With no attempt at concealment, and even several hidden hands behind the scenes fanning the flames.
Once word of what Chen Heng had done on Five-Tone Peak spread, it immediately shook all of Crane-Cry Mountain.
Liu Lingzheng remained unconvinced, and after several fruitless attempts to recruit others to help him fight.
Humiliated and furious, he simply threw caution aside, went to Luo-Cloud Peak, and prostrated himself before the steps to submit a petition, reporting the matter to the Masters of the four courts and asking them to seek justice for his group.
When this news spread, it caused another uproar, and everyone secretly found it laughable.
Liu Guan felt he had lost face all the more and closed his Cave Abode to visitors.
Still, when all was said and done, Chen Heng had struck first and severed dozens of arms, while suffering not the slightest injury himself.
The Jade Dawn School had its own laws and regulations, and some accounting had to be made for this matter.
But severed limbs were hardly grave injuries. These clan members had no shortage of precious healing medicines; once their limbs were reattached and they recuperated for a few days, their vitality would remain undiminished and everything would return to its former state, with no impediment to their future cultivation.
Moreover, including Shen Yuanzhi.
The several Masters who sided with the sect were not angry to see Chen Heng humble the clans' arrogance. Instead, they were delighted and seemed pleased to see it happen.
With them deliberately protecting him.
The matter was naturally lifted high, then set down lightly.
Chen Heng was deprived of half a year's cultivation allotments, and the matter was left at that, the page turned.
Liu Lingzheng was naturally far from satisfied with such a perfunctory punishment.
But with the