The white fox stood at the window and looked inside.
The woman was completely naked, and was trying to stand up from the ground with her legs trembling. Through the gauze curtain, bloodstains and unsightly scars on her body were vaguely visible.
She had her back to Lingluo, so she didn't know what expression Zuo Bai Zhenjun had at the moment, but after suffering such humiliation, most people would be desperate and angry.
"Young Madam." The maids put clothes on her and helped her up from the ground. "What should we do? Should we call a doctor?"
Another maid said anxiously: "Go quickly!"
"But the young master didn't..."
"Don't you see what the young lady has become?"
Zuo Bai Zhenjun gathered his clothes and said softly, "No need to call a doctor, just get me some hot water and let me take a bath."
The voice was as gentle as she was.
The maid hurriedly said, "Yes, I'll go right away."
Qin Yuan said angrily: "How dare the Zhao family treat Zuo Bai Zhenjun like this! After all, she is..."
In the end, I felt something was wrong.
How could Master Zuo Bai, with his level of cultivation, be injured so badly by a mortal?
"Who is Master Zuo Bai?"
Jiang Jun still doesn't quite understand the current situation.
When Qin Yuan explained to him how powerful this person was, Ling Luo came back and jumped onto Yue Liangze's shoulder and said, "Her spirit veins must have been destroyed. There are scars on her wrists from having her spirit veins extracted."
No matter how strong or weak a cultivator is, his foundation lies in his spiritual veins. If the spiritual veins are destroyed, he will be just an ordinary person without spiritual power. Even if you have a lot of spells and laws in your mind, you can't use them.
"How is it possible?" Qin Yuan was shocked. "Who can destroy her spiritual veins? Isn't she a swordsman from Nanshan Xuehe? Nanshan Xuehe shouldn't be able to..."
Just turn a blind eye?
"When they got married, there was a gift box sent by Nanshan Xuehe." Jiang Jun said, "I saw the servants receiving them. The man who brought the gift was about the same age as the prince. He was wearing Xuehe's doorman uniform and had a very special temperament."
"So that means... Nanshan Xuehe knows about it?" Qin Yuan couldn't believe it.
"Xuehe must have stopped caring about her, which is why she has ended up like this." Jiang Jun frowned as he looked at the direction Gan Mao left. They were no longer able to move freely like when they got married, but were trapped near Zuo Bai Zhenjun by restrictions.
"After listening to what you said, I also remembered something. Several decades ago, there was a very powerful female swordsman in Xuehe. She was so powerful that people said that the next head would make an exception and pass the throne to her. But then this female swordsman suddenly disappeared. Some people said that she colluded with the devil, some said that she gave up cultivation and gave up on it, and some said that she and her husband lived in harmony, had a pair of children, and retired and no longer cared about worldly affairs."
"Husband and wife are in harmony?" Mu Xujing sneered.
Jiang Jun glanced at him and said, "That's what others said."
Watching the maids carrying hot water into the house, Qin Yuan was still confused and depressed: "Why would Xue He ignore her?"
Jiang Jun said, "It's very simple. A large sect like Xuehe would definitely not abandon its own disciples for no reason, not to mention such a powerful swordsman. Considering her destroyed spiritual vein and Xuehe's attitude, this spiritual vein was probably destroyed by her own sect. There is no shortage of internal struggles in large immortal sects. Maybe this Zuo Bai Zhenjun is on the wrong side."
Mu Xujing: "You are also from the Great Immortal Sect."
Jiang Jun felt that he was targeting him, so after two seconds of silence, he raised his eyebrows and looked over and asked, "Why isn't your mother here?"
Mu Xujing: "..."
The atmosphere suddenly became weird.
Everyone else present knew who Mu Xujing's mother was, and the relationship between this stepmother and stepson was always talked about by others.
Mu Xujing said coldly: "She has no right to control me."
"Really? Your mother can't do anything about it, and I, as your uncle, can do even less." Jiang Jun said with a smile.
