With the fame that came from that confrontation with Senior Brother Tang, the Love Sect group actually received quite a bit of attention.
There were many that didn’t dare approach them, but there were some that approached them in the end.
These were smaller sects that were also fence sitters.
They didn’t have anything to lose from getting closer to the Love Sect since they were weak to begin with. They were too weak for anyone to regard them as a threat, so they were able to fly under the radar.
Of course, it wasn’t as if they were getting that close to the Love Sect anyway.
They just seemed to be trying to get information about the Love Sect from talking to them.
So in the end, there wasn’t a single sect that the Love Sect group was able to connect to and make a new connection with. It seemed that everyone here was still wary of them after what had happened.
At the same time, this was the Wu Empire’s territory, so they were all sects from the Wu Empire in the first place.
With the current relationship between the Wu Empire and the Mu Empire, it wasn’t strange if they didn’t want to get close to the Love Sect.
By the end of it, they were left all on their own.
Or at least they would have been if there wasn’t another group that had different intentions towards the Love Sect group.
This group had been watching the Love Sect group the entire time and hadn’t done anything since they had just been observing them. But once everyone left them alone, they no longer watched and made their move.
They had observed enough and now it was time for them to make their move.
They were not there to make friends with the Love Sect group, but rather they were there to antagonize them.
It was three groups from different sects that surrounded the Love Sect group without saying a single word.
When she saw them being surrounded like this, Xiao Ming asked, “What is going on here?”
The three different groups didn’t say a thing until they had completely surrounded the Love Sect group. It was only after they surrounded the Love Sect group that one of them suddenly came forward to say, “Do you think that you can do whatever you want in our territory?”
Xiao Ming wasn’t scared when she heard this and just calmly said, “Isn’t this the Martial Might Sect’s territory? When did it become your territory?”
This person who stepped forward gave a cold laugh before saying, “Before it is the Martial Might Sect’s territory, this is our Wu Empire’s territory. Outsiders like you can’t just do whatever you want in our territory.”
Xiao Ming gave a shrug before saying, “We’re not doing whatever we want.”
Her eyes then turned cold as she looked at this person and said, “As long as you don’t provoke us, we have no reason to do anything, right?”
That person gave a snort before saying, “Then you’re saying that everything you’ve done before is because you were provoked by others? What a joke.”
Xiao Ming was about to respond with something, but this person kept going as he said, “In the name of our Wu Empire, I, Chen Jing Yun will not allow you to act this way any longer!”
There were two others that stepped forward who were clearly the leaders of the other two groups.
“Duan Yu! I will no longer watch as your Love Sect acts so rampantly!”
“Qiao Hong Xue! Prepare to taste justice under my sword!”
Xiao Ming just shook her head with a bitter smile on her face when she saw the three of them like this. But there was nothing that she could say in this situation since it was clear that they were here to fight.
Since it was a fight, it wasn’t as if she was going to back down.
Only…there were some that didn’t give her the chance.
The other members of the Love Sect group stepped forward to stop her from fighting.
Xiao Ming glared at them, but someone just looked at her with a smile and said, “We can’t let you have all the fun.”
Xiao Ming wanted to say something else, but Tie Yong cut her off by saying, “You’re our leader, so you should at least stay back for now. You’ve already done all of that, so you should let us take care of the small fries.”
When they heard this, all three groups revealed looks of rage.
Small fries?
This unknown group was calling them small fries?
They couldn’t take this at all.
So the three groups immediately started charging at the Love Sect group.
It was just that…they were no match at all.
There was no doubt that these three groups were powerful, but…the Love Sect group was even stronger than them. There was no resistance at all that came from this group as the Love Sect group immediately destroyed their offense and started pushing them back.
They found that the Love Sect had all kinds of strange abilities that they couldn’t see through, but the most important thing was that each of these abilities were very powerful.
They kept being pushed back until it was them who was surrounded.
The three who led these groups had shocked looks on their faces as they looked at the members of the Love Sect surrounding them.
Finally, they couldn’t take it anymore and said things that only a cliche villain would say.
Chen Jing Yun said, “What are you doing? Do you know what will happen if you do this?”
Duan Yu said, “This is our Wu Empire’s territory! If you go too far, you should know what will happen to you!”
Qiao Hong Xue said, “Even if you beat us now, you’ll never be able to do anything in our Wu Empire’s territory!”
Xiao Ming shook her head when she heard this from them before saying with a sigh, “With skills like this, you really are just asking to be beaten.”
The faces of these three turned red as soon as they heard this, but there was nothing that they could refute this with. After all, they were the ones that were currently being surrounded after being beaten by the Love Sect group.
However, Xiao Ming didn’t give the order to finish them off.
Instead, she came forward to stand in front of these three and asked, “Who gave you the order to attack us?”
All three of them once again revealed shocked looks when they heard this.
They looked at Xiao Ming as if they were trying to see through her, but Xiao Ming just faced them with a calm and collected look on her face. She wasn’t giving them a single thing to see through.
Eventually, Chen Jing Yun spoke for all three of them by saying. “Order? Who can order us around?”
The other two nodded in agreement, but they looked away in the end.
Xiao Ming gave a soft laugh that was like bells chiming which made the three of them a bit stunned, but then…
She suddenly came forward to grab Chen Jing Yun by the collar and said, “Then let’s play a game. Every minute that you don’t tell me who it was, I’ll break one finger.”
He couldn’t help trembling with fear when he heard this.
After all, he never thought that he would hear such terrifying words coming out of a pretty mouth like this. The contrast really was stark and made the words hit even harder.
Xiao Ming didn’t care about this as she gave a nod to the others and they caught the rest of the members of these three groups.
Once they did, she said, “Of course, all of you will be playing at the same time. We don’t have as much time to waste with you as you’d think.”
All the members of these three groups trembled when they heard this before looking at their leaders for help.
The three leaders had looks of fear on their faces as well, but there was still a trace of determination that could be seen. It was as if they weren’t willing to give in for the time being.
Seeing that this was the case, Xiao Ming grabbed Chen Jing Yun’s hand and brought it forward.
Chen Jing Yun did his best to resist, but he found that he couldn’t break free of her grasp at all. It was like there was an iron vice around his hand when Xiao Ming grabbed him that he couldn’t break free of at all.
Xiao Ming narrowed her eyes to look at him, as if testing him.
But in the end, Chen Jing Yun didn’t break at all as he remained silent.
With a sigh, Xiao Ming pulled out a small dagger and said, “You’re the one that forced my hand.”
Chen Jing Yun’s eyes opened wide when he saw this.
Now that the punishment was right before his eyes, this hit him harder.
It was finally time to acknowledge that she was being serious.
With this realization hitting him, he knew that he could no longer afford to be as calm as before…
It was the same for the others as they saw the members of the Love Sect pulling out small daggers as well.
Chen Jing Yun bit his lip as he watched the small dagger coming closer and closer…
Until he finally couldn’t take it anymore and said, “Wait, wait, let’s talk about this.”
But Xiao Ming didn’t stop at all.
So Chen Jing Yun had no choice but to say, “I’ll talk, I’ll talk.”