Chapter 122

He really hadn't thought about being implicated by Xu Yang before.

"Brother Yue, is what I said correct?" Chen Jiang looked at Yue Gui with a smile.

Yue Gui nodded: "Chen Jiang is right. I let you stay because of this matter."

He sipped his tea and said: "The deacon Xu Yang offended is named Xiao Hua. This person is petty and narrow-minded. Xu Yang once made him lose face in the Mission Hall, which is why he is being targeted."

"Xu Yang hasn't refined qi into steel yet, but he was assigned to do a mission that only disciples who have refined qi into steel can do."

"With Xiao Hua's pettiness, you all had better think about whether we will be implicated if we continue to ally with Xu Yang."

A petty deacon!

Qin Ze, Liu Qian, and Chen Jiang all became serious.

Even if the person targeting Xu Yang were an inner sect disciple, they wouldn't care much.

No matter how high the status of an inner sect disciple was, they had no real power in the outer sect and couldn't control anyone.

Outer sect deacons were different; they managed the outer sect disciples.

Xiao Hua was not only an outer sect deacon but also a deacon in an important place like the Mission Hall. Not to mention holding the power of life and death, it was almost the same.

"How could Xu Yang make a deacon lose face?" Qin Ze frowned.

He naturally didn't want the alliance to dissolve, but if people knew they had immediately drawn a line with Xu Yang because they had offended someone, it would definitely not be a good reputation to spread.

If they wanted to cooperate with anyone in the future, no one would believe their integrity.

Yue Gui shook his head: "I don't know exactly what happened, but Xu Yang is indeed being targeted, and we have a high probability of being implicated. This was warned to me by a senior brother from the previous year in my fist hall."

"Everyone state your position: do we want to continue to maintain the alliance, or kick Xu Yang out?"

Chen Jiang said: "I don't want to be targeted by a deacon of the Mission Hall and die outside inexplicably one day."

Qin Ze was silent for a while: "How to kick him out? Do we publicly state that Xu Yang is no longer a member of the alliance? If there is no suitable excuse, how will we stand in the future, how will we gain trust?"

He didn't state his position, but his meaning was already very clear; he was just worried about his reputation being affected.

Liu Qian didn't speak, just frowned.

She didn't want to be targeted by a deacon of the Mission Hall either, but she didn't want to violate the alliance agreement.

This wasn't a question of friendship or not; once reputation was ruined, it would be difficult to recover.

Yue Gui said: "We can announce the dissolution of the alliance on the surface, but in private, we can continue to ally."

This was the only compromise he could think of: to draw a line with Xu Yang while minimizing the damage to his reputation.

"Although it's a bit despicable, it's the only way." Liu Qian said.

The four looked at each other, and expressions of shame appeared on their faces.

Although they didn't have much friendship with Xu Yang, this behavior of being a shrinking turtle and drawing a line as soon as an ally had trouble still made them feel ashamed.

Xu Yang returned to the courtyard and found that Zhang Yong and Zhao Zhifei had come to visit, and the three were chatting with Sun Tao in the courtyard, their expressions very ugly.

Zhang Yong sighed: "Xu Yang still sees things clearly. I didn't expect Gu Haoming to be so despicable."

Jiang Ping said: "I didn't expect him to be so heartless and turn his face so quickly. When he abandoned Gu Fang without hesitation, I should have guarded against him."

Zhao Zhifei's face was livid: "This beast even said that when we arrived at the Purple Sun Sect, we would work together. It turns out he wanted to take our contribution points to support his progress."

Xu Yang almost laughed.

Before hearing Liu Qian say that the Ruifeng Hall had started harvesting leeks, he thought that at most Zhang Yong, this marginal character, would be harvested. He didn't expect that even Zhao Zhifei and Jiang Ping were among them.

Listening to the three, they had been backstabbed by Gu Haoming.

And it was indeed a backstab by Gu Haoming. Regardless of whether the regulation of handing over contribution points was issued by Cao Rong or Yun Feng, the reason the three became members of the Ruifeng Hall was entirely because of Gu Haoming.

Now that they were forced to hand over contribution points, Gu Haoming didn't stand up. If this wasn't a backstab, what was?

And there was a high probability that the missions they handed over would also have a share for Gu Haoming.

"How many contribution points do you hand over each month?" Xu Yang held back his laughter.

He still remembered that when the few became members of the Ruifeng Hall, they were full of pride, imagining the future.

Never did he expect that the retribution would come so quickly.

Zhang Yong said in a muffled voice: "One!"

One didn't sound like much, but for a Qi Gathering martial artist, wanting to earn ten contribution points a month was very difficult, which was equivalent to handing over one-tenth.

Contribution points were exploited, cultivation time was compressed, and they fell directly into a vicious cycle. The three had the heart to kill Gu Haoming, Cao Rong, and these people.

It was just that they didn't dare to resist. Nominally, the Ruifeng Hall and the Dawn Society had only joined forces, but they knew in their hearts that the Ruifeng Hall had already merged into the Dawn Society. It was just that Cao Rong and others were worried that they, these members, would resist fiercely, so they only announced that they had joined forces.

Boiling a frog in warm water. Once Cao Rong and others absorbed some more nutrients from them and became stronger, they wouldn't be afraid of them resisting, and they would probably announce the merger of the Ruifeng Hall into the Dawn Society.

Xu Yang smiled: "One is not much. You are brothers who live and die with Cao Rong. Supporting him with one contribution point a month for cultivation, and waiting for him to become strong and lead you into the inner sect—isn't this a good thing?"

