Chapter 2: The first confrontation with the heroine
Ye Wuge looked at Xu Tao with disapproval. Liu Changfeng reacted even more and directly accused Xu Tao.
"You must be threatening the little junior sister with your eyes! Why are you so vicious? Are you so unhappy that the master has accepted the little junior sister as his disciple? How dare you do this in front of us!"
Senior Brother Ye Wuge also advised: "Second Junior Sister, just apologize to Junior Sister. Junior Sister has just arrived. It's not good for you to be like this."
I'll go! When did I threaten her? Did you immortals cultivate in vain? Every one of you is blind!
"Xu Tao, your junior sister has just started and you treated her like this. If I don't punish you today, I don't know what you will do to your junior sister in the future.
I ordered you to go to the sect’s ancestral hall immediately..."
"Wait a minute!" Xu Tao shouted, interrupting Shen Qingyan.
Xu Tao's sudden shout made everyone present startled.
In an instant, Xu Tao became the most watched cub at the scene, and everyone's eyes were focused on her.
However, the heroine came out to enhance her presence at this moment.
"Master, please spare senior sister. Senior sister didn't do anything to Youran. It's all because of Youran's timidity, which caused everyone to misunderstand senior sister." Su Youran's soft voice sounded behind Shen Qingyan.
"Little junior sister, you are too kind, she does not deserve sympathy, and she will not be grateful to you if you plead for her!" Liu Changfeng stared at Xu Tao and said dissatisfied.
"But..." Su Youran wanted to say something else, but was interrupted by Xu Tao.
"I asked you, have you finished talking?" Xu Tao picked her ears in dismay.
"What's your attitude!" Shen Qingyan frowned and scolded.
"Master, if you want to punish your disciples, you must let them know where you went wrong, right?" Xu Tao said neither humble nor overbearing.
Shen Qingyan looked at Xu Tao with cold eyes, "It's not wrong that you don't understand friendship and love for fellow students!"
"How did the master know that his disciples are not friendly to their fellow disciples?" Xu Tao still couldn't see a trace of fear on his face.
"You still have the nerve to say that the junior sister is crying. You must have threatened her with your eyes just now, otherwise how could the junior sister cry!" Liu Changfeng roared at Xu Tao again.
"I threatened her, which one of you saw me threatening her?" Xu Tao wanted to scold him.
"Both eyes saw it!" Liu Changfeng said not to be outdone.
Xu Tao is indeed a vicious woman. She is so gentle and kind, but she is able to bully her. Such a person has no qualifications to be accepted as a disciple by the master!
Liu Changfeng thought with resentment in his heart.
"Master thinks so too?" Xu Tao looked at the master present - Shen Qingyan.
Shen Qingyan just said with distant eyes: "Since you were wrong, you must accept the punishment."
"Since you think I threatened my junior sister, let's go over it from the beginning and see if I threatened her."
As she spoke, Xu Tao actually let go of her palm, revealing the shadow stone in her palm.
Liu Changfeng was puzzled, "What do you want to do by taking out the image stone?"
"Open those decorative dog eyes of yours and let me see clearly."
Xu Tao opened the shadow stone, and a picture appeared above the shadow stone.
What this screen shows is exactly what happened after Xu Tao entered Shen Qingyan's cave.
When the scene showed Xu Tao and Su Youran looking at each other, everyone only saw Xu Tao smiling kindly at Su Youran, without any hint of threat or intimidation that they thought.
Su Youran, who was hiding behind Shen Qingyan, had an unnatural expression when Xu Tao started playing the scene. By the time the scene was played, she was already in tears.
"I'm sorry, Second Senior Sister. It was Youran who was too timid, which caused you to be misunderstood. I'm really sorry!" Su Youran's face was already covered with tears.
She slowly stood up from behind Shen Qingyan, obviously only taking two steps, but walking as if she would fall to the ground at any time.
When the three men saw her like this, they couldn't bear to blame her.
Liu Changfeng hurriedly tried to help Su Youran, "How can I blame you, junior sister? It's obviously her own bad temper, so it's no wonder we misunderstood."
Shen Qingyan pushed his hand away and personally supported the frail young disciple.
Liu Changfeng retracted his hand in confusion, but didn't think much about it.
"Since everything is a misunderstanding, let's forget it.
Xu Tao, you have just broken through the foundation building, it is important to go back and consolidate your cultivation." Shen Qingyan glanced at his second disciple, frowning slightly.
Shen Qingyan wanted to forget it, but Xu Tao was not happy.
Why, why should I forget it? Have I asked her?
She, Xu Tao, has never suffered any loss from anything she has eaten since she was a child, so there is no way to just let it go!
Xu Tao said calmly: "Although it is all a misunderstanding, if we let it go, isn't Master afraid that others will say that you are unfair?"
Liu Changfeng: "How dare you! How dare you talk to Master like this? What do you want to do, Xu Tao!"
Ye Wuge: "Junior sister, you are so rude, why don't you kneel down and apologize to Master!"
Both Ye Wuge and Liu Changfeng looked at Xu Tao with disbelief.
Although Xu Tao was a little willful, she always respected her master and she never disobeyed her master.
Today she dared to refute Master's decision in public. Is she crazy? Otherwise, how could she be so bold?
Xu Tao ignored these two people at all, but looked at Shen Qingyan and said.
"Master feels that this disciple is not friendly to his fellow disciples, so he wants to punish him.
But from now on, the third junior brother has been very disrespectful towards me as the second senior sister.
Now that it has been found that the disciple was wronged, is it fair that the third junior brother should also be punished?
It’s impossible that Master’s rules are only for disciples.
If this is really the case, then this disciple will have to have a good talk with my father."
Hearing Xu Tao mention the Supreme Elder, Shen Qingyan's expression changed slightly, and a trace of anger flashed across his eyes, but this anger was quickly hidden deep in his eyes.
Shen Qingyan looked at Xu Tao with cold eyes and asked in a deep voice: "Are you threatening my teacher?"
Xu Tao covered her mouth in surprise, and then looked at Shen Qingyan with a sad expression.
"How could master misunderstand this disciple so much? I just miss my father too much and want to talk to my father about my parents. How can this be said to be a threat? Master said this, which really makes this disciple very sad."
Looking at Xu Tao acting coquettishly, everyone felt a little uncomfortable in their stomachs at the same time.
Liu Changfeng (incompetent and furious): You are so sad, just pretend that no one saw you snickering!
Shen Qingyan suppressed the anger in his heart and said after a moment of silence: "Changfeng disrespects senior sister and will be punished by kneeling in the sect's ancestral hall for half a month."
"Master!" Liu Changfeng looked at Master in disbelief. He never dreamed that he would be punished.
This is not the first time that he has been disrespectful to this so-called senior sister. Master has never punished him before, but today he made an exception and punished him!
Liu Changfeng, who had never been punished, found it hard to accept it.
It would be fine if he was punished for something else, but because Xu Tao was punished, he felt deeply humiliated.