Meng Qi smiled lightly, “Senior sister Lan can have a temper, cannot I also have one?”

The disciple gawked and tried to retort, but didn’t know what to say.

“Well said!” Inside the quiet hall, loud applause suddenly sounded. Qingfeng Valley disciples immediately turned to look at the source. Chu Tianfeng didn’t care, under everyone’s gaze, he walked to Meng Qi’s side: “Everyone has the right to have a temper, Meng Qi isn’t wrong!” Chu Tianfeng’s gaze swept across Qingfeng Valley disciples. “Let me give all of you a reminder. People who treat a person as a fellow disciple when they need her, but cast her aside as a traitor once she no longer needed, are not worthy to be saved!”

“Tian-…young palace master Chu!” Lu Qingran’s face was pale. She stared dazedly at Chu Tianfeng, then at Elder Xun Yan, and then back to Chu Tianfeng.

And Qin Xiumo!

She didn’t understand why these people were willing to stand on Meng Qi’s side.

“Before, I wanted to save them, but senior sister Lu said that she could do it and that they didn’t need me.” Meng Qi continued. Her voice, just like her eyes, was clear yet cold, like a mountain stream originated from a pure spring, or like the sound of a jade bell, delightful to the ears. “Obviously, after hunting down the five elements blue crane, the next step is much simpler. However, senior sister Lu’s intervention greatly changed the situation, making their condition harder to cure. Now that things have gone to this stage, shouldn’t you bear the consequence?”

Lu Qingran turned even paler. She opened her mouth and murmured: “I am not… I just want to save them…”

Qin Xiumo, who was standing next to Meng Qi, sneered: “You think just because your intention is good, then everything could be forgiven? What you did almost killing them.”

“Write the IOU.” Qin Xiumo raised his jaw. “Or, are you going to watch these people, who trusted you as their fellow disciple, died in agony and turned into the vine’s fertilizer, all because of your irresponsibility and blind self-confidence?”

Damn, this guy is too ruthless!

Chu Tianfeng couldn’t help looking at Qin Xiumo.

Each of his words is truly provocative! Who else could say something like ‘become a fertilizer’?

Lu Qingran’s petite face turned even paler. She stared at Qin Xiumo dazedly, then at Meng Qi.

“Of course, you can just ignore their life and death. Anyway, as the sect leader most favored disciple, no one will dare to punish you. At the camp, you clearly didn’t know whether you could cure them or not, but you still insisted on questioning Meng Qi and prevent her from treating their injuries. Is it because you aren’t the one who was injured anyway, and aren’t in danger of turning into a human fertilizer?” Qin Xiumo lazily swept his gaze across the Qingfeng Valley’s other disciples.

His future ‘Little Devil Lord’ nickname wasn’t for nothing. After being betrayed by his best friend and abandoned by his sect, Qin Xiumo became cruel and indifferent, and his conducts were equally extreme. Not only his sword, but also his tongue. He never hesitated to pierce other people’s most vulnerable spot.

Chu Tianfeng almost laughed out loud.

Human fertilizer?

How ruthless!

Really is ruthless!

After Qin Xiumo finished speaking, Qingfeng Valley’s disciples who up until a moment ago were still comforting Lu Qingran suddenly changed their expression. Qin Xiumo’s words obviously also affected them.

Right……

As the sect leader’s most favored disciple, Lu Qingran has always been well protected. Even if she caused a disaster, nothing would happen to her. But they were different.

The disciples glanced distressedly at the injured disciples who were still lying on the floor. They didn’t know whether these people could survive or not. This time, they were lucky. But next time, they probably would be the one who groaned in pain.

Imagining themselves being devoured alive by the frightening vine and turned into human fertilizer, the disciples couldn’t help but shiver.

Chu Tianfeng suppressed his smile. He put on his usual cold face and stood beside Qin Xiumo. The two young men tacitly protected Meng Qi behind them.

Lu Qingran stood blankly for a moment, then turned to look at her master.

Why…

She was so shocked: why did her fellow disciples look at her with such gazes?

Lu Qingran held the bamboo slip and stood in a daze. One Qingfeng Valley disciple finally couldn’t hold it anymore and whispered: “I think he is right. At that time, junior sister Meng was going to give them treatment, but junior sister Lu stopped and questioned her. Senior sister Lan was also very hostile and insisted to not let junior sister Meng gave them treatment. Junior sister Meng didn’t have any choice but to help only Fentian Palace’s disciples.”

“Is senior sister Lan stupid? Why didn’t she let junior sister Meng to treat her? Junior sister Meng even healed young palace master Chu before!”

“Probably because junior sister Lu said something to her beforehand.” Another disciple chimed in, “I also think that it’s strange.”

“Ah? I heard that senior sister Lu likes young palace master Chu. Is it because of jealousy, so she deliberately wants to destroy junior sister Meng’s reputation?”

“If it’s true, then she is too excessive! What does she take the lives of ordinary disciples like us for?”

“So what? After all, the one who gets turned into a human fertilizer isn’t herself.”

…

The whispers became louder and louder. Qin Xiumo’s ‘human fertilizer’ was indeed very effective in stimulating those disciples. Even in front of the sect leader, they couldn’t stop their whispers. No one wanted to die, especially in such a horrifying way.

