“Very well, Qin Fan. I’ll grant your wish…” Immortal Yuquan’s gaze turned vicious as he spoke with fury.
His voice carried the oppressive might of the Golden Core Realm, echoing across Jade Spring Peak, “By the name of the Jade Spring Peak Master, I hereby declare the expulsion of the unfilial disciple Qin Fan—”
“Master! You mustn’t!” Xia Qingyue’s crisp cry suddenly cut him off!
Her cold and ethereal figure, like a Fairy Maiden from the moon palace, floated down and landed in front of Qin Fan, spreading her arms to shield him.
Qin Fan felt his heart explode.
Damn it! Xia Qingyue!
You again!
My saintly, self-righteous Senior Sister!!!
Are you sent by heaven to mess with me?
Why the hell are you jumping in at the critical moment just to feel important?
My system! My freedom!
It’s all ruined! Everything’s ruined!
Qin Fan’s vision went dark. He nearly spat out a mouthful of blood on the spot, only to force it back down with iron will.
Immortal Yuquan, though interrupted, didn’t seem too surprised. But he darkened his expression and barked coldly, “Qingyue! Even you would defy your Master?”
Xia Qingyue’s delicate figure trembled slightly, but she held her head high and asked coldly, “Master! How can you do this?!”
She pointed at Qin Fan, eyes filled with sorrow and anger. “What did Junior Brother Qin Fan do wrong? Why are you treating him so differently? Senior Brother Ye Chen is your disciple, but so are we! And Junior Brother Qin Fan… he’s even… the founding eldest disciple of Jade Spring Peak!”
“Founding eldest disciple?”
Those four words boomed like thunder from the heavens, making everyone’s scalp tingle!
Su Meier and Lin Xiaolu were completely stunned!
Qin Fan… used to be the Senior Brother of Jade Spring Peak?
How was that possible?
Tears shimmered in Xia Qingyue’s eyes, and her voice grew sharper. “Each time you accepted a new personal disciple, Junior Brother Fan’s status dropped! His resources were cut! His residence taken away! After Senior Brother Ye Chen arrived, he lost even the last shred of dignity! He became someone everyone could bully!”
“Master, how could you treat him like this?!”
Immortal Yuquan’s self-righteous face twisted instantly as she exposed him publicly.
Shame, rage!
He could no longer maintain his lofty image and snapped furiously, “Enough! Qingyue! What do you know?!”
He pointed at Qin Fan with scorn in his eyes. “Senior Brother? Him? With his useless five spiritual roots?! This old man used up countless heavenly treasures and even weakened my own cultivation just to cleanse and rebuild his meridians! And the result? Twenty years! A full twenty years and he’s still stuck at the 6th stage Qi Refining Realm! Even a pig would’ve made more progress!”
Immortal Yuquan grew more agitated as he spoke, saliva flying, “I didn’t throw him into the Ten Thousand Demon Abyss to feed the beasts—that was mercy! Giving him resources? That’d be wasting them! Trash is still trash! Mud can’t be sculpted into a wall! I let him stay in the peak doing odd jobs, gave him food to survive—already an immense kindness! Yet he dares show no gratitude and defy me? What use is such a disgrace?”
“Master, you…” His cruel words struck Xia Qingyue like a lightning bolt. Her face turned pale.
The Master she had always respected… was actually this cold and ruthless?
As for Su Meier and Lin Xiaolu, they were completely petrified!
For the first time, they felt a flicker of pity for Qin Fan.
Meanwhile, the one being protected by Xia Qingyue—Qin Fan—began to feel a rush of anticipation again!
Yes! Yes! Old man Yuquan, well said!
I am trash! I’m mud!
Quick, say it! Say those four words—expel me from the sect! Don’t stop now!
Unfortunately…
Immortal Yuquan, flustered by Xia Qingyue’s soul-piercing interrogation, felt his blood surging.
Those four words—”expel from the sect”—stuck in his throat, and after stammering for a while, he still didn’t say them.
Qin Fan was dumbfounded.
Stuck? Really?
Old man Yuquan, are you even capable?
You’re faltering now, at the most critical moment?
Say it! Just say it! I’m begging you!
Xia Qingyue looked utterly disappointed.
Her Master’s words shattered her long-held beliefs.
So this… was the truth?
She had always known Qin Fan was a loser and probably not doing great in the sect. But she thought, at most, he was just neglected.
