Zhang Ruochen said, “Two hundred years ago, what exactly happened?”
Mu Lingshi said, “Two hundred years ago, the Sect Master made the decision to prepare for a large-scale advance into the Eastern Domain, competing with the Black Market, Martial Market Money Banks, and the Imperial Court for the Eastern Domain.”
“The major powers in the Eastern Domain have long been entrenched, and if the Divine Sect wants to make a difference, it must have its own roots. Thus, the medieval family, the Qi family, was chosen.”
“As long as the Qi family is in control, the Demon Sect will be able to easily enter the Eastern Region, and there is even a chance to use the Qi family to infiltrate the Two Yi Sect.”
“This is a plan that doesn’t see any bloodshed, but one person has to be sacrificed, and that’s Lin Su Xian.”
“The Sect Leader gave the order, and Lin Su Xian was secretly married to the eldest son of the Qi Family’s head, Qi Xiang Tian.”
“For the next hundred years or so, the Divine Sect had been secretly helping Qi Xiangtian and subduing the forces of the Qi family’s various veins, and finally, fifty years ago, Qi Xiangtian ascended to the position of the Qi family’s head. In order to strengthen his control over the Qi family, and then later on, there was the Holy Maiden Qi Fayu.”
After hearing this hidden story, even Zhang Ruochen sighed darkly and said, “Could Elder Luo Xu just watch, Lin Suxian marry Qi Xiangtian?”
“Of course not.”
She added, “Although I don’t know what exactly happened between Lin Suxian and Senior Luo Xu, I heard the High Priestess talk about how Senior Luo Xu once killed the Divine Sect’s main altar, Peakless Mountain, alone, and slayed seven Half-Saints in a row, and even killed a Saint with his life.”
“You have to know that at that time, Senior Luo Xu was only at the Half-Saint realm.”
“It’s just a pity that his power alone was too thin, and in the end, he was still suppressed by the Saint in the sect. It is said that in that battle, his flesh was almost completely shattered, a bloody mess, and even when he was dying, he didn’t give up resisting, and his blood flowed for twelve miles.”
“The Sect Master was going to execute Senior Luo Xu, but it was Lin Su Xian who pleaded for him and compromised with the Sect Master by agreeing to marry into the Qi family, which saved his life.”
“This one incident has always been a hidden secret, only the top echelons of the Divine Sect know about it, and the Sect Master gave a gag order, so no one dared to speak of it.”
Zhang Ruochen was quite moved and said, “Since it is a secret of the Demon Sect, why did you tell me about it?”
Mu Lingshi had already wept long ago, tearfully staring at Zhang Ruochen as she said, “I just want you to know that if there is that day when the Sect Master also marries me to someone else, how I wish that there is also that one person who can righteously kill the Peakless Mountain. If he really does that, even if I have to die immediately, I would still be willing.”
“Zhang Ruochen, do you know? The Holy Maiden of the Divine Sect is merely a tool used by the Sect Master to buy people’s hearts, and may be rewarded at any time to a Saint who has made great contributions to the Divine Sect.”
Zhang Ruochen could feel the sadness and fear in Mu Lingshi’s heart, and finally understood why she had been so forthcoming earlier.
It turned out that she was worried that in the future, she would also follow in Lin Su Xian’s footsteps.
Since that was the case, why couldn’t she offer her first night to the man she loved?
Zhang Ruochen’s face was quite solemn as he took a deep breath and stretched out one hand, hugging Mu Lingshi’s waist, while the other touched the top of her head and softly said, ”Don’t be afraid, if there is really a day like that, you must believe that there will definitely be a person who will climb up the Peakless Mountain and go to pick you up in person. Even if, the Devil Cult has a thousand armies, they won’t be able to stop him.”
Mu Lingshi gently leaned in Zhang Ruochen’s embrace, but the teardrops in her eyes were flowing faster.
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Meanwhile, in the Two Element Sect’s Tai Qing Palace, the Head Elders of the three palaces and seventy-two courtyards had gathered together and were interrogating Qi Qiankun and Qi Yun.
Half an hour later, the head honours of the seventy-two courtyards immediately issued an order, summoning the venerable masters of the major spirit mountains to launch a clean-up operation against the Qi family’s sons and daughters.
Patriarch Ning Xuandao, sitting at the topmost position, was very majestic and his face was blue.
Anyone could tell that he was quite shaken at the moment.
Qi Qiankun and Qi Yun hadn’t said a single word from the beginning to the end, but as the purge of the Qi family’s children began, it wasn’t long before a message was sent back to the Tai Qing Palace.
The relationship between the Qi family and the Devil Sect gradually became clear.
Although, the Two Eyes Sect was a neutral force that had never fought head-on with the Devil Cult, it was absolutely intolerable that someone within the sect would actually dare to secretly collude with the Devil Cult and do something that would harm the sect’s interests.
From the beginning to the end, the Sacred Book Talented Maiden had only sat on the sidelines and hadn’t said a single word. However, she believed that Ning Xuandao and the saints of the Two Element Sect would definitely not treat her as air.
The Sacred Book Talented Maiden represented the court and the empress.
If she was in danger in the Two Elemental Sect, how could the Two Elemental Sect not give an explanation?
Furthermore, the imperial court and the Demon Sect had always had a hostile relationship, so if the Two Yi Sect dared to harbour the Qi family, how would the imperial court interpret it?
Therefore, this clean-up operation of the Two Yi Sect, whether it was for public or private purposes, was destined to be very bloody, and any member of the Qi family who had connections with the Demon Cult was feared to be unable to escape death.
