Chapter 141 Go Accompany Her: Li Xiangyue landed slowly, walking step by step towards Chongxue Pavilion, which was surrounded by a barrier. The people inside were already...

Li Xiangyue landed slowly and walked step by step toward Chongxue Pavilion, which was surrounded by a barrier. The people inside had already noticed her arrival and were on high alert.

The demons, arriving in haste, caught the Flying Immortal Palace off guard. By the time the elders arrived, she had already captured Xi Tingzhu.

I had heard from my wife that she had a twin sister who looked extremely similar to her, but I never imagined they were so alike.

When Li Xiangyue first saw the other person, she almost mistook him for someone else, but after taking a closer look, she could tell the difference.

Her eyes are different; they are very different from Xi Huaizhen's eyes.

Xi Huaizhen has eyes that can see the whole world, firm yet tolerant. The eyes of the person in her hand are similar in form but not in spirit.

Li Xiangyue, barely suppressing her impatience, grabbed the man's collar and dragged him through the air: "You're not Palace Master Xi, tell me where Palace Master Xi is!"

Even a mid-stage cultivator was powerless against her and was severely injured by a single palm strike.

In that instant, countless thoughts flashed through Xi Tingzhu's mind, but she still couldn't reconcile the other party with any of the major figures among the demonic cultivators.

She had no idea that the person standing before her was a demon lord from the Demon Realm.

Xi Tingzhu coughed up blood: "How did you know... I'm not..."

Li Xiangyue didn't waste any words: "I have a grudge against her, and she has to pay back my debt. If you know what's good for you, quickly tell me where Xi Huaizhen is."

Emotional debts are no debts, and if you say that, no one should doubt that Palace Master Xi of Feixian Palace is colluding with the demon race.

They were clearly only planning a covert operation!

After a slight pause, Li Xiangyue revealed a demonic smile: "If you resist to the death, I will kill you."

It turns out he had a grudge against Xi Huaizhen.

Xi Tingzhu's expression turned crazed, and she chuckled, "You...can't kill me!"

Before I could finish speaking, a pale green magic circle opened up before my eyes, attacking Li Xiangyue like a shield and forcing her to break free.

The figure vanished from sight and reappeared atop a high pavilion in the next instant.

"So you really aren't here to kill me, nor are you seeking revenge; you're looking for someone." Xi Tingzhu's voice was hoarse as she casually wiped the blood from her lips.

Li Xiangyue stood on the ground and looked up.

Xi Tingzhu: "You can't fool me. I'm the person who hates her the most in the world. You claim to have a grudge against her, but there's not a trace of murderous intent in your eyes. You all want to find her, but I won't say anything. You might as well kill me."

A conflict could erupt at any moment.

The mystery of Xi Huaizhen's whereabouts, which had remained unknown for many years, was finally solved. It wasn't that Feixian Palace was merciful; it was that she was fearless and would rather die than tell.

*

Hearing the commotion from afar, the Supreme Elder immediately emerged from seclusion. As the one with the highest cultivation, she arrived at Chongxue Pavilion the fastest.

Even without seeing the person, one could tell that the other party was up to no good.

The first thing they did upon landing was to have the disciples near Qingguang Chongxue Pavilion set up a barrier, prohibiting anyone from entering or leaving.

In this way, even if something more serious happens inside, innocent people will not be harmed.

Next is...

The Supreme Elder looked at the figures relentlessly pursuing them within the barrier: "Demons? How could demons have infiltrated the palace?"

I can't understand how things turned out this way. Seeing that the demon came alone, I hoped that she was just a demon.

If it weren't for... the cultivation world would probably never have a peaceful day again.

Just as the Supreme Elder was about to depart, a familiar voice called out from behind him: "Supreme Elder?"

The Supreme Elder turned around warily, only to see Xi Congshuang, whom she hadn't seen in a long time, standing not far behind her. She was unharmed, and her eyes were clear.

