Chapter 1121 Winning over the People (V)

"What the young lady is teaching is..."

The old matter was brought up again, and Yuan Ting, who had suddenly come to his senses, couldn't help but blush. Knowing that he was in the wrong, he dared not look Xunzhen in the eye again.

Yuan Xiao saw this scene and felt pain in his heart.

At this moment, he had seen that Xunzhen's heart was as hard as a rock and he would never change easily, so he placed his last hope on the undecided Liu Xunyi and pleaded, "Deputy Sect Leader, please give Yuan Ting a chance to reform. As for me... Miss is right, I was originally a guilty person, and now I have made a mistake, how dare I go further? You don't have to feel sorry for my life, and you don't have to worry that I will reveal the secrets of the Young King of Qin. As long as you are willing to forgive Yuan Ting for his past, I am willing to end my life on my own and will never embarrass the Deputy Sect Leader..."

After saying this, Yuan Xiao turned over with difficulty and gave Abaolu a bitter smile: "For the sake of our friendship over the years, can you do me one last favor?"

"what?"

"Lend me your knife, and I will kill you."

"This..." Abaolu was stunned and did not rush to express his opinion. Instead, he cast a hesitant look at Xunzhen, who had an expressionless face, as if asking for her opinion.

"Don't worry! You don't have to do it yourself. Just stick the knife into the ground. I'll do the rest myself."

"Dad, don't be confused!"

"Brother Yuan, why do you have to do this?"

Seeing Yuan Xiao sincerely asking for death, the grief-stricken Yuan Ting had already burst into tears. His close friends Hong Si, Yan Shun, and Lei Zhen were also filled with mixed feelings and lamented endlessly.

Surprisingly, Liu Xunyi, who had always claimed to save Yuan Xiao's life, stood silently by the side, neither stepping forward to stop him nor speaking in response.

After weighing the pros and cons again and again, Abaolu put aside his distracting thoughts and stepped forward cautiously. Seeing that Liu Xunyi and Xunzhen were unmoved, he tentatively raised the steel knife slowly. Under the solemn and complicated gazes, his eyebrows trembled slightly, and his eyes became fierce. He suddenly swung the knife, and with a "snap", Abaolu actually cut all the hemp ropes tied to Yuan Xiao.

"hiss!"

The unexpected scene surprised everyone present.

"Abaolu, you..."

"Considering the friendship between you and me, you should die with dignity." As he spoke, Abaolu handed the knife to the stunned Yuan Xiao and said in a deep voice, "It's really ugly to be tied up and die. You should just... commit suicide with a knife!"

After hearing Abaolu's explanation, Yuan Ting and Hong Si, who thought things would turn around, were disappointed. On the other hand, Yuan Xiao nodded slightly as if he had expected it, and at the same time cast a grateful look at Abaolu.

It is worth mentioning that in order to prevent Yuan Xiao from imitating Yuan Ting and fighting like a trapped beast, the moment he broke free from the hemp rope, Xiao Yang, Su Hu, and Xun Budao subconsciously protected Xun Zhen behind them and reached out for their weapons silently.

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, the dusty Yuan Xiao stood up slowly, brushed off the dust on his body carefully and seriously, combed his messy hair with his hands, and then took the steel knife generously, and spun it in the air very casually. The cold blade drew a graceful arc in the air and rested squarely on his shoulder.

"Dad, don't..."

Seeing this scene, Yuan Ting, crying bitterly, wanted to step forward to stop them, but was held back by Hong Si, Lei Zhen and Yan Shun.

"Ting'er, a real man should be grateful and repay kindness. Don't be ungrateful like dad, and don't be afraid of death." When death was imminent, Yuan Xiao, who had been trembling with fear, felt relieved and left a last word calmly, "Remember! Dad's fate today is all his own fault. It has nothing to do with anyone else. After I die, you are not allowed to avenge your father, and you are not allowed to be enemies with the deputy leader and the eldest lady."

"father……"

"Miss, please tell the young prince of Qin that I have failed him in his kindness. I... feel sorry for him." Having said this, Yuan Xiao cast a melancholy look at Liu Xunyi who remained silent, "I hope the deputy sect leader can agree to my request and... let Ting'er go and don't hold him accountable for his mistakes."

Faced with Yuan Xiao's pitiful plea, Liu Xunyi remained motionless, just staring at him without looking away.

"Ugh!"

Seeing that Xunzhen and Liu Xunyi both refused to pay attention to him, Yuan Xiao couldn't help but let out a helpless sigh.

Looking around, he met Hong Si, Yan Shun, and Lei Zhen one by one, and two lines of tears fell silently, but a carefree smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. Yuan Xiao held the hilt of the knife tightly with both hands, and slowly put the cold blade against his slightly beating neck vein. "Take care, everyone. Yuan... I will go first!"

"father……"

"Brother Yuan..."

"Whoosh!"

"Keng!"

At the moment when Yuan Xiao, with tears in his eyes while smiling, decided to slash his throat with his knife, amidst Yuan Ting's heart-wrenching cries and the extremely sad exclamations of the three people from Hong Temple, a sharp force suddenly shot out from Liu Xunyi's fingertips and accurately hit the blade that cut into his skin.

With a crisp sound like the collision of metal and stone, the sharp blade curled instantly.

The blade vibrated, transmitting an uncontrollable force of terror in a split second, which cracked Yuan Xiao's palm. His ten fingers seemed to be broken, and he could no longer hold the violently shaking handle of the blade, letting it fly out of his hand and fall to the ground in the distance with a clang.

"This……"

The sudden change caused an uproar.

