Please Spare My Life, Disciple of the Demon Lord

Jiang Tingwan trotted behind Mu Qingge into the house. Several people in the house had already finished drinking the medicine.

"Are you brothers feeling better?" Mu Qingge asked with concern, and while speaking, he politely bowed to Wen Bumian who was standing beside him. Wen Bumian nodded in response.

"Much better, thank you Junior Sister Mu for your concern!" Meng Ziyuan said first. He felt better and spoke more attentively.

"Now that the master is in seclusion, Qingge wants to discuss the next steps with the brothers."

She looked serious, and everyone probably guessed what she was going to say, and their expressions also became serious.

Wen Bu Mian, who knew he was an outsider, stood up tactfully when he saw this and said, "Since this is an internal matter of the Sanyuan Sect, it is not appropriate for me to be present. Wen Mou will take his leave first."

Everyone watched Wen Bumian leave, and then Mu Qingge turned around and said to everyone, "Brothers, let me be frank. We suffered heavy losses during the trip to Pingxia City, and three brothers died. I want to send the bodies of the three brothers and Brother Xiao back to Luoyang Mountain first. What do you think?"

What Senior Brother Xiao was referring to was naturally the white-haired disciple with a middle-aged face who had managed to escape the dream.

Lin Shuyu nodded and agreed, "Junior Sister Mu is right. The disciples of Sanyuan Sect are all helpless and alone. They have no relatives to go to, so they should return to Luoyang Mountain after death."

After saying that, he glanced at the white-haired disciple beside him and said, "Junior Brother Xiao's current situation is indeed not suitable for him to follow us to Qinghuai."

"It's just that we are attending the trial conference on behalf of Sanyuan Sect, and there has never been a precedent of returning halfway. If this gets out, I'm afraid outsiders will think that we were beaten back." Meng Ziyuan said with dignity.

If I return to the mountain before reaching Qinghuai and those outer disciples see me, how will I survive in the future?

"Yes, why don't one of us drive the spirit boat to send a few junior brothers back to the mountain, and the others can find a place nearby to recuperate and wait for the spirit boat to return." Mo Shaoyu also responded promptly, and after speaking, he turned around and looked at his younger brother.

But this time Mo Shaoyang did not follow suit.

Although Meng Ziyuan said this for the sake of his own face, it was not without reason. They had originally set out from the mountain in a mighty spirit boat, and it would be embarrassing if they all returned with injuries now.

Mu Qingge took their feelings into consideration and did not refute. He just looked at Mu Yunzhong who was silent and asked for his opinion.

Mu Yunzhong raised his eyebrows slightly after receiving the gaze. Seeing that everyone was looking at him, he said, "I think this is feasible."

Mu Yunzhong's words were equivalent to agreeing with Mo Shaoyu's plan, and Meng Ziyuan finally relaxed.

"Since all the senior brothers agree to this arrangement, let Qingge send them back." Mu Qingge took the initiative to take on this task.

Everyone looked at her in surprise. After all, at this moment, no matter who brought back the three corpses of Sanyuan Sect, they would not be able to escape the questioning and scrutiny of the sect.

However, there seems to be no better candidate than Mu Qingge. She is the direct disciple of the master and the consular disciple appointed by the master. It is only right for her to come forward to deal with the incident now.

At this time, even though Meng Ziyuan liked her, he couldn't say that he wanted to go back to the mountain with her.

Seeing everyone was silent, Mu Qingge added, "I am the Consular Disciple personally selected by Master, and it is my turn to go back and report this to the two elders. Several brothers are injured and it is not easy for them to travel. Brother Mu is also a Consular Disciple, so he should stay here to take care of them. I will come back as soon as possible."

Her words almost found an excuse for everyone, and it was absolutely natural and should be so. Her appearance made Meng Ziyuan and others who wanted to avoid facing it feel ashamed.

Jiang Tingwan, who was standing aside, was really satisfied no matter how she looked at it. Her heroine was so tolerant, just, worthy of her conscience, generous, and classy...

She used almost all the words to praise her in her mind, and even thought of the male protagonist who was worthy of her, Luo Xingnan!

But after suddenly remembering this name, Jiang Tingwan's expression suddenly froze, and she once again realized that her male protagonist had disappeared for quite some time!

Or to put it another way—her male protagonist never showed up!

What exactly happened in between?

Jiang Tingwan was puzzled, but he couldn't express his anxiety.

Everyone agreed with Mu Qingge's proposal, and Meng Ziyuan was so ashamed of her frankness that he couldn't even raise his head.

After that, everyone discussed that Lin Shuyu and Meng Ziyuan would take over the spirit boat and first find a place for everyone to stay, and then Mu Qingge would drive the spirit boat to send the four disciples back to Luoyang Mountain. After the discussion, Mu Qingge went to find Cang Shuzi to report the decision.

But when she reached the door, she didn't know whether she should speak or not, because she remembered that Cang Shuzi had already consumed his spiritual energy and was now regulating his breathing.

After a moment's hesitation, I could only stand at the door for a long time without saying anything.

Until that steady and cold voice came from inside, "You have been standing outside for a long time, why don't you say anything?"

Hearing that Cang Shuzi's voice and expression were normal, Mu Qingge finally felt relieved and paused, "Master! Disciple has decided to send the bodies of Senior Brother Xiao and the three senior brothers back to Luoyang Mountain."

She answered truthfully, but the voice inside remained silent for a long time, "Have you decided on this matter?"

His question seemed to have other implications. Mu Qingge thought for a moment and replied, "This is a decision that I, the other brothers, have discussed with each other. I also think it is most appropriate for me to go back and explain to the two elders."

"I'm asking, are you willing to be the 'sinner' who caused the death of three disciples due to poor leadership?" Cang Shuzi asked a question, and also pointed out what Mu Qingge's return to the mountain alone this time meant.

The factional hierarchy of Sanyuan Sect is different from that of other sects. Although there is a distinction between inner and outer sects, to a certain extent, there is actually no difference between the inner and outer sect disciples of Sanyuan Sect.

The distinction between inner and outer sects in other immortal sects is not only based on talent, but the main reason why they accept outer sect disciples is to gain some resource benefits from these disciples.

In these sects, they are either mountain-guarding disciples who are devoutly seeking immortality and entrust their lives to the sect in order to gain guidance, or they are half-way monks who are sent by some powerful families to learn some advanced techniques and obtain the title of immortal disciples.

The sect gave them some outer sect skills and nice names, and they responded with their own lives, or enough spiritual stones, magic tools and human resources. When some outer sect disciples reached a certain age and time, they would go down the mountain to marry and have children, inherit the family business, or become guards of some big families.

But the outer disciples of Sanyuan Sect were different. Most of them were orphans and helpless children. Half of them out of ten were picked up by Xing Mingzi and brought back to Luoyang Mountain while searching for herbs and medicine in the mortal world.

The Sanyuan Sect has been in decline for three hundred years, and its reputation is not as loud as it was a thousand years ago. It has long fallen out of the sight of those big families. In fact, since more than a hundred years ago, the resources of the sect have been almost exhausted.

In order to train a new successor for the Sanyuan Sect to the greatest extent possible, the sect could only use whether one had entered the Jindan stage as the standard for becoming an inner disciple. But despite this, the cultivation of the sect's techniques was also personally guided by Gu Qingman.

“Therefore, these outer disciples are just as important to Second Junior Brother and Fourth Junior Sister as Shuyu and Ziyuan.”