Everyone could see the maid doing her best not to blink.
But it was at this moment that the little boy suddenly made some clumsy hand seals and said, "Maringun,"
And then stared at her like he was looking into her soul directly!
They were shocked. What kind of evil technique could it be?
And where is the Sect Master?
Is she going to make her move later?
But as time passed, nothing happened—only the girl on the screen couldn't bear it anymore and was going to blink.
The moment her eyelid was about to close, the footage suddenly turned to slow motion and changed angles at the same time, with the view of the little boy's face added to the screen.
With the girl's eyelids getting closer to each other, the little boy's eyelids opened wider and wider, and you could see a hint of anger growing on his face.
Until the girl blinked...
It was at this moment that the playback speed of the footage returned to normal, with him yelling, "I knew it!" and he threw a kick...
But again, before the kick landed, the scene stopped, and the camera angle changed to show both him and the black-robed guy.
They could see a little leg about to hit the black-robed guy's knee.
This scene seemed ridiculous to them.
How could a little kid like him hurt a high and mighty cultivator?
But when the recorded scene started playing again,
There was a "crack" sound and a confused look on the black-robed man's face as he tilted to the left and fell closer to the ground.
Then everything became slow motion again, with the boy hitting the guy with an uppercut while shouting,
"Muryoken!"
The dumbfounded young man got hit and fell unconscious on the way to the ground and disappeared not long after.
The whole venue turned silent.
Was this real?
Were they acting?
Wait a minute...
The crowd looked at the chained man in a sorry state on the stage and immediately recognized him as the same guy in the footage!
How could it be fake?
"This harmless-looking kid is a monster in disguise?"
"And why is he calling himself Sect Master?"
Lady Butterfly on the side just watched without saying anything because she didn't understand what happened at all...
It was precisely the same story she heard from the witnesses at the inn.
Two strikes, and "woosh"—gone...
"Okay, let's get to the next one. This way, we can do the trial for all of them at the same time."
With that said, another guy in chains appeared on the stage.
This time, the guy wasn't in a black robe but a brown elder robe!
The moment he appeared, looking just as messed up as the previous one, Lady Butterfly almost turned around and ran away.
Not because she was scared of the kid or this old trash,
But because of the oath!
The deal between these black-robed ancestors included a specific oath witnessed by Heaven's Will. If anyone broke it and harmed these people, heavenly lightning would descend!
The ancestors of these black robes were supposed to die, so it was fine for others to kill them.
But this one was the first generation—there would be punishment for even harming him, let alone killing him!
That's why when Lady Butterfly saw him in such a miserable state, she thought the lightning would descend to punish the culprit at any moment!
While she was ready to run with Rose and Luna, there was another crowd of people scared out of their wits!
It was the people from the city!
"Oh my god, that's an elder!"
"We are doomed! This crazy kid caught an elder?"
"Run, everyone! Run for your lives!"
"Is that a law enforcement token on his waist?"
"Oh no, it's Old Trash, the Hall Master himself!"
Some of the elderly, upon seeing the combination of the elder robe and law enforcement token, fainted on the spot...
Little Judge Bredd looked at the crowd and the chaos they caused, speechless!
*Knock*
He raised his hand and hit the tribune with his little wooden hammer.
When the sound echoed, the entire crowd stopped running around and froze in place.
"What in the world is wrong with you people?
Get back to your seats!
Look what you did—all the elderly people fainted because of you crazy people running around!"
The crowd, still trembling in fear, returned to their seats and sat down while whispering,
"What do you mean they fainted because of us?
It's because of you, crazy kid! It's you!"
"Who should we be more scared of? The elder's fury in the future? Or this little monster who caught him?"
"Does the Sect Master know what her disciple is doing?"
"Lady Rose is here, so we have a witness on our side!"
"Yes, yes, we didn't do anything wrong!"
The Little Judge shook his head.
"Let's take a short recess until you people calm down and the elderly wake up."
Then he just waited there without saying anything.
The scared crowd would glance at the chained elder from time to time with fear in their eyes,
And then at the most prominent mountain outside the city.
They were now waiting for those immortals to descend from the sky and turn them to ashes!
How could an elder from the sect be chained and humiliated like this by a brat without any consequences?
Even if Rose tried to stop them, at least half of them would be dead before they paid attention to her!
And it wasn't just their thoughts—
Lady Butterfly was looking at the sky in confusion, too.
