148: Chapter 148 Xu Tian Gets Beaten Up, Elder Appears!

Upon hearing this, Xu Chen's face immediately darkened.

“Pah! Xu Tian, I've realized you're quite the character!”

“When you can't win a fight, you bring up the marriage contract; when the marriage contract is rejected, you start talking about medical treatment.”

“Next, are you going to say your ancestral grave is overgrown with weeds and ask this Young Master to help you clear them?”

Chu Wanqing held the imperial zither, her eyes filled with impatience.

“You make it sound so nice, saying it has a hundred benefits and not a single harm.”

“In the end, aren't you just eyeing Sister Qingyue herself and her Physique?”

“Pah! You Creep!”

Su Yuxi was even more direct, sweeping a cold glance over Xu Tian.

“You keep saying you can cure her.”

“Why don't you cure your own face first.”

“It's already been slapped out of shape, yet you're still putting on an act!”

The three of them took turns mocking him, and some of the onlookers couldn't help but burst into laughter again.

Xu Tian's temples throbbed from the repeated ridicule, and the veins on the back of his hands bulged.

Yet he still forcibly suppressed his anger, keeping his eyes fixed on Shen Qingyue.

He knew very well that as long as Shen Qingyue's attitude wavered even slightly, he still had a chance in tonight's situation.

Unfortunately, all he received was an even colder rejection.

Shen Qingyue met his gaze, her tone flat.

“My injury has nothing to do with you.”

“Whether it can be cured or not is not for you to dictate.”

“Even if you were truly the only one in the world who could cure it.”

“I still would not marry you.”

“Because you are not worthy! Do you understand?”

Hearing this, Xu Tian felt a sudden tightness in his chest.

This sentence hit harder than a direct slap to the face.

His lips moved, wanting to continue pressuring her.

But Lin Yi had already stepped forward.

One step.

He stood directly in front of Shen Qingyue.

As the aura of the Hongmeng Chaos Body radiated outward, the surrounding air grew heavy.

He looked at Xu Tian with eyes that regarded him as a death-seeking, eyesore of an ant.

“Was she not clear enough?”

“Do you need This Holy Son to translate for you?”

A cold smirk curled on Lin Yi's lips.

“She finds you disgusting.”

“Do you understand now?!”

At this, the atmosphere in the field completely exploded.

Satisfying!

So satisfying!

Xu Tian's face turned ashen from being choked by these words; his Adam's apple bobbed twice before he forced out a cold laugh.

“Lin Yi, you certainly are protective!”

“But this is a private matter between my Heaven and Earth Gate and the Shen Family.”

“As an outsider, what right do you have to interfere?”

“Relying on your title at the top of the list to meddle in another family's old contract, do you really think you can cover the sky with one hand?”

As soon as he said this, many people subconsciously looked at Lin Yi.

This was a very insidious accusation.

By framing forced marriage as an 'old contract' and Lin Yi's protection as 'meddling,' he clearly wanted to claim the moral high ground.

Unfortunately, he had picked the wrong person.

After listening, Lin Yi actually laughed.

“Outsider?”

“You're calling This Holy Son an outsider?”

He slowly turned his head and glanced at Shen Qingyue.

Shen Qingyue looked at him, her eyelashes trembling slightly, and the corners of her lips twitched ever so slightly.

Lin Yi turned back, his gaze falling once more on Xu Tian's face.

“Her person, her affairs—This Holy Son will manage them all!”

“Xu Tian, today This Holy Son will leave these words here.”

“With me here, you are not qualified to touch her!!”

Xu Chen slapped his thigh and cheered on the spot.

“Right!”

“To put it bluntly, you're just using a scrap of old paper to beg for food!”

“Xu Tian, what kind of thing are you to talk about qualifications in front of my Big Brother?”

“Coming to block someone's door with a tattered marriage contract, is everyone in the Heaven and Earth Gate a scoundrel like you?”

“Xu Tian, you're no good!”

“If you want to show off, go back and ask your Old Ancestor, who's been hiding like a turtle for ten thousand years, to come out of seclusion!”

Chu Wanqing laughed so hard her body swayed and her shoulders shook.

Su Yuxi then delivered the finishing blow.

“The Heaven and Earth Gate Old Ancestor? Surely he's not still hibernating...”