After all, he was still cultivating on the main peak of Jade Spring Peak, where the spiritual energy was several times richer than the other peaks.
That alone made many disciples of Falling Cloud Sect jealous.
So how bad could it really be?
But reality slapped her hard in the face.
She had always focused on cultivation, paid no attention to affairs within the peak—because she believed that in Falling Cloud Sect, especially on Jade Spring Peak, with her Master being a Peak Nascent Soul Realm powerhouse, even if the sky collapsed, nothing would happen!
Not to mention, there was also the publicly praised, immensely talented Senior Brother Ye Chen. Who would dare bully Qin Fan?
Even if Qin Fan wasn’t liked, he should’ve at least had the basics—dignity and resources, right?
But she realized… she was terribly wrong!
She knew very well how abundant Jade Spring Peak’s cultivation resources were.
So abundant that even a pig with five spiritual roots could have reached Foundation Establishment!
As core disciples, they often dismissed mid-grade pills and spirit herbs as too low-quality.
Things like Spirit Gathering Grass and Essence Nurturing Pills were beneath their notice, right?
But Qin Fan?
He had to risk his life on the dirtiest, most exhausting, most dangerous sect missions just to barely earn enough?
She didn’t want to imagine it, but she couldn’t deny the facts anymore.
Everything that should have belonged to Qin Fan as the founding eldest disciple—his residence, pills, spirit stones, cultivation techniques, even guidance from Master—had all been taken without hesitation and poured into Ye Chen instead!
She even recalled overhearing Master once say to Ye Chen: “Qin Fan is nothing but your stepping stone, my good disciple. Make sure to make full use of his cultivation resources.”
At the time, she chose to ignore it. Now, thinking back, her heart ached!
This wasn’t just favoritism!
This was plundering! It was the murder of Qin Fan’s path to immortality!
At that moment, Xia Qingyue suddenly pulled out a jade slip and shouted coldly, “Master! This is the Jade Spring Peak resource allocation record! Every cultivation resource meant for Junior Brother Fan was redirected to Senior Brother Ye Chen!”
The jade slip unfolded midair. The red annotations blazed glaringly in the light. The entire crowd erupted in an uproar!
Qin Fan was dumbfounded. “???”
Xia Qingyue, what the hell are you doing?
I’m trying to get expelled, not socially annihilated!
Qin Fan knew he had to act fast. If Xia Qingyue kept this up, all his efforts would be in vain!
He shouted furiously, “Xia Qingyue! I’m begging you, stop dramatizing this pity-fest, alright?”
He looked at her eyes filled with pity and remorse, and almost thought she was his long-lost mother finally coming to find him!
“I’m rebellious! I’m disrespectful! I deserve death for my sins!” Qin Fan raised his chin and spoke defiantly, worried Immortal Yuquan might not get angry enough. “You were among those who used to mock me. Stop pretending you’re some noble savior now!”
Hearing this, Xia Qingyue’s body trembled like she had been struck. Her face went deathly pale.
Indeed… she had once gone along with the crowd, treating Qin Fan with disdain, her words never lacking in contempt.
“Junior Brother Fan… I was wrong…” she said bitterly, with sincere regret on her face.
“Wrong?” Qin Fan was enraged!
“No! None of you were wrong! The one at fault is me—this trash! My mistake was looking at you so-called geniuses for even a moment! Just a glance and you wanted to dig out my eyes!”
“My mistake was being part of your sect! Didn’t you all used to love humiliating me? So why are you all acting like saints now?”
The more he spoke, the angrier he became, saliva nearly spraying onto Xia Qingyue’s face.
“No! It’s not like that!” Xia Qingyue’s eyes welled up with tears as she tried to explain.
But Qin Fan cut her off with a furious outburst. “Xia Qingyue! You sanctimonious b*tch!”
Qin Fan suddenly spun around and glared at Immortal Yuquan.
“And you, old man Yuquan! You decrepit bastard! If you’ve got the balls, expel me from the sect! Right now! Don’t be a coward!”
With that, he drew a rusted, shabby low-grade flying sword from his back with a sharp swoosh!
The tip of the sword pointed furiously at Immortal Yuquan!
Qin Fan thought to himself, Damn it!
I just publicly insulted my Master… now I’m drawing a sword on him!
If this doesn’t get me expelled, I’ll take your damn surname!
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