Chapter 1231 - 342: Cloud Descending Sect Incident (Conclusion)
Right now Yuchi looked just like a little girl who’d been wronged to death, sobbing and sniffling, as if he’d finally pulled something off with great difficulty only for the other side to break their promise. You could say his heart was full of grief; even his voice carried a tragic edge when he spoke.
The old man, on the other hand, flew into a rage on the spot: "Brat, are you looking to die? You saying our Cloud Descending Sect are a bunch of scammers, is that it? You better take responsibility for those words! Are you slandering us? Or trying to use this to strong-arm our Cloud Descending Sect? Do you have zero sense of the law or what?!"
"Sense of the law" my ass. This biting-back act of yours is way too familiar. It’s clearly you lot who didn’t do your job, and somehow you just dump the blame straight on my head... Yuchi suddenly felt this was getting boring, so since that’s how it was, he simply said bluntly:
"Alright, alright."
"Senior, you give me a million and I’ll leave right away. Then next time I want to kill Chen Weiran, I’ll come find you guys again."
"What you’re doing here is straight-up bullying with power, you know."
"Really don’t go thinking I, Honest Old Yuchi, am that easy to push around. If I can make it in a little place like Jiangzhou City, I’ve got at least a few friends, yeah? I do have people above me, you know."
The old man just glared: "No way!"
Yuchi: "..."
Looking at the old man’s vicious face, he said speechlessly, "What, you planning to rip me off? Are the local gangs in Jiangzhou City all this impolite?!"
The old man’s tone grew even more ferocious:
"So what? What can you do to us?! My Cloud Descending Sect has never been afraid of anyone! Gold and silver that’s already in our stomach, and you want us to spit it back out? No way!"
"I’ll just kill you right here!"
"So what if you’re some damn guild leader?!"
"You @#%!"
Yuchi: "..."
Nothing more to talk about after that.
Ten-odd breaths later, Yuchi walked out of the coffin shop, swung the door shut behind him, and hung a "Closed" sign on it.
Thinking back to the old man’s terrified eyes, that look of utter disbelief right before he died, the old man had even said, "You young people don’t talk about martial ethics, ambushing an old comrade like me!"
Yuchi was helpless.
History just repeats itself over and over, exactly the same each time. After you’ve seen it enough, even if he wants to spice things up a little, the other party just refuses to cooperate. Since the matter with the Cloud Descending Sect was on hold for now, next up was dealing with the sect side of things.
Honestly speaking.
If he hadn’t been hiding some of his cultivation, the Cloud Descending Sect really might have just killed Yuan’Er and the others outright. So now that he had some time, he still had to go pay a little visit to other people’s sect, have a chat, and see whether those two sects had any thoughts of their own about this mess.
...
There were quite a few sects outside Jiangzhou City.
Of course, the area around Jiangzhou City was all Clothing Towns, or rather Jiangzhou City itself specialized in making clothes, so the main forces were three: the Zhou Family, the Fang Family, and the Wu Family. Three sects, three clans, together had the clothing industry of Jiangzhou City firmly in hand.
This time Yuchi was heading to the sect corresponding to the Wu Family. The people in this sect had no idea Yuchi had already wiped out the Cloud Descending Sect, and they also didn’t know Yuchi was on his way to them. He had already arrived at their sect’s Martial Arts Arena and was in the middle of talking to some disciples!
"Hello, miss, may I ask where your Grand Elders are right now?" Wearing a little fox mask, Yuchi bowed with a cheerful smile.
"Ah, they’re over there..."
"Do you have some matter to discuss with the Elders?"
A female disciple, face flushed, pointed out the direction for Yuchi.
She couldn’t see Yuchi’s face, but it was like she could see his burning heart.
"Yes, just some personal little business, that’s all. Thanks for the help, miss."
"I’ll let you get back to what you were doing."
"I’ll go take care of it now."
Yuchi spoke to the female disciple with a warmth like a spring breeze. After the girl nodded at him reluctantly, he took his leave. Now that he’d gotten his bearings, he walked through their sect grounds. Having gotten used to the environment of the Ascension Gate, the Spiritual Qi in this sect was basically nonexistent, and the disciples’ cultivation was weak across the board. Compared to the Ascension Gate, this sect was like some trash-tier snake-skin sect.
Leading people astray.
The female disciples all clustered together, watching Yuchi stroll calmly through their sect in his black clothes, full of curiosity.
"Who is he?"
"No idea."
"Kind of handsome, though!"
"Handsome? You can see what he looks like? His face is covered. It’s not that he looks handsome, he just feels composed."
"Exactly! Couldn’t agree more. It’s mainly how composed he is. He came alone into our sect and doesn’t seem worried at all."
"Yeah!"
"So what did he come to our sect for?"
"No idea, he didn’t say. But it seems he’s here to see the Sect Leader and the others."
"Isn’t the Sect Leader talking with someone right now?"
"The Sect Leader of another sect is here too. If he goes over at this time, wouldn’t that be a bit inappropriate?"
"Should be fine. He doesn’t look like some muddle-headed fool."
The disciples chattered away.
Meanwhile Yuchi was already heading toward this sect’s council hall. His purpose this trip was simple: have a good talk with them. If it could be done the easy way, great; if not, it still had to get done. He didn’t have that much time to waste on this kind of snake-skin sect.
Right now the Grand Elder and the others were sitting in a very luxurious council hall, discussing the affairs of Jiangzhou City with exasperation.