As soon as these words fell, the entire place erupted in an uproar, and both Jingcheng and Jingzhan were dumbfounded.
“Father, what are you saying, Dai’er is not of the demon clan!” Jingcheng said in terror. “Father, quickly release Dai’er, her body is weak.”
At this moment, Jingcheng’s mind was already in complete chaos, and the seed of doubt in his heart finally began to grow.
“Your little uncle thought the same back then. She must be related to the Demon Venerable. Their lineage has methods to conceal themselves! Back then, if it weren’t for the Demon Venerable coming to the door, that woman wouldn’t have been able to keep hiding it and admit it, and we wouldn’t have discovered it. I will never forget the aura that woman emitted at the time, this exact kind.”
Among those who witnessed this scene, there were quite a few powerful cultivators. Every single one of them had not sensed anything wrong with Pei Dai, and they had thought Sect Master Baili had made a mistake. But now that Sect Master Baili was so resolute, and even brought up Immortal Baili Jin’s scandal, that proved…
Everyone stared at Pei Dai in shock. Thinking back to what had just happened, the origin bone Pei Dai had brought, could it be that she truly was a spy sent by the demon clan?
“No… impossible, you saw her when we got married.” Jingcheng still tried to argue for his wife.
Having had his family pried apart by the demon clan again and again, Sect Master Baili was already furious to the point of losing his reason. He struck straight toward the child in Jingcheng’s arms.
Although Jingcheng instinctively turned his body, the child was still impacted and cried miserably.
“Don’t!” Pei Dai screamed piercingly.
But at that moment, a barrier spread out from the child’s body, and in an instant the aura of a mixed-blood spread everywhere.
This time, there was no need for doubt. The child was a mixed-blood, and Pei Dai was inevitably of the demon clan.
“It seems that after giving birth, the power used to conceal it weakened.”
Baili Jingcheng stared blankly at the baby girl crying loudly in his arms, the most d*mning piece of evidence, and his entire body froze.
Seeing this scene, Jingzhan could not help but step back. His precious little niece had also become a mixed-blood.
“What exactly is going on, big brother!” Jingzhan truly could not bear it anymore. What on earth was happening!
Discussions began all around.
“She’s a spy!”
“All the previous incidents were done by her! She was the one who opened the teleportation array and brought in the demon clan.”
“She let in the dream demon and helped steal the fragments!”
“And those people who were captured… Gu Baiqing was right, it must have been the teleportation array she set up from the inside in cooperation with the outside. She cooperated with the demon clan’s Saintess to capture people. That person who imitated Mo Xuanli… she even deliberately returned the origin bone to help Mo Xuanli fall into demonic possession! Putting it this way, Mo Xuanli is really quite innocent…”
“Now isn’t the time to talk about whether Mo Xuanli is innocent or not. In any case, he is a special mixed-blood, that is an undeniable fact. Even if he were a great good person, this world would not tolerate him.”
Listening to everyone’s statements and watching this shocking turn of events, Chu Fei’s side couldn’t even be bothered to watch anymore. At Fu Zhiyi’s signal, he immediately set off.
Fu Zhiyi looked up at the sky with a grim expression and muttered, “Don’t let anything happen… I don’t want to regret it!” Then he coldly observed the development at Tianyuan Sect.
Ridiculous. He knew that Sect Master Baili must have been blinded by rage, otherwise, such a scandal wouldn’t have been exposed in public, turning a good hand into a complete mess.
But he also knew that ever since Immortal Baili Jin had been played, Sect Master Baili must have been holding back a breath of anger. Now the same thing had happened to his own most prideful son. How could Sect Master Baili possibly hold it in? The two people Tianyuan Sect had been most proud of had both been destroyed one after another. Sect Master Baili was probably already driven mad with rage.
Very soon, several families who had suffered losses stepped forward to stop Sect Master Baili from killing her. They had to force out where the people had been taken. Was that Saintess still around?
Sect Master Baili hadn’t expected so many matters piling up behind him. He was furious to the point of near collapse. He ruthlessly smashed Pei Dai to the ground, restraining her with a spell. Pei Dai was smashed until she spat blood, weak beyond measure, yet she still looked toward Jingcheng in the distance.
