It was not until a year later that Venerable Guanglingzi got the answer to this question.
No matter how the venerables of Mount Taihua threatened or bribed him, even if Venerable Guanglingzi said something like "If you don't tell me, you will no longer be my disciple of Haoming Peak", Jie Zizhuo's eyes only turned red and he still refused to say a word.
Until Venerable Yuqingzi said seriously: "If you don't tell me, from today on, there will no longer be Yuxiao Peak in Taihua Mountain. Xuanlingzi is no longer the Grand Elder of Taihua Mountain, and Luo Jianqing is no longer the First Disciple of Taihua Mountain. Their lives will have no connection with Taihua Mountain anymore. Although they have long been removed from the list of Taihua Mountain disciples by Senior Brother Haoxingzi, if you still refuse to tell the truth, then all traces of their past in Taihua Mountain will be erased one by one."
From then on, Xie Zizhuo told everything he knew.
However, what Xie Zizhuo said made everyone even more confused -
Why did Luo Jianqing dislike Li Xiuchen so much since the day he first entered Taihua Mountain?
This question remains unanswered.
In the first seven or eight years, the major sects and the demon race put pressure on Taihua Mountain to reveal Luo Jianqing's whereabouts. However, Taihua Mountain remained tight-lipped, not only because they were unwilling to reveal Luo Jianqing's whereabouts, but also because they had no idea where Luo Jianqing had taken Li Xiuchen.
After all, Taihua Mountain can only say one thing -
"Fifty years later, Luo Jianqing should be in the Far North."
But how could this sentence satisfy the powerful people in the world? Especially the demon clan, the Broken Soul Sect and the Bai family?
Of the four great demon lords of the demon clan, only Old Du Juetian is left. Xing Wei had his demon pill destroyed by the human race decades ago using a secret method. The Guiyan ancestor of the Broken Soul Sect died at the hands of Luo Jianqing, and of the other Mahayana elders, only one remained.
Apart from these, the most miserable family is the Bai family.
A hundred years ago, the Bai family was the foremost of the eight great families, and the Bai family ancestor's strength was even ranked in the top ten among the human race. But now, over a hundred of the Bai family's elite have perished, all the cultivators in the Mahayana and Tribulation Crossing stages have perished, and only a handful of cultivators in the Fusion stage remain. Even Bai Ji, the next heir to the Bai family, was tragically killed by Luo Jianqing!
The Bai family had long since fallen, but they still possessed a vast amount of wealth and secret magic. They hated Luo Jianqing so much that they wished they could drink his blood and eat his flesh. They were willing to offer 80% of their wealth to anyone who could kill Luo Jianqing!
Under the pressure of these numerous sects and forces, Taihua Mountain had to adopt a tough stance and reduce its interactions with the outside world.
Time passed quickly. Every ten years, Taihua Mountain began recruiting disciples, and gradually, many more disciples had never heard of the name "Luo Jianqing." Whenever someone asked about the uninhabited peak in the middle of Taihua Mountain's seven peaks, an old disciple would tell them, "This is a taboo on Taihua Mountain. Remember not to ask again."
With Luo Jianqing's disappearance, the legend that once rocked the entire Xuantian Continent gradually faded from public view. Someone once claimed to have seen Luo Jianqing in the Maojia Land, one of the four dangerous places. The demon clan immediately sent people there, but found nothing. Another claim was that they had seen Luo Jianqing in the Yansha Wasteland, one of the eight wastelands. Cultivators from the Broken Soul Sect rushed there, but found no sign of him.
Just as miraculously as he had appeared, Luo Jianqing vanished from the Xuantian Continent, accompanied by a distinguished inner sect disciple from Haoming Peak on Mount Taihua. Although the demon clan and other sects still wanted to track down Luo Jianqing and kill him, they were powerless.
In the past fifty years, several events have occurred that have shocked the Xuantian Continent.
In the third year after Luo Jianqing's disappearance, Fuzi and Chen of Guiyuan Sect officially entered the Tribulation Period, becoming the third young hero in Xuantian Continent to enter the Tribulation Period after Luo Jianqing and Jie Zizhuo.
It was said that on the day he entered the Tribulation Period, golden lotuses of Buddha's Light blossomed in the sky, a total of 7749 flowers, allowing all the people in the world to be baptized by the Buddha's teachings. It was also said that the Demonic Palace sent a great gift, but Fozi and Chen politely declined and did not accept it.
Nineteen years after Luo Jianqing's disappearance, Mount Taihua welcomed another young cultivator who had entered the Tribulation Crossing Stage: Wei Qiongyin, the third senior sister of the Seven Taihua Monks. After Wei Qiongyin reached the Tribulation Crossing Stage, the Wei family sent someone to ask her to return to the family, but Wei Qiongyin firmly refused.
In the twenty-sixth year after Luo Jianqing disappeared, dark clouds gathered over the Demonic Palace. The current palace master, Yunxiang, tried to transcend the Tribulation Period but failed miserably and nearly lost her life.
At this time, the cultivators in the world had almost forgotten the existence of Luo Jianqing, and turned their attention to the devastated Demon Palace. If it were not for the Broken Soul Sect and the three great men Qi Luo, Qin Guihe and Qin Siyi, the Demon Palace would probably have ceased to exist in the world long ago.
But even so, there was a private rumor among the Broken Soul Sect: "Wait another two or three hundred years, and Qi Luo, Qin Guihe, and Qin Siyi will all reach their demise. Once they perish, won't the Demonic Palace be ours?"
Such statements completely vanished in the forty-third year after Luo Jianqing disappeared.
That year, a devastating hurricane suddenly erupted over the Demon Realm's Twelfth Sea. The terrifying storm raged over the Twelfth Sea for a full ninety-nine eighty-one days. Winds howled, dark clouds obscured the sun, and the entire Twelfth Sea became a perilous place. Anyone who ventured into it without the Out-of-Body Stage of cultivation would be reduced to dust.
When the eighty-one days were over, the demon tribe immediately cheered.
Demon Lord Jin Li is back!
If the demon race had previously relied solely on the power of Du Jue Tianlao to temporarily prevent the human race from moving, nor could they order the human race to capture Luo Jianqing, then now with Jin Li's return, the human race would only become the demon race's slaves.
However, within just three days, news came from the human race.
On that day, the sandstorm from the Demon Realm blew across the isolated and steep Demon Mountain. The reddish-brown earth seemed to be stained with blood. The thick demonic energy enveloped the Demon Palace, making it look like a dead place.
A figure slowly approached from a distance. He wore a blood-red brocade robe. One eye shone a terrifying blood-red, while the other was a pure, azure blue. Beside this blue pupil, strange silver lines spread from the corner of his eye and extended into his hair, forming a strange and beautiful pattern.
The demon cultivators guarding the Demon Mountain opened their eyes wide and looked at this man in disbelief.
Soon, Yunxiang, Qi Luo, Qin Siyi, and Qin Guihe all arrived at the foot of the Demon Mountain and looked at this man from afar.
They stared at each other intently, and the latter also lowered his eyes, looking at them expressionlessly. After a long time, Yunxiang finally couldn't bear it anymore and rushed forward. Just as she was about to hug the man tightly, she was blocked by the man's hand on his forehead.
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