The two swords clashed, creating a thunderous and lightning-like sound.
Lin Fan's body erupted with boundless sword intent, released by the Immortal Execution Sword, far stronger than before. The sword light continuously cleaved through the darkness, repeatedly forcing back the Evil Dragon Relic.
Long Aotian's eyes were bloodshot, and he roared like a wild beast. He couldn't understand why he still couldn't defeat him even after activating the Evil Dragon Relic.
Taking advantage of his moment of confusion and vulnerability, Lin Fan unleashed the Dragon Soul Sword Technique, unleashing a domineering and sharp sword beam that shattered his sword, broke through his defenses, and pierced through his chest.
Long Aotian grunted, coughed up blood, and flew backward out of the main hall. Lin Fan pressed his advantage, but a vast and powerful demonic aura surged out from the Evil Dragon Relic, obscuring the giant peak and blocking the view.
When he used his swordsmanship to disperse the black mist, Long Aotian had already disappeared.
"Oh, what a pity!" Lin Fan sighed. He got away. This guy is really good at hiding. He runs away as soon as things go wrong.
He returned to the main hall, removed the barrier, and helped Leng Xingyue up. By this time, she had re-tied her belt and her breathing had calmed down considerably.
"Master, are you alright?" he asked softly.
"Thanks to you this time, otherwise my reputation would have been ruined by that beast." Leng Xingyue tightened her grip on his hand, and the coldness on her pretty face slowly softened.
She was very happy at that moment. Luckily, Lin Fan arrived in time, otherwise she couldn't imagine what would have happened.
"Weren't you in the Enlightenment Cave? Why are you here?" she asked curiously.
Logically, Lin Fan should be seeking opportunities in the Enlightenment Cave. At this moment, the small world is being corrupted by demonic energy and is in chaos, so he should be trapped in the small world.
"A large amount of demonic energy appeared in that world. I sensed an unfamiliar aura disappearing from the vortex of demonic energy, so I chased after it and followed it all the way here," Lin Fan explained.
"Is Master still able to move?" Lin Fan asked.
"My cultivation technique has suffered a backlash and I need to recuperate for a while. Please take me back with you."
Leng Xingyue slightly raised her upper body, ready for him to carry or hug her back.
Lin Fan nodded, then manipulated her glass sword to enlarge it, leaving the Immortal Execution Sword behind to prevent the sixth brother from returning and breaking the seal.
He used his spiritual power to gently lift her frail body, placed her lightly on his sword, and then used the sword to carry her back.
"Host, let me explain. What happened just now was truly an accident," the system said.
"Heh, do you think I'd still believe you?" Lin Fan said coldly.
He completely obeyed its instructions, only letting go when it told him to release the arrow, and what happened? Long Aotian dodged it.
After a long silence, the system finally said, "Host, I'll tell you a secret, how about it?"
"You speak!" Lin Fan said expressionlessly, his attitude towards the traitor skeptical.
"If you can change the fate of the world's destruction, you can return to the place you've always longed for!"
The system replied.
Lin Fan's expression changed, and he asked, "Really?"
“Really!” the system replied.
"I have a question for you!" Lin Fan pondered for a while. If he could really return to Blue Star, he would trust him one more time. He wondered how his parents and younger sister were doing.
"Please ask me!"
"Why are you, a villainous system, so fixated on saving the world? That's what the chosen one should do."
"If the world were to perish, and I were left as the only lonely system, it would be incredibly boring. Put yourself in my shoes; if you were the only life in the entire world, and there was no one else, would you go crazy?" the system replied.
Lin Fan thought it made a lot of sense and was speechless.
"Then the protagonist destroys the world to ascend to immortality, right? You can ascend with him!" He felt that the system should be able to do that.
"My hosts are all dead, where am I supposed to find people to ascend to immortality?" the system countered.
"Okay, you win. I'll trust you one more time. But if you dare to deceive me, don't blame me. Whatever you want to do, don't blame me for not cooperating!" Lin Fan said.
He still takes the temptation of going home very seriously.
If the system could roll its eyes, it would definitely perform for it a few times every day. Ever since it bound itself to you, you haven't cooperated at all. It's been working hard to achieve results on its own. Who can it complain to about this grievance?
The two left Tianjian Peak and headed straight for it.
The sect leader had just returned from the small world when he heard about the forbidden area. His face turned as black as charcoal. He thought, "This is unbearable. They don't even give people a chance to breathe."
He immediately dispatched elders to guard the area, and then sent the elder in charge of criminal law to lead a group to capture Long Aotian.
"Junior sister, you said that the person who stole the Evil Dragon Relic was Long Aotian, and that he wanted to use the Evil Dragon Relic to break the seal?" the sect leader asked.
"Sect Leader, Long Aotian is plotting something sinister. We cannot tolerate this and must punish him according to the sect rules," Leng Xingyue said calmly.
"Junior sister, according to what you're saying, why don't you just capture him in the forbidden area?" the sect leader asked curiously.
Leng Xingyue was a Nascent Soul stage expert, whose strength was no less than her own. Capturing a Nascent Soul stage cultivator would be a piece of cake for her. How could Long Aotian possibly escape?
"I was severely injured by an unseen force, which caused my cultivation technique to malfunction, so I was unable to capture him. If Fan'er hadn't arrived in time, I would have been killed by that beast," Leng Xingyue replied.
