Leverage Power to Oppress, Communication Could Only Rely on Shouting

"Beg me? Chen Xuan, are you worthy? This is your only chance to atone for your sins!"

"If you keep refusing a toast only to drink a forfeit, you'll only make me hate you even more!"

Ji Yaoyue pressed forward aggressively, the power of a ninth-stage Nascent Soul Peak erupting from her like a brewing storm!

The atmosphere at the scene was so heavy it seemed ready to drip water.

Yet Chen Xuan smiled.

That smile carried an easy, unrestrained calm that made Ji Yaoyue feel as sick as if she had swallowed a dead rat!

"Enough!"

Red Beard Elder flicked his sleeve in displeasure and shouted, "Chen Xuan, you are utterly presumptuous! You must be jealous that Wushuang is about to soar into the heavens, unable to quell the resentment in your heart, which is why you committed such a despicable act, isn't that right?"

"This elder advises you not to leverage power to oppress others and make a laughingstock of us before the other sects! Quickly activate the Ancient Evolution Sword Palace and make up for your crimes! If you delay, no one will be able to save you!"

His words were brimming with threats!

The cultivators of the Nine Sects Thirteen Schools looked at one another, all of them utterly speechless.

For the first time, they felt that the elders of the Vast Sword Sect were truly shameless!

Setting aside Chen Xuan's contribution of a million High-Grade Spirit Stones, he was the true master of the Ancient Evolution Sword Palace. How could they bully him like this?

A dying True Dragon was worse than a dog; a Phoenix fallen into hardship was worse than a chicken indeed!

Upon hearing this, Chen Xuan's gaze turned icy!

He said coldly, "Elder Red Beard, you haven't mentioned a single word about my great contributions over the years, yet you keep dumping basins of filthy water over me one after another... You truly have no shame! You want to convict this Saint Son without any evidence—that is what truly counts as presumptuous!"

"You..."

Red Beard Elder was rendered speechless for a moment, so furious that his beard trembled and his eyes bulged!

"Ahhh..."

Ji Wushuang cried out in agony, making Ji Yaoyue's heart tremble!

Killing intent surged from her body as her rage boiled over!

Shen Qingqing, Bai Ling, Mu Xueyuan, and the others all spoke up, loudly condemning Chen Xuan.

"Enough!"

Sect Master Li Yinglian suddenly flicked his sleeve, putting an end to it all.

He swiftly took piles of High-Grade Spirit Stones from his Storage Ring and placed them on the ground—at least a hundred thousand of them.

"Chen Xuan, quickly summon the Sword Palace Artifact Spirit and order it to awaken and activate itself completely!" Li Yinglian commanded.

However, Chen Xuan replied unhurriedly, "Sect Master, I have one condition! The five people who barked the loudest just now must kneel, kowtow to me three times, and apologize!"

After saying that, he pointed at the three senior sisters, Dai Tao, and Situ Yulong.

"Dream on! Chen Xuan, are you worthy?" Second Senior Sister Shen Qingqing angrily rebuked him.

Third Senior Sister Bai Ling also said hatefully, "You're just jealous of Junior Brother! Too bad you're already crippled. You are destined not to compare to even a single hair on Junior Brother's head!"

Fourth Senior Sister Mu Xueluan spoke even more venomously, "Chen Xuan, do you think that by causing Junior Brother to suffer backlash, you'll have a chance to earn Master's favor? Dream on! You are ultimately nothing but trash with a shattered dantian!"

Dai Tao and Situ Yulong were likewise enraged and immediately began berating him.

The result was—

Li Yinglian said icily, "The five of you were too noisy just now! Kneel down and apologize to Chen Xuan!"

The scene fell deathly silent!

Fury burned in the five people's aggrieved eyes, and their expressions looked as ugly as if they had been forced to eat a steaming pile of shit.

But they did not dare defy the Sect Master's order!

The next moment, Bai Ling put on a righteous expression and said solemnly, "For Junior Brother, I am willing!"

Bang!

She was the first to kneel.

Afterward, the other four knelt down as well.

Before everyone's eyes, the five of them kowtowed to Chen Xuan three times.

After rising, every one of them trembled all over in humiliation and grief!

"Don't bark blindly again in the future, understand?"

Chen Xuan's offhand remark nearly enraged the five of them to death on the spot.

