Chapter 489 True and False
Inside the Demon Palace, the Palace Master was pruning branches, and next to him was a potted plant with freshly trimmed branches.
To be fair, the cut is pretty good.
Cheng Wuchou looked at the potted plant and smiled, "Palace Master has great skills. He is worthy of being the eldest brother of the previous generation of Chunqiu Sect."
The Demon Palace Master's expression remained unchanged. He ordered his men to remove the potted plants before saying, "Young Master Cheng seems to have a strong opinion of me."
He took a step forward, intentionally or unintentionally protecting Tao Zi behind him, and said, "I'm just curious, why would the dignified Demon Palace Master look for an ordinary cultivator like Ah Zi?"
"An ordinary, insignificant cultivator?" The Demon Palace Master couldn't help but laugh. "Master Cheng, do you have some misunderstanding about your sister? Right now, there aren't many people in the entire Xuanyue Continent who can be more dazzling than her."
Cheng Wuchou didn't want to be vague about Ah Zi's matter, so he skipped the topic and asked directly, "May I ask what the Palace Master wants?"
"It's nothing serious. It's just that the child Xuanhuan is missing, and the Chunqiu Sect can't find him."
Cheng Wuchou said coldly: "Just for such a small matter?"
The Demon Palace Master smiled in denial and said, "You can't say that."
Tao Zi finally spoke: "Where are the Thousand Needle Doctor and Li Xiu, the master and apprentice?"
The Demon Palace Master had clearly thoroughly understood the situation and replied without even thinking, "It also disappeared."
She concluded: "That's fine."
He frowned and said, "Three medical practitioners who are powerless, are you sure there is nothing wrong? They are not Shaohua."
Cheng Wuchou said, "The Thousand Needles have the power to protect themselves, so you don't have to worry. Is there anything else? If nothing, we will leave."
It was a very normal sentence, but Tao Zi could tell from it that her brother was in a bad mood.
He seemed too impatient to even try to hide it.
The Demon Palace Master smiled and said, "Mr. Cheng, have you noticed? You are indeed a disciple carefully trained by the Xujia Sect. But you don't need to worry. I will not harm you."
Cheng Wuchou's expression turned cold, and he even put away his perfunctory cover-up and said, "You'd better explain it clearly."
Tao Zi was completely confused. She had no idea what was going on and couldn't even understand what was going on. However, she maintained a calm and composed expression on the surface.
The Palace Master smiled and clapped his hands. Two demon cultivators came in carrying a cage containing a creature covered in black cloth.
Almost at the first sight, Tao Zi felt uncomfortable and hated the thing in the cage from the bottom of her heart.
Cheng Wuchou immediately changed her position, letting Tao Zi move further away from the cage. At the same time, she also moved closer to the Palace Master.
Tao Zi's gaze fell on the cage. To her brother, this cage seemed more terrifying than the Palace Master of the Demon Palace.
After putting down the cage, a demon cultivator used an iron rod to remove the black cloth.
An alien so ugly that it made people want to vomit at the first sight appeared in front of everyone.
Cheng Wuchou frowned and said, "Azi, don't touch it. It's an epiphyte among the alien species."
Tao Zi looked at the alien with caution and asked, "Brother, can it reproduce in a human body?"
"Not just humans." The Demon Palace Master stepped forward, looking at the alien race with a smile, a hint of strangeness in his eyes. He said, "It can include demons and even ordinary unintelligent creatures. This alien before us is one of the strongest of this kind. He can expel the soul from the original body, occupy the body, and even use the body's spiritual veins for cultivation."
Her eyes gradually grew colder, and she tilted her head to look at the Demon Palace Master and asked, "What are you hinting at?"
His smile deepened: "As you wish."
Tao Zi looked at him for a long time before saying, "Do you know what this means?"
"Friend Tao, this is the most unlikely possibility, but also the most reasonable one, isn't it?"
Cheng Wuchou stood there with a sullen face and said, "I don't care what you are hinting at, but Ah Zi is just an ordinary cultivator. Don't even think about getting her involved."
The Demon Palace Master looked at Cheng Wuchou and laughed out loud, saying, "Mr. Cheng, you're truly overwhelmed by your concern. Which creature on the continent hasn't been involved in the affairs of other races? Not to mention that Fellow Daoist Tao has been involved in the game for a long time, and at the center of it."
There was a cold glint in his eyes as he asked, "What do you know?"
"Tao Zi is closely related to the overall situation. You should have heard this from others."
Cheng Wuchou and Tao Zi looked at each other. Those people were clearly talking about the Minglan Sect, but the demon cultivator in front of them said it was Tao Zi.
She thought for a moment and said with a smile, "Palace Master, you think highly of me. The one who is closely related to the overall situation is Qinglan. What can a small person like me have to do with the overall situation?"
The Demon Palace Master discerned the expression on her face, feeling somewhat uncertain, and said, "Fellow Daoist Tao is truly modest."
Tao Zi sighed and said, "I'm just an abandoned pawn thrown out to cover up the truth."
He looked at her sincere expression and became more and more uncertain.
Cheng Wuchou said at the right time: "Palace Master, we still have things to do. If there is nothing else to say, we should leave."
The Demon Palace Master smiled and said, "It's not that there aren't any. Please ask Master Cheng to hand this alien race over to the Xujia Sect."
His expression was normal, even a little apologetic, as he said, "I have severed ties with the Xujia Clan. It would be better if the Palace Master asked someone else to send me off."
"Has that man also disowned you?"
Cheng Wuchou was stunned for a moment, and asked uncertainly, "Is the Palace Master referring to Sect Master Cheng?"
"Mr. Cheng, are you joking with me?"
Cheng Wuchou asked with curiosity in his eyes, "What do you mean?"
The Demon Palace Master sighed and said, "Since Master Cheng doesn't want to talk about it, then forget it. Please go ahead."
Cheng Wuchou and his sister left the Demon Palace and chatted about some random things on the way. They circled around the Demon Realm and left after making sure that no one came out.
At this moment, inside the Demon Palace, an alien appeared beside the Palace Master and asked, "What do you think?"
The Palace Master took out the chessboard from the storage container and said slowly, "What can we say? I've said before, Tao Zi is too flamboyant, it's unlikely she's the backup left by the Emperor's daughter. But the person from Xujiamen is a possibility."
The alien snorted and ordered, "Hurry up and send that piece of trash to Xujiamen. I want to see who is hiding in Xujiamen!"
The Palace Master smiled and said, "I will definitely do this as soon as possible."
As soon as the alien left, the smile on his face faded. Looking at the weak alien in the cage, he said with regret: "You voluntarily changed from a human to an alien, and now you are abandoned. Do you regret it?"
The alien remained silent until the Palace Master ordered his subordinates to suppress him. Then he spoke, "I have no regrets, just as you have no regrets."
The voice was strange and distorted, as if the person speaking had not spoken for a long time.
The Palace Master smiled again and said, "I haven't become an alien, so why should I regret it?"
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