Executed
The white-robed guard Xuan Dao was instantly drawn into the painting, but the black-robed guard was standing further back and reacted quickly. He spun around and dodged the unknown magic weapon, while his right hand had already drawn a long sword and held it across his body.
He seemed to be trying to show "I am evil" in every detail. The black clothes were not enough, even the sword he just drew was pure black.
"Who is it?!" In the middle of an argument, the opponent disappeared. The black-robed Wei Xuandao shouted angrily and slashed at the scroll with his sword. Xu Shulou leaped out and caught the scroll in mid-air before he could.
The man in black robe immediately changed his attack and slashed at her. Xu Shulou used his spiritual power to spin in mid-air and barely avoided the sword. He felt the opponent's sword intent at close range, which was sticky on his clothes and contained a chilling aura.
"Sperm-sucking sword?" Xu Shulou was very knowledgeable, mainly because there were not many swords of this shape in the world of cultivation. The sword body had a groove on it, and there was no need to hit the vital points during a fight. As long as the sword scratched a cut, the essence and blood would flow out along the groove, causing serious damage to the injured cultivator. It was a magical weapon despised by righteous people, and because of its effectiveness, the world of cultivation commonly called it the Essence-sucking Sword.
The black-robed Wei Xuandao probably cared more about appearances, and actually corrected him, "It's called the Soul-Slaying Shura Sword."
"…Isn't it still the Sperm-Absorbing Sword?" It's just the difference between the common name and the elegant name.
As they were talking, the two did not slow down their attack. The folding fan in Xu Shulou's hand flashed with light and turned into a long sword.
She twirled her skirt slightly to avoid another attack from the man in black robe. The sword energy drew an arc around her body, forcing the evil version of Wei Xuandao back.
The man in black robe had naturally recognized her face: "Xu Shulou? How did you find this place?"
Xu Shulou turned his wrist and pointed the sword at his throat: "If you don't want others to know, then don't do it yourself."
"Where did you take him?" The man in black robe raised his hand to block. He didn't like Wei Xuandao in white, but he knew that Wei Xuandao in white was the hope for ascension, so he had to save him.
"Don't worry, I'll take you to meet up later."
The black robe and long sword broke through the wind, carrying a burst of cold air, like a poisonous snake spitting out its tongue and biting towards Xu Shulou: "Then don't blame me for killing you to take the treasure, Xu Shulou, ah Xu Shulou, you could have been used by me, but you insisted on seeking death!"
"It's you who is looking for death. Otherwise, do you think I like to come all the way to kill people?" Xu Shulou flipped his sword, and the sword intent entangled the sword. The man in black robe suddenly felt numb in the palm of his hand and could no longer hold the hilt of the sword.
Wei Xuandao was at the peak of the Spiritualization stage. Even if his strength was damaged on both the good and evil sides after the split, he shouldn't have shown signs of defeat so quickly. The man in black robe was shocked: "What realm have you reached?"
Xu Shulou did not answer, but stepped forward, the sword in his hand shining brightly, pointing towards the black robe's brow.
There was nothing strange about this sword, but the man in black robe could not avoid it. He watched the sword energy coming towards him and hurriedly summoned a protective magic weapon to condense it on his forehead in an attempt to block the attack. However, Xu Shulou's sword deviated an inch at the last moment and only cut off the bun on his head.
The sword almost cut through his scalp, and the man's hair in black robe fell down unevenly, with a bald spot in the middle of his head.
Before he could feel any sadness about his sudden baldness, the sword in Xu Shulou's hand had already fallen down with great force, hitting the top of his bald head and knocking him unconscious.
Xu Shulou picked up the black robe and threw him into the painting, then leaned against the mountain wall and breathed a sigh of relief. The fight with Wei Xuandao had exhausted her quite a bit, so after a short rest, she took out a shovel and prepared to dig the hole.
She didn't dare to use her spiritual power to shake the ground directly, for fear that Xiao Ruzhuo was not dead but would be killed by her shock.
