"Sect Master, this Shu Changsheng is absolutely despicable! He's been scattering filthy things everywhere. I can no longer look at the phrase 'striving to better oneself' the same way!"
"Exactly! He's only been in the inner sect a few days, and he's already filled the place with foul fumes. Are we supposed to cultivate or not?"
"That brat is a menace. We haven't eaten in three days!"
Several inner sect disciples were beside themselves with anger, each denouncing Shu Changsheng's vile behavior.
Shu Changsheng seemed to know he was caught. He stood meekly, clutching the hem of his clothes, and said through watery eyes, "Sect Master, I was wrong."
Smelling the utterly unchanged human incense emanating from him, Li Ling could not help smiling.
The truly troublesome brats were not the thickheaded ones who openly defied adults. The ones who knew how to apologize and admit fault were the hardest to handle.
A partial Old Ancestor might even find him adorable for being so clever and quick-witted.
Li Ling waved a hand, sending his Dharma power flowing out to restrain him. "As the saying goes, do not inflict on others what you would not want inflicted on yourself. Whatever this boy used to torment you, let him have a taste of it himself."
"Wonderful! That's exactly what he deserves!"
"You truly are wise, Sect Master. I've wanted to do that for ages."
The inner sect disciples knew Shu Changsheng's background and could not casually beat or berate him. But with a verbal command from Sect Master Li Ling, surely even Institute Master Shu, newly advanced to Foundation Establishment, could have nothing to say.
"No! I really know I was wrong! Spare me, please!" Shu Changsheng began pleading in fear.
"Boy, it's too late to regret it now." His senior brothers