47 Chapter 46

The next day, when the Ten Great Celestial Sects gathered in Xian Tai Mountain for the meeting, I drifted behind Zhi Yan, following her to go look for Shen Qian Jin.

Right at this time, outside the dark cage formed by the condensed demonic energy, it was Shen Qian Jin's trusted subordinate standing there. Seeing Zhi Yan enter the room, she politely lowered her head and stood off to the side. In her hand, she was holding a mirror. I glided over to take a look. The scene that was reflected in the mirror was the Celestial Sect Convention on Xian Tai Mountain.

Even if the Mirror of a Thousand Miles in the celestial sects was separated by thousands of miles, through the mirror, it was still possible to see the situation on the other side. So in other words, even though Shen Qian Jin did not go to this Celestial Sect Convention in person, making her subordinates sit there while holding the mirror, it was no different from attending personally.

Really knew how to be tricky.

I admired Shen Qian Jin, while at the same time said to myself, this Mo Qing was also generous. He imprisoned Shen Qian Jin in this place, but did not prohibit her from contacting her disciples, and did not even care that she was using the Mirror of a Thousand Miles to participate in the Celestial Sect Convention…

However, having thought about it more carefully, Mo Qing's purpose was to not let Liu Su Ruo take Shen Qian Jin's blood. Now that it had become this way, Shen Qian Jin really was attending the meeting. She would speak about what she experienced at Jian Xin Sect, and Liu Su Ruo, would actually have no way to threaten her.

It was a way to kill two birds with one stone.

At the end of the hour of the dragon, every celestial sect sat down, it literally became a public venue with celestial energy fluttering about. The celestial cultivators that I had seen and the ones I had not seen, all of them carried a frowning expression as if they were beginning a funeral service.

*hour of the dragon – 7a-9a

Today, in the Ten Great Celestial Sects, Nan Yue Sect no longer existed, so there was a vacant spot. On Shen Qian Jin's side, her disciples were holding the mirror and standing off to the side. The host opened his mouth to start the convention and when he was finished, as I expected, a moment later, Liu Su Ruo, who was bandaged from head to toe appeared. Presently, a white cloth was also wrapped around her face, covering one eye. She had become a one-eyed lady, and the bitter resentment in her look increased further than before.

"Fellow celestial friends, five days ago, Jin Zhou City was destroyed by Li Chen Lan of Wan Lu Sect, it can be described as a scene of total desolation…"

I turned my head to look at Zhi Yan: "I haven't played with these things from your celestial sects. Can it skip directly to the section where Liu Su Ruo speaks? I don't want to see this."

"It can't skip." When Zhi Yan saw Liu Su Ruo, her mood was not good, and she subconsciously said to me in a very resentful tone, "If there's a way, then who wants to hear the old hag prattle."

I had not even answered yet, Shen Qian Jin suddenly raised her head to look at Zhi Yan, while off to the side, the person from Guan Yu Tower, who was holding the mirror also stared at Zhi Yan in surprise.

I looked towards the mirror, only to see the people in the mirror all turned their heads to stare this way. The entire meeting on Xian Tai Mountain had not even started for long, but it had welcomed its first wave of collective silence.

Ohh, been messing with this mirror for a while, as it turns out, it could also transmit sound.

I whistled at Zhi Yan, awfully happy that I could attract this kind of attention: "Oohh, it seems that they all heard what you said."

It could be assumed that on their side, they could only see Shen Qian Jin's expressionless face through the mirror.

Nevertheless, Zhi Yan felt that she had caused trouble, and promptly covered her mouth. No longer talking to me, but her words had successfully made everyone's eyes fall on Shen Qian Jin, while Shen Qian JIn said neither servilely nor overbearingly: "Sorry for disturbing everybody, but I have something here to inform everyone about."

Over there, Liu Su Ruo smiled gloomily: "Guan Yu Tower Leader is now thrown behind bars, but you can still speak here. It may even be said that Li Chen Lan of Wan Lu Sect is treating you with extreme courtesy?"

"Senior… Liu?" Shen Qian Jin called out to her meaningfully, "Why bother slandering me in a hurry, just listen to me informing everyone why I've fallen into such a situation today, and then senior can again make more comments, okay?"

