Chapter 374: Chapter 374 Decent!

*Were they arguing?*

Yang Yan looked over to the edge of the ruins, a thousand meters away.

A group of disciples were quarreling, divided into two sides.

On one side, Zhan Lingtian and Zhou Xuan were also flushed and arguing with the others.

“Hmm, what happened?” Yang Yan said, unhurried, unflustered.

They were all righteous cultivators, and now they were on the path to eliminate evil demons in Beizhou. He wasn’t worried they would fight.

“It’s about the distribution of elixirs that Senior Brother mentioned!” Yun He quickly responded.

She explained the situation briefly!

“A total of thirty disciples arrived, and their injuries were very light. Some clearly just had a scrape but claimed to be seriously injured and in need of an elixir for treatment,” Yun He said.

“Zhan Lingtian and Zhou Xuan explained to them that the elixirs were only for those seriously injured and for martial artists without any elixirs.

They wouldn’t listen!

They insisted on the elixirs!

They argued that they were indeed seriously injured and out of elixirs!

Clearly, they were trying to exploit us, bullying us!”

Yang Yan nodded.

“Don’t worry, it’s a minor issue. Let’s go take a look.”

“Alright, Senior Brother.”

The two of them walked over together. As they got closer, the sound of their argument grew louder, and even Zhou Xuan, who had just joined Yang Yan’s side the night before, was indignantly arguing with them.

*This showed just how unreasonable the other side was!*

“Are you giving us the elixirs or not?” A direct disciple with a small mustache demanded.

He was covering his hand, which had a tiny wound.

It had already scabbed over!

“No, you’re asking for an elixir for just a scrape on your hand.

If we give it to you, what about the other injured people?” Zhan Lingtian retorted.

He wasn’t backing down at all!

He wouldn’t easily give away valuable items like elixirs!

And if he did, it certainly wouldn’t be to someone like this!

“Who said it was just a scrape? That’s just on the surface.

I have internal injuries!

You may not see it with your naked eyes.

But I know it clearly myself!” The direct disciple with a small mustache argued.

“Besides, if I’m asking for one elixir for treatment, is that so bad?

Even if I weren’t injured, you should give me one elixir to use!”

Zhan Lingtian scoffed.

“You want an elixir without being injured, who do you think you are?!”

The direct disciple with a small mustache snorted coldly.

“Who am I? I am a righteous martial artist!

I’m the main force of the Righteous Demon Cleansing Alliance in slaying evil demons!

Way stronger than you people who don’t want to contribute and can only do menial tasks!”

He gestured at the people around him!

“Moreover, we risk our lives at the front, and you?

You can’t even manage to treat us properly, what’s the use!?

For one elixir, you refuse us!

Claiming to be selfless, dare call yourselves paragons of righteousness!

You’re just a bunch of stingy cowards!

Come on, everyone, am I right?”

The people behind him, following his lead, immediately chimed in, agreeing.

Yang Yan watched them, noticing they were all disciples following Mo Bai.

*He understood their purpose in coming here!*

He stood beside Zhan Lingtian, calming the angry Zhan Lingtian, who was about to roll up his sleeves and start cursing.

“Senior Brother!” Zhan Lingtian called out respectfully, bowing his head.

His anger subsided instantly!

“Senior Brother!” Zhou Xuan also quickly called out.

She was very angry!

She couldn’t believe how despicable Mo Bai’s followers were.

“I still followed Mo Bai initially and considered them friends. *I was blind!*” she muttered angrily.

Yang Yan nodded slightly, looking at the direct disciple with a small mustache.

As soon as he saw Yang Yan approach, he started speaking.

“Junior Brother Yang Long, you’re here just in time,

take control of your people!

They look down on us and even target us!

*I suspect it’s because you clashed with Senior Brother Mo Bai and hold a grudge.*

You’re deliberately instructing your people to target us!”

“How exactly are they targeting you?” Yang Yan asked calmly.

“They agreed that if we’re injured, we can use the elixirs for treatment.

Now that we’re injured, they’re stopping us, refusing to provide the elixirs.

They even cursed at us, isn’t that discriminatory?” The direct disciple with a small mustache questioned boldly.

Yang Yan’s expression slightly tensed.

“Is that so? If that’s true, then they indeed discriminated against you!”

As he said this, Zhou Xuan quickly spoke up.

“Senior Brother Yang Long, it wasn’t us discriminating against them; they’re the ones picking a fight!

They weren’t injured, yet they claimed they were!”

“Oh? Is that so?” Yang Yan faced the direct disciple with a small mustache.

“Is what she said true?”

“Of course not. Who says I’m not injured? Isn’t this a wound?” The direct disciple with a small mustache extended his hand.

“Look, though it’s scabbed over,

the Demon Path’s methods were insidious, causing internal spread,

giving me internal injuries!

Hey!

You can’t see it, but *I’m actually in great pain right now!*” he said with a pained expression.

“So it spread internally? Let me take your pulse and see what kind of elixir would be best for treatment!” Yang Yan said.

The direct disciple with a small mustache’s expression changed.

“You know medicine?”

“A little!”

