After saying this, Hu Yun vanished before everyone's eyes, leaving them exchanging bewildered looks, along with a despairing Xiao Feng.
At that moment, Xiao Feng felt as though Hu Yun's words had cast him into an abyss.
He had imagined how he would react if Hu Yun refused to accept him as a disciple, but when that day truly came, Xiao Feng still found it impossible to accept.
He had suffered bullying within his lineage since childhood. His parents, heirs to the lineage, had both died fighting for it, while he, who had displayed supreme talent shortly after birth, had been framed because others coveted his root bone, and it had been dug out.
When he became a cripple, his fiancée, the childhood sweetheart he had grown up with, had broken off their engagement and falsely accused him, causing him to be expelled from the lineage.
During his three years in the Azure Cloud Sect's Outer Sect, he had endured countless disdainful looks and felt his way toward a method of body tempering, until Eldest Senior Brother Ouyang finally took notice of him during the Outer Sect tournament.
His senior brothers had even disregarded the danger for the sake of his body-tempering method, going so far as to defy heaven's mandate!
He truly loved Little Mountain Peak, loved this clean little courtyard free of scheming and intrigue.
He loved watching Senior Brother Bai standing in the tree, loved watching Second Senior Brother repair the house, loved Third Senior Brother's cooking, loved his frivolous yet extraordinarily dependable Eldest Senior Brother, and loved even more...
So when Hu Yun personally rejected him without leaving him even a shred of consideration, Xiao Feng felt his life turn bleak once again.
"Is there truly nowhere in this world for me, Xiao Feng?"
Suddenly, someone