The Attack of the Wastrel

Translator: Coca5156

Editor: Drea

“The Feixing Pavilion actually has so much influence?”

The town did not look that big, why did it have so much influence?

Xin Yi helped answer Gu Lingzhi’s question, “This Feixing Pavilion does not just exist in this town, every city in the Realm of Gods has its own branch. It is similar to the Martial Artist Guild back in the Tianyuan Continent. Just that the influence of the Feixing Pavilion is much greater than the Martial Artist Guild and has an extra branch of buying and selling information. As long as you can afford it, you can even buy news of the Deity King.”

Gu Lingzhi raised her brows, “Is that so?” The owner of the Feixing Pavilion must be someone extraordinary to dare to sell news of the Deity King.

Xin Yi chuckled, “The Feixing Pavilion is Pan Luo’s business, so what if he sells his own information?” With his influence and position, he did not need to worry if people knew news about him.

Gu Lingzhi pursed her lips as she never thought that the first lead she would get regarding Pan Luo would be like this.

Grabbing Gu Lingzhi’s hand, Rong Yuan declared, “Since he isn’t afraid then let’s go buy some information. At least it is better than nothing.”

Xin Yi brushed his finger across his Storage Ring and a letter appeared in his hands, “There’s no need to, I already have a copy here.”

As Gu Lingzhi heard what he said, she moved almost impatiently to grab it out of his hands.

Xin Yi laughed as he looked at his empty hands. Seeing this side of Gu Lingzhi reminded him of when he first met Gu Lingzhi.

At that time, Gu Lingzhi was still weak and was being bullied by a girl in her clan. However, she performed brilliantly in the arena and demonstrated her extraordinary talent. It was on that day that he found out things about Gu Lingzhi.

He had an uncle that was also a prodigy and became an expert Martial Lord before the age of 40. That uncle then met with a girl that changed his life – Wang Yu.

When he first laid his eyes on that elegant and upright woman, who was as beautiful as a peony, he was smitten. Despite knowing that the woman had a husband, he could not change what he felt and had unrequited love. He then secretly bought the residence beside the Gu Family just to steal a few looks at Wang Yu.

The days of his unrequited love were bittersweet. His uncle had to literally watch the woman he was in love with move about with her husband all day. Until one day, Lin Yue-er entered the Gu Family. This was when Wang Yu was about five months pregnant.

His uncle had to watch as the woman he loved fell into despair, not being able to do anything. Heartbroken, he went to confront Gu Rong and asked him why he took in a concubine despite having such an amazing wife like Wang Yu. He was laughed at by Gu Rong as Gu Rong retorted that it was normal for most males to have three to four concubines.

Angered, his uncle then beat Gu Rong up but was seen by Lin Yue-er. Thereafter, he was made use of in Lin Yue-er’s schemes.

Not satisfied with sharing her husband with someone else, Lin Yue-er then instigated Xin Yi’s uncle to take Wang Yu away. Every day, Lin Yue-er went to his uncle’s house to tell him how much she loved Gu Rong and how Wang Yu’s days were terrible. If he were to take Wang Yu away, it would be the best for everyone.

Blinded by love, the uncle was convinced by Lin Yue-er. On the night that Wang Yu gave birth to Gu Lingzhi, he sneaked into Wang Yu’s residence with the intention to bring the woman that was supposedly suffering, according to Lin Yue-er, to a better life. He never would have thought that just as he knocked Wang Yu unconscious and was about to carry her out, he would hear shouts of catching adultery.

Gu Rong and Lin Yue-er then burst into Wang Yu’s residence, scolding and accusing them for adultery. Lin Yue-er stood beside Gu Rong and pretentiously tried to help Wang Yu. But it was obvious from her undertones that she was insinuating that Wang Yu and Xin Yi’s uncle were involved with each other.

Xin Yi’s uncle realised that he had been set up and had fallen for Lin Yue-er’s scheme.

It was at this moment that Wang Yu woke up and understood what was going on. She did not blame Xin Yi’s uncle but under Gu Rong’s shouts, she only blamed herself. She blamed herself for marrying the wrong man, despite how clever she was, she fell for something that only stupid woman would fall for. She did not see how fickle Gu Rong was under his loving façade. Without even asking her, he had determined that she was guilty.

Completely discouraged, Wang Yu had committed suicide on the spot to prove her innocence. Unable to bear that he had become an accomplice, causing the person he loved to die, Xin Yi’s uncle returned back to the Xin Family. Soon after, he ended his own life. Before he left, he instructed the Xin Family to help Gu Lingzhi as much as they could if they were to see her in the future. This was what he owed her.

Xin Yi’s father had always had a good relationship with Xin Yi’s uncle and took his parting words seriously. As soon as he heard that Gu Lingzhi managed to get into the Royal School, he quickly told Xin Yi the grievances between his uncle and Wang Yu. This was the reason why Xin Yi helped Gu Lingzhi so much thereafter.

In a blink of an eye, the young girl that he helped years ago had become the Little Chancellor of the Spirit Tribe. She even became the benefactor of the entire Tianyuan Continent. He wondered how Gu Rong must feel. Gu Rong spent his entire life only doing things that benefit him. If he knew that he had abandoned the person that would have made him successful, how would he react?