"Cong Shuang? Your eyes?" The Supreme Elder quickly noticed the abnormality in Xi Cong Shuang's body. "And your spiritual veins..."

Xi Congshuang confirmed that she had not mistaken the person for someone else and quickly approached: "I am alright, Grand Elder. I am here to guard you and try to persuade you not to go in."

The Supreme Elder understood instantly. She asked, "You're the one who brought the demons here, how could you..."

Xi Congshuang: "For the sake of my mother's whereabouts."

The Supreme Elder slightly opened his eyes: "..."

Xi Congshuang glanced at Chongxue Pavilion inside the barrier and continued, "Xi Tingzhu is stubborn by nature. If she is kept locked up for thousands of years, she will never reveal my mother's whereabouts."

When she pointed out the truth, the Supreme Elder was shocked: "But we can't let the wolf into the house and let the demons in."

Xi Congshuang was just stalling for time, but what she said was also true: "At this point, we have no other choice. Have you found any clues about my mother's whereabouts over the years?"

Of course not. After all, she was a child he had watched grow up since childhood. He couldn't hit her or scold her. He would rather endure the punishment in the formation than utter a single word about Xi Huaizhen's whereabouts.

With such a strong reaction, how could everyone not understand that she was indeed related to Xi Huaizhen's disappearance?

But she refused to speak no matter what. The more anxious everyone became, the happier she was. When people were pushed to the limit, she would stretch her neck and demand that the elders kill her right now.

I don't understand why she still holds such a grudge about what happened back then, to the point of being obsessed.

"That demon..." The Supreme Elder was really worried about an outsider, especially a demon, being interrogated.

"I'll explain the whole story to you when Mother returns. In short, it wasn't due to improper cultivation that I almost went into demonic possession all these years; it was just that the demonic bloodline within me awakened." Seeing that Xi Tingzhu was about to be defeated, Xi Congshuang would have wanted to help if she hadn't only recently reached the Void Refinement stage and her foundation wasn't unstable.

With her mind preoccupied, she didn't forget to assure the Supreme Elder: "Rest assured, she will not harm anyone from the Flying Immortal Palace."

The Supreme Elder, who had lived for thousands of years, had a blank expression.

What?

What did she say?

What demonic bloodline is inside him?

He almost went mad from his cultivation, and his interactions with genuine demons were something the Supreme Elder found hard to accept.

It took the Supreme Elder a while to find his voice: "You are clearly Huaizhen's child. You look so much like Huaizhen."

Xi Congshuang: "I am also the child of the Demon Lord Li Xiangyue."

"..." The Supreme Elder, who suddenly understood something, lost his voice. The amount of information in those few words was too much for the thousand-year-old to digest.

Xi Congshuang proactively revealed the demonic mark on her forehead and even extended her hand for the Supreme Elder to examine her pulse: "The reason I left without saying goodbye this time is because I discovered that Xi Tingzhu is not my mother. She wanted to kill me, so I had no choice but to escape from Qingfeng Sect and find a way to restore order."

Judging from the results, she did indeed do it, and she did it without informing anyone.

He raised his hand and pressed down on Xi Congshuang's wrist. Sure enough, the spiritual energy in her body circulated smoothly, the damaged spiritual palace was rebuilt, and her cultivation level also crossed two major realms, rising from the Nascent Soul stage to the Void Refining stage.

But Xi Congshuang should have been able to do this much earlier, yet she was three hundred years late.

The old man was wise and experienced. What did the Supreme Elder not understand? He said, “When Huaizhen suddenly had a child, she only said that she was pregnant with her beloved. How come the two sisters are both so troublesome?”

One was obsessed with the position of palace master, and the other had a child with a demon.

This child is only three hundred years old, yet he has been bedridden for three hundred years, suffering endless torment.

Xi Congshuang listened in silence.

With a soft sigh, the Supreme Elder, who looked no more than thirty but had a weathered look in his eyes, placed his hands on Xi Congshuang's shoulders and patted them: "These years have really been tough on you."

