The sharp pain in his heart swept through his body like a wave over and over again. He pressed his chest tightly with one hand, trying to relieve the pain in this way.
Suddenly, she raised her hand to cover her mouth. The smell of blood surged up her throat and rushed into her mouth. The blood that she couldn't swallow in time dripped from her fingers.
beep... beep beep...
Tong Yan's eyesight turned black, and he was still recovering from the serious injuries he suffered in the secret realm. Now his mind was suddenly hit by a huge impact, which caused the mandarin duck gu to attack. Under the influence of the two parties, his body and mind were exhausted, and he finally fainted to the ground.
"Sister Yan!" He Zhan saw her suddenly fainting, and then caught a glimpse of the blood on the ground. He rushed over with eyes wide open, "What's wrong with you!"
This shout made everyone look over in shock. Shang Xun subconsciously lowered his head and looked down. He saw a small ball lifelessly lying at his feet. His body stiffened suddenly, and a pool of dazzling bright red appeared in his field of vision.
A blank flashed through his mind.
He forgot how to speak and move, as if he suddenly lost all the abilities of a living person, leaving only an expressionless face, staring blankly at the person who fainted at his feet.
However, this scene appears to others to be endlessly indifferent and heartless.
Is this the pattern of being the leader of a sect?
When the emperor breaks the law, he is as guilty as the common people. Even the disciple he loved in the past will not only be treated equally after making a mistake, but he will not be affected at all even if she is seriously injured and unconscious?
Under the ruthless gaze of Sect Leader Shang, no one dared to move. Only a few people who were usually friends with Tong Yan rushed forward without any scruples.
Shang Xun's eyes were briefly at a loss, and he subconsciously looked in the direction of Rong Yaoling, as if asking her for help.
Rong Yaoling, who had never seen her senior brother show such an expression, felt sour in her heart. She was the only one in the entire sect who understood the pain in her senior brother's heart at this moment. It was obvious that Tong Yan was the one who loved Tong Yan the most in the entire sect and was the most reluctant to hurt her.
It was him who now had to inflict trauma on her with his own hands.
Master respects the situation, so should the senior brother be trapped between the two and suffer torture? Rong Yaoling suppressed the surging emotions in her heart, stepped forward, and spoke out to help him solve the dilemma.
"Senior brother, after all, Tong Yan used to be a disciple of my sect. She is injured and unconscious now. It would be unkind to our sect to drive people away at this time. If word spreads, it will harm our reputation. It is better to wait for her to wake up and then let them leave."
Shang Xun lowered his eyes as if he was thinking, but he was trying to cover up his panic just now. He said with a restrained tremor in his voice: "I listen to you."
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The story of that day ended with the sect leader's former direct disciple vomiting blood and fainting. The disciple who asked to leave the sect got his wish and moved forward and retreated with the sect leader.
The sect leader ignored the fainted former disciple and ordered the two of them to leave the sect immediately. In the end, it was Master Rong who remembered his old relationship and tried his best to persuade the sect leader, so that the sect leader agreed to let him recover first.
Hearing that the place to recuperate was Luo Huafeng, Sect Leader Shang was dissatisfied that such a narrow-minded person was still occupying his place, so he walked away angrily on the spot.
I heard...
On Luo Hua Peak
The man who had always been wearing a red shirt now changed into a black robe. The dark color made his skin like white porcelain glow white. When he got closer and looked closer, he realized that it was pale and bloodless.
Like a patient who has just recovered from a serious illness and has not seen the sun for a long time.
He was twisting a chess piece between his fingertips, but he didn't drop it for a long time. Others thought that the chess game was too complicated and difficult to solve, so he needed to think again and again, but Rong Yaoling knew that the chess pieces on the chessboard were scattered in a mess, without the fighting momentum of the past.
His mind was not on the chessboard in front of him.
Maybe, he has long forgotten that he is playing chess now.
"Senior brother." Rong Yaoling sat down next to her, picked up the white pieces on the chessboard one by one, and put them back into the chess box, "Still thinking about her."
Shang Xun's eyelashes trembled a few times, then he slowly put down the chess piece in his hand and remained silent.
"I thought you would punish her severely at most." When Rong Yaoling said this, she twitched the corner of her mouth, her expression seemed to be smiling but there was no warmth.