He looked at Mu Xujing and smiled, but his expression was full of sarcasm: "Why don't you even know the art of moon curse? How can you be the head of the Moon Palace in the future?"
Mu Xujing: "I can't do it. It would be strange if you could."
Jiang Jun snorted, but stopped arguing with him.
Ling Luo knew that the Bone Demon came to Shunyi Town to look for the corpse of Zuo Bai Zhenjun, and she also knew that she had been married and had a unhappy life, but she had only heard about it and had never seen it with her own eyes.
Now seeing the wounds on Master Zuo Bai's body, I realized that other people's descriptions were not half true.
When Master Bai Zuo was bathing in the house, the two maids guarding outside the door had complicated expressions on their faces.
"Isn't he a famous True Lord in the Immortal Sect? How did the young master make him look like this?"
"Shh, keep your voice down. I've seen the wound on the Master's hand before... I'm afraid that the Madam has lost her spiritual power and is now a useless person."
"W-what?"
"Otherwise, how could someone like her marry the young master?"
"This is really... Hey, I thought that when I met the young lady, I wanted to wait and serve her wholeheartedly, and then ask her to use magic to cure my brother's illness, but I didn't expect that she would become a useless person, and there is no chance at all."
“…”
It took a long time for Zuo Bai Zhenjun to come out of the inner room. She dressed herself and went to the front hall to meet Zhao's father and mother without making any makeup.
At the breakfast table, Zhao's mother smiled and invited her to sit next to her.
Zhao Lang said unhappily, "Why didn't you put on some rouge before coming out? Look at your face. Tsk, how can you come out without makeup? You cultivators can only learn some messy sword techniques, but you don't know how to dress yourself up."
True Lord Zuo Bai remained silent.
One of her eyes was white and the other was black, which was actually a bit scary at first glance. Zhao Lang raised his head to look at her face and said, "It's unlucky. I won't eat it anymore!"
"Asshole! How can you say that!" Father Zhao slammed the table angrily, "Come back and sit down!"
Zhao Lang was not frightened at all. "Dad, look at her. She just got married and she didn't say a word to me. She didn't even call me husband. She's such a jerk! I think she thinks we are not worthy of her. She puts on airs as a cultivator and looks down on us. Otherwise, why wouldn't she even call me husband?"
"This is too shameless!" Qin Yuan couldn't stand it anymore and wanted to go up and beat him up, but was stopped by Jiang Jun.
Gan Mao was crying before, but now he was so angry that he cursed: Fuck! I really want to vomit when you stare at my face and say such bullshit! Junjun, don't stop her and let her come over and beat this bastard to death!
The father and son started arguing, and Zhao's mother stood up to mediate: "Stop arguing, what kind of talk is this? We are all family, we are all family."
Zhao's mother was not feeling well. She got up and tried to persuade him but soon she felt dizzy. She held her forehead with one hand. Zhao's father hurriedly supported her and said angrily, "You rebellious son! Look how mad you have made your mother!"
Zhao Lang pulled the corner of his mouth, pointed at Zuo Bai and said: "She is really angry! You see, she doesn't say anything while we are arguing here! Who knows, she might be laughing in her heart! Dad, I tell you, this person is used to being a high and mighty cultivator, looking down on us mortals, usually-"
Before she finished her words, she heard Zuo Bai whisper, "Husband."
Zhao Lang was stunned at first, then he couldn't stop grinning and almost cried.
"Call again?" he said.
Zuo Bai pursed his lips, glanced at Zhao's mother who was about to faint, and whispered, "Husband, come and sit down to eat."
"Okay, okay, since Madam has said so, of course I have to eat." Zhao Lang came back and sat down, looking at her sarcastically, "Why don't you feed me yourself, Madam?"
Zuo Bai looked normal. She hid all her emotions and only showed her gentle side. She held the bowl and fed him one spoonful at a time.
Gan Mao was furious: This is my face! My body! You are bringing shame to the Gan Palace! If you die, I will scatter your ashes in my ancestral grave when I get out of this world!
