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Sect Leader Shen forced a smile, attempting a final struggle: "Immortal Venerable, please calm your anger. There... there must be some misunderstanding here—"

Yu Linzhou said expressionlessly, "You mean your daughter's hairpin inexplicably ended up in my disciple's room? Your people inexplicably broke into the guest courtyard of the Tianheng Sect disciples? And your belongings were inexplicably found in my disciple's room?"

"And then your dear daughter inexplicably wants my disciple to kneel down and kowtow to her three times—is this all a misunderstanding?"

Sect Leader Shen was speechless.

The elders and law enforcement disciples of the Ten Thousand Swords Sect standing nearby also began to look at Shen Yue with strange eyes.

They can favor their own sect leader's daughter, but only if the matter can be justified.

The current situation is entirely orchestrated by Shen Yue herself, and she was exposed on the spot by her master.

Yu Linzhou sneered, "What, does your Ten Thousand Swords Sect think my Heavenly Heng Sect is easy to bully?"

Sect Master Shen trembled and quickly bowed, apologizing, "Immortal Venerable, please calm your anger! Immortal Venerable, please calm your anger! It is my fault for failing to properly discipline my daughter. I will certainly discipline her strictly when I return—"

"There's no need for discipline. The fact that Miss Shen could do something like this shows that you can't control her." Yu Linzhou's tone was full of undisguised sarcasm.

"I usually settle scores on the spot. Since Miss Shen enjoys having people kowtow to her so much, let her experience it for herself."

Yu Linzhou laughed and said, "Have her kowtow three times to each of the disciples of the Tianheng Sect. Sect Master Shen, is that too much to ask?"

The members of the Tianheng Sect looked at Yu Linzhou with admiration.

Feng Heng Immortal Venerable is so domineering!

Sect Master Shen's face turned ashen. He spoke with difficulty, "Immortal Venerable, my daughter is still a child and doesn't understand. Making her kowtow in public... isn't that ruining her?"

Yu Linzhou's smile vanished instantly. "You think it's perfectly reasonable for her to make my disciple kowtow? And for me to make her kowtow back is to destroy her. Sect Master Shen, does your Shen family have absolute power in the cultivation world?"

He took a half step forward, leaned slightly forward, and met the shocked gaze of Sect Master Shen with his dark, deep eyes. His voice carried a threat, "While I can still control my temper now, you'd better do as I say. Once I can't hold back anymore, it won't be so easy to solve the problem by kowtowing a few times."

Sect Leader Shen finally understood.

Yu Linzhou was never trying to bargain with him or give him a way out from the beginning.

He was just standing up for his apprentice.

When Sect Leader Shen closed his eyes and opened them again, his eyes were filled with despair.

He turned around and looked at Shen Yue, his voice hoarse and strained: "Yue'er, kneel down. Apologize to the fellow Daoists of Tianheng Sect."

Shen Yue suddenly raised her head and stared at her father in disbelief.

She thought that with her father's arrival, she would be safe and could escape unscathed as she had done countless times before.

But what did her father say? He told her to kneel down?

"I won't kneel!" she screamed, her voice trembling slightly with extreme shock and anger. "Why should I kneel! I am the daughter of the Sect Master of the Myriad Swords Sect, why should I kneel before these people!"

"Father, have you gone mad! You just watch them bully me, don't stand up for me, and even make me kneel? Are you even my father?! Before my mother passed away, you promised her you would take good care of me! How could you treat me like this! My mother should never have married you!"

Sect Leader Shen felt as if he had been punched hard in the chest.

He raised his hand, trembling, and delivered a slap, causing the entire courtyard to fall silent for a moment.

Sect Leader Shen's voice carried a pain deeper than anger, "I spoiled you too much! That's why you've become like this!"

Shen Yue covered her face, frozen in place. Her father had never hit her before, not even once.

She stared blankly at Sect Leader Shen, the man who had cherished her since childhood, who had never truly protected her.

When her mother died, she wondered why her father, the sect leader, couldn't save her. Today, she wondered again why her father, the sect leader, made her kneel before others.

"Hold her down." Sect Leader Shen's voice returned to calm.

The disciples in charge hesitated, exchanged glances, and neither dared to make the first move.

Sect Leader Shen suddenly turned to them and said sternly, "Do you think I can't order you around?!"

Several disciples were terrified by his unprecedented rage and, without hesitation, stepped forward, grabbed Shen Yue's shoulders, and forced her to kneel on the ground.

Shen Yue tried to struggle, but she couldn't break free.

Her knees struck the cold stone slab with a dull thud.

One, two, three.

With each bump, she would look up at a person and memorize that face.

His eyes were full of resentment.

For Tianheng Sect, and for Sect Master Shen.

Lin Zhixu suddenly realized that when someone is spoiled, the first person they resent is actually the one who spoiled them.

When Shen Yue finished kowtowing for the last time, her legs were still weak as the disciple pulled her up from the ground.

She lowered her head, her disheveled hair obscuring most of her face.

She flung the hand of the disciple in charge away and staggered toward the courtyard gate.

The crowd of onlookers automatically made way for them.

As Zhou Tong and the others watched Shen Yue's disheveled figure disappear outside the courtyard gate, they did not feel the satisfaction they had imagined.

All they want is for Shen Yue to sincerely admit her mistakes and apologize. Even if she is forced to bow her head, it's not genuine, and she probably won't change in the future; instead, she might become even worse.

Yu Linzhou was quite satisfied with the result.

He's a man who believes in revenge; all the talk about forgiving others when possible and repaying evil with good is nonsense to him.

If someone treats him with respect, he may not repay them tenfold; but if someone tramples on him even an inch, he will definitely trample on that inch back with interest.

He didn't care at all whether the other party was truly repentant.

He's satisfied as long as the other party pays the price.

As for whether the other party will retaliate in the future?

Whatever, he likes the feeling of disliking him but being unable to do anything about it.

Sect Leader Shen was too ashamed to stay any longer.

Today's farce has completely humiliated him and made Shen Yue resent him, leaving him looking haggard and worn out.

As the head of a sect, he was publicly humiliated by outsiders on his own territory, making him look like a laughingstock.

He forced himself to maintain a semblance of dignity, hastily excused himself from Yu Linzhou, ordered his men to take away and deal with the disciples who had followed Shen Yue in their misdeeds, and then left.

The disciples looked ashen-faced.

With the matter resolved, Zhou Tong and the others returned to their rooms to pack their things.

Only Yu Linzhou and Lin Zhixu remained.

Lin Zhixu said, "Shen Yue's last look didn't seem like she was willing to give up."

Yu Linzhou said, "So what?"

Lin Zhixu said helplessly, "I'm not afraid of you or me, but Zhou Tong and the others have no one to back them up, so they're easily vulnerable to Shen Yue's retaliation."

Yu Linzhou seemed to understand, and said, "I understand. I will send a message back to Tianheng Sect to end this exchange ahead of schedule."

This gave him a good reason to go back early; he had long wanted to leave, and the people there were disgusting.