Chapter 245

Chapter 245: The Xuanjian Lord!

Yang Jia glanced at the old man,his expression calm. Before long,he found an opportunity and slipped away.

The reason he had this feeling was that he noticed the old man had shown no emotional fluctuation whatsoever throughout their exchange,utterly calm,mechanically calm,the kind of calm that didn’t belong to someone who intended to handle anything.

Of course,he couldn’t be one hundred percent certain.

So after stepping out,he didn’t go far. Instead,he hid in the shadows,and within less than half an hour,he watched a group of Guanxuan Inspection Guards slip through the gates of the “patrol office.”

Seeing this,his expression darkened completely.

So they really were coming after him!

At this moment,Yang Jia suddenly felt a wave of confusion.

Was standing up for your rights really this hard?

He walked alone down the street,genuinely at a loss. From Guanxuan to here,everything he had encountered along the way would have seemed trivial to his former self,no,it simply wouldn’t have been a problem at all.

But now,having lived through it himself,he realized……what wasn’t a problem for him,what did it mean for ordinary people?

For ordinary people,it was undoubtedly a life without light,the end of the world.

Of course,he had never imagined that seeking justice could be this difficult. From top to bottom,it was either passing the buck and shirking responsibility,or colluding and conspiring together.

What was wrong with these people?

They enjoyed the generous treatment given by Guanxuan Academy,with money,status,and standing all accounted for. Why were they still like this?

Was upholding the law impartially really that hard?

Was doing what you were supposed to do really that hard?

Helpless!

What he felt at this moment wasn’t just anger,but a deep,profound helplessness.

Because he had run out of options.

Where could he go to file a complaint?

Where would anyone even accept one?

And who would bother to care?

In the past,a single word from him would have sent countless people rushing to get things done. Now,he could shout himself hoarse and not a single person would come to hear him out.

Once he stood at the top looking down. Now he stood at the bottom looking up.

One shift in status,and the world became impossibly hard.

Was Guanxuan law truly nothing but a decoration?

Yang Jia grew more and more lost. As he walked,he arrived at Guanxuan Academy,where a statue of his father stood. A great many people had gathered here. He looked at the statue of the Guanxuan Sword Master and instinctively began walking toward it,but after only a few steps,a man grabbed his arm.

Yang Jia turned and looked at the man with confusion. The man said earnestly,”Friend,are you tired of living?”

Yang Jia was even more puzzled,”What do you mean?”

The man said in a low voice,”Don’t you know you can’t get close to the Guanxuan Sword Master’s statue?”

Yang Jia didn’t understand,”Why not?”

The man gave him a strange look,”Don’t you know that a long time ago,people kept coming to the Guanxuan Sword Master’s statue to file grievances? Later,the Academy decided it was a bad look and banned anyone from approaching the statue.”

Yang Jia’s brow furrowed. When he had come here before,there were no guards……but quickly,he understood.

What he had ever been able to see was always what the people below had already “handled” before letting him see it.

The man continued,”Just a moment ago,a woman came rushing toward the Guanxuan Sword Master’s statue carrying a severed head,but before she could get close,several guards took her away. Ah……”

Yang Jia looked at the man,”Carrying a severed head?”

The man nodded,”They say it was her son’s head. Their family was being relocated,but there were problems with the compensation. In the end,Xianbao Pavilion forcibly demolished their home and knocked her down. Her son couldn’t stand it and stepped forward to stop them,getting into a conflict with Xianbao Pavilion’s cultivators. Within a few days,her son was framed with a ‘murder’ charge and thrown in prison……”

At this,he let out a quiet sigh,”They say her son couldn’t endure the torment and took his own life in prison. So this old woman cut off her son’s head and went everywhere trying to file complaints,but nothing worked. With no other option,she finally came here to the Guanxuan Sword Master…….hoping to make a scene,because if it became a scene,people would pay attention,and if people paid attention,there might be a sliver of hope…….”

Yang Jia glanced at the people standing around,”They came here not to pay their respects to the Guanxuan Sword Master?”

When he had come before,there were also many people here,and many of them had been devoutly worshipping the Guanxuan Sword Master.

Hearing Yang Jia’s words,the man gave a bitter smile,”Everyone here came to file a grievance. They’ve been turned away everywhere else,so they came here. The Guanxuan Sword Master is their last hope,but……”

He trailed off with a quiet sigh,looking toward the statue of the Guanxuan Sword Master not far away,”Now even that last hope is gone,because the people up above won’t give any ordinary person the chance to get near the Guanxuan Sword Master’s statue……how dare they even try?”

Yang Jia fell silent.

Why had he come here?

In truth,it was also because every other avenue had been shut down.

He slowly raised his head and looked toward the statue of the Guanxuan Sword Master in the distance. In that moment,he suddenly understood why Ye Tianming had been able to defeat him in the end.

In truth,it wasn’t Ye Tianming who had defeated him. It was Yang Jia who had defeated himself.

Order!

Law!

These were the core of the Yang family,the things his father had spent his entire life pursuing for all living beings. But had he,Yang Jia,truly upheld the law impartially?

