Open up and break into another world

This world is one where strength dictates everything.

After Xu Ming effortlessly defeated Sun Ji, his reputation quickly spread; he became recognized as the number one new disciple in the Wild Desolation Martial Academy this year, and even many older disciples from previous years were quite wary of him.

As for the rumors of Xu Ming taking forbidden drugs, they were naturally disproven—what a joke! Would the number one new disciple in the Wild Desolation Martial Academy resort to such underhanded means as taking forbidden drugs during the Feiyun Martial Pavilion's recruitment? To put it bluntly, it's not even certain if he would look favorably upon your Feiyun Martial Pavilion!

True top geniuses are more willing to go to the Wild Desolation Martial Academy because it has a deeper foundation!

And the story of Xu Ming gradually spread from the Wild Desolation Martial Academy, slowly reaching the entire capital.

"Xiao Ming, didn't you tell me a few days ago that you had just broken through to the third stage of external training?" After Xu Kai returned from a mission, he immediately heard about Xu Ming's deeds; at first, he didn't believe it was his cousin Xu Ming until the two brothers met.

"Um... well, I just happened to break through a few more times these past few days..." Xu Ming said truthfully.

"Breakthroughs can happen by chance? And several consecutive breakthroughs?" Xu Kai was speechless, "Damn, how come I didn't realize before that you would be such a freak!"

"Freak..." Xu Ming was speechless and could only silently drink his wine.

"However, compared to your miraculous marksmanship and footwork, the speed at which your cultivation improves, although abnormal, is not so unacceptable!" Xu Kai added.

"Miraculous?" Xu Ming didn't expect that the outside world's evaluation of him would be like this.

But thinking about it, it's normal. In terms of realm, after Xu Ming activated the "Perfect Battle" mode, there are probably only a handful of people in the Flying Cloud Kingdom who can surpass him. Even the legendary figure Du Yu De can only be on par with him in terms of realm.

"Xiao Ming, I must immediately pass on your story back home!" Xu Kai said, "Our Xu family has produced a genius like you, which is truly bringing honor to our ancestors! When you become stronger in the future, our Xu family will definitely become a prominent clan!—So Xiao Ming, you must not slack off in your cultivation just because you have achieved some success; the important task of revitalizing the Xu family rests on your shoulders!"

Revitalizing the Xu family is the hope of generations of the Xu family! In the past, Xu Ming naturally held such hope in his bones; however, Xu Ming's talent was too poor, and it would be good enough if he didn't hold the Xu family back; he wasn't qualified to revitalize the Xu family at all.

...

Soon, even Chi Xue, who rarely left her home, heard about Xu Ming's affairs.

"Fifth stage of external training?"

"Stronger than the sixth stage of external training, and the number one new disciple in the Wild Desolation Martial Academy this year?"

"Marksmanship and footwork are miraculous?"

"Is this really Brother Xu Ming?"

Chi Xue suddenly felt that Xu Ming was very unfamiliar.

"But even so, so what? Reaching the fifth stage of external training at the age of fifteen means Brother Xu Ming's talent is still too poor; he and I will ultimately not be on the same path!"

Chi Xue couldn't describe what she was feeling, only that she felt empty inside. She always thought that Xu Ming would tell her everything; but now she realized that she didn't seem to be that important in Xu Ming's heart.

Perhaps Chi Xue will never know—that Xu Ming who would tell her everything is no longer in this world; the current Xu Ming is indeed completely unfamiliar to her!

While Chi Xue's thoughts were flying, in the Feiyun Martial Pavilion's punishment department, two disciples who had made mistakes were trembling and kneeling here.

"Elder Cao, we know we were wrong!"

"Elder Cao, we will never dare to be disrespectful to the pavilion's masters again!"

"Oh? You know you were wrong?" Elder Cao had a dark face, or rather, his face was originally dark.

Iron-Faced Cao Haishan, who in the Feiyun Martial Pavilion didn't know him, who didn't fear him?

Not to mention two pavilion disciples, even some pavilion masters, managers, and even some elders were afraid of Elder Cao Haishan. This was because Cao Haishan not only had the power to enforce the law in the pavilion but was also iron-faced and selfless, with no regard for personal feelings!

