An indignant Ji Yuan raised his hands as he turned to the crowd to ask, "Did anyone of you see me bullying this maiden here?"
Immediately dozens of men and maidens began to say and nod, "Yes, you did! This Ji Yuan is a bully! He stops this maiden in the middle of the street!"
"He molests her too…"
"He tries to flirt with her…"
"I saw him putting his oily piggy hands on her buttocks too…"
Ji Yuan: …
Ji Yuan: …
Ji Yuan: …
He turned toward the direction of his best friend Tie Bawang with a look of exasperation, "Is there no one with a good soul that dares to come out to clear my name?!"
Tie Bawang quickly looked away when he saw that Ji Yuan was looking in his direction.
Lie Heng had already displayed his sword from his scabbard and so did the dozen cultivators that had come with him.
He said coldly to Ji Yuan, "I am afraid that you have to come back to my Mara Citadel Sect and we will duly return you to your Orthodox Sword Sect when your old master has returned."
Ji Yuan was stammering, "What if my old man comes back a few years later or never?"
Lie Heng hummed coldly to Ji Yuan, "Then we shall imprison you in our cultivation sect for as many years until your old master has returned."
Ji Yuan frowned unhappily as he stared at this Lie Heng and the beautiful veiled maiden; this Lie Heng was also a 4th realm cultivator but he was at a higher level than him and there were also quite a few cultivation experts among the 12 cultivators that had surrounded him.
He calculated that he had only a slim chance of besting these cultivators and moreover, the public opinion was heavily against him. There was also no promise that the cultivators among the crowd would not step in to deal with him as well.
Moreover, everyone was still assuming that he was at the third cultivation realm and he did not want anyone to know that he had recently had a breakthrough to the 4th cultivation realm yet.
Lie Heng said coldly to Ji Yuan, "Surrender your sword and come quietly with us."
Ji Yuan reluctantly tossed his sword to Lie Heng as he grumbled softly, "Alright. Alright. I yield. You are not going to beat me up in front of so many others, are you? This is end of my cultivation life now…"
As he was saying that, he had suddenly flashed his right hand in front of the beautiful veiled maiden who was startled by his sudden gesture.
But as she was stepping back, Ji Yuan had already flashed behind her and he had slapped her buttocks hard with his left hand.
This startled the Goddess Zhen Ying who was about to retaliate against Ji Yuan when he had suddenly pressed his lips upon her lips behind her veil.
The Goddess Zhen Ying was stunned by the sudden kiss and before she could push him in a hurry, Ji Yuan was already hurled by the rowdy cultivators all around him and he was given a hard beating.
There were many angry shouts among the cultivators and the crowd as they soundly proceeded to give Ji Yuan the beating of his life.
A stunned Goddess Zhen Ying was still left shaken that she had been slight by a lowly cultivator; she had never thought that this Ji Yuan would molest her while he was surrendering his sword to Lie Heng.
Her reaction was fast enough but she had never thought that this Ji Yuan would have a reaction that would be this fast, especially his left hand. As Ji Yuan did not display any malevolant air or have any ill-intention, her innate cultivation sense had failed to follow the speed and reflexes of this Ji Yuan.
When she was mometarily stunned by his left hand that had slapped her buttocks, he had even kissed her...
Lie Heng was angrily kicking Ji Yuan and he was using his sword scabbard to beat Ji Yuan who was tightly surrounded by his cultivators, "How dare you outrage the modesty of a maiden in broad daylight! And you even dare to do it in front of me!"
There were also plenty of angry shouts against Ji Yuan from among the crowd.
As Ji Yuan was beaten up by the unruly cultivators, he was protesting loudly. "Since you have trumped a frivolous charge against me, I may as well admit to that charge. No matter what I am saying, you will still imprison me for a number of years, am I right?"
Ji Yuan's loud protests were soon deafened by the furious fists and kicks of the dozen cultivators that were beating him and even some of the crowd was taking the opportunity to beat up him up as well.
He was heard shouting, "Hey, Brother Lie Heng! Be gentle! We have known each other for a long time..."
Lie Heng quickly kicked Ji Yuan, "Rubbish! Who is your brother! I don't know a vile person like you at all!"
He was soon back from beating Ji Yuan and he was offering his apologies to the beautiful veiled maiden in black silk, "Maiden, please accept my apologies. I promise you that I will surely take care of this Ji Yuan for you."
As he offered his apologies to the beautiful veiled maiden, he failed to see that she was trembling lightly in great rage as she stared at the Ji Yuan who was already beaten onto the ground.
Lie Heng then smiled, "I wonder what is maiden's name and where are you staying?"
However, the beautiful veiled maiden coldly turned around and walked away without a single word but not before giving Ji Yuan one last cold stare.
The Goddess Zhen Ying could still feel the soft sensation of Ji Yuan's slap on her buttocks and the pressing of his lips against her lips behind the veil as she angrily walked off.
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Back to the present.
The Goddess Zhen Ying had just attacked a stunned Ji Yuan and she was coldly saying to Ji Yuan as she stared at him, "We do have a big feud! Ji Yuan you big charlatan, do you remember me!"
A stunned Ji Yuan was quickly defended by Little Princess, Ding Xiaoxiao, the Lovely Empress, the Immortal Fairy Lucia, Xu Yifei and the Smiling Divine Maiden.
Little Princess frowned, "Ji Yuan is never a charlatan!"
The Lovely Empress however was whispering to the Smiling Divine Maiden and Xu Yifei, "I am sure that Ji Yuan is deservedly called a charlatan for sure…"
Ji Yuan blinked his golden eyes as he coughed weakly before asking, "Do I really have a big feud with you? I really don't remember you at all. If we have met, I will surely remember a beautiful maiden like you…"
All of a sudden, he was frowning. "Wait a minute. I did say that I didn't know that you are that desolate giga bear in the past. Surely you are not that petty, right?"
He was thinking that he may have slighted the Goddess Zhen Ying because of that.
The Goddess Zhen Ying hummed coldly, "Is that really what you think? Do you need me to help you to refresh your memory then?"