Chapter 253: Face and Mistakes
Among them were Jiang Yue, Yang Xu, Xuan Ke, and Hongzhu.
However, Jiang Yue reacted quickly and stuffed Hongzhu in the ancient palace.
After all, she was a demon plant.
He couldn’t let her hang around nascent soul realm cultivators. If he did, they may not be able to keep her and he wouldn’t know how to explain to Li Futian when he woke up.
"Yang Xu, why is your disciple so vicious?" A man asked angrily.
The man looked middle-aged, had a short-trimmed beard and his eyes were occasionally flashed with a red light.
"Elder Gu is exaggerating. The children are all alive." Yang Xu said with a relaxed smile on his face.
"Yang Xu, senior Gu is right. This time, your disciple went a little too far." A woman said and frowned.
Aside from Yu Nianzhen, all the participants on the platform were unconscious.
They all had small and big sword cuts all over their body, and their clothes were drenched in blood.
"What elder ji said is a little interesting. As I recall, the disciple of your sect joined with others to attack my disciple. Since he could do that, why shouldn’t my disciple choose to eliminate everyone at once?"
When Yang Xu said this, his voice was full of pride.
He knew Yu Nianzhen was powerful but didn’t expect he had reached this level.
’My disciple has bought me a lot of face.’ Yang Xu thought and was tempted to laugh out loud.
However, he didn’t dare to do so.
Although his face did not show any anxiety, his heart was not at ease.
He had only recovered to the peak of the core formation realm and wasn’t the opponent of several nascent souls.
If the others were unscrupulous and decided to attack, things would turn bad.
"Junior Yang has accepted a good disciple." An elderly man said and sighed.
The man wore white clothes, had white hair, and his eyes showed the vicissitudes of life.
His hands were clasped behind his back which completed the image of a respected elder.
"It’s all luck." Yang Xu said.
Unlike before, his tone was respectful and the old man nodded.
After that, the old man walked to Zhu Zheng and checked his condition.
"The child should be fine with a few pills and rest." Elder Zhu said and put a pill in Zhu Zheng’s mouth.
"Ancestor Zhu, this matter can’t be settled so easily." Elder Gu said in resentment.
The Ghost Valley was counting on Gu Meng to win the martial contest.
Unexpectedly, before he could reach the final, he was tripped by a first-level origin tempering realm cultivator.
"This time, your disciple was not as good as others. Do you plan to disregard your face and attack an origin-tempering realm junior?" Elder Zhu spoke as he used a technique to levitate Zhu Zheng’s body.
When elder Gu heard the old man, his face turned ugly.
Elder Zhu was weaker than the ancestor of the Great Zhu empire but he was among the strongest nascent soul realm cultivators in the Cangxing world.
At this time, he planned to let the matter go and the others would look petty if they insisted on attacking Yu Nianzhen.
However, they couldn’t swallow the breath.
In fact, they didn’t particularly care about the juniors who were injured by Yu Nianzhen.
What they cared about was their face.
They felt that Yu Nianzhen stepped all over their face and they couldn’t let him go.
"This junior, cultivators should leave a way out for themselves when they do things." Elder Gu said.
Although his voice was not different from before, there was an underlying threat in his tone.
Fortunately, he didn’t continue to pursue the matter.
Instead, he lifted Gu Meng and carried him out of the atrial platform.
In the same way, the other elders also carried their disciples and left the martial platform.
"You are very courageous." Yang Xu sighed when everyone left.
"It was either that or be defeated." Yu Nianzhen said and shrugged.
The opponents kept attacking him in pairs and Yu Nianzhen didn’t want to lose.
In the end, he could only use his self-created sword art to defeat them.
Fortunately, the move worked and the opponents were all defeated.
If it didn’t work, Yu Nianzhen would surely be defeated.
This was because he had exhausted his qi and sword intent.
Although he had spiritual water, it could only go so far, and there was no way to quickly recover his sword intent.
