Chapter 54

  Feng Jiu was overjoyed at the moment, that dead boy, wait and see how he'll take it when he loses, humph! Whoever dares to insult the Feng clan will be dealt with, he's courting death!

  Feng Fei and the others saw that Feng Qi had a plan in mind, so they also put their minds at ease, sat down one by one, and leisurely drank tea. It seemed that today they would once again see another side of Feng Qi that was unknown to others. How delightful! In fact, they really wanted to know what there was in this world that the Seventh Sister didn't know or couldn't do. It was truly intriguing!

  Still standing on the second floor, Yao's master, who was leaning against the railing, also had a look of interest. He wanted to take a good look at this young lady from the Feng clan, who had been neglected since childhood and regarded as a waste by the world. How could she have those things that others didn't?

  Is she just pretending to be fierce and intimidating others?

  Feng Qi's overbearing attitude instantly irritated the bookworm, although their status was not comparable to that of a Xuanqi cultivator. However, as a scholar in front of the Emperor, they also had a say in the matter. Even this Imperial Academy still invited the First Prince Wenxiu to give lectures! She was just a little maid, how dare she climb over his head and act bossy?

  "In the lower realm of jade, I invite the young lady to instruct me."

  As expected, she's indeed a bookworm. Although she's furious to the point of death, she still manages to remain calm and composed. If it weren't for her previous outburst in front of Feng Fei and others, she might have even fooled him with her facade! She's being polite to him now, but... Hehe...

  "Don't worry, Young Master Cang. If your poetry is really not up to par, I'll definitely give you some pointers." Qing Duan raised his teacup and took a sip, while Feng Qi said this without any politeness.

  Wow!

  The surroundings suddenly echoed with a burst of gasps, and then those scholars became disgruntled! They clamored in unison: "Young Master Cang, you'd better take back this blind girl, or else we'll really think that we scholars are easy to bully."

  "It's true, in terms of martial arts we can't beat them, but when it comes to writing essays, that little girl who still smells of her mother's milk is no match for us. Master Gao, you must thoroughly teach this young lady a lesson and see if she dares to be arrogant again." Another scholar angrily shouted.

  "Brother Cang, let's compare with this dead girl, and make her know that we scholars are not people who can be bullied by anyone."

  “……”

  “……”

  Upon hearing these words, the scholar suddenly raised his chin and gazed at Feng Qiniu with a look of disdain: "Did you hear that? You little girl, if you admit defeat, apologize, and slink away with your tail between your legs right now, you might still be able to salvage some dignity. Otherwise, if you're thrown out later, I'm afraid you'll never be able to hold your head up high in this city of Moselie again!"

  Upon hearing this, Feng Fei and the others turned pale with rage. However, Feng Qiujian smiled lightly and looked at the scholar with a puzzled expression, asking: "Since we, the young masters of the Feng clan, have never learned how to tuck our tails from a young age, we don't know how... why don't you, sir, demonstrate it for us first?"

  Feng Fei and others listened, stunned for a second, then burst out laughing, without giving any face.

  "You, you..." The scholar and the literary officials were suddenly enraged, their faces twisted in anger. Finally, the scholar slammed his hand on the table and shouted: "Enough idle chatter! Today, I, Cang Yu, challenge you. Let's see what skills you have to be so arrogant in front of these scholars and in the Emerald Garden. The loser will leave the Emerald Garden with their tail between their legs!"

  He's going to die from anger! He's going to die from anger! This is the first time someone has dared to be so presumptuous in front of him, and it's still a little girl who hasn't even grown her hair long. If he doesn't teach her a lesson this time, he'll lose face in the literary world from now on!

  "Good!" Feng Qiexia suddenly slammed the table, stood up with a "whoosh", and loudly said to everyone in the garden: "Since that's the case, today I, Feng Qiexia, will set up a challenge platform here in this garden. Whether it's poetry, lyrics, chess, or painting, I'll take them all on! Little Ninth Brother, go call the owner of this garden, I have something to discuss with him."

  Crazy, really crazy!

  So arrogant! Really too arrogant!

