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After leaving the dock, Xiao Yuan couldn't help but feel surprised and said, "Princess, your kindness really surprises me."
To be honest, Xiao Yuan thought that even if the Ninth Princess executed that rude man on the spot, no one would say anything and would just think that he deserved to die. He actually dared to compare the princess with a brothel girl. He must be tired of living!
But the Ninth Princess just smiled and walked away as if she didn't hear anything.
"Oh."
After letting out her signature laugh, the Ninth Princess said with a hint of laziness in her tone, "Xiao Yuanzi, what you said makes me not even want to laugh. Do you know why?"
"...have no idea."
"Bihe, tell this idiot."
The Ninth Princess got on the carriage sent by the county governor, and the group headed towards Xiaoyao Gate. Because of his status as a guard, Xiao Yuan also rode a white horse to escort the princess.
However, he was obviously closer than the other guards.
Bi He was sitting in the carriage, personally driving for the princess. After hearing the princess's order, she said to Xiao Yuan with disdain, "You really don't know anything. How can a princess, a daughter of gold and jade, talk to a servant working at the docks? Even if you scold him or order him to be executed, it would be a disgrace to the princess's extremely noble mouth."
Xiao Yuan's mouth twitched, and he couldn't help but look through the curtained window of the carriage at the Ninth Princess who was sitting inside with her eyes closed. This girl closed her eyes, but deliberately rolled up the curtains?
"So!" Bi He said with a smug smile, "The princess only glanced at him. As long as the officials here are not fools, they will naturally deal with that person. Why does the princess need to take action personally?"
Xiao Yuan was shocked and looked back towards the dock: "Is he really going to be executed?!"
"What?" The Ninth Princess didn't open her eyes, but said jokingly, "You want to save him? Just ask me. With just one order, it won't be difficult to keep him at the execution ground."
"Okay, I beg you." Xiao Yuan answered readily, which made the Ninth Princess silent. She opened her beautiful phoenix eyes and looked at him.
"Why?!"
The person asking the question was not the Ninth Princess, but the maid Bi He. She looked at Xiao Yuan in surprise: "How dare you ask for help for a commoner? Are you still a man?"
Xiao Yuan shook his head and did not answer the question.
The Ninth Princess smiled and said, "I didn't know the guard beside me was such a kind person."
Xiao Yuan heard the teasing in her words, pulled the reins, turned the white horse around, and replied, "When did kindness become something to be laughed at?"
The Ninth Princess' smile froze.
"Your Highness, I'm going to save them!"
Xiao Yuan was about to leave when Xuanyuan Mingzhu's cold voice came from behind him: "Come back."
The white horse was forced to stop.
"He won't die."
When Xiao Yuan looked back into the carriage, the curtains had already been drawn, and only Xuanyuan Mingzhu's cold voice could be heard from inside: "That man simply offended me. As long as the local official in charge of this matter is hopelessly stupid, he won't be killed."
Xiao Yuan froze in place, but the Ninth Princess did not wait for him. The carriage drove farther and farther towards the Xiaoyao Gate. The guards passing by all glanced at the favorite person beside the princess, with a look of gloating in their eyes.
"Since this county magistrate is in charge of such a prosperous place, he is certainly not a fool." After muttering to himself, Xiao Yuan chose to follow Xuanyuan Mingzhu.
…
At dusk, Xiaoyao Mountain Gate was filled with guests and friends. There were hearty laughter from people drinking and having fun, and beautiful women whispering, singing and dancing. It was exactly the same as the Lantern Festival in the outside world. It was hard to imagine that this was one of the five major immortal gates in the world, a holy place with nearly ten immortals in the Daoyun realm and hundreds of immortals in the Hunming realm.
As a guard, Xiao Yuan did not follow the Ninth Princess to visit the rising stars of the major immortal sects. He just stayed in a corner, sitting at the table, drinking wine sip by sip, venting the depression in his heart.
After what happened during the day, he had not spoken to the Ninth Princess. He originally did not want to go to Xiaoyao Sect and stayed at the foot of the mountain, but unexpectedly Bihe asked him to follow her.
