“Early this morning today, some patrolling disciples discovered that this mirror was destroyed by someone.” Jizi Ang said with a raised voice: “Fortunately, the method used to destroy this mirror was extremely rough. Therefore, I summoned all of the Elders and spent quite the effort. Finally we restored a part of this.”
As he spoke, Jizi Ang’s gaze shifted onto Jian Yi.
Detained in the middle of the big hall, Jian Yi felt everyone’s gazes all turn to him.
“Jian shizhi,” Jizi Ang laughed coldly and asked in a raised voice: “Three nights ago, where were you and what were you doing?”
Jian Yi stood there, under the collective gaze of the audience, actually exceptionally calm. He said: “This disciple has been cultivating in seclusion all this time. I never left.”
“Hmph!” Jizi Ang smacked his palm on his arm rest heavily and stated angrily: “It’s already reached this point, yet you still dare to speak such nonsense!”
“What do you mean, Sect Leader?” Jian Yi’s expression didn’t change at all. It even imitated a hint of bewilderment perfectly: “You said that the mirror was destroyed by someone. But what does this have anything to do with this disciple? Why have you detained this disciple here while speaking so menacingly?”
Jizi Ang’s face twitched. After a while, he laughed coldly again and said: “Really refusing to admit unless you’re presented with the evidence huh?”
Saying this, he raised both hands and clapped twice.
The sound of the clap just landed when a light emerged from the surface of the broken mirror on the floor. Not long after, a scene appeared in this light.
This was precisely the scene recorded that night before Jian Yi broke this mirror. However, because the mirror has been damaged, no matter how flawlessly it was repaired, this recording played disjointedly, sometimes visible, sometimes not. Even though it could display images, it wasn’t very clear and was filled with noise, even shaking nonstop.
However, even with this kind of image, it was enough to let the audience see clearly how Jian Yi stood there conversing with the demon.
Many disciples didn’t know why the Sect Leader gathered everyone together here at first. Suddenly seeing this scene, they were all incomparably shocked. The big hall was instantly filled with an endless clamor.
After the audience finally quieted, Jizi Ang laughed coldly again: “Jian shizhi, what else do you have to say?”
Jian Yi fell silent, not replying as his thoughts spun nonstop.
For the broken mirror to be recovered to this point was extremely detrimental to him, but he couldn’t just sit and wait for death. Inside this imperfect recording, there must be something that he could use.
“Jian shizi,” Jizi Ang thought his silence meant he was unable to refute. Jizi Ang couldn’t help but huff coldly again, saying impatiently: “Why aren’t you explaining yourself yet?”
Jian Yi looked briefly at Jizi Ang. Under this high and mighty display, Jizi Ang’s words and attitude carried a hint of anxiety, clearly very flustered internally. Suddenly realizing that this demon actually appeared in such close proximity to the Water Cloud Sect and even conversed with Jian Yi, how could he not be flustered.
This was an area that could be exploited. Jian Yi knew more about the truth of the situation than him. Jian Yi must be more calm and collected than him.
Jian Yi turned his line of sight and looked at the disjointed images above the mirror: “Why is there no sound?”
Of course it’s because it was once broken! Hearing this question, Jizi Ang only felt anger and panic striking his heart. He practically couldn’t hold back anymore.
“That demon clearly said plenty of words yet no one can hear anything.” Jian Yi asked him: “What did it say?”
This was just what Jizi Ang wanted to know! Clenching his jaw, Jizi Ang’s face was like the cold frost: “This was just what I wanted to ask you. Wasn’t the person chatting with him that night, you?”
Jian Yi fell silent again.
“Unless you want to say, this actually wasn’t you? Rather it’s someone deliberately pretending to be you?” Jizi Ang said with another cold laugh.
That’s right. This was actually another option. However, Jian Yi couldn’t use it. First, if someone was really pretending to be him, they wouldn’t deliberately break the mirror because no one knew if a damaged mirror could be fixed or not, and if it can be fixed, how much can be recovered. Second, ever since Jian Yi was brought into the big hall, all the way until the mirror projected his image, Jian Yi acted too calmly. This calmness was Jian Yi trying to preserve the advantages he had. However, because of this calmness, it was impossible to pretend he knew nothing.
Now that things have reached this point, he can only acknowledge that he did meet that demon that night.
But with this basis, why he saw the demon and just what exactly they talked about, he can make up whatever he wanted.
