Lou Yu: "Senior Brother Zijian and the others want to go to the back mountain and the bamboo house. They insist that I take them. A while ago, I soaked in the cold pool with my master in the back mountain and felt much stronger. They want to soak in it too. I don't want to go, but they are forcing me."

Lu Yunyu was shocked. Wait, what about the Cold Pool? What kind of place is that? He'd never heard of it.

Even as the eldest disciple, he knew less than one of the outer disciples.

Lu Yunyu's face turned pale and then red.

His voice also turned colder, and his words revealed his familiarity with Han Chi, as he retorted:

"Nonsense! With Master away, how dare they go to the back mountain as they please! They were given time to recover from the mushroom poisoning a few days ago, and now they're plotting to go to the back mountain!"

He then went to confront the group of people.

Lou Yu smiled slightly as Lu Yunyu left, then followed to find her next target.

Xiao Mingyuan is clearly unreliable.

He exploded.

The phrase "going through all sorts of trouble" implies that he also wants to get involved.

Xiao Mingyuan is not the kind of person who keeps his mouth shut.

He knew that if he got angry, he would complain to his lackeys.

They soon learned that there was a cold pool in the back mountain, where cultivation was extremely effective.

Of the three thousand outer disciples, apart from a few stubborn ones, the rest only dared to think about it but not dare to venture in, after all, it was their master's territory, and dozens of inner disciples were all eager to make a move.

Unable to contain himself, Xiao Mingyuan, along with Qian Chang and others who offered spiritual treasures to cooperate with him, secretly ventured into the barrier without Lu Yunyu's knowledge.

Arriving at the bamboo house, Ji Zijian hesitated, "Are we really going?"

Xiao Mingyuan glanced at the young man with disdain. If it weren't for the safety of having a few more people, he wouldn't have agreed to cooperate with them.

A bunch of incompetent outer disciples, how many years have passed and they're still only at the Foundation Establishment stage, what a waste!

Xiao Mingyuan scoffed and went over with his sword.

Qian Changge is playing a trick on this bug: "We didn't go into the bamboo house, isn't the well outside?"

Having found the mechanism, as the stone slab was moved aside, a blast of cold air hit them, making the four shiver. Xiao Mingyuan went down first, followed by the others. The cold intensified as they went down, and with a bang, the stone slab closed.

The few people who hadn't completely calmed down were startled.

He rubbed his arms, looking as anxious as a headless fly.

"It's closed! The stone slab is closed! What do we do? I should have left someone up here. Why is it so cold in here?"

I felt a strong spiritual energy.

But the temperature below is unbearable for most people.

Soon their complexions turned pale.

Even Xiao Mingyuan was almost unable to withstand the chill.

Ji Zijian was terrified. He wanted to take a shortcut to cultivation, not freeze to death here!

Lou Yu stared at the closed stone slab, a bloodthirsty glint in his eyes, and strode away without giving it another glance. His back was cold and resolute; he had no intention of saving anyone.

Life and death are predestined.

Lou Yu calmly went back.

Not long after he left, Nan Yu, who should have been at the foot of the mountain, appeared. The barrier was broken, and fearing something might have happened, he hurriedly rushed back. After calculating with his fingers, he was so angry that his face turned red.

Press the wellhead mechanism and go down the steps.

In less than half an hour, the group had been frozen into ice sculptures. Nan Yu injected true energy into their bodies. Fortunately, they were cultivators and had a certain foundation in Daoist cultivation, which allowed them to prolong their lives in this emergency.

An ordinary person would be frozen into an ice sculpture, and even if they didn't die, they would be severely injured.

Ji Zijian and the others were already in poor health after eating poisonous mushrooms, and now they have been exposed to cold, causing severe physical depletion. They will likely need to take medicine constantly in the future.

Xiao Mingyuan woke up, his face deathly pale. When he saw his master, his face turned even whiter, like a painted wall. "Master, Master."

Nan Yu said coldly, "Who gave you permission to come here, and why did you trespass into the Cold Pool?"