The Zhao family married a female Taoist priest, and everyone in Shunyi Town knew about it.
This female Taoist master was a very powerful swordsman who came from a great sect of immortals. People talked about her past with great relish, and the next day many people came to see her or brought letters and gifts to ask for favors.
Zhao's father asked his servants to stop them from entering, but Zhao Lang opened the door and let them all in, and threatened: "My wife is a famous Taoist. There is no problem in the world that she can't solve. She is kind-hearted and can't bear to see people suffer. Just go and ask her, she will agree to anything you ask."
The pious people with ulterior motives came to the courtyard where Zuo Bai lived, and the maid ran to tell her the reason in a hurry.
Zuo Bai was silent, then he stepped forward in person, stretched out his wrist in front of everyone, and explained the reason for the scar on his wrist: "My spiritual veins are broken, and now I am just an ordinary person with a weak body. I am very sorry to disappoint you all."
Everyone's expressions were wonderful.
At first, many people envied, jealous and hated the Zhao family for marrying a Taoist priest. But on the second day, they found out that the Taoist priest was a useless person. Everyone found this very funny behind the scenes and often used it to amuse themselves while drinking and eating.
"All the Dao Lords I have seen before were handsome and beautiful, but the one the Zhao family married is simply unbearable compared to the Dao Lords I have seen before."
"Not only is he ugly, he's also blind!"
"Alas, he was ugly to begin with, and he's blind in one eye. He used to be so successful, but now he's become a useless person. It's really sad."
"What's wrong with cultivators? Without spiritual veins, they are just like us. Who is nobler than who?"
Zuo Bai never left the house and basically stayed in the Zhao family courtyard. She had injuries that would take ten days or half a month to heal, but most of the time she would be abused by Zhao Lang again before she could even heal, and her scars were always a mixture of new and old.
The physical abuse was not enough, Zhao Lang would deliberately tell her what the outside world was saying about Zuo Bai.
Qin Yuan was so angry that she almost went crazy. Jiang Jun stopped her again and said, "This man has gone too far. It doesn't seem like he is simply cruel. It seems more like he has a grudge against Zuo Bai Zhenjun."
"Have a grudge? What grudge? Killing his entire family, breaking his bones, and turning him into ashes are not too much!" Qin Yuan said angrily.
Jiang Jun sneered, you are a little girl but you are quite cruel.
Qin Yuan looked around at her companions and asked, "Why am I the only one who reacted so strongly? Don't you feel angry after seeing this?!"
The white fox was held in Yue Liangze's arms again, and could only raise his paw and say, "I'm very angry."
Yue Liangze swore that he only held her down to avoid being bitten by the angry fox.
Jiang Jun said: "Although I am also very upset, there is no point in getting angry. Think carefully about it. These people died later. Just calm down."
Having his spiritual veins forcibly stripped away, the surviving body was extremely weak. Although Zuo Bai resisted, his strength was not enough.
Zhao Lang drank that night. It was raining outside. The rain and the lights in the night made the courtyard look particularly desolate.
Zuo Bai was sitting under the eaves wearing his outer robe, listening to the rain.
Zhao Lang, drunk and holding a dagger in his hand, walked up behind Zuo Bai and said, "Today is Yudie's death anniversary. I was supposed to marry her, but you said she was a demon and made my parents drive her away."
Qin Yuan paused when she heard this.
"She is very timid and afraid of people. She usually stumbles when talking to people and can only hide behind me and watch silently. She is so well-behaved and has never hurt anyone, but you insisted on killing her."
Zuo Bai said softly, "She killed someone."
"Shut up!" Zhao Lang grabbed her shoulders and made her look at him. Only one of his bright black eyes reflected the man's hideous face. "I don't care whether she kills me or not. Anyway, I have seen through you cultivators! So what if she is a demon? She has never hurt me! She has never hurt me!"
