Chapter Thirty-One: Breakthrough

  Chu Yang's eyes were quick and his hands were fast, he seized the opportunity to strike before him. With a loud "slap", he struck Stone Qian Shan's chest with his palm, shattering his breastbone. Stone Qian Shan's body jerked violently, his eyes bulged out, and blood foam spewed from his mouth and nose as he fell backwards, lifeless.

  "Hmm?" Meng Chaoran looked at him and immediately understood what he meant, and couldn't help but let out a sigh.

  "Master, it's better for me to take care of this. He has been bullying us for a long time, and today is a good opportunity to get back at him." Chu Yang said calmly.

  Meng Chaoran looked at him deeply, patted his shoulder with his hand, wanted to say something but stopped himself, and finally didn't say anything, then walked out.

  With his own hands, he killed the disciple he had cultivated for eight years. With Meng Chaoran's personality, after killing him, he would probably be haunted by guilt. But Chu Yang was different. Although they also died in front of him, it wasn't the same as being killed by his own hand, and that feeling would be much weaker.

  Chu Yang's intention, how could Meng Chao Ran not understand?

  Chu Yang sighed and looked at Shi Qianshan's corpse on the bed, unable to help but say with hatred: "You died so quickly, it's really a bargain for you." This statement was not wrong. If Meng Chaoran hadn't suddenly arrived, Chu Yang would have used his methods to combine the accumulated grievances of two lifetimes and would have definitely made Shi Qianshan beg for life and death.

  Chu Yang finally understood why Meng Chaoran gave himself the name Chu Yang. Firstly, it was because of the "Chu" character on the jade pendant, and secondly, it was because of the "initial" character in the phrase "night initial morning". Chu Yang, isn't it a homophone for the sun at dawn?

  And "Early Morning", isn't it almost the same as the meaning of your own name?

  And as for Tan's "Tan" character, isn't it just like "a fleeting glance of a flower in bloom"? Wasn't that Meng Chao-ran lamenting the brevity of his own love?

  Chu Yang suddenly realized that his master's heart was so bitter. The most unbearable thing in life is "parting in life and death". And among these four words, "parting in life" comes first, which means that "parting in life" is even more unbearable than "death parting".

  "Death separation" is hard to bear for a moment. But "life separation", it's hard to bear for a lifetime. As long as you're alive, this pain and suffering will never cease!

  "Night begins at dusk..." Chu Yang muttered to himself, focusing his attention quietly on the direction Meng Chaoran had walked out in, and said in his heart: "Master, I've remembered this name."

  Looking back at Shi Qianshan's corpse with wide eyes, Chu Yang was silent for a while, and a complex emotion arose from his heart. He finally truly felt that he had really changed the trajectory of some people's lives!

  In his past life, Shi Qianshan should have lived for four more years, but he was reborn less than a month ago and now Shi Qianshan has died at his own hands...

  Chu Yang fell silent for a moment, then wrapped the body in a quilt and slowly walked out. When he came back after handling things, he unexpectedly found that Tan Tang had actually cooked another table of dishes during this time, placed on the table, steaming hot.

  What's even more unexpected is that Meng Chao Ran didn't disappear, but instead sat quietly in the first place, as if waiting for himself. Everything was just like usual, without a second difference.

  Tan Tang saw Chu Yang enter, his eyebrows twitched twice, he rubbed his hands together and asked somewhat nervously: "That... Eldest Senior Brother... uh, Shi Qian Shan, where is he?"

  "He's dead. I killed him." Chu Yang said calmly, then sat down. Tan Tang nodded and lowered his head, suddenly feeling a complete loss of appetite. He had also heard Shi Qian Shan's words earlier, and in his heart, he too felt that Shi Qian Shan deserved to die, but for some reason, there was still a faint sense of sadness. After all, they had been together for so many years, and Tan Tang hadn't discovered Shi Qian Shan's true nature until now.

  Meng Chao Ran fell silent for a moment, picked up his chopsticks and said: "Let's eat." His expression was calm, as if this matter had never happened before, as if Zi Zhu Garden had never known a person named Shi Qian Shan.

  The three of them sat in silence. The atmosphere at the table was oppressive to the extreme.

  Chu Yang didn't say a word, and Master Meng Chaoran didn't need any comfort at this time. Although he was somewhat heartbroken and felt it wasn't worth it, he would be able to adjust in just a few days. But only Shi Qianshan's final desperation had stirred up Master Meng's emotional wound, and this inner turmoil would probably last for a long time...

