Seeing that Lin Jingting was still cautiously holding onto Wen Ruyan, and that invisible sword energy was still pressed against Wen Ruyan's vitals, Chu Nian advised again, "Jingting, it's no use for you to hold onto Wen Ruyan. Do you think you can still use Wen Ruyan to control these demon lords now?"

Lin Jingting: "I'm just wondering why Wen Ruyan would mobilize so many demon lords to surround and kill a Nascent Soul cultivator like me? Why does she have to kill me?" But in the end, he released Wen Ruyan.

With so many powerful figures here, he no longer needs to worry about Wen Ruyan escaping.

Chu Nian chuckled and said, "Then you'll have to ask your senior brother Ouyang Hao."

Ouyang Hao initially didn't believe that Wen Ruyan would mobilize so many demon lords to besiege Lin Jingting. They had heard that it was because Lin Jingting had stolen the demon race's treasure that many demon lords had collectively come to the Nebula Sect in a fit of rage.

But when Chu Nian asked Lin Jingting to ask him, a possibility suddenly occurred to him. However, Wen Ruyan had always been as pure as a saint in his heart, and he didn't believe his own guess. Besides, there was no evidence!

But then Lin Zhao said, "Jingting, Wen Ruyan has wanted to kill you for a long time. He tried to kill you once when you were five years old. But you were saved by Hua Nian that time..." Then he recounted in detail how Wen Ruyan had taken Lin Jingting into a spatial talisman and thrown her off the Cliff of No Hope. Tao Anbo and the others were quite astonished.

Tao Anbo asked in shock, "Senior Sister Li, Junior Brother Lin, so you knew about Wen Ruyan's character from that time on?"

They wouldn't believe anything Chu Nian said, but these words coming from their junior brother had a different effect. The several Dao Venerables of the Nebula Sect present, along with the demon venerables and the three heroes of Ouyang, were all absolutely convinced.

Wen Ruyan's face paled even more: she had finally learned what it meant to be pushed around when someone is down on their luck. Lin Zhao and Li Jueyin were truly insidious; they had known all along that she wanted to kill Lin Jingting, yet they had deceived her for so many years so that their precious son could live.

Chu Nian observed her expression and said calmly, "Wen Ruyan, don't think that her parents are treacherous. They've deceived you for so many years with their kind faces, but they really had no other choice. They actually wanted to get rid of you, this vicious junior, back then!"

Lin Zhao said in a deep voice, "Wen Ruyan, I just want to know how my disciple Hua Tianling was crippled, and by whom?"

Wen Ruyan sneered a few times and said, "So you didn't believe that it was Hua Nian who crippled Tian Ling all along."

Lin Zhao: "Yes, your maid, Ruyin, wasn't she taken into that spatial talisman by you and Xiao Linzi? But you told me she went traveling."

Wen Ruyan gritted her teeth and said, "She lied to me, saying that as long as I used Hua Nian's Demonic Heaven Palm Talisman, I could create the effect that Hua Nian herself had injured Tian Ling. But I never expected that one talisman could cripple Tian Ling..." She became very sad as she spoke, "How dare this bitch deceive me like this? She was clearly sent by Hua Nian to destroy me and Tian Ling. If I don't kill her, am I supposed to let her continue to harm me?"

"So, the palm strike that severely injured and crippled me back then was indeed done by you two, master and servant?!" A deep male voice rang out, filled with complex emotions, and a figure appeared before Wen Ruyan.

Everyone except Chu Nian and Lin Zhao was extremely surprised to see this person.

After a moment of stunned silence, Wen Ruyan let out a few shrill laughs and said, "So, Hua Tianling, your injuries have long since healed, your bones have recovered, and you've already started cultivating again, right? But all these years you've been lying to me..." As she spoke, she suddenly unleashed a palm strike towards Hua Tianling, who was approaching her.

However, Hua Tianling had relied on his immortal spiritual root to rebuild his cultivation, and was no longer the same as before. A powerful aura instantly condensed and met the palm strike. Not only did he shatter the palm strike, but he also pressed down on Wen Ruyan, forcing her to kneel down with a thud.

Wen Ruyan looked up at Hua Tianling, utterly astonished.

Lin Jingting exclaimed in surprise, "Senior Brother Hua, you, you, you... this is..."

Chu Nian said, "So you actually reached the Transcendent Realm in such a short time. However, I observe that your spiritual energy is not very stable. Did you force yourself to break through to the Transcendent Realm using medicine?"

Hua Tianling remained silent. In the years since he learned that Hua Nian had been besieged and trapped in the Rift by the Ouyang family, he had indeed forcibly increased his cultivation level with drugs, intending to kill Wen Ruyan and those members of the Ouyang family.

To be honest, although he knew there were many suspicious points about his being crippled, and he guessed that Wen Ruyan was definitely involved, he still couldn't completely let go of Wen Ruyan.

However, when he heard that Hua Nian was trapped in the crevice, he felt very complicated.

Ultimately, if the deaths of Hua Yinghai and his daughter Hua Nian had nothing to do with Wen Ruyan, he probably wouldn't have felt the urge to avenge them. But it was Wen Ruyan who did it... You know, Wen Ruyan was his Daoist partner, how could she betray his family like that?

He felt guilty!

At this moment, Hua Tianling discovered that Chu Nian had returned unharmed, and that Chu Nian's entrapment was intentional on her own. His guilt lessened considerably, and his hatred for Wen Ruyan also diminished.

He showed up to plead with Chu Nian to spare Wen Ruyan's life, but to his surprise, Wen Ruyan, upon seeing that his injuries had healed and he was able to rebuild his strength, was not happy for him. Instead, she reached out to kill him, which shocked him and rekindled his hatred.

Everyone else present looked at Hua Tianling with utter bewilderment.

Even if he forcibly used drugs to boost his cultivation to the Great Ascension stage, this news is still explosive enough. Hua Tianling has been in seclusion for many years since he was crippled, but it's easy to imagine that his cultivation was completely destroyed. Even if he successfully rebuilt his spiritual root, he would still have to start cultivating from scratch. And now he has actually reached the Great Ascension stage... it seems like only a few years have passed!

This news is just as explosive as Hua Nian's dealings with the Wen brothers in the Immortal Realm over the past few years.

Ouyang Hao found it hard to accept seeing Hua Tianling like this. Watching his goddess, Wen Ruyan, being forced to her knees by Hua Tianling's imposing presence, he cried out urgently, "Senior Brother Hua, why are you doing this? Even if Ruyan has made mistakes, she has remained steadfast in her feelings for you all these years..."

"She held fast to her feelings for me?" If Ouyang Hao hadn't brought this up, Hua Tianling wouldn't have been so grief-stricken. But now that he had, Hua Tianling, with a mixture of amusement and exasperation, uttered a deep, stern rebuke, interrupting Ouyang Hao. He then immediately raised a hand and struck Ouyang Hao on the head.

Fortunately, Ouyang Hao had the three heroes of Ouyang by his side, who had entered the highest realm many years earlier than Hua Tianling, and their cultivation levels were much more stable than his. Ouyang Chen immediately unleashed a palm strike to meet Hua Tianling's palm force.

His palm strike immediately overwhelmed Hua Tianling's palm, and powerful magical energy bombarded Hua Tianling relentlessly.