Inside the Loyalty Palace, Xue Zhengyong and his fellow disciples stared grimly at the unexpected visitors.
As expected, almost all of the great sects were present, and even Jiang Xi, who was quite sensible, was among them. Although he did not want to target any particular sect, the matter was so important, and there had been so many clues to the summit of death and life over the past few days, that he, as the leader of the Immortal Sect, had to lead the way.
The disciples at the Top of the Dead were already unhappy at being repeatedly called out for their misdeeds, and today they were suddenly called out for "hiding criminals" and "having bad intentions". The Upper Fairy World was so aggressive, and their words were so questioning and dismissive, that as we talked, the smell of gunpowder was already thick in the air.
"I repeat, the Top of Death and Life has never intentionally revealed the forbidden scroll to Mo Ran, nor has it condoned Mo Ran's practice of this art, nor has it stolen the Zhenlong Pawn, nor has it intended to unify the Xianxia Realm with this forbidden art. Furthermore, Yu Heng and Mo Ran are not in the sect at the moment, so please be reasonable."
Among the Upper Fairy World sects, Jade Lake Villa, Jiangdong Court and the Top of the Dead are the ones with the deepest grievances.
Jiangdong Court is now down to a hundred people, all of whom are explicitly clear of Huang Xiaoyue, but not necessarily in their bones. When they looked at each other, someone sneered, "Master Xue, there is no evidence for your empty words. Although you say that you are innocent at the top of death and life, all sorts of suspicions point to your sect now. Who knows what you are trying to do?"
"It is."
"Those Zhenlong chess that are causing a bloodbath in the Xianxia Realm these days, the ones that were caught are all related to you at the top of death and life, so it would be too far-fetched to say that it is a coincidence."
Someone from Jade Lake Villa said, "I don't know if you've heard, but the Tops of the Dead have been slaying demons for Lower Fairy World, often without taking any money, for over 20 years. Once or twice they may have done it out of the goodness of their hearts, but for twenty years, don't you think that's ridiculous?"
Xue Zhengyong said angrily, "My brothers and I started our school with nothing, and we built it to protect the people of Lower Fairy World from the wind and rain. I have a heart of gold, but I am innocent."
"Dan Xin" the man sneered, "A piece of Dan Xin Xue Zhengyong, taught a nephew who stole the forbidden arts and raised a patriarch who killed and robbed prisons. Now that these two greatest demons have come from the top of your death and life, how can Master Xue have the face to mention the word Danxin again"
Someone said, "That's right. No one in the world is stupid, no one would do a good deed for twenty years without expecting anything in return. There must be a conspiracy behind this."
"There are also so many previous pawns of unknown origin that would never have been made overnight. Maybe the Top of Death and Life has been openly playing the signboard of getting rid of demons and defending the Way all these years, but secretly raising a wave of Zhenlong chess in private"
Xue Meng was also in the hall, he had been holding his anger in his stomach for the past few days, and when he heard this, he finally couldn't stand it any longer, he suddenly stood up, drew his sword and broke the case.
"Have you guys made up enough."
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Xue Meng raised his eyes, his gaze ruthless: "It's okay to spread rumours in private, but to come to the summit of the dead and the living to spread wildness, who gave you the guts?"
Jiangdong Court is at the end of its tether, and after the death of so many seniors in quick succession, the election of the head of the sect has been somewhat haphazard. The new head is a young girl of 16 or 17 years of age, who is nothing but beautiful, and who has actually risen to the top thanks to the support and love of her brothers.
The little girl, who did not know the rules and had never suffered before, probably thought that everyone in the world would be as impressed by her beauty as her unlucky brothers, so she smiled delicately and said, "Brother Meng, don't be angry."
Xue Meng :""
"When you're angry, you're not handsome anymore, yo."
"Pfft," someone immediately burst out laughing.
Even though the atmosphere in the hall was tense, many of the monks' faces were a little tense when they heard her speak. The disciples of big sects like the Fire Phoenix Pavilion Snow Walk Palace all looked at the "head of a sect" with a dumbfounded look.