The Divine Dao Heavenly Book contained medical knowledge, which Yang Yan had studied.

Of course, he didn’t need medical skills to see everything within his opponent using the True Profound Immortal Pupil.

Pulsing was just a pretext for not revealing the True Profound Immortal Pupil!

“Alright then.”

The direct disciple with a small mustache reluctantly extended his hand for Yang Yan to take his pulse.

He knew if he backed out, it would prove he wasn’t injured.

“If he claims there’s nothing wrong with me, I can just fall out with him. They’re just a bunch of lackeys for worthless evil demon disciples!

What do they need the elixirs for!” he thought to himself.

Suddenly, he noticed as Yang Yan took his pulse, his brow furrowed, and his face became serious.

“Junior Brother Yang Long, is something wrong?” The direct disciple with a small mustache began to feel uneasy.

Yang Yan looked up.

“You are indeed seriously injured, and it’s an intangible demonic injury, a severe condition.

It might one day corrupt your heart realm,

making you appear like an evil demon!”

What!

He really had a serious injury!

It might even make him like an evil demon!

Not only were Zhan Lingtian and the others shocked, but even the direct disciple with the small mustache turned pale.

“Junior Brother Yang Long, you must be joking!” he said.

He withdrew his hand from Yang Yan’s grasp!

Yang Yan’s sharp gaze didn’t answer, just quietly observing the other party.

His earnest demeanor caused those behind the direct disciple with a small mustache to back away considerably.

They distanced themselves from him a bit more!

“Junior Brother Yang Long, say something!” the direct disciple with the small mustache urged anxiously.

Yang Yan then slowly spoke.

“You might not have noticed yet, but your current state already signals the beginning of a significant change in your heart realm!

If you listen to my advice, you could self-eliminate, restraining the demonic nature, preventing future harm to your comrades!

Rest assured!

We will remember your selfless spirit!

I will personally give you dignity and honor, personally cremate you, bury you, and erect a monument for you!

If you don’t want this dignity, I will bring my followers to personally send you off respectfully!”

The direct disciple with a small mustache’s face contorted. Was he really going to be cremated?

And they would bring people to act against him?

Clearly a threat!

“Junior Brother Yang Long, are you threatening me?

I’m a direct disciple!

Don’t think just because you have Li Haoran backing you up, and more people on your side, that I’ll be afraid!

Look who’s behind me, I also have people supporting…”

He was speaking naturally, then turned to look behind.

His words faltered!

The successor disciples and direct disciples who were originally behind him had all distanced themselves from him.

“You all aren’t really believing him, are you? He’s just trying to avoid giving out elixirs, deliberately intimidating me!

And he’s also trying to scare you!” he said, his face stiffening.

Because those people’s faces clearly showed uneasiness.

“They really believed it…”

Thinking of Yang Yan’s recent actions, indeed, as fellow righteous path followers, he was selfless and won people’s hearts.

The other party claimed they knew medicine and had taken his pulse!

As a healer, anything Yang Yan said carried some credibility!

It was this bit of credibility that created a gap between the surrounding disciples and him!

After all, their relationships were only average, and they weren’t even from the same sect!

Let alone the fact that these people had all been urged by him to come and take advantage!

No one truly trusted anyone!

With such a superficial relationship, no one wanted a potentially dangerous demon-possessed individual by their side!

“Fine, Junior Brother Yang Long, I’m shameless!

I just wanted to trick you for some elixirs with a scrape! *But if you don’t want to give, don’t!*

Who are you trying to scare?!

And you all!

Pretentious enough to fall for his words, and I brought you to take advantage yet you’re a bunch of wastes!”

The direct disciple with a small mustache cursed as he stormed off.

He was utterly furious!

Once he left, the others hesitated for a moment.

“Junior Brother Yang Long, what you said just now, was it true?”

Yang Yan’s gaze was deep and he didn’t respond, exuding an air of mystery.

The others exchanged glances, further convinced of Yang Yan’s credibility!

Suddenly, they heard Mo Bai’s distant shout.

“Gather quickly, we should go assault the next evil demon sect!”

They all left, and after they went.

Zhan Lingtian, Yun He, and Zhou Xuan approached.

“Senior Brother, does that guy actually have an issue?”

Yang Yan remained calm.

The other party had no issues, but if they had insisted one more time on requesting elixirs,

then there would have been an issue!

He would mobilize his followers to eliminate the other party, justifying it with an accusation of falling into demonhood!

There would be no argument, no room for criticism!

“Right now, there are no issues, but in the future? Who knows!

Alright!

It’s time to move on!”

His words left Zhan Lingtian, Yun He, and Zhou Xuan puzzled.

Yang Yan seemed to have said something, yet it felt like he said nothing at all.

And in an hour, even before Yang Yan and the others reached the next sect, the sounds of battle rang out ahead with swords unsheathing.

“It’s Miao Yin, one of the Three Demon Women. She possesses the Desire Demon Physique!

Everyone, guard your hearts, don’t let her deceive you!”

Demon path demoness, Miao Yin!

Hearing this name, Yang Yan vanished from sight in an instant.