The head disciple of the Shenji School looked at his palm, then lowered his head to look at the two people lying on the ground, feeling confused as if his brain had been ripped out.
Could it be that he had accidentally released his spiritual energy and knocked them out?
But why did he have no memory of it at all?
“Eldest Senior Brother,” a fellow disciple said, his face filled with reluctance. “They’re only teenagers. If you have something you’re unhappy about, you can tell them off, but it’s going too far to hit them.”
Although they looked young, they were all over a hundred years old. In the eyes of those who were over a hundred years old in the cultivation world, those who were under twenty were just half-grown children.
It was fine to scare and tease the children, but to actually hit someone in the Jiutian Sect, and to hit a half-grown child who had just entered a sect, if this matter were to spread, everyone would laugh at them.
“I didn’t…” The sect’s head disciple turned around to explain to his fellow disciples, but each of them stared at him with the look of “don’t explain, we all saw it”. He took a deep breath: “They fell by themselves. Do you believe them or me?”
“Senior Brother, there’s no need to be angry over two brats.” A disciple came out to smooth things over. “Fight if you want to, so what? No one else saw it anyway. We should hurry to the banquet hall. It wouldn’t be good if we missed the auspicious hour.”
The sect’s head disciple was even more furious after hearing this. What did he mean by “fight if you want to”? He hadn’t even touched the hem of his opponent’s clothes!
At that moment, he felt wronged like never before. The more wronged he felt, the angrier he became, and he raised his hand to teach these two pretentious people a lesson.
“Stop.” A powerful spiritual pressure struck. The sect’s head disciple recognized the newcomer and turned pale with fright. He bowed respectfully to the newcomer. “Immortal Venerable Bu.”
Bu Ting walked up to Jiu Hui and Zhi You and asked, “Are you two little friends alright?”
Zhi You opened his eyes, his black and white eyes looking at Bu Ting. Bu Ting had one hand behind his back, and the magic patterns on his robe flickered with a faint flowing light. He lowered his head slightly, as if a god had lowered his noble head, bestowing his elegant compassion on the flowers and plants.
When Zhi You opened his eyes to look at him, he revealed a very faint smile.
Zhi You turned his head away without speaking, facing Jiu Hui who was lying beside him.
“This junior is fine. Thank you for your concern, Immortal Venerable Bu.” Jiu Hui forced herself to sit up while clutching her chest. She spat out a mouthful of blood in front of everyone and wiped the corner of her mouth with the back of her hand. “My injuries aren’t serious. I shouldn’t die.”
Bu Ting stared at her eyes that were as bright as stars, momentarily lost in thought. Then, he bent down slightly and extended his hand to Jiu Hui, asking, “Can you stand up?”
The hand was clean and slender, and his profound cultivation concealed all the lines on his palm. It didn’t look like a living person’s hand, but rather like it was carved from white jade, exquisite, noble, and cold.
Almost everyone was stunned. No one had expected that the lofty Sect Master of the Jiutian Sect would stoop down to help a little girl who had fallen to the ground. Even Nan Feng, who was following behind Bu Ting, could not help but show a look of surprise.
Zhi You got up from the ground and patted the dust off his hands. He acted as if he didn’t see Bu Ting’s outstretched hand. He silently helped Jiu Hui up, then took out a handkerchief and wiped the dust off her skirt.
“Junior is covered in dust and dare not dirty your hand, Immortal Venerable.” Jiu Hui smiled apologetically at Bu Ting.
A faint smile appeared on Bu Ting’s face. “Yesterday, I heard your master call you Jiu Hui. Which ‘Jiu’ and which ‘Hui’ is it?”
“The jiu from ‘you give me a plum, I’ll return a black jade’.” Jiu Hui looked up and smiled at Bu Ting. “The ‘hui’ in fennel.”
“You gave me a plum, and I’ll return a black jade…” Bu Ting’s expression dimmed slightly as he took out a bottle of pills and handed it to Jiu Hui. “This medicine is used to consolidate your foundation and cultivate your essence. Use it to heal your wounds.”