After digging for a whole incense stick of time, they heard a clang sound. The shovel hit something hard. Xu Shulou leaned his head in and, with the faint light from the ice coffin, saw Xiao Ruzhuo's handsome face with his eyes closed.
She dug out the ice coffin, thought for a moment, and decided to take the person back to Wuchen Island first before making any further arrangements.
After a living person entered the painting, the Qiankun bracelet could no longer be put in. Xu Shulou could only carry the ice coffin on his right shoulder, hold the scroll in his left hand, and fly to Wuchen Island with his family.
———
On Wuchen Island, the sect leader had been invited to help an old brother to overcome the calamity and protect the law. Now he finally had some free time. He burned some incense in the bamboo forest and was about to make tea or wine. He had a chance to relax for half a day when he saw Xu Shulou carrying an ice coffin in front of him.
The head of the sect was in great pain and wanted to revoke the access rights of Xu Shulou to the main peak of Wuchen Island, but he could only put down the exquisite tea set in his hand, stretched his neck to take a look at Xiao Ruzhuo in the ice coffin, and sighed: "How long will this trouble take me?"
"It's hard to say, but there is a quick way," Xu Shulou said considerately, "Just chop Wei Xuandao down."
The head of the sect covered his eyes in despair: "Don't tell me you brought Wei Xuandao back with you."
Xu Shulou suddenly felt reluctant to tell him that he not only brought back Wei Xuandao, but also brought back two Wei Xuandao.
She patted the scroll and decided to let reality replace language to hit the head: "Spit him out."
The head of the sect was indeed a cultivator who had seen many storms. He looked at the two unconscious Wei Xuandao, one black and one white, who rolled out of the painting. He was not surprised at all. He just asked Xu Shulou with a headache, "Did you knock out all three?"
"Xiao Ruzhuo is not..." Xu Shulou hurriedly reported the whole story to the headmaster.
The head of the sect heard this with his eyes wide open: "This matter is a bit troublesome. I have to write a letter and send it to Lingxiao Sect. This time, their sect leader can't be lazy."
Wei Xuandao was temporarily imprisoned in the Wuchen Island Punishment Hall. The head of the sect invited a doctor to treat Xiao Ruzhuo. After Xu Shulou sent a message to Xiao Ya, he finally calmly picked up the scroll and asked, "Why did you torture the two people I sent in?"
"No," Na Hua was puzzled. "Didn't you tell me to stop torturing others? I am so obedient."
“……”You did this on purpose, didn’t you?
"What's wrong?"
"So what did you do to him?"
The painting said mysteriously, "I am trying to persuade him to be good."
"To be kind?" Xu Shulou raised his eyebrows. "What was the result?"
"Well, not so good. He is probably the worst person who has ever entered my painting. I don't even need to put him in a place like 'Fairyland' to train him. He is already very bad." The scroll sounded a little frustrated. "I created a very friendly environment for him, but he still did evil things... I even arranged for him to have a Taoist partner with excellent qualifications and careful understanding to heal him, redeem him, help him cultivate his mind, and persuade him to be good, but he found a way to take the Taoist partner's essence... But I didn't have time to try for too long. When you called me, I erased his memory in the painting and kicked him out."
"The Taoist companion you mentioned should be evil, right?"
"Aren't both of them evil-minded? I was just referring to the one in the black robe."
"What's the meaning?"
"I also placed the man in white in the same painting. He was in love with his Taoist partner in front of others, but secretly dug out his partner's spiritual roots and wanted to use a secret method to replace it with his own, but failed," the painting scroll was confused. "Why do you call the man in black evil? He himself also called himself evil... According to my standards, both of them should be evil. Is there some other rule in the world of cultivation that I don't understand?"
Xu Shulou raised his eyebrows: "Wei Xuandao has already stripped away his evil thoughts and claims to be a pure and kind person. I think that even if Bai Yi is kind to some extent, at least he shouldn't do such evil things..."
