Unexpectedly, the Foreign Affairs Elder found that after listening, the Wuxiang Sect Leader’s face turned even darker.
"What happened to my disciple? My disciple is treated equally. If he dares to harass Nephew Jiang without limits again, he’ll be punished just the same!"
What a joke, his own status compared to that person, how could it be comparable?!
Foreign Affairs Elder: "..."
No, what’s wrong with the Sect Leader today? He doesn’t seem like this usually.
After all, he has always been quite satisfied with his disciples. What happened today?
However, it’s clear that the Sect Leader is determined to do this, so the Foreign Affairs Elder dared not say more, nodded, and went to carry out the orders.
As a result, moments later, a notice that shocked many disciples spread directly within the Wuxiang Sect.
After listening to the content of the notice, many disciples who had feelings for Jiang Lingyue sighed to the sky.
They realized that from now on, they could no longer harass her without limits.
"Why would the Sect Leader issue such a notice? Isn’t this giving us no chances at all?" One disciple complained indignantly.
You must know, many had planned to use this tactic, in case that genius alchemy disciple made an unlikely choice... I mean, if she noticed them, they could rise to prominence!
But now, this path has been directly blocked by the Wuxiang Sect Leader.
No entry allowed!
Some disciples found it hard to accept this.
"If you have the guts, you can naturally continue to entangle, after all, there are two chances, at worst, the first two times you’ll be confined, but if you succeed, it’s nothing major!" someone suggested.
"Wow! What you said makes sense! Indeed, it’s only after the third time that you’d be expelled from the sect, being confined twice beforehand is unpleasant, but as long as one succeeds, nothing else matters! To achieve something, one must first endure hardship!"
"Exactly, as long as you can win over Senior Sister Jiang within two tries, everything else will be easy. I need to think about how to use these two chances wisely, goodbye everyone!"
...
For the subsequent events within the Wuxiang Sect, naturally, Lu Ye was unaware.
At this moment, he was approaching Cloud Leaf City, the small city visible in the distance.
Looking at the familiar outline of the small city, Lu Ye instantly crossed the Yunlan River, arriving before the city.
By now, he had naturally reverted to his original appearance.
Just as he was about to enter the city, upon seeing a few ordinary folk coming out, Lu Ye’s expression abruptly changed.
Stopping in his tracks, he observed the people, his spiritual sense spreading over them like a tide...
A moment later, Lu Ye’s expression grew more solemn.
"What is... happening?"
He had just sensed from these people a trace of... demonic aura!
This aura was almost identical to what the Celestial Demon Divine Sect members had.
However, in terms of concentration, it was far weaker than those people, extremely faint.
But this was clearly not a normal phenomenon.
Through Lu Ye’s investigation, these people had no cultivation, they were completely ordinary folk.
So how did they end up carrying such a demonic aura?
With this question in mind, Lu Ye entered the city.
Next, on his way to the Jiang Family, he deliberately observed the pedestrians around the streets.
He found that those carrying this demonic aura were few.
Besides the few who had just entered the city, he encountered a dozen or so among the larger crowd.
This reassured Lu Ye slightly, he feared entering the city only to find... over seventy percent of it corrupted by demonic influence, with such people everywhere.
That would be a huge problem.
Keeping this discovery to himself, Lu Ye planned to visit the Jiang Family and ask if anything had happened recently in Cloud Leaf City.
Soon, he arrived outside the Jiang Family, and the gatekeeper was overjoyed upon seeing him: "Son-in-law?"
Another guard ran into the mansion to report.
"No need to report specifically..."
Before Lu Ye could finish his sentence, the guard had already run quite a distance into the courtyard.
Seeing this, Lu Ye could only shake his head slightly.
He had some impression of these two guards; they were among the guard team he had once trained for the Jiang Family.
He recalled at that time, they were only about Seventh Layer of Condensing Origin.
Now, they had successfully advanced to the First Layer of the Postnatal Realm, a considerable improvement.
Moments later, the guard returned, followed by several others who hurried along.
"Hahaha, son-in-law, come in quickly."
Jiang Family Patriarch Jiang Lianshan strode past the guards and approached Lu Ye, laughing heartily.
Behind Jiang Lianshan, naturally, was Jiang Qingge, whom Lu Ye hadn’t seen in a while.
But Jiang Qingge remained silent behind her father, merely staring at Lu Ye.
Fortunately, Jiang Lianshan understood that Lu Ye hadn’t been home in a while and would need some private space.
After a brief exchange of pleasantries with Lu Ye, Jiang Lianshan left, leaving Lu Ye and Jiang Qingge alone.
Just as Jiang Lianshan and the others had left, seeing no one around, Jiang Qingge approached Lu Ye.
After years of being together, she had become increasingly adept at this.
"Hm? How come I feel like I can sense my sister’s presence? Have you seen my sister?"
A moment later, Jiang Qingge suddenly asked curiously.
Lu Ye: "..."
How was that figured out?
Or is this some unique sisterly empathy?
Otherwise, Lu Ye couldn’t think of any other reason.
"I saw her, she just encountered danger." After some thought, Lu Ye didn’t hide it.
"What?! She encountered danger?! What happened." Hearing Lu Ye’s words, Jiang Qingge instantly panicked.
For this sister of hers, she’d rather... just as she had guessed, not want Jiang Lingyue to be harmed.
Nodding, Lu Ye recounted the events at Wuxiang Sect.
"This news should soon spread entirely, you probably haven’t heard it yet since you rarely leave the Jiang Family."
Jiang Qingge was relieved when she heard that Jiang Lingyue was fine.
"Thank goodness you happened to be there at the time, otherwise my sister would have been in real danger."
As she spoke, a slight aura of hostility rose from Jiang Qingge’s body.
"The Zhou Family, those Grandmasters, are really bold! In my opinion, this family shouldn’t exist at all!"
Hearing this, Lu Ye was a bit surprised; it wasn’t something Jiang Qingge would’ve said before...
Is it because her sister was in danger, or... is the personality of her past life as the Empress gradually awakening?