The girl felt more and more that all the men in the world were falling for her, and raising her little white neck, she said in a self-indulgent manner, "What is the grievance that cannot be told in peace? If you are justified, the ten sect heads of the Upper Fairy World, led by me, will do you justice."
At these words, the palace members, who had been feigning solemnity, were somewhat unable to carry themselves.
Ma Yun of Peach Bud Villa, a businessman and the quickest to respond to numbers, was stunned: "What Upper Fairy World top ten schools?"
Ming Yuelou, the owner of Snow Walk Palace, said without expression, "She miscalculated. Just pretend you didn't hear."
Ma Yun, a kind person, immediately said "Ohhhh" and smiled and stopped talking.
But the faces of Elder Xuan Jing of Temple of No Mercy and the Daoist masters of the Shangqing Pavilion of the Fire Phoenix Pavilion did not look good. However, the faces of all the masters put together were probably not half as gloomy as Jiang Xi's.
Jiang Xi didn't say anything, but he was clearly offended by the girl's "I thought I was the first" and was fondling his palm ring as he stared glumly at the young girl.
The girl was still making a big show of it, "We're all just talking about things, we're all expressing our thoughts and talking about speculation, and there's nothing wrong with that."
Xue Meng's tone was full of fire: "If you want to tell stories, go home and tell them. There is no place for you to talk in the Middle Shu Area."
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Jiang Xi :""
Ming Yuelou :""
Elder Xuan Jing: ""
Someone in the audience muttered in a whisper, " Jiangdong Court is finished."
"Who is this little girl? She's not as good as Huang Xiaoyue."
Mei Hanxue, who was also in the crowd, rubbed his nose at this and laughed: "I can't say that, but it's better than Huang Xiaoyue. The little girl is at least good looking."
As soon as the girl cried, Jiangdong Court had her senior brothers in a hurry. A white-faced scholarly figure first wiped her face with a handkerchief, then turned his head towards Xue Meng and said coldly, "You are worthy of being the pupil of Master Chu, the cousin of Master Mo."
Now Chu Wanning and Mo Ran are like a dragon's scales to Xue Meng, where they can't be mentioned.
Xue Meng narrows her eyes dangerously.
The guy didn't know that, and with a touch of his lips and teeth, he sneered, "You are a criminal and the brother of a devil, how can you have the face to be so imposing"
Before the words were out of his mouth, Dragoncity's light chilled and suddenly pointed at the man's neck, and all four seats fell silent.
The man did not expect Xue Meng to make a direct move, but when he saw the coldness in Xue Meng's eyes and the difficulty in keeping his sanity, his face turned even whiter.
"Yeah, I'm majestic. Can't I be majestic?"
Xue Meng poked the man's neck with the tip of his knife, his hand was shaking with anger, the force was uncontrollable and he had pierced the man's skin, the white blade saw blood.
"But you, who are you. You are worthy to speak against me on the summit of death and life"
When Xue Zhengyong saw Xue Meng's outburst, he calmed down a little and said in a quiet voice, "Xue Meng, sit down."
Xue Meng turned back abruptly, "Am I to let them talk?"
Xue Zhengyong :""
Xue Meng averted his eyes from his father, his tiger-like gaze forcing its way past everyone who dared to look at him and whisper and talk to him.
"This is ridiculous. For so many years, the top of death and life has not practiced injustice, and the disciples of the disciples are running around for what fame, money and forbidden arts"
Dragoncity is high up in the sky, brimming with snow.
"All you immortals, righteous men, great men, the Master." With a single word, words breaking through the air, cutting through the faces of the crowd, Xue Meng's red eyes, "I come to ask you"
"Where were you twenty years ago when Wuchang Town was about to be reduced to a ghost town?"
"Where were you fifteen years ago, when the Middle Shu Area was split and nine out of ten rooms were empty?"
