“Young Heavenly Master, what did you want to say when you tried to stop the Poor Dao?”
The words were calm and seemed to carry a bit of carelessness, Qing Yu looked at Zhang Yuanchu and said indifferently.
Zhang Yuanchu’s face was calm, but his eyes were not as ancient as his face. He had never dreamed that he had fallen short in the collision just now.
If Zhang Yuanchu’s son Zhang Yangping were still alive, he would be nearly forty. At such an old age, he still lost slightly under Qing Yu, a young man. Even if Zhang Yuanchu had been practising Daoist Kung Fu for many years, his mind was still a bit overwhelmed.
However, he managed to suppress the feeling of annoyance and anger and said in a solemn voice, “I do not agree with Qing Yu taking over the position of the True Martial Sect because he is a butcher, a killer with blood on his hands, he is Gong Zi Yu!”
A stone stirred up a thousand waves, and the Taiji Hall was in an uproar for a while.
At the bottom of the mountain, Zhang Yuanchu had already said that Qing Yu was a butcher, but at that time, the crowd did not know what Zhang Yuanchu meant by butcher.
Now, they knew.
Gong Zi Yu, the Dragon Head of the Qinglong Society, the one who killed the wild. From his rise to his fall, although Gong Zi Yu was only at the Divine Origin realm, the traces he left on the Jianghu were long overdue.
At least, there are still countless people chanting about him, chanting his name and hating him to suffer a thousand pains in hell and never live again.
Now, Zhang Yuanchu was saying that Gongzi Yu was not dead, that he was none other than this new head of the True Martial Sect who was about to succeed the throne, no, had already succeeded the throne.
“Don’t talk nonsense!”
“Young Heavenly Master, please also speak carefully!”
“Zhang Yuanchu, you must not speak out of your mouth!”
——
The seven peaks of True Martial Arts were all rebuking, with Xuan Zheng and Xuan Lin in particular being the most agitated. Xuanzheng even wanted to draw his sword to defend the reputation of the Sect Leader, regardless of the fact that the other party was a Tong Shen.
To be honest, when Qing Yu heard these voices, he was really moved (laughs).
“Young Heavenly Master, the poor Taoist already warned you at the bottom of the mountain not to slander my True Martial Sect’s Sect Master with rumours. Now it seems that you have taken the poor Dao’s words for a deaf ear.”
The white qi appeared quietly, and Xuan Zhen’s phoenix eyes were fierce, with his killing intent locked onto Zhang Yuanchu. At the same time, Tong Hua was also silently using his true qi, his aura rising up, as if he was about to make a move.
With these two as the starting point, the people of the True Martial Sect were all staring at Zhang Yuanchu, releasing a fierce murderous aura.
Whether they were displeased with Qing Yu or not, these people held the True Martial Sect in extremely high regard, and they would not begrudge anyone who tried to harm the True Martial Sect from fighting to the death.
As the target of the killing machine, Zhang Yuanchu was also aghast in his heart, but he was fearless.
“What? Is this an attempt to kill and silence them?” Zhang Yuanchu snickered, “Don’t you forget that fellow practitioners of the jianghu are all present this time. The Sword Dao Palace, the Great Zen Temple, the Imperial Sword Villa —— everyone is watching you. Trying to kill and silence you is simply delusional.”
“Master Tong Hua, and Master Xuan Zhen, I think that it would be better for Mister Xiao to let Master Shao Tian say why he identified Qing Yu as Gong Zi Yu. If there is any misunderstanding, it would be better to explain it clearly.” Xiao Qianxiu, the Master of the Imperial Sword Villa, was the first to step forward and said.
“Yes extremely, yes extremely, it would be best to make it clear.”
“With us again, there will be no misunderstanding of the real Qing Yu.”
——
Jing followed countless people.
Qing Yu gently glanced at Xiao Qianxiu, and those who were waving flags, recognizing that these were all sects that had an old relationship with Mount Longhu or, like the Imperial Sword Villa, had some alliance with the imperial court and Mount Longhu.