What a pity that Gu Rong had been killed by a furious Pan Luming in the year that Gu Lingzhi fell into the Endless Sea Realm. If he were alive, his expression would definitely be interesting.

With the information provided by Xin Yi, Gu Lingzhi understood more regarding Pan Luo’s standing in the Realm of the Gods.

It was with this deeper understanding that Gu Lingzhi saw hope in bringing Pan Luo down.

The Realm of the Gods was not as indestructible as she used to believe. The position of Deity King in the Realm of the Gods was not that stable of a position. From the information by Xin Yi, almost the entire Realm of the Gods was in Pan Luo’s hands except for about ten percent of the people.

From other people’s point of view, Pan Luo who had control of ninety percent of the Realm of the Gods, was a pillar in the Realm that cannot be taken down. But to Gu Lingzhi, this ten percent was a lot more than what she had imagined.

“Pan Luo’s cultivation was of an upper-class peak True God. Although it doesn’t seem far from our cultivation, the difference in just this one grade is almost equivalent to the difference between a True God and a Martial Sage. It is impossible to challenge him with our current disparity in cultivation. If we want to fight him, we have to at least raise our cultivation to an upper-class True God,” Xin Yi said as he saw Gu Lingzhi finish going through the information.

“That’s right, the differences between True Gods are very big.” Just taking the example of Wu Yang and his men, they were all True Gods yet ten of them were no match for her and Rong Yuan. Once they were trapped by the Demon Plants, they were helpless and were just waiting for death.

“But how long would it take to become an upper-class True God?” Gu Lingzhi sighed. Will she never get to meet Lin Chongyuan and the rest ever again?

Rong Yuan patted her hand reassuringly, “No matter how long it takes, we are already lucky to not meet with Pan Luo when we ascended.” 𝗳𝗿𝐞ℯ𝙬𝗲𝗯n𝗼νel.𝒄𝑜𝘮

When they ascended, they were already prepared to have a showdown with Pan Luo. Who knew that when they ascended to the Realm of the Gods, they would all be separated. Initially, he and Gu Lingzhi were complaining that they did not just end things once and for all with Pan Luo. But now, they felt lucky - that they were all separated when they ascended. If they had really gone straight against Pan Luo, they would stand no chance against him.

“Your Highness is right. We are lucky to not have gone against Pan Luo when we were still muddleheaded. As long as we train hard and not forget our initial goal, we will be able to seek revenge for the entire Tianyuan Continent one day!” Xin Yi exclaimed.

“Mmhmm, what is important now is to gather everyone else.” Gu Lingzhi nodded.

Xin Yi looked at Tianfeng Jin and said, “As for this, I have a brief idea and I wonder what you all would think about it?”

“What is your idea?”

“What do you all think about starting a clan here in the Realm of the Gods?”

“A clan?” Gu Lingzhi was taken aback, “Isn’t that goal a little too big?”

They were already wanted in the Realm of the Gods, if they were to outrightly start a clan and take in disciples, that would be simply giving themselves away.

Rong Yuan was very interested in Xin Yi’s suggestion, “I actually think the idea is not bad. Precisely because we are on the wanted list, we should be more outright so that no one will suspect us. We have so many people that ascended with us this time, if we were to gather without a proper identity, it would catch even more people’s attention. If we start a clan, it can solve our issue of large gatherings.”

Additionally, all the people in the Inheritance Space could not hide inside and train forever. With the clan as the excuse, they could very well be let out to train. It would also be good for their mental state.

After discussing for a while longer, they unanimously decided on starting a clan.

Xin Yi had already thought of this and coincidentally, as well as intentionally, he had gone to hear more about the rules as to starting a clan in the Realm of the Gods. As long as they had the cultivation of at least a Demigod, they could find any spiritual mountain in the Realm of the Gods that was uninhabited and set up their clan there. All of their cultivation levels met the criteria to start a clan. What was difficult was that the founder had to first go to the Feixing Pavilion to pay 10,000 high-grade god stones to register.

As they had just arrived, they were completely broke. They did not even have one high-grade god stone.

“You all don’t have any, but I do!”

The sudden voice made everyone in the living room jump in surprise.

“Sister Tianfeng, Brother Xin, how can you guys not include me in something as fun as starting a clan?” Carrying an aura of preciousness, Zhuo Haotian smiled as he walked in, “Although I am not very powerful, I can invest and be an honorary elder!”

“Why are you here?” Xin Yi frowned, “Don’t you know it is rude to eavesdrop?”

Zhuo Haotian’s neck seemed to shrink as he did not dare to utter a word. Seeing how angry Xin Yi looked, he said meekly, “I was just worried about you guys and was afraid that you would face a problem. See, I heard about you lacking the money. Our Zhuo Family does not have many things, but what we have a lot of are god stones!”

As he spoke the last sentence, Zhuo Haotian’s confidence rose subconsciously. Although he did not voice it, the gaze he was giving Tianfeng Jin was literally begging for her to praise him.

“Nonsense!” Tianfeng Jin frowned, “This is our problem, why are you involving yourself?”