Arc 3: Part 28
The Jing Yang Peak of the Ziwei Palace was sealed off quietly and without prior notice.
The matter of the Immortal Lord of Jing Yang falling into demonhood was tightly sealed by Lu Han Yuanjun. She only told people that the Immortal Lord of Jing Yang and his junior sister Bai Tong were in closed-door cultivation and wouldn't emerge for a while.
She had originally detained all the disciples from the peak. However, upon interrogation, each disciple seemed more clueless than the last.
Not only was it impossible for them to know the reasons behind the Immortal Lord of Jing Yang's fall to demonhood, but most of them had never even met him, given his years-long seclusion.
The general disciples in the sect were unaware of the exact situation and only knew that a demon had recently appeared and was driven away by the Sect Leader and other elders. Some disciples had gone missing, presumably falling victim to the demon...
Scratching their heads without giving it much thought, they all dutifully returned to their cultivation.
Only Lu Han Yuanjun remained agitated, sitting in the main hall of the sect. She eventually couldn’t contain her anger any longer and suddenly called out, "Bring Feng Yin Yue to me!"
Feng Yin Yue entered silently and knelt quietly in the hall with her head bowed.
"Master," she said quietly.
Lu Han Yuanjun, in a fit of rage, hurled a freshly poured cup of hot tea that she had just filled toward her. "You dare to call me Master? Have you grown bold!" she accused furiously.
Feng Yin Yue didn't dare to dodge or raise a spiritual barrier to protect herself, letting the jade cup—which was imbued with the power of the Spirit-Transformation cultivator's force—hit her on the head. A stream of blood immediately seeped out and trickled down her forehead.
Hot tea splashed onto her, making her shudder from the heat.
"What did you say to me?" Lu Han Yuanjun exclaimed. "You came back covered in wounds, bitten by a demon beast! You were bitten while protecting that little wretch! Despite my deep concern for you, you dare to lie to me with such an outrageous story!"
Feng Yin Yue bit her lip and whispered, "I'm... I'm sorry..."
Her heart was full of resentment. Nobody could have expected Tian Xuanzi to suddenly appear from the Ten Thousand Ghosts Demon Cave, or that Bai Tong hadn't died!
If Bai Tong had died earlier, would she have been exposed? And why did Tian Xuanzi have to interfere? A mighty Mahayana cultivator targeting a mere Golden Core like her. If he hadn't forced out her own spiritual root, she wouldn't have been exposed.
And Bai Tong. How could she lose her spiritual root and then recover her sanity?
Tian Xuanzi was so disgustingly affectionate towards Bai Tong in front of everyone else, who knew when they started their illicit affair?
It's said that Tian Xuanzi is cold and unapproachable, but didn't he appear quite affectionate with Bai Tong?
Bai Tong, a girl Tian Xuanzi personally picked up from the street and raised, is quite pretty and has a highly suitable Spiritual Wood Root for cultivation. Perhaps Tian Xuanzi raised her just to use her as his cultivation furnace...
Disgusting.
Inside her heart, Feng Yin Yue cursed Bai Tong and Tian Xuanzi harshly, and her resentment still hadn't dissipated when she heard Lu Han Yuanjun's icy laughter, "What exactly was your mistake?"
She closed her eyes in a gesture of regret, apologizing, "Disciple should not have harmed junior sister Bai Tong nor deceived Master..."
"Whether you hurt Bai Tong or not, this Master doesn't care, but deceiving me... that's where you went wrong!"
Lu Han Yuanjun slapped Feng Yin Yue sharply across the face. With a miserable cry, she fell several feet away, her pretty cheeks instantly swelling up.
"This Master and Tian Xuanzi are at odds. If you wanted to deal with Bai Tong, you should have covered your tracks better! The worst part was that you hadn't disposed of all the evidence, letting Tian Xuanzi expose you publicly, humiliating your Master!"
Feng Yin Yue looked up in astonishment.
Lu Han Yuanjun sneered, "What are you so surprised about? If you don't have even this much killing aura, I have wasted my efforts on you as a disciple! This time you were spared to go and kill Bai Tong in the future. Your death penalty can be avoided, but you cannot escape alive without punishment. You will serve a penalty in the cliff of repentance, reflecting on your actions for three years. Did you understand clearly?"
"Yes."
Feng Yin Yue obediently bowed her head, with a flash of derision flickering in her eyes.
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