Chapter 235: Whitewashing
“What a joke, this kid is cunning as a fox, how could he fall for your trick!” Lu Xian dismissed the Saintess’s words, urging the still motionless Lu Yun: “What are you standing there for, hurry up and go!”
Yet Lu Yun still stood there without moving…
Lu Xian’s smile instantly froze on his face, his eyes bulging wide, staring at Lu Yun in shock: “You kid didn’t really fall for that girl’s trick, did you?!”
Lu Yun squeezed out an ugly smile toward Lu Xian and nodded awkwardly.
“Why don’t you go die!” Lu Xian nearly passed out from anger, blowing his beard and glaring as he wanted to kill Lu Yun. He never imagined that after using the self-injury ploy and turning the scheme against them, all his painstaking scheming had turned into a joke just like that!
“Hahaha!” Now it was Sun Yuanlang’s turn to laugh uncontrollably, pointing at the bitter-faced Lu Xian, laughing until tears were about to come down. “This time you’ve lifted a stone only to drop it on your own foot, haven’t you?!” After laughing, Sun Yuanlang’s voice turned cold: “Yingxiu, kill Lu Xian!”
“Yes, Master.” Su Yingxiu had a pitch-black dagger in her hand, glanced expressionlessly at Lu Yun, then walked toward Lu Xian.
“Save me!” Lu Yun suddenly shouted at the top of his lungs.
“No one will save you.” Su Yingxiu grew even more displeased looking at Lu Yun; this kid’s performance today was so pathetic that she despised him from the bottom of her heart.
Lu Xian also felt he had lost face, nearly doubting his own vision. But he still said somewhat dejectedly to Lu Yun: “Right now everyone is in danger, those people will only sweep the snow from their own doorsteps.”
“True, then I’ll change my wording.” Lu Yun nodded deeply in agreement. Lu Xian thought he was giving up on calling for help, but unexpectedly heard Lu Yun immediately shout loudly: “The Imperial Seal of the State is in Sun Yuanlang’s hands!”
“What?!” Sun Yuanlang’s expression changed drastically upon hearing this, his gaze toward Lu Yun filled with undisguised killing intent!
“What?!” Before Lu Yun’s words had even finished, several figures appeared in this Control Room.
“Pei Bang, Pei Yuqiu, Cui Dingzhi, Xie Ding!” Seeing the four Grandmasters appear, Sun Yuanlang was not surprised. His pupils contracted as he sneered arrogantly: “There are four more, come out all at once?”
“Hehe,” the two old eunuchs Zuo Yanqing and Du Hui slowly walked in from outside the door upon hearing the sound. Zuo Yanqing smiled without smiling at Sun Yuanlang: “Sect Leader Sun’s divine skill is world-shaking, truly eye-opening!”
Mei Yu and Wei Yang also followed one after the other behind the two old eunuchs, the latter even explaining unnecessarily: “We just heard the commotion and came to check what was going on.”
“As expected, all are here.” Sun Yuanlang looked at the eight Grandmasters before him and sarcastically said without politeness: “Don’t you think about how you got trapped in here? Are you going to fall for it again just because of one shout?”
“This…” These Grandmasters had indeed only hurried over upon hearing the rumbling wind and thunder of battle. Then upon suddenly hearing Lu Yun shout that the Imperial Seal was on Sun Yuanlang, everyone couldn’t hold back and appeared one after another.
But thinking carefully, what Sun Yuanlang said did make some reason; wasn’t this stumble enough? How could they believe every wind as rain?
The Grandmasters’ gazes toward Lu Yun carried a bit more scrutiny.
“If not for the Imperial Seal of the State, would my Master fight so desperately with Sun Yuanlang?!” Lu Yun’s single faint sentence dispelled the Grandmasters’ doubts. Indeed, there was no irresolvable hatred heard between Lu Xian and Sun Yuanlang, and right now Lu Xian was clearly fighting desperately with Sun Yuanlang. If not for the Imperial Seal, then what exactly for?!
The Grandmasters’ gazes turned back to Sun Yuanlang.
“Don’t listen to that kid’s nonsense!” Sun Yuanlang was practically exploding with rage. He glared fiercely at Lu Yun, warning him not to spout rubbish anymore.
“Whether I’m spouting nonsense, just search him and you’ll know?” Lu Yun was completely unafraid of Sun Yuanlang, still infuriatingly saying.
At this moment, Sun Yuanlang truly regretted not slapping this kid to death earlier.
