Chapter 190 - I Told You to Attack that Mountain! (1/2)

All stood still as statues, not breathing, and mouth agape.

The slapped Venerable wobbled then held his swelling face. Despite the rage coursing in his veins, he chose only to give a hateful stare.

“Y-you’re that guest Venerable from Regent Estate, Mad Dipper Li Jingtian! Why are you here? Didn’t Regent Estate choose to stay out of this? More importantly, what’s the meaning of this?”

The others gasped, with Cai Rong and his son appalled.

[No wonder he dared throw his weight around, he’s from Regent Estate, the head of the seven houses. But why would the Regent Estate take an interest in this backwater city?]

[Don’t tell me. That blasted Zhuo Fan went and stepped on Regent Estate’s toes?]

Cai Rong felt woozy. [That filthy mongrel is nothing but trouble! This goes beyond only me dying, my entire clan will be uprooted!]

It suddenly hit him that even if he hadn’t sold out the Luo clan, Zhuo Fan would sooner or later have them disposed of. Two years of hard work and schemes had just gone down the drain.

Of course, Li Jingtian snapped back in a higher tone, “You have the gall to question me? If you weren’t standing around with your hands down your pants Zhuo Fan wouldn’t have sneaked through that array that even my soul sense can’t penetrate!”

“What, Zhuo Fan escaped from six Profound Heaven experts and yourself? You’re saying he’s back? Why haven’t we noticed then?” Another Venerable cried out.

Li Jingtian stared him down, before giving him a resounding slap as well, “Be quiet, or people might think you’re an idiot!”

They were all too shocked to even speak.

Elder Li was just as the rumor painted him to be, a Mad Dipper and had an even worse temper. Especially now that a Bone Tempering cultivator like Zhuo Fan actually slipped through his fingers. Opening one’s mouth now would only make one a target.

[And you went ahead and pointed out his failure. No wonder you got slapped!]

What they didn’t stop to think about, however, was that all of this was part of Zhuo Fan’s cunning plan.

Looking at it from a different angle, Li Jingtian’s sudden arrival in Windgaze City was full of warning signs. Putting aside the fact that Zhuo Fan slipped past a 6th layer Radiant Stage expert like Li Jingtian and returned to Blackwind Mountain, and not even the three Radiant Stage experts felt him. There was clearly something off about this.

In spite of all the glaring faults, Li Jingtian’s venting scared all these suspicions away from their minds. It devolved into taking Li Jingtian’s words as solid gold.

This way, Zhuo Fan had them all follow Li Jingtian into his trap.

“Every abled body is to follow my lead and attack that mountain!” Li Jingtian barked as his cold eyes swept them.

The three Venerables hesitated with a frown, “Elder Li, we have yet to get word from the house lords. We can’t…”

“Cut the crap! Why have the three of them sent you here if not to get that damn Luo clan?”

And Li Jingtian emphasized with another resounding slap, “I am here, so why are you still frickin’ hesitating? I told you to attack that mountain! Do it, and you’ll gain merit for it. Don’t…”

Li Jingtian snorted twice for good measure and flew at Blackwind Mountain.

The three slapped Venerables looked at each other in consternation. They finally gnashed their teeth and followed.

Their reticence was about Regent Estate using the three houses to test the imperial family’s limit. So, the Regent Estate had sent two of their elders to kill Zhuo Fan and not a single one of their men to Windgaze City. It was the same as saying, they had no hand in this if it went belly up.

So, the three Venerables were awaiting their house lords’ orders.

But now, Li Jingtian came, who represented Regent Estate. Since he dared to attack, they had to follow. At worst, the Regent Estate would be leading the charge. This sounded like a solid plan to the three.

As they only had their house’s benefits in mind, they chose to put all the discrepancies aside.

For example, they clearly sensed two more people with Li Jingtian before. They had questions like: ‘Who were they? And if he chased Zhuo Fan all the way here, why was one of them in the Bone Tempering stage?’

However, they chose to ignore all these important and obvious issues. Or more aptly put, they’d never speak up even if they did come to mind. Afterall, were Li Jingtian’s slaps so refreshing that they wanted more?

This way, the three cowardly Venerable came aboard Li Jingtian’s rocky ship.

On the three elders’ side, they could only laugh bitterly and follow as well. Now that their Venerables joined the front, they had no excuse not to!

The only ones left were three people, Cai clan’s father and son, as well as Sun Yufei.

Cai Rong sighed as he followed the experts fly away, “Today opened my eyes. I’ve never seen so many Radiant Stage experts in one place before, and even a Venerable from the great Regent Estate is here. One stronger than the last. Even those three Profound Heaven elders were naught but ants before the four experts.”

“Humph, look who’s talking! Who was it that was shaking in fear earlier?” Sun Yufei made her contempt known.