After the quarrel, the two did not speak to each other or see each other for a whole day and night.
The next day, the immortal boy came in and reported to him, “Young Master, the Young Immortal Lord went out this morning. He said he was going to Zhongzhou to discuss something with the Immortal Lord Yun Yan.”
Xue Huai was still angry: “Let him go, and don’t come back if he has the guts.”
He is tired.
His grandfather was seriously injured, his father’s whereabouts were unknown, and the burden of Shenhua Terrace and Murong Manor was now on him. He really didn’t have the energy to waste any more words with Yun Cuo.
How stupid was he ah? He was so stupid that he thought he was the only one who was reborn, that’s why he was given so many chances to start over.
But Yun Cuo had been lying to him from beginning to end.
Why didn’t he think of it at the beginning? Yun Cuo was also reborn.
The gluttonous ghost didn’t understand why the two of them were arguing again, he just noticed that Xue Huai was in a bad mood.
It thought it had done something wrong, so it came to Xue Huai, whimpering, but Xue Huai just touched its head and said softly, “Xiao Tao, it’s not your fault, thank you.”
He decided not to waste any more time on this matter and instead went to check on all the illusionists in the mountain sect.
He used Murong Jinchuan’s name to carefully review the most confidential personnel information of Murong Mountain Sect. Finally, the focus was on two people Xue Huai knew.
The first one was his illusionist senior brother, Sha Hua, who used to live next door.
The other is the prophet, who had just been stationed here recently.
There have been almost no personnel changes in Murong Mountain Sect in recent months, and only these two people are “new” to them.
According to the information, Sha Hua entered the mountain sect half a year ago. He was a student who graduated from Xuan Qing. He went to Wangchuan to work for a period of time and came back, intending to apply for a position as a cultivator.
However, Xue Huai checked Sha Hua’s academy records and found that the original Sha Hua was different from the one he knew now. The Sha Hua in the academy records was “very kind, innocent, ignorant, and lazy like Xuan Qing”, which was obviously different from the calm and mature Sha Hua that Xue Huai knew.
Fortunately, he had studied under Xuan Qing for a few days and knew that people who could learn illusions had extremely stubborn personalities and were difficult to change. The original Sha Hua’s parents had passed away, and he was homeless, so it seemed that he was indeed a perfect candidate for the substitution.
As for the other prophet, he also disappeared on the day Murong Jinchuan got into trouble.
The prophet has a completely new identity. The faithful crow sent by Yun Cuo returned to confirm that the name and identity of the illusionist were also impersonations of someone else.
At this point, the identity of the real murderer can almost be confirmed.
But the only problem was that the answer Xue Huai and his team found was almost the same as not finding it. He finally understood what the faithful crow of the underworld meant when it said, “Just telling you the name is the same as not telling you at all.” All they found were two identities that could be discarded at any time, and they still couldn’t confirm the other party’s origins.
Things seem to have come to a standstill here.
Xue Huai sat on the ground, rubbing his eyes tiredly.
Things have come to this point, he can no longer dwell on personal grudges.
Xue Huai gathered all the masters and cultivators in the sect together for a meeting, revealing everything he knew, except the details of his own rebirth.
Finally, all the immortal masters in Murong Mountain Sect unanimously decided to join forces with Heaven and the Nine Continents’ Immortal Lord and enter a state of preparation for war first.
Even a gentle and quiet pharmacist like Cai Yi said, “Since the enemy is in the dark, we might as well defend as attack. Fortunately, we know that the mastermind behind the scenes is hiding in the demon realm. We know that the other party wants to invade our immortal realm, so it is better to be prepared. Moreover, Xiao Huai’s family will bear the brunt of the attack. We, as masters, have no reason to let our disciples be bullied. It doesn’t matter if we can’t find the murderer. We will suspend classes from today onward, dismiss all disciples, and send the Sect Leader to heaven to recuperate. What do you think?”
Everyone approved it unanimously.
The Immortal Realm is in Yun Yan’s hands. Yun Cuo vows to inherit the position of Immortal Lord and take control of the battlefield. He has gone to discuss it. However, there is still no information response. How is Yun Cuo’s talk with him going?
One of the cultivators said, “The Immortal Lord has not been in good health recently, and I’m afraid his time will come. The Young Immortal Lord is working hard over there, and we can’t fall behind here. We should be responsible for contacting the heavens. The main force that solved the troubles in the demon realm last time was the Fuli Palace in the heavens. Now the Fuli Palace’s master has retired and is nowhere to be found, so we must at least contact the Crown Prince Fuli.”
The final decision was to send Xue Huai and several other cultivators to heaven to find out the situation first.
Originally, they had filed the files left by Xue Zong on the day they left Shenhua Terrace, sent a copy to Yun Yan and Heaven, and were waiting for a reply.
This was the first time Xue Huai actually met them.
In his previous life, he was under the tutelage of Yun Cuo, and his main activities were in the immortal realm, which was basically a state of going to the side of the heavenly realm. The heavenly court was divided into the Southern and Northern Gates, and there was also Brahma, who basically didn’t care about anything.
Xue Huai soon met Bai Yi, the Crown Prince of Fuli Palace, who now controls Heaven. He is a man with an extremely outstanding appearance and an extremely solemn and steady aura. This man has an outward appearance, but on the contrary, he exudes an extremely cold air—so cold that one can feel the bone-chilling chill as long as they look at him.
Like he was heartless and emotionless.
Bai Yi had a private talk with Xue Huai.
“In fact, we have known about this for a long time.” Bai Yi said calmly, “The head of the Xue family told us this news a few years ago. For the time being, we decided to wait and see, not to alert the enemy, and follow the spies sent by the Demon Realm to investigate further. However…”
“However, this plan was forced to end because I suddenly killed Mrs. Liu, right?” Xue Huai continued.
