Chapter 126
Tang Wo looked at Su Jinzhou and said, "Immortal Lord, there is something I don't understand. Please enlighten me."
After staying at the boat for a while, he nodded.
Tang Wo: "There's always been rumors circulating in the cultivation world that you and that demonic leader of the Nightmare Clan are senior and junior brothers." He shifted his gaze to Liu Wushu again, "They also say that Sect Master Liu is that demonic leader's master. Is this true or false? Now that all the great masters are here, why not let rumors confuse us? Why don't you just tell us directly?"
Su Jinzhou and Liu Wushu looked at each other and saw the same emotion in each other's eyes.
Su Jinzhou said, "There are many rumors in the world of cultivation, but what Sect Master Tang said is true." He raised his eyes, met Tang Wo's shocked gaze, and said seriously, "Jitang is my junior sister. From now on, please be careful with your words. I have a very good relationship with my junior sister. If I hear anyone call her 'demon head' again, I will show no mercy."
Everyone present was shocked. No one expected the Immortal Lord to say that.
Xue Pei's face darkened. "Does Immortal Venerable know what this means?"
Su Jinzhou said, "Of course. Jitang was deeply misunderstood by the cultivation world and suffered a lot for no reason."
Xue Pei's rage intensified. "Exalted Immortal, be careful what you say! Although I didn't personally experience the battle at the Nightmare Valley of Illusionary Light, many of the seniors who participated in that battle all spoke in unison, saying that the demon—"
Her words stopped abruptly, because just a second ago, the long table was split in two in front of Xue Pei.
A loud noise echoed throughout the Weifeng Hall, and the flying wood chips had already cut Xue Pei's fair neck before she put up the spirit shield, leaving a bloody mark on it.
The room was filled with silence.
Su Jinzhou withdrew his hand. "Since you all just heard this news and need time to digest it, I will hold back, but there won't be a second time." He glanced at Xue Pei with a cold gaze. "Sect Master Xue, do you understand?"
The panic expression on Xue Pei's face had not disappeared, and her heart was about to jump out of her throat.
The pressure released by the Immortal Lord made it difficult for her to breathe. Every breath was extremely difficult, and her throat and nose were filled with the smell of blood.
She didn't dare to say anything more, and nodded in shock, "I understand."
Su Jinzhou: "Since we're talking about this, there's something I don't understand." He glanced at the crowd, "More than four hundred years ago, more than half of you here attacked the Nine Nether Abyss, using the pretext of restoring order to the world of cultivation to take my junior sister's life."
"More than a thousand of you joined forces to drive my junior sister down to the Nine Nether Abyss and plundered all of the Nine Nether Abyss's magical treasures and spirit stones. I'd like to ask you, is this what a reputable and upright sect would do?"
Tang Wo stiffened his neck. "What identity does the Immortal Venerable use to speak to us? As the Demon... Brother Nightmare Venerable? During the battle at the Nightmare Valley of Illusionary Light, all the seniors said that Nightmare Venerable used the Suxuan Sect to infiltrate the world of cultivation in order to slaughter cultivators, weaken the forces of the world of cultivation, and pave the way for the Nightmare Clan."
"Have you forgotten, Immortal Venerable, that it was your junior sister who nearly took your life back then? If it weren't for the Su Xuan Sect rushing all the way to bring you back from the Nightmare Fantasy Valley to heal your wounds, I'm afraid that if it were any later, your life would be…"
"Jitang did not use Suxuan Sect!" Liu Wushu could not bear to listen any longer. They could not protect Jitang back then. Thousands of years have passed. If he still cannot protect Jitang now, then what kind of master and sect leader is he!
"On the contrary, she wanted to protect Jinzhou and Su Xuanzong, so she drew a clear line between herself and us in that battle."
Tang Wo: "Sect Master Liu naturally means anything is fine now..."
Su Jinzhou said, "Whether you believe it or not is up to you all, but I just want to remind you that the Nightmare Clan is still secluded from the world. If this is the path Ji Tang has paved for them, then this path should be a path of isolation from the world."
"This..." Everyone looked at each other.
Tang Wo said, "This is also something I can't understand. My elder Han Wei died suddenly. The nightmare aura on his body is enough to prove that it was the work of the Nightmare Clan. Why is the Immortal Venerable so sure that the Nightmare Clan has not appeared in the world?"
Su Jinzhou asked him in return, "Master Tang, don't you think it was me who did this?"
Tang Wo choked suddenly, and said with a forced smile, "Your Excellency, please stop joking."
The people at the table have lived for hundreds or thousands of years. Who could fail to see the original purpose of the Huanxiao Sect?
Su Jinzhou didn't delve into it. "Elder Han Wei has nightmare energy, but the Nightmare Clan hasn't appeared yet. I just visited the Nightmare Clan a while ago, so I can confirm it."
Yang Sijun asked at this time: "I wonder why the Immortal Venerable went to the Nightmare Clan?"
This was also the doubt in the minds of others. If the Immortal Venerable and the Nightmare Venerable had a close relationship, then they would have to reconsider the relationship between the Xuan Sect and the Nightmare Clan.