Although she had long anticipated this outcome, knowing Tianyuan Sect’s situation well, there had still been hope in her heart, only for that hope to gradually turn into disappointment.
“Husband…”
Jingcheng froze, instinctively wanting to step forward.
Seeing this, some people couldn’t stand it and immediately said to Baili Jingcheng, “Young Sect Master, what exactly is going on here? Give everyone an explanation.”
In an instant, Jingcheng felt it become hard to breathe. He stopped in his tracks, and scenes of what Gu Baiqing and Mo Xuanli had just gone through suddenly flashed through his mind.
He had not expected that in the blink of an eye, it would be his turn to face all this.
Suddenly, a sword pointed straight at Zhenzhen in his arms.
Jingcheng’s heart trembled, and he instinctively moved to protect her.
But it was He Jingyuan. Holding the child’s life hostage, He Jingyuan threatened, “Speak now, or I’ll kill this mixed-blood immediately!”
“Don’t! Jingcheng, save her quickly, she’s your daughter!” Pei Dai cried loudly. “I don’t know, I really don’t know. I was threatened. I indeed… indeed am the Demon Venerable’s daughter, but I’m just an insignificant little demon among his thousands upon thousands of children. I only wanted to live an ordinary life, I…”
“Lies!” He Jingyuan questioned. “Mo Xuanli was also manufactured, so how do we know whether this mixed-blood isn’t also the product of your plan? Deliberately sending out the Demon Venerable’s bloodline to seduce Jingcheng? The Demon Venerable’s bloodline combined with the Baili family’s bloodline, it’s exactly the same method. Perhaps this mixed-blood is Mo Xuanli’s backup! Wanting to create another special mixed-blood? Too terrifying, this is all a conspiracy!”
As soon as Sect Master Baili heard it, he felt that this was indeed the case.
Pei Dai frantically shook her head, looking at Jingcheng in a sorry state, and Jingcheng also raised his head to look at Pei Dai, the doubt in his eyes stabbed painfully into her.
“Husband, when I met you, I almost died, do you remember? I was driven out by the Saintess and had no choice but to come to the cultivation world to hide and become an ordinary medical cultivator. But if our bloodline is to be hidden, we cannot use too much spiritual power, so we are very weak. Back then I was being hunted, and it was you who saved me. I didn’t know your identity at all. I just… just fell for you, sincerely. It was all genuine. It was never a conspiracy, never was…”
Jingcheng’s lips trembled slightly, but he could not say a single word.
Jingzhan finally could not help but angrily condemn her, “If you truly wanted to live a peaceful life with my brother, then why did you do these things! You casually harmed innocent people… how many people have you harmed.”
Pei Dai cried out in pain, “It was the Saintess who suddenly came to find me. She demanded that I assist her with some matters, otherwise she would expose me. And… and Zhenzhen was about to be born. I couldn’t hide her identity. Only the Saintess had a way. I had no choice but to submit and seek her help. I only wanted to protect my small family. I had no choice, I really had no choice.”
Seeing his former sister-in-law crying like this, Jingzhan actually already believed her. “Where is Xie Qingrong? Where exactly did you take them?”
Pei Dai shook her head. “At the time, I was only responsible for arranging the teleportation array. I didn’t know where they were taken or for what purpose. But they are definitely still alive.”
“Is being alive enough? What if something happens… what if…”
Pei Dai lowered her head. She couldn’t afford to care about that much. People are selfish, was she supposed to sacrifice herself, sacrifice Zhenzhen, for others?
“If you know nothing at all, then you’re useless anyway. Sect Master Baili, this is your family’s daughter-in-law and granddaughter. You handle it as you see fit. You must give the cultivation world an explanation!” He Jingyuan said coldly. “But if anything happens to my son, I will absolutely not let you Tianyuan Sect off!”
“Mixed-bloods must be killed, this is the rule!”
“The demon clan member can be kept, interrogated thoroughly, to see whether other demon clan members will come to rescue her. After all, she is the Demon Venerable’s daughter.”
