Chapter 1005: Debate with the Scholars

The earthen wall surrounding the dilapidated courtyard was crooked and twisted.

Xiao Xu stood in the courtyard.

The panic from just now hasn't completely subsided.

A colorful light spread across the sky.

Various spiritual energies enveloped the figures as they flew by.

The sound of something cutting through the air crashed down like a rolling thunderclap.

"It's over, it's completely hopeless!"

Xiao Xu stared at the streak of light getting closer and closer in the sky, and his scalp instantly tingled with irritation.

He bombed his ancestral home not on purpose, but because he couldn't control himself.

But the air was filled with the fluctuations of his aura.

There's no way to deny it even if you want to.

"This is really bad."

"The annulment of the engagement already made my family see me as a thorn in their side, and now they've blown up our ancestral land..."

"This time, I'm afraid they'll have their legs broken and be hung up at the entrance of the clan ancestral hall as a public spectacle!"

His face was pale, his legs were trembling uncontrollably, and his eyes were darting around.

I can't wait to find a crack in the ground and crawl into it.

As the figure approached from afar, he panicked for a moment.

Xiao Xu clenched his fist tightly, his nails digging into his palm, making him wince in pain.

Instead, I calmed down.

"What's there to be afraid of! We've already done it, what's the use of panicking now?"

He encouraged himself in his heart.

The famous quote that his senior had carefully crafted and fed to him kept replaying in his mind.

"When Heaven is about to place a great responsibility on a person, it first tests their will and strengthens their body... So what if they get a beating?"

"So what if I'm humiliated? Just consider it a tribulation!"

He slapped his cheeks hard, trying to appear calm and collected.

But after tugging at the corners of his mouth for a long time, he could only manage a half-crying, half-laughing face.

Thinking of the humiliations he had suffered over the years, he no longer cared.

So he decided to give up, put his hands on his hips, and stared at the sky with his neck stiff.

Half of his eyes held feigned ferocity, while the other half betrayed his underlying cowardice.

They stubbornly refused to admit defeat.

"Come on! So what if you get beaten up? I can take it!"

"Only by enduring the bitterest hardships can one rise above others!"

"Suffering a loss is a blessing, and blessings contain water!"

He shouted it in his heart, but dared not actually shout it out loud.

He only dared to mutter under his breath, "I hope I don't get slapped in the face!"

The streak of light in the sky arrived in an instant, and the first to land was the eldest elder of the Xiao family.

In a fit of anger, his bushy beard bristled like steel needles.

He was enveloped in earth-yellow spiritual energy and crashed down upon them.

The moment his feet touched the ground, he cracked several cracks in the bluestone slabs at the entrance of the courtyard.

He smashed the rotten wooden door to pieces with a single slap.

Amidst the flying sawdust, he pointed at Xiao Xu's nose and began to curse.

The sound was so loud that the grass in the corner of the yard shook.

"Xiao Xu, you beast! You've gone too far!"

"The ancestral land is the foundation of the Xiao family's clan, how dare you blow it up?"

"Did they get dumped? Did they lose their minds and not even recognize their ancestors anymore?"

Following closely behind was a dense, dark mass of Xiao family members.

There are also peers at the Golden Core stage and elders at the Nascent Soul stage.

There were even a few teenagers who were practicing Qi Refining, all of whom landed outside the courtyard wall using spiritual energy.

Squeezed.

Before the various colorful spiritual energy orbs had even dissipated, a barrage of mocking and insulting words rained down upon them.

It almost deafened Xiao Xu.

They were all like they'd been injected with adrenaline, pointing and gesturing around the yard.

The sarcastic remarks were thrown at Xiao Xu as if they were free.

"I knew Xiao Xu was a hopeless case, a good-for-nothing. Not only did he disgrace the family by breaking off the engagement, but now he's even blown up the ancestral land!"

"They want to make our Xiao family a laughing stock of the entire Dongyue Dynasty!"

The speaker was Xiao Yu, the legitimate son of the second branch of the Xiao family, who was wearing a brocade robe embroidered with silver patterns.

He was waving a folding fan in his hand, his chin held high, almost touching the sky.

