Azure Heaven Saber
Chapter 592 - 592 170 Break Off

Chapter 592: Chapter 170: Break Off! Chapter 592: Chapter 170: Break Off! Xu Yangbo quietly glanced at Miao Yinian and asked in a steady voice.

He knew very well that Dong Pingjiang would not make such a grand appearance for minor issues, let alone bisecting Jun Mountain with a single sword stroke, breaking the non-killing vow!

In this case, they must have done something wrong at Jun Mountain, otherwise it would be irrational.

“Ancestor…what happened was…”

Miao Yinian’s legs weakened as he stuttered out the truth, sentence by sentence.

In the face of others, he could remain compose, but in the face of Xu Yangbo, he did not dare lie at all.

Xu Yangbo was the unchallenged genius in his day, leading Jun Mountain single-handedly to join the ranks of the Three Mountains.

It was him who single-handedly defeated the eighteen peak masters of Qingyun Mountain and repelled the three supreme masters of Supreme Mountain, a draw with the ancestor of Wansui Mountain.

Jun Mountain’s prestige became unprecedented only after that war, earning a place among the Three Mountains.

The original member of the Three Mountains, Qingyun Mountain, became an embarrassing situation: weaker than the Three Mountains, stronger than the Quadrilateral Mountains, yet they lost their place.

Late on, Xu Yangbo, who set the record of Jun Mountain, challenged the two palaces, intending to go further, and the one who defeated him was none other than Dong Pingjiang standing in front of him.

Xu Yangbo, whose legend was broken, should have been resentful of Dong Pingjiang, but they became friends after the war, proving the old adage: no quarrel, no friendship.

At this moment, Xu Yangbo seemed calm on the surface, but he was already raging inside.

However, his anger was not directed at Dong Pingjiang. He had known Dong Pingjiang for many years. How could he not know his character and actions?

Dong Pingjiang had come straight up to the door, without giving even the slightest respect to him as an old friend. The severity of the situation can be imagined.

“…Then Dong Xiaoyan…the fall of Ice Phoenix…the cessation of revenge by Three Mountains…”

When Miao Yinian got this far, Xu Yangbo interrupted him, “What atrocities did the son of Miao Yusheng commit for him to be listed in the Heavenly Judge and Heavenly Judgment?”

“That child…”

Miao Yinian truthfully said, “Extremely gifted, and he practices the Seizing Emotions Technique…”

Slap!

A loud slap.

It turned out to be Xu Yangbo’s slap on Miao Yinian’s face, spinning the master of Jun mountain in place three times, dizzy and disoriented.

Xu Yangbo trembled with rage, cursing, “Seizing Emotions Technique?! You mean that evil technique that uses resentment to cultivate power and steal people’s wives?!”

“Yes.”

“Such a scum! It’s right to kill him! Practiced such an evil technique, Jun Mountain didn’t clean up its own house, this was a great wrong…”

Xu Yangbo paused and added, “And you even had the nerve to gather forces to retaliate against others? They killed such a villain, and we from Jun Mountain should have personally thanked them! Instead, your response was revenge? Are all of you brain-dead?!”

“If such a wicked skill can be practiced, it’s blatantly rampant. Where is justice? Is such a world still a human world?”

Xu Yangbo was so angry that his face turned purple: “These years, have your lives gone to the dogs? Apart from strength and power, do you forget everything else? When did Jun Mountain become like this?”

All the people of Jun Mountain hung their heads in shame.

Many people thought in their hearts: ‘Since ancient times, the rules of the Jianghu have been the survival of the fittest, who respect strength and power. What’s wrong with that? If it weren’t for our superior strength, how could we have defeated Qingyun Mountain, one of the Three Mountains, and replaced them to join the rank of the Three Mountains?’

But they did not dare to voice these words.

“I have to interject here… about the past…”

Dong Pingjiang interjected, “It was the palace lord who made the decision considering our friendship, and sent out elderly from our Palace to mediate along with the Absolute Sword Devil Palace and Three Mountains.”

“We made an agreement to settle the matter, with the heavy injuries to Xiaoyan, the fall of the Ice Phoenix, and the death of the protector of the Dao, as the price to end the enmity.”

“Regardless of the mistakes your descendants made, lives were lost at the hands of our Cloud Palace, but with the face value of our friendship, our Palace lord retreated for the sake of preserving our six-thousand-three-hundred-year-old friendship.”

Dong Pingjiang said coldly.

Xu Yangbo was taken aback, and said, “Well…Your palace is indeed wronged. Such a worthless progeny deserves death. At that time, it was only right for our mountain to formally apologize and compensate for Miss Dong’s loss…”

“Your palace lord was kind enough to consider my face in handling this matter, which is a great favor to our Jun Mountain. I am extremely grateful.”

Xu Yangbo muttered, “How could there be such a scene today…this…”

Xu Yangbo really didn’t understand.

In essence, it was his own people who violated the taboo and did something bad. The other side punished the evil and promoted the good, but they paid a heavy price and suffered a big loss. In other words, Jun Mountain took advantage in this incident.

Under normal circumstances, our mountain should have taken the initiative to apologize and compensate for the other party’s loss, which is the only way to keep the friendship and maintain frequent contacts in the future.

