Chapter 9: Slash Him Outside the Door!

Rumors are things that some people believe and some don't.

Especially since Ji You didn't come out again after returning home, not long after, someone grabbed the weird logic in the rumors and analyzed that Ji You was not an immortal, making it sound very reasonable.

This person's name was Wang San, and he lived by Nanya River.

Two and a half years ago, he also worked at the Ji family, but was expelled later for petty theft.

On the day the Ji family suffered a disaster, he was the first to come out and cheer. Now hearing that Ji You was an immortal, he naturally couldn't accept it.

During this period, some people also took out the fact that the Qiu family girl had returned safely to refute, but they were all blocked by the sentence "those are temporarily not discussed."

But later, a group of households with some family assets in the county arrived at Archway Street, waiting in front of the door in panic with rice, grain, poultry, and livestock, which made Wang San fall into silence.

These households who rushed to Archway Street had once occupied some of their family property when the Ji family suffered a disaster and shared a cup of sweet soup.

Things like plow cattle, utensils, and farm tools that couldn't be taken away during the flight were mostly divided up by them.

More than two years of peace had made them feel high and secure, especially seeing Young Master Ji not seeking progress and mixing on the street on weekdays, making them feel even more that occupying things was heavenly justice.

Until Old Master Fang just called them to the government office and told them the truth.

So the panic of death made them restless, so they took what they could take and hurriedly rushed to apologize.

It was just that the Ji residence's main gate never opened, and no one responded, making them break out in a cold sweat.

Finally, someone with a flexible brain pointed them to a bright path, so they hurriedly rushed to the Qiu family outside the city and returned everything they could.

"These people, usually have quite a friendship with Old Master Fang, and even grabbed two portions of our family's grain land..."

"It seems the rumors in the county are true..."

"Eh eh eh, you all stop looking, leave quickly, no gathering and making noise in front of the immortal's door!"

Just as a group of people were talking, a group of bailiffs came holding killing-prestige sticks, several of whom had swollen cheeks.

So at this moment, the prestige of the Ji family immortal truly began to deter all directions.

Actually, County Magistrate Fang Zhongzheng also wanted to come and apologize.

He went to the street to handle official business with the supply bailiffs early in the morning. When he returned home and saw the broken autumn chrysanthemums all over the ground, he was furious. Then he heard the servants talk about Ji You, and was silent for a long time.

Who would have thought that the son-in-law he looked down upon that day would make Fengxian Shanzhuang not dare to say a word today.

It was just that before his front foot stepped out of the door, he was stopped by his daughter.

"Father, your daughter will also be a Heavenly Tian Shuyuan immortal, just starting a little later than Ji You. Why be so humble?"

"Ruoyao, the matter of immortals cannot be messed around with."

"If you really go to apologize, wouldn't it confirm in the whole county that I kicked someone when they were down two years ago and didn't keep the woman's way?!"

Fang Ruoyao already had a bit of immortal prestige. Her strong attitude made Fang Zhongzheng give up the idea of going to the Ji residence.

He didn't know what cultivating immortality was like, just feeling that what his daughter said also had some truth. Since they were both Heavenly Tian Shuyuan students, it shouldn't be that one was lower than the other.

And just as he was preparing to sit down and drink tea to count the grain books, he saw Cao Jingsong draw his sword and rush out of the government office with a murderous look, then soar into the sky, cursing very ugly words.

"Xiao An, Cao... where is the immortal going?"

"Old Master, the immortal sensed a spiritual energy sweeping through the sky, saying that the people from Fengxian Shanzhuang came back to dig for Young Master Ji. The immortal is so angry that he intends to use one sword to slash them outside the door."

The servant responsible for serving the two immortals said a sentence, then hurriedly followed.

Listening to the endless cursing in the sky, Fang Zhongzheng was silent for a long time, and finally packed some silver and rushed to the Qiu family outside the city.

And besides Fang Zhongzheng, the households who occupied the Ji family property, and the Fengxian Shanzhuang immortals, there were others who wanted to see Ji You.

At dusk, the sun set behind the western hills, and the sky was silent.

Xiang Kuangcheng bypassed the back alley and arrived in front of the Ji family ancestral home, stopping at the red-faded and ink-residual couplets on the door.

