Chapter 149: One hundred forty-nine. The learning is not quite there yet!
"Yun Xiao, you have quite the nerve to interrupt the Great Elder in the midst of activating the Meridian Array. How should you be punished for such a crime?"
As the Third Prince of the Empire, Xuan Zhi was only afraid of a handful of people within the royal family. As for the others, even those cultivators stronger than him, he has always been arrogant and looked down upon everyone.
Moreover, there was already deep-seated enmity between Xuan Zhi and Yun Xiao from their time in the Yulin Mountain Range, and this enmity had only deepened over time. True to his nature, Xuan Zhi immediately placed a heavy accusation upon Yun Xiao as he spoke.
"Yes, Yun Xiao, even if you are a Meridian Refining Master, you probably don’t even know what a Meridian Array is. Speaking recklessly here, you’re just making others laugh until their teeth fall out."
As a vassal of the Royal Family, it was natural for Guan Tong to speak up at this time, and his words were even more justified and well-founded than Xuan Zhi’s baseless accusation.
Many of the Outer Sect geniuses now knew about Yun Xiao’s background. What kind of foundation could a small Shang Family from Moon Bow City possibly have, especially now that the Shang Family had been wiped out and no longer existed?
A small family like this indeed might not even know what a Meridian Array is. Guan Tong wasn’t wrong in what he said; if this were the Yun Xiao of the past, he truly wouldn’t have known what a Meridian Array is. But now, the knowledge he possessed probably surpassed that of all the cultivators on the Hidden Dragon Continent combined.
Following these two’s statements, almost everyone believed that Yun Xiao was trying to gain the attention of the Great Elder Lu Zhan, who was right before their eyes, by taking a different approach, thus they all looked down on him with contempt.
Among them, even Shen Xiao, who ranked second on the Outer Sect’s Mortal List, saw a glint flash in his eyes and chimed in, "Yun Xiao, when it comes to things you don’t know, it’s better not to talk recklessly. If your interruption affects the Great Elder’s activation of the Meridian Array and causes Song Tian’s death, that responsibility will fall on you."
It must be said that Shen Xiao really was a person of considerable scheming. His words seemed calm but were actually piercing. After he spoke, almost everyone forgot about Feng Hang’s ruthless actions from earlier and focused solely on Yun Xiao’s despicable intention to draw the Great Elder’s attention.