Even if our mountain’s handling methods were not appropriate, but both sides have already settled this cause and effect under the witness of the Absolute Sword Devil Palace, but why is there another story about Dong Pingjiang coming to our door now?

If one were to suggest that Dong Pingjiang was dissatisfied with the resolution of the matter and sought to start a quarrel by venting his power on the weak, and even killed Xu Yangbo, no one would believe it.

If he was truly discontented, he would have taken action on the spot. Since the other party chose to give him face and settle the matter, then it was settled, and the case was closed!

So, in this… perhaps there is more to the story, and the culprit is affiliated with Jun Mountain?!

“What’s this… why don’t you ask your apprentices and grandchildren and clear it up?”

Dong Pingjiang gave a cold snort and said irately: “Old Xu, what kind of creatures are you raising!”

Xu Yangbo turned his head and said, “Speak, what exactly happened?”

“…It’s, it’s… just a few days ago…Miao Yusheng, unwilling to accept his son’s death, colluded with the people of Three Mountains, gathered more than a thousand experts, stole our mountain-protection barrier… set up a trap at Mount Siji to surround and kill Dong Xiaoyan… until…”

Miao Yinian stuttered his words, yet he couldn’t help but speak, nor dared not to.

“???”

Xu Yangbo widened his eyes in shock: “What, what? Am I mishearing…”

The crowd: “…”

Xu Yangbo muttered confusedly: “The Heavenly Sword Cloud Palace gave us face, wished for peace, and resolved the situation, but you guys were not satisfied and sought revenge again? You even stole the formation plate of our protective mountain barrier…”

“…”

“Good, good, good!”

Xu Yangbo was so angry that his eyes filled with bloodshot, his originally straight and poised old body uncontrollably began to tremble. He said “good” repeatedly, wanted to speak, but suddenly started violently coughing.

“Master, please calm your anger…”

The people belonging to Jun Mountain kneeled down in unison.

“Calm my anger… cough, cough, cough…”

Xu Yangbo coughed violently for a while, then seemed to calm down. He tilted his head back, closed his eyes, and said desolately: “Putting aside issues of justice, right or wrong, and even disregarding gratitude or resentment, let’s just consider the Heavenly Sword Cloud Palace. What kind of existence is it? They gave us face, but we didn’t care. We not only failed to accept it, but instead we further aggravated the situation. They gave us face, yet we lack the courage to face…”

“Our people did wrong, practiced evil skills, lost all sense of humanity, and were killed. Yet we had the audacity to seek revenge. Not only against the wind, but also plot and scheme to retaliate. Where are the rules of Jun Mountain, and where is the moral character of the people of Jun Mountain…”

He murmured: “Does a Jun Mountain of this sort even need to exist?”

“Jun Mountain, has actually become a tumor!”

Xu Yangbo suddenly roared: “You, you are all a bunch of tumors!”

He pointed at each one of them, his heart filled with distress and anger: “You stole the protective barrier formation? How could you even utter such words? Can our mountain’s protective formation be stolen?”

For a while, everyone on the scene from Jun Mountain dared not speak.

After a long time of hesitation, Xu Ningqing finally spoke: “Father, although the martial arts Miao Jianhan practiced were strange and evil, he had immense potential. It is conceivable that he could have reached the Nine Colors Supreme level in the future; he was our opportunity for Jun Mountain to rise again. Now that he’s dead, it is a great loss for us, and not just to his parents and relatives. This may not necessarily be a plot by the Heavenly Sword Cloud Palace, to eliminate potential future threats…”

“Bullshit!”

Xu Yangbo flew into a rage, slapping his son’s face: “What status does the Heavenly Sword Cloud Palace hold, when have they ever been bothered about a threat or challenge? They conspired to murder a Fourth Heavenly Level cultivator? How could you even think of such things? Or do you have a better understanding of the extermination of talented cultivators outside our sect?”

Xu Yangbo’s words were like knives, pointed directly at Xu Ningqing’s ill intentions and underlying plans, it was indeed a serious accusation!

Having received a heavy slap from his father, Xu Ningqing covered his face and dared not to make a sound.

For a moment, the grand hall was as silent as a graveyard, only the huffing and puffing of Xu Yangbo could be heard.

With his cultivation, he had long reached the level of a terrestrial immortal, but this time, he was genuinely enraged to an extreme degree. He couldn’t even control his breathing.

Dong Pingjiang said calmly: “It was because of our friendship that we put aside our grievances and chose to keep the peace. Now that this has happened again, I, as the directly involved party, had no option but to break my cultivation and come here personally to seek the truth.”

“If it were someone else, they might have considered our feelings and failed to completely solve the problem.”

“But I am truly ashamed that my own child who did good deeds should suffer resentment!”

“After killing an evil person, I must also bear the evil consequences!”

“I am here today to demand an explanation!”

Dong Pingjiang’s face was calm, but his eyes were cold: “Otherwise, I have no face to return to the Heavenly Sword Cloud Palace!”

“This is rightful!”

Xu Yangbo nodded repeatedly: “This explanation must be given!”

“Things are unpredictable, causes and effects are also unpredictable. No matter what the explanation is, after today, our friendship of six thousand years…”

Dong Pingjiang looked up to the sky and uttered softly: “…will be gone.”