Hua Juan asked, "What's so strange about this? Wei Xuandao said that this person's evil thoughts came from himself, not forced by the environment, nor forced on him by the outside world. Even if the evil thoughts are stripped away, he will gradually generate evil thoughts again."
Xu Shulou looked at it in surprise: "You are actually quite sophisticated for once."
"I am already very profound!" Huajuan was silent for a moment, then spoke again, "Can you explain in detail what I just said that was profound?"
"..." Xu Shulou didn't respond. "It seems that Wei Xuandao's pure and kind body is only truly kind for the first few days after it is peeled off. After that, it will definitely be contaminated by malice again. After a few decades, maybe another black robe can be peeled off from his main soul..."
Huajuan took the opportunity to advise: "Look, you should be more disappointed in human nature like me."
Xu Shulou sighed and said, "I'll take you to see a good person next time."
"Whatever," Huajuan looked uninterested, then he thought of something and asked Xu Shulou for credit. "By the way, in order to analyze his mind, I specially observed Wei Xuandao's mental process when he did bad things. Do you want to listen to it?"
"I'm not interested. This is not a fantasy world," Xu Shulou shook his head. "In the real world, if you do bad things, you will be punished. His motives and difficulties have nothing to do with me."
The painting was bored and stopped talking. Xu Shulou shook it and hung it back on the top of Mingyue Peak.
———
This matter was of great importance and Lingxiao Sect could not help but take it seriously. Ten elders came to interrogate Wei Xuandao, and Sect Master Ling Li finally left the cave where he was in seclusion and went to Wuchen Island in person.
In addition to them, several disciples of Wei Xuandao were also on the list.
Xiao Ruzhuo had been rescued, but he was a little dazed. He wandered outside the Punishment Hall for several hours, but in the end he did not go in to see Wei Xuandao.
Wei Xuandao didn't really want to see him, he just asked to meet his eldest disciple Lu Beichen in private. Wuchen Island had no reason to object to this, so Lu Beichen was allowed to visit him in prison.
When he was brought in for interrogation on the second day, facing the leader of Lingxiao Sect and a group of elders, Wei Xuandao in white appeared calm and composed. Even the one in black could not help but look at him, wanting to ask him what countermeasures he had.
Ling Xiao Sect Master Ling Li glanced at the two of them calmly and said, "Wei Xuandao, do you know you are wrong?"
Bai Yi is the main soul, so he is the one who will handle the conversation at this time: "I know I am wrong."
"You have harmed your fellow disciples. Since you know your mistake, just execute him."
The elders of Lingxiao Sect were in an uproar. Ling Li's judgment seemed to be in a hurry.
Xu Shulou knew that he might be in a hurry to go back to practice. His indifference was fair to everyone. He didn't care about Zhang Baihe's death at first, and now he doesn't care about Wei Xuandao's life or death. To him, these things are probably just trivial matters that disturb his ascension.
"Master, shouldn't we ask a few more questions? The witnesses Xiao Ruzhuo and Xu Shulou haven't spoken yet," a white-bearded elder stepped forward to ask for instructions, "Besides, Wei Xuandao is an elder of our sect after all, how can we kill him so hastily? At least we should find out the whole story, right?"
"Then you ask." Ling Li began to close his eyes and rest.
The white-bearded elder gritted his teeth and went ahead, asking the witness a few routine questions.
Xiao Ruzhuo bowed respectfully and said, "That day outside Master's room, I didn't hear anything important. I only heard Uncle Zhang's name. Master's magic power is stronger than mine, and he found me very quickly. I don't know what he thought I heard that made him want to attack me."
Xu Shulou also recounted the conversation that took place in the cave truthfully.
One is a disciple, the other is a well-known leader, and the two Wei Xuandao in front of him cannot be fake. Hearing about Zhang Baihe, everyone in Lingxiao Sect took a breath of cold air. Some people couldn't believe it, some were so angry that they pointed at Wei Xuandao and cursed, and some people spit a large mouthful of saliva at him in the air. Xiao Ya in the crowd clenched the hilt of the sword in her hand.
