A fairy monk with a childish face was hanging on a dead tree in the middle of the valley. Opposite him, a vicious demon cultivator was swinging a long whip, whipping him one after another.
It can be seen that this long whip is a ground-grade magic weapon. Even though the young cultivator has reached the Nascent Soul stage, he was still beaten all over and bleeding.
There were more than 20 cultivators standing around, including demon cultivators and fairy monks. Seeing this scene, they all showed pity in their eyes.
"Fellow Daoist Chang, Fellow Daoist Chen is still young, and he just lost two spirit crystals. Just teach him a lesson." An old demon cultivator kindly advised.
Although the demon sect and the fairy sect have been incompatible since ancient times, they have been sharing the safety and security with several fairy sect disciples of the Righteous Sect these days, helping each other, and have long since put aside their prejudices and become friends.
"Master Lu, you are the head of a family, but you don't even understand the principle that there is no order without rules? This person is sneaky and cunning, and if he is not severely punished today, who will take the rules set by our elders seriously in the future?" Chang Zeyuan glanced at him and sneered.
"Rules are rules, but we still need everyone to work together to overcome difficulties. Why not give him another chance?" said Master Lu.
"Hehe, I would like to give him a chance, but if I can't complete the task assigned by the elders, who will give me a chance when the elders blame me?
How about this, since Master Lu wants to save him, I will give you a face. As long as you help him to pad these two spirit crystals, I will let him go today." Chang Zeyuan said sarcastically.
"..." Master Lu's face froze.
Although this secret realm is still rich in spiritual energy, it is strange that spirit crystals are rare, and they don't recognize many spirit crystals, and they don't even know whether they are spirit crystals, so it doesn't count if they are handed over.
It would be good if each person could find ten spirit crystals every day, how could there be more.
"Master Lu, you are only generous in words, and you are generous to others. If you really have to pay out of your own pocket, you can't even bear to give two spirit crystals." Chang Zeyuan said sarcastically.
Master Lu was so angry that his face turned red. Although their Lu family was only a medium-sized magic cultivation family, two spirit crystals were not difficult for him on weekdays. But Elder Chang had already taken away all the spirit crystals from them on the pretext of refining array plates, so how could he be generous.
"Master Lu, since you are unwilling to help sincerely, don't say anything more.
If you dare to shake people's hearts and break the rules of the elders again, don't blame me for being rude." Seeing that Master Lu was speechless after being choked by his words, Chang Zeyuan sneered again and said in a bad tone.
Their Chang family was one of the four major magic cultivation families, while the Lu family was only a medium-sized magic cultivation family. He didn't take Master Lu seriously at all.
If the elders had not told him that there was still some use for these people, he would not have been polite to the head of the Lu family. As for those immortal monks, it was impossible for them to just be whipped a few times. They probably had died countless times.
Ignoring the head of the Lu family, Chang Zeyuan turned around and whipped the young immortal monk in the face with another whip.
The dissuasion of the head of the Lu family made him very unhappy, so this whip was even more vicious.
Seeing this, everyone around was trembling, but even the head of the Lu family could not dissuade Chang Zeyuan, so what could they say? And judging from the situation, the more they persuaded, the worse the fate of the immortal monk would be.
Looking at the young monk's handsome face with a bit of childishness, everyone sighed secretly, their eyes full of sympathy.
"Stop!" At this moment, an angry shout rang out.
Two girls flew over and blocked in front of Chang Zeyuan. One had a beautiful face, and the other... the other had a graceful figure, but her face was blue and shiny, like the legendary patrolling yaksha.
No matter who it was, seeing such a blue face suddenly appear in front of him in broad daylight would probably scare him a lot, and Chang Zeyuan was no exception. A chill ran up his back, and he took a few steps back, almost falling to the ground.
"Who are you?" Chang Zeyuan shouted sternly after finally stabilizing his body.
After all, he was at the Nascent Soul stage, but he was scared like this by a woman, which made him feel very embarrassed.
"My name is Gu Qingxi, and this is Murong Yi. We are friends of Xiao Yutang. We were training in Fuyang Mountain a few days ago and accidentally entered a secret realm. I heard that many fellow practitioners were trapped, so I came to see if there is anything I can help." Gu Qingxi said.
Although she was very dissatisfied with the Chang family's practice of forcing other cultivators to find spirit crystals, this was originally everyone's business, and it was indeed unreasonable for the Chang family to bear all the spirit crystals.
Besides, she still had to ask Elder Chang for information about the powerful man, so she didn't want to make a big fuss right away.
While talking, Gu Qingxi looked out of the valley.
Fearing that the night would be long and dreams would be many, she and Murong Yi sped up on the road, leaving Xiao Yutang and Zhu Hong far behind, and the two had not caught up yet.
"So you are Xiao Yutang's friends. So, you are also coming to our Chang family for refuge?" Chang Zeyuan couldn't help but look at Gu Qingxi and Murong Yi a few more times.
Although he had the support of the four elders, he had been domineering during this period, and even Xiao Yutang dared to control him.
But he also knew that it was only because Xiao Yutang was trapped in the secret realm and couldn't get out, and he had to ask the four elders for help. If it really comes to status, Xiao Yutang is still much better than him.
Since these two are Xiao Yutang's friends, he can't be too negligent.
"It's not about surrendering, it's about helping." Gu Qingxi corrected.
How shameless! Just because you two little girls, what qualifications do you have to help? Chang Zeyuan looked at the two of them with contempt.
He saw clearly now that although the blue-faced female cultivator had a very ugly face, her facial features were delicate and beautiful, and she was not very old, and the other one was even younger.
At their age, it was very good to be able to cultivate to the Nascent Soul stage. What help can they provide? It's just that the young people are too proud to say the word surrender.
"Haha, then you wait, after I finish my business, I will take you to meet the elder." Chang Zeyuan was not interested in arguing with the two little girls, and looked at the young cultivator covered with bruises with a sinister look.
The reason why he had a hard time with this young cultivator was not because of any rules, but because of an old grudge.
More than 30 years ago, when he was out training, he was beaten to a pulp by a disciple of the Righteous Sect because he forced to buy a few Cloud Gold Stones. In the end, he had to kneel down and beg for mercy to save his life.
As a demon cultivator, how humiliating would it be to kneel down and beg for mercy from a disciple of the Immortal Sect? What's more, the seller of those Cloud Gold Stones was not a cultivator, but a secular mortal.
Therefore, Chang Zeyuan never mentioned this matter to outsiders, but buried the shame and hatred deep in his heart.
This time, he accidentally entered the secret realm and, by coincidence, ran into a disciple of the Zhengqi Sect. Of course, he had to vent his anger and return the previous humiliation a hundredfold.
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