"After entering the palace within the barrier, we were pulled into an illusionary space, where Lu Shiqing and Luo Chu were hiding behind the scenes manipulating the illusion to attack their own people."
“That strangulation formation was created by them,” Shen Sangruo said, enunciating each word clearly.
Lu Shiqing, standing at her feet, looked on incredulously, seemingly wondering how she had found out.
Meeting Lu Shiqing's gaze, she said sarcastically, "Besides you, I really can't think of anyone else who would specifically ask me in this illusion whether I am in love with you."
"Do you think I wouldn't notice something's wrong with such an obviously abnormal hallucination?"
She disdainfully flung Lu Shiqing's head away with her toes, her eyes filled with hatred.
He then turned to look at Luo Chu and slowly said, "What I said, was it right?"
Lin Qianyin had already told her that Lu Shiqing and Luo Chu had both emerged from the last landing point at the same time.
Luo Chu was startled by her gaze, and her back became soaked with sweat.
"No, it's not my fault. It was all Lu Shiqing's doing. He's a madman. He's jealous of everyone around you. I also think what he did was wrong. I..."
Shen Sanru interrupted him, "You just felt it was inappropriate. Did you stop him? Or were you persuaded by him to also use the illusion to release your hostility towards others?"
"So you finally think that everything was done by Lu Shiqing, and you did nothing, just an innocent bystander?"
Her words were sharp and incisive, leaving Luo Chu speechless.
At this moment, everyone outside the barrier finally understood what had happened inside, and their expressions changed from shock to anger.
Breaking the evil cultivator's formation is an extremely dangerous task, and everyone could lose their life at any moment.
Instead of focusing on breaking the formation, these two people were controlled by their own evil thoughts and attacked others for personal grudges!
How foolish and hateful that so many people almost lost their lives!
Immortal Lord Changli's face darkened. "I thought that the people of your Flying Cloud Sect would at least have the awareness to prioritize the overall situation. Under such circumstances, you should put aside personal grudges and join forces to fight against a common enemy."
"I never expected that your Flying Cloud Sect would be so despicable, using the methods of evil cultivators to attack your own people. Is this how the Flying Cloud Sect behaves? Truly admirable."
Lingxiao Zhenren and Shen Daochen's expressions had already changed, and they looked at Lu Shiqing and Luo Chu in disbelief.
Even though Feng Heyun and Wen Xuan had already guessed some of it, they still found it hard to accept.
"What? That strangulation formation was really the work of the two of you?" Feng Heyun's voice changed. "I knew it! Why did that illusion force us to make choices for no reason!"
"Third and fourth junior brothers, you are really foolish!" Wen Xuan wanted to say something, but thinking of the two formations that had chased and killed him, he ultimately said nothing more.
"You two wretched children! How dare you do such a disgraceful thing!" Shen Daochen was furious.
I can't believe that someone from my own sect could do something like this!
The angrier he was from Shen Sangruo and the Ninghua Sect members' behavior before, the more he wanted to dig a hole and bury himself now!
Especially in front of the Jiang family patriarch and the elders, how could they possibly save face?
As the master of these two, Master Lingxiao felt even more ashamed and was about to fly into a rage.
"I will only ask you one question: Did you do this?"
"We just wanted to use the illusion to test whether the people from Ninghua Sect were truly sincere towards Chen Sangri, and then we dispelled the illusion," Luo Chu hurriedly explained. "But the illusion suddenly went out of control, and we really didn't mean to hurt them!"
"You didn't intend to hurt them?" Chen Sangruo sneered. "Don't you know how my third senior brother got his burns?"
"Lu Shiqing, who gave you the audacity to lay a hand on my senior brother?" She conjured a ball of flame in her hand, her eyes filled with undisguised killing intent.
Lu Shiqing met her eyes and his gaze froze.
I never imagined I would be looked at with such hatred by her, especially since it was because of another "third senior brother".
The excruciating pain emanating from every inch of his body seemed unable to suppress the agony in his heart, causing his eyes to redden and his expression to become utterly broken.
"You...you care about him that much?"
Lu Shiqing's physical condition had deteriorated to the extreme, making it extremely difficult for him to speak. With each word he uttered, he would vomit blood.
"You want to kill me for him?"
“I don’t care about my senior brother, so why would I care about someone like you who has repeatedly tried to harm me? Even now, you still don’t understand your own place in the world? You are not worthy of being compared to any of them.”
Shen Sanruo's tone was incredibly sarcastic, each word piercing Lu Shiqing's heart like a needle, causing him unbearable pain.
"Lu Shiqing, you are a dark and twisted madman immersed in your own world, letting your jealousy grow wildly and treating everyone as your imaginary enemy. But what right do you have to do this?"
"You don't even deserve to stand beside me. Don't forget how many times you've used the Seven Emotions Gu on me. I haven't settled this score with you yet."
In recent years, she has been busy improving herself and rebuilding Ninghua Sect, and then she has been busy with evil cultivators' conspiracies, so she has no extra time to deal with these troublemakers.
She may not care about them, but that doesn't mean she's forgotten what they did or the hatred between them.
"Today, I will repay you double for the debt you incurred by intentionally harming my third senior brother!"
With that, the flames in his hand instantly enveloped Lu Shiqing.
It's already merciful that they didn't take Lu Shiqing's life, since they almost harmed so many people.
No one at the scene thought her behavior was inappropriate, not even Lingxiao Zhenren and the others from the Feiyun Sect.
After such a shameful incident, Lingxiao Zhenren and Shen Daochen were even more eager to burn Lu Shiqing to death.
"You like flames, don't you? Now I'll return that burning pain to you in full." She looked coldly at Lu Shiqing, who was engulfed in flames.
How could she not guess Lu Shiqing's intention in creating the illusion of fire specifically for Bai Ruoan?
Lu Shiqing was also a ruthless person. He gritted his teeth, his forehead veins bulging, and didn't utter a sound until the flames dissipated.
It was as if he was competing with her, or as if he refused to admit that he had lost.
In the end, he completely lost consciousness. Shen Sanruo left him with a breath of life, but of course she wouldn't let him die so easily.
The lingering poison in her body had not been cleared, and the strangulation formation had drained her life force, in addition to the kick she had just received and the burning from the flames.
It seems that Lu Shiqing will find it difficult to cultivate in the future, and his life will be practically that of a cripple.
For someone as arrogant and conceited as him, this would only cause him more pain than simply killing him.
Second update! Thank you all for your support! *tweets*
Don't worry, we won't let Lu Shiqing off so easily.
(End of this chapter)
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