Your Disciple Has Caused Trouble

On Finger Moon Peak, Zhao Wuyan, an elder of Shushan, was meditating and cultivating in his cave abode.

Zhao Wuyan was an elder at the fifth layer of the Dao Palace Realm, and his status was considered quite high among Shushan's elders.

Dao Palace Realm elders were the pillars of Shushan to begin with. Moreover, Zhao Wuyan had made a name for himself long ago, and his strength was considered middling even among Dao Palace Realm elders.

"Why is there such a commotion outside my cave abode?"

Zhao Wuyan frowned. His mind was unsettled, making it difficult to continue meditating and cultivating.

"Forget it. I'll go out and see what happened."

The days on Zhao Wuyan's Finger Moon Peak had always passed peacefully, without incident.

When Zhao Wuyan stepped out of his cave abode, the scene before him left him dumbstruck.

The immortal cranes of Finger Moon Peak had all been plucked bare, while the spirit apes, like birds startled by the mere twang of a bowstring, kept chattering and squealing.

Many Finger Moon Peak disciples had been defeated and lay sprawled across the ground, panting, their faces bruised and swollen.

"What happened here while I was cultivating in seclusion?"

Zhao Wuyan's face darkened.

Why did his Finger Moon Peak look as though it had been pillaged by disciples of the Demon Sects?

But this was Shushan. How would disciples of the Demon Sects dare run wild here?

A disciple struggled to his feet, his face as bitter as a bitter melon. "Master, a young disciple from Azure Cloud Peak barged into our Finger Moon Peak and forced the disciples to spar with her. The disciples were no match for her and were beaten to the ground. Even the spirit beasts of our Finger Moon Peak suffered."

"Azure Cloud Peak has gone too far in bullying our Finger Moon Peak! Lu Changsheng's disciple may be monstrously talented, but must she throw her weight around all the time? I'm his senior brother, after all!"

Zhao Wuyan was also a personal disciple of the Shushan Sect Master, Taiyuan True Person. He ranked below his eldest senior brother Li Changye, but above his youngest junior brother Lu Changsheng.

The disciple his youngest junior brother Lu Changsheng had taken in had come to bully his Finger Moon Peak, and Zhao Wuyan thought Lu Changsheng had deliberately sent Lian there to make trouble.

"I'll go demand an explanation from him!"

With a thought from Zhao Wuyan, his flying sword left its sheath. He rode it through the air and headed for Finger Moon Peak.

On Cangshan Peak, a Shushan elder at the Nascent Soul Realm was meditating in quiet cultivation when he suddenly smelled something burning.

He turned pale with shock and opened his eyes, only to discover that his graying beard had caught fire.

"Who dares play tricks on me?!"

The Cangshan Peak elder hurriedly put out the fire, but his once ethereal beard was already charred black.

On Little Bamboo Peak, Fairy Qingru of the Dao Palace Realm, graceful and elegant in a moon-white Daoist robe, had been calm and composed. But when she saw that the spirit medicine she had cultivated for a hundred years to preserve her Ageless Beauty had vanished without a trace, her lovely face immediately lost its color.

Without that spirit medicine, if another wrinkle appeared on her face, it would be a disaster.

On Water Cloud Peak, Elder Tiansong's potted ancient pine had been transplanted to the Rear Mountain.

On Sanqing Peak...

For a time, Shushan was thrown into utter chaos.

At Shushan's Scripture Repository, a mischievous figure ran along the eaves and walls, approaching the fifth floor, where only the sect master and the Grand Supreme Elders were permitted to go.

"Who dares trespass on the fifth floor of the Scripture Repository?!"

"Seize her!"

The Shushan Scripture Repository held the various cultivation methods and texts Shushan had accumulated over hundreds of thousands of years. The fifth floor was guarded by Dao Palace Realm elders to prevent members of the Demon Sects from trespassing.

"Oh no, I've been discovered!"

"Draw a Prison on the Ground!"

The surrounding space was sealed, trapping a pretty, delicate-featured young girl.

"She seems to be Elder Lu's disciple from Azure Cloud Peak."

"So it's her."