The white-bearded elder took another look at the black-robed man who had a funny bald spot on his head, and decisively chose to talk to the man in white: "Brother Wei, why are you so confused?"
"It's my fault. I abandoned my original intention in pursuit of the great way."
“Then…”
Seeing his hesitant look, another elder stepped forward and asked, "Brother Wei, let me be frank. Is your secret technique of removing evil thoughts real or fake?"
The white-robed guard Xuandao looked at the black-robed man and said, "Isn't it obvious whether it's true or not?"
The person asking the question looked at another elder in the crowd, cleared his throat, and asked again: "Brother Wei, can you prove it?"
The white-clothed guard Xuandao smiled and said, "If the Taoist friends from Wuchen Island agree to untie my chains, I can use my secret method to take the evil thoughts back into my body right now as a proof."
The head of Wuchen Island faced several eager gazes, nodded slightly, and someone came forward to untie Wei Xuandao's chains.
Under the watchful eyes of everyone, the man in white used his martial arts, and his clothes moved without wind. After a moment, he stretched out a finger and pointed it at the center of the brow of the man in black. In the astonished eyes of the man in black, his body gradually turned into pieces and merged into the body of the man in white piece by piece.
The people of Dustless Island carefully put the chains on him again.
Following this scene, Xiao Ya in the crowd clearly saw that among the people of Lingxiao Sect, most of them still had angry expressions in their eyes, but there were also a few people who showed joy in their eyes.
She was shocked, and suddenly realized, yes, this kind of skill can remove evil thoughts and protect people from disasters, so there will definitely be people who are jealous. They... are they going to forcibly protect Wei Xuandao just for the sake of this skill?
No wonder he was so fearless and calm, because he knew the temperaments of his fellow disciples very well...
Not all of them are needed. As long as two or three of the ten elders are willing to protect him, that would be enough.
She bit her lip. She didn't expect things to develop to this point. It was true that he was her master, but given Wei Xuandao's character, if he had the chance in the future, how could he not take revenge on Xiao Ruzhuo who testified in front of everyone today? How could he not get to the bottom of it and find out who had attracted Xu Shulou...
Sure enough, an elder already spoke up: "Master, Elder Wei is from Lingxiao Sect after all, and the perpetrators are also from Lingxiao Sect. This matter has nothing to do with Wuchen Island. In my opinion, should we take him back to Lingxiao Sect and deal with him first?"
What he said was not without reason. Those elders with angry eyes did not refute it. Perhaps in their opinion, it would not be too late to kill Wei Xuandao according to the sect rules after returning to the sect.
But Xiao Ya knew that once he returned to Ling Xiao Sect, there would be no such opportunity again. The Sect Master was indifferent to everything, and there were too many of his trusted followers in the sect... She pulled the person next to her: "Big Brother, you..."
Lu Beichen is the chief disciple of Lingxiao Sect. He has some say in front of the Sect Master. In desperation, Xiao Ya wanted to ask him for help, but Lu Beichen just turned his head and looked at her woodenly, with pain and confusion in his eyes.
"You..." Looking at the situation, Xiao Ya was afraid that she would have to comfort him instead.
"Yes, Sect Master," another elder echoed, "Let's discuss Lingxiao Sect's affairs behind closed doors..."
Seeing Ling Li impatiently opening his eyes, as if he was about to nod and let them go, Xiao Ya was extremely anxious, but the elder's voice suddenly stopped...
Xiao Ya hurriedly looked towards the field and saw a long sword named "Young Madness" had pierced Wei Xuandao's heart.
Xu Shulou drew out the sword, his face splattered with blood. He looked at Wei Xuandao's slowly falling body, raised his head and smiled at the silent crowd: "The criminal Wei Xuandao has been executed."
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