Qi Zhiheng glanced at Bai Yilian indifferently and said, "Since you have no objection to the punishment I proposed, let's begin to carry it out."
Bai Yilian's eyes widened, and she subconsciously took two steps back. After regaining her senses, she ran towards the door!
The disciples were momentarily stunned and before they could stop her, Bai Yilian froze in place.
Everyone present vaguely felt a pressure sweep over them, but Qi Zhiheng applied this pressure to Bai Yilian.
Under Qi Zhiheng's oppressive aura, Bai Yilian's knees slammed hard onto the ground!
"Snap!"
The sound of a knee breaking rang out, and Bai Yilian's face contorted in pain! A scream escaped her lips.
Zhang Ruosheng was startled by the voice, his body trembling involuntarily. He opened his mouth, but in the end, he couldn't utter a single word.
Qi Zhiheng walked step by step towards Changbai Yilian.
Bai Yilian's words were mumbled, and saliva dripped from the corner of her mouth. Her eyes widened as she stared at Qi Zhiheng.
Qi Zhiheng placed his hand on her head.
Boundless fear surged through Bai Yilian's mind! She couldn't understand how things had turned out this way.
The elixirs, resources, and Qi Zhiheng's favor she had envisioned all vanished into nothing more than fleeting bubbles in her mind.
Qi Zhiheng's hand brushed across her head like a gentle breeze, a sharp, dull pain flashed by, and then she collapsed to the ground.
Qi Zhiheng withdrew his oppressive aura and said to Ye Hanyuan beside him, "Report Bai Yilian's matter to the sect. As for whether she should stay in the sect, it depends on their decision."
"Yes, Master!" Ye Hanyuan replied and then walked out of the alchemy room.
Qi Zhiheng glanced at Zhang Ruosheng. Zhang Ruosheng hadn't yet recovered from this incident, but Qi Zhiheng had no intention of indulging him. In truth, it all stemmed from Zhang Ruosheng being completely infatuated with a woman, losing even the most basic ability to think, which led to the current situation. He said to Zhang Ruosheng, "You brought her in; now you'll have to send her out." Without waiting for Zhang Ruosheng's refusal, he left the alchemy room.
The formal disciples followed Qi Zhiheng out, while only Feng Yuanyi remained behind.
As a victim, he naturally had to watch Bai Yilian's final fate.
Zhang Ruosheng came to his senses and replied weakly, "Yes, Master."
Feng Yuanyi stepped forward: "Junior brother, take the person out of Danfeng."
Zhang Ruosheng then remembered that Feng Yuanyi was still poisoned, and a pang of sorrow rose in his heart. He spoke with difficulty, "Third Senior Brother, I'm sorry..."
Feng Yuanyi knew he was referring to his poisoning and replied, "You didn't make a mistake, and you didn't choose to plead for her, so this matter doesn't involve you."
Zhang Ruosheng had also considered this. He had thought about pleading for leniency, but if he did, how could he face Feng Yuanyi, who had always been so kind to him? What right did he have to plead for the perpetrator in front of the victim? This was no small matter; it was a real attempt to kill Feng Yuanyi, and it was an extremely cruel method of murder.
Zhang Ruosheng's gaze returned to Bai Yilian, who had collapsed to the ground unconscious.
He walked over, picked the person up, and said to Feng Yuanyi, "Third Senior Brother, I will go and carry out Master's orders now."
He led his men toward the mountain where the inner disciples lived. His hearse wasn't going too fast, and just as they were about to reach the inner disciples' mountain, Ye Hanyuan caught up with them.
"Junior Brother Zhang, I've come to inform you of the outcome regarding Bai Yilian's case." Ye Hanyuan blocked Zhang Ruosheng's path.
Zhang Ruosheng stopped the hearse and bowed, saying, "Second Senior Brother."
Ye Hanyuan nodded and said, "There's no need to go to the inner sect. You take her away from the Slaughtering God Sect and settle her down."
Zhang Ruosheng understood the meaning behind those words; it meant that Bai Yilian had been expelled from the God-Slaying Sect.
Indeed, Bai Yilian committed the crime of harming her fellow disciples. Even if Qi Zhiheng hadn't laid a hand on her, the sect's punishment would have been to strip her of her cultivation and expel her from the sect.
After Ye Hanyuan returned, Zhang Ruosheng changed direction and headed out of the sect.
Stopping in a city at the foot of the Slaughtering God Sect Mountain, Zhang Ruosheng bought a house in the mortal realm and settled his people in.
When Bai Yilian woke up, her hands and feet had been reattached, but she was still unable to move freely for the time being.
Zhang Ruosheng was refining healing pills in the next room. Bai Yilian's meridians had been damaged and she needed some pills to recover.
"ah--"
A woman's scream came from the next room! Zhang Ruosheng ignored the unformed pills in the alchemy furnace and rushed to the next room.
When Bai Yilian woke up, she found that her cultivation was completely empty. When she tried to absorb spiritual energy, her meridians started to throb with pain!
Unable to accept this reality, she suffered a mental breakdown and shouted out loud.
