268: Bounce! Bounce!

Those seven people were flushed with anger, and in the end, they had no choice but to jump down from the lampposts.

However, this kind of humiliation was not something an ordinary cultivator could endure.

Among the seven, a burly man leading them, holding a Golden Dragon Treasure Blade, stepped forward.

With one step, the ground seemed to shake and the mountains to tremble.

The burly man roared in a rough voice.

"You woman! Your mouth is truly vicious. Aren't you afraid of retribution for speaking like that?"

Qu Huaixuan covered her lips with her slender, jade-like fingers, feigning surprise.

"Can you get retribution just by saying a few words? Does your Seven Stars Sect dabble in feng shui or something?"

Seeing that he couldn't get the upper hand verbally, the burly man immediately released his spiritual sense to briefly size up Qu Huaixuan's strength.

If he hadn't checked, it would have been fine, but once he did, the burly man was even more flushed with anger.

"I thought you were some kind of expert. You're just a mere Qi Refinement stage cultivator—are you here to make a joke out of me?"

After saying this, he leveled his broadsword.

"If you have the guts, don't just rely on your sharp tongue. Come over here and fight me!"

As soon as he said this, a large group of burly-looking disciples behind the man immediately began to shout.

"That's right! What's the use of a sharp tongue? Hurry up and fight!"

"Our Master practices the Nine Thunders Tribulation Transcendence. Don't let his Golden Core cultivation fool you; his physical strength has reached the ninth level of the Golden Core stage!"

"Haha! That little lady is only at the Qi Refinement stage. With one punch from our Master, she'll be shattered to pieces!"

At this moment, Chen Tianming spoke up.

"Oh my! This Broadsword Brother, you really are a practitioner of a righteous sect, a real man!"

"It's one thing for a man to hit a woman, but a Golden Core stage cultivator fighting a Qi Refinement stage cultivator, and you still want a one-on-one?"

The burly man snorted twice, like a wild bull.

"Don't call me Broadsword Brother. I am the Azure Dragon Left Envoy of the Seven Stars Sect. I originally didn't want to make an enemy of a young woman, but since she has provoked me repeatedly, don't blame me for bullying the weak!"

Chen Tianming chuckled.

"You want to bully the weak? Fine, understood! Then you won't mind if I bring out someone stronger on my side, right?"

The Broadsword Brother looked around and sensed the strength of Chen Tianming and his group.

The strongest ones, the scholar and Chen Yun, were merely stuck at the threshold of the Golden Core stage.

For cultivators, every difference in realm is like the difference between heaven and earth.

Being at the threshold and being inside the realm are two completely different concepts!

Not to mention fighting one woman, even if Chen Tianming and his whole group came at him together, it would be no problem for him!

Sneering, the Broadsword Brother said fiercely.

"You? Stronger? Let's see how strong you can get. Bring it on!"

As soon as he said this, Chen Tianming, instead of being worried, smiled and walked over to Qu Huaixuan's side.

"Wife! Don't worry. I know you don't know how to fight, but it's okay, your husband has a way!"

As he spoke, Chen Tianming first pulled a wisp of azure gauze from his embrace.

The fluttering gauze fell onto Qu Huaixuan's shoulders.

Although she was wearing modern-style clothing, draping this over her gave her an ethereal, ancient, and elegant air.

Then Chen Tianming spoke.

"You don't have to fight at all. Just stand there, you don't even need to dodge!"

Qu Huaixuan, perhaps feeling a bit stage-frightened or afraid, acted a bit coy.

Taking advantage of the moment when no one was paying attention, Chen Tianming lightly pinched Qu Huaixuan's little bottom.

She let out a coquettish cry of annoyance and went up to the Seven Stars Altar.

Seeing Qu Huaixuan's dainty appearance, all the Seven Stars Sect disciples burst into laughter.

However, Chen Tianming was cheering from below the stage.

"Go for it, wife! Trust me, I guarantee you'll win!"

But Qu Huaixuan was still a bit worried.

After all, she had never fought in her life!

She looked back at Chen Tianming, completely forgetting that the Broadsword Brother was in front of her.

Yet the real threat was entirely with the Broadsword Brother.

At this moment, the Broadsword Brother unleashed his full stance, his spiritual energy surging to the extreme. His Golden Core spun crazily like a top, and spiritual energy began to slowly radiate from his entire body.

But seeing that this woman's attention was not on him at all, the Broadsword Brother felt incredibly dejected.

At the same time, he couldn't help but speak up.

"What are you doing! I am your opponent! Can you show some respect?"

But Qu Huaixuan didn't even glance at him.

Until Chen Tianming reminded her.

"Wife! Do a cool pose, I'll take a picture of you!"

As soon as he said this, Qu Huaixuan immediately got into the mood.

However, she could only start by making a peace sign, a common V-sign.

The pose was quite cute, and Chen Tianming actually took a picture.

The Broadsword Brother was so angry that his teeth itched.

"What are you two doing! Are you going to fight or not!"

Chen Tianming felt that this was too disrespectful to the opponent, so he said to Qu Huaixuan.

"Change to a martial arts pose, for example, Bruce Lee?"

Qu Huaixuan nodded, then pulled a pose with her little pink fists, and with all her might, finally threw a flurry of wild, flailing punches...

This time, the crowd of Seven Stars Sect disciples couldn't stop laughing.

Some were even bent over laughing, falling to the ground.

However, unexpectedly, Chen Tianming and his group were also laughing.

And they were laughing non-stop at the Broadsword Brother.

Seeing the Broadsword Brother's serious expression, Chen Tianming was laughing so hard his stomach hurt.

The Broadsword Brother finally realized it.

"You! You did this on purpose, you're just playing with me!"

Chen Tianming spread his hands.

"Big brother, you, a grown man at the Golden Core stage, fighting a woman at the Qi Refinement stage—you won't let us play with you?"

After saying this, he began to laugh loudly again.

The Broadsword Brother finally fell into a rage.

His spiritual energy overflowed wildly, and dragon armor appeared on the surface of his body. The violent spiritual energy was like the whiskers of a golden dragon.

He stomped his feet on the ground, and suddenly the world seemed to spin. A series of rumbling explosions sounded, as if heavenly thunder had descended.

His body traced a golden curve, and a divine dragon descended from the sky.

The dragon's mouth opened, and a sharp divine weapon slashed down from the air.

"Roar!!!"

The divine dragon roared.

But in the very next second.

"Awooo~"

The divine dragon collapsed to the ground on the spot!

Everyone was stunned.

No one knew what had happened.

Only Chen Tianming smiled and lightly stepped onto the altar.

He put his arm around his wife's shoulder.

"How about it! Is the North Nether Star Gauze I gave you comfortable to use?"

At this moment, the light faded away.

Everyone then saw that the Broadsword Brother, who was holding the broadsword, was now twitching all over.

The altar guardian stepped forward to take a look, and a look of surprise immediately appeared on the old man's face.

"How is this possible! Spiritual energy backlash?! How did you do this!"

Chen Tianming patted his wife's back and comforted her.

"Go on, go back and rest!"

He then explained.

"This is a divine object from the North Nether. It is a star gauze made by ancient people peeling off a nebula from the starry sky. Only this one wisp has survived for tens of thousands of years. It can store spiritual energy inside, and once it is attacked, it immediately reflects all of it back. You people of the Seven Stars Sect are truly ignorant!"

Unexpectedly, Chen Tianming even launched a map-wide attack.

This one sentence angered everyone in the Seven Stars Sect.

They shouted with all their might.

"Take him down! All together, kill them all!"