Chapter 23 Immortal Lord 023%
Qu Yaoyao felt that Chong'an was very unfriendly to Xie Qingxun.
This hostility wasn't just a simple dislike; it was a deep-seated hatred. Recalling Xie Qingxun's unusual concern for the name 'Chong'an', she asked in the pendant, "Is there any enmity between you and Xie Qingxun?"
Chong'an hummed, his tone indifferent, unable to discern any emotion, and replied with only four words: "Deep hatred and deep resentment."
As for what kind of deep hatred they had, Chong'an didn't say anything, and Qu Yaoyao didn't dare to ask further. She was a sensitive girl, and she was worried that her questioning would remind him of sad things, so she found an excuse to come out of the pendant and let him rest inside.
Before leaving, Chong'an asked, "You will help me kill him, right?"
Qu Yaoyao was in a complicated mood. She didn't know whether to agree or refuse. Her instinct made her reject the word 'kill', but she was soft-hearted and didn't want to upset Chong'an, so she replied: "Xie Qingxun is too powerful. I can't beat him. If we want to deal with him, we have to find an opportunity."
This kind of opportunity is really hard to come by.
Qu Yaoyao knew very well that she could not kill Xie Qingxun at all. This was just an excuse for her to comfort Chong'an. She never thought that this opportunity would come so soon.
"Yaoyao." Chong'an listened to Di Shu's plea and sternly ordered her, "Don't listen to him. Go to Chengyu Hall and tell her everything Xie Qingxun did to you."
"You must know that if I hadn't rescued you from the underground palace that day, you would have been killed by him."
Qu Yaoyao bit her lip, hesitated for a moment, and nodded softly, then smiled, thinking that she had agreed to her request.
Chengyu Hall.
Everyone is waiting for Qu Yaoyao to appear and provide the final proof.
On the way to Chengyu Hall, Di Shu, because he had something to ask of Qu Yaoyao, tried to be as tactful as possible in his threats. "Miss Qu, I know you are a smart person. I'm sure you know the importance of some of my words without me having to say them. Master is the Lord of Delusion Ruins and a figurehead of the entire cultivation world. You can't easily bring him down."
Di Shu's previous plea was entirely out of selfish protection for his own master, and was not instructed by Xie Qingxun. Xie Qingxun's real explanation was the following words. He wanted to tell Qu Yaoyao not to overestimate her own abilities and try to reveal the real murderer of Hua Song.
Di Shu said, "Master is not afraid of you speaking carelessly, he is worried about you. You should think carefully about the consequences of your words."
So what if Hua Song was killed by Immortal Qingxi?
What Qu Yaoyao saw was Xie Qingxun, who had fallen into demonic possession. But Xie Qingxun, now without any demonic energy, was no longer possessed. Furthermore, the notion of an immortal being falling into demonic possession was absurd; who would believe it? And how would the sect leaders trust Qu Yaoyao's words? And how would Qu Yaoyao explain her presence in the Immortal Ruins, and what her identity was?
"Don't believe him."
If Chong'an wasn't there, Qu Yaoyao would have been frightened by Di Shu's words. But Chong'an was by her side at this moment. Chong'an sneered and said nonchalantly, "Just say whatever I tell you to say. With Pei Ziyi here, he won't dare to do anything to you."
This time, Qu Yaoyao didn't respond but nodded secretly, which was seen by Di Shu again. He thought she was convinced by him.
Arriving at Chengyu Hall, the magnificent hall was no longer as cold and gloomy as Qu Yaoyao had seen it before. It was now bright and majestic.
Several sect leaders stood on both sides, with the head of the main sect standing in the center. Behind the head, Xie Qingxun, a high-ranking official, sat leaning on a golden chair. Pei Ziyi sat on the other side and raised his eyebrows when he saw Qu Yaoyao appear.
"I'm asking you, did you kill Hua Song, the young master of Yaowang Sect?" Pei Ziyi spoke first.
