"Why would I lie to you?"
Fang Yi looked at Jiang Yinyin.
The girl was still fast asleep in Jiang Xue's arms.
The Tianxuan Continent's cultivation system really was interesting. Just by looking at her like this, he actually couldn't tell that Jiang Yinyin was a reincarnator.
The Plane Embryo was probably partly responsible for that. After all, the Eight Ancient Masters must all have tried to comprehend the Supreme.
They simply hadn't mastered it, but their existence was vital to the Tianxuan Continent.
So the Plane Embryo had hidden the reincarnated Ice Master and Lord of Life and Death, concealing them even more deeply than ordinary reincarnators.
Though it sounded like a tale from the Arabian Nights, this concerned his daughter.
Jiang Lei could only accept it quickly.
"All right, there's no need to keep running this martial hall. Come back to the Dao Sect with me. There's plenty of room to settle you."
Fang Yi spoke calmly. Seeing that Jiang Lei was still hesitating, he continued, "You may not think of yourself, but think about your two daughters."
"Never mind your younger daughter. What about your elder daughter? Are you going to make her guard your martial hall for the rest of her life?
"If you go to the Dao Sect, with Jiang Yinyin's special status, the resources you receive will be enough to push you to the peak of Creation."
"As for Jiang Xue, she can naturally do the same. Even the Nirvana Realm isn't out of the question. Of course, when the time comes for Nirvana, she'll have to see whether she has the confidence to undergo the tribulation."
Fang Yi's words moved Jiang Lei at once.
An opportunity as vast as the heavens lay before him. Even if he didn't think of himself, he had to think of his daughters.
Jiang Lei looked at Jiang Xue. If he continued to keep her here, the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet did count as part of a fortuitous encounter, but compared with entering the Dao Sect,
it still fell far short.
Besides, they might not be able to secure a spot every time the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet appeared.
Fang Yi's voice woke Jiang Yinyin, who had been sleeping in Jiang Xue's arms.
"Dad... what's wrong?"
Jiang Yinyin rubbed her eyes. She had gone to sleep in a side room after tiring herself out playing that afternoon, only for her sister to carry her out just now for some inexplicable reason.
"My name is Fang Yi. I'm the young sect master of the Dao Sect. I can see that fate has brought us together."
"How about I take you as a disciple on my master's behalf?"
Fang Yi looked at the little girl, who was as exquisite as carved jade, and his tone softened considerably. After all, everyone liked a sweet, delicate little girl.
As for taking a disciple on his master's behalf, he wasn't joking.
Ever since what had happened to senior brother Zhou Tong, old man Ying had never taken another disciple. Fang Yi counted as his adopted son.
But if Ying Xuanzi could turn down the reincarnation of the Lord of Life and Death, Fang Yi would have to hand it to him.
"Me?"
Jiang Yinyin pointed a little finger at her own nose, disbelief in her voice.
"Mm."
Jiang Yinyin said somewhat anxiously, "Why won't you take my sister? My sister is the real genius!"
Jiang Xue was a little embarrassed. Only Jiang Yinyin kept calling her a genius.
"It can't be helped. That old man, my master, only wants to take a little girl of eleven or twelve as a disciple."
"He has two daughters, but they're both grown up, so he wants to take a young disciple and raise her as a daughter."
Fang Yi was unusually patient.
Jiang Yinyin wasn't shy around strangers either. She had a constant feeling that there was something very familiar about Fang Yi. Her eyes rolled.
She said sweetly, "Then, senior brother Fang, can you help me deal with the Blood Vulture Martial Hall? Those people are awful..."
"Of course. Would you like to see for yourself how the Blood Vulture Martial Hall is destroyed, junior sister?"
"Is that a lot of trouble?"
Jiang Yinyin touched her little chin and asked carefully.
"No trouble."
Fang Yi waved his sleeve, and Jiang Lei and Jiang Xue, who was holding Jiang Yinyin, found themselves flying into the sky.
It was as though they had ascended to become people of the heavens, looking down on Great Eagle City.
Origin Energy surged around Fang Yi. Golden Origin Energy mixed with five colors appeared around him like waves on a vast sea, sweeping up countless currents of ambient Qi.
"Watch closely, junior sister. This move is called Five Elements Divine Lightning!"
