Chapter 675: Just a reminder
There was another moment of dead silence in the hall.
The disciples of Tianyi Sect opened their eyes wide, with disbelief written all over their faces.
The person in front of me is the Grand Elder of the Seven Stars Palace. What did he say?
Your Majesty???
This is definitely not just a question of how much face the ancestor has, right?
"Did I hear correctly?" a young disciple stammered, "The Grand Elder of the Seven Stars Hall called our Patriarch... Your Excellency?"
"Master, you actually..." Another disciple was so excited that he was incoherent, "We, the Tianyi Sect..."
Lin Xiuzhu was even more stunned, and the sword in his hand almost fell to the ground.
He suddenly had a feeling.
Our Tianyi Sect is also about to make progress...
Everyone was shocked, but they didn't know that Yun Qingqing was inexplicably communicating in secret with Elder Tianshu at this moment.
[What is your Excellency? Why did you change your words again?]
Since the Seven Stars Palace had been claiming that the Queen Mother of the West was the "Lord" for two thousand years, and Yun Qingqing wanted to keep a low profile, she had never allowed people from the Seven Stars Palace to call her "Lord" in public in the Xuanmen sect.
As a result, the last time Elder Tianshu had a conflict with Tianxuan Sect, when he heard Qingpingzi calling her "Grand Ancestor", he changed his words to "Grand Master", and Yun Qingqing just let him do what he said.
But today the old man changed his mind again.
The Great Elder remained calm and respectfully replied:
[After much deliberation, I believe the title of Grand Master is not worthy enough and doesn't match the status of Master. "Zun Shang" sounds more majestic!]
Yun Qingqing: […]
Okay.
She rubbed her temples helplessly and decided to solve the problem at hand first.
In the moment when Yun Qingqing and the Great Elder were communicating via telepathy, the disciples of the Seven Stars Hall had already dispersed silently.
Twelve elite monks each occupied a key position in the hall, with magic weapons in their hands shining with cold light, surrounding the entire hall tightly.
This was what Yun Qingqing had arranged when she first sent the message to ask Elder Tianshu to come, in order to make up for her lack of spiritual power.
She raised her hand and made a gesture, and golden light suddenly appeared under her feet. The ground suddenly lit up with complex array patterns, and golden runes flowed and spread like running water, covering the entire hall in a blink of an eye.
Feng Yin was shocked: "The Bureau of Inquiry!"
He turned to look at Yun Qingqing, and indeed found that her brows were slightly furrowed, and beads of sweat appeared on her forehead. He couldn't help but said worriedly: "Senior..."
Yun Qingqing glanced at him and shook her head imperceptibly.
Feng Yin understood and immediately shut up without saying anything else.
Yun Qingqing had previously performed a fake self-examination at the mountain gate, using a trick to deceive the eyes. Feng Yin's attainments in the formation were not low. In comparison, he immediately realized that this time it was for real.
Yun Qingqing swept her eyes across the entire hall and spoke in a cold voice:
"Today, in this Inquiry Bureau, no matter if you are a ghost cultivator or a traitor, no one can escape!"
When the last word fell, the whole hall suddenly shook. Everyone felt a buzzing sound in their heads and was enveloped by a mysterious feeling.
The disciples of Tianyi Sect were in an uproar again.
Among the Xuanmen practitioners, there is no one who does not know the power of the word "examination of conscience". The disciples were all worried about being hurt by mistake when catching the traitor, but now many of them are looking forward to it.
Suddenly, a question came from one of the disciples:
"Huh? Didn't the Grandmaster say at the mountain gate that it would be difficult to perform the Heart-Searching Game when too much spiritual energy was consumed? Isn't this another trick?"
Feng Yin's face changed and he looked at the person who spoke, and was stunned.
The one who raised the question was Jiang Ping, the inconspicuous disciple who had been guarding the mountain gate before.
Feng Yin's heart skipped a beat—this is bad! This kid had witnessed the senior using a sleight of hand to fake a conscience investigation!
Yun Qingqing just laughed softly.
"Interesting." She looked at Jiang Ping expressionlessly. "It was Feng Yin who said that the spiritual energy consumption was too much. At that time, I only answered him by telepathy. I never said that it was difficult to perform the Questioning the Heart Game, and I certainly didn't mention the word "eye-smuggling trick"."
"How do you know all this?"
Jiang Ping's expression changed, and he hesitated:
"This... Grandmaster, you looked very exhausted at the time, and based on what Fellow Daoist Feng said... it shouldn't be difficult to guess."
"Oh, I guessed it." Yun Qingqing nodded and said calmly, "The Inquiry Bureau didn't react at all, so it seems that this is indeed the case."
Jiang Ping just breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, but suddenly his expression changed again.
Yun Qingqing took in his expression and curled her lips coldly:
"You're right. This Inquiry Bureau is no sleight of hand!"
The muscles on Jiang Ping's face twitched a few times, as if he was trying hard to maintain his expression, but ultimately failed. He simply gave up, and the expression on his face turned blank.
Yun Qingqing said calmly:
"To verify whether this is a true inquiry, why not start with you—"
"Jiang Ping, your suspicion that the Inquiry Bureau was a deception was actually meant to secretly warn the sect traitors present, so they wouldn't be frightened into telling the truth, right?"
Everyone looked at Jiang Ping in surprise, but saw that he remained silent. The expression on his usually harmless face gradually became ferocious.
He did not speak for several breaths. Suddenly, thick clouds gathered in the clear sky outside the hall, and there were faint sounds of wind and thunder, which made the disciples even more frightened.
Jiang Ping's expression turned stern, and he stopped being silent. He stared at Yun Qingqing and said in a sinister voice:
"Oh... so what? When did you find out?"
Yun Qingqing sneered coldly:
"You're covered in blood and injustice, and you're full of flaws. I saw right away that you were the ghost cultivator secretly controlling Zhou Ming. If I wasn't afraid of alerting the traitors you've instigated, do you think I would have kept you around until now?"
When she said this, not only Jiang Ping's expression changed, but everyone present also changed.
Feng Yin's mouth twitched. He didn't expect that this little-known disciple guarding the mountain gate was actually a ghost cultivator, and the evil ghost on Zhou Ming was controlled by him.
His scalp tingled when he thought about how he had been so close to this thing before.
There is also a bit of resentment.
Senior Yun had long seen that this person was not a good person, so he gave him a reminder!
Lin Xiuzhu's eyes were filled with disbelief:
"Junior Brother Jiang... is he the ghost cultivator hiding behind the scenes and manipulating Fourth Junior Brother?"
Jiang Ping's sinister laughter suddenly rang out in the hall.
"I didn't want to cause any more trouble... but since you insist on dragging everyone else down with you, I'll kill you!"
Jiang Ping clasped his hands together and the Yin energy around him surged like boiling water.
His robes fluttered without wind, his face was distorted, and a strange green light flashed in his eyes:
"The ghosts gather and the Dharma appears——"
In an instant, the temperature in the hall dropped sharply, and a twisted black shadow suddenly rose behind Jiang Ping!
The black shadow expanded rapidly, revealing a hideous ghost face.
The yin energy spread out like a substance, and the candlelight in the hall swayed violently, casting the distorted shadows of the people on the wall, like a group of demons dancing wildly.
"Oh no! It's the Yin Dharma Image!" Feng Yin exclaimed.
He had seen this scene once in the Valley of Strange Beasts. That time, Yun Qingqing had indeed easily dealt with it, but at that time, Yun Qingqing's spiritual power was neither exhausted nor close to falling into a state of decline!
"Senior Yun...be careful!"
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