Once Xi Xizhi understood the whole story, she was shocked. She never expected that the half-demon they had been searching for was right under their noses.
While seemingly anxious to find the Grand Preceptor, he actually placed the Grand Preceptor under house arrest.
He appears innocent and virtuous, but is actually full of scheming.
Xi Xizhi had no choice but to shake her head.
Dongfang Youyu...
You've been hiding it really well!
"So... he wanted to use An Honghan to kill the dragon and reap the benefits?" This scheme was truly flawless! However, it cost countless lives!
No wonder the half-demon deliberately suppressed the dragon under the bridge.
All of this was simply to incite the dragon's hatred towards humans, thereby causing the dragon to become possessed by a demon.
Old Xu's voice was incredibly heavy, broken and intermittent, as if each word was extremely difficult to utter. "I was thinking, if I hadn't performed that divination for him back then, he wouldn't have known that his life would end at twenty-five, he wouldn't have devoured the demon's inner core, and he wouldn't have caused so much evil..."
“Perhaps he didn’t know the divination, and could have lived peacefully past the age of twenty-five… but it was all because of me… one sentence of mine led him astray…” Old Xu’s tears welled up instantly, and he was on the verge of a mental breakdown.
"Don't blame yourself anymore, you did nothing wrong." Xi Xizhi sighed deeply.
"No, this is my fault. If he didn't know his fate, why would he seek such an evil method to change it!"
Old Xu's mental state is extremely poor; he has gone to the extreme and is stuck in a dead end.
Xi Xizhi was afraid that if he continued to think wildly, he would get trapped and never be able to get out. Spiritual energy gradually condensed in her palm. Xi Xizhi raised her hand and covered his forehead, channeling spiritual energy into his brain to help him relax his tense nerves. She gently said, "Sleep, have a good sleep, and everything will be over."
"No...it's all my fault..."
“You did nothing wrong…” Xi Xizhi repeatedly told him.
"No, it's my fault..."
"No, you did nothing wrong..."
Old Xu's voice gradually faded, his eyelids grew heavy, and finally he slowly closed his eyes and fell asleep.
Xi Xizhi finally felt relieved, as if a huge weight had been lifted from her heart. But then she jumped up from the ground in a start.
"Oh no!" Xi Xizhi exclaimed and rushed outside.
Before entering the cave, Xi Xizhi deliberately ignored Dongfang Youyu's presence after his identity was exposed.
Unexpectedly, this very situation gave him the opportunity to escape in the chaos!
Sure enough, when Xi Xizhi chased out of the cave, Dongfang Youyu was nowhere to be seen.
The white fox deliberately lured them here, most likely as a diversionary tactic!
Seeing Xi Xizhi in such a panic, as if she had encountered something terrible, several soldiers quickly stepped forward. "Miss Xi, what happened?"
Xi Xizhi didn't dare tell them the truth, lest it cause unnecessary panic. She only said, "The person in the cave has fallen into a deep sleep. Take good care of him. I have some urgent business to attend to. You should go back first."
How could the soldiers dare to let Xi Xizhi leave? His Majesty had given a death order, requiring them to stay by Xi Xizhi's side. If anything happened to Xi Xizhi, none of them would escape unscathed.
Before they could even speak to persuade her, Xi Xizhi's figure blurred into a blur and dashed out from the other side of the woods.
"Such speed..." one of the soldiers exclaimed.
They tried to give chase, but found that the distance between them had already widened considerably, making the chances of catching up extremely slim. In the end, they had no choice but to turn back and, as instructed by Xi Xizhi, take the man to the army's encampment.
As Xi Xizhi ran forward, she cursed Dongfang Youyu in her heart.
Who would have thought that this gentleman, who appeared so respectable in public, was actually such a despicable and wicked person in private! Driven by his own selfish desires, he dragged Fengzhou into this undeserved disaster.
However, Xi Xizhi couldn't truly hate him, because it's not wrong for a person to have a strong will to survive; the real mistake was that he used the wrong methods.
When Xi Xizhi reached the foot of the mountain, she found that the water level was still rising. The surging waves crashed against the mountain from time to time, sweeping away large amounts of soil and trees.
Xi Xizhi used her spiritual power to speed across the water, continuing in the same direction as before.
The sky was covered with dark clouds, and a violent storm raged, casting a gloomy shadow over the entire world.
The raging waves surged and surged, and at that moment, somewhere in the water, a pillar of water rose straight up.
The water column shot into the air and exploded, splashing water droplets everywhere and causing the water surface to ripple continuously.
A long, deep roar, the sound of a wild beast, echoed throughout Fengzhou, reaching even the refugees on the mountains.
Xi Xizhi, who was on her way, suddenly stopped, startled. The dragon had emerged...
As if to confirm her thoughts, the waves on the water surged once again, seemingly welcoming someone's arrival.
"You can no longer stop me. I will make you suffer a terrible death and pay a heavy price for your foolish actions..."
After a deafening dragon's roar, a gigantic black shadow shot into the sky, churning among the clouds. Compared to dragons, jiaos are hornless creatures, resembling snakes in appearance more closely.
Xi Xizhi floated on the water, not far from that place, and could clearly see the figure of the dragon breaking through the bridge.
Emerging from the water alongside the dragon was Master. Master appeared to be injured, with blood splattered on his arms.
Blood dripped into the water, staining the area red.
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