Madam Jin's brows stiffened, scolding, "ZiXun!"
Hearing this, Wei WuXian's smile disappeared at once. He asked, "Discipline?"
He turned his head slowly, "A crooked path?"
Lan WangJi's voice was low, "Wei Ying."
Jin ZiXun and the others noticed the unusual atmosphere as well. Holding their breaths, they looked at him. Wei WuXian smiled again, "Do you know why I'm not carrying my sword? It wouldn't make a difference if I told you anyways."
He turned around, stating one word at a time, "Because I want you to know that even if I don't use my sword, with nothing but what you call a 'crooked path', I will still rise unparalleled and leave all of you staring at me from behind."
With his words, all of the people present were shocked speechless.
No disciple had ever dared say such lofty words in front of so many people. A moment later, as Jin ZiXun finally regained his composure, he yelled, "Wei WuXian! You're only the son of a servant-how dare you be so bold!!!"
Hearing those words, Lan WangJi's gaze froze. The pupils of Wei WuXian's eyes shrunk. It seemed that his right hand was almost going to touch Chenqing. As the air thickened with conflict, ready to burst any second, somebody suddenly spoke, "A-Xian!"
Hearing the voice, Wei WuXian's heart softened. He turned around, "Shijie?"
Jiang YanLi waved at him, "A-Xian, come stand behind me."
Wei WuXian hesitated. Before he could move, Madam Jin quickly picked up her hand, "A-Li, don't intervene in their business." However, with an apologetic smile toward Madam Jin, Jiang YanLi went forth and stood in front of Wei WuXian. She saluted Jin ZiXun and the others.
Jin ZiXun and his people didn't know how to respond either. A few of them returned the salute, and a few didn't. Jiang YanLi spoke to Jin ZiXun in a thin voice, "Young Master Jin, from what you meant, it was A-Xian who made a third of the prey on Phoenix Mountain his all to himself; it defied the rules and he was too bold. I... I haven't heard of anything like this either. It truly must've troubled everyone here. I apologize to you in place of him."
As she finished, she bowed down again. It seemed to be quite a serious apology. Wei WuXian, "Shijie!"
Jiang YanLi didn't rise yet. She looked at him and shook her head almost unnoticeably. Wei WuXian could only clench his fists and stay silent.
Jin ZiXuan gazed over from afar. His expression was quite complicated. Jin ZiXun and the rest, however, didn't even try to conceal the triumph on their faces. They were more than satisfied with themselves.
Jin ZiXun chuckled, "Maiden Jiang, you really are kind and understanding. What your shidi did was extremely unbefitting, and indeed caused us much trouble. But since you do recognize that it was unbefitting, then for Maidan Jiang and Sect Leader Jiang's sake, an apology won't be needed. The YunmengJiang Sect and the LanlingJin Sect are as close as brothers, anyways."
He was on the verge of breaking into pompous laughter. Wei WuXian was fuming with rage as his tightened knuckles cracked. Just as he was about to speak, Jiang YanLi had finished her bow and got up, continuing in an earnest voice, "But, even if I haven't participated in a hunt before, there's one thing that I know-for all of the hunts that have happened, I've never heard of a single rule that prohibits someone from hunting too much prey."
The smiles on the people's faces froze before they could even set into place.
Jiang YanLi, "And so, you said that A-Xian defied rules-which exact rule did he defy?"