As soon as Fang Yi finished speaking,
the vast Origin Energy erupting around him transformed into a mass of thunderclouds.
Rumbles sounded within it as five colors flowed and turned into five-colored lightning that roamed through the thunderclouds.
Dark clouds instantly blanketed the whole of Great Eagle City. The city, which had still had a little sunlight, suddenly plunged into darkness, giving its many martial artists a fright.
"What's going on? Why did it suddenly get dark?"
"Isn't it strange for thunder to come out of nowhere like this?"
The people in Great Eagle City looked up at the sky and saw a bolt of five-colored lightning, thick as a pillar of light, come crashing down.
"Boom-!"
It struck somewhere in Great Eagle City. The next moment, a terrifying explosion rang out, and thick smoke billowed.
After the lightning vanished, the dark clouds in the sky disappeared as well, revealing a clear sky.
Everyone was left speechless. A thunderbolt had fallen from a clear sky-could there have been some great injustice?
Someone suddenly murmured, "Isn't... isn't that where the Blood Vulture Martial Hall is based?"
"Could... could anyone still be alive?"
"Wait, did heaven take the Blood Vulture Martial Hall away? Why else would a bolt of lightning suddenly strike it, and the thunderclouds disappear right after?"
"No, it looks like there's someone up there..."
A sharp-eyed person spotted them at once. There were actually people standing in the sky. To be so relaxed and at ease, they were probably more than just experts of the Three Realms of Creation.
They were terrifying existences at the Nirvana Realm.
At that, the people who had been exclaiming just now lowered their heads, too afraid to speak.
It hadn't been divine punishment. The Blood Vulture Martial Hall had offended someone it shouldn't have offended.
They had better keep their mouths shut to avoid stirring up trouble.
In the sky,
though the thunderclouds had disappeared, Jiang Lei and Jiang Xue were already speechless with shock.
Changing the weather and commanding divine lightning with a casual gesture-was that really something a person could do?
They had sensed that Fang Yi was strong before, but they hadn't expected him to be this strong.
"Third senior brother, you're amazing!!"
Jiang Yinyin's eyes lit up. She clapped her hands, admiration in her voice.
These past few days, she had kept hearing her sister and father say that the Blood Vulture Martial Hall was awful, that it stole their things every day and had even injured their martial hall's disciples.
Now it had finally disappeared.
So her father and sister wouldn't have to worry anymore!
"Of course."
Fang Yi felt a wave of satisfaction. Ying Huanhuan used to do the same, clapping beside him and saying how amazing he was.
After she grew older, she had become too embarrassed to do it.
After he had asked to marry Ling Qingzhu, she had started avoiding her more and more each day, and pulled a long face whenever she saw him. He wasn't an idiot; he naturally knew what Ying Huanhuan meant.
But with Ying Xuanzi watching, and having given no approval, who knew what the old man intended?
"Do either of you still have any objections?"
Fang Yi looked at Jiang Lei and Jiang Xue, his tone calm.
He was taking Jiang Yinyin back no matter what. She was also Ying Huanhuan's eldest senior sister, which made her his eldest senior sister too.
He didn't much care that Ying Huanhuan was the Ice Master's reincarnation. As he saw it, Ying Huanhuan was the Ice Master, and the Ice Master was Ying Huanhuan.
Even if there were some changes, couldn't he just think of it as a dual personality?
Jiang Lei and Jiang Xue came back to their senses and hurriedly shook their heads. "No objections. We'll leave everything to you, young sect master!"
How could they have any objections now? That display had shown that Fang Yi's strength was the real thing.
As for the Eagle Martial Hall, he could only leave it to live or die on its own. It was just a pity about those disciples.
Fang Yi waved his sleeve and returned to the Eagle Martial Hall. He said casually,
"I'll give you some time. Go make the arrangements and have your disciples find another way to make a living. If they don't know what to do, have them go to Great Devil City."
"Find Mu Qianqian and tell her to look after these people."
"Yes!"
Jiang Lei hadn't expected Fang Yi to have connections here too.
If they could establish ties with the Great Devil Sect, those disciples might not have much of a future, but at least they could earn a living.
"Then I'm sorry to trouble you to look after Yinyin for now."
"Mm."
Jiang Lei looked at Jiang Xue and signaled for her to put Jiang Yinyin down. The two hurried away, not daring to keep Fang Yi waiting too long.