“Sect Leader,” Jian Yi then asked: “Since you claim that’s me, I have to ask. What kind of being is that demon? And what kind of person am I? Why would it speak with me? Under normal circumstances, wouldn’t I be directly swallowed up by it, without anything left, as soon as I stepped in front of it?”
After these words, there was another big commotion below.
Those disciples who didn’t know the situation originally believed Jizi Ang’s words already and were all prepared to criticize Jian Yi alongside Jizi Ang. At this time, they began to sway again and started to discuss spiritedly.
“That’s right, what’s the reason?”
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“Do you have to ask? It’s definitely because he was colluding with the demon and selling out the Sect’s secrets. Did you guys forget? From the very beginning, he’s been following behind Wen shixiong. And Wen shixiong…..”
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“You say I’m colluding with the demon? Selling the Sect’s secrets?” Jian Yi said overbearingly, following up each word closely: “And that this was because of Wen shixiong? How extremely hilarious!”
Saying this, he looked at the entire crowd, his voice becoming even more cutting: “Wen shixiong contributed wholeheartedly to the Water Cloud Sect all of these years, yet he still has to suffer these kinds of false accusations from you guys. It really makes one’s teeth freeze! Before you say these words, why can’t you think with your head? What kind of character is that demon? And what kind of secret is required to save your life from its hands? Do you think shixiong would know this kind of secret!”
Speaking to this point, Jian Yi’s gaze landed on Jizi Ang again: “Sect Leader, why don’t you tell everyone, does shixiong really know this kind of secret? Ha ha. This rumor has been circulating for quite some time now, right? Even if he really knew some secrets before, so long has passed. The Sect should have changed everything that could have been changed!”
This move to shift the source of calamity caught Jizi Ang completely off guard. Regarding that rumor, Jizi Ang has always been concealed in the background, never saying anything about it openly. Yet facing the question that Jian Yi threw over currently, if he answered ‘there is’ and dared to say that the secret hasn’t been altered yet, it definitely would make the disciples in the sect extremely dissatisfied. He could only bear down and help clear up Wen Xuan’s injustice. However, this clearly can’t happen.
After a long time, Jizi Ang finally said with a darkened face: “This thing has nothing to do with Wen shizhi.”
He suddenly felt that gathering this many people to observe his questioning of Jian Yi seemed like a mistake.
“That’s right. There’s no way I’d be able to obtain this kind of secret from shixiong’s hands.” Jian Yi pulled open the corners of his mouth and revealed a cold smile: “Then Sect Leader, why don’t you tell us, in order for me to obtain a secret that would allow the demon to spare my life, who would I have to get it from?”
Hearing these words, Jizi Ang said coldly: “You’re finally willing to admit it.”
Yes. For Jian Yi to ask this question, it was equivalent to admitting that he really did exchange some kind of secret with that demon. However at this moment in time, Jian Yi already turned the crux of this issue to another level.
Jizi Ang sensed that this turn of events was not good and didn’t want to continue bickering with him. He shouted firmly: “Since you already admit it, then no more nonsense. Betraying the sect and colluding with a demon, your crime is unforgivable!”
Saying this, he waved his sleeve. Instantly a ball of spiritual energy flew out of his fingertip and headed directly towards Jian Yi. He didn’t want to bother with anything else and just wanted to kill Jian Yi on the spot like this.
But no matter how fast the spiritual energy was, it wasn’t faster than Jian Yi’s voice. Gaze turning vicious, Jian Yi cursed loudly as he remained unmoving, not dodging or evading: “You’re a petty scum who abandons your teammate after achieving your goal!”
These words just completed when a dull thud sounded, and Jizi Ang’s ball of energy was blocked by someone.
“What……” Jizi Ang instantly felt a mouthful of blood rushing up his throat. Turning his head, he glowered at the person beside him, both eyes practically filled with blood from how hard he was glaring: “Ling shimei!”
The person who stepped forth and saved Jian Yi was precisely the only female golden core cultivator out of the three in the Water Cloud Sect, Ling-xianzi.
The only reason why she saved Jian Yi was because she was still concerned about the issue Jian Yi brought up. She was still worried about what kind of secret from the Sect was revealed to that demon. Seeing Jizi Ang suddenly giving a killing blow, she jumped in surprise. Here she was thinking Jizi Ang was only being impulsive due to anger, that’s why she promptly blocked him.
Even Elder Luo, who was sitting on the other side, started casting a life saving skill as well, but he was just a step slower than her.
At this moment, the two people saw Jizi Ang’s furious and flustered appearance, and then heard Jian Yi’s ‘destroy the bridge after crossing the river’ phrase, and couldn’t help but freeze in surprise.
