The first sect leader exuded an imposing aura, and Shen Daochen repeatedly admitted his mistakes.

"The Ancestor is right. It is your disciple's incompetence and foolishness that is true!"

If I had to describe it in one word, it would be "drenched in sweat".

Li Lihui snorted coldly: "Tell us in detail what has happened to the Flying Cloud Sect over the years, starting from when the evil spirit entered the Flying Cloud Sect."

"I'd like to see how the foundation of my Flying Cloud Sect will be ruined by an unworthy descendant like you! Speak!"

Shen Daochen was already pale and sickly. With so many senior ancestors present, how could he possibly bring up the stupid things he had done in the past?

I'm afraid that if they find out, he'll be expelled from the sect!

"this……"

He hesitated, wanting to speak but unable to, knowing full well how outrageous his actions were, and simply couldn't bring himself to say it.

At this moment, Shen Daochen felt as if he were being roasted over a fire, enduring unbearable torment.

"Fine, fine! Since you're unwilling to speak, then I'll investigate myself!" Li Lihui said coldly.

Given Shen Daochen's temperament, he even shifts blame onto others when he makes mistakes. If you ask him to say something himself, who knows what kind of story he'll fabricate.

Li Lihui immediately probed into Shen Daochen's memories. As the ancestor of the Feiyun Sect and a powerful figure in the Mahayana stage, it was easy for him to investigate the memories of the descendants of the Feiyun Sect.

Shen Daochen had no way to resist and could only watch as his memories of the past few years were projected in front of everyone, playing rapidly like a revolving lantern.

When the ancestors saw Shen Sangruo appear in Shen Daochen's memory, they were all shocked.

Even though they had heard Shen Daochen call the other party's daughter, the ancestors thought they had misheard and refused to accept the fact.

Li Lihui still held a sliver of hope, thinking, what if it wasn't true?

He forced himself to remain calm, pointed at Shen Sangruo in the picture, and asked Shen Daochen, "I'm asking you, is she your daughter?"

But even he himself didn't realize that his voice was trembling.

Yeah, I was angry.

"Is...right?" Shen Daochen, whose underwear had been stripped off, looked embarrassed and struggled to respond despite the discomfort of having his memories forcibly examined.

Shen Daochen's tone was not very certain, after all, Shen Sangri had already severed ties with him and did not acknowledge him.

Li Lihui persisted, repeatedly confirming, "The adopted daughter you switched at birth? The one you later expelled from the sect?"

“Yes…” Shen Daochen looked even more ashamed.

"Her name is Shen Sangruo?" Li Lihui stared intently at him.

"Ah." Shen Daochen nodded.

"Your daughter???"

"yes."

"..."

Li Lihui was utterly heartbroken, and let out a long howl to the heavens: "What a tragedy!"

The next moment, Li Lihui's vision went black, and he fell straight down, causing chaos around him.

"Grandmother, Grandmother! What's wrong with you!"

Shen Daochen was terrified and stood frozen in place, at a loss for what to do. "Ancestor!"

He wanted to go forward to help him, but he was still restricted by the spiritual power that was examining his memories, and he couldn't move an inch.

Not only Li Lihui, but many other elders of the Flying Cloud Sect were also knocked down by Shen Daochen's aura, feeling as if the sky had collapsed.

When they learned that the Flying Cloud Sect's fortunes had run out, no one had reacted this strongly.

The remaining elders, who were still conscious, surrounded Li Lihui and were about to help him up when Li Lihui suddenly opened his eyes and stood up abruptly.

"You! You! You!" Li Lihui pointed at Shen Daochen, each word squeezed out through clenched teeth, "You wretched creature!!!"

The tone suggested that he wished he could bite Shen Daochen into his mouth, chew him a thousand or eight hundred times, and savor the very composition of such an exquisite being.

"I've lived for thousands of years, and I've fought those evil cultivators tens of thousands of times in the transitional realm and I'm still alive and well." Li Lihui's eyes widened in anger as he pounded his chest repeatedly.

"I thought my life would be smooth sailing from now on, but I never expected that the real calamity was waiting for me here!"

"You almost angered a whole group of your sect's patriarchs to death by your own power. You, Shen Daochen, are quite a character!"

"Unprecedented and unparalleled, Sect Leader Shen! Huh?"

Li Lihui was truly furious.

The Flying Cloud Sect produced an idiot who destroyed their foundation built over thousands of years. He could barely accept it; at least he could remain clear-headed.

The cultivation world has produced a prodigy, a talent that is rare even in thousands of years. He is exceptionally outstanding in every aspect at a young age. He can accept that the other party is not from the Flying Cloud Sect.

But if you tell him that the prodigy originally belonged to their sect, but was driven away by that idiot in their sect, and then went to another sect.

How could he accept this? How could he accept it?

I can't accept even a little bit of that!

He was such a talented junior, yet he was forced to join another sect by Shen Daochen!

Not to mention, Shen Sangruo is the daughter that Shen Daochen raised from a young age. She has been living in the Feiyun Sect since birth. Her father is the sect master of Feiyun Sect, and her master is a pillar of the Feiyun Sect.

They're all so deeply intertwined with the Flying Cloud Sect, he really can't understand how they could possibly attract popularity to other sects!

Even if we do nothing, as long as Shen Sangruo grows up normally, we can keep her in the Flying Cloud Sect.

With Chen Sangruo's abilities, and with her in the Flying Cloud Sect, perhaps the sect wouldn't have fallen to its current state.

But alas! Their Flying Cloud Sect has produced geniuses, and more than one at that!

That year, their Flying Cloud Sect produced six geniuses, a full six!

They found the only way to make Shen Sangruo sever ties with the Feiyun Sect and join another sect.

Shen Sangruo herself had even said these things to them, and at the time they couldn't connect Shen Sangruo with the adopted daughter of Shen Daochen that she mentioned.

After all, she is very different from the people in the Flying Cloud Sect nowadays.

How could a declining sect and a high-spirited leader of the cultivation world possibly have any connection?

Looking back now, that girl did indeed possess the decisiveness and ruthlessness to sever ties with the Flying Cloud Sect; once she made up her mind, she never looked back.

It's unknown how Shen Sangruo viewed them when she told them about the events that had happened to the Flying Cloud Sect over the years.

Although they knew that the girl had a clear sense of likes and dislikes and didn't seem like the type to implicate them or dislike them just because they were also from the Flying Cloud Sect.

But it was precisely because the other party was so open and honest that these old guys felt even more ashamed.

"The Transitional Realm is controlled by those evil cultivators. For thousands of years, we have been trapped in the Transitional Realm, and we have no way of knowing the situation in the cultivation world."

"It was only because Fellow Daoist Sang Ruo brought the souls of the other five divine beasts yesterday that we were able to wipe out that group of evil cultivators and learn about the situation in the cultivation world."

“We even asked her which sect she came from, and asked her about the Flying Cloud Sect. Do you know how regretful we were when we heard she came from another sect, and how ashamed and angry we were when we heard about your ‘glorious deeds’?”

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