Chapter 474 - Crisis
Northwest corner of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Black Crow Mountain.
Deep in the forest, in a sinisterly dark area, a bloodstained palace was erected.
This day, a piece of news arrived.
“Master, Su Zimo has returned from the ancient battlefield and has arrived at Ethereal Peak!”
“Alright!”
A blood-robed middle-aged man opened his eyes. They shone with a sinister faint green hue as he said coldly, “I want nothing in the radius of 50 kilometers around Ethereal Peak to remain alive!”
His voice was extremely chilling and spread to every single corner of Black Crow Mountain.
Countless blood crows flew out from Black Crow Mountain, shrieking as they swarmed the skies with their sheer numbers and flew towards Ethereal Peak.
However, nobody expected that something would change in this period of time. By some freak accident, Su Zimo was embroiled in an irreconcilable feud with Blood Crow Palace’s Lord and that resulted in the situation today.
“It’s all Su Zimo’s fault. If it wasn’t for him, we wouldn’t have made enemies with a sect as strong as Blood Crow Palace!” Finally, a Golden Core could not help but bark with a grim expression.
“That’s right.”
Someone else declared, “Sect master, let’s just hand over Su Zimo. Perhaps it might help to quell the anger of Blood Crow Palace.”
“That’s correct! Why should Ethereal Peak die together for Su Zimo’s feud?!”
The voices of dissent were growing louder in the hall and many Golden Cores were moved.
“Bullsh*t!”
The disheveled old man could not help but curse as he blew at his beard with widened eyes. Pointing at the Golden Cores who spoke, he shouted, “How dare you have the cheek to speak of such words!”
“Do you think that we wouldn’t have a feud with Blood Crow Palace if Su Zimo wasn’t here?”
“Who was the one who killed so many cultivators of our sect in the battle at Dongling Valley?”
“Who was the one who killed Peak Master Wen Xuan?”
The disheveled old man’s questioned caused everyone to go silent.
The few Golden Cores who spoke at the start were quiet as well.
Loudly, the disheveled old man hollered, “Everything else aside, if not for Su Zimo, all our disciples at Dongling Valley would have died in the battle!”
“Instead, you guys are talking about his great deed like it was a mistake. Have your consciences been eaten up by dogs?”
The disheveled old man’s angry scolding reverberated in the hall deafeningly.
Xuan Yi stood up and said grimly, “Additionally, back at the sect competition, if Su Zimo hadn’t held the fort, Ethereal Peak would have been thoroughly shamed and turned into a joke of the cultivation world of Great Zhou.”
“Countless people would be disheartened if we hand over a disciple as such!”
“That’s enough,”
Opening his eyes, Sect Master Ling Yun said calmly, “Even if Su Zimo did not contribute as he did and was merely an ordinary disciple of Ethereal Peak, there’s no way we will cast him out! Ethereal Peak wouldn’t have survived till this day if we sacrificed our disciples for the sake of survival. At the same time, I’m not able to do something like that either!”
“Everyone has their ambitions and those who want to leave the sect, do it now. I won’t stop you.”
Sect Master Ling Yun swept his gaze across the crowd.
Some cultivators cupped their fists and left one after another, but even more chose to stay.
Among the crowd, an outstanding girl with withered, yellow hair stood.
She smiled gently upon seeing everything unfold and her eyes were bright and moving.
Previously, Nian Qi accompanied Su Zimo back to Ethereal Peak and had been listening and observing in secret ever since.
She wandered everywhere and had no home since she was young. As such, it was hard for her to trust people.
Towards such a foreign environment and these new people, she was conflicted and resistant. However, she did not dare to bother Su Zimo since he was in seclusion.
Yet, as time passed by, her impression of this sect gradually changed.
There was a group of lovely cultivators within and there were also righteous people.
At that moment, after she heard the words of Sect Master Ling Yun, Nian Qi made up her mind that she was going to stay in Ethereal Peak from now on, never forsaking it!