Getting a Sugar Mommy in Cultivation World!!-Chapter 614: Price For Leaving The Sect

"Then I will do my best to pay back the resources the sect has used on me before leaving the sect." Everyone in the room turned to look at Zhong Hua, who entered the room with the rest of the members of the Zhong family.

Zhong Ben and the elders exchanged gazes but ultimately decided to let the woman handle things on her own.

"Zhong Hua!" Wu Fei gritted his teeth upon recognizing the young woman standing before him. Unconsciously, his legs trembled as they moved closer to each other, forming a bow shape.

Seeing the state of his disciple, Elder Han sighed in his heart but still kept a stern yet calm look on his face. "Disciple Zhong, did the sect show any discontent in showering you with resources? You are one of the true disciples of the sect, and that means you will be the backbone of the sect in the future.

With all the resources and the privileges of being the true disciple comes the responsibility towards the sect."

Elder Han did not shy away, seeing that Zhong Hua had heard his conversation with Noah, even though he was surprised how he failed to notice her presence until she spoke up. This aroused the suspicion that this oddity had something to do with the boy who was still sitting in his seat calmly.

His vigilance towards Noah increased a bit upon realizing this, but he remained focused on persuading Zhong Hua.

"As for the thing about the male disciples bothering you, they did not break any rules just by talking to you. If we punish them just for this, we would seem biased in the eyes of the other students." Elder Han simply told Zhong Hua she was being childish if that was her reason for leaving the sect.

"If someone does take action against you outside the arena, we will be ready to make a move, but if they are all following the rules, you have to fight your own battles. How else can you grow as a cultivator if you shy away from fights?"

Zhong Hua did not interrupt the old man as she wanted to hear what he had to say, but the excuses he made made it seem like she was being unreasonable and throwing a tantrum.

"It was never about some idiots that I don't want to stay in the sect anymore. They have been an inconvenience but nothing I cannot handle, as you said. It was not just one thing, but it was a set of things that happened after I became a true disciple of the sect."

Hearing this, Elder Han's eyes shook a little, as if he realized what she was about to say.

"Ever since I became the true disciple of the sect, no elder took me as a disciple, saying that they were not worthy of teaching me." A hint of mockery appeared in her voice as Zhong Hua said those words. "I could live with that, as I did not have any need for a teacher at that time, but then it all started.

I was not allowed to take missions that had high merits alone, forcing me to split them. I was not allowed access to the higher levels of the library because I did not have any elder's token.

Then it was some trashes that would come to bother me in sect grounds, prompting me to take action, which caused me to pay a heavy fine with the merit points I had accumulated. It did not happen once or twice, but whenever I was close to getting a certain number of merits.

The merits required to be qualified for the position of an elder!

It's true that I got the surface privileges of the true disciple, but do you think I was just a simple reckless girl who could not understand what was going on?"

Zhong Ben's face darkened when he heard all the things his daughter had gone through for the first time. She had kept all of this from him, taking all the burden on herself.

He did not have to look at the frosty look on the face of Master Disciple to know his daughter was telling the truth. He knew why they all did that. The elders standing behind him also had cold looks on their faces.

Zhong Hua was the future of their clan. How could they bear any discrimination against her?

"Senior, please tell me if I will be able to compete for the position of the sect leader with my status? If you say yes, I will go back with you right now." Zhong Hua took a deep breath before speaking once more, her eyes looking at the man before her deeply. novelbuddy.cσ๓

Seeing how the old man stayed silent without saying anything, she let out a self-deprecating laugh before finally speaking up, her hands cupping as a form of 'respect.' "Elder Han, I am very grateful for the resources the sect has invested in me, and I am willing to return all that with interest, but I have made the decision of leaving the sect at any cost. The reason I haven't joined the Benevolent Guardian Sect directly was because I did not want to be ungrateful and leave without clarifying things on my end."

"Looks like you have made up your mind." After a while of silence, Elder Han glanced at Noah before he finally spoke up. "Even though you have decided to leave the sect, you have to compensate for all the losses the sect had to bear because of you."

There was not a hint of warmth in the voice of the old man when he said, "You have to give five times the resources the sect has spent on you, which should amount to a hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones."

The eyes of all the members of the Zhong family widened in anger, while Zhong Hua also looked at the old man coldly. She knew he was exaggerating the price to make her family suffer losses.

Yet she had no choice but to nod in order to end her ties with the Spirit Lotus Sect. But Elder Han was not done speaking at that. He looked at Zhong Hua sharply and deepened his voice while adding, "And lastly, you will have to cripple your cultivation. Not your dantian, just destroy everything you have used from our sect to gain your current power."

Silence!

The whole room descended into chilling silence as several auras of the people from the Zhong family flared in anger. Zhong Hua stared at the old man in a daze without saying anything. Elder Han smirked inwardly, thinking, 'I will see how you will leave the sect now. There is no way she will be willing to waste years regaining her strength, and even if she did, she would fall deeply behind her peers.'

The more he thought about it, the more perfect the plan seemed to him. But Elder Han failed to consider one variable in his calculations. His body tensed as he sensed a hand placed over his shoulder.

The hand belonged to the same person who had been sitting in silence till now. "Calm down, old man. Don't you think you are getting too excited with your demands?"

The chilling voice that came from Noah sent shivers down the old man's soul. He, one of the two dignified Soul Formation realm elders, was trembling in fear!