Capítulo 1917: Chapter 1917: Asking While Knowing the Answer

After several consecutive days of explanations, the Disciples of Luoxia Sect couldn’t comprehend much. However, the Dragon Maiden, Zhuge Lian, and Zhongli Tian gained considerable insights.

“The things that Fang Bai explains, every word and phrase, contain Great Dao Principles, profound and mysterious, incredibly marvelous. Could these be secret techniques of Immortal Rank cultivation techniques?”

Although Zhongli Tian is a Half-Immortal Rank expert, he feels that this young man’s insights into cultivation far exceed his own upon hearing Fang Bai’s explanations, which astonishes him greatly.

The words and phrases explained by Fang Bai, even someone like Zhongli Tian, a veteran of hundreds of years of cultivation, finds them difficult to fully understand in a short time. Thus, he can only memorize them firmly, intending to study them closely when he has more leisure time in the future.

A fortnight later, a Disciple from the Green Bamboo Sect, responsible for monitoring the trends of the Light Sect, came to report. Sect Master Jing Xuantian of the Light Sect, guided by a fleeing Elder of the Fire Python Sect, was personally leading close to ten thousand elite Disciples to Luoxia Sect, claiming to seek justice for the Fire Python Sect.

“Knowing Jing Xuantian’s character, coming this grandly is a lie to seek justice for the Fire Python Sect; his true intent is to annex the Fire Python Sect’s Cultivation Resources!”

Zhongli Tian said with a sneer after hearing this.

Zhongli Tian knows that Jing Xuantian is not one to rise early without profit. After Shi Chengjin’s demise, the Fire Python Sect was headless with tens of thousands of Disciples dispersed, making it already nominally defunct. The Light Sect has no reason for shelter. The reason for coming in force must be for the Fire Python Sect’s millennium-accumulated Cultivation Resources.

Although Zhongli Tian does not fear the Light Sect in the slightest, the opponent is a strong sect of the same level as the Green Bamboo Sect, and he dares not be careless.

He knows the Light Sect’s tens of thousands of Disciples will attack Luoxia Sect in a few days, so he starts arranging troops, making preparations for the upcoming battle.

The team coming from the Light Sect to raise troops and question the crime came very quickly. Six days later, led by Sect Master Jing Xuantian, tens of thousands of Disciples arrived in a dense mass before the gate of Luoxia Sect, with magnificent momentum and grand awe.

While on Luoxia Sect’s side, hundreds of Disciples, plus tens of thousands from the supporting Green Bamboo Sect, were layered like an iron wall, blocking the path of tens of thousands of Disciples from the Light Sect, with equally impressive momentum.

Both sides recognized the strength of each other’s formation and did not act rashly, standing off a few hundred feet apart.

“Sect Master Jing, bringing so many here to Luoxia Sect, what is the reason?”

Zhongli Tian took steps in the void, stepped forward out of the crowd, and asked loudly, facing Jing Xuantian.

Jing Xuantian also stepped forward and sneered at Zhongli Tian: “Why must Sect Master Zhongli ask when you already know?”

The Light Sect, like the Green Bamboo Sect, appeared isolated from the world but had extremely informed sources, already understanding the causes and consequences of the Fire Python Sect incident.

The Fire Python Sect had long been under the Light Sect’s protection. Now it was destroyed by a small fledgling sect, and its territory occupied, while the Green Bamboo Sect stepped in for protection. This seriously challenged the Light Sect’s status and authority, making Jing Xuantian quite indignant.

Bringing thousands of elite Disciples this time was not a spur-of-the-moment decision but rather a certainty that the Green Bamboo Sect wouldn’t completely fall out with the Light Sect to protect a small start-up sect, as this wouldn’t benefit the Green Bamboo Sect.

Jing Xuantian planned to first threaten and intimidate the Green Bamboo Sect upon arriving at the Fire Python Sect, demanding their withdrawal from the Fire Python Sect’s territory and returning Fire Python Mountain to the Fire Python Sect Disciples.

If that move didn’t work, he hoped they could equally divide the Fire Python Sect’s Cultivation Resources, withdrawing with satisfactory benefits from this dispute.

He believed the Green Bamboo Sect would not hold onto a risk of mutual destruction and would not refuse to negotiate with him.

Of course, if the two sides really couldn’t reach an agreement, Jing Xuantian was also prepared to start a battle, as he was convinced that with a Half-Immortal Rank Spiritual Artifact in hand, he could suppress Zhongli Tian in strength.

Thus, this dispute would ultimately end with a victory for his side.

Though some cost would be paid, compared to the gain, Jing Xuantian deemed it extremely worth it, as the Fire Python Sect was a top-notch sect with no small amount of Cultivation Resources accumulated over millennia.

“If Sect Master Jing came for the Fire Python Sect, I urge you: do not meddle in this matter!”

Zhongli Tian stroked his long beard and said coldly: “The Fire Python Sect dared to attempt the destruction of our allied Luoxia Sect. Naturally, I cannot tolerate it!”

He referred to Luoxia Sect as a “partner” of Green Bamboo Sect, thereby expressing his resolution to advance and retreat with Luoxia Sect.

Jing Xuantian, upon hearing this, did not become angry. Instead, he laughed and said: “Does Sect Master Zhongli not know that the Fire Python Sect is also an ally of our Light Sect? Now that the Fire Python Sect is destroyed, and its sect territory taken, can we just watch?”

Zhongli Tian sneered: “The Fire Python Sect brought its destruction upon itself by causing trouble. Sect Master Jing, are you planning to forcibly stand up for them?”

Jing Xuantian took a deep breath and said solemnly: “Even if the Fire Python Sect was wrong, harsh punishment should suffice. Destroying the sect was too vicious, wasn’t it? Doesn’t Sect Master Zhongli care about our Light Sect’s feelings? If this matter doesn’t have a fair explanation, where is our Light Sect’s face to stand in the world?”

Zhongli Tian, smiling all over his face, said: “I’m not sure what Sect Master Jing means by a ‘fair explanation.’ Forgive my ignorance, but could Sect Master Jing make it clearer?”

Jing Xuantian froze for a moment, then gnashed his teeth, thinking to himself how he had already said it so plainly. Didn’t believe an old fox like you wouldn’t understand. Do I need to say it directly and bluntly?

He glanced at the Elder of the Fire Python Sect standing beside him, cleared his throat, and said: “Well… I think it’s better to resolve enmity than create it. If you would apologize and immediately withdraw from Fire Python Mountain, then we can let this matter go…”

The Elder of the Fire Python Sect beside him was momentarily astonished, then seemed to understand something, full of unwillingness.

Previously, fleeing to the Light Sect like a homeless dog, he hoped that the Light Sect, considering the Fire Python Sect’s regular Tributes of Cultivation Resources, could bring him back to fight for the fallen Fire Python Sect strong men.

But now it seems that Jing Xuantian, concerned with his interests, did not want a major conflict with the Green Bamboo Sect but aimed to minimize the issue.

However, the Elder of the Fire Python Sect also figured it out: retaining the sect’s millennium-accumulated Cultivation Resources was already incredibly valuable. So seeking revenge for the fallen powerhouses was unrealistic.

As long as they could reoccupy Fire Python Mountain, the dispersed tens of thousands of Disciples of the Fire Python Sect could potentially regroup, and possessing significant Cultivation Resources, there could be a day when the Fire Python Sect rises again.

“Apologize? Withdraw from Fire Python Mountain? Ha… Haha…”

Zhongli Tian laughed aloud and said: “Sect Master Jing, if you were in my shoes, would you do such a thing?”