Chapter 50

The group led by Master Xuancheng, who had rushed over from the Myriad Immortals Hall with great momentum, had just climbed the mountain when they heard the news that the Five Peaks Temple was deserted. They were so angry that they almost fainted from the shock!

They had seen shameless people before, but never anyone as shameless as this! The people hadn't even arrived, and the Five Peaks Temple had already fled at the first sign of trouble, escaping so thoroughly and smoothly, it was almost refreshing!

Wu Chuan, feeling somewhat embarrassed, smiled apologetically beside them. Facing the furious Master Xuancheng, he could only console, "Master, there's no need to be angry. The group of wild Taoists at the Five Peaks Temple has always been like this, not just once or twice..."

Master Xuancheng's face was ashen, filled with cold fury, but he was helpless. He could only let out a heavy snort and turn to his disciples and grand-disciples, saying, "Send a few people up the mountain to check again. The rest of you, you can move around freely for now..."

"Yes!" Over forty people looked at each other, all responding listlessly.

It was like throwing a powerful punch only to hit a cotton ball, leaving one feeling extremely frustrated!

Meanwhile, the disciples of the Five Peaks Temple, who had secretly fled from the back of the mountain over an hour ago, were now staying in a three-star hotel in Binyang City. They were feasting in the hotel's second-floor restaurant!

Yu Qing's face was full of unrestrained joy. As he gnawed on a fragrant braised chicken leg, he turned to Chen Shidong and laughed, "The people from the Myriad Immortals Hall must be so angry they're about to have a nosebleed... Still, it was a brilliant move by our Great Uncle Master to come up with this empty city strategy!"

Chen Shidong, however, shook his head with a bitter smile, "Since the founding of the Five Peaks Temple, we've faced numerous life-and-death crises. When the bandits came up the mountain, the disciples fought to the death. This... This kind of cowardly retreat has never happened before!"

"How can this be called a cowardly retreat?" Yu Qing said seriously, "Great Uncle Master said it's a strategic temporary relocation... Once he arrives, we'll return, right?"

"Say what you will..." Chen Shidong sighed, feeling very uncomfortable.

In the past, without a Fourth Stage True Cultivator, they could only swallow their humiliation when bullied by the Upper Immortal Palace. They thought that with the emergence of their Great Uncle Master Yang Chen and the guidance that helped Yu Qing break through to the Fourth Stage, the Five Peaks Temple could finally stand tall and live with dignity. But it turned out that when it came to hiding and running, they still had to flee like stray dogs... Strategic temporary relocation? Don't joke!

Chen Shidong was a stubborn old man, so Yu Qing didn't plan to convince him that Yang Chen's wordplay was right.

After a sumptuous breakfast, Yu Qing took a few junior disciples back to their room to guide their cultivation, while the sect leader Chen Shidong went to the room of the Second Elder Wu Yuanbing, closing the door to vent his frustration.

The midday banquet in the Upper Immortal Palace's backyard was quite lavish, but the people from the Myriad Immortals Hall ate without any taste.

After the banquet, Master Xuancheng went to Xiang Daoxian's meditation room. Whether they were discussing Dao or plotting some scheme, he stayed until around four in the afternoon, looking exhausted as he left Xiang Daoxian's room and ordered the return to Biqiong Mountain!

"Master, just like this?" The disciples, upon hearing the order, were all reluctant and asked one after another.

Master Xuancheng's face turned stern, and he said in a deep voice, "Your senior brother has already returned to Nanhu Province and is on his way to the Second People's Hospital in Shazhou City. Staying here waiting is not a solution, and there might still be a chance to save him..."

"Save him? His dantian is shattered, can it be repaired?!" The disciples all looked incredulous.

Master Xuancheng's lips twitched, but he didn't bother to explain further.

The group from the Myriad Immortals Hall, who had come with such a fierce momentum, left the mountain in a hurry before the sun set.

A young man left behind at the foot of the mountain to keep watch quickly called Yu Qing and the others, who were hiding in the city, and said, "Great Uncle... Those people have already gotten in their cars and left. When are you coming back?"

"Left?" Yu Qing, who was lying in bed watching TV, was taken aback, then sneered, "Your disciple's dantian was destroyed by Great Uncle Master. How could they leave so easily? It might just be a feint, a show for us!"

As Yu Qing had guessed, about three hours after the Myriad Immortals Hall people left, they suddenly turned back and rushed straight to the empty Five Peaks Temple at the mountain's peak!

"Bang..."

The closed temple gate was kicked open by a middle-aged Taoist leading the charge. Dozens of flashlight beams shone into the dark Five Peaks Temple, and the disciples of the Myriad Immortals Hall rushed in, but they still saw no one inside!

Master Xuancheng, with a dark face, was the last to enter the Five Peaks Temple.

"Master, still no one..." A disciple reported the search results.