  Meng Chaoran finished eating and saw that Chu Yang had also wolfed down his food, and couldn't help but raise an eyebrow, saying: "Chu Yang, this is your first time killing someone, right? I remember, you hadn't even killed a chicken before."

  Chu Yang was taken aback and said, "Yes." Only then did he realize that he had been too calm after killing someone. Falling into the eyes of an old hand like Meng Chao Ran, it was undoubtedly a very surprising thing.

  Although he is a martial artist, no matter how evil the demon head is, he will always have some abnormality when killing for the first time. But now Chu Yang killed his master brother who had been with him for eight years at his first kill, and even his appetite was not affected!

  Isn't it strange?

  "Your mental quality is like that of a natural-born killer." Meng Chaoran smiled faintly and said. After finishing, he suddenly remembered Wu Yunliang's proposal and for the first time acknowledged in his heart the possibility of Chu Yang doing that dangerous task.

  With such calmness and composure, almost to the point of being cold-blooded, he did that thing, absolutely not expecting to reveal his true intentions. But Meng Chaoran still couldn't shake off the feeling of unease, his emotions were in turmoil.

  That's an opportunity, but also a path of nine deaths and one life!

  "A born killer..." Chu Yang sighed inwardly, thinking to himself, although this is my first time killing someone in this life, I've already helped countless souls ascend in my past life, shouldn't I be calm? I'm long numb to it! Killing a person is actually not as impactful as killing a chicken for myself...

  "Shi Qianshan deserved to die, and his disciple killing him was a righteous act of heaven and earth. I feel no pressure at all, and it's actually quite refreshing." Chu Yang said seriously.

  Meng Chaoran looked at him and suddenly smiled slightly, saying: "Very good!" Then he didn't speak again.

  In a flash, three days passed. On this evening, Chu Yang sat alone in the depths of the purple bamboo forest, sensing the aura of heaven and earth. He had a premonition that today, he should be able to break through to the Warrior realm!

  Ever since that day when Shi Qianshan was killed, the anger in his heart was triggered, and Chu Yang had always felt that the Dan Tian Qi Hai was fluctuating violently, as if a bloodthirsty mood was awakening, struggling and roaring.

  This is the fierce and unyielding sword path left in his soul from his past life! Chu Yang had spent a great deal of effort to suppress this emotion, continuing to cultivate calmly. But from that moment on, the true energy within him suddenly surged up. It seemed as if it was about to break through some kind of shackles!

  Chu Yang narrowed his eyes, carefully manipulating the vortex in his body, warming and rotating it in his dantian. The small Nine Tribulations Sword seemed to have become a core, as the vortex revolved around it nine times before bursting out of the dantian like lightning, rushing into the meridians with a sharp energy that coursed through them!

  Step by step, after circulating nine weeks in the meridian, a mighty current has formed. As soon as Chu Yang's mind moves, the current leaves the warrior's circulation channel and rushes up fiercely, rushing to the bottleneck of the warrior's orbit!

  Boom!

  Chu Yang only felt that inside his body, a loud thunder-like sound suddenly rang out, his body violently shook once, and with a "pu" sound, a mouthful of blood spurted out, two threads of blood shot out from his nostrils; his face turned bright red.

  But the mighty torrent had already burst through the bottleneck, and was advancing steadily along the newly opened meridian lines. Chu Yang carefully controlled it, as after breaking through, during the first circulation of the new meridian's power, he must be cautious. Otherwise, there would be damage. This kind of damage, though invisible, could restrict a person's future achievements!

  Like walking on a single-plank bridge, guiding the airflow to circle around the sky, Chu Yang had already broken out in a cold sweat all over his body. But he didn't relax, and continued to run.

  One week, two weeks... nine weeks!

  The cycle was complete, Chu Yang let out a fierce breath, only to feel that his entire body had lost half of its strength, yet at the same time, he felt as if his whole body was immersed in warm water, extremely comfortable.

  The breath he spat out, even in the pitch-black darkness of night, actually showed a dark luster, flashing before his face and then dispersing into the air.

  In the depths of a purple bamboo forest, Meng Chaoran stood upright and motionless, his body already covered in frost, fully focused on protecting his disciples.

  At the moment when Chu Yang broke through, Meng Chaoran also let out a long sigh of relief, and finally succeeded! Chu Yang's cultivation path has taken another step forward.

  "What the...?!" Meng Chaoran was stunned, staring at the dark, shiny, eerie gas that Chu Yang spat out. His eyes widened uncontrollably as he exclaimed in shock, "This is meridian impurity!"