"It's alright, thank you very much, junior brother."
Knowing that family members understand each other's situation, Tantai Yueming understood the elders' predicament and naturally wouldn't make things difficult for them.
Not only that, but he also gave them a thousand mid-grade spirit stones.
Knowing about the previous incident with the spirit boat, Junior Nephew Wu had already given all five hundred mid-grade spirit stones he had brought with him to Lin Jiujiu.
But once they arrived in Canglan City, they couldn't possibly go without food and water.
Even if they brought fasting pills, they still needed to keep some spirit stones on them for emergencies.
Based on his understanding of the Spirit Sword Sect's resources, he feared that all these people combined wouldn't even have enough for a hundred mid-grade spirit stones.
Lin Jiujiu looked at him and saw him pull out another thousand mid-grade spirit stones from who-knows-where, but she didn't say anything.
Anyway, the amount he owes me isn't much more or less than a thousand mid-grade spirit stones.
Just as Elder Wu accepted the spirit stones with a grateful expression and was about to arrange rooms for his disciples and have them pack their things so he could treat them to a good meal that evening, a discordant voice suddenly came from behind.
"Oh, who do we have here? Isn't this the poorest sect, the Spirit Sword Sect? Could it be that they can't even pay their disciples' monthly stipends and are borrowing spirit stones everywhere?"
The people from the Spirit Sword Sect looked extremely ugly as they saw the person in the crescent-colored sect robe blocking their way.
"You people from the Xuantian Sect shouldn't speak carelessly. This is our sect's grandmaster uncle, not an outsider."
The people from Xuantian Sect glanced at Tantai Yueming and then at the disciple who had spoken, their eyes filled with even more mockery.
The words they uttered became even more arrogant.
"Him? Grandmaster? Your Spirit Sword Sect is one of the five major sects, along with our Xuantian Sect. Even if you're ranked last, you don't need to recognize a kid who hasn't even grown his hair yet as your grandmaster for a few spirit stones, do you?"
"You don't feel ashamed? We, as members of the five major sects, all feel ashamed."
As he spoke, the man tried to step forward and push Tantai Yueming.
Tantai Yueming's cultivation has now reached the peak of the Nascent Soul stage, and she can break through to the Tribulation Transcending stage at any time. Originally, she did not want to bother with these juniors.
But the comment that his hair hadn't fully grown still angered him.
An aura of superior authority instantly spread out.
"Which elder of the Xuantian Sect are you a disciple of, daring to be so insolent in front of me?"
That person, like the junior disciples of the Spirit Sword Sect, came to participate in the secret realm trial, and his cultivation level was only at the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment.
Faced with the pressure of a peak Nascent Soul cultivator, he immediately knelt on the ground with a 'plop'.
The commotion immediately attracted the attention of others. Upon seeing this, the disciples of the Xuantian Sect immediately went to call their elder in charge.
Apart from the elder leading the Lingjian Sect, who was a Golden Core cultivator, the elders leading the other four sects were all Nascent Soul cultivators.
There was nothing they could do; the sword cultivators of the Spirit Sword Sect were simply too strong. Even a Golden Core elder could easily defeat two Nascent Soul cultivators.
Therefore, whenever the five major sects participate in an event together, it is generally assumed that the leader of the Lingjian Sect is an elder whose cultivation level is one level lower.
Although this is somewhat unfair to the Spirit Sword Sect, what can they do when they're poor?
They always try to steal other people's spiritual energy, and they especially can't afford to offend the Alchemy Sect and the Weaponry Sect.
The pills were manageable; they could just bear the damage themselves if they got hurt. But the spirit swords in their hands still needed regular maintenance. So, in order to get these sects to lend them money, the Spirit Sword Sect members would often take on tasks like protecting the Pill Sect members while they gathered spirit herbs and helping the Weapon Sect members deliver goods.
However, the Xuan Tian Sect is not afraid of them. Although they also sell pills and spiritual artifacts, their output and quality are not as good as those of the Pill Sect and the Artifact Sect.
The reason why the people of Xuantian Sect like to provoke Lingjian Sect is simply because they are known as the head of the five major sects, but they always lose to the disciples of Lingjian Sect in every sect competition.
Despite being the number one sect, whenever a peerless prodigy emerges, they would rather go to the Spirit Sword Sect, a dilapidated sect so poor that it even needs to rely on other sects for cultivation resources, than go to their sect.
This has almost made them, the number one sect in the cultivation world, a laughing stock.
Now, the Azure Orchid Secret Realm is about to open, and although the people from the Spirit Sword Sect have not yet arrived, several other sects are already discussing teaming up with them.
This made them, the number one sect, feel that they had lost face.
The elders above were already used to it. The five major sects were closely connected, and the people of the Spirit Sword Sect were focused on cultivation, so they wouldn't bother anyone else. Even if they occasionally went to their place to freeload resources, they would be given appropriate compensation.
Those above had no objections, but the disciples below did not think so.
Whenever members of the Spirit Sword Sect come to freeload resources, the elders use them as training partners for the sect's disciples.
The people of the Spirit Sword Sect are all stubborn and never show any mercy to their disciples, always beating them until they are black and blue.
Unfortunately, aside from encountering members of the Pill Sect and the Weapon Sect, the members of the Spirit Sword Sect never show mercy to others.
After they get beaten up, they'll also get scolded by their master, who will say that they don't know how to cherish such good resources and can't even beat a sect that just freeloads on spiritual energy.
As a result, the disciples under the sect naturally disliked the people of the Spirit Sword Sect even more.
Things like today happen frequently. The disciples of the two sects might exchange a few words, but the elders are too lazy to care.
But no one expected that this foul-mouthed person would actually offend Tantai Yueming.
In the cultivation world, strength is paramount. When two people are evenly matched, you can be as sarcastic as you want without consequence; at worst, you can just go outside and have a fight.
But if a low-level cultivator dares to be so sarcastic and speaks ill of a cultivator two major realms higher than you, then you're definitely courting death.
Even if Tantai Yueming had merely released his aura to intimidate him and force him to kneel, or had even crushed him to death on the spot, the Xuantian Sect wouldn't have dared to say anything.
Hao Tantai Yueming only intended to teach that person a small lesson.
When the elders of the Xuantian Sect arrived, their pupils shrank upon seeing Tantai Yueming.
Tantai Yueming looks young, but he is the closed-door disciple of the Supreme Elder of the Spirit Sword Sect and is of the same generation as the Sect Master of the Spirit Sword Sect.
The younger generation of the Xuantian Sect didn't recognize him, but he, as an elder, did.
"Xu Jingsong of Xuantian Sect greets Uncle-Master Tantai."
Seeing that his attitude was quite respectful, Tantai Yueming withdrew her imposing aura.
"Get up. When did you break through to the Nascent Soul stage, Junior Nephew Xu? You're the only elder from the Xuantian Sect who came this time?"
Upon hearing Tantai Yueming's words, Xu Jingsong's eyes showed a hint of bitterness.
Xu Jingsong was already over two hundred years old and had only just broken through to the Nascent Soul stage. His cultivation level was still unstable. It was precisely for this reason that the sect leader asked him to take his disciples out for training, and also to allow him to take the opportunity to consolidate his cultivation.
In the Xuan Tian Sect, someone like him, who broke through to the Nascent Soul stage at the age of two hundred, was already considered a rare talent. But the person in front of him was only in his early twenties. Just a year ago, he was still a Golden Core cultivator, but now he was already at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage.
It's true what they say: comparisons are odious.
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