Chapter 238: Once the rules are set, they must be maintained

After bidding farewell to Hongfu, Sun Zecheng and Xuan'er returned to Lingshou Mountain through the teleportation array.

The teleportation array of Lingshou Mountain is located next to Sun Zecheng's cave.

A set of "Yin Yang Dual Formation" covers the teleportation array. This formation was chosen because it is non-aggressive.

The formation purchased from the Tianxing Sect is simply a protective isolation shield, which is very useful to replace some low-level disciples to guard key places. Sun Zecheng asked Xin Ruyin to copy some of them, and planned to set up one there next time someone goes to Huangfeng Valley.

Nie Ying was in the cave, sensing the presence of Sun Zecheng and Xuan'er on the teleportation array, and came out to greet them happily: "My husband, Xuan'er is back, have you found He Li and the Tianzhou guest?"

"Found it, He Li hijacked the Tianzhou, hid underground and was captured alive by my husband!" Xuan'er interrupted happily.

"He Li hijacked Tianzhou? Why?" Nie Ying couldn't understand.

"do not know."

Sun Zecheng thought for a moment and added, "Maybe it's for money. There are four or five hundred people on a ship. If they can afford to take a flight, they should have a hundred or so on their hands. This ship is worth forty or fifty thousand spirit stones."

"I didn't expect He Li to be so cruel! Nie Ying misjudged this man and brought trouble to her husband!" Nie Ying said angrily and guiltily.

Sun Zecheng gently hugged Nie Ying and comforted her, "It's none of your business, don't worry about it. People's hearts are hidden in their stomachs, and no one can see through them. Your husband has also interviewed He Li, and he didn't think he was that kind of person."

Nie Ying suddenly remembered something, looked up at Sun Zecheng and said, "My husband, since He Li and Fengyue Tianzhou were not hijacked by the Tiandao League, and He Li is so bad! Just hand him over to the Zhengdao League."

"No, no, no! You can't do that."

"He Li is so bad, does your husband still have to protect him?" Nie Ying looked at Sun Zecheng in confusion.

"We will punish He Li, but we will not hand him over to the Righteous Alliance."

"Wouldn't it be easier if we handed it over to the Righteous Alliance?" Nie Ying was still puzzled.

Men and women have different thinking patterns. Sun Zecheng patiently explained to Nie Ying:
"We have set rules. No physical contact is allowed in the Spirit Beast Mountain Safe Trade Zone. Safe flights are guaranteed, etc."

“Once the rules are set, they must be maintained.”

"He Li dared to hijack our flight and challenged our rules. We must personally execute him to uphold our rules."

"The Righteous Alliance ignored our rules and broke the formation to force us to hand over the people. If we hand them over, it means the Righteous Alliance can override our rules."

"So, not only can we not hand over the people, but if the Righteous Alliance doesn't pay compensation and admit its mistake, we have to fight until it realizes its mistake!"

"We are a force that controls a region, not independent cultivators without power or responsibility."

"Aying, you have to share your husband's worries and take charge of his affairs. I hope you remember that making and maintaining rules is the key to ruling, and it is also the responsibility of the ruler!"

"Nie Ying understands!"

……

"when"

"Everyone listen up!"

"He Li, the guest elder of the Yellow Maple Valley, was trying to rob a flight from Yuanwu Country to Lingshou Mountain. He has been captured by Sect Leader Sun and brought back to Lingshou Mountain."

"The passengers of Maple Moon Sky Boat are safe and sound. They will arrive at Spirit Beast Mountain later under the escort of Elder Xu."

"We just waited for the passengers on the flight to arrive at Lingshou Mountain before executing them. Isn't the warning also an explanation to the passengers?"

Sun Zecheng arranged a dozen foundation-building managers to walk along the streets and alleys, beating gongs and shouting. The news quickly spread throughout the Lingshou Mountain safe zone.

Three days later, under the escort and blessing of Elder Xu, the Maple Moon Sky Boat took only three days to reach Lingshou Mountain, which would normally take seven days.

Skyboat passengers were taken directly to the center of the cross street.

