The Peerless Emperor - Chapter 13

Chapter 13: Young Emperor Lin Qian

Translator: Larbre Studio

Editor: Larbre Studio

“Insolent rascal, Lin Qian, what are you doing on the platform?!” From the Ye Family block, Ye Nanxing stood and bellowed, thrusting his finger at the youngster on the stage.

“This is the Mount Ba Universal Phenomenon Sect assessment stage. Not a place for the likes of you!” On Ye Lin’s side, Ye Nanyi leapt to his feet, beginning to worry for the assessment their family hosted.

He couldn’t be blamed. After all, Lin Qian suddenly appeared out of the blue and even brought a severed head with him. What if the Universal Phenomenon Sect grew to hate the family because of Lin Qian’s unbecoming behaviour? What if his children were denied entry into the sect just because of this?

Similarly, having seen his daughter mingle well with the disciples from the sect, anxiety began to gnaw at Ye Nanyi’s insides. Worry and dread that the interruption from Lin Qian’s unwelcomed and unannounced appearance would lose the Universal Phenomenon Sect’s trust of the Ye family.

“You good-for-nothing trash! Quickly get your sorry ass off the stage!”

“Damn, rascal! How dare you embarrass us at a time like this! What do you think you are doing on the stage?!”

From the Ye Family block, insults and jeers resounded. All the family members cared about was their image.

“Tyrannical Blade Sect?” These three words caused Ye Nanxin’s forehead to pucker, his attention was drawn to Lin Qian’s words. “Isn’t the Tyrannical Blade Sect sworn enemies of the Universal Phenomenon Sect? Why would Lin Qian point fingers at the Li Family and shout these taboo words?”

Across the entire observation grounds, all powers within the city stared straight at the man on stage. All of them pointing fingers at him,discussing loudly, creating symphonies of chatter and gossip.

“This man is the fiancee of the prodigious daughter of the Ye Family Head, right? I’ve heard that he had been missing for the past 4 years and just came back. Looks like the rumours were true.”

“Hmph! Seems more likely that he came rushing back when Young Lady Ye was accepted into the prestigious Holy Sword Sect as a special talent. Bet he just wants to climb up higher with the Ye Family as his bedrock!”

“Something seems amiss to me. Isn’t this man supposedly void of a Martial Soul? Wasn’t he unable to cultivate? How did he throw this head from 10 chang away, precisely aiming it onto this stage?”

Hearing the last man’s words, the crowd’s jaws dropped. They went entirely speechless.

At the same time, at the Li Family observation block, the initially calm and smug Li Family Head, Li Qin, sprang up onto his feet, glaring wide-eyed at the head on the stage.

The rest of Mount Ba City citizens may not recognize this man. However, Li Qin definitely did.

Fu Yuxiang, one of the Tyrannical Blade Sect disciples that were dispatched this time.

When Li Qin got up, a youth with a scar beside him also got up immediately. He speedily got onto the stage’s edge, staring fixated onto Fu Yuxiang’s head.

When the Scar Youth got to action, twelve other men got up, hidden within the Li Family members. These men marched over to the Scarred Youth, standing in neat files behind, all glaring menacingly at Lin Qian.

Watching on from the side, the entire front courtyard was perplexed, unsure of what was happening.

First, the infamous Ye Family’s trash son in law appeared with a man’s severed head. Now, mysterious foreign young men were popping one from the masses of Li Family Members!

Between the two parties, a violent, menacing killing intent clashed as they glared at each other. Could it be… this son-in-law of the Ye Family had a grudge with the Li Family?

“So… these men are the reinforcements from the Tyrannical Blade Sect?” Watching from her seat, Ye Lin looked at the direction of the Li Family, cold sweat bursting onto her forehead. For some unknown reason, whenever she looked at the Scarred Youth, her body shook uncontrollably. 

“Your work?” A deep voice, like the clashing thick gallows chains, echoed from the Scarred Youth. He was interested in Lin Qian’s peculiar actions.

Folding his sleeves to his elbows nonchalantly, Lin Qian smiled and replied, not even bothering to look up, “you’re right, I did this.”

