Chapter 592: A Century of Tragedy
"Thank you for your help just now! Hong Hou is very strange. Only lightning can restrain it. The Bright Pure Fire I practiced was suppressed by it."
Nangong wore a white mask and stared at the four war corpse puppets standing beside Li Weiyi with a thoughtful expression.
Li Weiyi was still immersed in her mysterious body movements and extraordinary stick techniques. In just a few dozen moves, she had actually killed Emperor Wen Gu Hou. Moreover, Emperor Wen Gu Hou couldn't escape even if he wanted to.
Beside her, Liu Ye coughed dryly.
Li Weiyi came back to his senses and said: "Let's leave here first."
Away from the battlefield and out of pursuit, the three of them stopped by a big river.
Li Weiyi asked Nangong about the news of Tang Wanzhou and Chang Yujian.
"We're trying to break out in separate ways. A large number of experts are chasing Sheng Si, so she's probably in great danger. It should be easier for Chang Yujian to escape. He has a killer move, so there aren't many pursuers."
Nangong stood by the river, with a restrained glow on his body and the mask on his face removed, revealing a stunning face that was rarely seen in the world.
Her temperament is not as heroic as Tang Wanzhou's, nor as lonely and cold as Qing Zijin's, but rather gentle and soft.
But at this moment, neither Li Weiyi nor Liu Ye was in the mood to appreciate it.
After Li Weiyi inquired about the direction Tang Wanzhou had fled, he prepared to leave: "Xiaowei's martial arts skills are extremely advanced. I'll leave Liuye in your care!"
Li Weiyi had no intention of kidnapping Nangong to go with him to find Tang Wanzhou, even though the other party had a very high level of cultivation.
"Confused!"
Nangong said, "You, Li Weiyi, are such an intelligent person, how could you make such a foolish decision? If Shengsi has already escaped, you will not be able to catch up now, and you may even run into the retreating enemy. If Shengsi has not escaped, he must have been killed by now. It would be equally dangerous for you to go there now."
"Your four war corpse puppets are indeed very powerful. But how much magical energy is left in the immortality elixir in their bodies?"
"As soon as we entered the ancient country of Suiyuexu, you're already using up this life-saving trump card?"
"Chu Yutian took the Wanzi Qi Yin-Yang Gong from Emperor Wen Gu Hou. Bai Chuan's eight formation flags will probably be unable to defend against it. If he kills Bai Chuan and frees up his hands, and you collide with him, do you have a chance of escape?"
Nangong You sighed, feeling complicated and sad: "I was wrong!"
Li Weiyi and Liu Ye gave him strange looks, not knowing what was going on.
"I shouldn't have agreed to Baichuan's plan to join forces to kill Chu Yutian. If I had stood firmly with Shengsi, perhaps the result would have been very different." Nangong was full of guilt and self-blame.
Li Weiyi asked, "Is it related to the secret of the ancient country of Suiyuexu?"
Whether outside Fanye Valley or just now, Li Weiyi decisively helped twice.
Outside Fanye Valley, it was to help all the Shaoyang guards escape.
I was just helping her just now.
Both attacks were risky. Nangong truly felt the bond of camaraderie in Li Weiyi, their shared struggles opening up his inner defenses.
She nodded gently: "Do you remember the footprints you found when we first entered the ancient country of Suiyuexu? I wanted to kill Chu Yutian and destroy the Taiyin Sect and the Dead Spirits, just to cover up the secret behind those footprints. I can't tell you more!"
Li Weiyi had some guesses in his mind but did not ask any further questions. Everyone has their own secrets.
Then, he said goodbye to the two of them.
"Are you still going?"
Nangong looked at him with an incomprehensible look.
Li Weiyi said, "Tang Wanzhou and I are comrades who have shared many hardships. This friendship is so strong that we must go, let alone a dangerous journey of a few thousand or even ten thousand miles. Even if it's a hundred thousand or a million miles, I will go."
Liu Ye's eyes shone with praise, and she was happy that she had not made a mistake, but she said nothing, and all her approval and emotions were silent.
"Oh right! The deputy guard went to the underworld of Tiandu River. She said she only believed in the whistle secret codes of you, me and Shengsi." Li Weiyi told this, and naturally hoped that Nangong would pick her up.
Nangong frowned slightly: "Li Weiyi, can we talk alone?"
Li Weiyi glanced at Liu Ye beside him, confused.
"I'll go keep watch."
Willow leaves flew away.
Nangong released his magical energy, enveloping the two of them, and said seriously, "I have to apologize to you again."
Li Weiyi said, "Is it because you used Qing Zijin and I to leave the valley to test whether the enemy has arrived?"
Nangong didn't expect Li Weiyi to be so insightful: "If you knew this, why did you help me before?"
"First of all, I have left the valley a long time ago, and it has nothing to do with you. Secondly, if I was really used and calculated by you, it is my own stupidity. Third, at least you are not a spy of the Taiyin Sect." Li Weiyi said.
Nangong said, "I owe you two favors, and I will definitely repay them in the future."
Li Weiyi didn't take her promise too seriously and asked, "I can understand you plotting against me, after all, we didn't have any friendship before this. But why did you plot against Qing Zijin? She trusted you so much."
Nangong pondered over it again and again, sighed softly, and whispered, "I can't explain it! When I made that decision, I was very conflicted. I tried to convince myself that I was helping her. Leaving Fanye Valley would mean staying away from danger."
“But there’s another voice inside me.”
"What's that sound?" Li Weiyi asked when he saw that she was silent for a long time.
Nangong said: "I have doubts about her and want to test her."
Li Weiyi was extremely surprised. He didn't expect Nangong to give such a reason.