'Why is it so calm?
Where is the heavenly lightning?
Where are the sect elders when so many things are happening here?'
In the past, she saw with her own eyes what would happen if you harmed these black-robed descendants.
But now, nothing was happening?
The whole sect territory was always under the watch of one or more elders, especially now that the Sect Master was in seclusion.
But it was as though nobody saw the events unfolding here!
Seeing that these old people didn't have any plans to wake up, the Little Judge went to his crystal and started doing something with it.
Sometimes he would giggle, and sometimes he would talk to himself in a low voice.
After around half an hour, Assistant Rose came to him.
"Your Honor, they are all awake now."
The Little Judge was confused at first, as if he didn't know what she was talking about.
"Oh, yes, the court."
He went back behind the tribune and said,
"All rise."
Everyone stood up without knowing why.
"You can sit."
They all sat down again.
"Before we start, let me tell you:
If I see you disrespecting the court with your barbaric acts again,
When we're done with these criminals, it will be your turn."
Nobody even dared to breathe loudly.
Even a Sect Elder was in this situation, and nobody came to his rescue—what about random citizens like them?
They wouldn't be surprised if he started executing them one by one on the stage.
"Pay attention!
The next criminal is the organization's boss.
Once again, the Sect Master personally took action to carry out the arrest operation.
Let's see how it went."
The crowd started praying that this time, the Sect Master was the real one they knew, and she was the one who made her move on this elder, not her disciple, whom nobody knew about.
At least this way, they could survive the calamity.
If it was this little kid again...
The screen started playing another footage.
The little devil, again, was standing on his backpack.
Some people couldn't take it anymore and started shedding tears silently.
It was him again—the self-proclaimed fake Sect Master.
Now they even doubted if he was the Sect Master's disciple.
They glanced at Rose, but she seemed normal—even a little excited...
"Is she real, or is she someone else too...?"
On the screen, a young man with an arrogant and confident look, wearing an elder's robe, entered the inn.
In this footage, except for the fake Sect Master, who was shocked, everyone else was horrified.
Who didn't know who this "young" man was?
It was the father of the previous young man in the black robe.
And the whole city knew about his arrival in the city this morning.
When he descended from the sky, all of them were forced to kneel just from his sheer aura!
The man who was the most hated person in the city.
Now they really wanted to see him get beaten up.
It didn't matter if it was by the hands of the fake Sect Master or the real one!
And as expected, after some conversation, the guy—who was trying to mess with the little boy with greedy eyes—suffered the same fate as his son.
The only difference was...
"Moryuken."
When in slow motion, he hit him with his uppercut,
This time, some extra fire waves were dancing all over his small hand!
Luna, who was back to normal by now, was shocked, and so was everyone else who witnessed this scene in person!
They didn't remember the fire at all!
But before they got too suspicious, they felt someone looking directly at their souls at this moment.
They knew who he was without looking...
So they just shut their mouths and pretended this was precisely what happened.
Lady Butterfly, who saw the little boy looking with threatening eyes at Luna and already heard the story from the people in the inn, knew this kid just added some effects to this record to make himself look impressive...
A while later,
With the Hall Master's disappearance, the footage ended.
"As you can see, the opponent was the big boss of the organization.
So, the Sect Master was forced to use his true power."
The eyes of those who didn't know the truth were sparkling now.
The younger ones' blood was boiling, thinking,
'This fake Sect Master doesn't care about anyone!
You're guilty? Then disappear!'
The older ones just shook their heads while thinking,
'There is always someone higher than you.
Even this unruly old trash found his nemesis...'
In the eyes of the women, there was only hatred.
They wished they could tear him apart with their own hands!
The Little Judge looked behind him and nodded,
as if he was giving a signal to someone.
The next moment, three more men in black appeared.
The crowd became more lively.
'So this kid didn't joke when he said "organization"?'
Lady Butterfly looked at the newcomers and felt
They seemed less tortured, as if they had been caught recently.
Rose, beside her, whispered,
"Grandma, do you know them?"
She looked more carefully and said,
"That one on the right is the old trash's deputy.
So the other two are probably his underlings."
Then they heard the Little Judge continue,
"These three were the ones who let us find out about the existence of this organization.
Let's see how they were caught."
Another record started playing.
Luna was a little nervous, but at the same time fearless!
