Supreme Emptiness-Chapter 297 - Taking the Blame
Chapter 297 -297 Taking the Blame
Yue Mingzhu was completely baffled.
Had she done something to upset Xu Qingyang?
“Senior Xu, have I been disrespectful in some way?”
Xu Qingyang snorted with laughter, pretending to be clueless?
He pointed to the Silver Winged Thunderbird before him, and said,
“By slaying this bird, you have done a great deed. Even if you wanted most of it, I would have no complaints.”
“But why would you take the entire Silver Winged Thunderbird for yourself?”
Huh???
Yue Mingzhu finally understood.
While Xu Qingyang was pursuing the Silver Winged Thunderbird, someone had assisted him in killing it.
In the end, the person took all the valuable parts, leaving only the inconvenient claws.
And Xu Qingyang mistakenly thought that person was her.
She laughed helplessly, and said, “Senior Xu, you misunderstand.”
“It was not I who helped you slay this bird.”
She had been searching for Jiang Fan throughout the city last night.
She hadn’t even left the city.
So it was impossible for her to have killed the Silver Winged Thunderbird.
“Still pretending!” Xu Qingyang was genuinely angry.
He didn’t care much about the Silver Winged Thunderbird being lost.
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After all, he hadn’t been the one to deliver the final blow.
He accepted that.
But Yue Mingzhu pretending to be clueless, wasn’t that treating him like a fool?
“Besides you, who else could have killed this bird?”
Seeing Xu Qingyang’s anger, Yue Mingzhu immediately became serious, and said, “Senior Xu, you are truly wronging me.”
“This Silver Winged Thunderbird was indeed not slain by me.”
“If you don’t believe me, you can ask several of my elders, I was with them all night.”
Several elders nodded, their eyes flashing with a strange light.
Why was Xu Qingyang so certain it was their Sect Master?
Xu Qingyang became even angrier.
These elders were from the Desires Sect, naturally they would speak for the Desires Sect!
“Alright, Yue Mingzhu!”
Xu Qingyang raised his sword and split the massive body of the Silver Winged Thunderbird in two.
Furiously, he said, “I don’t need this Silver Winged Thunderbird!”
“But I will certainly seek an explanation from your Supreme Elder!”
“I want to ask them what kind of Sect Master they have trained!”
“Hmph!”
He sheathed his sword and stormed off in a huff.
Yue Mingzhu fumed internally, and when Xu Qingyang had completely left, she angrily said,
“Is this old fool losing his mind from practicing swordsmanship?”
“Accusing me out of nowhere of stealing precious materials from the Silver Winged Thunderbird?”
“I am a Sect Master, would I really do that?”
She bit her lip, stomping her feet in anger.
Who could tolerate being falsely accused?
Just then,
an elder examining the Silver Winged Thunderbird’s body suddenly changed his expression.
With a peculiar look, he asked, “Sect Master, are you sure you didn’t kill this bird?”
Huh?
Yue Mingzhu glared at him furiously: “Have you also lost your mind?”
“Don’t you know whether it was me or not?”
The elder stared at the cut on the Silver Winged Thunderbird’s neck, rubbed his nose and said,
“But this wound could only be made by you, Sect Master.”
Uh—
The other elders also came closer to examine it.
Seeing it, they all changed their expressions.
They all looked at Yue Mingzhu skeptically.
Yue Mingzhu looked puzzled, and approached the body.
Looking at the wound on its neck.
The neck had been cut off.
But the cut was strange.
It wasn’t smooth like a blade.
The skin and flesh at the break clearly showed signs of contracting inward.
Rather than being cut off,
it looked like it had been strangled off.
Yue Mingzhu’s expression also changed: “It’s a strangulation mark.”
Thinking for a moment.
She waved her sleeve, and the Heavenly Mountain Silk flew out, wrapping around the neck.
With a pull,
another section of the neck broke off, creating a new incision.
Everyone stared at the two cuts, petrified.
They weren’t just similar.
They were exactly the same!
“This…this…” Yue Mingzhu was too shocked to speak.
This Silver Winged Thunderbird had been strangled to death by the Heavenly Mountain Silk!
And in the Nine-Sect Land, there was only one Heavenly Mountain Silk.
Which was owned by the Desires Sect Master.
Plus, this place was just outside Desires City…
No wonder Xu Qingyang misunderstood her!
She herself began to doubt if it wasn’t her doing.
But looking at the bald, featherless Silver Winged Thunderbird,
Yue Mingzhu quickly came to her senses.
As a Sect Master, she couldn’t stoop to stripping a demon beast so cleanly.
It must be someone else, wielding a Heavenly Mountain Silk obtained from who knows where, pretending to be her.
Thinking of the person taking all the benefits while she got reprimanded by Xu Qingyang,
Yue Mingzhu was infuriated.
She got no benefits, only scolded!
“Who is that bastard!”
“How could you do such a thing?”
She screamed in frustration.
Jiang Fan wasn’t caught, and now she was framed.
How could luck be so bad?
At this moment,
an elder hurried over, saying, “Sect Master, the Silver Winged Thunderbird is causing chaos in the eastern part of the city.”
“Many people have been killed.”
Another one?
Yue Mingzhu looked at the intact claws of the dead Silver Winged Thunderbird.
Her face changed, and she said, “There are two Silver Winged Thunderbirds.”
“This one was killed, the other is now taking revenge on humans.”
“Let’s go, head to the east of the city!”
Jiang Fan,
had already hired a carriage and was heading east.
At this moment,
he was sitting cross-legged inside the carriage.
Before him were silver feathers crackling with Thunder Arc.
As he activated his Cultivation Technique, strands of the power of Thunder and Lightning shot from the feathers and drilled into Jiang Fan’s body.
He winced in pain, his face contorted and he sucked in cold air through his teeth.
But this was a necessary step in practicing the “Three Pure Thunder Shadow.”
One had to channel the thunder into the body.
Enduring the intense pain, he guided the power of the Thunder Arc through the meridians of his legs using his Cultivation Technique.
Letting the power of thunder and lightning gradually merge into the flesh and blood of his legs.
Only then could he unleash his leg technique with thunder attacks.
One feather, two feathers, three feathers…
Each time he absorbed the power of thunder, it was torture.
The Little Qilin, sensing something, poked its head out, looking at Jiang Fan’s current state and clicked its tongue:
“Cultivating harder than we demon beasts.”
The cultivation of demon beasts usually involved physical pain.
But using such a torturous method of channeling thunder into the body, very few demon beasts dared to attempt it.
The entire process lasted for one two-hour period.
Jiang Fan was already drenched in sweat, his face pale.
His entire body was stiffened by the electricity.
Faint sparks of thunder and lightning flashed intermittently in his legs.
“Finally done.”
“I just hope this First Layer of the leg technique won’t disappoint me.”
After achieving great success in the movement technique and channeling thunder and lightning into his body,
such rigorous cultivation, if it turned out to be unimpressive, Jiang Fan would be so frustrated he’d spit blood.
Chirp—
Suddenly, a sharp cry shattered the sky.
The horses pulling the carriage panicked and started running wildly, almost throwing the Little Qilin out of Jiang Fan’s arms!
Jiang Fan lifted the curtain and looked towards the source of the sound in the sky.
His scalp tingled.
A massive bird, crackling with thunder light, was speeding their way.
But it wasn’t hunting.
It was fleeing.
Jiang Fan squinted, his lips twitching!
A masked woman in palace attire was chasing close to the ground.
Who else could it be but the Desires Sect Master?
“How could I run into her?” Jiang Fan really wanted to look into a mirror.
Was he really so unlucky with dark setbacks and mishaps?