Qu Yaoyao thought about the Chong'an Sect's words and fell to her knees with a plop. With red eyes, she cried out for justice, "I beg the Immortal Venerable Zi Cang to see clearly. I did not kill Hua Song and I would never kill Hua Song!"
"Since you didn't kill him, why did you confess then?!"
Hua Tianhai suddenly shouted, still believing Qu Yaoyao to be the murderer, and sternly warned, "I advise you to tell the truth. Don't think you can do whatever you want just because you have Qingxi Immortal Venerable backing you up."
Qu Yaoyao was startled by him, and then angry at his words.
"Support?" She didn't know where this person got the illusion from, but she actually felt that Xie Qingxun was protecting her.
She hated being slandered. She turned to look at Hua Tianhai and pointed directly at the man on the high-level golden chair. "The man you claimed was backing me imprisoned me in the underground palace to make me a scapegoat. He watched coldly as his disciples threatened and tortured me. If I hadn't pretended to confess my guilt back then, how could I be standing here today to seek justice for myself?"
Before coming, Qu Yaoyao was in a state of uncertainty and had to agree to Chong'an to deal with Xie Qingxun. However, after entering Chengyu Hall, the questioning of the crowd reminded Qu Yaoyao of the suffering she had endured in the underground palace. She did not harm anyone, so why should she be misunderstood and blamed?
Wow——
Qu Yaoyao spoke clearly and sincerely, with a slightly trembling voice and a nasal sadness. No one could find a trace of pretense on her face.
Everyone guessed that Qingxi Immortal Venerable had forced Qu Yaoyao to confess a false crime, but they never thought that he would be so cruel as to allow his disciples to torture a girl while he stood by with a cold eye. There was a lot of discussion for a while, but most people still didn't believe it.
Pei Ziyi was so happy in his heart, but pretended to be surprised. "Miss Qu, everyone knows that Qingxi Immortal Venerable is gentle and kind. I know you are angry, but please do not slander Qingxi Immortal Venerable for personal reasons."
"I didn't slander him."
"Then tell me what kind of torture he used on you?"
Seeing the situation becoming increasingly unfavorable, Di Shu anxiously called out, "Qu Yaoyao!"
Have you forgotten what you promised me?
Qu Yaoyao was interrupted by him. This half-moon of silence gave Di Shu an opportunity to step forward, kneeling beside Qu Yaoyao and saying, "I was the one who tortured Miss Qu that day. This incident has nothing to do with Master. Master is completely unaware of it. It was all done by this disciple alone!"
He is loyal to Xie Qingxun.
Qu Yaoyao clenched her fingers and whispered under Chong'an's urging, "It was indeed Di Shu who tortured me, but Xie Qingxun was there at the time. He was watching from the side and even sat in a chair drinking tea. He asked Di Shu not to leave any marks on me."
"Qu Yaoyao!" Di Shu was anxious.
Qu Yaoyao hadn't lied; every word she spoke was the truth, without even the slightest exaggeration. Yet, these few brief words of truth were enough to dismantle the false image of the Immortal Lord that Xie Qingxun had cultivated for so many years.
Let me ask you, what famous and upright sect can sit leisurely and enjoy drinking tea while its disciples are torturing criminals?
Everyone looked at Qu Yaoyao and then at Xie Qingxun, not knowing who to believe for a moment. They didn't believe from the bottom of their hearts that Xie Qingxun would do this, and every word Qu Yaoyao said was too true. If they hadn't experienced it themselves, they wouldn't believe that a girl could make up such words.
At this moment, a low laugh escaped, and the hall suddenly became quiet.
Qu Yaoyao looked up and found that the person who laughed out loud was Xie Qingxun. He changed from his lazy sitting position to sitting upright, staring at Qu Yaoyao with his dark and cold phoenix eyes. His face was neither happy nor angry as he acknowledged her accusation, "Tell me, what else did I do to you?"