The people from the Sword Dao Palace were led by Yuan Jian Yi, but the strongest was the old man in grey who was strong, with an overwhelming sharpness hidden in his withered body; he was undoubtedly a Tong Shen realm powerhouse.
They were all indifferent, just watching the situation evolve in silence.
The people of the Great Zen Temple, too, were watching the fire from across the river, not interfering. But when they looked at Shi Jue’s eyes, they seemed to have a deeper meaning.
The silence of these two sects also led to some sects watching from the sidelines and not joining those who were up in arms.
“Gentlemen, please be quiet.” Qing Yu reached out his hand and slowly pressed down, bringing the clamour to a screeching halt, and restraining the sword-drawn aura of the True Martial Sect crowd.
The invisible pressure was so strong that the hall was silenced. All of the strongest people in the Tong Shen realm were amazed at the sight of this, as Qing Yu had revealed his strength to be a step above everyone else.
Because of the pressure from Fang, even all the Tong Shen realm powerhouses were affected. Although it was not deep, close to none, it was tangible.
His face was as normal, not a ripple in sight, as he looked at Zhang Yuanchu and said indifferently, “Young Heavenly Master, if you say that poor Daoist is Gongzi Yu, then please show the proof. As we all know, Gong Zi Yu is the Northern Saturday Emperor, Feng Chaonan, who died in the divine capital of Northern Zhou several years ago.
“The Northern Saturday prince is just a scapegoat, Gong Zi Yu has been able to remain invisible despite the world’s pursuit, how could he die so easily.”
Zhang Yuanchu said coldly, “Qing Yu, you are indeed a miracle worker who has achieved the strength and status you have today in just a few years. But you must not forget that when you left Yang City, you were forced to join Department Six by Department Six’s ‘Wind Chasing God Catcher’ Lu Qi Feng, and it was in Department Six that you had the scroll.”
He took out a brown scroll and pulled it straight open, the scroll unfolding and rolling out a long distance on the ground.
“You infiltrated the Mountain River Academy, went undercover for Department Six, participated in the literary competition for the throne, approached the current Zhou Emperor Feng Jiuyu, and were secretly selling the Longevity San and poisoning the world.
After joining forces with Department Six silver seal constables Bu Lengchuan and Luo Yan to kill renegade constable Lin Fujiyuan at Linchuan House, you donned a mask and created the identity of Gong Zi Yu.
With this identity, you created countless killings. Without mentioning anything else, the nearly 10,000 lives of my disciples at Mount Longhu would make your death by a thousand cuts not even worthy of death. Qing Yu, your sins are too numerous to write, and today is the day you will be executed.”
In the long scroll, countless things were recorded. Not only the point that Zhang Yuanchu mentioned, but also many bloodshed cases, all related to Gong Zi Yu, which were shocking to the eyes.
But ——
I only heard Qing Yu laugh lightly, “These things you say were done by Gong Zi Yu, what does it have to do with poor Daoist Qing Yu.”
“Now that the matter has come to this point, you still want to sophistry.” Zhang Yuanchu shouted angrily.
“It is not a sophistry, but the words of Department Six cannot convict me.”
Qing Yu raised his voice and said, “Gentlemen, you should all know that I have an identity in the Northern Zhou, that is, as the Heavenly Supervisor of the Northern Zhou. When the Great Qian and the Northern Zhou were at loggerheads, I helped the Northern Zhou stabilise its dragon veins and repel the wolf barbarians. Now that I have left the Northern Zhou, the Great Qian is still an enemy of the Poor Dao.”
“Although Department Six is an authority in investigating cases, it does not mean that they will not falsely accuse innocent people. Wouldn’t having the enemies of the Poor Dao testify against the Poor Dao be the same as having the Divine Heavenly Master testify against the Shao Tian Shi as a member of the Devil’s Way?”
