Chapter 23
Lin Mubai in the image did not disappoint Lin Mubai in the void.
After hearing Lin Feng’s words, he didn’t believe them at all. He even berated Lin Feng, accusing him of being narrow-minded and sowing discord!
In the end, Lin Feng angrily left.
The following days were relatively peaceful.
After traveling through the mortal world for a thousand days, Lin Mubai’s state of mind had changed significantly.
He still loved reading, but he would sigh in melancholy whenever he read about the love between men and women.
During this time, Jiang Chen committed many ‘evil deeds’.
But unlike before, another person stood by Jiang Chen’s side aside from the master—his Second Junior Brother.
Thanks to Lin Mubai’s reasoned arguments, many misunderstandings were clarified.
For a while, despite Lin Feng, Jiang Lianyue, Qingning, and other Junior Sisters and Brothers still detesting Jiang Chen, there was no doubt that Jiang Chen’s reputation was gradually improving, and smiles appeared more frequently on the face of their master, Xiao Hongyi.Everything seemed to be moving in the best possible direction.
Until one day. Lin Mubai received a letter, and the sender was none other than the Demon Sect disciple he longed for.
The content of the letter was brief, mentioning only that there was an important matter to discuss and asking him to leave the Jiuyan Sect to meet at a blessed land a hundred li away.
After much hesitation, Lin Mubai went.
But as soon as he arrived at the destination, he was ambushed from behind and knocked unconscious.
In a daze, he felt someone pry open his chest, then insert a hand and, with an extremely brutal act, extract his rib bone, which was…
His Innate Dao Bone!
Moments later, Lin Mubai finally managed to open his eyes with sheer willpower.
What he saw was a man.
The man stood before him, looking somewhat panicked, and in his raised right hand, he held a still-dripping Innate Dao Bone!
The fluttering white clothes before Lin Mubai had never seemed so glaring.
Shortly after, an angry roar erupted.
“Jiang Chen!! You beast!!”
……
The Lin Mubai in the void was dumbfounded!
As an observer, he saw the whole process.
The person who had dug out his Innate Dao Bone was not Jiang Chen, but the Ghost Controlling Sect enchantress!
Jiang Chen had arrived just in time, not only severely injuring the enchantress but also retrieving the Innate Dao Bone. But just as he was about to reinsert the Dao Bone into his body, Lin Mubai woke up in the image.
Coincidence? How could there be so many coincidences?
All of this was clearly intentional! And the instigator was none other than fate itself, which was presumed to be high and mighty!! The scene shifted back to the Ninth Peak Hall.
Xiao Hongyi sat high in the hall with the disciples of Ninth Peak gathered.
Jiang Chen knelt inside the hall, his hands still stained with blood.
He bowed his head and closed his eyes, silent as if resigned to his fate.
“Jiang Chen! I thought you had improved somewhat, but who knew it was all to deceive us, to gain Mubai’s trust, and then to commit murder by extracting the bone?!”
An elder rebuked.
“Bullshit! Which eye of yours saw Eldest Senior Brother commit murder by extracting the bone?”
Lin Mubai loudly defended himself in the void.
“Hmph, rivers and mountains are easy to change, but one’s nature is hard to alter.”
Jiang Lianyue, the Fifth Junior Sister, said.
“Are you blind? Use your brain and think about it! If Eldest Senior Brother really wanted to steal my Dao bone, why didn’t he do it while we were traveling? Why didn’t he do it when I was seriously injured and my Core Formation was collapsing? Why wait until we got back to the sect to do it? And then get caught by all of you?!”
Lin Mubai cursed vehemently.
“Ah, I had already warned Second Senior Brother, but alas, he wouldn’t listen.”
Lin Feng mocked coldly.
“Damn it! It was you! You did this! Even if you didn’t do it with your own hands, it was this damn fate that favored you! You are the one who deserves to die the most!!”
Seeing that the other disciples wanted to jump out and accuse Jiang Chen with venomous words, Lin Mubai had lost his reason and kept spewing foul language.
“All of you, be quiet!”
Xiao Hongyi’s cold voice suddenly rang out, startling everyone from the Ninth Peak.
“Master…”
Lin Mubai knelt down.
Although he knew Xiao Hongyi couldn’t hear him, he still cried out, “Master, it’s not like that. You’ve always been partial to Eldest Senior Brother, please don’t give up on him now, he…”
“Jiang Chen, you have committed a heinous crime against your fellow disciples. It’s an unforgivable sin! From now on, you will no longer be a true disciple of Jiuyan Sect’s Ninth Peak, nor will you be my disciple, Xiao Hongyi. Today, I will strip you of your cultivation. If the Jiang Family has any complaints, let them come to me!”
Xiao Hongyi declared coldly.
Upon hearing this.
Boom!
Lin Mubai felt as if a thunderbolt had exploded in his mind.
Expelled from the sect? Stripped of cultivation?
His Eldest Senior Brother. The one who was always kind, who took care of all his Junior Brothers and Sisters, yet was constantly misunderstood.
Why should he be treated like this?!! How unjust is heaven!!
“Whoosh—”
A hurricane suddenly arose in the hall.
Lin Mubai watched as a scorching aura emerged from Xiao Hongyi’s body, mixed with the distinct presence of a cultivator from the upper four realms, like thousands of mountains, smashing hard into Jiang Chen’s chest.
There was no mercy in this strike.
Without uttering a single word, Jiang Chen was blasted out of the hall, falling from the summit of the Ninth Peak, and only when he was thrown out of the sect did he finally crash to the ground.
At this moment, Jiang Chen was completely devoid of cultivation and had fallen unconscious.
In the normally secluded place in the sect, a middle-aged man dressed in a crimson robe appeared.
“Pah!”
The middle-aged man spat on the ground, his face full of schadenfreude:
“The noble young master of the Jiang family, now like a stray dog. Jiang Chen, if only you had known, why did you ever begin?”
“By the way, I know you were wronged this time. After all, I was outside the sect gathering herbs in the spiritual fields yesterday, and I happened to see a demonic sect woman knock Lin Mubai unconscious.”
“It must have been that demonic sect woman who wanted to steal Lin Mubai’s Innate Dao Bone, and you just happened to arrive, right?”
“Also, the last time Qingning returned to the sect, it was I who drugged you, causing you to lose control and barge into Qingning’s residence, only to be caught red-handed.”
“Don’t blame me, Jiang Chen.”
“Xiao Hongyi is biased, and the people of Jiuyan Sect are wary of your Jiang Family, I had no other choice.”
“You are despicable in character and corrupt in morals. The thousand-year reputation of the Jiuyan Sect must not be destroyed in an instant because of you!”
“All I have done is for the sect! To defend the true way of the Jiuyan!”
With each sentence that reached his ears, Lin Mubai’s expression grew more ferocious.
Murderous intent, guilt, self-reproach—various emotions filled his mind, causing his body to tremble and his eyes to redden.
“Crack—”
A crisp sound emerged.
Lin Mubai knew that this was the sound of the Core Formation breaking inside Jiang Chen’s body.
At the same time, it was also the sound of his heart breaking.
Suddenly turning his head, he watched the middle-aged man’s retreating figure and shouted madly.
“Ma Wu! I swear I will kill you!!”
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