Not One Will Escape
He knew that face all too well. This person had once weighed heavily on his head, or rather, on the heads of all the cultivators of his generation, like a mountain.
The Third Elder had lived in the shadow of the other party for countless years, so when he died in the secret realm, the Third Elder felt an indescribable joy.
And now, this person, who should have been buried in the earth long ago, is actually standing alive and well in front of him.
The Third Elder sensed that the other party's aura was even stronger than before, and for a moment he was filled with both fear and jealousy.
Why is Sang Zheng so lucky?!
"Speak!" The Third Elder involuntarily trembled as soon as Sang Zheng spoke.
However, the Third Elder quickly straightened his back again. He had obtained this Settled Frost Peak through legitimate means, and he was not afraid even if Sang Zheng returned!
"Hmph, the sect has long had rules that unclaimed peaks can be distributed to other elders. I gave the sect ten thousand Supreme-Grade Spirit Stone, so this Settled Frost Peak should rightfully be mine! I don't want to see someone else's portrait on my own land, what's wrong with that?!" The Third Elder appeared fierce, but in reality, he was somewhat uncertain.
After all, anyone with eyes could see that there was something fishy about Sang Ying's affair. If Sang Zheng were to investigate, none of them would be able to escape.
"Unclaimed?" Sang Zheng had indeed grasped the key point. "I built Settled Frost Peak myself. After my husband and I met with this accident, Settled Frost Peak should rightfully belong to my daughter. How come it's become unclaimed property in your mouths?"
Hearing Sang Zheng's cold laughter, the Third Elder's back was covered in cold sweat.
He didn't want to confront Sang Zheng head-on, so he gritted his teeth and said, "Your daughter had an accident a few days ago and is no longer a disciple of the Flowing Light Sword Sect."
The Third Elder spoke vaguely, and dared not pin those so-called crimes on Sang Ying. What if Sang Zheng heard this and became so angry that he attacked him? After all, he had already seen the other man's tightly clenched fist.
"What happened to my daughter?" Sang Zheng asked, suppressing his anger.
He couldn't get any details from the foot of the mountain, and was hoping to hear more specific information from the Third Elder.
The Third Elder hesitated for a moment, then spoke under Sang Zheng's increasingly frightening gaze, "After you left, the Sect Master arranged for her to become the disciple of Immortal Venerable Yanchen..."
"That hypocritical scoundrel is pampering a little girl with no talent who only knows how to cause trouble. You entrusted my daughter to such a person?!" Sang Zheng already disliked Gu Huaiwei, but the two had never interacted before. Now that he learned that his daughter had become the disciple of someone he had always looked down on, Sang Zheng was so angry that his head ached.
The Third Elder argued, "Although you look down on him, he is still a Sword Master and has experience in worldly affairs. We thought that if someone with such ability and who is not greedy for money took Sang Ying as his disciple, he would at least protect her to some extent."
"Ha!" Sang Zheng chuckled sarcastically, "Is this the kind of 'protection' that led to my daughter's accident?"
The Third Elder choked again, but still managed to give a brief, albeit halting, account of Sang Ying's experiences over the past ten years.
He hadn't had much contact with Sang Ying, and much of the information he had was hearsay.
Even these hearsay tales brought tears to the eyes of this grown man Sang Zheng.
"So, based solely on the one-sided statements of two people, one of whom is even Devil Race who is hostile to us, you so easily convicted my daughter?" Sang Zheng gritted his teeth, and when he thought of his daughter, whom he had protected like a precious jewel, whose Golden Core had been shattered, he couldn't help but shed tears.
However, Sang Zheng quickly composed himself and turned to walk out the door.
The Third Elder thought that he was going to let him go, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
However, the next second, a powerful Spiritual Power struck, and the Spiritual Power force whipped around his neck, pulling him away.
Outside the main hall, Sang Zheng dragged the struggling Third Elder all the way to the main peak where the sect leader was located.
At this very moment, inside the main peak, Wen Miaoshu was sitting upright in a side hall, waiting for the master of this place to come and see her.
The sect leader's youngest disciple Mu Xuan, had brought some spiritual tea and served it to Wen Miaoshu early on, but she didn't touch it. Instead, she said with a sullen face that she wanted to catch up with her master.
However, judging from the other party's expression, it seems that catching up is just a pretense; their real purpose is to ambush him.
The atmosphere inside the hall was extremely oppressive, and even Mu Xuan dared not stay any longer.
Fortunately, the sect leader returned soon after receiving the message from his disciple.
Although he already knew from his disciples that Wen Miaoshu and the other person had returned to the sect, the sect leader still paused as he stepped into the side hall when he actually saw them.
He quietly let out a breath, his serious face quickly changing to a different expression. "Miaoshu, you're really alright?! That's wonderful! You have no idea how happy I am to see you're all safe and sound!"
The sect leader strode forward, his face beaming with the joy of seeing an old friend.
But the smile on his face quickly froze, because the next second, Sang Zheng's voice rang out from behind him:
"I suspect the sect leader's happiness is only on his face."
Before Sang Zheng could even enter, the Third Elder, whose face had turned purple from being strangled, was thrown in first and then immediately fainted.
Upon seeing the Third Elder's miserable state, the Sect Master's expression changed, and a hint of lingering fear flashed in his eyes.
Even so, he still tried to lighten the mood by joking, "Sang Zheng, what are you doing? You finally got back to the sect, and the first thing you did was fight with the Third Elder?"
"I'm not only going to hit him, I'm going to hit you too!"
Before the words were even finished, and before the sect leader could even prepare, a heavy kick landed on his chest.
The sect leader tried to beg for mercy, but Sang Zheng didn't give him the chance and kicked him out the door.
Sang Zheng appears kind and has a good temper. However, once someone crosses his line, he will ruthlessly crush that person.
Knowing that the sect leader was a proud man, he disregarded Mu Xuan's objections and directly led the man to the sect's fighting arena.
The sect leader was naturally unwilling, but in the past ten years, Sang Zheng's cultivation had been constantly improving, and it was already a miracle that he hadn't regressed.
After a few moves, the sect leader was powerless to fight back and was thoroughly beaten by Sang Zheng on the dueling platform.
The disciples cultivating near the arena were all stunned by this incredibly astonishing scene. Because Sang Zheng was so ruthless, not a single one dared to come up and help their sect leader.
By the time Sang Zheng's anger subsided somewhat, the sect leader had already turned into a pile of mud, no longer possessing the elegant demeanor of a sect leader he once was.
"Sang Zheng, how dare you assault the sect leader in public? Aren't you afraid of being punished by the Discipline Hall?!" Having lost face so badly in front of everyone, the sect leader was too lazy to play along with Sang Zheng anymore and directly broke off all pretense with him.
Sang Zheng sneered, "Sect Leader? If I hadn't been indifferent to this position back then, would you have become the Sect Leader? I thought that even if you were ungrateful, you should at least know your place. I never expected you to dare to collude with others to frame my daughter!"
The sect leader's expression froze. This was the matter he cared about most in his life, and now Sang Zheng had exposed it in public. At this moment, the sect leader suddenly regretted it. He shouldn't have been threatened by Su Fuyun, and he shouldn't have attacked Sang Ying!
"Remember this: if anything happens to my daughter, not only you, but everyone involved will be held accountable!"