“Oh? From my Intel, you may be the fiance I’d the Holy Sword Sect’s Little Sword Saintess, but you are scum with no Martial Soul, the trash that can’t cultivate. And this man, Fu Yuxiang is a Nirvana Stage Powerhouse. How can you claim to have killed him? Who would believe you?” The absurd claim had the Scarred Youth’s head tilting in puzzlement. With his hand caressing his scar, he burst out laughing.

Nirvana stage?!?!

The words from the Scarred Youth mouth drew a pin drop silence from everyone on site. With their jaws dropped all the way to the ground, everyone present stared at the severed head by Lin Qian’s legs.

They never expected this twist. How is this dead man a Nirvana Stage Practitioner?

“He’s obviously full of hot air! How can trash like him kill a Nirvana Stage Practitioner?” Within the entire Ye Family Block, only Ye Feng remained seemingly calm and collected. Immediately, she snorted exceedingly loudly.

Her loud voice reverberated through the premises without any control. Within this pitch silence area, her chirpy voice pierced through, extremely brightly and louder than usual.

“No, nononono!” Suddenly, the Scarred Youth cupped his face into his palm, vigorously shaking his head, “if you are really Lin Qian. Then it might be possible!”

Having said that, he immediately glared at the smiling young man, pointing his finger at him, “You! Are you Lin Qian?”

This wary interrogation only made the crowd’s puzzlement heighten. The twelve men behind him were also blinking their eyes, not understanding the meaning of the question.

Just as everyone tried to fit the pieces together, Lin Qian lightly nodded, his joking, indifferent attitude disappearing. In its place, a serious game face emerged, “Yes, I am.”

“HAHAHA!” Hearing the response, the Scarred Youth’s head drooped, cupping his face within his palms as he laughed maniacally.

Right at that moment, a figure flickered out from the Bai Family Block and landed onto the stage. Simultaneously, Zhao Qiang and Zhao Jian rushed onto the arena, reinforcing Lin Qian as he met the Tyrannical Blade Sect disciple head-on.

“Brother Lin, what is going on? Why are there Nirvana Stage Tyrannical Blade Sect disciples here?” As he landed on the stage, Bai Ren whispered worriedly to Lin Qian, his eyes scrutinizing the enemies.

On the other side, the Zhao Brothers kept their eyes peeled on every movement of the opponents as they forcibly suppressed their state of panic.

Throwing a firm, confident punch onto each of their chests, Lin Qian smiled affirmatively, “Relax, they are just Nirvana Stage. You left the Universal Sect Mountain alive, and I will make sure you get back there alive. Get a grip of yourselves!”

Hearing Lin Qian’s unwavering confidence, the trio seemed to have eaten a chill pill. Their hearts stopped hammering at their chest, and the originally paralyzing fear faded away.

As they four of them handled themselves, a tremendous commotion burst within the masses. Bai Ren’ words of panic had travelled to the spectator benches loud and clear.

“Oh, my gods. Did I mishear him? Bai Ren just called that trash Brother?”

“Dude, you heard it right. I heard it too. Our Mount Ba City’s Heaven’s Blessed Genius called the trash Brother!”

“What in the world is happening, i don’t even know anymore?”

From the Li Family observation decks, Lin Qin turned to the Scarred Youth, dread twisting in his guts, “Sir, what is happening?”

“Not long ago, the Universal Phenomenon Sect discovered a young genius, easily capable of paralleling the Little Sword Saintess, Ye Xin. Recently, he has shown marked improvements, soaring up the ranks, gaining fame throughout the region. His physical body was especially renowned, able to match a Soul Weapon head-on barehanded. Even a common Nirvana Stage Practitioner could only wait to be clambered on by him. Owing to his teacher’s fame, he gained the title, Young Emperor!”

As the Scarred Youth spoke, the entire courtyard dropped to dead silence, attentively listening on as well.

Amongst the crowd, each and every single one of them had gone through some form of cultivation training. Moreover, the Scarred Youth did not bother to tone down his words. Quickly, the crowd caught the message clearly.

Having heard the rumours, they all turned to the young man on the centre stage. A mind-blowing possibility surfaced in their minds.

“Looks like the intel was inaccurate. The inspectorate disciple was not the Bai Rascal… It’s you..”

As his words finished, the Scarred Youth burst into the air, his dominating Nirvana Stage aura erupted. From the air, he pierced down onto the platform, kicking viciously at the youngster on the stage.

“Young Emperor Lin Qian!”