Chapter 107 Exclusive Release: Zeng Shujin Did Not Establish...
Zeng Shujin did not immediately respond to Li Chenjin's words. He remained silent for a long time before slowly speaking, "Xianghuan, you are unwilling to return to Wanshan Sect, nor are you willing to acknowledge me. Do you not even have the heart to seek revenge against me? You are not even willing to hate me...?"
Li Chen's fingers, gripping the door tightly, began to turn slightly white from the excessive force, and even trembled slightly.
She gazed quietly at the person before her, listening to their words. Her heart, which should have been completely still, was stirred once again.
All those past loves and hates that had long since vanished, or rather, those that had long been suppressed, surged up all at once, causing her eyes to uncontrollably redden.
The moment she blinked and felt the cold tears streaming down her cheeks, she knew that no matter how much she tried to deceive him, she wouldn't be able to fool him now.
I don't know how this puppet's body was made, it can even shed tears. If Shen Zhengyuan had made a puppet that couldn't shed tears, she could have gotten away with this today.
She sighed softly, looked at the person opposite her, and after a long while, took a step back and said, "Come in."
Zeng Shujin stepped into the house, then turned around and closed the door.
As he was getting ready and turned around, Li Chenjin had already sat back down at the table, flipped over the two cups on the table, and filled them with tea.
He walked heavily to the table, sat down slowly, and then fell into a silent silence again.
After a long while, he said in a low, hoarse voice, "Xianghuan, don't you have anything you want to say to me?"
Li Chenjin: "..."
She looked up at the person opposite her.
Compared to before, Zeng Shujin's appearance has not changed at all. The two of them still look like they are in their early twenties, but their state of mind is already very different from when they were young.
Some of the legendary sword gods were framed by Zeng Shujin and forced to perish.
Many people treated this rumor as a joke, and although they had some doubts, they didn't take it too seriously.
But in fact, this rumor is not entirely unfounded.
The former Sword God, Li Xianghuan, received a letter seeking help one day. He learned that there were evil demons causing trouble in the mountains not far from the cultivation world, abducting people to the deep mountains to eat. He immediately led a dozen or so of his men to the mountains.
In the past, when Li Xianghuan needed to go out on business, he always went alone.
On that one day, when she heard that there might still be many people there who were being raised by evil demons, she felt that she was not good at taking care of people, so she took fifteen people who volunteered to go with her.
Upon arriving at the destination, Li Xianghuan indeed saw dozens of evil demons with bloodshot eyes, drooling mouths, and surrounded by malevolent energy, as if they had lost their minds.
After she killed more than ten of them, the remaining evil demons seemed to know they couldn't win and scattered and fled. But in the end, they all gathered together and disappeared into a deep cave.
At that time, they were standing outside the cave and could hear people crying and calling for help coming from inside.
This is exactly the same as what was said in the letter seeking help. These evil demons actually kidnapped and ate many people, and kept the rest as livestock.
As a sword god, Li Xianghuan had killed countless demons and monsters, so he wouldn't take those seemingly ordinary evil demons seriously. He immediately led his men into the cave.
And it was from the moment they entered that cave that everything began to change.
At first, she only killed the evil demons, while having the fifteen people who came with her search the caves for the people who had been kept by the evil demons.
Just as she had slain the evil demons, leaving only a few scattered individuals, and the fifteen people had found the living people who had been kept by the evil demons, Li Xianghuan suddenly felt the ground shake beneath her feet.
Li Xianghuan possessed exceptional cultivation and keen eyesight; even in the darkness, he could see everything within his sight as clearly as in daylight.
Therefore, she also saw something extremely large slowly sliding through the gradually opening cracks beneath her feet.
But before she could see clearly what was sliding past, a killing array set up by the cultivation world suddenly appeared on the ground beneath her feet.
The killing formation was different from the killing formations used by cultivators in the world. It seemed to be some ancient, incomplete secret technique that Shen Zhengyuan had created after filling in and modifying it.
Although their power is not as great as the killing formations of ancient times, these killing formations all have one thing in common: they become stronger when they encounter stronger opponents.
The higher the cultivation level of the enemy who steps into this killing formation, the stronger the formation becomes in trapping them, and the more powerful the heavenly lightning it summons, enough to obliterate their body and soul.
Therefore, it is absolutely impossible to break such a formation from the inside. Only if someone is willing to risk their life to break the formation from the outside can they possibly secure a chance of survival for those inside.
Coincidentally, there were five people outside the formation's range when the formation took effect.
Those five were disciples who had only recently joined the sect. Although they had excellent aptitude and cultivated diligently, they had only just reached the Golden Core realm. They volunteered to come here simply to broaden their horizons.
After all, everyone in the Wanshan Sect and even the entire cultivation world knows that when you go out with the Sword God, you don't need to care about your cultivation level. After all, when it really comes down to fighting, the Sword God alone can be as strong as a thousand troops, and there is no need for anyone else to help.
