"Zhu Tong is my younger brother. You dared to snatch his points. If the academy leaders won't deal with this, then I, Zhu Cun Jian, will."
"Today, we didn't come looking for trouble with you. However, later, when you enter the Spirit Pavilion and obtain spirit pills, spirit techniques, and spirit artifacts, you must immediately bring them out and hand them over to us. Then we will let this matter go. Otherwise! Don't even think about staying in this Heavenly God Academy anymore."
As soon as these words were spoken, the expressions of Lu Xuan, Zhang Xiaoshuai, and Xun Yu all became strange.
For the past few days, they had all been with Old Ancestor Lie Huo in the Heavenly God Institute and had not left.
But the news of the deaths of three elders and one Spirit Apprentice must have spread far and wide.
They originally thought that the academy disciples would now be terrified upon seeing Qin Ning, but it seemed that this person who called himself Zhu Cun Jian had no idea what had happened that day.
"You know I'm Qin Ning, and you still came to bother me?"
"You stinking brat, it's precisely because I know you're Qin Ning that I came to find you!"
Zhu Cun Jian snorted, saying, "That day, the three elders didn't execute you. If it weren't for the three elders having urgent tasks to handle, you brat would have been finished days ago."
Had urgent tasks to handle?
Qin Ning immediately understood.
It seemed this was Tian An's explanation to the outside world.
"I don't have any spirit artifacts, spirit techniques, or spirit pills. If you want them, go find Tian An and demand them!"
"How presumptuous! The Dean's name is taboo, how dare you mention it!"
Zhu Cun Jian snorted coldly, saying, "It seems you brat won't shed tears until you see the coffin! Do you think you can be arrogant in this academy just because you have a puppet by your side?"
In response, Qin Ning shook his head and smiled, "To deal with you, I don't need to use the Pan Ling puppet at all!"
"Boasting shamelessly!"
Zhu Cun Jian finally understood what his younger brother had said.
This guy was truly arrogant!
"As a Spirit Apprentice disciple, today I will teach you a lesson!"
Zhu Cun Jian snorted, raised his palm, and condensed a spirit energy seal, which shot straight towards Qin Ning.
Seeing this, Qin Ning frowned slightly.
"Zhu Cun Jian, how presumptuous!"
Suddenly, another shout rang out at this moment.
Suddenly, two figures appeared in front of Qin Ning, striking at the same time.
Bang bang!
A loud explosion rang out, Zhu Cun Jian's face turned pale, and his entire body was knocked back, crashing directly into the stone pillar behind him.
He spat out a mouthful of fresh blood, then fell to the ground.
"Fang Shicheng!"
"Yuan Gang!"
Seeing these two, Zhu Cun Jian's face turned ashen. He wiped the blood from his mouth and shouted, "What are you doing? Do you think our Heavenly Sword Society disciples are afraid of your Fang Yuan Society disciples? You should know, our society leader is already a Spirit Child, not someone you Spirit Apprentices can compare to!"
"Get lost!"
Fang Shicheng didn't even look at Zhu Cun Jian at this moment, he snorted and said, "Although Jian Cunyi is a Spirit Child, neither of us is afraid of him. If you want to cause trouble, just come!"
Yuan Gang also said fiercely, "Get lost! If I see you causing trouble for Young Master Qin Ning again, I'll personally skin you alive!"
Young Master Qin Ning?
Since when did Fang Shicheng and Yuan Gang have such a good relationship with Qin Ning?
These two were both top-tier Spirit Apprentices, at the ninth level of the Spirit Platform realm, and had established the prestigious Fang Yuan Society among the Spirit Apprentices.
Zhu Cun Jian secretly thought, although he was a disciple of the Heavenly Sword Society, he had only just reached the first level of the Spirit Platform realm. If he continued to contend with these two, there would definitely be no good outcome.
"Hmph, I, Zhu Cun Jian, will remember today's matter!"
With that, Zhu Cun Jian flicked his sleeve and left!