The surrounding Cultivators had been trying to keep a straight face, but hearing this, someone finally couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Once the laughter started, it couldn't be stopped.

Xu Tian's face could no longer maintain any semblance of dignity.

He glared fixedly at Lin Yi, the fire of jealousy and malice in his eyes almost solidifying.

“Lin Yi!”

“You rely on your strength to suppress me, what kind of skill is that?”

“Without the title of being first on the three thousand extreme dao list, and without those people behind you, what right do you have to be so arrogant here?”

Lin Yi's gaze was indifferent as he clenched one hand into a fist.

“What right?”

“The right that you are trash!”

“The right of This Holy Son's pair of fists!”

“The right that she looks down on a piece of trash like you—is that enough?!”

Saying this, Lin Yi took a step forward, his voice deepening.

“Today you use a marriage contract to pressure her, a Dao wound to coerce her, and the Heaven and Earth Gate to threaten her.”

“In the end, it's nothing more than seeing her alone and wanting to take advantage of the situation to swallow her up.”

“Unfortunately, you picked the wrong time.”

“She is now standing by This Holy Son's side.”

“No one can take her away!”

As his words fell, a deathly silence filled the field.

Chu Wanqing's eyes curved into crescents.

A glimmer of light flickered in Su Yuxi's eyes.

Shen Qingyue stood behind Lin Yi, looking at the figure in front of her.

The coldness deep within her eyes dissipated bit by bit, replaced by a very sweet warmth.

As for Xu Tian, he was going insane.

What he couldn't stand the most was Lin Yi's dominant manner of protecting someone behind his back.

It stole all of his thunder.

The marriage contract he had gone to great lengths to bring out, the words he had spent so much breath saying.

In the face of Lin Yi's powerful aura, his painstaking schemes instead made him look like a clown jumping through hoops for attention.

“Good, very good!”

He said it twice, but his smile was incredibly sinister.

“Shen Qingyue, you dare to publicly annul the marriage contract today.”

“Lin Yi, you dare to interfere in the old affairs of two families today.”

“Since that's the case, then don't blame this Young Master for taking things to the extreme!”

“The marriage contract won't be voided just because of a single sentence from you.”

“And the Heaven and Earth Gate certainly won't retreat just because of your stubborn words.”

“Today, whether you acknowledge it or not.”

“There has never been a person I, Xu Tian, wanted that I couldn't get!”

As soon as he said this, Chu Wanqing's face instantly filled with rage.

A chill rose in the depths of Su Yuxi's eyes.

Lin Yi's gaze turned cold, and he swung his hand back.

Slap!

A blast of Qi exploded across the empty space.

Xu Tian didn't even have time to react before his face was whipped to the side, half of his skin instantly becoming red and swollen.

The entire field fell silent instantly.

Another slap!

And it was right in front of so many people.

After delivering the blow, Lin Yi's eyes were full of contempt.

“What?”

“What do you want to do?”

Xu Tian's head buzzed from the blow, and he staggered half a step before steadying himself.

He clutched his face, his entire body trembling.

From rage!

And also from humiliation!

As the dignified successor of the Heaven and Earth Gate, he had been slapped twice in a row tonight; his face was practically becoming a public area.

But what made him feel even worse were the gazes from the surroundings.

Previously, there had been some surprise and doubt.

Now, there was only the mockery of people watching a joke.

Xu Chen was so delighted he almost dropped the ancient desolate hall on the ground.

“Big Brother, great slap!”

“This time, both sides are finally symmetrical.”

“It looks much more pleasing to the eye!”

The sidelines immediately erupted into laughter.

Xu Tian's vision began to go dark.

He stared fixedly at Lin Yi, squeezing a sentence out from his throat.

“Lin Yi! I will make you pay the price!”

Lin Yi nodded indifferently.

“Fine, I'll be waiting.”

“But before that, you'd better get lost.”

“Don't die here and ruin This Holy Son's appetite!”

Before his voice had even faded, Lin Yi boldly struck out with a punch.

Boom!

The wind from the punch carried a biting Qi, exploding like a clap of thunder.

Xu Tian only felt his eardrums buzzing, his mind going blank.

Before he could react, a terrifying force condensed into a wave of energy, rushing straight for his face!