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Watching the major forces depart with bowed heads, seeing them all with eyes fixed on their noses and noses fixed on their hearts.

The group of scholars from the Listening Rain Pavilion ground their teeth in hatred!!!

People are easily infected by the emotions of their environment.

Regardless of whether these scholars truly have hard bones or just pretend to, in this current atmosphere, they absolutely will not bow their heads!!

The books of the sages may be pedantic, profound, and full of empty platitudes.

But the theories learned from those books of the sages have also made them understand what it means not to bow before authority!

”We will never surrender!!!”

”What’s so scary about death? I’m not afraid!!”

”Come on then, Lu Ding!!”

”You can kill one of me, but there are thousands upon thousands like me across the Great Jing world. As long as scholars exist, the Listening Rain Pavilion will not decline!!!””Even if I die, I will die on the path of blocking you, this cruelty-addicted Corpse-Shattering Taishui!!!”

The crowd wearing long gowns, impassioned and fervent, foolishly tried to advance instead of retreating, attempting to resist the investigators’ suppression.

Just as a bloody conflict was about to erupt.

Han Yu, wearing a white mourning band, stepped forward.

He had already understood what Master Lu had done, and he had already seen the path Master Lu had taken!

Now Lu Feng was gone!

The heavy burden of the Listening Rain Pavilion fell on him, fell on their shoulders.

As Han Yu stepped forward.

Three God Ascension experts followed closely behind him, wearing white mourning bands just like him!

”Quiet!!!”

Han Yu shouted loudly, unleashing his own aura.

The originally restless and agitated crowd instantly calmed down somewhat.

If in the Listening Rain Pavilion, Lu Feng represented dignity and status, his seemingly stern and unsmiling exterior hiding the fact that he bore the darkness of the Listening Rain Pavilion and marched forward silently.

Then Han Yu was the embodiment of approachability.

Which student of the Listening Rain Pavilion hadn’t attended his classes?

Who hadn’t seen this Teacher Han dance with a sword in class, sprinkle wine to paint, which could be called the epitome of free-spirited elegance in the Listening Rain Pavilion.

That kind of natural, unrestrained temperament was something many people couldn’t learn no matter how hard they tried.

But they didn’t know that Han Yu himself had only just realized that his innate free-spiritedness came from the shackles binding Lu Feng.

Not being trapped by external things, not being trapped by gold, silver, wealth, resources, fame, or profit, not being trapped by the court or the martial world.

All of it came from Master Lu.

Now that Master Lu was gone, it was time for Han Yu to grow up.

He cupped his hands, performing a somewhat unfamiliar bow toward Lu Ding in the sky. The downward-bowing motion revealed stiffness.

But he was willing to learn, willing to lower his head.

”Grand Duke Lu........”

Before the words of surrender and begging for mercy could leave his mouth, Lu Ding raised his hand and a pillar of flowers descended, instantly blasting several Confucian Cultivators whose expressions were clearly unnatural into nothingness, not even leaving dust.

Then he erupted with the imposing might of his Heavenly Perception Earth Observation flawless Inner Landscape, pressing down horizontally across the entire scene like an ancient great mountain crashing down upon their heads.

It pressed these Confucian Cultivators who had just been shouting and clamoring to the ground in an instant.

With an absolutely domineering attitude, he cut off what Han Yu wanted to say.

Lu Ding stepped forward: ”There’s no need to say anything. I only have a decision. One more word of nonsense, and not only will they die, but you will die too.”

Compared to the still immature Han Yu now, Lu Feng was the one who truly had methods.

He deeply understood that something like a golden reputation could not be desecrated, so he never did anything that would lower his own worth in front of his own disciples.

In other words, appearing noble in public while suffering in private.

Even if he had to bow and scrape, he did so secretly as a gesture to the true power holders of Great Jing, compromising to survive.

Not like Han Yu, openly and grandly bowing and scraping in public to a foreign envoy, and one who had killed Lu Feng at that.

This was an idiot!!!!

Of course, all these things, including Lu Ding’s current actions, were entirely because, during the battle earlier.

