Hearing this, Yun Shangji shuddered all over. When she saw his cold eyes, fear and despair spread throughout her body. She asked incoherently, "Who... who told you? Someone must have framed me. How could I... poison you!"

As soon as she finished speaking, Mo Niang arrived in the meeting hall. She bowed to City Lord Yun and his wife, and looked at Yun Shangji calmly: "Miss, oh no, Miss Yun, if you don't want others to know, then don't do it yourself."

"It's you! It's you, you slut!" Yun Shang Ji instantly realized that it was Mo Niang who secretly told Luo Rufeng about the secret. She rushed forward angrily and wanted to slap Mo Niang in the face, but Mo Niang grabbed her wrist and threw her aside.

"How dare you, a slave, attack me!" Yun Shangji widened her eyes and said in disbelief.

"Mother Mo, you signed a thirty-year contract with my City Lord's Mansion, agreeing to serve the Yun family in exchange for resources. Now you dare to be so rude to Shang Ji!" Madam Yun shouted.

"Madam, now I have redeemed myself and am no longer a slave of the Yun family." Mo Niang took out the two contracts signed that year and destroyed them on the spot. The contracts in the world of cultivation are bound by oaths. If violated, there will be backlash.

City Lord Yun and his wife, as well as Yun Shangji, were all shocked. The contract required each party to keep a copy, so Mo Niang should only have one copy on her, and the other copy should be in the steward's hall of the City Lord's Mansion.

"Who gave you the contract?" asked Mrs. Yun.

"I gave it to her!" Another person walked in, and everyone looked carefully and found that it was Yun Jie.

"Jie'er, what's going on?" City Lord Yun asked in a deep voice.

"Second brother, why did you help her leave the Yun family? This servant just attacked me and... falsely accused me of poisoning Luo Rufeng!" Yun Shangji didn't expect that it was Yun Jie who was helping Mo Niang behind the scenes.

"You know whether you poisoned Brother Luo with the forget-me-not grass or not! What did Mo Niang do wrong?"

Yun Jie sighed and shook his head, then came to City Lord Yun and said, "Father, you can't let Shang Ji act like this anymore!"

"Miss Yun, I chose to tell Fellow Daoist Luo the truth and chose to leave the Yun family because my Dao heart does not allow me to do anything that goes against my bottom line. Fellow Daoist Luo has saved you time and time again, but you poisoned him for your own selfish reasons and caused him to lose his memory. Over the years, I have watched you change from a naive and lively little girl, a little willful but kind-hearted, to a person who cannot get what he wants and is crazy about love to the point of doing anything. Miss Yun and I are no longer on the same path, so I can't stay by your side..."

Mo Niang looked at Yun Shangji with regret, bowed to her, and retreated behind Luo Rufeng.

"You're talking nonsense!" Yun Shangji screamed frantically. She stepped forward and said without thinking, "You, you're a slave who sold yourself to my family for resources. Now you're betraying your master, and you still have the nerve to raise the bottom line!"

She pointed at Mo Niang and taunted her, then turned to Yun Jie, "And you, a bastard, what do you think you are? How dare you say that I'm making trouble and help outsiders to deal with me? You are indeed a little beast born of a lowly maid, and you don't even know the difference between legitimate and illegitimate children..."

"Enough!" City Lord Yun suddenly slammed the table and shouted loudly, interrupting Yun Shangji's unbearable words. If Yun Shangji had just cursed Mo Niang, he would not care, but Yun Jie was the son that City Lord Yun valued the most. Her words made City Lord Yun's face instantly gloomy.

"Shang Ji, don't talk nonsense." Madam Yun also scolded her and shook her head slightly at her, suggesting that she shut up.

Yun Shang Ji seemed to be awakened from her trance. Seeing that everyone had a cold and unhappy look on their faces, she felt even more embarrassed.

"City Lord Yun, Venerable Rufeng is an elder of my sect. The leader of my sect sent us here to urgently call him back. Can we take him away now?"

After watching this lively show, Pei Yun returned to the main topic. She stepped forward and presented a brocade box, "This is a gift from us to the city lord. It's not a token of respect, but a token of gratitude to City Lord Yun for taking the trouble to treat Elder Luo these days..."

City Lord Yun snorted coldly, and did not take the brocade box. He even disdained to look at the brocade box and the people of Yunshan Sect, and only said proudly:

"Your Yunshan Sect is a small sect in a remote area. This city lord does not care about it. What this city lord values ​​is Luo Rufeng's talent. Since you admit that it was the Yun family who saved Luo Rufeng, then I want Luo Rufeng to promise me one thing in return..."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone looked at City Lord Yun in surprise.

"I wonder what City Lord Yun wants me to agree to?" Luo Rufeng pursed his lips and asked indifferently.

"Marry my daughter Shangji."

Hearing this, Yun Shang Ji was delighted and quickly looked at Luo Rufeng, hoping that he would agree.

Pei Yun walked to Luo Rufeng's side, smiled calmly, and said: "I am Luo Rufeng's fiancée. The Pei and Luo families have already arranged the marriage."

