Chapter 112: Sun Hao Expels Someone

  Six people walked in front, each of them with a breath that was many times stronger than those in the Lingering Soul Realm, clearly having reached the Entering Spirit Realm. Behind these six people followed a large group of Inner Sect disciples who didn't mind taking risks. Su Yun and Luo Qing, who had lost to Kong Fang in a trial back then, were also among the crowd.

  Kong Fang, this newly promoted disciple, unexpectedly reached the state of entering the spirit realm in just one turn of his eyes, directly surpassing them. This made many inner disciples feel jealous and resentful. However, after investigating the truth of the matter, although these inner disciples were unhappy, they did not dare to cause trouble for Kong Fang.

  Those who have entered the spiritual realm are far stronger than those who are still struggling in the soul-calling realm. If they really encounter Kong Fang, it's unknown who will be causing trouble for whom.

  However, among the top eight disciples of the inner sect, six people who were dissatisfied with Kong Fang's arrogant behavior wanted to teach him a lesson. After being taught by these envious inner sect disciples, they suddenly became excited and called out to their friends to come and watch the commotion, wanting to see Kong Fang being taught a lesson by these famous inner sect disciples.

  Among the top ten disciples of the inner courtyard, except for Pang Tiānshēng who was killed by Kong Fang and the ninth-ranked Xiū Fóu, all others were still in the Lingyuan realm. The top eight disciples had reached the entry spirit realm, while the second and first ranked disciples were said to have powers close to the peak of the entry spirit realm, with rumors that they had begun preparing to break through to the ascension spirit realm. Once one enters the ascension spirit realm, they can become a direct disciple and receive personal guidance from a powerful master in the Xuanling realm.

  This time, under the pretext of a trial run, six people from 8th to 3rd place came to trouble Kong Fang. The two people ranked first and second did not show up. However, these six people suddenly came together to cause trouble for Kong Fang. Behind the scenes, there was the shadow of the strongest two.

  After all, Kong Fang was said to be the strongest among the inner disciples. The one who was affected first was the person ranked first.

  On another mountain peak, looking at the crowd surging over here from Huoyun Hall Mountain Peak, two men exchanged a smile.

  "It took less than a year to step into the spiritual realm from the soul-calling boundary, and this cultivation speed is indeed terrifying. But as soon as he broke through to the spiritual realm, he was so arrogant, daring to claim himself as the number one disciple of the inner hall. It seems that his sudden increase in strength has made him unaware of his own weight." One of them sneered.

  "I've seen many geniuses, although none of them can compare to Kong Fang. However, there is one common trait among these geniuses: the more talented they are, the more arrogant they become. With their exceptional abilities, they often achieve success easily and rarely face setbacks, which further reinforces their sense of superiority. As a result, people like this cannot tolerate setbacks, and if they suffer a severe blow, it may even cause them to retreat from the world forever, leading an unremarkable life."

  The person speaking glanced at the person beside him, a hint of mockery on his face, and said: "Junior brother, this kind of person who is forever silenced by a blow. Actually... I've seen quite a few."

  The two of them looked at each other and burst out laughing.

  On the mountain peak where Huoyun Hall is located, Li Sen and Yin Wanshui stood high up, looking out at the vast crowd that stretched from the foot of the mountain all the way to the middle of the mountain.

  Both of them had a pleased smile on their faces.

  "At first, I heard from Zhang De, a follower of Sun Hao, that Kong Fang had reached the state of entering the spiritual realm. I thought I misheard it, we have been cultivating for so many years and are still far from reaching the peak of the soul-calling realm, let alone breaking through the bottleneck to reach the spiritual realm. And yet, Kong Fang has only cultivated for less than a year, and in this one year, he not only refined a low-grade post-heavenly spiritual treasure but also rapidly increased his strength to enter the spiritual realm. In the past, when he was still in the soul-calling realm, we were already no match for him, completely suppressed by him. Now that he has reached the spiritual realm, we are even less of a match for him. I thought there would be no chance to avenge the humiliation of having my bones broken back then, fortunately, it's all thanks to you, senior brother." Yin Wanshui said with relish.