"Ah." Liu Su Ruo laughed disdainfully, "But I just want to say that it is because I want to resurrect a person, therefore, I planned to take your blood, that's it. Now that I'm saying it myself, it's still the same."

As soon as she said these words, numerous celestial cultivators were greatly alarmed.

"Fellow celestial friends, today, I came here to give everyone this news. After my Jian Xin Sect went through many years of searching, we have now finally found a solution that can make the Golden Immortal Luo Ming Xuan, who was harmed by Lu Zhao Yao, regain consciousness. A few days earlier, Jin Zhou City was unexpectedly attacked by Li Chen Lan because he wanted to ruin my plan. In the end, I guarded the Golden Immortal's body, protecting every single hair of his from being harmed."

The entire conference was suddenly full of hustle and bustle.

The important meaning of the Golden Immortal Luo Ming Xuan to them was not inferior to the previous Demon Defensive Array in Jin Zhou City. Among several generations of celestial cultivators, Luo Ming Xuan was almost regarded as the foundation of their belief system.

At that time, in that era, I killed Luo Ming Xuan, just like how Mo Qing rocked Jin Zhou City. To them, it was an undermining of their belief system. Now, someone said that Luo Ming Xuan could be resurrected, which is tantamount to igniting a fire for the perennially suppressed celestial sects, instantly firing up their enthusiasm.

I saw that matters were really beginning to deteriorate in the direction that Mo Qing and I had anticipated. While Shen Qian Jin frowned deeply.

"This solution that I've found requires someone to make a blood sacrifice to the Golden Immortal, and then the Golden Immortal's consciousness can be awakened and he can arrive in this time again. So this requires the purest blood in the world. Coincidentally, our Qin Family and Tower Leader Shen's blood just happens to fulfill the requirements. Then I immediately sought for Sect Leader Qin Yi's consent, he volunteered to sacrifice his life for the Golden Immortal…"

"You're lying!" When Zhi Yan heard this, she finally could not help it, and rushed to the front of the mirror, bellowing at the other side, "You're spouting nonsense! It was you, you killed my father! You use the Heart Confusion Technique to hypnotize Liu Wei and Brother Cang Ling! It's because you want to revive that Golden Immortal, so you harm a lot of people!"

When Zhi Yan started speaking, the other side calmed down a little bit. In the mirror, I spotted Qin Qian Xian sitting in another section, upon hearing this, he wrinkled his brows.

Being confronted by Zhi Yan's fury, Liu Su Ruo was not even a little bit angry, instead she laughed and said: "Qin Yu's daughter, she has sought shelter in Wan Lu Sect now. I heard that she is also Li Chen Lan's disciple. Last time, Jin Zhou City was in trouble, Li Chen Lan was very protective of you, and destroyed my Demon Defensive Array, while you put in a lot of effort, too. Your wisdom is just blinded by hatred, who will believe your words?"

Shen Qian Jin pulled Zhi Yan aside and firmly said: "I believe her."

At the same time, on the other side of the mirror, it also transmitted a clear, light male voice: "I believe her." Just like the voiceless sound in a temple, it made numerous celestial people, who were extremely excited, quiet down in an instant.

Zhi Yan looked at Qin Qian Xian, carrying a look that bordered on not daring to believe what she was seeing.

On the other side, Qin Qian Xian just slightly glanced towards the mirror on this side, his gaze swept around Zhi Yan's face, and then said to Liu Su Ruo: "My younger brother's natural disposition was gentle. He really pampered his young daughter, so he absolutely will not abandon her and leave. Zhi Yan had already told me earlier, Qin Yu was killed by Liu Wei. I believe in the way that Elder Brother Liu conducts himself, so I've always been investigating this in private. After investigating for some time now, I never thought that you're the one in Jian Xin Sect, who wants to resurrect Luo Ming Xuan."

"Since the Golden Immortal left, the celestial path is weak, why can't the Golden Immortal be resurrected?" Liu Su Ruo laughed, "Pavilion Leader is a person who practices religion, you should take the initiative to offer your blood for my celestial path's greater good, and contribute to our strength."

Her words could seduce the darkest thoughts that existed at the bottom of many celestial cultivators' hearts.

From the beginning, everyone was excited and impatient, but after it died down, in this moment, behind the silence, a stifling restlessness began to stir.