"If you can't even bear one contribution point, what do you call brothers?"

Zhang Yong, Jiang Ping, and the three felt like their hearts were being stabbed by knives.

At the Dragon Gathering, when they heard Cao Rong shout that they would be brothers who live and die together in the future, they were so hot-blooded, and now their hearts were so painful.

The three had complex expressions. What Xu Yang said was exactly the same as what Cao Rong said when he announced the collection of membership fees, as if he were at the scene.

Sun Tao scolded with a smile: "Alright, Junior Brother Xu, stop digging at Zhang Yong and the others. They were also deceived by Cao Rong and these dog thieves and fell into their trap."

"Do you have any way to help them escape the fire pit?"

Zhang Yong and the three came here, naturally not to be laughed at and dug at by Xu Yang, but to ask for help.

Xu Yang shook his head: "How could I have a way to help them? Go ask Lu Ren. His face should be useful in the Ruifeng Hall."

Jiang Ping showed a look of mockery: "A genius of the Ten Heroes, a strong person who has refined qi into steel—now he doesn't even look at us fellow disciples."

Among the three, Zhang Yong had clashed with Lu Ren and broken off.

Zhao Zhifei had always looked down on disciples from poor families before Lu Ren rose, and he had also mocked Lu Ren.

He was the one who had befriended Lu Ren the first time he stepped into the inner courtyard of the Weiyuan Hall and had even sent gifts, and later had helped a lot.

But listening to his tone, not only did Lu Ren not help him, but he also looked down on him.

Zhang Yong said: "He is also one of the beneficiaries. The contribution points we hand over also have a share for him. If he wanted to help us, he wouldn't need us to speak at all. Before the regulation was announced, he and Gu Haoming hid in Qingyang City and haven't appeared recently."

Xu Yang was amazed. It turned out that Lu Ren and Gu Haoming went to guard the Hundred Medicine Hall because of this matter. He had wondered why both of them didn't return to the Purple Sun Sect after their guard mission ended.

"Then you can only forcibly betray the Ruifeng Hall," Xu Yang said.

Of course, the three probably didn't have the courage, otherwise they wouldn't have run here to find Sun Tao for a way.

The three had extremely ugly expressions. Zhang Yong said: "The most powerful disciple of the Tiger Roar Fist Hall, Li Shun—you remember him, right? This person was extremely resistant to the matter of handing over contribution points and threatened to withdraw from the Ruifeng Hall."

"Yesterday, when he was feeding strange beasts at the Beast King Peak, he was bitten to death by a strange beast that suddenly went mad."

Of course he remembered Li Shun. When he joined the Ruifeng Hall at the Dragon Gathering, Li Shun and his junior brothers were very excited, thinking they had hugged a big thigh. Never did he expect that he would be used to kill the chicken to warn the monkey so quickly and be killed.

So ruthless!

This move of knocking the mountain to shake the tiger immediately suppressed Zhang Yong and these people. Although they were unwilling, they didn't dare to play any tricks.

Having heard enough fun, Xu Yang didn't bother to talk nonsense and returned to his room.

He also had trouble now and had no mind to manage the idle affairs of Zhang Yong and the three, and he didn't have the ability to offend the Dawn Society and the Ruifeng Hall.

The road was chosen by oneself; the ending of the three could only be left to fate.

He had to guard the Hundred Medicine Hall at night, so he returned to his room and went to bed directly.

"What? Qin Ze, Yue Gui, and the others announced the dissolution of the five-person alliance?"

In another courtyard, Ji Jincheng received the news of the dissolution of the alliance by Qin Ze and others and couldn't help but look puzzled.

A perfectly good alliance—why did it dissolve? Weren't they afraid of being targeted and suppressed by the Fledgling Eagle Society and the Ruifeng Hall?

"They publicly stated that the alliance had no substantial use, so it dissolved."

"However, according to the news I inquired about, it seems to be because Xu Yang was targeted by a deacon and was sent to Qingyang City to do a dangerous guard mission. They were worried that continuing to ally with Xu Yang would implicate them and cause that deacon to give them small shoes to wear, so they dissolved the alliance and drew a line with Xu Yang." Li Xu said.

He was one of the three disciples of the Liefeng Hall who had successfully ascended the dragon and now had a high status in the Fledgling Eagle Society, responsible for collecting intelligence.

Ji Jincheng stood up in shock: "What did you say? Xu Yang was targeted by a deacon and assigned to Qingyang City to do a guard mission?"

He no longer cared about the news of the dissolution of the five-person alliance; he only cared about Xu Yang's matter.

Li Xu nodded: "Right, it is said that he goes to Qingyang City every afternoon and can only return in the morning, and doesn't even have much time to cultivate. Qin Ze and the four are probably the same as him, so they hurriedly drew a line."

Ji Jincheng's expression changed for a while. Xu Yang had to leave the Purple Sun Sect every day to rush to Qingyang City to guard—didn't that mean there were many opportunities to kill Xu Yang?

"I can avenge Senior Brother Zhu Yang!" The murderous intent rose in his heart.

He also had another identity: he was Ji Yun's own nephew.

"However, Xu Yang has comprehended the Wind-Thunder Force. Not only can I not kill him, but rushing to take revenge is just sending myself to death. Junior Brother Kong Yu has gone to explore a treasure land with people from the Heroes' Gathering. What should I do?"