The disdain in his eyes was almost overflowing.

He took two steps forward and looked at Xiao Xu, whose head was covered in mud.

"Tsk tsk, eating dirt? No wonder you're not thinking straight and did something so rebellious!"

"It's not just unclear, it's downright insane!"

Xiao Yu's younger sister, Xiao Ting, wearing a pink dress, stood with her hands on her hips and shouted in a high-pitched voice.

The beaded flowers on her head swayed back and forth with her movements.

“The ancestral temple is buried beneath the ancestral ground. When he exploded it, the ancestral hall was destroyed, the ancestral tablets were shattered, and the great formation was destroyed.”

"From now on, our Xiao family's cultivation will have to slow down by three points!"

"Such disobedient descendants should have their cultivation destroyed and be thrown to feed the demonic beasts!"

As she shouted, she also winked at her girlfriends.

Xiao Xu gritted his teeth at the sight of that gloating, opportunistic manner.

Several teenagers hid behind the crowd, peering over the wall.

He made a face at Xiao Xu, speaking in a voice that was neither too loud nor too soft, just loud enough for him to hear.

"Xiao Xu has gone mad! He's going to get beaten to death for blowing up ancestral land!"

"I heard that he was dumped earlier, and he knelt on the ground crying, and someone kicked him away!"

"Is this the end of the world?"

"Definitely! He's a good-for-nothing, all he does is cause trouble!"

"He only knows to eat hot shit, leaving nothing for others!"

Some elders stroked their beards, shook their heads, and sighed, their voices filled with disappointment.

"I initially thought he was a promising talent, but I never expected him to have such a temperament!"

"He gave up on himself after being upset about the annulment of the engagement, and even dared to destroy his ancestral home!"

"The Xiao family cannot keep someone like this!"

"If the clan leader spares him, what use are the rules of our Xiao family?"

"If all the younger generation follows his reckless ways, the family will be doomed sooner or later!"

Hearing these words, Xiao Xu's newly mustered courage almost vanished again.

He clenched his fists so tightly that his knuckles turned white and his fingernails dug into his palms, causing a sharp pain.

I forced myself to swallow all those sarcastic words.

The words of my predecessors swirled in my mind, but no matter how I looked at them, only the eight characters "test their will and strengthen their body" remained.

He added to himself, trying to reassure himself, "It's nothing, it's just a beating. Consider it a chance to toughen up my body!"

"Wait till I get stronger, then let's see if you still dare to say that!"

He secretly sniffed, suppressing his grievance.

He put on that indifferent expression again.

His lips were twitching, and he looked ridiculously forced.

The shouting and cursing at the scene was very loud.

Jiang Yantian also reappeared.

He stood on top of a large tree and looked down.

A voice transmission reached Xiao Xu's ear silently.

"The time for training has come. Raise your hands now..."

Upon hearing the sound, Xiao Xu immediately did as he was told and raised his hand!

"Very well, clench your fist, raise your middle finger, and curse, 'I'll fuck your mother!'"

Xiao Xu complied completely, clenching his fist and raising his middle finger: "I'll shove your M!"

"???"

"Arrogant! How dare you be so arrogant! Your father is Xiao Zhang, do you think you can be so arrogant? In the end, you're not Xiao Zhang, so you shouldn't be arrogant, but you're still arrogant. Do you really think you're Xiao Zhang? Even if you really were Xiao Zhang, you shouldn't be so arrogant, you're simply outrageous!"

"Geneva!"

"So pretty!"

Xiao paused, thinking how awful their insults were.

"Call them insults and curse their mothers!" Jiang Yantian instructed again.

Xiao Xu seemed possessed, as if he had someone backing him up: "Damn you old mules!"

"Damn it, if it weren't for you old fogies..."

Xiao Xu unleashed a barrage of insults.

"Good, well done, keep your spirits up, don't lose points!" Jiang Yantian continued to encourage him.

"Once this is over, I'll introduce you to someone like-minded. Her name is Xiao Yi, and you two will definitely get along very well!"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Xu cursed even more fiercely, his words coming out like a machine gun.

They released all the pent-up energy from the past few years.

They curse at everyone, from adults to children, even young kids.