Chapter 29: The Elder of Precepts

  Execute Xing Tai.

  Ling Qingyan stood like this, with his eyes slightly closed and his hands behind his back, standing on the Xing Tai platform, as if waiting for something. The cold wind suddenly blew up Ling Qingyan's robe, making his entire figure flutter, carefree and unrestrained.

  What a handsome young man!

  This was beside the execution platform, the thoughts of many Tianjian Sect disciples for a moment. However, when their gaze swept past the warm and easy corpse behind Ling Qingyan, the look in Ling Qingyan's eyes again carried a hint of horror, suddenly feeling that they couldn't quite understand the young man in front of them.

  Among the outer disciples behind the crowd, a slender woman was looking at Ling Qingyan's figure standing on the Xingyuan platform with a worried expression, her small mouth moving slightly, seemingly tense. It was Li Ning, the woman who had been rescued by Ling Qingyan from Wen Yi's hands earlier.

  Li Ning felt tired after paying respects to her senior sister and was about to go to bed for a rest, but soon the noisy sounds coming from outside the courtyard made her curious and walk out of the door. After inquiring, she learned that the young man who had saved her earlier was dragging Wen Yi's corpse towards the Execution Platform with great fanfare.

  Is it really reliable? Or is it ignorant and arrogant?

  Although she only exchanged a few words with Ling Qingyan, and didn't even know his name, Li Ning had always thought that Ling Qingyan was absolutely not the latter. If he was indeed the former, then what about Ling Qingyan's identity... At this moment, Li Ning became increasingly curious about Ling Qingyan's identity.

  ………

  "Dead monkey, you say... Ah, Master Ling is not afraid of offending the Abbot of the Precepts?"

  Standing in the midst of a bustling crowd, Meng Yu was squeezed to the point of extreme discomfort. At this moment, he was speaking in a low voice with a thin and weak man beside him.

  "I don't know!"

  In response to him, however, were just these three words.

  Seeing this, Meng Yu also stopped making a fool of himself and squeezed out of the crowd to gossip elsewhere. However, he didn't notice that at this time, Hou Jin was looking at the figure of the young man on the execution platform with a faint worry in his eyes.

  Suddenly, Hou's ears moved slightly, as if he had heard something, his face changed subtly, and at the same time, he looked up towards the top of his head.

  Hmph!

  A slender figure emitting purple light suddenly flashed across the sky, breaking through the air and landing on the top of Zhixing Platform in an instant.

  "Abbot of Discipline!"

  At that moment, all the disciples of the Tianjian Sect next to the Execution Platform were moved in their hearts and stared tightly at the old man who appeared on the platform, but they did not dare to shout out. Around the Execution Platform, the original noise completely disappeared, and the atmosphere suddenly became quiet and extremely eerie.

  "Xiao Yi!"

  Wen Tianhe saw Wen Yi's body wrapped in chains, and rushed forward to hug him. When he saw the miserable state of Wen Yi's whole body, old tears suddenly burst out.

  He sat on the ground, Wen Tianhe removed the chain from Wen Yi's head and held him in his arms, not minding the bloodstains and dust on his body at all. He held him tightly, muttering to himself, "You just fell asleep, right? Don't scare Grandpa, or... otherwise, no sweets for you. Little Yi, Grandpa still wants to see you marry a bunch of wives, you can't leave Grandpa behind..."

  At this time, Wen Tianhe had no semblance of a Tianshen Sect elder, only the sorrowful appearance of an old man sending off a young one.

  Under the Xing Tai, listening to the usual cold and unfeeling words of the Precept Elder in front of everyone, people knew that the Precept Elder had a deep affection for his grandson, but there was not a hint of sympathy. Wen Yi, within the Tian Jian Sect, whether it was the outer or inner sect, could be said to be notorious... Now, how could the few tears of the Precept Elder change people's views?

