Spectating the Angsty Romance of the Master and Disciple from the Sect Next Door Chapter 133

Killing a mere Lan Ci hardly required any effort.
If not for the obstruction of fate and the Heavenly Dao, as early as the night Li Jin’an saw the Heavenly Tome, Lan Ci, Zhong Fei, and Ning Zhufeng, those three vile creatures, would have been annihilated, not even dust remaining. There wouldn’t have been a need for them to disgustingly jump around and cause trouble again. Now, things were merely returning to the right path.
Being beaten and whipped, struck by lightning, losing to former defeated opponents on the arena, getting hit by illusion flowers in the secret realm before obtaining many heavenly treasures, and her last trump card being completely destroyed…
If, after all that, Lan Ci still had fate protecting her, and the Heavenly Dao still had to obstruct them, then there truly would be no justice.
Waking Lan Ci was also a very necessary step. Otherwise, how would Lan Ci know whose hand she died by, and who calmly watched her die?
How could this not be considered a fitting death?
To die by the hand of the Jijin Sword Sovereign, watched by the Qingxiao Immortal Venerable, Jingting Dao Lord, Chixin Sword Lord, and the Dao Sect Young Sect Master—it was a treatment even the Demon Venerable wouldn’t receive. Lan Ci should be content.
Feeling that she had completed the task her Dao companion assigned, Li Jin’an happily dashed towards Xie Huaixue, a momentary question flashing through her mind—
Why didn’t Jingting Dao Lord and Xie Huaixue personally act to completely eradicate the dirty things that defiled the reputation of the Dao Sect and Qingxiao Peak? Why instead did they make her, a sword cultivator from the Sword Sect, take action?
This confusion quickly slipped out of her mind, leaving no trace. It wasn’t because Venerable Monarch Yinyue had told her to trust Xie Huaixue and the Heavenly Dao; it was purely because she was too lazy to think further and didn’t want to use her brain.
Xie Huaixue smiled as she caught Li Jin’an, then naturally circled Li Jin’an’s delicate wrist, her fingertips rolling and caressing it, tracing along the veins downwards. The pressure was light and subtle, leaving no marks, as if praising Li Jin’an for doing a good job.
Li Jin’an grinned impolitely, pretending to be modest as she said, “What’s this? You’re my Dao companion, so Qingxiao Peak’s affairs are my affairs. Solving a small problem for you is easily accomplished.”
“Good, I won’t be polite with you,” Xie Huaixue said, her single sentence making Li Jin’an’s face light up with a smile. “Very impressive.”
Now, the upward curve of her lips couldn’t fall back down.
Jingting Dao Lord wore a look of utter exasperation. Although she was the Sect Master of the Dao Sect, she still wanted to say that she was ashamed to be associated with fellow disciples who manipulated sword cultivators and coaxed them like puppies!
Yun Liuguang, seated below her, acted as if she hadn’t seen Jingting Dao Lord’s gritted teeth expression. She pointed at Lan Ci’s corpse on the ground and consciously said, “Your disciple will go handle things first.”
Besides her, there were two elders and two peers in the hall.
The elders couldn’t be ordered around, and the peers were already stuck together and wouldn’t be able to separate anytime soon, so it could only be her.
Jingting Dao Lord waved her hand casually, not caring about such a small matter.
Yun Liuguang stepped beside Lan Ci’s corpse, her eyes cold and detached. With a gentle wave of her hand, Lan Ci’s body, Nascent Soul, and divine soul were completely annihilated, vanishing between heaven and earth in an instant.
Although she had been groomed as the Young Sect Master of the Dao Sect from the beginning, rarely having opportunities to personally fight on the battlefield and mostly handling sect affairs, and had even only been to a few secret realms, the fact that Yun Liuguang could maintain her position as Young Sect Master under Jingting Dao Lord for so long proved that she was anything but weak. Her cultivation was even unfathomably profound, as Jingting Dao Lord certainly wouldn’t tolerate a useless person.
Jingting Dao Lord finally looked at the spot where Lan Ci had completely vanished, curving her lips in a sarcastic and disdainful smile. She only spoke a single sentence: “What Heaven brings upon you can be averted; what you bring upon yourself cannot be survived.”
By this point, two of the three vile creatures were gone.
