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Chapter 36: The villain Empress walked away arm in arm, and the fiancée burst into pearly tears.
“?”
Qin Yu was stunned.
The blows these people dealt could cripple him on the spot.
So he hurriedly looked to Lin Yueyao for help, only to discover that she had already abandoned him and run off to find Ning Bei.
Desperate, Qin Yu could only beg the Elders for help, saying, “Elder Li, look at them… they are coming to hit me, Elder Zhao, Elder Zhao, say something!”
“…”
At that moment, all the Elders pretended not to hear and tacitly turned around to leave.
After all, they had witnessed Qin Yu’s arrogance earlier, and now Wang Teng and the others were venting Ning Bei’s anger.
Who would dare step in?
Ning Bei had killed an Inner Sect Elder in public, yet instead of being held accountable he was openly shielded and favored by the Grand Preceptor.
Given that they were also Elders, how could they not fear Ning Bei’s retaliation?
In other words, unless one was a fool, who would offend a limitless genius and the powerful Grand Preceptor for the sake of a part-time disciple?
“Crap King, you’re damn well at death’s door.”
Wang Teng charged in first and drove a heavy kick into Qin Yu’s chest.
Pfft!
In an instant, Qin Yu coughed up blood and turned pale, saying, “W-wait…”
Before he could beg for mercy, Zhao Ming and the others arrived as promised, and fists and feet rained down on him…
“So you think lasting to the end makes you the victor?”
“And you even dared lecture us, keep mouthing off if you have the guts!”
“…”
Under the flurry of blows, Qin Yu lost every shred of arrogance and could only howl and flee like a stray dog.
In response, the Elders pretended not to notice.
They solemnly hurried over to Wuyue and questioned him about the conflict between Ning Bei and Jiang Zhi as though they were judges.
After learning what had actually happened, they switched expressions even more dramatically.
“If that’s really the case, then Ning Bei truly did nothing wrong!”
“I told you Ning Bei has always been kind-hearted; how could he strike an Elder unless Jiang Zhi had meddled in his affair with Qin Jiujiu.”
“As the saying goes, better to destroy 10 temples than break up one marriage; Jiang Zhi deserved to die!”
He saw the Elders’ shifting expressions and felt speechless.
Wuyue felt exasperated, yet he said nothing; his aged eyes fell upon that straight back and he murmured, “The Great Emperor has been reborn… May heaven bless the martial path!”
“The 30 years of humiliation may soon be wiped away in one stroke.”
Meanwhile.
When Ning Bei walked up to Qin Jiujiu, she immediately asked anxiously, “Are you all right?”
Ning Bei shook his head with a smile and said, “Everything is under control; it’s settled.”
“Hee~” Meeting Ning Bei’s confident look, Qin Jiujiu gave a sweet smile and asked, “What did the Grand Preceptor say when he called you over, and why weren’t you punished?”
“What, do you really want to see me punished?” Ning Bei asked with a smile.
“I…” Qin Jiujiu froze for a moment, then puckered her lips in grievance and muttered, “You know that’s not what I meant, hmph~”
“Haha.”
Ning Bei stopped teasing the girl, lowered his voice, and said, “I promised the Grand Preceptor that I would take first place in the tournament among the three academies.”
The so-called three academies referred to the Heavenly Martial Academy, Qitian Academy, and the Great Yu Academy within the Great Yu Dynasty.
Although the Heavenly Martial Academy was regarded by the world as a dream cultivation ground and countless youths fought to squeeze into this sacred place, in reality the Heavenly Martial Academy ranked at the bottom of the three academies, for example in the triennial tournament; the Heavenly Martial Academy had already lost 10 times in a row!
It had been suppressed by the other two academies for a full 30 years.
After every tournament, the top genius of the Heavenly Martial Academy would without fail be poached by the Great Yu Academy’s olive branch.
Yet it was understandable, for the Great Yu Academy was a royal institution whose students were mostly of royal blood or scion geniuses from great clans.
Its foundation was unfathomably deep.
Even the slightly inferior Qitian Academy, situated on the spiritual lands where students’ bloodlines were nourished by heaven and earth, still surpassed the Heavenly Martial Academy by a fair margin.
It could be said that students from the other two academies generally looked down on the Heavenly Martial Academy that ordinary folk so dreamed of entering.
Qin Jiujiu nodded in realization and said, “No wonder the Grand Preceptor showed you leniency; since he took over the Heavenly Martial Academy he seems to have been losing face in the martial arena, so he must have been harboring decades of humiliation.”
“Losing isn’t even the worst part; what’s worse is that all those chief disciples he had placed great hopes in eventually left him for their future,” Ning Bei sighed, “That is the knot he can’t untie, and I promised him I would never abandon the Heavenly Martial Academy.”
Gazing at Ning Bei’s resolute handsome face, Qin Jiujiu smiled gently and said, “I will accompany you to fulfill that promise!”
She had no interest in Qitian Academy or the Great Yu Academy; otherwise she would have had more than enough strength to enter them back then.
Ning Bei nodded with a smile and said, “I’ll walk you back.”
“Mhm~”
Qin Jiujiu nodded lightly and asked no more.
In fact, Ning Bei had also promised Wuyue something else, which he himself had proposed: he would provide some heaven-rank techniques to bolster the academy’s foundation.
That proposal could make Wuyue trust his words even more.
But Ning Bei did not plan to ask Qin Jiujiu for help, because right now the Divine Mirror was holding a soul remnant whose entire being was a treasure trove.
You still needed an old soul remnant to squeeze out the oil!
“Ning Bei!”
At that moment, Lin Yueyao suddenly appeared ahead of them.
Seeing the girl, Ning Bei’s handsome face showed resistance as he said, “Why are you here again? Your white moonlight is being chased right now; aren’t you going to help him?”
“I…”
With one sentence, Ning Bei rendered Lin Yueyao speechless.
She wasn’t stupid; of course she could hear the sarcasm in Ning Bei’s words, for she had abandoned him for Qin Yu back then.
Thinking about it now, an indescribable regret welled up inside her.
“Ignore her, let’s go,” Qin Jiujiu said as she hooked her arm around Ning Bei’s and pretended to be affectionate.
Since she had already risked so much to help Ning Bei shake off Lin Yueyao, holding his arm was nothing at this point.
“…”
Watching the two walk away, Lin Yueyao stood frozen in place.
Clearly the person who should have been standing beside Ning Bei was her, yet she could not even utter a single word to stop them.
The stark contrast left her feeling empty inside, as though she had lost something.
To be precise, the feeling had arisen when she forced Ning Bei to kneel and apologize to Qin Yu.
And it had only grown stronger!
Back then she could ignore everyone’s opinions and stand firmly with Qin Yu, even believing that she alone was sober while the masses were drunk.
But after repeatedly witnessing Ning Bei’s brilliance, she wavered.
Especially when she thought about the humiliation Qin Yu had suffered, and how he had ignored her advice and insisted on incurring everyone’s wrath, leading to him being beaten by a crowd now…
Had it been before, she would definitely have felt sorry for him, but now she felt a measure of disgust.
At this moment, Lin Yueyao’s heart was in utter turmoil.
The chaos made it impossible for her to tell when she had started to become confused.
….
He returned to his quarters.
Ning Bei could finally take out the Divine Mirror and properly train the soul remnant.
“Y-you… what do you want to do?” The soul remnant was visibly terrified.
The shadow of having been forcibly refined by Ning Bei back then still hung over it.
Ning Bei raised the corner of his mouth and said, “You don’t want your soul to be scattered, do you?”
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