The number of disciples expelled by Cao Haishan was countless; even several pavilion masters and middle-level managers had been kicked out of the Feiyun Martial Pavilion by him.

"Since you know you were wrong, then tell me, according to the pavilion rules, how should disrespect to superiors be punished?"

"This...this..." Both disciples hesitated.

If the pavilion rules were strictly followed, the punishment for disrespecting superiors would be very severe! At best, it would be deducting resource rewards for more than half a year, at worst, it would be expulsion from the pavilion, and at the worst, it could even be the abolition of cultivation!

Although these two disciples had only made small mistakes, they were inevitably terrified at this time.

Suddenly, Cao Haishan's voice transmission token rang.

"Hmm? Could it be that someone wants to intercede for them?"

Cao Haishan glanced at the two disciples with majesty, then took out the voice transmission token and looked at it.

As he looked, Cao Haishan's face gradually became darker and heavier: "Such a thing has happened!"

*Bang!*

Cao Haishan slammed the table and stood up, which scared the two disciples below so much that they almost wet themselves.

"This Wu Gaofeng, more than enough to ruin things, but not enough to accomplish them!"

"Wu Gaofeng?" The two disciples below breathed a sigh of relief, it's good that it's not their business, "Elder Cao is furious, Wu Gaofeng seems to be in trouble!"

"You two, get out of here for me!"

"Get out?" The two didn't know what play this was—get out? Get out to where? Weren't you saying you were going to punish us? Or are you saying that you're going to expel us for such a small matter?

Cao Haishan was currently in a fit of anger and had more important things to deal with, so how could he have time to dawdle with these two disciples: "Can't you understand? Get out of here, this matter ends here! If you make another mistake next time, you don't need to come here, just get out of the Feiyun Martial Pavilion directly!"

The two disciples were greatly relieved — Elder Cao had decided to let them off!

Annoyed, Cao Haishan watched the two disciples scurry away, then took out his communication token.

“Wu Gaofeng, get your ass over to the Disciplinary Hall right now!”

At this moment, Wu Gaofeng was enjoying wine and women outside, surrounded by four or five girls, living the life.

“Huh? That old codger Cao Haishan is calling?” Wu Gaofeng shuddered.

Half an incense stick later.

Wu Gaofeng stood tremblingly before Elder Cao.

“Bring me the footage from the Martial Pavilion's new recruit selection!”

“The new recruit footage?” Wu Gaofeng's expression changed. Of course, he had already heard about Xu Ming's brilliance in the Wild Desolate Martial Mansion; but hearing about it was one thing, what could he do to salvage the situation? “Could this matter have already reached Elder Cao's ears?”

Wu Gaofeng knew Cao Haishan's temper well. In front of Elder Cao, if you cooperated obediently and honestly admitted your mistakes, it would be fine; but if you resisted to the end, the consequences would be severe!

Therefore, Wu Gaofeng did not dare to delay and immediately presented the footage to Elder Cao.

“That Xu Ming, although his strength is not bad, the rumors outside say his spear techniques and movement skills are godlike… That's too exaggerated!” Wu Gaofeng pondered, “At most, I misjudged and drove away a decent disciple; if Cao Haishan really wants to punish me for this, I'll just obediently accept some punishment!”

“Ha, haha…”

Cao Haishan watched the footage, not angry but laughing, laughing so hard that Wu Gaofeng felt uneasy.

“May I ask, Elder Cao, what's wrong? Is there a problem?”

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“Is there a problem!?”

Bang!

The hot-tempered Cao Haishan kicked Wu Gaofeng in the stomach, directly causing him to vomit blood.

“Wu Gaofeng, you tell me!” Cao Haishan didn't care how much blood Wu Gaofeng vomited, “Why was this young man named 'Xu Ming' not selected?”

So he was asking about this!

Wu Gaofeng secretly blamed Lin Muqing.

However, at this time, he couldn't betray his teammate; of course, the key was that if he betrayed Lin Muqing, he would not only still have to endure Elder Cao's anger, but also Lin Muqing's and even the Lin family's anger in return.

