All the disciples were expecting Gu Yangyang to agree, but when Gu Yangyang heard Hong Taiyong's words, it didn't make any sense.

Giving you a small sword means offering conditions to tempt you first, and then tricking you into coming to me with the sword.

Come to Jianfeng to play = When you get to Jianfeng, I will put you in a sack and beat you up!

Gu Yangyang shuddered!

As expected of the Second Elder Jianfeng, he is domineering, decisive, and strategic in his actions!

If I really go there, I will be cheated to death. And by that time Yan Wu hasn't come out yet, so I can only suffer the loss!

Thinking of this, a trace of fear appeared on Gu Yangyang's little face, and more tears welled up in her eyes. She looked so pitiful!

"I won't go! What a lousy place! I won't go!" She yelled, but she seemed to be about to cry, "I don't want your things either! What a lousy thing! I don't even like it!"

Disciples: “…”

【......】

When Hong Taiyong heard her answer, he was stunned and his face looked a little gloomy.

Li Lian was gloating and felt very comfortable all over!

"Someone, you should take a break. Do you still want to be a master?"

He shook his whisk, looking relaxed and contented, which made Hong Taiyong's face turn red!

"You old bastard! If you keep swinging that whisk, I'll chop off all your hair! You're just a stinky sweeper swinging that whisk all day long!"

"Hong is too fat! What did you say?!"

"I said, what's wrong with you?!"

"Say it again!"

"Just say it! You old bastard, you stinky dustman!"

"!!!"

Li Lian was so angry that he couldn't even maintain his usual serious appearance. What he hated most was when people said that he looked like he was cleaning when holding the whisk! Now when he heard Hong Taiyong say that, he immediately jumped up and wanted to quarrel with him!

The disciples below are all used to it.

Everyone lowered their heads, doing their own thing, pretending they saw nothing and heard nothing!

Gu Yangyang was confused as she listened to the angry insults coming from the sound transmission note.

Ji Xiao, who was holding him, felt helpless when he heard his master quarreling with others again.

He looked at the girl nestling obediently in his arms, and his eyes flashed.

After a moment, he stretched out his hand and turned the other person's face, staring at her with his dark eyes and said, "Senior sister, I'm going out first. In the next competition, you have to take good care of yourself, understand?"

Gu Yangyang felt a little uncomfortable with his focused gaze and raised her chin: "Of course, you don't have to tell me!"

Ji Xiao looked at her, and the smile on his face disappeared in an instant.

He put Gu Yangyang down, and felt reluctant to lose the soft touch on his palm.

The tips of the ears hidden by the black hair and the skin under the collar are slightly red...

He suppressed his thoughts and clenched the sword in his hand.

Since his Jindan stage cultivation has been exposed, he simply stopped hiding it.

The aura in his body surged, and a flash of white light appeared between his fingers, and before Gu Yangyang could react, it instantly penetrated into her forehead.

Gu Yangyang didn't know what happened, she just felt a heat in her forehead, and there seemed to be a huge force supporting her body, covering her like a protective shield, blocking all the pressure from outside...

Ji Xiao did not explain. After he finished, he said calmly, "Senior Sister, I'm leaving."

Gu Yangyang nodded blankly.

After I realized what was happening, I felt extremely happy.

[Great, he's gone! Then I don't need to think of a way to kick him off the ladder! ]

[Great! One step closer to first place! ]

Ji Xiao paused after stepping out of the ladder: "......"

He closed his eyes.

That's all.

......

Ji Xiao's figure disappeared in an instant.

In the blink of an eye.

A slender black figure appeared in the open space outside the field.

He walked forward, saluted, stood up, and shouted, "Master."

Hearing his voice, Hong Taiyong couldn't utter a word for a long time, his face flushed with suffocation, and he said, "Triumph first! We'll talk later!"

Li Lian snorted and said nothing.

Hong Taiyong shrank the ground into an inch and appeared in front of Ji Xiao in an instant.

He no longer had the friendly and casual attitude he showed towards his disciples in the past, and his Maitreya Buddha-like face turned dark and gloomy.

"What's going on?" he asked in a deep voice.

Ji Xiao pursed his lips and said, "I was bewildered for a moment and concealed my cultivation. Please punish me, Master!"

As he spoke, he held out the sword with both hands.

This long sword was forged for him by Hong Taiyong himself. He presented the sword to Hong Taiyong in order to let him take it back as a punishment.

But that’s not what Hong Taiyong meant at all.

He pushed the sword away with a look of disgust on his face, "Go away! Did the master tell you this? The master was asking about that little girl Gu Yangyang!"

Ji Xiao paused and lowered his eyes, "Master, what you mean... I don't understand."

Hong Taiyong choked and looked at Ji Xiao with an indescribable look in his eyes.

For the first time, he felt that he had to take his apprentice seriously again. He used to think that his apprentice was good in every way, but now it seemed that his brain was -

You don’t understand!

He has said so much, how come you still don’t understand! ?

Hong Taiyong's round belly trembled with anger, so he could only say: "Only the master, you and Zhisi live on Jianfeng. As the master's eldest disciple, besides practicing sword skills, why don't you take good care of Jianfeng?"

“Master…”

"Although Wanjian Hall is not as good as Chonghua Hall, it shouldn't be so bad that little girl Yangyang despises it! She even despises Hanbing Iron and Phoenix Tree. Do you think she really despises them or does she have a problem with you?"

"Master, I..."

"Alas - I know you didn't like her before, but I'm old! It's time for me to enjoy my retirement, right? If you don't find a little girl to chat with me, I'll be lonely!"

"......"

"I don't care! If you can't take him down, you should just deal with Jianfeng and don't let the people from other peaks make a fool of themselves!"

Hong Taiyong looked like a lazy boy. Seeing the young man remained silent, he gently advised, "Ji Xiao, I think this little girl Gu Yangyang is very pleasing to the eye! What do you think? You said that although you hated her before, aren't you willing to expose your cultivation to protect her?"

"Master, I don't hate Senior Sister Gu."

"Not annoying? So what you mean is..."

"Master, please understand." Ji Xiao said in a low voice and bowed.

Hong Taiyong looked at him like this, then looked at the girl in the Bagua mirror, and his eyes rolled.

Then the unhappiness on his face disappeared and he became cheerful again.

"I don't hate it... Haha, it's good that you don't hate it!" He patted Ji Xiao's shoulder, with a kind look on his face, "Another day! When the master comes out of retreat, I will go and speak for you..."

Ji Xiao lowered his head slightly and pursed his lips, but his earlobes were red as blood.

"But it's up to the Master to decide."