Before Zhang Ruosheng reached the mountain, he hugged her and comforted her, "Yilan! It's alright! It's alright!" As he spoke, he took out a pill and put it into Bai Yilian's mouth.
Bai Yilian, whose limbs were originally unable to move, was able to move slightly thanks to the effects of the medicine.
She snapped out of her daze and muttered, "My cultivation! Where did my cultivation go? Did you hide it?"
Zhang Ruosheng said, "Yilian, don't be like this. You've only lost your cultivation, but your spiritual root and dantian haven't been damaged. You can cultivate back your cultivation." As he spoke, he patted Bai Yilian's back reassuringly. He truly felt that his master had already shown mercy.
No matter how ruthless Bai Yilian was, she has now been punished. When Zhang Ruosheng saw Bai Yilian like this, his original intention to question her about why she did this vanished.
Bai Yilian was still recovering from the devastating news that she had lost her cultivation. She looked at Zhang Ruosheng with a glimmer of hope and said, "Ruosheng, Ruosheng! You must have a way, right? You're a level two alchemist! You must have a way to restore my cultivation."
Yes! That must be it! As Bai Yilian thought of this, her gaze turned fierce, staring straight at Zhang Ruosheng, as if she could rush up and bite his neck off if he uttered a single "no"!
"I..." Zhang Ruosheng took a moment to mentally prepare himself before revealing the truth: "I... I can't do it."
"What did you say!" Bai Yilian's voice suddenly became shrill!
Zhang Ruosheng got off the bed and said again, "I said I can't do it. I can't restore your cultivation. I can only help you repair your meridians and then you can start cultivating again."
"You're talking nonsense! You're talking nonsense! You definitely have a way to help me restore my cultivation!" Bai Yilian shouted, her whole deranged state returning!
Zhang Ruosheng stood by the bed, watching Bai Yilian struggle and writhe on the bed, unable to use her legs properly. Out of pity, he said, "Yilian, I still have pills. I can refine more pills in the future. With your previous cultivation experience, you will definitely avoid many detours in the future. Half of my pills will be yours. With the pills, you will definitely be able to recover your cultivation level quickly."
"Ah—" Bai Yilian screamed again, "I don't want to start cultivating again! It's all Feng Yuanyi's fault! It's all his fault! And Qi Zhiheng, meddling in other people's business! Go! Go and kill them for me!"
Zhang Ruosheng knew that she was still somewhat confused, so he didn't take his words to heart. Instead, he advised her, "Eleanor, calm down." He wanted to go forward and help her up.
Bai Yilian did not do as he wished, and struggled even more fiercely. Zhang Ruosheng was not using much strength to begin with, and he was unable to support Bai Yilian. In the struggle, Bai Yilian fell off the bed.
"Calm down!" Zhang Ruosheng tried to pick her up again, and after some effort, he finally carried Bai Yilian, who was still cursing, back to the bed. But listening to the foul language she was using, he felt a surge of resentment. Why was she, the one who had clearly made a mistake, trying to shift the blame onto others? He decided to wait until Bai Yilian had calmed down for a few days before trying to reason with her.
Then Bai Yilian yelled, "And you! Weren't you supposed to take the punishment for me?! Why didn't you take the punishment for me and have your cultivation destroyed?! Why!"
Zhang Ruosheng opened his mouth, but ultimately remained silent.
Zhang Ruosheng remained silent, while Bai Yilian spoke even more vehemently: "You coward! You spineless wimp! You didn't even dare to take responsibility for my lost cultivation, yet you dare to say you love me! You're nothing but a shallow person who lusts after my beauty!"
Looking at Bai Yilian's ferocious face, Zhang Ruosheng wondered if he was really a shallow person who only cared about appearances.
He wanted to say no, he had clearly taken so many punishments for her before, but Bai Yilian took it for granted. She could have completed the task herself, but when he was able to go to the alchemy room, she deliberately failed to complete the task and made him suffer the punishment.
Bai Yilian's nausea has not yet subsided.
Zhang Ruosheng pondered for a moment, then gained a different insight. Perhaps he was truly a superficial person who only judged by appearances! If one were to consider inner qualities, what inner qualities did Bai Yilian possess?
Was it because he had cheated himself out of most of his pills over the past few years, causing his cultivation to gradually fall behind the other disciples' "consideration"?
Or is it the "soft-heartedness" that repeatedly makes him bear ten times the punishment for her?
Or is it "kindness" to use cruel methods to kill a fellow disciple because of some minor punishment?
If he truly valued inner qualities, how could he possibly fall for such a heartless and ungrateful woman?
"It's all your fault! It's all your fault! If you hadn't persuaded Qi Zhiheng to take me in, I wouldn't be suffering like this! If you hadn't refused to take those ten lashes of bone for me, I wouldn't have held a grudge and gone against that bastard Feng Yuanyi! It's all because of you, you ruined my life!" Bai Yilian cursed at the silent Zhang Ruosheng! She also felt that Zhang Ruosheng was cowardly and had no backbone at all!
Thinking of this, Bai Yilian was furious. If she could move her hands and feet now, she would definitely pounce on Zhang Ruosheng and beat him up.
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