Inside the hall, the air seemed to freeze.

Shen Zhuo's eyes changed slightly, and Yu Zheng's words echoed in his ears again and again: "After the disciple competition is over, you and Jiaojiao should break off the engagement."

The hand under the sleeve subconsciously clenched into a fist, and the chest suddenly felt stuffy for some reason.

Ever since Yu Zheng forced him to agree to the engagement, he had been thinking about how to cancel the engagement, and he never thought that one day Yu Zheng would ask him to cancel the engagement.

He could hear Yu Xingwu's inner voice and knew that she didn't like him, but Yu Zheng didn't know that. Yu Zheng always made sure that Yu Xingwu got what she liked, even if he had to use some tricks.

The reason why he asked him to cancel the engagement now was not because Yu Zheng knew that Yu Xingwu disliked him. If he knew, he would not have asked him to cancel the engagement after the disciples' competition, but would have asked him to cancel the engagement immediately.

He had always thought that if he could cancel the engagement one day, he would be happy, but at this moment he did not feel a trace of joy, but instead had an indescribable feeling.

Seeing Shen Zhuo was still silent, Yu Zheng laughed coldly, his voice intimidating without anger: "Why, don't you understand what I'm saying?!"

"You have always wanted to break off the engagement with Jiaojiao, so today I will grant your wish."

"After the competition is over, go and break off the engagement with Jiaojiao. I have already destroyed the marriage certificate. You just need to tell Jiaojiao that you want to break off the engagement and break the half of the dragon and phoenix pendant in front of her."

"No matter whether Jiaojiao agrees or not, or how she makes a scene, the marriage certificate and jade pendant have been destroyed, so this marriage is off. I will not let Jiaojiao pester you anymore, and you two will have nothing to do with each other from now on."

Shen Zhuo chuckled, not afraid of the pressure from Yu Zheng, his eyes revealed a kind of arrogance: "Grand Elder, do you think that as long as you have the strength, you can do whatever you want, even the marriage contract can be forced if you want, and can be withdrawn if you want."

The Grand Elder couldn't stand Shen Zhuo's rebellious attitude, and said with a disdainful smile: "You are right. In the world of immortal cultivation, those who have strength can control everything. Those who have no strength can only be trampled on by others."

"You are not so naive as to think that in this world of immortal cultivation where the strong prey on the weak, there will still be someone who will reason with you. The strong are the ones who are right. Which of the rules of the world of immortal cultivation is not made by the strong?"

"The weak have no room to resist. When you agreed to the marriage, you should have known that the weak have no say. If I killed you that day, it would be nothing. It's just the death of a disciple."

"Do you think someone will stand up and speak a fair word for you after you die? No, they will only be afraid of my strength, and no one will seek justice for you."

"The truth is so cruel. As long as you have the strength, no one will dare to say anything even if what you did was wrong. This is the truest world of cultivation. It is much more cruel than you can imagine. Being too naive will only hurt yourself."

"I find it strange that you are telling me this at this time. Could it be that you don't want to break off the engagement with Jiaojiao?"

There was a dark look in Shen Zhuo's eyes.

Do you want to cancel the engagement? I thought about it before.

Now, he doesn't seem to want to cancel the engagement.

From the beginning to the end, whether it was forced marriage or broken off engagement, no one ever asked him a question.

Just because he is not strong enough, others can threaten his life and control everything about him.

Is being weak wrong?

If one day he stands at the top, then whatever he does will be right.

Seeing that Shen Zhuo remained silent, Yu Zheng sneered again. At the same time, he raised his right hand, and a palm wind with terrifying power whizzed out and hit Shen Zhuo directly in the chest.

"Bang!"

Shen Zhuo was knocked back, spitting out a mouthful of blood, and knelt on one knee on the ground.

In the world of immortal cultivation, strength is divided into eleven realms: body refining, qi refining, foundation building, elixir formation, golden elixir, infant soul, out-of-body experience, spirit separation, fusion, tribulation transcendence, and Mahayana.

