505 Weak Old Thieves, Unable to Withstand a Single Blow (1/2)
Qin Mu's face blackened. Only after a moment did he remember that he had no face to turn black.
Heavenly Devil Cult's tradition seemed a little different from what he had imagined. Not only was there no three knives and six holes punishment for assassinating a cult master, it was actually a kind of traditional 'virtue'. The cult masters treated assassinating the cult master to take their position as an honor!
”I never assassinated anyone. I was chosen by Heavenly Saint Patriarch who promoted me to the cult master,” Qin Mu said while holding back his temper.
”Master! Master!” Cult Master Yu Lian waved to a young girl. ”Little Cult Master is here, and he's a freak! He actually didn't assassinate the previous cult master and just stepped up to the position of the cult master!”
The young girl walked out of her palace and headed over to their side. She then said in astonishment, ”There actually was such an incident? You didn't seduce your master, spoil their Dao heart, or make them lose to you in a fight?”
Qin Mu shook his head. ”Nope. It was Heavenly Saint Patriarch who made the decision and passed the position to me.”
”Spoiling the tradition of my Heavenly Saint Cult!” The young girl was charming, with two big silver and glittering earrings on her ears. But she had a slight look of disdain toward Qin Mu as she said, ”Fighting with brains and brawns with the master is the fine tradition of my Heavenly Saint Cult, and you actually threw away this tradition! How boring! If you don't challenge the master, how can the next generation become stronger than the previous one? Your position as the cult master as not attained through proper methods!”
Qin Mu was flabbergasted and didn't know what to say.
The young girl should have been from Si Family, and according to the sequence of the past cult masters, she should be Cult Master Si Yuanwei, an ancestor of Granny Si.
Si Family rarely had a cult master, but there were still one or two. Si Yuanwei was one of them.
”I was originally the saintess of the sacred cult, but then I made Cult Master Fu Yun fall crazy in love with me and spoiled his Dao heart. Cult Master Fu Yun then sighed ruefully and said that the sacred cult would definitely be even stronger in my hands, so he enlightened me and expounded my wisdom. Yet you relied on Patriarch's assistance to get the position of the cult master, so you are illegitimately conferred!”
Cult Master Zu Yang sneered. ”Grand-mistress, the one that passed the position to him is my little senior uncle, so now you know how wrong it was to pass the position to little senior uncle, right? Little senior uncle spoiled the long lasting tradition of my Heavenly Saint Cult after becoming Heavenly Saint Patriarch! This little cult master didn't get rid or even heavily injure the previous cult master and still had the face to visit us!”
Si Yuanwei's face turned slightly red. ”I thought Little Wen Yuan looked handsome and would spoil my Dao heart, seizing the position of the cult master from me, so I never expect your master to assassinate me. However, Wen Yuan really broke my heart by doing such a thing. Isn't he already dead? We can then get him over to ask... Master Hu Jun, have you seen Wen Yuan?”
A bewitching handsome man walked over with a smile. ”I've seen him just now. He was being bothered by a huge skeleton which said to come from the world of the living. It wrapped around him and wept, making him cry a great deal as well. He should be somewhere wiping his snot now. This is...”
”Our sacred cult's new cult master,” Si Yuanwei said heedlessly. ”His position of cult master didn't come properly! It was actually not fought for but passed down! How embarrassing!”
”Something like that actually happened?” Cult Master Hu Jun's face turned cold and he sneered. ”Of course, each age brings forth a new genius on this noble land, and each generation is worse than the previous! The men of today have sadly degenerated, and even a sacred cult master's position is no longer even fought for. Do you have a firm hold of your empire?”
Qin Mu remained patient. ”Fellow cult masters, I was supported by the hall masters of three hundred and sixty halls and the protectors and the heavenly kings. Only then did I ascend to the position of the cult master. Truth be told, the sacred cult has flourished more and more in my hands and far surpasses the past...”