“Junior sister Lu!” Lan Zhuxuan who was lying on the floor suddenly lifted her upper body strenuously. She opened her eyes wide and glared at Lu Qingran with an indescribable resentment: “You lied to me! You clearly said that you found a way to cure me. I trusted you so much, but you lied to me!”

“I didn’t lie!” Lu Qingran’s face turned white. “Senior sister Lan, I really didn’t lie to you. Please believe me! I…”

“You lied to me! You liar! You complained to me before, saying that you suspected Meng Qi did something that makes young palace master Chu ignored you….You are so cruel! You actually sacrificed so many lives just to get back on Meng Qi!”　Lan Zhuxuan yelled hysterically. The pain was so terrible, as if her internal organs were being twisted into a ball. Even taking a breath was torturous.

Lan Zhuxuan crawled towards Meng Qi. “Junior sister Meng.” She clutched into Meng Qi’s leg and looked up at her desperately, “Please save me. Senior sister apologizes to you and will kowtow to you! Forgive senior sister, please. I beg you! Please save me!”

“Meng Qi.” Qin Xiumo asked nonchalantly. “The immortal devouring vine inside their body, is it still a bud? Or is it going to bloom into a human flowerpot?”

Lan Zhuxuan gasped in horror. Her breath became rapid as she desperately clutched at Meng Qi. She knocked her head on the ground with all her strength: “Junior sister!” Tears fell down from Lan Zhuxuan’s eyes. “Please save me. Senior sister will never dare to cross you again. I beg you… please save me!”

“Junior sister Lu.” A disciple walked out of the crowd and quickly squatted to support his injured friend. He then looked up at Lu Qingran, his eyes full of anger. “Things have come to this point. Are you still reluctant to take responsibility for your own mistake? Or are you really going to disregard your fellow disciples’ life?”

Chu Tianfeng curled his lips. Still on guard, he watched Lu Qingran, who desperately repeated “Not me,” with a teary face. Qin Xiumo also turned his head to take a look, and the two quickly exchanged glances.

“Fentian Palace came here to help Qingfeng Valley with the devil invasion crisis. Originally, we have decided to invite Qingfeng Valley under our sect.” Chu Tianfeng suddenly opened his mouth. “However, as you all know, the things that happened during this period have made me and Elder Xun Yan very disappointed.”

Qingfeng Valley sect leader suddenly turned pale. She could guess what Chu Tianfeng was going to do, but was powerless to stop him. Not to mention that Chu Tianfeng’s cultivation base was only two or three small realms lower than herself, but the whole Fentian Palace contingent with a Nascent Soul elder wasn’t something that she could afford to make enemies with.

So even if she knew what Chu Tianfeng was going to say, Qingfeng Valley sect leader could only watch helplessly. “But if the disciples of Qingfeng Valley are willing to join our Fentian Palace, we will make proper arrangements for you.”

“I am willing!”

“I want to join Fentian Palace!”

“Hah! I’ve had enough of this place! I’m leaving!”

“Young palace master Chu, please accept us!”

……

In an instant, the whole hall fell into chaos. Meng Qi watched dazedly. Although Qingfeng Valley was small and never had a great accomplishment, it had been existing for hundreds of years, almost one thousand years. She never imagined that it would collapse just like this.

After a while, Meng Qi lowered her gaze and took out a small jade token from her storage space. She then respectfully held it with both hands towards the sect leader: “This disciple will cure senior brothers and sisters. Afterward, I’m no longer a disciple of Qingfeng Valley.”

The sect leader pressed her lips tightly and took the jade token from Meng Qi’s palm. Seeing Meng Qi’s calm and serious face, she couldn’t say anything and finally sighed. The sect leader waved her hand and said hoarsely: “Then we will trouble Meng-…fellow Daoist Meng.”

Inside the great hall, Qingfeng Valley disciples kept taking out the jade tokens that identified themselves as a member of Qingfeng Valley and throwing them on the ground. The sect leader had no way to stop them and could only watch helplessly.

Meng Qi nodded. She turned around and walked towards the injured disciples. The hall was still noisy and chaotic, but none of this seemed to affect her.

Meng Qi squatted down and carefully examined the injured disciples one by one.

Qingfeng Valley’s sect leader watched her movement dazedly. Elder Xun Yan’s previous words seemed to ring in her ears again.

Did she really make a mistake?

Qingfeng Valley, is it truly going to be destroyed in her hands?

Meng Qi quickly finished her examination on the injured disciples and stood up. Her eyebrows frowned slightly. Their situation was more complicated than she had thought. Not only they still had the vine’s seed growing inside them, but she also sensed a strange power from their body.

What’s happen?

Meng Qi turned around. She wanted to ask Lu Qingran about the treatment method she used on the disciples. Everyone else was still present inside the hall, including the angry Qingfeng Valley’s disciples and the dazed sect leader. But Lu Qingran was nowhere to be seen.

Eh?

Meng Qi looked around.

Qin Xiumo walked to her: “Is it troublesome?”

“A bit.” Meng Qi nodded.

“Don’t worry.” Qin Xiumo handed a bamboo slip to her, “I got the IOU from Lu QIngran.”

Meng Qi: “…”

“Are you really going to save them?” Qin Xiumo lowered his gaze to look at the injured disciples. “They are only Foundation Establishment cultivators with mediocre talent.” He grinned, “Why bother?”