Chapter 196: Invitation to Attend a Banquet
When the fifth elder realised that the first elder would not stop him, his mouth cracked into a wide smile.
’See how you escape my palm.’ He thought and looked at Jiang Yue ferociously.
Unexpectedly, Jiang Yue did not plan to escape right away.
Although he was under a lot of pressure, he also had the urge to try. He wanted to measure himself against a strong man in the core formation realm.
However, he didn’t plan to fight to the death.
When he couldn’t take it, he would activate the golden talisman and escape from the Lu family.
With that thought in mind, Jiang Yue released his pipa, and three crude notes resounded in the surroundings.
Instantaneously, three blue barriers appeared in front of him.
The barriers looked flimsy and couldn’t block the attack of a core formation realm cultivator, but their purpose wasn’t to block.
Jiang Yue only needed to buy enough time to throw a formation disk at the fifth elder.
"You dare to avoid?" The man roared.
"Otherwise?" Jiang Yue sneered and looked at the man like he was looking at a fool.
This angered the elder, and he moved to launch another attack.
However, Jiang Yue’s formation disk activated, and the elder was immediately wrapped in it.
’It won’t hold him for too long.’ Jiang Yue thought, and his eyes narrowed.
The formation disk he used was a modified flame-killing array.
After enlightening for several months, Jiang Yue’s formation skills improved. He comprehended the ancient elements in the gravity formation and learned to integrate them into other formations.
This not only allowed his formation mastery to climb from the second level to the third level but also increased the power of his arrays.
Compared to ordinary arrays of the same type and level, his formations were several times more powerful.
This was not only because of the ancient elements in the formations but because of his illusions.
As an illusion master, Jiang Yue liked to include illusions in the formations he arranged, which helped to increase their lethality.
However, a third-level array could not kill a core formation realm cultivator. At most, the fifth elder would be trapped for several hours before he broke out.
Unfortunately, the fifth elder had a home advantage.
As soon as the other elders saw that he was trapped, they immediately moved.
Soon after, the fifth elder was rescued, but he wasn’t unharmed.
His clothes were burned, and he had scorch marks all over his body.
However, his mental state was the most affected, and his eyes looked dull.
"I will kill you." He shouted and launched an attack.
The attack was more powerful than the previous, but its target was all wrong.
When Jiang Yue saw this, his lips curled, and his fingers strummed the pipa.
"That’s enough." The second elder said as he dissolved the fifth elder’s attack.
At this moment, the fifth elder came out of his daze, and Jiang Yue looked a little pale.
’As I thought, my soul power is not enough to trap a core formation realm cultivator in an illusion."
"What is your name?" The second elder asked and looked at Jiang Yue.
"Yeying." He answered without hesitation.
The second elder frowned, clearly displeased that he didn’t give his real name.
However, he didn’t want to dwell on that for the time being.
"Swear that you didn’t kill my Lu family, and I will allow you to join the Lu family as an apprentice." The second elder said, causing an uproar.
"Second brother..." The fifth elder shouted but stopped when the second elder glared at him coldly.
He was unwilling to let Yeying go, but he couldn’t beat the second brother.
For the time being, he could only swallow his breath and wait for an opportunity.
"I can swear I didn’t kill your Lu family, but I can’t join the Lu family." Jiang Yue said.
Although the deaths were related to him, he didn’t kill them directly.
In this case, he was confident he could make an oath without being backlashed by the Tao.
When he heard that, the second elder narrowed his eyes and wanted to say something.
However, he didn’t say it in the end.
He thought there would be time to persuade the young man when the matter was settled.
"Take the oath." He said, and Jiang Yue didn’t hesitate.
"I swear I did not kill the thirteen descendants of the Lu family. If I have lied, may I be struck by lightning until my body is turned to ash." He swore.
After he swore, the place fell into silence, and everyone seemed to be waiting for something.
However, after waiting for several breaths, lightning did not descend to strike Jiang Yue.
He secretly heaved a sigh in relief, but his face did not betray his worry. Instead, he maintained a confident smile that made everyone believe him.
"Are the elders assured?" He asked.
Several of the elders frowned but most didn’t seem to care.
They just wanted to catch the murderer and weren’t invested in making Yeying the culprit.
"Even if you are not the murderer, you have disrespected our Lu family." Lu Xuanrui jumped in.
She didn’t want Yeying to be exonerated.
Since the person couldn’t be persecuted for killing her clansmen, she could only approach the matter from another angle.
"How did I disrespect your Lu family?" Jiang Yue asked.
Lu Xuanrui thought about it and couldn’t come up with a specific thing Yeying said to disrespect the family.
All the disrespect was implied in the looks and in between his words.
However, Yeying could deny these things and accuse her of thinking too much. When she didn’t know what to say, something occurred to her, and she smiled triumphantly.
"Just now, the second elder asked you to join our Lu family, but you refused. Do you look down on our Lu family and the second elder?"
Jiang Yue was flabbergasted.
Did the Lu family think they were spirit stones?
Was he obligated to like them and accept their offer when they made it?
Jiang Yue sneered at the young woman and decided not to bother with her.
However, his attitude made it clear.
Everyone saw that he didn’t take Lu Xuanrui seriously and sweated for him.
They felt his thoughts were right, but big families were unreasonable.
They didn’t like being rejected and held the mentality that what couldn’t be used by them, didn’t need to exist.
"Look at him! He clearly looks down on our Lu family."
"You are mistaken, young miss. I only look down on you." Jiang Yue said.
In fact, he looked down on the Lu family, but he had better sense than to say it.
As a compromise, he could only settle on looking down on Lu Xuanrui.
"Yeying..." The girl screamed and rushed to attack.
However, someone stopped her before she made her move.
"Qi Shuo, are you still protecting him?" She asked through gritted teeth.
"Are you his opponent?" Qi Shuo sneered.
Although Qi Shuo had never seen him fight, he had always known that Yeying was very powerful.
This was not just because Yeying could draw a crowd of people into an illusion when telling a story, it was also because a terrifying qi presence occasionally leaked from him.
When he saw him take the fifth elder’s attack, he realised he had still underestimated Yeying.
This time, he didn’t stop Lu Xuanrui because he was protecting her, it was because he didn’t want the matter to escalate.
If Yeying injured Lu Xuanrui, the Lu family elders wouldn’t let him go, and that was an outcome he didn’t want to see.
"If the elders are assured, I would like to hand over my gravity stones and leave." Jiang Yue said and bowed.
The elders looked at each other and didn’t know what to say.
[First brother, we can’t let him.] The fifth elder said urgently.
[I agree with the fifth brother. My daughter didn’t handle it well, but this Yeying does not take our Lu family seriously.]
[The child is very talented. It would be a pity if our Lu family didn’t recruit him.] The third elder interjected.
[Second brother, can you see his age?]
[I can’t be sure without checking his bones. However, he should be less than fifty.]
[Less than fifty? If you are right, the child is a genius.]
[Even young master Qi who is at the same cultivation level, is more than fifty.]
[Could Yeying be a young master of a big family?]
The elders paused transmitting after that and thought about it.
[Our Lu family has already formed a grudge with this person. If he won’t enter the family, he can’t be kept.]
[The second brother is right. We can’t keep a hidden danger.]
At this, the first elder sighed and turned to Jiang Yue.
"Our Lu family will hold a banquet to thank everyone for their hard work. At that time, we will also apologise for the previous suspicion." The first elder said.
’Looks like I am about to attend my first hongmen banquet.’ Jiang Yue thought but nodded in agreement to the elder’s words.