  When Yin Wanshui first went out to deal with Zhao Yong, he was pulled away by Li Sen to find trouble for Kong Fang. However, the two were stopped by Fang Tou and couldn't even enter the gate of Kong Fang's courtyard. Later, Yin Wanshui took advantage of Fang Tou's subordinate status to attack him, but was interrupted by Kong Fang who returned in time, resulting in Yin Wanshui being beaten up and bedridden for several days before recovering.

  Although this matter did not spread, it was limited to the few inner disciples of Huoyun Hall and their followers, but it still made Li Sen and Yin Wanshui feel that they had lost face, so they hated Kong Fang even more in their hearts. However, their strength was far inferior to Kong Fang's, so the two could only lie low for the time being.

  "Not everything needs to be done by us personally, we need to learn how to use others' hands to eliminate our opponents." Li Sen smiled complacently and said: "Kong Fang has reached the state of entering the spiritual realm, we don't have the strength to deal with him, but he's not invincible either. Naturally, there are people who can take care of him. We just need to make a small move, you see now that many people in the spiritual realm are going to take care of Kong Fang."

  "Shixiong is right, and this feeling of sitting in the back and controlling everything is actually pretty good." Yin Wanshui couldn't help but smile.

  Li Sen nodded with a smile, and the expression on his face became even more complacent.

  "Let's find a good spot, the show is about to begin." Li Sen walked in another direction, where there was a protruding location that allowed him to see Kong Fang's small courtyard and its surroundings clearly.

  Yin Wanshui followed closely behind Li Sen.

  ……

  In Kung Fang's small courtyard, under the shade of a pavilion, Kung Fang and Sun Hao sat facing each other beside a stone table. On the table were arranged some jade slips, which Kung Fang was examining one by one.

  With the Five-Polarization Mirror splitting his body into multiple transformations in an unending sequence, Kong Fang was eager to learn more about the Five-Polarization Mirror and other powerful Split-Body techniques. He had Sun Hao help gather some related jade slips.

  Sun Hao has been a disciple of Nei Tang for two or three years now, and his familiarity with the equipment naturally cannot be compared to Kong Fang, who has only been a disciple of Nei Tang for less than a year.

  Behind Kong Fang and Sun Hao stood two followers, Fang Tou and Zhang De.

  Just as Kong Fang finished examining a jade slip and reached out to take another one from the stone table, his brow suddenly furrowed.

  "What's wrong, young master?" Seeing Kong's changing expression, Sun Hao couldn't help but ask in doubt.

  "There are many people coming up the mountain." Kong Fang replied with a frown.

  The one currently residing in the artifact is Kong Fang's Earthly Clone, although it doesn't contain the Dragon King's essence blood, but because it was created using the Five Elements Splitting Mirror, it is an extremely pure Earthly Clone. As a result, its control over the Earth element is not weaker than Kong Fang's true body. Furthermore, after his cultivation reached the Entering Spirit Realm, Kong Fang's control over the Earth element became even stronger.

  As a result, many people had just passed by Huoyun Hall and were walking up the mountain when Kong Fang suddenly discovered it.

  Although many people climb the mountain, they all go to Huoyun Hall and generally no one will bypass Huoyun Hall to climb up, after all, the top of the mountain is where Kong Fang and other inner disciples live.

  "Many people have come to the mountain? Impossible, there are only our inner disciples' residences on the mountain, even if someone comes to visit, it shouldn't be many people." Sun Hao was somewhat puzzled and perplexed.

  The square-faced man standing behind Kong Fang showed a hesitant expression, but then spoke up: "Senior brother. Yesterday I heard some rumors about you."

  "What's this rumor about me? Tell me."

  This was the second day after Kong Fanggang returned, except for letting Sun Hao collect some jade slips he needed at the beginning, Kong Fang never left this small courtyard again and continued to cultivate. Having reached the Lingjing realm, Kong Fang could continue to cultivate the Jiuyanjiu Chong Jue and the Dadi War Armor, two Dao methods. In order to quickly improve his strength, Kong Fang naturally did not want to waste any time.

  The power of these two Taoist methods is extremely strong, and being powerful also represents profundity and difficulty in cultivation. Although Kong Fang cultivated diligently without stopping, only a short period of more than a day allowed Kong Fang's progress to be microscopically small.

