Shen Xuan sighed inwardly.
He had known the Crimson Rainbow Sect wouldn't let them go so easily.
"Please forgive this junior's rudeness. I have important business to attend to. When I have time, I'll return to Qinglong Bay and listen to your teachings, Senior!"
Bai Xinghe flew into a rage. "Insolent! How dare a junior be so brazen!"
"You're nothing but a mere Qi Refining Cultivator, an ant, and you dare defy the Crimson Rainbow Sect Decree!"
"Shen Xuan, are you tired of living?"
Shen Xuan shook his head slightly.
Rogue Cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage couldn't be bought off by poverty, but they had to bend beneath power.
Living at the bottom of the world, they paid taxes and performed corvée labor, day and night, never resting, all just to become someone's workhorse.
They were the everyday consumables of the Cultivation World's local powers.
Farming, mining, fish farming, Wilderness Reclamation, and all sorts of other tasks called for them.
Those with a particular skill, like Shen Xuan, were exploited by the cultivation forces year after year.
How could they let him leave as he pleased?
"I hope Senior Bai will show some leniency for Qin Yuehan and Lu Zhengying's sake."
Shen Xuan once again invoked his two Foundation Establishment classmates.
"What do you know? If not for those two, I'd have blasted you all to smithereens with one shot long ago!"
"That woman must be the Ding Family Mortal Woman! Kill her with your sword first!"
Behind him came Ding Yuyao's trembling voice, on the verge of tears.
"Husband..."
Shen Xuan smiled.
He didn't turn around.
His wife was probably terrified.
"Senior Bai, have you ever married?"
"I have three wives and five concubines. Are you daring to mock me for never having married?"
Shen Xuan waved his