Feng Tianlan looked at Gu Nansheng with surprise. Right now, she wasn’t speaking for Qi Hongan, but on her behalf instead? Also, who was the “him” she talked about?
“Sheng’er, I am your master.” Qi Hongan’s face was sullen.
“I am merely pointing out that those who can use multiple spiritual elements are very rare; only two who possess the ability to use three elements at once. If Master continues ignoring this and insists on using his authority to nurse personal grudges, I have nothing to say.”
At Gu Nansheng’s words, Qi Hongan’s face turned ghastly pale. If he appeared to have his face smeared by a pile of sh*t previously, now he looked as though his face was dunked in two piles of sh*t.
His own disciple thought he was misusing his authority and sided with Feng Tianlan instead. He felt as though he had been slapped across the face once more, and hated Feng Tianlan all the more.
“Even if she is talented, she still shouldn’t be talking back to an elder. Without even a basic level of respect, she cannot be allowed to be Master’s disciple. She also caused the injuries of other disciples with her arrogant display of power. She should obviously be punished,” Tu Xiupei straightened up and rebuked Gu Nansheng.
She was eager for Feng Tianlan to enrage her master further. That way, she wouldn’t have lift even a finger to make Feng Tianlan suffer.
Privately, she thought Feng Tianlan had been rather smart. However, with this incident, it seemed as though she had become arrogant and proud of possessing the ability to use three elements.
Qi Shujie took this opportunity to add,” She is not only unworthy to be my father’s disciple, but she is also unworthy of becoming an internal disciple at all. We are already being very generous by making her an external disciple of the Flying Frost Pavilion.”
“All of you are misusing your authority to nurse personal grudges.” There was poorly disguised fury in Gu Nansheng’s voice.
Tu Xiupei glared at Gu Nansheng angrily. She asked calmly in a tactful voice, “Eldest Senior Sister, you are also Master’s disciple. It’s okay for you to speak on behalf of someone like her—someone from the South Winds Nation at that—when you are the princess of the Beiqi Nation? Is there an underlying reason for that?”
“Tu Xiupei!” Gu Nansheng’s voice was ice cold. The wrench was implying that she leeched off her master while helping an outsider. On top of that, she was also suggesting that she was in cahoots with the South Winds Nation, which was a crime of treason. Even if as a princess, this charge was sufficiently severe enough to make her life difficult.
“As a Junior Sister, I thank you sincerely, Eldest Senior Sister, for your kind protection.” Tu Xiupei pretended not to notice Gu Nansheng’s anger as she smiled and bowed to express her gratitude.
“Tu Xiupei!” Gu Nansheng lifted the wisps of hair hanging in front of her forehead and stepped forward.
Qi Shujie instinctively shielded Tu Xiupei with his body when she moved. “Gu Nansheng, do you plan to kill your Junior Sister of ten years to protect an outsider like her?”
“Enough!” Qi Hongan shouted angrily. He raised his head, glancing once at Feng Tianlan, and ordered in a deep voice, “Although Feng Tianlan possesses a rare and valuable ability, her conduct is inexcusable. Therefore, she is not fit to be an internal disciple of the Flying Frost Pavilion. I hereby denounce her from her ranking on the list. She shall only be an external disciple from now on.”
At the end of the headmaster’s pronouncement, Tu Xiupei’s face filled with surprise and glee. In the end, Feng Tianlan had become an external disciple!
Ha-ha! It was finally Feng Tianlan’s lucky day.
Gu Nansheng looked at Feng Tianlan, who remained silent. She had tried her best. She couldn’t risk being accused of treason. Much less, being accused of such a crime because of someone like Feng Tianlan.
“Feng Tianlan is not fit to be an internal disciple!” Qi Shujie shouted across the Martial Training Square.
“Feng Tianlan is not fit to be an internal disciple!”
“Feng Tianlan is not fit to be an internal disciple!”
“…”
Others caught on and took the lead from among the crowd, shouting this line repeatedly. The dissonant voices came together, uncertain and tentative at first, then louder and louder, into one united roar. The whole Martial Training Square was filled with the chanting of this statement as if it was an organized demonstration.