Fu Xinghe had fully utilized his role as assistant investigator, contacting them through ancient scrolls left by the White Eagle, further refining the information on Lu Feng and the other God Ascension experts of the Listening Rain Pavilion.

Then he presented it to Lu Ding after the fight.

This made Lu Ding understand the situation behind Lu Feng.

As for how the White Eagle knew these things........

This was Great Jing. After all, they were also ’foreign’ dignitaries.

White skin, yellow hair, high nose bridges—this was the skin that made them superior in the Great Jing court.

Knowing many things unknown to others wasn’t difficult.

Han Yu didn’t quite understand what Lu Ding meant now.

Just as he was about to continue speaking.

From behind, a palm reached out, steadily landing on Han Yu’s shoulder. He turned his head and saw Sun Wei, one of the six God Ascension experts of the Listening Rain Pavilion!

He was also the person with the greatest seniority and highest age in the Listening Rain Pavilion after Lu Feng.

He was the one who called Lu Feng ’Brother Lu’!

Sun Wei had once served as an official in the court, but unfortunately got entangled in the case of the Crown Prince’s premature death and was about to be executed!

It was Lu Feng who entered the palace overnight, paying a great price to pull him out.

From then on, Sun Wei retired to his hometown and came to the Listening Rain Pavilion to become a teacher.

After all, having served as a court official for several decades, what he could see was, if not more than Lu Feng, at least farther than a young man like Han Yu.

He transmitted his voice: ”Lu Ding is saving you. Do not say or do anything more. Just act according to what he says.”

Han Yu paused his impulsive thoughts, somewhat confused as he asked: ”Lu... he’s saving me? Saving me from what?”

Sun Wei raised his eyes to look at the figure in the sky and slowly said: ”Saving your reputation, saving the future of the Listening Rain Pavilion.”

”Ever since you entered God Ascension, Master Lu has been cultivating you as the next generation successor of the Listening Rain Pavilion. Now Master Lu is gone.”

”You are the next, justifiably legitimate master of the Listening Rain Pavilion!”

”Since you are to be the master of the Listening Rain Pavilion, you cannot bow and scrape to others in front of everyone. You must maintain your status. What you just did and what you wanted to say are incompatible with your future identity.”

”If Lu Ding hadn’t stopped you, using brutal means to attract attention, in the future when you become the master of the Listening Rain Pavilion, you would inevitably face criticism.”

”At that time, it wouldn’t just affect you, it could even affect the Listening Rain Pavilion’s status in the hearts of scholars across the entire Great Jing world.”

At this point, Sun Wei’s gaze toward Lu Ding still hadn’t withdrawn, growing increasingly complex: ”I never expected, never expected.......”

He smiled, helpless: ”Never expected this Corpse-Shattering Taishui would actually lend you a hand, lend the Listening Rain Pavilion a hand at such a critical moment.”

”If not for him, in the future when you become the master of the Listening Rain Pavilion, your image of lofty virtue and integrity would be tarnished, counted as actively surrendering. In this current situation, it counts as Lu Ding using authority to oppress people!”

”The people of the Great Jing world cannot afford to offend this Corpse-Shattering Taishui whose origins, combat power, and talent are all extraordinary, because he dares to slaughter an entire region.”

”But they can afford to offend you, the future master of the Listening Rain Pavilion, and you wouldn’t dare.”

Han Yu stood rooted to the spot, stunned by what he heard.

His gaze followed, looking up at Lu Ding in the sky.

”He...... why would he help me?”

Feeling the intense gaze, Lu Ding glanced over, didn’t speak, but cursed very colorfully in his mind.

’An uncarved idiot.’

Somewhat similar to Fu Xinghe before he started following him, but even more outrageous than Fu Xinghe back then.

If it weren’t because this Han Yu and the Listening Rain Pavilion could be left for An Wuyang to use in the future, Lu Ding wouldn’t care how this person might tarnish the ’golden reputation’ of the ’Master of the Listening Rain Pavilion’.