“Chu Liang!” Lu Xunji rushed over, glaring at Chu Liang. At this moment, he was responsible for this mischievous child, and any problem that occurred would definitely be his responsibility.
“Ah!” Chu Liang was looking at the Hakutaku cub with a panicked expression, stroking its head while reprimanding:
“How could you be so rough on the great-grandson of Elder Danding… um, I mean, how could you hit him so hard with your horn? He’s still a child!” The Hakutaku cub’s big eyes were full of calmness.
“Gah-lah-lah,” it called out twice, as if to say… who isn’t a child here?
“Look at the mess you’ve made, Senior Brother Gua,” Chu Liang spread his hands and said.
“This is really unexpected.” Lu Xun swept his sleeve and angrily said:
“You don’t have to pretend. If anything happens to the child, you will be fully responsible!”
“Where is this coming from?” Chu Liang looked innocent and said:
“Everyone saw it. He was the one who hit the little Hakutaku with a stone. The little Hakutaku just fought back. This has nothing to do with me.”
“Indeed.”
Shang Ziliang, who was standing by, nodded repeatedly, indicating that everyone had seen it.
“If it weren’t for your instigation, would the child have done such a thing?” Lu Xun completely ignored Chu Liang’s smooth talk.
“He’s not the first to do this, right? He’s been playing like this for a while, everyone knows.” Chu Liang said confidently.
“That’s right.” Shang Ziliang nodded again, indicating that everyone knew.
“Senior Brother Jie, shouldn’t you go check on him? What if he’s stuck in a tree? He’s still a child.” Chu Liang pointed in the direction where the child had flown off, with a smirk on his face.
“Yeah.”
Shang Ziliang continued to feed the fire,
“There’s a cliff over there. It would be bad if he fell off.”
“I just heard a scream, why is it quiet now?” Chu Liang said.
“Oh boy, if something happens, Elder Danding will be heartbroken.” Shang Ziliang said.
“But Elder Danding can’t do anything about the little Hakutaku, I guess he can only punish the disciples who were supposed to be watching him.” Chu Liang said.
“Well, this is really an undeserved disaster.”
Shang Ziliang shook his head. The two of them were teasing and fanning the flames, making Lu Xun’s face grow darker and darker. He couldn’t bother arguing with these two anymore and flew off with a sweep of his sleeve. He flew dozens of feet away and saw that the child was indeed hanging from a big tree, looking dazed. This mischievous child had probably never been treated like this before, and his first reaction wasn’t even that it hurt, but why did it dare to hit me? I just hit it with a stone, how dare it hit me? It wasn’t until Lu Xun pulled him down from the tree that the child let out a cry:
“It hurts so much!” Lu Xun carefully checked him over. Thanks to the child’s physical training, his physique was much better than that of an average child, and he had only broken a few bones.
Otherwise, if a seven-year-old child was hit by the Hakutaku cub’s wild charge, there would be a high probability of death.
“Don’t cry, I’ll take you back to heal your injuries.” Lu Xun could only use his true energy to stabilize the child’s qi and blood first, then he leaped up and quickly took him back to Danding Hall.
The child wouldn’t listen to him, the more he was told not to cry, the more he cried his heart out, especially as he gradually regained consciousness, the pain and sense of injustice surged up together.
Inside Danding Hall, Seventh Brother Liu Qin and Eighth Brother Xu Wen were both present. When they saw the child so badly injured, they were immediately shocked.
If Elder Danding saw this, wouldn’t he skin them, the disciples who were supposed to be watching over the child? The three of them were in a flurry, quickly getting medicine to help the child heal his injuries, set his bones, relieve pain, and promote blood circulation.
Danding Hall specialized in this, and they were naturally adept at dealing with these kinds of injuries. After a busy period, the child’s injuries were almost healed in less than half an hour.
But although the physical injuries were healed, the emotional scars could not be erased. The child continued to cry,
“I’m going to tell my great-grandfather to kill that Hakutaku! It dared to hit me so hard! Wuu wuu wuu—” As soon as these words came out, the three of them fell silent for a moment.
Although you are loved in Shu Mountain, there is a difference in favoritism. Compared to the Hakutaku that can protect Shu Mountain for thousands of years in the future, not to mention you, a great-grandson, even Elder Danding’s status is much lower.
After a moment, it was Lu Xun who spoke:
“Little one, the bad one isn’t the little Hakutaku, but the person who instigated you to throw stones at the spirit beast! That Chu Liang is the real villain!” As soon as he said this, Liu Qin’s face couldn’t hold up, turning red and white.
The child kicked his legs and cried out:
“Then let’s have great-grandfather beat up that Chu Liang, I’m so angry!”
“Little one, don’t tell your great-grandfather about this, we’ll help you get revenge, okay?” Liu Qin hurriedly said.
If the child went crying to Elder Danding, those who had been watching him these past few days would naturally be punished.
“Can you really help me get revenge?” The child’s eyes lit up,
“You have to beat him up really hard!”
“Of course, no problem.” Liu Qin said.
“Seventh Senior Brother, Chu Liang’s master is Di Nvfeng.”
Xu Wen reminded with a hint of worry.
“This…” Liu Qin hesitated upon remembering this. Chen Lingtong cried out again:
“If you guys don’t dare to go, then I’ll go call Grandpa Zeng!”
“What’s there to be afraid of? Di Nvfeng is not at Shu Mountain now.”
