Chapter 247 Cockroaches Climb the Stairs

Chapter 247 Cockroaches Climb the Stairs

Chapter 247 Cockroaches Climb the Stairs
The Suhua Sect's base in Dajie Mountain is called Xuanguang Daochang, because there is a bead embedded on the roof of the tallest building in the base. Half of the bead is exposed outside the roof, and half is exposed inside the roof. It absorbs the sun and moon during the day and night, and can illuminate the entire building at night, and also emit a hazy light outside the building.

When the name was first given, the Tianxin Sect was not happy because their sect's magic weapon was the Moon Light, but the Suhua Sect still hung a large plaque at the gate. Because of this, the Tianxin Sect was angry and did not set up their own temple on the Great Tribulation Mountain.

Therefore, when Kong Xuan was sitting on the sect master's throne on the top floor and saw the bead above his head, he felt that the light in the building was annoying, and he wished he could remove the bead tomorrow - Li Wuxiang was now the sect master of Tianxin!

She looked angry, and everyone below her seat fell silent - these people were the "teachers" of the six sects that were vassal states of the Suhua Sect on the Great Tribulation Mountain. Normally, when they saw Kong Xuan, they would call her "senior sister", and Kong Xuan would also call them "junior brother" or "junior sister".

But at this point, they all knew that they should talk as little as possible. First, because they just learned that the leader of Juque Sect was killed by Li Wuxiang and the leader of Jian Sect, and second, because someone was now bearing Kong Xuan's anger on their behalf.

Kong Jingci knelt in the hall with his head lowered.

Kong Xuan stared at her for a while, then sneered, "...My apprentice is really good, he is a traitor, and immediately becomes busy when someone says something."

"It's no wonder that the people of the Sword Sect say that we, the Thirty-Six Sects, are spineless. Li Wuxiang told you that if he died tonight, it would affect the world, and you went and said the same thing to your elders? What? Do you think that others are as stupid as you, believing whatever they hear and not daring to do anything just because of a few words?"

She was silent for a moment, staring at Kong Jingci, then suddenly slapped her hands on the armrest of the chair and shouted, "Whore! Speak!"

The word "whore" made the people from the other six sects in the room jump slightly. People in the world say "don't air your dirty laundry in public", the Suhua sect's head disciple went to help outsiders to survive, this is quite embarrassing, but it is the Suhua sect that is embarrassed.

The six people in the room were all elders of the sect. They thought to themselves that if something like this happened in the sect, even if there was a severe punishment, it would be better not to make it public. But tonight, Kong Xuan invited them all over after returning from Li Wu's stay, and scolded Kong Jingci in person, and scolded him so harshly - one of the things he should have scolded was for them to hear.

But no one spoke. Because Kong Jingci had approached six sects tonight, five of them did nothing, but also said nothing. This was a wait-and-see situation. Everyone knew what the five major sects were thinking. The five major sects might have to reshuffle. Naturally, these sects were not the ones that didn't care about their rankings. They also wanted to compete for the sixth or seventh place, or the position of the "direct line" of the sect in charge.

That is, who is so nosy that he told Kong Xuan about this? What's wrong with him? He wants to make others get scolded as well?
Kong Jingci raised his head from the ground at this time and bit his lip: "Master, I am also trying to survive."

Kong Xuan stood up suddenly, and the chair she was sitting on collapsed. "A way to live? What way to live? I told you to die, are you dead now!?"

"Disciple is..." Kong Jingci lowered his head again, "Disciple misunderstood Master's intention. Master asked me to go to Li Wuxiang, and I was thinking..."

She glanced at the remaining people, then looked away: "...I was thinking that maybe Master wanted his disciples to do this."

Kong Xuan was stunned for a moment, then laughed in anger: "Oh, so you are not stupid, but smart! You think I asked you to go there to find someone so that I can save my life - I can't kill Li Wuxiang in front of them, so I won't go, right!?"

"No." Kong Jingci said in a low voice, "I am trying to find a way to survive. I don't want to kill myself, so I don't want to see you, Master, and the Sword Sect at odds with each other."

Kong Xuan raised his face slightly: "Oh, you are so angry, just because of what I said? Okay, you don't want to? I want you to want to now-"

After she said this, she paused and glanced at the people in the room: "Li Wuxiang keeps talking about the law and inheritance. He likes to talk about rules so much. Well, I'm going to clean up the door today. See if he has the rules to care about the affairs of my Suhua Sect and whether he will come to save you!"