"What should we do with her?"

"The sect master and eldest senior brother ordered us not to harm this girl. I think she was just being playful, which is why she trespassed in the Scripture Repository on the Rear Mountain. Why don't we give her a scolding and let her go, as long as she doesn't come back?"

The four Dao Palace Realm elders guarding the Scripture Repository appeared. After a discussion, and because Taiyuan True Person and Li Changye had spoken to them beforehand, they did little to the Azure Cloud Peak disciple.

"I won't dare do it again..."

Lian stuck out her tongue. She truly hadn't expected the towering pavilion on the Rear Mountain to be guarded by four Dao Palace Realm elders.

Even though Lian was still immature, she now knew this was a place of great importance.

No wonder her master had specifically told her not to trespass on Shushan's Rear Mountain.

The Rear Mountain hid dragons and crouching tigers; it was where Shushan's true foundation lay.

"Leave at once."

"Only if you become our Shushan sect master or a Grand Supreme Elder in the future may you enter the fifth floor of the Scripture Repository."

The four Dao Palace Realm elders of Shushan waved their hands, motioning for Lian to leave the important location at once.

"Thank you, elders, for showing mercy."

Lian knew better than to linger and hurried away.

With four Dao Palace Realm elders present, her current cultivation was nowhere near enough to stir up any trouble.

"There's a familiar presence. How nostalgic."

On the first floor of the Scripture Repository, an elderly menial sweeping the floor sensed a familiar presence leaving the repository. His cloudy eyes seemed to be recalling days gone by, and his hands unconsciously slowed.

The Shushan disciples around him thought nothing of it.

Besides its elders and disciples, Shushan had numerous menials. These menials were villagers from the area around Shushan, who collected a monthly stipend from Shushan in exchange for doing odd jobs.

Azure Cloud Peak was as busy as a marketplace.

Never before had so many Shushan elders visited Azure Cloud Peak.

There were Elder Zhao Wuyan of Finger Moon Peak, Fairy Qingru of Little Bamboo Peak, Elder Feiying of Cangshan Peak, Elder Tiansong of Water Cloud Peak, Fairy Lingyue of Sanqing Peak...

About a dozen elders had come to demand an explanation.

Five of them were Dao Palace Realm elders, while the rest were all Nascent Soul Realm elders.

The current master of Azure Cloud Peak, Lu Changsheng, was a Dao Palace Realm elder and the youngest personal disciple of the sect master, Taiyuan True Person. The Nascent Soul Realm elders would not have dared come to demand an explanation from him on their own, but with five fellow Dao Palace Realm elders taking the lead, they were no longer afraid.

Besides, Elder Zhao Wuyan of Finger Moon Peak, who was leading them, was also a personal disciple of Taiyuan True Person and one of Lu Changsheng's senior brothers.

"Why isn't there even anyone here to receive us?"

Zhao Wuyan frowned.

Azure Cloud Peak had only two disciples. One had descended the mountain to train, and the other was causing trouble everywhere. Neither was on Azure Cloud Peak at the moment, leaving only a group of menials.

Those menials certainly didn't dare receive a group of furious Shushan elders.

"Senior brothers and elders, your presence truly brings glory to my humble Azure Cloud Peak."

Lu Changsheng emerged from his cave abode, bearing an immortal air and a Daoist grace, his face wreathed in smiles. He did not seem to take the Shushan elders' arrival to demand an explanation seriously at all.

"Junior brother, do you know that your young disciple has caused trouble?"

Zhao Wuyan suppressed a sudden flare of anger. He wanted to see how Lu Changsheng would explain himself.

Lu Changsheng swept his gaze over the people present. When he saw that the Cangshan Peak elder's beard had been burned, he could not help laughing.

There was no need to say more. This was certainly his disciple's handiwork.

It seemed not every disciple could be as worry-free as his eldest disciple, Lin Qingzhi.

Because of her Martial King Divine Physique, Lian was full of vigor. If she didn't stir up a little trouble, it would instead be detrimental to her cultivation.

As for how to quell the anger of the many Shushan elders, Lu Changsheng had already made his calculations.