Qu Yaoyao felt a chill down her spine. Her intuition told her that since she had been cleared of suspicion, that was enough to say. Any more would only get her into trouble.
With Xie Qingxun's voluntary acceptance of punishment, Qu Yaoyao's words made him even more guilty. It was enough for him to bear the highest punishment in the sect. Although he would not die, he would be seriously injured.
Chong'an never thought that this time he could take Xie Qingxun's life. Considering that continuing to talk would be disadvantageous to Qu Yaoyao, he asked Qu Yaoyao to retreat to the side of the hall, and someone would help her with the rest of the matters.
Afterwards, in order to completely clear Qu Yaoyao's suspicion, Xie Qingxun ordered Di Shu to bring a maid from Wangxu, a maid who was infected with evil spirit.
This maidservant was Xie Qingxun's second scapegoat. She admitted the "fact" that she had killed Hua Song and used the magic flag to frame Qu Yaoyao, implying to everyone that Xie Qingxun was deceived by her and mistakenly identified Qu Yaoyao as the murderer, and it was not intentional.
"Why do you want to kill my son?" Hua Tianhai gradually believed it.
The maid's name was Su Yao. She held a high position in Wangxu and was in charge of most of the trivial matters in Wangxu.
Her face became alluring due to the demonic energy. Even as she faced death, she smiled with a sinister expression. "What else can a woman like me kill for? Hua Song betrayed me first, and then caused me to fall into the path of demons. Not only will I kill him, I will also kill all of you in the Medicine King Sect. Oh, and you too—"
Su Yao looked at Qu Yaoyao and said, "If it weren't for you, how could Hua Song betray me! You are the one who deserves to die the most!"
Everything was explained invisibly.
Qu Yaoyao was stunned when she heard this. If she hadn't seen with her own eyes how Xie Qingxun killed Hua Song, she would have really believed Su Yao's words.
Su Yao was Xie Qingxun's confidant, and she volunteered to take the blame for Xie Qingxun. She tried her best to portray herself as a vicious witch, and soon everyone believed her. Hua Tianhai's face was distorted by her anger. Seeing the murderer of his son laughing fearlessly, he roared and drew his magic sword, "I will kill you!"
Chi——
Blood splattered everywhere, the white-waisted man's head was separated, and he was chopped into two by Hua Tianhai.
Qu Yaoyao had never seen such a bloody scene before. Blood splashed on her cheek, and she stumbled, nearly collapsing. She looked up at the man on the higher level. Xie Qingxun had risen from the golden chair without anyone noticing. He watched the whole thing unfold with indifference, as if Su Yao's death was truly deserved, without a trace of sadness on his face.
But Su Yao died because of him.
Qu Yaoyao couldn't understand how Xie Qingxun could be so indifferent to life.
As if noticing Qu Yaoyao's gaze, Xie Qingxun glanced sideways, met her gaze for a moment, then looked away and gave the order, "Send Miss Qu back."
He wasn't ready to let her go.
After taking two steps outside, Qu Yaoyao wiped the blood from her face, and her peripheral vision caught sight of Su Yao's body. Suddenly, with an impulse that came from nowhere, Qu Yaoyao stopped talking and said, "Xie Qingxun can force a confession out of one person. The same method can be used again."
Her voice was soft, but it unexpectedly quieted the hall.
Everyone's eyes turned to the girl at the palace gate, and Xie Qingxun also looked over. Qu Yaoyao looked at her toes and seemed to be talking to herself, "Guess, could Su Yao be the second me?"
"Qu Yaoyao, what do you mean by this?" Hua Tianhai's eyes were red with anger.
Qu Yaoyao hunched her shoulders. She had something else she wanted to say but didn't know how. Then the pendant around her neck flashed. A flash of red light crept into her forehead, and beneath her trembling eyelashes, her pupils flashed a momentary crimson gold.
"Nothing." The soft voice had a hint of depth.