"Azhen, drink this quickly." Jiang Yue said and gave him a gourd of spiritual water.
"Don’t worry, I am fine." Yu Nianzhen said and took the gourd.
"Mmmm." Jiang Yue was a little angry but not at Yu Nianzhen.
Although his husband was reckless, there was no other way.
The people he was angry with were those who kept targeting Yu Nianzhen.
If they didn’t insist on fighting him in pairs, Yu Nianzhen wouldn’t be driven to such a situation.
"Brother Yu has become very powerful." Xuan Ke suddenly said.
They had fought together in the Thousand Herbs Garden, and he naturally knew Yu Nianzhen’s abilities.
However, he didn’t expect that the person had grown so much in just ten years.
’There are people outside of people and skies outside the sky.’ He thought and sighed.
"Azhen is naturally powerful." Jiang Yue said proudly.
When he heard someone praise Yu Nianzhen, he momentarily forgot his distress and chimed in.
"In your eyes, no one is better than your husband." Xuan Ke retorted and rolled his eyes.
"That’s natural."
Yang Xu chuckled and then looked at his disciple.
"Are you okay?" He asked.
"I just need a little rest and I will be ready for the next game."
"The platform is damaged and it will take a while to repair. Take advantage of the time to recover."
"I understand."
After that, the group left the platform and walked to the participant area.
At this time, only nine others were left in the participant area.
Everyone kept a distance from the other opponents, but they all watched closely as Yu Nianzhen walked over.
"Master Yang can return. Brother Xuan and I will protect the law for Azhen." Jiang Yue said.
"Good." Yang Xu immediately agreed.
Although he wanted to stay and protect his disciple, he couldn’t.
The situation of the Sea Cloud sect was complicated and he still needed to manage some things with the other elders.
"Take care of yourselves."
"Master Yang should take care of himself too."
"Don’t worry about me."
After saying that, Yang Xu left the three and returned to the sitting area of the Sea Cloud sect.
When he returned, the atmosphere was a little subtle and Yang Xu sighed in his heart.
However, nothing showed on his face and took his previous seat.
"Elder, the situation of our Sea Cloud sect is not optimistic. Your disciple should not cause trouble at this time." An elder said.
The elder was surnamed Wen and he belonged to the same clan as the sect master.
"My disciple did what was required of him. He isn’t the one who has done something wrong." Yang Xu said pointedly.
When he heard that, the elder’s face turned ugly.
He was surprised by the turn of events.
From young, Wen Ren had always been talented and conscientious.
When the old sect master retreated, only Yang Xu did not want Wen Ren to become the new sect master.
Because of this, Wen Ren and the Wen family had always disliked Yang Xu.
Unexpectedly, Yang Xu was proven right after several hundred years.
It turned out that the sect master they chose was a notorious member of the Death Flower Ascension Front.
"This is not the time to point fingers." Another elder said.
Although he was also dissatisfied with Yu Nianzhen’s troublemaking, the trouble had already been caused.
The most urgent thing was to figure out a way forward for the Sea Cloud sect.
As it stood, the group that came to the Ice Palace sect were prodigal sons.
After the martial conference, they had nowhere to return because the Sea Cloud sect was now occupied by the Death Flower Ascension Front.
"Elder Yang, when the conference is over, you will instruct your disciple to accept the proposal from the Beast region. Once the contract is formed, our group will retreat to the beast region." Chen Qing said righteously.
"This is the best solution." Elder Wen agreed and nodded in approval.
"This is not possible." Yang Xu refused categorically.
Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue had an exclusive Taoist contact. A third party couldn’t get in between them.
Even if it was possible, Yang Xu wouldn’t agree to it.
His disciple had been in the sect for less than twenty years.
In that time, the sect had neither taken care of him nor earned his loyalty.
It was impossible to ask Yu Nianzhen to sacrifice himself for the Sea Cloud sect.
"I will not allow my disciple to pay for other people’s mistakes." He continued.