Ling-xianzi’s complexion instantly turned heavy: “Sect Leader shixiong, just what exactly is going on?”
Jizi Ang’s glaring eyes were round and bulging. When he looked at Jian Yi, even his beard was trembling in rage. He was practically unable to breathe properly. He was the kind of person used to sowing discord amongst people. He had a natural insight in this kind of thing, yet unexpectedly, he still fell for Jian Yi’s ways.
In the sowing discord aspect, Jian Yi was really not inferior to him at all.
Seeing the current situation, Jian Yi let out a series of raging curses: “Jizi Ang, you shameless scum! Since you dare to take out the mirror and display those images, why deliberately erase the sound? Why don’t you also broadcast the voices and let everyone hear just what exactly I said to that demon? Everything I said, was everything you told me to say!”
Jian Yi thought it through very clearly. Right now the evidence was irrefutable. He could no longer get rid of his crime, but he still wouldn’t let Jizi Ang do whatever he wanted and planned wholeheartedly to drag Jizi Ang down with him. Because of this, the more that Jizi Ang wanted to eliminate him, the more challenging it became for Jizi Ang.
“Absolute nonsense,” Meanwhile, Jizi Ang was so furious that he shook: “Absolute nonsense! This mirror was clearly destroyed by you……”
“Yes, I destroyed it.” Jian Yi clenched his teeth and replied back viciously: “Back then when you told me to destroy this mirror, I thought it was because you wanted to protect me. Who would have imagined, you’d use this kind of underhanded tactic to silence me!”
Once these words came out, it was like a rock that stirred up a thousand ripples. The big hall instantly exploded like a pot of boiling oil.
“Are these words true?” Even Ling-xianzi and Elder Luo couldn’t help but ask.
“Luo shidi, Ling shimei, you guys definitely can’t believe his raving nonsense.” Jizi Ang said hastily: “Just listen to his words, it sounds as if I sent him to collude with that demon or something! But as a sect leader, why would I send someone to do something that would put the sect in danger?”
These words sounded reasonable. Inside the hall, the audience unconsciously calmed down slightly.
However, Jian Yi smiled coldly: “Who said I did something to endanger the sect?”
Jizi Ang looked over in surprise, his beard still trembling incessantly. All of these people were present, yet the only person who knew just what happened that night was Jian Yi. Therefore, no matter how eloquent and silver tongued Jizi Ang was normally, currently, he can only follow Jian Yi’s tempo.
“Why is it that just because I conversed with that demon before, it must be me endangering the sect or me betraying the sect? You guys clearly don’t even know what we talked about!” Jian Yi looked around the crowd, gaze moving across those bewildered and astonished faces, one by one, then finally landing on Jizi Ang: “Sect Leader, why don’t you tell them. Has the Sect suffered any harm since that night?”
If possible, Jizi Ang really didn’t want to answer him. However, he couldn’t not reply under the force of those skeptical gazes in the surrounding: “There’s no harm at the time, but this doesn’t represent that there won’t be in the future.”
“Are you trying to say, Sect Leader, that the demon is actually hiding somewhere nearby and can cause harm to the Sect any time it wants?” Jian Yi asked back.
Choking, Jizi Ang intuitively felt that this question was a trap. No matter how he answered, it wouldn’t be pretty.
However, Jian Yi didn’t even wait for his answer at all and immediately shouted loudly: “Stop pretending! Shouldn’t you know exactly where that demon is right now!”
Jizi Ang looked at him with bulging round eyes, cheek twitching. After a long time, he finally calmed back down again and did his best to breathe steadily: “There’s a limit to your nonsense. I don’t know anything about this at……”
He didn’t even finish his sentence when someone suddenly charged in from outside: “Sect Leader! Terrible news!”
Jian Yi calculated with his fingers under the cover of his sleeve, letting out a faint smile uncontrollably. Three days. Calculating the distance between Water Cloud Sect and Cerulean Feathers Sect and calculating the time it required for news to travel over, it was really right on time.
Then that patrolling disciple yelled loudly: “That demon fought a fierce battle with three Nascent Soul Daoist Masters from Cerulean Feathers! It heavily injured two while the last one died immediately!”
The voice just landed. Jizi Ang immediately felt his legs lose all strength, and he directly fell back weakly in his chair.
The other Elders in the Sect also had huge changes to their face colors.
In facing this news, what exactly Jian Yi said to the demon that night was no longer important. Because they already knew the consequences of that conversation.
