Expelled from the sect
Chu Li recounted the entire incident from the scene.
Elder Xi, being the person most experienced in handling such matters, took the initiative to suggest, "In that case, why don't we first check whether this disciple has cheated?"
Mingxing's heart, which had been hanging in suspense, finally settled down after hearing what Elder Xi said. Indeed, if the other party hadn't cheated, how could he have lost?
"Wait, to be fair, shouldn't we check both of them?"
Chu Li spoke, glancing at Ming Xing, who suddenly tensed up again, with a half-smile.
Elder Ming frowned, wanting to step forward and say something, but the sect leader spoke up before him, saying, "That's right, it should be so. Both of them must undergo the examination together."
Since the sect leader had already spoken, Elder Ming couldn't say anything more. He just glanced at his somewhat disappointing son, whose cultivation had already reached the Foundation Establishment stage, yet he still needed to clean up the mess.
Just by looking at Mingxing's familiar guilty expression, Elder Ming knew that this incident must have been caused by Mingxing himself, and he might even have been the one who cheated.
But there was nothing he could do; Mingxing was his only son. He put his hands behind his back and subtly waved them in Mingxing's direction.
Mingxing's eyes lit up instantly, and his previously tense mood immediately improved. He knew that his father would not abandon him.
He instinctively tried to push the storage ring in the center of his finger forward. According to their previous practice, as long as Mingxing could push the ring out, Elder Ming would immediately use spatial teleportation to transfer the ring to his hand.
But this time there was an unexpected problem. Mingxing pushed the ring at the base of his finger with force, but the ring did not budge.
Several disciples from the Enforcement Hall were already approaching him. In his haste, he tried to tear off the ring, but his other hand was rubbed red by the ring, and the ring remained intact on his hand.
"Junior Brother Ming, I apologize for the offense."
Several disciples of the Enforcement Hall held a round disc in each hand—a specially made magical artifact inlaid with a domain that could detect traces of artifacts that had been used recently.
Everything was fine at first, but when the disc approached his hands, the pointer on the disc began to tremble violently.
The disciples exchanged glances, then took a few steps back and looked to the other side, where several people were also checking Nan Yi. However, the difference was that the disc on Nan Yi's side did not show any fluctuations.
The outcome is already quite clear.
"Elder Xi, the test results show that Junior Brother Ming used an extra magical artifact, while Junior Brother Nan did not use anything extra."
Elder Xi nodded, but sighed inwardly. He glanced at Elder Ming with some guilt. It wasn't that he didn't want to help him, but the outcome was too obvious, and the sect leader was still present.
He was, after all, an elder of the Enforcement Hall.
He stepped forward and said in a deep voice, "This matter is very clear. Mingxing violated the rules, and our Enforcement Hall will deduct one year's worth of spirit stones from his pay. We also urge everyone not to take chances in the future..."
Disciples of the Myriad Manifestations Sect can receive spirit stones distributed by the sect every month; the stronger their cultivation, the more spirit stones they can receive.
However, deducting a year's worth of spirit stones is hardly a punishment for Mingxing. The amount of spirit stones he received from the Myriad Manifestations Sect was merely a expense for him.
Chu Li could clearly sense the bias in Elder Xi's words. If someone else had made the same mistake, they probably wouldn't have been treated so leniently.
She glanced at Nan Yi and saw only his lowered head, assuming he was disappointed with the verdict.
She patted Nan Yi's head, her palm touching his soft hair, and subconsciously ruffled it.
Nan Yi suddenly looked up and glanced at Chu Li with some curiosity.
But Chu Li was no longer paying attention to him at this moment, and naturally missed the calm in Nan Yi's eyes.
Are you satisfied with the result this time?
Nan Yi was naturally dissatisfied, but he couldn't take his anger out on Chu Li because of the sect's judgment. He was just secretly calculating when he could go and beat up Ming Xing a few more times.
As long as Mingxing doesn't know who he is, that's fine. He's always been very vengeful and will definitely take revenge, and he'll doubly so.
"Elder Xi, you are wrong. Mingxing violated the sect rules on the arena and should go to the domain to reflect on his actions for a year. Afterwards, he openly slandered and provoked my junior brother. His character is not good, and he should be expelled from the sect."
The moment those words fell, the entire arena fell silent. Everyone stared in astonishment at the woman standing in the center of the ring, and even Nan Yi couldn't help but show a hint of shock.
In the end, Elder Ming was the first to react. He instinctively stepped in front of Ming Xing and said, "Who are you? How dare you speak so casually in front of the elders of the Enforcement Hall?"
"She is that fox's senior sister."
Elder Ming has been in seclusion for some time, so he naturally missed the news of the sect leader's eldest disciple's return.
His first reaction upon hearing this was disbelief. Where did Xie Wanqiu find such a young Nascent Soul cultivator as a disciple?
"That's right, she is indeed my disciple. What, can't even my disciple say a few fair words?"
With these words from the sect leader, the sect leader officially defined Chu Li's earlier statement as merely "fair words" spoken out of dissatisfaction.
"Moreover, I also think that what she said made some sense."
That was the original rule of the sect: anyone who dared to use external objects in the arena should have gone to the inner realm to reflect on their actions.
As for the following sentence, if Chu Li said that his character was bad, then his character was bad, and the Myriad Manifestations Sect would never continue to keep such a person in the sect.