"Where were you three years ago when Butterfly Town's boundaries were broken, ghosts were on the loose and the hungry were displaced?"
His eyes were slightly brimming with water, but his voice was stubborn and cold.
"How many times over the years has Lower Fairy World pleaded with you for help and mercy? How much money did the Confucianism School have to pay to get rid of the demons? "
Some did look down and reflect, but others tried to take the blame for the Confucianism School, "Yes, it is true that the Confucianism School was a bit black-hearted back then, but that has nothing to do with us. Our school is only asking for a few hundred silver dollars to subdue demons and eliminate them.
"Oh. A few hundred silver." Xue Meng snorted suddenly, "Taoist Master, have you ever visited the townships of the Middle Shu Area"
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"You go and see the southern border of Shu, you go and see the ghost town of Fengdu, you go and see the foot of Emei, you see how those people live, and then you come back and tell me that you only charge a few hundred silver."
Master Xuan Jing sighed, "Xue young master, I know the pain in your heart."
There was a pause, but the conversation turned.
"However, no matter what, there was indeed a case of a disciple practicing a forbidden art at the Peak of Death and Life. There were also elders who deliberately covered up, blocked the Tianyin Pavilion pavilion, and even killed eleven Tianyin Pavilion practitioners to get out of trouble. For these two sins, the Peak of Death and Life cannot escape blame."
Xue Meng's anger grew, like a black cloud over his brow: "Master, you saw how cruel the Tianyin Pavilion was at that time. They wanted to kill my master and Mo Ran, and if my master didn't leave, would he have to sit where he was and wait to die?"
He was fierce in nature, and the words came out of his mouth, but immediately gave way to the next person.
"Well, according to this, young master Xue thinks Chu Wanning and Mo Ran are doing the right thing."
"There's so much sense in killing people, it's true that the top beam is not right and the bottom beam is wrong."
"Such a concept of right and wrong is cold to the teeth. I see that this summit of death and life can no longer really be left."
When he heard the last sentence, Xue Zhengyong's qi and blood surged upwards, and the pain in his wound became even more intense. He squeezed his ten fingers tightly to endure the pain, and then stared at the man who had spoken, his face turning extremely gloomy: "I'm afraid this immortal is joking."
"They're not joking."
Xue Zhengyong narrows his eyes, searching for the sound, and slowly turns his head as he murmurs, " Jiang Xi "
From the beginning to the present, Jiang Xi did not utter a word of slander, but neither did he speak up to help. He stood in the middle of the hall, dressed in a light green embroidered silver thread Du Ru Hua robe, unable to see his mood.
Jiang Xi didn't really want to get involved in this mess, but if he didn't speak up, he was afraid that the situation would get more and more heated, so he twitched his eyelashes and raised his eyes, "According to the rules of Xianxia, if a disciple practices a forbidden art, regardless of whether the sect directly authorises it or not, it is the fault of the instructor for not monitoring properly."
Xue Zhengyong turned pale.
Jiang Xi then said, "In order to eliminate future problems, once discovered, such sects should immediately disband their disciples and be locked up. This is something that Master Xue would not be unaware of."
Indeed it would not be unclear.
However, although this rule was drawn up, it has not really been followed in Xianxia for over a century.
How many disciples there are in a sect and what each disciple has done, how can one possibly manage to look back on the past, whether it be the Confucianism School, Lonely Moonlit, or even Temple of No Mercy, Shangqing Pavilion, which family has not produced a few practitioners of the three forbidden arts such as Huai Zui was known for his life Who would be so inclined as to besiege the Temple of No Mercy to shut down the Abbot's temple?
This rule is, frankly speaking, only meant to be binding, but never to be honoured. Only today, when the walls are falling down and they are afraid that the Top of Death and Life is hiding a conspiracy, will they lift this piece of paper and force the Top of Death and Life to fall back on its faction.
Xue Zhengyong did not reply, but stared at Jiang Xi with a grizzled expression, as if he were a lone wolf besieged in a desperate situation.
