Evil Master and Disciple

Chapter 1329 Yu Mian's Worries

The Jade Fairy's words suddenly silenced the bamboo hut.

The fairies, including Yu Ying, Yun Yu, Shou Chi, and Yun Mu, looked at each other in bewilderment.

In the past few days, the entire Yunhai Sect has seemed calm about Dugu Changkong's return to power, but in reality, there are quite a few people gossiping about it privately.

Indeed, many elders and disciples were dissatisfied with this.

Most of those who were dissatisfied were from Fu Jinghong's faction.

According to the sect rules, other people who stole from the spiritual vein array might be spared death, since there were too many of them. If they were all executed according to the sect rules, the Yunhai Sect would suffer a great loss of strength.

However, Dugu Changkong is different; he is the organizer who steals the spiritual energy from the array's core.

Even if they are not executed, they will definitely be severely punished, otherwise it will be difficult to convince the public.

Other Yunhai Sect disciples saw that because of their large numbers, they were exempted from punishment and only symbolically confined for a few months.

Then more disciples of the Cloud Sea Sect will follow suit in the future.

As long as enough people participate, no one will be punished; this is the principle of "the law does not punish the masses."

This will throw the Yunhai Sect into chaos.

Even Tianyun Mountain can be in chaos.

Although it only absorbs the spiritual energy from the array's core, it won't cause any damage to the underground spiritual energy of the Tianyun Mountains.

But this is just an appearance.

Where does the spiritual power of the Cloud Sea Sect's protective mountain formation come from? It's accumulated little by little over thousands of years by relying on the spirit-gathering formations at various formation eyes, absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

This includes the spiritual energy of the earth veins in Tianyun Mountain.

If the spiritual energy of the array's core is depleted, the core will automatically activate and continue to absorb spiritual energy from heaven and earth. At that time, the spiritual energy of the earth veins of Tianyun Mountain will also have a certain impact.

If the spiritual energy of Tianyun Mountain becomes problematic, it will shake the foundation of the Yunhai Sect.

With the wisdom of Master Yunyi, it's impossible that he hadn't considered this issue.

Given Yunyi Shangren's personality and methods, even if Dugu Changkong was his illegitimate son, he would still take action against Dugu Changkong to set an example for the sect's foundation and to quell public anger.

However, Master Yunyi did not severely punish Dugu Changkong.

This is something that many people can't understand.

Fairy Yunmu said, "Senior Sister Yumian, we're all getting old. I think it's best not to get involved in some things, especially those concerning our Sect Leader."

I think since Senior Brother Sect Leader has dealt with Chang Kong this way, he must have his reasons.”

Fairy Yunyu nodded slowly and said, "What Yunmu said is very true. This may involve the future position of the Yunhai Sect leader. We have all participated in a power struggle for the position of sect leader, and we know how cruel it is."

Take Senior Sister Yu Mian for example. Because of the power struggle between Senior Brother and Second Senior Brother back then, she has been living on Lotus Peak, an outer peak, for over two hundred years, leading a very difficult life.

Fairy Yu Mian slowly said, "That's precisely why I don't want my disciples to follow the same path I did before."

Sigh, my fellow junior sisters were all victors in the struggle back then. You have all lived very well over the years, not only possessing great fame and status, but also enjoying treatment and cultivation resources that ordinary elders do not have.

As for us losers, life is not so good. The Elder Council does distribute cultivation resources and monthly stipends to us regularly, but the amount is limited. It is barely enough to support our own cultivation, let alone take care of our disciples.

You are different. The sixth brother's daughter reached the Sky Soaring Realm, and the second brother directly presented her with the Six-Line Sword. This was unimaginable for those of us who failed back then.

With Dugu Changkong imprisoned, the situation within the Yunhai Sect was basically settled, and Fu Jinghong was the only candidate for the future sect leader. However, now, it seems there has been a change. My eldest disciple, An Nian, has been getting very close to Fu Jinghong over the years.

There were even rumors within the sect that An Nian and Fu Jinghong were a couple who cultivated together.

Everyone would think that An Nian belongs to Fu Jinghong.

I was not involved in the struggle between Fu Jinghong and Dugu Changkong over the years, but An Nian has been deeply involved.

My life is already set in stone and can't be changed, but I don't want An Nian to go through the same pain as me.

In fact, fellow disciples, you all know very well that none of your disciples really participated in the power struggle between Dugu Changkong and Fu Jinghong, do you?

Yu Ying, your second disciple, Li Xuerong, is the confidante of Liu Changyuan, the second disciple of the elder brother, and Liu Changyuan is a man of Dugu Changkong.

And Yun Yu, your eldest disciple Yi Xiaofu and second disciple Mei Xuehan seem to have joined Fu Jinghong's team in recent months.

Your third disciple, Shangguan Lan, has an ambiguous relationship with Ye Feng, and the entire Yunhai Sect knows that Ye Feng is Fu Jinghong's man.

We are all getting old, but our disciples are still young. Do you really think we can stay out of this?

Why was the second brother able to defeat the eldest brother back then? We were all there at the time, and we were all in the Cloud Sea Hall.

The reason why the second-in-command was able to win was not because of the desperate efforts of his peers, but because of the elders behind those young people.

If the situation were to repeat itself, our disciples wouldn't be able to maintain order, and it would ultimately be us retired old folks who would step up and support them.

Throughout history, no elder has ever been able to remain unscathed in the power struggles within sects.

You all say you respect the sect leader's decision and believe there must be a reason for it, and I completely agree with that.

However, given the current situation, we cannot afford to be complacent; we must leave a way out for our disciples.

Although I was a loser back then, I still admire the second brother quite a bit over the years. He didn't suffer the consequences of his actions and also made good use of some of the people who followed the eldest brother back then.

But looking at history, how many Yunhai Sect leaders in the past few thousand years have been able to become the second-in-command after taking power?

Whether Dugu Changkong or Fu Jinghong takes over in the future, we cannot guarantee that they will treat their former rivals well.

At our age, our own life and death are insignificant; what we need to do is find a way for our disciples to survive, isn't that right?

Jade Fairy's words plunged all the fairies into silence once again.

Yes, on the surface, they didn't care about the struggle between Dugu Changkong and Fu Jinghong, didn't interfere, and never publicly expressed their support for either of them. Over the years, these elder fairies have always played it safe in the face of the two's secret attempts to win them over.

However, many of their disciples have already become deeply involved.

This makes it impossible for them to truly remain unaffected.

After a long silence, Fairy Yunyu suddenly spoke up: "Since Senior Sister Yumian has brought this up, and we've been good sisters for hundreds of years, I won't hold back anymore. I think there might be some unexpected changes regarding the future successor of the Yunhai Sect."