Losing a competition is losing; one should focus on improving their own strength. But he went and casually slandered the other disciples—
"Xie Wanqiu! Don't forget, Mingxing is my son!"
Elder Ming got so excited that he called out the sect leader's full name.
The sect leader merely glanced at him indifferently: "So what?"
"Alright! Alright! In that case, I'll go with Mingxing!"
He is, after all, a powerful cultivator at the Nascent Soul stage; the sect should be able to do without him!
The sect leader will eventually give it serious consideration. As long as she can figure it out, he won't mind her occasional lapse in judgment.
But to his surprise, the sect leader waved his hand and said, "It's fine if you come with me. Go ahead."
Elder Ming was truly enraged this time. With his strength, he could still serve as an elder in any sect outside the sect.
He grabbed Mingxing and turned to leave the ring.
The sect leader watched everything unfold before her eyes without changing her expression. She wondered if she had been neglecting the disciples of the Myriad Manifestations Sect.
When her master handed the Myriad Manifestations Sect over to her, he had said that she did not need to make the Myriad Manifestations Sect very powerful, but all the disciples admitted to the Myriad Manifestations Sect must be of good character.
The Myriad Manifestations Sect is a sect for cultivating cultivators; we must not allow those scoundrels to enter and pollute the area.
No one could have imagined that this seemingly minor matter would end in such a way.
Many disciples were overjoyed at the departure of a "bully," and the sect leader began to pay more attention to the disciples who came to the sect to study. Of course, these are all stories for later.
Chu Li returned to Nan Yi's residence with him: "If you encounter something like this again in the future, don't be too impulsive. I think Mingxing and the others also want you to make the first move so that they have a legitimate reason to have the Enforcement Hall lock you up."
"Put them in? You mean what you said before, put them in the domain?" Nan Yi became a little interested at this point.
"Yes, I remember the clan rules were written like that." Chu Li recalled, but she suddenly realized that her memory of this part was a bit blurry, and she only vaguely remembered that it was about closing the domain.
As for the specific area she was to be confined to, her mind went blank, but she figured it must be one of those highly aggressive areas.
"I still want to thank my senior sister for her help just now."
Upon hearing this, Chu Li glanced at him with some surprise, realizing that he was referring to her speaking up for him: "I was just telling the truth back then, and in fact, I already sensed that Mingxing had violated the rules during your match."
Nan Yi's beautiful eyes gazed silently at Chu Li. No, Senior Sister, you don't know.
I wonder how deeply this help must have affected him.
He wasn't born into the fox clan; he was discovered by the fox clan after he reached adulthood and taken in.
After discovering his talent, the fox clan chief and elders gave him a lot of cultivation resources.
Perhaps for this reason, some of his peers in the fox clan often picked fights with him.
At first, he tolerated it because he was unfamiliar with the fox clan, but later he couldn't tolerate it anymore, and the two would start fighting.
But every time he made a move, the other party's elders would rush over to protect their own son, opposing him and scolding him endlessly.
Sometimes the fox clan chief has to turn a blind eye, and when there's really no other way, he can only offer a few words of comfort to both sides.
The only words of comfort he received were a few: not to bother with the other foxes, who were still young.
So later he got used to taking revenge in secret and no longer clashed with them openly, because he knew he couldn't win in that situation.
Every time he saw the fox that had once tricked him showing a look of fear at certain moments, he felt it was all too boring.
As his cultivation level increased rapidly, the strength of his fellow foxes had long since fallen far behind his, and similar incidents rarely occurred again.
However, he was influenced by this and became most accustomed to using force to solve everything.
Is this considered her favoritism?
Nan Yi showed a rare hint of confusion.
Chu Li seemed to want to say something more, but a voice interrupted her.
She listened for a while, then said to her junior brother, "Master is looking for me. You should rest first."
The Hall of No Form.
"Master, you were looking for me?"
On the platforms on both sides of the Wuxiang Hall, several candles were placed, burning quietly, their scent gradually filling the hall.
Chu Li's gaze was drawn to the candle, and she sniffed the air: "Is this for calming the nerves?"
“Yes,” the sect leader had appeared in front of Chu Li without her noticing, “I haven’t asked you in a long time, do you still have headaches now?”
"It doesn't hurt anymore."
Chu Li still remembered that a few months ago, she hit her head on the wall, which caused her to have a headache for a while and also experienced a short period of memory loss.
After she woke up and went outside, she met her eighth junior brother.
Strange, how could she have run into the wall for no reason, and how could the wall have injured her and left her unconscious for several days?
Seeing that Chu Li's expression was a little off, the sect leader immediately interrupted her wild thoughts, "It's good that it doesn't hurt anymore. The main reason I came to see you this time was to ask about Nan Yi."
"Nan Yi? What happened to him?"
"It's not a big deal, but I've had some free time lately, so why don't I take care of Nanyi myself?"
Since the last time she discussed a similar topic with Nan Yi, and Nan Yi so readily rejected her, Xie Wanqiu had always felt a vague sense of unease.
So she took this opportunity to ask her master. If her master was also unwilling to take care of Nan Yi anymore, then Nan Yi probably wouldn't be able to say anything.
“Master, why don’t you ask Nan Yi what he thinks? As for me, it’s fine if he wants to continue following me. Besides, he’s very obedient and not difficult to manage.”
Very well-behaved? Are you sure you're talking about Nan Yi?
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