"Uncle-Master, spare me! I surrender!"
Lin Yang was sharp as a tack. There was no way he'd actually fight back. He couldn't win, so all he could do was beg for mercy and show that he knew he was in the wrong.
Sure enough, Hua Yunfei stopped, put away his palm technique, and smiled. "It's been more than ten years, but your strength hasn't improved. At least you've gotten a lot smarter."
Lin Yang scratched the back of his head and chuckled. "After all, I've been Sect Master for almost a hundred years. If I weren't smart, those elders would've sent me packing by now."
As Sect Master of Kaoshan Sect, if you weren't smart, you'd be waiting to get killed in some underhanded plot.
Those elders and Peak Masters couldn't wait for you to die. Every extra day you lived was an eyesore to them.
You might not really die, but being sent straight to the Ancestral Tomb or Ancestral Temple still meant missing out on a lot of fun.
After all, you couldn't invite people over for tea anymore.
"You've been up here for more than ten years. What happened to Qingqing?" Hua Yunfei asked, standing with his hands behind his back.
"I sent her away..." Lin Yang replied.
"Σ( ̄ロ ̄lll) You even sent your own wife away?"
Hua Yunfei was genuinely stunned.
Had Uncle-Master Yun Tian awakened some strange trait in Lin Yang? He was so obsessed with racking up results that he didn't even spare his own wife.
"Heh, her aptitude was a little lacking. Even with Uncle-Master's guidance, she was still a long way from becoming an Emperor. Her only option was to enter the Ancestral Tomb and undergo a transformation," Lin Yang explained.
Actually, he'd agonized over it before inviting Mu Qingqing for tea, but