"Master, please don't, Master..."
"Your disciple... your disciple knows he was wrong!"
"Please don't expel me from your tutelage!"
Thump... thump... thump-thump...
Fourth Elder Wuxuzi knelt on the ground and kowtowed fiercely.
Yet Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer remained unmoved.
At that moment, the twenty or thirty other disciples below also knelt one after another and pleaded with Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer.
"Enough!" Seeing so many people pleading for him, Stone Gatherer said, "Fourth... from this day onward, you remain my disciple, but you can no longer stay in the Dao-Seeking Immortal Sect!"
"There is a vacant city lord position in South Mountain Immortal City. Take your disciples there and become its city lord!"
"Consider this a small punishment from your master to warn you against greater mistakes!"
"Boohoo..." Wuxuzi finally breathed a sigh of relief. A grown man, he actually began sobbing at that moment. "Thank you for showing mercy, Master!"
"Go..."
Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer waved his hand.
Wuxuzi rose and left.
"You!" After Wuxuzi left, Immortal Lord Stone Gatherer slowly rose from his chair. Looking at the twenty-odd disciples kneeling below, he said, "He Pingsheng is my honored guest. Whoever makes trouble for him, I will kill them outright without asking why!"
"Never mind my own grandson-even if my own son were here, he would meet the same end!"
"Do you understand?"
The disciples trembled, hastily answering, "We will remember your teachings, Master!"
"You may go too!" Stone Gatherer waved his hand, and they rose from the ground one after another and left the Great Hall.
Outside the Great Hall, they exchanged looks.
None of them had expected He Pingsheng to command such esteem in their master's eyes.
"First Senior Sister, tell us, what's going on?"
Someone asked a Black-Clad Woman.
The Black-Clad Woman shook her head. "How