“Hahaha, search this seat’s body?” Sun Yuanlang laughed as if hearing the biggest joke: “No one who dares to do that has been born yet!”
“What is there to fear? He was hit by my Master’s Great Central Supreme Fist, right now he has no power to even tie up a chicken.” Lu Yun immediately exposed Sun Yuanlang’s bluff: “But you all need to hurry, in the time of a cup of tea, he’ll recover his cultivation!”
“Lu Yun, this seat swears to tear you into ten thousand pieces!” Sun Yuanlang was practically driven mad; in his life, he’d never been so mercilessly ridiculed!
“Look, if he didn’t have his cultivation completely gone, why would he waste words with me? He’d just slap me to death directly!” Lu Yun fearlessly hit the nail on the head.
‘Indeed, this kid isn’t lying.’ The group of Grandmasters didn’t make a sound, but they already deeply believed Lu Yun’s words.
Sun Yuanlang’s face was ashen, and he simply stopped speaking—he really couldn’t speak! As the Sect Leader of Taiping Dao, he’d never encountered such a situation where he had no way to argue back…
Although Sun Yuanlang said nothing to the Saintess, from Lu Xian’s reaction earlier and Lu Yun’s mix of true and false words just now, she could already infer that her Master had likely gone to the Lu Clan first before coming here and very possibly obtained the Imperial Seal…
She also clearly understood why Lu Yun dared to publicly expose the matter of the Imperial Seal now! Because Taiping Dao had previously deceived the Eight Great Clans, saying the Imperial Seal was in Sun Yuanlang’s hands, so in front of these Grandmasters, Sun Yuanlang absolutely could not mention that the Lu Clan had once seized the Imperial Seal.
Because according to Taiping Dao’s claim, the Imperial Seal had always been in Sun Yuanlang’s hands. And the only one who could seize the Imperial Seal from Sun Yuanlang’s hands, aside from that person meditating on Guiyin Peak of Mount Taishi, there was no second in this world!
So the Lu Clan, both now and in the past, had no relation whatsoever to the Imperial Seal.
Since the Lu Clan had already washed clean and gotten off the hook, this kid could naturally speak freely about the Imperial Seal!
Although Lu Yun had pushed him into unprecedented danger, the Saintess Su Yingxiu’s gaze toward Lu Yun was much softer than before…
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Pei Bang and Pei Yuqiu quickly exchanged a look, deciding to act decisively.
“Haha, Nephew Lu speaks reason,” Pei Yuqiu rubbed his hands and slowly walked toward Sun Yuanlang: “Sect Leader Sun is a hegemon who prospers the compliant and perishes the defiant; if he truly couldn’t act, how could he let a junior fabricate freely here?!”
“Indeed.” Pei Bang walked side by side with Pei Yuqiu, guarding against Sun Yuanlang suddenly striking. He coldly looked at Sun Yuanlang: “Sect Leader Sun, better hand over the thing proactively? Otherwise, it won’t be dignified later.” As he spoke, he crooked his finger, preparing to cripple Sun Yuanlang’s martial arts regardless.
“Fine.” Sun Yuanlang seemed to finally recognize the situation and immediately changed his tune: “That thing is indeed on me, I’ll hand it over to your Pei Clan right now. Please don’t violate our previous agreement or kick this seat when he’s down.” With that, he reached into his sleeve to rummage.
Pei Bang remained unmoved, channeling true qi to his fingertip, about to shatter Sun Yuanlang’s pipa bones!
A Grandmaster without true essence protection was still a flesh-and-blood body prone to injury…
“Hold it!” Pei Bang heard an elderly low shout, and his vision blurred to see the two old eunuchs Zuo Yanqing and Du Hui already blocking between his uncle and nephew and Sun Yuanlang.
“Two Lords Eunuch, set other matters aside for now and let me first completely eliminate this demonic Daoist’s threat.” Pei Bang couldn’t help furrowing his brows. Although his uncle and nephew’s cultivation was much higher than these two old eunuchs, the two old eunuchs’ movement technique and swordplay were extremely unique, fierce and swift beyond even his uncle and nephew, making Pei Bang quite wary.
“No need for your blabber!” Zuo Yanqing coldly glanced at him and extended his hand to Sun Yuanlang: “Hand over the thing, and this one can guarantee your safety!”
“No need for your blabber!” Zuo Yanqing coldly glanced at him and extended his hand to Sun Yuanlang: “Hand over the thing, and this one can guarantee your safety!”