  As soon as Feng Qiexi's words came out, the entire scene suddenly fell silent, and not only were the Phoenix Clan disciples stunned, but even the scholars were also stunned! They stared at Feng Qiexi with disbelieving eyes, their faces filled with a "looking-at-an-idiot" expression.

  "Didn't you hear what I just said?" Fengjiu was still standing there, stunned, with a foolish expression on her face. Fengqi's eyebrows furrowed in displeasure.

  Feng Qiuyi swept her eyes over, and Feng Jiu suddenly felt a cool breeze hit her face. She hastily responded with a sound, although she didn't know what Shi Mei wanted to find the boss here for, but still followed as told!

  Jingfengjiu left, and Fengqisa attached to Fengfei's ear at the same time, speaking softly. Later, he was seen transforming from initial confusion to surprise, and finally gently touched the tip of Fengqisa's nose with a loving tone: "You're so bad."

  Then, he left with a puzzled expression along with Feng San and others!

  What?

  Whether it's poetry, lyrics, or painting, she takes them all on at once.

  Is this girl crazy? Such words, I'm afraid even the most learned scholars in literature wouldn't dare to say. Because whether it's poetry or music, chess or painting, they all have their strengths and weaknesses, who can be first in everything? And yet this little girl who cultivates her spiritual energy, probably hasn't studied any poetry or music since she was a child! How dare she speak such arrogant words, and expect them not to be shocked?

  But after the shock, a burst of mocking laughter erupted: "Haha! Brother Li, did I hear that right? This little girl wants to compete with us in poetry, music, chess, and painting? Haha! Haha ha! It's really too ridiculous! I've never heard such a joke in my life!"

  A scholar wiped away tears of laughter from the corner of his eyes: "This girl's ability to brag is too strong! Haha..."

  Poetry, music, chess, calligraphy and painting, even these learned scholars didn't dare to let anyone challenge them casually, what makes this little girl think she can? Growing up in the Phoenix Manor, I'm afraid she hasn't even touched a zither before!

  Actually, these scholars are not wrong in thinking this way. In a continent where the strong are respected, scholars have always been looked down upon and thought to be only good at boasting with their words, but actually having no real skills. They might even get slapped flying out with just one palm! What's the point of using people like that? That's why these aristocratic families never let their children touch those things, saying it's a waste of time and energy, and has no prospects.

  But in the eyes of scholars, aren't these practitioners of mystic energy just ordinary martial artists? Apart from being fierce and violent, they have no refinement whatsoever; they're simply coarse people. What culture can be spoken of?

  So for hundreds of years, the cultivators of Xuan Qi have always looked down on scholars, while scholars also look down on martial artists. This contradiction has existed for more than a day or two! So today, seeing Feng Fei and other Xuan Qi cultivators enter this Cui Garden where scholars and literati gather, such provocative things would happen.

  Among the various ridicules, Feng Qiuye didn't say a word. Many things aren't said with one's mouth, but are proven through facts. And today, she was going to take advantage of this opportunity to carry out her future plans!

  She never wastes an opportunity, does she?

  Before long, Fengjiu was accompanied by a man in his forties with two eight-shaped whiskers.

  "What instructions does the young lady have for me?" The middle-aged man smiled deeply, with a glint in his eyes, clearly a shrewd person.

  Feng Qiuye merely cast a faint glance at her and didn't bother with idle chatter, directly getting to the point: "I want to buy out this Cuigarden, how much will it cost?"

  The middle-aged man was taken aback, and then a lion-like voice said: "10,000 gold coins."

  Whoa! As soon as he spoke, a burst of gasps erupted from all around. It seemed that this 10,000 gold coins was no small sum! For an ordinary family, their monthly expenses wouldn't exceed one or two gold coins, yet he had just casually mentioned 10,000 gold coins. This wasn't obviously bullying a child?!

  Feng Jiu's face changed, and he was about to shout "Robbery!" when Feng Qi suddenly slammed his fist on the table: "Alright, but from now on, no matter what I do, none of you from Cuigarden are allowed to interfere, got it?"