“Him!” Wu Gaofeng said boldly, “Someone reported that he was taking forbidden drugs, so I eliminated him.”

“Someone reported? Who reported it?” Cao Haishan pressed.

Wu Gaofeng was momentarily speechless.

Cao Haishan didn't delve into the matter: “Moreover, you control the assessment formation, and everything within the formation is under your observation; could you, Wu Gaofeng, not see whether he was taking forbidden drugs? Are you blind or what?”

“Cao… Elder Cao,” Wu Gaofeng simply admitted his mistake directly, “This matter is indeed my negligence, I am willing to accept punishment!”

“You are willing to accept punishment?” Cao Haishan sneered, “I'm afraid you can't afford it, can you?”

Can't afford it?

Wu Gaofeng was stunned: “Elder Cao, isn't he just a disciple with slightly better talent?”

“Slightly better talent?”

Cao Haishan laughed maniacally: “Wu Gaofeng, do you know that we, the Flying Cloud Martial Pavilion, have been established for so many years, just to wait for a genius young man like this!”

What?

Wu Gaofeng was a little dazed.

“Now that we've finally waited for him, you've pushed him out!”

“If this young man joined our Flying Cloud Martial Pavilion, our Flying Cloud Martial Pavilion would definitely spare no effort to cultivate him!”

Spare no effort to cultivate him?

Wu Gaofeng was even more dazed — what was going on?

However, he understood a little — this Xu Ming's talent was not simple! Far more extraordinary than he had imagined!

Otherwise, how could Elder Cao have said “spare no effort to cultivate him”?

“If he joined our Flying Cloud Martial Pavilion, even if the Wild Desolate Martial Mansion came to demand him, we would definitely fight them to the death!”

Fight the Wild Desolate Martial Mansion to the death?

Wu Gaofeng knew how powerful the background of the Wild Desolate Martial Mansion was — that Wild Desolate Sect was a force much stronger than the entire Flying Cloud Kingdom!

Over the years, there have indeed been many times when the Wild Desolate Martial Mansion asked the Flying Cloud Martial Pavilion for people; and the people the Wild Desolate Martial Mansion wanted to take away were undoubtedly the most outstanding of the elders' personal disciples!

Even the most outstanding of the elders' personal disciples, as long as the Wild Desolate Martial Mansion wanted them, the Flying Cloud Martial Pavilion could only give way. But this time, Cao Haishan actually said he would fight the Wild Desolate Martial Mansion to the death, what did this mean? — It meant that Xu Ming's talent absolutely surpassed all the geniuses of the Flying Cloud Martial Pavilion over the years!

“But now!”

“Such a genius has actually been personally pushed to the Wild Desolate Martial Mansion by you, Wu Gaofeng!”

“I… I…” Tragedy had struck too suddenly, Wu Gaofeng was completely caught off guard and didn't even know what to say.

“Don't say I'm not giving you a chance!” At this time, Cao Haishan's tone suddenly became unusually calm; but Wu Gaofeng knew that this was a sign of Elder Cao's extreme anger, “I'll give you half a month, at all costs, bring Xu Ming back to me! If you can't bring him back… then come to my laboratory and be a test subject!”

Laboratory?

Be a test subject?

Wu Gaofeng's face turned green.

Once he became Elder Cao's test subject, it would truly be… worse than death!

“Alright, get out! If you have any objections, you can go to the Pavilion Master! But I think, without you going to find him, the Pavilion Master will soon come to find you!”

Cao Haishan was not wrong. Not long after Wu Gaofeng left, he was pulled aside by the Pavilion Master for a scolding.

Although the Pavilion Master's tone was calm, Wu Gaofeng could hear that if he couldn't handle this matter properly, then what awaited him would be a fate worse than death! Perhaps he would really be thrown into Elder Cao's laboratory and made into a humanoid puppet.

… …

After returning from the Pavilion Master, Wu Gaofeng paced back and forth many times. After thinking about it, he called his trusted subordinate: “Xiao Ye, take this 30,000 taels of gold and go to the Wild Desolate Martial Mansion to find Xu Ming…”