"Has no one told anyone about this? It's been a thousand years, why hasn't anyone spoken of it?" Qianchen couldn't understand Apple the most. Now that she had fallen into demonic possession, would she still care about the Sword Dao Sect?
"It seems the Ancestor truly remembers nothing," Android sighed. "Everyone who enters our Sword Dao Sect makes a vow to swear an oath against their inner demons. Once they utter it, they will be devoured by their inner demons. For cultivators, the most taboo thing is inner demons. Anyone with a brain wouldn't take that risk to do something detrimental to the Sword Dao Sect!"
"So, if the apple becomes possessed by a demon, it would be breaking the oath?" Leng Yue grasped the key point: inner demons and betrayal were the two keywords.
“Yes,” Android replied after a long pause, “It’s also my fault for not taking good care of her. After all, she’s a little girl, and her mind is more sensitive. When you entrusted Apple to me, you told me to take good care of her, but I failed to fulfill my responsibility as an older brother.”
"Apple is a girl?" Leng Yue had always thought they were two boys!
“Uh, yes,” Android’s carefully cultivated mood was instantly ruined by Leng Yue. He could only sigh softly and try to get back into that feeling, “Back then, we didn’t understand what the ancestor was saying, so we were confused about many things. That’s how those with ulterior motives took advantage of us.”
"Did we leave very suddenly?" Qianchen asked at the opportune moment.
Android nodded, then shook his head. "It wasn't that sudden. The ancestors had already told us that you would leave, and they had been working hard to train us. In fact, we've learned almost everything we needed to learn. It's just that the two ancestors left without leaving any message."
"Okay, you can continue." Qianchen nodded, then looked at Leng Yue. When they left, the situation was similar to what it was now. They also knew they would leave, but they weren't sure exactly when.
"After the ancestor left, my brother and I continued to cultivate diligently as before. However, for some reason, some news leaked out, which attracted some suspicious people." Android's eyes were complicated, obviously recalling the scene at that time. "At that time, there were only Apple and me in the sect, and the others joined later. So every time we went into battle, it was just my brother and me. Fortunately, we always escaped danger."
"Gradually, outsiders discovered that the Sword Dao Sect had no secrets and could not find anything good, so they stopped coming to visit."
"And then what?" Isn't everything alright now? Leng Yue thought, if everything's alright, how could she have fallen into demonic possession?
"Later, Apple started going out frequently, often not returning home for ten days or half a month." Android sighed, "The two ancestors had long said that girls are outgoing. I was young at the time and didn't understand Apple's thoughts at all. It wasn't until she suddenly developed a demon in her heart that I realized something big had happened."
Apple fell in love with a man who was sent abroad. The man was charming and flattering, and he had her completely under his thumb. Just when Apple was deeply in love with the man, he took the opportunity to get a secret from her.
"Apple has probably forgotten that we swore an oath when we were young that we would never betray the Sword Dao Sect and would always protect the secrets of the Sword Dao Sect. It wasn't until she developed a demon in her heart that I realized that the secret had already been obtained by that man!"
"And then what? The man didn't do anything after obtaining the secret? What happened to Apple after she developed her inner demons?" Leng Yue began to wonder.
"Even if an outsider knows that secret without undergoing the Sword Dao Sect's systematic training, what good is it? Even if Apple presented him with the cultivation manual, he still wouldn't understand a single word," Android sneered. "Moreover, the moment Apple handed over the manual, her inner demon oath took effect, preventing her from teaching that man again. As for Apple, the moment her inner demon took hold, she knew she could never take another step forward in her life. Coupled with the man's revelation to her, she couldn't bear it and committed suicide..."
"Then...didn't that man spread any rumors that were detrimental to the Sword Dao Sect?" Leng Yue looked at the Sword Dao Sect. It was neither small nor large. If it were to be suppressed by other sects, it would be difficult to continue.
"Heh, does he even have that chance?" Android's face showed no emotion, but he was definitely not happy. When he spoke again, Leng Yue believed that Android was indeed a sect patriarch, with a heavy aura of killing intent on his body. "After Apple committed suicide, I rushed to the scene. That man hadn't gone far yet, so I let him accompany Apple."
"How did you know all this?" Qianchen looked at Anzhuo. "Excuse me for being blunt, but you couldn't have been there watching Apple at the time, and Apple never told you directly. So how did you know all this?"
“After Apple left, I investigated the man in detail.” Android didn’t rush to explain, remaining unhurried. “The man was an outer disciple of the Spirit Sword Sect. He was able to get close to Apple entirely because of his deceptive face and his lying mouth. Apple is a naive girl. How could she trust a man based on his looks? But she was young and inexperienced. The man fell in love with her after just a few words.”
"Later I found out that the man tricked Apple into giving him the cultivation manual not for his own cultivation, but to give it to his sweetheart, who was a good-for-nothing young lady from the Spirit Sword Sect. Apple was so stupid. From beginning to end, the man never liked her in the slightest, but Apple betrayed her sect for him."
"However, in the end, neither of them obtained the cultivation technique, and Apple was able to continue being with that man in another world." Android's expression was inscrutable, but Leng Yue shook her head. "We will definitely not make you make any oaths against your inner demons!"
"Yueyue?" Qianchen looked at Lengyue. "How can you be so sure?"
"That's right, Ancestor, you don't even remember? How can you assume you didn't mention it?" Anzhuo's eyes darted to one side, his expression somewhat stiff. But seeing Leng Yue looking at him, he finally forced a smile.
“They say it’s easier to change mountains and rivers than to change one’s nature. Qianchen and I have never been the kind of people who are aggressive.” Leng Yue looked at them. “Besides, the master can only lead you to the door, but the cultivation is up to you. If we really hand over the cultivation techniques and secret manuals to you, we will never think about keeping things on guard. Wouldn’t that be tiring, day after day?”
"But...but you were supposed to protect us back then?" Android thought for a moment and then argued.
“We have traveled to many worlds and raised so many children, but we have never once taught them how to control others!” Leng Yue looked directly into Anzhuo’s eyes. “The children we raise will do their best to teach them how to protect themselves, how to stand on their own two feet in this world, and how to be wary of others, but we will never teach them how to harm others or how to suppress others.”
"I……"
"You also said that we knew we would leave, so if you thought we would all leave, why did you make you swear an oath of inner demons? If you and Apple were raised by us, we would be too heartbroken to even think about it. Why would we make you do such a vicious thing?" Leng Yue pressed on relentlessly, and Anzhuo could not refute her.
"Tell me, who are you? What is your purpose in approaching us?"
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