The pressure from the Nascent Soul stage expert slammed down, and Shi Rusi's expression changed drastically. He lost control of his body and crashed to the ground, kneeling and trembling.
"Disciple... knows his mistake..." he mumbled weakly.
Ji Mofan casually glanced over.
Judging from his expression, it was obvious that he didn't know where he went wrong; he was simply intimidated by the pressure.
No wonder you're still stuck in the Qi Refining stage after all these years.
Shen Yun only startled Shi Rusi for a moment, and the pressure quickly dissipated, leaving him alone on the ground panting heavily.
"Tell me, when did I instruct you to order your team members to train alone?" Shen Yun asked him.
In fact, it was common practice in the Yun Cang Sword Sect for the whole team to set off and then split up to train once they arrived at their destination.
But that's usually only when facing high-level secret realms or disciples with higher cultivation levels.
Moreover, in that situation, there would be no need to specifically select a leader, because it's unnecessary, and everyone doesn't need to follow someone's orders during the training.
The outer disciples in the Qi Refining stage are already weak. In the past, even when the disciples were on leave, the Sword Sect would remind them to travel in groups to avoid being targeted by enemies.
The difficulty of the Shallow Ocean Secret Realm is not high, so it is understandable to send disciples in the Qi Refining stage to train there.
But if something really happens, that's a different story.
Even if Ge Gen was just a disciple in the Qi Refining stage, and even if Shen Yun had really instructed Shi Rusi to take people on training in this way, he would definitely shift all the blame onto him now.
Because he had treated Jimo Fan the same way before.
It was clearly his own misjudgment that led him to blame Ji Mofan for not being flexible enough. Success was his achievement, failure was someone else's fault.
Shi Rusi, kneeling on the ground, looked up at Shen Yun with trepidation.
"It was what the young sect leader said when he came to the mountain gate to see us off that day." He swallowed.
“Absurd.” Shen Yun waved his hand dismissively. “Xiao Yu has been seriously ill lately and has hardly left her own courtyard. How could she possibly go to the mountain gate to see you off?”
Shi Rusi's eyes widened. "The young sect leader has really come! Elder, this disciple is not lying!"
“Since Junior Brother Shi says so, did anyone else see Xiao Yu go there that day?” Ji Mo Fan interjected with a smile.
Shi Rusi turned to look at Ji Mofan, and felt that this person's temperament had been really strange lately.
He seemed to care a lot about his disciple, but now that the disciple was nowhere to be found and his fate was unknown, he could still put on such a smiling face.
“When the young sect leader arrived, there was no one else around me…” He gritted his teeth, “but he was the one who gave me the map of the Shallow Ocean Secret Realm, and he also said that a powerful demon beast had appeared there.”
"When we found the location marked on the map, we did indeed discover a sleeping Foundation Establishment stage demon beast there!"
"These things can be attested to by the disciples who went on the training with me!"
"Then where is the map he gave you?" Ji Mofan asked.
Although Shi Rusi harbored resentment towards Ji Mofan because of her younger brother, she couldn't care less at this moment. She quickly pulled out the map folded into a small square from her Qiankun bag. "This is it!"
With a slight flick of his fingertips, Ji Mofan sent the map flying from Shi Rusi's hand. The paper slowly unfolded before him, revealing itself to be a map of the Shallow Ocean Secret Realm.
However, there is a problem with the markers.
Ji Mo Fan took out the one that Ge Gen had used back then, and compared the two together. He saw that the red cross mark on it was actually shifted by several miles.
The map was probably distributed to each disciple by Shi Rusi on the way there, so Ji Mofan only saw it for the first time from Ge Gen after entering the secret realm, and therefore did not notice the anomaly of the different markers.
So that's where the little trick was done.
"What's going on?" He moved his finger, turning the piece of paper towards Shi Rusi.
Shi Rusi pursed her lips and paused, "...I didn't notice, how come this mark is drawn wrong... But I didn't draw it! It really was given to me by the young sect leader! I didn't change anything, I just distributed it to all the junior brothers and sisters!"
"I am willing to confront the young sect leader face to face!"
“Xiao Yu’s treatment has not been progressing well recently, and she should not go out.” Shen Yun was determined to stand on Qi Fengyu’s side. “Shi Rusi, what if his treatment is disturbed because of you?”
Shi Rusi really has become mute.
Even though they knew that Qi Fengyu was the one who caused them to suffer injustice, everyone would choose to remain silent when his illness was involved.
“But this time, an inner disciple went missing during the training, and he was a disciple with an exceptionally talented lightning spiritual root. Master, I think it’s necessary to investigate this matter thoroughly.” Ji Mofan suddenly interjected calmly.
“It’s perfectly normal for people to get injured or even die when they go out for training,” Shen Yun said. “Is there anything suspicious about this? Xiao Fan, don’t act impulsively and break the sect’s rules just because the missing person is your disciple.”
“Master, there’s something wrong with what you’re saying.” Ji Mo Fan stood up, his posture casual, but a chill slowly emanated from him. “I am the chief disciple of the Yun Cang Sword Sect.”
"I am the rule of the sect."
*
When Ge Gen was carried from Yifeng to the main hall of Shenyun Peak by Shuanghuang, he was still in a daze. In short, he first obediently bowed to everyone in the hall.
Apart from Shuanghuang, everyone present was of a higher generation than him.
"Senior Brother, hasn't Junior Nephew Ge been found already?" Shi Rusi felt that his emotions had been going up and down all day.
"We've found it, but we can't just let this go." Two maps of the Shallow Ocean Secret Realm, each marked with a different point, floated in front of Ji Mofan.
“Ge Gen, you tell me, which map is yours? What did you see after you reached the marked point?”
Ge Gen scratched his head and pointed to one of the maps. "The one on Master's left is the map I received from Uncle Shi. Uncle Shi told me not to lose it and folded it up for me and put it in my Qiankun bag."
"Junior Brother Shi is quite dedicated to the team he leads," Ji Mofan remarked casually.
A bead of sweat trickled down Shi Rusi's hair and into his collar, tickling him and making him restless.
"Of course..." he could only mumble in response.
What other response could there be? Should he say that he did it on purpose to prevent Ge Gen from remembering to compare the map with his fellow disciples?
This unique map was specially given to him by Qi Fengyu. He also instructed Shi Rusi to use a sound transmission talisman to tell everyone after entering the secret realm that the marked monsters were unusual, and to meet up again in seven days.
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