As a result, after going up the mountain, the Ninth Princess went to chat with those young talents on her own, and Xiao Yuan could only drink in the corner to relieve his boredom.
"Xiaoyao Sect..."
A man's faint voice came from his ears. Xiao Yuan looked up and found that there was a tall man beside him.
The man was of burly build, had a beard, and looked extremely rugged, but his temperament was as cold as a piece of ice. In his left hand, he held an old sheathed sword and looked coldly at the people who were having fun not far away.
Xiao Yuan's heart trembled. This man did not exude an imposing aura, but he gave him a sense of crisis as if a sword was in its sheath, with a cold light bursting out!
After he obtained the immortal fate more than ten days ago, his strength improved by leaps and bounds, directly from the early stage of the Foundation Establishment Realm to the middle stage of the Spirit Embryo Realm. Although some realm insights left to him by General Xianhe remained in his mind, Xiao Yuan knew that he was far from being able to control his current strength, and it would take at least half a year to fully digest it.
But even so, he was still in the Spirit Embryo Realm, and the man in front of him gave him a sense of crisis, proving that this man was at least at the Outer God Realm!
"It seems that tonight's ceremony is destined to be full of hidden dragons and crouching tigers."
Xiao Yuan drank a sip of wine silently. While he was thinking, the man had already sat down. Before Xiao Yuan could think clearly, he suddenly asked what Xiaoyaomen meant.
After a while, the cold-blooded man picked up a glass of wine and muttered to himself, "Free and easy, indulge in pleasure... Oh, tonight I want to see if you can truly follow the Dharma."
After saying this, he drank the glass of wine in one gulp, then closed his eyes to rest, and placed the sword on the table without even glancing at Xiao Yuan, who was sitting at the same table with him.
"…"
Xiao Yuan sighed in his heart. He really still found it difficult to understand these people who practiced like demons.
Needless to say, from the fact that he came to the ceremony of Xiaoyao Sect's Jiuzuidao's promotion to the realm of god with a knife in his hand, and also from what he just said to himself, Xiao Yuan was 90% sure that he was also a master of knife, and maybe he had even condensed the knife intent. The purpose of coming to the ceremony was to find Jiuzuidao to spar with each other!
The Xiaoyao Sect is known for being able to follow the Dharma with the mind, and the Dharma with the mind. It has tens of millions of disciples, and each one of them is free and unrestrained. They follow a casual approach in cultivating their mind and Dharma, and usually just enjoy themselves. If inner demons grow, they drink to have fun. If the inner demons are still there, they continue to drink and have fun until they are completely drunk and their heads are not clear, and then the inner demons will naturally disappear.
Of course, this is just the outside world mocking them. As one of the five major immortal sects, the cultivation of the Xiaoyao Sect's mental method is naturally not that simple.
With this cold-blooded man around, naturally no one dared to approach Xiao Yuan's table anymore, leaving Xiao Yuan in a dilemma of neither leaving nor staying, and he could only continue drinking alone.
After drinking countless glasses of wine, Xiao Yuan finally heard someone shouting:
"Nine Drunk Blades are coming!"
"The Ninth Princess is here too!"
"And there's also the Dragon Prince Song Tianlong!"
"Shen Zhiqiu, Taibai Sword...hiss, people from the five major immortal sects have arrived, and they are all top talents from each sect. Jiuzui Dao is really honored."
"Bullshit, everyone is doing this for Xi..."
"Demon Sect!!! That man is from the Demon Sect, I recognize him!"
Suddenly, a loud shout stopped the surrounding noise in an instant, and everyone looked at the young man who was following behind this group of chosen ones. He was standing with his arms folded, looking relaxed and contented, as if he was strolling through a flower street and looking at beauties.
"ah?"
Everything was silent. The young man finally reacted and pointed at his nose. "Are you looking at me? Tsk tsk, you're quite brave to look directly at someone like me who plays with vicious insects."
"Playing with insects? Are you from the Animal Realm of the Six Paths Sect?"