“Thank you, Immortal Venerable Bu.” Jiu Hui winked at Zhi You, who reached out to take the pill and said thanks as well.
“As cultivators, you shouldn’t bully others with your power, and you shouldn’t bully the weak. If you rely on your cultivation to bully the weak, what’s the difference between you and the demons?” Bu Ting turned to the Shenji School disciples. “Nan Feng, send someone to investigate the Shenji School’s recent actions. If they have harmed the innocent, report it to the ten major sects and the Fuguang Palace. They will be dealt with according to the rules.”
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And it still needed to be reported to Fuguang Palace?
The disciples of the Shenji School turned pale. They bit the bullet and begged Bu Ting for mercy, “Immortal Venerable Bu, please show mercy!”
“Don’t be afraid.” Bu Ting’s voice was gentle. “The Jiutian Sect always acts fairly. If your sect has not committed any evil deeds, our sect will naturally clear your name.”
The sect’s head disciple staggered. If they were truly innocent, why would they beg the Jiutian Sect to show mercy?
But facing Immortal Venerable Bu’s calm, almost gentle face, they dared not say another word.
The sect’s head disciple turned pale, took out two bottles of healing pills and a bag of spirit stones, and walked up to Jiu Hui. He bowed deeply, enduring the humiliation. “I accidentally injured you, Fellow Daoist. I feel extremely guilty about it.”
If he had known that the Jiutian Sect would come to her aid, how could he have provoked her?
He only hoped that Immortal Venerable Bu would spare the Shenji School for the sake of his sincere apology.
“Fellow Daoist, you are too kind.” Jiu Hui glanced at the compensation in his hand. “I can’t accept this. I can’t. Although I have suffered a serious internal injury, I absolutely dare not accept this compensation. Please take it back, Fellow Daoist.”
Jiu Hui declined, but the sect’s head disciple did not dare to take it back. He even wanted to beg her to accept it.
“Miss Jiu Hui, we have offended you too. Please forgive us.” The other Shenji School disciples came to their senses and took out the good stuff on their bodies as compensation.
“Alas, this is truly…” Jiu Hui held a full embrace of conciliatory gifts, her face full of distress as she looked at Bu Ting.
Bu Ting nodded slightly, and Jiu Hui had no choice but to reluctantly accept.
Seeing that he had finally accepted the compensation, the Shenji School disciples apologized repeatedly before taking their leave.
Under absolute power, even the most arrogant person can become the most courteous gentleman. Because what they observe was not etiquette, but fear of the powerful.
“Little friend Jiu Hui, why don’t you join us at the banquet hall?” Bu Ting bent down to pick up a bottle of pills that had fallen on the ground and put it back in Jiu Hui’s arms. “Please.”
“But we still have to wait for our friends here, so we can’t travel with the Immortal Venerable.” Jiu Hui declined innocently. “Immortal Venerable and Fellow Daoist Nan Feng, please go ahead.”
“If that’s the case, then so be it.” Bu Ting glanced at the grass nearby, his face not showing any displeasure. He took a few steps forward, then suddenly stopped and looked at Jiu Hui: “Miss Jiu Hui, do you know Mu Qi?”
“Hmm?” Jiu Hui looked back in confusion. “What?”
“An old friend.” Bu Ting looked up in the direction of the Zhenyao Prison when he saw Jiu Hui’s clueless expression.
“Are you looking for her?” Jiu Hui lowered her head to tidy up the gift in her arms. “Maybe I can ask around more for you in the future?”
“Her soul has returned to heaven and earth, and there is nowhere to find her.” Bu Ting slowly closed his eyes. “Five hundred years have passed, I’m afraid that no one in the world remembers her name anymore.”
“Immortal Venerable, please… please accept our condolences.” Jiu Hui bowed cautiously, as if she was afraid that she would say the wrong thing and make Bu Ting even sadder.
After listening to Jiu Hui, Bu Ting smiled bitterly, turned around, and slowly walked away, his back looking extremely lonely.