“Sect Leader shixiong……” Ling-xianzi’s beautiful countenance lost color. Even her questioning tone carried a tremble: “Did you…… did you……”
On the other side, Elder Luo also had a face full of sorrow and lament: “It’s already reached this point, Sect Leader shixiong, are you still unwilling to explain clearly to us?”
Jizi Ang looked at the two Elders by his side and then looked at Jian Yi, only feeling like he had never been this hesitant before.
Jian Yi already no longer needed to say anything else. He only stood there with a cold smile.
Meanwhile, that patrolling disciple was unaware of what had happened inside this hall just prior and looked at this situation with complete bewilderment.
After a long time, Jizi Ang asked with difficulty: “Why would the three Daoist Masters of Cerulean Feathers fight head-on with the demon? Did it attack while the three Daoist Masters were outside……”
The patrolling disciple shook his head: “It just directly charged into Cerulean Feathers. Plenty of elders and disciples also died.”
As soon as these words were spoken, the astonishment on everyone’s faces reached a higher level than before. Directly charged into Cerulean Feathers? Cerulean Feathers wasn’t any smaller than the Water Cloud Sect!
“But, but……” Not waiting for Jizi Ang to speak, another Elder couldn’t resist asking first: “What about the Cerulean Feather’s big protection array? It didn’t stop it?”
The patrolling disciple was just about to answer when they suddenly realized the seriousness of this matter. Immediately, their face turned white: “I heard that demon breached through it.”
The crowd was immediately in uproar.
This commotion wasn’t like before. No matter how Jizi Ang commanded them to quiet, it was completely useless. What kind of joke was this? Even large protection arrays weren’t enough to stop that demon? This was major news that affected life and death!
Jizi Ang looked at the chaos before him and finally felt helpless. He could only wait for them to calm down on their own. For some inexplicable reason, other than the original shock on his face, Jizi Ang didn’t seem to lose his head out of fear like everyone else.
In the middle of this chaos, another patrolling disciple entered: “Sect Leader, I saw a group of people currently flying towards the Sect. From their uniforms, they seem to be from Cerulean Feathers.”
Cerulean Feathers! To the current Water Cloud Sect, these words were just like the sound of thunder.
Why would Cerulean Feathers come over this quickly? Did they come over to denounce and criticize the Water Cloud Sect? But how did they know this was something done by a disciple of the Water Cloud Sect? Jizi Ang’s train of thought quickly made several turns. Recalling the main culprit of this disaster, he instantly felt so much hatred that even his eyes turned red.
When he raised his eyes to take a look again, he only saw that Jian Yi was actually taking advantage of this chaos and currently retreating outside. In a blink of an eye, he was already at the big hall’s exit.
Seeing him trying to escape, how could Jizi Ang hold back? He immediately gave a loud shout and started attacking Jian Yi.
However, Ling-xianzi and Elder Luo who were beside him, saw this scene and only thought he was still trying to silence Jian Yi again, and immediately obstructed his path.
“That despicable brat wants to run!” Jizi Ang was so anxious he wanted to vomit blood: “Can’t let him escape!”
Ling-xianzi and Elder Luo naturally also knew that Jian Yi must not be allowed to escape, but they couldn’t trust letting Jizi Ang give chase. In their eyes, if they gave Jizi Ang any chance to silence Jian Yi, they’d never learn the truth.
“Qingquan!” Elder Luo yelled, as he continued to block in front of Jizi Ang.
Luo Qingquan heard the order. Like an arrow leaving the bow string, he instantly chased after Jian Yi. Jizi Ang saw this and hastily also called his own disciples, Zhang Xiaoqing and Shi Buhui, to head forth in pursuit.
At this time, Jian Yi also had a few people beside him who wanted to stop him. However, now that he was yuan gathering, normal disciples really weren’t strong enough. Yet just as he escaped outside of the hall, Luo Qingquan immediately followed over. Luo Qingquan has been yuan gathering for a long time, and he was someone expert at fighting. For Jian Yi, he was still somewhat hard to handle. Jian Yi’s pace couldn’t help but slow slightly as he fought and retreated at the same time.
When Zhang Xiaoqing also caught up, she and Luo Qingquan each blocked one of his escape routes. He had to stop amongst the trees in the mountain below the Big Hall and deal with them.
The more they fought, the more anxious Jian Yi felt.
He already determined very clearly. With the current situation, the only chance he had was to take advantage of this chaos and escape without delay. Or else once he landed in the hands of the Water Cloud Sect, he definitely would have to endure dreadful toreture. Then he’d either be secretly murdered or handed over to the Cerulean Feathers Sect to face punishment. In short, there’s no chance for survival here.
