Chapter 36 - Ruthless Elder Wi

Seeing that Dana dared to refute them, the hostile gazes from Elder Wi and the middle-aged man intensified.

"Good, good it seems that you have no respect for your Elders! It seems you must be punished for your transgressions." Elder Wi voiced out, his voice radiating killing intent towards Dana.

The middle-aged man upon seeing Elder Wi appearance instantly agreed, "Yes Elder Wi, I think this youngster needs to be taught his wrongdoings, first he stole from the Sword Paragon Sect and now he is refusing to accept responsibility alongside talking back to his Elders? Despicable."

Seeing the clear biased from the two Elders cause a sneer to emerge on Dana's face as she said, "You are saying I should respect you because you are my elders? I give respect to those who earn it, not a bunch of despicable old men who voice out their opinions on the options which benefit themselves the most."

Seeing the response from Dana caused the Elder Wi and the middle-aged man in becoming incensed even more, at the public accusation from Dana causing them to lose face that someone would dare stand up to them, not caring about their backgrounds at all.

"You are still denying your wrongdoings? Then I will punish you on behalf of the Sword Paragon Sect!" Elder Wi righteously exclaimed.

Seeing Elder Wi acting 'heroic' as if he is acting like he is punishing an evil doer, caused Dana to voice out in a dry tone, "Old man no need to act so 'righteously' in finding an excuse to attack a junior, you know the true reason why you want to take care of me." Dana said, staring right at his eyes with a predatory look of an Apex Beast causing even causing Elder Wi to instinctively shiver before he realised his errors, causing him to cough in embarrassment.

Flustered that Dana made him flinch, made him not even bothering to continue voicing out his words before he launched an attack at 10% of his strength.

Elder Wi obviously didn't want to kill Dana as he was planning on 'interrogating' her for the location of the Rare Bloodline beast, but that doesn't mean he couldn't severely injure her.

Dana responded with an even more vicious attack, as the Old man still thought she was a normal Rank 9 Qi Circulation expert, he was actually sent flying from the exchange, quickly regaining his balance.

Coughing up some blood indicating he was truly slightly injured from that exchange, Elder Wi started at Dana with shock.

"Your true cultivation isn't at 9 Qi Circulation Rank!" He stated flabbergasting everyone present.

"Who said I was at the cultivation Rank? It was purely you making the assumption." Dana smugly replied revealing her true cultivation, as she no longer needed to hide her cultivation as they planned to take care of her anyways, so why would she hide now?

Plus, she didn't manage to hurt Elder Wi that severely as even though her strength could even compete with individuals at Xiantian Rank 3 even with a major Realm gap, she still couldn't take care of Elder Wi even if she caught him by surprise!

Dana was slightly disappointed the old man wasn't bashed into the floor as she imagined from that move, but it still was amusing for her making him look like a fool being injured by a junior which is more than a realm lower in cultivation than him!

The audience seeing Elder Wi injured and Dana's true cultivation was even further amazed, that figure pushed back an Elder of one of the strongest sects within the Xinghai Continent with more than realm cultivation difference!

Seeing the awe-filled gazes at Dana made Elder Wi feel ashamed that he was pushed back by a junior but this morphed into a wicked look, "Although I can't kill you boy, that doesn't mean I can't injure you to the point of death."

Elder Wi said, as he charged at Dana again, not even thinking of the consequences of the potential of Dana having a background, as he has already gone too far why wouldn't he go any further?

Not to mention that he was to fill with rage at the moment to even care.

As a Qi Circulation Rank 9 was not an individual to be cared about, but someone with Houtian Rank 8 in presumably their twenties, that was a genius level figure!

So, Dana value was raised in the eyes of others.

Seeing the strike coming at her, Dana met it with her own.

As Elder Wi still didn't know Dana's full capabilities, he put in 40% of his power this time around in his strike, this normal attack could cripple an individual at Dana's cultivation level, but was Dana normal in any way shape or form?

No, with her body cultivation alongside being an individual possessing a Heaven Ranked Cultivation Method made Dana absurdly strong for her cultivation level, meeting the strike instead of the dominating victory to regain some sort of face back, was instead met with Dana moving a mere five steps by his strike.

Upon seeing such a scene truly stunned the crowd even further as not even Prince Cheng or Princess Hui Ying could resist such a strike, but it moved Dana just five steps?

In fact, they underestimated the strike from Elder Wi, as of how could they believe that he actually put that much power within it?

But, they knew that move from Elder Wi was enough to defeat an individual at 9 Rank Houtian Cultivation, which means that this individual is even more talented than Princess Hui Ying and Prince Cheng, as they wouldn't be able to handle that sort of attack similarly to Dana.

Elder Wi was even more stunned than the crowd, as he knew exactly how much power he truly put into that attack, and it looked like she escaped it rather unscathed, this made him feel an increasing amount of danger from Dana with him changing his mind about her, believing that he should take care of her as quickly as possible before problems arise from her in the future if she remains alive!

Being humiliated even further by failing to deal with Dana within not one, but two attempts made Elder Wi look even more ridiculous!

