Chapter 32 Four Visits to the Gate
Seeing his inner force withdrawn, Shan Gu Dao's eyes turned bloodshot. Like a madman, he lunged at Qing'er again, shouting, "Give me back my inner force!" Qing'er dodged to the side, and Shan Gu Dao missed, falling face-first into the mud. Qing'er frowned, a hint of disgust flashing in her eyes. "You're courting death." With a gentle wave of her hand, an invisible force immobilized Shan Gu Dao, rendering him unable to move.
Qi Mushan regained his senses, stood up, and walked to Shan Gudao, his eyes filled with disappointment and anger. "I treated you like my own son, yet you are so heartless." Shan Gudao remained defiant. "Who told you to only value Li Xiangyi? In what way am I inferior to him!" Qi Mushan sighed and said disappointedly, "I treat you all the same, and I teach you the same things. It's just that your talent is not as good as Xiangyi's. You learn everything much slower than Xiangyi. Xiangyi is exceptionally talented and has a chivalrous heart. If you had half of his magnanimity, you wouldn't have ended up like this."
Seeing this, Qing'er asked, "Senior, this man is narrow-minded. What do you plan to do with him?" Qi Mushan hesitated for a moment, then said, "Cripple his martial arts and throw him out of Yunyin Mountain. He will no longer be my disciple."
Only then did Shan Gudao realize his fear. "Master, I was wrong. Please don't cripple my martial arts."
Qing'er, too lazy to waste words, waved her hand, and a white light flashed, crippling Shan Gudao's martial arts. She then tossed him down the mountain. Qi Mushan wept bitterly, "It's my fault for not teaching him well, causing him to go astray."
Qing'er comforted him, "Senior, there's no need to blame yourself. Some people are just inherently bad and can't be taught." Qi Mushan calmed himself down and cupped his hands to Qing'er, saying, "I will always remember your great kindness, Miss." Qing'er smiled and waved her hand, "Senior, you're too kind."
On the other side, Liu Rujing and his group searched the East China Sea several times but still couldn't find their sect leader.
When they arrived, they only saw the wrecked ship and the dead members of the Golden Mandarin Duck Alliance, but Di Feisheng and their sect leader Li Xiangyi were nowhere to be seen.
"Have you found them?" Someone asked as the people who had split up to search for the person gathered together.
"No," everyone shook their heads.
"Is it possible that the sect leader has already returned?" one of the disciples suddenly asked.
"Let's go back and check. If we don't get back, we'll keep looking." The group hurriedly returned to Sigumen.
They were right; they had indeed returned. Li Xiangyi discovered he was poisoned during the martial arts competition, and he and Di Feisheng both fell into the sea. Worried about the safety of the Sigu Sect, he mustered his willpower and climbed ashore. Once ashore, Li Xiangyi was extremely weak and staggered. He dragged his weary body slowly along the road. He heard the complaints of the people.
"These江湖人 (jianghu people) only know how to fight and kill all day long, and they don't care about the lives of us ordinary people at all!"
"Yeah, they fight and fight, but in the end, we're the ones who suffer!"
These words were like sharp swords, piercing Li Xiangyi's heart. He couldn't help but wonder, was he really wrong?
He returned to Sigumen, only to hear complaints from the gatekeepers.
"It's all because of Li Xiangyi's arrogance that so many brothers have died. Now that Sigu Sect is in this state, we might as well disband it," Xiao Zijin said matter-of-factly. They didn't know that the members who went to the Golden Mandarin Duck Alliance were still alive. They had only heard that explosives had been planted there, and when someone went to check, there wasn't a single survivor. They only saw bloodstains and fragments of clothing on the ground and assumed everyone had been blown to bits. In reality, those were injuries sustained in the initial fight; none of the supposedly dead had actually died yet.
At this moment, Qiao Wanmian walked up to Xiao Zijin and asked incredulously, "You want to disband the Sigu Sect?"
Xiao Zijin met Qiao Wanmian's gaze and said gently, "A-Mian, now that the sect leader is gone, people's hearts are scattered. Don't you also dislike this place? I'll accompany you to relax."
Qiao Wanmian fell silent; she truly didn't like it here.
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