Beneath Beacon City.
With Sect Leader Ji Qianling assassinated, the Hehuan Sect plunged into internal chaos.
Tens of thousands of elite Beichuan warriors, composed of Innate martial artists and bolstered by the regal aura of the North Territory Queen, launched a counterattack against the Hehuan Sect!
In an instant, the clang of weapons and the cacophony of battle shook the heavens and the earth!
Under the charge of these battle-hardened Beichuan cavalry.
The entire Hehuan Sect's formation was instantly thrown into disarray!
At this very mont, at the very center of the Hehuan Sect's forces.
Ji Qianling clutched her abdon, which had been pierced by a Demon Sword and was bleeding profusely. She looked at Bai Zii, the sect's chief disciple, her face a mask of despair and rage.
"It hurts! It hurts so much!"
"Zii! I personally promoted you to Chief Saintess and entrusted you with great responsibilities! Why... why do you repay my kindness with such enmity!?"
"Don't bla , Sect Leader."
"You did indeed grant great favor, but it was my Master who raised and imparted all my skills to ! And all of this..."
"This is the task given to by my Master!"
Bai Zii's expression was tinged with pain. She gritted her teeth and thrust her sword again!
PSSSH!
Another spray of crimson blood arced through the air.
The Hehuan Sect Leader, Ji Qianling, her beautiful face deathly pale, instantly crumpled to her knees!
"You just ntioned your Master..."
Ji Qianling gritted her teeth. "It's not like you don't know! Your Master, Xue i, was trapped by love and leaped into the Burning Demon Valley. Her body was burned beyond recognition. I was the one who collected her remains!"
"That's not what happened."
"The one who died was not Master, but a puppet crafted from wood essence."
Bai Zii shook her head. "Master now goes by the na Su i and has joined the Righteous Path. You should have heard of her current title..."
"That's right! The Chairman of Phoenix Caw Peak of the Qinglan Immortal Sect—that's her!"
"How... how is this possible!?"
Feeling the life force draining from her body, Ji Qianling cried out hysterically, "How can you prove that Su i is your Master, Xue i!? Why would she do this? It makes no sense!"
"Very well, Sect Leader. Zii will let you die understanding the truth."
Bai Zii took a peculiarly shaped Jade Pendant from her bosom. "Look at this."
"This is... Xue i's Lifebound Protective Spirit Essence, the Yin Yang Fish Jade Marrow!"
Ji Qianling recognized it instantly. Her expression beca even more desperate, and she murmured with a desolate look, "It seems I guessed wrong. My dear sister, she truly deceived ..."
"So..."
"This Jade Marrow... was it given to you personally by her, the one who is now the Chairman of Phoenix Caw Peak?" Ji Qianling asked, using her last ounce of strength.
"Not at all."
Bai Zii shook her head. "I haven't seen Master. A disciple of the Qinglan Sect nad Lin Xiao gave this to . He conveyed Master's directive to —"
"Kill you, and then, have the Hehuan Sect cease its invasion of the Eastern Region!"
As Bai Zii spoke, a tyrannical, icy Sword Qi surged from her palm, coursing along the blade of her Longsword and into the Sect Leader's heart!
The next mont!
With a sharp PANG!
Ji Qianling's entire body shattered into countless shards of ice!
The Sect Leader of the Hehuan Sect—slain!
"Forgive , Sect Leader..."
"A Master's command cannot be defied."
Bai Zii sighed softly, sheathed her Longsword, and then, leading a group of trusted Saintesses, stepped over a pile of protectors' corpses and exited the tent.
She held up the sect's command token, her voice ringing out:
"Listen, all mbers of the Hehuan Sect! This war to invade the Eastern Region is utterly aningless for our Hehuan Sect!"
"Now, Sect Leader Ji is dead! The Heavenly Demon Sect has been annihilated! Our Hehuan Sect stands isolated and without support!"
"Follow , this Saintess, and withdraw to the Outer Domain imdiately!"