Princess Hui Ying became even more envious of Dana before she could accept Dana comprehension talent being above her, but even her cultivation talent is?

No, she cannot accept this, she is likely much older than her, that is the reasoning behind the individual hiding their face! She thought, coming up with a quick conclusion, believing Dana still couldn't be compared to herself.

Elder Wi finally lost it, he doesn't care if he killed Dana anymore, thus before Dana could react he hit her with a full force strike of a Xiantian Rank 9 Expert.

The mask upon Dana's face instantly cracked bursting into pieces, her body was sent flying back into the ground.

Dana started coughing up large mouthfuls of blood indicating she is heavily injured, but this result still made the crowd gasp in amazement.

They didn't know the true power extent of that strike, but they knew it should be impossible for Dana to be able to survive, but she is still alive...

Elder Wi's face become terrifying to behold, 'She actually survives my full strength strike?'

But, before the audience could relax they were awed once again as Dana's true appearance was revealed upon seeing her, it wasn't the older man many expected, it was instead an incredibly young astonishingly beautiful girl.

This caused the crowd to present to regard Dana with pure admiration, she not is only probably eight-teen years of age but her beauty even far surpasses Princess Hui Ying!

Seeing Dana's true appearance already made many stop viewing her as the 'shameless' figure which the sect made out to be, because how could such a young talented girl do such a thing?

With her talent and appearance, why would she do so?

If she wanted to, she could become a genius nurtured by any of the Top Tier 3 Sects.

Dana didn't know but she placed herself as a firm figure in the eyes of the cultivators present due to her strength and tenacity to stand up to much older cultivators which are a realm above her, subconsciously this made them replace the previous admiring thoughts of Princess Cheng and Princess Hui Ying to instead be replaced by Dana.

In fact, even the girls present appreciated Dana for her character, and the only figure here is upset with her is Princess Hui Ying, which is currently staring daggers at Dana like she wanted to rip her into pieces!

Prince Cheng began looking at Dana with a gaze full of longing.

However, this had no effect on Elder Wi which still looked ruthless, 'She cannot be allowed to live, judging by her looks and talent, she can easily be picked up by a Top Sect, if that happens she will get revenge on me eventual'

Elder Wi finally became determined to finish of Dana before she can bring future troubles to himself, but unknown to him a coldly beautiful woman was watching Dana.

Upon seeing her face and actions the woman's emotionless face showed its first expressions in years, ' You're just like her' She thought, whilst staring at Dana with a strange look.

Before Elder Wi even had a chance to land his killing strike, he was struck sending him flying back.

Elder Wi suddenly became fearful and shouted, "Excuse me, Senior, this is the matters of the Sword Paragon Sect, let me kill this girl as she stole something from us! If you don't let me carry out this act, you will become an enemy of the Sword Paragon Sect!"

Elder Wi became slightly arrogant at the mention of his sect, the thing he was most proud of, believing that the unknown expert would be afraid of his background and let him kill the women made him send a gloating look towards Dana as if saying, 'It's your fault you have no background, death only awaits you'.

The spectators show bitter smiles, 'It seems that no matter how superb she is, her fate is to die' They thought.

Still, the result was unexpected as a beautiful woman emerged floating down from the sky, upon seeing her Elder Wi became terrified.

Princess Hui Ying began shaking her head in denial, 'No it can't be, why is she here for that woman?' She thought repetitively in her mind, thinking she was imagining it.

"You will stay away from her, I will take her as my disciple, leave. I only didn't kill you to give a face to your sect, but if you test my limits I will kill you." The cold women voice spoke calmly.

The crowd upon seeing a scene, shown a confused expression, 'This women thinks she can threaten someone from Sword Paragon Sect?' They thought.

But, when the crowd thought Elder Wi was going to respond arrogantly, he meekly left without a second thought as if he's afraid that the women would change her mind and chop off his head without a second thought, this caused them to immediately be dumbfounded, 'What sort of figure is this women?' They thought, looking at her with awe-filled glances.

"You will come with me." The cold women looked at Dana and smiled.

Seeing such a thing Dana was puzzled, 'Why did she help me? Oh well, this will be answered when I go with her, it's not like I have much of a choice anyways' she thought.

As Dana and the cold women left under the gazes of the crowd, Elder Wi was running as fast as he could out of that place.

Upon seeing no one was present, he spat endless mouthfuls of blood.

'That woman is still alive and she is even more powerful than everyone thought' Elder Wi thought grimly.

Even though he couldn't kill Dana he still felt grateful to be alive, as that woman was known as the most talented and beautiful Female Cultivator within Xinghai continent many years ago, thus her current strength must be unfathomable but disappeared from the world upon the tragic death of her daughter causing her to close herself off from the world, never interacting with an individual since.

It was rumoured her coming here and was an additional reason why Elder Wi came to confirm that she is still alive.

'I must inform the Sect Head about this' Elder Wi thought leaving, he will just have to put up a wide search for the Rare Bloodline Beast, he believes his life is more important than seeking death by trying to get Dana's life with her present.

But that doesn't mean he cannot find other means to kill her without her watch, after all she cannot keep Dana safely under her protection all the time...