The black fog got closer and closer. Very quickly, it appeared in everyone’s line of sight. Everyone saw the figure of the demon inside the black fog and realized what was about to happen. Everyone started to lose their heads in panic and fear.
The outer disciples ran out of their houses in alarm. After discovering no one knew what to do, they gathered their courage in the end and came to the inner school. Here, however, they discovered that the inner disciples they encountered were just the same, panicking in distress with no leader in charge at all.
They could only rush deeper into the Water Cloud Sect, hoping to find someone who can tell them what to do.
However, it was in vain. Many of the inner disciples have disappeared. They couldn’t find any Elders either. In the end, they found their way to the mountain forest near the Big Hall and finally saw Wen Xuan.
At that time, Wen Xuan was currently speaking with Jian Yi: “Did you know the situation would become like this?”
“Somewhat.” Jian Yi furrowed his brows: “It was inevitable.”
When saying these words, he was a little worried, afraid that the current result would make Wen Xuan unable to accept the choice that Jian Yi had made previously. However, Wen Xuan only smiled in exasperation: “I know you had no better choice than this.”
Saying this, he raised his head and looked towards the black fog that was about to collide with the Water Cloud Sect’s big protection array. He asked the same question as everyone else: “What should we do now?”
“Hide.” Jian Yi answered with one word.
Wen Xuan looked at him.
“Right now, it has no intelligence or reason.” Jian Yi pointed at the figure of the demon: “It has no concept of ‘seek’ or ‘intercept.’ As long as we hide in a place where it can’t sense, we’ll be safe.”
Wen Xuan nodded. Fortunately, there were only two of them. To find a hiding spot in this already vacuous Water Cloud Sect wasn’t hard.
Just as the two prepared to act, those similarly abandoned disciples appeared in their sight. Numerous and crowded together, there were at least 100 people from what they could see.
“Wen shixiong!” When these people saw Wen Xuan, they were all very excited and practically flew over to encircle around him: “It’s Wen shixiong! Wen shixiong is still here!”
These disciples naturally have heard of those rumors before and have changed their attitudes towards Wen Xuan before because of those rumors. However, at this moment in time, whether those rumors were true or false, did Wen Xuan really collude with demons, how they had once treated Wen Xuan, were all not important anymore. Since the people in charge of the Water Cloud Sect have completely disappeared, Wen Xuan was the only person they could depend on.
“Da shixiong!” “Shixiong!” “You’re still here, that’s really great!”
Eyes practically red, those disciples all looked at Wen Xuan, gaze shining with the familiar reverence, admiration, and trust that Wen Xuan was used to. Under this kind of gaze, the previous Wen Xuan considered being the head disciple of the Water Cloud Sect as his greatest accomplishment, and regarded all of these people as his most important responsibility.
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In the face of this kind of gaze now, the current Wen Xuan, however, only laughed deprecatingly at himself.
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When he finished speaking, the crowd full of Water Cloud Sect disciples were astonished.
“I’m not your head disciple anymore.” Saying this, Wen Xuan shook his head and then led Jian Yi to attempt to find a direction they could exit from being surrounded by all of these people.
“Wen shixiong!” Someone yelled with reddened eyes: “What do you mean by this! Did we misjudge you in the end? You actually want to abandon us in this kind of situation!”
Not waiting for Wen Xuan to answer, Jian Yi already shot a ferocious knife-like glare at this person, scaring this person to shut up immediately.
To the side, someone else gave this person a shove and then said towards Wen Xuan: “Wen shixiong, I know you’re very disappointed in us regarding what happened before. We were wrong. We all know our mistakes now. Shixiong, please don’t abandon us. I’m begging you……” Speaking here, this person actually started to choke with emotions.
In comparison to the questioning before, this rather soft and sincere begging seemed harder to deal with. Jian Yi gnashed his teeth, not knowing what to say.
Wen Xuan only sighed, gaze turning back and looking towards these people’s faces again: “You guys misunderstood one thing. It’s not I who abandoned you guys.”
The crowd blanked.
“Still don’t get it?” Wen Xuan tilted his head and laughed self-deprecatingly: “I’m not the one who abandoned you guys. But rather it’s we,” He pointed at his own chest, and then pointed at those people: “Me and you guys. Everyone that’s still here, have all been abandoned by the Sect.”
He said these words very lightly and casually, pretty much without any emotions. However, it made people’s hearts turn cold.
“Therefore, don’t call me head disciple anymore. I’m no longer the Water Cloud Sect’s head disciple. And you guys are not Water Cloud Sect disciples anymore either.” Saying this, he withdrew his finger and walked out with Jian Yi.
This time the people that blocked their path all unconsciously stepped back.
They all knew that what Wen Xuan said was correct. The situation inside the Sect already illustrated everything. The people in charge already brought a portion of the disciples and escaped. Meanwhile, everyone that’s left were all people abandoned by the Sect.
Many people’s reddened eyes already started to tear up. They watched as Wen Xuan left with Jian Yi in tow. However, as Wen Xuan took a few steps, they still couldn’t hold back from following behind.
So what if they’ve all been abandoned by the Sect? So what if they were no longer Water Cloud Sect disciples? Other than Wen Xuan, they couldn’t find anyone else to rely on.
