Li Yuebai turned the timeline and quickly adjusted the time to three years later.

"Master, the Immortal Lord actually...actually believed the slander and was extremely wary of you. It's really..." Jiang Shaoying stood in the study, his face full of anger and helplessness.

He still looked like a teenager, but his expression was no longer as lively as before, but instead looked more helpless.

Mu Qingning bent over the desk, holding a pen and writing slowly without even a sigh.

Madam Ji resented Mu Qingning for not recalling Yu Tianliu, but for recommending Yu Tianji as the Immortal Lord, and even rejected Yu Tianliu from the mountain gate... If not, how could she marry Yu Tianji, whom she did not love? After becoming the Immortal Lord's wife, she was worried that Yu Tianji was too dependent on Mu Qingning, so that Mu Qingning had too much power in his hands, and even threatened the status of the Ji family. Therefore, she often gave advice to Yu Tianji and slandered Mu Qingning in every possible way. No matter how much Yu Tianji trusted Mu Qingning, she could not help but feel resentful after hearing so much.

"Shaoying, stop talking and send this letter to the Immortal Lord." Mu Qingning wrote a letter and handed it to his disciple, speaking gently.

"It's useless. The Immortal Master won't read it. He won't even open your letter." Jiang Shaoying said angrily, but did not dare to disobey the master's order. He took the letter and walked out.

"Jiang Shaoying is the male lead of this work." The system finally announced a fact.

"Hmm?" Li Yuebai was still immersed in the heavy plot. Hearing this, he was stunned: "System, why are you telling me this fact only now?"

"Because it's not important, your character and the male lead only have an ordinary teacher-student relationship." The system explained: "Mu Qingning has always been the white moonlight in Jiang Shaoying's heart. Even if Jiang Shaoying traveled all over the world many years later, he never met someone as good as Mu Qingning again."

"What is the role of Yu Tianji in the entire work?"

"Just a supporting role." The system replied.

“…”

During the time when Yu Tianji believed the rumors and distanced himself from Mu Qingning, Yu Tianliu, with the assistance of Su Xu, actually found a way to attack Kunlun again.

The reason why Yu Tianliu was unable to attack Kunlun was because he did not have enough monks under his command. The Jiuli area was desolate and he was unable to recruit new subordinates. Unexpectedly, God gave him a good opportunity - marriage.

There is a fairy mountain called Juling in the east. The fairy lord Wei has always been on good terms with the Kunlun Yu clan. Moreover, the fairy lord Wei has always believed that Yu Tianliu is impulsive and cruel and should not be a close friend. On the contrary, he favors the cowardly and kind-hearted Yu Tianji. After Yu Tianji ascended to the throne of the fairy lord and defeated the Demon Cult, the fairy lord Wei publicly expressed his support and recognition for Yu Tianji.

The Immortal Lord Wei was old and died within two years. His third son Wei Jingyao assassinated his elder brother and usurped the position of Immortal Lord. Wei Jingyao was ambitious and wanted to annex Kunlun, but he did not dare to act because he had no legitimate reason.

At this time, Yu Tianliu sent someone to discuss cooperation. The two hit it off and secretly made an alliance. Wei Jingyao married his daughter to Yu Tianliu, acknowledged Yu Tianliu as the immortal master of Kunlun Fairy Mountain, and assigned many of his monks to Yu Tianliu to help him take back Kunlun Fairy Mountain.

When Yu Tianliu led a mighty group of 20,000 cultivators to approach Kunlun Mountain, the interior of Kunlun Mountain had already been shaken by wind and rain.

Yu Tianji was originally weak and sickly and his Taoism was extremely poor. One day, he discovered that Madam Ji was secretly communicating with Yu Tianliu. He was so angry that he fell ill in bed. Madam Ji was worried that the matter would be exposed, so she simply dismissed all the waiters and took care of her husband herself. She secretly made up her mind to go all out.

At this time, Mu Qingning's power had been taken back, and he could not meet Yu Tianji. Yu Tianliu's slogan was to kill only the usurpers, not the Kunlun monks who obeyed him, so the Kunlun monks did not even have the intention to resist.

