A shocking mystery about his origins
As the Shadow Devouring Sect Master's playful and sarcastic words echoed across the chaotic battlefield, an irresistible and suffocatingly terrifying pressure instantly descended!
Yu Jinli felt as if an invisible mountain was pressing down on her. The once brilliant purple-gold light between her and Feng Jinxuan dimmed instantly, as if it would be extinguished at any moment. The flow of her internal energy was as if an invisible hand was choking her, and the wondrous resonance of her bloodline with Feng Jinxuan was forcibly severed!
"puff--"
Feng Jinxuan's body shuddered violently. The powerful Heavenly Evolutionary Force that had just awakened began to rampage wildly within his body because it had lost the support of Yu Jinli's luck! A mouthful of bright red blood gushed uncontrollably from his mouth, and his tall body swayed, almost causing him to kneel on one knee.
"Sealing the Profound!"
Yu Jinli gasped and quickly supported his swaying body. Looking at the man's face, which had turned deathly pale, she felt an unprecedented panic and fear.
"hehe……"
The sect leader looked at their disheveled appearance and let out a delighted, devilish laugh: "See? Your so-called power is nothing but a castle in the air, utterly vulnerable. Without her, you are nothing. And without you," he turned his gaze to Yu Jinli, his eyes looking at her as if she were his most cherished possession, "you are just a pathetic wretch with a treasure trove but no key."
Just then, several streaks of light shot in from afar. It was Yu Zhengdao, Yuehua, Gu Yanzhi, and Lin Shu. They had finally shaken off the entanglement of those protectors and arrived, firmly protecting Yu Jinli and Feng Jinxuan behind them.
"Junior...Brother?"
When Yu Zhengdao saw the man standing in the giant pit, with a handsome yet eerie face and an aura of evil emanating from him, his whole body trembled violently. A trace of genuine fear appeared on his usually refined, dignified, and calm face.
Junior brother?
Yu Jinli and Feng Jinxuan were both stunned.
"Hehe, my good senior brother," the sect leader looked at Yu Zhengdao, a bright but extremely cold smile on his face, "After all these years, you still have this hypocritical look of being all compassionate and sympathetic."
"It really is you... Xuanji!" Yu Zhengdao stared at him, his voice trembling. "You...you're still alive!"
Xuanji?
Yu Jinli felt like she had heard this name somewhere before.
"Death?" The man called Xuanji laughed, his laughter filled with resentment and malice. "Thanks to you, I did indeed die once. But now," he opened his arms as if embracing the whole world, "I'm back! And stronger than before!"
He looked at the people before him, people he once knew best and hated most. In his eyes, which always held a hint of a wicked smile, burned a mad, almost destructive flame: "Senior brother, senior sister," he looked at Yu Zhengdao and Yuehua, his voice as gentle as a lover's whisper, "Aren't you curious why I came here today? Did you think I came to seek revenge on you?"
He shook his head, a childlike, innocent smile on his face: "No, no, no. I've come here today to take back everything that rightfully belongs to me."
His gaze finally settled on the girl who was being protected by the crowd: "For example..." He looked at Yu Jinli and declared clearly, word by word, "My betrothed wife. And my unborn...daughter."
"boom--"
These words were like a bomb that could destroy the world, exploding in everyone's hearts! Yu Jinli's brain completely shut down. She stared dumbfounded at the handsome and otherworldly man in front of her, then looked at her pale-faced parents and Gu Yanzhi, who was equally shocked. She felt as if she had heard some incredible secrets of a wealthy family.
"Xuanji! What nonsense are you spouting!" Yuehua trembled with anger, pointing at him and shouting sternly.
"I'm talking nonsense?" Xuanji laughed, his laughter filled with desolation and sorrow. "Senior sister, have you forgotten? Back in Tianyan Pavilion, who was your childhood sweetheart, who was your innocent companion? Who was willing to become an enemy of the entire sect for you? And who risked their life to rescue you when you were judged by that so-called destiny to be a solitary and cursed person, destined to be imprisoned on the Cliff of Contemplation for life?"
He walked towards Yuehua step by step, each step feeling like it was treading on Yu Zhengdao's heart: "Senior sister, tell me," he looked at her, a hint of vulnerability, almost pleading, showing for the first time in his crazed eyes, "did you ever have even a little bit of sincerity towards me back then?"
Yuehua looked at him, at the man she once knew best and who had hurt her most deeply. Her lips trembled slightly, but she couldn't utter a single word.
"Enough!"
Yu Zhengdao stepped forward, shielding his wife tightly behind him. He looked at his junior brother, now fallen into demonic ways—once his most prized possession and the one who had hurt him most deeply—and his heart was filled with indescribable complex emotions, a mixture of heartache and regret: "Xuanji, I'm sorry for what happened back then. But it's all in the past, you…"
"The past?" Xuanji interrupted him, laughing mockingly. "Senior brother, you really have it easy for you to talk when you're not the one suffering. You stole my lover, took away the position of Pavilion Master that should have been mine, and cast me into an endless hell, never to be reborn! And now you're telling me it's all in the past?"
The smile on his face gradually disappeared, replaced by a cold, chilling madness: "I tell you," he looked at them and declared clearly, word by word, "today I will not only take back my lover, my daughter, but I will also..." His gaze turned to the deepest part of the Kunlun Mountains, a place even the Tianyan Pavilion considered forbidden, "...take back the strongest power that rightfully belongs to me!"
Without further ado, he swiftly formed an extremely ancient and evil hand seal in front of him: "Bloodline as the guide, heaven and earth as the furnace! Open!"
With a low shout, the entire Kunlun Mountain trembled violently! A terrifying resentment, filled with despair and unwillingness, powerful enough to change the color of heaven and earth, soared into the sky from the deepest part of the forbidden area! That resentment echoed the demonic energy on Xuan Ji's body, forming an enormous blood-red magic array that covered the entire Tianyan Pavilion!
"This is bad!" Yu Zhengdao's expression changed drastically. "He's trying to forcibly break the seal of the first sect master!"
Just as everyone was stunned and at a loss for what to do by this earth-shattering change, Xuan Ji's figure suddenly vanished from the spot. The next second, he had appeared like a ghost in front of Yu Jinli and Feng Jinxuan—his goal from beginning to end had only been one!
"Child! Be careful!" Yuehua let out a shrill scream.
But it was all too late. Xuan Ji was too fast; even Gu Yanzhi and Lin Shu couldn't react in time. His pale, long, and powerfully destructive hand had already gripped Yu Jinli's throat!
“Now,” he looked at the girl in his arms, her face flushed from suffocation, yet still glaring at him with stubborn, fearless eyes, looking at her face that bore a striking resemblance to Yuehua, and smiled—a smile both gentle and cruel—“Tell me, my dear daughter. Do you want him to live, or do you want him to die?”
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