Zuo Bai said: "I have never hurt you, so is it okay to hurt others?"
"Yudie didn't kill anyone!" Zhao Lang said angrily, "You wrongly accused her without any reason, and killed her without giving her any chance!"
Zuo Bai was being strangled by him, breathing was difficult, and the incense burner in his arms rolled to the floor with a dull sound.
"Today is her death anniversary, I should bring her some sacrifices." Zhao Lang raised the dagger in his hand and sneered, "You should compensate her with this blind eye."
Zuo Bai stretched out his hand to block, but was waved away. Qin Yuan and Gan Mao both shouted to stop, but Zhao Lang raised his knife and dug out the white eyeball.
The night rain grew heavier. The woman lying on the floor stood up tremblingly, but she could not walk steadily. She rolled down the stone steps and fell into the courtyard. The night rain fell all over her body, washing away the blood stains on her body.
Zuo Bai looked dazed. He slowly reached out to cover his gouged left eye. The gloomy sky was reflected in his gray eyes.
"I kill demons and save people. What's wrong with that?"
Zuo Bai Zhenjun, who possessed supreme sword skills, unexpectedly developed an inner demon.
The inner demon Zuo Bai stood in the rainy night and looked down at her with a cold expression. The long sword in his hand had accompanied her all the way since she was fifteen years old. For ten long years, he was ruthlessly abandoned by her. The sword rang loudly, full of unwillingness.
"You did nothing wrong." The inner demon said, "You want to save everyone, but not everyone is worth saving."
No!
Every one of them is worth it!
Zuo Bai hated demons and had her own inner demons, which were more difficult to accept than the humiliation Zhao Lang inflicted on her.
She tried hard to eliminate the existence of her inner demon, but the matter was known to the demon world. At first, there were only three or two demons standing on the window and laughing at her, but gradually there were more and more.
More and more.
The level of demons coming is getting higher and higher.
When the world forgot about her, the demon world spread her deeds.
"Zuo Bai, weren't you quite impressive when you used the Fang Tian Sword Technique to kill my compatriots? How come you can't even lift a sword now?" The Demon Lord stood in the void with a group of spirit demons, looking down at Zuo Bai being bullied by Zhao Lang, "It's pitiful, really pitiful."
The Demon Lord didn't even have the intention to bully such a useless person.
Zuo Bai is still suppressing his inner demons.
In the first year, Zhao Lang plucked out one of her eyes. In the second year, Zhao Lang cut off one of her fingers.
In the third year, strange things often happened in Shunyi Town, and everyone said it was caused by demons.
Zhao's mother was seriously ill and had not shown any improvement for a long time.
A few small demons did come to Shunyi Town and scared people at night. They were described in exaggerated ways, as ferocious and bloodthirsty monsters. Everyone was in danger, and even when the chickens raised at home were taken away by birds of prey that came down the mountain, it was said to be the work of demons.
There are many theories. As those little demons became more and more unscrupulous, people gradually came to believe that they were the revenge of the demons that were killed by Zuo Bai in the past.
"She killed so many monsters and now she is a cripple. Those monsters are definitely looking for revenge on her!"
"What bad luck! It's all her fault for marrying here. She brought us bad luck too!"
"I'm going to Zhao's house tonight to ask that bitch to compensate me for the chickens I lost!"
"And me! My sheep suddenly fell ill. It must be her fault!"
People went to the Zhao family to make a scene. Zhao's father was extremely angry, but Zhao Lang just watched coldly and even said, "What explanation do you want? Kill to vent your hatred?"
People were frightened by his straightforward remarks and said hurriedly, "It's not that serious. We should tell her to tell those monsters to take revenge. If they want to seek revenge, they should go to her instead of taking it out on us."
Zhao Lang was disdainful and called them a bunch of cowards.
Zhao Lang's attitude made the townspeople very dissatisfied. That night, a child was frightened to death by a ghost.
