Youth Must Be Seized Early; How Can One Remain Young Forever? Chapter One Hundred: Offering His Neck to the Blade

“Steward Chen, please speak plainly,” Bai Qingzhou said at once.

“Heh.” Chen Li stroked his beard and said coolly, “You all seem to have forgotten that this man is still one of the Boundless Alliance’s most wanted criminals.”

His words were like a sudden awakening. The rest of them immediately came to their senses.

From the start, they had fallen into a mistaken assumption. Seeing Yu Hou return so brazenly, and seeing that no one had come to arrest him even after all this time in the market district, they had thought the Boundless Alliance had already withdrawn the warrant for him.

But they had not. The warrant still stood. By rights, so long as he dared step into Boundless Alliance territory, they could seize him without hesitation.

Bai Qingzhou hurriedly said, “Then should we go find the Foundation Establishment cultivator here and have him take him down directly?”

“No.” Chen Li slowly shook his head. “If we hand him over to a Foundation Establishment cultivator of the Boundless Sect, his crimes are not yet serious enough to warrant severe punishment. And since he is a member of the Yu family, they may only detain him and send him back to the Yu clan in exchange for some compensation.”

Zhang Zhiyan looked indignant, unable to believe it. “He joined forces with rogue cultivators to ambush our Boundless Alliance disciples, and they would still let him go home after that?”

“By rights, the cultivators of the Boundless Sect would indeed handle it that way. After all, the matter of the ambush is only our word against his, and without clear evidence, the Boundless Alliance must still observe a few rules.” Chen Li shook his head and sighed.

The group exchanged looks. If this man really returned to the Yu family unscathed, then the Mystic Sun Sect would truly lose all face.

Just as everyone fell silent, Ruan Xiuqi’s eyes flickered. He looked at Chen Li and smiled. “I’m guessing you must already have a way, Steward Chen.”

Chen Li gave him a sidelong glance and snorted. “So it really is you little brat who understands me.”

At that, Bai Qingzhou turned to Chen Li and asked urgently, “What method does Steward Chen have?”

“Simple.” Chen Li’s gaze turned ruthless, and his voice sharpened. “Since he is still a wanted criminal, then as soon as he appears in the wild, we can strike him down with a single ambush. There is no need whatsoever to involve a Foundation Establishment cultivator. In that case, the Boundless Sect will have nothing to say either. After all, we are merely acting within the rules.”

Bai Qingzhou nodded deeply in agreement, then asked with some concern, “If we kill him, what about the Yu family...”

“Hmph. Kill him, and so be it. Even if the Yu family wants to make an issue of it, I believe the Boundless Alliance will not sit idly by. We shall see whether the Yu family dares to offend the entire Boundless Alliance for the sake of a mere junior!”

At those words, everyone’s eyes lit up.

That was exactly the logic.

“Then next,” Chen Li said calmly, “we make him step out of the market district on his own.”

“...”

The others lowered their voices and began discussing the plan.

Yu Hou had been feeling exceptionally pleased lately, as though he had returned to the carefree days he once enjoyed in Fishrise City.

The reason was simple: he had received news that his great-grandfather had recently broken through the bottleneck and officially become a Golden Core cultivator.

After that, the family held a grand Golden Core banquet, and they had even thought of him, far away in the Boundless Alliance, sending someone to bring him word that he should return and attend the feast.

This also indirectly meant that the trouble he had caused at home that day had gradually died down, and he could go back.

That immediately lifted his spirits.

“Hmph. That tiny Boundless Alliance even dared issue a warrant for me back then! Wasn’t it just the killing of some unknown sect disciple? How laughable!” Yu Hou thought to himself.

At this moment, he was walking down the street without the least bit of restraint.

Since he had learned of his great-grandfather’s successful advancement, he had immediately returned to the Luo Market, strolling the streets every day with complete arrogance, venting the frustration of those days when he had been hunted and forced into hiding.

“A bunch of country bumpkins! Let’s see whether you still dare arrest me now! Heh-heh!” Yu Hou sneered inwardly at those rustics.

He planned to wander here for two more days and thoroughly get it out of his system.