As the remnants of the Hehuan Sect retreated from the battlefield like a receding tide, the crisis of the siege was thus resolved.
This also marked the first ti that Martial Arts legions from the Secular World had frontally defeated the elite forces of a Cultivation World sect!
Beneath Beacon City, countless Beichuan soldiers cheered, their morale as high as a rainbow. They thronged around Immortal Lin, the handso and brilliant strategist who had single-handedly changed the tide of battle, placing him at the very center!
「That night.」
The North Territory Queen, who was stationed in Beacon City, did not hold any celebratory banquet. Instead, she ordered the remains of the soldiers who had died in battle to be transported to the Altar of Heaven within the city, where all military personnel and civilians mourned and paid their respects.
On the streets paved with bluestone slabs...
Three stunningly beautiful won, each with her own unique charm, and a handso, white-robed young man walked slowly towards the city center.
"Xiao'er, how did you convince that Bai Zii to rebel?" Xiao Hongling finally couldn't resist asking.
After speaking, she quickly added, "Now! Since Master is asking you, you can't be evasive! No showing off; give Master a direct answer!"
"Sigh, this question... Can I tell you when we return to the Qinglan Sect, Master?" Lin Xiao replied with a helpless look.
There was no way. He couldn't possibly tell Master now that he, Lin Xiao, knew the most complete original plot of the story—that Martial Uncle Su was actually from the Demonic Path beyond the borders, the forr Chief Saintess of the Hehuan Sect!
"Hmph! You brat... Are you going to tell or not!" Xiao Hongling's phoenix eyes blazed with anger. She grabbed her disciple and lifted him up like a little chick. "Always acting on your own! Do you even acknowledge as your Master anymore?!"
"Tsk, tsk. It seems one thing truly does conquer another. To think Immortal Lin would have such a day," Nangong Biyao remarked with a teasing smile, observing from the sidelines.
"SOB, SOB, SOB! Master, please don't punish Eldest Senior Brother, okay?" Lu Yingying rushed over and hugged her Master's thigh. "Yingying might know why! Eldest Senior Brother... gave that Bai Zii a piece of Jade Marrow!"
"Jade Marrow? What Jade Marrow?" Xiao Hongling grew even more curious. Her willow brows knitted together as she looked at her disciple, who was rolling his eyes and playing dead while being held. "You will explain yourself honestly!"
"Sigh. Master, you've changed," Lin Xiao shook his head, looking as if his heart had died.
"Ah?" Xiao Hongling was taken aback, her phoenix eyes wide. "What do you an by that, you brat!? You'd better make yourself clear!"
Lin Xiao sighed softly. "The Master of the past always believed in her disciple unconditionally. No matter what her disciple did, Master would support it. But now..."
"Sigh. Perhaps love truly does fade away."
After saying this, he simply stopped struggling, allowing his Master to hold him, his limbs dangling like those of a resigned dead dog.
"You, you, you... Wait! It's not as serious as you think! Master doesn't disbelieve you, it's just..."
Seeing her disciple seed genuinely hurt, Xiao Hongling felt a pang of regret and was about to say sothing comforting.
However, unbeknownst to them, the three had already walked to the Altar of Heaven in the city center.
"Immortal Hongling, you've co? Ah, and... Brother Xiao."
A lancholic female voice drifted down from above.
WHOOSH.
The tens of thousands of city residents and Beichuan soldiers in front spontaneously parted, clearing a path.
"Master, let's go."
"It's ti for us, the Righteous Path of the Eastern Region, to properly thank Sister Xuan'er and achieve a harem... no, a righteous united front."
As Lin Xiao spoke, his expression instantly turned serious.
His clear, handso eyes passed through the crowd and t the gentle gaze of the noble, aloof, blue-haired North Territory Queen, whose hair cascaded over her shoulders.
And he added in a murmur, "Incidentally, it's also ti for you to witness your disciple's true great Divine Skill—the Power of the River God!"
Xiao Hongling: ???
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