Chapter 458: The Ugly White Flower
Jiang Yue caught the storage ring and immediately checked it using his divine sense.
’Exactly fifty thousand low-grade reincarnation stones.’ Jiang Yue thought and directly transferred the reincarnation stones to his storage ring.
After that, he returned the opponent’s storage ring and looked at the young man.
"Fellow Daoist, my stage is not a life and death arena." He reminded and the opponent sneered.
His eyes were filled with mockery but he didn’t refute Jiang Yue.
Seeing this, Jiang Yue didn’t continue to remind.
He just took out his pipa and retreated further from the opponent.
At the same time, the young man narrowed his eyes and a green appeared in his right hand.
’Profound rank whip made from the bark of the green snakeroot tree.’ Jiang Yue couldn’t help but gasp when he saw the opponent’s weapon.
The green snakeroot tree wasn’t rare or precious.
However, it was extremely poisonous and few weapon-refining masters dared to handle it.
When Jiang Yue saw the whip, he knew it would also be poisonous.
If he allowed it to touch his skin, depending on the situation, he would not only suffer severe pain but would also be disfigured.
’How vicious.’ Jiang Yue thought and he was not the only one.
In the audience, many of those who recognised the material used to refine the whip couldn’t help but frown.
"The fight is just an ordinary competition, why did he take out such a vicious thing?" Someone asked with a frown on his face.
"If I didn’t know better, I would think those two have a life-and-death grudge."
"Do you know better? Maybe they have a life and death grudge."
"You are right. The Cangxing Mountain has been open for two hundred years. It’s not impossible for those two to have forged a life and death grudge during the past two hundred years."
"What you said is possible but I don’t think it’s true. Just now, I was looking at the deputy mountain master and he doesn’t seem to know his opponent."
"Who knows..., maybe the opponent finds the deputy mountain master not pleasing to the eye."
"By the way, who is the opponent?"
"Did they announce it? I didn’t hear."
"I don’t think they announced it. They are only announcing the opponents on the main martial stage."
"Is that so? Does anyone know who the opponent is?"
"To be honest, I think he is a little familiar but I can’t place him." Someone said and his eyebrows creased in thought.
"I feel the same way." Another said.
A moment later, a surprised gasp resounded among a group of few people.
"I know who he is." Someone shouted.
"Really? Tell us quickly."
"I also want to know. Hurry up and tell us."
After several people looked at the speaker eagerly, the man’s lips curled into a cunning smile before he spoke.
"If I am not wrong, he is Bai Hua." The person said and several people gasped in surprise.
"He is right. I wondered how I knew the opponent; it turns out to be Bai Hua."
"Bai Hua? I have never heard of him." A female cultivator said with a frown on her face.
"Senior sister, you were in retreat when the incident happened."
"What incident?"
"This Bai Hua has such a name but his face..." The speaker sighed and everyone turned to look at Bai Hua.
Despite his name, Bai Hua was not good-looking.
In fact, he could be described as ugly.
Because of this, Bai Hua was very imbalanced.
A few years back, Bai Hua found a heaven and earth treasure in the Burial Province and finally attracted a female cultivator to form a Taoist couple.
For a while, Bai Hua was happy and could often be seen smiling by the people around him.
However, his happiness didn’t last for the eternity he wished for.
One day, Bai Hua went out to look for resources but when he returned, his Taoist companion and his treasure were nowhere to be found.
At first, Bai Hua thought his Taoist companion had fallen victim to robbers because of the heaven and earth treasure.
Due to this thinking, he couldn’t help but feel guilty and he continued to frantically search for the girl.
Unfortunately, everything was his wishful thinking.
When he finally found the girl, he discovered that she wasn’t attacked and robbed as he thought.
Rather, she approached him with a purpose.
The girl intentionally earned his trust and when his guard was down, she took his treasure and escaped.
Even more unfortunate, she took the treasure to curry favour with a good-looking young man whom Bai Hua hated.
At this point, Bai Hua’s already distorted personality exploded.
He directly killed the girl and her new lover but he didn’t stop there.
For the next while, Bai Hua would attack and kill all the good-looking people he came across.
This, however, didn’t go on for long.
It wasn’t because Bai Hua realised the error of his ways but because he kicked an iron plate.
As usual, Bai Hua approached a good-looking young man and wanted to kill him.
The young man was in the first level of the reincarnation realm and Bai Hua thought he could deal with him easily.
However, it turned out that the person was hiding his cultivation and Bai Hua was immediately counterattacked.
Seeing he couldn’t win, Bai Hua activated a teleportation talisman and escaped.
Since then, no one had seen him until he appeared to challenge Jiang Yue.
"Did he retreat to refine the green snakeroot whip?" Someone couldn’t help but wonder.
After all, Bai Hua’s original weapon wasn’t the green snakeroot whip but a sword.
"I thought he calmed down but his personality seems to have become more distorted. Now, he doesn’t want to kill good-looking people but to disfigure them."
"Deputy mountain master Jiang is in trouble."
"Is that beautiful face going to be disfigured?" A female cultivator couldn’t help but cry in distress.
"This Bai Hua is not a good thing." Another shouted angrily.
On the martial stage, Jiang Yue had calmed down after the initial shock of seeing the green snakeroot whip.
However, another emotion was slowly growing in his chest.
’If you don’t want to be polite, I will also be rude.’ He thought and placed his fingers on the pipa strings.
A moment later, a beautiful melody resounded around the martial stage.
Hearing the music, Bai Hua frowned.
He felt like the music was issuing from his own mind rather than being played by someone else.
For a moment, he felt the music was part of him and there was no reason to resist it.
However, Bai Hua’s mind was stronger than that of ordinary cultivators.
Although the pressure of having a beautiful name while having an ugly face had distorted his personality, his mind was quite resilient when it came to most things.
At this time, he realised that Jiang Yue’s music was messing with his mind so he quickly sealed his hearing.
On the opposite side of the stage, Jiang Yue saw Bai Hua’s actions and his lips curled into a beautiful smile.
’You are decisive but it’s no use.’ He thought and continued to play his pipa.
In the years he practised in the Myriad Forms Mountain, Jiang Yue realised the shortcomings of only relying on auditory-induced illusions.
During that time, he worked hard to ensure that he could still induce illusions even if his opponent sealed his hearing.
The method Jiang Yue came up with was soul resonance.
Because he used a pipa, his opponents assumed they would be fine as long as they didn’t hear the music.
However, Jiang Yue’s auditory music was mixed with what he called ’soul music’.
This music was transmitted through soul power and had the same effect as listening to the music.
Most importantly, the soul music was extremely subtle.
Unless someone was paying close attention, they wouldn’t realise that a strange power was invading their soul and gradually luring them into an illusion.
"Now that I have sealed my hearing, what can you do?" Bai Hua mocked.
At the same time, he swung his right hand and the green whip flung towards Jiang Yue’s face.
"As expected, you are aiming for my face." Jiang Yue sneered as he quickly retreated.
"So what? Just stand there and let me destroy that sinful face."
Hearing this, Jiang Yue couldn’t help but be angry.
"Since you want to destroy my face, I will treat you in the same way."
With that, Jiang Yue’s fingers frantically struck the pipa strings and a strange cacophony echoed within the confines of the stage’s defensive formation.
"Bai Hua has already sealed his hearing. What’s the use of playing the pipa?" Most of the spectators couldn’t help but mutter in surprise.
"Maybe deputy mountain master is panicking."
"He doesn’t look like he is panicking."
"Wait..., why does Bai Hua look a little strange?"
At this time, everyone noticed that Bai Hua was a little unfocused.
