After I left the sect, the entire sect knelt down and begged for forgiveness.

Chapter 39 You're Kind, So Save Me 2
Well, she's always been someone who likes to reason and doesn't really like to resort to violence.

"Just ten minutes ago, your Xiao family sent your steward and guards to ambush me. Did you offend me?" she said calmly, stepping on the hand of a guard lying on the ground preparing to launch a sneak attack. With a slash of her sword, the guard's arm was cut open.

The guard fainted from the pain.

Unable to bear such a bloody scene, she thoughtfully cast a cleansing spell.

Upon seeing this, the head of the Xiao family fell silent, unable to utter a single word.

Lin Yan braced himself with his sword and continued, "I figured you're a family, not some unreasonable place. Your servants must have embellished the story when they reported it, causing a misunderstanding. So after dealing with the steward who led the ambush, I came here specifically to find out what happened."

After speaking, she looked at the head of the Xiao family with an indifferent expression. "The other day, the young master of the Xiao family made disrespectful remarks to me in the market, and tried to do something indecent to me. Even after I warned him, he still did not stop, so I taught him a lesson and told him to learn how to behave properly."

Of course, her "learn to be a good person" is just a way to ensure that people are reborn into a better human being in their next life.

"I wonder what the guards who accompanied Young Master Xiao reported back to the manor. The Xiao family is not ashamed of your son's behavior, but instead made me, the victim, suffer the consequences." She questioned in a cold voice, each word as cold as ice.

The head of the Xiao family gritted his teeth and had no choice but to speak: "It was all a misunderstanding. It was my Xiao family's poor discipline that caused my son to offend you. I apologize to you."

She sneered, "Since Patriarch Xiao apologized for your son, I am not an unreasonable person. Let's let this matter drop. If the Xiao family tries to distort this matter in the future, don't blame me for being impolite."

"Natural nature."

After Lin Yan left, the Xiao family head's carefully maintained composure finally crumbled. The servants beside him quickly supported him to prevent him from collapsing to the ground and utterly disgracing the family head!
The investigators reported that the person who killed his son was just a rogue cultivator in the Qi Refining stage. But looking at the strength of that cultivator and the sword he used, did he look like a Qi Refining stage cultivator? Did he look like a rogue cultivator?

I'm afraid the other party used a magic weapon to conceal their cultivation level, preventing others from discerning their true strength. Someone who can afford such a magic weapon doesn't seem like a rogue cultivator; they're probably a scion of some powerful family out on a training mission.

The head of the Xiao family felt a wave of fear and quickly had his servants help him into the hall.

After leaving the Xiao family, Lin Yan headed to the airship docking point to board the ship. Many merchants and cultivators were boarding from the small town. As soon as she stepped onto the deck, she saw stacks of pet cages containing what appeared to be minks.

She found it adorable and couldn't help but glance at it a few more times. The red enchantress in her arms made two restless "cooing" sounds, and the words it used to accuse her of being fickle floated into her mind.

Lin Yan smiled helplessly and patted the Red Enchantress's head reassuringly, saying, "I was just looking, I didn't mean anything by it."

Among the traveling merchants, a cultivator noticed her interest in the spirit pet and stepped forward to introduce it: "Immortal, are you interested in this lion-shaped beast?"

The Ni beast? The word "Ni" sounds like a lion, so why does it look like a cute little creature?
Seeing her moved, the cultivator continued, "The lion-like beast is very intelligent and knows how to sense people's emotions. Fairy, you can buy one so that it can keep your pet company."

She maintained an awkward smile: Keep her company? She was afraid that she would be bitten to death by the Red Enchantress the moment she bought the Lion Beast.

"No, no, it's not advisable to bring a spirit pet on this trip."

"That's a real shame." Just as the vendor was about to turn back, he heard someone exclaim.

"These spirit pets are so pitiful being locked up." A clear, innocent voice, tinged with a hint of coquetry, rang out. The vendors looked embarrassed, as did the vendors standing around the pet cages.

Lin Yan glanced over upon hearing the sound and saw Tao Zhizhi standing in front of the stack of pet cages, sighing with pure and tender feelings.

She dropped her polite smile and was about to step off the deck when she was stopped by the other person.

Tao Zhizhi asked her, "Why didn't you buy another one just now? It would have been good to save even one."

Lin Yan looked slightly impatient: "What's it to you?"

Tao Zhizhi opened her eyes wide, bit her lip, and looked pitiful as if she had been bullied: "They are so pitiful, are you just going to stand by and watch them being locked in cages without doing anything? How can you have no compassion at all?"

Lin Yan's eyes were cold and sharp. Not wanting to get entangled with the female lead, he turned to the side to try and get around her.

Tao Zhizhi felt a chill run down her spine from that cold gaze. Remembering the two times she had been humiliated in front of him, she mustered her courage and blocked his path. Her round eyes were filled with a stubborn look of being bullied: "You cold-blooded monster, are you afraid I'll tell you about your street violence and you want to leave?"

Those on the deck were all cultivators, well aware of the importance of self-preservation when out in public, so they simply observed without getting involved. Some of the younger disciples, however, agreed with Tao Zhizhi's words and openly whispered and discussed the matter among themselves without any restraint.

Lin Yan glanced coldly over, and the people discussing the matter fell silent without realizing it.

Just then, Gu Zhu came over and, seeing his junior sister's aggrieved look, pulled her behind him. He glared at the person who had bullied his junior sister: "It's you again! You've bullied my junior sister time and time again; you must apologize today!"

Lin Yan was speechless. She thought to herself: What's wrong with these two?
She neither cursed nor laid a hand on me, so it's bullying? Does that mean whoever looks weak and innocent is right?
She also blamed herself for being too weak to contend with the entire Xuantian Sect. If she were strong enough, she could easily overpower everyone with her strength, and there would be no point in talking about reason.

“Fellow Daoist, be careful with your words. You must speak with solid evidence. You say I have bullied your junior sister time and time again, but can you provide any proof? Let me ask everyone here, have I ever done anything to this fellow Daoist?”

Some of the monks who had watched the whole thing started discussing it, but none of them came forward to testify.

After waiting for a while, seeing that no one came forward to testify, Lin Yan said, "See, no one is standing up to say what I did to your junior sister. On the contrary, it's your junior sister who spoke inappropriately to me. Since you've stood up for your junior sister, shouldn't you apologize to me for her inappropriate words?"

"you!"

Seeing him stumped and unable to utter a rebuttal, a mocking smile appeared on her lips beneath the veil.

Tao Zhizhi's eyes were filled with tears as she said sadly, "Third Senior Brother, I felt sorry for this lion beast, and I couldn't stand her cold-bloodedness, so I said a few words. It's all my fault..."

Lin Yan interrupted her without any politeness: "Yes, others are cold-blooded and indifferent, but you are kind-hearted, then go and save them. You can buy these lion beasts yourself, and then take them back to raise or release them, whatever you want to do with them. Why are you arguing with me?"

After saying that, she walked around them, paused beside them, and sneered, "Tch, fake kindness!" She left the deck and entered the flying boat pavilion, disappearing from everyone's sight.

These two, one a sanctimonious hypocrite and the other a pretentious charlatan, are a perfect match.

(End of this chapter)