Demoted to Outer Disciple

It was all because she willingly stripped herself of all her abilities just to be accepted as Jun Xu’s disciple.

She became as weak as a chicken, or else she would have directly knocked Bai Yu’s head with her shoe.

Who the hell are you strangling? Do you want to die?

Cough… Chu Jiuning reached out to remove the hand that was gripping her neck.

“Sister, let me go!”

Bai Yu’s pupils trembled, and she forcefully threw Chu Jiuning against the red wall. “Who do you think you’re calling sister?”

As Chu Jiuning was harshly slammed against the wall and fell to the ground, she grimaced in pain.

In that moment of pain, she suddenly remembered when Bai Yu was lying in her arms, and she said to Bai Yu:

“Sister, you can only be my sister. If anyone else calls you sister, you should cripple them directly, understand?”

Umm… she really dug her own grave with that one.

Supporting her aching waist, she slowly stood up. “I don’t care about you all anymore. If you want to take things from me later, come find me.”

To avoid unnecessary explanations, she quickly separated from this group of big shots.

However, Ju Linyuan suddenly stopped her. “After you find the Dragon Soul of the Former King of Sea, come find me at the Wolf Clan.”

Chu Jiuning rolled her eyes speechlessly. Why should she be the one to go find him?

But when she turned her head, she smiled and agreed, “All right, Warrior.”

Returning to the inn from the palace, Chu Jiuning saw that her two senior brothers hadn’t returned yet. She took a bath and had Little Snowman materialize to help her apply ointment.

Little Snowman, soft and tender, was only the size of a fist. It looked at the large bruise on her back and couldn’t help but feel sorry. “Master, Bai Yu was too ruthless!”

Chu Jiuning let out a long sigh. “He didn’t cripple me, so I should thank him!”

After Little Snowman finished applying the ointment, she put on her clothes and lay down.

“Little Snowman, can you locate the whereabouts of the treasures from the eight big shots?”

Little Snowman nodded. “Although this is a newly fused world, I can sense it. But I can only provide real-time directions on how to get there. Giving you the exact location or coordinates is currently not possible.”

Ah? Chu Jiuning massaged her temples, feeling a headache coming on. “Walking there seems a bit troublesome!

Little Snowman hung its head. “Master, there’s no other way.”

Sigh. Chu Jiuning couldn’t say anything else. She could only take it step by step.

At dusk, Fei Yu and Jian Tong finally returned. The two of them also learned about how the grand wedding turned into a battlefield.

But now, they didn’t need to send any congratulatory gifts. The question was, how would they explain it to the Grand Elder when they returned?

However, the next day, while on their way back, the three of them stumbled upon the lost congratulatory gifts.

After confirming multiple times, Jian Tong and Fei Yu realized that these were the gifts they had lost.

“Is this considered finding something without searching for it?” Jian Tong smiled bitterly.

Fei Yu sighed softly. “In that case, we can explain it to the Grand Elder when we return.”

Jian Tong nodded in agreement. “Senior Brother, should we lie in ambush here and find out who stole them?”

Fei Yu glanced at Chu Jiuning, who was standing nearby, and shook his head.

“They deliberately left them here for us to find, so they won’t come back.”

Ah? Jian Tong couldn’t help but feel confused. “Then why did they do this?” Just for fun? Are they bored?

Fei Yu shook his head. “I don’t know, but since we’ve found the items and nothing is missing, I don’t want to investigate further.”

Chu Jiuning, who had remained silent all this time, secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Luckily, her two senior brothers didn’t suspect anything.

Two days later, the three of them happily returned to the First Immortal Sect and saw the Grand Elder, Hong Yin, already waiting at the gate with a group of people.

After Fei Yu briefly reported their journey to Hong Yin, she smiled and nodded. “You’ve all worked hard. Go and rest.”

Just as Chu Jiuning was following behind Fei Yu and Jian Tong like a little tail, passing by Hong Yin, she was called out. “Xiao Xue, wait a moment.”

Chu Jiuning didn’t immediately realize that Xiao Xue was referring to her. Instead, it was Fei Yu and Jian Tong who were walking ahead that stopped and turned to look at her.

She was momentarily stunned, then turned her head to look at Hong Yin. “Grand Elder, you called me?”

Hong Yin smiled as she looked at her. “Xiao Xue, you have been demoted to an outer disciple by the Sect Master. I will have someone take you to your new residence.”

Chu Jiuning was dumbfounded. She had just attended a wedding, so how did she go from being the Sect Master’s personal disciple to an ordinary outer disciple?

She didn’t believe it! This must be Hong Yin deliberately scaring her!

Fei Yu and Jian Tong exchanged complex glances.

Jian Tong looked at Hong Yin and furrowed his brows. “Grand Elder, why?”

Hong Yin glanced at him indifferently. “Go ask your Master. How would I know? But I doubt you’ll get an answer. Even I can’t get one. So…”

Her gaze turned sharp as she looked at Chu Jiuning. “Xiao Xue, tell us. What did you do to make the Sect Master demote you to an outer disciple? Do you know? In all the years I’ve known him, you’re the first person I’ve seen him punish so severely! Respect!”

On the first day of Chu Jiuning month, Ning fell silent, tilting her head to look at her. “Junior Sister, please speak. Only after Senior Brother and I know the specifics can we help you plead with our Master.”

It’s not that Chu Jiuning deliberately wants to be mysterious, but she dares not speak.

If Hong Yin knew about her act of deceiving and betraying the Master by kissing him, she would definitely expel her from the First Immortal Sect!

Therefore, Jun Xu only demoted her to an outer disciple, showing some leniency due to their master-disciple relationship.

But during the first time they interacted intimately, she also kissed him, although he was angry and only punished her to stand at the water jar for two hours.

Why did he directly demote her to an outer disciple this time?

Little Snowman: Master, it might be a matter of the timeline. During the first encounter, you kissed Jun Xu, and he already had some favorable feelings towards you, although he wasn’t aware of it himself. But this time, you tried to prevent him from attending the wedding banquet of the Royal Clan’s young master, and you did it much earlier. Jun Xu definitely won’t forgive you easily.

Chu Jiuning pouted, “Grand Elder, Second Brother, I didn’t do anything. I think it’s because our Master finds it troublesome to have a female disciple like me.”

Hong Yin rolled her eyes directly in front of her. “Xiao Xue, if you don’t tell the truth, it’s fine, but slandering the Sect Master is going too far. I think the punishment given to you by the Sect Master is too light. If the Sect Master were the kind of person you described, he wouldn’t have accepted you as his disciple from the beginning. Go to the Menial Tasks Department and reflect for three months!”

Chu Jiuning pursed her lips. “I want to see Master. I have something important to report to him!”

“Master? Do you even deserve to call him that? Call him Sect Master,” Hong Yin said bluntly.

Chu Jiuning playfully hugged her arm. “Mighty and majestic Grand Elder, please let me see Master, no, I mean the Sect Master. I really have something important to report! It involves several influential figures from different clans.”

Hong Yin raised an eyebrow. “Oh? Then you should have told me first, and I would have relayed it to the Sect Master. If he deems it necessary to see you, he will.”