Three years after the Demon Cult was defeated, Yu Tianliu once again surrounded Kunlun Mountain.

"Master...is there really nothing we can do?" Jiang Shaoying clenched his fists, his nails digging into his palms, bleeding.

"The only people Yu Tianliu wants to kill are Yu Tianji and me." Mu Qingning smiled and said, "I can't let tens of thousands of people in Kunlun risk their lives to protect me."

"So you just sit there and wait to be killed?" Jiang Shaoying said angrily.

Mu Qingning did not answer.

But Li Yuebai could guess his answer - this ending was destined and could not be changed. Since it could not be changed, why cause more casualties?

A few days later, Wan Guangliu quietly led a few trusted disciples to open the mountain gate and welcome Yu Tianliu into the city.

Yu Tianliu regained the position of Immortal Lord without bloodshed, but Yu Tianji was secretly strangled to death on the bed by Madam Ji on the night after Yu Tianliu entered the city, and it was announced to the outside world that he died of illness.

Mu Qingning only had time to send his beloved disciples away, letting them escape far away to avoid being implicated, but he himself was unable to escape.

Even Yu Tianliu hesitated for a moment when faced with the question of how to deal with Mu Qingning.

"Mu Qingning once led Kunlun to defeat the Demon Sect." Yu Tianliu said, "If I kill him, how can I convince the public?"

"The Immortal Lord doesn't know this." Su Xu said with a smile, "The difference between a savior and a traitor lies in your thoughts. You are the Immortal Lord. If you say a few more words, you can even turn day and night upside down, let alone a person's reputation."

"Will people really believe it?" Yu Tianliu still frowned.

"Does the Immortal Lord think that the character and mentality of a cultivator is any different from that of an ordinary person?" Su Xu said, "When it comes to one's life and future, what does a lie count for? As long as the Immortal Lord promises huge benefits, there will definitely be people who will obey the Immortal Lord's orders and make Mu Qingning an unforgivable wicked person. As long as the words are touching enough, they will have no choice but to believe it."

Ever since Yu Tianliu ascended to the position of Immortal Lord, Su Xu, under his instructions, has been doing things to confuse right and wrong.

First, the history books were burned. There were many monks in Kunlun Mountain who specialized in recording important events. The records were piled up in different pavilions. It would be very troublesome to modify them. Therefore, Su Xu simply burned all the history books of the past few years and imprisoned all the recorders. Everything that Mu Qingning had done became only oral transmission, without historical evidence.

Then they recruited a group of flattering monks to rewrite history, deliberately exaggerating Yu Tianliu's expedition to Jiuli, making it seem like he was a rare hero. As for the resistance against the Demon Cult, they also wrote that Mu Qingning usurped power when Kunlun was in danger, promoted Yu Tianji to the position of Immortal Lord, and deliberately did not send anyone to notify Yu Tianliu to come back for reinforcements, so as to take all the credit.

The young men on Kunlun Mountain originally followed their respective teachers to learn various immortal classics, but Yu Tianliu quickly used his status as the immortal master to add the new history book compiled by his subordinates to the curriculum of all the young men, strictly ordering them to recite it repeatedly, and to take exams on the content if they wanted to graduate.

With such a comprehensive implementation, it didn't take long for the wind direction to change completely and rumors spread.

"Tian Liu Jun led an expedition to conquer Jiuli and made great military achievements. It is true that only he deserves the title of Immortal Lord... and Mu Qingning actually sought power and usurped the throne. How despicable!"

"Yes, those who loyally support Tian Liujun are the real immortal masters with both virtue and talent. People like Mu Qingning are just little clowns."

"Yes, the most ridiculous thing is that his attempt to seize power has made no progress at all. He has been planning for three years but still failed miserably. This man must be extremely stupid and incompetent, otherwise how could he fail so miserably?"

"As for the so-called defeat of the Demon Cult, I'm afraid it has nothing to do with him. If His Majesty the Immortal Lord was in charge, the Demon Cult would have been wiped out long ago!"

"I am from the Ji family. Ever since Mu Qingning came to power, he has been suppressing our family. Fortunately, he fell from power soon, otherwise I don't know what would have happened to me!"

