The Happy Farmer Wanderer-Chapter 780: Nine Truth Palace Makes a Move_1

Strolling amidst the widespread devastation, Jing Yan truly resembled a celestial untouched by the mundane world, with every gesture exuding grace and composure. Even in killing, she managed to make it seem elegant.

She glanced toward the distant horizon, making no move to chase after the middle-aged man with the horse face who had fled.

Redirecting her gaze, she merely lifted her wrist slightly, and the myriad of densely packed ice swords once again vanished into the heavens and earth.

Disappearing along with them was the Golden Core Stage cultivator who had been turned into a porcupine.

It was as if he had never existed in this world at all; he vanished in an instant without a trace, cleaner than the middle-aged man with the horse face’s escape, not even a stifled groan left behind.

Having done all this, she calmly and indifferently walked to Li Qing’s side, smiled brightly, and asked, "My love, are you unharmed?"

"I’m fine, just a pure spectator; nothing could hurt me. How about you? Are you injured?" Li Qing asked with concern.

With a gentle, shallow smile hanging on her lips, Jing Yan tenderly shook her head, "I am unscathed."

Xuan Chen Zhenren, who was standing beside Li Qing, placed his hands in his sleeves and silently looked up at the sky.

Being force-fed a dose of dog food out of the blue, for a geezer who had lived more than three hundred years, the damage was indeed a bit too much. The uncomfortable feeling crept up from the soles of his feet and overwhelmed his forehead.

Dian Chunqiu and Huan Ling Ji approached.

"Senior, may we consider this matter settled?" Dian Chunqiu asked after a slight hesitation, feeling some pressure from asking such a question, his face not entirely comfortable.

"I presume this is Director Dian?" Jing Yan looked towards Dian Chunqiu with a detached gaze and asked, "I wonder how you deal with bandits and robbers?"

"Of course... we investigate and enforce the law without exception!" Dian Chunqiu said with gravity.

"Then, can this matter of mine be considered concluded?" Jing Yan retorted, "For over a thousand years, I have been one of the masters of this place. Yet suddenly, someone tells me that an innocent man bears the brunt of possessing a jade, asking me to comply obediently. Do you know what that feels like? It’s as if I’m clearly alive, yet in their eyes, I’m already dead."

Dian Chunqiu nodded, "I think I understand what you mean, Senior."

"The Ninth Bureau surely doesn’t want a fight only to then sit down and carve up the spoils, do they?" Xuan Chen Zhenren suddenly asked, "If Long Eyebrow, that brainless fellow with overly long eyebrows, didn’t make it clear to you earlier, then let this old Taoist explain it once more."

"Anyone who covets Qi King’s Palace is making an enemy of the Nine Truth Palace; we aren’t afraid to start another war in the Cultivation World! All these years, talents have emerged one after another; it seems they’re not satisfied with the status quo, wishing to step on the reputation of the Nine Truth Palace to enhance their own prestige."

Dian Chunqiu’s face showed bitterness, "The real person’s propensity for killing is a bit high these days, isn’t it?"

"Is it me getting too bloodthirsty?" Xuan Chen Zhenren yelled, his eyes wide with fury, "Did I start this mess? I gave in to all their conditions, even the Queen Consort of Qi offered them the chance for Divinity Transformation, but is the Sima Family’s old dog satisfied? Still using force to threaten, as if he could represent damn anyone in the world."

"Setting everything else aside, but the Sima and Wu Families must be destroyed! That is the stance of the Nine Truth Palace! I have already sent a secret command to return to the mountain, the disciples from the Nine Truth Palace Enforcement Hall have already descended, if we don’t wipe out these two sanctimonious scoundrels, when the great upheaval truly comes there will be even more of them popping up, you want peace in the Cultivation World, but peace can’t be achieved without killing."

"In the times of great struggle, which of those old farts didn’t fight and kill for their status? Do you think they’ll give a damn about your rules? If it really comes down to a bloodbath, the old divide between good and evil will surely resurface, will you still be able to hold them down by then?"

Dian Chunqiu was startled by Xuan Chen Zhenren’s tirade, "True One wishes to demonstrate the martial might of the Nine Truth Palace to the world, but is there really a need to rush it? I think it would be more appropriate to let Bureau Nine take the lead in handling this."

"Fart your mother’s stinking fart, am I the kind of person who craves power? Show off martial might, I’ll show off your grandpa’s martial might!" Xuan Chen Zhenren, now fuming with anger and eyes bulging, almost pointed at Dian Chunqiu’s nose and cursed, "If it weren’t for these scumbags thinking that our Nine Truth Palace is just a bunch of pushovers to bully however they like, do you think I’d want to start killing again?"

"I practice the Way of Formlessness, I’m supposed to be calm and equanimous, without desires or demands, you son of a bitch, I’ve come to realize that you really are..."

"I’ve seen enough to understand that all of you from Bureau Nine haven’t grasped a fact, that the Queen Consort of Qi is the Sixth Elder of our Nine Truth Palace!"

Though scolded bloody, Dian Chunqiu didn’t make a single peep, just silently endured it all.

"True One, could you please speak with a bit more politeness? After all, he is our Director, give him some face," Huan Ling Ji said with a giggle.

Her words sounded like she was speaking up for Dian Chunqiu, but the teasing mockery in her expression made it seem more like she was enjoying Dian Chunqiu’s humiliation.

"You old fart, shut your mouth!" Xuan Chen Zhenren waved his hand and cursed, "We young people are arguing, why is an old codger like you putting on airs!"

The smile vanished from Huan Ling Ji’s face in an instant, a strong murderous aura bursting forth from her, "Xuan Chen, what did you just say? I am an...old fart, is that it?"

Xuan Chen Zhenren lifted his eyelids, glanced at Huan Ling Ji, and his figure suddenly vanished from the spot, with only his voice spreading in all directions, "Are you saying you, a woman over four hundred years old, compared to us youngsters barely three hundred, aren’t an old fart? You get unhappy when called out? It’s the truth!"

Suddenly, intense flames engulfed Huan Ling Ji, the fire seemed sentient, lashing out tongues of flame at a certain spot in the air, "Xuan Chen, you old ghost, come out here, I’ll kill you!"

Li Qing looked on in astonishment as all of this unfolded, his expression shifting from confusion to numbness.

He had come to see that not one among these people was normal.

That Huan Ling Ji looked to be a young woman in her twenties when in fact she had already lived more than four hundred years, older even than Xuan Chen Zhenren. Truly, appearances are deceptive and there is no measure for the sea’s water; moreover, her strength was terrifying indeed.

Long Eyebrow Zhenren stepped forward and gave Huan Ling Ji a bow, saying, "Please calm down, Miss Huan Ling. My master has always enjoyed his little jokes, don’t take it personally. Let’s discuss the important matters instead."

Compared to Xuan Chen Zhenren, Long Eyebrow Zhenren seemed more like a venerable senior of the Nine Truth Palace, much steadier in his conduct.