Among the Qingxiao Immortal Venerable’s disciples, only Ning Zhufeng, who had only been a disciple for two years, remained under the influence of the Jijin Sword Sovereign’s havoc.
Li Jin’an, unwilling to “play” with the elders, took Xie Huaixue’s hand and said in an extremely perfunctory yet polite manner, “The scoundrel is dead, and this matter is resolved. Xie Huaixue and I will take our leave.”
Jingting Dao Lord waved her hand, telling them to hurry and leave.
Even if she could keep their bodies, she couldn’t keep their hearts anyway.
Immediately after, Jingting Dao Lord also stepped out of the hall, and Yun Liuguang bowed in farewell to Chixin Sword Lord.
Chixin Sword Lord looked left and right, her face blank. “…”
No, why did everyone leave?
Was there something they hadn’t told her yet?
Didn’t she want to hear her say thank you? Then she should have told her what happened!
Yinyue was her Dao companion, so why did she tell Jingting, Jin’an, and Huaixue about the schemes, but not her!
At this moment, Chixin Sword Lord selectively forgot that sword cultivators weren’t good at using their brains, but excelled at messing things up. Once they started thinking, they would only make things more convoluted, going completely off track and running a hundred thousand miles in the wrong direction from their final destination. She also selectively forgot that she knew Jingting Dao Lord had her reasons, but chose to resent Jingting Dao Lord anyway due to inner frustration with nowhere to vent.
Although she was the one who did it, she wouldn’t admit it now.
Chixin Sword Lord’s expression changed rapidly on the spot. She gritted her teeth, left the sect main hall, and headed towards the main peak where Jingting Dao Lord and Yun Liuguang resided.
In truth, Chixin Sword Lord also knew that Venerable Monarch Yinyue had her own reasoning for doing things. If the truth could be told, she definitely wouldn’t keep her in the dark; not telling her was merely a way to protect her.
Just as Venerable Monarch Yinyue said to let Li Jin’an trust Xie Huaixue, Chixin Sword Lord also unconditionally trusted Venerable Monarch Yinyue. In this regard, both Master and disciple were alike.
But knowing was one thing; her emotions were truly hard to calm.
So Chixin Sword Lord wasn’t going to dig for the complete truth; she was going to find Jingting Dao Lord to continue fighting.
She wasn’t even planning to know about these convoluted troublesome matters anymore. Couldn’t Jingting just take a beating without complaint? She’d definitely be willing to say thank you then.
…
Meanwhile, Li Jin’an and Xie Huaixue returned to Qingxiao Peak, but couldn’t live the two-person life they desired. Jiang Fengmian, Shang Dangge, and Jie Yunjin—two people and one snake—came over, carrying the drunk Qi Lingzi, Tan Yanyi, and Ling Qiu, the three youngsters, and tossed them to Li Jin’an like hot potatoes.
Li Jin’an took each of her three disciples, settling them onto chairs, and then glanced sideways at the three gasping figures opposite her. “Didn’t you pat your chests and tell me you’d handle things yourselves? Did it fall apart already?”
During the banquet, they failed to get her drunk and had their embarrassing pasts exposed. Jiang Fengmian, Shang Dangge, and Jie Yunjin, the two people and one snake, were too indignant to bear it. If they couldn’t outplay their Master, could they not handle the disciples?
So, right in front of Li Jin’an and Xie Huaixue, they lured away Qi Lingzi, Tan Yanyi, and Ling Qiu, the three youngsters, solemnly swearing that they would play among themselves and not disturb Li Jin’an and Xie Huaixue. Then, they eagerly plied the three youngsters with alcohol.
The eldest of the three youngsters, Qi Lingzi, was only around a hundred years old. Since none of the disciples, big or small, in the sect were reliable, they had to strive to become steady and mature to uphold the sect’s reputation. But they were still youngsters; who didn’t love to play, especially with people so much older and more powerful than them?
One was a Xuanyu True Master, another the God of Fortune from one of the Nine Great Immortal Sects, and the third a Great Demon. Though they often suffered setbacks with Li Jin’an and Xie Huaixue, when out in the world, they were all first-rate figures of charisma, honored guests wherever they went.
