“But there are disciples of Azure Sky Sect here; I won’t kill them in front of them.” Shen Yuan shook his head as he couldn’t understand why they were fearing him so much.
“People become idiots when they face their fears, and from the looks of it, you have become their fear.” Ling Mei laughed while saying what was on her mind.
“Let’s head out as well. Let’s see how the elders of Ironwood Mountain will react.” Shen Yuan’s eyes flashed with excitement as he thought about the upcoming conflict.
The disciples nodded nervously, as they hadn’t experienced an event of such magnitude before.
They waited for the disciples of the Azure Sky Sect to leave. As all of them left and only the leader of the team was left, he turned around and cupped his fist towards Shen Yuan.
Shen Yuan smiled and nodded at him in acknowledgment as the disciples turned around and left.
“Let’s go now,” he said and led the others towards the exit with him.
The other disciples followed after him as they glanced back at the Mystique Realm from time to time. “How good it would be if we could come back here,” one of the younger disciples muttered in a low voice.
“It’s not good to be greedy,” Shen Yuan patiently said, “You guys have already got quite a bit of fortune here; try to digest it completely before thinking of exploring the outside world again.”
The disciples nodded as they heard his words and thought back to everything he had done for them.
As the disciples became lost in thought, they soon started leaving through the massive exit while Shen Yuan stood at the side.
As the last of them left, Shen Yuan looked back at the Mystique Realm with a smile, “Truly, people shouldn’t be greedy for someone else’s treasures.”
He laughed as he pulled the Realm Heart in front of him, which was floating in the surroundings since the start. “Now, let’s pull the realm inside my mansion.”
Shen Yuan put both hands on top of the glowing orb and started giving it various commands. The realm shook as all the beasts raised their heads to look at the sky turning dark.
Shen Yuan took out his mansion as the Realm Heart entered inside one of the empty rooms and started pulling the entire realm with him.
“Good, now it just needs a few more minutes to complete the extraction.” He thought as he commanded the Realm Heart to close the portal while running towards the exit, leaving the mansion behind to pull in all of the Mystique Realm.
He crossed through the portal and came to the outside world. The sun shone brightly above the sky, and the first thing he saw after exiting was the three powers standing opposite each other, the tension high as the elders stared at each other.
“Hmm? What is happening here?” Shen Yuan asked in a light tone as he exited the Mystique Realm.
Everyone’s eyes shifted as they stared at Shen Yuan intensely, especially the elder from Ironwood Mountain Clan.
His eyes seemed to spit out fire as he saw Shen Yuan. But before he could say anything, another voice echoed from the side.
“Shen Yuan, you are finally out.” Yun Lan spoke as she seemed to visibly relax after seeing him. She motioned for him to join the group as she eyed the elder from Ironwood Mountain carefully.
Shen Yuan nodded and started walking towards the group from Radiant Lotus Sacred Sect.
But the Ironwood Mountain Clan’s elder didn’t want him to join the group as he shouted, “Wait a second!” His voice seemed to boil with anger as he pointed at Shen Yuan. “Why did you beat up our Young Master so viciously? Our alliances had an agreement about that.”
Shen Yuan paused, turning his head around to see the elder fuming. His lips curled up as he asked back, “Was there anything against fighting for treasures inside the Mystique Realm or hurting each other?”
“…” The elder became speechless as there was indeed no such thing written inside the agreement.
“The bottom line was to not kill each other inside the Mystique Realm, and that’s why I didn’t.” His eyes turned cold while his voice dropped. “Otherwise, he would have been killed for what he did inside the Mystique Realm.”
The Ironwood Mountain Clan elder’s voice cracked, “Do you have no empathy, you little brat? You injured him so badly over a little disagreement?”
Yun Lan’s eyes also sharpened as her voice echoed, “Ironwood Mountain Clan, don’t forget your place. Even hundreds of you wouldn’t be enough to trouble my sect.”
The Ironwood Mountain Clan elder’s face turned red, but before he could explode, Shen Yuan added fuel to the fire, “It was his own fault for being so weak; he should have been stronger if he wanted to come and fight me.”
The Ironwood Mountain Clan elder’s face exploded in rage, “Shut up, you bastard! How dare you shame our Young Master even after attacking him!”
Four other Ironwood Mountain clan elders stepped forward, seeing the situation escalating, but they didn’t try to calm him down and instead joined him in trying to suppress Shen Yuan and Yun Lan.
Shen Yuan raised an eyebrow as he felt the pressure upon him increasing. At first, it didn’t affect him, but the pressure soon reached astounding heights, and Yun Lan and the other elder immediately came in front of Shen Yuan to protect him.
Shen Yuan heaved a sigh of relief as the pressure upon him decreased substantially while Yun Lan’s gaze chilled, “What do you think you are doing? Do you guys want to die?”
“Hand over that little bastard, and we will let you go,” the leading elder of Ironwood Mountain Clan spoke, not intending to back down at all.
Meanwhile, the group from Azure Sky Sect had already backed away to a safe distance to watch the show.
“Do you think the Radiant Lotus Sacred Sect will hand over Shen Yuan?” one of the disciples asked as he observed Shen Yuan and the others.
“They might do that; after all, the sect is good at healing, not fighting. And Shen Yuan is only an outer disciple; I don’t think it’s worth it for them to offend Ironwood Mountain Clan over a mere outer sect disciple.” Another disciple shared his thoughts, but before his words could even finish, an elder spoke.
“Hmph! You guys know nothing about the Divine Tier Sects. If those were so easily intimidated by such low-level powers as Ironwood Mountain, then they wouldn’t deserve their position as a Divine Tier Sect.” His words were sharp as he lectured the disciples.
“That’s indeed true. Shen Yuan is not merely an outer sect disciple, but he is also a once-in-a-lifetime genius who completed the trial of the Ancestral Pagoda. They would be morons if they let go of him.” A female elder from behind the group commented as she had a high evaluation of Shen Yuan.
None of the other groups heard them as they were locked in a stalemate. Shen Yuan was about to say something when Yun Lan flared up.
