That Fair-Faced 'Sage' {Completed}

7. Old Man Xu

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A little later, LanFen had decided to use one of her demons to escape, since she couldn't think it another way.

The spirit-binding ropes wouldn't let her summon them, but it was a simple matter of shutting her eyes and entering her own spirit realm to personally pull the demon out.

Yet, she hesitated...

'I did promise Master not to use them in front of humans, or in any way that would make humans hate them...'

But this wasn't the only reason she hesitated.

In her present life, LanFen had one major enemy.

A certain elder, who acted from the shadows.

Every single one of her misfortunes in this life, directly or indirectly stemmed from him, and she had vowed to kill him, before she left this earth!

She didn't know who this 'elder' was, but the biggest suspect, was the eldest member of the Shuǐ Clan, simply called Elder Shuǐ, as most didn't even know his name.

LanFen suspected him, because the Elder was certainly someone extremely powerful, and Elder Shuǐ was the most powerful person she knew, except for Xin Dao's leader.

She shut her eyes and mentally ran over Xin Dao's hierarchy again.

At the peak of Xin Dao, was the Grand Cultivator, titled the 'High Grandmaster'. He was the ultimate ruler of Xin Dao, and his presence cast a constant shadow of awe over the entire Wulin. His mere presence kept the peace between the major regions, and enforced the laws of the Wulin.

The current one was rumoured to be an Immortal in the Heaven realm, who was nearing two hundred and never came down from an Ancient peak at the edge of Xin Dao.

Although the position of High Grandmaster was like royalty, his successors were not necessarily his sons, nor did the world wait for him to die before he was succeeded.

The rules were simple.

Anyone could challenge the High Grandmaster at any time, and if that person defeated him, he or she immediately became the new High Grandmaster.

However, because of the level of cultivation one needed to even step into the Light Realm, let alone the heaven realm, it was nearly impossible to attain, so through thousands and thousands of years, there had been only been a few High Grandmasters, recorded in Xin Dao's Long history!

LanFen had removed the High Grandmaster from her suspects long ago, because he was too powerful to bother acting from the shadows. He could Literally just take everything he wanted, and none of the current powers of Xin Dao would be able to challenge him!

Under the High Grandmaster, were the four dragon families.

And under the four dragon families were twelve Prominent Minor Clans, three in each region, and under those, were a near uncountable number of minor clans.

Xin Dao was a large kingdom, divided into four major regions. The four dragon families ruled the East, West, North and South regions of Xin Dao, assisted by the prominent clans in their regions.

They also had a duty to keep each other in check and maintain balance throughout Xin Dao.

But they never did, and instead, they had cast the Wulin into a power lock.

The popular saying, 'Distant water cannot douse a fire', had been changed to 'Distant water 'should' not douse a fire', and was now being used as a warning which meant,

'If the Ruling family in the East did something wrong, the Ruling family in the West had no place to intrude.'

The only option would be to bring it to the High Grandmaster's attention, but without clear evidence or notable witnesses, the accuser might end up being the one in trouble.