Pei Dai instantly panicked and looked around, suddenly seeing that Sect Master Baili had already formed killing intent. She immediately shouted, “Kill me, kill me, but don’t kill my daughter! Jingcheng, I beg you, I beg you. It’s me who wronged you, it’s me who deceived you, but Zhenzhen is innocent.”
Pei Dai was seriously injured, yet she still struggled within the formation, frantically kowtowing toward Sect Master Baili and Jingcheng.
Jingcheng looked at Pei Dai in pain, saying nothing, yet the arms holding Zhenzhen did not loosen. Inside, rules and beliefs tormented him, making it impossible to decide.
Mixed-blood… not Zhenzhen? A mixed-blood…
For the first time, Jingcheng felt that this term was so piercing.
He didn’t know what his little uncle had felt when he first learned this truth. He felt like he was going crazy, hatred, resentment, pain, guilt, all emotions were madly tormenting him.
And Zhenzhen in his arms seemed to have cried herself tired and was growing drowsy.
“Mixed-bloods are never innocent. This is the rule.”
“That’s right. If we leave this mixed-blood alive, then wouldn’t the Mo Xuanli whom everyone just beat away be a joke!”
“We are not targeting Zixiao Sect, and naturally we won’t favor Tianyuan Sect either. There must be a fair resolution.”
Hearing someone mention the decisiveness with which the Zixiao Sect handled matters, Fu Zhiyi really wanted to sneer. He couldn’t even be bothered to keep watching, nor did he want to see something cruel. He directly threw out a sentence about going to chase the sect’s traitors, then led his disciples away.
On Sect Master Baili’s side, with a single lift of his hand, a powerful suction force tore Zhenzhen from Jingcheng’s arms. Jingcheng wanted to grab her, but heard his father coldly instruct, “Sweet words cannot be trusted. Make one mistake, absolutely cannot make a second. This is all a scam! This time, no hidden danger can be left.”
Zhenzhen was fixed in midair, completely unaware, instead finding the flying fun, laughing with babbling sounds.
“No, no!” Pei Dai watched as a fireball slowly rose from Sect Master Baili’s hand, screaming madly, calling Jingcheng’s name, but Jingcheng remained frozen in place.
At the instant the fireball was about to strike Zhenzhen, Pei Dai suddenly thrust her hand into her abdomen and pulled out a crystal shard. In an instant, her eyes turned blood-red, demonic aura surging skyward.
The strength of the Demon Venerable’s daughter finally revealed itself a little, but it was still too weak. She only broke through the restraints, and at the moment she was about to save the child, she was jointly struck by the surrounding vigilant cultivators, beaten into severe injuries, and pressed to the ground.
Even when she tried to crawl forward, she could not move. Only her ten fingers ground bloody marks into the ground, blood continuously spilling from her mouth. This blow was extremely heavy.
“No, Zhenzhen, Zhenzhen!”
It was as if Jingcheng was jolted awake by this scene. His pupils shrank, and he instantly tried to rush forward to save Zhenzhen, but it was already too late. “No!”
The fireball had already slammed toward Zhenzhen.
Suddenly, a figure flashed in and grabbed Zhenzhen. With no time to escape, his back was directly scorched by the massive fireball.
When everyone came back to their senses, they saw Jingzhan holding Zhenzhen, already fleeing away on a flying sword.
If one were to talk about who in Tianyuan Sect was best at escaping and the fastest, it would be none other than Jingzhan. Moreover, he was also well-versed in Tianyuan Sect’s formations, no one else could catch up.
Unless it was Tianyuan Sect’s own people.
But just as they were about to give chase, they were stopped by Baili Jingcheng.
“Outrageous, outrageous! Are you brothers rebelling now? How did I educate you? Even if you have personal feelings, could it be that you would disregard the great righteousness of the cultivation world, the safety of the world?”
Jingcheng painfully closed his eyes. Tears slid down, yet he still bought time for his younger brother.
“Father, I’m sorry… but Zhenzhen… Zhenzhen is not a special mixed-blood. She is very ordinary, truly very ordinary. Perhaps she could…”
“B*stard!”
Jingcheng was directly struck to the ground by Sect Master Baili.
