“Junior Sister Xuan’er!”
The disciples were shocked. They had not expected Qin Yuan to truly make a move.
“Cough… cough… Qin Yuan… you… you bastard!”
Lin Xuan’er coughed up blood. Her face was pale, her eyes red and brimming with tears. She looked pitiful.
“I already told you. A foul mouth comes with a price,” Qin Yuan said coldly.
Cold sweat ran down everyone’s backs. They silently thanked themselves for not speaking earlier. Otherwise, the ones lying on the ground would have been them.
“You…”
Lin Xuan’er had always feared nothing and no one. Even after being injured, she refused to yield.
“Qin Yuan! You… you’re simply not human! You don’t deserve to be a disciple of the Supreme Profound Sect! You are the shame of the Supreme Profound Sect!”
“Junior Sister Xuan’er, stop talking,” someone tried to persuade her.
But Lin Xuan’er refused to listen. She stared at Qin Yuan with pure resentment.
“Oh?”
Qin Yuan smiled faintly and slowly walked toward her.
“It seems the lesson I gave you just now was too light, my dear… Junior Sister.”
“Don’t call me Junior Sister. I don’t have a Senior Brother like you!” Lin Xuan’er shouted angrily.
“Good. Very good.”
Qin Yuan spoke with a pleasant smile.
“It seems all these years, your Senior Brothers and Senior Sisters have spoiled you rotten. Today, I’ll fulfill my duty as Senior Brother one more time and properly teach you what manners are.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Qin Yuan raised his palm again and struck toward Lin Xuan’er’s chest.
“Stop!”
At that moment, a sharp female voice rang out.
But it was already too late.
Qin Yuan did not hesitate in the slightest. With a single palm strike, he sent Lin Xuan’er flying five meters away.
“Pfft—”
Lin Xuan’er spat out a mouthful of blood and fell completely unconscious.
It was Nangong Liuli.
Nangong Liuli immediately took out a medicinal pill and fed it into Lin Xuan’er’s mouth, then began treating her.
Dressed in simple green robes, her temperament was elegant and refined. As she focused entirely on the treatment, Qin Yuan could only see her profile, yet she was as beautiful as an exquisite painting.
After a while, Lin Xuan’er’s condition stabilized. Only then did Nangong Liuli stop. She looked at Qin Yuan, and within her calm, well-like eyes flickered traces of anger.
“You’ve gone too far.”
“What? Are you going to lecture me too?” Qin Yuan said lazily.
Nangong Liuli bit her lower lip lightly. “Your behavior today is no different from a madman.”
“Ridiculous. Didn’t you see how they accused me just now? Without any evidence, they forcibly pinned a crime on me, their Senior Brother. Am I not allowed to resist? As Senior Brother, disciplining this group of fools who show no respect for their elders, is that not justified?”
“But this is the sect,” Nangong Liuli argued. “Private fighting is forbidden within the sect. If there are conflicts, you could have gone to the Enforcement Hall to explain. Taking action on your own is wrong. And…”
She paused for a moment before continuing, “And you have already been stripped of your position as personal disciple by Elder Lan Yun. You are no longer their Senior Brother.”
“Oh, you’re right. I almost forgot.”
Qin Yuan slapped his forehead lightly and said indifferently, “But it doesn’t matter. I’ve already taught them a lesson. And… what can you do about it?”
“You…”
Nangong Liuli was inwardly furious. She wanted to say more, but in the end she only sighed softly, her eyes filled with unmistakable disappointment.
“I may not be able to do anything to you, but within the sect, there will always be someone who can. Take care of yourself.”
“That won’t trouble you. Since I dared to act, I was naturally prepared,” Qin Yuan said with a careless shrug.
Nangong Liuli slowly shook her head and said nothing more.
At that moment, a purple streak of divine light appeared in the sky and quickly descended onto the plaza in front of the Infirmary Hall.
“Master! Master has arrived!”
The disciples shouted excitedly.
The one who came was none other than the Fifth Elder of the Supreme Profound Sect, Qin Yuan’s master.
Dressed in purple embroidered robes that outlined her graceful figure, with distant mountain-like brows and eyes like stars, she was breathtakingly beautiful, like a blooming snow lotus. She exuded an aura of noble elegance and cold detachment.
Lan Yun’s cold gaze swept over the scene. Her face instantly turned frosty.
“Insolence!”
Her sharp rebuke carried the pressure of the 1st stage Nascent Soul Realm. The temperature of the entire plaza seemed to drop.
The disciples were so frightened that they barely dared to breathe, yet their hearts were filled with joy.
Master had arrived. Qin Yuan, that bastard, was finally going to pay the price.
“Qin Yuan! What exactly are you trying to do?”
Lan Yun suppressed the anger in her heart, her eyes emitting bone-chilling coldness.
The moment she heard that Su Fan had been injured, she had rushed here without stopping. Yet in just that brief delay, such a grave incident had occurred.
This Qin Yuan had truly become lawless.
“What am I trying to do? Why doesn’t Fifth Elder ask your dear disciples what they were trying to do?”
Facing Lan Yun’s questioning, Qin Yuan did not retreat in the slightest this time.
As before, anything unrelated to the plotline, he would not endure.
“You…”
When Lan Yun heard him address her as Fifth Elder instead of Master, an inexplicable bitterness rose in her heart.
Once, Qin Yuan had been her proudest disciple.
Lan Yun took a soft breath, steadying her emotions. When she looked at Qin Yuan again, her gaze was even colder.
“I don’t know what they were trying to do. But you injuring others is wrong. This is the Supreme Profound Sect, not a place where you can behave wildly. Qin Yuan… do you admit your guilt?”
The past was the past. The present was the present.
Her most outstanding chief disciple was gone.
Standing before her now was only this wicked, vicious disgrace of the sect.
Qin Yuan let out a soft sigh.
The Lan Yun of the past had been gentle, open-minded, and fair. Now she had become someone unable to distinguish right from wrong.
The protagonist halo was truly terrifying.