Hearing this, the constables hurriedly got busy and swiftly brought that pair away. The man who was currently already frightened out of his senses did not resist and allowed himself to be taken away. He might even be rejoicing over it.

After seeing them leave, the constable in charge came before Chen Chao and said with a salute, "Commander Chen, how should we handle this matter?"

Chen Chao glanced at the constable in front of him and said casually, "What's there to handle? Just say that Old Pine Mountain's cultivators tried to snatch the honey dates belonging to the Myriad Heaven Palace's saintess in broad daylight. Who can find fault with this?"

The constable look troubled and said, "Sir, isn't this reason a bit too childish?"

Chen Chao said in surprise, "Isn't it the truth? Just ask a few random people, who would say that the situation wasn't like this?"

The constable was speechless and thought to himself that while this was the truth, if those two had known from the beginning that those were the honey dates belonging to the saintess of Myriad Heaven Palace, would they have dared to take action?

Chen Chao patted the shoulder of the constable in front of him and said with emphasis, "The process is not important, the result is what matters, and the truth is also very important. Record it like this. If they have any issues, let them go to the Myriad Heaven Palace themselves. Besides, do you think they would really dare to confront the Myriad Heaven Palace?"

Upon hearing this, the constable was enlightened and said, "This subordinate understands now."

Chen Chao nodded, waved his hand, and let him leave.

After everything was done, he turned his head and looked at Zhu Xia again, asking with some interest, "Were you joking when you said you wanted to find someone to go to Old Pine Mountain?"

Zhu Xia was currently eating the honey dates. Hearing this, she replied as a matter of course, "That's of course. No one has ever scolded me like that before. Besides, I didn't provoke him. I'm the reasonable party, so what do I have to fear!"

Chen Chao nodded approvingly and said, "Very reasonable."

Suddenly, Zhu Xia furrowed her brows, and the honey date in her mouth suddenly lost its flavor.

Seeing her like this, Chen Chao was puzzled and asked, "What's wrong?"

Zhu Xia was silent for a while before saying, "I've always lived on the mountain and rarely came down. I haven't experienced such things before. Today, I realized that they rely on their sect and their status as cultivators to bully you all as they please."

The 'you all' here naturally referred to the Great Liang Dynasty, including Chen Chao.

An incident like snatching honey dates, if she were not the saintess of Myriad Heaven Palace and did not have a powerful sect behind her, she would naturally have been powerless as well.

Zhu Xia sighed, "Such incidents have surely happened before, they didn't just start recently."

Chen Chao did not rush to speak. Yes, such incidents were definitely not the first nor the last time.

This had always been the situation in the Great Liang Dynasty.

"I am the Saintess of the Myriad Heaven Palace, so they'll be afraid of me. But they won't be afraid of you all, so they will continue to bully you all in the future."

Zhu Xia furrowed her brows, thinking about these things very hard. But in the end, she could not figure it out. She asked, "But why don't they focus on their cultivation and instead choose to bully others?"

Chen Chao looked at the young girl in front of him, thought for a moment, and then said with a smile. "I used to think that such things were terrible because the first time I encountered you foreign cultivators, they wanted to kill me."

Zhu Xia naturally knew about that story. She knew that the end result was that Chen Chao killed those qi refiners who wanted to kill him.

"At that time, I also wondered if all the foreign cultivators were like that. Coupled with the demons that existed everywhere, the people of the Great Liang Dynasty lived a very difficult life."

Chen Chao's thoughts were a bit scattered, but he quickly collected them and smiled. "Later, I began to feel that there was still some hope."

"That assistant at the honey dates stall wasn't that scared of the foreign cultivators and I really liked that." Chen Chao looked at Zhu Xia and smiled. "I also think that it's great that you, the saintess of the Myriad Heaven Palace, think the same way. Even though the world is very difficult, it's not the worst situation."

There were still many foreign cultivators like Zhu Xia and that was undoubtedly a wonderful thing.

Zhu Xia smiled, her two dimples appearing again. She was really radiant when she smiled, like a brilliant summer.

"Using their sect to suppress others, using cultivation realm to oppress others, using status to oppress others—I think they are all wrong. But today, I feel very happy. If someone truly thinks I'm unreasonable, then today I won't be reasonable for once. I hope the Dean won't get angry, I hope my master won't get angry, and I also hope you won't get angry..."

Chen Chao shook his head and said softly. "Why would I get angry?"

Indeed, why would anyone get angry?

Having someone like Zhu Xia in the human world was a wonderful thing.