Children preferred playing with bigger, more powerful kids. Without the two people and one snake even needing to instigate them, the three youngsters clutched wine jars and began to drink heavily. Shang Dangge was so pleased she praised them for inheriting their ancestors’ style, which only made the three youngsters drink even more enthusiastically.
Shang Dangge naturally knew that Chixin Sword Lord was a drunkard, because Chixin Sword Lord’s annual allowance always ended up in the merchant house selling spiritual wine; it would be hard not to know.
Jiang Fengmian had personally witnessed the destructive power of Qi Lingzi and the other two when they acted up, experiencing a momentary worry. But since things were already a foregone conclusion and couldn’t be changed, she might as well join in.
This was the greatest lesson Jiang Fengmian learned from Li Jin’an and her disciples: since she couldn’t change these troublemakers anyway, it was best to let things take their natural course, letting go of others and letting go of herself.
Then she couldn’t let go of herself…
Qi Lingzi, Tan Yanyi, and Ling Qiu drank too much spiritual wine and went into a drunken frenzy, acting like three rampaging calves. Their energy levels were incomprehensibly high, and being cultivators, their destructive power was astonishing. They sang and danced, wailing and howling.
And each had their own way of causing trouble.
Qi Lingzi dragged people to spar, even creating her own moves, insisting they were Jijin Peak’s ultimate techniques and making others learn them, her pride overflowing.
Tan Yanyi kissed everyone she saw… no, wait, this little brat preferred beautiful people and only kissed beauties. The problem was, there were no ugly cultivators.
Ling Qiu, with cruel hands, ruined beautiful things, weaving ugly, gaudy red and green flower wreaths from rare spiritual plants and flowers, stacking them one after another on people’s heads. Refusing to wear one meant disrespecting her, and she would immediately burst into loud sobs. And then Qi Lingzi, who was still sparring with someone, would come over and stare at the person expressionlessly. Just when others thought she was about to flare up and draw her sword, she would also start crying.
The three of them created a commotion like three hundred people, which was a sight to behold.
That would have been fine, but the main thing was that the three youngsters only targeted them, insisting on sparring with Jiang Fengmian, Shang Dangge, and Jie Yunjin, kissing them, and putting flower wreaths on them…
And it wasn’t just one person dealing with one troublesome child; it was one person dealing with three troublesome children, and all the above procedures had to be repeated.
Jiang Fengmian, Shang Dangge, and Jie Yunjin were completely numb. They couldn’t even last a day and a night before bringing the children over.
Sure enough, Li Jin’an’s disciples were just like her: all menaces!
The two people and one snake truly couldn’t bear it, so they tied them up and carried them to Qingxiao Peak, conversing with both fear and relief.
Their fear was for the three youngsters’ capacity for mischief, and their relief was that these weren’t their own children; otherwise, they wouldn’t even have a free hand to hang themselves.
After hearing it, Li Jin’an burst into hearty laughter, and even Xie Huaixue couldn’t help but chuckle.
Li Jin’an pointed at the two people and one snake with drooping heads, mocking them relentlessly. “Before, you boasted to the high heavens! I thought you had great abilities. Turns out you’re nothing special!”
The two people and one snake didn’t even have the strength to retort. Useless, they admitted it. As long as these three little menaces weren’t dumped on them, they could say anything!
Seeing their despairing and cowardly appearance, much of Li Jin’an’s resentment at being disturbed from her private time with Xie Huaixue dissipated.
Having troublesome children at home wasn’t easy, but troublesome children could torment others, and that was great.
Li Jin’an pointed at the three youngsters and said to Xie Huaixue, “Later, when they become annoying, we’ll just send all the disciples to those three carefree individuals.”
Jiang Fengmian, Shang Dangge, and Jie Yunjin turned pale with fright, repeatedly saying how busy they were. Jie Yunjin even started babbling nonsense about leading her snake children and grandchildren to attack the cultivation world.
Xie Huaixue smiled faintly. “Alright.”
…
Demonic Realm.
A dark underground palace.
A bewitchingly charming demon pushed open the coffin lid and slowly sat up, looking at the broken jade leaf in her hand, gently smiling.
“Eldest Senior Sister, farewell.” Her gaze at the leaf was ethereal, like looking at a lover, as she muttered to herself, “I will take good care of Master for you and Second Senior Sister.”