  At the same time, everyone was also extremely surprised by the last sentence of the Vinaya Elder. No wonder Wen Yi was so unruly and unscrupulous, it was clear that he had been spoiled by this Vinaya Elder. For a moment, everyone's eyes were filled with schadenfreude as they looked at the Vinaya Elder.

  A moment.

  He gently placed the Wen Yi in his arms to one side, and Wen Tianhe stood up, a pair of eyes staring tightly at Ling Qingyan, his voice full of hoarseness. "I heard it was you who brought Xiao Yi here, Ling Shidi... can you tell me, who killed my grandson?"

  Young Master Ling?!

  In an instant, the people around the platform, except for Meng Zhu and Hou Jin who already knew about this matter, were all stunned. This Precept Master actually called a youth of only 18 or 19 years old his younger brother? Could it be that he had gone mad from grief over his grandson's death?

  Ling Qingyan, who had been watching with cold eyes since the arrival of Wen Tianhe, couldn't help but smile when he heard his question. He then replied calmly: "Elder Wen, your grandson has committed a grave mistake. I know you can't bring yourself to punish him. Considering our fraternal bond, I took it upon myself to discipline him on your behalf. You won't blame me for that, will you?"

  Ling Qingyan's words were not without venom, and he directly slapped the Precept Elder Wen Tianhe with a loud slap. At the same time, he implicitly told Wen Tianhe that as the Precept Elder, he should naturally know the rules of the sect, and his grandson had committed an error, so he must be punished!

  The rules of Tianjian Sect cannot be broken!

  Made a big mistake! Deserves to die! You won't take action! I'll take action for you!

  The disciples of the Tianjian Sect around Zhoutai felt relieved by what Ling Qingyan said, but at the same time, they were completely stunned. The previous words of the Precept Elder could be forgiven, and everyone thought he was affected by Sunzi's death. But Ling Qingyan was different, a normal person! Yet he also called the Precept Elder "Shixiong" (older brother)...

  Good heavens! Who can tell me what's going on?!

  "Haha! You all don't know, but this young man on stage is actually my Shifu... and as for you all, you should be calling out 'Shifu Zu'!"

  No need to guess, this voice must be Meng Wa's.

  "How is this possible?!"

  "How old is he, anyway?"

  "This young man must be following the words of the elder, thinking he can take advantage of the elder..."

  ……

  Seeing the crowd seemingly not believing, Meng Yu was also anxious for a moment, his eyes searching in the crowd, finally letting him find Hou Jin, grasping like a lifesaving straw, "Dead monkey, you come tell them, is he or isn't he your master's younger brother?"

  Hou Jin, some of the inner disciples in this crowd still knew him and were aware that he was the direct disciple of the current Sect Master Lian Jun. They believed Hou Jin's words, and for a moment, everyone looked at him.

  "Boring!"

  Hou Jin slightly turned his head and glanced at Meng Yu, then slowly spat out two words.

  Haha!

  At this moment, Wen Tianhe on the execution platform suddenly burst out laughing maniacally, as if he had gone mad. He stared at Ling Qingwan and shouted: "My grandson has committed a mistake, I don't even want to punish him myself, what right do you have... They're just a few outer sect disciples, get rid of them and recruit new ones!"

  After Elder Wen Tianhe's words came out, beside the execution platform, many outer disciples of the Tiangong Sect were filled with indignation and hatred, glaring at him. It was clear that they were extremely angry about his disdain for outer disciples.

  What's wrong with outer disciples? They're just a bit inferior in talent! In other aspects, where are they inferior to inner disciples?

  "No one can kill my grandson, even if you are a disciple of Guan Shi Shu... You must die!"

  Kai Law's elder, Wen Tianhe, had a ferocious expression. The originally restrained purple true energy suddenly burst out, and his right leg kicked back directly. His entire body was like a cannonball, mixed with the momentum of thunder and lightning, shooting straight at Ling Qingyan.