  It was clear that he hadn't expected the young girl to agree so readily, and the middle-aged man was taken aback. That's 10,000 gold coins! Can a little girl like her make such decisions? But since things had already gone this far, he could only agree: "Alright, but you're not allowed to cause trouble in Emerald Garden either. This is a place where fighting is not permitted."

  "Don't worry, I said today is just a test of words, no one will lay hands on you." As soon as the words fell, Feng Qiuye casually flicked his wrist, and a bag had already flown towards the middle-aged man: "This is 5,000 gold coins, the other half will be paid when we leave."

  The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment and instinctively took it over. In fact, until now, he still didn't understand what this little girl wanted to do?

  But he knew these were questions he couldn't ask, because even if he did, he wouldn't get any answers.

  With a flicker of her eyes, Feng Qiyue's gaze shifted away from him and onto the group of scholars, saying: "Whether it's zither, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry or song lyrics, you can choose whatever you want. However, I'll only compete in three rounds, I don't have that much free time to play with you all, so you'd better think carefully about who to send out!"

  What's wrong with having no time to play with them?

  Is this trial just a game in her eyes? It's really hateful! Those scholars had an iron face, and just wanted to vent their anger at Feng Qiju, but they saw the servants of Cuigarden rushing up, shouting loudly: "Boss, it's not good! It's not good!"

  The middle-aged man was startled and hastily shouted: "What's wrong? Speak clearly!"

  "Yes, many people have rushed into Cuiyuan! We can't stop them, it's so scary." The servant boy wiped his sweat and looked terrified. They were all practitioners of the mysterious energy, but they didn't dare to speak more, or else they would be slapped flying with a palm.

  Feng Qi's sly smile was deep and profound. She couldn't help but secretly sigh in admiration at the efficiency of Feng Fei's people, truly worthy of being from the Phoenix Clan, they arrived so quickly!

  When he saw Feng Qisha's smile, the middle-aged man felt a sense of relief. With so many people rushing over, it was likely that this little girl couldn't escape being involved! He waved his hand and told the servant to go down, telling them to do things as usual and not to panic. At the same time, he became curious about this little girl, what did she want to do? He really couldn't understand her more and more!

  Before long, many people had walked into the Cui Garden one after another and found a place to sit down. However, they were quiet and didn't say much, just gazing at Feng Qiyue with eyes that held more profound meaning.

  "Shi Mei, what's going on?"

  Fengjiu was taken aback after seeing the people who walked in, because they were not some unknown young men, but rather individuals with impressive backgrounds and identities. Even his father seemed to be among them, and... it seemed like the master of the house had also arrived!

  His whole body involuntarily trembled, he could fool around outside, but he couldn't let his father or the master of the house catch him! What to do now? He didn't want to go back and kneel on that cold ground against the wall!

  "Don't worry, nothing will happen." Seeing Fengjiu's fear, Fengqiu couldn't help but shake his head and patted her hand to comfort her, indeed a child, still so afraid of parents.

  But why does Feng Zhē Tiān's face have to be so gloomy? Can't he just accept the few gold coins and be done with it? How petty.

  At this time, Feng Jue Tian would not know if he knew what was on his mind, I don't know if he would vomit blood! This dead girl, really can't be at peace for a minute, how long has it been since she went out? It's actually caused such a thing again. What is the literary world, declaring war with the literati, when did she learn poetry and prose from an early age, those things that waste one's will like chess, books, and paintings? Isn't this clearly losing? It's really self-inflicted humiliation.

  "Feng Ge doesn't have to worry, I believe Xiao Er won't do anything without being sure." On the other hand, Long Shaoxuan said with a more optimistic tone.

  He glanced at Long Shaoxuan, and Feng Juetian's eyes were filled with complexity. The master of the Long family had always called him brother, but now this evil child actually said she wanted to marry him instead of marrying that child Kai'er, it was really...

  Alas!

  The thoughts of this evil child are getting more and more incomprehensible! A 13-year-old girl, how can she be a match for the 30-year-old Long Shaoyuan?!

  Although, cough... if we really compare them, Long Shaoyuan is many times better than Long Yujing. Moreover, since the death of Long Yujing's mother, although there have been several concubines, none of them has ever taken the position of main wife. If Xie'er marries him, she will become the current mistress of the house, holding real power...