Qin Qian Xian raised his eyes and calmly swept a quick glance over everyone. In his usually gentle and composed eyes there was a layer of chilliness, as if it came from heaven, a chillingly coldness:

"Taking another's life just to resurrect one person, this matter is against the heavenly law, it violates nature. Many celestial friends have practiced religion for many years, surely you should know this so-called resurrection technique is what type of magic. I, Qin Mou, have no fear of giving up my life for the common people, but fear that the celestial path and the celestial way no longer has the same aspiration as before. For a moment of desire, he becomes his own inner demon." His gaze finally landed on Liu Su Ruo's body, "In my opinion, Liu Su Ruo of Jian Xin Sect is more suitable to cultivate the demonic path."

Hmph, ridiculous!

I rolled my eyes at Qin Qian Xian. Any garbage that was thrown towards my demonic path, I definitely would not want it either.

Qin Qian Xian's remarks made numerous celestial clans all become taciturn. Just talking about inner demons, each and every one of these sanctimonious celestial cultivators immediately changed their colors. So for a while, they all remained silent. I was thinking, even if Xu Zhi did not go to stir up trouble, it seems that this celestial sect conference of theirs was expected to split up and fall apart. On the other side, I saw that Liu Su Ruo was silent for only a moment, and then she said: "Today, after all of this, the celestial sects will also never again be as united as before. If my blood can be used in exchange for the Golden Immortal's awakening, then I will willingly give up this life."

I crossed my arms to watch how she advertised her predicament.

"I only regret that my own blood can't wake Ming Xuan up. Thinking about the past, everything that Ming Xuan did was for the sake of many celestial sects. Qin Qian Xian, if I remember correctly, when you first practiced the Bodhisattva path, you received Ming Xuan's guidance, but why are you so heartless now? Once you really become a Bodhisattva, will you forget the painful suffering of the world? I want to resurrect Ming Xuan, where did I go wrong?"

"Furthermore, today, I had already obtained one person's sacrificed life, the only thing left is that I'm just suffering from not getting enough of the pure blood. There's no need for Pavilion Leader Qin to die, you only just need to offer a little bit of your blood, and then, perhaps Ming Xuan can awaken." As soon as these words ended, the other celestial cultivators, who had been utterly silent, began to express their opinion, some seconded Liu Su Ruo's words and some nodded secretly to themselves. I remotely swept a glance at them, of the remaining Nine Great Celestial Sects there were about four sects that agreed with Liu Su Ruo, but the remaining two sects did not speak and were silent like Shen Qian Jin and Qin Qian Xian.

Five versus four, actually the discrepancy was not that much different.

But at this moment, a strong wind suddenly rose up, and then from within the mirror, I suddenly heard a crisp, snappy chide: "Listen to this old woman of yours talk nonsense!"

With the wind, an emerald-green silhouette flashed by carrying only brute force, and ruthlessly punched Liu Su Ruo in the face.

When hitting someone, always hit his face because that was the essence of beating someone up.

These words that I had said to Xu Zhi since her childhood, she still remembered it until now.

Nevertheless, her punch did not strike accurately. Even though Liu Su Ruo was severely wounded and was unable to move, but next to her, there were other celestial cultivators protecting her. Just by using the Instantaneous Travel Technique, Liu Su Ruo was whisked away. However, what made everyone at the scene even more surprised was that when the person who whisked Lu Su Ruo away, the little lass in emerald-green clothes actually grabbed that person out of thin air. The silhouette of the celestial cultivator who just disappeared was unexpectedly captured by her.

That person actually risked his life to protect Liu Su Ruo and pushed Liu Su Ruo aside. While he, himself, was smashed to the ground by Xu Zhi, and at the same time the ground was also violently crushed into pieces.

This is the case for Xu Zhi; she did not fear magic, but her body could not gather spiritual energy. When cultivating magical techniques, she was very slow. Therefore, when she fought with someone, she was normally very direct and foolhardy.

Xu Zhi stood up, and turned her head around: "I heard, you guys are here to discuss how to bully my sect leader." As she cracked her knuckles, clear "pop-pop" sounds echoed several times. Then she furiously glared at the people around her, "By releasing such nonsense, you all don't want your lives!"

When I heard that, I laughed. It was exactly Little Shi Qi's style of speech, still so rough and spunky.

Translated by Sonrisa t.n.t

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