Chapter 25 Punishment: Expelled from the Sect
Cheng Qian was full of smugness, "Why waste so much time talking? If the two of them fall now, they will definitely die."
Cheng Rong: "Well done, young master will definitely reward you."
Cheng Qian proudly raised her chin, "Let's go back."
Cheng Rong stood to the side, observed for a moment, and said, "Something's not right. There are no two people in the water, let alone any splashes."
Cheng Qian: "Alright, the Immortal Cloud Sect is the only sect built in the air. The floating island is so high that it is always surrounded by clouds and mist. And those two are just kids. It's normal that they can't see after falling. We should hurry up and go report to the young master."
The three of them turned around and walked back like victorious roosters, already enjoying the generous rewards the Cheng family would give them for their good deeds.
Cheng Rong, in particular, started to plan how to distribute the rewards. Ideally, he would keep half for himself and half for his parents.
"Did you say you could leave?"
The three were suddenly stopped by Qi Zibo.
Song Yin's previous message also included a line instructing Qi Zibo to secretly follow along and intervene if necessary.
The three were startled, but when they saw that it was Qi Zibo, they relaxed.
Before dealing with Song Yin, they investigated the people around her. Song Yin had very few acquaintances, and she wasn't particularly enthusiastic about making friends. This male cultivator, who looked like a middle-aged man, happened to be someone Song Yin knew.
Cheng Rong relaxed, his tone disdainful: "Who did I think it was? Turns out it's just some old Qi Refining stage trash. Someone like you isn't even worthy of carrying our young master's shoes. Song Yin has already fallen. If you want to save her, go down yourself!" He looked at his companion beside him, slapped his forehead, "Look at my memory. Qi Refining stage disciples can't fly unless they have a flying magic weapon or a flying contracted beast."
Cheng Zhang walked up to Qi Zibo and said, "A good dog doesn't block the way. If you don't want to be targeted by the Cheng family, get out of the way!"
Qi Zibo remained calm and composed, stroking his beard with his right hand as he pondered, "The Cheng family? Is there a Cheng family among the major cultivation families of the Eastern Continent?"
The three members of the Cheng family would never tolerate anyone slandering their family.
Cheng Rong took out his magical artifact and launched an attack on Qi Zibo, saying, "Our Cheng family is a family with a thousand-year history. You, a piece of trash, have no right to comment!"
Qi Zibo conjured a whisk out of thin air with his left hand and flicked it at the three of them, effortlessly neutralizing their attack. The three members of the Cheng family were also unable to move and were frozen in place.
"What's going on? Why can't I move? What did you do to me?" Cheng Qian struggled, but she couldn't break free from the restraints.
"What kind of magical artifact did he use? A simple whisk?"
Qi Zibo stroked his beard with one hand and held a whisk in the other. Under the horrified gazes of the three, he said, "The young master you speak of should be Cheng Xian, the single-spiritual-root disciple from Class A, right? I remember he seemed very eager to join the inner sect? Were your actions instigated by him?"
This gentleman!
The three men's expressions suddenly changed. Anyone who could call himself "this sovereign" was at least a Nascent Soul stage expert!
Realizing what was happening, the three of them were so frightened they wanted to tremble, but their bodies were frozen in place and they couldn't move. Cheng Qian, who was the most timid, burst into tears, and tears and cold sweat quickly covered her face.
"Who...who exactly are you? All our actions are under the orders of the family, and have nothing to do with the young master." Cheng Rong tried to calm himself down and asked, "We were very rude just now. Please, in our youth and ignorance, let us go. We will definitely come to apologize in person, we promise!"
Qi Zibo finally deigned to glance at them. "Young and ignorant? The two you pushed down earlier were even younger than you. When you were about to kill them, didn't you know they were just two young and ignorant children? I'll believe you for now, that your actions had nothing to do with Cheng Xian and were instigated by the Cheng family. But you said you were going to report to your young master and even wanted him to reward you. How do you explain that?"
Cheng Qian's voice trembled and choked with sobs: "Please let us go, we had no choice."