A circular platform has been built in the center of the cross street, the center of trade in the safe zone, and a large iron pillar with two earrings has been erected in the center of the platform.

He Li's cultivation was abolished and he was tied to an iron pillar with the Heavenly Fire Divine Chain.

The surrounding area was already filled with onlookers.
The Jindan elders from the six sects of Yue Kingdom and the three elders and one Yuanying from Yuanwu Kingdom who had also just returned to Lingshou Mountain were all invited to the platform.

Seeing that everyone was present, Sun Zecheng flew into the air and said loudly:
"My fellow Taoists! This He Li was originally a guest elder of our Huangfeng Valley, responsible for protecting flights. He did not fulfill his duties properly and even robbed the flight! Do you think he deserves death?"

"Damn it!"

"kill him!"

"Kill this bastard!"

"Chop him into eighteen pieces!"

……

There were shouts of killing from the audience, and the hundreds of guests who were held hostage were particularly excited.

"It would be too easy for such a cruel and ruthless person to be killed with one blow. How about torturing him slowly by slow slicing?" asked Sun Zecheng.

"it is good!"

"it is good!"

"That's right, it's too easy for this bastard to be killed with one blow!"

"Yes! Torture him slowly!"

"Torture me longer!"

There were voices of approval from the audience.

"Alright! Let's execute him in public today to warn the evildoers and to give an explanation to the kidnapped passengers!"

"Is there anyone who wants to do it themselves?" Sun Zecheng asked.

"Let me do it!" This is the voice of Master Li Huayuan.

"Let me do it!" This was Nie Ying's voice.

"let me"

"let me"

……

The crowd was excited and shouted "Let me do it"
Sun Zecheng asked who wanted to take action personally. His original intention was to give the hijacked passengers a chance to vent their anger. However, he did not expect his master Li Huayuan to be so enthusiastic, and he did not expect Nie Ying to also ask for action!

Sun Zecheng looked at Nie Ying in surprise.

Nie Ying looked back at Sun Zecheng and said firmly, "My Fenglin Pavilion's guest elder did something bad, so I, as the Pavilion Master, should punish him myself."

"Yeah! That makes sense!" Sun Zecheng nodded.

"This bastard hijacked the Sky Boat we were on. I want to beat him up to vent my anger!" the hijacked passenger shouted.

This statement immediately resonated with many passengers, who shouted, "Yes! I want to beat him up, too!"

"That makes sense! All passengers on this flight have the right to beat him up to vent their anger. One quarter of an hour each." Sun Zecheng originally wanted to give the passengers a chance to vent their anger.

"I hereby announce that the round-trip flight for this flight is free, and the flight fees already paid will be refunded. In addition, two months of free accommodation at the Spirit Beast Mountain Inn will be given, plus three servings of barbecued glass beast meat."

"Oh! That's great!"

"it is good!"

"Great!"

"I'll come first!"

There was a cheer from the audience. At this moment, a voice came from the air:

"Hmph! Isn't this He Li? Didn't he pretend to be the one we kidnapped you earlier?" Along with the voice, the Taoist and the scholar appeared outside the mountain protection formation. The Nascent Soul aura could be sensed through the formation.

"Seven days are up. I'll ask you one last time. Will you hand the person over?"

This is the ultimatum from the Righteous Alliance, one of the four major forces in the Tiannan Continent.

Is war or peace?

Everyone's eyes were focused on Sun Zecheng.

Tianxing Sect Yuanying Huang Patriarch took the initiative to speak: "This He Li is doomed, how about Sect Leader Sun hand him over to the Righteous Alliance, and I will help mediate and resolve this matter?"

Sun Zecheng smiled and declined, "Senior Huang is willing to come over to support me. I am deeply grateful, but thank you. There is no need for mediation in this matter."

After that, Sun Zecheng looked back at Nie Ying nonchalantly and said with a smile: "Aying, you go tell them."

Nie Ying flew into the air and said seriously:

"My safe zone has its own rules. I will never hand over He Li to you!"