Nervous because she had insulted the Sect Master in this recorded scene, and fearless because her boss was the top monster in this neighborhood.
She even encouraged herself:
'Live or die, the moment of truth has come!
Sect Master, do you have a problem with this manager?
Then you should pass through my boss first!'
Another record started playing.
People started discussing.
"Oh, it's Innkeeper Luna!"
"Look, look, she's confronting three black robes!"
"Look how confident she is!"
Rose looked at Luna in confusion, as if she was asking,
'Did something happen after we left?'
Luna just gave her a bitter smile and thought,
'Yes, something happened. I said your mother is lazy and can't manage the sect...'
On the record that was playing, Luna couldn't find a single scene with the dialogue that the Little Sect Master was showing to her!
It was a censored version!
It was at this moment that she found out the Little Sect Master had abandoned her...
Even when she looked at him, he had a smug smile on his face, as if he was saying,
'I'm out. You're on your own.'
At the same time, everyone—including Rose and Lady Butterfly—was amazed at how confident she was while bravely talking back to these three black men.
When it reached the part where she was going to say,
"Heh heh, I'm not talking about that lazy Sect Master who doesn't even know how to manage our sect,"
Luna's face was already colorless.
But instead, she heard herself on the record saying something else:
"Heh heh, I'm not talking about my boss's teacher.
You filthy cockroaches better kneel and beg for mercy before it's too late."
When "Actress Luna" finished her new line,
not only the three black-robed men on the screen,
But her jaw and everyone else's watching the show dropped at the same time.
They all looked at this once-charming lady with admiration!
Some people started whispering to each other:
"Was Innkeeper Luna always this fierce?"
"Who gave her the courage?"
"Is it possible that she's a hidden expert?"
"Now that you mention it... We'll see it soon!"
Then it was the part where Luna on the screen slowly raised her head and opened her eyes.
The whole crowd held their breath.
What was she going to say to these angry cultivators now?
The "camera" zoomed in on her eyes,
And the moment they opened, everyone could see her looking at them with pity.
"It's already too late..."
And then there was a light sparkle that passed through her eyes before she continued,
"Because the Sect Master... has already arrived."
Luna was dumbfounded.
'What was that light in my eyes?
Why do I look so heroic? I was just a scared kitten at that moment!'
She took a glance at her little boss and saw the same smug smile from before.
'So that's why he's smiling like this?
He's smug about the final "product" he made!'
The record continued,
And suddenly, there was a voice full of anger:
"Who dares to touch my follower?"
The camera angle suddenly changed to the newcomer, who was attacking the three men with a flying kick!
Before the first two guys could do anything,
They got kicked in the chin and were knocked out cold.
Everyone thought this would end as simply as the other time, without anyone having the chance to retaliate.
But suddenly, the last person brought out a sword.
A red aura covered it in no time, and he slashed upward to cut the fake Sect Master in half.
The moment it reached under him, the camera angle started changing again, and the footage began playing in slow motion.
The image came from under the sword.
And at the same time that the sword was going up,
The little fake Sect Master started spinning around the sword.
The sword struck without even scratching him and went past him.
But because it was in slow motion, the audience saw more detail.
The Little Sect Master, with one hand behind his back, turned to the camera while playing with his mustache with the other hand.
In the midst of spinning, he even winked at the camera, with a smile at the corner of his mouth, before kicking the third guy with the heel of his other leg.
The combination of "Actress Luna's" acting skills, plus the record and the speed of playing, was so on point that when the Little Sect Master—with an extra 360-degree spin—landed on the ground, the audience stood up and started clapping and even cheering for Luna.
Luna looked away in embarrassment.
But to everyone's surprise, after the fake Sect Master made the three criminals disappear, the record didn't end.
He looked at the camera, now with both hands behind his back, and said,
"Be my follower, and build the future of this world with your own hands!"
Then he looked in another direction, and the camera angle changed immediately:
"The Seven Days Root Awakening Program will begin tomorrow!
100% discount, 100% guaranteed!"
Then he looked in another direction again, and the camera view changed immediately.
This time, his face turned cold and even slightly ruthless:
"This great opportunity only knocks on your door once in your lifetime. Answer it, and you will rise to the sky!
Ignore it, and you will regret it for the rest of your life!"
The crowd became speechless...
How did this great scene turn into an advertisement?
And why did that last part feel like a threat to them?