Chapter 217: I have a great scholar to argue for me
Because of these few short words, the air in front of the two people seemed to freeze. The disciples in charge of the carriages and horses who reacted quickly had already pulled the people they had good relations with quietly retreating further away.

They had heard of the reputation of the Sword Sect, and of course they had heard of Mou Jinchuan’s temper. Judging from the current situation, they were afraid that they would start fighting in the next moment. None of the Yuanying of the Sword Sect and the Juque Sect were easy to mess with. They were afraid that they would be affected by the sword energy and die before they could see the Great Tribulation Alliance!

At this time, Mou Jinchuan’s hand really moved. His sword was inserted into the stone steps before, so his hand was on the end of the sword when he spoke. But now his wrist turned slightly and it became a grip, as if he was going to lift the sword up in the next moment.

He stared at Li Wuxiang, the corners of his mouth slowly lowered, and then trembled slightly, as if he was trying to calm down his anger so that he could reveal a cold smile: “I am just the sword master of the Juque Sect, how dare I seek revenge on you, the leader of the Tianxin and Ranshan Sects? Haha, you Sword Sect don’t follow the rules, but we, the thirty-six sects, do follow the rules on this Great Tribulation Mountain.”

“But I can’t seek revenge on you, but I know you have a new disciple.” When Mou Jinchuan said this, his face was gloomy, and he couldn’t even keep his sneer, as if he didn’t want to say this, “Three days later, a disciple from my sect will come to find her, and then the two of them will have a sword fight, regardless of life or death. After that-“

Mou Jinchuan paused, closed his eyes for a moment, then opened them again, and exhaled: “The grudge between you and our Juque Sect has been resolved!”

Those disciples who were about to leave couldn’t help but murmur when they heard what he said. Li Wuxiang could tell that they were extremely surprised. He glanced at the people around him and saw that they were also surprised.

Tang Qillang winked at him, as if asking him to take it.

Li Wuxiang thought about it and asked Tang Qilang: “Do the Thirty-Six Sects have such a rule?”

“Yes.” Tang Qilang answered immediately, “On a daily basis… when disciples of different sects travel the world, there will inevitably be misunderstandings and disputes. If someone dies, they can’t become mortal enemies, right? As long as we find out clearly… since it is a misunderstanding, then both sides are not at fault, so they often fight to the death. The one who has killed someone will fight against the other’s fellow disciples, regardless of life or death, and then all grudges will be written off.”

Li Wuxiang thought about it and nodded: “Oh. But, Tang Qilang, is the matter between me and Mou Tieshan a misunderstanding?”

Tang Qilang glanced at him, his eyes lingering on his face for a moment. But Li Wuxiang was already very good at keeping a blank expression, so he couldn’t tell what expression was on his face. So he thought about it and nodded, “If you ask me, it’s actually a misunderstanding, not an unsolvable grudge.”

“After all… well… at first we didn’t know your identity. To be honest, if you had made your intentions clear from the beginning, even if Senior Brother Mou had a hundred guts, he wouldn’t have dared to attack Master Cui—”

When he said this, Mou Jinchuan immediately snorted coldly, as if he was extremely dissatisfied with what he said about “borrow a hundred courages”, but he didn’t say anything else.

Then Li Wuxiang felt that he seemed to understand a little bit why he was blocking this mountain road.

He seemed to know everything about the events in Youjiuyuan. This kind of thing should not have been heard by Tang Jiuzhen from Tang Qilang – Tang Qilang was a smart man, even if he did not expect his third junior brother to go to Juque Sect to complain, he should have understood that the events in Youjiuyuan should not be discussed in detail before reporting to the masters on the mountain.

So it must be the “spy” mentioned by Kong Jingci among them who leaked the information. Perhaps it was to have him fight with the people of the Thirty-Six Sects as soon as he arrived at the Great Tribulation Mountain, and directly ruin the Sword Sect’s plan to participate in this matter.

If you look at it this way, no one will believe what I say—I clearly said I don’t want to be a swordsman anymore.

As for Mou Jinchuan, he must have been suppressed by someone. This could explain his attitude just now and now – he really wanted to avenge his disciple Mou Tieshan, but he must have understood that doing so would almost create a grudge with the Sword Sect, and it would even give other sects on the Great Tribulation Mountain that wanted to compete with the Juque Sect for the position of the Sect Master to take the opportunity to attack.

Therefore, for the sake of the overall situation, he stopped on the mountain road and, as Tang Qilang said, “made it clear that he wanted to sacrifice one of his disciples to regain some face and cover up the matter.