Lu Xun, with a scheming mind, calculated secretly and said loudly:
“We can take this opportunity to go to Silver Sword Peak and teach that kid a lesson. If Di Nvfeng wants to pursue the matter later, our master can handle it. After all, we are avenging the little boy. When our master finds out, it will definitely be better than now.”
Upon hearing this, Liu Qin agreed. If Chen Lingtong cried and reported the matter to Elder Danding now, they would definitely be punished. But if they avenged him and let him happily tell the master, Elder Danding would probably protect them. As for Di Nvfeng, the master would handle it. No matter how capable she was, could she be more powerful than the Elder who guards the mountain? Moreover, Elder Danding and Di Nvfeng were not on good terms. Many people on Shu Mountain said so. Thinking of this, they were no longer afraid. The most important thing in front of them now was to avenge Chen Lingtong! They might even receive praise from their master.
“Once your injuries are fully healed tomorrow, we will go to Silver Sword Peak to find that bad seed!” Lu Xun said decisively.
At the same time, he had another thought in his heart. If he could instigate some infighting and cause Chu Liang to have an accident… it might be a brilliant move.
“Achoo!” Chu Liang sneezed, rubbed his nose, and wondered why he was always being talked about?
After teaching Elder Danding’s grandson a lesson, he was also a little unsure because the other party might come for revenge.
At this critical moment when his master was not at home, he had no room to resist. Elder Danding would definitely not take action personally, but his direct disciples, who were all older than Chu Liang by twenty or thirty years and had participated in the previous or even the one before Shu Mountain Conference.
These former disciples were usually at the fifth or sixth stage, busy going out to find resources, and spent very little time on Shu Mountain, so their presence was very low.
But Elder Danding’s disciples were exceptions. They relied on Danding Hall and did not need to go out to fight for resources.
As long as they served Elder Danding, they would naturally not lack heavenly treasures, so they spent a lot of time on Shu Mountain.
Chu Liang was considering whether he should go to Biluo Peak to hide. Yan Daoren and his master were close friends and would definitely not ignore him… and he could also spend more time with his senior sister.
When he returned to the hut, he suddenly found a letter delivered by a white crane. He picked it up and saw that it was actually sent from Heavenly Strength Sect, and the sender was Yun Zhaoxian, whom he hadn’t seen for a long time.
He wondered what important matter Yun Zhaoxian had. There were flying beasts and monsters in the world that could deliver letters, but if there was no important matter, it was not worth sending one.
Chu Liang opened the letter and his eyebrows furrowed instantly. It turned out that Yun Zhaoxian said in the letter that someone from Heavenly Strength Sect wanted to cause trouble for Chu Liang.
This was caused by the white ape he had killed on Black Whale Mountain a while ago. The white ape had sent out a beam of white light before it died. At that time, Chu Liang had guessed that it was a message, and now it seemed that it was indeed the case.
But he didn’t expect that the white ape had actually practiced in Heavenly Strength Sect. The martial arts senior that the white ape had followed had been dead for many years, but that senior had a junior brother, Zhang Juque, who was also familiar with the white ape.
Zhang Juque was a famous martial arts master in Heavenly Strength Sect. He was as fiery as a flame, hated evil like an enemy, and was known as the “strongest sixth stage” in the cultivation world. Because he was a genius from the start, he had been rampant for many years, but he had always been unable to break through the sixth stage and was stuck at the Earth Gate.
But even though he couldn’t break through, his understanding of martial arts had reached the pinnacle. With this, he could even fight against some seventh stage practitioners without losing.
Therefore, he was always considered the strongest among the sixth stage practitioners. The information sent back by the white ape included the scene of Chu Liang killing it with a golden-haired bear, and it also accused Chu Liang of invading people’s caves and stealing their spiritual medicine.
It depicted Chu Liang as an unforgivable robber, not only stealing heavenly treasures, but also killing the ape to silence it.
When Zhang Juque received this information, he was furious. After confirming Chu Liang’s identity, he planned to teach this “evil-filled” Shu Mountain disciple a lesson. Fortunately, Yun Zhaoxian was in Heavenly Strength Sect and accidentally got this news.
He hurriedly persuaded his uncle, saying that he had a relationship with Chu Liang and believed that he was a chivalrous cultivator and would not do such evil things. There might be some misunderstanding in the middle.
But when Zhang Juque asked him if he could guarantee for Chu Liang, Yun Zhaoxian hesitated a bit because he didn’t know the truth of the matter, so he wrote to Chu Liang, asking him to reply and explain as soon as possible.
If this matter isn’t clarified, Zhang Juque will soon march up to Shu Mountain. This martial arts master has slain countless demons over the years, never fearing power, and his prestige in the cultivation world is extremely high.
If Chu Liang really did something wrong, Shu Mountain might not be able to protect him. Chu Liang looked at the letter, reading between the lines of Yun Zhaoxian’s words… If you really did something, you better run.
Holding the letter, Chu Liang pondered for a moment before picking up his pen to write a reply.
“Brother Zhaoxian, it’s as if we’re meeting in person through these words.
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“I have received your letter, and I’m deeply grateful for your concern. Regarding the matter of the white ape, there are indeed many twists and turns. If convenient, please invite the elder to visit Shu Mountain, and I will explain in person. If there are any falsehoods, the elder can punish me on the spot.”