Dashing Student-Chapter 1358: Breaking the Rules

Upon the grand hall, Chen Nan and Lin Didi stood there, one calmly, the other with eyes ablaze.

"Alliance Hierarch, are you going to shield Jue Mingzi? If so, I’ll have no further complaint, it means there’s no place for my master and me in the Righteous Alliance, and no one will care if we’re killed!"

Lin Didi’s words were quite severe, making Jiang Wuyue furrow his brow.

He hadn’t expected Chen Nan to truly dare to kill Yi Mingzi, but recalling Chen Nan’s insistence on Yi Mingzi accompanying him, it showed he had planned well in advance.

Helpless, Jiang Wuyue turned to look at Master Canglan: "Canglan, is this what you mean?"

Master Canglan did not speak, but sometimes silence is the best answer.

"Alright, alright, I know." Jiang Wuyue was displeased at heart; Master Canglan always looked down on him, thanks to his cultivation.

This time, regardless if it was Chen Nan or someone else, he would still protect them.

Unexpectedly, without waiting for Jiang Wuyue to speak, Chen Nan spoke first: "Alliance Hierarch, I have successfully brought back the reply from the Master of the Demon Sect, Tu Wanshan."

"Moreover, I do not wish to trouble the Alliance Hierarch; I will take full responsibility—I killed Yi Mingzi!"

Master Canglan’s beard bristled with anger, glaring at Chen Nan as though he wanted to devour him.

Jiang Wuyue’s eyes widened: "Cough, cough, you must have fallen into an ambush by the Demon Sect, right? Was it some prodigy of the Demon Sect who killed Yi Mingzi?"

"It wasn’t a Demon Sect prodigy, it was me!" Chen Nan still remained unperturbed.

Jiang Wuyue cursed Master Canglan in his heart, then cursed Chen Nan. Couldn’t Chen Nan see he was providing an escape route for him?

"Jue Mingzi, you must be careful with your words."

"I’m certainly careful, but it was Yi Mingzi who sought death himself, what could I do?"

Master Canglan was trembling with rage: "How could my apprentice seek death on his own? You must be colluding with the Demon Sect, according to the rules, you must be exterminated!"

He intended to use such open schemes, leaving Chen Nan no choice.

Either he faced Master Canglan’s wrath, or he admitted collusion with the Demon Sect.

No matter the outcome, Chen Nan must die.

However, having returned to the Righteous Alliance, how could Chen Nan be unprepared?

He retrieved a spirit talisman, raised his hand and tossed it into the air; the talisman floated silently, bursting into dense fog.

Within the fog, a clear scene emerged, like a mirror.

This spirit talisman was known as a "Memory Talisman," capable of preserving past influences for a period of time; the recorded image was when Yi Mingzi and Chen Nan first arrived at Inverted Mountain.

In the image, Yi Mingzi arrogantly wanted to kill Chen Nan, even admitting to colluding with a Demon Cultivator, and Wu Hong standing by did not refute.

The image abruptly stopped, but what would happen next was self-evident.

After watching, Lin Didi immediately pointed at Chen Nan and screamed: "Impossible, absolutely impossible, how could my junior apprentice brother collude with a Demon Cultivator? This must be slander!"

But at this moment, the other Elders, including Jiang Wuyue, all wore grim expressions.

"Canglan, what do you have to say?"

Master Canglan never expected his apprentice would be exposed so publicly; momentarily enraged, he stammered about his lips but could not speak.

Even Yi Mingzi’s collusion with a Demon Cultivator was tacitly approved by him; in essence, wasn’t he the one who harmed his apprentice?

"Yi Mingzi deserved his fate; today I will expel him from the sect!"

"Master!" Lin Didi’s eyes widened, finding it very unbelievable.

But the situation was settled; Chen Nan killed Yi Mingzi and was not at fault, but instead made a contribution to the Righteous Alliance; before the eyes of all, Master Canglan could not suppress the truth.

He stood up and brushed his sleeves as he left, no one noticed his tightly clenched fist within his sleeve cuff.

"Phew, that was close." Chen Nan secretly exhaled a breath of relief in his heart.

The plan to use the Memory Talisman as evidence was Tu Susu’s original strategy, not even telling Chen Nan in advance, she only handed the Memory Talisman to him upon his return.

Now it appeared that Tu Susu, living among the Demon Sect, had much more experience with such matters.

"Jue Mingzi, you’ve made a major contribution again, what reward would you like?"

Jiang Wuyue looked at Chen Nan, his face carrying a faint smile.

Chen Nan thought for a moment and suddenly brightened up: "Alliance Hierarch, I would like the Xuanyuan Immortal Embryo Fruit."

The Xuanyuan Immortal Embryo Fruit is a Fifth Grade Spiritual Medicine, one of the materials needed to refine the Breaking Infant Pill. Since learning that he must consume the Breaking Infant Pill to step into the Nascent Soul Realm, he has intended to search for materials.

Unfortunately, the materials in the pill recipe were too precious, especially the three main ingredients, he had never heard of them.

Jiang Wuyue’s expression changed, his face showed a helpless smile: "We don’t have it."

"Then... Enlightenment Dew?" Chen Nan tried asking.

"Still don’t have it, and we don’t have Breakthrough Flower either."

The Xuanyuan Immortal Embryo Fruit, Enlightenment Dew, and Breakthrough Flower are the three main ingredients for refining the Breaking Infant Pill.

Chen Nan also anticipated this, given that the Breaking Infant Pill is hard to come by; thus Nascent Soul Realm cultivators are so rare, had the Righteous Alliance possessed it, they might have gained additional Nascent Soul Realm battle power.

"If that’s the case, then please look at the list, if there’s anything you can provide me with, it would be great."

He handed a list to Jiang Wuyue, indicating the remaining spiritual materials besides the main ones to refine the Breaking Infant Pill, all were various precious spiritual medicines.

"Alright, I’ll give you these." Jiang Wuyue readily agreed this time, perhaps thinking to aid Chen Nan in crossing into the Nascent Soul Realm sooner.

At that time, their Righteous Alliance will gain another invincible strong cultivator.

"From now on, stay in the Righteous Alliance at ease, I understand Canglan won’t let you go, and this time he will no longer follow any rules." Jiang Wuyue kindly reminded.

Chen Nan’s heart sank, a Nascent Soul Realm strong cultivator who doesn’t play by the rules is extremely frightening, especially this Nascent Soul Realm cultivator had reached the Ninth Layer of the Nascent Soul Realm, standing atop the Nine Provinces.

"I understand, Your Excellency."

He nodded and left after receiving his reward, immediately renting a small cave dwelling on Immortal Dome Island.

In the sky above, Lin Didi stood beside Master Canglan, angrily said: "Master, are you really going to let it go like this? Setting aside my junior apprentice brother’s mistake, doesn’t Jue Mingzi have any fault at all?"

"If he hadn’t provoked my junior apprentice brother, how would my junior apprentice brother want to kill him? Ultimately, it’s all his fault!"

Master Canglan showed no expression, but everyone knew he was truly furious at this moment.

"Heh, does the Righteous Alliance truly believe they can protect him? Today I will kill him and avenge my son!"

While they spoke, they didn’t realize a shadow was quietly moving outside the cave dwelling below, while inside Chen Nan was still cultivating in meditation.

Just as night fell, Master Canglan, who waited in the sky, suddenly struck, with staggering mana condensing into a giant palm, smashing downwards.

Rumble!

The cave dwelling collapsed, and the person inside also shattered under the giant hand.