This was the good result he had hoped for. It also meant that the people on the Great Tribulation Mountain really regarded him as a Sword Sect Nascent Soul.

only……

“Master Mu, how many disciples do you have? Can I ask which one you plan to call to fight?”

Mou Jinchuan said after a while: “When Tieshan was my disciple, he was best friends with his junior brother Jinsong. Three days later, my disciple Mou Jinsong will come to learn the skills of Master Li’s disciple.”

“What is Mou Jinsong’s cultivation level?”

Mou Jinchuan snorted and stopped talking. Li Wuxiang went to see Tang Qilang, who glanced at Zhao Yu and whispered, “That Senior Brother Mou is also a Jindan. He is not weaker than us.”

Li Wuxiang hummed: “Do you still remember what you told me in the car? Is it possible?”

When they were in the car, Tang Qilang said that the Tiangong sect had a secret method that could improve Zhao Yu’s cultivation in a very short time. At this time, Li Wuxiang asked so openly, and Mou Jinchuan should have understood what he was asking. His face, which had gradually calmed down, suddenly showed a burst of anger. He stared straight at Li Wuxiang, and then looked at Tang Qilang.

Tang Qilang was embarrassed by his question and was embarrassed by Mou Jinchuan’s gaze. He moved his mouth but still said with a stiff upper lip: “Master, I can’t do that. Not within three days.”

Li Wuxiang turned to look at Zhao Yu and asked, “Do you want to accept the challenge?”

Zhao Yu stood seven or eight steps behind him, guarding the carriage. When Li Wuxiang asked her this, everyone’s eyes were focused on her. Her first reaction was to raise her hand to her neck, as if she wanted to pull up the veil hanging around her neck. But after touching it, she remembered that the veil was gone.

She put her hand down awkwardly, looked at Li Wuxiang, then at Mou Jinchuan, then at Li Wuxiang again, blinked, then lowered her eyes, and said slowly in her usual wooden tone: “Yes, Master, disciple accepts the challenge.”

Faintly, someone in charge of the carriages and horses seemed to sigh with regret. Mou Jinchuan also raised his sword suddenly, and with a clang, he put it back on the sword guard behind him, looked at Li Wuxiang coldly, and turned around to go up the mountain.

At this time, Li Wuxiang said, “Master Mu, don’t be anxious. I was just asking, and I haven’t finished talking yet.”

The people around him were stunned. Mou Jinchuan was also stunned. He turned around and frowned: “What else do you want to say?”

“Is it a misunderstanding? Junior Brother Tang, Junior Sister Kong, Junior Brother Lu, Junior Brother Liu, it’s been so many days since the incident happened, and I’m not sure if I remember it clearly, so if I said anything wrong, you can correct me.”

Li Wuxiang looked at Mou Tieshan: “It’s just right for me to sort things out here, to see if what you know is different from what I know–” “Sword Master Mou, let me give you an analogy. If one day your Juque Sect is in trouble and the mountain gate is empty, then someone runs to your dojo and wants to take away your sect treasure, the Dafang Stele, and also wants to attack your sect leader, Sword Master Mou, will you kill him or not?”

Without waiting for Mou Jinchuan to speak, Li Wuxiang went to see Tang Qilang and said, “Junior Brother Tang, did you all see clearly how the Sword Sect leader Cui Daocheng manipulated the East Emperor Seal under the Nether Nine Abyss to release the three thousand year old heroic spirit of the Sword Sect to fight against the six mysterious sects?”

Tang Qilang sighed, “Yes. Cui Daocheng, the leader of the Cui sect, was also in Youjiuyuan at that time.”

Previously, those disciples asked him about the East Emperor Seal, but he didn’t say anything, but now he had to mention it. When the people around heard that they had met the Sword Sect leader and heard the “three thousand years of heroic spirit”, they suddenly became silent, fearing that they would miss any more words.

At this time, the people on the stone platform under the top of the mountain gate slowly gathered on the top step. If you look carefully at the surrounding dark forests, you will find that there seems to be some dim light flying down from the top of the Great Tribulation Mountain, and then disappearing silently into the darkness.

Li Wuxiang nodded: “Okay, next, what happened?”

Tang Qilang looked at Mou Jinchuan, then glanced at the surrounding woods and fields, and sighed with a bitter face: “Master, do I have to say this? Didn’t you tell us to check for deficiencies and fill in the gaps? I am a junior, in this kind of situation…”

“Oh, I can’t remember that part.”

