Everyone ascended, but I didn't get on board

Chapter 110 The Townspeople Who Blocked

By the time the training team returned to the town, it was already daybreak. From afar, they could see a crowd of townspeople gathered at the gate of Li's residence, seemingly arguing about something. They could hear the arguing even before they landed.

"Senior Brother Jiang, you're back." Seeing everyone coming back, the people surrounded in the middle called out happily.

Only then did they see clearly that the people in the middle were the students who had stayed behind to deal with the group of little monsters, and they were carrying three unconscious people on their backs.

"What's going on? Why are you all standing at the door?" Senior Brother Jiang frowned and walked over.

"The Immortal Masters are back." Before the students could respond, the mayor, smiling, hurried over to greet them. "Thank you, Immortal Master, for ridding Luoyang Town of the demonic plague."

"You're welcome. This is our mission." Senior Brother Jiang nodded and looked at the disciples who were still carrying their fellow disciples. "Why don't you go in?"

Several people's faces suddenly darkened, and they looked at the mayor with some anger and said, "He was the one who stopped us."

The students frowned immediately. What was going on?
"Oh, this is a misunderstanding." The mayor's face changed, and he quickly said, "We just heard from the Immortal Master that a lot of monsters were captured this time, and we wanted to ask what you plan to do with them."

"Of course we have to find out the reason. Those who are at fault will be punished, and those who are not will be released back to the mountains." Senior Brother Jiang blurted out.

"What?!" As soon as these words were spoken, the crowd around was in an uproar and began to murmur in dissatisfaction.

"How can you do this? It's a monster. If you let it go, who knows if it will come back."

"That's right, what if the other party uses sophistry to deceive the Immortal Master?"

"They've captured so many women from our town, they should have been killed on the spot."

"That's right, aren't the immortal masters here to help us? How can we let the tiger go back to the mountain?"

The crowd became more and more angry as they talked, and were obviously dissatisfied with the way they dealt with the monster.

"Master..." The mayor also changed his kind tone and said with disapproval, "These monsters have been plaguing our town for years. Now that we have finally caught them, we can't let them go easily! I think it's best to deal with them in time to avoid any trouble."

"The matter hasn't been investigated thoroughly yet." A student couldn't help but retort, "Besides, humans have their own way, and monsters have their own way. We have to find out the right and wrong clearly. If there is guilt, they will not be forgiven easily." They could understand the townspeople's desire to resolve the monster problem as soon as possible, but it would be too hasty to execute them directly.

"Why even bother investigating?" the mayor said anxiously, "They've been plaguing our town for over a decade. They need to be executed immediately. How could the Immortal Master bring them back? What if they've cast some kind of spell and brought harm to the townspeople?"

When the mayor said this, the other townspeople nodded in agreement.

"That's right, what if we get implicated?"

"What are the immortal masters waiting for if they don't kill those monsters quickly? What if they escape?"

"Don't the people of the Holy Academy always protect others? Could it be that the Immortal Master still wants to associate with monsters?"

"I heard that some monsters will suck people's essence, we can't let them stay!" "Yeah, what if they attract other monsters?"

Seeing that everyone's words were getting more and more outrageous, the students had clearly already put the monsters into the monster-collecting bags, but they acted as if the monsters were the source of some virus and just urged to kill the monsters quickly.

The training team also instantly understood why the few people who had returned earlier had been staying at the door. It turned out that the mayor was afraid of being implicated and wanted them to execute those little monsters now, completely ignoring the fact that three of them were still unconscious. What's more, they were just a group of ordinary people and it was difficult for them to make trouble.

This group of students had obviously never encountered such a thing before, and they didn't know what to do for a moment.

Zhen Yi, standing nearby, frowned, then stepped forward and spoke loudly, "Since our Shuangxing Academy has accepted Luoyang Town's commission, we will naturally handle the demonic infestation properly. You should trust us when you seek our help. We've captured the demon, but the people who were captured haven't been rescued yet. Who knows if there are other demons hiding in the town? We must investigate thoroughly."

After he said this, the crowd fell silent for a while.

The mayor, however, was even more dissatisfied with their delay in exterminating the monsters. He angrily said, "Even so, the risk of keeping these monsters is too great. Immortal Master, you are putting Luoyang Town in danger. And you keep speaking for the monsters. Are you trying to protect them? Could it be that the people of the Holy Academy are also in league with the monsters?"

What he said was too much, and the students were instantly angry, but before they could explode, a terrifying pressure was released.

The next moment, the mayor, who had been making such a confident argument, along with all the townspeople around him, fell to the ground with a thud, like onions being crushed.

The scene fell silent for a moment.

The students were stunned and looked at each other for a while. They turned back in disbelief and found that the pressure was actually released by Master Chu behind them.

Qiu Ci took a few steps forward and stopped in front of the mayor. He spoke in a soft but cold tone, "I didn't know that your Luoyang Town had such strong opinions about the actions of my academy. In this case, why don't you come back to the academy with me, so that I can teach others the correct way to deal with the monster plague? How about it?" In front of me, Cricket Twin Star Academy really thinks that her teacher is dead?

The mayor's face turned pale. He wanted to beg for mercy but was suppressed and couldn't even open his mouth. The townspeople around him were trembling with fear.

How dare they?
That's one of the five major academies. Luoyang Town is just a small town without even a foundation-building cultivator. Only a lunatic would actively offend them. The reason I dared to block them just now was because I saw that these immortal masters were all young and not very experienced. I thought they must be new disciples with little experience, so I dared to confront and pressure them.

It was obvious that this group of people all looked the same before, who would have thought that there was a powerful one hidden among them? Although the mayor had a low level of cultivation, he had lived for so many years and still had some eyes. As soon as the woman opened her mouth, he realized that the other party had an unusual identity and was very likely the elder of this group of people. He immediately didn't dare to move a muscle.

Qiu Ci was too lazy to argue with this group of people. If they hadn't brought up the academy, she wouldn't have taken action. However, the Li Mansion was no longer habitable. She turned around, glanced at the three unconscious disciples, and said, "Let's go somewhere else."

"Yes, Teacher Chu." The students nodded, no longer looking at the people lying on the ground, and followed Qiu Ci out of Li Mansion.

The crowd did not leave Luoyang Town, but found an inn in the town to stay temporarily.

"Master Chu, how are the three junior sisters? Are they okay?" Qiu Ci had just finished taking the pulse when a group of students gathered around him worriedly. Even Jing Hong, who had always been socially anxious, took two steps closer.

"Don't worry, it's just a little demonic energy entering the body. It's no big deal. He should wake up in half an hour." Qiu Ci made a hand gesture and directly dispelled the remaining demonic energy from the three people.

The students finally breathed a sigh of relief.