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Chapter 15 Xiao Ning: Are you out of your mind? (10k)
Yunlan Sect.
Yunshan sat high in the head seat, with a group of elders sitting below him.
"Have you found out? Who was that mysterious person from that day?"
Yunshan asked the crowd below.
Yun Leng stood up, bowed respectfully, and replied, "Reporting to the Sect Master, after investigation by your disciples, we have found out the origin of the mysterious expert who suddenly appeared that day, but... the result is somewhat perplexing..."
Seven days have passed since the three-year agreement was reached. Although Yun Leng, who was injured by Xiao Ning, is still a little weak, he has recovered his normal movements with the help of pills.
Upon hearing his words, and knowing that it concerned the identity of that mysterious expert, everyone in the hall naturally paid close attention and all looked over at him.
Yunshan frowned and said in a deep voice, "Inconceivable? What? Is that person someone important? Is he from Zhongzhou?"
Facing Yun Shan's piercing gaze, Yun Leng shook his head and said bitterly, "That's not it, but... that person is Xiao Yan's cousin, a disciple of the Xiao family in Wutan City!"
"What? A disciple of the Xiao family?"
"Elder, is there a mistake?"
"That's right, a third-rate family in a small town actually produced a supreme expert who is suspected to be a Dou Zun? I don't believe it!"
"I don't believe it either. Could it be that the disciple who gathered the information made a mistake?"
Upon hearing Yun Ling's words, Yun Shan, who was sitting in the first seat, had not yet spoken when the elders below began to clamor.
"Quiet! What's all the noise about? What's there to argue about?"
After a moment, Yun Shan snorted coldly and reprimanded, and the crowd below quieted down. He then looked at Yun Ling and asked, "Tell me everything you've gathered from beginning to end!"
"yes!"
Yun Leng responded and said in a deep voice, "According to the disciple's report, the mysterious expert is named Xiao Ning, who is twenty years old this year. He is the grandson of the Xiao family's Grand Elder. His parents died early, and he has an older sister named Xiao Yu who is cultivating in the outer courtyard of Canaan Academy."
"Xiao Ning has shown no unusual behavior. Before the age of seventeen, he was only at the eighth level of Dou Qi. He might be considered a genius in the Xiao family, but in my Yunlan Sect, he is just an ordinary person."
"The turning point came when I was seventeen!"
Yun Leng spoke with dramatic intonation, as if he were telling a crosstalk routine: "During the Xiao family's annual test that year, that brat Xiao Yan regained his talent for cultivation, and his Dou Qi cultivation level soared from the third stage of Dou Qi to the eighth stage of Dou Qi."
"But Xiao Ning has become strangely abnormal, dropping from the eighth level of Dou Qi to the fifth level, becoming a useless member of the family."
"Subsequently, according to the clan rules, the Xiao family's higher-ups exiled all disciples who were over eighteen years old and whose fighting qi was below the seventh level. Xiao Ning was exiled to a small mountain village called Xiao Family Village and became the village head."
"For the next three years, no news of this person was heard again, as if he had resigned himself to his fate."
The entire hall fell into a deathly silence.
From any perspective, Xiao Ning's growth trajectory has absolutely no connection to the mysterious powerhouse who recently displayed his might at the Yunlan Sect.
"Could it be a fake? Or are we dreaming?"
This absurd idea arose in everyone's mind.
Not only others, but even the Grand Elder Yun Ling was utterly incredulous when he received the intelligence presented by the sect's disciples.
Later, he personally went to Xiao Family Village and took a look from afar outside the village. He found that the mysterious expert was indeed Xiao Ning, just as the intelligence had said.
Seated at the head of the table, Yun Shan frowned, staring directly at Yun Leng, and said in a deep voice, "Is the intelligence accurate? You should know the seriousness of this matter. It concerns the thousand-year heritage of my Yunlan Sect, and there can be no mistakes!"
Yun Leng immediately pointed to the sky and swore an oath, stating unequivocally that all the information he had gathered was true.
He then said, "I personally went to Xiao Family Village and took a look from afar. I saw the powerful man named Xiao Ning with my own eyes. The villagers around him call him the village chief, and there is no mistake about that."
Hearing Yun Leng's confident words, Yun Shan nodded, indicating that he believed him, but then fell into deep thought.
The Xiao family was merely an insignificant force in the Jia Ma Empire. Their cultivation level of Great Dou Master was already considered top-tier, but they were simply not worthy of being mentioned in the empire.
However, it is quite unusual that such a small family could produce Xiao Ning, who is suspected to be at the Dou Zun realm.
Cultivating fighting spirit is not like eating or drinking.
First, you need martial arts techniques; second, you need cultivation resources; and third, you need guidance from a renowned master.
The kind of story in traditional Chinese operas where someone falls off a cliff, obtains a secret manual, and becomes an unparalleled expert is fine for fooling ordinary people.
For Yunshan, it was riddled with flaws.