Zhi You looked up at the direction Bu Ting left, his eyes as dark as the night.
“Half for you, half for me.” Jiu Hui divided the items and saw that Zhi You was staring at Immortal Venerable Bu Ting’s back. She whispered in his ear, “Do you think Immortal Venerable Bu Ting is elegant and otherworldly?”
Zhi You turned his head to look at her.
Jiu Hui stuffed half of the compensation into his arms: “He may look young, but he’s actually almost seven hundred years old, and at the Great Ascension stage. It’s normal to have this kind of bearing.”
“How did you know he was nearly seven hundred years old?”
“You didn’t read the records about the leaders of the ten major sects in the sect’s library?” Jiu Hui was heartbroken. “Zhi You, how could you not read such important records?”
Zhi You: “…”
Jiu Hui took two bottles of pills and a bag of spirit stones from his arms, and said righteously, “This is your punishment for not carefully investigating the major sects before you left.”
Zhi You: “…”
He hadn’t said anything yet.
Jiu Hui picked up a stone at her feet and threw it into the grass beside her. “Aren’t you coming out yet?”
“Immortal Jiu Hui.” Tao Er emerged from the grass, a flattering smile on his face as he squeezed in front of Jiu Hui. “How did you know I was hiding inside?”
“With your elementary Qi Refining stage cultivation, everyone knows you’re hiding in the grass.” Jiu Hui raised an eyebrow at him. “Why are you alone?”
“My father and elder brother will be traveling with Immortal Venerable Yu, so I came to find you and Immortal Zhi You.” Tao Er smiled ingratiatingly. “Others only know that someone is hiding in the grass, but unlike you, you knew it was me who was hiding. You are the most formidable, Immortal.”
The distance between a crazy, twisted, naughty child and a brown-noser was actually very short, so short that all it took was a beating.
“Let’s go, let’s go.” Jiu Hui glanced at the sky. “Let’s go eat!”
Tao Er quickly followed up: “Immortal, who is the Mu Qi that Immortal Bu mentioned? Why did he ask if you knew this person?”
“I don’t know who Mu Qi is, but I know why he asked me.” Jiu Hui stopped in her tracks and turned to look at the two men following her, then pointed at her own face.
“Some men, when they see a young, vibrant, and beautiful girl, begin to reminisce about a girl who once brought them fond memories, and this girl must have left him or parted ways with him during her best years.” Jiu Hui chuckled, “What they miss is not that girl, but the beautiful past that they can’t return to.”
“So that’s how it is.” Tao Er suddenly understood. “In that case, it’s possible that Miss Mu Qi and Immortal Lord Bu had a passionate past together.”
“But…” Tao Er was puzzled again. “How can you be sure that Mu Qi is a girl and not an old male friend?”
“Then he should have asked Zhi You, not me.” Jiu Hui pointed at her own face. “Does my face look like a man’s?!”
“Not at all, not at all. Immortal, your complexion is as fair as the spring dawn, and your eyes are brighter than the stars and moon. How could you possibly resemble a man?” Tao Er shook his head vigorously, his desire to live was very strong.
“I know,” Zhi You, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly said, “Mu Qi is the yao girl who caused Bu Ting and Qiu Hua to turn against each other.”
Jiu Hui covered her ears and took two steps to the side. “I didn’t say that. I didn’t hear anything.”
Tao Er also covered his ears: “I didn’t say it, and I didn’t hear it either.”
They both looked at Zhi You, their eyes as if they were looking at a warrior.
Standing on the territory of the Jiutian Sect, directly addressing the two Immortal Venerables with the highest cultivation, and daring to mention this past event that no one dared to speak of openly, Lord Zhi You, you were the true king of the cultivation world.
If you didn’t speak it was fine, then when you do, you’d shock the world. Who could be bolder than you?
Author’s Note:
Little Garlic Chive: We just had a little gossip that can’t be talked about in depth, and you, classmate Zhi You, you are the king of the brave kingdom.