”Big words!” Another few past cult masters walked over, and a handsome man sneered when he heard his words. ”Flourished more and more? I've heard that Eternal Peace Empire is the one in power now in the world of the living. It has annexed the world so how are you making the sacred cult flourish? Are you going to betray the cult to seek glory, allowing the emperor to become the cult master?”
Qin Mu held back his anger and smiled. ”Who is this?”
The handsome man spread open his folded fan and said, ”You have not gone to Hall of Yue Guang on my Saint Arrival Mountain? I'm Cult Master Yue Guang!”
Qin Mu laughed loudly and said, ”I've never paid my respects to the rotten woods in the halls before. On Saint Arrival Mountain, I only respect Woodcutter, Founding Master, and also the three kings. Other cult masters in my eyes are merely flies and not worthy of my respect.”
”How daring!”
Another few cult masters came forward and Qin Mu looked over. All of the people were all handsome men and pretty women. It created an obvious difference between Heavenly Devil Cult and Hall of Human Emperors.
No matter if it was men or women, anyone could be a human emperor in Hall of Human Emperors since they didn't care about their looks, letting their complexions grow old. They would rarely preserve their youth.
But the cult masters of Heavenly Saint Cult were different. Great Educational Heavenly Devil Scriptures had Seven Writings of Creation, and cultivating them could allow one to preserve their looks forever. They could even return their appearance back to when they were youths.
Qin Mu looked at the sacred cult masters. They were mostly young men and women who looked beautiful. Even the young patriarch looked young and paid attention to his appearance.
”Little Cult Master also most likely didn't pay his respects to me, Feng Qiangu in Hall of Qiangu, right?” Cult Master Qiangu walked forward and sneered. ”Your position of the cult master was passed down and not snatched using your own strength. Your origin is improper and you still dare say that we are flies and don't deserve respect. What do you have that deserves our respect?”
”That's right, you are illegitimately conferred so how do you have the face to visit us and meet your ancestors?”
”You don't even respect the rules of the sacred cult and show no respect to us, your ancestors. Aren't you deceiving the master and destroying your ancestors at such a young age?”
”Little Cult Master...”
This continued for a while.
”Silence!” Qin Mu shouted in anger when he could no longer take it.
The surroundings became quiet.
Qin Mu laughed loudly and unfolded his robes to both sides while saying loudly, ”When I succeeded the position, the followers' livelihood had been close to destitution, and there were many things waiting to be done. This was the mess that the previous cult master, Li Tianxing, had left for me. After stepping into my position, I reformed the merits and drawbacks, allying us with Eternal Peace to expel Buddhism and inflict serious damage on Dao Sect, causing these two big sacred grounds to concede defeat.
”I changed the laws and cleared the way, expanded the teachings, set up School Hall, founded Heavenly Saint Academy, gathered the paths, skills, and divine arts of all sects and cults in the world to correct the reputation of my cult!
”I've founded the eighteenth sword form and established the primordial spirit in Six Directions.
”The men of my cult are now located prominently in the ten thousand miles from the east to the west. The highest one is Eternal Peace Imperial Preceptor and the lowest ones are commoners and pawns. In all levels of society, there are people of our cult!
”With my cultivation of Seven Stars Realm, I've already achieved this much!” He looked around the past sacred cult masters of Heavenly Devil Cult and sneered. ”What about you guys?
”Under your hands, the sacred cult had fallen into the devil path and was called Heavenly Devil Cult, being scolded and dismissed by everyone!
”What is called the path of the saint is none other than the everyday use of common people yet you had taken a perfectly fine path of the saint and refined it into the path of the devil, turning it into the devil cult. A saint has to established his virtue, his merit, and his ideas in writing, so what have you guys done?
”I respect Saint Woodcutter for imparting his scriptures on the rock and imparting skills to all ages.
”I respect Founding Master for expounding the wisdom of an ancient sage, founding a cult and establish his ideas in writing.