Volume 3 Chapter 94 - Embarrassment (2/2)

“Thank you, Elder.” Without hesitation, Ding Ning expressed his gratitude.

“No need to be polite.”

Qing Yaoyin waved his hand and turned to leave. But before he moved, he added coolly, “At least this black ice worm is thick in the skin.”

Ding Ning frowned slightly and glanced at the worm in his hand. He glanced at the dark red brambles ahead of him and understood Qing Yaoyin’s intentions again.

He reached out with his left hand holding the black ice worm like a shield in front of him as he moved through the deep red brambles.

The thorns on the brambles brushed the black ice worm, most of them snapping, and unable to pierce the skin of the black ice worm.

This black ice worm trembled constantly in Ding Ning’s hand, seemingly in pain, but increasingly didn’t dare to move.

The worm and the person moved through the sea of brambles.

Almost all of the officials and cultivators watching this from the cliff sank into indescribable silence.

Everybody could see Qing Yaoyin’s intentions.

That green palace appeared very far from Ding Ning in his eyes, but for the people who were looking down from a high elevation, the green palace was the nearest to Ding Ning.

“Should we stop him?” Looking at this scene, Yantai Guanjian glanced at Jin Liuli and asked.

He was asking this question for the second time. Both times the meanings were the same. The Min Mountain Sword Sect had their rules, and he did not want Qing Yaoyin to affect Ding Ning at all.

But Jin Liuli did not hesitate and shook her head resolutely. “No need.”

As though she felt Yantai Guanjian needed an explanation, she said slowly, “Sect Uncle Qing originally shouldn’t have appeared, but as he was forced to, this is his ability. He created this accident. This does not count as breaking the rules of the sword trial.”

Yantai Guanjian nodded and didn’t express objections.

He watched Ding Ning pass through the deep red brambles with admiration in his eyes.

The other students, when encountering the threat of the black ice worms, would either choose to flee like Xie Changsheng when the worms were transforming or try to kill them. The students that chose to move through the brambles would encounter other dangers.

Since Qing Yaoyin had pointed out a path for Ding Ning and given him such a black ice worm, then Ding Ning would have a smooth path without any dangers. So, if there were no accidents, Ding Ning would become the first student to pass through this test once again and pay the smallest price.

But his lack of objections to Jin Liuli did not mean other people did not have objections.

After many breaths, a yellow figure appeared in the stone passageway behind him and Jin Liuli.

This was a middle-aged man with a reserved expression. He wore ordinary yellow satin robes and clearly wasn’t a cultivator of Min Mountain Sword Sect. He was also not an official of the court involved in this sword trial, so the reason he could appear here was unknown.

Dozens of feet away from Yantai Guanjian and Jin Liuli, he stopped and bowed.

But before he spoke, a sneer appeared on Jin Liuli’s face.

“Go and tell your Mistress Rong,” she didn’t even turn around and said mockingly, “Do not think of interfering in the sword trial and have opinions concerning it. Does he think that Sect Uncle Qing having Ding Ning win is unfair? Tell him… the meaning of Sect Uncle Qing’s farm to Min Mountain Sword Trials is greater than ten sword trials.”

“Also,” she laughed disdainfully and said to the yellow-robed middle-aged man, “Tell your Mistress Rong- if she doesn’t want to be thrown out, then stay and just watch. Who does she think she is to dare talk to me? If she doesn’t want to be embarrassed, then do not seek embarrassment.”