“Wen shixiong,” Someone begged in tears: “Please let us follow you! I’m begging you, please save us!”
Ultimately, Wen Xuan slowed down his pace and turned his head, looking at this group of people again. Jian Yi gave a few firm tug on his elbow, but Wen Xuan sighed.
Wen Xuan was very clear. As matters stand, he was no longer responsible for any of these people. Nevertheless, from start to finish, other than being the head disciple of the Water Cloud Sect, Wen Xuan has also been a good person incapable of standing by as innocent people died tragically.
Therefore, no matter how unwilling Jian Yi was, Wen Xuan still nodded in the end: “I’ll do my best.” How much danger was contained in these four words?
The difficulty level between finding a hiding place for two people versus finding a safe place for all of these people was as different as night and day. Not to mention, it only takes a single moment of inattentiveness from just one person to be discovered by that demon, and possibly leading to the death of everyone else hiding together.
“Jian shidi,” Therefore, after saying those words, Wen Xuan looked towards Jian Yi, eyelashes trembling: “Sorry.”
Jian Yi scowled. Wen Xuan’s gaze told him extremely clearly, Wen Xuan was currently blaming himself for dragging Jian Yi into this risker business. If possible, Wen Xuan hoped Jian Yi could go find a safer location by himself. However, how could Jian Yi possibly separate from Wen Xuan?
“Enough.” In the end, Jian Yi only said: “Shixiong, it’s not like I don’t know what kind of person you are since the first day we met.”
Saying this, Jian Yi even quietly mumbled internally: If you weren’t this kind of person, I might not have remembered you so deeply.
Wen Xuan didn’t know what he was mumbling about. Seeing him consenting, Wen Xuan instantly gave a happy smile.
Just at this moment, that demon who was surrounded by black fog finally collided with the Water Cloud Sect’s big protection array. In a flash, a sizzling sound echoed in everyone’s ears, sounding just like a bucket of hot water was being poured on snowy ground.
In this sizzling sound, the original dome-like protection array started to tremble and melt.
The crowd’s face color all changed drastically. No wonder this demon can break through Cerulean Feather’s protection array. That black fog can actually corrode the barrier! In all likelihood, if doing this didn’t cause such a huge noise, and might attract bigger problems, this demon would have done it a long time ago.
“Quick!” Jian Yi grabbed Wen Xuan’s elbow: “It’s about to enter. We must be quick!”
Wen Xuan nodded and hastily led everyone to escape deeper inward.
“Shixiong, do you already have a location in mind?” Along the way, Jian Yi asked him: “You know Water Cloud Sect better than me. Do you know a suitable place here?”
Wen Xuan was just about to answer when he saw a figure in front of him and suddenly froze.
At this time, they just happened to be near the Alchemy school. And in front of the Alchemy school, just happened to be Qi Jibai. Qi Jibai was looking towards the direction of the black fog, currently watching the cloud and sighing.
“Qi shishu,” Wen Xuan quickly headed over, face full of astonishment: “You actually got left behind?”
Jian Yi was even more astonished than Wen Xuan. Jian Yi remembered very clearly. When he was detained in the Big Hall and being questioned, Qi Jibai was definitely present. He was only observing the entire time, however, and didn’t speak. Now that everyone in the Big Hall has been transported away, what was Qi Jibai doing here?
However, immediately after Jian Yi asked, Qi Jibai promptly gave him a glare: “You heartless brat. Do you think I’d be as heartless as you?”
So what happened in the Big Hall was that Qi Jibai saw Jian Yi responding smoothly and clearly having a plan in mind; that’s why he kept silent the entire time. After that, he saw Jian Yi escape out of the Big Hall, with Luo Qingquan, Zhang Xiaoqing and such people in pursuit, Qi Jibai knew that Jian Yi most likely would encounter trouble. That’s why he secretly slipped out of the Big Hall to see if he could lend a bit of help.
As a matter of fact, for Wen Xuan to be able to arrive just in time, it was all thanks to Qi Jibai. If it weren’t for Qi Jibai’s arrangement, who’d have informed Wen Xuan? However, because of this, Qi Jibai missed the opportunity to be teleported away.
“This is fine anyways,” Qi Jibai smiled faintly: “If I left with the teleportation array, when and where would I be able to find you stinking brat again?”
Hearing Qi Jibai’s words, Wen Xuan felt very moved, secretly saying, Jian Yi really has a good shifu.
Jian Yi, however, made a face, not in agreement.
“Qi shishu,” Then Wen Xuan asked: “Do you have any good plans for the current situation?”
Qi Jibai asked in return: “What kind of plans can I have? I don’t even know what this demon wants to do. On the other hand, since you asked like this, it seems more likely that you already found a path.”
Wen Xuan gave an embarrassed smile and didn’t delay. He very quickly explained what Jian Yi had said before.
“Hide?” Hearing this, Qi Jibai pondered for a moment, then looked at all of those people behind Wen Xuan, frowning.
He also discovered, hiding wasn’t hard, but hiding all of these people wasn’t simple.
Wen Xuan asked: “Qi shishu, can you think of a location?”
Qi Jibai shook his head and smiled bitterly: “I’m afraid there’s only that place.”
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Huh, they have a bit similarities with chu-master and his partner….