When Xiao Yuan heard the sweet voice of the Ninth Princess with a smile, he couldn't help but turn his head and look at her from afar. Even among all the favored people of heaven, the Ninth Princess was the most dazzling one.
Practitioners of the animal realm are good at using Gu. Although Gu is not entirely insects, it is closely related to insects.
Someone immediately laughed and said, "How could someone join a sect like the Animal Path? Could they be animals themselves?"
Many people laughed.
"There is a lovely insect called the Seven-Day Death." The young man's voice was not loud, but it made everyone's laughter freeze.
"Do you know what that means?"
The young man smiled wickedly, looked around, and whispered, "This is a poisonous insect that combines the advantages of both the animal and hungry ghost realms. First, a young queen insect is cultivated using secret methods. Then, it is placed next to someone who has suffered great injustice. It absorbs the resentment they exude daily, and finally cultivates a cute little creature filled with resentment."
Everyone was silent.
"But it's not enough yet." The young man shook his head and sighed, "The most difficult step is to avenge the provider of the resentment. Otherwise, we won't be able to control such a cute insect. So we have to do justice and put this insect in his family's food, killing his entire family and gnawing on their flesh and blood..."
"That's enough!"
A man's angry voice echoed around, interrupting the young man's evil story, and everyone turned to look over.
It's Xiao Yuan.
There was a strange flash in the Ninth Princess's eyes. Every time Xiao Yuanzi did something, it was beyond his expectations.
There were thousands of people at the scene, and countless of them could be called geniuses. However, only Xiao Yuan was the first to react and angrily interrupted the threatening narration of the young man from the Animal Path of the Six Paths Sect.
"I don't think there's anything to talk about!" Xiao Yuan sat on the table, picked up the wine glass on it and drank it all in one gulp. He said coldly, "I don't know how the Six Paths Sect behaves, but to talk about your vicious methods of breeding insects in public is against the right path. I disdain to sit with such a person!"
Thousands of people in Xiaoyao Sect didn't know how to react for a moment.
Some were shocked, some were curious, some were secretly appreciative, and so on.
"Vicious?" The young man laughed. "Not everyone has resentment. If everyone holds justice in their hearts, if the practitioners of the five major immortal sects restrain themselves and have no evil thoughts, if the court officials love their people, and if the world is peaceful and prosperous, then the Seven Day Dream Gu worm will definitely not be able to be cultivated."
Xiao Yuan was speechless for a moment, not knowing how to respond. He just had a vague feeling that something was wrong and that this was not the way it should be said.
"Alright everyone," Jiuzuidao stepped forward to smooth things over, smiling broadly as he said, "Today is the day of Xiang's advanced god-level exit ceremony. Let's just drink and have fun, and not discuss the distinction between good and evil. In fact, this fellow from the Animal Realm of the Six Paths Sect is my cousin, Xiang Tiange."
Everyone was dumbfounded.
I knew that Xiaoyao Sect acted recklessly, but I didn't expect that not only were some of them possessed by demons, but they also seemed to have connections with their former families.
Could it be that all the people in the Xiaoyao Sect are demons?
"Ha ha ha ha!"
As if he had guessed what everyone was thinking, Jiuzuidao laughed heartily and said, "Although my cousin has turned to the path of magic, he hasn't done anything harmful to the world. I can guarantee this with my life! Besides—" Jiuzuidao looked around at everyone and said, "Perhaps everyone doesn't know much about the Netherworld. It just so happens that my cousin is here. Tonight, let's drink and chat about the Netherworld! As the saying goes, knowing the devil without being possessed by it, I believe everyone here has this level of concentration, right?"
Everyone was speechless. The Xiaoyao Sect's mental training was too rampant and arrogant!
No wonder there are many rumors in the cultivation world, saying that Xiaoyao Sect is an evil sect and cannot be called a righteous sect at all!
"Big Sister!"
At this moment, a cry of surprise came from a corner.
Someone turned around, their eyes widened, and they cried out, "Fairy Xiyue!!"