"Impossible!" retorted Shen Aobing, her face as cold as frost.

"I beg the Sect Leader to annul this marriage arrangement!" A soft voice suddenly sounded from the side.

Chu Mo turned his head and saw the long-missing Shen Xingxue.

"Xingxue, how did you leave seclusion? Have you made a breakthrough?" Seeing Shen Xingxue, Shen Aobing's face broke into a smile.

Shen Xingxue looked apologetically at Chu Mo and Miao Yi Niang, but didn't respond to Shen Aobing's question. Instead, she knelt down beside Miao Yi Niang and whispered, "I beg the Sect Leader to annul this marriage arrangement."

The smile on Shen Aobing's face vanished in an instant, and she frowned at Shen Xingxue, "Xingxue, are you also trying to interfere in this matter?"

"Although the Sect Leader owes a debt of gratitude to Sister Yiniang, the Sect Leader also said that we, as Immortals, do not need to strengthen ourselves through marriage alliances," Shen Xingxue spoke softly, "Moreover, I just heard that Young Master Chu's family has met with misfortune... How can we seize this opportunity to kick him when he's down?"

Shen Aobing looked at Shen Xingxue, somewhat surprised, her eyes as icy as winter, "How did you know about this? And what do you mean by kicking him when he's down? You're calling me the Sect Leader, then you should know this is none of your business. You may leave."

Shen Xingxue became desperate and pleaded with Shen Aobing, "Au... aunt..."

"Useless!" Shen Aobing said coldly, "Don't waste your breath."

Throughout this confrontation, Chu Mo remained silent, staring off into the distance. Since he had declared his refusal, he hadn't spoken another word.

It was only when Shen Aobing decidedly rejected Shen Xingxue's plea that Chu Mo slowly turned back, looking at Shen Aobing, "I never said I wanted to take Yiniang away. If Sect Leader Shen isn't deaf, she should have heard me refuse to leave with her."

Shen Aobing looked at Chu Mo with disgust, "So what?"

"Now that I have lost my future, I don't want, nor will I implicate Yiniang," said Chu Mo impassively.

Tears welled up in Miao Yi Niang's eyes as she looked at Chu Mo, attempting to speak.

But Chu Mo didn't give her a chance to talk. Instead, he looked at Shen Aobing and said, "So please, revoke your absurd command."

"Absurd? You're calling me absurd?" Shen Aobing looked at Chu Mo with disbelief and laughed out of fury, "I think you're the absurd one! You, a good-for-nothing mutt who has lost his entire family, dare to call me absurd? Do you even know where you are? Do you know how long I've been tolerant of you?"

"Aunt!" Shen Xingxue's face turned pale as she looked at Shen Aobing, "How can you talk like that?"

At this moment, Miao Yi Niang slowly stood up and said to Shen Aobing, "If the master does not take back her command, I would rather die."

"Oh, really, really now," Shen Aobing snickered, her laughter horrifically cold, "It's nice to see that you've all learned how to threaten me, haven't you?"

Turning to Chu Mo, she continued, "You're really something, mutt, after all these years, you're still able to easily steal the hearts of my two favorite disciples. Today, unless I kill you..."

Chu Mo sighed, "Sect Leader Shen, I've never truly wanted to be your enemy, although... I admit, I dislike you very much. Regardless of whether it's because of Princess Xingxue or Sister Yiniang, I do not want to become enemies with you."

"You're not worthy," Shen Aobing sneered.

Ignoring her, Chu Mo continued, "All I came here for is to ensure that Miao Yi Niang is safe! That is enough for me."

The tears that Miao Yi Niang had managed to hold back welled up in her eyes once more.

Chu Mo carried on, "As for my stay here, I apologize if I've troubled you. I will leave a compensation behind. However... it's meant for Princess Xingxue and Sister Yiniang. After all, they're still disciples of the Immortals."

Shen Aobing said disdainfully, "Do you think I want anything from a good-for-nothing like you?"

"It's not about whether you want it or not. Even if you begged me on your knees, I wouldn't give you a single cent." Chu Mo spoke indifferently, then turned to Miao Yi Niang, "Remember the rhyme I taught you."

After a moment of silence, Chu Mo whispered a few sentences to Shen Xingxue, then asked, "Have you remembered it?"

Shen Xingxue seemed a bit confused, but she nodded, "I remember."

"Good, remember it and don't tell anyone. I will set up a restriction in that place. Aside from the two of you, anyone else enters will be immediately killed by the arrays." Chu Mo's words were aimed at Shen Aobing, in case she coaxed the matter out of the kind-hearted Shen Xingxue and came up with any other ideas.

He would have to inform the Realm Spirit and ask it to help set up the arrays.

Shen Xingxue nodded in confusion. She didn't understand what the verse Chu Mo taught her meant.

Shen Aobing had been watching all this from the side, coldly. In truth, she was fuming inside.

Shen Aobing, Shen Aobing… since the day she was born, she had walked a smooth path, growing drastically fast and hailed as a once-in-a-millennium genius!

Everything had always gone smoothly for her until, during one of her ventures into the secular world, she met Chu Mo. This marked the first stumbling block she had encountered.

Beyond this, whenever people heard the word 'Immortal', they would kneel immediately. Those who didn't were beaten down!

Except for this one man… this one man!

A bloodthirsty glint flashed in Shen Aobing's eyes.

At this moment, Chu Mo turned to glance at Shen Aobing, "Don't harbor any killing intent towards me. You're not my opponent. And even the seven foremost elders of the Immortals aren't my match. Don't awaken them out of personal interests and waste their life expectancy on me. You should save it for more meaningful tasks."

Chu Mo's casual statement had a profound impact on Shen Aobing, causing her to change her facial expression markedly. In disbelief, she stared at Chu Mo, "How...how do you know?"

Then with a sudden burst of rage, she shouted at Miao Yi Niang and Shen Xingxue, "Was it the two of you ...?"

However, she immediately realized that it couldn't have been them, because the people who knew about the number of foremost elders were only the successive Sect Leaders!

In other words, in the entire sect of the Immortals, it was only Shen Aobing and the seven foremost elders who knew about this! Even the other elders weren't aware.

After a moment of stunned silence, Shen Aobing finally reacted. Then, she sneered, "I see, your master must have known this before he passed... You almost fooled me, you pest!"

Hearing this, a helpless expression appeared on Chu Mo's face, the corner of his mouth twitching involuntarily.

This woman... she's gone mad!

However, to her, his expression seemed like an indication of guilt.

Hence, she laughed coldly and said, "Got nothing else to say? Then prepare to die!" Shen Aobing cultivated her energy…and in a flash, she had reached the Innate Realm.

Just then, a long sigh echoed from the back mountain, "Little sister, stand down."

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