There Are Still Experts

On this day, the setting sun was as red as blood.

A farmer heading home looked at the yellow mist in the distance, could not help but pat his companion's shoulder, and sighed with emotion:

"Old Wang, the sunset glow today is really red."

"Yes."

Old Wang nodded, stopped in his tracks, and joined him in admiring this rare and beautiful scenery.

Suddenly, the two saw a wild boar with a pitch-black body and scarlet eye sockets dart out of the forest at the village entrance, followed by a second, a third, and soon a massive horde, rushing toward the village in a dense, dark swarm.

"It is... it is demonic beasts!"

Old Wang's face turned pale, his calves trembling uncontrollably.

He had no time to consider why there were so many demonic beasts within the territory of the Qingxuan Sect; his instincts had already taken over.

"Run! Run!"

The two turned and fled, but there were still a few children playing at the village entrance, standing frozen in place, staring blankly at the charging demonic beasts.

"Er Gouzi! Run!"

Old Wang shouted, tearing his lungs out, but the children seemed scared silly, standing motionless.

Seeing the beast tide drawing closer and closer.

Rumble—

Dark clouds suddenly gathered between heaven and earth, and a fiery red figure stood across the void, stepping on a green fire lotus. She stared coldly at the surging beast tide below and gently waved her right hand.

One by one, fire lotuses descended from the sky, burning the heavens.

All the approaching demonic beasts did not even have time to utter a scream before they were burned to ashes by the Myriad Beast Green Lotus Flame.

"Is that Medusa?!"

A peak master recognized that figure.

Although she had turned into the appearance of a little girl, the arrogance and aura in her bones could not deceive anyone.

"Why would she help us?"

"Never mind that for now! Taking care of the beast tide is more important!"

As soon as Medusa appeared, the surrounding magical beasts instantly settled down a lot. A large number of low-level magical beasts began to retreat, leaving only the high-level ones unaffected.

But this was already enough.

The high-level magical beasts were resisted by the joint efforts of many peak masters.

With Medusa's help against the low-level beast tide, the pressure plummeted. The remaining magical beasts collided with each other, trampling a portion of their own kind to death first.

The rest could be easily dealt with by the disciples of the Qingxuan Sect.

With a single strike, Lu Shouzhuo could skewer more than a dozen third-tier demonic beasts on his sword, just like a stick of candied haws.

Jian Wuhen swept away a massive swath with a single horizontal slash.

On the other side, feeling the abundant power in her body, Medusa could not help but laugh out loud. With her hands on her hips, she looked incredibly radiant and high-spirited!

"This Queen has never felt so refreshed!"

"You lowly things, all of you get lost! Ahahahaha!"

"I throw! I throw! I throw, throw, throw!"

"Eeehahahaha!"

With a flick of her hands, she tossed out two fire lotuses that exploded amidst the beast herd, burning the demonic beasts until they howled in pain and scattered in all directions, crashing into other beasts in a lively, chaotic mess.

Ye Shu stood behind her, the corner of his mouth twitching incessantly.

How was this a Snake-People Queen? This was clearly a little girl who had gone mad with play.

Sure enough, when a person shrinks, their IQ shrinks too.

Look, she has completely turned into an airhead.

"Qingxue..." Qin Ke'er, standing in the distance, suddenly nudged Lin Qingxue with her elbow and pointed at the girl in the red dress beside Ye Shu: "That seems to be Medusa from the Snake-Person City..."

Lin Qingxue naturally saw it too.

And she clearly understood what her senior sister meant to imply.

"He... he will not betray me..." Lin Qingxue said with a slight lack of confidence.

"Why?"

"Because I believe him, he promised me."

Lin Qingxue recalled the guarantee she made Ye Shu give, and her heart finally settled back into her chest a little.

It is fine, it should just be a cooperative relationship.

I definitely will not get cheated on.

Definitely not!

On the other side, with Medusa's assistance, the Qingxuan Sect's pressure in resisting the beast tide plummeted.

Those low-level demonic beasts shivered under the suppression of her bloodline, not daring to approach at all, while those high-level demonic beasts were firmly entangled by the peak masters.