Yang Sijun: "What the Nightmare Illusionary Light Valley did a thousand years ago has already put them at odds with the world of cultivation. This is a matter of great importance to the peace and stability of the entire world of cultivation. Judging from the attitude of the Immortal Venerable now, is he determined to unite with the Nightmare Clan against this common enemy?"
When Sharky heard this, he couldn't help but snort, "That's a really big hat!"
Everyone's attention turned to him.
Yang Sijun looked him up and down, "Who is this?"
Shaqi smiled, "Come to think of it, I haven't met you yet, the new Palace Master of Weihai Palace."
Yang Sijun frowned in dissatisfaction and asked in a cold voice, "Why don't you introduce yourself, fellow Taoist?"
Shaqi leaned back, and the shadow of his original body immediately appeared behind him.
The moment the shadow appeared, the pressure in the hall suddenly increased. Most of the huge space was occupied, making it difficult to bear.
Yang Sijun's breathing stagnated slightly, and his expression changed instantly. He awkwardly supported himself on the broken long table and stood up to salute, "My eyes are not bright enough! Greetings, Sturgeon Shark Ancestor!"
The sturgeon shark clan is closely related to the Wei Hai Palace. In Yang Sijun's opinion, compared with the almighty Immortal Lord, the sturgeon shark ancestor makes him feel more awe.
Shaqi put his hand down and said in a relaxed tone: "Sit down, sit down, let's talk."
Yang Sijun was nervous and sat down properly.
Shark's tone was casual, but his eyes were unfriendly. "Speaking of the battle in Nightmare Valley, coincidentally, I was there too. The Nightmare Clan is the Nightmare Clan, and Jitang is Jitang. When the Nightmare Clan betrayed Jitang, Jitang didn't say he wanted to cause trouble for the Nightmare Clan, right? Bloodlines may connect, but hearts may not."
Jitang glanced at him helplessly.
Yang Sijun said cautiously, "The Nightmare Clan betrayed the Nightmare Lord? This...how did this come about? Why were you in the Nightmare Illusion Valley at that time, Old Ancestor?"
Shaqi said, "What a coincidence! I was living in Jitang's sea of consciousness at that time, so I knew everything clearly."
Sturgeon Shark Ancestor lived in the Nightmare Lord's Sea of Consciousness? How? This was the first thought that came to everyone's mind.
The one living in the sea of consciousness naturally cannot be the original body. If a human cultivator wants to enter the sea of consciousness of another cultivator, he must do so in the form of soul and divine consciousness. Similarly, if the Sturgeon Shark Ancestor wants to live in the sea of consciousness of the Nightmare Lord, the one living there can only be a beast spirit.
Everyone was wondering why the Sturgeon Shark Ancestor had taken on the form of a beast spirit and entered the Nightmare Lord's sea of consciousness when they heard Shark Qi say, "Aren't you curious about how the Nightmare Clan betrayed Ji Tang? Come, take a look."
Ji Tang raised an eyebrow at the sound, not knowing what he was going to do. When he looked towards him, he saw that his two fingers lingered slightly on the edge of his solar plexus, and a wisp of spiritual consciousness had actually been released.
The moment the spiritual consciousness appeared in front of everyone, it turned into a wisp of smoke. As the smoke expanded, a scene from a thousand years ago appeared, with Xue Mei's gloomy face in it.
Ji Tang was dazed for a moment. She hadn't seen this face for a long time.
In the video, Xue Mei's face was dark and gloomy, and his voice was very clear, "Take her to Huanguang Valley."
In the picture, Ji Tang's eyes were lifeless and her face was as pale as paper. She was taken into the Huanguang Valley by her tribesmen, tied to a wooden pillar, and her neck was also tied with a thick rope.
A man standing behind Ji Tang received Xue Mei's order and began to turn the handle on the side of the wooden pillar. The thick rope around Ji Tang's neck was getting higher and higher, forcing her to look up.
She was like a dying fish, at the mercy of others, yet she showed no fear or cowardice at all.
It was clearly her who was hung by the thick rope, but when she looked up, she lowered her eyes and looked coldly at Xue Mei with a look of sarcasm and contempt.
Xue Mei looked at her in agony and said, "In order to draw a clear line between you and Su Xuanzong, you are willing to stay in the Nightmare Clan. It seems that you don't even want to live anymore."
Ji Tang spoke with difficulty, "I am from the Nightmare Clan. Is it wrong for me to stay here? Clan leader, everyone heard and saw clearly. I am just using the Suxuan Sect, and I will do anything to achieve my goal. You also saw that the lives of the Suxuan Sect disciples are like grass in my eyes, worthless."
Everyone present was silent, staring intently at the scene in the smoke. The words between the lines of Yanzun's words showed that he looked down on Su Xuanzong, but his expression did not match his words.
The smile on the corner of her lips was particularly sarcastic, and this sarcasm was directed at Xue Mei. Her eyes seemed to be saying, "Stop making those plans."