The old man just doesn't come out of seclusion often; he's not blind or deaf, he's truly indifferent to worldly affairs.

Over the years, because she cared about Feixian Palace and was afraid that Xi Tingzhu would cause trouble if no one kept her in check, she reduced the number of times she went into seclusion and witnessed many things.

Xi Tingzhu harbored an irreconcilable hatred for Xi Huaizhen, which arose from an unknown source and deepened with the passage of time, until she committed the act of substituting one person for another.

But the Supreme Elder still wanted to bring her back to the right path, feeling that she could still be saved.

Who knew that saving one person would cause suffering to the other two?

All those years of effort have been in vain. The Supreme Elder regretted it too late: "If only I had figured it out sooner, perhaps you could have..."

Xi Congshuang shook her head: "Elder He didn't need to be upset about this before. Now there are more important things to do. We need to find Mother's whereabouts."

Hearing her so carefree attitude, the Supreme Elder felt even more regretful.

On Chongxue Pavilion's side, the outcome has already been decided.

Li Xiangyue simply doesn't like to take action; it doesn't mean she's a cunning old tortoise who lives to the end of time. She just prefers to plan ahead before acting.

Hmm, her daughter seems to also like to plan things out before acting; she inherited that from her.

If Xi Tingzhu knew what Li Xiangyue was thinking with her expressionless face, she would surely be so angry she would vomit blood.

But in reality, she had no time to care what Li Xiangyue was thinking. She wanted to escape, but was blocked by the barrier, and the old man did not appear for a long time.

Behind her were red-clad demons waiting for her to exhaust herself and surrender.

Li Xiangyue suddenly asked, "During the hundreds of years you disappeared, did you enter a lost secret realm?"

Xi Tingzhu didn't speak; her suddenly pale face had already given her the answer.

Shuang was right. Xi Tingzhu didn't deliberately hide somewhere to prevent Huaizhen from finding her. She entered the secret realm and was forced to disappear.

Lost secret realms are great opportunities, and cultivators rarely encounter them in their lifetime. Even Li Xiangyue, who has lived for so many years, has only entered them once, and only after obtaining the inheritance did he get the chance to escape.

Li Xiangyue approached again: "Xi Huaizhen's cultivation is the best in the world, so you can't hide her. But it's not difficult to make a cultivator stronger than you disappear, especially if the other party trusts you a lot."

Xi Tingzhu's heart sank further and further. She wanted to tell her to shut up, but she was afraid of revealing more.

The current situation is one of being caught between a rock and a hard place; the more you say, the more mistakes you'll make.

Xi Tingzhu tried every means possible, but all her efforts were in vain. The multiple magic arrays were shattered, and she was killed right in front of her.

Seeing the deadly move about to strike, Xi Tingzhu hardened her heart and pulled out her last trump card.

Li Xiangyue's repeated leniency was her opportunity.

She once stumbled upon a lost secret realm, and after hundreds of years, she successfully obtained its inheritance, making the realm recognize her as its master.

But she never mentioned her great opportunity to anyone. She was just crazy, not stupid. This was her last trump card.

"Since you're so eager to find her, then go and keep her company." Facing Li Xiangyue's offensive, Xi Tingzhu not only didn't dodge, but instead met it head-on.

At the same time, she activated the secret key to the hidden realm that had been sleeping in her sleeve. Just as she had pushed the unsuspecting Xi Huaizhen into it back then, she swallowed the demon in front of her in the same way.

The entrance to the secret realm appeared before everyone's eyes in an instant, as if by divine intervention, tearing open a rift in mid-air, allowing Li Xiangyue to rush into the secret realm at her speed.

"It's done!" Xi Tingzhu's face lit up with ecstatic joy as she saw Li Xiangyue's sleeve being swallowed.

This secret realm recognizes her as its master and obeys only her commands. Once inside, even a powerful cultivator at the Tribulation Transcending stage would find it difficult to escape.

Suddenly, Xi Tingzhu paused.

