7: Chapter 7 Upholding Justice

"Eight years ago, our clan's first-sequence Saintess returned from the Disaster Battlefield, and subsequently gave birth to three children..."

"No one in the clan has ever known who that man was... The Saintess never mentioned it either!"

"It actually turns out to be this person?" External Affairs Elder Ji Fangyue's emotions surged as he secretly sized up Xie Wushang with a face full of disbelief.

This was a secret of the Ji Clan, strictly forbidden from being spread outside; even within the clan, few people knew the reason.

In mid-air, Pang Feiyu was still suppressed to his knees by External Affairs Elder Ji Fangyue's Dharma idol, but he was already able to move slightly.

He looked toward the ruins of the main hall, and seeing External Affairs Elder Ji Fangyue kneeling and bowing to the little girl before him, he suddenly understood in his heart.

"So this little girl is a princess of the Ji Family. No wonder Elder Ji would make a move to suppress me!"

After hearing the dialogue between External Affairs Elder Ji Fangyue and Yaoyao, his heart skipped a beat.

"The Ji Family's Prodigy, who is suspected to be a goddess... is actually the daughter of a good-for-nothing from the Yuntian Sword Sect?"

"Wait... slaying disaster generals and gaining merit points..."

"This person is Xie Wushang..."

"Xie Wushang... Yuntian Sword Sect..."

"Could he be that lord's son?" Pang Feiyu's thoughts fluttered chaotically.

"There were two anomalies in the sky just now... The sea of fire and the rising sun were clearly possessed by that clan... It should be right!"

"Good heavens! A princess of the Celestial Emperor Family... and also that lord's granddaughter... We can't afford to offend them, we truly can't afford to offend them!"

"Elder Ji is protecting me so that I won't make a mistake! I misunderstood him!"

With these thoughts in mind, Pang Feiyu looked at External Affairs Elder Ji Fangyue with a grateful expression.

Afterwards, with a smile on the corners of his mouth and glowing eyes, he looked at Xie Wushang and Yaoyao with a bizarre expression, as if he had discovered a heaven-shaking secret.

He had already forgotten that he was still in a state of being suppressed and kneeling.

"What, cancel the reward?" The Disciples of the Yuntian Sword Sect all turned pale.

"If there are no high-grade Spiritual Veins, it will be difficult for us to make a Breakthrough to the seventh realm in our lifetime!"

Many Disciples looked eagerly at External Affairs Elder Ji Fangyue, but did not dare to speak rashly, fearing that they would offend this almighty being.

At this moment, Elder Ji sized up Xie Wushang, his thoughts fluttering: "He has the surname Xie, yet he possesses the Sun Holy Body..."

"Elder Ji... didn't you hear what I said?" Yaoyao spoke with some dissatisfaction.

External Affairs Elder Ji Fangyue quickly pulled back his thoughts. "Apologies, Princess, this old man was momentarily absent-minded..."

Afterward, External Affairs Elder Ji Fangyue looked at Sect Master Su Manyun, Senior Sister Yao Chuqing, and the others in the ruins of the main hall.

"You lot are blinded by greed and harm meritorious officials. Such an unprincipled and unjust Sect does not deserve to enjoy the Heavenly Dao Alliance's commendation."

"Today, this envoy calls the shots: the rewards are retracted, and all merit points are attributed entirely to Xie Wushang personally."

"If the Yuntian Sword Sect dares to act presumptuously again, their Spiritual Veins will be stripped away, and they will be demoted to a ninth-rate Sect!"

"Do you all have any objections?" External Affairs Elder Ji Fangyue's gaze swept across the Disciples of the Yuntian Sword Sect in the ruins, speaking with considerable majesty.

"What! Retract the rewards?"

"Without high-grade Spiritual Veins, how can our Yuntian Sword Sect become a quasi-Holy Land?"

"No... Special Envoy, you cannot retract the rewards!"

Hearing this decision, the Disciples of the Yuntian Sword Sect wailed like ghosts and howled like wolves, shouting hoarsely.

If the Sect advanced to a quasi-Holy Land, the prodigies within the Sect could take a further step forward with the help of the high-grade Spiritual Veins and the rewarded Cultivation Technique.

They could charge towards the seventh realm, or even the eighth realm.

Many geniuses had long fantasized about soaring into the sky thereafter, and after their cultivation surged, going to marry the goddess of the neighboring Sect.

With the reward revoked, everything would turn into a bubble.

They felt as if they had fallen from heaven into Hell.

"Xie Wushang went on an expedition to the Disaster Battlefield on behalf of the Yuntian Sword Sect. The merit points he obtained should logically belong to the Sect." Senior Sister Su Lingyu propped up her injured body, shouting with crimson eyes. "This is the rule of the Heavenly Dao Alliance, Special Envoy, you cannot change it!"

"That's right, if you change it, we will appeal to the Heavenly Dao Alliance!" Senior Sister Yao Chuqing stood up tremblingly, gritting her teeth and saying.

