151 Divine Blazing Mountain II (2/2)
”I'm sorry, sir immortal!”
”Spare us!”
”We won't do it again!”
”Stay there and shut up. Keep your dirty eyes on the floor.” Chen Wentian said.
He looked at Jasmine accusingly but she merely smiled at him. He sighed in exasperation, thinking about the hordes of men he would have to fight off in the future. If he also obtained Long Yifei, wouldn't it make his life even more difficult?
He sat beside Jasmine and said to the men, ”Now, I need you to give me a general overview of the situation with the sect.”
”Yes! The sect originally only had one hundred of our best disciples participating in the monster fighting competition along with about two hundred others as support. However, an operation started two months ago that drew in an additional one thousand disciples. The sect master and elders were extremely secretive about the operation. Even the disciples sent eastward didn't know what they were going to do. We are useless senior disciples and we knew nothing! Whatever crimes our sect master may have committed, we knew nothing!”
The five of them started kowtowing, pleading their innocence.
”Fine, fine, shut up…” Chen Wentian muttered. ”Tell me about the women.”
”Thank you, sir!” Fen Lin looked much happier as he continued, ”Divine Blazing Mountain is a family-oriented sect and all male disciples are relatives of the sect master. The women are all wives or daughters of the disciples. They cannot practice the Blazing Sun Art so they are responsible for daily chores instead of cultivating. The wives come from many different backgrounds, from peasant girls to daughters of rich and noble families. However, the largest singular source of women actually came from within our sect. They are the daughters of disciples… We have a lot of intermarriage between families and disciples. Incest is forbidden but marriage between first cousins is allowed. Sir, you'll find that everyone is related to each other in some way.”
”Okay, what will happen to the wives of the sect master, elders, and disciples that have died?” Chen Wentian asked.
”Sir! We don't dare do anything to them. Their fates are in your hands!” Fen Lin cried quickly.
”I didn't mean that, I meant just normally. If a disciple died under normal conditions, what would happen to his wives?” Chen Wentian asked again.
”Ah, in that case… they will join another disciple's household, or perhaps one wife might join one disciple and another wife would join a different one.”
Chen Wentian thought for a while and finally decided he needed to question the women himself. He turned to Jasmine, ”Hey, stay here and keep an eye on these guys. If they dare look at you... you know what to do.”
Jasmine laughed. ”Yes, master.”
Chen Wentian nodded and flew out of the room. He first circled the entire sect, closely studying the auras of each of the women. As expected, he found quite a few that had icy energy belonging to Glacier Palace. He wasn't really sure what he wanted to do with the sect but he decided to save these women first and figure things out later. Picking a house at random, he flew down and opened the door.