Nine Realms Sword Emperor

"Fifth Elder, please return. The Life and Death Platform does not allow outsiders to interfere."

The Law Enforcement Elder, standing by the side, calmly spoke.

"The rules of the Life and Death Platform will not allow anyone to break them."

Hearing the Law Enforcement Elder speak, the Fifth Elder could only glance back at Li Xing behind him before silently returning to the stands.

The challenge to the Life and Death Platform's rules.

Even the Fifth Elder did not dare.

The Life and Death Platform had been in existence since the establishment of the Lin house, its rules unchanged for a thousand years. No one dared to challenge them, not even the master of the Lin house, let alone the Fifth Elder.

He could only obediently return to the stands.

"Chu Fengmian, if you spare Xing'er today, I promise you a tremendous fortune,"

the Fifth Elder looked at Chu Fengmian and said aloud.

"But if you dare kill Xing'er! I, Li Fu, guarantee it! I will slay you! It will not end until one of us is dead!"

The outright threat in the Fifth Elder's words was no longer disguised.

"Is that so?"

Almost in the instant after the Fifth Elder finished speaking, Chu Fengmian's sword had already fallen.

Li Xing's throat was pierced by the sword.

"What!"

The Fifth Elder, as if pricked by a needle, suddenly rushed onto the Life and Death Platform, injecting Spiritual Power into Li Xing's body, but this Spiritual Power disappeared without a trace, like a stone sinking into the sea.

Dead.

Under that single sword strike, Li Xing had been slain, devoid of life.

Bowing to inspect Li Xing's body, the Fifth Elder suddenly raised his head, and a surge of Spiritual Power violently gathered in his right palm, transforming into a fierce tiger that furiously struck at Chu Fengmian.

"You wretched brat! I want you dead!"

"Feng Mian!"

Almost simultaneously, another figure also suddenly appeared in front of Chu Fengmian, blocking the Fifth Elder's strike.

"Lin Yan, you old fool, how dare you oppose me!"

The Third Elder, standing in front of Chu Fengmian, was angrily pointed at by the Fifth Elder.

"This beast disregards the affections of the Lin house! A poisoned hand that killed my grandson! How could we let him leave!"

"Get out of the way! Today I must kill this beast to avenge my grandson!"

"Fifth Elder, the Life and Death Platform was chosen by Li Xing himself, and it was he who first attacked by surprise. Now that his skills were not up to the mark and he died, do you still want to stand up for him?"

Chu Fengmian looked at the Fifth Elder, coldly mocking.

Here, on the Life and Death Platform, in front of so many Lin house elders, Chu Fengmian really wasn't afraid of the Fifth Elder coming after him.

"You!"

Upon hearing Chu Fengmian's words, the Fifth Elder was extremely furious, yet had nothing to say, his face turning beet red.

Indeed, everyone knew that the Life and Death Platform was where Li Xing had provocatively challenged Chu Fengmian, and the pact between the two had already been signed. On the Life and Death Platform, life or death is left to fate, a long-standing rule.

Moreover, it had been Li Xing who first sneak-attacked Chu Fengmian, attempting to kill him, and now Li Xing's death by Chu Fengmian's hand was simply poetic justice.

"Chu Fengmian, you, a junior, how do you speak to an elder, let alone to the Fifth Elder!"

On the stands, a plump elder suddenly spoke up.

This plump elder was the fourth elder of the Lin residence and had some friendship with the fifth elder in the past. Now seeing Li Xing killed, his expression too was extremely unpleasant.

"Although it occurred on the Life and Death Platform, you and Li Xing are after all people of the Lin residence. Killing a fellow disciple is always wrong! You must immediately apologize to the fifth elder! At the same time, offer a year's salary and go mine in the grey mines for a year as punishment!"

Hearing the fourth elder's words, Chu Fengmian burst into laughter.

"Hahaha… Fourth elder, although Chu is a junior, he is also the chief manager of the Outer Residence of the Lin family. This Lin residence, and its inner and outer residences, they share an equal relationship, you simply do not have the authority to order Chu around."

Chu Fengmian spoke neither saltily nor blandly, his eyes gleaming mockingly at the fourth elder, making the elder quite furious.

"Moreover, Li Xing's death happened on the Life and Death Platform. Are you saying that Li Xing was supposed to survive so that Chu could die on the Life and Death Platform?"

Chu Fengmian said nonchalantly, his words not placing the fourth elder in his eyes at all.

This caused the fourth elder's face to tremble with rage.

As the fourth elder of the Lin residence, not to mention within the Lin residence, but even throughout Linwu City almost no one dared to speak to him like this, everyone met him with utmost respect.

Now, Chu Fengmian, a junior, in his eyes almost useless, dared speak to him like this.

Layers of fat on his body trembled due to his anger.

"Arrogant junior! Truly presumptuous! Showing no respect for elders! Chu Fengmian does not deserve to be the chief manager of the Outer Residence of the Lin family."

The fourth elder roared angrily, looking up at the highest seated middle-aged man and respectfully said.

"Master of the residence, I request that you strip Chu Fengmian of his position as the chief manager of the Outer Residence. Such a heartless person does not deserve to be our chief manager!"

"Yes, master, strip this boy of his position!"

The fifth elder also bellowed angrily, having lost his grandson and now unable to kill Chu Fengmian to avenge Li Xing.

If Chu Fengmian really lost the position of the chief manager of the Outer Residence, he would be like dough, to be manipulated as he pleased.

"Master, this position of Chu Fengmian was personally decided by the previous master of the residence,"

the third elder said anxiously from the side.

He had never expected that Chu Fengmian would truly refuse to give any face to the fifth elder and would kill Li Xing right in front of him.

But now, he could only speak in support of Chu Fengmian.

"The previous master of the residence? We have raised a useless person for years as our duty! Do we really have to let this boy get above us?"

The fifth elder bellowed.

"Silence!"

During the argument, the middle-aged man sitting at the highest place finally spoke.

With one word, the scene instantly fell silent.

Although the fourth and fifth elders were arrogant and domineering, they dare not make any noise in front of the master of the Lin residence.

The master of the Lin residence coldly stated.

"The position of Chu Fengmian was personally decided by the previous master, who has shown great favor to our Lin residence. The position of the chief manager belongs to him."

The master of the Lin residence then turned to Chu Fengmian and said,

"However, Chu Fengmian, what you did was indeed overboard. How about this, you apologize to the fifth elder, and let's consider this matter settled?"

Apologize, and this matter would be considered settled.

Everyone present could tell that he was giving both Chu Fengmian and the fifth elder a way to step down, even if Li Xing died on the Life and Death Platform, he was still one of Li family's people, the beloved grandson of the fifth elder.

Apologizing at least would suffice to settle this matter for now.