Especially Yuan Xiao and Yuan Ting, the former was unstable and staggered back, feeling the numbness and pain in his hands, and seemed to be in disbelief that he had escaped death. The latter also stopped crying and struggling, staring blankly at the scene in front of him with a pair of eyes full of blood and tears.

"Deputy Sect Leader, what are you doing..."

"I have seen Yuan Xiao's remorse and I have also felt Yuan Ting's loyalty and filial piety. This is enough."

Liu Xunyi waved her hand to interrupt the bewildered and incoherent Hong Si, and then took a deep look at Xunzhen, who was frowning and thinking, and said calmly: "Yuan Ting underestimated the enemy and became a hostage. He was wrong but not guilty. Yuan Xiao loved his son deeply and was forced to be with Qingfeng. He was guilty... but not wrong. You can see clearly that Yuan Xiao had decided to commit suicide just now, and I was the one who pulled him back from the gates of hell. In other words, he had already died once, and I gave him a second life."

"What do you mean by 'died once'?" Xunzhen asked, "Dead is dead, and alive is alive. How can you quibble over words?"

"Xunzhen, I understand your thoughts, and your worries are not without reason." Liu Xunyi replied indifferently, "Therefore, I decided not to kill them or expel them from Xilu Wuzong."

"You don't think that you can write off the fact that the Yuan family father and son betrayed us by using a 'torture trick', do you?" Xunzhen said angrily, "Yuan Ting just held me hostage... I can think that he was impulsive and not pursue the matter. But Yuan Xiao and Qingfeng are in cahoots, and they must be severely punished, otherwise the Xilu Wuzong will no longer have any rules."

"Of course!" Liu Xunyi nodded heavily, "As the deputy leader of Xilu Wuzong, I must be clear about rewards and punishments, otherwise it will be difficult to convince the people."

"what do you mean……"

"I suggest that Yuan Xiao be deposed as the 'Head of the Yuan Clan' and sent back to the 'Four Prefectures of the Capital' to guard the border. He cannot leave without permission. Taking away the 'Yuan Clan' that he worked so hard to build, and he will never have the chance to dominate the world again, is a severe punishment for Yuan Xiao, who has made no contributions but has worked hard. Moreover, with his seniority, experience, and prestige, he can also take over Yuan Ting's position as the head of the Northeast, so that we don't have to worry about the future." Before Xunzhen could ask further questions, Liu Xunyi announced his decision without questioning, "As for Yuan Ting, he is often imprudent due to his youth and vigor. He may be of great use if he breaks the old and establishes the new, but he will inevitably make many mistakes if he follows the old rules. Therefore, I plan to keep him in the Central Plains to hone his skills, hoping that he will achieve great things one day. At the same time, I decided to let him take over Yuan Xiao's position as the head of the Yuan Clan temporarily."

"Did I hear correctly?" Xunzhen couldn't wait to push away Xiao Yang and the other two who were blocking him, and asked in surprise, "Yuan Ting just got into a big trouble, and it would be fine if you didn't punish him, but you actually gave him an important position?"

"You said that Xilu Wuzong will establish itself in the Central Plains from today." Liu Xunyi replied slowly, "The martial arts world in the Central Plains has lasted for hundreds of years. From the famous and upright sects such as Shaolin and Wudang to the local forces such as the Luzhou Gan family that just left, almost all the sects have their own means of survival. The various forces have long formed customary rules, with clear boundaries and no harassment from each other. The Central Plains is indeed vast and rich in resources, and there are countless people. The territories that can be occupied, the benefits that can be obtained, and the connections that can be won have almost been divided up. If outsiders want to get a piece of the pie... it is bound to break the original pattern of the rivers and lakes. At the least, they will be excluded everywhere, and at the worst, they will be attacked by the masses. At present, even a powerful force like Longxiang Mountain has to rely on others and compromise after coming to the Central Plains from Dali. Yun Zhuiyue wants to establish a sect in the Central Plains, and it is difficult to snatch a piece of meat from the mouth of the 'tiger and dragon', let alone Xilu Wuzong?"

"What does what you said have to do with Yuan Xiao and Yuan Ting?"

"Of course it is related! Xilu Wuzong will inevitably face many difficulties when it comes to settling in the Central Plains, and the first way to solve the problem is to know the right people and appoint them to the right positions, and recruit talented people. You and I have limited energy and are unable to do everything in two places, so it is naturally far from enough. Therefore, we urgently need young talents like Yuan Ting who are ambitious, brave and resourceful to charge forward and "expand the territory" for Xilu Wuzong. As for letting him temporarily take over as the leader of the Yuan Sect... First, there are many disciples in the Yuan Sect, and they cannot be without a leader for a day. Second, it is difficult to find a more suitable candidate than him in a hurry. If we use people carelessly, it will inevitably cause resistance from the disciples of the Yuan Sect, and there may be civil strife, making the already shaky Xilu Wuzong even more precarious. After thinking about it, only by relying on the special identity of "the son of the Yuan family" and letting Yuan Ting take over the position of the leader can we smoothly and smoothly get through this storm, and make the panicked disciples of the Yuan Sect sincerely convinced and loyally assist us with all their efforts."

"Liu Xunyi, you trust Yuan Ting so much, aren't you afraid that he will make the same mistake again?"

"As the saying goes, 'knowing shame leads to courage.' After this disaster, Yuan Ting must have repented. I believe that if he becomes the leader of the Yuan Clan, he will be better than his father, do his utmost to correct Yuan Xiao's mistakes, and make achievements regardless of his own safety, to wipe out the great shame that the father and son bore because of the 'Eradication of Traitors Conference'."

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(End of this chapter)