Li Shen followed the two until they reached the Disciplinary Hall.“The Deacon and Elders of the Sword Pavilion are inside waiting to hold your trial. Go in.”The female disciple was the one who spoke since the male disciple was silent trying to avoid Li Shen’s gaze with his head down.The two then left Li Shen alone to enter through the large double doors.Li Shen flipped his fan shut on his palm as he stared at the doors.‘Well, let’s see what they have concocted to deal with me.’Li Shen wasn’t scared or intimidated in this situation but was rather filled with curiosity.Without lingering any longer Li Shen stepped forward and pushed open the doors.As he entered he was immediately greeted with several stares. All varied, some were filled with dismissal, others were curious, while the rests were discontent and angry.The latter being the Faction Leaders of the Six Major Clans on the Sword Pavilion. The former was the various Elders and the Head Deacon.The hall was large and a smal

No one in this room was stupid, they knew what the Elders and Head Deacon’s intentions were, so they placed getting Li Shen in trouble to get more resources aside for now.Well, everyone except Lin Dong. He was seeing this differently.If this turns out to be the best-case scenario. The Elders would punish Li Shen for using coercion methods to trick disciples into becoming loyal to him, this could be considered a form of brainwashing.Lin Dong would get what he wanted as he would argue since his cultivation can’t be abolished he should be stripped of his title as Faction Leader, have his Faction disband, and then be kicked out of the Academy.However, if the worst possible outcome occurred, the Elders might even put Li Shen on a pedestal for being able resorting disciples' talents. Completely ignoring if he’s guilty of coercion disciples or not.‘How could they do that? Wouldn’t that be swapping out the lion to let the fox in?’The overbearing lion being the Ming Clan and Li Shen bein

If Li Shen wasn’t pressed for time he would have liked to stroll to the Conclave Academy as usual but he opted to take the newest convenience for disciples, teleportation circles.And no it wasn’t pressed for time because he was supposedly going on a mission, he just said that to sell his story more.Even though he wasn’t using coercion methods to convert disciples to his family’s side, he was still using them to infiltrate the other factions.After everything he said in the hall, calling out Lin Dong and the others, does that make him a hypocrite?The answer to that would be yes, yes he was. But anything was fair game in the world of schemers and con-artists.However, it wasn’t like there wasn't some truth mixed in. He indeed respected the Celestial Academy, and as a disciple under its legacy, he held the responsibility to uphold its teachings and that heavy legacy.After taking the teleportation circle he appeared inside a rather large hall, where numerous Worker and Conclave Discip

Li Shen continue to laugh some more while Ye Fei was scowling with an ugly expression on his face.He can’t believe Li Shen went such a roundabout way to bring up that accursed name to mock him.‘Curse this evil child, and to think I was deep into believing his nonsense.’Watching Li Shen down his tea whole like he was chugging back wine, he shook his head and said.“You hold your grudges too close to your heart, aren’t you afraid they’ll inflate to encompass it?”Slamming the tea cup onto the table, Li Shen wiped his mouth with his sleeve before saying.“Let them! I’m someone who pays back grudges tenfold, the more you wrong me, the harsher the retaliation!”Sitting up, his spine went as straight as a pillar leading from the deepest regions of the underworld to the highest vantage point in the nine heavens. He then spoke words that could sever nails and obliterate iron.“I’m Li Shen! If you make yourself my enemy by hurting the ones I love you’ll face the most determined, most reveng

“Bastard! Whose your successor?!! Let go of me!!”Mu Fan was first stunned but he quickly became enraged.His hands and feet danced as he was picked up by an invisible force.Soon he was at eye level with the person floating above the courtyard.He was a middle-aged-looking man that wore blood-red robes. His physique was burly, matching the image all who heard his voice from before would picture him to look like.His arms were double a normal person’s and as he grabbed Mu Fan’s head, his palm easily wrapped around it fully.Mu Fan grabbed onto the man’s forearm and instinctively tried to get free, but his arms wouldn’t budge.“Bastard, I said let go of me!!”The man ignored Mu Fan and instead looked at him curiously, then his face showed a frown.“How are you merely in the Mid Foundation Realm having only formed your fifth Divine Platform? Is this some kind of joke? You should have been cultivating faster than this given your talents.”The man after examining Mu Fan’s cultivation was