Supreme Emptiness

Chapter 249: Chapter 249 The Elder’s Fate

People who harbor malicious intentions need not be treated with courtesy.

Because they won’t change their attitude due to your magnanimity.

On the contrary, they will only feel that you are easier to bully.

Such a loud refutation drew the attention of people both inside and outside the hall.

Fu Chaohun couldn’t help but feel guilty and scolded:

“I only asked a question, what is your attitude?”

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“It seems like I am trying to bully the weak!”

Jiang Fan responded unceremoniously: “Matters between Sect Master Gong and me are not for you to question.”

“Furthermore, you may be older than me.”

“But as for bullying me, you’re not quite there yet.”

Fu Chaohun was already holding back a stomach full of anger.

Now being reprimanded publicly by a new disciple and treated with such disdain made his face turn cold.

“When did I, Fu Chaohun, ever get despised by someone of no class?”

“Complete my achievements before challenging me!”

Jiang Fan found this amusing.

Obviously, it was the other party who thought him an easy target and provoked him first.

He just fought back a few hard words, but ended up being the provocateur.

Recalling Fu Chaohun’s various achievements.

Amazing indeed.

But Jiang Fan could do the same.

“I’m not interested in your achievements.”

“If you want to cause trouble, I’m up for it, if not, then get out of the way!”

He waved his hand, indicating that he did not see him in any regard.

Gong Caiyi showed an approving look.

She had always worried that Jiang Fan was too gentle and easily bullied.

It turned out that he was so strong when faced with rude treatment.

Gentle when appropriate, like water, and strong when necessary, like thunder.

Now, she felt reassured.

However, no matter what, Jiang Fan was still her beloved junior.

Fu Chaohun was a guest after all.

As the host, she naturally couldn’t sit back and watch the two of them fight.

She stepped forward and said: “In my great hall, that is inappropriate, isn’t it?”

She gave both of them a stern look.

Of course, her gaze on Jiang Fan was gentle.

Her gaze on Fu Chaohun was a warning.

Fu Chaohun finally realized that this was the Spirit Beast Sect, and more importantly, the Sect Master’s territory.

Not a place where he could be impudent.

Therefore, no matter how dissatisfied with Jiang Fan he was, he could only swallow his anger:

“In respect for the Sect Master, I will forgive his disrespect…”

Before he could finish his words,

a cold voice came from outside the hall.

“Forgive what?”

The speaker was none other than Elder Ming Youlian of the Heavenly Sound Sect.

She was so angry that her chest heaved and her face turned dark.

Accompanied by Gu Nianchan, she leisurely returned to the Sect Master Peak.

Finding something happening in the hall, she stopped to watch.

Unexpectedly,

she saw her precious disciple being disrespected by some unknown wild disciple.

Alright,

she was an elder, a great elder at that, and had no face to intervene in matters between disciples.

But Gong Caiyi’s favoritism towards that wild disciple was intolerable!

Her chief disciple had come to the Spirit Beast Sect to be humiliated?

So, she walked in angrily with a cane.

Gu Nianchan tried to stop her but failed.

Gong Caiyi frowned, showing displeasure: “Did I permit you to enter?”

“Get out!”

Without anger, she commanded respect.

The fierce Ming Youlian immediately stopped and bowed: “Sect Master Gong, I did not mean to offend you.”

“But please grant me the opportunity to speak.”

“Do not let my Heavenly Sound Sect disciple return humiliated.”

Gong Caiyi’s frown deepened.

This old woman was really good at spreading rumors!

Who had bullied Fu Chaohun?

If this word got out, people who didn’t know the truth might really think that the Spirit Beast Sect had slighted the Heavenly Sound Sect, causing disharmony between the two sects.

“Elder Ming, make yourself clear!”

“When did your sect’s disciple get humiliated?”

Gong Caiyi returned to her seat and questioned from above.

Ming Youlian gave Jiang Fan a fierce look and said angrily:

“Chaohun just asked a question, but what was the attitude of that disciple named Jiang Fan?”

“Chaohun is our chief disciple!”

“He represents the dignity of our sect.”

“To treat him poorly is to disrespect the Heavenly Sound Sect!”

Earlier, she said Fu Chaohun was humiliated.

Now, when asked how he was humiliated, she shifted the topic, saying Jiang Fan had a bad attitude.

This made Gong Caiyi despise her.

She said expressionlessly: “Elder Ming, overprotecting your disciples might not be a good thing.”

“Disciples who lack setbacks tend to become emotional and irrational, ultimately harming them.”

“Issues between disciples should be resolved by themselves.”

“Forceful intervention will only backfire.”

In her view, this was just a quarrel between two disciples.

An elder’s involvement changed the nature of the matter.

Ming Youlian felt even more disgruntled.

She and Fu Chaohun had come a long way to help Gong Caiyi.

Not only did she not support them, but she also lectured her!

So she kept a straight face and unreasonably said: “The Sect Master is right.”

“But one thing is another! Jiang Fan’s disrespect to our chief disciple is something I will not let go!”

Gong Caiyi’s phoenix eyes narrowed.

She was getting too presumptuous?

She was about to scold, but Jiang Fan stood out.

He couldn’t let his quarrel with Fu Chaohun escalate to a confrontation between Gong Caiyi and Ming Youlian.

It was best if he handled this matter himself.

With his hands behind him, he spoke lightly: “If we talk about disrespect, did you not hear that Fu Chaohun called me insignificant?”

Jiang Fan was somewhat surprised.

Ming Youlian raised her head arrogantly, not even looking at Jiang Fan, and said:

“Our chief disciple’s status is beyond yours. Who are you?”

“When he criticized you, it was to educate you for your own good!”

“You didn’t know what was good for you and responded with harsh words, which was highly disrespectful!”

“I can’t stand you impudent juniors who defy your elders!”

Hah?

Everyone inside and outside the hall was shocked by her words.

Yi Lianxing, known to be domineering in the sect, felt that after hearing the arrogance in the elder’s words, she herself had been too lenient.

Qin Caihe clenched her fists in anger: “Does she have no shame?”

“Her disciple insulting others is for their good.”

“When others insult her disciple, it’s highly disrespectful?”

Even the innocent Chu Xingmeng frowned in anger:

“She is being unreasonable, isn’t she?”

“This is still the Spirit Beast Sect. If it were the Heavenly Sound Sect, wouldn’t she have acted directly?”

Everyone in the hall was also speechless.

Yuan Zhiyu widened her eyes in disbelief.

Even after their master had reminded her not to interfere, she still shamelessly said such words?

Gong Caiyi’s face turned cold.

Her heart was filled with displeasure.

Ming Youlian’s speech not only showed extreme contempt for Jiang Fan but also did not regard her, the Sect Master, seriously.

Well,

in Ming Youlian’s eyes, the Sect Master of Spirit Beast Sect still had to rely on Heavenly Sound Sect’s disciples to comprehend their sect’s ultimate arts!

No wonder she looked down on her.

She was about to scold, but Jiang Fan interrupted her again.

“I understand Elder Ming’s point.”

“Fu Chaohun is strong, so whatever he says is reasonable, right?”

Ming Youlian arrogantly raised her neck and snorted: “That’s about right.”

“So what, you are not convinced?”

So what if not?

The rules of the Martial Path Realm had been like this for thousands of years.

Survival of the fittest, the victor is king!

Jiang Fan, with his hands behind his back, said lightly: “According to Elder Ming’s meaning.”

“Then my words just now are not disrespectful.”

“Because I am stronger than Fu Chaohun.”