Chapter 884: Clan Meeting (2/2)

Mo Wuji despised this fella because he was even better at acting than himself. Mo Wuji really wanted Xi Nianmo to bite back to say that she wanted Xi Di dead to see how this square face elder would react.

Xi Nianmo controlled her rage as she said once more, ”I have yet to return so why did you give away my position as the temporary Manor Lord?”

Hearing Xi Nianmo's words, the square face elder reverted back to his serious face as he said, ”Little miss isn't wrong and I was initially against the idea of taking away little miss' position as the temporary manor lord. However, i am unable to further rebut their argument that according to the rules of the Lightning Sword Manor, the Manor Lord must be fully grown to take up this responsibility. Their definition of fully grown would be to get married. Little miss wasn't married…”

Xi Nianmo waved her hand and interrupted the square face elder's words as she pointed at Mo Wuji concurrently.

Mo Wuji was helpless as he could only walk to the side of Xi Nianmo. Xi Nianmo grabbed onto Mo Wuji's hand as she said, ”Elder Baren, this is my husband, Mo Wuji. Wuji, this is one of the five great elders of my Lightning Sword Manor, Elder Xi Baren. Hurry up and greet him.”

Mo Wuji looked dazedly at Xi Nianmo before sizing up Xi Baren and then saying with a confused voice, ”Xi Baren?”

Having said that, Mo Wuji furrowed his brows as he wondered why this square face elder would be called Xi Baren.

Xi Nianmo hurried to explain to Xi Baren, ”Elder Baren, Wuji was captured by the Black Mustard God Merchant House to look for god lattice crystals so he had been given the Perplex Spiritual Pill. This was why his answers to questions now are a little simplistic. I hope that Elder wouldn't mind this.”

Xi Baren smiled, ”Little miss is too serious about this. Since he is the uncle of my Lightning Sword Manor, we will do our very best to save him.”

Mo Wuji had experienced too many incidents over the years and he wasn't those type who only knew how to cultivate behind closed doors. From Xi Baren's casual words, Mo Wuji knew that he had already done his investigation on everyone here. He should know about his origins and where Xi Nianmo came from.

Mo Wuji wasn't wrong because Xi Baren had indeed checked on where Xi Nianmo had been to.

As for the filthy acts of the Black Mustard God Merchant House, too many people were aware of it. However, not everyone was as forthright as Xi Nianmo to eliminate the entire Black Mustard God Merchant House. Firstly, too many people have done such things and secondly, the implications to future benefits would be too severe.

On the surface, Xi Nianmo killed the Black Mustard God Merchant House but unknowingly, she had offended many other people.

After Xi Baren's casual sentence, he changed the topic of conversation immediately, ”Little miss, since you're back at the manor, why don't we organise a clan meeting three days later to reach an agreement on the matter of the manor lord position?”

Xi Nianmo replied faintly, ”Why should we wait for three days later? Let's go and discuss matters right now at the clan's meeting hall.”

”Alright, I shall go arrange matters now,” Xi Baren replied promptly as he turned to Manager Xi Di behind him, ”Xi Di, go inform all the elders and direct disciples to head towards the clan's meeting hall now.”

”Roger that,” Xi Di bowed in respect, took a few steps back before turning away. As compared to Xi Nianmo, Xi Di's attitude towards Elder Baren was much better.

”I shall go prepare some matters too,” After Xi Di left, Xi Baren mentioned this and before Xi Nianmo could say anything, he had already left.

”Little miss, I'm afraid that in the few days we're not around, the Lightning Sword Manor already had major changes to it,” Xi Jun said worryingly after the two of them left speedily.

Xi Nianmo said calmly, ”No matter how great the change is, the Manor Lord token is in my hands. Without my token, nobody would be able to enter the Xi Clan's ancestral hall. Wuji…”

”I am here,” Mo Wuji looked dazedly at Xi Nianmo as if he couldn't understand why he was here and why Xi Nianmo would call out for him.

Xi Nianmo looked at Mo Wuji before saying one word at a time, ”After reaching the clan's meeting hall, you shall not speak at all. If anyone asked you anything, all you need to say is that you are my husband and that you have no idea about anything else.”

”Oh,” Mo Wuji answered as he didn't continue saying anything.

…

The Lightning Sword Manor's clan meeting hall was not big and it looked just like an assembly hall. The furnitures and decorations here were extremely simplistic with only a few stone pillars and tables.

The clan meeting hall had a massive pond in the middle which Mo Wuji couldn't wrap his head around. Mo Wuji didn't have spirit roots so he wasn't personally experienced in terms of the metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, lightning and ice attributes of spirit roots. However, because he had cultivated lightning attribute sacred art before, he could sense that the pond in the hall was a lightning pond because of the great lightning energy from within it.

Only Xi Jun and Mo Wuji followed Xi Nianmo into the meeting hall because Xi Jun was the elder of the Lightning Sword Manor, she was qualified to enter. Mo Wuji was Xi Nianmo's husband so he would naturally be able to enter. As for Qian Hua and Xun Ji, they could only wait outside.

Xi Nianmo didn't stand on any ceremony as she went directly to the head seat. Xi Jun sat on her right while Mo Wuji sat on her left.

After the three of them settled down, people started streaming into the hall. Even though Mo Wuji had a low cultivation level and was acting dumb, he could tell that every single one who entered were not of low cultivation and everyone was much stronger than himself.

In less than half an incense worth of time, the average sized clan meeting hall was filled up.

”Little miss, we have yet to decide on the eventual manor lord so shouldn't that seat be left empty first?” After everyone was seated, someone stood up to comment.

The one speaking was a beardless elder and what he meant to say was that Xi Nianmo shouldn't be sitting on that seat for now.