As for after his escape, he definitely needed to secretly come back once more. He needed to bring Wen Xuan together with him. Even if Wen Xuan was still reluctant to part from the Water Cloud Sect, he still couldn’t let Wen Xuan stay here alone. Even if he had to knock the other unconscious to bring him out. However, if he really did that, he didn’t know if Wen Xuan would blame him after waking up.
Thinking here, Jian Yi couldn’t help but laugh bitterly. If he couldn’t escape successfully right now, everything was moot.
Luckily, in the middle of the fight, Jian Yi became more and more proficient in his control over the yuan gathering strength. The longer they fought, the more confident he became. Zhang Xiaoqing and Luo Qingquan both weren’t weak. Yet even with their combined strength at the moment, they were still unable to suppress him and could only tag him tightly, not letting him escape easily.
As for that Shi Buhui, he has long since been left behind, completely unable to keep up with their tempo.
“Jian shidi,” In the middle of the fierce fighting, Zhang Xiaoqing asked him: “I don’t really want to cross swords with you, but why did you do that kind of thing?”
Jian Yi couldn’t help but scoff: “If I didn’t do anything then perhaps you wouldn’t even have the chance to stand here!”
Zhang Xiaoqing was left speechless by these words. After a long time, she finally said with reddened eyes: “But, the people from Cerulean Feathers are also human lives.”
Of course Jian Yi understood this logic, but in his heart, people’s lives were not the same. Wen Xuan was in one group. Everyone else was all in another group.
“So what?” Jian Yi asked in reply: “Yes, I was the one who diverted the demon who originally planned to sneak attack the Water Cloud Sect to Cerulean Feathers. I was the one who caused the death of all of those people in Cerulean Feathers. But you better not forget it, the person who ordered me to do this was that shifu of yours!”
“You……” Zhang Xiaoqing glowered at him. She was just about to retort when she suddenly looked behind him, expression changing subtly.
Jian Yi also noticed something was not right. He just got ready to turn around when he heard footsteps walking over and stopping behind him.
At the same time, he also heard that unmistakably familiar voice.
“Jian shidi, is this true?”
Jian Yi’s head turning movement unconsciously slowed by a beat. After a moment, he finally saw that figure behind him. The person standing there with an indecipherable face was precisely Wen Xuan.
Wen Xuan’s clothes were somewhat disorderly; his gasps for air were still somewhat urgent. He just heard the news and rushed over, disregarding everything else. Yet he never imagined, this was the scene to greet him upon his arrival.
“Wen shixiong!” In a split second, Zhang Xiaoqing had a myriad of thoughts. However, in her heart, even if Wen Xuan had that kind of unspeakable birth history, he must still be the Wen shixiong she was familiar with: “Quick, help us stop Jian shidi! If he escaped, the Water Cloud Sect would no longer be able to face Cerulean Feathers on equal grounds anymore!”
In Zhang Xiaoqing’s heart, no matter what, Wen Xuan would always be the Wen Xuan who placed the Sect before everything else.
Jian Yi instantly panicked and almost didn’t manage to dodge the swing Luo Qingquan struck at him.
He saw Wen Xuan take out that divine flying sword, holding the handle in his palm.
Just before Jian Yi’s heart sank into an ice cold valley, Wen Xuan slowly opened his mouth: “Jian shidi, I’ll ask you the specifics of what happened later.”
He just finished speaking when he swung his sword.
Jian Yi can clearly see that the hand Wen Xuan used to hold the sword was somewhat trembling.
This swing ultimately landed before the extremely hopeful looking Zhang Xiaoqing and blew her completely backwards.
Left hand grabbing Jian Yi’s elbow, and right hand holding his sword horizontally before him, Wen Xuan helped Jian Yi block all of the incoming attacks, saying only: “Let’s go!”
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Yay! I knew Wen Xuan wasn’t an idiot.
And this Zhang Xioqing something if she knew that WX was the same as before then why did she do all that. I just knew women who coveted WX are all scum except MF.
Btch you think? U forgot all the things u did? 🙄😒
Darling if you change how you treat him he can do the same I know ? Thank you for the chapters !
HHEHEHEHEHEH Y’ALL LET’S GO 😩☝️
Obrigada pela tradução ♥️🛐
Tsk, after all the things they said to him they expect him to care. WX isnt an idiot.
??? Why would he be the same shixiong when you’re not the same shimei