"You, the Righteous Alliance, ignored our rules, forced us to hand over our people, and even dared to break the formation. If you don't admit your mistakes and pay compensation, we will beat you until you realize your mistakes!"

Nie Ying learns really fast! Sun Zecheng couldn't help but give her a thumbs up.

Everyone in Lingshou Mountain listened to Nie Ying's "big words" with wonderful and complex expressions.

Even the Tianxing Sect's Huang Patriarch had a look of astonishment. He really didn't understand why Nie Ying, a mere Foundation Establishment cultivator, dared to be so arrogant towards two Nascent Soul cultivators from the Righteous Dao Alliance!
Most of the elders at the Jindan level were silent. The strength of the Nascent Soul was best known to the Jindan! Facing the giant Righteous Alliance, not everyone was as fearless and relaxed as Sun Zecheng and Nie Ying.

On the contrary, the disciples in the Qi Refining Stage, no matter they were from the Six Sects of Yue Kingdom or the Three Sects of Yuanwu Kingdom, were too ignorant because of their low cultivation base. They did not know how big the gap was between the Nascent Soul Stage and the Foundation Establishment Stage. Also, because of how Sun Zecheng dealt with the Golden Core Master He Li just now, they had a strong sense of approval and favor towards Huang Fenggu. At this moment, they felt their blood boiling when they heard Nie Ying's arrogant words!

“Haha, Fellow Daoist Qin, look at these people in Huangfeng Valley, they are so crazy!” The Taoist looked at Nie Ying, who seemed to be at the foundation-building stage, and solemnly announced, “I’ll beat you until you realize your mistakes,” and laughed wildly.

The scholar with the golden mirror frowned and said, "You are just a foundation-building person and you have no right to speak! Tell your Linghu Patriarch to come out!"

"So what if I'm building the foundation? I'm building the foundation and going out now. You Yuanying guys shouldn't escape too fast." Nie Ying was trying to provoke him, hoping to find a chance to trap him.

Scholar Jin Jing remembered the last time Nie Ying threw out a large number of high-level talismans, and suddenly fell silent.

The Taoist priest still shouted unconvinced: "Don't you just rely on a few high-level talismans?"

"Yes, provoking and humiliating is also a good tactic!" Sun Zecheng conveyed the message to Nie Ying.

"Aren't you a Nascent Soul? Don't run away when I'm here to build your foundation!" As he said this, he flew out of the formation and took out a stack of high-level talismans from his storage bag. They were all cage-control talismans.

The scholar with the golden mirror was smart enough. He pulled the Taoist priest along and retreated a hundred feet.

The Nascent Soul's escape speed is extremely fast, and Nie Ying, who is in the early stage of the Golden Core, cannot catch up even if he uses all his strength.

"Haha! If anyone from my Huangfeng Valley who has established his foundation leaves, you would have to run away. And you still call me Ancestor Linghu?" Sun Zecheng took the lead in mocking.

"Hahaha!" The disciples of Huangfeng Valley and the other five sects of Yue Kingdom burst into laughter.

The scholar with golden mirror frowned and said nothing.

The Taoist priest was embarrassed and said, "Isn't it just relying on a few high-level talismans? What's so great about that?"

"Shh~ The Yuanying elder of the Righteous Alliance told the foundation-building cultivators of the Huangfeng Valley not to use talismans." Sun Zecheng continued to mock.

"Everyone saw it. When the Yuanying ancestor of the Righteous Alliance saw a Foundation Establishment like me, Huang Fenggu, he was so scared that he ran away like a mouse seeing a cat." Nie Ying continued to provoke.

"Hahaha!"

"How shameless!"

"a shame!"

"Hahaha, I'm dying of laughter."

Why are the two Yuanying of the Righteous Alliance so afraid of a mere foundation-building person? Huang Laozu was puzzled.

Previously, when Elder Hu returned to the sect, he simply introduced that the two sides had a fight, but did not give any specific details.

He didn't ask at the time, and silently thought that it was the Nascent Souls of the Six Sects of Yue Kingdom fighting against the Nascent Souls of the Righteous Alliance.

