Chapter 371 Enraged

"Who are you?"

Looking at the man in front of him who bore a striking resemblance to Li Xiangyi, Shan Gudao felt a strange sense of panic.

"Don't you really recognize me? I am Li Xiangxian, a descendant of the Southern Yin royal family, and the great-grandson of King Fangji. Aren't you enjoying using my jade pendant and identity?"

"Nonsense! You're talking nonsense! I am the true member of the Southern Yin royal family!"

His "noble" status was the only thing Shan Gudao was proud of all these years. He couldn't accept this reality and vehemently refuted it.

Seeing his expression, Li Lianhua took two steps back, clearly understanding what Lan Yan meant by "killing someone by destroying their spirit." For Shan Gudao, gratitude and conscience were meaningless; he had already fallen into the greed for power.

Therefore, his Achilles' heel is also the lust for power. Exposing his identity is like strangling his Achilles' heel, which he naturally cannot accept.

Even more unacceptable to him was Feng Qing, who couldn't believe that the person he had followed for so many years was actually a fake.

What are you saying?

Faced with Feng Qing's panicked questioning, Li Xiangxian didn't need to answer; Di Feisheng and his group, who had arrived, resolved his doubts.

"Feng Qing, you really have no eyes! You can tell the one above is a fake just by looking at its face!"

Aqiao's voice arrived before he did.

When she and Jiao Liqiao walked in together, before Feng Qing could even be shocked that there were two Jiao Liqiao who looked exactly alike, Jiao Liqiao, who had experienced many setbacks and was somewhat resigned to her fate, was not going to let him go and wanted to drag Feng Qing down with her.

“That’s right, Feng Qing, we’ve got the wrong person. Shan Gu Dao isn’t a descendant of the Southern Yin; it’s a member of the Li family.”

"You mean..."

“That’s right,” Jiao Liqiao said without giving Feng Qing any time to process it, “Li Xiangyi is a descendant of the Southern Yin. We were the ones who poisoned him back then.”

"puff"

Upon hearing this, Feng Qing coughed up blood and collapsed to the ground. He couldn't believe what he had done. Not only did he fail to recognize the true master, but he also helped the imposter harm the real young master.

"Impossible! You're all lying to me!"

Dan Gudao struggled to get up, but the effects of the muscle-relaxing powder were still in effect. He was like a stranded fish, thrashing about for a long time, but he couldn't even turn over.

"I am the descendant of the Southern Yin, I am the ruler of the world, it is me, it is me..."

Seeing his madness bordering on obsession, Li Lianhua couldn't help but shake his head. The Shan Gu Dao before him could no longer be considered a human being, but a monster of power, or rather, a monster always in human skin. Yet, he hadn't seen it sooner, causing his master so much trouble…

Lan Yan stepped forward at some point and patted Li Lianhua on the shoulder. "Your master loves you and trusts you. He's not wrong. And it's not wrong for you to trust your senior brother either. Ultimately, it's because he's greedy and blinded by self-interest."

"But I..."

"If you can't figure it out, don't rush to think about it. Just avenge your master."

Lan Yan took Li Lianhua's sword-wielding hand and pointed it at Shan Gu Dao, saying, "If you repay evil with kindness, how will you repay kindness?"

Li Lianhua remained silent for a while, then gradually tightened her grip on the sword in her hand.

Dan Gudao was somewhat dazed, looking at Li Lianhua with a resentful expression, and said sarcastically, "Li Xiangyi, can you really bring yourself to do this? You keep talking about benevolence and morality, can you really lay a hand on your senior brother?"

"Let me do it!"

A clear, youthful voice rang out, and soon everyone saw a tall, upright boy with a ponytail, dressed in red, walk in with light steps.

"Xiangyi!"

Compared to the surprise of others, Shan Gudao was terrified. Compared to the changed Li Lianhua, the young Li Xiangyi was far more devastating to him, a mountain that he could never overcome.

"Although I love to rip off the old man, steal his drinks, and make him take the blame, I won't allow anyone else to bully him except for me and my senior brother!"

"You are Li Lianhua's senior brother, not mine!"

Li Xiangyi walked up to the platform, easily took the Junior Master from Li Lianhua's hands, skillfully twirled his sword, and nodded to Li Lianhua with a bright smile: "Thanks, I knew I wouldn't lose my Junior Master."

"You...you are Li Xiangyi?"

Dan Gudao was truly going mad, all because of his hatred for Li Xiangyi. He couldn't be mistaken; the two before him were indeed Li Xiangyi. But why, why was this happening?

"That's right, he never changes his name or surname, he's the number one Li Xiangyi in the world! You've been scheming for so many years, but you didn't expect that after poisoning one Li Xiangyi, there would be another one."

"Impossible, impossible!"

"The world is full of wonders, you must be ignorant." Li Xiangyi proudly raised his head. As a child raised by Lan Yan, he could kill someone by destroying their spirit with ease.

"Even in a different world, I will still be the best, while you can't leech off the Li brothers. Not only did you not become their disciple, you're still that penniless little beggar—"

"Shan Gudao, you boast of being a talented but unappreciated person, but without Li Xiangyi, you are nothing—"

"puff"

Dan Gudao immediately coughed up three liters of blood, unable to utter a single word. His eyes widened in resentment, and then his head lolled to the side before he fell silent.

Li Lianhua paused for a moment, then reached out to check his breath and take his pulse. She looked at Li Xiangyi with a complicated expression: "His pulse is rapid and wiry, his qi and blood are disordered, and his life force is exhausted... He died of anger."

"ah?"

Li Xiangyi looked shocked. "How petty is he? He got so angry that he died?"

"..." Li Lianhua wiped her face, feeling nothing but absurdity. Dan Gudao's death, like his life, was so absurd that it left one speechless.

...

With Feng Qing's understanding restored, the Myriad Saints Sect no longer needed their help. After all, while Shan Gu Dao was ostensibly the commander, Feng Qing was actually the leader of this group.

If the leader gave up resisting, the others naturally followed suit. Of course, the main reason was that they were simply outmatched; discretion is the better part of valor.

With everything resolved, Li Xiangxian, along with Aqiao, Feng Qing, Jiao Liqiao, and the rest of the Southern Yin descendants, discussed the arrangements for the Southern Yin people. Feng Qing felt embarrassed and powerless to stop Li Xiangxian's decision not to contend for the throne. After all, he had already done so many foolish things under his wing, and he had no face to object.

Di Feisheng led the Golden Mandarin Duck Alliance's subordinates back to sort out the alliance's affairs, while Xiao Di followed to learn from their experience, preparing to be the first in her world to establish the number one alliance in the world.

The rest of the group returned to the Lotus Pavilion, where they saw... Li Xiangyi sitting inside drinking tea?

"Wait, how come there's another master?"

Fang Duobing stared wide-eyed. Was this reasonable? Was this reasonable?

"Ah, didn't I say so?" Li Xiangyi's ponytail swayed, looking completely innocent. "I found this in the East China Sea, right after the East China Sea Battle—"