  This thing about marrying the father instead of the son is really going to happen! Not only will Jade's child never be able to hold her head up again, but even the illegitimate child will be cursed with a bad reputation! How can this be good?

  At the same time, he vaguely felt that Long's attitude towards Ye was very different, which really made him feel uneasy!

  Long Shaoyuan gazed at Feng Qixia, who was radiant with a deep smile, and couldn't help but feel increasingly pleased. Today's performance was probably another one of her tricks!

  Wow! To think that someone would actually come up with a literary duel, accepting the challenge of the literati, something that has never happened in the hundreds of years of history of the Azure Empire. And to set up a arena in this very Jade Garden, charging an entrance fee of one thousand two gold coins per person, not even exempting members of the Phoenix Clan, or even his own father! How utterly ruthless! No wonder the master of the Phoenix Clan's face turned completely black!

  But out of curiosity or perhaps comparison with celebrities, all the big names in Mosel City came! And under the stimulation of Feng Fei's words, they all took out their wallets, and he couldn't help but say that this little head was indeed very clever and a born business genius.

  So he had to think of something else!

  Although I was startled by Feng Qi's words about marrying him today, thinking that Long Shao Xuan is a person who can surprise people in an instant. Since Cong'er has always been unwilling to marry her, and this little girl has too many secrets on her body, it's simply one ring after another, no matter what she does, it's beyond people's expectations. In fact, marrying her back home isn't bad either.

  And what's more, Huo Yun was not afraid to oppose the Long family, wanting to marry Xiao'er into their own family, and even Yu Lan Zong's Yu Liu Fang had made a move! This is no ordinary phenomenon!

  Yu Liu Fang's character is very clear, although he loves beautiful women, but he loves power even more, and everything he does is for his own benefit. That's why he did this, and he doesn't believe it's because of Xiāo ér's beauty that he was captivated. Although Xiāo ér looks good, she's only a 13-year-old girl who hasn't fully developed physically yet, and Yu Liu Fang doesn't think she has any appeal to someone like him who is a playboy.

  So from this analysis, it can be concluded that there must still be secrets about Ye Er that he himself is not aware of, and these secrets are what attracted Yu Liu Fang and Huo Jing Yun. At the same time, considering Ye Er's terrifying growth rate (in just over half a month, he rose from a one-star Xuan Shi to a six-star Xuan Shi, and even defeated the nine-star Da Xuan Shi Huo Jing Yun with his six-star Xuan Shi strength - how many people in this world can achieve such a feat?), no matter what, he absolutely cannot let her fall into the hands of other families.

  Because if so, it would be a greater threat to the Long family! So he absolutely cannot allow such a thing to happen.

  But thinking of this, he couldn't help but suspect that Feng Qiuye's words about marrying him were not because she looked down on Kui'er due to her infatuation with himself. The icy and hate-filled gaze made his heart skip a beat. When their eyes met, he always felt like he was the unfaithful one. She seemed to be looking through him at another person, someone she both loved and hated.

  But at her age, does she know what love is?

  Just then, when Long Shaohuan was at a loss, there was a commotion outside the door. Following that, an old man with white hair and beard, supported by his attendants, slowly walked in.

  The scholar and the literary men, who were stunned by the sudden events, saw the old man with white hair and immediately changed their expressions, stepped forward and said: "Late-born Cang Yu, has seen Mo Lao..."

  Then all the scholars hastily paid their respects to the old man.

  The old man raised his hand casually, indicating that they didn't need to bow, and then swept his gaze around the room before finally settling on Feng Qiuye's face, with a hint of scrutiny: "Is it you? Are you declaring war on us scholars as a martial artist?"

  Feng Qi didn't expect that her actions would bring out such a big fish, and she couldn't help but wonder who this old man was. Looking at the respectful attitude of those scholars, it was clear that this old man's background wasn't ordinary, probably a giant in the literary world?

  Phoenix Qi didn't dare to be slow either. Out of respect for the reader, he stepped forward and saluted: "Phoenix Qi has seen Mr. Mo."