“Junior sister, all these years, I don’t think I’ve ever heard of you practicing cultivation techniques. When did this go wrong?” Elder Xingfa said, frowning.
Leng Xingyue was the most talented and insightful among the siblings. In the more than two hundred years they had known each other, they had never heard of her practicing her cultivation technique incorrectly.
"What, fellow disciples, do you not believe me?" Leng Xingyue asked coldly, her tone becoming more forceful.
“It’s not that we don’t believe you, but we also have to follow the rules of the sect. Do you have any evidence or witnesses?” Peak Master Xing asked.
Leng Xingyue's face darkened. She had no evidence either. There was no spiritual energy in the forbidden area. Apart from the formation set up by the sect's founder, other formations could not function properly inside, so naturally, the scene at that time could not be recorded.
She looked up at Lin Fan, who coughed twice and said, "Master, I am a suspect and cannot be a witness."
He suddenly disappeared from the small world, and he probably needs to prove that he wasn't the one who caused the demonic vortex there.
After all, Long Aotian didn't have a warrant, so he shouldn't be able to enter the small world. He's still the prime suspect.
"Sect Leader, can't my words be considered evidence?" Leng Xingyue asked.
"Absurd! If someone in a high position can condemn a disciple to death with just a few words, who in the Northern Region would dare to come to my Qingxiao Sect to become a disciple in the future?" the sect leader rebuked.
"Your eldest disciple should think about how to exonerate himself."
His face turned ashen with anger. Was Long Aotian someone who could be convicted so easily?
It took less than half a year for him to join the sect and break through from the Qi Refining stage to the Nascent Soul stage. In the tens of thousands of years since then, no one else in the Northern Region has possessed such talent.
If she were sentenced to death simply because she was the master of a peak, what would those who wanted to become her disciples think? They would definitely turn around and join the Blood Fiend Sect.
The Qingxiao Sect will inevitably decline from this point on and will perish within a thousand years.
Leng Xingyue gritted her teeth, her fists clenched until they turned white, her body trembling. She looked up at Lin Fan, only to see him leaning against a stone pillar with his arms crossed, looking carefree and indifferent, as if it were none of her business. She immediately felt a surge of blood rush to her head, coughed up a mouthful of blood, and fainted.
"Hmm, is his will really that weak?" Lin Fan muttered to himself. When Long Aotian escaped and neither of them had any evidence, he knew that this matter could not be convicted.
Unless the Qingxiao Sect doesn't consider the consequences of this matter, if the Evil Dragon Relic is stolen and someone trespasses on the forbidden peak, they need to produce evidence to convince everyone.
Without evidence, they would accuse Long Aotian of several crimes every day, and when the number of charges reached a certain level, they would sentence him to death directly, or even without charges, they would simply say that Long Aotian stole the Evil Dragon Relic and execute him for that crime.
If we really do that, the Azure Cloud Sect will be finished.
Seeing that Leng Xingyue was suffering from qi and blood stagnation, the sect leader couldn't bear it and asked Peak Master Luo to take her back to rest.
In the time it takes to drink half a cup of tea, Long Aotian, Wu Qiankun, and Ye Chen were brought over by the enforcement team. After bowing to the sect leader and elders, the three of them looked at Lin Fan with puzzled eyes.
Long Aotian's injuries have healed completely. Lin Fan already knew that the Evil Dragon Relic had a strong healing ability.
"Senior Brother, I know you've never liked me, but you can't just throw mud at me for everything, can you?" Long Aotian spoke first.
"Hey, this has nothing to do with me. I'm the victim here. I'm too busy to bother with your nonsense!"
Lin Fan shrugged, his expression indifferent. He could only say that Long Aotian was too lucky. Even if he saw him commit a crime, he couldn't testify against him, and he ended up taking the blame. That was the most infuriating thing.
"Long Aotian, Junior Sister Leng said that you committed insubordination, stole the Evil Dragon Relic, and trespassed on the Forbidden Peak. Is this true?" Peak Master Xingfeng asked in a deep voice.
"Disciple is innocent. I have been with my second and eighth senior brothers and have never seen Master. Yesterday, Master expelled me from Youzhu Peak and severed all ties between us. Disciple does not know what I did to displease Master," Long Aotian argued.
"This disciple can testify that I was indeed with Junior Brother Ye and Junior Brother Long today."
"This disciple can also bear witness!"
Wu Qiankun and Ye Chen said in turn that the three of them testified against each other, and unless they could produce actual evidence, it would be difficult to convict them.
"Then take off your clothes and see if you have any injuries!" the sect leader said.
Long Aotian calmly took off his clothes, revealing his chest, which was free of any injuries.
Helpless, the sect leader exchanged glances with Peak Master Xingfeng and the elders, then waved his hand to let Long Aotian and the others leave.
"What do you want to say now?" They looked at Lin Fan. He was still suspected of stealing the Evil Dragon Relic, and he was the only suspect who entered the small world, where the demonic energy of the Evil Dragon Relic erupted. He had also disappeared, which made people suspicious.
Lin Fan took out a jade slip, opened the array inside, and clearly saw everything he had done in the small world. He lay there until nightfall.
Late at night, I saw a vortex of demonic energy suddenly appear in the distance, but unfortunately it was too far away to record the figure in the vortex.
He then used a spatial talisman to leave the small world and re-enter the forbidden area. After that, the array on the jade slip became ineffective, and he was unable to record anything afterward.
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