Chapter 122
Chapter 122 – Crisis in the Outer Circle
More and more cracks appeared on the stone wall. The entire stone wall was filled with cracks that kept on extending, resembling a gigantic spider web.
“I never expected that there would be something else in this cave. Behind this stone wall, there is an empty space, it looked perfectly normal. Without detailed examination, there’s no way we could have found anything special about it. I also didn’t find anything special when we were here previously… It must be the energy waves that appeared during your breakthrough that caused the destruction of this stone wall’s structure.”
Big Yellow said.
“What good luck, perhaps there is some treasure hiding inside!”
Jiang Chen’s eyes lit up. He loved treasures, and it was obvious that there was something special about this stone wall. Perhaps there was truly some treasure hidden within.
Big Yellow was even more straightforward, he spat out a golden beam towards the stone wall. With a loud bang, the stone wall which was filled with cracks shattered, and a dark passage appeared behind the stone wall, leading to an unknown place.
“There is really something hiding inside, come, let’s go check it out.”
The three of them were discussing while in extremely bad mods. They were very close to Wang Yun and Huang Zheng before this, and they had vowed to follow Jiang Chen no matter what. But, since two days ago, a rumor saying that Jiang Chen had been killed in the Myriad Demon Mountain had started spreading, and after that, someone had started picking fights with them.
Right at this moment, two figures descended from the sky and landed in front of the entrance to the courtyard. They were Jiang Chen and Big Yellow.
When these three disciple saw Jiang Chen appearing after having disappeared three days ago, they become startled. However, they immediately jumped up in excitement, and one of them even start crying out like they had just found their savior.
“Senior disciple Jiang, you’re still alive, you’re really alive, that’s great, that’s perfect!”
“I told you that senior disciple Jiang wouldn’t die so easily, see this? He is here, alive and kicking!”
These three disciples were very excited, and they couldn’t be blamed for it. To them, Jiang Chen was their savior.
“Dead? Who said I was dead?”
Jiang Chen’s eyes lit up. He had been away for only three days, and there was someone who had spread rumors saying he was dead. This made him think about the man in black who had tried killing him back in the Myriad Demon Mountain.
“It was that bastard Guo Lei who said it! He told us that senior disciple Jiang had been killed in the Myriad Demon Mountain! Besides, this Guo is incredibly arrogant and despotic, he purposely picked those who followed you and forced them to give him 100 Mortal Restoration Pills every month! Wang Yun and Huang Zheng were seriously wounded because they refused to follow his orders, and the rest of us had no choice but to pay them 100 Mortal Restoration Pills. We won’t be able to cultivate anymore if he takes 100 Mortal Restoration Pills from us every single month!”
One of the disciples explained everything to Jiang Chen with a gloomy expression. Wang Yun and Huang Zheng went to the Myriad Demon Mountain 5 days ago and came back 2 days ago, and that’s when they were wounded by Guo Lei.
Hearing all of this, an angry expression emerged on Jiang Chen’s face. He asked, “Who is Guo Lei?”
“Senior disciple Jiang, Guo Lei is one of the geniuses amongst the outer circle disciples. He has a cultivation base at the peak of the Mortal Core realm, and he is also close with some of the disciples from the inner circle! That’s why no one has dared to offend him. And now that he heard that senior disciple Jiang had died, he started picking on us!”
The disciple said again.
“He only asked you to give him Mortal Restoration Pills?”
Jiang Chen asked.
“Yes, there were around 80 disciples who followed senior disciple Wang Yun and vowed their loyalty to senior disciple Jiang, and all of us became targets of that bully Guo Lei. No other disciples were bullied by him.”
The disciple said again.
Hearing all of this, Jiang Chen’s face darkened. Obviously, this matter was not so simple. Guo Lei was just a small fish, and the one who wanted to do something to him was from the inner circle.
Guo Lei was just a small disciple from the outer circle; how could he have known that Jiang Chen went to the Myriad Demon Mountain? Also, how could he have known that Jiang Chen was killed in the mountain? It was obvious that he had been sent by someone else to spread the rumour and bully Wang Yun.