The family cried bitterly. The child's father came to the Zhao family with a knife in hand, rushed into Zuo Bai's courtyard and shouted, "I want to kill this woman to avenge my son! You are the one who brought this disaster upon me! It's all your fault!"
The maid was frightened and retreated. No one protected her. Zuo Bai stood there without moving. She was getting weaker and weaker, and she couldn't run away even if she wanted to.
So she was kicked to the ground and the long knife slashed her face and shoulders, and the room was filled with blood.
The maids ran away screaming, shouting that someone had committed murder and asked them to save the young lady.
But when Zhao's father and his men went there, they found that the man with the knife was dead in the courtyard, while Zuo Bai, covered in blood, was standing at the door with the knife that the man brought in his hand.
Father Zhao fainted from fright.
For a while, rumors spread throughout the town that Zuo Bai had gone crazy and was possessed by a demon. The woman who lost her son and husband in one day could not accept it and committed suicide at home.
This seemed to ignite everyone's anger.
They surrounded the Zhao family and demanded to hand over Zuo Bai, who was possessed by a demon, so that they could kill her and get rid of the demon.
Zhao Lang opened the door and pushed the tied Zuo Bai out to them: "You can kill me or chop me up as you like, but don't make a fuss here and disturb my mother's recovery."
Zuo Bai, who was pushed out, was covered in blood, and his face was obscured by the blood, making it difficult to see clearly.
She seemed to open her mouth with difficulty, but someone hit her hard on the head with a stone.
The woman cried out, "You are the one who killed my second brother and caused my second sister-in-law to commit suicide. You are the demon and the evil ghost! Die!"
The crowd attacked her, punching, kicking, and beating her with sticks and swords.
It may not be wrong for people in this world to be ignorant, but it is a big mistake to do crazy things because of it.
What Zuo Bai saw was not people's disgusted faces, but a slowly expanding black fog standing behind the crowd, and a figure walking out of the black fog holding a long sword.
"No...don't..." She spoke with difficulty, trying to stop it, but was hit by a stone thrown by a seven-year-old boy and never woke up again.
It was the first time that Zuo Bai Zhenjun went out after being married into the Zhao family for three years.
The sky was dark and white snow was falling from the sky. The woman was already dead, but the crazy people were unaware of this and continued their atrocities.
Then the black shadow drew the sword in his hand and chopped off people's heads one by one. Screams were heard everywhere and people fled in panic, not knowing what to do.
Zuo Bai died, and she could no longer stop her inner demons.
Her inner demons turned Shunyi Town into a living hell.
The inner demon stood in the air holding a long sword, surrounded by black mist. She made a gesture to ignite a fire, and ignored the people kneeling and begging for mercy below. She said in a cold voice: "Come, it's your turn."
When the raging fire burned Zhao Lang, Gan Mao was finally released.
Seeing the man in front of him with his features twisted in pain, he was so angry that he kicked him twice: "You are worse than an animal! Die! Right now!"
"Prince!" Jiang Jun went over and pulled him away.
Qin Yuan covered her face and leaned against the wall, crying breathlessly, pulling Mu Xujing's sleeve to wipe her tears.
Yue Liangze looked at the inner demon above calmly and said softly, "No wonder the head of Xuehe could only suppress the evil spirits in Shunyi Town but couldn't eliminate them. It turns out that it is Zuo Bai's inner demon that is guarding here."
After they came out, Lingluo withdrew the Painted Skin Spirit and blinked at the woman lying in front of the Zhao family's door covered in blood.
A dark shadow appeared in the sea of fire, bent down, and gently and reverently picked up the dead Zuo Bai.
Mu Xujing and Yue Liangze drew their swords at the same time and pointed them at the newcomers. Qin Yuan, who was crying sadly, was frightened. Ling Luo protected her behind her and looked at the White Bone Demon who finally appeared.
"My master died in front of the Zhao family decades ago, but there was no one to collect her body." The Bone Demon said softly. When he picked up Zuo Bai, his body weathered and only a skeleton remained under the blood.
