Three Heads Fall

"What did you say?!"

The moment Chu Lu's roar echoed, everyone present immediately erupted in an uproar.

However, just as the crowd gasped in shock, Chu Lu had already charged in front of the three elders.

As the Sect Leader of the Inquiry Sword Sect, a sect focused on the sword, Luo Qingdie's greatest strength was naturally the Way of the Sword. Among her sword techniques, her highest achievement was the self-created "Nine Heavenly Phoenix Swords," and her most proficient move was the seventh sword, Phoenix Arrives.

Therefore, Chu Lu's first move was Phoenix Arrives.

The three elders were already far inferior to Chu Lu in strength and cultivation, and they were caught off guard. They were defeated in an instant, with a long sword held at their throats.

Yet, they didn't panic. Instead, they glared at Chu Lu in anger.

The Grand Elder shouted furiously, "Luo Qingdie! What are you doing?! This is against the sect rules! If you don't want to worsen your crime, quickly give me..."

Squelch.

Before the Grand Elder could finish speaking, the sound of a blade cutting into flesh rang out, and a head flew into the air.

"Sect rules, sect rules, what sect rules?!" Chu Lu cursed in annoyance, then turned his gaze to the other two elders.

By now, these two were already dumbfounded and trembling with fear, their faces devoid of their previous anger.

But before they could beg for mercy, Chu Lu swung his sword twice more.

The corpses of the three elders fell to the ground in unison.

In an instant, the three Nascent Soul Stage elders were dead.

Chu Lu slowly turned around and looked at the stunned crowd, saying, "Now, who else thinks I am guilty?"

His indifferent voice echoed in the Disciplinary Hall, and for a moment, no one dared to respond.

Liu Yan'er, who had been pretending to be pitiful, was trembling all over. She desperately kept her head down, not daring to move, terrified of being noticed.

The disciples outside were also terrified, their fear mixed with confusion.

—Is this really their Sect Leader from before? The kind and even somewhat cowardly Sect Leader?

They didn't like this. They disliked it very much. Compared to the Sect Leader they could bully as they pleased in the past, this Sect Leader who killed people at the slightest provocation was too terrifying, filling them with worry, fear, and resistance.

—Who will come? Who will kill her?

Everyone couldn't help but wonder.

Just then, Xiao Yichen, with his clear and cold demeanor, slowly walked out and said, "Luo Qingdie, you are truly magnificent. First, you killed your own disciple, and then you killed three elders of our sect. Is there anyone in this world you wouldn't dare to kill?"

"What do you want?" Chu Lu asked, looking at him.

"I am going to purge the sect," Xiao Yichen said slowly, drawing his sword.

Chu Lu: "..."

Chu Lu said to himself, Luo Qingdie, your senior brother is quite something. How dare he, a mere Nascent Soul Stage cultivator, try to purge me, a Mahayana Stage cultivator?

Luo Qingdie: "..."

"Fine. Since you wish to die, I shall grant your wish." Chu Lu walked forward with his sword. Killing Xiao Yichen was, after all, part of the plan.

However, at that moment, Xiao Yichen suddenly thrust his sword into the ground and shouted, "Array, activate!"

As his voice fell, mysterious and complex runes emerged from the floor of the Disciplinary Hall, their light flickering, outlining a massive circular formation.

The space within the great hall seemed to freeze, making movement extremely difficult. At the same time, strands of spiritual energy descended from above, like a spiderweb, tightly binding Chu Lu, rendering him completely immobile.

Chu Lu's face showed shock.

—This is the Immortal Locking Array? The array that Luo Qingdie mentioned, the one that trapped her?

Chu Lu wasn't exactly unprepared for the Immortal Locking Array. His swift and decisive elimination of the three elders at the beginning was precisely to prevent them from activating the array.

But he hadn't expected Xiao Yichen to be able to activate this array single-handedly.

This was an array capable of trapping a Mahayana Stage cultivator. Was the entry requirement that low?

After Chu Lu was trapped, the atmosphere in the hall visibly relaxed.

Liu Yan'er stopped pretending to be dead and perked up. She hopped over to Xiao Yichen's side and said, "Master, you're amazing!"

"It's just the array that's amazing," Xiao Yichen shook his head.

"Then Master, who can activate the array, is just as amazing!" Liu Yan'er's mouth was as sweet as honey as she continued to flatter him.

This caused the usually cold Xiao Yichen to smile slightly.

Then, Liu Yan'er looked at the trapped Chu Lu and said worriedly, "Master, how should we deal with the Sect Leader now?"

"Her crimes are too numerous to count. I will report to the Grand Elders and let them decide."

"Is that really necessary..." Liu Yan'er said cautiously.

"Hm?"

"Because... as the saying goes, a life for a life, a debt for a debt." Liu Yan'er said with a look of naturalness. "The Sect Leader already has the blood of four fellow disciples on her hands. If we don't kill her, who will dare to come to our Inquiry Sword Sect in the future? Our disciples will also flee, and our reputation among the righteous path will be ruined!"

Xiao Yichen's expression showed hesitation.

At this moment, the disciples outside the great hall were still lingering in fear. Hearing Liu Yan'er's words, their emotions immediately became agitated.

"Junior Sister Yan'er is right, kill her! A life for a life."

"A murderer can't be allowed to live!"

"Yes, let's not bother with the Grand Elder, Elder Xiao should kill her."

Hearing the shouts from outside, Xiao Yichen also made up his mind.

"That's right, after committing such a heinous crime, she deserves nothing but death. Rather than keeping her alive and wasting the spiritual energy of the formation, it's better to kill her now." Xiao Yichen's face was chilling.

"However, just killing her would be too wasteful. And as the three Elder Grandpas said, her spiritual root..." Liu Yan'er suddenly added in a low voice.

"I understand."

"And the Phoenix Bone, the Heavenly Dao Foundation..."

"I'll strip it all for you."

Liu Yan'er immediately flashed a brilliant smile and said coquettishly, "Master is the best."

Xiao Yichen's cold face flushed slightly, but in the next instant, it returned to its icy demeanor as he walked towards Chu Lu.

The disciples outside the hall saw this and immediately cheered loudly, then rejoiced in unison.

"Kill her! Kill her! Kill her! Kill her!"

Chu Lu watched this scene, his heart filled with anger.

—Are you kidding me? How could I die here? At the hands of these idiots!?

He surged with his full magic power, intending to go all out and struggle desperately, but as soon as he exerted himself, he heard a bang as the formation was broken.

"Huh?" Chu Lu.

"Huh?" Xiao Yichen, who was raising his sword to strike, froze.

"Huh?" Liu Yan'er, who was anticipating a pile of treasures, was stunned.

"Huh?" The cheering disciples were even more like ducks with their necks choked, unable to make a sound.

The formation was broken?

It was broken just like that?!

Chu Lu was the first to react. An unbelievable guess flashed through his mind. He asked himself in disbelief, —Could it be... that in your past life, you could have broken free, but you deliberately surrendered and let them rip your heart out?

Luo Qingdie said somewhat aggrievedly, "How could I have known they would actually have the heart to do it? I worked myself to the bone for the sect for so many years..."

Chu Lu: "..."

—As expected of a female lead in a romance novel, you're the most outrageous one!