Bai Yi nodded. “You can say that. But you don’t have to blame yourself too much. In addition to your Xue family, the Demon Realm has also planted spies in many other places. The Demon Realm intends to fully obtain the secrets of the Immortal Realm and Heaven. However, the other places have been controlled by us. The only one that is really unusual is actually your Shenhua Terrace. You didn’t know about it beforehand, so it’s understandable that you did such a thing.”
Xue Huai asked, “Why?”
Bai Yi looked at him thoughtfully, “We also wanted to know why, because your case was the only one that seemed to involve personal vendettas, and you were the most ruthless and paid the most painful price. But apart from personal vendettas, there is one thing I need to apologize to your Xue family for.”
Xue Huai was stunned. “You?”
Bai Yi nodded. “You have a spiritual fire gun in your hand, right?”
Xue Huai remembered it immediately.
Not long after he was reborn in this life, he happened to take over the weapons that Xue Zong had bought. At that time, Xue Zong told him, “I don’t know how to use it, but it’s a good collection to preserve its value”, and gave it to him to play with.
The first time he tried it, he smashed Mrs. Liu’s bats, and the truth was revealed. This thing is controlled entirely by mental power, and its use value is extremely low.
But he liked its appearance and was shocked by its terrifying power, so he kept it with him until he went to the Murong Mountain Sect to practice.
“The spiritual fire gun in your hand is the first magic weapon I made. It’s very powerful, but it’s a waste product because almost no one can fully utilize its effectiveness.” Bai Yi said in a deep voice, “But in some ways, its user can be invincible. I have set up tens of thousands of magic enhancement keys in this magic weapon, integrating the power of the star disk into it. If the cultivator exerts all their magical powers, they can use it to achieve the level of a Jindan.”
Xue Huai opened his eyes slightly.
The cultivator can reach the Jindan level.
This means that as long as an immortal at the Yindan level can exert their maximum magic power, they can rely on this spiritual fire gun to fight against a person at the fifteenth level of demonic cultivation!
“It was my mistake. I sold it by mistake. I shouldn’t have let it out of heaven.” Bai Yi said, “This is indeed a forbidden technique. The Demon Realm has repeatedly killed you under the Shenhua in order to fight for this magic weapon. It’s understandable.”
Xue Huai said embarrassedly, “But I have seen someone use it. Have you seen Xuan Qing Xianzun? He can control it, maybe…”
“I know this person and have tested him before. He can control it, but he is too impulsive and rarely concentrates, so he cannot be its master. As for you, I think you can consider using it.” Bai Yi said, “You also saw what your father said in the file, but there are some things that are not written in it.”
“You guys only know that the young man named Yun Cuo is now cultivating both an immortal and demonic path. He has the highest level of cultivation and may be the only weapon when the Demon Realm invades. But in fact, the candidate we chose is not him, but you.”
“Me?” Xue Huai was stunned.
Bai Yi looked at Xue Huai quietly, “Yun Cuo is a man with an incomplete mind and a disordered state of mind. He is easily manipulated and bewitched by others, and the possibility of him being completely possessed by the demon is also very high. However, even for such a person, we found that when he is with you, his mental strength is very stable. You two are like a sword, one is the sword itself, and the other is the scabbard. You are in control of whether Yun Cuo can retract or release it.”
“……”
Xue Huai was stunned at this moment and even found it a little funny.
He thought of Yun Cuo’s silence last night and rubbed his eyes tiredly: “Have you ever thought about what if you are wrong? He is someone who actually won’t listen to anyone. No one can be his scabbard.”
“He is the one who became your scabbard, Young Master Xue.”
Bai Yi corrected him in a deep voice, “Let me put it another way. We in the heavens knew about this several years in advance, but we never bet on Yun Cuo.”
“He is a good-for-nothing. He is half immortal and half-demon. He is wavering and hates the current Immortal Lord… No matter how you look at it, he is not someone worth entrusting. Rather than betting that he will stand in the Immortal Realm, it is better to bet on you, Young Master Xue Huai.”
“Let’s take a step back and say that based on Young Master Yun’s current qualifications, how many people do you believe will sincerely follow him?”
Bai Yi took a sip of tea, his eyes were very calm.
“Even if it’s almost certain that he can become the Immortal Lord, but still no one would acknowledge him. So in this matter, as long as you can ensure that your heart is with the Immortal Realm, then Young Immortal Lord Yun will stand with you in the Immortal Realm and be able to be used by us. And this is enough.”
Xue Huai was silent for a moment, then raised his eyes and asked him, “Do you know what you are saying?”
He was so angry that he laughed, “I thought you Fuli Palace had some brilliant ideas. A good person is regarded as a waste by you. That’s fine. But let me ask you: everything I have experienced so far should be under your control, right? The words my father left me were half true and half false. The only reason why the faithful crow of the underworld was willing to reveal so many things to me was to let Yun Cuo see how miserable I am, so that he would feel sorry for me and stand by my side, right?”
Xue Huai’s voice became sharper, and he pressed on, “My father is fine, right? You protected him, and then turned around and made me think he was dead. I desperately tried to find him. You thought it was fun to play tricks on us, didn’t you?”
Bai Yi did not deny it.
“Did you arrange for my grandpa to get into trouble?” Xue Huai asked in a hoarse voice, “Just to force Yun Cuo to stand in that position again?”
Bai Yi interrupted him, “We are very sorry about what happened to Sect Leader Murong. But we have been keeping an eye on this matter throughout, and the old man’s life will not be in danger.”
“This Immortal Realm is not worth him risking his life for all of you.” Xue Huai said viciously, “It’s not worth my staying either. All of you are disgusting.”