A hand reached out from the crack and pushed Li Xiangyue away by the shoulder.

Xi Tingzhu subconsciously wanted to close the secret realm, but then heard a voice from afar: "Bind." Her whole body stiffened, and her movements slowed down.

If someone were standing behind Xi Tingzhu, they would see a paper figure that had somehow climbed up behind her, its limbs outstretched and clinging firmly to her back.

With Xi Congshuang's order, Xi Tingzhu's action of closing the secret realm was successfully slowed down.

Xi Tingzhu was seriously injured, her back door was wide open, and she relaxed her mind and was approached by the paper figure. However, she was a powerful cultivator in the Integration Stage, and she quickly broke through the paper figure and regained her freedom.

But it was too late.

A familiar array of spiritual energy unfolded before her, tightly enveloping Xi Tingzhu. This time, the person who set up the array did not hold back, blocking all her chances of escape.

"Bind." A familiar voice rang in her ears, and Xi Tingzhu suddenly looked up, her eyes wide with fury.

This time, the one who spoke was Xi Huaizhen.

Xi Tingzhu: "You..."

Xi Huaizhen flicked her finger, sealing Xi Tingzhu's mouth: "Stubborn to the end, I don't want to hear you speak for now."

She remained as polite as ever, seemingly open to discussion, but she never hesitated to act ruthlessly.

Faced with someone who dared to resist even to the death like Li Xiangyue, he suddenly lost all his strength and felt utterly hopeless.

Xi Tingzhu surrendered without resistance.

*

A person descended before me like a visitor from outer space, dressed in elegant purple robes with gentle features.

The other person did indeed look very similar to Xi Tingzhu, just as everyone said, and also had a habit of having a faint smile on his lips.

She ignored Li Xiangyue, who was trying to speak, and fixed her gaze on Xi Congshuang, walking straight towards her.

At the same time, it is undeniable that I also look a lot like him, but I don't have his gentle, subtle charm.

Xi Congshuang remained motionless as the other person approached, assuming that the other person wanted to say something.

But Xi Huaizhen said nothing, and reached out to pull her into her arms.

Xi Congshuang was so startled that she forgot to react.

Straight and stiff, like a pillar being held, there was no softness or warmth, only rigidity and helplessness.

“I’m late, from Shuang.” All the stiffness and helplessness quietly disappeared in those words.

"Cong Shuang" was a name she chose herself.

Unfortunately, they only spent a few months together before being betrayed and pushed into a secret realm that was already occupied.

Fortunately, Xi Tingzhu used the secret realm in front of Li Xiangyue, which gave her a chance to escape.

There are too many things to say at once.

Li Xiangyue waited anxiously, finally receiving a brief hug from Xi Huaizhen, after which she ignored her again.

Li Xiangyue: "..." I almost forgot, they had a fight before they parted ways.

So does this mean he has forgiven her or not?

I didn't speak to her, but I hugged her, which I guess counts as half-forgiveness...

Xi Huaizhen pulled Xi Congshuang aside to talk, and she also saw the girl being protected behind her.

"You, you are Aying's child, right?" The words were a question, but Xi Huaizhen's tone was a statement. She hadn't forgotten their agreement to take each other's children as apprentices.

Su Wenxin's expression tightened, and she nodded seriously: "Greetings, Senior."

Like treating a child, Xi Huaizhen patted her head and said, "You look so much like her, but there's still a difference. She's as agile as a spirit sword, while you're as sharp as a knife."

Su Wenxin's expression suddenly relaxed, no longer as tense as she had been with her other mothers and old acquaintances. She then heard her soft voice ask, "Why are you the only one visiting the palace? Where is A-Ying?"

"..." Su Wenxin explained truthfully, "Eighteen years ago, she failed to ascend and perished."

A look of sadness crossed Xi Huaizhen's eyes: "How could it be so fast?"

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The Mother of Snowflakes is online... Writing this makes me crave snowflake crisps.