Although Shen Zhuo had killed the Third Elder who was in the late stage of tribulation before, the Third Elder had been seriously injured in the battle with the banshee, and Shen Zhuo had to use the power of the demon species to kill the Third Elder.

Otherwise, a Nascent Soul cultivator, even one with thunder spiritual roots and a sword cultivator who could fight across levels, would not be able to kill the Third Elder.

Yu Zheng was in the Mahayana stage, and his strength was one major realm higher than the Third Elder. Naturally, Shen Zhuo had no strength to resist Yu Zheng.

Even though Yu Zheng did not use his full strength in this palm strike, Shen Zhuo could clearly feel that two vertebrae on his right sternum were broken.

Yu Zheng's warning words echoed throughout the hall: "You have no say in cancelling the engagement. You'd better do as I say."

"After the disciple competition, if you don't ask Jiaojiao to cancel the engagement, don't blame me for being cruel. By then, the Tianlan Sect will just be one disciple less."

"You don't have to feel wronged. As an orphan, you are not worthy of Jiaojiao."

"Even if you have the rare thunder spirit root, so what? The two young masters of the Mo family, one has the ice spirit root, and the other has the wind spirit root. They both have rare spirit roots, but they have distinguished family backgrounds. Mo Chu and Mo Bai are worthy of Jiaojiao."

"Even if I don't make it clear, you should have the decency to cancel the engagement. You are not worthy of Jiaojiao."

Shen Zhuo wiped the blood from the corner of his lips. His pride was crushed by Yu Zheng's step. He laughed softly, "Okay... After the disciple competition is over, I will cancel the engagement and satisfy the Grand Elder."

Yu Zheng snorted coldly. Even in the mortal world, people with family backgrounds were nobler than ordinary people, and this was also true in the world of immortals.

This marriage was not a good match. If Jiaojiao didn't like him, Shen Zhuo wouldn't even have the chance to become Jiaojiao's fiancé.

Since he doesn't like Jiaojiao, he should agree to cancel the engagement. This marriage is not up to him, Shen Zhuo.

…

The next day.

After Yu Xingwu woke up, she went to Xingluo Peak.

After taking the Qinghuo Pill refined by Ye Su last night, she stopped having nosebleeds. She could only say that the pills refined by Ye Su were indeed very effective.

But she felt that the person who should take the Qingxin Pill was actually Feng Chen.

Because Feng Chen was even angrier than her. To be more precise, Feng Chen's anger was purely caused by Yun Ci.

But it would have been fine if Feng Chen was just angry, but he took it out on her to harm her. He sent her a message early in the morning, asking her to report to him every day about what she did on Xingluo Peak.

My goodness, does she have to report to him everything she eats, drinks, defecates and urinates? The male protagonist is so perverted!

What I mean is, with the disciple competition approaching, can the male protagonist and Yu Zheng take care of the female protagonist?

If this continues, I’m going to have a headache as to how the heroine will rise, how she will complete the plot, and how she will leave!

——

Starfall Peak.

Yu Xingwu was holding the Changhong Sword Technique that Ye Su had given her before, and was asking Yun Ci whether the Changhong Sword Technique was suitable for her to practice.

Yun Ci’s answer was simple and easy to understand. Saber techniques are just like sword techniques, and sword practitioners also practice more than one type of sword technique.

The Changhong sword technique was suitable for her to practice, and he also taught her his own original Fenyan sword technique that was most suitable for the practice of fire spirit roots.

He personally demonstrated every move of the Burning Flame Sword Technique to her.

Yu Xingwu was so excited watching this that she practiced every move of the Burning Flame Sword Technique seriously every day thereafter.

In Yun Ci's words, only by practicing continuously day after day can one master every move of the Burning Flame Sword Technique and form muscle memory.

In this way, in future battles with the enemy, you don't even have to think too much about the moves, you can easily react and attack the enemy.