Ji Yuan had a most sheepish look when he was suddenly teleported off even before he could finish speaking off his mind.
But he soon shrugged it off, “It will never work anyway.”
The reason why it had suddenly worked was because that cultivator was from the Desolate Celestial Fraternity. Obviously he knew who Ji Yuan was and he was afraid.
“Just my bad luck to meet someone from the Desolate Celestial Fraternity. Actually my point is to prove that this is not going to work…alas…”
As he was muttering to himself, he was also looking at the two wings on his forehand when suddenly he was interrupted by a sweet voice.
“Ji Yuan. Thank you! It really works.”
It was Yu Jingjing and she had suddenly appeared in the main hall.
She was also followed keenly behind by many cultivators, including Feng Minyue and Mo Bei.
But Yu Jingjing was the first to greet Ji Yuan as she wanted to offer him her most profuse thanks.
But all of a sudden Ji Yuan had suddenly noticed many angry look that were on the cultivators that had gathered and they numbered at least a thousand!
It was because by now the entire Fire Faction had heard that Ji Yuan had a solution for them to win the trial for their faction.
But they had witnessed nothing and only a lame plan!
It was no wonder that they had such an angry look as they gathered to confront Ji Yuan.
It was because the plan did not work but the other three factions were now mocking at the Fire Faction for even suggesting such a plan!
Many of the cultivators were now staring coldly at Yu Jingjing and Ji Yuan.
“No plan is better than a stupid plan.”
“This Maiden Yu may be naïve but I can’t believe that this Ji Yuan is also naïve as well.”
“Now we are the joke of this trial…”
“We ought to teach him a lesson for yesterday outrageous behavior…”
Ji Yuan took a weak look at everyone as he muttered. “Look here. All men are brothers and all women are my sisters. Haha. I did win, am I right? I did say this plan is not going to work…”
He was quickly interrupted by many of the cultivators who were demanding blood;
“We want this Maiden Yu and Ji Yuan here to apologize to us immediately!”
“If this Maiden Yu does not toast us all a drink, we won’t let this matter off!”
“I don’t mind if she is willing to accompany us to the bed chamber…”
All of a sudden Ji Yuan was frowning as he suddenly realized the true intentions of some of the cultivators here; they were just creating trouble in the hope of humiliating Yu Jingjing and not really because of the way the plan turned out.
Many of these cultivators were actually viewing one another as a direct competitor and they were just trying to put down their rivals to gain a psychology advantage.
Even though they were all in the Fire Faction but many of the cultivators did not really care about this and were just fishing for the sake of creating troubles.
And their first targets were naturally Yu Jingjing and Ji Yuan.
Yu Jingjing said coolly, “There are so many of you here and I can’t toast all of you. Why don’t I play from my zither to entertain everyone instead?”
Although she had lost her heaven-step zither but her normal zithers were still intact as it was not a cultivation resource and therefore she could still play her music.
Many of the cultivators were smiling disgustingly. “Then play your music until we are happy.”
But there were also many righteous cultivators in the hall who were saying bitterly. “Just once will do! No need! Don’t make things too difficult for them! We’re after all, from the same faction!”
Ji Yuan suddenly interrupted everyone with an angry look. “Look at all of you. You dare to call yourself cultured cultivators? I thought that I am a rascal cultivator but you’re worse than me. You’re treating Maiden Yu like a common courtesan instead of a saintess! Shameful!”
Then he turned to Yu Jingjing to say, “Why don’t I play a tune for everyone instead?”
Yu Jingjing smiled weakly, “My zither is a twenty-four string instrument and is extremely difficult to play. Moreover you may even hurt your fingers while handling it…”
“May I?” Ji Yuan smiled as he had suddenly extended out his hand to take her zither.
Bowled over by Ji Yuan’s beautiful smiling face, Yu Jingjing found herself loosening her fingers and had forgotten to stop him.
Therefore Ji Yuan had easily taken the zither from her as he grinned. “I didn’t exactly play for a long time so I don’t know if I can play well. Please pardon me if I didn’t play well.”
Many of the cultivators were laughing and mocking loudly, even the ones that were not in support of pushing Ji Yuan and Yu Jingjing.
“He knows how to play a zither?”
“He must be joking, am I right?”
“Everyone can play but can one play well or not, haha…”
Even Mo Bei was laughing jovially as he stroked his beard while muttering, “Little Brother Ji Yuan is so funny. I should teach him a trick or two if he really wants to impress the maidens in our faction…”
Feng Minyue was smiling weakly at Ji Yuan as she could not bear to watch the outcome of his daring performance…
Ji Yuan laughed jovially as he found himself a table to put the zither before he seated himself.
Then he started to pluck his fingers on the zither and it went dong, dong, bonk, bonk!
The sound was really awful.
Many of the cultivators were laughing and some were even rolling to and fro with great laughter.
Many of the maidens were laughing and giggling too as they whispered;
“Actually even if he cannot play his music well, that is still alright…”