Chapter 11

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

“Yan Lan, what are you doing? Stop!” Yan Sheng’s heart jumped, and he suddenly shouted.

The old master was still watching!

Hearing her father’s shout, Yan Lan, who had lost her mind from anger, returned to her senses.

She then looked at Yan Chushi, who was holding his head and acting pitiful. Yan Lan felt even angrier, but she could not do anything, so her face turned red.

“Father, Yan Lan was just excited. She has always been straightforward and doesn’t have any bad intentions,” Yan Sheng cupped his hands and said to Yan Zhongshan.

Her words implied that Yan Chushi and Yan Xi were manipulative and deliberately put on an act in front of Yan Sheng.

Yan Lan also felt that she had lost her composure and quickly tried to remedy the situation.

“Grandpa, I didn’t really want to fight. I was just so angry just now…” Tears welled up in her eyes as she held her bandaged forehead. “Yan Xi hit me in the academy today. The wound on my forehead hasn’t healed yet, and I’m being blamed for it. I was really angry just now…”

The third elder stood out and asked Yan Lan to leave. He had always liked Yan Lan. After all, the Yan family had not produced a Spirit Master in a hundred years.

“Lan, you have an injury on your forehead. The old master will definitely give you justice for today’s matter.”

After he finished speaking, he glanced at Yan Chushi and Yan Xi in disgust. Finally, he looked at Yan Zhongshan and said, “Since Yan Chushi said that Lan bullied them, why don’t we set up an investigation team to collect evidence and find out whether Yan Chushi’s words are true? Yan Xi’s disfigurement still needs to be investigated, but there was no dispute that Yan Xi had hurt Yan Lan. Yan Lan is the genius with the most potential in our Yan family, and also the hope of our family. Today’s matter was terrible, so Yan Xi must be severely punished.”

After he finished speaking, he looked at Yan Xi and Yan Chushi with a cold gaze.

Spirit Masters were rare and honorable. He had always liked Yan Lan, and he did not like Yan Xi and Yan Chushi. He thought that she and Yan Chushi were useless people who had brought shame to the Yan family.

Yan Chushi was about to explode from anger at these shameless words.

He had long known that the third elder was biased toward Yan Lan and did not like the two of them, but he did not expect him to be so shameless.

The corners of Yan Xi’s mouth curled up as she looked at Yan Hou. “I’m just a piece of trash who can’t cultivate. How can I cripple the Yan family’s genius? If the Yan family’s genius couldn’t even defeat a piece of trash, wouldn’t the Yan family be finished? Elder Hou, please don’t curse the Yan family.”

The third elder had a heart attack. How did he not realize that Yan Xi was so talkative before?

Yan Xi could not cultivate, but Yan Lan was a cultivator at the seventh level of the Body Tempering Realm! Although a Spirit Master was not as physically strong as a Profound Cultivator in the first few stages of cultivation, they surely would not get hurt by someone who could not cultivate.

The way some people in the family looked at Yan Lan also changed.

A cultivator at the seventh level of the Body Tempering Realm being beaten by a piece of trash who could not cultivate sounded ridiculous!

Yan Lan’s face was red. At this time, everyone’s eyes were on her.

Yan Xi looked at Yan Lan with a smile. “Yan Lan, think about it again. Did I hurt your forehead?”

Yan Lan clenched her fists, feeling extremely angry.

She wanted to say yes, but the gazes around her and her own pride made her unable to say anything.

Yan Xi had caught her in the perfect trap.

Finally, she gritted her teeth and said, “No…”

“Then how did you get injured?” Yan Xi continued to smile.

She took a deep breath and clenched her fists. “I fell on my own in the training grounds.”

“Yan Lan!” Yan Sheng frowned. It was a serious crime in the Yan family to fight and hurt people of the same family. Although it was Yan Lan who had caused trouble for Yan Xi in the past, the elder of the law enforcement hall was on their side. Moreover, it was difficult to investigate the past since it had happened a long time ago. Yan Xi might not be able to produce any evidence.

Today, as long as Yan Xi’s crime was confirmed, she would be whipped until she bled as a punishment.

Yan Xi looked at Yan Zhongshan, her face turning serious. “Grandpa, Yan Lan clearly injured her own forehead. However, my uncle convicted me without even investigating the matter. Isn’t that in dereliction of his duties as the family head?”

Yan Sheng almost burst a vein in anger. Yan Xi was out for blood!

The disciples of the Yan family silently ridiculed them in their hearts.

Everyone knew what was going on. Yan Lan clearly did not want to admit that she had been defeated by Yan Xi.

However, even Yan Lan, the person involved, was not pursuing the matter. Thus, it was meaningless to pursue this.

Yan Zhongshan looked at his granddaughter with curiosity. He raised his eyebrows. “What do you want?”

When he first came in and saw her confronting Yan Sheng, she looked like an unruly wolf cub.

But now, it seemed that she was not a wolf cub, but a cunning fox!

He did not know whether to be impressed or concerned.

“My cousin and uncle’s slander has caused me serious psychological and physical damage,” Yan Xi said righteously.

Everyone looked at Yan Lan, whose head was covered in bandages, then at Yan Sheng, whose veins were popping with anger. Finally, their eyes fell on Yan Xi, whose eyes were clear and calm.

Who was the one who had been hurt both mentally and physically?

Yan Xi ignored their gazes and continued, “I want my cousin and uncle to apologize to me and compensate me.

“Dream on!” Yan Lan exploded with anger.

Was there a mistake? She had been hit several times by Yan Xi, and she still had to apologize to her and compensate her?

Yan Xi looked at her in surprise. “Don’t you need to apologize for slandering people?”

If it was not for the memory of being pressed down by Yan Xi on the training grounds and kowtowing still lingering in her mind, Yan Lan would have almost believed that she was slandering her.

Yan Zhongshan, who was sitting on the main seat, reached out to tap on the armrest. No one knew what he was thinking.

After a while, he slowly said, “Yan Lan, since you lied about Yan Xi, you should apologize to her. Also, Yan Sheng, as the head of the family, it’s a great dereliction of duty for you to convict your own niece without investigating the truth. I’ll temporarily take back the family leader’s seal from you, and from today onward, I’ll personally take charge of the family.”

“What?” Yan Sheng’s eyes widened. He had never expected that his power to control the family would be taken away from him over such a small matter.

Yan Lan did not expect that she would affect her father this and immediately panicked.

But she had changed her wording twice, and now she was going back on her words and saying that it was Yan Xi who hurt her. There was no credibility in her words left.

Moreover, she had admitted in front of her grandfather that she was not as good as Yan Xi. She was a Spirit Master. but she could not beat a good-for-nothing. She could not stand it.

At this time, Yan Lan finally experienced what it was like to shoot herself in her own foot.