Cian rubbed his forehead as he hurried towards his courtyard.
To say he was exhausted was an understatent.
However, as Cian was walking towards his courtyard, he would get so displeased glances thrown his way from the Alchemy Disciples.
Seeing this Cian sighed.
"Perhaps I should change out of these clothes and try to blend in with the people of Jianghu. However…"
Cian's words trailed off as a bitter smile appeared on his face.
Even if he were to change his clothes and try to blend in, his blinding golden color hair was extrely eye-catching.
Well, unless he decided to bleach it.
"Ah! That can't happen, anything but my hair!"
Cian actually scared himself when he considered the idea of bleaching his hair. If he ever did that and permanently damaged it, he would absolutely lose it.
"Hey, don't you think that person is weird?"
"Yeah, he's always talking to himself."
"He's also a bastard. I heard he yelled at a female disciple just for looking at him!"
When Cian heard the whispers coming from the passing disciples, his expression changed, and he stopped in his tracks.
"Soone is spreading false rumors about ?"
Well, they weren't exactly false, just lies mixed with true.
Cian only needed to think for a brief mont to deduce who the culprit was. After he did, he was fuming in his heart.
"Okay, fine, you don't want to form a relationship with , but why go around saring my reputation? Are you lot doing this so my Church looks irredeemable in people's eyes? Are you saying no matter what, you plan on going to war with my Western Continent?"
The more Cian spoke the more he beca enraged.
He really underestimated the people of the Eastern Continent; their sches ran too deep. If they wanted to kill you, you might end up dead without even knowing how you died.
Cian was used to these muddy waters in his Church, but these people in Jianghu were on another level!
'Why bother going to the Holy Sects next?'
Cian sighed once more before he went to continue his walk back to his courtyard. However, a commotion in an alleyway to his left caught his attention.
The Alchemy Mountain was arranged like most mountains in the Academy.
You have the Outer Mountain where stores sold dicinal plants and other things related to Alchemy. These buildings were all run by the Alchemy Pavilion and were separate from the Central Mountain.
Just after those buildings were the courtyards for the Outer Alchemy Disciples, the first-years. The Inner Alchemy Mountain was where the Inner Disciples, the second and third-years, had their courtyards. Specially recruited disciples also have a courtyard here.
Due to the cluster of buildings in the Outer Mountain, it created a lot of narrow alleyways.
Inside one of these alleyways, a young boy who looked to be a second-year disciple was surrounded by five other second-year disciples. These five disciples were in various colored robes. One wore a yellow robe, two wore black robes, and the last two wore multicolored robes.
The Alchemy Pavilion, the Weapons Dharma Pavilion, and the Elental Dharma Pavilion.
These five youths from these Pavilions were all viciously stomping on the young boy.
As for why these youths who would normally not get along were ganging up to attack this young boy, this can be answered by the words coming from one of the black-robed youths.
"How does it feel you fucking bastard! Now that your Irregular Dharma Pavilion and Wudang Sect have fallen, do you regret being so arrogant and attacking us before?!"
"Fuck you!"
Bang!
A stomp from one of the black robe disciples was especially vicious as his leg managed to slip past the battered and bruised youth's feeble hands to connect to his jaw.
This stomp left a shoe print on the red robe youth's face while his head was smashed against the ground, drawing blood.
Even though these five youths weren't circulating their Aether Energy, their physical strength from being in the Mortal Realm was still sufficient to beat this red robe disciple to an inch of his life.
Especially the youths from the Weapon and Elental Dharma Pavilion.
After the brutal stomp, the red robe youth could only endure the onslaught he was facing.
In the beginning, he fought back, but after being knocked to the ground he started begging them to stop. But even after nearly thirty minutes, he had beco so weak he couldn't muster up the strength to shout anymore.
Hot tears fell down the red robe youth's cheeks. Until now he had never shed a tear when these youths were beating him, but he could feel that if this continued, he was going to die.
'I need to fight back; I need to call out my Innate Dharma!'
The red robe youth yelled inside his heart, but when he thought about releasing his Innate Dharma, his body shook, and fear rose in his heart.
'I can't, I can't use that accursed Innate Dharma.'
More tears fell from the youth's eyes. He was trapped between his fear of being killed and his fear of using his Innate Dharma to save himself.
He felt so helpless and angry with himself.
'Please, soone save . If I, Gu-Nam, receive help from soone, I will serve them for the rest of my life!'
Suddenly, a figure appeared in his mind. He had pale white skin, a lion mane for hair, and a ridiculously handso face.
Gu-Nam gritted his teeth.
'Even if it's you, I'll forgive you and beco your servant, just save please!!'
As Gu-Nam cried out in his heart, the stomps from the youths continued.
After a few minutes passed, Gu-Nam gave up hope. This was a narrow alleyway that was mostly deserted.
And even if soone saw him, the mont they realized he was from the Irregular Dharam Pavilion they wouldn't even think to help him, they might even join in.
However, just as Gu-Nam gave up on anyone saving him, a calm voice bood inside a narrow alleyway.
"What are you five doing?!"
A few seconds earlier...
When Cian saw the five youths viciously beating the red robe disciple, his expression beca completely dumbfounded.
"Wah-What's going on? Why are they attacking their fellow disciple?"
An Alchemy Disciple who happened to be walking by heard Cian and instinctively glanced over at the alleyway.
When he saw the scene his expression changed, and he was just about to rush over to the alleyway to help. However, he imdiately stopped dead in his tracks when he saw that the youth being stomped on was wearing a red robe.
This Alchemy Disciple sneered and actually spat on the ground before he walked away while saying.
"All of you bastards deserve to be beaten to death!"
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