Qi Zibo: "I will take away all your protective magical artifacts, then throw you all off the floating island. When the Discipline Hall comes to question you, I will say that I had no choice. Do you think the Discipline Hall will believe what I say and punish you leniently?"
The three of them nearly fainted. The other party knew all about their identities, but they still didn't know who the other party was.
At the edge of the floating island, two cranes flapped their wings.
Song Yin and Shi Heming each sat on the back of a crane. Song Yin held up a recording stone, watching Qi Zibo reprimand the three of them.
As she looked at it, Song Yin clicked her tongue.
Shi Heming tilted his head. "What's wrong?"
Song Yin didn't speak, thinking to herself, "Master is so pretentious! This kind of face-slapping plot from a fantasy novel should be something I, the proud and arrogant one, should do myself! Waaah, I'm so envious! I must cultivate even more diligently, so that I can show off anytime, anywhere once my cultivation level is high enough!"
Qi Zibo, with his keen senses, heard the sound and glanced indifferently at Song Yin on the crane.
Upon seeing this, Song Yin immediately straightened her posture and watched intently as her master dealt with the bad guys.
"Please spare my life, senior! Please spare my life, senior!"
"Senior, we dare not do it again! I'll jump down right now to find our two fellow disciples!"
"Senior, please, please spare us!"
Qi Zibo flicked his whisk again, "It's too late. You can talk about this in the Discipline Hall." He turned to Song Yin and Shi Heming and said, "You two, aren't you coming with me?"
Who? Who is it?
The three could only wait for the person behind them to reach Qi Zibo's side.
It turned out to be Song Yin and Shi Heming who had fallen!
Why? Why are they still alive?!
Two cranes behind them completed their mission, cried out twice, and flew away.
The three of them instantly realized that it was the crane that had saved Song Yin and the others.
They weren't dead, and they were caught red-handed—a huge loss! Cheng Rong's eyes were bloodshot; he feared that even after being expelled from the sect, he would face further punishment upon returning to the Cheng family. His failure to assist the young master in entering the inner sect meant the family head and other elders would certainly not let him off the hook!
Wait, what about the young master! They've been spending a lot of time with him since they came to the sect; he can definitely save them! Even if they return to the Cheng family, he can plead for them!
Song Yin walked to Qi Zibo's side. "Master, I have recorded all their attacks. What kind of punishment will the Discipline Hall give us after we hand them over?"
Cheng Rong felt a chill run down his spine. "You call him master? You're his disciples?"
Damn it, Song Yin has already become an apprentice! If I had known they had already become apprentices, why would I have gone to so much trouble to get rid of them! If they become apprentices, then during the Foundation Establishment Conference, those inner sect elders won't choose a disciple who already has a master!
Shi Heming said coldly, "I am not your disciple, but Song Yin is your only disciple."
Qi Zibo released the three from their immobilization, but sealed their spiritual energy and bound their hands with ropes. With a wave of his hand, he transformed into a stream of light and carried them to the Discipline Hall.
The Discipline Hall, having received the news long ago, was already waiting.
When Qi Zibo appeared, the others in the Discipline Hall bowed and greeted him.
"I have met Lord Seonpyeong."
Lord Shanyuan, isn't this an inner sect elder? Cheng Rong and the others helped the young master become an inner sect elder, so they naturally collected the names of the six inner sect peak elders.
Cheng Qian: "Are you Lord Shanyuan? Aren't you called Qi Zibo?"
Lin Fei, the senior disciple of the Discipline Hall Elder, angrily shouted, "Quiet!"
Song Yin: "Qi Zibo is my master's name."
After saying that, Song Yin handed both memory stones to Lin Fei. Lin Fei's cultivation was at the Golden Core stage, two major realms higher than hers, so Song Yin said, "Senior Lin, I'm entrusting you with these."
Lin Fei: "Rest assured, the sect will not wrong anyone, nor will it let any disciple suffer a loss."
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Lin Fei quickly finished reading the contents of the recording stone, his face turning ashen. Someone actually dared to violate something the sect had explicitly forbidden!