"Hmph, a bunch of unruly people! This envoy has not yet investigated your crime of harming meritorious officials, and you still want to file a false accusation? It seems that if I don't teach you a lesson today, you won't know what the light of justice is!" External Affairs Elder Ji Fangyue's gaze turned cold, and he raised his hand toward the front.

"I, holding the Heavenly Dao External Affairs Decree, hereby sentence you to the punishment of three swords!"

An overbearing and indifferent voice resounded.

External Affairs Elder Ji Fangyue moved his palm, causing ripples to spread across the air. Chill qi wriggled, condensing huge swords of freezing coldness one after another in mid-air.

A vast might overturned downwards, causing Senior Sister Yao Chuqing and Senior Sister Su Lingyu, who had just climbed up, to be directly suppressed to the ground.

In the ruins, those loudly shouting Yuntian Sword Sect Disciples were also all pressed to the ground, each of them feeling as if they were carrying a mountain on their backs.

An eighth-realm powerhouse, just by releasing a wisp of aura, was enough to crush the people present into pieces.

External Affairs Elder Ji Fangyue guided with a hand incantation, and the cold swords slashed straight down at Senior Sister Yao Chuqing, Senior Sister Su Lingyu, and the few people who had shouted the most enthusiastically just moments before.

As the cold swords fell, the freezing cold penetrated to the bones.

Senior Sister Yao Chuqing and Senior Sister Su Lingyu only felt that their very Souls were about to be frozen.

"No..." The two of them cried out loudly.

The Qi swords fell without a moment's pause, slashing directly onto their bodies.

Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!

Three consecutive swords fell, piercing and shattering their Dantians, and fracturing their core pills, transforming into flowing pill essence that drained away, completely reducing them into useless cripples.

"I... I have become a cripple!" Senior Sister Yao Chuqing sensed the pill essence within her body flowing away, the light in her eyes vanishing, and she whispered dolefully.

"No... No!" Senior Sister Su Lingyu wailed twice, unable to accept the reality of becoming a cripple, and directly passed out.

The other nine Disciples also had their cultivation crippled, wailing one after another.

"They've all been crippled!" Inside the main hall, the remaining Yuntian Sword Sect Disciples looked at each other in dismay upon seeing this scene, falling silent like cicadas in winter.

External Affairs Elder Ji Fangyue's gaze shifted, sweeping over the rest of the people.

The remaining Yuntian Sword Sect Disciples shuddered one by one, panic-stricken in their hearts.

"No, Lord Envoy, we didn't make a move against Senior Brother Xie just now!"

"It was the Sect Master and the two Senior Sisters who were bullying Senior Brother Xie; it has nothing to do with us!"

Everyone spoke with a crying tone, terrified that the Special Envoy before them would make a move and cripple their cultivation as well.

"Although you didn't bully Xie Wushang... coldly standing by and watching is also a crime..." External Affairs Elder Ji Fangyue spoke with majesty.

"This..."

"If we spoke up, we would have been severely punished by the Sect Master!"

"That's right, we are merely insignificant people, how could we participate in such a major event?" The Disciples of the Yuntian Sword Sect cried out.

External Affairs Elder Ji Fangyue said, "If you had a heart of justice, even if you were temporarily unable to come out and resist power, you could have still notified our Heavenly Dao Alliance to handle this matter. Yet just now, when we arrived, none of you spoke up for Xie Wushang. Such apathy deserves punishment."

External Affairs Elder Ji Fangyue guided with a hand incantation, targeting the entire Yuntian Sword Sect.

Cold light flickered in the sky, transforming into beams of light that overturned downwards toward all the Disciples of the Yuntian Sword Sect.

"Today, this envoy strips away two realms of your cultivation... as a warning to others!"

External Affairs Elder Ji Fangyue's overbearing voice resounded through the Yuntian Sword Sect.

Instantly, the cultivation of the Yuntian Sword Sect Disciples dropped by two realms consecutively one after another.

"My cultivation..." Numerous Disciples were suppressed and knelt on the ground, wailing loudly.

After finishing all this, External Affairs Elder Ji Fangyue withdrew his Divine Ability, and with a genial expression, he looked at Xie Wushang and Yaoyao.

At the same time, his palm moved, and a Storage Pouch flew toward Xie Wushang.

"Young Master Xie, these were originally treasures rewarded to the Yuntian Sword Sect, but now they are bestowed upon you!" External Affairs Elder Ji Fangyue bent over, smiling in his eyes, and said gently, "As for the quasi-Saint-Grade Spiritual Vein, it will be converted into merit points and recorded under your personal name!"

Xie Wushang took the Storage Pouch. "Troubling the Special Envoy."

External Affairs Elder Ji Fangyue said, "It is only right."

Afterward, he looked at Yaoyao, narrowing his eyes and smilingly asking, "Little Princess, are you still satisfied with this arrangement by this old man?"