Master Xuancheng took a deep breath and said sternly, "Playing hide and seek with me, old Taoist? Send people to search the entire temple. Find the ancestral tablets of the Five Peaks Temple, set up a pile of firewood at the entrance, and if they don't show up by dawn... burn down this dilapidated temple! Take the ancestral tablets back to the Myriad Immortals Hall for safekeeping!"

The disciple was startled but didn't say anything, respectfully agreeing and turning to leave.

The disciples of the Myriad Immortals Hall continued to cause trouble in the Five Peaks Temple until around two in the morning before gradually settling down.

The young man left by Yu Qing and the others to observe the situation at the foot of the mountain hid until nearly three in the morning, then sneaked up the mountain to see what the Myriad Immortals Hall people had done.

He also wanted to report back to Yu Qing and the others hiding in the city.

However, as soon as he sneaked around the wall of the Upper Immortal Palace, two flashlight beams shot down from the mountain, directly shining on his face!

"Good boy, we've been waiting for you all night, and you finally came!"

Suddenly, over a dozen people surged out from all sides, and the flashlight beams focused on him like spotlights.

The young man's name was Hu Youjie, an orphan who had grown up in the Five Peaks Temple, the grand-disciple of the Third Elder Yu Ming.

What surprised the excited disciples of the Myriad Immortals Hall was that after being caught, Hu Youjie's face showed no fear, but rather a mocking smile...

A few minutes later, Master Xuancheng, who had heard the news, walked around him and asked with a dark face, "Where are the people from the Five Peaks Temple hiding?"

"They're on vacation in the city," Hu Youjie shrugged. "You bunch of thieves, what are you doing at our temple in the middle of the night? Are you planning a robbery?"

"You..." Master Xuancheng was furious, but as he raised his hand, he was surprised to ask, "You're not a cultivator?!"

Hu Youjie had no trace of energy, clearly just an ordinary person!

Even if Master Xuancheng had no scruples, he wouldn't hit an ordinary person! Besides, for a cultivator, he could destroy the dantian and ruin the cultivation, but for an ordinary person... he couldn't just kill him, could he?

Hu Youjie, who clearly understood this, looked at Master Xuancheng's raised hand with interest and asked playfully, "Are you brave enough to kill me and see what happens?"

"Lock him up!" Master Xuancheng stomped his foot in anger, not daring to lay a hand on him!

No matter how powerful the mystic world was, how famous the Myriad Immortals Hall was, and how high Master Xuancheng's cultivation was, he couldn't afford to be charged with intentional murder. The government might turn a blind eye to many things in the mystic world, but if a mystic cultivator dared to kill innocents... the army would likely arrive before dawn to root out the Myriad Immortals Hall!

Clearly, Yu Qing and the others had calculated this, which is why they dared to leave Hu Youjie alone at the foot of the mountain to observe the Myriad Immortals Hall's actions... Because even if Hu Youjie was caught, he would be safe and wouldn't have his cultivation destroyed.

After all, Hu Youjie was just an ordinary person, with no cultivation to destroy.

With a day and a night of frustration bottled up, Master Xuancheng was at a loss. The people from the Five Peaks Temple were clearly shameless. After Hu Youjie was caught, they found Yu Qing's contact information on his phone.

But when one of Master Xuancheng's disciples called Yu Qing, the conversation was not what Master Xuancheng had expected!

"We have Hu Youjie from the Five Peaks Temple. If you don't want him to have an accident, come back immediately!"

Yu Qing said lazily, "Do you know what time it is? You don't sleep, and I don't sleep? If you have the guts, destroy his cultivation, or do you dare to kill him?"

"...The ancestral tablets of the Five Peaks Temple are in our hands..."

"Rubbish, do you think I'm stupid? We packed up all the important things before leaving. What tablets could be left in the temple for you to find? Don't joke!"

"...If you don't return by seven in the morning, we'll burn down the Five Peaks Temple..."

"Go ahead and burn it. I was already thinking the temple was too small and outdated... But let me tell you, the temple has statues of the Three Pure Ones. As Taoist disciples, do you dare to burn the statues of the Three Pure Ones?"

"...We can take the statues out before burning!"

"Whatever... Anyway, whatever you burn, you'll have to pay us back tenfold or a hundredfold! Don't think that just because you have a Fifth Stage sect leader, you can act recklessly in Nanhu Province. There are many who can deal with your Myriad Immortals Hall!"

After saying this, Yu Qing hung up the phone, threw it aside, and yawned, then turned over and fell back asleep...

On the other end of the phone, Zhuang Sihuai was so angry he almost threw the phone.

Master Xuancheng, who had been listening, had a grim expression and said, "Arrogant to the extreme!"

Zhuang Sihuai hesitated for a moment, then cautiously pointed to the pile of firewood outside the door and asked Master Xuancheng, "Master, should we still burn the temple?"

"Get out!"

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