Whoosh!

Suddenly, a golden light pierced the clouds.

The entire world was illuminated, as bright as day.

Li Daoyuan's figure appeared in the void. His gaze swept over the crowd resisting the beast tide, and he nodded in satisfaction.

Not bad, unafraid of life and death, protecting mortals.

This is the righteous path.

It was foreseeable that after this battle, many new disciples of the Qingxuan Sect would experience an elevation in their state of mind.

However, when his gaze swept past the little girl playing with firecrackers, Li Daoyuan paused for a moment.

"Medusa?"

His brows furrowed slightly, clearly recognizing this Snake-People Queen whom he had met once in the Snake-Person City.

"Why is she here?"

But now was not the time to look into this.

Li Daoyuan withdrew his gaze and raised his right hand.

"The universe is boundless, from heaven and earth I borrow the law—"

His voice was not loud, but it clearly entered the ears of everyone present.

Everyone raised their heads, looking at the figure above.

"Sect Master? The Sect Master is here!"

"We are saved!"

Under the fanatical gazes of the crowd, Li Daoyuan gently closed his five fingers. A bizarre ripple instantly echoed through the void, rapidly spreading across every demonic beast present.

Swoosh!

All the demonic beasts vanished instantly, as if wiped from this land by an invisible giant hand.

"Is... is this the might of the Void Refinement realm?"

Looking at Li Daoyuan, who erased thousands of demonic beasts with a raise of his hand, a trace of yearning flashed in Ye Shu's eyes.

The laws of space could only be mastered by the Void Refinement realm.

There were countless geniuses in this world who could fight above their realm.

But very few Soul Formation cultivators could overcome Void Refinement experts, simply because powerhouses of the Void Refinement realm could already touch the threshold of spatial laws, while cultivators below Void Refinement could not yet reach the level of the Dao.

Thus, the difference was like heaven and earth.

"What is going on here?"

After resolving the beast tide, Li Daoyuan frowned deeply.

He had only been gone for a short while, and such an absurd thing had happened here.

A tier-six beast tide appearing within the territory of the Qingxuan Sect.

It was unthinkable!

"Senior Brother Li, it happened like this..." The Peak Master of Spirit Beast Peak did not hesitate at all. He immediately took a step forward and recounted the ins and outs of the matter one by one.

From Su Qingyun driving the beast tide out of a personal vendetta, to Ye Shu stepping forward, and then to Medusa lending a helping hand.

There was not a single falsehood or lie.

Anyway, his position as Peak Master was definitely lost, so he might as well be straightforward and retain some dignity.

"It was actually like this?"

After hearing this, Li Daoyuan's first reaction was not anger, but an almost absurd disbelief, so abstract that he wanted to laugh.

Over all these years, what kind of great storms had he not seen?

But he had truly never seen something like this.

"I now know the whole story."

Li Daoyuan said in a deep voice, his gaze sweeping over everyone present.

"Today, Su Qingyun, the daughter of the Spirit Beast Peak Master, drove the beast tide out of a personal vendetta, causing the Qingxuan Sect's defense line to nearly collapse and almost costing the lives of thousands of commoners at the foot of the mountain."

"Her crime is unforgivable!"

"The punishment is to cripple her cultivation, lock her in the Hall of Repentance for reformation, and she shall never be allowed to leave for the rest of her life."

"Additionally, Ye Shu of the Xuantian Sword Lineage stepped forward in a time of crisis to protect the commoners and ought to be rewarded. He is exempted from the thirty million spirit stone debt of the Xuantian Sword Lineage, and he shall receive one Qingxuan Token."

"I have finished speaking."

Li Daoyuan's gaze swept over the crowd, "Who agrees, and who objects?"

"This..."

Everyone looked at each other in dismay.

The Qingxuan Token was an incredible item. It granted the right to have the Sect Master personally take action once, making it a monumental reward.

But considering Ye Shu's contributions, everyone felt it was well-deserved.

However, just as everyone silently accepted the decision, an untimely female voice suddenly rang out across the mountain peak.

"I object."

The atmosphere of the entire scene instantly froze once more.

Was someone else actually bold enough to interfere?