Only at this moment did Patriarch Huang notice that there was no other Nascent Soul in the entire Lingshou Mountain except him!
"Tell me the details of their battle that day!" Patriarch Huang sent a message to Elder Hu.

Elder Hu transmitted the details of the day to Elder Huang through telepathy.

Huang Laozu's expression was very interesting when he heard this, and no one knew what he was thinking, but it must have been very complicated.

"Just you wait! Our Righteous Alliance will never give up!" The old Taoist priest could only utter these harsh words awkwardly and prepare to leave.

"You listen too!"

"Since you weren't the one who hijacked the Sky Boat, I'll give you one chance!"

"Admit your mistakes, apologize, and compensate for the damage caused by breaking the formation, and I will spare you."

"Don't say I didn't give you a chance!"

"I'm very busy these days and don't have much time to fight you! Cherish the opportunity!" Sun Zecheng said frankly.

Sun Zecheng thought this was indeed an opportunity, but to others, it was just one word: "Cool!"

In the eyes of the Taoist priests of Taizhen Sect, this is simply a humiliation to Taizhen Sect and Zhengdao League.
He angrily pulled the Scholar with the Golden Mirror away.

……

The Nascent Soul cultivators of the Righteous Alliance fled with their tails between their legs, and Spirit Beast Mountain suddenly became a sea of ​​joy.

The passengers on the hijacked flight lined up to beat up He Li to vent their anger.
The crowd below was cheering excitedly, and I only regretted that I couldn't go up and hit him a few times.

An hour later, Sun Zecheng arranged for Manager Xu to grill glass beast meat and give it to the passengers. The atmosphere suddenly became like Chinese New Year.

There was no tension at all due to the threat of war from the Righteous Alliance, one of the four major forces.

Sun Zecheng watched the execution while looking at the jade slip with the image on the Maple Moon Sky Boat.

"This Liu Jianxin is good, very smart!" Sun Zecheng couldn't help but praise Liu Jianxin when he saw him agreeing with He Li while alertly activating the protective formation and setting off fireworks to call for help and alarm.

Ask someone to bring Liu Jianxin here, and also bring Zhong Jun and five other prisoners of war here.

"Disciple Liu Jianxin greets the Sect Master!"

Liu Jianxin quickly brought it over and bowed respectfully to Master Sun, seeming a little excited?
"Do you know Manager Liu Jing?"

Sun Zecheng asked immediately when he saw that Liu Jianxin looked somewhat familiar.

"Manager Liu is my disciple's uncle."

"Liu Jing is your uncle? You knew that, right? Liu Jing is my third senior brother. Just be casual and don't be shy." Upon hearing that he was the nephew of his third senior brother Liu Jing, Sun Zecheng instantly loved him as well.

"I know! Uncle often tells his disciples stories about the master's journey across the capital to eliminate demons and his heroic killing of enemies at Jinguyuan!" Liu Jianxin said with admiration.

"These are just trivial matters, not worth mentioning." Sun Zecheng waved his hand calmly.

"When did you build your foundation?" Sun Zecheng suddenly remembered the Lingshou Mountain Forum that was about to begin, and couldn't help but ask.

"I established my foundation after I recovered Yue Kingdom and returned to Huangfeng Valley. It has been less than a year since I established my foundation," Liu Jianxin replied.
"Oh." If that's the case, he can only participate in the next Spirit Beast Mountain Forum.

"Master, please tell me what you need. Although my cultivation is still shallow, I promise to do my best to complete the task!" Liu Jianxin heard Sun Zecheng's "Oh", which seemed to be disappointing, so he hurriedly said loudly.

"Oh, it's okay. I originally wanted to ask you to participate in this Spirit Beast Mountain event, but you have only been building your foundation for less than half a year, so you can only attend the next one." Sun Zecheng explained.

"You handled He Li's hijacking of Tianzhou very well this time. Do you have any..." While performing, Sun Zecheng was considering what reward to give him.

"Disciple has something to say!" Encouraged by Sun Zecheng's praise, Liu Jianxin mustered up the courage to speak loudly.

(End of this chapter)