Chapter 434 Lingyun Zhenren

The head of the Bai family asked with some confusion, "What is he doing here?"

Standing outside the door was the guard who had brought Yu Zhiyi in. He glanced at Yu Zhiyi and said, "Young Master Zhong said he's here to expose the swindler's true colors."

Yu Zhiyi raised an eyebrow.

The Bai family head glanced at Yu Zhiyi, only to find that the woman showed no other emotion except for a slight surprise when she heard the guard's words.

For example, panic, tension, guilt, etc.

He looked at Yu Zhiyi: "Miss Jiang, is there anything you'd like to say?"

Yu Zhiyi said calmly, "The notice says that your son started to fall ill three years ago, but if I'm not mistaken, your son should have said more than once three years ago that he felt cold?"

The head of the Bai family suddenly sat up straight.

He never told anyone this detail.

He hadn't even remembered it if the woman in front of him hadn't brought it up.

A few years ago, his son was only at the early stage of Qi Refining. Although he was physically stronger than an ordinary person, it was only a little bit.

It's perfectly normal for an ordinary person to feel cold.

Besides, he usually brings it up in winter, which makes it even more normal.

Yu Zhiyi knew the answer without asking again. She then asked, "May I ask if your son fell into the water six years ago?"

The Bai family head frowned: "No."

His shock turned into doubt.

Could this young woman be making this up?

Yu Zhiyi ignored his suspicion and said calmly, "Patriarch Bai, there's no need to rush to answer. You can ask Bai Gongzi's playmates." She paused and added, "Anyone, regardless of status, will do, as long as they've been by his side since childhood."

The head of the Bai family looked at her suspiciously. Although he was puzzled, he didn't ask any further questions and let the young man beside him make the arrangements.

About an hour later, the young man returned, bringing someone with him.

It was a woman, dressed in the uniform of a maid in the Bai household, who looked to be around twenty years old.

The woman's face was deathly pale. As soon as she entered the room, she knelt down with a thud: "Master, please forgive me!"

The Bai family head's cold, hard face remained expressionless as he simply asked, "Young Master, did you really fall into the water?"

The woman's voice trembled slightly: "It happened. About six years ago, the young master took a few of us out to train. When we were in Beitan Mountain, we encountered a second-stage early-stage demon beast. We worked together to hunt it."

"Finally, under your leadership, we successfully killed the monster. However, the monster went berserk before it died and suddenly pounced on you without warning. At the last moment, you blocked the monster's fatal blow with your sword, but you fell into the pool behind you due to the monster's violent impact."

"Afterwards, we all suggested that the young master go to see a doctor to check his health, but he said he was fine and that we were just worrying too much and making a mountain out of a molehill. Later, the young master did not feel uncomfortable at all, and we were finally relieved."

The woman, her face pale, kowtowed to the ground: "Master, we didn't mean to hide it, it's just... it's just..."

She couldn't say what "just" meant.

In fact, for cultivators, falling into the water is not a big deal.

Unless it's something like a thousand-year-old icy pool that can kill people, ordinary river water won't even cause cultivators to get typhoid fever.

However, as a servant of Young Master Bai, she witnessed her master fall into the water and indeed concealed the matter.

Now that she's being investigated, she has no choice but to take responsibility.

Yu Zhiyi continued, "No one can be blamed for this. After all, no one could have imagined that a remnant soul of a demon was hidden at the bottom of that seemingly ordinary pool."

The head of the Bai family could no longer maintain his calm expression and stood up mockingly: "What did you say?"

His eyes flashed with a fierce light, like lightning, as if he would tear Yu Zhiyi to pieces if she dared to say anything outrageous again.

Yu Zhiyi seemed oblivious to the anger and killing intent in his gaze: "Eighteen years ago, the Tianji Sect and the Taixu Sect joined forces to wipe out the Demon Clan's stronghold. At that time, the Blood Fiend Dharma King, one of the Demon Clan's four guardians, died in that siege."

The head of the Bai family stared at her intently, neither answering nor stopping her from continuing.

"Not only did the world believe that the Blood Fiend King was dead, but even the people from the Heavenly Mystery Sect and the Taixu Sect who participated in the siege believed that the Blood Fiend King would never have a chance to turn the tables."

"But what the world doesn't know is that the Blood Fiend King once obtained a magical treasure during his early training. That treasure was perfectly compatible with his Ice Spirit Root and could even nourish his soul."

"Normally, the Blood Fiend King would carry the item with him and use it to nourish his soul when he had free time. Later, when the two major forces joined forces to besiege the demon race, the Blood Fiend King sensed that something bad was about to happen, so he left a wisp of his soul in the magic item and hid the magic item in that cold pool."

"In that battle, the Blood Fiend King did indeed die; his body and the nascent soul hidden within it were completely destroyed. However, he still retained a trace of his remnant soul."

"After thirty years of nourishment, the remnant soul has regained its ability to think and has even gained control over some power."

"Six years ago, Young Master Bai was thrown into the icy pool and accidentally triggered the restriction."

"The remnant soul of the Blood Fiend King took the opportunity to enter the body of Young Master Bai."

"The demons all have ways to hide their whereabouts, which is why the demons have been so difficult to eradicate. As one of the four great protectors, the Blood Fiend King has mastered the art of concealment to a very high degree."

"So in the past few years, not only did outsiders not notice his existence, but even Young Master Bai himself, apart from occasionally feeling a chill when his soul was being devoured, did not notice anything abnormal at other times."

The Bai family head exuded an aura of power.

The maid and the young man both turned pale.

The maid was alright; she was kneeling on the ground to begin with, and with her hands supporting her weight, she wasn't too badly off.

The young man's knees trembled as he tried to stay upright, but he couldn't hold on any longer.

On the other hand, Yu Zhiyi seemed oblivious to everything, and even started drinking tea.

The head of the Bai family's eyes flashed, and he withdrew his oppressive aura, waving his hand at the two people beside him: "Go down."

The two felt as if they had been granted a pardon and fled in haste.

"Since Miss Jiang speaks so eloquently, is there a way to force out the remnant soul of the Blood Fiend King?"

Judging from his tone, I already believed him to be about 70-80%.

Yu Zhiyi chuckled: "Since I dared to take up the challenge, it means I have a way. It is true that the Blood Fiend King is treacherous and cunning, but his remnant soul has only been awakened for six years and is not yet powerful. As long as we use some fire-related spells, we can force it out."

Patriarch Bai frowned: "Fire element... True Person Lingyun of the Taixu Sect has a fire elemental root, and he once subdued a strange fire."