She raised her hand suddenly and walked quickly towards Kong Jingci. But at this moment, she saw that the great elder of Yudu Sect, Qu Hong, was not looking here, but looking outside the building, frowning and uttering a soft "eh".

She felt annoyed and was about to speak when she saw the elders from the Wuguan and Lingxi sects also looking outside the building.

She was sitting on the chair in the north, and the six people in the room were standing on both sides like her disciples. The three people from the Wuguan Sect, Lingxi Sect, and Yudu Sect were standing on the west side, facing east. The east side of the Xuanguang Tower was adjacent to the road leading to the top of the Great Tribulation Mountain, and the Suhua Residence was brightly lit, so they could clearly see the scene on the road.

Kong Xuan also frowned and looked outside the building -

I saw about a dozen people.

After passing the Great Tribulation Mountain Gate, those coming and going were all disciples from the thirty-six sects. No matter how strong or weak the sect was, they were all cultivators who had inherited the orthodox legal principles of this world. Therefore, even though their robes were not gorgeous, they were all very decent.

But now, the dozen...sixteen people walking on the mountain road were dressed like beggars in the market, and they had been beaten up.

Almost everyone had injuries. You could tell because they were wrapped in bandages. Two of the seriously injured ones were missing an arm, while those with less serious injuries also had their limbs and torsos covered with bandages.

This scene is shocking at first sight - because this kind of injury usually only occurs in mortals.

If a practitioner is injured, if it is minor, he can recover quickly by regulating his breathing for a few days. If it is serious, it will not be like them, either he will go crazy or die.

But Kong Xuan knew from just one look that no one would treat them as ordinary people - they all had swords on their waists, and when they walked up the mountain, they did not look tired at all. Even the two who were missing an arm still held their heads high and looked very energetic.

And the look in these people's eyes—they were looking left and right as they walked.

This was because it was just getting dark, and there were many sects' headquarters on both sides of the Great Tribulation Mountain Road. Many disciples of the Thirty-Six Sects had not yet gone to sleep, so there were quite a few people along the way.

These disciples were also watching the sixteen people going up the mountain from the bottom of the building, but no matter whether they were standing by the road, in the woods, or like the people in the Xuanguang Building, in the room, as long as they cast their eyes towards them, they would immediately make eye contact - one of them, with half of his head wrapped, suddenly turned his head and stared at Kong Xuan, and then withdrew his gaze as soon as it made contact.

But with just this touch, Kong Xuan could clearly see that look.

Extremely alert, but also extremely calm, as if it was not a provocation, but a beast-like instinct to figure out anyone and anything that might be spying on them in secret - the kind of look that would only appear after a bloody battle.

Kong Xuan's heart skipped a beat... a disciple of the Sword Sect!
Sixteen!
With her current cultivation level, she was not afraid of Mei Qiulu in a life-and-death fight. And she looked at the aura and steps of these people and felt that the higher level among them was only six or five Jindan. If she attacked from this floor at this moment, it would be effortless to kill them, but... But now, the disciples of the thirty-six sects where they passed were silent, some of them could not help but take a step back, and some even couldn't help but put their hands together to salute them!
Kong Xuan knew what they were thinking—these sixteen people followed Mei Qiulu and fought their way through the Xuan Sect from the west of Zhonglu and came to the Dajie Mountain!

Sword Sect! Sword Sect, they are really not dead, they are everywhere, just like cockroaches, they can never be killed! Just now there was one Mei Qiulu, and now there are sixteen more, I don’t know how many more will come! !
The anger that Kong Xuan had barely suppressed suddenly erupted. He turned his head abruptly, stared at Kong Jingci, and raised his hand.

"Senior Sister Kong." But then he heard the great elder of Yudu Sect, Qu Hong, who had not dared to fart before, say, "This punishment is too severe. She is just a young person who doesn't know much, and we have been master and disciple for decades. Alas, considering that she has good intentions, she may be stupid, but the crime does not deserve the death penalty-"

Kong Xuan turned and stared at him, and saw that Qu Hong was stunned and stopped talking.

She was about to smile coldly in her heart, but she found that Qu Hong was not looking at her, but looking outside the building again.

What are you looking at again!?

She turned her head, and was also stunned.

The sixteen Sword Sect disciples walked up the mountain and turned right, apparently heading for Li Wuxiang's residence.

