Chapter Nineteen: The Crime of Desire

  Xiao Chen walked with the Flying Cloud Step, each time using the Flying Spirit Sword Art's Flying Spirit Shooting to attack, making Zhong Chongshan very depressed. What made Zhong Chongshan even more angry was that Xiao Chen seemed like a slippery loach, he couldn't catch him at all.

  Xiao Chen also knew that his skills were no match for Zhong Chongshan, so he absolutely refused to force a fight. Instead, he used the Fei Yun Step as cover and secretly employed the Ti Yun Zong in between, making it impossible for Zhong Chongshan to catch him, and instead fell into a passive state.

  At this moment, facing Zhong Chongshan's angry and depressed questioning, Xiao Chen said with a playful tone: "Fei Ling naturally shoots the eagle, can't shoot the chicken?"

  When he heard this, Zhong Chongshan's face changed color and became extremely gloomy. Xiao Chen was making a veiled criticism that he was a chicken!

  Yue Ling burst out laughing, while Zhong Chongshan, relying on his cousin's support in Fei Yun Bie Yuan, was arrogant and overbearing, with few people daring to provoke him. Now, however, he had been put down by Xiao Chen, a newly-entered outer disciple, which Yue Ling naturally found delightful to see.

  "Bring him down for me and take him to Tian Xing Hall!" Zhong Chongshan said with a sinister tone, his eyes gleaming with malevolent light.

  Upon hearing this, the three dog legs immediately walked towards Xiao Chen.

  "Zhong Chongshan, do you have no shame! You can't even capture a junior apprentice who has just entered the door, and yet you want to bully him with your numbers!" Yue Ling couldn't help but look down on him. Since Xiao Chen was trapped because of her, she naturally had to ask, and immediately scolded him.

  "Hmph...!" Zhong Chongshan's mouth curled up, and he smiled gloomily. His face seemed to be shrouded in a layer of dark clouds as he said: "This person's identity is unknown, I captured him and sent him to the Tian Xing Hall to interrogate him clearly for the sake of protecting our sect. But why are you, Yue Ling, so biased towards him? Are you his accomplice, or perhaps a traitor within our own sect?"

  "You..." Yue Ling was so angry that she had nothing to say, her feet stomped the ground, Zhong Chongshan was simply vicious, framing him with false charges, how could he defend himself!

  "Take it down for me now!" Zhong Chongshan ordered his three henchmen.

  Upon hearing this, those three rascals immediately pounced on Xiao Chen and Yue Ling.

  Xiao Chen and the other naturally wouldn't sit around waiting for death, a fierce battle erupted in an instant.

  But just then a cold, stern voice came from afar, rebuking: "What are you doing?"

  As soon as this voice came, it immediately drew everyone's attention over there.

  "It's Cai Qingjiao!" Recognizing the person, Yue Ling's heart immediately filled with great joy. "The teacher has arrived, let's see how Zhong Chongshan can still be arrogant."

  "What a nuisance! How did you get here!" Zhong Chongshan also recognized the person, but he didn't show any fear at all. His face was gloomy and his eyes flashed rapidly.

  The other three disciples stood respectfully on one side, not daring to make a disturbance.

  "It was him." Xiao Chen also recognized this instructor, who was the same one that had brought him to Fei Yun Pavilion.

  Cai Qing walked slowly into the scene, his eyes scanning over the crowd. When he saw Xiao Chen, his eyebrows furrowed and he said coldly, "What are you doing here?"

  At the words, Xiao Chen was about to speak, but at this moment, Zhong Chongshan jumped out and said first: "Report to Master Cai Qing, this guy's behavior is suspicious, I suspect he is a spy sent by the Demon Gate Evil Sect. I followed him all the way here and found that he was secretly meeting with Sister Yue Ling. Feeling something was off, I wanted to capture him together with several brothers, but they resisted and fought back. Pan brother has already been seriously injured by him. Please, Master, make a decision!"

  Yue Ling heard this and was so angry that she almost spat blood. She immediately said, "Elder Cai Qing is not like that! This junior brother is a new outer sect disciple. Zhong Chongshan is really...!"

  "Hmm!" Before Yue Ling's words were finished, Zhong Chongshan immediately let out a heavy hum, interrupting Yue Ling's speech, and only then said:

  "Master Qishi, this little brat is highly suspicious, don't believe the lies of Yue Ling Shifu's sister! I suspect they are in cahoots with each other. When dealing with demonic spies, it's better to mistakenly kill a thousand than to let one go!"

  Zhong Chongshan continued to stir up trouble, hat after hat was constantly being knocked off towards Xiao Chen and Yue Ling, desperately framing them.