Yet there was nothing they could do to him!

Then, at Chen Xuan's call, the Sword Palace Artifact Spirit appeared out of thin air.

With a wave of its hand, it collected the piles of High-Grade Spirit Stones, then happily said to Chen Xuan, "Master, with these Spirit Stones, I have enough power to enter the nurturing phase. At most, I can awaken in a hundred years. Perhaps I may even rise to a higher level!"

"See you again in a hundred years!"

With that, the Sword Palace Artifact Spirit vanished into thin air...

"What the hell?"

Everyone was dumbfounded. None of them had expected this outcome.

Chen Xuan hurriedly called out loudly, but it was useless...

Helplessly spreading his hands, he said, "Sect Master, I'm a cripple now. I have neither True Essence nor spiritual sense in my body, so communication can only rely on shouting. I simply can't contact the Sword Palace Artifact Spirit anymore... Sorry!"

"Good! Good! Good!"

Li Yinglian coldly uttered three consecutive goods, his face turning from purple to black, then from black to green.

He was certain that Chen Xuan had played him.

But the crucial point was that he could not find a single fault in Chen Xuan's reasoning!

It was maddening!

Ji Yaoyue's mentality utterly exploded as well!

Her full snowy peaks heaved wildly as she sternly berated him.

"Rebellious disciple! You are becoming more and more presumptuous! If not for Jade Maiden Peak sheltering you, how could you have survived until now? The demonic cultivators who want to kill you are countless!"

"I bestowed such immense grace upon you, yet you ungrateful wretch know nothing of repaying it. You even viciously plotted against your own Junior Brother... What crime should that be?"

"Do you believe that I can strip you of your True Disciple status right now and demote you to a Servant Disciple?"

Ji Yaoyue was truly being driven mad with rage, speaking without restraint.

Everyone present changed expression upon hearing this!

The people from the Nine Sects Thirteen Schools looked at one another, feeling that the elegant and peerlessly beautiful Ji Yaoyue of rumor was simply a shrew.

Even though Chen Xuan had already given up on Ji Yaoyue, his heart still ached inexplicably at her words!

He asked coldly, "Oh? Strip me of my True Disciple status and demote me to a Servant Disciple? Ji Yaoyue, are you... sure you want to do this?"

Gazes from all around fell upon Ji Yaoyue's icy face.

She raised her snow-white swan neck and shouted loftily, "Naturally, I am sure! And I will instruct the other Servant Disciples to take good care of you! Leaving you one wretched life would already be a gift!"

Chen Xuan suddenly found it utterly absurd!

Had he been blind all these years?

He had actually always regarded this selfish, arrogant woman as the most important person in his life!

At that moment, a weak voice sounded.

"Master, Wushuang begs you to take back what you just said! Though Eldest Senior Brother has sinned, he has also rendered merit to the Vast Sword Sect! Please preserve his True Disciple position, lest it give others something to gossip about and affect the matter of the wager!"

Ji Wushuang slowly rose to his feet. He had already forcibly suppressed the backlash.

"Wushuang, how are you?"

Ji Yaoyue hurriedly asked, her concern overflowing from every word!

Then she came to her senses. If she pushed Chen Xuan too far, she might lose the Panlong Treasure Ring and the Haotian Sword...

Thus, Ji Yaoyue put on an act and sighed heavily. "Chen Xuan, what I said just now came from deep love and bitter hatred! Can you forgive me?"

"However, a person must know their own limits! Move out of Xuan Hall today and go live in Servant Valley... Wushuang is more worthy than you of living in Xuan Hall!"

She added, "My suggestion is entirely for your own good..."

Chen Xuan narrowed his eyes, an innate majesty rising from him.

He laughed in extreme anger. "For my own good? Those four words truly make me sick! Ji Yaoyue, you are merely afraid of being called cold-hearted and ungrateful!"

"However, there is one thing you got wrong... I am indeed more worthy than Ji Wushuang of living in Xuan Hall!"

Mocking laughter rang out continuously.

Many people thought Chen Xuan had lost his mind!

You, Chen Xuan, are a cripple, yet you have such baffling confidence?

Even Du Meng, Shi Lei, and the others inwardly sighed, feeling deeply helpless.

At that moment, Chen Xuan calmly took out the Azure Blood Loyal Heart Token from his robes... and raised it high!