Luo Rufeng turned his head and met her gaze in the air, and his originally calm mood began to ripple.

"It doesn't matter if the marriage is arranged. We can cancel it." City Lord Yun didn't care. He looked at Luo Rufeng, staring at him like a falcon. "Luo Rufeng, what do you think?"

"The Yun family saved me, and I am deeply grateful. As long as it does not violate my moral principles, I can agree to City Lord Yun's reasonable request, but I will not repay the so-called favor with marriage. If I am willing to marry someone, it must be because I really like her..." Luo Rufeng said frankly, "I have no other intentions towards Miss Yun, and I will not marry her."

"Luo Rufeng!" Yun Shang Ji walked up to him and looked at him with tears in her eyes. Her expression was filled with great loss and pain, and there was also a hint of hatred.

"Luo Rufeng, if you don't agree to my request today, do you think you and these disciples of Yunshan Sect can still get out?" City Lord Yun remained calm, with a hint of mockery on his face, glancing at Pei Yun and others.

"Father!" Yun Jie wanted to speak for Luo Rufeng, but was stopped by City Lord Yun.

"Lord Yun, do you really think that our Yunshan Sect is easy to bully? The Yunshan Sect is one of the top ten sects in Beiqizhou. The supreme elder of our sect is now training in the main temple. If she knew about this, I wonder if she would report it to the main temple..." Liang Feng stood up.

"And your daughter is only at the foundation-building stage. With this level of cultivation, you still want to marry my master?!"

Luo Qi also sneered, "My master is a genius swordsman that even the Extreme Sword Sect is vying to recruit as his disciple. The number one on the last genius list, Pei An from the Extreme Sword Sect, was defeated by my master on the spot on the ring! As for Junior Sister Pei, she is not only a disciple of the Main Temple like my master, she is also an elite disciple of the Pill Temple. You all know about the Tiandan City Alchemy Competition, where Junior Sister Pei won the first place in the fifth-grade alchemist competition. She is a genius alchemist that the City Lord of Tiandan City and the Hall Master of the Pill Temple are vying to accept as their disciple. Now, she is less than fifty years old and has already reached the middle stage of the Nascent Soul. What can your daughter have to compare with her!"

"City Lord Yun, you have to think carefully. If you don't let us leave today, can you afford the consequences?" Pei Yun said as he took out the token of the Jijian Sect, which Qin Meng had given her before.

Everyone in the Yun family present was stunned by the words of several people. They identified the token in Pei Yun's hand and confirmed that it was the token of the Jijian Sect!

Yuntian City is just an ordinary middle city in the entire Dongcang Continent. The Jijian Sect and the Main Temple are out of their reach. City Lord Yun originally thought that it was just a small sect from other continents and it was nothing to be afraid of. He did not expect that the identity of the person in front of him was so special, and the talents of Luo Rufeng and Pei Yun shocked them!

City Lord Yun began to look hesitant. He knew that he had offended this group of people. He had to either put aside his pride and politely let them leave, or kill them all, not even leaving Luo Rufeng alive. Otherwise, if they were to be visited by people from the Temple of God or the Extreme Sword Sect, their Yun family would definitely not be able to bear the consequences.

But as for the former, he was worried that these people were vengeful and would come to take revenge later; as for the latter, he was worried that they had a backup plan and had already spread the news.

"Father, let them go. I believe Luo Rufeng will not take revenge on my Yun family..." Yun Jie was talking to City Lord Yun, but his eyes were looking at Luo Rufeng.

"As long as City Lord Yun lets us leave safely now, I, Pei Yun, guarantee on behalf of the Yunshan Sect that we will not pursue the matter of Yun Shangji poisoning, nor will we retaliate against the Yun family. All matters between the Yun family and my Yunshan Sect will be written off..." Pei Yun said.

City Lord Yun's pale face changed again and again, but he finally softened his attitude and showed a kind and ingratiating smile, as if the threat just now did not exist, and said with a smile:

"What the fellow Daoists from the Yunshan Sect said is true. The Yun family has no grudges against your sect. Since you are here to pick up fellow Daoist Luo, if fellow Daoist Luo has no objection, you can naturally leave with him..." As he spoke, he invited everyone to stay at the Yun family for a few days.

Luo Rufeng and the others refused. They took Mo Niang and left the City Lord's Mansion directly. Yun Jie personally saw them off.

"Luo Rufeng!" Yun Shang Ji saw that she could no longer keep Luo Rufeng. She looked at his departing back and could not help but call out to him.

Luo Rufeng turned around, and everyone present looked at Yun Shangji.

Yun Shangji didn't care at all. She walked in front of Luo Rufeng again and stared at him without blinking. There was a last glimmer of hope in her dark eyes. She asked with a pleading tone, "Luo Rufeng, you really didn't like me at all, not even a little bit?"

Pei Yun raised her eyes and looked at Luo Rufeng's profile. Her fingers curled slightly unconsciously. Somehow, her heart was hanging in the air as she waited for his answer.

"No."

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