Cultivation: I Can Reincarnate Into Various Worlds-Chapter 661: Snow falls on our heads, you and I have already grown old together.

That year, at the Cloud and Flower Building on Huge Mastiff Island, she herself had said that Xu Xing needn't be responsible for her; she was merely repaying a debt of gratitude.

Since it was about repaying a debt of gratitude, her excessive hopes were not something Xu Xing owed her.

Without Xu Xing's decision at the Hundred Treasures Pavilion auction, she, with her Profound Female Physique, would likely have long ago become someone else's cultivation vessel, her vitality drained, her cultivation destroyed, and her life extinguished.

The Sect Leader's Wife... that position had never been hers to claim. Indeed, she had been too presumptuous.

"Master Xu has never failed me!" Wu Miao stated, each word distinct.

Tears welled in her eyes, but in less than half a breath, she forcibly refined them away with her Magic Power, not letting them fall.

"And Sect Master Fang?"

Hearing Wu Miao's words, Xu Xing shook his head. He didn't reply, his gaze fixed coldly on Sect Master Fang.

Since ancient times, the benevolent do not hold authority. No matter how adept one is at managing interpersonal relationships, or how high their cultivation, power inevitably leads to cold confrontations and armed conflict, even with those closest to them.

He had come to the back mountain but hadn't immediately intervened in the dispute between the two women. Instead, he had allowed Wu Miao to see his Escaping Light, intending for her to have a change of heart and choose his side over the Starfall Sect.

But alas, Wu Miao still chose the Starfall Sect, not him.

Xu Xing didn't blame Wu Miao for this. A Cultivator's life isn't solely about one's spouse; other emotional bonds also hold significance. Take Dai Ji and Yan Luanqing, for example. He chose to take Dai Ji as a concubine because she hailed from the Red Dust Pavilion and had long accepted the practice of male Cultivators having multiple wives and concubines; she wouldn't harbor resentment. Yan Luanqing, however, was different, possessing a stronger, more assertive personality. Thus, his relationship with Yan Luanqing remained purely that of senior and junior martial siblings, and he deliberately avoided any entanglement related to marriage.

"Master Xu has never failed me, nor... the Starfall Sect..."

Under Xu Xing's piercing gaze, Sect Master Fang felt as if all strength had been drained from her. Wu Miao had to support her as she struggled to utter the words.

Indeed, Xu Xing had never failed the Starfall Sect... If not for Xu Xing, how could the small and weak Starfall Sect have obtained the surplus Nascent Soul Spiritual Objects needed for her to successfully achieve Nascent Soul and enter the Dao Lord realm? This provision had been arranged two hundred years ago, when Xu Xing left the Nanhua Sect. Xu Xing had more than fulfilled his obligations to the Starfall Sect. Although Xu Xing had received considerable assistance from the Starfall Sect before his own Nascent Soul formation, he had long since repaid the majority of it. The fact that Greedy Wolf Dao Monarch and Jade Balance Taoist Lord had the opportunity to study the Heavenly Saint Sect's "Exorcism Holy Art" was due to Xu Xing's reciprocation...

The Starfall Sect contributed significantly to the founding of the Butian Sect. However, any discerning person could see that the Butian Sect's ability to establish itself in the North Wilderness, and even across East Huangzhou, was because Xu Xing's strength, over two hundred years ago, had already positioned him as the foremost expert below the Nascent Soul Stage—a Sect Leader-level Dao Lord.

"Since that's the case, Sect Master Fang, why did you bully my wife?" Xu Xing's eyes flashed with a cold light as he questioned harshly. "Do you think I, Xu Xing, am easy to bully?"

Previously, when Zuoqiu Ying and Wu Miao were arguing, he hadn't intervened because the situation was still within controllable limits. Once their dispute concluded, he planned to find an opportune moment to compensate and appease the Starfall Sect. But Sect Master Fang's actions had escalated the situation entirely, forcing him to intervene. 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

Even when beating a dog, one considers its master. And Sect Master Fang had struck the very Sect Leader's Wife he had personally appointed. It was a direct slap to his, Xu Xing's, face. If he didn't address this, what authority would he, the Sect Leader, command in the future?

As his words landed, a chill shot down Sect Master Fang's spine. Cold sweat beaded on her forehead as she hastily prostrated herself, begging for mercy. "It was my misstep. I implore the Sect Leader to punish me. Please do not blame my Disciple... or the Starfall Sect lineage..."

Reflecting on Xu Xing's path, although he seldom killed, his combat record and cultivation realm were far too terrifying, making her heart tremble with fear. Furthermore, Xu Xing had just addressed Wu Miao as 'Crow Saintess,' signaling his stance: he wouldn't be lenient. If she stubbornly refused to admit her mistake, even if Xu Xing intended to show her some mercy, her obstinacy would likely ruin it. She now regretted attacking Zuoqiu Ying. If she hadn't acted, there might still have been room to salvage the situation. She had intended to force Xu Xing to take a side, but unexpectedly, she had shot herself in the foot.

The Xu Xing of this moment... was not the Xu Xing of the past.

Seeing her Master prostrating, clear tears streamed down Wu Miao's cheeks as she too knelt. "Master Xu, it was my... my own presumptuous desires. It has nothing to do with my Master..."

She had harbored a sliver of hope before, but seeing Xu Xing remain unmoved by her Master's kneeling, that faint expectation vanished like smoke.

"The sect has its rules..." Xu Xing looked at Wu Miao and Sect Master Fang, his voice indifferent. "To strike the Sect Leader's Wife is equivalent to striking the Sect Leader himself. This is a crime of insubordination, an unpardonable offense, and warrants death!"

"However, considering the Starfall Sect's repeated contributions to our sect, this punishment can be waived..."

"But the crime of insubordination cannot be pardoned. From this day forward, Sect Master Fang is no longer a member of my sect."

He flicked his sleeve robe, turned his back, and continued, "Sect Master Fang, please gather your belongings and depart from my sect."

Once these words were spoken, the atmosphere instantly became deathly still, so quiet one could hear a pin drop.

"Am I the one to leave... or does this mean... the entire Starfall Sect must leave..." Sect Master Fang's body trembled slightly as she knelt on the ground and asked.

From its inception, the Butian Sect did not dismantle the "family temples" of the sects that joined. In other words, the Butian Sect differed from other major sects; it was essentially a confederation of various smaller sects.