In the Star River Sect’s Great Hall of Deliberation, all the peak masters, deacons and elders, except for the Patriarch and Tai Shang Liu, were gathered here once again. The last time they had gathered in such a full house was when Qi Zhi Huan had made a big fuss over the Star River Sect, but it had been three years since that incident.
Although Liu Musheng was only an Elder, because he was the only Yuan-Soul Ancestor of the Xinghe Sect, sometimes his power was even greater than that of the Sect Master Xiang Tian Yi.
The atmosphere in the sect hall was somewhat gloomy, with all the peak masters and elders sitting here being silent and speechless. It was the Elder Liu Musheng who broke this oppressive silence, “The incident three years ago has been investigated, Di Jiu and Geng Jihua brutalised sect disciples Ouyang Tao and Qiao Sa purely for the sake of spiritual stones, a cultivation resource, destroying the moral bottom line and disregarding the rules of the sect. I now make the following decision on behalf of the Star River Sect, expelling the outer disciples of the Star River Sect, Di Jiu and Geng Jihua, from the Star River Sect, and at the same time issuing a sect-wide wanted notice.”
The peak masters and elders in the main hall all looked towards the sect master Xiang Tianyi, it was Xiang Tianyi who had made the decision that even if the sect was destroyed, he would not expel the sect disciples Di Jiu and Geng Jihua. Faced with the oppression of the Qi Family Merchant House, the Xinghe Sect had just died.
Now that Liu Musheng has made this kind of decision, Xiang Tianyi will definitely stand out against it. In fact most of the peak masters and elders of the Xinghe Sect supported Xiang Tianyi, a sect without a backbone, there was indeed no need for this sect to exist.
Likewise the elders and peak masters here were understanding of the decision of the Supreme Elder Liu Musheng, rumour had it that one of the Qi Clan’s Yuan Soul Ancestors who had gone out in secret had returned.
This was not the key to Liu Musheng’s decision, the key was that news of the Qi Family Merchant House branch being exterminated was now being spread around. Who would dare to exterminate the Qi Family Merchant House branch? If you look at the entire Extreme Night Continent, I guess only Di Jiu, that bold guy, would have the guts.
Don’t look at Di Jiu’s disguise as a white-haired old man, and there was no news of Geng Jiehua, just use your brain and think about it, Di Jiu is extremely suspicious. Otherwise, the Star River Sect would not have suddenly investigated the cause of the murder of Ouyang Tao back then only three years later.
Of course, this did not exclude the rest of Qi Family Merchant House’s enemies from doing so. But what kind of style of work does the Qi Family Merchant House have? As long as there was suspicion, it was a power that dared to make a move. If Di Jiu had a little bit of sense when he robbed the Qi family’s merchant house in Numahai Town, then the next few Qi family merchant houses that were destroyed by Di Jiu, then Di Jiu had no sense at all.
Many people would say that the Qi family’s merchant houses wanted Di Jiu everywhere, and that was why Di Jiu robbed the Qi family’s merchant houses in return. The Qi family merchant house would not think so.
What puzzled everyone was that Xiang Tianyi did not stand up against it or say anything.
Even Patriarch Xiang Tian Yi did not come out to speak, the rest of the elders and peak masters naturally would not come out to speak even more.
After no one came forward to object, he continued, “As the head of the clan, Xiang Tianyi has been overly indulgent towards the clan’s disciples, so I now announce that Xiang Tianyi will step down as the head of the clan and Elder WoC will take over. This is not an honourable and praiseworthy matter, and Elder WoCuo’s succession to the position of Patriarch will be simple, as long as he informs the major sects of the Extreme Night Continent. Do you all have any objections regarding this matter?”
“I do not agree.” River Lotus Peak Master Wu Zhen Zhen stood up without hesitation and said, “Xiang Tian Yi, as the Patriarch of my Xinghe Sect, has contributed a lot to the sect, only Patriarch Xiang can lead the sect to go higher and further.”
“I also disagree ……”
Following Wu Zhenzhen, several elders and peak masters in succession stood up to oppose.
Without waiting for Liu Musheng to speak, Xiang Tian Yi himself stood up, “During the time I took over the clan, I did not bring the clan towards greater prosperity, and even made the clan fall to the ranks of second-rate clans in the Extreme Night Continent. During this period, I even caused several Golden Dan elders to fall, which had a great impact on the sect. I agree with Taishang Liu’s opinion and withdraw from the position of Patriarch, while leaving the sect to go out for trials.”
Even Patriarch Xiang Tian Yi himself said this, even though everyone knew that the fall of the sect had nothing to do with Xiang Tian Yi, everyone could only stop talking.
Many people vaguely felt that it was likely that the Star River Sect would fall down in this way. As Sovereign Xiang Tianyi said earlier, would plucking the Xinghe Sect out of the Qi Family Merchant House’s wrath be enough to revive the Xinghe Sect?
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“Brother Jiu, this North Ridge City is so big, I’ve never seen a cultivation city as big as North Ridge City in all our travels. No wonder the Qi Family Merchant House’s Northern Domain headquarters is being built in North Ridge City.” Geng Jie, who was disguised as a wandering scattered cultivator, couldn’t help but sigh as he looked at the tall and majestic North Ridge City.
Di Jiu was currently disguised as a teenager, and after his disguise, he looked a bit youthful.
After a year of wandering and running around, Di Jiu was already able to refine medium-grade magic weapons, as he changed his disguise almost every day, and his disguise skills were equally remarkable.
Starting from Marsh Sea Town, he took Geng Jiehua to destroy four merchant building branches in a month’s time. However, after destroying the four branches of the Qi family in one month, Di Jiu had not made any move against the Qi family for a year. It was not that Di Jiu had given up on destroying the Qi Family Merchant House, but he was planning to do a big job, which was to destroy the Qi Family Merchant House’s Northern Domain headquarters in North Ridge City.
