The Villain Became the Protagonists’ Nightmare

Chapter 012:

So he got straight to the point, “Master Xiao, I won’t beat around the bush. This time, I was passing through Tianye City and happened to meet Yanran.

I discovered that Yanran’s constitution is very suitable for cultivating our Xuanbing Sect’s Xuanbing Technique, so I intend to bring Yanran into the Xuanbing Sect for training.

However, I heard that Yanran has an unworthy fiancé, so I brought her here to end this ridiculous engagement, allowing Yanran to focus on her cultivation.

Master Xiao, you might not know this, but the Xuanbing Technique is a top-tier spiritual level technique. Successfully cultivating it would make Yanran the future leader of our Xuanbing Sect.

For the future of our Xuanbing Sect, I must end this absurd entanglement.

Of course, we won’t let the Xiao family suffer any losses. Therefore, I specifically brought the most precious fourth-grade pill, the Force-Breaking Powder.

With it, the success rate for a Grand Martial Master to make a breakthrough into the Martial General Realm will increase by fifty percent. This token of sincerity should be enough to compensate for the Xiao family’s losses.

However, your Xiao family members didn’t seem satisfied with the Xuanbing Sect’s sincerity.

But I see you, Master Xiao, is a wise man. You should understand the pros and cons of this matter, so you need to make a decision.” Kong Ying said calmly.

Kong Ying directly invoked the prestige of the Xuanbing Sect and elevated Nalan Yanran’s importance many times over to pressure Xiao Lingfeng.

However, Xiao Lingfeng was clearly unimpressed, and responded with a smile, “Elder Kong Ying, there’s no need to deceive me! The difficulty of cultivating your Xuanbing Technique is well known, and I’m sure you understand it better than I do.

The Xuanbing Technique is the symbol of the future leader of the Xuanbing Sect precisely because it is extremely difficult to master, even for those with a suitable constitution.

Out of ten people with a suitable constitution for the Xuanbing Technique, not even one might succeed in cultivating it.

In such uncertainty, the Xuanbing Sect wouldn’t waste any resources on her, let alone come to destroy the Xiao family.”

Xiao Lingfeng had seen many such scare tactics.

If Nalan Yanran were truly confirmed to be capable of cultivating the Xuanbing Technique, it wouldn’t be a lowly inner elder like Kong Ying coming to fetch her.

Perhaps even the top three elders of the Xuanbing Sect would come personally.

Kong Ying hadn’t expected Xiao Lingfeng to be so difficult and to know so much about the Xuanbing Sect.

Now, Kong Ying had no other options.

Bringing Nalan Yanran back was a gamble for him.

If Nalan Yanran could successfully cultivate the Xuanbing Technique, the resources rewarded by the sect would be enough to raise his cultivation by three stages.

And if Nalan Yanran failed, there would be no punishment.

So, his gamble wasn’t whether to bet on Nalan Yanran’s talent. He had to decide whether to risk offending the Xiao family for her.

In the end, he chose to gamble.

After all, the Xiao family was just a small power in Tianye City, and as an elder of the Xuanbing Sect, he could handle it.

He couldn’t pass up his chance to advance for fear of offending a small local power.

If Nalan Yanran truly had the talent for the Xuanbing Technique and he hadn’t handled this minor matter well, it would greatly affect his rewards.

Moreover, having his request denied by a mere head of the Xiao family irritated him. So, he decided to act directly.

Kong Ying concentrated, and a powerful icy aura spread out.

The people in the hall felt as if they had been plunged into an icy wasteland.

Xiao Lingfeng, being the primary target, felt an even stronger pressure. Yet, he remained calm and collected.

Seeing this, Kong Ying knew that mere pressure wouldn’t subdue Xiao Lingfeng. So, he stood up and fired an ice blade.

Watching the ice blade fly toward Xiao Lingfeng, Kong Ying was confident. This was a middle-grade spiritual technique, Ice Blade, which he had exchanged for many sect contributions.

Kong Ying believed that even if Xiao Lingfeng were at the Martial Commander Realm, it would be hard to withstand the destructive power of the ice blade.

Unless Xiao Lingfeng also had a middle-grade spiritual technique. But such techniques were rare, even among families with generations of Martial Commanders.

He didn’t believe that the Xiao family, which rose solely because of Xiao Lingfeng, had such a high-level martial technique.

However, what Kong Ying didn’t understand was that, as a minor character appearing briefly in a story, he couldn’t possibly be a match for the villain boss, Xiao Lingfeng, whose goal was to kill the protagonist.