Chapter 745: Out of Jealousy
Ye Wanxi sniffed and muttered softly, "No matter how talented he is, he is still a person, a person with flesh and blood. He will feel pain and get hurt when he is hit."
As Ye Wanxi spoke, she gave Feng Tianyu a disapproving look. Feng Tianyu was already tense, and after being glanced at by her, he surrendered.
"Minor injuries, but they suffered heavy losses."
Ye Wanxi couldn't believe it and glared at him angrily.
Feng Tianyu touched his nose and decisively changed the subject: "If it weren't for this, I wouldn't have discovered that Wu Yequan was behind all of this."
The topic shift was very successful; Ye Wanxi's attention was instantly drawn to this bombshell: "What do you mean? What...did Uncle Wu do?"
Qi Yingxuan curled his lips, his face somewhat unpleasant: "Instead of asking what he did, we should ask what he didn't do. Our senior uncle has done everything."
As soon as Qi Yingxuan said this, Xiang Yueqi glared at him.
“Uncle Wu… he had already fallen into demonic ways and was cultivating evil and heretical practices. If our eldest brother hadn’t stumbled upon it by chance, we would never have known that he had been colluding with the demon realm all along.”
"How could this be?" Ye Wanxi's eyes narrowed slightly as she vaguely recalled the day when the demons launched a massive invasion, sweeping all before them with unstoppable force.
At the time, some people speculated that there might be spies from the demon realm among the various sects.
For this reason, their sect conducted a particularly thorough investigation, but she never expected that this spy would actually be... Uncle Wu?
"Why would he do that?"
The group of people simultaneously fell silent.
After a long silence, Xiang Yueqi finally let out a long sigh: "It's probably because of... jealousy."
"envy?"
Although Wu Yequan was their senior uncle, in fact, he and their master, Venerable Futu, were not from the same school.
Wu Yequan's master and their grandmaster were fellow disciples, and the two had a good relationship during their lifetimes, often getting together to drink tea, chat, and instruct their disciples.
Wu Yequan and Futu were close in age and entered the sect around the same time.
So, it's no exaggeration to say that the two of them practically grew up together.
However, unlike Futu, a promising newcomer to the sect who was unpredictable yet exceptionally talented, Wu Yequan was deemed by his grandmaster and grand-uncle to have poor aptitude and limited talent from the moment he entered the sect. They believed that he would likely only be a slightly more capable ordinary person in the future and would find it difficult to truly enter the Dao.
In principle, cultivation sects would not accept such people; they would usually be eliminated during the selection process based on their innate talent.
However, Wu Yequan's parents had been kind to their master, and their early deaths were also inextricably linked to him.
As the only bloodline left in this world, Wu Yequan was someone his grandmaster had a responsibility to care for and teach, which is why he brought him back to the sect and accepted him as a disciple.
Unfortunately, even with the meticulous guidance of his grandmaster, Wu Yequan's lack of talent was enough to block his path to advancement.
"It's like an ordinary person mixed into a group of geniuses. By the standards of an ordinary person, he may have done very well, or even be considered excellent. But once compared with geniuses, he will discover the disparity in the world."
"Do you remember what people outside would say when they mentioned Senior Brother back then? They would say, 'Senior Brother is indeed worthy of being Master's disciple. He is a young prodigy. Like master, like disciple.' It is clear that Master was also a famous genius in the sect back then, just like Senior Brother."
Ye Wanxi frowned: "So, what Uncle-Master Wu is jealous of is... Master?"
"Most likely. His master is close in age to him and they grew up together. In the eyes of his grandmaster and grand-uncle, perhaps it's just that two children of similar age have found playmates and are no longer lonely. But in Wu Yequan's eyes, someone who is about his age and whose background in the mortal world is perhaps far inferior to his is gradually revealing the extraordinary talent that he desires but cannot reach. The huge psychological gap is enough to drive a person with an already extreme personality crazy little by little."
After Xiang Yueqi explained it to her, Ye Wanxi roughly understood. She had heard people say that Uncle Wu's family was once a prestigious and wealthy family, very famous in the north.
Later, perhaps because of his wealth, his entire family was slaughtered, leaving only Wu Yequan, who was taken up the mountain by his grandmaster.
Wu Yequan's pursuit of Taoism may not have been solely for his own pride; he may have also wanted to acquire skills to avenge his parents.
Unfortunately, things didn't go as planned; his talent wasn't enough to support his revenge.
Because of his family feud, he was already quite extreme in temperament. Seeing Futu, who was superior to him in every way and had everything he had ever dreamed of, it was only natural that he would be jealous.
"No matter what, it is not a reason for him to fall into demonic ways and harm the innocent."
“Junior Sister is right. Bad is bad. Just because he’s like that and doesn’t know how to deal with it, does that mean he can justify falling into demonic ways and harming people? How good was Grandmaster Uncle to him back then? How good were his uncles, senior uncles, and our master to him? Because of his resentment, how many people did he kill? Why should everyone have to pay for his misfortune with their lives just because he’s in a bad mood?”
Ye Wanxi also thought of the millions of souls who were sacrificed to the Immortal Slaughtering Array back then, and her face darkened completely: "When did he fall into demonic ways?"
"We don't know the specifics either, but according to our master and senior brothers' speculation, it has probably been going on for a long time. It's just that no one has noticed it yet."
Ye Wanxi frowned: "As far back as I can remember, Uncle Wu rarely stayed in the sect; he preferred to wander around. Could he have already..."
"That should be it. Uncle Wu has fallen into demonic ways and is cultivating the demonic path. Even if he can keep it a secret for a while while staying in the sect, he can't hide it forever. If he's not careful, his master and senior uncles might see through him. It's better to use this travel as a pretext to keep a low profile, cultivate demonic arts, and return to the sect when necessary."
"The 'necessary time' you're referring to is when the Demon Realm invades?" Ye Wanxi then realized that in her previous life, her Uncle Wu had indeed returned when the Demon Realm invaded.
At the time, everyone thought he had heard about the great calamity and rushed back to share life and death with his fellow disciples.
At the time, everyone was inevitably moved, but now it seems that the person came back as a spy to gather information so that the people in the demon realm could fight faster!
"Um."
Ye Wanxi finally managed to process this shocking secret. After thinking for a moment, she finally asked out of curiosity, "So what happened to him after that?"
"After being surrounded by people from the Demon Realm, the eldest brother disappeared for a while, and everyone thought he had met with misfortune. Unexpectedly, he suddenly returned in less than a week. At that time, Uncle Wu may have already sensed that something was wrong, so he took a desperate gamble and ambushed Master before the eldest brother could see him."
(End of this chapter)
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