Li Xianghuan never expected to encounter this situation again, nor did she expect that there would be such a formation in the cultivation world. However, she knew that it would be impossible for five cultivators who had just reached the Golden Core stage and whose cultivation was not yet stable to break the formation.
Therefore, Li Xianghuan immediately told them to hurry back to Wanshanmen and ask Zeng Shujin to come and provide support. In the meantime, she and the other ten people in the formation would try their best to hold on.
The five men knew their own limitations, so they immediately responded and ran out as fast as they could.
The valley is not far from Wanshan Gate. Normally, it would take about a day to go back to Wanshan Gate from that valley and back, but if you rush, half a day is enough.
Although given the circumstances, they couldn't possibly last even half a day, she felt that if five more people could live, and Zeng Shujin could collect their bodies in the end, it wouldn't be too bad.
Although, in theory, she might not even be left with a speck of ashes.
But to her surprise, the five people ran back not long after they left. The youngest disciple among them even called out to her with a smile, "Sect Leader! The Vice Sect Leader is here! The Vice Sect Leader is here!!"
Li Xianghuan did indeed see Zeng Shujin, but the smile on her face froze abruptly.
Although Zeng Shujin arrived, she did not completely walk in through that passage.
He stood quietly in the dim light, watching her silently, without a trace of urgency or concern. His somewhat distant attitude made her heart sink.
Li Xianghuan not only surpasses others in cultivation progress, but her intelligence is also in no way inferior to her cultivation level. She always understands things immediately and can be considered to have a very clever mind.
Therefore, in that instant, countless guesses and possibilities flashed uncontrollably through Li Xianghuan's mind, but in the end, she rejected them one by one.
However, even though Li Xianghuan rejected those conspiracies in his mind, it could not change the fact that Zeng Shujin clearly intended to leave him to die, and that the magic array was about to be activated.
At that moment, thunder rumbled in the sky, shaking the valley and causing the ground beneath their feet to tremble. Zeng Shujin remained standing there, observing coldly, as if nothing concerned him.
At that moment, not only Li Xianghuan, but also the five people who were overjoyed when they saw Zeng Shujin coming over, quickly realized what was happening. They no longer relied on Zeng Shujin, but instead picked up their longswords and rushed towards the barrier created by the magic array after it was activated, each of them with the determination to die for their lives, trying to break through from the outside.
Li Xianghuan listened to the ten people around her calling out "Vice Sect Leader" in Zeng Shujin's direction, but she just quietly looked in Zeng Shujin's direction.
The initial sadness and disbelief had faded, and what occupied her mind at that time was only pure and extreme hatred for Zeng Shujin.
Especially when she saw Zeng Shujin press something and a stone door slowly descend from the passage, she gritted her teeth, staring fiercely at Zeng Shujin's gradually disappearing figure, wishing she could rush out immediately, eat his flesh, and drink his blood.
But for now, she is still the sect leader, and as the sect leader, she has to ensure that all the disciples who can survive live on.
Therefore, she kept urging the five people outside to leave as soon as possible, and even the people trapped with her also advised the five to leave.
However, the five disciples seemed determined, and did not retreat a single step until the stone door was completely closed, completely isolating the world inside and outside the cave.
Looking back now, all the sadness, doubt, confusion, hatred, and disbelief I felt at the time have vanished.
It's like ripples on a lake. No matter how similar today's ripples are to yesterday's, they are ultimately not yesterday's ripples, so you can't feel the lake's thoughts when yesterday's ripples were created.
Before sitting face-to-face with Zeng Shujin, she thought she would have many thoughts, but when they actually sat face-to-face, Li Chenjin suddenly felt very calm, so calm that she felt like she had become a dead person.
She thought she would hate him, but the moment she saw him, what came to her mind first, rather than hatred, was what she had heard from the seniors, fellow disciples, and juniors in the sword cultivator world who could not trust her after she took over as the leader of the Wanshan Sect.
"Is this the decision made by the new sect leader? It's a complete mess, making the sword cultivation world a chaotic mess! I wonder why the former sect leader chose her as the new leader!"
"Li Xianghuan is not Sect Leader Zeng's biological daughter. I heard that she was adopted from another cultivation world and was an abandoned orphan! How could someone like that sincerely help the sword cultivator world? I don't think she's any good!"
"Zeng Shujin is truly blinded by lust. He's a member of the sword cultivation world, yet he's speaking up for someone from outside! He's just like that Li Xianghuan, utterly incapable of shouldering great responsibilities!"
"Li Xianghuan has gone mad! She wants to merge the cultivation world and the human world to save those she considers pitiful. What utter nonsense!"
"If we had known, we should have kicked her out of the sword cultivation world before she took over as sect leader! She caused so much trouble in the sword cultivation world before, but I didn't hold it against her because she was the former sect leader's last disciple. Now she has the nerve to act so arrogantly!!"
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