Starting with a Super Five-Star Hotel-Chapter 542: Sorry to Have Worried You All_1

Chapter 542: Chapter 542: Sorry to Have Worried You All_1

「The next morning.」

Mountain rain pierced through the steaming mist, drizzling down onto the slopes of Immortal Mountain.

"Ma Beiqiu, get your ass out here!"

Suddenly, a shout like thunder erupted on Golden Lotus Peak, giving the Second Elder, Ma Beiqiu, who was lecturing his disciples, quite a scare. He hurried outside to see the Fifth Elder standing there with a group of people, looking quite menacing. Perhaps the Fifth Elder was so enraged that even the fine rain dared not approach him.

"Fifth Elder, why are you so incensed this early in the morning?" Ma Beiqiu asked, puzzled. "Is it because Feng Zhengyuan refused to spar with Tang Heng?"

"Spar my ass!" the Fifth Elder got straight to the point. "Last night, Tang Heng came to your Golden Lotus Peak looking for Feng Zhengyuan, but he never returned. Did you detain him?"

"Detain him?" Ma Beiqiu was even more puzzled. "Certainly not. I didn’t see Tang Heng last night either!"

"Call Feng Zhengyuan over and we’ll get to the bottom of this!" the Fifth Elder said, waving his hand sharply.

Ma Beiqiu quickly called for Su Xuan.

When questioned by Ma Beiqiu, Su Xuan didn’t hide anything. "Someone did come looking for me last night. We had a disagreement, and he attacked me. I used a move called Seven Star Burst to drive him away. Was that person Tang Heng?"

"You can’t even recognize if it was Tang Heng?" the Fifth Elder said grimly.

Little did he know that Su Xuan genuinely didn’t recognize Tang Heng.

"Uh, well..." Su Xuan scratched his head. "He lost so quickly and fled so decisively that I didn’t get a good look at his face."

At this, the onlooking disciples of Golden Lotus Peak erupted into laughter.

Ma Beiqiu also had to suppress a smile. It seems Su Xuan’s seven days in the Enlightenment Pavilion weren’t spent in vain. He actually learned Seven Star Burst and defeated Tang Heng in an instant! This brings me great honor.

"Utter arrogance!"

The Fifth Elder, however, took this as Su Xuan mocking him. Boiling with rage, he stomped the ground and lunged, his hand shooting for Su Xuan’s face!

Seeing this, Su Xuan squinted slightly. As he pondered how to respond, a figure suddenly stepped in front of him—it was his nominal master, Ma Beiqiu.

"This is Golden Lotus Peak’s territory!"

"Back off!"

With a forceful wave of his sleeve, Ma Beiqiu unleashed a fierce gust of wind that swept toward the Fifth Elder. The Fifth Elder morphed his claw into a fist, punching forward.

BANG!

A shockwave erupted between them, rolling outward in all directions. The disciples present were caught in the blast and retreated one after another; only Su Xuan stood firm. But seeing that everyone else had backed away, Su Xuan felt he should put on an act and took a few steps back as well.

"Ma, you’ve got guts! Real guts!" The Fifth Elder glared at the Second Elder and said resentfully. He was used to this man only daring to argue, no matter how great their conflict, yet this time he had brazenly struck out. "So you want a real fight? Fine! Let’s have one today. After I’ve crippled you, I’ll personally tear Golden Lotus Peak apart to find my disciple!"

"I already told you!" the Second Elder stroked his beard. "Tang Heng couldn’t defeat Feng Zhengyuan, so he fled on his own! As for where he fled to, who knows? In my opinion, he’s probably too ashamed to show his face and has found some mountaintop to hide and cry on."

This master of mine might not be much of a fighter, but he’s certainly a great arguer, Su Xuan thought with secret admiration.

"Then I’ll make you cry first!"

The Fifth Elder grew even angrier. He took a deep breath, his body shot into the sky, and then he pressed down on Ma Beiqiu from above with immense force!

CLANG!

CLANG!

CLANG!

Just as the two elders were about to battle it out, a heart-stopping bell toll thundered through the entire Immortal Mountain. Accompanying the bell, the air above the mountain hummed, and a massive phantom of Immortal Mountain materialized.

"The Clan Master’s summoning order?!"

"How is this possible!"

The Fifth Elder, hovering in the air, was shocked. He then abandoned his fight with the Second Elder and turned to land on the ground.

"Fifth Brother, what’s going on?"

"I don’t know."

The two elders, who had just been at each other’s throats, were now speaking amicably. Both were filled with confusion. How could the old Clan Master, who was on the verge of death, suddenly issue a summoning order?

"Let’s go see!"

"Let’s go!"

The two elders immediately flew down from Golden Lotus Peak together, leaving the crowd of spectating disciples behind. It wasn’t just them; more than a dozen other elders also rushed toward the Assembly Hall located at the center of Immortal Mountain.

When they all gathered in the hall, they saw the old Clan Master, Liu Yangshu, looking remarkably well and sitting on the main throne! They were all astounded.

Liu Yangshu then spoke his first words to them.

"Thank you all for your concern. This Clan Master has pulled through from the brink of death!"

「Over an hour later,」

The dozen or so elders left the Assembly Hall one after another. Returning to their respective peaks, they relayed a startling piece of news to their disciples.

The old Clan Master hadn’t been on his deathbed. He had been cultivating a method to connect his primordial spirit with heaven and earth when he accidentally sensed that the great sinkhole one hundred miles east of Immortal Mountain was about to experience an anomaly! Therefore, all disciples in the Longevity Realm were to assemble immediately and head to the sinkhole to suppress this anomaly. There were to be no delays!

"Senior Brother, who would have thought the old Clan Master was actually cultivating a technique? Everyone thought he was about to..." Ying Lan giggled as she and Su Xuan headed to the assembly square after packing her things.

As she was in the intermediate stage of the Longevity Realm, she also had to go suppress the anomaly. In truth, she hadn’t much to pack. She just grabbed some elixirs and slung a longsword over her back, appearing rather nonchalant about the whole affair.

"Did you hear... a few days ago, the sinkhole near the Yu Xian Sect also had an anomaly?" Su Xuan said suddenly, gazing in a certain direction. It was only through that incident that he had learned there were many such sinkholes in the mountain world.

"I heard!" Ying Lan blinked. "The anomaly at the Yu Xian Sect’s sinkhole was just a common one, wasn’t it? I heard it was suppressed by a single cultivator with the surname Su."

Su Xuan stroked his chin with a knowing smirk. "Heh."

"But the sinkhole here is much larger than the one at the Yu Xian Sect," Ying Lan continued. "If an anomaly occurs, it can’t be suppressed by just one person."

"Oh?"

"It would take at least ten Longevity Realm Experts to suppress it."

"Ah?"

"Well, since our sinkhole is bigger, the anomaly will be bigger too, of course!"

Ying Lan wasn’t too concerned about the anomaly. She had participated in suppressions before, which had only involved hunting a few monsters that burrowed up from the ground.

The bigger, the better... Su Xuan suddenly had a new idea. If, during the suppression, I were to unfortunately... disappear inside the sinkhole, wouldn’t that seem perfectly plausible? It would mean I died in battle. And that would mean I could return to my hometown down the mountain without any lingering responsibilities, right?

This spark of inspiration had come from that kid, Tang Heng.

But he never could have imagined that the sinkhole anomaly of Immortal Mountain would far exceed his wildest imagination...