Put Aside Your Personal Decency

"The younger generation showed no respect for their elders. Teach them a good lesson." With that, Lu Qing'an withdrew his demonic technique.

The two men still on their knees instantly felt the pressure bearing down on them vanish completely. At last, they could stand.

When Lu Qingxu saw Lu Hong and the other man about to rise, he hurriedly sent them a voice transmission: "Stay on your knees!!!"

Lu Hong and the other man were dumbfounded.

Stay on their knees?

They suspected the voice transmission they had heard hadn't come from Lu Qingxu.

Someone else was deliberately stirring up trouble.

"I'll discipline them properly. They won't make this mistake again!" Lu Qingxu hastily promised.

"All right. I'll be going."

Lu Qing'an still wanted his daughters to come here to cultivate and didn't want relations to become too strained. At the same time, this matter could serve as a bargaining chip in future negotiations.

Besides, after so many years in the Immortal Ruins, it seemed he had spent too many days living in peace, wearing away the killing intent he had once possessed.

And after what he had experienced not long ago, this little matter really didn't stir any other emotions in him.

It was a feeling that was hard to put into words.

He paid Lu Qingxu no further attention. Now that he had a rough idea of what the energy entity specifically had in mind, there was no need to study it here.

It wasn't yet time to let the energy entity conduct an experiment.

He didn't know what it would do to the Time-Reversing Demon Willow. If he rashly released it, it could easily ruin the entire tree.

He would still have to rely on the Time-Reversing Demon Willow, together with a time treasure, to help his two daughters improve their cultivation more effectively.

Lu Qing'an walked over to Xiao Qingyi.

Seeing that Lu Qing'an was ignoring him and had left, Lu Qingxu lowered his eyes and quickly thought over everything that had happened.

What exactly did the Eternal Night Demon Emperor mean by this?

If this had been the Eternal Night Demon Emperor of old, blood would already have been flowing in rivers here!!

"Uncle, can we get up now?"

Lu Hong's voice reached Lu Qingxu's ears, interrupting his thoughts.

Lu Qingxu looked at Lu Hong and the other man. "Get up!"

After standing, the two quickly approached Lu Qingxu. The shock in their hearts had not diminished in the slightest!

What on earth was going on?!

"Uncle! What happened?! Why, why did you treat him like that?! Who is he?!" It was the first time Lu Hong had seen his uncle treat anyone that way.

As the vice dean of the Demon Willow Academy, he had never behaved like that even in front of the dean!

He had even addressed that fellow so respectfully just now!

"You two idiots! In the past, you'd have died eight hundred times over by now!! You nearly brought disaster down on me too!"

Lu Qingxu frowned deeply. He still couldn't understand how Lu Qing'an had returned or why he had come here afterward, but whether he understood it or not, he was furious that Lu Hong and the other man had provoked this god of slaughter.

"No, Uncle! Why are you scolding me? He was the one using his superior cultivation and strength to bully us!"

"Then why didn't he use his superior cultivation and strength to bully me?! You must have provoked him! Good thing I recognized him, or our lives would have been in danger!!"

The more Lu Qingxu thought about it, the more frightened he became. If he had attacked Lu Qing'an outright then, the consequences would have been grave!

Would he have followed in the footsteps of those old devils back then and been killed in an instant?!

"Master! He is indeed strong, and he's also at the Peak Great Emperor Realm, but there can't be many people in the entire Demon Domain who are stronger than you!" the middle-aged man in white said with a deep frown.

Even Xiao Qingyi should have been evenly matched against his master, with no clear winner.

"Have all your years of reading turned your brains to mush? Who is close to Xiao Qingyi and stronger than me?!"

Lu Qingxu looked at the two men, his inexplicable anger burning ever hotter.

Their troublemaking hadn't burned him this time, but who knew whether the two of them would bring an even greater disaster down on him in the future!

Lu Hong and the other man exchanged a glance. An answer appeared in both their minds at the same time.

"No way! Hasn't he been gone for a long time?!" Lu Hong exclaimed.

The middle-aged man in white shuddered.

The Eternal Night Demon Emperor?!

That man just now was actually the Eternal Night Demon Emperor?!