As Liu Wushu said, she was drawing a clear line between herself and Su Xuanzong.
She was clearly a prisoner, looking miserable and utterly miserable, but her expression remained haughty. She looked at Xue Mei with disdain, even grinning. "You have a good plan, Chief. You want to use me to disrupt the relationships between the sect and the palace, making them suspicious and hostile to each other, while also getting rid of me, the 'traitor', killing two birds with one stone. But you're mistaken. I'm not a chess piece in your hands, and I won't play according to your wishes."
Xue Mei was furious, a vicious look flashing across his face, his cheeks trembling slightly. After a moment, he suppressed his anger and said slowly, "Ji Tang, what are you talking about? Even if you have no connection with the human cultivator sect, you can't escape the fact that you used human cultivators to bring them into our clan, and then used others to harm our people."
"You also killed all the tribesmen in Huanguang Valley. The lives you have taken are not worth dying a thousand or ten thousand times."
Xue Mei put on a look of pity, "Ji Tang, your sins are so great that even I can't save you." The malice in his eyes was too strong to hide, and it was very inconsistent with the deliberately made expression.
The thick rope around Jitang's neck continued to tighten, making it increasingly difficult for Jitang to speak. "You are...making up a false accusation...you are...going to such great lengths to find a reason...to kill me..."
Xue Mei's cold voice fell into Ji Tang's ears. Through Sha Qi's spiritual consciousness, it was as if it fell into the ears of all the cultivators, "How can you go to such great lengths? You are the young patriarch."
Everyone immediately understood what he meant.
Once the young patriarch of the Nightmare Clan dies, Xue Mei will be able to secure his position as the Nightmare Lord.
After saying this, Xue Mei grabbed the thick rope and forced Ji Tang's toes off the ground. As he used more and more strength, Ji Tang was lifted up by the thick rope, and his entire weight fell on his neck, which was strangled by the thick rope. His delicate neck made a "crackling" sound under the heavy pressure.
This scene was more effective than any sealing spell. Everyone couldn't help but hold their breath and keep their eyes on the screen.
Such a cruel punishment was used on a young girl at that time. How cruel!
The face of Xue Mei, the head of the clan, came into everyone's sight. He had a ferocious and vicious look on his face, and he looked at Ji Tang as if he were a dead person.
However, Xue Mei did not take her life.
Ji Tang lost her strength and fell down. The thick rope was pulled longer. The handle next to the wooden pillar rotated counterclockwise and quickly stopped. The thick rope was placed on her head, strangling her in mid-air.
Everyone present was concentrating on the spiritual image, and saw Ji Tangruo, a scarecrow hanging in the air after a hurricane, with a dazed look on his face, as if it would fall apart in the next second.
In order to breathe, she had to struggle to stand up, but she was exhausted and it took her a lot of effort to lean against the wooden pillar, curling up her feet, as if she was injured.
Some people couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief when they saw this, as if they were the ones who had regained their breath. However, before they could completely breathe a sigh of relief, a flash of fire appeared on the screen, and then they saw Xue Mei pushing the flaming torch towards Ji Tang's right shoulder.
Some female cultivators could no longer bear to watch, but the expected screams did not appear, not even a muffled groan.
When they looked at the screen again, they saw Ji Tang's expression of forbearance. Her lips had been bitten to pieces by her, but she didn't make a sound.
The torch fell again, and Ji Tang was completely bruised.
Until this moment, Ji Tang was still able to speak, but his voice was as shaky as a falling autumn leaf, "The clan leader has always been very skilled in killing his people. This can be seen in the punishments in more than twenty caves in Huanguang Valley..."
"I have another question. Who killed the tribesmen imprisoned in the Phantom Valley?"
Xue Mei: "You know what else can you do?"
Just at this moment, someone outside urged: "Don't waste time."
Xue Mei then said, "Don't you want to know who killed those criminals? It was her."
Xue Mei never told Jitang the answer.
Everyone watched Xue Mei leave, thinking that the matter ended here, but the screen did not darken. They saw Ji Tang struggling to turn sideways in order to see the man clearly, and leaning out of the wooden pillar without hesitation.
The thick rope instantly broke the skin on her neck and rubbed repeatedly in her bright red flesh. As Ji Tang moved, everyone saw the man's face.
The picture suddenly stopped, and they seemed to be still immersed in despair and suffocation, and no one spoke.
Shark Qi withdrew his spiritual consciousness and said, "For the rest, let this person tell it himself."
Su Jinzhou's eyes were bloodshot. He never knew that Ji Tang had suffered so much while he was unconscious.
His spiritual power surged, he suppressed the blood in his throat, calmed his mind, wiped the blood from his palms into his sleeves, took out the soul jade bottle, and released Qiu Runfang's residual soul.
Although he hadn't felt any emotion towards Qiu Runfang before, now he wanted to tear her skin and bones apart, rip her remaining soul into pieces, and bury it all in the soul-devouring blood cave of the demon clan, letting her remaining soul be eaten by thousands of demons and fall into purgatory forever!
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