The people of the Douluo Continent looked puzzled and confused when they heard Su Mingyue's words.
"Although we can't sense this elder's strength through the sky screen, judging by what this woman said, the elder must be stronger than her."
"This woman may have taken a wrong step."
Ning Fengzhi shook his head. If he had been there, he certainly would not have refused Baihuaxiang's request. After all, in this world, strength ultimately did the talking.
Offending a powerful expert for the sake of a so-called stance was truly not a good thing.
Chen Xin, however, saw things differently. "I think what this woman said showed great spirit."
"If you have to calculate your interests in everything, that would be far too cruel. This world needs people like her to enrich it."
"What an idiot. You can tell at a glance that the person facing her is a powerful expert, yet she still refused. She's simply courting death," Dai Mubai sneered.
"Although I don't know why Third Brother is being protected by this elder, he should be all right now," Zhu Zhuqing said.
In the Star Dou Great Forest, Xiao Wu also breathed a sigh of relief at the sight. Although she felt somewhat upset about what had happened to Su Mingyue, Baihuaxiang had come to save Third Brother, so she naturally had to stand on Baihuaxiang's side.
"Didn't I say Little San would be fine? Look, someone's come to save him now, hasn't she? Haha!" Yu Xiaogang laughed excitedly.
Although Baihuaxiang's attire was quite off-putting, in Yu Xiaogang's eyes at this moment, she could not have seemed more amiable.
"Hmph! A junior with no sense of propriety deserves to be taught a lesson." Yu Xiaogang looked at Su Mingyue again, his face full of disgust.
He was Little San's teacher and also his elder, so he naturally detested juniors who lacked a sense of propriety.
"What a pity. Tang San escaped a calamity." Qian Daoliu looked utterly helpless. No one had expected Baihuaxiang to barge in halfway like Cheng Yaojin.
Inside the holding tent, Baihuaxiang's expression turned cold the moment she heard Su Mingyue's words.
"It seems you intend to refuse Granny."
She was a dignified Nascent Soul demon cultivator. Treating a Golden Core cultivator this way was already giving her plenty of face, yet Su Mingyue actually dared to refuse.
Seeing this, Su Mingyue immediately grew wary. A long crimson-flame saber appeared in her right hand, while her left gripped a talisman tightly.
"Senior, please don't bring trouble upon yourself. I have already informed my master, and reinforcements from the Primordial Sect will arrive before long. I don't think you want to start a war between the Forest of Ten Thousand Demons and my sect either."
Even though the one facing her was a great demon at the Nascent Soul level who had taken human form, she would not back down as a disciple of Law Enforcement Peak, much less when this was within the Primordial Sect's jurisdiction.
"Heh, hehe." Listening to Su Mingyue, Baihuaxiang gave a few low chuckles, her expression dark.
"Good, very good. As expected of that old stick-in-the-mud Yan Song's disciple, you really do have your master's style." Baihuaxiang's tone was full of hostility. "You even dare threaten Granny."
"This isn't a threat," Su Mingyue retorted. "It's a warning."
"A warning? Heh, some warning that is." Baihuaxiang spoke coldly, then suddenly turned sideways to look at the entrance. "You've watched Granny's show for long enough. Isn't it time you came out, true disciple of the Primordial Sect's Sword-Seeking Peak?"
"What?" Su Mingyue was stunned to hear this. Hadn't Ye Lingtian left?
But the next second, a figure appeared behind Baihuaxiang. It was none other than Ye Lingtian, holding the Clear Profound Sword.
"Senior, you did notice me after all." Ye Lingtian was not surprised that he had been discovered. After all, the person facing him was a Nascent Soul-level cultivator, while he had only just reached Golden Core.
Even though he had the ability to conceal his presence, at such close range, there was no way he could have remained hidden, however one looked at it.
The people of the Douluo Continent were stunned to see Ye Lingtian appear on Tang San's sky screen.
"How could Ye Lingtian be here?" Dai Mubai found it hard to believe.
Ye Lingtian had disappeared from the sky screen for a week. He had not expected to see Ye Lingtian again here.
"It seems the task that disciple gave Ye Lingtian earlier was to come here," Ning Fengzhi mused.
"I just don't know what the task itself was." Ning Fengzhi paused, then suddenly realized something. He looked at Chen Xin and the others and said, "Do you think it's possible that Ye Lingtian's task back then actually concerned Soul-Devouring Zhenren?"
Ning Fengzhi was naturally not shooting arrows at random. Everyone knew that Tang San had been following Soul-Devouring Zhenren, and after Tang San escaped, he was captured by disciples of the Primordial Sect.
At the time, he had wondered how such a coincidence could have occurred. Looking at it now, what coincidence was there? The Primordial Sect's disciples had clearly done it deliberately.
The Primordial Sect had long had its eye on Soul-Devouring Zhenren. Otherwise, how could Tang San have been captured so soon after leaving him?
Ning Fengzhi shared his thoughts, and the people of Shrek Academy around him all showed looks of understanding.
"As expected of Sect Master Ning. You saw the connection at a glance," Flender could not help exclaiming in admiration.
Ning Fengzhi smiled and modestly accepted the compliment, but just then, an ill-timed voice rang out.
"You're wrong. This was actually all thanks to Little San."
The speaker was none other than Yu Xiaogang.
Previously, Yu Xiaogang had said that Soul-Devouring Zhenren had massacred a city and the Primordial Sect had done nothing about it. In his mind, the Primordial Sect could not possibly be so upright and honorable.
For someone like Yu Xiaogang, having his ideas refuted was worse than being killed, and after seeing Tang San, he suddenly "understood."
"Oh? Grandmaster, what do you mean by that?" Ning Fengzhi suppressed his disdain and asked Yu Xiaogang.
After all that had happened, the halo around Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang had long since fallen away in his eyes. Whenever he thought of how he had once wanted Yu Xiaogang to go to his sect and guide its disciples, he felt a pang of regret. Fortunately, it had not happened.
Otherwise, wouldn't he have led those young people astray?
Seeing everyone look his way, Yu Xiaogang said proudly, "If Little San hadn't escaped from Soul-Devouring Zhenren, how could the people of the Primordial Sect possibly have known where Soul-Devouring Zhenren was headed?"
"Soul-Devouring Zhenren is so powerful. How could just anyone track him? It was all thanks to Little San that they learned Soul-Devouring Zhenren's location."
Then Yu Xiaogang declared righteously, "And yet these Primordial Sect disciples arrested Little San without even distinguishing right from wrong. They can't tell black from white and already have a way to die."
"..." Everyone around him was left speechless. You really have no shame at all, to say something so outrageous.
The crowd paid no further attention to Yu Xiaogang, who was immersed in his own world. They turned their eyes back to the sky screen, waiting to see what would happen next.
"Junior Brother Ye, hadn't you already left? How did you come to be here?" Su Mingyue looked at Ye Lingtian, who had appeared at the entrance, both delighted and puzzled.
Before Ye Lingtian could answer, Baihuaxiang spoke first, with considerable interest.
"The Primordial Sect has truly produced a dragon. Your cultivation is only at the Golden Core Stage, yet your spiritual sense is already as strong as one at the Nascent Soul Stage. No wonder you detected Granny's presence."