Then, suddenly, his eyes lit up. He had actually spotted a familiar back in the street.

Ahead of him was a girl of about seventeen or eighteen, dressed in a moon-white floral robe, her whole body overflowing with the purity and freshness of youth.

Yu Hou hurried forward, placed a hand on her shoulder, and grinned. “Well now, if it isn’t little Yin!”

That sudden approach startled Luo Xiaoyin. She turned around in alarm, and the moment she saw who it was, her face changed drastically.

“It... it’s you!” she stammered, pointing at Yu Hou with a trembling hand.

“Heh-heh.” Yu Hou gave a low laugh, rubbing his hands together in a lewd manner. “Let me see where you can run off to today.”

Luo Xiaoyin folded her arms across her chest and kept backing away, crying out, “Ah! This is still inside the market district! How dare you!”

“Hmph.” Yu Hou sneered, full of confidence. “Just watch whether I dare or not!”

As he spoke, he reached out to seize her arm.

“You vile bastard! How dare you lay a hand on my daughter?!” a furious bellow suddenly rang out.

A lean, wiry man came rushing over from a distance. He quickly reached the girl’s side, pulled her back behind him in one motion, and then fixed Yu Hou with an enraged stare.

It was Luo Zhi.

The argument immediately drew the attention of the people on the street.

“What’s going on?”

“Eh? Isn’t that the young master from the Yu family? I heard his great-grandfather became a Golden Core cultivator...”

“Tsk, tsk. I remember that man is Old Luo the butcher. I never would have thought he had such a beautiful daughter~”

“Pretty is pretty, but what’s the use? She’s only a mortal. In another ten years or so, she’ll start aging away...”

The commotion stirred up a great deal of murmuring among the bystanders.

Seeing who had arrived, Yu Hou was not angry at all. He chuckled and greeted him, “Ah, Old Luo, is that you? Long time no see!”

“I’m not familiar with you,” Luo Zhi replied coldly.

“Haha, not familiar with me? That’s not certain. You might even become my father-in-law someday~”

“Hmph! I’d never be interested!” Luo Zhi said, and pulled Luo Xiaoyin away.

“My great-grandfather is a Golden Core cultivator, you know,” Yu Hou said lazily as the two were about to leave.

But to his surprise, Luo Zhi did not care in the slightest. Looking back, he shouted, “So what if your father is a Golden Core cultivator? What has that got to do with me?”

“Bold!” Yu Hou roared, and his entire body shot toward Luo Zhi.

How dare this man insult a Golden Core cultivator!

He was courting death!

As a sixth-layer Qi Refining cultivator, Yu Hou’s speed naturally far exceeded Luo Zhi’s. Luo Zhi could not react in time; Yu Hou’s fist was already about to smash into his face.

But at that critical moment, a mysterious force suddenly stopped the charging Yu Hou dead in his tracks.

A middle-aged cultivator appeared out of thin air in midair, his spiritual energy taking the form of a transparent wall of light that blocked Yu Hou’s path of attack.

It was his spiritual energy that had stopped Yu Hou.

This man was the Foundation Establishment cultivator stationed here.

“No fighting in the Luo Market!” the Foundation Establishment cultivator said coldly.

Yu Hou impatiently waved his arm dismissively and cast the cultivator a contemptuous glance, as if he did not regard him in the slightest.

Across from him, Luo Zhi let out a long breath the moment he saw the Foundation Establishment cultivator appear. After bowing to him, he immediately shot Yu Hou a mocking look.

Seeing that look, Yu Hou flew into a rage and pointed at Luo Zhi. “You ignorant cur!”

“Hmph.” Luo Zhi gave a cold snort, then said, “Me, ignorant? You’d better leave right now! Once I go back and notify the cultivators of the Mystic Sun Sect to come here, you’ll be dead for sure!”

“Hahahaha!” Yu Hou threw his head back and laughed as though he had heard the greatest joke in the world. “Kill me? Even if I stretched out my neck and let them strike, the Mystic Sun Sect wouldn’t dare do it!”

“Just you wait! I’m going to the Mystic Sun Sect right now to inform Sect Master Nie!”

And with that, he stormed off.