As soon as Yao Qingke's words fell, seven people walked out from both sides of the crowd. They were all wearing green clothes and were Outer Sect Disciples. They all surrounded Li Shiyin and Tian Wenjin.
"You dare!" Li Shiyin angrily shouted. She took a step forward. Although she was definitely no match for the Golden Core late stage Yao Qingke, she could not lose in momentum.
The seven Outer Sect Disciples were daunted by Li Shiyin's momentum and involuntarily stopped. After all, they had also heard of the legend of the Female Sword Immortal.
"Why wouldn't we dare? You have committed all kinds of crimes. This is the sect eradicating a disaster!" Yao Qingke snorted coldly and shouted, "Take them down!"
Only then did the seven Outer Sect Disciples continue to surround them.
These seven Outer Sect Disciples were no match for Li Shiyin and Tian Wenjin with one move, but they really could not beat Yao Qingke behind them either. As the seven Outer Sect Disciples approached, they felt tremendous pressure.
The seven Outer Sect Disciples took two more steps forward. Li Shiyin's eyes flashed sharply. Suddenly, her body flickered and in the blink of an eye, she appeared in front of the Duty Disciple. Without saying a word, she grabbed his neck with one hand and lifted him up, staring into his eyes and shouted, "Does this spider have venom glands?!"
The Duty Disciple was afraid of Li Shiyin and was indeed guilty, not daring to look her in the eye. He shrank back timidly and turned his head away without answering.
"Tell her, is it a spider!" Yao Qingke said heavily to the Duty Disciple.
Upon hearing this, the Duty Disciple hesitated for a moment and still answered in a low voice, "It's not a spider."
Li Shiyin was indeed young and had not seen such tricks before, and for a time could not believe it, feeling a little frustrated.
But soon it was anger: "You're lying!"
She exerted force with her hand and pushed the Duty Disciple up three or four meters into the air. Starlight scattered from her palm and countless tiny sword qi shot out, about to pierce the Duty Disciple's heart with chaotic swords.
"How dare you!" Yao Qingke shouted, "Dare to commit murder in the Butler Hall!"
Green tendrils came to wrap the Duty Disciple, blocking Li Shiyin’s sword qi. Those tendrils pulled back again, pulling the Duty Disciple back to Yao Qingke's side.
"It's true that you're extremely arrogant!" Yao Qingke said with a cold laugh.
She slapped the table and the brick and stone ground of the Butler Hall instantly roared. Countless green vines burst out from the ground, all trying to entangle Li Shiyin.
"Too bullying!" Li Shiyin said coldly, "Let me show you what true arrogance is!"
She clasped her palm and a strand of stars turned into a sword in her hand. She slashed forward and countless tiny sword qi exploded, cutting off all the spreading vines.
"The realm of lifting weight as if light?" Yao Qingke's triangular eyes flashed, "Not only sword qi, but also comprehending sword qi to such a realm!?
"This child must not be allowed to remain!"
Those vines instantly grew back in that moment, and grew bigger, longer and harder, no longer going to entangle Li Shiyin, but turned into countless whips, all attacking Li Shiyin.
But Li Shiyin did not want to get entangled with these vines either. She knew that Yao Qingke cultivated qi and her techniques were overbearing, but qi cultivators often had weak physiques and melee combat abilities. She unfolded the Heavenly Flight Immortal Technique, avoided the vines, her figure flashed, and in the blink of an eye she appeared in front of Yao Qingke, without saying a word, stabbing with her sword.
As a mage, being approached by a swordsman, Yao Qingke was not flustered at all. She smiled as she looked at Li Shiyin's stabbed sword, her face becoming hideous again.
"Do you know what the absolute domain of magic is?"
Accompanied by her low female voice, green vines suddenly appeared out of thin air around Li Shiyin. These vines closed in instantly before Li Shiyin could react, wrapping her up tightly like a zongzi.
Li Shiyin tried to struggle, but the vines were tougher than gold and iron. She couldn’t struggle free at all.
"You even dare approach my body?" Yao Qingke laughed, using the vines to pull Li Shiyin to the center of the hall, showing her to everyone, "How foolish!"
She raised her hand and snapped her fingers. Two thick vines burst out of the ground. These two vines were like two giant pythons, slowly crawling towards Li Shiyin.
"I hope you’ll be a good person when you descend the mountain!" she said to Li Shiyin.
At the door, Tian Wenjin silently pulled out the Imperial Thunder Sword on her back, still determined to rescue Li Shiyin with her life. She could see clearly, Li Shiyin had lost to Yao Qingke in two moves, so she was even less of a match. But she still wanted to try.
Yao Qingke looked at Tian Wenjin with a half-smile, tapping her fingers on the table, waiting for her to make a move.
But the two vines did not stop, getting closer and closer to Li Shiyin.
Tian Wenjin looked at the vines and calmed her mind as her sword intent rose.
"Sword intent?" Yao Qingke squinted her triangular eyes.
Did the batch of disciples from the Sword Dao Sect have such strength in both sword qi and sword intent?
The vines got closer and closer to Li Shiyin, and Tian Wenjin's sword intent got thicker and thicker. Just as the two vines were about to touch Li Shiyin's body, Tian Wenjin's merciless sword intent also reached its peak...
Flying Snow in the Wind!
"Boom!"
"Clang!!!"
However, before the sword intent could be unleashed, something black broke through the roof of the Butler Hall with a loud crash, landing heavily between Li Shiyin and Yao Qingke, smashing those two vines into mush and splashing the people standing on both sides.
Yao Qingke's mind shuddered as she looked at the object. It was a black cauldron!
Someone had entered the Butler Hall from outside...
She looked up at the person who entered. There were two people who entered, one was Qin Ran, and the other was Dong Zhongyuan. Qin Ran was expressionless in front, while Dong Zhongyuan had a smiling face behind.
Qin Ran entered the hall, stood by Tian Wenjin's side, scanned the layout of the hall, and finally his deep eyes were fixed on Yao Qingke.
"Who gave you the guts?" he asked, his voice flat.
Strictly speaking, Qin Ran was also considered a disciple of this generation, and was one of the relatively younger ones, after all he had only joined the Sect for twenty years. Those older ones had been in the sect for forty or fifty years by now. Like Yao Qingke, she had been in the sect for forty-two years.
That is to say, when Qin Ran entered the sect, Yao Qingke was already twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, and had been cultivating for more than twenty-two years. And at that time, Yao Qingke was already a leader of her generation... At that time, there was no Dong Zhongyuan yet, and no one had selected the top ten geniuses of this generation.
Qin Ran and Yao Qingke naturally knew each other, but their relationship was like that between a shy, lonely farm boy with poor grades and a rich and successful school belle with excellent grades in school.
But everyone knew that Qin Ran was dark-hearted and extremely scheming, so how he viewed Yao Qingke, a beloved daughter of heaven, was another matter. In the eyes of someone like Yao Qingke, there would definitely not be a shadow of Qin Ran.
Her arrogant aura was still there. She didn't even look at Qin Ran.
Did she recognize Qin Ran? Of course she did. Even if Qin Ran had no sense of existence, he had still been at the Dao Sword Sect for more than twenty years. But this was how she asked.
Qin Ran replied, "This seat is the chief of Dan Peak of Dao Sword Sect." His voice was still flat.
He looked at Yao Qingke, "When you see your elders, you should come over to pay your respects."
"I have never seen a sect chief whose cultivation level is lower than the disciples," Yao Qingke said from her seat, grinning hideously.