The main reason why the Sacred Book Talented Lady had purged the Qi family before the Sword Discussion Conference was because of the Heaven and Earth Sacrificial Platform.
Since, Qi Hong was able to discover the Heaven and Earth Sacrificial Platform, it was possible that other Qi family cultivators, too, might know the secret.
In any case, the secret of the Heaven and Earth Sacrificial Platform could never be allowed to leak out, thus, only Qi Qiankun and Qi Yun had to be handed over to the Two Element Sect, so that the Saints of the Two Element Sect could go and clean up the house.
For the next three days, the cleanup operation continued.
Overnight, all of the Qi Clan’s children disappeared cleanly as if they had evaporated from the earth. Within the Two Element Sect, it naturally caused a shockwave-like tremor.
Although, no wind had yet spread out, everyone could guess that something big had definitely happened to the Qi Family.
In the Tai Qing Palace, a separate courtyard with an elegant environment.
The Sacred Book Talented Lady sat at the top of the lobby, and in front of her was a long table cast in bronze, on which pens, ink, paper, and inkstones were neatly arranged.
In the very centre, there was a purple bell and a jade vial.
“Ta-da!”
An old man in a Confucian robe walked out from outside, respectfully bowing to the Sacred Book Talented Lady, saying, “Reporting to the Sacred One, the list of names for this clean-up operation has been tallied. Only the two Half-Saints, Qi Shang and Qi Xunyi, were captured, and the rest of the top experts received wind of the operation and fled the Two Element Sect in advance.”
The Sacred Book Talented Maiden did not have any emotional fluctuations, such an outcome seemed to be expected by her.
The Confucian-robed old man added, “The connection between the Qi family and the Devil Cult has also been clearly investigated. The wife of the Qi family’s head, Qi Xiangtian, is the Demon Cult’s former Holy Maiden, Lin Su Xian.”
Hearing this piece of news, the Sacred Book Talented Lady finally moved slightly, raised her head, and recited, “Lin Su Xian …… No wonder the Devil Cult was able to control half of the Qi Family, so the key point is here.”
The Confucian-robed old man said, “Lord Saint, should we mobilise the imperial court’s troops and join forces with the Two Yi Sect to impose sanctions on the Qi family?”
The Sacred Book Talented Lady thought for a moment and shook her head, “No need, let’s leave this matter to the Two Yi Sect, the imperial court should not interfere in it. Elder Liu, I have an odd thing here, send it to Mr Mei for me and ask his old man to help me find out what it is.”
The Sacred Book Talented Lady picked up the jade bottle on the table and placed it into a metaphysical iron box, locking the box and inscribing a layer of formation inscriptions before handing the box to the Confucian-robed old man.
In the jade bottle, it is the death evil gas that is loaded.
The Confucian-robed old man picked up the Xuan iron box and left straight out of the lobby.
The Sacred Book Talented Lady was alone, sitting next to the bronze table and case. Her gaze, once again, landed on the top of the purple-black bell, and in her mind, once again, Lin Yue’s figure appeared.
“How could this happen?”
The Sacred Book Talented Lady immediately closed her eyes, but the figure in her mind became even clearer, making her linger.
Whether it was Lin Yue making a move to help her repel Qi Hong, or Lin Yue putting on her coat, or Lin Yue sitting in the bow of the boat to cultivate ……, these images, over and over again, surfaced in front of her eyes.
For the last three days, the Sacred Book Talented Lady had been in such a state, making her somewhat doubt if there was something wrong with her cultivation.
“A mere cultivator of the Fish Dragon Realm, could it be that he has even become my heart demon?”
The Sacred Book Talented Maiden opened her eyes, her pupils revealing two streaks of holy light, and then, taking out a section of Sacred Blood Sandalwood Ink, her two snow-white fingers pinched the ink block and ground it in the ink stone.
She lifted a pen, dipped it into the ink, and on top of the paper, copied the Meditation Mantra.
Only halfway through copying, she stopped and looked at the paper, only to realise that she had actually written Lin Yue’s name three times.
“Why do we have to keep running away, is it that scary to go and meet him?”
The Sacred Book Talent Lady put down her quill and finally gave up that resistance in her heart, cupped the purple-black bell in her hand and walked towards the door.
“Wow!”
A white holy light flew out from the Taiqing Palace, stopping in the sky above the Purple Haze Spirit Mountain, standing at the top of a white cloud, coalescing into the body of the Sacred Book Talented Lady.
For some reason, her mood, unexpectedly, was unprecedentedly tense, and her heartbeat accelerated a little.
The Sacred Book Talented Maiden did not immediately land down, still hesitating in her heart, but suddenly, her spiritual power sensed Lin Yue’s aura, and so, she immediately looked downwards.
At this moment, Zhang Ruochen and Mu Lingshi were sitting beside the stone table in the cultivation compound, talking about the Qi Family being cleared, not realising that a pair of eyes were watching them.
Mu Lingshi’s hands, resting on her chin, said, “The Sacred Book Talented Lady is truly a strange woman, you say, what exactly is her attitude towards our Moon Worshipping Divine Sect?”
“On the one hand, she personally invited the top geniuses of the Moon Worshipping Divine Sect, to participate in the Sword Discussion Conference, which is obviously related to the selection of the Nine Great Realm Sons.”
“On the other hand, she is driving the Qi Family, which has ties with the Divine Sect, to extinction. It’s really a bit hard to guess, why on earth is she doing this?”
Zhang Ruochen smiled and said, “You’re just a fan of the authorities, so you can’t see through her. You only need to calm down and think carefully, and you will naturally be able to figure it out. The two things she did actually have one big difference.”