In this moment,he thought of the matter with the Xiao family.

Before this,he had never believed he was in the wrong…….but now he suddenly understood one thing: every time he turned a blind eye to the Xiao family,the people below would follow his example.

If the one at the top plays favorites and bends to personal ties,the people below will naturally do the same.

If the one at the top yields to “unlawful” conduct,what will the people below think when they see it?

How had Ye Tianming defeated him?

Restraint!

If I,Yang Jia,had restrained myself,could you,Ye Tianming,have ever restrained me?

Dark law!

If my,Yang Jia’s,law had been upright and clear,with nothing to be ashamed of,could your dark law,Ye Tianming,have ever defeated me?

Fortune!

Yang Jia slowly closed his eyes and said softly,”Father,I understand what you meant now.”

He finally understood why the Yang family’s fortune had stopped sheltering him. It wasn’t that it had stopped recognizing him. No parent in the world stops recognizing their child. It had actually been a warning.

A warning that his law had gone wrong,that his order had gone wrong.

And he truly realized now that to defeat Ye Tianming,his own “law” could not be flawed. As long as his law was without flaw,not only would Ye Tianming’s Great Dao of Restraint be useless against him,even his Law of All Beings would have no effect.

The Law of All Beings cannot be used against those who are kind and righteous!

The greatest problem had always been himself,Yang Jia!

He had not lost to Ye Tianming. He had lost to himself.

All this time,he had never truly understood what his father meant. His father hadn’t wanted him to expand their territory. He had wanted him to come and fix the problems within the Academy itself.

But he had gone astray.

Yang Jia took a long,deep breath and turned to walk away. This time,he knew what path he needed to take going forward.

Whether it was the road ahead of him now,or the road that lay further beyond.

Soon,he arrived at Guanxuan Academy and walked straight to the Guanxuan Path. Just as he was about to step onto it,an old man blocked his way. The old man looked at him with a smile,”Do you have a grievance to present?”

Yang Jia shook his head,”No grievance at all. I simply want to try the Guanxuan Path.”

The old man looked Yang Jia over,”Your cultivation level,why can’t I see it?”

Yang Jia looked at him,”My elders at home were afraid I’d attract trouble outside,so they concealed my aura for me.”

Elders at home!

The old man caught the key words,and his manner became considerably warmer,”This Guanxuan Path is very dangerous…….”

Yang Jia said directly,”It’s precisely because it’s dangerous that I came.”

Seeing Yang Jia’s confidence,the old man felt it wasn’t an act. So he stepped aside,”Then go on up!”

Yang Jia gave a nod and walked toward the Guanxuan Path.

He understood that if he had said he had a grievance,he likely wouldn’t have been allowed onto the Guanxuan Path. These people all feared trouble,feared responsibility,feared anything that might affect them.

But now he knew the problem didn’t lie with these people. It lay with the upper echelons of Guanxuan,which meant it lay with him,the young master.

To change this state of affairs,killing a few people would solve nothing. It had to be addressed at the root.

After stepping onto the Guanxuan Path,a beam of Great Dao light fell straight down and enveloped him.

The Guanxuan Path activated!

The entire Academy was shaken.

And in the next instant,Yang Jia had vanished from where he stood.

The real world.

On this day,an old man arrived at the Buddha-Demon Sect and went directly to find Jiang Zuo.

Jiang Zuo stared at the old man before him in astonishment,”Elder Qin,Xianbao Pavilion wants to proactively cooperate with us?”

The old man smiled,”That’s right,and I will personally oversee this matter.”

Jiang Zuo was deeply puzzled. Before this,because of the tournament incident,Xianbao Pavilion had directly blacklisted the Buddha-Demon Sect,which had been a tremendous headache for him. In the real world,being blacklisted by Xianbao Pavilion was an extraordinarily bad situation.

Setting everything else aside,the transportation issue alone was enough to give the Buddha-Demon Sect endless grief,because virtually all the teleportation arrays in the real world were controlled by Xianbao Pavilion.

It could be said that being targeted by Xianbao Pavilion in the real world was absolutely devastating for any faction.

This had been Jiang Zuo’s biggest headache during this period,so he never expected Xianbao Pavilion to send someone of their own accord to propose cooperation.

Jiang Zuo said in a measured tone,”Elder Qin,is this truly the case?”

Elder Qin smiled and nodded,”Of course. Why would I travel all this way to joke with you about something like this?”

Seeing this,Jiang Zuo broke into a smile,”Elder Qin,let’s discuss the details inside……”

The two of them walked smiling toward the great hall not far away.

Xianbao Pavilion.

On this day,Ye Tianming came to Xianbao Pavilion. The Xianbao Pavilion of the real world was something the ones below couldn’t begin to compare to. The entire building stood one hundred and twenty-nine stories tall,built right in Xianbao City,extraordinarily lavish and grand!

The trading house had everything imaginable inside. As long as you had money,there was almost nothing you couldn’t buy at Xianbao Pavilion.

And on this day,Ye Tianming came to Xianbao Pavilion alone.

He wanted to experience the pleasures of being wealthy!