"Master?" Jiang Jun and the prince were both stunned. "She is your master?"
The Bone Demon's features were covered by a black cloak, so I couldn't see his face clearly. I only heard him smile and said, "My master is good in every way except that he is too kind. He didn't want his inner demon to hurt others even after his death, so he left the Fangtian sword technique in this town. If I want to come in and take her body out, I must avoid the sword intent."
"So I borrowed your Immortal Jade to block the sword intent. Master Danshui, I think you don't mind, right?"
Yue Liangze asked: "Where is the Immortal Jade?"
The Bone Demon did not answer, but went up into the void, standing shoulder to shoulder with the Heart Demon, and laughed, "These people deserve it. A few more decades of suffering will not be enough. Hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, tens of thousands of years! I want them to never have a peaceful reincarnation!"
The raging fire kept falling, and the prince screamed in pain. Jiang Jun pulled him and said to the White Bone Demon above: "Whatever you want to do, we have nothing to do with this matter, let us out first!"
"Go that way." Ling Luo pointed in the direction of the faint blue light, "That's the exit. Let's go now before this inner demon attacks again."
Jiang Jun grabbed the prince and ran away.
He was not interested in the sadomasochistic relationship between the master and the disciple. Instead, Gan Mao asked as he ran, "Why didn't this disciple come when his master married the Zhao family? He didn't come in the first year, the second year, or the third year! He waited several decades to collect his master's body. What a traitor!"
Jiang Jun didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Is this the time to worry about this? The princess was so worried about you being kidnapped! I guarantee with my life that I must rescue you!"
Gan Mao hurriedly said, "Yes, yes, yes, hurry home to see my sister! Go back and ask the Qilin Guards to tear down the Zhao family's ancestral tombs for me!"
Jiang Jun: “…”
Mu Xujing dragged the crying Qin Yuan away. Lingluo asked Yue Liangze, "Why don't you leave?"
Yue Liangze looked towards the direction of the Siming Pagoda: "The Immortal Jade is there."
Ling Luo said slowly, "Everything recorded in the Siming Tower is to support the existence of the inner demon. Because the White Bone Demon used the Immortal Jade as a cover to enter the Siming Tower, the Siming Tower has been attacked by Fang Tian's sword intent. Now it is all supported by the Immortal Jade. If you draw your sword and leave, the Siming Tower will be destroyed, the inner demon will be dispersed, and the people of Shunyi Town will be liberated and no longer suffer."
Yue Liangze listened with a frown on his face, as if hesitating.
In the void, the Bone Demon looked at Zuo Bai's Heart Demon with gentle eyes, but his words were full of self-blame: "Master, I'm sorry, I came too late."
He reached out his hand and gently stroked the inner demon's face: "But don't worry, we will meet again one day. Believe me, Master, it will be soon. I will not let any of those who hurt you like this go."
"I will destroy their spiritual veins, bring them to you to repent, and then lock them up in this ghost town together."
The Inner Demon had a blank expression on his face. He only cared about the resentful souls below and didn't even look at the Bone Demon.
The Bone Demon kissed her between the eyebrows and left holding Zuo Bai's body.
Fire and snow.
When Yue Liangze wanted to move forward, Lingluo pulled him by the hand and walked towards the exit.
“Don’t go.” Lingluo said, “Don’t you want the Immortal Suppression Jade? Just leave it here. No one can defeat Zuo Bai’s inner demon, and no one can pull out the Immortal Suppression Jade. It’s actually safer to leave it here.”
Yue Liangze looked down at his captured wrist, and after a moment of silence, he said, "This time it's not the Painted Skin Spirit."
"So what?" Ling Luo said without turning her head, "I regret it. Don't talk about the future. I can touch you now if I want to. If you don't want me to, you can draw your sword."
Yue Liangze: “…”
It's really justified.
He smiled silently and let Lingluo take him away.
Before leaving, Yue Liangze glanced at the inner demon above the void.
Not all grievances need to be appeased.
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