If they hadn't returned in time, the four of them would have died in the icy pool, and the bottom of the pool would probably have been frozen solid.

Xiao Mingyuan trembled and told the truth.

They only wanted to cultivate, but they didn't expect the cold air below to be so intense. Xiao Mingyuan didn't understand, so he asked, "Junior Brother is safe and sound, why can't I?"

Nan Yu remained silent after listening.

A 60% corruption threshold triggers a murder?

After all, no one knew about the Cold Pool except him.

Their gaze fell on Xiao Mingyuan, and they asked, "Did you bully him again?"

Xiao Mingyuan did not.

Ji Zijian and the others couldn't stand the oppressive feeling from their master, so they honestly confessed everything. They had bullied and humiliated him first, so Lou Yu's revenge was normal.

Nan Yu: "Pack up and leave Hongmeng Mountain."

The group of people were terrified and knelt down, kowtowing. "Please, Master, show mercy! We know we were wrong! We apologize to Junior Brother Lou Yu! Please, Master, don't send us down the mountain!"

Being driven down the mountain brings shame to the family, and they will never be able to hold their heads high again.

"Not leaving?"

Nan Yu didn't release any pressure at all. With just a few words, he scared them so much that they collapsed to the ground. Qian Chang clutched his chest and coughed up a mouthful of blood. His body was still numb and cold. "I'm leaving, Master, I'm leaving."

In the end, except for Xiao Mingyuan, they all accepted the fact that they had been expelled from the sect. Nan Yu had placed a curse on them, saying that if they spoke carelessly, their bodies would explode.

“Master, I was wrong. I shouldn’t have trespassed into the back mountain, and I shouldn’t have led my junior brother to break the barrier. Master, I will have my father send 100,000 taels of gold to beg you to show leniency.”

He offered bribes in front of the other three people.

Nan Yu's face darkened.

Xiao Mingyuan was an inner disciple. Although his talent was not high, his status was different. Outer disciples would be ridiculed if they were expelled from the sect, but it was far less ruthless than that of inner disciples.

Xiao Mingyuan would rather die on Hongmeng Mountain than go back and lose face.

His father was the Right Chancellor. If people found out, even the emperor might be disgusted and angry, and the whole family might be implicated.

With a wave of her sleeve, Nan Yu summoned them all to their respective bedrooms. When Lou Yu returned, he saw several people who should have died in the cold pool appear before him. His nerves jolted, and for a moment he thought he had encountered ghosts.

Several people coughed in succession, and after regaining their senses, their expressions turned gloomy.

Besides his master, he couldn't think of anyone else with such great ability to discover the situation so quickly and bring the person back.

Good master, it's one thing not to help him, but he's obstructing me from eliminating the scourge myself?

[Villain's corruption level increased by 20%, total corruption level: 80%]

The lamp wick paused as soon as it stepped into the front yard; it had suddenly grown so much.

Every time my "darkening value" increases, it's because I'm being bullied.

Nan Yu was worried that he had been beaten and crippled, so she rushed over as fast as she could and found that he was the one choking someone. His face was red and then turned blue and purple. The hatred in Loudi was terrifying.

"Lou Yu!"

The boy was not surprised to see his master appear. He released his grip on Qian Chang's hand, picked up the scissors on the table, and stabbed himself in the arm.

Nan Yu's eyes widened, completely unprepared for this turn of events.

Just as he pulled out the scissors and was about to stab himself in the chest, Nan Yu stopped him, her face turning red. "What are you doing!"

Lou Yu felt inexplicably wronged.

He's just jealous! He's just full of hatred! Why should Master help them?!

When they hurt themselves, their master turned a blind eye! But when it was their turn to fight back, their master always appeared in time!

Am I really that disliked?!

Forced to do that kind of thing with his master, chopping wood and carrying water for him, and being tortured by him in every way possible, he originally thought that his master was just doing this on purpose to complete some task. Now it seems that he did it on purpose!