Sect Master Baili was already humiliated into rage. This time, he no longer hesitated, planning to kill Pei Dai first, then chase after Jingzhan. In fact, Pei Dai no longer needed much action taken against her, she had already been injured far too heavily just now, barely clinging to life.
Pei Dai saw that her daughter had already escaped; she herself could no longer hold on and collapsed, gazing at Jingcheng from afar, with disappointment, with relief, with guilt.
She knew she was about to die. Suddenly she felt deep regret, recalling Mo Xuanli and Gu Baiqing who had been forced away before; she suddenly profoundly understood that helpless feeling from back then. Perhaps this was retribution.
And just at the instant when Sect Master Baili was about to deliver a finishing blow to vent his anger, she still heard Jingcheng shout “Don’t,” Pei Dai slightly curved her lips, “Jingcheng, protect our daughter well!”
After saying that she closed her eyes, but the very next second, powerful demonic qi swept in.
In an instant, a whip flew over, coiling around and snatching Pei Dai away.
Everyone looked up, and a woman in a dark red long dress appeared out of thin air, wearing a mask; between her brows and eyes…
“The Saintess of the Demon Clan!”
“Baili Xuanyue?”
And in the next moment, many members of the Demon Clan appeared from the teleportation arrays in the sky. It turned out that as early as when they targeted Mo Xuanli, some formations had been broken, giving Xuanyue the chance to open the teleportation arrays.
Now half the fighting strength on the plaza had left, and the remaining ones had also gone through a great battle with Mo Xuanli and Gu Baiqing; this was precisely when they were weak. With such a good opportunity, how could Xuanyue possibly not cherish it.
“Eldest Uncle, your niece has come to pay her respects. The debt of your pursuit and killing back then, I must repay it well.”
“You vile spawn, how dare you! You are throwing yourself into a net!” Sect Master Baili also saw that the situation was not good, yet his momentum did not wane as he roared angrily.
“Hahahaha, Eldest Uncle, you really are as foolish as ever. Oh right, did you think that by seizing the fragments and destroying those spirit-gathering formations, you could stop my plan? Too naïve. If you don’t die here today, then within a month, all of you will die at the hands of the Primordial Demon. Today is just an appetizer! Struggle a bit harder.”
The instant she finished speaking, a shout of ‘Kill’ rang out, and countless members of the Demon Clan charged out from the teleportation arrays, with the Kill Demon and Beast Demon at the head.
In the blink of an eye, the plaza of Tianyuan Sect became a battlefield of slaughter.
And at this time there was no longer Gu Baiqing, Mo Xuanli, and Li Xiuran protecting those weaker ones.
On this day, those who went out to pursue Gu Baiqing and Mo Xuanli suffered no losses, while those who stayed here were more than half dead or wounded.
The Demon Clan departed at their leisure, yet did not take any more hostages.
As if those they had taken away were already enough.
On the other side, using the furthest limit of the Void Spirit Space to transfer the two of them exhausted Mo Xuanli completely. Especially at the very end, he had in fact taken part of Sect Master Baili’s attack head-on, so after he steadied himself again, Mo Xuanli directly spat out a breath and collapsed.
Gu Baiqing also had his spiritual power completely depleted; before he could check on Mo Xuanli, he fell into a coma.
Only Li Xiuran looked somewhat shattered as he watched the two of them. Knowing there were still enemies in pursuit, he could only support the two of them, conceal their tracks, and flee quickly.
Anywhere was dangerous for Mo Xuanli right now, so they could only head toward places without immortal sects.
But halfway through their escape, a wave of demonic qi suddenly came. Li Xiuran reacted swiftly and was about to attack, when the other party jumped out directly, raising his hands and saying, “Don’t fight, I’m Qian Yue’s… friend.”
Li Xiuran slightly furrowed his brows, an incubus? Qian Yue’s friend? He seemed to have once heard Mo Xuanli mention that there was… a Demon Clan member by Qian Yue’s side. Could it be this one?
“I really am. I can prove it, I once gave a fragment of the God-Slaying Sword to Mo Xuanli behind you. I know all of them, and I’m not your opponent. Come with me now; I can sense people chasing you from behind. His mixed-blood aura is too strong; I can temporarily help conceal it. And I also have things to ask them!”
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