But now they stopped one by one, as if they were stopped by someone.

Well done... Kong Xuan had this thought in his mind, so he went to see who did it, but he saw a woman...

...Mei Qiulu!

What is she doing here!?

Kong Xuan tightened his face and quickly walked to the side of the building to take a look - Mei Qiulu was talking to them, and after saying a few words, she raised her head and looked over here... Then she brought these sixteen people and Li Wuxiang to the Xuanguang Building.

Is she coming here? Going upstairs!?
Kong Xuan immediately took two steps back, turned around, and frowned: "I don't have any interest in cleaning up the mess tonight. You guys are busy with your work at the base, so go back. We'll discuss the alliance tomorrow."

Qu Hong of Yudu Sect also retracted his gaze at this time and said solemnly: "Master Kong, it seems that the people from Jian Sect are about to come upstairs. I am afraid they are not here with good intentions. We have been friends for decades. We absolutely cannot leave now. It is better for us to stay and see. In case there is any conflict, we can also have a few words."

As soon as he opened his mouth, the remaining five people also spoke and nodded in agreement.

It was true that they had been friends for decades, so how could Kong Xuan not know what these people were thinking? Just as he was about to scold them all, he heard Li Wuxiang's voice downstairs -

"Master Kong, Taiyi Sect Master Mei Qiulu wants to meet with you..." These two sentences sounded like human words, but the next one was not - "Are you coming down, or should we go up?"

Kong Xuan was silent for a moment, then sent a message downstairs: "It is not convenient tonight. Everyone in your faction is injured. Please choose another day."

Then Li Wuxiang said, "Sister, this should be for us to go up. She just had an argument with us and seems a little embarrassed. Sect Master Kong is a person of temperament, so let's not embarrass her and go up."

"Disciples of the Suhua Sect, listen to my orders—" Kong Xuan only said this sentence, and then he heard the sound of footsteps on the floor below. It seemed that some disciples of the Suhua Sect were arguing in low voices, but they soon stopped talking.

After a short while, a bloody smell surged up, which was the smell of the wounds on the sixteen Sword Sect disciples who came up first. Then Mei Qiulu and Li Wuxiang also went upstairs, and Kong Xuan saw Li Wuxiang's smile - she just felt that the smile was full of the evil thoughts of a villain who was successful and pretending to be powerful!
She took a deep breath, turned around and walked back to the north side of the room to sit down - but then she realized that the chair had been smashed into pieces by a palm, so she could only stand up and said coldly: "Li Wuxiang, first you... now you have forced your way into my Suhua residence. What, before the alliance meeting has even started, do you want to have a bloodbath here like outside, with corpses everywhere?!"

Li Wuxiang was stunned: "Ah? Sect Master, what do you mean? No, we are here to borrow something from you."

When he saw his face, Kong Xuan recalled his appearance and the word "bitch" he had said not long ago.

But she couldn't tell anyone about this, so she could only swallow it. She was very angry just now, but now this face calmed her anger down all of a sudden.

She counted to three in her heart, let out a slight breath, and told herself to be calmer. She just stared at him without saying a word.

There was silence in the room for a while, and then Qu Hong of Yudu Sect laughed dryly: "Speaking of which, Fellow Daoist Li is the leader of both Tianxin and Ranshan Sects. I wanted to pay you a visit before, but I didn't have the chance. Now I am here to show my respect."

As he spoke, he bowed to Li Wuxiang and said, "I am Qu Hong from Yudu, nice to meet Sect Master Li."

Kong Xuan was extremely disgusted by the smile on Li Wuxiang's face before, but now after hearing this, he immediately became serious. He stood still, with a solemn look on his face, and even straightened his sleeves and pretended to adjust the hairpin on his head to make it look like he was wearing a crown, and said, "Hello, Taoist Qu. I am polite."

The remaining five people also spoke immediately, and Li Wuxiang returned the greetings one by one.

Then Qu Hong looked at Mei Qiulu.

When he performed the salute before, he put his hands together in front of his chest and bowed his head slightly. But now, he first opened his arms wide, then put them together in front of his chest, then bowed down and said in a deep voice: "I am Qu Hong, the deputy elder of Yudu Sect, and I pay my respects to the leader of Donghuang Taiyi Sect!"

Kong Xuan felt as if a gust of wind swept through his heart - he just said he wanted to stay and talk for a few words... was that what he wanted to say? !

(End of this chapter)