Chapter 516: Chapter 511: People Who Reason are Asking for a Beating
Senior Shou’s sleeves, swayed by his movents, gradually settled, and his youthful face concealed a look of admiration.
Baili An remained silent.
He thought to himself, what’s the point of all this.
Fang Zhuohang, through gritted teeth, glanced sideways at his younger brother.
Fang Zhuozhong deeply furrowed his brows, but he dared not summon his own soldier slave as his did, for his soldier slave was also a remarkably spirited and passionate fellow. If subjected to coerced orders,
in that dilemma of divided loyalty and gratitude, those twenty years of life would likely be lost in vain and without clarity.
For a ti, the situation strangely ca to a tense impasse.
Senior Shou stepped forward a few paces and touched the back of that sword slave three tis, sealing all his major damaged acupoints.
At this mont, Sword Qi accompanied by the east wind, snuck in through the window.
In that mont when daylight invaded the room, Baili An imperceptibly stepped back half a step, moving to stand in a shadow where the sunlight could not reach, and then calmly watched the unexpected guest suddenly arrive.
It was a middle-aged man of Taoist mien, his antiquated aura like the remnants of a bygone wind.
The purple robe embroidered with sword-fanged tigers he wore marked him unmistakably as a mber of the Wandao Immortal Alliance.
“The stele inscriptions have yet to reveal themselves, the gods have yet to leave their shrine, yet the two young masters here are already shouting and fighting—isn’t this sowhat excessive?”
Upon seeing the newcor’s face, the Fang brothers both showed a startle, then they bent forward to pay their respects, “We greet you, Valley King.”
300 years ago in the southwest, there was a great country nad ‘Qian,’ and this Valley King was none other than the last ruler of the Country of Qian, Baili Valley.
Though now Baili Valley only held the nominal title of Vice Alliance Hierarch within the Immortal Alliance and rarely handled alliance affairs, he could be described as the idle cloud and solitary crane of the Immortal Alliance’s mountain retreats.
However, the two young masters of the Fang Family were well aware that the position of Baili Valley within the Immortal Alliance was neither less nor more significant than that of the Alliance Hierarch himself.
The Wandao Immortal Alliance, founded with the purpose of “Great Unity Under Heaven,” struggled trendously at its inception; frankly, it was nothing more than an empty shell with grandiose rhetoric and no substance.
The principle of ‘great abdication for minor gains’ was, after all, not a sustainable strategy for the once resource-scarce Wandao Immortal Alliance, indistinguishable for the ti being from those motley, low-tier Immortal Sects of the Mortal World.
And Baili Valley was indeed an extraordinary individual; leaving the throne of a flourishing Qian era unattended, he, in a single night, squandered the national treasury, cast off his dragon robe, and wielding the power of the court and the army, raised the Wandao Immortal Alliance single-handedly.
From then on, the Country of Qian was no more, and the King abdicated his throne.
The prosperity and flourishing of the Wandao Immortal Alliance today, even faintly keeping pace with the Three Sects,
Baili Valley could be regarded as the foremost contributor to such great achievents.
Similarly, it was also because of his uncompetitive Dao heart and extrely reasonable nature that he held high esteem among the nurous Immortal Sects.
Baili Valley turned to look at Baili An, who stood in the shadow, and with a slight smile said, “After all, being closely related, it’s natural to speak angrily and act excessively; according to what I know, Miss Fang entered the desolate house alone with the young master, and then various incidents followed, did they not?”
Baili An fell silent for a while, then said, “What exactly are you trying to say, sir?”
Baili Valley’s gaze held a smile, but the amusent in his eyes was far from simple, “I heard just now that the young master, with his own strength, resolved the Bronze Gate calamity and led a group of fellow Daoists trapped inside the Bronze Gate back to the Mortal World—an act truly admirable.”
As he spoke, he subtly glanced at Senior Shou inside the room.
This child, skilled in swordsmanship and obviously from Xianling City, had appeared here out of nowhere, demanding attention. Moreover, the number of people returning from the Bronze Gate was far beyond those who entered Ghost Mountain over ten days ago.
Thus, it was not difficult to guess that this surplus resulted in part from Mortal World cultivators who had historically fallen into the Bronze Gate.
This young man seed unremarkable in strength, yet with such ties, those whose lives he saved were not limited to just soldier slaves.
The young masters of the Fang Family, although unwilling to drop the matter, found it difficult to take action against him.
Yet these two could not simply be discarded futilely by their father over that Third Miss.
“Overpraised,” Baili An said calmly, showing no sign of distress.
Baili Valley slightly reined in the mirth in his eyes and continued, “Kindness aside, sentint aside, the young master is, after all, Miss Fang’s man and naturally belongs to Shifang City. But to save all beings while the closest to the young master is lost beneath the Bronze Gate—no matter how one sees it, this defies reason.”
Baili An looked at the man quietly, not bothering to argue, aware that the man was an eloquent speaker; if he were to respond, surely a barrage of words would await him.
Clearly, Baili Valley had not expected soone so young to be capable of such composure. He cut straight to the point, “City Lord Fang You is extrely fond of his youngest daughter. Knowing of the ambiguous circumstances of her death will undoubtedly anger him, possibly affecting others. The two young masters are truly innocent. If the young master could co forward to clear things up, it would all end well. Of course, if the young master is worried that City Lord Fang You might make things difficult for him, the Wandao Immortal Alliance is willing to ensure the young master’s safety. I’ll step in and request a eting with City Lord Fang You at our Immortal Alliance, and the young master will only need to stay at our Immortal Alliance for a few days.”
In just a few words, he not only established credibility but even pacified the emotions of the Fang brothers.
His kind and conciliatory suggestion ant that even those who had received Baili An’s favors had no reason to co forward forcefully in his defense anymore.
Moreover, even though the death of the Shifang City’s young mistress was a major event, it wasn’t quite as serious for individuals.
After all, Fang Geyu had already been safe but chose to jump off the Bronze Gate to her death, and then she never returned. Essentially, this tragedy had no perpetrator to begin with.
Since Baili Valley was willing to diate and reconcile the situation, there wasn’t much of an issue.
To think that such a grand commotion would end in such a mild and gentle manner, the onlookers hidden in the background inevitably found it rather dull and boring.
This ti Baili An was silent for a long ti. He gazed at the two open windows, with the dazzling sunlight streaming in, and said, “Are you here specifically to reason with ?”
Baili Valley gave a noncommittal smile, “You might say that.”
Baili An, with great calmness, said to him, “But from where I stand, you don’t seem to be a person who reasons.”
The inn, which had been gradually becoming calm, suddenly buzzed with noise again.
Did this young man understand what he was saying?
If soone as reasonable as Baili Valley is considered unreasonable in this world, then where can reason be found?
Such a well-intentioned person gets such questioning and indifferent treatnt.
He must be thinking too highly of himself.
What made people utterly speechless was that they heard Baili An add, “I don’t think you’re here to reason, but rather to seek a beating.”
In an instant, many people could hardly believe their own ears.
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