"The evidence against Cheng Rong, Cheng Zhang, and Cheng Qian for murdering their fellow disciples is conclusive. According to the law, their cultivation and innate talent are revoked, and they are expelled from the Immortal Cloud Sect!"
The three of them turned deathly pale instantly.
Cheng Qian, unable to bear it any longer, collapsed to the ground, crying, "It's over, it's all over."
Cheng Rong suddenly said, "We want to see the young master! Cheng Xian from Class A! He can testify for us that we were all forced to attack our fellow disciples without our own will."
Lin Fei frowned, "Once you join the Immortal Cloud Sect, you must take the sect as your head. The Immortal Cloud Sect does not have a so-called young master."
Song Yin's gaze shifted slightly as she looked at Lin Fei.
Qi Zibo had already handed the matter over to Lin Fei, while he sat to the side watching leisurely.
Cheng Xian was eventually brought to the Discipline Hall.
Lin Fei asked the young master Cheng Xian, "The evidence against these three for murdering their fellow disciples is conclusive, yet they claim they were instructed by someone to ask you to testify. Is what they said true or false?"
Before Cheng Xian could answer, Cheng Qian crawled over and hugged Cheng Xian's leg, pleading desperately.
"Young Master, we were forced to do all this by the family. Please be our witness! We cannot have our innate talents destroyed. If they are destroyed, we will have no chance to cultivate anymore and will only be able to grow old, get sick, and die as ordinary people. Young Master, please save us!"
Under the pleading and expectant gazes of the three, Cheng Xian coldly withdrew his leg, then bowed respectfully to Lin Fei and said, "Greetings, senior. These three are indeed members of my Cheng family, but not from the main branch. As for their claim that the family forced me, I am unaware of the details. However, I trust my father. He has no reason to let these three frame their fellow disciples and do such a thankless task."
"Young Master?" Cheng Qian released the young master's leg in a daze. She stared blankly at the young master who always cared for her and gave her gifts.
Suddenly, Cheng Qian started laughing, and then the laughter grew louder and louder.
"Hahaha!"
"Hahahaha! Cheng Xian, how cruel you are!"
If he becomes a mortal and leaves the sect, returning to the Cheng family will only lead to his death.
"Hahaha!"
Even at this point, she only dared to say, "You're so cruel. If you bring Cheng Xian down, your family will definitely not let you and your parents off the hook."
Lin Fei waved his hand, ordering the three offenders to be taken away.
Cheng Xian's hands, hidden beneath his sleeves, clenched into tight fists. He dared not look back even once. He couldn't let the sake of three people ruin everything. His family was waiting for him to enter the inner sect, successfully learn the inheritance of the cultivation method, and then return home to give back to the family.
Suddenly, Qi Zibo spoke up: "So, you knew absolutely nothing about it?"
Cheng Xian looked at the person in the seat. He recognized him, but he was actually sitting in the Discipline Hall. Cheng Xian then looked at Lin Fei, who was giving the order. He was a senior member of the Discipline Hall, yet he didn't seem to care that someone was disrespecting him. Something unexpected had happened.
Cheng Xian: "Yes... I had no idea."
Qi Zibo: "That makes things easier. What happens next is none of your business."
Lin Fei said to Cheng Xian, "You can go back now."
Cheng Xian: "Yes, thank you, senior."
After Cheng Xian left, Qi Zibo asked Lin Fei, "Who will take the three of them back to the Cheng family after they've been tortured?"
Lin Fei: "Reporting to Lord Shanyuan, I will arrange for Cheng Xian to escort the three of them home tomorrow, since they are family after all."
Qi Zibo nodded, exchanged a few pleasantries, and then left with the two children.
Song Yin thought the matter was over, but the next morning, Qi Zibo knocked on the door and said he wanted to take her out of the clan.
After leaving the sect, Song Yin was carried by Qi Zibo to a high place. When they reached a less crowded road, they saw Cheng Xian with three extremely weak people.
"It's them?"
Song Yin thought her master had brought her to see the excitement.
But the next second, Qi Zibo made his move, and all three of them, after being punished, bled from their necks and collapsed to the ground dead.
Song Yin suddenly looked up at Qi Zibo.
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