Nangong's eyes were full of distress: "I have to tell you in advance that I don't have any specific reasons, but I am definitely not making excuses for my despicable means."
"You've been very close to her recently, so you should know something about her background, right?"
"I guess so!" Li Weiyi said.
Nangong said: "Logically speaking, she is an orphan of the Xianxia Sect, and she should have the shadow of the mysterious curse on her. But I am a sorcerer, and I don't see the shadow of the curse on her."
"I wanted to help her break the curse, so I specifically asked a senior from my clan who holds a very high position in the Sentinel Army about the tragic incident that wiped out the Xianxia Sect overnight a hundred years ago."
"Unexpectedly, I learned a horrible truth."
Li Weiyi said, "Legend has it that the Sentinel Army was responsible for investigating the curse, but the truth has never been made public. Only the Deputy Sentinel Master and the Sentinel Master know what happened."
"If it's really just a simple curse, why not make it public?"
Nangong continued, "The Xianxia Sect's leader is the Sentinel Master of the Dongxu Camp, and the Xianxia Sect is a glorious and prosperous Yi Sect. It would be most reasonable to investigate such a horrific murder case and make the truth public."
Li Weiyi narrowed his eyes and asked with emotion, "Is there something else going on?"
"Every historical event that's been glossed over contains truths that cannot be shared with the world. The Xianxia Sect was completely annihilated by the combined forces of the Sentinel Army and the Demon Kingdom's Imperial Guards overnight, leaving no one alive. Afterwards, they were all dried into mummies in the Skyfire World, creating the illusion of a curse. The destruction of the Sentinel's Sect requires a satisfactory answer to the world, otherwise who would join the Sentinel Army in the future? Those mummies in the mountains behind Yanjue Mountain are the answer to the world."
Nangong spoke in a low voice, as if he was telling a very horrifying story.
A cold wind blows by the river.
Li Weiyi felt a chill down his spine and a tingling sensation on his scalp. He couldn't accept it. "Why? Why would you do this?"
Nangong said, "According to the elder of my clan, it was the headmaster of the Xianxia Sect who practiced an ancient forbidden spell and raised a large number of cursed monsters called Taixu insects in Yanjue Mountain."
"As a result, the Xianxia Sect's leader's cultivation went awry, and he was controlled by a cursed monster, turning into a monster."
"What's even more terrifying is that all the Taixu insects raised in Yanjue Mountain have escaped and entered the bodies of many disciples of Xianxia Sect."
"In order to avoid alerting the Taixu insects and preventing them from spreading throughout the entire Chiming Realm and then to other surrounding habitats, the Sentinel Army and the Demon Kingdom's Imperial Guards had no choice but to resort to this indiscriminate method. Armed with the Skyfire Talisman, they attacked overnight, burning their souls and destroying their spirits, completely wiping them out."
"It is better to kill the wrong person than to let him go."
Li Weiyi said solemnly, "Is there really no other way? Should we spend more time to identify them?"
Nangong said, "The elder of my clan said that they were racing against time. The Taixu insects reproduced extremely quickly. Not only the Xianxia Sect, but also the entire Chiming Realm, over the next three years, at least tens of millions of lives were killed because of the missed Taixu insects."
"A shocking murder that has been covered up. All the participants are concealing it. No one wants to, nor dares to, uncover the scars of a century ago."
"Countless people must have been wrongly killed, and many killings could have been avoided, but no one will admit they were wrong, nor dare to recall them. At most, they will be awakened by nightmares in the middle of the night, tears streaming down their faces."
Li Weiyi said bitterly, "Are you worried that Qing Zijin will learn the truth and be persuaded to rebel by the Taiyin Cult? What happened to her father? Why did he survive, and why did he later... turn into a mummy?"
Nangong said, "It is said that everything is related to her mother. Only those involved know the details of what happened. I only know that her mother is a sentinel spirit of the Dongxu Camp and is still alive."
"What else did you find?"
When Li Weiyi learned all this, he would only sympathize with Qing Zijin more and would never doubt her.
Nangong said, "First, don't you think she's too indifferent? She can directly control the thirteen corpses of the Qing family. Which junior would be so disrespectful?"
"You should have been to Qingyi Garden, where she lived alone. When I went there, I saw her arrange thirteen mummies to sit behind the ancestral tablet. I felt a chill in my heart."
"Can you imagine her living alone in the garden? I feel like she's in a state where she already knows the truth."
"Secondly, why did Tu Mian Gou disappear on the eve of our departure? It's highly likely that there was a second spy who tipped him off."
"Third, have you noticed that no matter how dangerous the situation, she remains calm and composed. Could you be so calm when faced with danger? A person can face danger calmly only if they are extremely powerful and don't consider it dangerous."
"Also, no one has ever seen the Sub-Envoy Luo Yinji before. Even today, she didn't show up. Chu Yutian and the other Taiyin Envoys all showed up, so why would she be an exception? She must have entered the ancient country of Suiyuexu."
Li Weiyi recalled his encounter with Qing Zijin and shook his head slightly: "Impossible... She doesn't seem like a cunning person!"
"I always think that a spy wants to hide because she is the least likely to be suspected."
Nangong then continued, "Of course, this is all just my intuition. I can't produce any evidence, and I even feel guilty about malicious speculation. I won't go to the Tiandu River Underworld. You should be careful too. There's no need to stand under a dangerous wall."
"I don't dare to contact Zhao Tang and Xu Daoqing at the moment, so I'll avoid them if I can. So, if you find Sheng Si, come to Chuncheng to find me. Use the whistle code. I'll only recognize you two."
(End of this chapter)
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