Chapter 248 - Gossiping Liu Zheng (1/2)
“I swear on my Devil Inside, cultivators of Qingcheng Taoist Temple will stay out of the earthly world for a hundred years and get out of Chuan. I promise we shall not actively fight anybody from the Lins. I shall kill anyone who breaks it in person!”
No sooner had Huizhu finished his sentences than An and Xin Yuanping were burst out from the well.
The strong water shoots high up to the sky. If not for Lin Luoran’s Mini World, the well-lit Mount Jun will be in a hot mess.
An is not seriously injured and he remains sober after being shot out of the well. He heard what Huizhu said loud and clear.
Getting out of Chuan? What does that supposed to mean?
Confused, An shouts, “Superior!”
Huizhu casts a glimpse at him calmly. “An, the cultivator of Qingcheng Taoist Temple, is hereby cast out. Effective immediately.”
An stiffens as if he was. .h.i.t by lightning — cast out? Has he done anything wrong? He is totally at a loss.
He looks at Lin Luoran, then the crazy Taoist he knows nothing of. Did the two of them threaten the Superior together?! Sometimes men have a precise hunch. Lin Luoran just turn them against each other to subdue the power of Qingcheng Taoist Temple in the future, never wanting an ungrateful person to be around waiting to avenge.
“Your Superior, An is a talent. You are giving up on him for a demonized woman? Do you want to think twice before you make the decision?” Lin Luoran asks with fake benignity, suggesting that the superior is not forced by anyone. He has made his own choice. As an onlooker, Liu Zheng almost bursts out laughing. Has she grown since the last time they saw each other three or four years ago? It’s great to know that she finally learns to protect herself in the world of arguing and fighting.
Eyes shut, Huizhu remains quiet.
An is totally beat, murmuring, “This is good. This is good…” What’s good about it? He does not know. He thinks to himself, if he had chosen Lin Luoran over Xin Yuanping, he would have been guiltier to face the superior. Now he is only cast out instead of fighting his superior, which is far better. Intellectually An can understand Huizhu’s choice, but psychologically he cannot accept it. He was abandoned when he was a baby and adopted by Huizhu. All these years of affectionate relations.h.i.+p is no match for the demonized woman…
“I don’t need your mercy! I didn’t ask you to save me! You think I will be grateful for this? No way!” She is badly injured, half-dead. Yet she puts up all her strength to say whose words. Huizhu looks at her and sighs. His expressionless face shows a hint of sympathy.
Maybe just a little bit of sympathy is enough to ignite Xin Yuanping. She coughs fiercely again.
Watching their reaction, Lin Luoran is in total anger. What they said and what they did show that she is the bad person, the one to blame. It was she who broke the relations.h.i.+p between the superior and his apprentice. It was she who kept the families from getting together… This is too dramatic and disgusting.
Huizhu is not planning for everyone to watch the drama. He says goodbye and crushes a magic figure full of wood Reiki, taking Xin Yuanping, who is still-screaming, away from Mount Jun.
Tourists are already coming to Liu Yi Well, separated from Lin Luoran and the others only by the Mini World. Rong Donglin is wondering how come the people outside cannot see them.
Sitting by the well blankly, An is soaked wet.
“Alas! Young man. What’s the matter with you? You are not jumping off that well for some petty things, are you?” He is soaked by the water from the well. Apparently, he just got out of the well. His blank face makes it more like an attempted suicide.
Lin Luoran casts a glimpse on An, who is outside the Mini World and surrounded by tourists. Maybe the most serious punishment for him is not death, but to be abandoned by his superior Huizhu.
“Senior, shall we go now?”
The crazy Taoist nods. They all turn around. Being outside of the Mini World, An cannot hear them clearly, yet he can see their turning figures.
Upon their departure, he jeers.
“Miss Lin, I had no idea you are such a person… What my superior did is not wrong.”
The tourists presume the young man is out of his mind coming out of the water, shouting at an empty pavilion. Lin Luoran raises her brows and smiles, turning around and responding in fury.
“Who do you think you are to judge me?”
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“What is it between Huizhu and Xin Yuanping? Is he her father? Her lover? If you want to hide this disgraceful relations.h.i.+p, it is your business. I couldn’t care less!”
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“Even if you ambushed me in the Dragon Palace, I didn’t kill you. You are cast out by Huizhu’s own choice. It has nothing to do with me! You are ridiculous!”
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“Moving the Qingcheng Taoist Temple out of Chuan and staying out of the earthly world for a hundred years is nothing compared to what she had done to my family and others in the world of cultivation! How hilarious! You call yourselves the leaders of the world of cultivation yet you did such shameful things! Don’t you blush for yourself?”
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“That’s all I have to say. Don’t ever call me Master Lin again. If you want to die, fine! If you want to beg Huizhu to take you in, suit yourself.”
Lin Luoran goes away with others resolutely. What she said is so to-the-point that makes An speechless.
He looks pale. He cannot even defend himself.
Because what Lin Luoran said is true.
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