Now he was not yet a level five formation master, but a level four formation could be set up at will. His cultivation level had even crossed from the fourth level of Foundation Establishment to the sixth level of Foundation Establishment.
Geng Ji’s strength had likewise come to the fourth level of Foundation Establishment, and with a giant axe plus a handful of thunder swords, even an ordinary Foundation Establishment Perfection might not be his match.
“Hehehe, North Ridge City is the Qi Family Merchant House’s old home in the North Region, there are old undead Qi Family Yuan-Soul here, aren’t you afraid?” Di Jiu gave a heated smile.
Geng Jie cut, “There are four Qi family merchant houses that Ninth Brother and I have destroyed along the way, besides Ninth Brother, you also said that the most dangerous places are the safest. Ninth Brother, who do you think is the guy who followed us and also destroyed three Qi family merchant houses?”
Di Jiu and Geng Jie had exterminated four Qi Family Commercial House branches one after another in the initial month, but at the same time, another three Qi Family Commercial House branches were exterminated by someone. What people outside saw was that a total of seven Qi family merchant houses had been killed off, all of which were counted on Di Jiu, who was disguised as a white-haired old man. Only Di Jiu and Geng Jiab were aware that they had actually only exterminated four of them.
“Not bad, there is progress, we didn’t come here for safety this time. I’ll stay in the Sky Ridge Rest House later, you go out and ask for information, then tell me what you’ve found out. As for exterminating the other three Qi family merchant buildings, whether this guy is trying to pull hatred on us or not don’t bother. There is a saying that the enemy of an enemy is a helper.” Di Jiu was intentionally letting Geng Jiab do something delicate.
Over the past year, Geng Jiab has long been different from the pure teenager he was when he was under Di Jiu’s tutelage. Although he was still not a thick-headed person, he was much more flexible than before that.
In the words of Di Jiu’s education, “Repaying grievances with righteousness is not what we do, we practice revenge for revenge and grace for grace. If you don’t repay a kindness, you are an animal, if you don’t repay a grudge, you deserve to be humble. If people respect you a foot, you need to respect them a foot. If people hate you a foot, why not send a foot back?”
In Geng’s mind, Jiu was more than just a foot of evil. They had destroyed four branches of the Qi Family Merchant House along the way, and now that Jiu had come to North Ridge City without saying why, he had guessed that Jiu should want to take out the headquarters of the Qi Family Merchant House in North Ridge City.
They had also killed several Jindan cultivators along the way, but those were all small places. North Ridge City was home to a Yuan-Soul Ancestor, and the thought of going up against a Yuan-Soul Ancestor made Geng Ji’s heart beat a little.
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Before entering North Ridge City, Di Jiu had inquired about it, the Sky Ridge Rest House was one of the three most luxurious rest houses in North Ridge City, and the only one that did not belong to the Qi family.
Nowadays, he had more than 100,000 top-grade spirit stones on him, and even more middle-grade and lower-grade spirit stones, so he naturally had to stay in the best rest house when he came to North Ridge City.
As long as it was not a special day, there were plenty of rooms in this kind of luxurious rest house. Di Jiu directly opened a large suite and even booked it for a month.
After entering the room, Di Jiu began to set up the protective formation. In this kind of big rest house, guests were qualified to set up their own trapping and killing protective formations.
When Di Jiu had completely set up the protective formation, Geng Jie, who was inquiring about the news, also returned to the Rest House.
“Brother Jiu, I just heard a bad news ……” said Geng Jiab in a bit of panic as soon as he entered.
Di Jiu waved his hand and said calmly, “There is no need to panic about anything, the big deal is that we are just entering reincarnation, what is there to panic about?”
Geng Jiab reacted, Di Jiu had told him many times along the way to be calm when things went wrong. Only by being calm could he handle things calmly.
Geng Ji’s greatest strength was that he was a quick learner, even if he didn’t remember the first time, he would definitely remember the second time. After calming down Geng Ji said, “Ninth Brother, I just heard the news that the Xinghe Sect has expelled the two of us from the sect and deprived Sovereign Xiang of his position as Sovereign, not only that, the Xinghe Sect has also issued a wanted notice for us.”
After saying that, Geng Jie found that Di Jiu wasn’t half surprised, and somewhat couldn’t help but ask, “Brother Jiu, you’re not surprised?”
Di Jiu sat down and smiled, “What’s so strange about it, it’s just expected. It would be strange if the Star River Sect didn’t expel us from the sect.”
He had disguised himself as a white-haired old man and destroyed four merchant houses of the Qi family in a row, no, I should say seven merchant houses. Even if the Qi family didn’t find evidence that he had done it, he would still be the first to be suspected by the Qi family’s merchant houses.
“Ninth Brother, are you saying that the Qi Family’s merchant houses might have guessed that we did it? Then why do we need to disguise ourselves?” Geng Ji asked in surprise.
Di Jiu explained, “They guessed that we did it, but we must not let them have positive proof. The Xinghe Sect also guessed that it might have something to do with us, and if the Xinghe Sect still doesn’t drive us out, that’s the way to seek death. Before, the whole clan of the Xinghe Sect resisted the Qi Family Merchant House to the death, and that was because the Xinghe Sect held the truth. Now that the Qi Clan has been challenged to the bottom line, if the Xinghe Sect resists to the death again, it will only lead to its destruction.
After the Star River Sect expels us, even if the Qi Family Merchant House wants to destroy the Star River Sect, they will have to capture us first and then concoct evidence. As long as we are not caught, the Star River Sect will be safe for one day.”
“So what are we going to do now?”
“Stepping on the plate, cultivating while just looking for the right moment. Leave the clan’s affairs alone for now.”