The blue energy veil dispersed , revealing an hour glass beautiful figure in a loose and long blue skirt standing on a pale blue sword.
Earth Realm, Mu Binyun
Witnessing her arrival, Li Jian suddenly had cold sweat rolling behind his back. He had actually overlooked an important variable in his plan - Li Feng’ maternal aunt.
“Release him immediately!” Mu Binyun shouted. [m]The talisman she had left with Li Feng had detected an attack at the earth realm. Even though she was about to head back to her clan, her restless heart could not help but rush back.[/m] Her words like swords stabbed at the disciples meridians causing them to cough up clogged blood.
“W-wait, sword fairy, please don’t implicate the innocent.” Jolting from his entranced daze the supervising elder immediately called out, waving his hand. His heaven realm energy instantly neutralised the sword intent in the air.
“Oh” She took a side way glance at the elder, even though she was a realm lower than him, her voice showed no sign of fear.
“Mid-Heaven realm expert. Ain't you supposed to be looking out for him” . Her snowy hands gestured towards the kneeling Li feng, her shaking finger betraying the emotions she was concealing.
The elder let out a wry smile, moving in front of her, shielding the disciples. While it had been his fault, it was not like he didn't want to rescue Li feng if he had a ‘choice’. But to save Li feng implicated the clan’s interests. He had heard of the famous genius of the Mu clan - Mu binyun and how she didn’t hesitate to leave her clan when she heard of her orphaned nephew. Along with the stunt she just pulled, clearly she simply couldn’t be allowed to handle situation.
“….Fine”, her aura retreated back into his body.
The disciples instantly let out heaves of relief and Li Jian at the front let out a silent grin, he still had his impregnable meat shield.
“…but if his clothes get even a scratch, then I'll show no mercy” The elder let a sigh of relief, he truly didn’t want to exchange blows with such a beauty, cough, genius. However just as he stepped back, a sword flashed past the corner of his eyes.
His mind jolted in realisation and urged his qi into action, but… something inconceivable happened. He actually found himself… slower than an earth realm junior. _What’s up with the world today_
The blue light whizzed through the air and struck the barrier, penetrating it like a hot knife through margarine. The shock rippled through each chain in the web, into the meridians, cutting each vein causing irreparable damage to the disciples cultivation. Still filled with momentum it continued straight the core of the web - Li Jian. But before the attack made contact a gentle force dispersed it’s energy .
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“The sword fairy is still as lively as before.” An amiable voice echoed from a distance. Shortly after, a few elders in bland robes appeared. In the middle was the enforcing elder who had just saved Li Jian’s life.
The other elders immediately rushed towards the coughing disciples. Using their heaven realm energy, the elders forced out the cold qi, before it reached the dantain. A practitioner was akin to a fuel station and his dantian the fuel reservoir, his meridians the pipeline. Mu Binyun's attack had lit up the pipelines, had the elder’s been late… this batch of generation…
Yet the enforcing elder showed no anger on his face and tried to put on his friendliest of smiles even though the spontaneous twitches betrayed his true emotions. Such was the power of a backing. Who in their right mind would anger a bee when a beehive is nearby.
“Congratulations on the advancement in your cultivation.” The enforcing elder cupped his fists in a polite salute.
However as if she had casually smacked an annoying bug, Mu Binyun was unfazed. “You told me that he was safe”
The enforcing elders’ gaze instantly fell on the supervising elder who just faced Li Jian’ direction – denying any involvement. The enforcing elder immediately understood the whole story. This wasn’t the first time such a thing happened. However he could instantly feel a headache coming up. He thought he had warned the disciples that , while she was still in the Li clan they’d better steered clear of Li feng path.
“Don’t worry , I'll give you a satisfactory explanation explanation.” The enforcing elder gestured, a scroll appearing with the wave of his sleeve. And a pen on the other as he began scribbling.
“The offenders, will have their quarter of this month resources given off to Li feng as compensation.” The elder didn’t dare give a harsh punishment because Li Jian’ identity involved a supreme elder.
But, who was Mu binyun, she was the princess of the Mu clan and when had she ever suffered injustice, let alone when she had ‘reason’ on her side.
“An arm!”
The enforcing elder was immediately faced with a hard choice, instantly he understood why the supervising elder stood by but he represented the clan, even though Mu binyun was from an influential clan and she was demanding justice on behalf of a disciple of the clan, he had to also consider the riot that might ensue from the supreme elders wrath, such experts had no reason on right wrong
“How about he enters the pool last”
The sword fairy, Mu Binyun, frowned, dissatisfied. Her eyes flashed with a hint of anger, but she knew she had pushed the enforcing elder as far as she could. With a subtle nod, she stepped back, floating towards Li Feng.
“Wait.. i-i am at a bottleneck, so”, Li Jian’ flustered immediately made the enforcing elder’ frown.
_This untactful lad_ He didn’t want to continue dealing with this situation any further, even though Li Jian was the grandson of a supreme elder, he wouldn't be blamed for this outcome, he had already done the best he could and pushing Mu binyun further would cause unwanted damage. Waving his hand the supervising elder caught the sign and stepped out
“Cgh Cgh”, a wry smile evident on his face . He had truly lost all face today. But he didn’t have choice, such was the cultivation world, the weak had to exercise caution while the strong acted on their will.
“The Li hour… has”
“Wait, the ordeal just disrupted Fenge'r qi and he needs to orient his breathing”, Mu binyun instantly cut off the elder. Li feng only had a few spots of dirt on him but the icy glare told the elder she was not the one to mess with.
The enforcing elder instantly shook his Head. _It was good to be young_. “We will delay by another 30 minutes”, the clan had spoke waving his hand dismissing the elders he had brought. He had thought that a major disaster had struck the clan but …
The geniuses immediately sat down to regulate their Qi , they also needed this chance entering the pool with a more calm mental state would increase the absorption and assimilation of the pool’s efficacy.
However Li Jian was in denial, he had originally thought that he’d blackmail the clan with Li feng and earn himself some resources, but he could see himself being grounded and also beaten by his grandpa.
The other geniuses frowned, they new Li Jian have escaped harsh punishment but they will without extraordinary backing will not escape