When Xuan Yin Daoist learned that her foolish disciple had dared to come to the royal city to intercept and kill Xia Qingdai, she felt as if she had fallen into an ice cave.
He knew all too well what this meant.
—Just during the previous sect competition, this seemingly frail girl in white directly killed Chu Wuchen, who was in the late Nascent Soul stage!
"That idiot, he's ruined my life..."
Xuan Yin's long, hidden hand in her sleeve trembled incessantly.
Xuan Chengzi, that fool, didn't know, but he had personally witnessed that competition.
Xia Qingdai's beauty and elegance at that time are still widely circulated in the cultivation world.
To be able to kill a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator at the age of seventeen or eighteen—such talent and such methods would probably make even an old monster in the Divine Transformation stage wary!
What's even more terrifying is the extent to which the Xuantian Sect values this genius girl.
As the Xuan Yin Master looked at the densely packed cultivators in the sky, his heart nearly leaped out of his chest—this was hardly the treatment of an ordinary disciple! It was as if Xia Qingdai was being treated as the future hope of the sect!
At her age, to possess such abilities, the entire Xuantian Sect would probably protect her like the apple of their eye.
She will never allow anyone to bully her.
Seeing that the Xuantian Sect had mobilized so many people to promote Xia Qingdai, he knew that the Xuantian Sect cared about this girl even more than he had imagined.
His foolish apprentice has really messed things up!
"It's over...it's all over..." Large beads of sweat dripped from Xuan Yin Chang's forehead. He knew all too well the rules of the cultivation world: offending a peerless genius was tantamount to offending the entire sect behind her. If he couldn't give Xuan Tian Sect a satisfactory explanation today, their entire Taoist temple would likely be razed to the ground!
After all, compared to a major sect like Xuantian Sect, their small Taoist temple is simply not worth mentioning!
Although Xuan Chengzi was reluctant, he had no choice but to do it for the sake of the entire Taoist temple.
He suddenly turned around and struck Xuan Chengzi's dantian with his palm, "You wicked disciple, how dare you offend Fairy Xia! Today I will cripple your cultivation!"
"Master! No—ah!"
Amidst a piercing scream, Xuan Chengzi's dantian was shattered, and his spiritual energy scattered and overflowed.
This monk, who used to be so domineering, became a cripple in the blink of an eye.
Bai Ying stood quietly in place from beginning to end, her spotless white clothes swaying gently in the wind.
She slightly raised her eyes, glanced at the trembling crowd, and then looked at the Xuan Tian Sect members who were on high alert in the sky. A helpless smile suddenly appeared on her lips.
"Elder Wei..." she said softly, "It's just a trivial matter, why make such a fuss?"
Wei Ji smiled at Bai Ying, then raised his head and looked warningly at the people around him: "How can your matter be considered a small matter? I heard from the Third Prince that someone dared to provoke you, and I will teach them a lesson one by one for you!"
Wei Ji's gaze swept slowly across the crowd like frost, and those people who had clamored to execute Bai Ying suddenly felt as if they had fallen into an ice cave.
Their faces were deathly pale, and they trembled as they shrank back, wishing they could disappear into the ground.
"Heh." Wei Ji sneered, his fingertips flashing with spiritual light.
"Whoosh whoosh-"
Dozens of spiritual energy chains shot out from the sky, precisely binding the thugs and ruffians who were taking money to spread rumors.
These people screamed as they were hoisted into the air, like a string of livestock waiting to be slaughtered.
The arrogance that had lingered on their faces when they threw rotten eggs at the Bai family's gate a few days earlier was now replaced by boundless fear.
what to do......
We're doomed!
"Tell me," Wei Ji's voice wasn't loud, but it silenced the entire street. "Who instructed you to slander Fairy Xia?"
"It was...it was Lord Xia!" A weasel-faced man cried, tears streaming down his face. "He gave each of us five taels of silver to spread rumors about Miss Xia everywhere..."
"Yes, yes, yes!" another shrew with a face full of scars hurriedly chimed in, "Those excuses were taught to us by the Xia family's steward; we have no idea what happened."
The list of these people was compiled by the Third Prince and given to Wei Ji. They thought that they could slander others at will after receiving money, but they didn't know that karma is cyclical and retribution is inevitable.
"You've described it so vividly," Wei Ji narrowed his eyes, "Did you witness it with your own eyes?"
"No! Absolutely not!" A tall, thin man shook his head vehemently. "Lord Xia said that as long as we make a big fuss, the more detailed the story, the better... The Xia family steward also said we can make up whatever we want, as long as we exaggerate the seriousness of the matter, preferably causing panic throughout the city!"
"He promised a huge reward after it was done..." another thug added, wailing.
"Please, please let us go! We were just doing this for money, we didn't know anything..."
The onlookers were in an uproar, and countless shocked gazes shot towards Xia Mingde like sharp arrows.
This usually imposing high-ranking official was now ashen-faced, his lips trembling, and large beads of sweat beading on his forehead.
"Ha..." Wei Ji laughed angrily, his sleeves fluttering even without wind. "What a fine 'I know nothing'! Does not knowing something give you the right to make things up?"
Wei Ji slowly raised his right hand, his five fingers closing like iron clamps.
The thugs bound by the spiritual energy chains immediately let out a shrill scream. They felt as if their internal organs were being tightly gripped by invisible giant hands, and their bones made a teeth-grinding "crunching" sound.
"Ah—!" A shrew with a face full of scars was the first to break down. Her eyes bulged out, and her tongue lolled out uncontrollably. "Immortal Master... have... have mercy..."
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