Qu Yaoyao straightened her back, gently stroked her eyebrows, turned her head to look at Xie Qingxun, and said with a slight smile: "I'm just a little curious, when did Su Yao get infected with the evil spirit in the Delusion Ruins?"
In the land of immortals, how could Xie Qingxun not sense that a maidservant was infected with evil spirit? Was it because he lacked the ability or did he know the truth but let it go?
Everyone felt that the aura of the girl in front of them suddenly changed. She looked up at the man above the high level with a look full of malice, and said jokingly and innocently, "Could it be that Qingxi Immortal Venerable is the greatest demon in this delusion?"
This is such a big joke, but there are always people who take it seriously.
“…”
In the end, it was not Qu Yaoyao but Chong'an who revealed that Xie Qingxun was a demon.
He thought, since Qu Yaoyao had once again left a thorn in everyone's heart with her light tone, he might as well step up the ante and simply use Qu Yaoyao's body to tell some 'jokes' and peel off a layer of Xie Qingxun's skin.
Qu Yaoyao had no memory of those few words, nor did she know what Chong'an said. However, not long after she was imprisoned in Xie Qingxun's bedroom, she received the news that Xie Qingxun had voluntarily entered the magic circle to show his immortal body.
"What is the magic subduing circle?" Xie Qingxun had to stay in the magic subduing circle for seven days. Although Qu Yaoyao could not leave his bedroom during these seven days, no one else could come in here at will, so Qu Yaoyao took the lead.
Sitting on Xie Qingxun's golden chair, Qu Yaoyao reclined and touched the orb on the armrest, listening to Chong'an explain in her ear: "The Demon Subduing Formation is a major killing formation of the Wanmen Immortal Sect. Any demon that enters the Demon Subduing Formation will be revealed and turned into ashes within seven days."
"Then isn't Xie Qingxun seeking his own death?" Qu Yaoyao remembered that he was full of evil spirit in Longyun Tower before, and he must be a demon.
Chong'an laughed in an unclear tone, "He won't die that easily."
The magic array couldn't kill Xie Qingxun, nor would it reveal his demonic form, but he was still a demon, and this array wouldn't let him off easily. But how could it possibly make him suffer?
Chong'an's explanation of the magic array was too light, so Qu Yaoyao mistakenly believed that the array had little effect on Xie Qingxun. Until that night, Di Shu pushed the door open and said that Xie Qingxun wanted to see her.
"Isn't he trapped in the formation? How can he see me?" Qu Yaoyao jumped down from the golden chair and followed Di Shu out reluctantly.
Because of what happened during the day, Di Shu had a grudge against Qu Yaoyao and ignored her all the way. Qu Yaoyao gradually learned to read people's expressions, and when she saw that Di Shu didn't want to pay attention to her, she closed her mouth and stopped talking, fiddling with her fingers out of boredom.
"Don't worry, he can't do anything to you now." As if sensing Qu Yaoyao's nervousness, Chong'an whispered soothingly in her ear.
Qu Yaoyao pretended to be calm, as she was indeed worried that Xie Qingxun would take the opportunity to retaliate against her. With Chong'an's words, she felt much more at ease. She followed the path, turning left and right, and felt as if they had left the Immortal Ruins.
"Go in." Di Shu stopped in front of a palace door.
Qu Yaoyao looked up and saw the three big characters "Du'eyuan" written on the palace door. For some reason, she hissed and felt that the place was filled with gloomy energy, and she suddenly didn't dare to go in.
"What's wrong?" Di Shu saw her fear and snorted coldly, "Aren't you quite powerful during the day?"
"Now that Master has become the miserable state you wished to see, shouldn't Miss Qu be eager to go in?"
Qu Yaoyao didn't react quickly enough and actually pushed the door, whispering back, "I really can't wait. I wasn't scared just now, I was excited."
I was so excited that I didn't dare to push the door open, fearing that he wasn't having a miserable enough time.
squeak--
The palace door opened.
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