Seeing their master having a sword pointed at his neck, the attendants around Sang Qingzhou immediately tensed up, and the atmosphere turned hostile.
Ji Yunxi slowly descended the stairs and came to Ji Yunyi's side. She gently placed her hand on his sword.
"Second brother, calm down."
Ji Yunyi scowled. "Wasn't this bastard supposed to be in Nanyan?!"
Hearing this, an attendant immediately stepped forward. "Impudent! How dare you call our young master a bastard?! You're asking for death!"
However, as soon as he finished speaking, he was sent flying through the air and slammed hard onto the ground, completely silent.
In his previous position stood Feng Xingzhi, who had just come downstairs.
Sang Qingzhou felt a chill run down his spine. He never expected to run into these "gods of death" while out on business. Although he was unwilling, he constantly consoled himself that a real man knows when to yield. At this moment, saving his life was the top priority.
"I was released by you. Do you want to go back on your word?"
"Who released..." Ji Yunyi was about to flare up when Ji Yunxi immediately shouted at him.
Ji Yunxi grabbed her brother. "It was me. Sang Qingzhou's father sent someone to ransom him out. I agreed. I forgot to tell you."
As if having someone backing him up, Sang Qingzhou kept nodding at Ji Yunxi. "See, she agreed. Put down your sword quickly!"
Although Ji Yunyi was still unhappy, since it was Yunxi's decision, there must be a reason for it. Thinking of this, Ji Yunyi slowly lowered his sword.
"Master Sang, what are you doing here?"
Perhaps thinking that Ji Yunxi's agreement to let him go was out of fear of his father, Sang Qingzhou sneered. "What? Do the people from the Dream Blossom Pavilion look down on us ordinary people? If you can come to Kunlun Mountain for the entrance assessment, why can't I?"
Li Jiuge came downstairs. Hearing this, she said disdainfully, "Who cares if you come or not."
Then she was about to pull Ji Yunxi away.
Sang Qingzhou shouted after them. "You guys wait for me! We'll see each other during the competition!"
They didn't take his arrogance to heart. All the way to the mountain gate of Kunlun Mountain, usually this mountain gate was hard to find for ordinary people.
The disciple in charge of reception at Kunlun Mountain was holding the registration list, waiting for them to fill it out.
Ji Yunxi had already prepared. In a short while, she had filled out everything and stood aside, looking at the continuously arriving people. Maybe Jiang Linyin was among them.
Soon, the others also finished filling out and stood beside Ji Yunxi, waiting for the next instruction.
Li Jiuge looked around and then leaned closer to Ji Yunxi and whispered, "There are really a lot of people here today!"
"After all, this conference is held once a year. If one can enter the mountain gate of Kunlun Mountain, it means having a connection with the heavens. Naturally, many people are eager to come."
Ji Yunxi looked at these people. They all had different motives, but they all held the greatest hope for Kunlun Mountain.
"I still haven't seen Jiang Linyin. Could it be that he's not coming?"
Feng Xingzhi shook his head. "I don't think so. He doesn't seem like a person who talks nonsense."
Ji Yunxi also believed. "Yes. If he couldn't treat it, he could have just refused directly instead of being ambiguous and asking us to come to Kunlun."
"Let's wait and see."
Suddenly, Li Jiuge spotted a familiar face in the crowd. She nodded at Ji Yunxi. "Isn't that Qi Haoyang, the eldest young master of the Qi family?"
"The Qi family, one of the three great families in Nanyan?" The Lu Shu that had brought them here to register followed Li Jiuge's gaze.
They saw a gentle man in the crowd. He had a faint smile on his face, looking very low - key.
Li Jiuge remembered this person and her eyes lit up. "It's him. Their family made a fortune in business in the early years, but they act low - key and cautiously. I heard that their family is extremely wealthy, but I don't know if it's true."
"He doesn't seem like a playboy from a wealthy family?"
Li Jiuge nodded. "So I'm not very familiar with him either. Before, the emperor summoned the Qi family to discuss something about the imperial merchant. I just happened to see Qi Haoyang."
While they were discussing, Ji Yunxi and Feng Xingzhi listened on the side.
Hua Siyun saw them from afar. It wasn't Feng Xingzhi that she noticed first, but Ji Yunxi.
Today, Ji Yunxi was dressed in plain white with golden - threaded patterns, making her clothes look elegant and refined. But paired with Ji Yunxi's striking beauty, it didn't seem out of place at all.
"No wonder she's the number one beauty in Nanyan. In my opinion, she deserves to be the number one beauty in the world."
Hearing their princess muttering, the attendant whispered, "How can she compare to the princess?"
"Stop talking nonsense. Let's go."
She interrupted the flattery of the people around her. Over the years, her status as a princess had made her hear a lot of such words, but she never believed them.
Ji Yunxi had just helped Feng Xingzhi straighten his clothes when she suddenly saw Hua Siyun walking towards them not far away. She frowned slightly but said nothing.
Seeing them, Hua Siyun walked up with a big smile. "What a coincidence! We meet again."
Li Jiuge took a deep breath, full of reluctance. "You know very well whether this is a real coincidence or if someone did it on purpose."
Hua Siyun had been humiliated by Li Jiuge several times, but she wasn't angry at all. Instead, she said gently, "I have no reason to lie to you. Everyone who comes to Kunlun Mountain at this time has the same goal, so it's normal to meet. Right, Brother Azhi?"
Feng Xingzhi didn't want to talk to her. He reached out and held Ji Yunxi's hand, then turned his head, thinking that out of sight, out of mind.
Feng Xingzhi's action greatly pleased Ji Yunxi. She pursed her lips and smiled. "Princess..."
"Just call me Siyun. It sounds so formal to keep calling me princess."
"Okay, Siyun."
After a few words of greeting, they started chatting and laughing again.
Suddenly, there was a commotion beside Ji Yunyi.
"With your appearance, you still dare to dream of going to Kunlun?! Go back and improve yourself quickly!"
"You! Everyone has their own aspirations. Why do you care if I go to Kunlun or not?"
"Yo, you can talk. I look down on people like you the most! Do you know what the hierarchy means? We're at the top, and you... are in the dirt!"
Hearing this, Ji Yunyi frowned and looked over. He saw a cocky man pulling and bullying a very gentle - looking person.
Ji Yunyi had been taught by Ji Qilin since childhood not to bully others by relying on his power. So even though Ji Qilin was a prime minister, the three children in his family all had excellent moral characters and were the objects of admiration for the noble ladies and gentlemen in the capital.
Now seeing such a person, Ji Yunyi naturally felt uncomfortable. He frowned and asked, "Who is this person? Why is he so rude and his words are so offensive?"
Hearing this, Hua Siyun looked up.
"Oh, you mean him. He's Lu Chengming, the legitimate son of the prime minister of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He always acts like this - badly."
Li Jiuge looked down on such a person. Rarely, she was on the same side as Hua Siyun. "He only dares to bully the weak and laugh at others' weaknesses. I guess he doesn't have any strengths of his own?"
Hua Siyun was amused. "You're so sharp."
Li Jiuge didn't want to be friends with her. She still remembered the thing about Hua Siyun pulling Feng Xingzhi, so she snorted and turned her head.
"Who wants to talk to you!"