Fang Shi Cheng and Yuan Gang then turned their heads to look at Qin Ning, quickly clasping their hands and bowing.
"Young Master Qin, are you alright?" Fang Shi Cheng smiled lightly, a fawning smile that was indescribable.
"Young Master Qin, this Zhu Cun Jian has eyes but fails to see Mount Tai. Next time, if he bothers you again, the two of us will take care of him for you!" Yuan Gang, a man standing at one meter eighty, now bowed down and looked up at Qin Ning, speaking with a fawning smile.
"Meddling in other people's business!"
Looking at these two, Qin Ning slightly frowned.
"Yes, yes, yes!" Fang Shi Cheng slapped himself on the face, smiling obsequiously, "It's because the two of us were muddled, too muddled. With Young Master Qin's strength, Zhu Cun Jian coming to cause trouble is simply seeking death."
"Yes, yes, yes, absolutely right!"
Yuan Gang echoed, "It's because we meddled in other people's business, meddled in other people's business!"
Qin Ning was too lazy to pay attention to these two, so he turned and left.
Seeing Qin Ning and the others enter the Spirit Pavilion, Fang Shi Cheng and Yuan Gang finally dared to exhale, wiping the sweat from their foreheads.
As top-tier Spirit Apprentices who had reached the ninth level of the Spirit Platform realm, these two could be considered top disciples in the Heavenly God Academy, second only to a few Spirit Sons.
However, in the inner courtyard martial arena a few days ago, these two had witnessed the beheading of three honorary elders and the death of Du Yu Ran, the Spirit Apprentice leader of the Heavenly Son Party, which had filled their hearts with immense fear.
In the past few days, they had thought it over and over again, but besides the two Spirit Apprentices like them, Liu Fang Yu of the Liu Sect, along with several honorary elders, also knew about this matter.
This matter, even if they were beaten to death, could not be told to others.
But on that day, it was precisely the two of them who had pressured the elders to kill Qin Ning.
Qin Ning must have held a grudge against them.
With just one sword strike from Qin Ning, they would be finished.
Even the Dean could not uphold justice for them.
Moreover, the examples were still there.
The three honorary elders were all dead, and Qin Ning did not give Dean Tian An any face at all. What about the Dean?
In the end, the Dean still only smiled!
Being resented by Qin Ning was definitely not good.
These past few days, these two had been monitoring Old Ancestor Lie Huo's residence every day, wanting to apologize to Qin Ning when he came out.
Just now, they happened to see Zhu Cun Jian causing trouble for Qin Ning, so they rushed forward to shield Qin Ning from the wind and rain to show their sincerity.
But thinking carefully, Qin Ning didn't need them to shield him from the wind and rain at all!
With just one sword strike, he could send several honorary elders to their distant resting places. What was Zhu Cun Jian, a Spirit Platform realm cultivator, in his eyes?
Their appearance was completely unnecessary!
But even so, they knew they still had to do it!
At the very least, they had to let Qin Ning know that they had realized their past mistakes and sincerely wanted to apologize to Qin Ning.
"Brother, do you think he still holds a grudge against us?"
Yuan Gang asked worriedly, "Although Yuan Chusheng and Fang Shiyu were killed by him, those two scoundrels brought it upon themselves!"
"What if he's still angry and holds a grudge against us?"
"Probably not!"
Fang Shicheng was also worried at this moment. "Did we go too easy on them just now?"
"You're only realizing now that we went too easy?" Yuan Gang scolded. "I already said, as long as we cripple Chu Cun Jian to satisfy Qin Ning, we'll be safe and sound."
"Then let's go find him again now!"
"Alright!"
Having said that, they turned and left.
Chu Cun Jian had no idea that even greater trouble still lay ahead.
As for Qin Ning, he couldn't care less about the matters concerning Yuan Gang, Chu Cun Jian, and the others.
He had lived through several lifetimes; if such trivial matters could still make him anxious, then he truly would have lived in vain!