After a whole night of busyness, Ji Yunxi was utterly exhausted. After seeing off Li Jiuge, she immediately went back to her room to rest.
Qing Xuan also emerged from her spiritual sea and quietly guarded her.
"Ji Yunxi! Come out!"
"Quickly let Ji Yunxi come out!"
It was well past sunrise, and Ji Yunxi was having a good rest when suddenly a commotion came from outside.
She turned over and covered herself with the quilt, but this trick couldn't stop the noise outside at all.
Filled with anger, Ji Yunxi listened carefully. It seemed to be Lü Chengming's voice.
Taking a deep breath, she changed her clothes and pushed open the door. A group of people had already blocked her yard. Leading them was Lü Chengming, whose hands and feet were completely disabled.
Looking at Ji Yunxi, he shifted the blame: "Ji Yunxi! You are cruel - natured and have harmed your fellow disciples more than once. I got this seriously injured because of you! Are you still going to hide behind your master?"
Ji Yunxi was so angry that she laughed. She sized him up and down: "If I had known you were so talkative back then, I should have cut your tongue off first. It would have saved me from being disgusted by you, a rat in the gutter, everywhere."
Several disciples who didn't know the truth stood up: "Ji Yunxi, don't be so arrogant!"
Ji Yunxi raised her eyes: "Arrogant? Who are you to accuse me? It's you who have inexplicably come to my yard and shouted at me. Who is the arrogant one?"
The other party immediately lost their arrogance and reluctantly shut up.
Lü Chengming silently cursed them as useless and continued, "Then it's true that you harmed your fellow disciples, right?"
"Are you really going to be buried with Sang Qingzhou?"
Ji Yunxi was in a bad mood because she had been woken up. As she spoke, she directly drew out her sword.
At the sight of this, Lü Chengming shivered in fear and wanted to turn around and run. But now that he had gathered so many people, if he ran away, he was afraid of being laughed at for a lifetime.
So he could only pretend to be calm: "Sang Qingzhou is almost dying, and you're still making sarcastic remarks!"
Ji Yunxi scoffed: "Isn't that self - inflicted? If he hadn't taken the Explosive Spirit Pill, how could this have happened? I haven't even settled the score with him for wounding A Zhi. If he dies, I'll hold you accountable for everything."
The disciples behind Lü Chengming began to whisper among themselves.
"Ji Yunxi is so domineering!"
"Exactly. She's cold - blooded and ruthless. How can she be so arrogant after harming her fellow disciples?"
"She really has become lawless just because she has a good master."
Hua Siyun was also woken up early by Lü Chengming. As soon as she came over, she heard the people around her chattering. Feng Xingzhi was injured, and she was already dissatisfied. Now her anger flared up even more.
"Shut up all of you! You're being used as guns and don't even know it. You've got a mouth and just talk nonsense everywhere. Are you all gossiping women in the market?"
Hua Siyun was fierce, and her status was extraordinary. Many people obediently shut up.
"Lü Chengming, Miss Ji and the others are noble - minded and have never revealed the truth to humiliate you. But you still come up. What, is losing your hands and feet not enough? Do you really want to force them to kill you?"
A disciple couldn't stand it. In his eyes, Lü Chengming was the victim, so he stood up and said, "Princess of the Northern Di, why are you speaking for her?"
"I'd like to help, but they don't need it. I was there that day. It was clearly Lü Chengming and Sang Qingzhou who joined forces and repeatedly used some dirty means to try to poison Ji Yunxi and her group, but they all failed. If Miss Ji weren't kind and spared them again and again, he would have died in the Divine Creation World. How could he still be here to shout?"
Hearing this, many people looked at Lü Chengming in shock, only to see him turning his head to one side nervously.
Seeing this situation, many people already believed what Hua Siyun said. After all, her words carried some weight.
So as soon as she finished speaking, everyone began to think about whose words were true and whose were false.
Qi Haoyang also rushed over. As the first - place winner in the competition, he was quite prestigious: "I can testify that what the Princess of the Northern Di said is true."
"I'm from the Southern Yan. I was always worried that if I spoke up, you would think I was partial to my own people. But you've really gone too far!" Qi Haoyang said with a scowl, "You all doubt their strength. You all feel aggrieved because of their low rankings. But is Master Ronghua a fool?"
As soon as he said this, many people began to mutter.
Right. Master Immortal Ronghua didn't even want Qi Haoyang. How could she take a fancy to two people who ranked at the bottom?
Qi Haoyang was helpless. These mobs were like the grass on the wall. They would fall in the direction the wind blew.
A disciple was still a bit reluctant and said in a voice neither too loud nor too soft, "But, Sang Qingzhou really..."
"Even Master Immortal Xiaoyi has been punished. Are you all blind?" Hua Siyun scolded, "He, Sang Qingzhou, stole and took the Explosive Spirit Pill. It's his own suicide. What does it have to do with Ji Yunxi? Why don't you mention that he injured Feng Xingzhi? Now he's still lying in bed!"
Seeing that Hua Siyun was even angrier, Ji Yunxi quickly stepped forward and pulled her: "Don't be angry."
Then she said loudly to everyone, "I know you're not convinced. Then come and challenge me. I'll accept all of them."
With full confidence, she scared a group of people away.
Lü Chengming was left behind and hurriedly wanted to run. Ji Yunxi stood behind him: "Lü Chengming, you'd better pray that nothing happens to Feng Xingzhi. Otherwise, I won't let you and the Sang brothers off."
After everyone had left, Ji Yunxi thanked Qi Haoyang and then turned to Hua Siyun, who was standing in her yard, fuming.
"Thank you just now."
Hua Siyun was a bit proud: "No need! I just wanted to make Brother Xingzhi have a better impression of me. Who did it for you?"
Hearing this, Ji Yunxi smiled helplessly.
She was brave in love and hate. It was really a good personality.
Feng Xingzhi withdrew from this competition because of his injury, and the prejudice against Ji Yunxi among the crowd still hadn't disappeared. Moreover, after Ji Yunxi's words that she would accept all challenges, people came to challenge her every day.
The woman who started the rumor came to find Ji Yunxi the next day, thinking that Ji Yunxi's injury hadn't fully recovered.
Who would have thought that she couldn't even withstand one move from Ji Yunxi and was directly knocked off the stage.
She had come with the intention of killing Ji Yunxi. Now that she had lost, she thought she was doomed. But unexpectedly, Ji Yunxi reached out and pulled her up from the ground. There was no mockery in her eyes.
Ji Yunxi's magnanimity immediately made the woman blush with shame, and she never dared to jump out again.
Ji Yunxi became more and more skillful in each battle. By the end, her Nine - Heaven Round Instrument Sword Technique was so smooth that she could subdue her opponents within three moves. Her reputation was revealed through this competition.
For the sake of Feng Xingzhi's reputation, they made up their minds that if they heard someone praising Ji Yunxi, they would say that Feng Xingzhi was even more powerful than her.
After several such instances, many people believed that Ji Yunxi and Feng Xingzhi had entered Master Ronghua's sect entirely by strength, and the previous rumors self - collapsed.