"Mu Qingning supported Yu Tianji as a puppet, commanded Kunlun, and caused the Yu family to kill each other. This is really despicable."

"Hey, did you hear? Mu Qingning had an affair with his female disciple! Later, in order to cover up the affair, he secretly killed the female disciple in the battle against the Demon Cult! Then he put the blame on Master Wan Guangliu, saying that Master Wan Guangliu made a mistake in command... Ridiculous! Master Wan Guangliu is wise and brave, loyal and righteous, how could he do such a thing?"

"Tsk tsk, too naive. How could Mu Qingning have an affair with only one female disciple? I heard that he has no less than a hundred beautiful male and female immortals under his command, and he practices the method of sexual nourishment with them every day..."

"But even if Mu Qingning is despicable and shameless, his books on military strategies and battle formations still have some merits, right?" a cultivator said timidly.

"What formation technique? The Immortal Lord has already said that those are all evil techniques! They are all fabricated nonsense! They are useless!" Someone immediately said disdainfully: "Moreover, I also heard that Mu Qingning once slandered and defamed the old Immortal Lord's formation technique in his book, saying that the old Immortal Lord's formation technique was wrong."

The former old immortal master of Kunlun Immortal Mountain once made a mistake in his formation. After being pointed out by Mu Qingning, he suddenly realized the mistake and praised Mu Qingning endlessly. This incident has now become one of Mu Qingning's evidences.

Rumors deliberately spread by those in power are more terrifying than a murderous knife.

Li Yuebai couldn't stand it anymore, so he changed his observation location and went to Mu Qingning's study.

Yu Tianliu did not put Mu Qingning in jail, but only placed him under house arrest in the study and did not allow him to go out.

Mu Qingning still looked the same as usual, unfazed by the humiliation, sitting alone at the desk, and even though he knew he was going to die, he continued writing on the file with the only pen and ink he had left.

Li Yuebai stepped forward to take a look, and saw that what was written on it was actually poetry, not military tactics or maps.

The poem is lighthearted, joyful and high-spirited, and the whole paper is filled with youthful spirit.

Recalling the portrait he saw when he traveled through time just now, the portrait showed Mu Qingning and several like-minded fellow apprentices, all of whom were smiling happily. Later, the others died one after another... Li Yuebai felt so depressed that he almost vomited blood again.

He just floated quietly behind Mu Qingning, watching him copying poems one after another, secretly hoping that this moment would never end.

However, even this moment of peace was soon broken.

The door of the study was violently kicked open, and dozens of young monks in white robes and with long swords on their waists rushed in.

"Mu Qingning?" the leading young man asked viciously.

Mu Qingning raised his head and looked at the young man.

There was still a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, but he didn't have time to take it away.

"I'm asking you if you are Mu Qingning!" The young man blushed at first, then he sorted out his thoughts, figured out what he was here for, and said angrily.

"..." Mu Qingning's expression returned to calm. He said nothing, lowered his head and continued writing.

"We are looking for you." The young man's anger almost burst out of his chest: "It is you who usurped the position of the Immortal Lord of Tian Liujun? It is you who did those beastly things?"

"It's him, for sure. My brother was once his student, so he recognized him." Another young man shouted, "The Immortal Lord is so kindhearted that he didn't kill you!"

"Kunlun has been declining over the past few years and has been ridiculed by other sects because of this despicable liar!" A young man drew the long sword from his waist with his trembling right hand: "I... I wish I could kill him..."

He threw the sword in his hand out viciously and recklessly. The sword cut Mu Qingning's arm and blood gushed out.

Seeing the bright red blood in front of them, the boys were at a loss for a moment.

"...This...the Immortal Lord didn't even order him to be killed. It's not a good idea for us to do this, right?" someone said weakly.

"What are you afraid of, you coward? The Immortal Lord has long said that no punishment is too much for such a damned traitor." The leading young man said disdainfully: "It's good to bleed a little, so that he will know the consequences of usurping the throne!"

The smell of blood aroused the primitive impulses of the young men. They looked at each other and drew their swords one after another.