Before Xue Kong could get close to the crowd, he heard roars coming from the platform.
Perhaps in order to make his position clear, the fat elder angrily scolded Xue Kong in front of hundreds of Xue family members and even threatened to deprive him of the qualification to attend the fairy ceremony.
As soon as these words were spoken, the noise in the entire square immediately stopped and became extremely quiet. Hundreds of Xue family members turned around and looked at Xue Kong behind them.
For a moment, all kinds of unfriendly looks including indifference, ridicule, sarcasm, arrogance, hatred, and disdain were cast towards Xue Kong. Those looks were like sharp blades, ready to cut Xue Kong into pieces.
Seeing this scene, Xue Kong seemed to replay the scene in front of his eyes. The scene he experienced in his previous life appeared before him again. The same public gazes, the same scoldings. In a trance, he seemed to see a discouraged young man, who walked silently into the crowd of three generations of his clansmen without saying a word, facing the stares and piercing eyes of the crowd.
Fortunately, the discouraged boy was just imagining it. The one standing here at this moment was a boy with a hundred years of experience in cultivation, a heart as hard as stone, and a wholehearted pursuit of immortality. He was no longer the cowardly person he used to be.
Xue Kong raised his head high and was about to speak when he heard the sound of chaotic footsteps and several sneers behind him: "Xue Kong, why don't you just listen to my father and not go to the Fairy Lady's Dharma Assembly."
Xue Yang walked over with two young men from the Xue family. They heard the shouts from the fat elder, but they were not nervous or anxious. Instead, they bullied Xue Kong wantonly under the gazes of hundreds of clansmen.
"It doesn't matter whether you are present at the Immortal Lady's Dharma Assembly or not. It's better for you to stay in the family and be a good-for-nothing. The family will not abandon you and let you go out to beg."
"After all, our Xue family can still afford to support a useless person."
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