"Who else could it be?! But seeing him this time, I noticed he seems to have changed somewhat. His killing intent doesn't seem as strong..."

Lu Qingxu murmured to himself.

With the Eternal Night Demon Emperor's temperament in the past, he would probably have already gone on a killing spree over something like this.

"Uncle! Even if he's the Eternal Night Demon Emperor, there's no need to fear him! We serve under the Demon Emperor Dugu now. Isn't the Demon Emperor Dugu stronger than him? And haven't the two of them long since fallen out and become enemies?!" Lu Hong hurriedly said.

Smack!

Lu Qingxu really couldn't hold back any longer. He slapped Lu Hong across the face.

"What the hell do you know?! Are you really determined to get me killed before you'll stop?!"

Lu Hong froze, staring blankly at his uncle.

His father had died when he was young, and his uncle had raised him. The two were as close as father and son, and his uncle had doted on him and never struck him before. This was the first time.

Lu Qingxu drew a deep breath and did his best to steady himself. In a calmer voice, he said, "You never saw the era he lived in. The Eternal Night Demon Emperor is far more formidable than you think! Besides, master and disciple haven't fought yet, so no one knows who would win! And if he wanted to kill us, with the Demon Emperor Dugu absent, who could stop him?"

Lu Qingxu was at a loss over his nephew's thinking.

If not for his connections, Lu Hong would never have been able to stay on as an instructor at the academy.

"Starting today, you're going into secluded cultivation!"

"Huh? Secluded cultivation again? Besides, I'll be competing with Song Xu for three-star status soon..."

Before Lu Hong could finish, Lu Qingxu said gravely, "Then give up the competition!"

"Uncle! How can I do that? I've waited for this day, waited..."

"Another word and I'll hit you!"

To keep his nephew from causing more trouble, Lu Qingxu finally took great pains to tell Lu Hong what he knew about Lu Qing'an.

Elsewhere.

After Song Xu showed Lu Qing'an around the Demon Willow Academy, they returned to Song Xu's residence.

"I thought you were going to go on a killing spree, but you didn't even make a move. Looks like you've changed quite a bit over the years," Xiao Qingyi said with a smile.

"I think Senior wanted to use this to negotiate more effectively with the dean!" Song Xu suddenly thought of something and spoke up.

Hearing this, Xiao Qingyi looked at Lu Qing'an. "Oh? Not bad! Was that really what you were thinking?"

Lu Qing'an smiled without a word.

That made Xiao Qingyi and Song Xu even more certain.

"That Lu Qingxu's nephew seems like a complete fool. How did he manage to stay on as an instructor at the Demon Willow Academy?" Xiao Qingyi asked with an amused complaint.

Song Xu said, "He and I passed the entrance examination to teach at the academy at the same time. To be honest, I thought it was strange even then. His assessment results were much better than mine, but his teaching was far worse. He was also highly unprofessional and had no ethics as a teacher."

Xiao Qingyi said with absolute certainty, "That makes everything clear. He used his connections."

Lu Qing'an's expression remained perfectly calm. "If you had those connections, would you use them?"

"Of course I would!" Xiao Qingyi said casually. "There's a saying I've always held as truth. Put aside your personal decency and enjoy a wicked life. Rather than put yourself out, make things difficult for others! Without a conscience, life couldn't be more satisfying!"

"Not bad. You're still the old thing I know." Lu Qing'an smiled.

If you had connections, you had to use them when you should.

That was also why he had come here directly.

The vice dean of the Demon Willow Academy could get his nephew a teaching position, so it shouldn't be hard for him to have his daughters come here to cultivate.

"Master, when I passed the examination to teach here, you didn't also..." Song Xu asked, looking dazed.

Xiao Qingyi blinked. "Uh, Xiao Xu, you're quite capable. There's no need to doubt yourself..."

He had no connections at the Demon Willow Academy at all...

Even if he wanted to use connections, he couldn't...

Hearing that, Song Xu finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He had thought he too had only been able to stay on as an instructor thanks to connections...

Xiao Qingyi then looked at Lu Qing'an. "After this, I expect your disciple will come looking for you soon. How do you plan to face him?"

Lu Qing'an remained perfectly calm. "Master and disciple will meet and hit it off."