Tang Qilang could only sigh again: “Well, at that time… Alas, Sect Leader Cui was using all his cultivation to suppress the East Emperor Seal. Because the East Emperor Seal opened the Netherworld Death Gate, in order to prevent the death energy from rushing out again, Sect Leader Cui sacrificed all his cultivation, trying to suppress the East Emperor Seal again…”

“At this time, Senior Brother Mou lost his mind and said that we could take the opportunity to bring Sect Leader Cui to the Great Tribulation Mountain. He must know a lot about the East Emperor Seal—”

Originally the group of people were completely silent, but at that moment they almost all gasped in shock, as if a gust of night wind had suddenly blown up on the sheltered stone platform.

Li Wuxiang turned to look at Mou Jinchuan and saw that he was also stunned, as if the person who complained to him had not mentioned this point.

“And then? Junior Brother Tang, I can’t remember what happened next.”

Tang Qilang raised his hand and scratched his hair fiercely. He cried out “Ouch!” and simply raised his head to look at Mou Jinchuan: “Master Mou, you also know that there is nothing I, a junior, can do at this time. Then I am sorry – several fellow apprentices in the same group can testify that we all advised Brother Mou not to do that. After all, he is the Master of the Sword Sect, and we are from the same lineage!”

“But Senior Brother Mou said that when he came, a master on the mountain had already told him that he had met a swordsman in Youjiuyuan, and in order to prevent the fact that we came to explore the East Emperor Seal from being leaked… he was killed! He also said that a master on the mountain told him that anyway, the purpose of this Great Tribulation Alliance was to make the Thirty-Six Sects no longer suffer, so the Sword Sect was not a big deal!”

Li Wuxiang looked at Mou Jinchuan and said, “So, Sword Master Mou, was that nonsense said by Mou Tieshan, or was it said by someone from your Juque Sect? As a master, your disciple was deceived by this and you were unaware of it. You are not a very good master.”

Mou Jinchuan was stunned for a while before he turned cold and said word by word: “No one in my Juque Sect has ever said this.”

“Oh, then you must investigate it carefully when you go back. But you should be happy, Master Mou. Why? Because in the past, if the Six Sects of Xuan Sect killed a disciple of the Sword Sect, we would have to pay with several of their lives. If Mou Tieshan had really done something stupid that day, I’m afraid I wouldn’t be standing here talking to you, the Juque Sect.”

“——So Junior Brother Tang, tell me again, why am I not planning to seek revenge on the Juque Sect now?”

At this point, Tang Qilang felt that he finally understood what Li Wuxiang wanted him to say.

Anyway, today he had come to this point, so he let out a sigh of relief and decided to go all out.

“At that time, Master Cui wanted to close the Gate of Death, but he failed to do so, and instead attracted the messenger from the underworld and the judge of yin and yang.”

The group of people who had just gasped in shock, exhaled the breath, and now inhaled it again. They felt a gust of cold wind blowing around them, as if the night had become hideous because of the two words “messenger of the underworld” and “judge of yin and yang”.

“That’s when Senior Brother Mou wanted to attack Master Cui, because he was still fighting them at the time… We can’t count how many Netherworld Messengers there are, but there is more than one Yin-Yang Judge.”

“Master Cui had sacrificed his cultivation before, but he still failed to suppress the Eastern Emperor Seal. It would have been even more impossible for him to fight them at that time. It was at this time… that Sect Leader Li tried to save Master Cui. It was also at this time that Senior Brother Mou received Master Cui’s remaining soul into the large stele.”

“Then Sect Master Li took action to suppress the East Emperor Seal.” Tang Qilang repeated, “After Sect Master Li suppressed the East Emperor Seal, he also suppressed the Netherworld Death Gate.”

“After we subdued the Netherworld Death Gate, we asked Brother Mou to release Sect Leader Cui. Brother Mou refused. Sect Leader Li said that he had violated the taboos of the Sword Sect. He also said that he did not use flying swords, but only Dan power. If Brother Mou could defeat him within three moves, he would let him go—”

He sighed, “Master Mou, we don’t know what happened to Senior Brother Mou at that time. We even thought that Senior Brother Mou wanted to drag us down and kill us together! Sect Master Li really let him use three moves without using the flying sword, and then… Alas, that’s what happened.”

He stopped talking, and no one else spoke. The mountain became extremely quiet for a while, but no one’s mind was quiet.

Because I am almost thinking about what these two things mean——

“Master Li took action to suppress the East Emperor Seal”, and “he also suppressed the Netherworld Death Gate”.

Li Wuxiang carefully observed their expressions, including Mou Jinchuan’s, and those who were hiding in the surrounding mountains and forests at this time – their cultivation should be very high, even if he pushed the power of the Small Tribulation Sword Sutra to the extreme, combined with his extremely sharp perception, he could hardly detect where they were, their breathing, heartbeat, and emotional changes.

These people should be some of the “teachers” on Dajie Mountain.

(End of this chapter)