  Xiao Chen heard all of this and felt that Zhong Chongshan was even more sinister, with a poisonous tongue that distorted the truth, and his heart couldn't help but harbor murderous intentions, feeling that Zhong Chongshan was a million times more detestable than Zhang Jian!

  "Master Cai Qing!" Yue Ling argued with reason and strength, anxiously refuting: "I and this junior brother..."

  However, at this moment, Cai Qing's face turned cold and he shouted: "All of you, shut up!"

  As soon as this was said, both Zhong Chongshan and Yue Ling immediately shut their mouths. Zhong Chongshan wanted to say something else, but seeing Cai Qing's serious face, he reluctantly shut his mouth with a "pa" sound.

  "I think there must be some misunderstanding between you two." Cai Qing said, pointing at Xiao Chen: "He is indeed a new disciple who just passed the test and entered the outer door, named Xiao Chen, I personally brought him to Fei Yun Pavilion. Moreover, he is also a Star Body Warrior, even the high-level officials of the sect are discussing how to position him, how could he be a demonic spy."

  "Warrior Disciple..."

  Everyone present was shocked by his words.

  The martial body disciple is the pillar of the sect, and for the sect, a martial body disciple is a treasure to be nurtured. Who dares to make things difficult for a martial body disciple? Although Xiao Chen is a Stellar Martial Body, that is still a martial body, not something anyone can ignore.

  As soon as Cai Qing said this, the truth was immediately revealed, and all of Zhong Chongshan's slanders and insults were self-defeating!

  Zhong Chongshan's resentment and hatred had not dissipated, his head lowered, with a sinister glint in his eyes, an evil thought emerged in his heart: "How detestable! He didn't fall into my trap after all. However... heh heh... since he touched my woman, he will have to bear the consequences of my revenge. Offending me won't end well for him, no matter if he's a Starlight Warrior! Xiao Chen, I'll remember you!"

  "The misunderstanding has been cleared up, let's just focus on what we need to do." Cai Qing said with a wave of his hand, without any intention of punishing Zhong Shanyan.

  Upon hearing this, everyone dispersed. Zhong Chongshan, although having a powerful backer and being extremely arrogant, had not yet reached the point of ignoring his teacher. As both parties left, Xiao Chen's gaze met with Zhong Chongshan's, and Xiao Chen clearly saw the undisguised murderous intent in Zhong Chongshan's eyes.

  "Xiao Chen, you're lucky this time, but next time you're dead for sure!"

  From the gaze, Xiao Chen understood Zhong Chongshan's mind and gave a cold smile, turning around with Yue Ling to leave.

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  "Yue Ling, sister, why didn't you expose Zhong Chongshan in front of our teacher just now?"

  On the way back, Xiao Chen and Yue Ling walked together. After this incident, the two also became familiar with each other. Xiao Chen concealed the truth from Yue Ling, expressing confusion, after all, Xiao Chen had not been in this world for long and did not fully understand some things.

  "Alas... it's not that I don't want to expose him, but even if I speak out, Zhong Chongshan won't be severely punished. In the end, I'll still be the one who suffers." Yue Ling sighed and said.

  "Why?" Xiao Chen asked in puzzlement: "Could it be that Zhong Chongshan is so powerful in Feiyun Bieyuan that even the head of the institute and the instructors are unable to do anything about him?"

  "Not bad, even if it's the head of the institute, he can't do anything to him, at most, just a slight punishment." Yue Ling said slowly: "Zhong Chongshan's cousin is an inner door martial arts disciple, with a noble status. Punishing Zhong Chongshan would provoke his cousin, and even the head of the institute wouldn't be able to bear the consequences."

  "Can't the sect do anything about it?" Xiao Chen found it hard to believe. He still hadn't fully grasped this world where strength was supreme.

  "How would the higher-ups of the sect bother with such trivial matters? They only care about those talented disciples. Even if they did intervene, the higher-ups wouldn't let a talented disciple harbor resentment towards the sect for the sake of an ordinary disciple."

  "This is the way it is." Xiao Chen nodded silently, feeling more and more that in a world where strength was revered, the strong preyed on the weak, and those without power or talent were forever doomed to be oppressed.

  "Come to think of it, I'm the one who wronged you today." Yuelin said with a full of apology.

  "Hehe......" Xiao Chen smiled and said: "I'm the one who took advantage of you."

  Upon hearing this, Yue Ling also smiled and said straightforwardly: "Then we're even, Xiao Chen Shixiong. Zhong Chongshan will not let things go so easily, you must be careful!"

  "Don't worry, he can't do anything to me." Xiao Chen said: "By the way, I heard Zhong Chongshan say that there is a mission in the sect to save Huangshi Town. Completing this mission can get the quota for promoting inner disciples, what's going on?"