That day, after knowing that the Chai Shenghun Lamp was extinguished, the matter was not over. As soon as they stepped out of the door, they were stopped by the frightened words of the disciple guarding the lamp.
"The sect master...the sect master's former sect master's soul lamp has also been extinguished!!"
Everyone turned back in shock and disbelief, and saw the last scene of Shang Huihe's life using the method he had just used to examine Chai Sheng.
Shang Xun's disciple Tong Yan stabbed his former sect leader in the chest with a sword!
This is the most ridiculous and unbelievable thing that anyone has ever encountered.
Everyone present knew that Tong Yan was in the new secret realm at this time, and several people watched her leave. Moreover, she was killing Chai Sheng a quarter of an hour ago. How could she immediately kill her predecessor who was far away in the upper world?
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Moreover, how can one in the realm of golden elixir kill a powerful person who has already entered and exited the body? This kind of thing is simply more outrageous than someone who ascended in the daytime.
But no matter how unbelievable and hard they accept it, the fact is that the soul lamp of the former sect leader has been extinguished, and the sword that pierced his chest is also the spirit sword that Tong Yan has been using. These evidences can prove that the murderer is most likely him.
His disciple——Tong Yan!
Soul Lantern records are extremely difficult to falsify, and people who have a grudge against them don't need to, and they don't have the ability to kill Shang Huihe and then put the blame on her.
Eliminating all impossibilities, no matter how impossible the remaining one is, it is also the truth.
There are many wonders in the world of cultivation. For example, the innate magical retrospection mirror has the ability to travel through time and space. Is it possible that this traitor used some secret method to kill the former sect leader?
Elder Chai's group seemed to have found the fatal weakness of their prey, and seized this opportunity to bite them to death. They gained the upper hand and pressed forward step by step. If Shang Xun was to be punished severely, those who deceived the master and destroyed the Tao would be severely punished.
Rong Yaoling was grieved that her master had died in vain, and she was gnashing her teeth in hatred for the murderer. However, she still had reason to understand that her nephew, who was almost the same as herself in cultivation, could not possibly kill his master, not to mention that she was here.
How could he appear in the upper realm after having just shown his face in the secret realm?
"At that time, I half believed whether the murderer was her, but your performance, senior brother, was beyond my expectation. I thought you would be the one who believed in her the most and would insist on clearing her grievances, but the fact is exactly the opposite.
, you seemed to think that person was her from the beginning."
This is what Rong Yaoling has always wondered about the most. He should know that once Tong Yan is convicted, this matter will become a natural chasm that separates the two, and they will never be able to cross it again.
The Chai family has been grudged against Tong Yan for a long time. Without his protection, once she leaves the sect, she will inevitably be chased and intercepted by them.
Rong Yaoling said a lot, while Shang Xun lowered his eyes and remained silent, as motionless as a delicate sculpture.
Rong Yaoling sighed deeply and added: "I remember she wore a bone chain on her wrist. It was the joint of the Nine Dragon Lock, right? The person who killed Master did not have this bracelet on her."
In fact, a bracelet is not much evidence. It is something that can be easily faked and cannot explain anything at all.
Rong Yaoling didn't know why she said this, to absolve Tong Yan. She still couldn't bear the discomfort in her senior brother's heart, so she came to provide him with an excuse to give him a chance to repent and keep him.
But after Shang Xun makes a decision, is he someone who will regret it again?
Then she thought again, even Shang Xun thought it was Tong Yan, could the murderer really be her? Then what was her persuasion here, to excuse an enemy who was eager to kill him?
Assuming that it was really Tong Yan who killed his master, the punishment of being expelled from the master was simply a small punishment but a big warning.
He tried his best to show mercy to her.
Rong Yaoling felt uncomfortable because of this thought, couldn't sit still any longer, got up and left.
Now there is insufficient evidence for both possibilities, so she can't think about it any further. She doesn't want to let her enemy go, but she also doesn't want to unjustly accuse her nephew just because of speculation.
She should believe Shang Xun, after all, the person who died was his father who loved him...
The cold wind blew in on the high platform, and the dense branches rustled. The two cups of hot tea beside the chessboard had already cooled down for a long time. The man who had been sitting alone in silence for a long time slowly raised his head, revealing a pair of red eyes.