After Ji You's matter reached the Kuang family, because the elders in the family knew that they had been childhood friends, they let him come to visit. After all, in this world, if one could hook up with an immortal, it might be a chance to save one's life.

He was bolder than others, just hesitated for a moment before pushing open the gate, walking in, and arriving at the second courtyard of the Ji family ancestral home.

The Ji family had moved out the objects in the residence when they fled, leaving only broken bricks and rotten tiles, scattered among the waist-high weeds that were gradually growing, with some light green moss, already looking desolate.

"The things in the world are strange; the people in the courtyard are gone, but the grass is lush."

Xiang Kuangcheng paused slightly, looked up, and Ji You's voice came from the room, as if he had already noticed.

This, perhaps, is the god-like nature of a cultivator.

Xiang Kuangcheng stopped in front of the door, looked at the silence in the room for a long time, and then opened his mouth: "These two days, even if someone scolded you for being greedy for life and afraid of death across the wall, you pretended not to know, actually because you were fully cultivating to break the realm?"

"What? Someone actually dared to scold me for being greedy for life and afraid of death across the wall?"

Xiang Kuangcheng touched his nose: "No, no, maybe I heard wrong."

Ji You was silent for a moment, his voice coming from the room: "I originally wanted to get along with you as an ordinary person, but I didn't expect it to lead to alienation. I won't pretend anymore, I'm showing my cards."

Xiang Kuangcheng took a step forward and said: "So that day at dusk, when you heard me talk about the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan, what you thought was not to ask Fang Ruoyao for help, but to make yourself a disciple of the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan?"

"A person who came to break off the engagement in a hurry when her fiancé suffered a family disaster, how could one entrust hope to her?"

"So that's it..."

Xiang Kuangcheng smiled self-deprecatingly after hearing this.

The world says scholars are pedantic, and he thought that was just the world's prejudice.

But after experiencing this, he discovered that when things happened, he could only move his mouth to scold people, and he hadn't even figured out who the last person he should scold was.

Xiang Kuangcheng bowed stiffly for a moment and said: "Young Master Ji, I have been disrespectful to you in the past. After my father learned of this, he taught me a lesson. I want to hold a banquet at home tonight to apologize to you."

Ji You was silent for a moment before opening his mouth: "Forget it, I've already eaten, please go back."

"Drink a cup of thin wine, I think it's okay?"

"Leave."

Xiang Kuangcheng paused for half a day, then bowed and said goodbye, turning and walking out.

He was not a person who would bend his will to please others. If it weren't for his family forcing him to come, he might not have stepped into this place. Seeing that the other party didn't appreciate it, he naturally wouldn't stay long.

Actually, he was slightly relieved. His childhood friend was still a person with kindness in his heart, which was enough.

As for the past friendship, Xiang Kuangcheng wouldn't have too many fantasies.

Ji You was now a disciple of the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan who had reached the perfection of the Lower Three Realms, with a noble status, transcendent above the world, and had a world of difference from him, a commoner.

Remembering that Fang Ruoyao seemed to be like this back then, suddenly becoming arrogant.

She had explained that it was because cultivators needed a dust-free state of mind, not to be happy with things or sad with themselves, so that they could reach the top of the Dao, and it wasn't that she looked down on her old friends.

Although I don't know if it's true or false, it's acceptable.

However, just as Xiang Kuangcheng stepped out with his front foot, a "clanging" sound suddenly came from the room behind him, like the sound of wooden furniture falling to the ground, accompanied by a muffled groan, as if someone had fallen to the ground.

Xiang Kuangcheng paused slightly, then his expression changed, and he stepped into the room.

At this time, Ji You was paralyzed on the ground, his left hand still resting on the fallen wooden chair, his lips full of blood, and a large patch of blood red was dyed on the collar of his white robe.

And some of them were obviously already dark, looking like they had been spat on his body early on, and were already dry at this time.

"I didn't let you in, but you insisted on coming in, ignorant child. Now that my coughing blood divine skill is complete, I'll take you to practice!"

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Xiang Kuangcheng stared at him for a long time, not believing it at all.

Seeing that he didn't believe it, Ji You also fell into silence with him.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 10 =====