The Divine Martial Stars

e and the group of disciples returned to the Taibai Sword Faction.

But the news that Zhao Ling, the beauty of their faction, was detained by the county magistrate as a maid had not spread widely yet.

That was mainly because those who knew the incident had agreed to keep it among themselves for the moment for the sake of Zhao Ling ’s reputation and integrity.

Meanwhile, they also hoped that the authority figures of the Taibai Sword Faction could come forward and get the beauty back from the hands of that devil at the fastest rate.

They had heard that three days ago Elder Zhou already visited the inner school and reported the whole thing to the head of the faction.
However, the fury they expected did not emerge, and there was no sign of further actions of the top management, either.

The situation was quite weird.
They felt that the high-level elders had already given up on Zhao Ling.

That reaction came as a total surprise and disappointment to those expectant young disciples.

Zhang Zhao was one of them.

He had just been admitted to be the direct disciple of Zhou Zhenyue since he showed remarkable ration and calmness during the trip to Taibai County.

After obtaining the favor of the outer school elder and becoming one of the few lucky disciples, he finally summoned his courage and came to ask Elder Zhou for the answers.

”The faction has its own scruples.
The death of Supervisor Xu is supposed to the business of the Supervisory Department.
We don ’t need to deal with it, and nor do you need to spread the words out. ” Zhou Zhenhai replied void of emotion.

He was sitting at the center of the Meditation Hall crosslegged.
With his eyes closed, he was exercising his breathing to relax and pacify his mind.

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His hair was fully white, and his serene expression made him look like an immortal.

”And as to what happened to Zhao Ling, the head and several senior elders have also come to a final conclusion.
None of you is allowed to bring it up in the faction.
If someone asks about her whereabouts, you just tell them she has been ordered to go on adventures for one year and will not return before that allotted time. ”

Zhou Zhenhai answered him without haste.

Zhang Zhao ’s jaw almost dropped at those words.

”Not returning until one year passes by? ”

”Does that indicate the faction has accepted that Sister Zhao must stay in Taibai County for a whole year? ”

”Why did they make such a decision? ”

Astonishment stole over Zhang Zhao.

But seeing that Zhou Zhenyue was obviously unwilling to continue the conversation, he could do nothing but nod in resignation and leave the hall.

Outside the hall…

”How did it go? How did it go? ”

”What did Mr.
Zhou say? ”

A dozens of young disciples who went on that trip to Taibai County had been waiting anxiously out of the hall for quite a while.
When they saw Zhang Zhao stepped out from the hall, they hopefully surrounded him right off.

Shaking his head, Zhang Zhao recounted what Zhou Zhenyue just told him.

Upon hearing his remarks, the disciples were all dumbfounded.

”What does this mean? ” They could not help wondering.

”Did they simply give up on Sister Zhao? ”

”No way! Zhao Ling is not only a beautiful disciple.
She also has highly outstanding cultivation in swordsmanship and great gifts in medicine.
As one of the few geniuses in that generation of disciples and a promising cultivator the seniors thought highly of, she was absolutely too valuable to be abandoned by the Taibai Sword Faction because of a little county magistrate. ”

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”If that is not reason, what on earth is? ”

Those young swordsmen were baffled.

”If there is no other solution, the only thing we can do is to go to Zhao Yu, the birth brother of Zhao Ling.
He is one of the three direct disciples of the head.
If he knows that his younger sister has been enslaved, how can he live with it? He won ’t turn a deaf ear to us, will he? ” A disciple suggested.

”But if we tip Zhao Yu off, we will be disclosing the secret, right? The faction will punish us! ” Another disciple vetoed.

”What does that matter? Zhao Ling has been detained by that devil for our safety.
Now that she is trapped there, how can we just let her suffer? Even if we will be punished, I think we can take it. ”

”Yes, we shall not be so ungrateful. ”

”Good.
Let ’s go to Zhao Yu together.
If the faction leaders get angry, we will bear the consequence together as well. ”

The indignant young disciples proudly set off along the mountain road and marched towards the inner school.

Zhao Yu, the one they referred to, was Zhao Ling ’s birth brother.
He was also raised in the Taibai Sword Faction.
Graced with more extraordinary martial art talent, Zhao Yu was taken as the last direct disciple of the current head of the Taibai Sword Faction.

He was already a widely recognized A-list swordsman of the younger generation in the Taibai Sword Faction.
And as a matter of a fact, this young man was quite famous across the Western Qin Empire.
Some nosy people once made a list of the geniuses of the Western Qin Empire in the last ten years.
Zhao Yu, who was known for his Magic Sword, was ranked the top 20.
Thus, it was easy to tell that he was truly talented.

From the perspectives of those young and reckless disciples, such a unique genius should be able to rescue Zhao Ling out of that dreadful place.

Watching the disciples heading off, Zhou Zhenyue, who already walked to the gate of the Meditation Hall, was standing up straight with his hands behind his back.
His expressionless face showed a hint of a smile.

He guessed it right that Zhang Zhao was spurred into inquiring him the questions by those young disciples.

Although at last, the youngsters decided to defy his explicit order, he did not feel upset at all.

Because he saw in those little guys the spirits of cooperation, passion, courage, as well as responsibility.
As to the policy of blocking the message…
Well, since a lot of people already knew it, he was aware that it was impossible to keep all of their mouths zipped.
All he could to do was to buy some time for the county magistrate.
That was actually quite a favor.

Since he had done his share, the rest shall depend on the county magistrate himself.

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