  "The news of Shixiong's entry into the spiritual realm was leaked out, and someone secretly spread rumors that Shixiong's current strength is enough to rank first among the inner disciples. However, Shixiong has always been cultivating. I didn't tell Shixiong about this matter, please punish me." Fang bowed his head respectfully behind Kong Fang.

  "I blame you for what? You didn't do anything wrong." Kong Fang smiled and shook his head, saying: "It's leaked, it's leaked, no big deal. No wonder I said why so many people suddenly came up the mountain with such momentum, turns out they all came to find me trouble."

  Kong Fang didn't mind the news leaking out, but Sun Hao's face changed color.

  Sun Hao suddenly stood up from the stone bench, turned around and glared at Zhang De with anger in his eyes: "The news of Kong Fang's breakthrough to the Ling Realm was only known to us four people, how did the news suddenly leak out?"

  "Brother, the news wasn't leaked by me!" Zhang De's face was full of grievances and indignation. At the same time, his eyes didn't forget to glance in Fang Tou's direction, implying that it was Fang Tou who had leaked the information.

  Seeing Zhang De not admitting, Sun Hao's eyes flashed a hint of disappointment. "I'm very clear about Fang Tou's temperament, he can't leak Kong Fang Shidi's news. And the only four people who know that Kong Fang Shidi has reached the Ling Jing state are us, do you mean to say that I and Kong Fang Shidi leaked it?"

  Sun Hao shook his head in disappointment, "Over the past year, I've found that you've changed, becoming more and more unreasonable. Sometimes when I'm guiding other junior disciples to refine their equipment, you'll complain about wasting too much time. And sometimes when I'm cultivating, you'll directly barge into my room asking me to guide you in refining your equipment. Originally, considering the years you've followed me, I didn't want to say these things. But this time, you've really disappointed me - not only did you deny leaking the news of Kong Fang's breakthrough to the Spiritual Realm, but you also wanted to let Fang take the blame for you."

  "Bang", Zhang De knelt down on the ground with a terrified face, "Master brother, please don't drive me away, I was wrong, I won't dare to do it again."

  "Bang bang bang", Zhang De desperately knocked his head, but every time his head heavily hit the ground, a hint of resentment and bitterness would appear in his eyes.

  Kong Fang looked at all this calmly, and in his heart, he didn't have much good impression of Zhang De. Kong Fang remembered that when he first met Sun Hao at Huoyun Hall, Zhang De had a condescending attitude towards him, looking down on him. Moreover, when Sun Hao was explaining the matter of quenching liquid to him, Zhang De showed an impatient look, always wanting to stop him.

  Kong Fang looked at Zhang De, who was kowtowing on the ground, with a hint of disgust in his eyes. It was all because Zhang De had leaked the news, causing many people to come and bother Kong Fang now.

  "You can go now. With the guidance I've given you over the past few years in refining equipment, you might have a chance to advance to the inner chamber during the next refining equipment assessment." Sun Hao said coldly.

  His followers have done such a thing, and it's no different from betraying himself. Sun Hao is not someone who can tolerate people with such a mindset by his side.

  "Big brother, don't drive me away." Zhang De hugged Sun Hao's leg, his face full of pleading.

  "Leave now, or I might change my mind and deprive you of the chance to participate in the Refining Vessel assessment." The master had the power of life and death over his followers, and Sun Hao's words were not meant to intimidate Zhang De.

  As soon as Zhang De heard Sun Hao's words, he immediately let go of Sun Hao's leg and stood up. He then turned around without hesitation and left, without any lingering attachment. Apparently, what Zhang De valued was the benefits that came with following Sun Hao, rather than Sun Hao himself.

  Looking at the re-locked school gate, Sun Hao's smile was somewhat bitter.

  "Senior brother, why be sentimental for this kind of person? It's better to get rid of them. Keeping them around would only bring trouble." Kong Fang advised.

  "I understand." Sun Hao nodded and said, but although Sun Hao understood this truth in his heart, after being together for three years, he still had some feelings.

  Sun Hao sat weakly on the stone bench, his eyes somewhat dim.

  Just then, a flash of anger crossed Kong Fang's face as he slammed the jade tablet on the table. Suddenly, the small courtyard door was kicked open with a loud "bang".