Halfway through, he asked Jiang Xi: "Don't you think it's ridiculous?"
Jiang Xi replied, "I think it is absurd. But as the text is so, I cannot speak for your school."
"Xue Zhengyong smiled abruptly, rubbing his knuckles against the relief of a beast's head on the edge of his seat, and sighed long and hard with his eyes closed, "Twenty years have passed. Upper Fairy World's Order Man is still as strict as ever, and as lenient as ever, and it hasn't changed a bit."
Jiang Xi seemed to be resistant to this matter, pursed his lips and said nothing more. It was the other sect masters who began to speak up and said, "Please follow the decree and disband the Top of Death and Life."
"The offense is punishable, and Master Xue has it in mind."
"Everything has to be done according to the rules, after all the trouble you've caused, do you still dare to say you're innocent"
There was a buzz, and someone turned to Jiang Xi and said, "Sect Leader Jiang, we have already received complaints from the major towns before we came, and the Top of Death and Life is not to blame this time.
Jiang Xi :""
Jiang Xi's brow furrowed, and after a moment, he spoke in a slow voice: "Your sect has many doubts, and now that times are turbulent, you should not take it lightly. Master Xue, the top of death and life is treated as a scattered sect according to the law. If you have evidence to prove yourself in the future, then you can do so again."
Before he could finish his sentence, he heard an angry shout: " Jiang Xi, don't bully others too much"
"Xue young master." Jiang Xi was a loose person and had always done things his own way. Now that he was being held up by Ling Wen, he was already in a bad mood, and now he was even being called a "bully" by a youngster. His forehead twitched slightly, then narrowed his eyes, "I've told you many times, when the elders speak, the younger ones should learn to shut up. You're in your twenties, but I'm afraid you're more than a little behind Nangong Si, who is also a young master."
When Xue Meng heard his harsh words, he was even more furious. He kicked the monk standing in front of him out of the way and swept straight towards Jiang Xi, tugging him by the lapels and pinning him to the beam.
The eye is like a bayonet, the heart's blood is like a tide.
Jiang Xi, you have the nerve to compare me with Nangong Si, why don't you try yourself with Nan Gongliu?
Jiang Xi was offended, and his expression grew colder: "For the sake of your youth, I will give you a word of advice. Let go."
Xue Meng was oblivious to the fact that he had been driven into a frenzy and continued through gritted teeth, "In my opinion, you are even more unworthy of the position of head of the sect than Nan Gongliu.
The crowd was horrified, and Lonely Moonlit's disciples didn't even have time to react; they never believed that anyone could be so rude to a sect leader.
He stared dead into Jiang Xi's icy eyes, his silver teeth clenched.
" Jiang Xi, you beast."
The Loyalty Palace was an instant hit.
" Xue Meng, how dare you talk to your elders as a junior"
"What a pride of heaven, cultivation has eaten into the belly of the dog"
Jiang Xi lifted his chin slightly, a dark light flowing in his eyes as he stared at Xue Meng for a moment, then slowly raised his hand and grabbed Xue Meng's hand that was holding his own, with a single push
Click.
The crunching sound of splitting tendons.
"Mmm."
" Xue Meng "
Jiang Xi, as if discarding scraps, coldly tossed Xue Meng aside and carefully smoothed out the folds of his coat before speaking.
Not to Xue Meng, but to Xue Zhengyong.
" Xue Zhengyong, you have really taught a good son."
Xue Meng, with one hand dislocated, howls in rage and rushes forward, but this time the Lonely Moonlit men don't let him get away with it, and draw their swords to stop him.
Jiang Xi finally ran out of patience, and with a fire in his brow, he said with boredom, "Disperse the faction."
"The Dispersal School"
"The top of death and life must disperse the faction"
Nothing unites people more than fear of one thing, and the same meaning is repeated from different lips
The top of death and life must be disbanded today, these demonic caves cannot stay.