Max Level Metaphysician: A Debt Repayment Journey…?
Chapter 295: The Ancestor Challenges

Chapter 295: Chapter 295: The Ancestor Challenges

"You mustn’t bully people too far!"

As soon as Jiangli said this, a commotion erupted within Qingyun Temple.

The younger generation was furiously indignant.

"It was just our senior brother who made a mistake in a moment of negligence. You’ve already beaten him, and we’re willing to let him take the blame alone! This is our Qingyun Temple after all, not your Jiaoyang Temple. Is it your place to sterilize the hen and usurp the rooster’s dawn crowing to clean our house?"

"Jiaoyang Temple has always kept to itself, separate from our Qingyun Temple. Is it really necessary to tear each other’s faces apart over such a trivial matter, to the point of ’you die, I live’?"

Whether it was closing the temple for a year or being driven out of F City, both options were unacceptable to them.

Nowadays, more and more Taoist temples and Xuanmen noble families were emerging in F City.

The competition was already fierce.

Closing the temple for a year meant not opening its doors to accommodate pilgrims for that entire time.

After a year, their pilgrims would likely have been poached by others.

Not to mention not earning money for an entire year, were they supposed to survive on northwest winds?

Let alone being driven out of F City.

Their Qingyun Temple had been established here for a hundred years, why should they have to leave just because of a young girl’s words?

"Are these two options really that difficult to choose from?" Facing a crowd of furious faces, Jiangli instead started to smile, "But weren’t these the choices your senior brother left me with? I am merely doing unto others as they have done. Can’t you accept that? Besides, if I remember correctly, the ancestors of your Qingyun Temple were but Outer Sect Disciples of Jiaoyang Temple. As the legitimate head of Jiaoyang Temple, what would be inappropriate for me wanting to clean my own house?"

"You!"

"You’re just being utterly unreasonable!"

"Exactly, if Daoist Changmin did wrong, and you do the same, does it not count as wrong too?"

Jiangli leaned back lazily in his chair, "So, is this a place where you are entitled to speak? I am discussing this with your Abbot, not you. It seems Junior after Junior feels free to interrupt a conversation between elders. It looks like Qingyun Temple truly has no manners at all."

The crowd from Qingyun Temple was so infuriated they almost wished they could rush forward and throw Jiangli out.

However, Jiangli no longer paid them any attention, but looked straight at Daoist Ding Shan, and with a small smile, said, "I wonder what the Abbot will choose?"

"I must beg to decline." The expression on Daoist Ding Shan’s face also darkened, "What Changmin did was indeed our Qingyun Temple’s fault, and we apologize to the young friend. However, this matter was not instigated by our Qingyun Temple; he acted alone. Everyone in our Qingyun Temple is inconvenienced without reason. Such a course of action is difficult for me to accept."

Jiangli propped up his chin, "Unfair, you say? Then let’s make it fair. There has always been the custom of challenging the dojo, if I win against you, then Qingyun Temple will be considered as falling under Jiaoyang Temple. Whatever I choose to do with it in the future will be just and proper, isn’t that fair?"

Daoist Ding Shan’s face sagged, and even if he were made of mud, at this moment, his fighting spirit had been ignited.

But he could see that Jiangli was not a junior to be underestimated.

If those Immobilization Talismans were drawn by Jiangli, then should he agree to a battle, the outcome would be truly uncertain.

"What’s the matter, has Qingyun Temple always been this cowardly and timid? Too scared to do this, unwilling to agree to that, no wonder such disciples are produced." Jiangli sneered satirically, putting Daoist Ding Shan and Qingyun Temple in an awkward position.

There were many pilgrims around.

No matter what they chose next, Qingyun Temple was destined to lose face.

With a dark face, Daoist Ding Shan said, "Why must you be so aggressive in your actions, young friend? Leave some leeway in your dealings with others, so you may meet with a smile another day. We are after all from the same sect, why the undue haste in hostility?"

Jiangli clicked his tongue, "Shouldn’t I be the one to say that? This situation is ultimately not caused by Jiaoyang Temple but started by your Qingyun Temple. I will repeat my words: if Qingyun Temple is unwilling to give a satisfactory explanation, then accept my challenge."